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Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Joe Concha: Many Left-Leaning Journalists Are Out There Trying To Make Themselves The Story
Fox News contributor Joe Concha joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share his thoughts on CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane telling Chuck Todd that he got PTSD from Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Trump in July of 2024. 'You hear this guy talking about how he had to go on trauma leave, and CBS agrees to it. I mean this is why I've seen, media and Democrats are both going down in the same exact levels in terms of trust and approval. So Quinnipiac just had a poll out that said that the Democratic party's now at 19% approval, and the media's right down there. I mean, not among Democrats, because Democrats like what they hear, but if you just look at independents or Republicans, it's down like 10% or something like that. I'm telling you, back in like 1974, '75, you look at Gallup, three quarters of the country trusted the media. Can you believe 75% of people saying, yep, I believe it, because you had guys like Cronkite, Brinkley, and Mudd, like normal journalists that were out there not making themselves the story, and that's the whole problem. Everybody wants to be Jim Acosta now. And that's a problem.' Joe Concha Checks In To Discuss His New Book On Trump's Historic 2024 Victory Check out the podcast to hear what else they discussed!
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Gutfeld!' Gangs Up on CBS Reporter for ‘PTSD' Diagnosis From Trump Rally Shooting: ‘Main Character Syndrome'
CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane said he was 'diagnosed with PTSD in 48 hours' following his experience covering the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where Donald Trump was nearly assassinated because his supporters turned on members of the press – and the 'Gutfeld!' gang couldn't contain their giggles. MacFarlane, who was onsite for the July 2024 incident, said on Chuck Todd's 'The Chuck Toddcast' that 'for those of us there, it was such horror because you saw an emerging America.' More from TheWrap 'Gutfeld!' Gangs Up on CBS Reporter for 'PTSD' Diagnosis From Trump Rally Shooting: 'Main Character Syndrome' | Video Trump Says He'll Sue Rupert Murdoch, NewsCorp and WSJ 'Shortly,' Orders Release of Epstein Testimony Stephen Colbert Says CBS Told Him of 'Late Show' Cancellation Just Last Night in Emotional Monologue: 'All Just Going Away' | Video Trump Contributed to Suggestive Jeffrey Epstein 50th Birthday Gift, WSJ Reports: 'We Have Certain Things in Common' 'I got put on trauma leave,' MacFarlane said. 'Not because of the shooting but because — you saw it in the eyes. The reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us. There is a subset — not everybody — dozens of people in the crowd to start confronting us, saying, 'You did this, this is your fault, you caused this, you killed him.' And they were going to beat us with their hands.' If MacFarlane was looking for sympathy, he wasn't going to find it on the Fox News late-night show. 'It shows you the level of main character syndrome,' said panelist and comedian Joe DeVito. 'That they were at a place, a man died, the guy running for president almost got his head blown off on live TV, and this guy's like, 'What about me? What about what I went through?'' DeVito said had he been there, he would've gotten PTSD, too – from the Secret Service detail. 'All these tiny little chubby ladies,' DeVito said. 'It was the most bizarre — I would have been freaked out by that. I didn't know the Secret Service would have two dozen tiny Melissa McCarthys climbing over to save your life.' Host Greg Gutfeld steered the conversation for a moment to over-labeling of mental conditions. 'This actually — it speaks to something everyone is kind of scared to talk about, which is the overdiagnosis of PTSD,' Gutfeld said. 'It used to be just for people that suffered war trauma or just violent trauma. But now it's like people say, 'I have PTSD, I had a terrible boss. I was at a rally.'' The Free Press editor Will Rahn then chimed in: 'Listen, I'm a little soft on this issue, I'm millennial. I was traumatized on the way here. So I feel for the guy. Listen, people snap, weird things happen. I don't know. Here's the thing. Going on that main character syndrome thing — there's this big reward for emoting, for going on and being like, 'Let me tell you about my feelings',' on Chuck Todd's podcast audience, about how I felt' … and it's like, I'm an editor. A reporter comes to me and is like, 'Let me tell you about my feelings,' and I'm like, 'No, the story is the president got his ear shot off — not how you felt, how people gave you dirty looks.'' Watch the entire exchange in the video above. The post 'Gutfeld!' Gangs Up on CBS Reporter for 'PTSD' Diagnosis From Trump Rally Shooting: 'Main Character Syndrome' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
Fox News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
CBS News reporter says he got 'PTSD' from Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media
CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd on Wednesday about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in 2024. Americans reeled in shock from the attempt on Trump's life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but MacFarlane said he had personal trauma from the crowd's immediate rage in response. "For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America," MacFarlane told Todd on his podcast. "And it wasn't the shooting, Chuck. This was – I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people." "They were coming for us," he said in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller. "If [Trump] didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!" "I know," Todd agreed. Later in the discussion, MacFarlane added that, "Many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we'd be dead if he didn't get back up." While it wasn't everyone in the crowd, MacFarlane claimed that dozens of people turned on them and said, "'You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him,' and they were going to beat us with their hands. I mean, they were going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had bigger issues [than] protecting us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us." Nonetheless, he said, "I can't eliminate from my mind's eye the look in their faces. That's what America is right now. It's not rational. It's an irrational thought to think the media shot somebody from the top of a building, but the lack of rationality is what connects January 6 to this." "How do we pull out of this as a country is the defining question of our time," he said.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Toxic fungus smuggling case highlights safety issues facing research labs
Two Chinese scientists are accused of working together to smuggle a toxic fungus into the United States. Federal authorities say the researchers planned to study the samples in a lab at the University of Michigan, where one was employed. Scott MacFarlane has more.
