She will be fired within the year,
Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin fully loses her patience with Fox’s Ukraine punditry
Fox’s Jennifer Griffin seems to have almost completely lost patience with all of it.
The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr reported Friday on how the network’s respected longtime national security correspondent has repeatedly found herself in the position of
fact-checking her network’s hosts and pundits. And it continued this weekend, with Griffin apparently becoming even more exasperated. She even went so far as to seemingly question the platform her employer has afforded some fringe figures.
Barr last week
recounted Griffin’s clashes with hosts of “The Five” who elevated into the manufactured-crisis conspiracy theory (she assured them this was “not some wag-the-dog situation”). When Sean Hannity pinned the blame for the situation on Biden, she assured this was a result of the policies of multiple recent administrations. She pushed back on “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy when he declared sanctions had somehow already proved a failure. Her biggest clash came with Harris Faulkner, who tried to end her segment after asserting the Biden administration could’ve done more, only to have Griffin cut in and note that bigger steps would mean bigger provocations of Russia.
After Barr’s report, Griffin was asked about it Sunday on Fox’s “Media Buzz.”
“I’m here to fact-check facts because I report on facts,” Griffin said. “And my job is to try and figure out the truth as best as I know it. I share those facts internally so that our network can be more accurate. That’s what I’ve always done.
“There’s nothing different than what I’ve been doing for the last 26 years working for Fox.”
If there’s one thing that’s different, though, it’s the terms in which Griffin is now talking about this.