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The Hill reports: Fox News Channel’s senior managing editor for health news, Dr. Manny Alvarez, said late Monday that President Trump is acting “highly irresponsible” for taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against contracting coronavirus, adding that he would like “to hear from the White House physician” on the matter. “I found it to be highly irresponsible for the president …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Monday night issued a flurry of angry messages against Fox News’ Neil Cavuto — and the network itself — after the host criticized the president for saying he’d been taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against coronavirus. Cavuto said: “If you are taking this as a preventative treatment to ward off the virus, or …

“Do I think everyone will be responsible? No. Do I think you’re going to prevent that? No, because you’re not going to be able to keep people inside forever. It’s not possible. It’s not feasible. “So at some point you’re going to have to open up and you’re going to have to let the chips fall where they may, as …

“Time and time again he talks like a typical leftist. ‘The people in charge.’ You know who’s in charge? The people who elected supposedly public servants, yet these Democrat governors and people like Barack Obama feel, no, we’re in charge, we’re the experts, and Donald Trump’s got it all wrong. It’s amazing. “And by the way, Barack Obama’s not all …

“Democrats – they just prefer us to cower and crouch in our houses. They are pushing — a friend of mine called it today, panic porn. They say we need multiple vaccines, not just one, but multiple. “They say the vaccines, even if we have them, we don’t know how effective they will be. They say we need as many …

“They ought to take a wing in Leavenworth and put all these guys in there. What they have done to this country, the rule of law, the Constitution, now our courts with this judge, Edward Sullivan, I want to talk about him in particular. “What’s happened here? We have an imperfect human being, he’s of flesh and blood, and he …

Media Matters reports: In recent days, Sean Hannity and other leading figures on Fox News have turned against Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is overseeing the case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. On his Fox News show on May 13, Hannity railed at Sullivan, even calling for a new judge in the case. Other Fox figures, like host …

“Hitler’s chief propagandist, Goebbels, said, you know, if you tell a big enough lie and repeat it often enough, people will believe it. I think that’s what this is. They were telling lies from the get-go, and from the beginning they knew they were lies, and yet they persisted. “My big question is why, and who was in on it, …

“Testing, testing, testing, a common refrain from the left, but that’s not necessarily the best way out of this, is it? For example, Washington went ballistic when the head of the National Guard tested positive for covid, shortly before a scheduled meeting with the President. “Two subsequent tests, however, including one today, gave him negative results. So why is this …

“I think the president was absolutely right to walk out on these goons. They are not interested in getting information so that they can parlay that to the public. They are interested in trying to play the gotcha game. “If the press want to be respected, then they need to treat the presidency with some level of respect — which …

Media Matters has the transcript: BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Real quick, Pete just your thoughts in 20 seconds, about 78,000 are dead, we understand how many got the virus and will. I get it. But at the same time, can you get the military mindset with the masses of, take on the enemy because we have no choice — sitting on …

“Data is a pesky thing too. Because what if we start testing more and as a result of more testing we find more positives? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And if the leaders say we have more positive tests, therefore, we need to delay even further — that doesn’t make sense to people. “Maybe those are …

Reuters reports: News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch is forgoing his cash bonus for the year after the media company posted a $1 billion quarterly loss due to a write-down in the value of its Australian pay TV unit and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its businesses. The company’s chief executive officer, Robert Thomson, who is giving up …

“The thing in New York was you had very low-income people in very tight quarters that are touching a lot of handles and doorknobs. They weren’t working. They were unemployed. They were going out, maybe not using masks. “You don’t know if they were practicing hygiene and social distancing. It’s hard to practice social distancing in some of these homes …

Talking Points Memo reports: Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth encouraged healthy Americans to “have some courage” and defy social distancing orders in order to get sick with COVID-19. “Herd immunity is our friend,” Hegseth said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” Thursday. He was referring to the phenomenon in which a sufficient number of people are immune from a disease such that …

“We have to remember four things, the heroism of a country, the surreal nature of the lockdown, the sacrifice of an economy that destroys the stereotype of greedy capitalism. And we have to remember those who have no skin in this game who love to play politics and assign blame as a sport. “They were wasting our time when time …

“I’m the number one supporter in radio and television that I know of — First Amendment and the Second Amendment. Now, no one is a bigger defender of the Second Amendment than yours truly. Everyone has the right to protest, protect themselves, and try to get the country open. “This with the militia look here and these long guns, uh, …

“Although intuitively I think it probably seemed like social distancing would be necessary, there was no real scientific basis for believing that, since it had never been studied. “And as one infectious disease doc told me last week, trying to stop this virus with social distancing is like trying to drive a nail through Jell-O. “Viruses spread, that’s what they …

“Last month, Christians across the country were legally prohibited from celebrating Easter in their own churches. The national media barely noted it. How exactly is this happening? Well, it turns out, that’s not clear. Strangely, not very many people have asked. “Politicians have no right to do any of this. They cannot make it illegal for people to go to …

Media Matters reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham retweeted a link Thursday night from white nationalist site VDare for an article blaming immigrant communities for the spread of coronavirus at meatpacking plants. VDare is a white nationalist group that pushes the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which alleges that white people are being systematically “replaced” by people of color through mass …