JOE SCARBOROUGH’S ODD FANTASY: Trump Brought Down by a Fox News ‘Cronkite Moment.’

Joe Scarborough turns his lonely eyes… to Fox News??

Looks that way. On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough dreamed of a scenario in which Fox News would turn against President Trump, thus bringing down his presidency. Scarborough analogized it to a “Cronkite moment.” That was the time in 1968 when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite essentially declared the Vietnam War unwinnable. LBJ was reported to have said at the time, “if I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”

Time to flash the Bat-Signal to Media Myth Alert: The ‘Cronkite Moment,’ 50 years on: Remembering why it’s a media myth.