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Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and other Right-Wing Media use fake news, lies, disinformation, fear, hate, racism, propaganda, alternative facts, conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda to divide America and promote the rabbit right and the Russian agendas.
Story by David Badash

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is under fire for what some see as him defending Donald Trump’s embrace of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s regime, including reportedly saying he wanted “Hitler’s generals,” when he was president.

“Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ‘did some good things,'” The Associated Press reports. “The comments from John Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, came in interviews with both The New York Times and The Atlantic. They build on a growing series of warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final weeks.”

“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly (photo above, with Trump) told The New York Times, the AP notes.

“In his interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing ‘German generals,’ Kelly would ask if he meant ‘Bismarck’s generals,’ referring to Otto von Bismarck, the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany. ‘Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,’ Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.'”

“Bret Baier came at Kamala Harris with every attack in the Trump playbook—including one moment where he got caught using an edited soundbite of Trump,” says Chris Hayes on Kamala Harris calling out Fox News during her interview.
Story by Maya Mehrara

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has released the full version of a clip of former President Donald Trump talking about political rhetoric in a new post on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Thursday after accusing Fox News of editing the clip shown during her interview.

Harris, who was interviewed by Fox News' Bret Baier on Wednesday night, was shown the clip of Trump at the Faulkner Focus town hall on the network. The former president claimed that Democrats are "weaponizing the government" and conducting "phony investigations."

Harris responded to the clip on air and said, "Bret, I'm sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the 'enemy within' that he has repeated when he's speaking about the American people. That's not what you just showed."

The vice president said, "Here's the bottom line—he has repeated it many times and you and I both know that. You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him."
Story by Carl Gibson

Vice President Kamala Harris' recent interview with Fox News host Bret Baier was likely her toughest to date, but one exchange has emerged that could be what helps her break through to the network's stalwart conservative audience.

In his latest column, the New Republic's Greg Sargent wrote that one moment in the interview stood out for him in particular that may be something the Harris campaign can exploit up until Election Day. That moment came after Baier played a clip of Trump speaking at a friendly Fox News town hall event (which Fox did not disclose was packed full of Trump supporters) in which he downplayed his "enemy within" remarks from earlier this week.

"They were saying I was like, threatening, I wasn't threatening anybody. They're the ones doing the threatening," Trump said. He then complained about "phony investigations" and "weaponization of government" to prosecute him.

Harris sternly responded to the clip by telling Baier: "That clip was not what he has been saying about the 'enemy within' that he has repeated when he's speaking about the American people. That's not what you just showed." Harris later tweeted proof of selective editing that omitted Trump doubling down on his "enemy within" comments, including his belief that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) was deserving of the label.
Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and other Right wing news will not cover Trump’s memory issues


Author Ramin Setoodeh joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass'.
It not just Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and other Right wing news is not news but right wing propaganda. Has your local news been hijacked by the right wing?

David Gilmour

Local news channels across the country used a nearly identical script to push coverage of a controversial Wall Street Journal article questioning President Joe Biden’s mental fitness.

An eerie supercut compiled by Popular Information shows how anchors on dozens of channels owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group parroted the story in an apparently coordinated fashion. Each segment deferred to national correspondent Matthew Galka’s comment that Biden’s questionable mental acuity could be an “election decider.”

However, the Wall Street Journal story is reported without highlighting the concerns raised about the article by prominent media critics, who attacked the piece for its lack of balance in sourcing. The article in question, titled Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping, was published on June 4 and based its claims on “interviews with more than 45 people.”
It not just Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and other Right wing news is not news but right wing propaganda. Has your local news been hijacked by the right wing?

The conservative media chain's stations feasted on a Wall Street Journal report about Joe Biden's age with the same script.
By Ron Dicker

A supercut posted online Tuesday shows TV news reporters at Sinclair Broadcast Group stations spouting the same script in a takedown of Joe Biden. (Watch the video below.)

Sinclair jumped all over a widely questioned Wall Street Journal report that relied heavily on anonymous sources to assert that the 81-year-old president was experiencing cognitive decline. A prominent voice identified in the article, titled “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping,” was former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who reportedly had raved privately about Biden’s sharpness in the past.

Perhaps seeing the Journal article as a potential blow to the Democratic incumbent, Sinclair appeared to arrange a monotonously similar intro for many of its stations affiliated with major networks.
Story by Charles R. Davis

By the end of Tuesday, seven jurors had been selected to determine whether Donald Trump should be the first president ever convicted of a crime. By Thursday morning, when the Manhattan trial resumed, there were just six.

According to Judge Juan Merchan, the juror was excused after later expressing doubt that she could remain fair and impartial. In particular, she said that friends and family had already reached out to ask if she was serving on the jury.

