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“Democrats believe that old ladies walking through the halls of Congress taking selfies are a bigger threat than murderers and repeat violent offenders. Americans deserve the straight facts, not hidden agendas, on all of the challenges we face: crime, the economy, our schools, China, our mental health crisis. If we are going to make any progress on any of these …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Fox News were met with skepticism Tuesday when they argued that Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch should be excused from testifying in court as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the company. At a hearing in Delaware Superior Court, Judge Eric Davis said he’d received a letter from Fox saying it …

Mediaite has the transcript: The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity and therefore its natural enemy. In Christianity, the price of admission is admitting that you’re not God. Christians openly can see they have no real power over anything and for that matter, very little personal virtue. They will tell you to your face if they are sinful …

The Hill reports: Fox News’ biggest stars and most powerful leaders could take the witness stand in a Delaware courtroom next month as part of the network’s ongoing legal fight with Dominion Voting Systems, new court documents show. Hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham as well as Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott are among the individuals on …

Reuters reports: A newly fired Fox News producer is seeking to recant testimony she said network lawyers coerced her into providing as Fox defends against Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Abby Grossberg said Fox’s lawyers left her feeling she “had to do everything possible to avoid becoming the ‘star witness’ for Dominion or else I would be seriously …

NBC News reports: The former Tucker Carlson producer who sued Fox News last week alleging she was pressured into giving misleading testimony about the network’s coverage of supposed election fraud has filed new allegations about coercive coaching by Fox lawyers, bias and unprofessional behavior by staff members, and retaliation by the network. In papers filed Monday morning, Abby Grossberg seeks …

Mediaite reports: Newsmax host Lidia Curanaj recalled her tenure as a “lowly production assistant” for CBS News anchor Dan Rather in 2001 when anthrax was sent to their mailroom. “So when you do hear that – powder in an envelope – you can’t help but wonder, my goodness, could this be some sort of deadly bioweapon, because there are a …

“One wonders, did Nancy Pelosi want it to get out of hand? Is that the reason why her daughter was suddenly there filming her mother in this heroic role? Because all of this, you know, was somehow planned and conjured up? You know, I think it’s worth asking the question but the committee wouldn’t allow it.” – Fox News legal …

Variety reports: Fox News cut ties with Abby Grossberg Friday, Variety has learned, after the booker and producer for such hosts as Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo alleged in court filings earlier this week that she was coerced by executives into providing misleading testimony in the $1.6 billion defamation suit that Dominion Voting Systems has levied against the Fox Corp.-backed …

“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 …

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 …

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 — …

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 …

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 …

“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, …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …