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The Hill reports: Top public health experts and officials are developing new strategies to reach out to the conservatives most skeptical of or hesitant about receiving a coronavirus vaccine. The efforts are targeting supporters of former President Donald Trump, who have emerged as the most significant hurdle to widespread vaccination. The officials and experts are making appearances on Fox News …

The Hill reports: A GoFundMe account for the family of a Fox News and Fox Business Network producer who died of coronavirus over the weekend has raised nearly $70,000 in less than 24 hours. Eric Spinato, who worked as a booking producer, story editor and in several other roles during two stints with the network dating back to 1998, died …

From the editorial board of the New York Post: President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Congress to move immediately to “ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” It’s a start, though he’ll have to reach across party lines for real this time, since some Democrats are as anti-gun-control as the bulk of today’s GOP. The New York Post does not see …

Media Matters has the transcript: More than any other contemporary American leader, Barack Obama is a racial arsonist. He emerges at our most vulnerable moments to deepen the wounds that divide us. He sows hate. Why does Barack Obama do this? Well, it would take a psychiatrist to answer that question fully, though it seems obvious that deep loathing of …

The Hill reports: Eric Spinato, a top producer for Fox News and the Fox Business Network, died of the coronavirus over the weekend. In a memo to Fox News staffers obtained by the Hill, company leadership called Spinato’s work “instrumental to the growth and entrepreneurial success” of the network, saying his contributions to the company during two stints over a …

Mediaite reports: Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner interrupted her interview with former President Donald Trump with some breaking news: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has faced heavy criticism from Trump, just resigned. Trump was pleased: “I’m not surprised. Good. That’s a big victory for our country.” Seconds later, after listening to her producers in her earpiece, Faulkner issued an update: …

Mediaite reports: Fox host Sean Hannity got caught on air chilling and vaping a little too long on Thursday night. After the last commercial break of the show, Hannity’s graphics cued up and he appeared on screen as usual, but he apparently wasn’t ready, as he was still wearing reading glasses and had a vape pen in his mouth. A …

USA Today reports: The NAACP sent a blistering letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking the league not to allow Fox to use it as a bargaining tool during upcoming rights fees negotiations, and thus help fund Fox News, which the NAACP called “a uniquely destructive force” that “foments racism, undermines public health recovery from the pandemic, and repeatedly attacks …

Via press release from Westwood One: Cumulus Media’s Westwood One today announced The Dan Bongino Show, a new three-hour radio program airing Monday-Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. The news and opinion show will launch May 24 in markets nationwide, including CUMULUS news stations in top-ten markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Unlike other disasters, mass illegal immigration is permanent. No one ever really gets sent home. Over the past 30 years, the population of the United States has exploded by nearly 100 million people, mostly due to immigration. Were you even aware that that happened? You’re not supposed to say a word about …

Mediaite reports: “I do believe there will be a teleprompter there, which he can just turn on when you need the set response. That would not surprise me at all,” Varney said, implying that a teleprompter could instantly answer questions live for the president. Varney went on to predict that a Biden staffer would be at the press conference to …

CBS News reports: President Biden will hold his first press conference as president on March 25, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. The news comes after questions from reporters and urging from critics that he do so. By this point in their presidencies, former Presidents Trump and Obama had held some form of a press conference. When Mr. …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, all of this should prompt some pretty tough questions for our public health experts in this country. And one of those questions is, “How effective is this coronavirus vaccine?” How necessary is it to take the vaccine? Don’t dismiss those questions from anti-vaxxers, don’t kick people off social media for asking …

The Daily Beast reports: For Newsmax, it looks like midnight is approaching, and the upstart TV channel is in danger of turning back into a pumpkin. The pro-Trump cable news network—which barely registered in Nielsen ratings for the first six years after its chief executive and majority owner, Chris Ruddy, launched it in May 2014—prompted massive media attention for seemingly …

Politico reports: Conservative TV talk show host Eric Bolling is in preliminary discussions about waging a congressional campaign in his adopted home state of South Carolina, according to multiple people familiar with the talks. People briefed on the discussions say it isn’t immediately clear where Bolling would run, but that he could potentially wage a primary against GOP Rep. Tom …

The Wrap reports: Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on Friday said President Joe Biden needlessly focused on the American COVID-19 death toll during his Thursday night news briefing. Instead, he said, Biden could have spent time praising former president Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “We don’t need to go over the 500,000 dead. We had that moment,” …

Mediaite reports: “Well, you know what happens? You wake up, you have a dream and the thing is you probably should keep your dream to yourself,” Geraldo explained. “Instead I started talking to Erica about it and we both got very enthusiastic,” adding that, as a moderate Republican, he can do something in a state like Ohio. “The reaction, the …

Cleveland’s NBC News affiliate reports: After as social media frenzy Wednesday night, Geraldo Rivera has quickly opted out of a potential run for the United States Senate in 2022. The open seat is a result of Rob Portman’s impending retirement that he announced in January. The veteran media personality and Northeast Ohio resident first made his possible intentions public via …

Via press release from the Department of Defense: The United States military is the greatest the world has ever seen because of its diversity, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news briefing this morning. Kirby addressed this because a Fox cable show host used his show to denigrate the contributions of women in the military and to …

“So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the US military. “While China’s military becomes more masculine as it’s assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become as Joe Biden says more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore since men and women no longer exist. “The …