Fox News Under Fire For Equating Mueller Investigation To A ‘Coup’—And We’re Concerned

When Fox News was interviewing Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, the news outlet decided to run a banner that read “A Coup In America?’ For those of you who haven’t busted out your dictionaries in awhile don’t you worry about it, I got you. The Webster’s definition of the word coup is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government:  If you were to use it in a sentence, it would be “he was overthrown in an army coup”  the synonyms: seizure of power. So you may be able to understand why a lot of people aren’t necessarily thrilled with the networks wording. 

In the interview, Conway went on to answer questions about the FBI investigation into Donald Trump and how she believes it to be a bias investigation. Yeah, okay lady. Needless to say, the bizarre word choice got the whole internet worked up, and they let Fox know.

Twitter is dropping knowledge.

.@KellyannePolls: "The fix was in against @realDonaldTrump from the beginning, and they were pro-Hillary… They can't possibly be seen as objective or transparent or even-handed or fair." @WattersWorld pic.twitter.com/WIB3aS4KhC

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 17, 2017

The more the White House interferes politically with this investigation, the more they prove why a Special Counsel was necessary in the first place. https://t.co/HUMOZkdt4m

— Christian Vanderbrouk 🇺🇸 (@UrbanAchievr) December 17, 2017

Cable news banners don’t just appear out of thin air. Producers brainstorm, fact-check, proof-read them. Hosts are sometimes involved too. Yes, mistakes slip through occasionally. But this doesn’t look like a mistake… pic.twitter.com/nZkbRyKxUE

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/RonNehring/status/942292339199848448

.@KellyannePolls: "The fix was in against @realDonaldTrump from the beginning, and they were pro-Hillary… They can't possibly be seen as objective or transparent or even-handed or fair." @WattersWorld pic.twitter.com/5u0mdmcrXL

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 17, 2017

The best preparation for an actual coup (against the judiciary) is to claim that there has already been a coup (against the people).

The scary is ratcheting up. https://t.co/RWFvx8PnJ1

— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) December 17, 2017

Fox News throwing the c-word around with the kind of carelessness I've only ever seen in the Middle East pic.twitter.com/LnTCXhJLLg

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) December 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/942224997581578240

I see we’re up to step 5: claiming a coup is threatening the president. pic.twitter.com/QDH1jCNKx2

— Matt Bevan (@MatthewBevan) December 17, 2017

Check yo’ self before you wreck yo’ self, Fox News…if we can even call you a “news” source anymore.