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“You know what is remarkable about all of this, and I don’t mean in a good way, is how the president of the United States responded to your testimony that millions of people across the country with our hearts, with our spirits, who were right there with you, watched. “President Biden for a moment discussed your family’s tragedy. He laughed …

CNN’s Oliver Darcy writes in his newsletter: The stunning levels of misconduct exposed in recent weeks raise questions about the future of Suzanne Scott, the embattled chief executive of Fox News. Will she be Murdoch’s sacrificial lamb? The Murdochs “are certainly setting Suzanne Scott up to take the fall for this,” Ben Smith, the Semafor editor-in-chief told me. “They’re leading …

Newsweek reports: Kyle Rittenhouse has used an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show to request donations to his legal fund. He faces lawsuits from a man he shot and injured, as well as from the father of one of the two men he killed. “If you win in court, you’re acquitted–rightfully so. They’re going to take you to civil …

“I want to challenge people watching tonight who don’t wear red hats, don’t consider themselves MAGA, don’t consider themselves very strong political people. I want to ask yourself how many times you’ve been lied to, not just by this government, but how many times have you been lied to by the people whose job it is to tell you the …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have sent a letter to Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch asking him to stop Fox News personalities from “spreading false election narratives,” warning they could lead to “further acts of political violence.” The Democratic leaders focus on Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has …

“They don’t care about the people of Pennsylvania where Fetterman is supposed to be representing. They care about keeping a lid on this scandal. And that’s what this is. This is a giant scandal. “The Democrats basically crippled this man for power. They cheated him out of his recovery, missed every sign that he was struggling, ignored every sign, lied …

“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 …