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Fox's Shep Smith: It's being framed as players attacking the anthem, troops, & the flag....that's not what they're doing and we're complicit
Fox's Shep Smith takes apart the Uranium One conspiracy his Fox News colleagues have been relentlessly hyping
In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments mm4a.org/4Xu
CNN: "When President Obama tried to make [new, more effective brakes] mandatory after a bunch of derailments in 2014 ... the lobbies fought it hard. They gutted it. ... In 2018, the Trump administration, Elaine Chao was the transportation secretary, rolled it back entirely."
African-American woman in Congress speaks up against the president, Bill O'Reilly says he won't listen because of her hair.
Notice any difference in outrage from Fox & Friends when they're discussing athletes kneeling during the anthem versus neo-Nazis marching?
Facebook let the Trump campaign run 88 ads with inverted red triangle — an infamous Nazi symbol mediamatters.org/facebook/faceb
David Hogg, a student who survived the Florida massacre, is going network to network pleading for our elected leaders to stop talking about "thoughts and prayers" and actually take action
Laura Ingraham’s radio show has ended. The world will be a better place without it.
Sean Hannity: A president under FBI investigation would present "a major Constitutional crisis"
Fox News contributor has a complete meltdown after Robert Mueller's statement: "I will bet you my right arm and I will throw in my left as a bonus, that Bob Mueller just lied" mm4a.org/4Kz
Perhaps the single most consequential story of the midterms season broke this week, and there’s been virtually no coverage from major TV news shows, newspapers, and other mainstream outlets
Here is Gwen Ifill calling out hate speech, again to a table full of men who all try to speak over her.
Tucker Carlson attacks BTS for speaking out about hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans
Sean Hannity says that he never heard of the Proud Boys.
Hannity has hosted Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes 24 times on his show, and in one instance, even agreed with McInnes' call to violence. mm4a.org/4Sv
Sean Hannity ran with Trump's conspiracy theories -- the exact same conspiracy theories that Fox News anchor Shep Smith debunked hours earlier.
Nearly a dozen Fox News guests presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools also have day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-
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Rush Limbaugh was given the Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union last night. Here's a bit on who he is.
Viewer discretion is advised.
Unearthed audio shows Tucker Carlson using white nationalist rhetoric and making racist remarks mm4a.org/4XV
Micheal Blake stuns Fox News anchor: "Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a job here?" mediamatters.org/bill-hemmer/fo
Alex Jones harasses people for years. Gets a two week ban.
Alex Jones harasses Jack Dorsey for one day. Banned permanently.
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BREAKING: Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior.
After claiming Hurricane Irma was a liberal hoax, Rush Limbaugh evacuates South Florida
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If you're wondering how we got here...
Steve Bannon is deeply tied to the Mercer empire. 60 Minutes didn't ask him a single question about it. mm4a.org/Z3N
Six different polls show how Fox’s coronavirus coverage endangered its viewers mediamatters.org/fox-news/six-d
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Nothing new from Fox News, here is another Fox host telling Maxine Waters to "step away from the crack pipe"
Sean Hannity lies about the Russia investigation at night on Fox News, Shep Smith debunks his false claims during the day
846 people in Michigan voted absentee and died before the election. Accordingly, Michigan's Secretary of State did not accept their ballots.
A Fox "straight news" anchor grossly misinterpreted this to suggest that dead people were voting. They are not.
On Meet the Press, Chuck Todd falsely claimed that both parties engage in antidemocratic power grabs like the GOP has been doing in Wisconsin.
There’s no evidence of that.
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Brooke Baldwin had to literally stop and take a drink as she listed off Trump's wild last 4 weeks:
The video Trump aired during the coronavirus task force briefing is directly from the March 26 episode of Hannity
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Tucker Carlson last night suggested that Dr. Jill Biden should not be called a doctor "because she's not actually a physician.”
There are a few things that Carlson left out.
New CNN pro-Trump contributor confirms he is contractually forbidden from criticizing Trump because he signed an NDA mm4a.org/4Zw
How Fox News dismisses tens of thousands of Americans dying: "Every death is tragic, but ... "
Jason Chaffetz tells Sean Hannity that congressional Republicans may not be able to read the eight page impeachment resolution in just two days
Flashback: When Justice Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama, the conservative media complained that she was too hot-tempered
Fox's Jason Chaffetz on Trump releasing his tax returns: 2016 vs 2019
New: X (formerly known as Twitter) has been placing ads for brands like NYT Co.'s The Athletic, MLB, the Atlanta Falcons, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Amazon, and Office Depot on a verified pro-Adolf Hitler account that encourages antisemitic harassment
Sean Hannity: "You think I'm bad for America?"
Ted Koppel: "Yeah."
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Today started with Russia's foreign minister citing Fox News and ends with a Fox News host citing a Kremlin spokesperson.
Charlie Kirk: "I'm going through my refrigerator and I'm starting to ask the question: Was this ketchup bottle woke? Is this mustard? I mean, literally."
