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...
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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...
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...