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Kellyanne Conway is claiming that she’s actually called for Trump to stop attacking the press as enemies of the people. Conway appeared on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday, one day after a gunman killed five people at the offices of The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. Ingraham asked Conway if the president is “reconsidering his language” toward …

“You know imagine you go to work and this is what you’re dealing with today, some crazy person comes in — and I’m not turning this into a gun debate, I know that’s where the media will be in 30 seconds from now. That’s not it. You know, as I’ve always said, I mean honestly — I’ve been saying now …

Politico reports: Amid growing backlash against inflammatory statements by Fox News commentators, network CEO Suzanne Scott summoned top show producers to a meeting last week and delivered a clear message: They need to be in control of their hosts and panelists. Scott told the producers that they would be held accountable for anything said on their air, and that it …

The New York Times reports: Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who was close to Roger E. Ailes, the network’s ousted chairman, is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director, according to two people familiar with the decision. Mr. Shine, who was forced out as co-president at Fox last May for his handling of sexual …

Buzzfeed News reports: Donald Trump’s reported use of unsecure cell phones has been cause for serious alarm within the intelligence community, but it’s also raised red flags at another institution in frequent contact with the president: Fox News. Top hosts at the cable news network, like Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, are known to communicate regularly with Trump (New York …

“The thing that I think is the biggest joke that we’re not addressing, it wasn’t President Trump’s idea to have everyone leave from Central and South America in June and well up at the border. Somebody has to deal with this issue. It doesn’t matter who the president is. If you don’t like his policy, he’s also open to your …

Human being impersonator and Trump ballwasher Corey Lewandowski tonight ridiculed the report of a 10-year old migrant girl with Down Syndrome who has been separated from her parents. As Democratic strategist Zac Petkanas related the story, Lewandowski rolled his eyes and interrupted with a mocking, “Womp, womp.” Petkanas, unsurprisingly, erupted in outrage and repeatedly shouted, “How dare you? How very …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday described the child detention facilities housing immigrant youth as “essentially summer camps.” Ingraham’s comments come amid growing outcry over the Trump administration’s policy to prosecute migrants crossing the border illegally, leading to thousands of children being separated from their parents and housed in what the government is calling “tent cities.” …

“I think the administration is motivated by the president’s skills at negotiating. And I think he’s trying to use children to turn up the heat on the negotiations. In my opinion, it is child abuse to separate children from their parents unless it’s necessary to save a human life. That’s not the case here. There’s a federal statute that says …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump says the Justice Department watchdog report on the Clinton email probe shows the FBI was biased against him “at the top level” and was “plotting against my election.” Trump is giving an impromptu interview with Steve Doocy of “Fox & Friends” on the North Lawn of the White House Friday. He says of …

Mediaite reports: The attack on the White House press corps continued Thursday night on Fox Business when host Lou Dobbs suggested that the White House should assign someone with the specific job of slapping reporters. Dobbs first called Thursday’s briefing a “shameful spectacle of grandstanding and childish temper tantrums.” Referring to White House reporter and CNN contributor Brian Karem, Dobbs …

Glorious Leader is really enjoyed this morning’s “executive time” with his favorite propaganda outlet, which has been wall-to-wall manufactured outrage about yesterday’s release of the inspector general’s report. Reports have suggested that Trump is rarely dressed at this time of day, so it’s not very likely that he’ll stroll down the White House driveway to crash the broadcast. In the …

Fox News reports: Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, called Thursday for the suspension of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in light of the release of a watchdog report that criticized key figures in the Hillary Clinton email probe. Giuliani, who appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity,” said the U.S. Department of …

Via Mediaite: As Kellyanne Conway spoke with Fox & Friends on Wednesday, her hosts on the curvy couch set her up to take an easy swipe at the Trump Administration’s least favorite reporter: Jim Acosta. “They certainly want to make it about me, myself and I,” Conway said. “On Twitter, they’re all a hot mess in the kind of snark …

“If you thought of the flag that was next to the American flag as a Nazi flag rather than a North Korean flag, everybody would see the concern. This is slave state with 25 million prisoners and gulag system hundreds of thousands people wide. The president’s praise for the dictator of North Korea was disquieting. The triumphalism that seems to …

The Daily Beast reports: On Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver delivered an update on what he’s coined “Stupid Watergate” in honor of the one-year anniversary of the Mueller investigation—or a “witch-hunt,” according to the hysterical folks over at State TV (Fox News). Oliver broke down the Fox News Army’s three diversionary tactics for swaying public opinion …

Mediaite reports: On Fox News this morning, Fox & Friends co-host Abby Huntsman had a bit of slip in discussing the U.S.-North Korea Summit when describing the the two leaders, Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump. Huntsman was narrating footage of President Trump’s arrival and trying to give the historic context of the meeting when she slipped up and gave …

“There are many in the mainstream media, cable news networks, and left wing liberals who are rooting for him to fail. Hate is their daily fare. They hate him so much, they want him to fail. Peace be damned. If he doesn’t get credit for being the smartest, most clever and successful negotiator presidents of all time, then we’ll know …

Media Matters provides the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): These people are beyond — they’re literally beyond parody. Author and columnist Mark Steyn joins us. Mark, I should just say that I’m actually by temperament pretty non-judgmental. I’m not mad at Stormy Daniels or anything, but I notice — I can’t help but notice the impulse on the left is always …

Politico reports: Jeanine Pirro has a top-rated Fox News show and a forthcoming book — “Lies, Leakers, and Liberals” — but she still wants to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general. A former prosecutor and judge, Pirro has repeatedly told Trump’s aides and advisers over the past 18 months that she’s interested in taking over as the nation’s top law …