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The Guardian reports: Fox News has named the primetime hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity among witnesses it intends to make available at trial as it defends a $1.6bn defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, over the broadcast of Donald Trump’s lie about election fraud in his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden. In a Tuesday letter to the Delaware judge …

“There are people going to be popping champagne corks and they’re going to be giddy and they’re going to be happy. And they don’t care how frivolous the charge is. “They don’t care about the double standard that exists in our justice system or a dual justice system or unequal justice under the law, a lack of equal application of …

The Insider reports: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says Russia should be “held accountable” for the destruction of a US military drone. Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Graham said the US should gun down Russian planes in retaliation. “If you ever get near another US asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down,” …

Deadline reports: A huge release of partially redacted text messages, emails and deposition transcripts that dropped Tuesday in the Dominion vs. Fox litigation sheds further light on the scramble among Fox News personalities and Fox Corp. executives. In one email that Rupert Murdoch sent to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott on Jan. 21, 2021, he wrote, “Big morning with …

Media Matters has the transcript: I think the Democrats have determined that Republicans won’t stick together. And if they don’t, they’ll be able to raise the debt ceiling and concede nothing to the Republican Party in terms of fiscal discipline or whatever united you would want. I take a different position. I actually think Kevin McCarthy and 221 of your …

“Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene made waves over the holiday weekend with this tweet calling for a national divorce. After facing backlash from Democrats and some Republicans, Greene followed up with a detailed thread explaining why she thinks this is a good idea. Greene is saying that a national divorce would empower individual states to form a smaller government, reduce …

The Daily Beast reports: Included in the explosive brief that Dominion’s lawyers recently filed in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News is the revelation that the network’s stars conspired to get one of their own colleagues fired. Why? Because she had the temerity to fact-check then-President Donald Trump’s election fraud lies. Days after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I don’t wanna America in these long, protracted conflicts, Bill. BILL O’REILLY (GUEST): Well, neither do I, because — you got to be careful with this. Because you’ve got an unstable dictator with nuclear weapons. You’ve got to be careful with this. HANNITY: How do — how do you be careful, Bill? …

“You can be fully vaccinated, fully boosted, have all the booster — booster 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. You can have natural immunity but you can still catch COVID. You can still get it and get sick. You can still transmit the virus to others. That’s what the science tells us. “Look at the recent findings that show that …

Media Matters has the transcript: Let’s talk about a moment — maybe it comes sooner, maybe it comes later — on the debt ceiling. And you know how the argument will unfold. It’ll be “Republicans are shutting down government.” I’ve been around this game too long. Government never shuts down. Essential services will exist. Grandma, mom and dad, they’re going …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Sean Hannity repeatedly pressed Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Col.) about her efforts to block Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid to claim the Speakership this week during a tense interview on his nightly program on Wednesday. “Isn’t it time for you and your side to pack it in considering he [McCarthy] has over 200 [votes] and …

The Daily Beast reports: In a just-released deposition surrounding Dominion’s defamation lawsuit, the Fox News star said he’d never believed—not “for one second”—baseless election fraud claims stemming from the 2020 election. That stance, directly at odds with many of his primetime segments and the beliefs of many of his closest allies, has put Hannity in an awkward position. Among the …

Media Matters has the transcript: There’s a reason that I was right on Ferguson, a reason I was right on Freddie Gray in Baltimore, UVA, Duke Lacrosse, down in Florida the Trayvon Martin case, George Zimmerman case, a reason that I was right on Richard Jewell. In every one of these instances, I don’t rush to judgment. But when you …

The Hill reports: “Here’s what happened to us: Election Day, our voters didn’t show up, we didn’t get enough voters. It was a complete disappointment,” Sen. Rick Scott told Fox News host Sean Hannity during his primetime show. Hannity asked Scott: “Where did all this pie in the sky talk about a wave and a tsunami election come from? Because …

The Daily Beast reports: “RED TSUNAMI COMING?” Hannity posted on Friday night, hyping the “latest polling” from polling firm Trafalgar. “Is a red tsunami on the way?” The night after the election, which saw Republicans wildly underperform expectations, the conservative primetime host played dumb, telling viewers he can’t seem to figure out the origin of the notion that the GOP …

“Now we’re learning Pennsylvania election officials, the acting secretary of the Commonwealth, is now saying that because of state laws restricting when mail-in ballots can begin to be counted, official results for pivotal races for the US Senate and Governors’ mansion may not be available for days. For days? I never trust that. I’m telling Oz and Mastriano — if …

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) bestowed a freedom-themed award to Fox News host Sean Hannity during his program on Thursday. Hannity was speaking with Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) when he noticed a red box that Scott had brought out to the stage. Scott, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he had created …

“I was watching Special Report earlier and I noticed that another woman has come forward and made an allegation, and not one bit of evidence was presented that you were involved in any way in an abortion. The only evidence presented is you might have dated some girl that Gloria Allred is representing, and you deny it completely.” – Sean …

“As a US Senator, based on the Dobbs decision, you will have no say on that issue at all whatsoever. But they’ve they’ve tried to drag you, you know, into that discussion. “Your personal beliefs are your personal beliefs, but it’s going to be the people of every state that will decide through their locally elected representatives, the state representatives, …

Mediaite reports: Sean Hannity complained about how many times Donald Trump has been legally scrutinized by curiously listing all of the reasons why the former president has been investigated by the authorities. The Fox News opinion host led his Monday night show by railing against Democrats “trying to dehumanize and vilify” Trump’s supporters as a threat to democracy. Hannity also …