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Media Matters reports: One America News Network is treating former President Donald Trump’s call for an immediate redo of the 2020 election not only as plausible, but as deserved. On the morning of August 29, former president Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that the only “REMEDY” for “massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE” in 2020 was either to “declare [Trump] …

“The Europeans have discovered that the real threat to human civilization is not global warming, it never was global warming. The real threat to people is global cooling, otherwise known as winter. “Far more people freeze to death every year than die of heat. In 2019, for example, four times as many people died of cold as of heat. That’s …

Media Matters reports: On August 22, OAN host Kara McKinney defended a right-wing push to ban LGBTQ books from schools, using a photograph of a Nazi book burning in her commentary. “I think banning pornographic books from school libraries is not only justifiable – it’s the only moral option,” McKinney said. “It’s our duty, in fact, to purge our schools …

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson sounded just like his good pal and right-wing conspiracy nut Alex Jones on Monday, at one point commenting about chemicals in milk that “turn kids trans.” The Fox host expressed sympathy during his show for an Amish farmer named Amos Miller who has run into legal trouble over food safety issues identified by the …

The New York Times reports: Dominion’s $1.6 billion case against Fox has been steadily progressing in Delaware state court this summer, inching ever closer to trial. There have been no moves from either side toward a settlement, according to interviews with several people involved in the case. The two companies are deep into document discovery, combing through years of each …

Politico reports: Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday sought to clarify the news organization’s use of a fake image depicting Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Kilmeade was filling in for “Tucker Carlson Tonight” when the fake image was aired on Fox News. It showed a doctored photo …

The Associated Press has a fact-check: CLAIM: A photo shows Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted of sex trafficking, with U.S. Magistrate Bruce Reinhart, the judge who approved the FBI search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. AP’S ASSESSMENT: Altered photo. This image has been manipulated by combining two separate, unrelated photos. The photo of Maxwell …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt accused the FBI of planting incriminating evidence in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a stunning allegation that has been made repeatedly on Fox News in the last several days. Earhart floated the theory during a Wednesday interview with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) about the FBI search for the classified documents Trump …

Media Matters has the transcript: Tonight, Biden gave a speech boasting that he’s killed an al Qaeda figure in Afghanistan. Great. Feel safer? Of course you don’t. Nobody does. And the reason nobody feels safer is Biden’s response to the disaster in Afghanistan. Rather than pause and learn from it, maybe fire the people responsible for it, not simply the …

Media Matters has the transcript: The discontent is getting louder because January 6th floundered. It ended up accidentally exonerating Trump. They showed no planned coup, no criminality — they had to move the goalposts into the parking lot. Now it’s like, ‘Oh, he took too long.’ Fine. Why is it that he seems more electable now? Is it because the …

The Daily Beast reports: MAGA cable channel One America News has been on life support since satellite provider DirecTV dropped the far-right conspiratorial network from its lineup this spring. It now looks like it may be DOA. Verizon Fios, currently the largest pay-TV platform still carrying OAN, announced on Thursday afternoon that it had been unable to come to terms …

Media Matters has the transcript: Here’s the deal. Really Roe v. Wade wasn’t overturned. Roe v. Wade was fundamentally altered by a decision in 1992 — Roe was 1973 — called the Casey decision in Pennsylvania, which changed the trimester test and had the undue burden and viability test which they basically stole from Europe and from other kinds of …

Mediaite reports: Hosts of The Five reacted to the landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion on Friday. During the gabfest, the table discussed the possibility of subsequent violence. “Why would they be doing that?” Katie Pavlich asked Greg Gutfeld, setting up his response. “What’s the purpose of the fence outside the Supreme Court today? “That’s the …

Mediaite reports: Former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark gave an interview with Tucker Carlson after the FBI raided his house on Wednesday. Carlson called the raid “Soviet.” “It is,” responded Clark, who explained that agents searched his house for three and half hours. Clark added, “I just think we’re living in an era that I don’t recognize and increasingly, Tucker, …

Media Matters has the transcript: Yesterday the FDA announced it’s planning to remove virtually all nicotine from cigarettes. Now nicotine is not the thing that gives you cancer. Nicotine is the thing — it’s addictive but it also increases mental acuity but they’re taking that out. According to the Wall Street Journal, the agency will also ban Juul e-cigarettes. Now …

Bloomberg News reports: Fox News’s parent company can be sued by a voting-machine maker because Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch may have acted with “actual malice” in directing the network to broadcast conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis on Tuesday denied Fox Corp.’s motion to dismiss the suit, …

Fox News reports: Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is vowing to send back his Harvard University degree, and wrote “return to sender” on his diploma during Saturday’s show. In Hegseth’s book “American Crusade,” he wrote a blunt message to Americans: “Stop supporting your alma matter!” “Stop now. Stop sending your money.  I can no longer support your leftist …

Media Matters has the transcript: DARREN BEATTIE (GUEST): There’s a reason that, people like us, when we talk about federal involvement in January 6th, it’s met with the most vicious and hostile response from the regime imaginable. But no matter how dark and uncomfortable these truths are, the American people need to learn about them from themselves. I encourage everyone, …

Mediaite reports: Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren’s attempt to raise up the specter of election fraud seemed to go sideways after the the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder corrected her claims about her voter registration status. Lahren has pushed alarmist commentary about mass voter fraud before, and she recently brought it up again while claiming to have received a mail-in ballot …

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Missouri on Monday pushed a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit back to a Missouri circuit court for additional proceedings. Plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss filed the case against James Hoft, Joseph Hoft, and TGP Communications LLC (the business which operates The Gateway Pundit) in December …