Tag Archives: State TV

“Our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement. Previous leaders of our country committed sins — we must pay for those sins by welcoming an endless …

Newsweek reports: Fox News host and President Donald Trump superfan, Sean Hannity, was caught deleting past tweets that tied him to the president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, just hours before Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday. A “Screenshot Bot” Twitter account uncovered Hannity’s attempt to sever past ties with Cohen, who Trump recently referred to as “weak,” …

Media Matters reports: Harris Faulker and Melissa Francis, two of the co-hosts on Fox News’ Outnumbered, vehemently denied that President Donald Trump threatened to shut down the government unless he gets what he wants in negotiations with congressional leaders. Fellow co-host Marie Harf noted that during a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, …

“I’ll just say it, we’re losing the country, and it’s happening under Trump’s watch. Not good. You think it’s dangerous for you to shut the government down before Christmas, what’s dangerous is for this situation to keep going on our southern border. 158 million migrants want to move to the U.S., it’s the world’s top pick. Yeah of course, but …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Documentaries have flourished at the box office this year — but not Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, a critical examination of the infamous and hugely influential Fox News chief who was ultimately brought down by numerous allegations of sexual harassment. Magnolia Films, which acquired U.S. rights to the doc out of the Toronto …

Media Matters reports: Fox News host Pete Hegseth was paid roughly $10,000 by Republicans in Michigan to speak at a fundraising event with then-Senate candidate John James. Fox News then allowed Hegseth to repeatedly interview James and promote his candidacy on its network. Hegseth, a Republican who has said that he doesn’t consider himself a journalist, co-hosts Fox & Friends …

“When you think of the left today, are those the kind of people you want to hang around with? They are the biggest killjoys out there. Killjoys! They don’t want you to enjoy your life. They want you to listen to them, shut up, and sit down. Lecturing you, and haranguing you into what you should feel about the country, …

“It’s no accident that California became the country’s richest state. It was the land of limitless opportunity. Even if you never made millions there, you could live in what was, in effect, a middle class paradise. That’s not true anymore. According to the census, almost a fifth of Californians now live in poverty. That’s the highest percentage in the country. …

“I’m not against welfare entirely. In fact, my mother grew up at times on welfare. And she needed it and she grew up in a project in New Hampshire, believe it or not, we have those there. But there was shame in that. And I’m sure she’d be mortified if she even heard me saying this. Because I think to …

Mediaite reports: A Florida sheriff who appeared on Fox News this morning claimed — without evidence — that marijuana is both “killing people every day across the United States” and causing overdoses. After co-host Brian Kilmeade seethed about the supposed extreme addictiveness of weed — based on anecdotal evidence from his “friends” — the sheriff called use of the drug …

Gosh, didn’t Sarah Sanders just call for civility? The Hill reports: Kid Rock finished a monologue about respecting others on Fox and Friends Friday morning by making one exception, saying “I’d say screw that Joy Behar bitch.” “We can disagree and still be cordial with one another and just talk about things without going for each others throats and protesting …

Politico reports: Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s warnings of violent migrants making their way towards the U.S. were vindicated over the weekend by clashes at the Mexican border, even though no U.S. law enforcement officers were seriously injured amid efforts to block crowds of migrants attempting to cross the border into California. “Everything …

We already have a state network, but whatever. Deadline reports: Donald Trump, as we’ve known for 40 years, hates to cede the spotlight. So just as NASA was making an ultra-rare successful Mars landing that was carried live on some outlets, the president of the United States decided to float the idea of a state-run television network “to show the …

The Hill reports: Former U.S. Border Patrol deputy chief Ron Colburn early Monday defended the use of pepper spray to deter migrants attempting to enter the U.S. at the Mexican border, saying it is “natural” and “you could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.” “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy asked Colburn, who is now president of …

The Daily Beast reports: “Judge” Jeanine Pirro is the voice of law and order in President Donald Trump’s cable news echo chamber, making it particularly noteworthy that she has been flouting federal election rules for years. The lawyer-turned-Fox News host mounted an ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate in 2006, when she vied for the Republican nomination to challenge then-Sen. …

Mediaite reports: Conservatives might be concerned over immigrants breaching the southern border wall, but Fox News’ Tammy Bruce is worried about them scaling dump trucks. That was evident from Bruce’s Friday night broadcast, during which she pointed to footage of migrants climbing the bed of a truck and said “they’re climbing the wall right there.” “I don’t think they are …

Deadline reports: Fox News issued an on-air apology today after one of its guests compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to herpes during a broadcast. Anna Paulina, Turning Point USA’s director of Hispanic engagement, appeared along with political analyst Doug Schoen to discuss a favorite Fox News topic, Clinton’s deleted emails. Host Rick Leventhal made an offhand remark about …

“I think it’s the tone. You know, the very next day [after the election] the market was up. But since then, the tone of Democrats, who have declared war on President Trump, I think have been a real negative wave for the market. Particularly, I think Americans want to see legislation, not more investigations. You know, I don’t think they …

Mediaite reports: Citing a report by conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, Ainsley Earhardt noted that NBC and ABC spent zero seconds covering the caravan, while CBS dedicated a mere 21 seconds to a story Fox News has provided voluminous coverage. In the next breath, co-host Brian Kilmeade reported an update in the caravan story: that the U.S. military deployed …

Slate reports: Ingraham is so cartoonishly awful that her show has graduated from object to subject, and this week Kate McKinnon performed essentially an entire episode of The Ingraham Angle, complete with an opening editorial monologue, a segment with Jeanine Pirro, and interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, Marcia Fudge, and “the self-proclaimed ‘Vape God,’ ” Tom Scibelli. The highlight is the …