After three Fox News stars were criticized for showering Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with praise after last week’s Democratic National Convention, the network caused controversy among conservative viewers again Tuesday.
Fox News star Chris Wallace, one of the more liberal hosts on the network, blasted the Republican National Convention on Tuesday — and he wasn’t alone.
In fact, one host even called an RNC speaker “disgusting.”
Fox News co-host Juan Williams, also a liberal voice on Fox News, criticized Cuban refugee Maximo Alvarez, who gave a speech warning against socialism at the RNC Monday.
In his speech Monday, Alvarez warned RNC viewers and Trump voters that he’d seen Democratic Party policies before in his native Cuba.
“I’m speaking to you today because I have seen people like this before,” Alvarez warned. “I’ve seen movements like this before. I’ve seen ideas like this before, and I am here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country.”
“I heard the promises of Fidel Castro. And I can never forget all those who grew up around me, who look like me, who suffer and starved and died because they believed those empty promises,” Alvarez said in his RNC speech. “They swallow their communist poison pill.”
Williams slammed Alvarez for comparing Biden to former communist dictator Fidel Castro. He told his co-hosts that “hearing a speaker at a major party convention compare Joe Biden to a communist dictator… I thought that was pretty disgusting.”
“I just thought that was so wild,” Williams continued. He went on to defend the Democratic presidential candidate.
“We know Joe Biden. He’s been around. He is a pro-American, moderate politician. So why would anybody think oh, that’s cute, or unless it’s just name-calling?”
Co-host Greg Gutfeld later defended Alvarez’ speech.
“What he was trying to say is if leftism is allowed to take over America, and then there will be no place, period, ever for freedom,” Gutfeld responded.
On Tuesday, “Fox News Sunday” star Chris Wallace also went after the RNC for having Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a speech from a “political hotspot” and criticized the president for breaking traditions.
“We do need to point out that secretaries of state have never participated in political speeches. In fact, it’s a regulation of the State Department that nobody that’s in the State Department can attend a political event, let alone participate in it,” Wallace said. “The State Department said, ‘Well, he’s operating in his personal capacity.’ But I don’t know what personal capacity a secretary of state has.”
“People can think it’s a big deal. They can think that’s a little deal,” he added. “But all of this has never happened before, and it’s worth noting.”
Compared to the controversy surrounding Pompeo’s speech, the content of his RNC address was relatively mild.
His speech was largely a rehash of standard GOP talking points. Pompeo talked about Trump’s “America First” foreign policy and the success it’s had in containing hostile foreign powers like Russia, China, and Iran.
Pompeo praised the president’s pro-Israel move and the UAE’s recent recognition of the country. And he spoke about how the Trump administration successfully defeated the radical Islamic terror organization ISIS, and stood ready to defend against the “aggression” of the Chinese Communist Party in the future.
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