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‘I…I Am The Mainstream Media,’ Realizes Horrified Tucker Carlson Spiraling Live On Air

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WASHINGTON—Coming to the realization in front of millions of viewers during the broadcast of his show, a horrified Tucker Carlson stated, ‘I…I am the mainstream media’ Wednesday as he began spiraling live on air. “We’ve discovered evidence of rampant voter fraud, and the president has every right to call for an investigation even if the mainstream media thinks…” said Carlson, who trailed off, stared down at his shaking hands, and felt a sudden ringing in his ears as he looked back up and zeroed in on the production crew surrounding him. “The media says…wait. Those liars on TV will try to tell you…oh God. We’re the number-one program on cable news, aren’t we? Fox News…Fox ‘News.’ It’s the media. It’s me. This can’t be. No, no, no, no. Jesus Christ, I make $6 million a year. Get that camera off me!” At press time, Carlson had torn the microphone from his lapel and fled the set in panic.

‘I…I Am The Mainstream Media,’ Realizes Horrified Tucker Carlson Spiraling Live On Air

US election 2020: What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared

President Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch at a dinner in New York City in 2017.

The elder Murdoch has stopped speaking as frequently as he once did with Trump, but his associates say that those conversations probably will pick up again after November 3, when Trump will either be a second-term president or a free agent on the media circuit. “Maybe Rupert can just back the truck up and pay Trump to appear on Fox’s air at will,” Klein said. “Trump might prefer that to the rigours of having to actually run an actual business.”

US election 2020: What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared

The Murdochs’ desperate final push to use Hunter Biden to reelect Donald Trump | Media Matters for America

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With President Donald Trump’s reelection hopes seemingly fading, Fox News star Tucker Carlson made an 11th hour push on Tuesday night to try to will him to victory. He devoted his entire program to an interview with Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, in the latest dubious salvo of an extensive campaign by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’ media outlets to tarnish Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden via his son’s business interests.

The Murdochs’ desperate final push to use Hunter Biden to reelect Donald Trump | Media Matters for America

Fox News May Be Heading Towards an Epic Election-Night Showdown | Washington Monthly

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Donald Trump has made it clear that he plans to declare victory on election night. He’ll do it when the returns are primarily based on in-person voting from that day. The president and his enablers launched a massive disinformation campaign based on the lie that mail-in ballots are fraudulent so that he could create chaos by claiming that they shouldn’t be counted.Donald Trump has made it clear that he plans to declare victory on election night. He’ll do it when the returns are primarily based on in-person voting from that day. The president and his enablers launched a massive disinformation campaign based on the lie that mail-in ballots are fraudulent so that he could create chaos by claiming that they shouldn’t be counted.

Fox News May Be Heading Towards an Epic Election-Night Showdown | Washington Monthly

We Need to Talk More About the Murdoch Family

The Murdochs own Fox News but rarely get the scrutiny they deserve for bankrolling racism and hatred.

We Need to Talk More About the Murdoch Family

The Murdochs have blood on their hands | Media Matters for America

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Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch is reportedly “disgusted” by President Donald Trump’s failed handling of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. He and his son Lachlan Murdoch, who currently oversees the network, are also partly responsible for it. Murdoch has complained to confidants that Trump “is not listening to advice about how best to handle the pandemic” which is “creating a never-ending crisis for his administration,” according to a Thursday account from The Daily Beast.

The Murdochs have blood on their hands | Media Matters for America

Fox News death cult embraces declaration calling for “herd immunity” | Media Matters for America

Fox hosts downplay coronavirus surge
They want to give COVID-19 to Rupert

Fox News personalities are rallying around a White House-supported declaration that calls for “herd immunity” approach to the coronavirus pandemic, the deeply flawed idea that the virus should be intentionally spread widely in the population.

Fox News death cult embraces declaration calling for “herd immunity” | Media Matters for America

15 examples of Fox News’ unrivaled federal influence over the last two years | Media Matters for America

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Meanwhile, the president’s most important source of information isn’t the U.S. intelligence community — it’s the dimwitted pro-Trump shills at the network’s morning show, Fox & Friends. The president watches hours of Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, each day and regularly tweets in response to segments that attract his attention — at times dramatically shifting the news cycle and government policy. He sent 1,146 of these Fox live tweets from September 2018 through August 2020 — 7.5% of his total tweets during that period — according to a new Media Matters report.This Trump-Fox feedback loop impacts the president’s worldview — and thus, the government’s actions — on a scope far beyond any other news outlet in the recent past. And the network’s hold on both have only been strengthened over the course of his administration. Here are 15 ways Fox drove federal policymaking and political events over the last two years.

