Of course, Fox News lives in a different world than the rest of us:
Fox News is, as usual, twisting itself into a three-dimensional pretzel try to justify Trump’s having to have a crib note reminding him to show empathy. How low have they set the bar? He’s to be lauded for not using a teleprompter in a listening session where it would be impossible to use one? Not only that he didn’t even hold the card the whole time. GMAFB.
During Trump's session, he did not use a teleprompter, didn’t hold the note card the entire time and never even said a few of the pre-written talking points during the event – but these facts went relatively ignored by the liberal media.
We can thank them for saving us the trouble of doing a Google News search for Trump empathy card by including links to some of the mainstream serious news stories on this:
The Washington Post wasn’t the only news organization to harp on Trump’s note card. SFGATE ran a story about it that features a photo gallery of tweets mocking the president for what is essentially being prepared.
New York magazine’s The Cut and The Guardian posted stories about the note card, while The Hill and HuffPost each published a roundup of social media reactions.
"This list is like a cheat sheet you’d give to an alien who was trying to pass off as a human with empathy," author Brian Klaas tweeted in a message that was embeded in the HuffPost story.
Spin also called it a "cheat sheet," while MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sent her 9-million plus followers into a tizzy by pointing out the note on Twitter. Maddow's message has been liked more than 20,000 times and is littered with anti-Trump replies.
CNN published a story labeled, “Trump's note card for Parkland shooting discussion: 'I hear you,'” that notes he “didn't appear to use the visible prompts” during the event.
Thanks, Fox News. You showed the pictures of the card and linked to the mainstream non-Fox press.
Afterthought:
Why Fox did this is puzzling since they usually don’t cover anything negative about Trump. Now all they did was inform their viewers who never avail themselves of news from other sources about the empathy card. They probably would have been better off not even covering the story. There is only so much spin they can put on the incontrovertible fact that No. 5 on the card said: “I hear you” which is something that can be interpreted by anyone.