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Mediaite reports: Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo interviewed Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday about his longstanding criticism of  Fauci and the government’s handling of the  pandemic. The heavy-handed interview, which saw Bartiromo spin conspiracies related to  Covid vaccines, began with her blasting Biden and suggesting one reason the public still doesn’t know the origins of the Covid is because he …

Popular Information reports: Tuesday night on Fox News, host Jesse Watters asserted that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) “donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter.” That was why, Watters claimed, federal regulators did not pursue more aggressive oversight of SVB’s business practices. According to this theory, SVB was treated with kid gloves because it was “woke.” Watters’ claim is false. The …

“What would Ronald Reagan do? Ooh, good question, Senator Graham. Ronald Reagan’s two-term presidency was notable for the fact that he did not declare war on the Russian air force, and therefore the United States did not go to war with Russia. Do you remember that? Seems like a long time ago. It’s pretty much the opposite of the approach …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson referred to the 2021 Capitol insurrection as the second-biggest scam of his lifetime on Tuesday night. The Fox News host was interviewing a self-professed Proud Boy who trespassed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the building. Daniel Goodwyn pleaded guilty last month to entering the Capitol and …

Mediate reports: Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade openly laughed at former President Donald Trump’s attempt to claim the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters was Mike Pence’s fault. Fox & Friends declined to note that Trump’s anger prompted his supporters to chant “Hang Mike Pence” as they broke into Congress, but Kilmeade laughed at Trump blaming Pence for what …

“So this stupid bank in California didn’t see inflation coming. They’re about as smart as the Fed Chair. So when the Fed Chair finally raised rates, the bank got crushed. Well, why weren’t they paying attention? Silicon Valley Bank is a woke Biden bank. They were holding seminars on Lesbian Visibility Day and National Pride Month. Now, if you want …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson called former President Donald Trump is a “little bit autistic” and dismissed his claim he would end the war in Ukraine in a lengthy and candid interview on the Full Send Podcast. “I saw Trump said he could close that in 24 hours if he wanted to,” host Kyle Forgeard asked. “Do you …

CNN reports: Federal prosecutors on Sunday pushed back against claims that a video of so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley that was shown by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson exonerated anyone in the mob at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In court filings Sunday, federal prosecutors said that video did not show Chansley, who was sentenced to 41 months in …

Media Matters has the transcript: HOWARD KURTZ (HOST): There’s been practically round-the-clock coverage of the lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Machines. Now that all the legal filings are in and a judge in Delaware will give consideration this month to whether the case goes to trial, it’s time for me to weigh in. I’m not sugarcoating the allegations in …

Mediaite reports: “Tucker Carlson has kind of been caught with his pants down,” Eric Bolling told Sebastian Gorka on Friday’s edition of The Balance on Newsmax. “What are your thoughts on Tucker’s pandering?” “These text messages do not look good for either Fox or for Tucker,” Gorka replied. “Why would Tucker Carlson want to ignore a Republican with an incredible …

“Just like FTX, all the geniuses told you to buy SVB, even when it was on the brink of total collapse. What explains that? Surely something does, we don’t know really know at this point. Hopefully we will someday. “What we can say tonight is that SVB, like the scammers at FTX, had quite the public relations department. Yes, because …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Soon after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Fox Corp. explored acquiring rights to “The Apprentice,” the competition show that Donald Trump hosted on NBC before he became president, according to court filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit. Rupert Murdoch, Fox’s chair, and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the company’s executive chair and chief executive, discussed …

Media Matters has the transcript: I had a person come up to me. I’m not gonna say where, but a person did come up to me, unexpectedly. Well, I’ll say it, at CPAC outside of the hotel. And he said to me, I’m one of the defendants from January 6th. And he said, please look into this situation. I’m being …

Politico reports: No Jan. 6 defendants should be able to delay their pending criminal trials based on speculation that the 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage — recently made available by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson — might contain exculpatory evidence, the Justice Department argued Tuesday. “The United States does not know the extent of any material …

The Daily Beast reports: According to nine Fox News staffers and insiders, the pre-trial filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News further impugn and sully the reputation of the network’s “straight news” journalists, especially since they show Fox was “operating out of fear” over losing viewers to smaller right-wing competitors following its Decision Desk’s early …

NBC News reports: Jan. 5, Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tapped an email out on his iPhone: Maybe our top talent needs to take a stand. “It’s been suggested our primetime three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over and Joe Biden won. We are all disappointed by it happened. We love America and have to …

Politico reports: The White House joined in widespread condemnation of Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, singling out the prime-time ratings king for his misleading portrayal of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In comments shared first with POLITICO, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed …

“You have Mitch McConnell complaining about this, I recall. Let’s see here. So, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed by this. Well, if you ask me, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed. He’s a fraud, a phony and a fool. Well, somebody let down the security at that building. I don’t know if it was the chief law enforcement official there, but …

“They’re all on the same side. So it’s actually not about left and right. It’s not about Republicans and Democrats. Here, you have people with shared interests. The people who, underneath it all, have everything in common are all aligned against everyone else. “You don’t often see the Senate Majority Leader openly call for censorship on the floor of the …

NBC News reports: In text messages with Bannon on Nov. 10, 2020, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo said, “Omg I’m so depressed. I can’t take this,” and lamented how upsetting it was to watch the “world move forward.” “I want to see massive fraud exposed. Will he be able to turn this around,” she added, referring to Trump. “I told …