15 examples of Fox News’ unrivaled federal influence over the last two years | Media Matters for America

A Fox News reporter confirmed The Atlantic’s story about Trump insulting fallen troops. Fox hosts are still calling it a hoax. | Media Matters for America

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The new bombshell report from The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, reporting that President Donald Trump had repeatedly disparaged fallen U.S. troops as “losers” and “suckers,” has now been confirmed by a rather unexpected media voice: Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin. This latest confirmation comes after Fox’s previous coverage of the story continually backed Trump’s denials.

A Fox News reporter confirmed The Atlantic’s story about Trump insulting fallen troops. Fox hosts are still calling it a hoax. | Media Matters for America

The Republican National Convention, brought to you by Fox News | Media Matters for America

Fox News RNC 2020

Announced speakers have appeared on Fox weekday programs more than 3,000 times since August 2017

The Republican National Convention, brought to you by Fox News | Media Matters for America

Fox News is already suggesting that Jacob Blake is to blame for police shooting him in the back 7 times | Media Matters for America

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Fox anchor and reporter don’t mention that Blake was unarmed when police shot him in the back

Fox News is already suggesting that Jacob Blake is to blame for police shooting him in the back 7 times | Media Matters for America

Fox News figures mocked the idea that Trump would try to delay the election. Trump just tweeted it. | Media Matters for America

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Fox News figures mocked the idea that Trump would try to delay the election. Trump just tweeted it.

Fox News Staffers Revolt Against Internal ‘Rank Racism Excused By Murdoch’ | Crooks and Liars

Fox News Staffers Revolt Against Internal 'Rank Racism Excused By Murdoch'

via Fox News Staffers Revolt Against Internal ‘Rank Racism Excused By Murdoch’ | Crooks and Liars

Disgraced Tucker Carlson writer penned scores of odious articles for the Daily Caller | Media Matters for America

Daily Caller Trash

Although it’s shocking that the most popular cable news show on television would hire a racist, sexist bigot as a lead writer, Fox and its prime-time host knew exactly what they were getting when they hired Neff. Before joining Fox, Neff wrote nearly 2,000 articles as a reporter at The Daily Caller, an outlet that has drawn criticism in the past for hiring writers linked to white nationalist and other racist groups. (Carlson co-founded the Daily Caller and had a stake in it till recently.)

via Disgraced Tucker Carlson writer penned scores of odious articles for the Daily Caller | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson has said enough | Media Matters for America

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That bigoted content about race and immigration is why white nationalists love Carlson’s show and flock to his defense — they know that he is bringing their talking points, previously relegated to the fringe, into the homes of millions of Americans. David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, tweeted just last week that Carlson should replace Vice President Mike Pence on the Republican ticket.

via Tucker Carlson has said enough | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson Warns Trump Will Lose Unless BLM Protesters “Rounded Up’ Like Terrorists | Crooks and Liars

Tucker Carlson Warns Trump Will Lose Unless BLM Protesters “Rounded Up’ Like Terrorists

Keeping a lid on millions of  Americans where would Trump put them? Only Tucker knows. Round up the advertisers deserting him is the first step. (ODT)

via Tucker Carlson Warns Trump Will Lose Unless BLM Protesters “Rounded Up’ Like Terrorists | Crooks and Liars

Fox News lawyer tells judge that Tucker Carlson’s audience doesn’t expect him to report the facts | Salon.com

Fox News lawyer tells judge that Tucker Carlson's audience doesn't expect him to report the facts

via Fox News lawyer tells judge that Tucker Carlson’s audience doesn’t expect him to report the facts | Salon.com

Nine ways Fox has pushed disinformation about civil unrest to terrify its audience | Media Matters for America

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via Nine ways Fox has pushed disinformation about civil unrest to terrify its audience | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson gives friendly interview to the officer who said Black people “probably ought to be” shot more by police | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson gives friendly interview to police officer who said Black people “probably ought to be” shot more

Tucker Carlson interviewed Major Travis Yates of the Tulsa, Oklahoma police department.

