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Ingraham: Masks Are Meant To Keep Public Panicked

“They’ll say this whole mask thing is ‘settled science’ just like they do with climate change, of course it is not and they know it. Our own experts have gone from masks aren’t necessary to masks are essential and you have to wear them when you go jogging in just a few weeks time. “Now Rush Limbaugh made a great …

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Trump Egged On Hannity’s Threat To Sue NY Times

The Daily Beast reports: Over the past month, as Fox News personality Sean Hannity seethed over his—and his network’s—treatment in The New York Times, one of the host’s closest friends quietly encouraged him to exact some revenge on the newspaper for reporting that Hannity had downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. This particular friend was none other than President Donald …

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Fox To Host “Returning To Work” Town Hall With Trump

The Hill report: Fox News announced Wednesday it will host a virtual town hall with President Trump on Sunday night focusing on COVID-19 and the reopening of the U.S. economy. The program, “America Together: Returning to Work,” will be co-moderated by “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” anchor Martha MacCallum. It will be broadcast live from the Lincoln …

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NYT On Hannity’s Retraction Demand: That’s A No

Two week ago the New York Times published a piece about a Brooklyn bar owner who died after taking a cruise, because, his family says, Sean Hannity had convinced him that the pandemic was under control. As I reported that week, Hannity went ballistic, demanding a retraction and threatening to sue. Which brings us to today: The New York Times …

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Fox News Finally Shitcans Nutbag Duo Zircon & Burlap

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News has cut ties with MAGA vlogging superstars Diamond & Silk, who had contributed original content to the network’s streaming service Fox Nation since shortly after its late 2018 launch. The sudden split comes after the Trump-boosting siblings have come under fire for promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus. “After what they’ve said …

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Fox Host Defends Trump’s “Hilarious” Clorox Claims

“Was it off-the-cuff? Maybe, doesn’t matter. Was it sarcasm? Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t matter. What matters is that anyone actually believes that he was saying you should inject Clorox into people. “I mean, one thousand days with Trump plus as president and we still have an entire industry mobilized by an offhand comment. How can any adult believe seriously believe …

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Ingraham Attacks Media Over VA Drug Study [VIDEO]

“Well, the jackals at Media Matters thought they had their prey trapped, and now, journalism is such a joke that even The Washington Post and tonight the New York Times reflexively joined the pig pile. It’s just pathetic. “Now, I’m not a doctor, I don’t play one on TV, but renowned French virologist Dr. Didier Raoult released his own study …

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Order To Attack Iran Came Minutes After Fox Story

Media Matters reports: President Donald Trump, apparently responding to a Fox & Friends report, tweeted Wednesday morning that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to “destroy any and all Iranian gunboats” if they “harass” U.S. ships. Fox & Friends ran a series of reports Wednesday morning about Iran launching its first military satellite into orbit. Those reports also referenced an …

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Study Links Watching Hannity To Higher COVID Rates

Vox reports: The paper — from economists Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, and David Yanagizawa-Drott — focused on Fox news programming in February and early March. At the time, Hannity’s show was downplaying or ignoring the virus, while fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson was warning viewers about the disease’s risks. Using both a poll of Fox News viewers over …

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Fox’s Dr. Oz Reverses On Malaria Drug: Fauci Was Right

“I think at this point there is so much data coming from so many places, we are better off waiting for the randomized trials Dr. Fauci has been asking for. We keep reacting back and forth for studies that show opposite results. “And a lot of it might have to do with when you get the medication. If you give …

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Sean Hannity: New Yorkers Owe Their Lives To Trump

“Comrade de Blasio, if President Trump didn’t bail your sorry unprepared ass out, guess what? Many more New Yorkers in your city would’ve died, many more would have been infected, many more would’ve been hospitalized then nobody would’ve had a ventilator. “Instead New York City, thanks to President Trump – you can thank him Mr. Mayor – is seeing, thankfully, …

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Tucker Carlson Calls AOC “Child Of Privilege” [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: Multimillionaire primetime Fox News star Tucker Carlson labeled progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) a “child of privilege” on Monday night—just two weeks after his colleague Laura Ingraham mocked AOC over her bartender past. According to Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson’s own Wikipedia page, the Fox host knows a thing or two about privilege himself. Carlson’s father is …

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Geraldo Blames Media For Far-Right Lockdown Protests

“By addressing half of the American people and crafting everything they do, or say, opinion or news, for that half of the American people, they do a grave disservice. “The unrest that you see now, the populist unrest is a direct result of that dissembling, that lying, that partisan reportage. “They are not doing the job of communicating to the …

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Fauci Debunks Ingraham To Her Face On HIV Vs COVID

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): On the question of a vaccine, we don’t have a vaccine for SARS. I mean, they got close in mice. We don’t have a vaccine for HIV, and life did go on, right? So, the idea that we are definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn’t really approach much else in …

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Dr. Phil On Fox News: We Don’t Shut Down For Car Crash Deaths But We Shut Down The Country For This?

The Wrap reports: TV show host Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw appeared to downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday’s episode of “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News, rattling off a series of statistics with at least one glaring error — the number of people who die in swimming pools every year. “But look, the fact that the matter …

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Fox Guest: Lockdown Deaths May Exceed COVID Deaths

“The numbers related to drug overdose death are right out of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The numbers relating to the length between unemployment and suicide come right out of the very prestigious medical journal Lancet. So, instead of relying on theoretical models, as we are to predict coronavirus deaths, we are relying on actual historical facts to predict …

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Fox News Hosts Praise Michigan Lockdown Protesters

Jeanine Pirro: They want to keep us away from churches and synagogues, they want to make sure we don’t go back to work. They don’t get it. The American spirit is too strong and Americans are not going to take it. And what happened in Lansing today? God bless them, it’s going to happen all over the country. Americans want …

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Fox Host Hails Trump’s “Powerful” Propaganda Video

“I was watching that press briefing yesterday, I’m sure you guys saw it. The president comes out. I mean, this is like something I’ve never seen before. He played a video in the middle of the press conference with a timeline, because the media’s criticizing him for all of his faults. “And he said, look, you’re the ones that downplayed …

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Fox Contributor: Hospitals Profit By Inflating Deaths

“I spoke to a lot of hospital administrators this week, the CDC guidance on this urges people, if a doctor believes or suspects that their patient died of COVID, COVID is put on the death certificate. “So there’s an incentive also monetarily for these hospitals, and hospital conglomerates to have COVID patients and COVID fatalities in their care. “We’ve got …

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Fox Host Blasts Trump’s “Third Grade Name-Calling”

The Hill reports: A Fox News host fired back at President Trump on Sunday after the president took aim at Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday.” Jedediah Bila, weekend co-host of “Fox & Friends,” criticized Trump for his “3rd grade name-calling,” adding that Wallace “is doing his job.” Bila’s tweet came not long after she announced that she had …

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