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“The thing in New York was you had very low-income people in very tight quarters that are touching a lot of handles and doorknobs. They weren’t working. They were unemployed. They were going out, maybe not using masks. “You don’t know if they were practicing hygiene and social distancing. It’s hard to practice social distancing in some of these homes …

Talking Points Memo reports: Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth encouraged healthy Americans to “have some courage” and defy social distancing orders in order to get sick with COVID-19. “Herd immunity is our friend,” Hegseth said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” Thursday. He was referring to the phenomenon in which a sufficient number of people are immune from a disease such that …

“We have to remember four things, the heroism of a country, the surreal nature of the lockdown, the sacrifice of an economy that destroys the stereotype of greedy capitalism. And we have to remember those who have no skin in this game who love to play politics and assign blame as a sport. “They were wasting our time when time …

“Although intuitively I think it probably seemed like social distancing would be necessary, there was no real scientific basis for believing that, since it had never been studied. “And as one infectious disease doc told me last week, trying to stop this virus with social distancing is like trying to drive a nail through Jell-O. “Viruses spread, that’s what they …

“Last month, Christians across the country were legally prohibited from celebrating Easter in their own churches. The national media barely noted it. How exactly is this happening? Well, it turns out, that’s not clear. Strangely, not very many people have asked. “Politicians have no right to do any of this. They cannot make it illegal for people to go to …

“They’ll say this whole mask thing is ‘settled science’ just like they do with climate change, of course it is not and they know it. Our own experts have gone from masks aren’t necessary to masks are essential and you have to wear them when you go jogging in just a few weeks time. “Now Rush Limbaugh made a great …

The Daily Beast reports: Over the past month, as Fox News personality Sean Hannity seethed over his—and his network’s—treatment in The New York Times, one of the host’s closest friends quietly encouraged him to exact some revenge on the newspaper for reporting that Hannity had downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. This particular friend was none other than President Donald …

The Hill report: Fox News announced Wednesday it will host a virtual town hall with President Trump on Sunday night focusing on COVID-19 and the reopening of the U.S. economy. The program, “America Together: Returning to Work,” will be co-moderated by “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” anchor Martha MacCallum. It will be broadcast live from the Lincoln …

Two week ago the New York Times published a piece about a Brooklyn bar owner who died after taking a cruise, because, his family says, Sean Hannity had convinced him that the pandemic was under control. As I reported that week, Hannity went ballistic, demanding a retraction and threatening to sue. Which brings us to today: The New York Times …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News has cut ties with MAGA vlogging superstars Diamond & Silk, who had contributed original content to the network’s streaming service Fox Nation since shortly after its late 2018 launch. The sudden split comes after the Trump-boosting siblings have come under fire for promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus. “After what they’ve said …

“Was it off-the-cuff? Maybe, doesn’t matter. Was it sarcasm? Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t matter. What matters is that anyone actually believes that he was saying you should inject Clorox into people. “I mean, one thousand days with Trump plus as president and we still have an entire industry mobilized by an offhand comment. How can any adult believe seriously believe …

“Well, the jackals at Media Matters thought they had their prey trapped, and now, journalism is such a joke that even The Washington Post and tonight the New York Times reflexively joined the pig pile. It’s just pathetic. “Now, I’m not a doctor, I don’t play one on TV, but renowned French virologist Dr. Didier Raoult released his own study …

“I think at this point there is so much data coming from so many places, we are better off waiting for the randomized trials Dr. Fauci has been asking for. We keep reacting back and forth for studies that show opposite results. “And a lot of it might have to do with when you get the medication. If you give …

“Comrade de Blasio, if President Trump didn’t bail your sorry unprepared ass out, guess what? Many more New Yorkers in your city would’ve died, many more would have been infected, many more would’ve been hospitalized then nobody would’ve had a ventilator. “Instead New York City, thanks to President Trump – you can thank him Mr. Mayor – is seeing, thankfully, …

“By addressing half of the American people and crafting everything they do, or say, opinion or news, for that half of the American people, they do a grave disservice. “The unrest that you see now, the populist unrest is a direct result of that dissembling, that lying, that partisan reportage. “They are not doing the job of communicating to the …

Newsweek reports: In his first television appearance since the lifting of a 16-month-long gag order, former Trump adviser Roger Stone told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Friday that if he went to prison, it would be a “death sentence.” Stone was convicted in 2019 for obstructing a congressional investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Throughout the trial, …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): On the question of a vaccine, we don’t have a vaccine for SARS. I mean, they got close in mice. We don’t have a vaccine for HIV, and life did go on, right? So, the idea that we are definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn’t really approach much else in …

The Wrap reports: TV show host Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw appeared to downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday’s episode of “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News, rattling off a series of statistics with at least one glaring error — the number of people who die in swimming pools every year. “But look, the fact that the matter …

USA Today reports: Dr. Mehmet Oz says he “misspoke” making controversial comments where he advocated the opening of the nations schools despite the trade-off of an increase in the total mortality rate. In a video posted on Twitter Thursday, Oz said he realized “my comments on risks around opening schools have confused and upset people, which was never my intention. …

“The numbers related to drug overdose death are right out of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The numbers relating to the length between unemployment and suicide come right out of the very prestigious medical journal Lancet. So, instead of relying on theoretical models, as we are to predict coronavirus deaths, we are relying on actual historical facts to predict …