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Media Matters reports: During the July 21 White House press conference, Al-Jazeera reporter Kimberly Halkett finished a round of questions with Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany by saying “ok, you don’t want to engage.” Several right-wing commentators falsely claimed that Halkett called McEnany a “lying bitch.” Halkett herself immediately clarified that she did not say that, and even the White House …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade was mocked on Twitter after his apology for sharing a fake tweet misrepresenting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fell flat, in part due to it being in quotes. The fake tweet that Kilmeade initially shared purports to show AOC suggesting that state governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic is purely political. AOC’s source tweet …

An apology on Twitter but not on his show: On his Fox Business show Thursday, Lou Dobbs railed against several Fortune 500 companies for donating a lot of money to Black Lives Matter. Dobbs called it “stunning” before showing the graphic of Bank of America giving $1 billion, PepsiCo giving $400 million, Walmart giving $100 million, Apple giving $100 million, …

“The unions are using the closure of our schools as a smokescreen. Laura, here’s why. Sadly, these unions are actually using our schools to sexualize our children and to train them in anti-American ideology. “They do this with a coalition of over 180 organizations, including, sadly, the CDC, Planned Parenthood, and Black Lives Matter incorporated. “It is shocking what they’re …

The New York Times reports: The Fox News star Tucker Carlson said on Monday evening that he would leave on a vacation, starting immediately, days after a writer on his program, Blake Neff, resigned over racist, sexist and misogynist messages that Mr. Neff published pseudonymously on an online message board. Mr. Carlson told viewers that he would return to his …

Matt Gertz reports at Media Matters: President Donald Trump tweeted in response to television programs he was watching nearly 300 times in the first six months of 2020, according to a Media Matters review. More than nine in 10 of those tweets came in response to Fox News or its sister network, Fox Business, as the right-wing channels maintained their …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump attacked Fox News on Twitter Monday, calling the network a “disaster” after he spent his morning watching Fox and Friends and tweeting out segments from the network. Earlier that morning, Trump took to Twitter to quote a Fox and Friends segment that claimed the number of registered Republican voters has gone up while Democrat numbers …

“No one will ask your permission before they do it, they’ll just attack your children for how they were born. The people doing the attacking, by the way, would tell you with a straight face how opposed they are to gay conversion therapy because, of course, it’s immoral to try to change people’s intrinsic quality. “They wouldn’t see the irony …

“Deaths are going down, cases are going up, so no fun for America. Okay. Now, a few states, of course, have seen the rise in positive cases, but again, the daily death rate has been dropping like a rock since peaking in April. This is actually good news. “We’re getting closer to herd immunity in some sectors of the United …

“The president likes the word ‘hoax.’ I prefer the word ‘overthrow.’ They’re trying to overthrow the President of the United States. They’re trying to block his very agenda. “They are trying to dismiss him as president of the United States with these ridiculous rulings in which they would allow a local district attorney to prosecute a sitting president of the …

“Every subject, every extracurricular activity will be perverted to turn your kids into mini-Ilhan Omars. They’re gonna learn that capitalism is racist, history as conventionally taught is racist, literature, most of that’s racist, patriotic songs, racist. “And the Declaration and the Constitution? Of course, they’re racist. Are you sensing a theme here? Well, say goodbye to the three ‘R’s’ — …

“We wanted to have an exchange with Tammy Duckworth tonight. So we called her office and we invited her on the show. Her flack informed us that before even considering our request, we must first issue a public apology for criticizing Tammy Duckworth. “In other words, I will not debate you until first you admit you’re completely wrong. Keep in …

“Some folks are still trying to pretend that all of this mayhem will stop if we just let the Democrats have the White House. Well, we have the Democrats in power in Atlanta, in Chicago, in New York, in Baltimore and beyond and beyond. What’s happened? “So, this thinking is foolish and naive. The Democrats have shown they’re utterly unwilling …

The Hill reports: Fox News apologized Monday for what it said was a mistake in cropping President Trump out of a photo with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping Epstein recruit girls he then sexually abused. The photo, which was shown Sunday evening on Fox News, showed Epstein, Maxwell and Melania Trump but not the president. …

“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 …