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Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson brutally mocked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as an unqualified “kid” who “breastfeeds,” and has no business running the agency. The crack was part of a broader monologue the ridiculed the idea that social and racial equity has a critical role to play in rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure. After presenting the sorry state of public infrastructure …

Media Matters has the transcript: CANDACE OWENS (GUEST): Oh, I’m just so glad. I’m so glad they’re doing this. Let me just tell you, Jesse. It goes back to, like when they did this to the M&M’s and now they’re making her more masculine and I’m glad that they’re now saying — realizing that this needs to be addressed. You …

The Hill reports: YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension. The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel, which primarily hosted short clips from his digital radio show, was actively suspended for violating YouTube’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. “When a channel receives …

“What are we going to do, get boosters for the rest of our lives? You get boosters for the rest of your lives, I’m going to become an anti-vaxxer because there is a point at which this stuff is extremely dangerous to your immune system. And how many — how many trials have been run with endless boosters from any …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Well, a new bill just passed the state Senate in Mississippi that would ban public schools from teaching racism, in other words, from teaching that any one race is superior to or inferior to any other. Now, you would think the other 49 states would have similar laws on the book because, …

“You have — both with Attorney General Garland and with this select committee on January 6, people who have run amok. What they need to understand is on January 4 next year, you’re going to have a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate. “And all these people who have been so tough, and so …

Politico reports: Donald Trump says his perceived rift with Gov. Ron DeSantis is “fake news” even as the Republican governor won’t back down over their high-profile split over Covid-19 vaccine boosters. During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night, Trump praised DeSantis and said he continues to have a good relationship with him. His comments come after …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Howard Stern, by any measure, is one of the great radio hosts of all-time. He has made a huge amount of money for doing what he does, but there’s a reason for it: He was incredibly brave. Vulgar, yes, but truly talented, but above all, courageous. Stern defended free speech, he was …

“What you’re seeing is an insidious transfer of power. The same people that demand removal, say of the Pledge of Allegiance, embraces this kind of progressive propaganda as a replacement. “So, in that framing, you see that they don’t want children paying respect to the country, they want the children to pay respect to an ideology that sees that the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ top-rated host Tucker Carlson announced on Wednesday evening, “Next week we return to Hungary for important reporting. Get ready!” Critics of Carlson were quick to pounce on the controversial trip – particularly as news of the growing conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to dominate the headlines. Carlson, who has broadcast from Hungary before, interviewed Hungarian …

Media Matters has the transcript: If you destroy the nuclear family, which they have, if you decriminalize drugs, which they have, if you hand out tents and needles to addicts, what do you think is going to happen? You’re going to get more addicts living in tents. Again, it’s not complicated. This is not a vexing public policy question that …

Mediaite reports: “All right, the triple vaxxed Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley – our favorite, Mark Milley! – tested positive for Covid yesterday,” Ingraham said while clapping. “And who else? General David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant, also positively boosted.” The aim of the “Positively Boosted” segment is seemingly to cast doubt on the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine, …

Some good news to close out the day: Lara Logan, the former 60 Minutes correspondent who as of late has earned a reputation for pushing conspiracy theories at Fox News, has been dropped by talent agency UTA over controversial comments she made about Dr. Anthony Fauci. The veteran journalist was dropped after she sparked controversy by comparing the top U.S. …

Northern Virginia Magazine reports: She was among the first commentators, even on Fox News, to champion Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign, sticking by his side even as fellow conservative pundits roundly laughed him off in those early days. Trump, Ingraham maintained, had tapped into a certain mood that much of the country was feeling, and shouldn’t be counted …

Raw Story reports: Hosting the 5 p.m. EST hour, Lara Trump was ranting about Microsoft Word’s Clippy and the suggested changes to words like “postman” into “letter carrier” and “mankind” into “humankind.” It’s part of the right’s latest attack on “wokism,” which they define as anything done in polite society that makes them uncomfortable. “Someone is reading this?! And assessing …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell rebuked Fox News on Saturday for not promoting 2020 election conspiracy theories. “They won’t talk about anything,” Lindell said. “When was the last time you’ve seen anybody on Fox talk about the 2020 election? You’re not going to see it.” Speaking at the Save America rally in Florence, AZ, Lindell argued that the biggest …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Is Thomas Caldwell a seditionist? Is he an enemy of this nation? On January 6th, was Thomas Caldwell trying to overthrow the U.S. Government by force? That’s a pretty hard case to make. Caldwell’s indictment paints him as a dangerous militia leader who was planning a sort of D-Day invasion on the …

Mediaite reports: On Friday’s Fox News Primetime, host Rachel Campos-Duffy ran a segment on Satanism in public schools that was reminiscent of the satanic panic of the 1980s. “For two years, the left has claimed that schools are unsafe for children due to Covid,” she said. “But there’s something much more terrifying lurking in the halls of one school in …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson called Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh a “cringing little liberal” after his vote to uphold President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. Kavanaugh sided with Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s liberal wing to uphold the order for all workers in medical facilities which accept Medicare or Medicaid payments. Carlson responded by …

“The RNC today did something that I’ve been saying they should have done a long time ago, and that is they are — you know, they’ve been conned by this presidential debate commission. “Now the RNC has finally come to their senses, they’ve pulled the plug on any debate participation by a candidate that they support. “And further, they are …