As far as Will’s TV relationships go, this was a short one. When he leaped to Fox News in 2013, he ended a three-decade-long affiliation with ABC News. At Fox News, Will was mainly deployed as a Washington commentator on Chris Wallace’s Sunday show as well as on Bret Baier’s “Special Report” on weekday nights. Though Will says he appreciated and valued that work, “some folks in New York thought otherwise and it’s their toy.” Will was a recruit of Michael Clemente, a hard-news executive at the network who left last year…
As to whether he felt an ideological rift with Fox News, Will replied, “Only to the extent that I think there are a number of people enthusiastic about the 45th president, and I’m not.” The network’s prime-time block is essentially a Trump Trio: Bill O’Reilly has been doing very effective Trump PR for months and months, couching the vulnerabilities of the man as unworthy constructions of a dedicated opposition; Tucker Carlson, a newcomer to the upper reaches of Fox News programming, has done a fine job of demeaning those who oppose the president; and Sean Hannity is Sean Hannity.
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