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CNN reports: Tucker Carlson sowed doubt about the coronavirus vaccine on his highly rated prime time program Thursday, spotlighting a small handful of people who have had allergic reactions to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and telling his audience they should be skittish about the campaign from public health experts to encourage people to get vaccinated. “So, how are the rest of …

“You walk around in your daily life, how do people treat masks? They don’t treat so much as a protective mechanism. “They treat it as a virtue signal that they’re better, more scientific minded, smarter than you. “This is running rampant, and it really is the dividing line in our society now — the elites versus everyone else they view …

“You should be furious with the United States Supreme Court that had as its duty, as its sworn responsibility, every single member, to insist the states comply with the federal Constitution. “They had a case, a case before a single vote was counted, they had a case, and they didn’t take it up. It’s still sitting there today, as I …

The Wrap reports: Fox News announced Wednesday that Laura Ingraham has signed a new multiyear deal to continue hosting her primetime show, “The Ingraham Angle.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the contract extension comes as no surprise. According to the network, Ingraham’s show is the most-watched 10 p.m. ET host in cable news history. “With so many …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is going in for the kill shot against his one-time favorite network. In a Wednesday morning tweet, the president bashed Fox News — going so far as to pronounce its demise. The tweet is the latest example of Trump trying to siphon away viewers from Fox, and push them towards fringe, far-right outlets such as …

CNBC reports: Smartmatic in a press release said its letters to Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network make clear that the company “is reserving all its legal rights and remedies, including its right to pursue defamation and disparagement claims.” The legal notice to Fox, shared with CNBC, accuses the news outlet of engaging “in a concerted disinformation campaign …

“Challenging election results, as we await today’s Electoral College decision, an intel source telling me that President Trump did in fact win the election. “Following that rejection of the Texas lawsuit, the president still maintains that the race is not over. “And I spoke with one source high up in the intel community, and he said this, Alan, he said, …

The Hill reports: A Fox News poll released Friday found mixed reviews about President Trump’s job performance over the last few years, with a majority ultimately saying they thought the United States was worse off now than it was four years ago. Fifty-five percent of voters in the the poll said they believe the U.S. is worse off now than …

“Let me make one thing clear, there are 83 plus percent of Republicans now in the country, almost 30 percent of Democrats that don’t trust the results of the election. “77 percent according to the Quinnipiac poll came out yesterday. After what we have all now watched unfold over the last month, how does anybody trust the election results? “Now, …

The Washington Post reports: Behind the scenes, Trump has told others that pitting Newsmax and OAN against Fox News puts pressure on the larger network to cover him more favorably. He has also expressed concern in public and private about Fox News’s coverage in the final months of the campaign. Trump’s advisers, who largely overlooked both Newsmax and OAN in …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Harris Faulkner snapped at network contributor Marie Harf after she called out Outnumbered for not talking more about how the coronavirus is still killing people at a record-breaking pace. Harf lamented that the show was mostly over by that point, and no one had brought up the fact that the United States just reached a grim …

“So how exactly are election related videos causing harm? Well, YouTube doesn’t explain that. “They would cause harm to YouTube’s reputation and Google’s reputation, much deserved. We need to break this company up like immediately. “But YouTube does go on to boast that its censorship campaign has already been underway for some time: ‘Since September, we’ve terminated over 8,000 channels.’ …

Mediaite reports: The poll found that only 51 percent of participants say the election was conducted fairly, with 72 percent of Republicans saying it was unfair to them. When cross-referenced with the Fox News viewership among participants, who were frequent network viewers, 11 percent think it was fair, and 76 percent say it wasn’t fair to Republicans. In terms of …

Mediaite reports: Lara Trump continued to cling to false hope and push conspiracy theories to claim on Fox News’ Hannity that President-elect Joe Biden won’t be sworn in to replace he father-in-law in the White House on January 20th. “The fact that we are here in December and we’re having to point these things out is mind-boggling,” Trump said. Citing …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Doctor, on the issue of the vaccine, tonight, Anthony Fauci, on this network, actually said that 75 percent of Americans are going to have to get vaccinated to reach what they call “herd immunity”. Do you — do you buy that? DR. SUCHARIT BHAKDI (GUEST): What utter nonsense. I know that Dr. …

Media Matters reports: On the December 3 edition of his Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs will interview disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn. On Monday, Flynn tweeted a call for President Donald Trump to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution until a new election is held. Calls for Trump to fascistically overthrow the will of the American people …

“In an unprecedented election in American history, with the highest percentage of mail-in balloting we have ever seen, it’s hard to believe this would add up to the most secure in American history. “It is absolutely unprecedented, what happened in this election. Now, does that add up to the amount of election fraud to change an election? Does that add …

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump has called Fox News “unwatchable” and urged his followers to watch more conservative outlets as his relationship with the network grows increasingly tense in the aftermath of the election. The tweet came hours before Trump was scheduled to appear in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo later Sunday in his first interview …

“I know that many of you want me to continue denying the results of the election, continue cheerleading for the fight against the result, the Biden victory, I can’t do that. There is no realistic prospect that any legal challenge will overturn the results of the election. Election 2020 is over. We lost.” – Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera, in …

Deadline reports: More than three years after Fox News Channel retracted its story that a political conspiracy was behind the fatal shooting of Seth Rich, the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet has settled its legal battle with the DNC staffer’s family. “IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Plaintiffs Joel and Mary Rich and Defendants Fox News Network, LLC, Malia Zimmerman, …