It’s probably wishful thinking, but The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and some Republican members of the Congress may be waking up. Here is Dana Milbank at The Washington Post: Wednesday found White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doing what […]
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Is “The Media” in the room with us now?
Stop saying “media”!
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants the Supreme Court to “step-in” to change Trump felony conviction
Watch Johnson on Fox & Friends this morning: Nice try, Mike, but the Supreme Court doesn’t just “step in.” Could this case be appealed to the Supreme Court? Yes. But first it needs to go through the New Appellate Division […]
Robert Jeffress, Fox News, and pickleball before dawn
In this video, Fox & Friends interviews pro-Trump pastor Robert Jeffress at 5:41 AM. It’s dark, there is a pickleball referee on site, and there are cheerleaders. I also learned that First Baptist Church is known locally as the “Baptist […]
The Author’s Corner with Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Kathryn Cramer Brownell is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. This interview is based on her new book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Princeton University Press, 2023). JF: What led […]
While the GOP candidates debate next week, Trump will be doing an online interview with Tucker Carlson
It is actually a brilliant political move. Trump does not need to debate the other candidates. Nothing good can come from an on-stage tussle with Chris Christie and Mike Pence. By doing an interview with Carlson, Trump can avoid debating […]
Tucker Carlson and Fox News part ways
Here is the Associated Press: Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting. The network said […]
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Context.
Fox News anchor Brett Baier: “I look at my job as being sort of like an ice hockey goalie trying to stop bad pucks from getting through…”
I am not sure if Brett Baier is Jim Craig of the 1980 Olympic team or Elvis Merzlikins of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Whatever the case, he has faced a lot of “bad pucks” over the years. Here is David […]
Inside Tucker’s head
I ran across this video today: And then I read David French’s recent column at The New York Times. A taste: On Tuesday evening, two news reports caught my attention. The first was an Emerson College poll of Republican primary voters in […]
Tucker and Kevin rewrite the history of January 6th
In order to justify his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had to rewrite history. So did Josef Stalin. On Monday night, Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021. He got help from Speaker of the House […]
Why did Fox News lie to its viewers about the 2020 election?
David French offers a theory at his New York Times column: Fox isn’t just the news hub of right-wing America, it’s a cultural cornerstone, and its business model is so successful that it’s more accurate to think of the rest […]
We now know that Fox News lied to its viewers about the 2020 election
I included this story in Sunday night’s odds and ends, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Here is Brian Stelter at The Atlantic; The other crucial metric Fox leaders were watching, of course, was the Nielsen ratings […]
Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6th insurrection
This morning I am trying to reconcile two parts of a CNN story on Paul Ryan and the January 6, 2021 insurrection. First there is this: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6, 2021, attack […]
The Catholic Fox News
I used to occasionally watch EWTN. As a former Catholic (I am confirmed in the church and a friend who is a priest tells me that all I need to do is go to confession and I’m back in), I […]
Fox News will not air the January 6 committee hearings
Here is Philip Bump at The Washington Post: The Republican Party made a decision early last year that it would rather use the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a cudgel against Democrats than engage in […]
UFOs, testicles, and Tucker Carlson
Did you hear that Tucker Carlson has a new show? The pro-Trump, anti-vax, pro-Putin star of Fox Television seems to be putting the show to good use. Here is Philip Bump at The Washington Post: Tucker Carlson and his team […]
When you lose Newsmax
The right-wing pro-Trump network is condemning Father Coughlin’s Tucker Carlson’s pro-Putin/Russia comments. Here is Alex Griffing at Mediaite: Newsmax released a statement on Friday calling out Fox News and Tucker Carlson for “supporting Putin and Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine.” The right-wing, […]
No one should take Tucker Carlson seriously
This morning we called your attention to Carlson’s Father Coughlin-like support of Vladimir Putin. Over at The Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan reminds us of what a Fox News lawyer once said about the right-wing pundit. Here is a taste: Carlson […]
Why did Jonah Goldberg leave Fox News?
Goldberg recently talked to The New York Times about his departure from Fox News: The former Fox commentator Jonah Goldberg — who has been called a “Fox defector” — says that Tucker Carlson’s latest documentary series was “the anvil that […]