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“On Memorial Day weekend, a man called George Floyd died in police custody in Minnesota. That’s where this outbreak first began. Minneapolis was our Wuhan. The first cases appeared a little over a month ago. Here’s the state of the pandemic now. “What does Christopher Columbus have to do with George Floyd? Christopher Columbus was not a Minneapolis police officer, …

Variety reports: Fox News Channel said it had terminated veteran anchor Ed Henry after investigating a complaint about “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace.” Henry, a longtime Washington correspondent who was recently made co-anchor of the Fox Corp.-owned network’s mid-morning program “America’s Newsroom,” was let go quickly after the network received a complaint on June 25 from a former employee, …

Mediaite reports: Laura Ingraham attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci over his Congressional testimony on Tuesday, where he warned the nation’s lawmakers about the ongoing risk from the alarming spike in coronavirus cases. His statements, the Fox News host essentially claimed, were tantamount to a political betrayal of President Donald Trump. “Dr. Doom himself at a senate hearing today spreading more Covid …

“Joe Biden, Is he really fit to serve as the commander in chief? They asked this question in 1984 about Ronald Reagan, but does Joe Biden have the mental alertness? Does he have the stamina? Does he have the strength to take on what is the hardest job in the world? “And by the way what’s going to happen when …

“This is a great example of media being factual without being accurate. Not that it’s a tweet that he should have tweeted or put up. It appeared to show someone sarcastically responding to someone accusing him of holding these — this individual of holding these views — by sarcastically saying he did. “And this is something where this is a …

Media Matters reports: On June 26, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy commented that “125,000 Americans have died so far” of COVID-19. However, most discussion of the “jaw-dropping” number was a setup to mock Joe Biden for accidentally saying that “over 120 million” have died, even though co-host Ainsley Earhardt also clarified (once) that Biden “corrected himself immediately.” According to …

“The core appeal of Trump was if things ever started to fall apart, he would defend you. Yes, he was loud and crude. Most bodyguards are. Only a man like Donald Trump was tough enough to fight the creeping authoritarianism of the education cartel and corporate America. “If Trump got elected, you could say what you really believe. The basic …

“I’ll sum up the responses from the Biden campaign as blah, blah, blah, blah. Ultimately, what you’ve got is, remember when he said that you’re going to get so tired of winning — we’re going to win so much that you’re going to be tired of winning, right, and you’re going to say ‘Stop winning I don’t want to win …

Just in via email: Pressure continues to mount on Tucker Carlson as Media Matters-ANTIFA with 501(c)(3) status- doubles down on its crusade against Tucker Carlson Tonight‘s advertisers. Is Media Matters deciding who you watch? Media Matters attacks Tucker’s advertisers because they don’t have a rebuttal to his arguments. They would rather shut Carlson down than debate him. And it looks …

“Cops in Atlanta know exactly what’s going on, and what’s likely to happen next. There are reports tonight that many of them have walked off the job at the beginning of their shift. No doubt many will retire from the force and leave. The police chief has already quit. “Who would want to enforce the law in a political environment …

The Hollywood Reporter reports: Tucker Carlson doesn’t have an obligation to investigate the truth of statements before making them on his show and his audience doesn’t expect him to report facts, a lawyer for Fox News told a New York federal judge on Wednesday. The network is facing a slander lawsuit from Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who made …

Talking Points Memo reports: Tucker Carlson opened his program with news of the right-leaning pollster Rasmussen’s latest report that shows 62 percent of “likely” U.S. voters view BLM favorably while President Donald Trump’s approval rating trails behind at 43 percent. “Here’s some bracing news we never expected to report: Black Lives Matter is now more popular than the President of …

Deadline reports: Fox News confused a social media post quoting a line from the film Monty Python & The Holy Grail with a report about in-fighting in the Seattle Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) On Friday, Fox’s Martha MacCallum reported on the network’s show The Story that there was evidence of problems between the leaders of the Seattle protest camp.The …

The Seattle Times reports: Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations. As part of a package of stories Friday about the zone, where demonstrators have taken over several city blocks on Capitol Hill after Seattle police …

Vanity Fair reports: On a Friday last August, Sean Hannity flew his private helicopter to Trump National Golf Course in Colts Neck, New Jersey, to attend the wedding of Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth and Fox producer Jennifer Rauchet. Inside Fox, the wedding had been a topic of much discussion. Hegseth and Rauchet reportedly had an affair and …

“We do think it’s worth, for a minute, taking a pause to assess whether or not they were in fact lying to us about the coronavirus and our response to it. And the short answer is this, yes, they were definitely lying. As a matter of public health, we can say conclusively the lockdowns were not necessary. “In fact, we …

Yahoo Entertainment reports: Disney and T-Mobile have pulled their advertising from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in light of his recent comments about the Black Lives Matter movement and the killing of George Floyd. Disney has instructed its third-party ad buyer to stop placing ads on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and that it was not previously aware its ads were running …

Newsweek reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has taken aim at an unlikely figure in a rant about the Black Lives Matter movement in his Tuesday night monologue⁠—Elmo. The anchor, 51, lashed out at the beloved Sesame Street character when discussing the controversy over his Monday night show, where he prompted backlash by saying the protests are “definitely not about black …

“This may be a lot of things, this moment we’re living through, but it is definitely not about black lives. And remember that when they come for you and at this rate, they will. “Anyone who has ever been subjected to the rage of the mob knows the feeling. It’s like being swarmed by hornets. You cannot think clearly. And …

Buzzfeed News reports: Fox News issued an apology after using a graphic on air that showed stock markets rising after the violent killing or beating of unarmed black men, such as the killing of George Floyd, and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. “The infographic used on FOX News Channel’s Special Report to illustrate market reactions to historic periods …