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“I have to ask you about Canada, and what we saw happen there last winter – the trucker protest and then the crackdown by the authoritarian government of Canada. “I’m completely in favor of a Bay of Pigs operation to liberate that country. Why should we stand back and let our biggest trading partner, the country with which we share …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I don’t wanna America in these long, protracted conflicts, Bill. BILL O’REILLY (GUEST): Well, neither do I, because — you got to be careful with this. Because you’ve got an unstable dictator with nuclear weapons. You’ve got to be careful with this. HANNITY: How do — how do you be careful, Bill? …

Mediaite reports: Fox News got duped into taking an obvious joke about a root beer company’s beloved mascot and turning it into fodder for the endless culture war. A Fox Business article bore the headline “A&W Root Beer puts pants on ‘polarizing’ mascot bear Rooty after M&Ms ‘pauses’ spokescandies.” Fox News also promoted the article on social media by describing …

“You can be fully vaccinated, fully boosted, have all the booster — booster 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. You can have natural immunity but you can still catch COVID. You can still get it and get sick. You can still transmit the virus to others. That’s what the science tells us. “Look at the recent findings that show that …

From a January 11th Ars Technica report: Microsoft is rolling out an update to Xbox consoles starting today that will automatically switch them to a power-saving Shutdown mode, instead of the usual energy-hungry Sleep mode. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to make Xbox the “first carbon aware console.” Blaine Hauglie, technical program manager at Xbox, writes in …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): The next thing you know CRT is everywhere. And you have to look out as a parent for code words — if they have a “wellness officer” at the school. They don’t use things like CRT if they say, “A class is about belonging.” That’s what you got to look out for. …

Mediaite reports: Just in case you needed more proof we live in the dumbest of all possible timelines, M&M’s are dropping their spokescandies after backlash from Fox News and other (mostly conservative) commentators, replacing the anthropomorphic chocolates with Maya Rudolph. Fox News host Tucker Carlson was one of the most vocal critics of the redesigned spokescandies, panning them as “deeply …

NPR reports: Fox’s attorneys offer “omitted context” for the seemingly incendiary remarks by such hosts as Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, as well as their featured guests, including Trump and his former campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. That context includes assertions that have long since been debunked and rebutted in dozens of court challenges …

Mediaite reports: Speaking with Rep. James Comer (R-KY) on Sunday Morning Futures, the Fox News anchor floated the notion that the president committed treason by keeping classified documents from his time as a Senator and Vice President at his Delaware residence and his Washington office. “Is this treason?” Bartiromo asked. Comer wasn’t quite willing to go that far, but also …

“They closed the gyms during COVID. Anybody who closed a gym during a pandemic that kills people who are fat clearly doesn’t care about your health at all. “They hate nicotine. They love THC. They are promoting weed to your children but they’re not letting you use tobacco or even non-tobacco nicotine delivery devices which don’t cause cancer. “Why do …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson claimed former President Richard Nixon was forced out of the White House as part of an elaborate deep state plot that included Bob Woodward. He did not explain that Nixon resigned after he covered up details of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters by Republican operatives. Carlson said that given Nixon had already expressed …

Forbes reports: News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is testifying Thursday and Friday in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News, a billion-dollar lawsuit that has ensnared some of the network’s biggest personalities over repeated statements after the 2020 election that falsely linked Dominion machines to fraud—including comments by both Fox News personalities and guests. Dominion alleges in its lawsuit, …

“The most authoritarian leader that country has ever had and no one else comes close. An appalling abuser of human rights of her own people. “She, of course, earned the admiration of Western leaders including former CIA director Michael Hayden by ushering in an era of near totalitarianism in New Zealand. “She shut down the entire country over a single …

“It’s an important issue for our conference to come together on because, as you said, the government will keep on running. Yes, people’s social security checks will keep coming, military will keep getting paid, important things will keep happening and keep getting paid. “But we have to do a good job as a Republican conference. It’s a serious issue and …

The Associated Press reports: Two former Fox executives went on trial Tuesday, accused of bribing South American soccer officials for TV rights to one of the continent’s biggest annual tournaments and using information gathered in the process to help the network’s winning World Cup broadcast bid. It’s the latest case to go to court in the sprawling FIFA corruption scandal. …

“So-called assault weapons are used in an infinitesimally small percentage of crimes in this country. They’re not a threat to anybody, but Joe Biden, like Justin Trudeau and every would-be dictator on the planet sees them as a potential threat to political power, so Joe Biden thinks only his bodyguards should have them, not you. “And in Illinois, the governor …

“I think you can just look at the New York Post or Fox News and remember, when he announced his election campaign, ‘Florida man announces reelection’ page 26. Yeah, there’s no doubt that the majority of conservative media, Fox, first and foremost, has a strong desire to move on from Donald Trump and are not paying enough attention and giving …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): On the other side, you have Republicans. They’re back in control of the House of Representatives. And because they are — on the House side — Republican members who want to smoke tobacco once again can. They couldn’t when Nancy Pelosi was speaker because she had banned tobacco smoking in the Capitol …

“It’s hard to remember now, but it wasn’t that long ago that Andrew Cuomo was not only the governor of New York, but also a legitimate hero in the Democratic Party. “What exactly did he do wrong? He outlived his usefulness to the party — that’s what he’s did. He stayed too long. “Cuomo was in his 60s, he was …

The Huffington Post reports: In early March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began its onslaught across the country, Fox News host Tucker Carlson drove to then-President Donald Trump’s Florida resort to warn him to take the virus seriously. “People you know will get sick,” Carlson said on his show later that night after visiting Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “Some may die. …