Everyone’s talking about how once-respected journalist Maria Bartiromo reportedly blew a gasket after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
According to ABC News Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl in his new book Betrayal, the Fox Business Network anchor, who may or may not have been drunk (it’s always hard to tell with her), reportedly called ex-Attorney General Bill Barr “screaming” about so-called voter fraud.
“Bartiromo had once been a widely respected and trailblazing financial journalist,” Karl writes. “As a correspondent for CNBC, she was the first television reporter to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Now she had her own show on Fox News and she was using it to boost a series of unfounded allegations designed to overturn a presidential election.”
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According to Barr, who spoke to Karl on the record, Bartiromo freaked out on him, complaining about how “the DOJ hadn’t done anything to stop the Democrats from stealing the election.”
“She called me up and she was screaming,” Barr said. “I yelled back at her. She’s lost it.”
Of course, this is Bill Barr we’re talking about, so take what he says with a huge grain of salt.
Then again, this is also Maria Bartiromo we’re talking about, so the story sorta checks out.
(Also, bigger question: Why was the Attorney General of the United States taking personal calls from a Fox News anchor to begin with?)
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Bartiromo is refusing to talk about the alleged incident. When Karl reached out to her for comment, because, “after all, it’s highly inappropriate for a journalist to call the attorney general and demand he do something related to a criminal investigation,” she didn’t respond.
“But a Fox News spokesperson did get back to me and denied Barr’s account of the conversation on Bartiromo’s behalf,” he writes.
Here’s what folx on Twitter are saying about the whole thing…
I’m old enough to remember when she was considered a legitimate journalist.
— Patrick Mc Nelis (@PatrickMcNelis8) November 15, 2021
Why was the US Attorney General taking Maria Bartiromo’s phone calls, in any capacity? That right there was the problem.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) November 15, 2021
Maria Bartiromo calls up AG Barr after election and demands he stop Dems from ‘stealing it’ why does a Fox News host get the private number of the US AG? It’s like ‘Succession’ but without the charm. Also, Bartiromo means ‘batshit’ in Italian.
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) November 15, 2021
@MariaBartiromo used to be such a credible financial journalist. What in the world happened to her that made her give up that reputation for @TFG https://t.co/TTvwodUwxH
— Barbara Lang (@langstrategies) November 15, 2021
seems kinda redundant to mention that maria bartiromo was screaming.
— marxist-coomerist ☭ (@pocketpussyfish) November 15, 2021
Barr or Bartiromo? Who is less credible? Tough call.
— David Stewart (@davestewart1969) November 15, 2021
Fox News is basically calling Bill Barr a liar — and instead is putting its chips on Maria Bartiromo.
Amazing. https://t.co/gY6Bc5eAR5 pic.twitter.com/7it2QYE8Um
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 15, 2021
#MariaBartiromo is #Cult45 in a nutshell https://t.co/297zOnal1V
— Dan S #HealthcareVoter (@Dsquared75) November 15, 2021
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Mister P
It is going to be very difficult to build trust in our elections after what the repugnants, led by their mentally ill leader, have done to our democracy.
Den
The Republicans did not manage to damage the integrity of our elections despite their lies and anti-American actions. And there is plenty of time for the courts to throw out their ongoing attempt to disenfranchise voters.
Currently the only people who do not trust our elections are Republican voters, which is a good thing.
Fahd
I think Bill Barr would take her call, mainly because she’s married to Saul Steinberg’s son.
Not to generalize, but it seems there’s a group of Northeast Italian-American elites (Guiliani, Christie, her, etc.) who are as right-wing reactionary as the Cuban-American elite in Florida. I guess they got theirs – build the wall!
