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...
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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...
Joe Biden got ice cream yesterday. Fox News went nuts.
What if you replaced “Joe Biden” in the following clip montage with “Donald Trump” and replaced “ice cream” with “golf” or “executive time”? Hmm…...
Some changes at all three major cable networks
Three new hires: Fox News doubles-down on right-wing Trumpism by giving Jesse Watters a nightly show at 7:00pm. Watters made his bones doing “man-on-street” interviews for the Bill O’Reilly’s former Fox show, “The O’Reilly Factor.” He has a well-deserved reputation...
Sorry Sean Hannity, the January 6 insurrection was different than other riots
Watch Sean Hannity desperately try to save his brand. At least he’s got Dan Bongino is in his corner: Hannity believes that the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was the equivalent of hundreds of other riots. This is...
Trump Jr., Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade communicated with Mark Meadows on January 6, 2021. Here is what they said:
Last week I wrote that the House Select Committee on January 6th had the political equivalent of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss’s little black book. Well, thanks to Liz Cheney, we now know some of the things in that book. The...
Was Chris Cuomo an entertainer or a journalist?
CNN fired him because he violated journalistic “standards and practices” by helping craft his brother Andrew’s response to sexual harassment charges. Here is Edwards Helmore at The Guardian: But the larger question concerns to what extent US cable news has...
Conservative commentators Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg are leaving Fox News
They are leaving because of the “voices of the responsible” commentators “are being drowned-out by the irresponsible.” The tipping point was Patriot Purge, a three-part documentary hosted by Tucker Carlson. Here are Hayes and Goldberg: The special—which ran on Fox’s...
Victor Davis Hanson on leaving the NATIONAL REVIEW
If you want to understand the divided state of American conservatism (if you can call it that) right now,, check out this taste of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Victor Davis Hanson: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I didn’t know much about Donald...
What happened to Tucker Carlson?
Alex Shephard of The New Republic writes: “He once craved responsibility and tried to give a right-wing audience real news. They didn’t want it. And he adjusted with a vengeance.” Here is a taste of his piece, “How Tucker Carlson...
Rand Paul: Biden administration is “plucking kids” with COVID-19 from the border and “seeding” the country with the delta variant
Yesterday we wrote this about Paul’s Fox News op-ed: What does “resisting” or “standing-up for freedom” look like in this case? An armed rebellion? More riots? Another tea party? Whatever Rand thinks his words mean, his followers will interpret this...
Lindsey Graham, who has COVID-19, needs to do more than just tweet
The GOP senator from South Carolina has COVID-19. He is thankful for the vaccination: Now he needs to book himself on Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham and say the same thing....
The ad you won’t see on Fox News
Watch: Obama has some thoughts as well:...
Liz Cheney is not going down without a fight
Here is her first interview with Fox News since she was ousted from her leadership position on Wednesday:...
Fox News is spreading the “Big Lie.” What will Paul Ryan do about it?
Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2012 and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, sits on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors. I’ll let Charlie Sykes takes it from here in a piece titled “Paul Ryan, It’s...