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Fox News’ audience believes its “deep state” attacks

Fox News host Sean Hannity opened his show last Friday by accusing the FBI under former Director James Comey of engaging in a criminal conspiracy aimed at preventing President Donald Trump’s 2016 election through a purportedly illegal investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. “And according to my sources, tonight, good news is in the horizon,” Hannity concluded. “James Comey, I warned you, you have the right to remain silent.”

These sorts of conspiracy theories have taken hold with Hannity’s audience, according to new poll from Navigator Research. The group’s memo reports that “the Fox News echo-chamber” has created “an alternative reality in American politics,” with Republicans who watch Fox News a few times a month or more showing significantly more radical views than others on a host of issues. Continue reading “Fox News’ audience believes its “deep state” attacks”

Fox News’ Chris Wallace brings the receipts after White House acting chief of staff insists Trump is ‘not a white supremacist’

Mick Mulvaney, the Acting White House Chief of Staff, claimed on Fox News Sunday that President Trump is not a white supremacist.

Host Chris Wallace noted that some critics claim that the president “has contributed to an anti-Muslim climate,” including a statement from Senator and 2020 hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand, where she said, “time and time again, this president has embraced and emboldened white supremacists—and instead of condemning racist terrorists, he covers for them.”

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Time and time again, this president has embraced and emboldened white supremacists—and instead of condemning racist terrorists, he covers for them. This isn’t normal or acceptable. We have to be better than this. https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1106646387872149504 …

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Trump, asked if he sees white nationalism as a growing threat around the world: “I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people.”

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Wallace also pointed out similarities between the New Zealand shooter’s statement about “killing invaders” and the president’s own statements the next day using framing immigrants crossing our southern border as an “invasion.”

View the complete March 17 article by Gwendolyn Smith with The New Civil Rights Movement website here.

Fox News refusing to say if Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show was cancelled after Islamophobic rant against Dem congresswoman

Fox News will not be airing a new episode of “Justice” with former Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday, Variety reports.

The newspaper noted the move comes, “just days after the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news network said it condemned remarks the outspoken host made about Minnesota Democrat Ihan Omar.”

“We’re not commenting on internal scheduling matters,” a Fox spokesperson said.

View the complete March 17 article by Bob Brigham of Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Revealed: Salaries for Fox News contributors-turned-Trump administration officials

Service in the Trump administration peeled off the cover from salaries paid to eight former Fox News contributors who went on to government jobs.

Cable news salaries are highly secretive, but Fox News contributors who left to serve in President Donald Trump’s administration were required to file financial disclosure forms that offer a peek into the network’s payroll, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

At least 10 former Fox News contributors have worked in the Trump administration, and the magazine obtained financial disclosure forms for eight of those current or former officials — who were paid an average of $141,000 by the conservative network.

View the complete March 14 article by Travis Gettys of Ray Story on the AlterNet website here.

Don’t buy Tucker Carlson’s excuse: The Fox News host’s ‘twisted’ and ‘demented’ comments on women reflect his deeply grotesque history of misogyny

Late Sunday, left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters published a lengthy exposé of Tucker Carlson’s years of calling into a shock-jock radio show called “Bubba the Love Sponge” and bro-ing down with the hosts by celebrating their shared animosity towards women.

Researcher Madeline Peltz, in a heroic act of self-sacrifice, clearly listened to hours upon hours of this show and discovered that not only was Carlson game for the contest of “who can be the biggest pig towards women” but was often the clear winner, saying things so repulsive that even the hosts occasionally recoiled, calling his views “twisted” and “demented.”

Carlson minimized child rape, so long as the rapists “married” the victims in legally unbinding ceremonies first, objected to rape shield laws, declared that women “need to be quiet and kind of do what you’re told,” and viciously attacked any woman perceived as independent or uncontrolled by a man as “anti-man” or “anti-penis,” arguing that they needed to be spanked.

View the complete March 11 article by Amanda Marcotte of Salon on the AlterNet website here.

Bill Shine resigns from White House to advise Trump campaign

White House communications director Bill Shine has resigned and will serve as a senior adviser to President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Friday.

Details: The announcement didn’t give a reason for Shine’s departure. The bulk of Shine’s career was spent as a producer and executive at Fox News, most recently serving as the network’s co-president.

“Serving President Trump and this country has been the most rewarding experience of my entire life. To be a small part of all this President has done for the American people has truly been an honor. I’m looking forward to working on President Trump’s reelection campaign and spending more time with my family.”

View the complete March 8 post by Gigi Sukin on the Axios website here.

Laura Ingraham’s advice for asylum seekers reveals her ignorance of asylum law

“If you want to apply for asylum, that’s fine. But you should do so in the safety of your home country.”

Fox News host Laura Ingraham argued on her show Wednesday night that asylum seekers shouldn’t make the journey north to the U.S.-Mexico border, but should instead simply apply for asylum “in the safety of [their] home country.”

“If you want to apply for asylum, that’s fine,” Ingraham said. “But you should do so in the safety of your home country or, as is beginning to happen now, once you’re in the United States and you declare [asylum], you should be sent to Mexico until your case comes up for hearing. We have a backlog right now of 800,000 immigration cases.”

Ingraham added that a policy of forcing asylees to make their claims in a country other than the U.S. would discourage migrant families and those “posing” as family units from coming here.

 

Dems won’t let Fox News host primary debate

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said Wednesday it would not permit Fox News to host a presidential primary debate, citing an explosive story this week alleging deep ties between the conservative network and President Trump’s inner circle.

In a statement, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said he had held conversations with Fox News about potentially allowing the network to host a primary debate. But he said the story, published in The New Yorker, caused him to end conversations with the network.

“Recent reporting in The New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and FOX News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, FOX News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,” Perez said in the statement.

View the complete March 6 article by Reid Wilson on The Hill website here.

The Making of the Fox News White House

Illustration: Tyler Comrie; photograph from Getty

Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?

n January, during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande. The White House wanted to dramatize what Trump was portraying as a national emergency: the need to build a wall along the Mexican border. The presence of armored vehicles, bales of confiscated marijuana, and federal agents in flak jackets underscored the message.

But the photo op dramatized something else about the Administration. After members of the press pool got out of vans and headed over to where the President was about to speak, they noticed that Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, was already on location. Unlike them, he hadn’t been confined by the Secret Service, and was mingling with Administration officials, at one point hugging Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of Homeland Security. The pool report noted that Hannity was seen “huddling” with the White House communications director, Bill Shine. After the photo op, Hannity had an exclusive on-air interview with Trump. Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second. Since then, Trump has given Fox two more. He has granted only ten to the three other main television networks combined, and none to CNN, which he denounces as “fake news.” Continue reading “The Making of the Fox News White House”

Rep. David Cicilline says Sean Hannity should be subpoenaed over Michael Cohen

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Fox News host asserts in interview with Trump that Cohen gave him information that conflicts with his Oversight testimony

Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to insert himself into the congressional investigation of President Donald Trump in an interview with Trump aired Thursday night, leading to speculation that he could be subpoenaed.

Hannity asserted to the president that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, gave him information that conflicts with Cohen’s testimony.

Cohen explained to the committee that Trump directed him to make illegal hush money payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels.

View the complete March 1 article by Ben Peters on The Roll Call website here.