barryaksarben
How true. I live in south florida and the elder Cubans have taken over the local government and it is like being in Batistas cuba. I have a very wealthy friend who is from the midwest and she couldnt even get on her school board and was told not to bother in the future as she was not Cuban. I wonder if Batista was as stupid and vile as trump and that is why they worship him
Den
By all accounts he was as corrupt as Trump, completely in the pocket of corporate interests and the US government. The US has never learned the lesson that standing for the needs of the poor and working class did more to prevent communism than propping up dictators that the people hated. Just as the right never seems to learn that well thought out and administered foreign aid is more effective at reducing illegal immigration than some idiotic wall. Especially as more and more illegals are coming from Asia and Africa,
fur_hunter
……..Sing to the tune of ‘Nothing like a Dame’ from South Pacific…………. She is just a f*cking C*NT!……….. Nothing but a C*NT……… She is just a f*cking C*NT…….. She is just a….. f*ck….. ing…… C*NT!!!!
twomen4u
It has been over for nearly a year, why are we still talking about it? Why is someone trying to keep this issue alive, let it die a natural death and not to be seen or heard of again?
Den
Because it was recently chronicled in a new book. That seems pretty clear, as opposed to the stupid, imagined reason “absolutetruth” comes up with below.
And the failings of public figures need to be kept in mind until there are consequences, not simply allowed to “fade away”.
That would be like saying “why bother, just let him go” when you hear that Steve Bannon was taken into custody today.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
You have to ask? Because it’s anything and everything to distract from this current Hindenburg of an administration with its very cognitively challenged leader, do you or any of you guys ever wonder why this so called news site never reports on this disaster of an administration with its embarrassing Vice President as well? Of course you don’t and i venture none of u care..long as its not orange cheeto we don’t care if the country crashes and burns and we can’t pay our bills and buy groceries because daddy government will surely send us a check. You guys are hopeless
Den
So far neither you or anybody else has been able to provide any evidence for cognitive challenges on Biden’s part. By contrast, Trumps slurred speech and aphasia, inability to understand much and total lack of curiosity about anything was commented on by neurologists and psychologists on an almost daily basis.
As for Harris, please quantify what exactly is embarrassing about her that exceeds the past administrations authoritarian nature, or level of corruption and grift: absolute embarrassments to this country worldwide.
It is always amusing to see your chosen screen name, given that you would not know the truth if it bit you in the face!
Kangol2
Under this current government the US has created more jobs in 9 months than the Don the Con government did in its first 2 years. That, coupled with the supply chain issues, is producing inflation.
The supply chain issues began last year, under Don the Con and the Covid-19 pandemic he let rage out of control, but their source dates back decades to the push for offshoring of US factories and jobs, under the right-wing’s former favorite saint, Ronald Reagan. The job offshoring accelerated under George H. W. Bush and supercharged under NAFTA and Bill Clinton. Let’s not forget NAFTA had massive GOP support.
The US used to manufacture all kinds of things here, but increasingly and especially under the last 2 GOP presidencies, those jobs have gone overseas. Remember Don the Con’s fakery about manufacturing and all the jobs shipped overseas?
Lastly, I didn’t see Republican business people or voters shunning any of the federal handouts last year or this year. GOP businesspeople and organizations gorged on those federal tax dollars like they were Halloween candy. Now we’re learning about the scandals involving people like Iowa’s right-wing GOP governor who allegedly used Covid-19 relief funds to pay her staff $450,000!
Jimmy T
And the name I came up with for her years ago still fits: Barf-aroma. She was a respected financial journalist for years on CNBC, but as time passed, she became more and more politically biased in her reporting, and after Obama was elected, there was no stopping her in terms of her vitriol, so she finally moved over to Fox, probably so she would stop receiving so much hate mail. But how she became a sniveling, repulsive Trump acolyte is something I could never understand. Or how anyone else could either.
Prowelsh56
So others might call her a trail blazing female financial journalist BUT she sure did get much wrong back in 2008…at that point she held no relevance to me and many others. Lost all trust in her judgment and here with this report….quite the demise.
BoomerMyles
Maria B. should be buried up to her nostrils in a pond of excrement.
Kevan1
Who?? Do not know or care who or what she is.
Kangol2
She showed herself to be an incompetent buffoon during the 2007-9 financial collapse under W Bush and became unhinged with Obama won his two terms.
Bartiromo’s now fully in the tank for Don the Con. I’m not surprised she’d be screaming at Bill Barr, a Don the Con loyalist who nevertheless saw the Con attempted coup was a fascist bridge too far.