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The Guardian reports: The president is once again complaining about his coverage on Fox News and expressing a fondness for the late Roger Ailes, the network’s late former CEO who was pushed out over allegations of sexual harassment. Trump similarly tweeted earlier this week that he missed Ailes and was “looking for a new outlet” after host Neil Cavuto expressed …

Talking Points Memo reports: President Trump on Thursday complained that Fox News was not doing anything to help him and other Republicans get re-elected in November. “Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real ‘garbage’ littered all over the network,” Trump tweeted. He singled out contributors Chris Hahn, Richard Goodstein and Donna Brazille, …

“Thanks to WHO’s arrogant refusal to agree here and the WHO– Well, guess what? The President’s demands for accountability not happening? Great. You have now saved the U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. “I want to say thank you to WHO tonight for being stupid and being a propaganda arm now for China and choosing not to do the …

“When did to the liberal media get so uptight about drugs all of a sudden? I mean, these people push medical marijuana on the entire country. I mean, like Silicon Valley’s micro-dosing. And if you’re a rich Democrat and you get cancer, you can fly to Germany for an experimental treatment. “I mean, are you kidding me? I would love …

“The mob, the media go insane, as we’ve been discussing, over hydroxychloroquine. Forgetting the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons endorsed it. “And then they get the conspiracy theories over at MSDNC, the conspiracy theory state-run socialist television network of the Democratic Socialist Party. This time claiming the president’s doctor is lying, the president’s not actually taking hydroxychloroquine. “Uh, OK …

Gizmodo reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham had a guest on Monday who told viewers that respiratory disease epidemics, like our current coronavirus pandemic, just go away after two to five weeks and then you don’t need to think about them anymore because everyone is immune. The interview was bizarre, to say the least, even for a network that has …

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 …