Fake News

The Daily Beast reports: Right-wing attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris ever since she declared her candidacy for president have honed in on her ethnicity, her laugh, her past relationships, and now, thanks to Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, whether or not she is sober. “Her past as a DA was a disaster, and I’m ready to speak about that …

“You are just running against a Democrat. That’s what I think the thing is. President Trump is so unaware of race and gender. “A lot of people say wow you don’t talk to women like that. You don’t talk to minorities like that. He’s like ‘I’m running against that person.’ “That’s all he sees. And we all know this by …

“Now as far as, ‘Who is Kamala?’ Most of us wouldn’t have gone in there and gone, ‘Hmm, who is Kamala Harris? Is she Indian? Well, she’s Jamaican, too.’ “Not something I would have done, but he went in there and he peeled back the curtain. And a lot of times I think early in her career she identified as …

“And as far as this binding code of conduct for justices, knowing how these people operate, I would fight this proposal with every ounce of energy that I have. Because we know exactly what’s going to happen here. Every conservative justice will be constantly brought under investigation and no liberal will ever be investigated. And in the end, conservatives literally …

Axios reports: Hunter Biden dropped his lawsuit against Fox News over a a fictionalized miniseries on him that President Biden’s son alleged violated New York law by publishing nude photos and videos of him without his consent. Hunter Biden’s lawyers filed court papers seeking to have the suit dismissed hours after his father withdrew from the 2024 race Sunday — …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Her problems don’t end there. Kamala Harris is also battling something called a “likability crisis” — even after Biden’s horrendous debate, she continued to underperform Joe in the polls. Here’s just one reason that voters seem to detest Kamala Harris. You decide. {PLAYS MONTAGE OF VP KAMALA HARRIS LAUGHING] HANNITY: Yes, your …

Mediaite reports: Lou Dobbs, the veteran cable news host who made his name on CNN and then Fox Business, passed away at the age of 78, former President Donald Trump announced on Thursday. “The Great Lou Dobbs has just passed away,” Trump said of the broadcaster, who was one of his most ardent supporters on Fox Business until he was …

“This is an inflection point, and I don’t want any of you hearing my coverage to think for one second that this election is in the bag. It’s not. I don’t know what dirty tricks that they’ll be playing, but they’re going to play them. There’s nothing in their mind stopping — they have convinced themselves that they’re doing the …

The BBC reports: A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election, a BBC investigation can reveal. A former Florida police officer who relocated to Moscow is one of the key figures behind it. The following would have been a bombshell …

Via press release from Fox News: FOX Nation will debut a new weekly series entitled “Here’s the Deal with Kellyanne Conway” on Thursday, July 11th. With a new episode dropping each week through the presidential election in November, FOX News Channel (FNC) contributor and former White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway will provide an in-depth look into the major topics …

“These stark predictions are a desperate pivot from their horrible reality. But again, they’re always pivoting back to the same world that got them into this same disaster, which is Trump derangement fueled by these dystopian, extremist fantasies. “Like once again, the world is going to end. Obviously, Sotomayor’s examples, the media’s examples, they’re completely ludicrous, people know that. “But …

Mediaite reports: Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit in New York City against Fox News on Sunday evening, alleging the network caused him targeted him “in an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation.” President Joe Biden’s son is suing over a six-part “mock trial” series called “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” a fictional program that …

“Trump isn’t just going up against Biden this year; he’s going up against the CIA who’s lurking in the shadows trying to kneecap him like the last two times with the Russia hoax and the laptop letter. “The CIA has interfered in the last two elections, which is illegal. The agency’s whacked Trump twice in a row. What makes you …

“If elections were honest, Trump would win in a landslide, but Dems are looking to do something. I don’t trust them. Look at what they’ve already done to win, whether it was Russian collusion, the pee-tape, laptop suppression, comparing everybody to Hitler, the lawfare, which was unprecedented, the January 6th commission, you think they’re just going to stop at the …

“You see, a jury did it. A jury, a jury, a jury. That’s a jury of his peers. Number one, he doesn’t have any peers. He’s a former president. It is a unique position. Constitutionally, we really do have impeachment for offenses by him, that was an appropriate forum. They did it often enough, right? But not this. But you …

Mediaite reports: “The whole idea that, you know, they’re out there saying this election is not about age, Joe and the other guy are about the same age, even for the debate is– as Jesse is saying, they’re gonna be seated,” said Pirro on the show. “We don’t even get to see them walk in. They’ll be seated so that, …

Wired reports: Years after being accused of swinging a baseball bat at police officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, Edward “Jake” Lang is now using encrypted messaging channels to create a nationwide network of armed militias in all 50 states. Though he has been in prison for over 1,200 days, Lang is working with a …

Media Matters reports: A segment from one of Fox News’ daytime “straight news” programs cited a study to claim that the COVID-19 vaccine caused millions of “excess deaths” in the U.S. The journal that published the study had clarified nearly a week earlier that this interpretation was false. The study, published June 3, 2024, in the British Medical Journal, found …

“What did he do to earn that money from the communist Chinese? You do not see a national security threat here? You know, maybe that’s why they got away with the spy balloon. “Maybe that’s why they get away with confronting and making hostile maneuvers against our fighter jets in international airspace and against our Navy in international waterways and …

Reuters reports: One late afternoon in mid-May, a half dozen Hispanic day laborers were paid $20 each to parade in front of the White House on camera, holding signs with slogans like “I Love Biden” and “I Need Work Permit for My Family.” The stunt was orchestrated by Nick Shirley, a pro-Trump online influencer. “We want to take you to …