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“Who knew fascism could be so chirpy? Groups that do things that are dangerous. What exactly does that mean? Dangerous like hurting other people? Or dangerous as in saying things that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like or considers bad for business? Well yesterday we found out. Facebook released its latest enemies list. Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Louis Farrakhan, …

Yahoo News reports: Conservative YouTubers Diamond & Silk, who are also “Fox Nation personalities,” were brought on Fox & Friends to talk about why Cohen stepped out of line by bringing a range of poultry-themed visual gags to the hearing to ridicule the attorney general’s cowardice. “He’s racially insensitive, that’s what I think,” said Lynette Hardaway, with no further explanation. …

The Hill reports: Language learning platform Babbel apologized Tuesday for its ad being aired during Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which the company called “repugnant.” Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Babbel claiming to blacklist Tucker Carlson’s show. Several companies pulled their ads from Carlson’s series in the last year. When the anchor in …

The Washington Post reports: Before the Council of Economic Advisers finished its annual get-together with the nation’s chief executive, a basso profundo voice thundered into the room via speakerphone. With the council sitting by, Trump had placed a call to his unofficial policy whisperer — Lou Dobbs, the Fox Business Network host. An echo chamber on ideology and policy has …

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump handicapped the front-running Democratic presidential hopefuls at the end of his interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night. Trump ignored Hannity’s request to be succinct with his summaries and explained at some length why he now calls Biden “Sleepy Joe.” “He’s not going to be able to do the job,” …

“Hillary Clinton needs to be investigated, she needs to be indicted, and she needs to be in jail, and any of her co-conspirators in this whole sordid affair, which amounted to nothing more than a silent coup to overturn the election results of 2016 — you talk about sour grapes. This is a woman who has been rejected by the …

“We have people invading our country, and I would think that should be pretty — pretty high up, priority one, two, three, somewhere there — and they seem completely oblivious. We’ve seen this in Europe, we’re seeing it here, and they are attempting to replace us with citizens that they think — future citizens that they think would be more …

Mediaite reports: During a town hall event last week in New York City, Ocasio-Cortez said she opposes privatizing the VA when it already provides the “highest quality” of healthcare for veterans. While years of reporting on the VA have raised numerous questions about the quality of care and service provided by the current system, Ocasio-Cortez argued that changes will only …

“What Barr said so emotionally and I was so impressed with him yesterday, that really struck me, was when he said, ‘Look at the president, he’s in his first two years in office and he knows that the place is rotten with spies and backstabbers. He knows that people are turning on him. He knows that someone that he has …

Fox News reports: Republican strategist Karl Rove said on “Fox & Friends” Friday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ town hall on Fox earlier this week convinced him that the presidential candidate could win the Oval Office in 2020. He credited Sanders, who is 77 and from Vermont, for bucking the decision of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, Tom Perez, to …

“This is a war! The president likes to call it a hoax but this was a conspiracy to overthrow the president of the United States. And this is bad stuff. And, to your point, any other person in the White House would have folded up like a cheap lawn chair amongst the last several presidents. Pastor Robert Jeffress always talks …

Last night White House press secretary Sarah Sanders ran to Fox News after the Mueller report detailed her confessing to having repeatedly lied to the media. Sean Hannity, of course, gave her a sympathetic ear. Newsweek reports: “I guess in the testimony you gave, you had said your FBI — a lot of the FBI people you know were — …

NBC News reports: President Trump on Thursday pushed back against questions about whether he may have obstructed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, asserting that he could have “fired everyone,” including special counsel Robert Mueller, if he had so chosen. The White House has been taking a victory lap, with Trump earlier saying “No Collusion – No …

The Daily Beast reports: There was another question weighing heavily on the president’s mind: Was Fox News, his favorite organ of conservative media and pro-Trump messaging, being sufficiently subservient to him? “Keep an eye on it,” Trump started telling aides, according to two people with direct knowledge of his directive, in conversations about what was going on behind-the-scenes at Fox, …

“Imagine how it must feel to be to be Beto O’Rourke right now. If you’re O’Rourke, you’re out there running for president really hard, or at least running for vice president. You are running anyway. You are giving speech after speech every day: ‘Children are our future. Today the first day of the rest of your life.’ Inspiring stuff like …

The Week reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) seemed to know he could get inside President Trump’s head by doing a town hall on Fox News, and Trump’s Twitter feed shows that 24 hours after the town hall aired, Sanders was still in there, rent-free. Trump appeared to still be stewing over what Politico calls Sanders’ “triumphant” hour of “positive publicity.” …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his Monday night program said that in 20 years, every fifth grader in the U.S. will believe “9/11 was committed by white supremacists.” Carlson’s remarks came in the context of what he described as “propaganda” from liberals lambasting President Trump for inciting violence. “I swear in 20 years, every fifth grader …

Axios reports: Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was mentioned 3,181 times on Fox News and Fox Business during the 6 weeks from Feb. 25 to April 7 — 75 times a day — according to the liberal Media Matters for America. “Not a day went by when she wasn’t spoken about on Fox,” the Associated Press notes. Among the names …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump on Thursday shared an inaccurate graphic on Twitter that significantly overstated his overall job approval rating in a new poll and falsely suggested it was “soaring.” Later Thursday morning, Washington correspondent Blake Burman offered an on-air correction on behalf of Fox Business. “It’s been a quiet start to the day for President Trump, though …

“Nobody likes racists, nobody wants to be called a racist, the left knows that, so they use the word as a cudgel to beat their political opponents into submission and have their way. They have done this so often and for so many years that over time with the word ‘racist’ has lost a lot of power. It is dulled …