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Politico reports: Tucker Carlson’s audience is booming — and so is chatter that the popular Fox News host will parlay his TV perch into a run for president in 2024. Republican strategists, conservative commentators, and former Trump campaign and administration officials are buzzing about Carlson as the next-generation leader of Donald Trump’s movement — with many believing he would be …

“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, …

The Daily Beast reports: When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday with an illicit conspiracy to promote a cryptocurrency, they alleged that the disgraced lobbyist hired writers to help him with his scheme. The indictment did not name names. But new court documents point squarely to an employee of The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets. Abramoff, who …

“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 …

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 …

“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 …

“Who is attacking us? Mr. Esper should know this. It’s antifa. Department of Justice, NYPD, others are saying this very clearly. These are people, by the way, that we faced back in 1960’s, 70’s, and early 80’s. “These were people who were far leftists, Marx, Lenin, folks who embraced that ideology. They’ve allied with Black Panther movement and it took …

Politico reports: Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, expressed dismay at President Donald Trump’s leadership on Monday, criticizing the president’s handling of mass protests that have engulfed cities across the country and singling out an influential member of his family. Jared Kushner was just one of some unnamed “key advisers” who Carlson said “don’t seem to understand the gravity of …

“It is so infuriating that the Congress has done nothing to protect the public from censorship, that it’s hard to even express it out loud. It’s really shameful, in my view. How can you have a free and fair election when opinions are being aggressively censored to favor one side? “I’m just thinking that maybe someone in the federal bureaucracy, …

“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 …

Vox reports: The paper — from economists Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, and David Yanagizawa-Drott — focused on Fox news programming in February and early March. At the time, Hannity’s show was downplaying or ignoring the virus, while fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson was warning viewers about the disease’s risks. Using both a poll of Fox News viewers over …

The Daily Beast reports: Multimillionaire primetime Fox News star Tucker Carlson labeled progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) a “child of privilege” on Monday night—just two weeks after his colleague Laura Ingraham mocked AOC over her bartender past. According to Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson’s own Wikipedia page, the Fox host knows a thing or two about privilege himself. Carlson’s father is …

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, …

Jeanine Pirro: They want to keep us away from churches and synagogues, they want to make sure we don’t go back to work. They don’t get it. The American spirit is too strong and Americans are not going to take it. And what happened in Lansing today? God bless them, it’s going to happen all over the country. Americans want …