While addressing Steve Scully’s suspension from C-SPAN, which occurred after he lied about his Twitter account being hacked, Fox News anchor Bret Baier called the scandal a “big black eye for the debate commission.”

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Scully was set to moderate the second presidential debate, which was set for Thursday and later canceled after President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus and refused to participate in a virtual form of the event.

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This month, following criticism from the president, Scully posted a message to former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci on his public Twitter feed asking how he should respond to Trump. Scully quickly claimed he was hacked, but on Thursday confessed that he lied about the incident in a statement to the Associated Press.

Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer asked Baier about the scandal, wondering what would happen if there actually was a Scully moderated debate between Trump and Joe Biden.

“That was tonight. It was going to be tonight in Miami,” Baiers said of the debate. “This is a big story. It is a big, black eye for the debate commission, which already had black eyes with the way it handled the Covid and canceling the debate, going virtual, not telling the campaigns, and then this.”

Baier then read a statement from C-SPAN regarding Scully’s tweet, which claimed that the journalist was hacked and is not investigating the incident with authorities.

“I mean, this is bad. And obviously, he’s been suspended indefinitely from C-SPAN,” Baier added. “And you feel for him, he’s come clean on this. I know Steve and it is a sad, sad thing. It is not a good look for the presidential debate commission.”

Hemmer agreed that Scully generally has good ethics when it comes to journalism and has years of experience to back him up, but noted that this lie is simply a problem.

“Right, listen, if he had come out and said, ‘you know what, I meant to DM him — direct message him — and I was debating whether I was going to tweet out a response to President Trump who was coming after me.’ I actually think America would be like, ok, no big deal,” Baier noted. “But this was a snowball. And unfortunately for Steve, this became a big issue.”

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The Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier has deleted a tweet that proved the backlash against the disgraced cable news network has exploded.

On Saturday, yours truly wrote about how the backlash against Fox News hit Defcon 1. To backfill my case, I specifically focused on the withering responses to an innocuous tweet posted by Fox’s Special Report anchor Bret Baier…

“Join me + @marthamaccallum tonight 8pmET on @FoxNews”:

(Screenshot courtesy of @TLC00001)

That’s it. That was all Baier tweeted. Nothing controversial. Nothing about the election. He didn’t try to defend his disgraced network’s indefensible decision to call Arizona early, a state that a week later is still too close to call.

All Baier did, as I pointed out Saturday, was ask people to tune in–as anodyne a tweet that was ever tweeted, and yet, the replies, tens of thousands of them, were (according to my good faith look) withering, brutal, and by a margin of around 100-to-1, if not higher.

Here are a few examples of what was going on in Baier’s replies…

Uh…no way! @newsmax @SchmittNYC ALL THE WAY!

No thanks

Nope.

That’s a big negative

nope – done with Fox!

BOYCOTT FOX NEWS! WATCH OAN, NEWSMAX

You have lost this loyal viewer! Trying to influence an outcome that is clearly not legitimate!

How about no! Done with Fox!!

I’d rather get another vasectomy without anesthesia sir

Done with fox! You sold out on us! Good luck!

Sorry Bret. Fox has jumped the shark. We won’t forget.

Yikes the ratio on this. May want to pass that along to Murdoch’s.

And now Baier has scurried away and deleted the tweet…

The good folks at Rasmussen (the top pollster of the 2016 and 2020 elections) was one of the first to notice the deletion:

De-leeet-ed?

Innocuous but infamously ratioed @BretBaier tweet inviting viewers to watch @FoxNews programming is gone.

Previously said: 'Join me + @marthamaccallum tonight 8pmET on @FoxNews,'@pnjaban had a classic reply tweet below, @NolteNC wrote about it – also below. https://t.co/eIp4nairrRpic.twitter.com/riyx4j3QbR

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) November 9, 2020

To me the deletion is just more proof that Fox News is in real trouble and feels besieged. The backlash is so fierce, so grassroots, so overwhelming, Baier is forced to wishcast it all away with the cowardly deletion of a tweet — as though that somehow means it didn’t happen.

Fox’s ratings will likely remain high until the presidential election is resolved, but I am truly interested to see what happens after…

Fox News has lost its base of support, and when you lose your base of support, you are in very serious trouble. Ask the NFL, the NBA, ESPN, Megyn Kelly…

Worse still, Fox News has legitimate online competition from outlets like Breitbart News that do not lie or attempt to meddle in elections. (Fox News is guilty of both.)

Fox News also has legitimate broadcast competition from OAN and Newsmax. Yep, Fox is no longer the only place right-of-center cable news viewers can go.

And Fox blew it.

Fox News lied about Trump not repudiating racism.

Fox News released one rigged poll after another.

Fox News called Arizona early to help Biden win the post-election, public relations battle in a contested race.

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Fox News rigged the first presidential debate.

Fox News deliberately interrupted Trump and allowed Biden to interrupt Trump during the first presidential debate and then lied about it.

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Fox News is a pile of lying garbage, and its base of support has finally had enough.

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