Fox News

The Daily Beast reports: Included in the explosive brief that Dominion’s lawyers recently filed in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News is the revelation that the network’s stars conspired to get one of their own colleagues fired. Why? Because she had the temerity to fact-check then-President Donald Trump’s election fraud lies. Days after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe …

“We think of him as Mayor Pete, too. Or maybe just Paternity Pete. The man should never have been put in this position in the first place and should be fired immediately. “Any cabinet official or senior staff member who takes extended paternity leave while our supply chains are breaking down — by definition, that person is unserious. “Now, this …

The New York Times reports: Hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, as well as others at the company, repeatedly insulted and mocked Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Rudolph W. Giuliani, in messages with each other in the weeks after the election, according to a legal filing made public on Thursday in a defamation lawsuit against Fox by …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE KELLY (GUEST): That’s what you see women like Chelsea Handler — feminists like Chelsea Handler — going with now. They’ve been lied to by their society forever, that you could be a “girl boss” and you can do anything a man can do — which everyone who’s ever seen a woman back up a …

ABC News reports: A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected Fox News’ bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump. A five-judge panel ruled unanimously against the network, host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs. They said they …

“What exactly were all three of these objects? As of yesterday, nobody seemed to know. Listen to the commander of NORAD, Air Force General Glen Van Herck pointedly say that the U.S. government has not ruled out the possibility of extraterrestrials. Could be aliens. “So here you have three unknown objects in three days. If these things are extraterrestrial, what …

Media Matters has the transcript: ROSEANNE BARR (GUEST): Instead of sad, get mad because that’s what it’s going to take: A whole bunch of us getting mad and then doing something about it, not just sitting in your house and going — I’m not saying you’re going, “Wah, wah, wah.” But we need to go, “Hey, wait a minute. This …

The Independent reports: Sitting together and chatting shortly after Rihanna’s halftime show were media mogul Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Fox empire – this year’s broadcaster of the Super Bowl – and Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla. As the fans waited for play to restart and the footage was broadcast, commentator Kevin Burkhardt – a Fox employee …

CNN reports: The White House says President Joe Biden will not sit down for an interview with Fox before the Super Bowl, ending a strange back and forth between the Biden administration and the television network with which it frequently spars. Earlier Friday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Fox had pulled the plug on the administration’s proposal to …

“It doesn’t address where problems specifically are. It is just this broad brush painted by a cracker who only wants to racially divide the country further. That is not necessary. He is not good at his job. He doesn’t understand transportation. I don’t think he understands infrastructure. “He just speaks in slogans and they are empty, but he thinks they …

CNN reports: President Joe Biden has not yet committed to a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News, a person at the channel familiar with the matter said, a move that suggests the Democrat may buck the tradition of granting the network broadcasting the big game an interview. “We don’t have a formal no, but we are operating like it’s not …

Media Matters has the transcript: Yes, Black labor in the South contributed to an enormous amount of wealth for these plantation owners. Black slavery built southern railroads, ports, but not a lot of white people owned slaves in the South and it was abolished in the North like in 1804. It was never even in the West. So yes, they …

Huddle reports: House Republicans have the clicker and they’re changing the channel to Fox News. Olivia noticed that televisions in common spaces like the Au Bon Pain in Cannon and the Longworth Cafeteria have all been tuned to Fox News from CNN in recent weeks. The House Administration Committee confirmed “The People’s House is once again reflective of the American …

Fox News has the transcript: How big of a threat is this blimp? We have no idea. America’s spy balloons can carry suicide drones and deploy them to take out targets on the ground like a floating hive with killer bees. So, how do we know what the Chinese have in their balloon? During World War II, the Japanese used …

Mediate reports: Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo let out a “Wow!” as Fox Business Network correspondent Cheryl Casone ticked through a January jobs report that had the entire panel gushing and saying they were “Gobsmacked!” Friday morning saw the release of a new jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed 517,000 jobs added, nearly tripling expectations. Including …

Media Matters has the transcript: We haven’t watched a ton of cable news recently, but we assumed with mass layoffs across the US economy, an egg shortage, crumbling cities, the prospect of a third world war looming on the horizon, we assumed we knew what the other channels would be covering. What we didn’t know is that all of those …

“David Azerrad was born and raised in Montreal, but like a lot of ambitious and freedom-loving people, he fled later to the United States. And because all the people who care about their own rights have left, Canada under Justin Trudeau has become effectively a dictatorship. And we don’t like dictatorships, we’re American. We liberate dictatorships. That’s what we do. …

Fox News has the transcript: Barack Obama, the former president, is weighing in directly on America’s latest fake hate crime. And you have to wonder why. He’s not doing it for himself. Obama is retired at this point. He’s living on Martha’s Vineyard with all the other rich white people. He’s doing it for his wife. His wife who’s never …

Media Matters has the transcript: The race riots of 2020 were never about George Floyd, obviously. That’s why there are no statues of him in American cities. They were about changing the country forever. The first step, of course, was defunding police departments across the country and forcing them to lower their standards to attract unqualified applicants: hiring officers based …

The New York Times reports: The night before the start of a humiliating and historic five-day floor fight in Representative Kevin McCarthy’s quest to become speaker, Representative Matt Gaetz, Mr. McCarthy’s chief tormentor, handed him a list of demands from a hard-right faction ensuring that if Mr. McCarthy’s victory did occur, it would only be a pyrrhic one. In the …