Earlier this week, Yates had said in a radio interview that he does not believe systematic racism exists; he also claimed in that interview that Black people “probably ought to be” shot more by police. The Tulsa police department has subsequently opened an investigation into Yates.

via Tucker Carlson gives friendly interview to the officer who said Black people “probably ought to be” shot more by police | Media Matters for America

How the pro-Trump outrage sausage is made | Media Matters for America

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The shit Fox puts out for Trump doesn’t match the shit Trump puts out himself (ODT)

Joe Biden discussed this phenomenon at a Thursday event, saying that because technological advances allowed millions of Americans to see Floyd’s killing on their phones, his death had a greater worldwide impact than that of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Over the hours that followed, Biden’s comment was ripped from its context and spun with fake outrage by pro-Trump right-wing activists and trolls, leading to a Fox & Friends segment Friday in which a Fox contributor falsely claimed that Biden had said Floyd “may have been a greater civil rights leader” than King.

How the pro-Trump outrage sausage is made | Media Matters for America

They’re Coming For Tucker Carlson Again. This Time They May Succeed, by Eric Striker – The Unz Review

In the defence of Tucker Carlson his rent boy Striker complains (ODT)

America’s most watched cable news show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, is on the brink of being canceled.

They’re Coming For Tucker Carlson Again. This Time They May Succeed, by Eric Striker – The Unz Review

After his bigoted rants about police brutality marches, Tucker Carlson has lost four major advertisers | Media Matters for America

 

via AfteTucker Carlson / Black Lives Matterr his bigoted rants about police brutality marches, Tucker Carlson has lost four major advertisers | Media Matters for America

Lachlan Murdoch is full of shit | Media Matters for America

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Few people are as responsible for the state America is in as Lachlan Murdoch and his family. Don’t let this new statement persuade you otherwise. Fox News viewers for sure will not.

Lachlan Murdoch is full of shit | Media Matters for America

For God and Country, Save Fox News, the “Only Source of Truth” | The Smirking Chimp

Voice of idiots (ODT)

“SAVE FOX NEWS.” It was a long letter, but the essence of it was restated in this post script, which read: P.S. The radical Left is trying to destroy Fox News and I need you to join me to fight back against the Left’s scheme today — before it’s too late. We cannot allow the radical Left to tear down and destroy Fox News — the only source of truth in our otherwise fake-news media.”

For God and Country, Save Fox News, the “Only Source of Truth” | The Smirking Chimp

Fox News Goes Berserk Over Twitter Flagging Trump’s Violent Tweet | Crooks and Liars

Fox News Goes Berserk Over Twitter Flagging Trump's Violent Tweet

No matter what Donald Trump does, or says Fox News is right there to support him, get angry for him, apologize for him, reinterpret his meaning for him, and lie for him.

via Fox News Goes Berserk Over Twitter Flagging Trump’s Violent Tweet | Crooks and Liars

Fox doesn’t want its viewers to know that more than 100,000 Americans have died from coronavirus | Media Matters for America

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via Fox doesn’t want its viewers to know that more than 100,000 Americans have died from coronavirus | Media Matters for America

President Trump: Fox News is a propaganda outlet | Media Matters for America

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Trump is pitting the two halves of the network’s business model against each other. If its executives respond by making the network even more supportive, they are risking flight from advertisers and cable providers concerned with being too closely associated with the president. If they don’t, they are risking outlets like OAN, which has little interest in pretending to be a real news outlet, peeling off their viewers.

via President Trump: Fox News is a propaganda outlet | Media Matters for America

Month to month, Fox News’ coronavirus coverage has dropped more than 20% | Media Matters for America

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via Month to month, Fox News’ coronavirus coverage has dropped more than 20% | Media Matters for America

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Amid climbing coronavirus death toll, Fox & Friends devotes twice as much coverage to Obamagate

 

Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham Bash Dr. Fauci In Scripted, Coordinated Attack | Crooks and Liars

Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham Bash Dr. Fauci In Scripted, Coordinated Attack

During Tuesday night’s prime-time Fox News schedule, hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham all bashed Dr. Anthony Fauci.

