Fake News

“Some of you have been asking why I’m not covering the Dominion voting machines lawsuit against Fox involving the unproven claims of election fraud in 2020. And it’s absolutely a fair question. I believe I should be covering it. It’s a major media story given my role here at Fox, but the company has decided that as part of the …

Mediaite reports: In his opener for Sunday Night in America, former GOP rep turned Fox host Trey Gowdy turned his attention to Lake’s recent decision to amplify fake news from The Gateway Pundit. Lake promoted the conspiratorial rag’s misleading claim that DeSantis has been endorsed for president by liberal megadonor and right-wing boogeyman George Soros. “This attack was from a …

Reuters reports: Fox News has told a judge that Dominion Voting Systems has no evidence to support its “staggering” $1.6 billion damages claim in a defamation lawsuit over the network’s coverage of election-rigging conspiracy theories. Fox made the argument in a counterclaim filed in Delaware Superior Court, the latest development in a legal battle over Fox’s coverage of the 2020 …

“No one has benefited more from these new standards – these very inflexible, genetics-based standards – more than Kamala, Carmela, Komolah, whatever you’re calling her, the vice president. “Now, she hasn’t strictly speaking been a success. She was supposed to keep the peace in Ukraine. That resulted in a war. She was supposed to secure the border. Seven million illegals …

Fox News has the transcript: Here we are… sadly vindicated, wondering how two women closest to sick men in declining health can even live with themselves. Both Jill Biden and Gisele Fetterman know better than anyone how unfit to serve their husbands are. Now, as bad as both men have looked and sounded at various times to the rest of …

Mediaite reports: Co-hosts of Fox News’s The Five, Jessica Tarlov and Jeanine Pirro touched on the ongoing debate regarding who is to blame for the Ohio train derailment that led to the release of toxic chemicals near East Palestine. During a discussion Friday, Tarlov accurately noted that the Trump administration rescinded a rule requiring trains to upgrade their brakes. Pirro …

“My hope for 2024 is that Trump and Gov. DeSantis of Florida will slug it out for the Republican nomination. Trump has turned into a pitiful figure, continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves. “DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless and ambitious. He is likely to be the Republican candidate. This could induce Trump, whose …

Yet another juicy tidbit from Dominion’s filing: Fox Hosts Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity immediately understood the threat to them personally. Carlson wrote his producer Alex Pfeiffer on November 5: “We worked really hard to build what we have. Those fuckers are destroying our credibility. It enrages me.” He added that he had spoken with Laura and [S]ean …

Raw Story reports: Fox News got some of its information on “election fraud” allegations against Dominion Voting Systems from a woman who claims she got the information through a form of “time travel,” the election equipment company’s lawsuit alleges. “Powell’s source … explained that she gets her information from experiencing something ‘like time-travel in a semi-conscious state,’ allowing her to …

Mediaite reports: Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch emailed CEO Suzanne Scott in November 2020 to say then-President Donald Trump was toast, and that the network should focus on boosting Republican U.S. Senate candidates in Georgia. In a November 16 email, Rupert Murdoch told Scott to read a Wall Street Journal piece about Newsmax, telling her: “These people should be watched, …

The Daily Beast reports: Included in the explosive brief that Dominion’s lawyers recently filed in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News is the revelation that the network’s stars conspired to get one of their own colleagues fired. Why? Because she had the temerity to fact-check then-President Donald Trump’s election fraud lies. Days after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe …

“We think of him as Mayor Pete, too. Or maybe just Paternity Pete. The man should never have been put in this position in the first place and should be fired immediately. “Any cabinet official or senior staff member who takes extended paternity leave while our supply chains are breaking down — by definition, that person is unserious. “Now, this …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE KELLY (GUEST): That’s what you see women like Chelsea Handler — feminists like Chelsea Handler — going with now. They’ve been lied to by their society forever, that you could be a “girl boss” and you can do anything a man can do — which everyone who’s ever seen a woman back up a …

“It doesn’t address where problems specifically are. It is just this broad brush painted by a cracker who only wants to racially divide the country further. That is not necessary. He is not good at his job. He doesn’t understand transportation. I don’t think he understands infrastructure. “He just speaks in slogans and they are empty, but he thinks they …

Huddle reports: House Republicans have the clicker and they’re changing the channel to Fox News. Olivia noticed that televisions in common spaces like the Au Bon Pain in Cannon and the Longworth Cafeteria have all been tuned to Fox News from CNN in recent weeks. The House Administration Committee confirmed “The People’s House is once again reflective of the American …

Fox News has the transcript: How big of a threat is this blimp? We have no idea. America’s spy balloons can carry suicide drones and deploy them to take out targets on the ground like a floating hive with killer bees. So, how do we know what the Chinese have in their balloon? During World War II, the Japanese used …

Media Matters has the transcript: We haven’t watched a ton of cable news recently, but we assumed with mass layoffs across the US economy, an egg shortage, crumbling cities, the prospect of a third world war looming on the horizon, we assumed we knew what the other channels would be covering. What we didn’t know is that all of those …

Fox News has the transcript: Barack Obama, the former president, is weighing in directly on America’s latest fake hate crime. And you have to wonder why. He’s not doing it for himself. Obama is retired at this point. He’s living on Martha’s Vineyard with all the other rich white people. He’s doing it for his wife. His wife who’s never …

“Cops are desperate for more technical training and de-escalation and stress control, so they’re not put in a position that they feel they need to use lethal force. And instead, they’re being given implicit bias training, diversity training – a complete waste of money. “But the narrative that is being put on what looks to be a very horrific incident …

“So, of course, the very same people who are weeping on television about police brutality applauded when one of Nancy Pelosi’s officers murdered an unarmed woman called Ashli Babbitt. Yes, murder. That’s exactly what that was. Far more clearly than anything you just saw in the videotape we played. So, of course, the point of this is to federalize local …