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Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Here’s what nobody talks about. There is a science. You can get an advanced college degree in forestry. There’s something called the controlled burns that climate alarmist cult members are all dead-set against. You see, if you have a controlled burn, that prevent the bigger fires like the one they’re experiencing in …

Semafor reports: Fox News is keeping one of its most visible figures on a tight leash as she promotes her new book, infuriating her publisher and some Christian conservative activists. Over the last several weeks, The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro has been on a tour to promote her new book Crimes Against America: The Left’s Takedown of Our Republic. But …

Mediaite reports: “As of today, we have come to Twitter, which we hope will be the shortwave radio under the blankets,” said Tucker Carlson at the end of the 10 minute episode. “We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave, but in the meantime we are grateful to be here.” While Carlson …

In today’s episode of That Never Happened: The lord has determined I am a woman. And my pronouns are U.S.A. Our nation’s soul is at stake. And we really only have a couple of choices, three, really: We can be bad at protecting the greatest nation on the Earth. We can be average at protecting the greatest nation on the …

“Powerful people installed Biden so that he can take orders, not give them. Joe Biden’s been groomed his whole career to take orders. And now that he’s literally slept his way to the top, they won’t let him go anywhere. “The FBI put their guy in the White House. ‘You think we’re just going to, like, let voters decide if …

“I think it’s probably almost impossible under current law to ensure an accurate election. And I think the only Republican strategy in the long run is to pick issues and win by margins so big that they can still win if you have a very close election. “Democrats have a passion for stealing them. When you have the local union, …

“He is failing America. In a radical departure from basically all of our American values, and that’s either — he’s not interested in crime, he’s not interested in education, he’s not interested in protecting kids from activists. “And probably the biggest assault that he’s done on America is on the melting pot. I mean, that’s a prime American value and …

“He was on the ground with his heels and the soles of his feet faced to the sky and it reminded me of when he had fallen off the bike, he wasn’t clipped into the bike, but he had his feet in the clips, he wasn’t moving, he had stopped, and he tipped over and he ended up like in …

The Guardian reports: Fox News hosted a town hall event in Iowa with Donald Trump on Thursday night, allowing the president to repeat his well-worn grievances and lies. But remarkably, the pre-taped hour-long prime-time special hosted by Sean Hannity excluded any mention of Trump’s conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Fox has good reason to tread …

From the far-right fake news Gateway Pundit: Freedom Corner started on August 1, 2022, when Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, started holding the nightly vigil from 7 until 9 pm each night. Ashli Babbitt was murdered by Lt. Michael Byrd of the United States Capitol Police, on January 6, 2021, in cold blood when he shot her without …

“There is something fishy about it. And whether it was a false flag operation or whatever it was, I think the Republicans are owed even a background briefing. It doesn’t have to be, you know, let out to the public. But we need to know whether this is some sort of fishy shenanigans because we can’t trust the FBI anymore. …

Media Matters has the transcript: RAYMOND ARROYO (CONTRIBUTOR): Laura, I’ve got to get to this. Talk about ignoring the public and missing the point. While Target is clearing out LGBT Pride merchandise from its stores, following a wide protest, a major clothier is going in the other direction. This outdoor brand has a new spokesperson, which some say is a …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You see, this is where the country is going to get very, very, very divided. Because we now know the FBI put their cinderblocks on two presidential elections in a row. I don’t think you disagree with that, do you? BILL O’REILLY (GUEST): Absolutely. Corrupt FBI has besmirched the reputation of that …

Mediaite reports: Members of Sean Hannity’s live Fox News audience broke out into chants of “Lock her up!” on Tuesday after Jeanine Pirro said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “should have been locked up a long time ago.” “You call it the country, and America, and the republic,” Pirro said to Hannity during a rant over the state of …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson sent a cease and desist letter to a political action committee formed ostensibly to encourage the former Fox News host to run for president in 2024. The letter, obtained by Mediaite, was sent by Carlson’s lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to the “Draft Tucker PAC,” which was announced last Thursday with an ad set to run all week …

The Insider reports: A fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., may have been created by artificial-intelligence tools. But that didn’t stop it from being spread by dozens of accounts on social media — and the stock market briefly dipped as the fake news spread. An image appearing to show a massive cloud of smoke near …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a correction on The Ingraham Angle, Friday after a story she covered about homeless veterans being kicked out of hotels to make way for migrants turned out to be false. Toward the end of her Friday show, Ingraham announced, “Alright, before we go, a little update on a story we brought you …

The Albany Times-Union reports: Over the past week, a sensational story has torn through local and national media: A local nonprofit said homeless veterans under its care had been kicked out of upstate hotels to make room for migrants bused from New York City. But the story has fallen apart over the past 48 hours, culminating Thursday evening with state …

“Elon speaks for all of us, kind of like Trump did before he got censored. Biden’s lost his mind, Soros is a villain and the last election wasn’t that fair. Everybody knows it. But a lot of people would rather be rich liars than honest and broke. But that’s a choice we shouldn’t have to make and thankfully, Elon Musk …

Variety reports: Fox News Channel is considering “multiple scenarios” for its primetime lineup after the ouster of Tucker Carlson, with the network declining to comment on a recent report that veteran Sean Hannity might move into its 8 p.m. lead-off hour. “No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration,” Fox News …