Conservative Panelists Fight Media’s ‘Blood in the Water’ Narrative

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 23, 2018
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As noted earlier on Sunday, the liberal media is adamant they smell President Trump’s blood in the water and they’re eager to declare his presidency dead. But during the network Sunday talk shows on ABC and NBC, their conservative panelists pushed back hard on that narrative and even mocked how they make the same claim “every other week”.

During ABC’s This Week, fill-in host and chief White House correspondent Jon Karl actually suggested that “Democrats smell blood” to former acting DNC head Donna Brazile. A short time later, Brazile argued that, “the President, he's unraveled. Things are unraveling. By the way, he promised a beautiful wall. Now we're talking about steel slats.”

After joking about how he found steel slats “beautiful”, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) mocked how he didn’t “have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times” on that show he heard Democrats say it's unraveling over the last two years. ‘It's unraveling. This is it. This is the fulcrum. This is the point when it’s all going to fall apart.’

“It feels a little differently this time doesn’t it,” Karl urged him to consider. “No, listen, it doesn't feel differently to me. This is who this President is. So, why are we surprised that he's upending everything. That's who he is. That's who people voted for,” Christie proclaimed.

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