Tag Archives: hypocrisy

Newsmax To Launch Vaccine Mandate For Employees

Mediaite reports: A vaccine mandate is coming to Newsmax. The conservative news network informed staffers of the move on Thursday, in a staff-wide email obtained by Mediaite. Newsmax cited the implementation of Covid rules by Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) as its reason for instituting the mandate. The company decree requires all employees be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4, …

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Fox Shareholders Meeting To Require Vax And Masks

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 …

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Hannity: It’s Not My Calling To Quit Over Fox Mandate

“These are all self inflicted disasters. It’s not a high class problem, it’s an all American problem. Afghanistan was a disaster you caused. “The border is a disaster they caused. The COVID disaster? They’re causing it. And if you think the economy disaster is bad now with talk of inflation, stagflation, you know you think the supply chain crisis is …

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Fox Hosts Acknowledge Own Network Has Strict Vax Policy, Attack Mandates Elsewhere, Celebrate Refusers

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY: Right, I mean, our company — like a lot of companies have vaccine requirements — we either had to have gotten the shots, or get tested every day. And when we’re in common areas, everybody needs to wear a mask. There are a lot of companies coast to coast, I was just looking …

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Chris Hayes Mocks Dan Bongino’s “Tough Guy Routine”

“Now, I should tell you, that guy threatening to quit over a vaccine mandate is in fact fully vaccinated. And a part of me wants to give him credit for sticking to his principles and at the very least calling out his employer over its vaccine policy. “Something that as we have noted repeatedly people like Tucker Carlson don’t have …

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GOP Hypocrites Launch “Spending Spree” Attack Ads

The Washington Post reports: A Republican group with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will launch a new front Wednesday in the ad wars over the Democratic domestic policy bill, opening a $10 million ad campaign targeting three vulnerable senators. One Nation, the issue advocacy arm of the Senate Leadership Fund, plans to air television, radio and digital …

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McConnell Vows To Block Next Debt Ceiling Vote

The Washington Post reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday vowed that Republicans will not offer any more assistance to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. In a letter sent to President Biden, McConnell made clear he would be willing to allow the United States to default on its national debt rather than work with Democrats. The letter came …

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Hannity: You Can’t Call Yourself A Republican If You Support Raising Debt Ceiling (Raised 3X Under Trump)

“The Democrats own the House and the Senate and the White House. No Republican should be a part — they’re not going to let you in on the negotiations. This is a partisan spending bill, the likes of which this country has never seen. You cannot call yourself a conservative or even a Republican and work in conjunction with the …

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Boris Johnson Admits To Having Six Children [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports: Boris Johnson has admitted for the first time that he has six children, claiming in an interview on US television that he “changes a lot of nappies”. The prime minister has previously tended to avoid questions about his notoriously complex family life. He has been divorced twice, and conceived a daughter during an extramarital relationship. But when …

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WH Praises Fox News For Its Strict Vaccine Mandate

CNN’s Oliver Darcy reports: In effect, Fox has adopted a more stringent version of the vaccine and testing mandate President Biden announced last week — the mandate that the company’s loudest voices have trashed and deemed to be nonsensical and “authoritarian.” While Biden pushed a vaccination or weekly testing requirement, Fox is saying it will implement a vaccination or daily …

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MANDATEY: Fox Says 90% Of Staff Now Fully Vaxxed

The Hill reports: An overwhelming majority of full-time employees at Fox Corporation said they’re been fully vaccinated, according a human resources executive said in a memo on Tuesday. According to Kevin Lord, senior vice president of Fox Corp. human resources, 90 percent of full-time employees are fully vaccinated. “Following our request for employees to upload their vaccination status in our …

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Anti-Gay Bishop Quits To Be With Satanic Erotica Writer

The BBC reports: When Spanish bishop Xavier Novell resigned last month, the Roman Catholic Church cited strictly personal reasons without going into detail. It has now emerged in Spanish media that he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged erotic fiction. In 2010 at the age of 41, he became Spain’s youngest bishop, in Solsona in the north-eastern …

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Trump Sells $45 “Everything Woke Turns To Shit” Shirts (Last Year He Was Selling “Woke” Hats To Black Voters)

Real Clear Politics reports: Former President Donald Trump called being woke a “shortcut to losing everything we have” at a rally in Cullman, Alabama on Saturday. “Do you think that General Patton was woke?” Trump asked the audience. “I don’t think he was too woke. I think he was the exact opposite.” “You know what woke means? It means you’re …

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Anti-Mask NY Post Requires Employees To Be Masked

CNN Business reports: The New York Post, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid that has peddled a high volume of anti-mask rhetoric during the pandemic, informed employees this month that they are required to wear a mask while at the office, according to a memo obtained by CNN Business. The New York Post’s mask mandate is the latest example of the brazen …

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Matt Gaetz Volunteers His Parents’ Vaccination Status After Attacking The Press For Asking About His Own

Newsweek reports: Controversial Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz said via his new podcast that in some cases his parents getting vaccinated against COVID-19 “makes sense,” and for his parents, it was the “smart decision.” “You know, there are people like my own parents,” he continued, “who, for them, they’re a little older, they’ve got other complicated medical conditions. And it was …

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Man Who Voted Against Bipartisan Riot Commission Attacks Pelosi Over Members Of “Sham Commission”

Newsweek reports: Ted Cruz has hit out at Nancy Pelosi and branded the January 6 commission a “sham” in a Twitter attack. The firebrand Republican Senator called out the Democrat House Speaker as she prepares a panel to examine the cause of the riot at the U.S. Capitol and how to avoid repeat scenes. Sen. Cruz said in the tweet, …

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Fox News Host Who Parroted Trump’s COVID Lies: Since When Do We Take Healthcare Advice From A President?

“Now that vaccines are open to everyone and information expertise are everywhere, why does it matter how many COVID cases we have in this country? “Now that we all have a choice in how to handle our personal health including vaccines, distancing, masks, why do we need the president of the United States and Facebook to shut us down and …

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Fox Quietly Institutes Internal Vax Passport For Staff

CNN Business reports: Tucker Carlson has called the idea of vaccine passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” laws. And other Fox News personalities have spent months both trafficking in anti-vaccine rhetoric and assailing the concept of showing proof of vaccination status. But Fox Corporation, the right-wing talk channel’s parent company, has quietly implemented the concept of a vaccine passport …

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DeSantis Tells Cuba Protesters To Stop Blocking Roads

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis said he supports demonstrators showing support for the protests in Cuba, but he does not support those demonstrators blocking major South Florida thoroughfares. Demonstrators supporting the protests in Cuba marched to Miami’s Palmetto Expressway Tuesday, where several of them sat down in the roadway. Traffic was eventually blocked in both directions. “We can’t have …

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DeSantis Dodges On FL Law Legalizing Running Over Protesters After Highway Blocked In Cuban Solidarity

The Associated Press reports: Demonstrators expressing solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who waged a rare weekend of protests around their island nation shut down a stretch of a major South Florida expressway Tuesday. The large group gathered at a busy Miami intersection chanting support for the Cubans, who had taken to the streets of several communities around the communist …

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