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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 …

Media Matters reports: New revelations from a recent court filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ ongoing defamation lawsuit against Fox News revealed Tucker Carlson’s true opinion about former President Donald Trump’s decision to not attend the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden: “so destructive.” Discussing the decision with an anonymous person in November 2020, Carlson admitted in a written message that Trump’s …

Deadline reports: A huge release of partially redacted text messages, emails and deposition transcripts that dropped Tuesday in the Dominion vs. Fox litigation sheds further light on the scramble among Fox News personalities and Fox Corp. executives. In one email that Rupert Murdoch sent to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott on Jan. 21, 2021, he wrote, “Big morning with …

Axios reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed an intense dislike of former President Trump post-2020 election text messages, according to new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems submitted in its lawsuit against the news outlet. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson allegedly said in one text message …

The Insider reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday issued a rare rebuke to Fox News for airing selectively edited footage of the January 6 assault on the Capitol on Tucker Carlson’s show on Monday night. “With regard to the presentation on Fox News last night, I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of …

The Hill reports: “We repeatedly requested that any clips be shown to us first for a security review,” Capitol Police told The Hill on Monday. “So far we have only been given the ability to preview a single clip out of the multiple clips that aired.” The limited consultation comes after McCarthy said Capitol Police would be consulted before the …

Take a breath before reading this whargarble: You probably don’t know that one of the reasons Fox is on the air is because of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the fact that he gave them a station when Turner would not and withstood a major lawsuit in order to do that and I did that mainly because of my belief that …

NBC News reports: A handful of Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he characterized the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as “mostly peaceful chaos,” with North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis blasting those remarks as “bullshit.” Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota conservative, said he was in the Capitol on Jan. …

The Daily Dot reports: Conservative commentator and self-proclaimed “most censored man on YouTube” Jackson Hinkle is allegedly in a relationship with a former Miss Russia model, according to a blog post by a researcher of right-wing figures. Hinkle has been vocally pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine in recent months. He’s tweeted that he thinks Zelenskyy, not Putin, is “responsible for every death …

CNN reports: Carlson aired never-before-seen surveillance footage that he said showed Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died one day after the January 6 insurrection. Carlson said he focused on this because Democrats have turned Sicknick into a “prop” and a “martyr” by overstating the links between his death and the insurrection. The video shows Sicknick in the crypt of …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson attempted to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot by insisting what actually happened was not what we all saw with our own eyes. On Monday, the Fox News host aired some of the more than 40,000 hours of surveillance video his show was given access to by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Four …

“This is why I’m so upset with the Murdochs and Fox. They’re not Americans. We’re not going to sit here, we’re not going to allow them, because they’re on record, they’re saying that Donald Trump will never be president again, he will not get back to the White House. “That’s just dead wrong. Trump is going to win the primary, …

Mediaite reports: “Donald Trump is trying to vilify Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan; he says they are a portion of the party that he is trying to link Ron DeSantis to,” Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade said today. “He is also working on a nickname ‘Ron Dishonest, Ron DeEstablishment’ or ‘Tiny D.’” “I don’t know,” Kilmeade continued. “If people …

The New York Times reports: On Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, and Jay Wallace, the network’s president, convened a Zoom meeting for an extraordinary discussion with an unusual goal, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The New York Times: How to keep from angering the network’s conservative audience again …

First, a CPAC quote from Trump: We’re trying to get the Pulitzer Prize taken away. They got Pulitzer prizes, we’re suing. You know what the prize says, for its concise and accurate reporting on the Russia Russia Russia event. And they have it actually, totally wrong. Actually, Mark Levin should get a prize and Gregg Jarrett, Gregg Jarrett should get …