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“We are dealing with a lot of people who have climate privilege. Right? We have people living in Malibu who talk about how it’s getting hotter and they don’t realize that warming temperatures saves more lives in other parts of the world. That doesn’t interest them and they can afford it. They can afford the alternative energies. A lot of …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson doubled down on Friday after being called out for pushing “replacement theory” earlier this week. On Fox & Friends, Carlson said the Biden administration is “bringing felons, violent criminals into our country on purpose” because they want “to change the demographics of the country.” Carlson continued on Friday night, insisting he’s “pointing out the …

TV Line reports: Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer is doing a renovation on his reputation after a controversial Fox News interview where he compared unemployed bar and restaurant workers to “hungry dogs.” Taffer apologized on Friday after video of his interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham went viral. In the interview, Taffer and Ingraham blamed COVID-era unemployment benefits for staffing …

Deadline reports: A federal judge has tossed attorney Michael Avenatti’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its coverage of his 2018 arrest on suspicion of domestic violence. Avenatti, whose representation of Stormy Daniels made him a ubiquitous media presence as a pugnacious foe of President Donald Trump, was recently sentenced to 30 months in prison on charges that he plotted …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing. I don’t mean physical hunger, because people who truly are in need need help, but people who can work but refuse to work. JON TAFFER: I have friends in the military who trains military dogs Laura, and they …

Radio Insight reports: Cumulus Media has become the first large radio group operator to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees. In a memo to all employees sent out this afternoon, the company states that all staffers must have had their shots by September 27 in order to return to the offices two weeks later on October 11. In explaining why …

“They’d do this even if everyone was vaccinated. They’d do it in states where they control every aspect of government. They’d do it, and they’d do much more, if there were no Republicans at all. “Why? Because their agenda is based on fear. Sure, fear of COVID, but fear of climate change, fear of capitalism, fear of standards, fear of …

“The French are fighting back against this, you know. I don’t think their testosterone levels have been lowered to quite the levels of ours by bad food or whatever. “But there are definitely huge numbers of people who are — are pushing back against this in the form of — of protest nationwide in France. You’re not seeing that here. …

The Insider reports: As he was broadcasting from Hungary last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented the Central European country as “freer” than the US and a model for the West. It’s since come to light that a question Carlson asked during an interview with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about Chinese leader Xi Jinping was scrapped from the …

Salon reports: Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary culminated Friday with an unhinged segment advocating for America to adopt stringent immigration laws similar to that of Viktor Orbán’s “illiberal democracy,” slamming recent arrivals to the United States as “chaos and filth and crime growing all around us.” The Biden administration did this on purpose, and they’re still doing it. And that …

The New York Times reports: CNN said on Thursday that it had fired three employees who violated its coronavirus safety protocols by going to the office unvaccinated, one of the first known examples of a major American corporation’s terminating workers for ignoring a workplace vaccination mandate. CNN had said this year that employees would need to be vaccinated against the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News has changed their tune on vaccination coverage in recent days and according to new polling done by the Morning Consult, it has already made a direct impact on their viewers. Vaccine “reluctance fell to an all-time low this week among adults who watch Fox News,” wrote the polling company Morning Consult. The reported findings are as …

“If you are wide awake, you understand that today’s woke leftists hate many, many things. The Constitution, Donald Trump, Fox News, comedy, and, of course, you. “But, if you’ve ever noticed, there’s really one thing that woke socialist progressives seem to hate more than anything else. And that’s babies. “Their problem seems to be that there are American kids at …

“Because the example of Hungary is so powerful — not just in Europe, but to the world, to the entire world, not simply the west — what you can do with a relatively small economy and not many people, if you’re just serious about keeping your nation from being destroyed. “Because the lessons are so obvious, and there’s such a …

“I think that we’ll be in camps. Look, the Democrats have already said that. ’75 million people who voted for Donald Trump need to need to be reeducated. They’re yahoos, they’ve been brainwashed. It’s a cult. It’s a conspiracy cult.’ They have no respect for people who disagree with them. And they talked about reeducating, which is, you know, now …

The Hill reports: Andrew Napolitano is out as a contributor at Fox News as he faces allegations of sexual harassment contained in a lawsuit against the network filed Monday. Napolitano, formerly a top legal analyst at the network, “sexually harassed numerous young male employees during his tenure at Fox News,” according a lawsuit filed by Fox Business production assistant John …

Talking Points Memo reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson is billed as a speaker at a far-right conference in Hungary on Saturday, according to a flier for the event. The appearance will come days after the Fox host met with the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Carlson will purportedly offer his insights at MCC Feszt, an event hosted by the …

The New York Daily News reports: Fox Business host Larry Kudlow repeatedly made racist and sexist remarks during staff meetings and even blocked an on-air appearance by a Florida congressman because he is Black, according to a new lawsuit. Kudlow, a former top Trump administration official, told his Fox staff not to book U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) as a …

The Daily Caller reports: The Washington Examiner is now requiring all employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an internal memo reviewed by the Daily Caller. The memo, which was sent to employees Sunday, announced that the Examiner and its publisher, MediaDC, are “implementing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy” that will go into effect Monday. All employees must send …

Mediaite reports: On Sunday’s MediaBuzz, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz criticized pundits “shaming” unvaccinated Americans — and that included Fox colleague Geraldo Rivera. Kurtz opened his show saying, “I knew it, I knew from the moment that CNN’s Don Lemon denounced unvaccinated Americans for their idiotic behavior that we were headed into a surge of anger against those who haven’t gotten …