Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy suggested Monday morning that by skipping the GOP Primary debates, former President Donald Trump may actually be helping President Joe Biden. On Sunday, Trump announced he would be skipping all debates, citing his enormous lead in primary polls. “By skipping the debates, though, Donald Trump may actually be helping Joe Biden because …
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Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends’ curvy couch was a source of wild and irresponsible misinformation Tuesday morning when co-host Carly Shimkus offered a remarkably illogical argument why many Americans are refusing to get vaccinated. Co-host Brian Kilmeade agreed, of course, with an emphatic “Exactly!” while the consistently reliable Steve Doocy appeared to hold back a wince of some sort. Shimkus’s …
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The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has suggested that an arson attack on the network’s massive Christmas tree this week should be categorized as a hate crime—and the alleged perpetrator treated accordingly. His comments came as the Fox & Friends hosts lamented that the accused firestarter was released without bail, a move they blamed on “liberal bail …
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Media Matters has the transcript: SKIP BEDELL (TELEVISION PERSONALITY): Guys, we’re back. And you know, food obviously is really important. Especially for me, because I like to eat. So, supply chains, we’ve seen empty shelves in grocery stores, maybe for the first time ever. This is Readywise food. So they make emergency food supply buckets. They have a 25-year shelf …
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Mediaite reports: The hosts of Fox & Friends continued to push the false claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’ book is being given out to migrant children at the border, even after acknowledging that the Washington Post debunked the story. “Is there a children’s version of Donald Trump’s books?” asked Brian Kilmeade. “Cause he has written quite a few of …
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Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends is angry with MSNBC host Chris Hayes and believes everyone should be furious over his comparing gun-loving Republicans to Osama bin Laden. At issue? Hayes noticed a curious trend that many Republican politicians and officials tend to post videos or participate in teleconference calls with a number of guns prominently featured behind them. He then …
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“Here’s the thing, I think for the president of the United States, while he continues to fight on, and this is probably going to be the end of the week for Pennsylvania if they don’t produce something. “I think it’s going to be in the country’s best interest, if he starts coordinating on the virus, starts coordinating with security with …
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Mediaite reports: Ordinarily, this would be a relatively pedestrian setting-the-record-straight instance for morning television. But the fact that Doocy is directly countering Fox News colleague Sean Hannity, and President Trump, is a rather remarkable moment for the pro-Trump morning show. “I looked into it,” Doocy opened, correcting the record. “With that Dominion software, five counties in Michigan and Georgia had …
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Mediaite reports: Fox and Friends started the week by discussing the president’s continued diagnosis, plus the ride he took past his supporters outside the hospital on Sunday. Ainsley Earhardt and Steve Doocy spoke positively about Trump’s motorcade drive, but between the excursion and the possibility that Trump might soon be discharged, Kilmeade described this as an “unnecessary risk.” “I just …
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As previously reported: Fox17 Nashville took down the article that generated the right-wing media conspiracy theories. The station issued a statement to CNN’s Oliver Darcy saying in part: “In a segment that aired earlier this week, we incorrectly asserted that Mayor Cooper’s office withheld COVID-19 data from the public, which implied that there had been a cover up. We want …
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“Keep in mind, you know, I think, what we have learned — I mentioned at the top of the show tomorrow is September 11th. I think what we have learned over the last 19 years is that, you know, our leaders, whether they’re the military leaders or the intel leaders or the president, they get stuff crosses their desk every …
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Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade teed up a montage of fawning media praise for former Vice President Joe Biden’s DNC speech, after which Earhardt conceded “It was a good speech” and described the elements she thought were effective. On Friday morning’s edition of the Fox News morning show, the general tenor was to cast …
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“I have no idea what the stats they’re looking at, but I sincerely think that they are actually looking to make sure they can mandate a peak and a spike in COVID cases in the fall so they can shut everything down again. That is my honest belief. “That if they open up gyms they know that everybody’s going to …
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Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade was mocked on Twitter after his apology for sharing a fake tweet misrepresenting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fell flat, in part due to it being in quotes. The fake tweet that Kilmeade initially shared purports to show AOC suggesting that state governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic is purely political. AOC’s source tweet …
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Media Matters reports: On June 26, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy commented that “125,000 Americans have died so far” of COVID-19. However, most discussion of the “jaw-dropping” number was a setup to mock Joe Biden for accidentally saying that “over 120 million” have died, even though co-host Ainsley Earhardt also clarified (once) that Biden “corrected himself immediately.” According to …
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“Data is a pesky thing too. Because what if we start testing more and as a result of more testing we find more positives? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And if the leaders say we have more positive tests, therefore, we need to delay even further — that doesn’t make sense to people. “Maybe those are …
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“I think at this point there is so much data coming from so many places, we are better off waiting for the randomized trials Dr. Fauci has been asking for. We keep reacting back and forth for studies that show opposite results. “And a lot of it might have to do with when you get the medication. If you give …
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The Hill reports: A Fox News host fired back at President Trump on Sunday after the president took aim at Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday.” Jedediah Bila, weekend co-host of “Fox & Friends,” criticized Trump for his “3rd grade name-calling,” adding that Wallace “is doing his job.” Bila’s tweet came not long after she announced that she had …
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Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends used their Tuesday morning to become the latest cable news program to embrace social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, striking a very different tone on the public health risk from just late last week. While the Fox & Friends hosts conducted the show from the same studio, Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade were …
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The Daily Beast reports: After Giuliani once again repeated his Biden-related conspiracies, co-host Steve Doocy stepped in to wrap up the segment. “I know you could go clear through noon when your podcast starts. Give it up for Rudy Giuliani,” Doocy exclaimed to cheers from the audience. “We’re going to be watching.” The Trump lawyer, however, wasn’t budging, instead saying …
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