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Media Matters reports: The Fox Corporation’s upcoming annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles will feature something that totally contradicts its own media outlets’ right-wing editorial line: vaccination passports, mask requirements, and a variety of other COVID-19 safety measures as part of Fox’s health and safety protocols. The company’s blatant hypocrisy is already well-documented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fox News has …

The New York Daily News reports: CNN’s Jim Acosta held nothing back when it came to Tucker Carlson. The Fox firebrand is hosting an upcoming series that whitewashes the Jan. 6 insurrection, when loyalists to former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol claiming nonexistent election fraud. “Tucker is calling his propaganda flick ‘The Patriot Purge.’ It’s nothing more than Proud …

CNN reports: Fox News is not officially commenting on the record, but it seems the right-wing talk network is quietly trying to distance itself from Tucker Carlson’s 1/6 trutherism. That’s the takeaway from this story by Daily Dot‘s David Covucci. He wrote on Friday that after his outlet published a story on Carlson’s 1/6 special series, titled “Patriot Purge,” the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Laura Ingraham opened her show Friday night saying that liberals are trying to undermine nuclear families by “feminizing” and weakening men. “Where have all the men gone?” she asked. “Today the radical left has one goal in mind,” Ingraham continued. “It’s to destroy the underpinnings of the nuclear family by targeting the distinct parental roles that …

“Tucker has had countless opportunities to explain to his viewers that the election was not stolen. Instead, he continues to promote dangerous conspiracies using the language that provoked violence against law enforcement and our Capitol on January 6th. Liz will not participate in that.” – From an email Rep. Liz Cheney’s staff sent to the producers of Tucker Carlson’s show. …

Mediaite reports: The one reaction Carlson picked out to respond to came from Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R- WY). Cheney ripped Fox for giving Carlson a platform to “spread the same type of lies that provoked violence on January 6.” Carlson only showed that part of her tweet, but not the rest of it, which said, “As @FoxNews knows, the election …

The Week reports: The high-stakes Virginia gubernatorial race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin has been narrowing in recent weeks, and now it couldn’t get much tighter. After a Fox News poll on Thursday gave Youngkin an 8 percentage point likely-voter lead over McAuliffe — versus McAuliffe’s 5-point lead in the same poll two weeks ago — the …

Media Matters has the transcript: I will tell you now that Terry McAuliffe is preparing to try and steal the election. McAuliffe spends big in final days on sanctioned lawyer who sued to overturn Iowa House race.  This is very important to understand. So they’re going to try and steal the election. The same guy, McAuliffe, who said that Bush …

The Daily Beast reports: The writer of Tucker Carlson’s controversial documentary series on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot previously directed films made by far-right figures, including a leading promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, a virulent anti-refugee activist, and an alt-right comic book writer whose lead superhero’s outfit resembles a Confederate flag. Los Angeles-based filmmaker Scooter Downey will likely reach …

The Hill reports: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) is one of several Republicans blasting Fox News Media for a promotional video teasing an upcoming episode of leading host Tucker Carlson’s mini-series “Tucker Carlson originals.” The episode, which will only be broadcast on Fox Nation, the company’s paid streaming service, is set to be published in three parts next month and examines …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ graphics department engaged in some questionable special effects by suggestively depicting Attorney General Merrick Garland putting a target on concerned parents. The show established the slant of their coverage from the very start as the narrator announced “Republicans grilling Attorney General Merrick Garland over targeting parents.” During the remark about “targeting parents,” Fox switched to a …

“But they’re now talking about wealth confiscation. And you might think, ‘Oh, that’s great.’ What do you think happens next? “Well, then they make it for millionaires and then they make it for, these companies are — they’re taking away the incentive for people to invest money. “I know it’s fashionable. It sounds great. Let’s go after the rich people …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson previewed a trailer on Wednesday for an upcoming three-part series for his Tucker Carlson Originals and it is absolutely wild. Called “Patriot Purge,” Carlson explained, “The U.S. government has in fact launched a new war on terror, but it’s not against al Qaeda, it’s against American citizens. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history …

Mediaite reports: After recovering from his bout with Covid-19, Neil Cavuto returned to Fox by looking at the comments left by viewers, some of whom … didn’t exactly offer the warmest of well wishes. Cavuto brought in his production assistant, Mike Lotito, and he asked if the viewers missed him. The kindest reply Lotito could offer: “They missed you, many …

Media Matters has the transcript: TOMI LAHREN: We’ve got Americans, law-abiding Americans, decent hard-working Americans, who have been going to work for two years during a pandemic, dealing with health risks, safety risks and doing it because they needed to do their job to put food on table for their families. Those decent, law-abiding, hardworking Americans, are now being treated …

Media Matters reports: After an anti-vaccine mob attempted to storm into the Barclays Center basketball arena in New York over the weekend in support of benched Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving for his refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccines, Fox News gave the story positive coverage Monday morning — despite the obvious fact that such militant defiance of pandemic health …

“The situation for me being immuno compromised, half the cases we’re hearing on the breakthrough front are among the immuno compromised, people like me who had and have multiple sclerosis or prior heart situations or cancer. “There are many like that all around us, and mine is not secret at Fox. But there are plenty of people around around you, …

“I, as a 36-year-old woman with no underlying conditions, have a 97.99 percent chance of survival against COVID. So I was on the fence because it didn’t make sense to get vaccinated for a virus that is not a threat to my life, nor one that I fear. “But now, I’m doubling down as a giant middle finger to Joe …

Media Matters has the transcript: REP. ERIC SWALWELL (GUEST): We receive hundreds of threats. What was specific about this was the caller identified he had just been watching Tucker Carlson. Now, we get a lot of threats that come in as Tucker Carlson attacks me, but this person identified he had just heard from Tucker Carlson. He was now calling …

“There’s one other thing that we haven’t mentioned here, that was a part of that, which is when these wind turbines — when the blades end their life, their useful life — when they go into a land fill, they do not disintegrate. “You cannot recycle them. They will be there forever. So, I think that there’s just a misunderstanding …