How to Get Disinvited by Fox Business—in 3 Easy Steps

Former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally at Legacy Sports USA in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 9, 2022. Mario Tama/Getty Images

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The call came in from a producer, asking if I would be available for the 5 p.m. show on Fox Business. I’ve often done interviews with the channel in the past, so I immediately accepted. With that, he sent me over a series of articles and asked, as producers always do, for me to send back a couple of talking points about each one.

The first was a Fox poll that predicted that the Republicans would pick up only 15 seats in the House in the upcoming midterms. It even suggested that there was a chance that the Democrats would retain control of the chamber.

Now, for a long time, I haven’t been a fan of Fox polls because—oddly enough for a news organization that is moderately conservative—they tend to skew liberal. But this was too big a pile of steaming horse manure to ignore.

So I sent back this: “I wonder how accurate this FOX poll, or any poll, is. I think that people with even moderately conservative views are being very careful what they say on the phone to strangers, regardless of how charming the interviewer is, or how carefully neutral the questions are worded. Besides, these days you never know whether Big Brother is listening in.”

“I think the ‘shy voter syndrome’ is a real thing,” I continued. “I haven’t been called by a pollster this election cycle but, if I were, would I even take the call? And, if I did, would I candidly answer the questions? I’m pretty sure the answer is no.”

“I think that the Republicans are poised to win the House, and win big. My wife is an educated, pro-life, pro-family Latina, and I can’t tell you—in polite company, that is—how disgusted she and her relatives are with the Woke nonsense being spewed by the Cultural Marxists who have seized control of the Democratic Party. Her relatives, many working class, are suffering from the inflation that is hitting them in their pocketbooks, and the rising crime rates associated with the out-of-control immigration.”

I would note that her family is from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where I believe the Republicans are on track to win three House seats that the Democrats have held for almost a century.

That was Strike One.

Pro-life protesters hold up signs inside of the Indiana State Capitol building in Indianapolis, Ind., on July 25, 2022. Indiana became the first state to pass an abortion ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer. Jon Cherry/Getty Images

The second article sent to me for comment focused on how the Democrat focus on abortion was losing independent women.

I responded: “Anyone who has been paying attention knows that the end of Roe v. Wade simply means that the issue is being returned to the states. There the voters of the states, through their elected legislators, will decide the issue. The scare tactics being used by the Democrats, suggesting that women will die from ectopic pregnancies, or that they will be arrested for seeking or obtaining an abortion are transparently false.”

“Abortion is not high on the list of concerns of independent women, or people in general, who are seeing their pocketbooks drained every time they fill up their car, or having to choose between eating or heating their home.”

That was Strike Two.

The final articles I was to comment on concerned how Democrat candidates were getting so pounded in debates that they were ducking them entirely. (The articles were from CBS News and The Washington Post, and both put the best possible slant on the flailing and fleeing Democrats.)

I indicated that I intended to tell Fox viewers that “I thought the debate between Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance, who are vying for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, was a bloodbath. By the end, you almost felt sorry for Tim Ryan, who was trying to defend the indefensible—the inflationary economic and immigration policies of the Biden Administration. The old game of voting liberal in D.C., while pretending to be a moderate in Ohio, doesn’t work very well anymore. Too many people are paying attention. Even more importantly, too many people are hurting.”

All in all, I think the Republicans are on track to win 30 seats in the House, not the 15 that the Fox news poll predicts.”

Then I saw the email. “We won’t need you for the show,” it read.

Strike Three, and you’re out.

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