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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE KELLY: I think hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to die. That’s what I think. I talk about all this all the time on my shows, about all the woke garbage. Everybody has to have an LGBTQ flag. And let’s learn about how bad white people are and all this stuff now. But …

Mediaite reports: “Right after the Capitol Hill riots, Republicans came out loudly, forcefully, and genuinely condemned that violence,” said Dagen McDowell, while also saying there’s a disparity between how the justice system has treated Capitol rioters versus other types of looters. In response, co-host Jessica Tarlov said, “Just to push back on the January 6 insurrection there. There are still …

The New York Times reports: If you are a Tucker Carlson viewer, you may also be asking: How can the guy who tells you every night that the media is lying be texting with the enemy? The answer is one of Washington’s open secrets. Mr. Carlson, a proud traitor to the elite political class, spends his time when he’s not …

Salon reports: Fox News host Dan Bongino has returned to posting on Twitter after telling his supporters in January of this year that he would be leaving and never returning to the “anti-American” social platform after giving it up for Parler, the right-wing alternative where Bongino has claimed to be an investor. Bongino, a rising conservative media heavyweight, even told …

“Armed insurrection is what Nancy Pelosi keeps calling January 6th. How many guns were actually taken up on that day since she says it was armed? “I am so incredibly proud of this team on Sunday Morning Futures and of working alongside you. We have been telling every story. “We’ve been on the right side of it for seven years …

“We are hearing that we have more FBI resources applied to this than to anything else. That people are being rounded up all over the country and being charged in some cases with misdemeanors. We have SWAT teams that are being used to collect people and bring them back to Washington. “We’re hearing that they are in some of the …

“Mike Pence is not a traitor. Mike Pence served as not only as a member of Congress [during] which I served with him, one of the most conservative members. “He was the governor of Indiana. And he was the vice president, stood right by President Trump, helped him get through the tax reform, get those judges in. “Mike Pence deserves …

The Washington Post reports: The Fox News host was elevating a story written for the website Revolver by a former Trump administration official (later fired for links to white nationalists) arguing that “unindicted co-conspirators” referred to in Justice Department charging documents referred to government law enforcement agents. In other words, that the references implied a significant intertwining of FBI agents …

The Insider reports: In March, Gaetz appeared on Fox shows at least 19 times, according to an Insider review of Fox News clips, including those the congressman posted to his YouTube channel. In April, May, and so far in June? Not once. Gaetz has been ‘excommunicated within the Fox News circles,’ said a former Gaetz staffer who spoke to Insider …

Media Matters reports: Nearly a dozen of the Fox News guests the network has presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools also have day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities, according to a Media Matters review. Republican strategists have every right to advocate for their children …