Tag Archives: Fox News

The Daily Beast reports: In a long and winding interview with Russian broadcaster RT, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov waxed nostalgic on Friday about the good old days when the Soviet Union was intact and doubled down on the party line that Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine is a simple military maneuver. After telling the host that he had a …

Axios reports: Fox News is suing the voting machine company Smartmatic in a bid to counter the latter’s defamation suit against the network. Fox now alleges Smartmatic exaggerated the financial damage caused by the reports, an alleged violation of a New York statute that deters lawsuits aiming to discourage free speech. Smartmatic stands “to make nearly $2 billion in annual …

From the world’s most famous liar: Fox News is putting on the terrible Nancy Mace of South Carolina at every opportunity they get. Fox Board Member (too bad!) Paul Ryan is pushing her so hard it’s ridiculous. She’s nasty, disloyal, and bad for the Republican Party. Her opponent, Katie Arrington, is wonderful and will do a much better job for …

Media Matters has the transcript: What Russia has done from the very beginning has been very strategic. They didn’t go straight to Kyiv. They went to all those bioweapons laboratories that are scattered all over the country. Some of them they built. So they know where they are. They’ve known where they are since the Soviet Union, because under the …

Deadline reports: Fox News said that its cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski, was killed in Ukraine on Monday when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by oncoming fire. Correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was with him, was injured and remains hospitalized. “Pierre was a war zone photographer who covered nearly every international story for Fox News from Iraq to Afghanistan yo …

“We’re looking at many millions of unlawful foreign nationals seeking to enter this country without any legal permission whatsoever to completely change our country. “And I think that if the American civilization falls because we had no border, history will record with the greatest astonishment that we barely even spoke of it. We barely even spoke of it. “Millions of …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Maria Bartiromo was just asking questions on Sunday morning when she wondered whether or not the White House wanted to see Ukraine “taken down” and was looking to “sell out” the country. Bartiromo’s curious questions came less than an hour after she asserted on air that “some people” had told her that the …

Mother Jones reports: On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson. “It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, …

Mediaite reports: Viewers of CNN and MSNBC were less likely to say they’ve contracted Covid than people who mainly rely on Fox News and conservative media for information, according to a new poll. The survey tracked respondents “who either tested positive for COVID-19 or report that they had COVID-19 without officially testing positive” by their “main news source.” Only 28 …

“We’re right, right fresh in the midst — which everyone seems to have forgotten about — of a pandemic that wasn’t really a pandemic. “That, if you go back to the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Fauci knew years ago that ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and all these things, you know, would treat COVID. “And yet, they withheld these treatments. We know …

“When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals? As a mom, I think it’s appalling, it’s frightening, it’s disgusting, it’s despicable. “Florida just passed a bill to keep this type of sexual brainwashing out of schools. Democrats, though, claim the bill is bigoted, branding it as the ‘Don’t Say Gay Bill.’ …

Mediaite reports: Fox News aired a commercial for a children’s book about the accomplishments of former President Donald Trump, which is being offered by Mike Huckabee’s “education company.” “The mainstream media has been no friend to President Trump, and they’ll never admit that he did a great job leading our country and making the changes that America needs,” the website …

“And then Biden goes on to say, you know, there’s no excuse for the excessive price increases or padding profits. And it’s no time for profiting or price gouging. “What do you mean? What, do you want them to do it for free, Joe? It’s based on how much it costs. “Supply and demand crisscross and that will dictate the …

“Now, because Putin invaded Ukraine — effectively encouraged by the Biden administration to do that, which is true — because that happened, we are going to send billions of dollars to the Saudi theocracy and then to the Iranians and to Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. “And at the same time, we’re going to embrace green energy which means giving the …

Deadline reports: A New York judge has denied Fox News’ efforts to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by election systems company Smartmatic. Judge David Cohen also declined to dismiss claims against host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs, while tossing out claims against Jeanine Pirro and a guest on Fox News in the aftermath of the 2020 election, attorney …

Media Matters has the transcript: At a public press event at the Munich Security Conference, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to become a member of NATO: “I appreciate and admire President Zelensky’s desire to join NATO.” Message? “Up yours, Vladimir Putin. Go ahead and invade Ukraine.” And of course, Vladimir Putin did that just days later. So, the invasion was no …

USA Today reports: The cold open featured a Fox News special titled “Ukrainian Invasion Celebration Spectacular” with hosts Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) and Tucker Carlson (Alex Moffat). The Fox News anchors kicked off the show by attempting to apologize for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “pathetic” and reducing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “border dispute,” respectively, by hosting a …

Media Matters has the transcript: We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We’re not the only ones who were, but we are willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren’t. So why didn’t we see this coming, this total loss of control? Well, because we assumed …

The Daily Beast reports: As the United States increasingly goes after some of the Kremlin’s business tentacles, the latest person arrested for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia is a former Fox News director who left to launch a Russian propaganda network. The Department of Justice on Thursday revealed that Jack Hanick was quietly arrested in London on Feb. 3 for …

“What we really need in this crisis, more than anything else, is a worldwide condemnation. “And it’s a simple new rule that if you invade an innocent sovereign country, and you kill innocent men, women and children, you don’t deserve to live. That’s the bottom line. “‘Well, Hannity, we have an executive order that prohibits assassination of foreign leaders, and …