{"id":42274,"date":"2025-05-11T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42274"},"modified":"2025-05-11T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:28:26","slug":"misplaced-qs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/11\/misplaced-qs\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Qs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em><strong>NBC News<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-weighing-naming-fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-dc-top-prosecutor-rcna205691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> of Jeanine Pirro&#8217;s nomination to the position of U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">Trump made the announcement on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114474584669905764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Truth Social<\/a>, mentioning Pirro&#8217;s previous roles as a prosecutor and a judge, and said she was &#8220;currently Co-Host of The Five, one of the Highest Rated Shows on Television.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And <em><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/em> noted (same article):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a statement after Trump&#8217;s announcement, a Fox News spokesperson said Pirro &#8220;has been a wonderful addition to The Five over the last three years and a longtime beloved host across FOX News Media who contributed greatly to our success throughout her 14-year tenure. We wish her all the best in her new role in Washington.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And her own producer?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">Pirro\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/media\/see-fox-news-tried-redact-dominion-defamation-case-rcna77481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed conspiracy theories<\/a>\u00a0about voting in the aftermath of Trump&#8217;s 2020 election loss, and she came up in litigation filed by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox News tried to redact what one of Pirro&#8217;s executive producers thought about one of her post-2020 election monologues, with the producer writing, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/media\/see-fox-news-tried-redact-dominion-defamation-case-rcna77481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is completely crazy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, ah, how many folks cheered at the news that she&#8217;s co-host of <em><strong>The Five<\/strong><\/em>? What does that have to do with the qualifications for being a U.S. Attorney in one of the most important district offices?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Not much.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump continues to exhibit symptoms of chronic incompetence and\/or dementia, and Fox News just encourages it. Regardless of what the Democrats are doing, this is not an honorable behavior by <em><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The sad part is that, professionally, she may be qualified for the position, although assertions that she&#8217;s nuts by those who should know is a detractor. But don&#8217;t throw this crap about television ratings into the mix. It just makes Trump look like a lunatic. Which he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NBC News report of Jeanine Pirro&#8217;s nomination to the position of U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.: Trump made the announcement on\u00a0his Truth Social, mentioning Pirro&#8217;s previous roles as a prosecutor and a judge, and said she was &#8220;currently Co-Host of The Five, one of the Highest Rated Shows \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/11\/misplaced-qs\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42275,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42274\/revisions\/42275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}