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Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by tearing into Media Matters, the site that posted the clips from his multiple radio appearances with Bubba the Love Sponge. He said Media Matters tries to “punish critics of the Democratic party” and that plenty of people in the media love them and what they do. One such …

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson described Iraqis as “semi-literate primitive monkeys” in past comments made on the Bubba The Love Sponge radio show, according to new audio recordings uncovered by Media Matters. The Fox News host also claimed Iraqis don’t “behave like human beings” and said he had “zero sympathy” for Iraqis or their culture during a May 2006 …

Politico reports: Fox News on Sunday night denounced remarks by host Jeanine Pirro this weekend suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar supports Sharia law in defiance of the U.S. Constitution because she wears a hijab. “We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar,” the network said in a statement. “They do not reflect those of the network and we …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News star Tucker Carlson once argued that women are “extremely primitive” beings who “just need to be quiet and kind of do what you’re told,” according to newly unearthed audio of the host ranting on a shock jock radio show. According to the media watchdog organization Media Matters, Carlson repeatedly called into the popular radio …

The Independent reports: A Fox News host close to Donald Trump has sparked bemusement and anger after suggesting Ilhan Omar’s decision to wear a hijab could mean she is opposed to the US constitution. “Judge” Jeanine Pirro, a legal pundit for the US news channel, also accused the Somali-American congresswoman of being anti-Israel and a believer in sharia law. “Think …

“Millennials have grown up in a world where the Iron Curtain has already collapsed, the Soviet Union is no more. Another reason is they have attended a high school. I’m a millennial. I’m fortunate that I had a wonderful home school and private education. But you do see that in high schools. Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian, is the most …

“The Inquisition burned books, so did the Nazis. Corrupt regimes everywhere fear the free exchange of ideas and they won’t tolerate it if they don’t have to. The best sign of America’s strength is that we are and we have always been different. We don’t fear and suppress other people’s ideas, even if they are offensive or unpopular. We combat …

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump fired back at the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday hours after Fox News was barred from hosting any of the Democratic debates ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Trump, in a tweet, suggested that in return he might halt other networks that have drawn his ire from hosting his debates. He did not elaborate …

The Washington Post reports: The Democratic National Committee has decided to exclude Fox News Channel from televising any of its candidate debates during the 2019-2020 cycle as a result of published revelations detailing the cable network’s close ties to the Trump administration. In a statement Wednesday, DNC Chairman Tom Perez cited a story in the New Yorker magazine this week …

The Daily Beast reports: For years, Sheriff David A. Clarke was a fixture on Fox News, raging against Black Lives Matter, reportedly neglecting his duties as sheriff, and owning libs at every corner. Nowadays, the firebrand Trump ally and ex-Milwaukee sheriff isn’t welcome on Fox anymore, The Daily Beast has learned. The one-time Fox News regular, who was previously considered …

“We the people will now be subject to what will be the biggest, most gruesome display of modern-day McCarthyism, which is just the widest fishing expedition, all in an effort to destroy the president and anybody who supports him. Because the bottom line is all they care about is getting their power back so they can institute socialism right here …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, the man who led an 11-hour public congressional hearing on the Benghazi consulate attack, said Monday that he believes such hearings are “utterly useless”—now that they’re used to investigate President Trump’s inner circle. Gowdy, now a Fox News contributor, joined Fox & Friends to weigh in on last week’s House Oversight Committee …

Talking Points Memo reports: Conservative pundit and former White House official Sebastian Gorka is no longer a paid contributor at Fox News, the network has confirmed. Gorka made headlines last week for his comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference, when he claimed that Democrats’ Green New Deal was a guise to “take away your hamburgers.” “They want to take …

CNN reports: Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, who chairs the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, said that Sean Hannity’s latest comments suggest he has information about hush money payments made by Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to keep the then-presidential candidate’s alleged extramarital affairs quiet in the days before the 2016 election. Trump later reimbursed Cohen for those payments. …

“Cohen told Congress this week that he had a kind of road to Damascus experience. He was personally and morally offended by what his boss said in two occasions. First, after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, that was the summer of 2017, and later when he watched Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, about a year …

The Daily Beast reports: According to Nielsen, CNN averaged 588,000 viewers aged 25-54 (a key demographic for advertisers) during the Cohen hearings, which lasted from 10 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. ET. MSNBC came in second in the 25-54 demographic, pulling an average of 452,000 viewers, while Fox News finished last with an average of 388,000. MSNBC finished first in overall …

Sean Hannity flipped out over Michael Cohen’s public testimony in typical fashion last night but managed to avoid mentioning that Cohen used to be his lawyer too. An excerpt via Media Matters: What we saw in Washington all day, just hours ago, nonstop, was a Democratic Party, a hyperventilating, hysterical media putting politics over country, with a political charade designed …

“By the end, you started feeling kind of bad for Michael Cohen, honestly. He’s not a genius, anyone who knows him will affirm that. He’s in his 50s now and he’s headed to prison. And that’s a long way from where he expected to be. Cohen showed up in Washington two years ago anticipating he’d be the kind of mover …

The Daily Beast reports: “Judge” Jeanine Pirro does not plan to repay nearly $600,000 in debts accrued during her ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate, her still-active campaign committee told federal regulators this week. An attorney for Pirro, who now hosts a Fox News program popular with President Donald Trump, told the Federal Election Commission that the hundreds of thousands …

“Everybody that I know that knows William Barr says, ‘Straight arrow, William Barr is going to do his job. ‘If he does his job, he has to go back to Hillary. He has to go back to a rigged investigation. He has to go back to the crime she committed. He has to go to the FISA that everybody was …