Fox Gushes Over Syria Strikes As Evidence ‘America’s Back After Seven Years’
Fox News didn’t waste much time last night getting out the pompoms for Donald Trump’s military strike on Syria, even as a bout of collective amnesia regarding his huge flip-flop on the subject took hold.
On the Hannity show last night, retired Army General Jack Keane, a Fox News military analyst, served as the head cheerleader with host Sean Hannity’s obvious approval.
Keane is not a Trump shill but he has said he declined an offer to serve as Trump’s defense secretary (for personal reasons).
But Keane certainly warmed Hannity’s (and Trump’s) heart last night:
Up front, Keane lauded the strikes as “a major setback for Russia.” Surely, looking like he's not a Putin puppet was one of Trump's goals.
Keane went on to suggest that Trump secured a place for himself as the most awesome, decisive - leaderly, not like that weak Obama! - president in recent history: