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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. …

“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 …

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 …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump lashed out at several Fox News anchors Sunday, writing in a tweet they “should be working” at CNN. It was not clear what prompted Trump’s criticism. Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump’s attack on the hard news side of Fox News comes hours after he called for Jeanine Pirro …

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 …

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 …

“New Zealand now has joined the community of probably 100 countries, victims — countries that are fighting terrorism from any side and all sides. Mosques, churches have been attacked by extremists on all sides. But what is interesting here is that this individual, allegedly, has been inspired by an ideology that claims that you should take action, violent actions against …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s Saturday night show has already lost at least three corporate advertisers after she said on her March 9 broadcast that Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar is “Sharia-compliant” because she wears a traditional hijab head covering. Letgo, an online marketplace for selling used items that advertised on Saturday’s episode of Justice w/ Judge …

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 …

CNBC reports: White House communications director Bill Shine will resign from his administration post and advise President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, the White House announced Friday. The former Fox News executive joined Trump’s communications staff last year. He left the network in 2017 amid criticism of how he handled sexual harassment scandals. In a statement Friday, Shine said he …

“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 …

“I think what we need, frankly, is a mobilization of the American public to Washington. I mean if they’re going to be able to turn out hundreds of thousands of people to protest all over the country against Brett Kavanaugh. The American people are just going to have to organize and protest what’s happening at the border in Washington until …

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 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 …