Tag Archives: Fox News

Tucker Carlson Calls Capitol Rioters “Political Prisoners”

“I mean, if you are holding people in solitary confinement in DC jails for non-violent crimes at some point they become political prisoners. I try not to use that phrase, you know you don’t want to hype anything or sensationalize. But, at what point does it become a political prosecution?” – Tucker Carlson, comparing Joe Biden to Putin in a …

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Fox Host: If You Tell People They Can’t Be On Facebook, Their Only Resort Is Insurrection At The Capitol [VIDEO]

Media Matters has the transcript: MARK STEYN (HOST): Well, to go back to where we came in at the top of the hour, Douglas, if they don’t like people wandering into the United States Capitol and putting their impertinent feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk, the best solution to that is a culture of free speech. If you tell people …

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Kirk: University Vax Mandates Are “Medical Apartheid”

“At Turning Point USA we are going to give everything we have to make sure that students are not going to have to live in a medical apartheid because they don’t want to get the vaccine. It’s almost this apartheid-style open-air hostage situation, like you can have your freedom back if you get the jab. This is unacceptable, we’re going …

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Carlson Claims NSA Leaked His Emails To Journalists

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday claimed the National Security Agency (NSA) leaked some of his private emails to journalists. Carlson made the allegation during a Wednesday morning appearance on Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria.” “Yesterday, I learned that — and this is going to come out soon — that the NSA leaked the contents of …

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Fox News Host Ridicules Concerns Over COVID Variants

Media Matters has the transcript: MARK STEYN (GUEST HOST): The mask mandates are lifting and you can now visit granny without getting arrested, but new waves, new waves could hit any moment. It’s not just cov-zilla, but all her maligned spawn who are coming to get you. The World Health Organization is now warning of the unusual mutations of the …

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Tucker Carlson Backs Call For Cameras In Classrooms

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson suggested on Tuesday night that cameras be put in classrooms to “oversee the people teaching your children.” “The overwhelming majority of Americans — and pollsters have found this pretty clearly — think this is insane,” Carlson said. “They think you should judge people by what they do, not on the basis of their skin …

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Famous Liar: All Founding Fathers Opposed Slavery

Media Matters reports: Fox’s Kayleigh McEnany, a liar who served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, lied about slavery and the founders of the United States during Tuesday’s Outnumbered. “The haters never take a day off from hating, that is clear. And they never take a day off from getting the facts wrong. We know most …

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Giuliani Hit With Subpoena In Dominion’s Fox Lawsuit

Bloomberg News reports: Rudy Giuliani, already being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. over his debunked election-conspiracy claims, has been issued a subpoena in a similar lawsuit the company filed against Fox News Network. The former New York mayor and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer was asked to hand over all documents stemming from his appearances on Fox starting …

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Politico: Carlson Tells Fox Guests He Voted For Kanye

Politico reports: He’s one of Donald Trump’s most vociferous backers. But Tucker Carlson has told multiple people that he voted for pop star Kanye West last year instead. Shortly after the presidential election, the Fox News host started telling some program guests that he had cast his ballot for West, according to two people familiar with those conversations. Given Carlson’s …

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Fired Fox Host And Network Trade Ugly Barbs In Lawsuit

The Hill reports: Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry is suing the network for defamation for statements the company made when they fired him over allegations of sexual misconduct. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., seeks punitive damages and accuses top brass at Fox News of issuing a statement that “sandbagged” Henry in July of 2020. …

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Gaetz Demands Probe Into Carlson’s “Spying” Claims

Mediaite reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz asked an Inspector General to investigate claims made by Fox News Tucker Carlson that the National Security Agency is spying upon him in an attempt to take him off the air. “The most-watched cable news host has been stating for the last several nights that the NSA has been monitoring his communications,” Gaetz stated, “And …

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NSA Rebukes Carlson’s Spying Claim In Twitter Post

Deadline reports: The National Security Agency has given Tucker Carlson a lesson in spycraft and fake news. One which looks certain to crank up the volume in the now war of words, real and imagined. In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host’s recent self-described “shocking claim” that he and his prime time …

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Fox To Pay $1M Fine In NYC Human Rights Law Case

Yahoo News reports: Despite Fox News’ claims to have repaired the company’s toxic workplace culture since the firing of founder and chairman Roger Ailes in July 2016, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has effectively admitted to ongoing misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for what New York City’s …

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Carlson Claims Biden Admin Is Spying On Him [Video]

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday alleged that the Biden administration was “spying” on him in an effort to “take this show off the air.” The television personality said that the “war on terror is now being waged against American citizens.” The host went on to say that his show had heard from a “whistleblower from …

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Carlson: Biden Plans To Abolish The Suburbs [Video]

Media Matters has the transcript: The Biden administration is in no mood for negotiation with suburban homeowners — screw them, with their decent schools and crime-free streets, living in their little 1950s America. According to the principles of equity, those people must be bigots, by definition. They’re living better than people who live in densely populated cities are living, therefore …

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Carlson Calls Top Pentagon General A Racist [VIDEO]

“White rage is not a medical condition, it’s not even a legitimate academic theory. It doesn’t exist. ‘White rage’ is a racial attack. “So here, you have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a congressional hearing leveling a race attack against American citizens, the guy who’s supposed to be protecting our country. “That is disgraceful, it’s disqualifying, …

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Fox News Host Roasts “Leaker” Tucker Carlson [AUDIO]

Mediaite reports: Fox host Mark Levin called out his colleague, Tucker Carlson for leaking unflattering stories against conservatives. Speaking Thursday night on his radio show (in a clip flagged by the progressive watchdog group Media Matters), Levin — without mentioning his cohort by name — addressed the revelation brought to light by Ben Smith of The New York Times earlier …

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Convicted Rioter Gets Sympathy From Laura Ingraham

Fox News reports: An Indiana grandmother told “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday that her life has been turned upside down amid a report her court-appointed public defender coaxed her into drafting a written admission of White “guilt”, as she became the first suspect in the January 6 Capitol riot to be sentenced. Anna Morgan-Lloyd of Bloomfield was convicted of one …

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Carlson Calls Top US General A “Stupid Pig” [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson slung mud at Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, on Thursday evening, calling him “a pig” and “stupid” after the Army general defended the teaching of critical race theory in the military a day earlier. “Mark Milley is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” the conservative personality …

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Ingraham Calls For Defunding The Military: They Want To “Weed Out Extremist Conservative Evangelicals”

“Somehow I don’t think General Milley would ever speak in this dismissive tone that he took today to his Chinese counterparts. Not the way he spoke to Congressman Waltz. “I have a question for the General: Why would anyone risk his or her life for a country that’s systemically racist? One that brutalizes minorities. Why would any country respect us …

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