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“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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

“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, …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …