Fake News

“People asking for the smoking gun from James Comer are just being unrealistic or being deliberately — trying to discredit his inquiry because of course you’re not going a find a check made out by Zlochevsky or Vladimir Putin or somebody in Ukraine to Joe Biden. “That’s not how these things work. You know, there’s just so much evidence. It’s …

Mediaite reports: Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched an error-filled and expletive-laden attack against former President George W. Bush over his handling of the 9/11 terror attacks. “You know, George W. Bush fled Washington on 9/11,” Carlson claimed at one point during a three-hour conversation with popular podcaster Lex Fridman. Famously, Bush was in a Sarasota, Florida classroom when …

Jonathan Turley writes for The Hill: The Bidens have shown a legendary skill at evading legal accountability. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, Biden family members often marshal political allies and media to kill investigations or cut sweetheart deals. It turns out that it may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection. A historian …

“Turns out that artificial intelligence is racist toward white people. I think I know who programmed those — Google, you got Google out there in California scrambling after its new AI tool — they’ve got a new AI tool. They call it Gemini. It’s called Gemini. It was exposed for its racial rewrite of history. When asked to create images …

Gizmodo reports: Have you seen a claim on social media that Google is “sunsetting” Gmail this coming August? What appears to be a screenshot from an official Google announcement has gone viral on X, but it’s completely fake. “We are reaching out to share an important update about Gmail. After years of connecting millions worldwide, enabling seamless communication, and fostering …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHARLY ARNOLT (HOST): Have you run into anything with your kids so far being in school or whatever, activities they participate in, where you see things that you’re like holy crap what is going on with the world right now? KRISTEN LOUELLE GAFFNEY (GUEST): I’m in California, so I have no choice but to put …

“Kevin O’Leary said the same thing, remember, the guy from Shark Tank he said he doesn’t want to invest in New York anymore. Because people are wondering if you get in trouble – if you’re a conservative, if you’re a Republican, if you like Donald Trump – they’re already going through our bank accounts to see who has shopped at …

The Wrap reports: Tucker Carlson said Tuesday that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a staunch supporter of Ukraine’s defense against Russian invasion, agreed to an interview with the former Fox News host about it – for the price of $1 million. “Finally an adviser gets back to me and said, ‘He will talk to you, but it’s going to …

“If a source lied to the FBI like that, I have no problem with prosecuting that person. But then why hasn’t Michael Steele – the author of the Steele dossier – been prosecuted? “This again, is the two sides of justice. And it keeps seeming that if you’re out to get Donald Trump, you get the green carpet. You can …

“It appears that Alexander Smirnov was not to be trusted. ‘See! Hannity didn’t tell the truth about the FBI informant!’ I guess I was stupid. I should’ve learned from Christopher Steele. They have a bad taste in picking out FBI informants. That’s on the FBI. That’s on the FBI. What we reported on the FBI was factual, until they told …

“I’m looking at these news reports. I’m thinking, ‘How the hell can they even predict the weather or the climate? Fifty, a hundred.’ We’ve got one AccuWeather that that indicates, you know, it’s never gonna be warmer than — colder than 39 degrees. “Now, last time I checked, doesn’t it have to be like 32 or under, Mr. Producer? So …

“Charlie Kirk, as we know, has become a white supremacist, and that’s a huge victory. But he remains a — he remains a Jew lover. He remains a Jew lover, and that — no, I don’t use language like that, you know. “But he is an Israel shill. Like, Charlie Kirk has become white nationalist, hardcore, but he remains shill, …

“Now before we go tonight I want to talk about Curtis Sliwa’s appearance on this show on Tuesday night, when members of the Guardian Angels stopped a man and the police were called. Now, Curtis said that the man was a migrant and that he was shoplifting. “Fox News has since spoken to the NYPD and, apparently, the statements made …

“Falling grades is an acceptable reality when you live in the prison of equity. There academic achievement is a marker of white privilege. So instead this program wants education to start over at the bottom and then stay there because then everyone is equally bad permanently. It’s pure indoctrination, or to be more specific, pure [bleep]. Five-year-old kids being taught …

“By the way, alligators in the Rio Grande would be safer than it would be now because they wouldn’t get in the water with alligators, and now, they get in the water, and they are drowning every single day. And put the alligators in the water because you would save lives.” – Fox News late night anchor Trace Gallagher, speaking …

“Well, maybe they’re focused too much on DEI. There’s a concern at the FBI because they’re dropping the FBI special agent requirements in the name of DEI. I’m just wondering if that has anything to do with missing an important drone that just killed three of our heroes, Congressman.” – Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, speaking to two-term GOP Rep. …

“They are totally over the top worshiping this woman. Have you seen any of the pictures of her in concert? I wouldn’t go myself. I don’t do that kind of thing anymore. But I think what they call it is, they’re elevating her to an idol. “Idolatry. This is a little bit of what idolatry, I think, looks like. And …

“One psychotic episode following cannabis use is associated with a 47% chance of a person developing schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which is forever. The incidence of psychotic episodes and psychotic breaks in the use of cannabis is astonishing. “The risk for psychotic episode is higher with cannabis than with amphetamines, hallucinogens, opioids, and alcohol. But you know what Health and …

NBC News reports: Fox Corp. must face Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit, a New York judge ruled on Wednesday, denying a motion to dismiss defamation claims against Fox News’ parent company. Fox lawyers had asked the court to dismiss the claims against Fox Corp., arguing that the parent company — led at the time by executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch …

Media Matters reports: The S&P 500 hit a record high on January 19, further reflecting a booming economy after some pundits had worried that it would fall into a recession. After repeatedly praising former President Donald Trump for stock market records, Fox News host Sean Hannity now dismisses stock prices as inconsequential for most Americans, cautioning that “this thing can …