You knew this was coming after Dr. Fauci slapped around Sen. Rand Paul during yesterday’s Senate hearing.

It’s been a constant refrain from Fox News lately to make Dr. Fauci the fall guy for Donald Trump’s ineptitude and unconscionable lack of action when the outbreak was first discovered.

via Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham Bash Dr. Fauci In Scripted, Coordinated Attack | Crooks and Liars

The Fox cabinet is trying to get Fauci fired | Media Matters for America

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via The Fox cabinet is trying to get Fauci fired | Media Matters for America

Fox News starts to turn its attention away from the coronavirus pandemic | Media Matters for America

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When the cart starts pulling the ss in another direction you know the ass was heading to the knackery. (ODT)

via Fox News starts to turn its attention away from the coronavirus pandemic | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson Attacks Chinese Totalitarianism, by Brad Griffin – The Unz Review

via Tucker Carlson Attacks Chinese Totalitarianism, by Brad Griffin – The Unz Review

Fox News’ aggressive promotion of protests against social distancing mirrors its tea party support | Media Matters for America

 

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via Fox News’ aggressive promotion of protests against social distancing mirrors its tea party support | Media Matters for America

Sen. Kennedy: We Gotta Let Americans Die From Coronavirus So We Can Reopen The Economy | Crooks and Liars

Sen. Kennedy: We Gotta Let Americans Die From Coronavirus So We Can Reopen The Economy

So be it if they are disproportionately Black (ODT)

via Sen. Kennedy: We Gotta Let Americans Die From Coronavirus So We Can Reopen The Economy | Crooks and Liars

Dr. Oz Wants Schools To Reopen Because Only 2 To 3% Of Kids Will Die – UPDATED | Crooks and Liars

Dr. Oz Wants Schools To Reopen Because Only 2 To 3% Of Kids Will Die - UPDATED

Roughly 56.6 million students will attend elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States (source).

So he wants roughly 1,698,000 students, teachers and staff to be wiped out all in the name of getting Trump re-elected?

via Dr. Oz Wants Schools To Reopen Because Only 2 To 3% Of Kids Will Die – UPDATED | Crooks and Liars

Blogger: Andrew Bolt | Old Dog Thoughts – Edit post

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  • On her Fox Business show, anchor Maria Bartiromo complained that the PPP provision “doesn’t make any sense to me” because the loan goes “right out the window to its employees, who are at home.” 

  • On America’s Newsroom, Bartiromo complained that there are restaurant owners who feel that the PPP loans aren’t going to “do anything for me once things open again because I have no revenue. Yes, maybe I save those people from being out of a job because I gave my employees the money, but for the viability of my business, that’s questionable.”

  • On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Fox Business host Charles Payne about the “75/25” regulation. Payne said that he “reached out to the administration” to discuss the provision, but “they are saying they are not going to change that.” 

  • Fox & Friends hosted the owner of a Crunch gym franchise, who complained that the bill isn’t suitable for health clubs. Kilmeade told him that Congress “can’t tell you how to run your business, you have to tell them what it takes to run your business.” Kilmeade also claimed that “unemployment is so attractive now, a lot of [employees] don’t want their jobs back.”

  • On Fox & Friends, Kilmeade told Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia that “these restaurant owners can’t live with 75% [of the loan] going to labor” because “many of these people don’t want their part-time jobs back.” 

  • Kilmeade also made this argument on the April 9 edition of Fox & Friends, saying that if the goal is to help small businesses, “don’t make them take 75% of that grant money and put it towards employees, many of which don’t want those jobs back because they’re better off on unemployment.”

