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“My mother has already texted me, fresh off the press, a preemptive text. ‘His tweets are racist and incendiary. Please don’t equivocate about that. You are already being criticized for having told the women’s soccer team to shut their traps. Be ethical Jesse, and don’t argue for the sake of jackass remarks.’ Mom’s not going to scare me off though, …

“So the president’s saying, ‘Well go back to your country, when you fix your country, and you learn how to fix that, come back and teach us how to do it here.’ Well if you look at Somalia laws, they’re pretty vicious. Women who consent to abortion or cause one are punished 1 to 5 years in jail. If you …

The Indianapolis Star reports: Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris has left the country amid more than two dozen lawsuits from investors who say he defrauded them in real estate deals involving properties in Indianapolis. Morris, who previously resided in a $1.4 million home in New Jersey, has moved with his family to a coastal resort town Portugal, according to …

Media Matters reports: Following an earlier segment on Fox & Friends, Trump made bigoted remarks attacking Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY], Ilhan Omar [D-MN], Ayanna Pressley [D-MA], and Rashida Tlaib [D-MI], telling them to “go back” to “crime infested places from which they came.” While many commentators noted the open racism of Trump’s remarks, Fox & Friends praised Trump for “making …

From reporter Yashar Ali’s newsletter: In 2014, then-Speaker of the House John Boehner tried to bait Fox News Chief Roger Ailes into pulling certain conservative lawmakers off the Fox airwaves by revealing non-public information about a forthcoming House investigation into the Benghazi attack, according to a new book set to be released next week. The book, “American Carnage” by Politico …

“I title my book Culture Jihad because it’s a call to arms for every freedom-loving American — Christians and Jews, straight and gay, black and white and brown. Folks, we have got a responsibility to stand up to the Orwellian tactics of the leftists and defend liberty, otherwise the culture jihadists will conquer the nation. As for Congresswoman Omar and …

Quartz reports: A large, framed photo of far-right commentator Tomi Lahren posing with US Border Patrol officials hangs prominently on the wall of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC. A person with access to the area described the setting and shared a picture of it with Quartz. Lahren, a vocal supporter of US president Donald Trump, has called immigrants “shifty …

“We’re looking at someone who basically wants to give you the wish list for terrorists, the wish lists for criminal cartels and sex traffickers, and you have to wonder is she working for them or is she working for the American people? The American people, especially those constituents that she represents in New York City, want the border secure, where …

The Huffington Post reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson ended his show on Tuesday with an attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), claiming that she hates America and is “living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.” “Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn’t grateful, not at all. …

“I don’t think people are taking a total look at this. Because there’s a lot of things that go into these decisions. When it’s someone like this involved, this does not skip Washington. “That means that AG knew about it, that means the investigative agency, the FBI, Bob Mueller. This was in 2008 under a Democratic administration. “So it’s not …

Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff on MSNBC today: This was one of the more insidious conspiracy theories that arose out of the 2016 election. It had so much traction. It was promoted on alt-right websites, Roger Stone, Alex Jones, all the usual crowd, and, you know, eventually makes its way straight to Fox News and Sean Hannity. But what we …

“If you look at the World Cup men’s revenue, it’s in the billions and they split up the pot. It’s a much bigger pot. Women’s World Cup revenue, much much smaller and they have a smaller pot to divide it up with. But the distinction is, is that the U.S. Soccer Federation, the women do actually make more revenue and …

“Here’s Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib explaining that Pelosi is oppressing people of color. ‘Give us power because of our skin color’ — that’s the argument Tlaib is making. Many make that argument, Ocasio-Cortez made the very same case during her Democratic primary campaign last year. By definition, it is a racist pitch. It’s every bit as repugnant as a white candidate …

Deadline reports: Donald Trump decided to throw an early evening Twitter tantrum on Sunday, lumping in Fox News with news outlets he regularly complains about including CNN, NBC, MSNBC and the New York Times. It is not certain what triggered Trump to go on this surprising-but-not rant. Earlier, during a live broadcast on Fox News after the U.S. won the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News viewers got an earful when the crowd at a sports bar in France began chanting “F*ck Trump!” live on the air as the network covered reaction to the U.S. Women’s Soccer team’s World Cup victory. But as Fox’s Greg Palkot gamely tried to report on the goings-on, the patrons of the bar loudly chanted “Fuck Trump! …

Mediaite reports: Fox News anchor Julie Banderas wrongly claimed that it is illegal to burn the United States flag. Banderas and a panel on Outnumbered Friday were discussing Nike’s decision to pull a shoe featuring a flag designed by Betsy Ross amid a complaint from Colin Kaepernick. “It is very important to honor it. There was a video of somebody …

Mediaite reports: An angry Lou Dobbs, who will definitely be mad if President Trump doesn’t own the libs with his July 4th speech, is super mad that people are worried that Trump might try to own the libs with his Fourth of July speech. In a Tweet sent on Independence Day, he smeared the military and its leadership as losers, …

Politico reports: A Twitter spat between Rep. Joaquin Castro and Fox News’ Laura Ingraham escalated quickly on Wednesday — with the Texas congressman branding the conservative talking head “a white supremacist” during an exchange over conditions at migrant detention centers. Castro, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and several other lawmakers on Monday toured facilities operated by U.S. Customs …

“You can’t hijack something you already own. The last time I checked, the president is an American, and he’s an American president. But the left falls into this trap all the time. You know, they did this with the kneeling over the national anthem, they’re against whatever he does, and now they just look unpatriotic. People still don’t understand this …

Raw Story reports: Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Monday tweeted out a video in which they mashed up clips from Fox News and Fox Business with clips from North Korea. “This is something that many analysts and pundits thought was totally impossible,” Fox News pundit Jeanine Pirro says in the video, followed by a North Korean broadcaster using eerily …