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Deadline reports: A New York judge has denied Fox News’ efforts to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by election systems company Smartmatic. Judge David Cohen also declined to dismiss claims against host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs, while tossing out claims against Jeanine Pirro and a guest on Fox News in the aftermath of the 2020 election, attorney …

Media Matters has the transcript: At a public press event at the Munich Security Conference, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to become a member of NATO: “I appreciate and admire President Zelensky’s desire to join NATO.” Message? “Up yours, Vladimir Putin. Go ahead and invade Ukraine.” And of course, Vladimir Putin did that just days later. So, the invasion was no …

USA Today reports: The cold open featured a Fox News special titled “Ukrainian Invasion Celebration Spectacular” with hosts Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) and Tucker Carlson (Alex Moffat). The Fox News anchors kicked off the show by attempting to apologize for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “pathetic” and reducing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “border dispute,” respectively, by hosting a …

Media Matters has the transcript: We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We’re not the only ones who were, but we are willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren’t. So why didn’t we see this coming, this total loss of control? Well, because we assumed …

The Daily Beast reports: As the United States increasingly goes after some of the Kremlin’s business tentacles, the latest person arrested for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia is a former Fox News director who left to launch a Russian propaganda network. The Department of Justice on Thursday revealed that Jack Hanick was quietly arrested in London on Feb. 3 for …

“What we really need in this crisis, more than anything else, is a worldwide condemnation. “And it’s a simple new rule that if you invade an innocent sovereign country, and you kill innocent men, women and children, you don’t deserve to live. That’s the bottom line. “‘Well, Hannity, we have an executive order that prohibits assassination of foreign leaders, and …

Media Matters has the transcript: So is Kentaji Brown Jackson, a name that even Joe Biden has trouble pronouncing, one of the top legal minds in the entire country? We certainly hope so, it’s Biden’s right, appointing her is his one of his gravest constitutional duties. So it might be time for Joe Biden to let us know what Ketanji …

Media Matters has the transcript: DOUGLAS MACGREGOR (GUEST): Vladimir Putin is carrying through on something that he has been warning us about at least for the last 15 years, which is that he will not tolerate U.S. forces or their missiles on his borders, much as we would not tolerate Russian troops and missiles in Cuba. And we ignored him, …

“Donald Trump told us, he showed us what his doctrine is. And his doctrine was economic power is national security. Energy independence is national security. One of the first things he did was disavow this idea that we could not be energy independent. “And right now, I’m sorry, this is a Green New Deal war. This is John Kerry’s war. …

First, a reminder about this Fox News nutbag: Lisa Boothe appeared on Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on October 23rd and railed against what she called the Biden administration’s desire to “control” and “force his opponents to submit to him.” She slammed the administration’s advancement of vaccine mandates, told Bongino she was not vaccinated, and was “doubling down” on not getting …

The Huffington Post reports: During a broadcast minutes after Russia began invading Ukraine, Fox News host Laura Ingraham derided Ukraine’s leader for trying earlier to broker peace with the Russian president. “We had kind of a really pathetic display from the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, earlier today … where he in Russian ― he didn’t like to speak Russian ― but …

“You didn’t do anything wrong, but now you’re paying the price. Doesn’t sound fair, right? Well, that’s what’s going on in Eastern Europe. Halfway across the world, Russia and Ukraine have started to brawl. But instead of breaking a lamp, they’re going to break the economy. “And like the responsible older brother, the American people are going to get punished …

Media Matters has the transcript: If you subvert the meaning of a word as fundamental as “democracy,” maybe you can tamper with the way we live here in the United States, just spitballing for a second. So Ukraine, to be technical, is not a democracy. Democracies don’t arrest political opponents and they don’t shutdown opposition media, both of which Ukraine …

“Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle class job in my town to Russia? “Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? “Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl? …

“I don’t think that Vladimir Putin believes his adversaries are fundamentally serious right now. He doesn’t believe the West is a serious civilization. “We’re running around talking about genders and reparations and all of this. He sees us divided, he sees us as self-loathing, he — and as a result, he thinks this is his moment to make an aggressive …

“It is tyranny, what you see happening in Canada. And let me tell you something. When you think of a tyrannical government, you often think of places like North Korea. Sean, this is how it starts. They start chipping away, one by one at your freedoms until you don’t even realize they’re gone. It is a really dangerous game they’re …

Fox News reports: Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist and former co-host of “The Five,” has died at age 73. Beckel first joined Fox News in 2000 as a contributor providing political analysis and rejoined the network in 2011 as one of the original hosts of “The Five.” Beckel had spoken publicly about his years-long battle with substance abuse, which he …

“I’m back. I did get COVID again—but a far, far more serious strand, what doctors call ‘COVID pneumonia.’ It landed me in intensive care for quite a while and it really was touch-and-go. “Some of you who wanted to put me out of your misery darn near got what you wished for. Sorry to disappoint you. “But no, the vaccine …

“No one has done more personally to degrade American womanhood than Sandy Cortez has. She is living proof that 60 years of feminist liberation did not work. “Sandy Cortez is not empowered. She’s neurotic and silly. She’s far more frivolous than any 1950s housewife ever was. June Cleaver was a more serious person. At least she made dinner. “There is …

Media Matters has the transcript: LISA KENNEDY MONTGOMERY (CO-HOST): So, we saw the rise of fascism in World War II and that’s exactly what this is. Justin Trudeau has turned Ottawa and Canada into a fascist state. When you have people that are forcibly being pulled from their lines, arrested, having their vehicles confiscated so they can’t work, having their …