Blogger: Andrew Bolt | Old Dog Thoughts – Edit post

At Last, Someone is Suing Fox “News” for Journalistic Malpractice in Misguiding People over Seriousness of Coronavirus

via At Last, Someone is Suing Fox “News” for Journalistic Malpractice in Misguiding People over Seriousness of Coronavirus

The Fox News Coronavirus Special Features Doctors Who’ve Pushed Dangerous Information – Mother Jones

via The Fox News Coronavirus Special Features Doctors Who’ve Pushed Dangerous Information – Mother Jones

Amid coronavirus fears, Fox News tries its best to blame Bernie Sanders and socialism for the stock market downturn | Media Matters for America

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via Amid coronavirus fears, Fox News tries its best to blame Bernie Sanders and socialism for the stock market downturn | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson And Fox News Set Up Roger Stone Jurors For Retaliation | Crooks and Liars

Tucker Carlson And Fox News Set Up Roger Stone Jurors For Retaliation

So much for the Separation of Powers and Contempt of Court (ODT)

via Tucker Carlson And Fox News Set Up Roger Stone Jurors For Retaliation | Crooks and Liars

Fox knows exactly what it’s doing by promoting Giuliani’s Ukraine disinformation campaign | Media Matters for America

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Fox knows exactly what it’s doing by promoting Giuliani’s Ukraine disinformation campaign | Media Matters for America

Fox News’ “Brain Room” effectively concludes that Media Matters is more reliable than Sean Hannity or John Solomon | Media Matters for America

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Source: Fox News’ “Brain Room” effectively concludes that Media Matters is more reliable than Sean Hannity or John Solomon | Media Matters for America

Fox News, which vetted John Bolton for President Trump, is ready to tear him down | Media Matters for America

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via Fox News, which vetted John Bolton for President Trump, is ready to tear him down | Media Matters for America

Fox News’ evening shows avoid live coverage of Trump’s Senate impeachment trial | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson Tonight / Trump impeachment trial

Fox News’ evening shows avoid live coverage of Trump’s Senate impeachment trial | Media Matters for America

Members of Trump’s impeachment team have been fixtures on cable news, primarily Fox

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The Real Story in Melting Australia | The Smirking Chimp

So fuck it. Just kick back and watch or read some heartwarming Fox News, which tells them that though five percent of the world’s land mass is becoming an uninhabitable inferno, US firefighters there are being cheered at airports. Those that are left.

via The Real Story in Melting Australia | The Smirking Chimp

Fox News personalities repeatedly campaigned for Trump and Republicans in 2019 | Media Matters for America

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via Fox News personalities repeatedly campaigned for Trump and Republicans in 2019 | Media Matters for America

Watch: Fox News’ unhinged rhetoric in 2019 | Media Matters for America

TRISH

Fox pundits are predicting a new “civil war” brought on by liberal anti-Trump activists and the media. But in reality, they’re the ones fantasizing about violence and using increasingly unhinged rhetoric.

via Watch: Fox News’ unhinged rhetoric in 2019 | Media Matters for America

The 15 most ridiculous things media said about climate change in 2019 | Media Matters for America

It's 2019 and people are still saying dumb things about climate change

via The 15 most ridiculous things media said about climate change in 2019 | Media Matters for America

Media Matters Publishes Top 20 Worst/Funniest Fox Clips | Crooks and Liars

 

Media Matters Publishes Top 20 Worst/Funniest Fox Clips

via Media Matters Publishes Top 20 Worst/Funniest Fox Clips | Crooks and Liars

President Trump’s Fox obsession reshaped the political universe in 2019 | Media Matters for America

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No accident that this type of relationship was born in Australia as far back as the 1970’s with the destruction of Whitlam’s ALP. Rupert Murdoch went to America where he knew there was better ground on which it could flourish. From there he consolidated and refined his corrupt business plan and took it to the rest of the English speaking world. We can see him losing money in Australia. We saw him do an Alan Bond in the UK but America restored him and from there he prospers to the detriment of the notion of any COMMON GOOD> (ODT)

Trump sustained his well-documented fixation on the network, continuing his practices of giving the vast majority of his national televised interviews to Fox hosts, maintaining a revolving door between his administration and the company, and relying on Fox personalities for private counsel. He kept watching hours of daily programming from Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, basking in sycophantic coverage from shows like Fox & Friends, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and Hannity. And continuing the Trump-Fox feedback loop, he maintained his habit of firing off hyperaggressive tweets in response to what he saw on those networks, sending 613 such live tweets this year through December 17.

But more than ever before, Trump’s Fox fanaticism this year drove the federal policymaking process and political reality, with a tangible impact on the lives of the American public.

via President Trump’s Fox obsession reshaped the political universe in 2019 | Media Matters for America