[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4709]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                FOX News

  Madam President, I felt it was important to point this one out: 
President Trump amazingly attacked FOX News in the last few days in a 
series of tweets for coverage he viewed as unfavorable to his 
administration. This is FOX News, a news outlet that, frankly, is 90 
percent or more on the President's side. Their most popular shows seem 
to just be cheerleaders for President Trump. To me, it is the most 
biased newscast there is of the major news stations, not that any of 
them are free of any bias. Yet when President Trump hears a small, 
dissident tweet, dissident note, from FOX News, and now he attacks it--
what kind of thin skin does this man have? What kind of thin skin? But 
it is worse than his thin skin--when a President can attack a news 
organization that is overwhelmingly friendly to him, with some of his 
leading advocates getting prime time space, some of them going to his 
rallies, it shows he really doesn't believe in freedom of the press. 
Dictators--dictators--shut down the press and try to shame the press 
when they speak truth to power, which is what our President has done in 
all the years of this Republic.

  When President Trump can even attack FOX News because once in a blue 
Moon it says something he doesn't like, that shows he doesn't really 
deserve to be President because a President must protect our liberties 
whether or not he is under fire.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. COTTON. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.