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MSNBC reports: The Trump administration has chosen counter terrorism expert and Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus to be the new State Department spokeswoman, three people with knowledge of the decision told NBC News. Ortagus, a U.S. Naval Reserve officer, would bring significant experience in national security and foreign policy to the role. She will replace Heather Nauert, a former Fox …

“Night after night, never-ending lies, one bizarre conspiracy theory after another. And she has been rewarded for being the number one liar, conspiracy theorist in America. Nobody ever has challenged her or vetted her or questioned her as to to the depths and lengths she has sunk to in this process. My question to viewers: how does it feel to …

Mediaite reports: “You have been lied to by other networks and the news media on a spectacular level for years and years.” Sean Hannity last night told viewers he was “pissed off” after the completion of Robert Mueller‘s investigation and said there needs to be a “day of reckoning” for everyone from the “deep state” to the rest of the …

The New York Post reports: Has Tucker Carlson started a campaign to sugar-shame Brian Stelter? On Friday, Carlson’s own Daily Caller website reported that the Fox News personality had sent an unsolicited box of doughnuts to CNN’s Brian Stelter, a frequent critic of Carlson who recently said, “I just want Fox News to be a healthy part of the media …

“There was a conspiracy, a cover-up and attempted coup d’état. But it was not by anyone in the Trump campaign. It was by people inside the government who tried to upend this President and overturn the election. That’s serious. It absolutely demands an investigation and charges if they find evidence. For all this time we were told Donald Trump didn’t …

“Roger Stone is facing life in prison. He was indicted by an investigation designed to find collusion, indicted on minor charges. He was dragged from his own home in a morning FBI raid.They put an amphibious vehicle outside his house and pointed an automatic weapon in his face, all to find collusion. But there was no collusion. Stone is still …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump grew angry during an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Friday as she repeatedly pressed him over his renewed attacks on John McCain. When she noted that Trump doesn’t unite the country with how he talks about McCain, he claimed once again that his attacks only come up because of outside prompts, and …

The New York Daily News reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters has finalized a divorce with his ex-wife after an affair with a 26-year-old staffer at the Trump-friendly network, which in recent years has been rocked by high-profile departures of talent in the wake of multiple employee harassment lawsuits. The Daily News exclusively reported last year that Jesse Watters had …

Variety reports: “Justice With Judge Jeanine,” the Saturday-night opinion show led by Jeanine Pirro, will be off the Fox News schedule for a second week in the wake of remarks she made about a Muslim congresswoman. The network’s online schedule shows that it will run another repeat of the documentary series “Scandalous” in its place Saturday night at 9 p.m. …

“Earlier this week John Bolton on this program said all options on the table when it comes to getting [Nicolás] Maduro out. Should we use the CIA? I realize I’m going back to the late 1950s or something. But I mean why not? Why not? The guy is a corrupt socialist dictator. He’s killing his own people in the street. …

“More than ten million illegal aliens are believed to be working in this country under the table. And that is part of the reason that between 2012 and 2016 an estimated 39 million Social Security numbers were stolen from Americans for fraudulent use, a fact that’s rarely reported. But legal or not immigrants send their earnings abroad and they pay …

“One thing to watch when you see poll after poll on these Democratic candidates, are the Democratic primary voters saying they’re going to vote for a candidate based on their principles, and their ideas, and their policy issues, or are they simply going to vote for the candidate they think has the best chance of beating President Trump? Because a …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Trump supporter Joe diGenova mocked Congresswoman and Democratic rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for using a “Latina” inflection when pronouncing her own name, and diGenova even imitated AOC’s accent. On Tuesday night’s edition of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham and diGenova took a few seconds from complaining about the media to slam …

The Hill reports: Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck in an interview Monday with Fox News’s Sean Hannity said if President Trump and the GOP lose in 2020, “we are officially at the end of the country as we know it.” In his remarks, Beck painted the picture of socialists, anarchists and “Islamists” working together to take down not only the United …

Variety reports: The separation of new and old Fox begins a new era for the Murdoch clan and the media business, a day before Disney completes its acquisition of 21st Century Fox. The new-model Fox will begin trading today on the NASDAQ under the FOXA symbol. Earlier today, 21st Century Fox finalized the complex transfer of the Fox Corp. assets …

This afternoon Fox News ran a clip in which Beto O’Rourke responded to the massacre in New Zealand by calling for a moratorium on sales of the AR-15 assault rifle. Fox host Pete Hegseth then responded in predictable fashion. Media Matters has the transcript: BETO O’ROURKE: We allow people in this country to buy weapons that were designed, engineered, and …

CNN reports: Jeanine Pirro, whose show did not air on Saturday night, was suspended by Fox News after her widely criticized commentary doubting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s patriotism, according a source familiar with the matter. Fox did not announce the suspension publicly. The network declined to confirm or deny that Pirro has been suspended. There is no word on whether Pirro’s …

The Wrap reports: President Trump on Sunday defended Fox News hosts, warning that the Democrats and the “Fake News” media are trying to silence a majority of the country through a campaign against the network’s conservative hosts. Last week, Fox News condemned remarks made by Pirro after the host on air questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is loyal to …

CNN Business reports: Jeanine Pirro was off the air at Fox News on Saturday, one week after she was widely denounced for doubting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s patriotism. Last Saturday night Pirro questioned whether Omar’s Islamic religious beliefs stand in opposition to the US Constitution, prompting Fox to say “we strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments.” The show did not appear on …

“Here’s actually what Trump said. He said, ‘I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump, I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very, very bad.’ Why did the media …