Halli Casser-Jayne shows Fox Doll Shannon Bream what life looks like in the real world

Question: What’s the difference between your Barbie Doll and a Fox News babe? Answer: Plastic and a brain. Whomp, whomp. And so began the battle royal between this host of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show Podcast, Fox News @ Night host Shannon Bream and her devotees, members of the Trump cult. Podcast queen Halli Casser -Jayne calls out Fox Host on deflection attempting to educate the law school grad on the real issues with little to no success.

Just one Tweet

On November 21, Ms. Bream posted a tweet siding with Trump who that day had, once again, done something non-presidential: The President of the United States attacked the reputation of the Supreme Court, not a decision with which he disagreed, adding the Supreme Court to Trump’s list of American institutions whose honor, for his personal political gain, he has worked systematically to destroy.

Supreme Court Truths

There is no love lost between Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee who in a great surprise to Conservatives and Trump had saved former President Obama’s signature legislation The Affordable Care Act (ACA). Justice Roberts, however, clearly frustrated at Trump’s many attempts to de-legitimize the Court, a co-equal branch of government, broke precedent and responded to President Trump after Trump said he was going to file a complaint about the 9th Circuit Court that had just temporarily blocked an executive order that would have changed US asylum policy.

What Justice Roberts had to say

Chief Justice John Roberts said: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges…”

A Barbie Doll’s response

Back to Shannon Bream who in response tweeted: “I did read it [Chief Justice John Roberts’ statement], and I also remember Pres Obama calling out SCOTUS as they sat feet away from him at the 2010 State of the Union (unable to respond/defend themselves). He so mischaracterized their recent ruling that even politifact didn’t buy it, so …”

Halli Casser-Jayne’s side of the story

This was followed by a tweet which has been scrubbed, whose content triggered me to respond:

“Barbie, [Trump] criticism allowed. Deliberate destruction of the reputation of one of the foundations of the Republic to sow discord to gin up his base to come to his aid should Mueller or impeachment make it necessary, that is new by Trump and unacceptable.”

 

I’m never sure if people calling me Barbie is supposed to be an insult? I mean she has been a surgeon, paleontologist, served in every branch of the military, firefighter, architect, pilot, computer engineer, astronaut, etc. I’m just a measly law school honors grad ?‍♀️ https://t.co/qrwmj7VnLs

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) November 22, 2018

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Bream called her right wing supporters to attack and defend

Ms. Bream did not respond to the argument of my tweet, but seized upon my calling her “Barbie,” her attempt at deflection from having to answer with a cogent response, and her call to her followers to bear arms.

Bream deflected: “I’m never sure if people calling me Barbie is supposed to be an insult? I mean she has been a surgeon, paleontologist, served in every branch of the military, firefighter, architect, pilot, computer engineer, astronaut, etc. I’m just a measly law school honors grad” ?‍♀️

To which I responded, “Barbie was also made of plastic.” I might have added: “And had no brain.”

No Bream response.

I later copied a tweet to the law school graduate, Bream, posted by Ted Lieu: Dear @realDonaldTrump: Chief Justice John Roberts is right and you are wrong. The Judiciary is not an arm of the Executive Branch. Their role is not to obey your point of view. The Judicial Branch is nonpartisan & it exists as a check and balance on you. Have a nice Thanksgiving” with the following note to Bream:

“You would think a woman with a law degree would know this. Happy Thanksgiving, counselor.”

Again, no response.

But I want to focus on two points here. The first is that out of the thousands and thousands of tweets to me by Bream’s ardent followers, not one spoke to the politics argued by my tweet, and nor did Shannon Bream. What she did, a la most Trumpsters, was to seize on that which she could to deflect from having to defend her ludicrous defense of Trump.

Calling Bream a Barbie

And while one might argue that calling Bream a Barbie was out-of-line, it would miss the point. The use of the term Barbie had nothing to do with television eye-candy Bream’s pretty blonde hair and blue-eyes that helped the Florida native and Liberty University graduate become  a participant in the 1991 Miss America pageant and fourth runner-up in the Miss Florida USA pageant (later owned by Donald Trump). It had everything to do with the fact that Ms. Bream, has a law degree from Florida State University College of Law, and as an anchor of a much-watched news show, and an officer of the Court, a responsibility to stick to the facts.

Instead, Bream played to the most cynical, to the lowest common denominator, going for the joke rather than the substance, the formula for the success of Fox News whose motto should be “Always take the low road.” She sicced her followers on me, who called me names I would only call Trump, doing exactly what they accused me of, never my intent.

Ted Koppel

I said two points. Here’s the second, but I’ll leave it to veteran newsman Ted Koppel to make the point for me as he did so brilliantly in a 2017 exchange with Fox News host Sean Hannity, when in a remarkably blunt interview Koppel told the Fox News commentator Sean Hannity that he was “bad for America.”

Hannity replied: “We have to give some credit to the American people that they’re somewhat intelligent and that they know the difference between an opinion show and a news show. You’re cynical,” he added to Koppel, to which Koppel agreed.

Hannity pressed further: “Do you think we’re bad for America? You think I’m bad for America?”

“Yeah,” Koppel replied flatly. “You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts,” he said.

As has Shannon Bream, which brings me back to Barbie, a doll, not reality, but a plastic play toy meant to spark the imagination of little girls. But that is all.

You’d think a 47 year old woman with a law degree and a job many would envy would know the difference between a toy and reality. You’d think.

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