Hypocrisy

The Hill reports: An overwhelming majority of full-time employees at Fox Corporation said they’re been fully vaccinated, according a human resources executive said in a memo on Tuesday. According to Kevin Lord, senior vice president of Fox Corp. human resources, 90 percent of full-time employees are fully vaccinated. “Following our request for employees to upload their vaccination status in our …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday moved to bring Republicans’ lawsuit against proxy voting during the COVID-19 pandemic before the Supreme Court, after a federal appeals court dismissed the case this summer. The petition before the nation’s highest court comes after dozens of House Republicans — who almost uniformly opposed the remote voting measure when …

CNN Business reports: The New York Post, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid that has peddled a high volume of anti-mask rhetoric during the pandemic, informed employees this month that they are required to wear a mask while at the office, according to a memo obtained by CNN Business. The New York Post’s mask mandate is the latest example of the brazen …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is calling for investigations into President Biden’s handling of the crisis in Afghanistan, where the democratic government was toppled over the weekend by Taliban forces following a pullout of U.S. troops from the war-torn nation. McCarthy told Punchbowl News late Sunday that Biden’s decision this year to remove thousands of U.S. …

“Now that vaccines are open to everyone and information expertise are everywhere, why does it matter how many COVID cases we have in this country? “Now that we all have a choice in how to handle our personal health including vaccines, distancing, masks, why do we need the president of the United States and Facebook to shut us down and …

The Hill reports: After Texas Democrats flew to D.C. Monday to deny GOP the quorum they need to vote in a special legislative session, Cruz was said the “political stunt” was “ironic” given Democratic opposition to voter ID measures. “As they were getting on their private jet to fly to Washington D.C., they almost surely had to show identification to …

West Virginia Metro News reports: A West Virginia delegate who sponsored a bill forbidding the teaching of sexuality in public schools went viral on social media with a video of an explicit discussion of advice for women receiving oral sex. Delegate Joe Jeffries, R-Putnam, posted the video on Tiktok, a social media platform popular among youth that features short-form videos. …

Two weeks ago in his speech to the right wing Faith & Freedom conference, Sen. Marco Rubio claimed that Democrats want to silence dissent. Marxists don’t tolerate dissent. They do not tolerate dissent. If you speak out in Marxist societies, you go to jail, you go into exile, some were executed. In new Marxism, if you speak out, you get …

Talking Points Memo reports: No cancel culture or censorship to see here! Just a state official bragging about having a book event cancelled because the work in question challenged his beliefs about history. Well, okay, maybe a little censorship: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) on Friday openly bragged about ordering the cancellation of a book talk at a state …

Florida Politics reports: Twitter on Monday suspended Rebekah Jones, a former Department of Health data curator who made national headlines after being fired from the department for insubordination from its platform. While it is unclear why Twitter suspended the account, the social media giant typically sidelines accounts after they violate “Twitter rules.” The DeSantis administration released a statement applauding the …

Raw Story reports: Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Wednesday evening posted a tweet wishing the LGBTQ community “Happy #PrideMonth.” It did not go over well. The GOP has been at war with the LGBTQ community at every turn, and considerably ramped up their attacks this year. “2021 has officially surpassed 2015 as the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent …

Mediaite reports: Senator Josh Hawley is convinced that he is being censored, silenced, and canceled by both the liberal media AND what he derisively calls “Big Tech.” This, despite the fact he is a frequent guest on Fox News, is heard speaking publicly at many Senate hearings in which he participates, oh and he now has one of the best …

The Hill reports: “President Biden pledged he would be ‘A president for all Americans’ with plans to repair, restore and heal,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, noting that Congress remains closely divided with a 50-50 Senate and a slim Democratic majority in the House. “But the first hundred days have left much to be desired,” McConnell said. …

Law & Crime reports: Hawley took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to advertise the slim, 200-page treatise and to launch a broadside attack on some of his critics. “The corporate media and the woke mob don’t want you to read this book,” Missouri’s junior senator tweeted. “They tried to cancel it. They failed. One week until publication – order here.” …

Fox News reports: GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy introduced a privileged resolution on the House floor Tuesday to censure Rep. Maxine Waters for her controversial comments to Minnesota protesters over the weekend urging them to “get more confrontational” if ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin is not found guilty of the death George Floyd. But Democrats moved quickly to table the resolution in …

From an interview with TIME Magazine: You didn’t endorse anyone in the 2020 presidential race, and a spokesperson for you said that you “would rather set [yourself] on fire” than get involved in the election. Who did you vote for? I voted for Donald Trump. I thought that his policies, by and large, mirrored the policies that I believed in. …

The Washington Examiner reports: The Republican National Committee is requiring attendees of the party’s spring donor retreat in Florida to get tested for the coronavirus and submit proof of a negative result as a condition for gaining entry to the event. Wealthy contributors to the RNC and other GOP causes are set to gather later this week in Palm Beach …

“I’m not talking about political contributions. Most of them contribute to both sides. They have political action committees. That’s fine. It’s legal. It’s appropriate. I support that. “I’m talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or state because you don’t like a particular law they passed. I just think it’s stupid.  …

Reuters reports: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lashed out at corporate America on Monday, warning CEOs to stay out of the debate over a new voting law in Georgia that has been criticized as restricting votes among minorities and the poor. In a sign of a growing rift in the decades-old alliance between the conservative party and U.S. corporations, …

The Texas Tribune reports: Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott blasted the actions of Facebook as “un-American [and] un-Texan,” accusing it and other social media giants of spearheading a “dangerous movement to silence conservative voices.” At the same time, his office was working quietly with the company with the hope that it will soon build a second data center in the …