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“Last year, they came out very strong against a piece of legislation to protect parents’ rights and to protect young children from having sexualized curriculum in things like elementary school. They’re taking those positions as a company, which are antithetical to our values. But with this arrangement, Florida was subsidizing that type of activism. That could no longer stand. “So …

The Insider reports: A new filing in Dominion’s mammoth defamation lawsuit against Fox News includes claims that network chief Rupert Murdoch gave former Trump advisor Jared Kushner confidential information about Joe Biden’s strategic moves in the lead-up to the 2020 election. “During Trump’s campaign, Rupert provided Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, with Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads, …

Mediaite reports: Rupert Murdoch testified under oath that Fox News promoted election denialism on air, despite a raft of evidence revealing that many hosts privately knew the claims made by then-President Donald Trump and his surrogates to be false. Stunning new details emerged in more court documents released Monday afternoon in Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News. As …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Fox News is promoting Ron DeSanctus so hard and so much that there’s not much time left for Real News. Reminds me of 2016 when they were pushing ‘JEB!’ The new Fox Poll, which have always been purposely terrible for me, has ‘TRUMP Crushing DeSanctimonious,’ but they barely show it. Instead they go …

Playbook reports: Fox News rejected an ad from the progressive group MoveOn that would have highlighted the recent revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit, addressing Fox viewers directly. Quoting messages from Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, the spot says, “Texts show they lied to you about the 2020 election for profit.” MoveOn says they wanted to run it nationally …

The Daily Beast reports: Days ahead of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, it remains to be seen if and how Fox News will cover the annual right-wing confab amid CPAC boss Matt Schlapp’s alleged groping scandal. As of publication, Schlapp and his annual convention have all but disappeared from the Fox News universe. None of Fox News Media’s outlets …

“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 …

Fox Business reports: South Carolina state Senator Stephen Goldfinch proposed a bill, dubbed the “Yankee tax,” that would require new residents to pay up to $500 to move to the Palmetto State. If passed by state referendum, new residents moving from out-of-state would be required to pay two one-time fees, $250 for new driver’s licenses and $250 for vehicle registrations. …

The Hill reports: A group of news outlets are demanding that they receive access to tens of thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave to Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this week. Attorney Charles Tobin sent a letter on Thursday on behalf of 10 media organizations to …

Media Matters has transcript: They’re proud to be judging people, hiring people, selecting people based on race, which is really — let’s be clear — how serious of a problem this is. It’s based on genetics, race, based on your blood, your genes. And where do we see that connection? Well, these are the very same geneticist core principles embodied …

The New York Times reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to grant the Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to thousands of hours of security footage from inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was his latest move to appease the right wing of his party, this time by effectively outsourcing a bid to reinvestigate the riot to …

“A law prohibiting American citizens – who’ve not committed a crime – from voting would probably not withstand legal scrutiny.And, second, how would like a national divorce be good for conservatism? “Now, why would we want to embrace the states that gave us Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, but essentially give up on the states that gave us Reagan and …

Media Matters has the transcript: I think the Democrats have determined that Republicans won’t stick together. And if they don’t, they’ll be able to raise the debt ceiling and concede nothing to the Republican Party in terms of fiscal discipline or whatever united you would want. I take a different position. I actually think Kevin McCarthy and 221 of your …

Axios reports: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy posed “grave security risks” to lawmakers and their staff by giving access to Jan. 6 footage to Fox News. Schumer said McCarthy’s decision was a mistake that could lead Fox News host Tucker Carson to air footage exposing highly guarded contingency plans to millions of …

“You look at the lies that Americans are being told by President Biden, by Mitch McConnell, by these warmongers in both parties selling this lie that this is about defending freedom and democracy. They are the ones who are undermining our democracy. They are the ones who are denying the American people our constitutional right to have a say in …

Axios reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me. Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in …

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 …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump tried to call into Fox News after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, but the network refused to put him on air, according to court filings from Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation case against the company. The House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack did not know …