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Fox Host: Dismantle The Perverted Dept Of Education

“Republicans should run on sanity versus lunacy, parents versus perverts. That’s what it’s come down to inside schools. Dagen, I agree with you, it shouldn’t be a federal issue. But it is, and they’ve made it one, and they’ve taken it over. So the idea of local control actually doesn’t really exist anymore. “When you look at the pipeline of …

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Supposed Riot Inciter Wants On-Air Apology From Fox

The New York Times reports: A lawyer for Ray Epps, the man at the center of a prominent conspiracy theory about the Capitol riot, sent a letter on Thursday to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson demanding that he publicly retract his “false and defamatory statements” that Mr. Epps had worked as a government provocateur on Jan. 6, 2021, and …

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Carlson: The Rioters Are “Patriotic Americans” [VIDEO]

Media Matters has the transcript: As of tonight, it’s not just Trump who is the target of this, it’s Trump’s voters. The Biden administration is in the process preparing yet another law enforcement dragnet of more than 1,000 nonviolent January 6 protesters. These were not people who broke windows or tussled with cops. These were patriotic Americans who questioned — …

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Producer Sues Fox: You Made Me Lie About Dominion

CNN Business reports: A Fox News producer on Monday filed a pair of explosive lawsuits against the right-wing talk channel, alleging that the network’s lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation case against the company. The lawsuits filed by Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo and most …

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Fox Moves To Silence Producer For Tucker Carlson

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News is now taking legal action against one of its top producers in an effort to silence her amid the ongoing Dominion lawsuit. In a Monday complaint filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Fox News alleged that Abby Grossberg, a senior producer and head of booking for Tucker Carlson, has threatened the network …

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Carlson Goes 9/11 Truther: Why Can’t I Question 9/11?

“They’re not offended by craziness. If you go on TV tonight and say, ‘I think the Earth is flat,’ people just laugh at you. They don’t care if you think the Earth is flat. It’s not a threat to anyone. But if you say, like, ‘What actually happened with building 7? Like that is weird, right? It doesn’t — like, …

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Carlson: 2020 Election Is “Biggest Scam In My Lifetime”

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson referred to the 2021 Capitol insurrection as the second-biggest scam of his lifetime on Tuesday night. The Fox News host was interviewing a self-professed Proud Boy who trespassed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the building. Daniel Goodwyn pleaded guilty last month to entering the Capitol and …

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Fox News Host Blames Bank Collapse On Pride Month

“So this stupid bank in California didn’t see inflation coming. They’re about as smart as the Fed Chair. So when the Fed Chair finally raised rates, the bank got crushed. Well, why weren’t they paying attention? Silicon Valley Bank is a woke Biden bank. They were holding seminars on Lesbian Visibility Day and National Pride Month. Now, if you want …

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Prosecutors Rebuke Carlson For Deceptive Riot Videos

CNN reports: Federal prosecutors on Sunday pushed back against claims that a video of so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley that was shown by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson exonerated anyone in the mob at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In court filings Sunday, federal prosecutors said that video did not show Chansley, who was sentenced to 41 months in …

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Fox Host: We Have The First Amendment Right To Lie

Media Matters has the transcript: HOWARD KURTZ (HOST): There’s been practically round-the-clock coverage of the lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Machines. Now that all the legal filings are in and a judge in Delaware will give consideration this month to whether the case goes to trial, it’s time for me to weigh in. I’m not sugarcoating the allegations in …

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Carlson Blames Collapse Of Bank On Feminism [VIDEO]

“Just like FTX, all the geniuses told you to buy SVB, even when it was on the brink of total collapse. What explains that? Surely something does, we don’t know really know at this point. Hopefully we will someday. “What we can say tonight is that SVB, like the scammers at FTX, had quite the public relations department. Yes, because …

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Fox Nearly Bought “The Apprentice” To Placate Trump

The Wall Street Journal reports: Soon after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Fox Corp. explored acquiring rights to “The Apprentice,” the competition show that Donald Trump hosted on NBC before he became president, according to court filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit. Rupert Murdoch, Fox’s chair, and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the company’s executive chair and chief executive, discussed …

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Fox Reporters Say Dominion Case Has Sullied Careers

The Daily Beast reports: According to nine Fox News staffers and insiders, the pre-trial filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News further impugn and sully the reputation of the network’s “straight news” journalists, especially since they show Fox was “operating out of fear” over losing viewers to smaller right-wing competitors following its Decision Desk’s early …

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One Day Before Capitol Riot, Rupert Murdoch Floated Plan For Fox Hosts To Denounce Trump’s Election Lies

NBC News reports: Jan. 5, Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tapped an email out on his iPhone: Maybe our top talent needs to take a stand. “It’s been suggested our primetime three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over and Joe Biden won. We are all disappointed by it happened. We love America and have to …

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White House Condemns Carlson’s “Offensive” Lies

Politico reports: The White House joined in widespread condemnation of Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, singling out the prime-time ratings king for his misleading portrayal of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In comments shared first with POLITICO, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed …

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Fox Host Blames McConnell For Failing To Prevent Riot

“You have Mitch McConnell complaining about this, I recall. Let’s see here. So, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed by this. Well, if you ask me, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed. He’s a fraud, a phony and a fool. Well, somebody let down the security at that building. I don’t know if it was the chief law enforcement official there, but …

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Carlson Ripped Trump For Skipping Biden Inauguration

Media Matters reports: New revelations from a recent court filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ ongoing defamation lawsuit against Fox News revealed Tucker Carlson’s true opinion about former President Donald Trump’s decision to not attend the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden: “so destructive.” Discussing the decision with an anonymous person in November 2020, Carlson admitted in a written message that Trump’s …

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Murdoch Email: “Maybe Sean And Laura Went Too Far”

Deadline reports: A huge release of partially redacted text messages, emails and deposition transcripts that dropped Tuesday in the Dominion vs. Fox litigation sheds further light on the scramble among Fox News personalities and Fox Corp. executives. In one email that Rupert Murdoch sent to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott on Jan. 21, 2021, he wrote, “Big morning with …

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Carlson Text Revealed: “I Hate Trump Passionately”

Axios reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed an intense dislike of former President Trump post-2020 election text messages, according to new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems submitted in its lawsuit against the news outlet. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson allegedly said in one text message …

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Carlson Refused To Show Videos To Capitol Police

The Hill reports: “We repeatedly requested that any clips be shown to us first for a security review,” Capitol Police told The Hill on Monday. “So far we have only been given the ability to preview a single clip out of the multiple clips that aired.” The limited consultation comes after McCarthy said Capitol Police would be consulted before the …

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