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The New York Daily News reports: Geraldo Rivera went off on anti-vaxxers Tuesday, which did not go over well with Fox News viewers who witnessed his blunt invective. “If you are unvaccinated, you are an arrogant, selfish SOB,” Rivera declared. Fox News’ observers on social media went ballistic on the mustached TV newsman, who is frequently at odds with his …

The Insider reports: At the hearing, Aquilino Gonell — a former Iraq war veteran — had said in a tearful speech that “on January 6th for the first time, I was more afraid to work at the Capitol than my entire deployment to Iraq.” Carlson responded, saying: “Actually what happened on January 6, according to the video we do have, …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Laura Ingraham mocked the testimony of the Capitol Police officers who testified before the January 6 select committee on Tuesday. Ingraham said Democrats are holding these hearings on the riots at the Capitol on January 6th to “drag this all out” leading into the midterms, saying, “The theatrics were intended to produce an emotional reaction, logic …

The Hill reports: Fox News has condemned an incident during which a man confronted Tucker Carlson at a Montana fly-fishing store over the weekend and told the prime-time host he was the “worst human being known to man.” “Ambushing Tucker Carlson while he is in a store with his family is totally inexcusable,” Fox said about the now-viral incident in …

“This idea that we’re going to now bring back masks for all people — including vaccinated people — quite frankly is a lot of theater by politicians who just can’t get out of this power grab that they’ve had over the last year, year and a half. “The fact of the matter is that the United States of America has …

Fox & Friends this morning seized on comments made by Senate candidate J.D. Vance, who on Friday attacked top Democrats for being childless, claiming that they therefore don’t care about the future of the country. Vance then suggested that parents should get a vote for every child they have. Co-host Will Cain: I think it’s an interesting idea. I’m into …

The Huffington Post reports: When a local fly fishing guide spotted noted vaccine skeptic Tucker Carlson at a sporting goods store in Livingston, Montana, he did not waste time. “You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that,” Dan Bailey can be heard telling the Fox News host in a video posted to his …

The Insider reports: Rep. Eric Swalwell took aim at Tucker Carlson on Twitter Friday, sharing a screenshot of a testy text exchange the two shared. Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said he is refusing to return Carlson’s calls due to things the Fox News host has said about him and his family in the past. One showing a missed call …

Media Matters has the transcript: I have no idea why, but it was only in the last week my coverage of coronavirus, COVID-19 got the attention of the liberal press, and their attempts to paint this great network of ours which has varying opinions, which is actually fair and balanced, to paint us as a dangerous anti-vaccine network. They watched …

“The idea that we’re going to make our children sit in school masked up all day long I think is absolutely ludicrous. They’re also not coming in contact with germs that they need to develop an immune system. “My daughter, Carolina, last week had a cold. Every parent knows that’s a nightmare. I have to tell you, I was so …

“Do you really think the Chinese and these Middle Eastern oil kingdoms are gonna listen to John Kerry and stop fossil fuels? Come on, man. He’s just in it for the luxury travel. If you want to stop climate change, you don’t fight climate change. “If it’s getting warmer, you adapt to it. Let’s just say, the sea levels rise …

“So if January 6th was the most dastardly attack on the Capitol building in more than 200 years, a period that has seen bombings and shootings — a lot of them in the Capitol — but if January 6th was the single worst, then why can’t we know the answers to the basic questions we just asked? “On Tuesday, Nancy …

“I will say, the snotty reaction to states like Alabama and Mississippi, it doesn’t just extend to vaccine hesitancy. This is just a cultural bias against those states, period. “They don’t like those states, they don’t like their, you know, trucks they drive, they don’t like how many kids they have. So it’s not just vaccine hesitancy they’re sneering at. …

The Hill reports: Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy penned an editorial on the conservative network’s website on Tuesday praising President Biden for how he has handled the coronavirus pandemic and urging Americans to get vaccinated against the virus. “Six months into his administration, President Joe Biden should be applauded for making a huge dent in the COVID pandemic,” Ruddy wrote. “He …

CNN Business reports: Tucker Carlson has called the idea of vaccine passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” laws. And other Fox News personalities have spent months both trafficking in anti-vaccine rhetoric and assailing the concept of showing proof of vaccination status. But Fox Corporation, the right-wing talk channel’s parent company, has quietly implemented the concept of a vaccine passport …

The Insider reports: In trying to make a point about “cancel culture,” actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried evoked “old time lynch mobs” in a promo that aired on Fox News Monday morning. Gottfried, who lost his role as the Aflac duck after making tasteless jokes about Japanese people following the nation’s deadly 2011 earthquake, was being interviewed by Dan Bongino, …

“Well, here’s the thing. And one of the CDC officials said yesterday, look, the pandemic right now is really just with people who have not been vaccinated. 99% of the people who died have not been vaccinated. “What they are trying to do is make sure that all of the people who have not been vaccinated get vaccinated. Unfortunately, and …

“This is what the federal government is working on. They’re not working on securing your border. They’re not working on arresting the criminals and making sure they don’t come to our country. “They’re working on very quickly and secretly, this is the bad part about it, the worst part about it, is that it’s being done without the American people’s …

Media Matters has the transcript: JUAN WILLIAMS:: These platforms, they always say, “You know, it’s not our fault. We don’t have anything to do with the content.” But in fact, the content on their platforms is literally killing people. BRET BAIER: Ben? BEN DOMENECH: I want to see that case made from Juan Williams. I want him to find one …

The Daily Beast reports: Pro-Trump right-wing cable outlet One America News is launching a Spanish-language sister network that should debut this fall, the network’s founder and CEO confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday. OAN has been working on the launch of the separate channel specifically as a means to target a conservative Spanish-speaking audience. The channel would largely feature …