Watch: Obama has some thoughts as well:
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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 […]
Did Benjamin Franklin successfully thwart cancel culture?
Here is “presidential historian” Jane Hampton Cook yesterday on Fox News: Cook’s appearance follows this article at Fox News. What qualifies one as a “presidential historian?” Unfortunately, Cook doesn’t really know what she is talking about here. Cook comes from […]
Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s latest investigation
The My Pillow Guy is now investigating Fox News to find out why the cable network refuses to book him as a guest on its programs. Here is a taste of Richard Luscombe’s piece at The Guardian: Mike Lindell, the […]
Trump may have hit a new low last night
Here is the AP: Former President Donald Trump on Thursday defended some of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying they posed “zero threat” to the lawmakers who had assembled there to certify the Electoral […]
Trump will speak at CPAC on February 28
Donald Trump will speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 28 in Orlando. This year’s CPAC theme is “AMERICA UNCANCELED.” It looks like Trump is getting the old band back together. Speakers include Kristi Noem, Mike […]
Fox Business News cancels “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Where will Trump evangelical Robert Jeffress go now?
“Lou Dobbs Tonight” was the highest-rated show on the network. Here is Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy at CNN: Lou Dobbs, the longtime host of the signature right-wing talk show on the Fox Business Network, was canned by the network […]
Joe Biden is president-elect. What are the court evangelicals saying?
Yesterday the Electoral College made it official. Joe Biden is President-Elect of the United States. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is still tweeting about election fraud: So now that the election is in the books, what are the court evangelicals saying? (Let’s […]
Some court evangelicals are still keep pushing the voter fraud narrative. Others are angry with Obama.
It is Thanksgiving. Yesterday Donald Trump’s legal team was in Gettysburg for an election fraud hearing. GOP state legislators hosted the event. The day included testimonies from Pennsylvanians who claimed to have witnessed voter fraud on November 3 and in […]
Fox News and Trumpism
Yes, they are connected. 🙂 A recent study by the Public Religion Research Institute defines a “Fox News Republican” as part of the “40% of Republicans who trust Fox News most among television news sources.” Here are some of the […]
When false allegations from court evangelical Charlie Kirk resulted in death threats to a Harvard professor
Danielle Allen is a politics professor at Harvard. In a recent article at The Washington Post she writes about the death threats she received after Charlie Kirk, a spokesperson for Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, made a false allegation about her […]
Here is your Thursday morning court evangelical update
More and more Republicans are implying that it is time to move on from this election and admit defeat. I wish more would step up and proclaim Biden president-elect so that the country can move forward, but most of them […]
What Trumpers said about the 2018 midterm elections
Nice work from Trevor Noah and the Daily Show:
The right-wing media smears don’t make sense. That’s OK, you’re not supposed to understand them.
Anne Applebaum nails it at The Atlantic. Here is a taste: Those who live outside the Fox News bubble and intend to remain there do not, of course, need to learn any of this stuff. Judging by what has been […]
Fox News is discipling many white evangelicals
In January, Donald Trump launched “Evangelicals for Trump” at a Miami megachurch. After that event I wrote in USA Today: At one point in his speech, Trump rattled off the names of the Fox News personalities who carry his water […]
Pete Buttigieg won’t play the Fox News game
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Court evangelical: “There is a war going on in America right now…between “good and evil, between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of righteousness”
First of all, the quote in the title is correct. I always thought the “kingdom of light” and the “kingdom of righteousness” were the same thing, but perhaps Jeffress, in all his fervor, misspoke. I wrote this yesterday, but it […]
Early court evangelical reaction to last night’s debate
There was nothing in last night’s debate about abortion, religious liberty, or Israel. One might think that this was a perfect opportunity, with Christian Right issues off the table for the evening, for evangelical Christians to decry Trump’s inability to […]
We deserved last night’s debate. We didn’t deserve last night’s debate.
Last night the nation got the debate it deserved. Last night a nation suffering through coronavirus deserved better. I think both of these things can be true at the same time. The first 2020 presidential debate was a disaster. It […]