Fox News

The Daily Beast reports: American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, who is currently facing a multi-million dollar sexual battery and defamation lawsuit for allegedly groping a GOP strategist, suggested with a straight face on Thursday that his ubiquitous Fox News appearances dried up because the network became too “woke.” During a Newsmax panel discussion on Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch stepping …

“The anger-tainment ecosystem that Fox News, above all, has created in the U.S. has left America angrier and more divided than it’s been at any time since the Civil War. “In order to keep its ratings up it has sought to enrage Americans, divide Americans… and it has knowingly—and Murdoch had a personal hand in this, as we know—it has …

The Huffington Post reports: CNN’s Abby Phillip gave longtime Fox boss Rupert Murdoch a fitting sendoff by airing an extended supercut of the right-wing network’s lowest moments. “His legacy is outrage porn ― partisan red meat stoking relentless culture wars,” she said of Murdoch. She offered a “small taste” of what Fox News was really like, then played nearly 6 …

“Now, the elimination game. Now, in the world that the left has created, a mere allegation can lead to cancellation. Now, by cancellation, I mean the loss of income, the loss of a platform, the loss of future opportunities. “Now, of course the strictest enforcement of this is always against those whom the left believes to be hostile to the …

CNN Business reports: Rupert Murdoch announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of Fox Corporation and Fox News. “For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Murdoch wrote in a memo to employees. “But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that …

Mediaite reports: The live studio audience attending Wednesday’s Hannity booed loudly during a discussion about the United Auto Workers strike. As Hannity spoke, many members of his studio audience could be heard and seen booing and giving a thumbs down. Hannity went on to claim auto workers are losing their jobs because of President Joe Biden’s push to get automakers …

“China interfered with the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden and the CIA not only let them get away with it but covered it up afterwards. John Ratcliffe, Trump’s top Intel guy, says the Chinese launched a massive anti-Trump disinformation campaign online in 2020. Much bigger than what the Russians did in 2016. “When the CIA found out about …

The Guardian reports: Rupert Murdoch loathes Donald Trump so much that the billionaire has not just soured on him as a presidential candidate but often wishes for his death, the author Michael Wolff writes in his eagerly awaited new book on the media mogul, The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty. According to Wolff, Murdoch, 92, …

“Now of course, imaginary crises require imaginary solutions. So now, your president Joe Biden, is spending billions of dollars on windmills, solar plants. Now today, even Zelenskyy was lecturing the world on the so-called climate crisis at the U.N. “Okay, Ukraine is right now facing a real existential crisis but it doesn’t have a thing to do with the weather. …

“Think about it. In this world today, we’re all winners, okay? No one is being taught that, you know, that there’s a winner and there’s a loser. Everybody is a winner, everybody gets a trophy, that’s what’s going on in schools today. “It’s almost like, then you go to a game and there really are losers. And it’s amazing that …

“She was caught on camera in compromising positions. She was thrown out of a Denver theater for snapping pictures during a show, vaping on patrons, and getting handsy with her boyfriend. To top it off, she gave the usher the middle finger salute as she was ushered out of the theater. “Boebert gets kicked out of the Denver theater, you …

“This particular vaccine is quite safe. It’s a tiny bit different than the previous one. It’s been looked at. Yes, the pharmaceutical companies should be more transparent. Yes, I’m very confident in this vaccine. “But let me tell you where this vaccine decision should be made: not at a governor pulpit, but in a doctor’s office. It shouldn’t be vilified. …

“I love Democrat-on-Democrat action. They should create a category for that on PornHub. And it’s good to see Dems calling out everyone else racist who are also Dems who will get a taste of that medicine because the monster is devouring themselves. It’s like they now realize that wow, they elected the oldest, whitest, perhaps racist president ever, Joe Biden, …

Mediaite reports: During Harris Faulkner‘s broadcast Friday, Fox News quickly pulled away from a street interview with an anti-migrant protester in New York City when he began threatening Democratic lawmakers. A group of anti-migrant protesters confronted prominent New York Democratic lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Faulkner directed her producers to tune in to a live …

“It’s so frustrating how conservatives, Republicans, hosts, guests, writers, whatever, they seem to be wanting to preemptively do for the Democrats what the Democrats would like to do for themselves — and that is, get rid of Biden. Biden is the easiest candidate for us to defeat. And he’s not running the country, this politburo is. So, even if they …

Mediaite has the transcript: WATTERS: But crime’s up. It’s crazy out here. Would you go on the subway here? WEINER: Crime is actually down in New York. WATTERS: Well, it’s down from what? Last year, which was almost an all-time high. WEINER: You think Rudy Giuliani did a good job against crime? WATTERS: He did a decent job from where …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Will you consider running on another party ticket? ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. (GUEST): Well, I — you know, right now, I’m focused on trying to run as a Democrat. This is my home, this is the place I grew up. I — HANNITY: They don’t seem very friendly to you. KENNEDY: I’m …

“You’re going to hear a lot of talk in the days to come about the pending deadline, 18 days from now, most of them not working days or a lot of them not working days — 12, to be exact, if we include today — there’s going to be a government shutdown. “The government never shuts down. Anybody that reports …

The New York Times reports: New York City’s pension funds sued the Fox Corporation and its board on Tuesday, accusing the company of neglecting its duty to shareholders by opening itself up to defamation lawsuits from the persistent broadcasting of falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, is the most significant shareholder …

“Illegal immigration isn’t like the weather at all. There’s been no fluctuation. It’s been raining illegals for two-and-a-half-years straight and it’s by design: To turn Texas blue. Reagan won Texas by 28 points. Trump just won Texas by five. Without Texas’ electoral votes, there’s no way a Republican will ever win the White House. Biden knows this and now he’s …