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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 …

NBC News reports: A progressive group wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate Fox Corp. and former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign for breaking campaign finance laws. On Friday, End Citizens United PAC filed a complaint with the FEC arguing that Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch broke the law when he shared Joe Biden’s campaign ad and debate strategy with …

Media Matters has the transcript: There was a piece in the Washington compost this morning by Aaron Blake. Aaron Blake in my view is a fraud and a phony. I guess that’s why he works for the Washington compost. And in this piece entitled “Rupert Murdoch’s big admission about Fox News” — now, I’m not gonna go into all this. …

“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 …