The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh falsely accused Boston Children's hospital of putting "every toddler who has ever been born...on a path to sterilization and butchery before they can even talk." Two days later, the hospital's staff was deluged by violent threats.
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No. It is not. There is a widely used symbol though and it is nothing like the very specific symbol you went with. h/t )
Trump ally Alex Jones says high-level sources confirmed to him that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are demons: mm4a.org/2d7O2Pz
Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh: Americans should “adapt” to coronavirus, like pioneers who “had to turn to cannibalism” mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co
On Fox News, Dr. Scott Atlas encourages large holiday gatherings: “For many people this is their last Thanksgiving”
CNN's new political editor is a former Trump official who has never worked in journalism (but who did pledge loyalty to Trump in the Oval Office) mm4a.org/4hh
News broke yesterday that *forty-three* new women came forward to describe assault and harassment by Trump. According to a Nexis search, not a single newspaper in the U.S. published a story about it. mediamatters.org/sexual-harassm
On Periscope, which is owned by Twitter, Alex Jones tells supporters to get their “battle rifles” ready against antifa, the mainstream media, and “Chicom operatives” mm4a.org/ZvB
Fox News host applauds high school teacher charged with engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with 16-year-old student
Tucker Carlson: "If Democrats take both the Senate and the White House, and they could, you will not recognize America a year from now"
New: YouTube terminated Steve Bannon's account. He had blood on his hands after months of calling for revolution and violence. mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/y via
If you're wondering where Trump got that whole 'New York doesn't need 30,000 ventilators' thing, this aired on Fox News shorty before Trump called into Hannity's show.
"And in case you want to argue this has nothing to do with the president, the most recent note I got ended with MAGA."
Katy Tur details the violent threats reporters are receiving as a result of Trump's reckless rhetoric:
Elon Musk is unilaterally reinstating banned Twitter accounts, despite assuring civil rights groups and advertisers that he wouldn’t mediamatters.org/twitter/elon-m
Tucker Carlson's questions were actually really easy to answer if he would have tried.
Sean Hannity describes Adam Toledo as a “13 year old man”
A typical household pays Fox News almost $2 per month—about $20 per year— via their cable or satellite provider, even if they never actually watch the channel. Take action today: unfoxmycablebox.com #CancelFox
Jake Tapper to the president: "Attacking journalists who ask questions does not make those questions go away. It only reveals that you might not have the answers. Again, sir, respectfully, what is the plan for a way out of this? Do you have one?"
Fuck you and the burro you rode in on
Fox's Shep Smith fires back at Trump for his treatment of the press: "It's crazy what we're watching every day. It's absolutely crazy."
Tucker Carlson saying that immigrants make America “dirtier” was just one of his many, many racist statements on Fox News.
Here are 25 companies that have sponsored his white nationalism recently:
Hannity's show last night: I don't know anything about Marie Yovanovitch being recalled
Hannity's show previously: We need to recall Marie Yovanovitch for betraying Trump
In the last 35 days or so, a number of right-wing figures have suddenly discovered that, regardless of their prior statements, they fervently oppose impeachment trials for former presidents.
Geraldo Rivera calls out Fox News for their Mollie Tibbetts murder coverage:
"We at this network are putting that spin on this story...this is a murder story, not an immigration story." mm4a.org/4ZU
Yesterday Fox & Friends ripped protests taking place on Independence Day
In 2009, they encouraged viewers to take part in Fourth of July protests against President Obama: mm4a.org/ZVr
Before attacking the judge in Michael Flynn's case, Sean Hannity and other Fox personalities used to praise his integrity
. on MSNBC: "Whereas Trump might say that white men have it very difficult right now, I'm saying that women, young people, have had it difficult for generations...and we will not be silenced any longer"
Tucker Carlson spent months spreading a racist lie about George Floyd's murder. The doctor who wrote the autopsy report testified otherwise; since then, Carlson ignored it.
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Laura Ingraham's anti-immigrant rant is ripped from white supremacists mm4a.org/Zt9
Infowars host alleges that Hurricane Lane, which is threatening Hawaii, has been split in two by an energy beam shot from Antarctica, possibly by John Kerry mm4a.org/4Zq
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Trump advisory board member: Women should strive to be “handmaidens,” stay out of the workplace
Shep Smith rips Trump for caving to the NRA: "It happens every time. The NRA gets to them, and that's that." mm4a.org/Z8P
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Fox & Friends host: "These aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas"
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Fox News used images of Eagles players praying to suggest they kneeled during the national anthem mm4a.org/ZKN
Bill O'Reilly once led the charge for Pepsi to drop rapper Ludacris for being "a man who degrades women" mm4a.org/2o4yEMB
The White House press corps has to come together and stand up to the White House as the Trump administration wages war against a free press:
Fox News contributor says she is not getting vaccinated "as a giant middle finger to Joe Biden's tyranny" mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n
