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Fox News’ Sean Hannity claims Biden only developed a stutter recently — videos show him talking about it years ago

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Fox News host Sean Hannity has doubled down on the conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden’s health. It’s a similar conspiracy that Fox hosts pushed in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was going to die any day, and desperately ill. She wasn’t and she’s still alive, obviously.

The new conspiracy is that Biden’s well-known and well-documented stutter only appeared recently. That too, is false, as Biden even addressed it accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 2008 on live television. Fox News was there. Biden also talked to the ladies of “The View” about it in 2010.

Biden then spoke about it in a video to the American Institute for Stuttering in 2014. Continue reading.

While Fox And Trump Make Stupid Noises, Biden Is Busy Governing

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So it turns out that the whole time Sleepy Joe Biden was hiding in the basement, he was working on a plan to render congressional Republicans irrelevant. Which, for the foreseeable future, they certainly are.

If you don’t remember—why should you?—the GOP literally had no party platform in 2020. It was Trump, Trump, Trump. A cult of personality. What they didn’t count on was a strong majority of Americans being all Trumped-out. And so now they’ve got nothing to talk about.

Except, oh yes, the budget deficit. A deficit that literally tripled on Trump’s watch, leading many to doubt that it was ever such a terrible threat to begin with. Washington Republicans who stood quiet as deficits soared over the past four years are donning green eyeshades and calling themselves “fiscal conservatives” again. Continue reading.

Trump spews election lies while eulogizing Rush Limbaugh on Fox News: ‘He was furious about it’

Former President Donald Trump made his first media appearance on Wednesday to eulogize conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.

“He was special,” Trump said, recalling that he had given Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Rush is irreplaceable. He had an audience that was massive.”

“He was a fantastic man, a fantastic talent and people, whether they loved him or not, they respected him,” he added. Continue reading.

‘Shameful’: Fox News cuts away from Senate trial as shocking footage emerges

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As other networks airing Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday showed chilling new video footage of the deadly January 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol incited by the former president, Fox Newsopted to cut away to cover different stories. 

Even the fiercely pro-Trump One America Network aired Trump’s trial. Fox, however, decided to run segments on stories including Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s decision to forego the national anthem at his NBA team’s home games, and the viral video of a Texas attorney’s “I’m not a cat” Zoom courtroom filter fail.

Fox‘s decision to cut away from the trial was lambasted as “f*cking shameful.” Continue reading.

Fox News receives brutal fact-check for claim of ‘evenhanded’ election coverage

Fox News is having difficulty trying to repair its reputation after spending months airing the unfounded conspiracy theories of election fraud that culminated in the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

“In the days after the presidential election, an entire ecosystem emerged to bolster President Donald Trump’s false claims that rampant fraud had mired the election results. No credible evidence of significant fraud existed at the time, just as no credible evidence to that end exists today. For Trump and his allies, though, hyping sketchy, unfounded allegations served to strengthen Trump’s efforts to somehow overturn the will of the electorate and generated an enormous amount of attention from a Republican base eager to wrench victory from the jaws of reality,” The Washington Post’s Philip Bump explainedTuesday.

Fox News repeatedly aired the conspiracy theories about election fraud. Continue reading.

Dominion Voting tells Facebook, Parler and other social media sites to preserve posts for lawsuits

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SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems have asked Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Parler to preserve posts about the company, even if the material was already removed for spreading misinformation.

The posts need to be kept “because they are relevant to Dominion’s defamation claims relating to false accusations that Dominion rigged the 2020 election,” according to the demand letters from Dominion’s law firm Clare Locke. Dominion sued Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell for more than $1.3 billion each in January, alleging that the lawyers defamed Dominion by saying the machines were used to steal the election from President Donald Trump.

Dominion asked each company to keep posts from slightly differing lists of people. Those included right-wing pundit Dan Bongino, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and Powell. It also included news organizations Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax and — in Twitter’s case — Trump. Continue reading.

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah Exposes The Hypocrisy Of Fox News

Unlike most Americans, the honchos at Fox News are unhappy. They’ve spent the first days of Joe Biden’s presidency complaining — a lot. While the right-wing media mammoth isn’t handling Trump’s exit well, they’re devoting extra attention to the so-called “national left-wing media” and the “gushing” coverage of the Biden administration. 

We can debate the coverage of Biden thus far, but what’s not debatable is how eagerly Fox News licked Trump ‘s boots from day one.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah noticed this blatant hypocrisy and wasn’t afraid to call them on their bullshit. Watch and you will collapse in laughter watching this scorching “then” and “now” comparison. Continue reading.

Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo claims Democrats infiltrated Capitol wearing MAGA clothing — and Twitter fires back

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Fox Business news anchor Maria Bartiromo was in for a rude awakening when she attempted to blame the U.S. Capitol riots on Democrats who “infiltrated” the federal building wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) clothing. 

As she discussed the reports about possible threats of right-wing violence looming over the upcoming presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, she falsely that Democrats participated in the Capitol riots, according to Media Matters.

During the broadcast, Bartiromo said, “A new report says that some far-right protesters have discussed posing as members of the National Guard to infiltrate the inauguration — the way Democrats infiltrated two weeks ago and put on MAGA clothing.” Continue reading.

At Fox News, a post-election shake-up brings more opinion at the expense of news

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With viewership faltering since November, last year’s top-rated cable channel will try out pundits for a 7 p.m. slot once devoted to news. In the running: Maria Bartiromo.

Regular viewers of Fox News’s early-evening hours might have been surprised to see one of the network’s highly opinionated morning hosts, Brian Kilmeade, holding forth Monday night with a broadside against “the big tech crackdown on free speech.”

Fox’s 7 p.m. hour has traditionally been reserved for news coverage. But in a shake-up that has raised concerns within its news division, the network last week announced it would bump veteran anchor Martha MacCallum from that slot — part of a larger shift toward the conservative-leaning punditry programming that made Fox the most-watched cable channel in 2020.

Kilmeade is among the six opinionators who will get informal week-long tryouts to become the permanent host of the 7 p.m. hour, which is being called “Fox News Primetime.” Also getting a turn are business news anchor Maria Bartiromo and conservative Fox News contributors Katie Pavlich, Rachel Campos-Duffy and former congressman Trey Gowdy, as well as commentator Mark Steyn, a favorite guest of Fox ratings champ Tucker Carlson. (The names were first reported by the Los Angeles Times.) Continue reading.

Fox News Justifies Riotous Mob, Ensuring They Will Strike Again

“If you don’t bother to pause and learn a single thing from it, from your citizens storming your Capitol building, then you’re a fool,” Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson said Wednesday night. 

While his comments were a typical bad-faith jab at elites, he’s absolutely right. But there’s been no soul-searching on his network after violent insurrectionists tried to prevent the U.S. Congress from confirming President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump, no on-air consideration of the role Carlson and his colleagues played in inciting that mob.

The pro-Trump insurrectionists, egged on by the president, invaded the Capitol because they had been lied to. Trump, his congressional allies, and his propagandists at Fox and elsewhere had all spent weeks whipping them up with conspiracy theories about massive election fraud that had “rigged” the election in favor of Biden and stolen it from Trump. They bear responsibility for the horrific, lethal results. Continue reading.