Those calls came after numerous media outlets reported potentially identifying biographical information about the woman, including her job and the neighborhood she called home. Fox News Jesse Watters highlighted the juror's details while reading through public pool notes about the selected members. "This nurse scares me if I'm Trump," Watters said.
So sad

Story by Nikki McCann Ramirez

It's eclipse day in America, and if you thought Fox News was going to act normal about it, you were wrong.

The right-wing news network wasted no time on Monday attempting to link the moon's brief blotting out of the sun to migrant crossings at the Mexico border.

"Fox News alert! A rare celestial event collides with a policy failure on the ground. The southern border is directly in the path of totality today when the moon covers the sun," host Dana Perino said during Monday's broadcast of America's Newsroom.

Co-host Bill Hemmer chimed in, adding, "We're told officials are bracing for higher traffic than usual. That means a real opportunity for smugglers and cartels and migrants to come right in."
Story by Ed Mazza

Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday spotted a head-spinning moment on Fox News in which one of the network’s commentators made a bizarre claim about Donald Trump’s push to sell $59.99 Bibles.

“President Trump selling a Bible is kind of a regular guy thing to be doing,” Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce said with a straight face. “This is what Trump does. It takes him into people’s kitchens, into their living rooms, while the left is sitting up on the highest mountain in the world looking down on all of the hoi polloi.”

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Stephen Colbert Gives Trump Crystal Clear Reminder Of All His Biggest Failures
Story by Ed Mazza

Stephen Colbert on Tuesday hit Donald Trump with a blunt reminder of some of his biggest business disasters, along with one very personal one.

“The Late Show” host noted that shares in Trump’s Truth Social website plunged this week, causing the company to lose some $4 billion in value.
Story by Lee Moran

Fox News personality Bill Hemmer told rival networks to “take news out of your name” if they don’t carry every spit and cough of Donald Trump’s Republican presidential primary victory speeches.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Outnumbered,” Hemmer said the conservative network would always take a speech by President Joe Biden (even though they haven’t previously) and “be fair” with him.

“One of our competitors took four minutes, another took ten,” Hemmer said of the Trump coverage.

“If that’s what you’re going to do, take news out of your name because we should all be listening to these ideas and thoughts,” he added. “And if Biden came out, we would take him and be fair to his message.”
Story by Ed Mazza

Fox News found a creative way to avoid revealing Donald Trump’s place in history ― and the former president’s critics on social media are loving it. Social scientists and other scholars asked to rank U.S. presidents put Trump dead last. But in its tease on X, Fox News merely said Trump was below President Joe Biden:

The survey released by the Presidential Greatness Project puts Trump in last place, behind even William Henry Harrison (#31), who died of pneumonia just 31 days into his presidency, and Richard M. Nixon (#35), who resigned in disgrace due to the Watergate scandal.
Story by Samridhi Goel

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Fox News anchor Sean Hannity recently compared President Donald Trump's leadership with President Joe Biden's leadership on ‘Hannity.' He thoroughly examined each subject, drew comparisons between the leadership of the two, and ultimately criticized Biden's presidency. Following this, Hannity took to X, formerly known as Twitter to share his monologue with his followers as many people on the internet joined the host.

Sean Hannity compares Donald Trump and Joe Biden's leadership
Fox News host Sean Hannity took to X and wrote, "This is pretty embarrassing for Biden." Hannity said, "Under President Trump, we had peace. Under Biden, we have war. Under Trump, we had almost no inflation and record-low interest rates. Under Biden, Americans are getting squeezed every single day. 60% of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck."
Story by Jeremy Barr

Rupert Murdoch formally handed over the reins of Fox News’ parent company in mid-November, but that did not end his legal obligations in the long-running fallout over how the network covered the 2020 presidential election.

This week, the 92-year-old media mogul sat for a sworn deposition in the second major defamation lawsuit from an election-technology company that accused Fox of smeared it with false claims of vote rigging.

It’s been seven months since Fox News settled a headline-making defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems for a record $787.5 million. But in recent weeks the Smartmatic case has stirred to life, putting Murdoch’s company once again in legal peril. Murdoch’s son Lachlan, who now runs the family’s media business, will also be deposed in the case, as will Fox’s former top lawyer, Viet D. Dinh, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who was not authorized to comment.
Story by David McAfee

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox Corp., was reportedly compared to a "mafia boss" in his attempts to avoid being held accountable in a defamation suit. The comparison came from a hearing in a $2.7 billion defamation case which has endangered the news outlet, reports said. The attorney who made the comparison noted that Murdoch and his son, Lachlan, were trying to avoid punishment for actions of their henchman, according to Bloomberg's report.

"The analogy was made by a lawyer for Smartmatic Corp., an international voting machine company that claims Fox News and its parent company damaged its reputation by airing false claims that it rigged the 2020 election against Donald Trump," the outlet reported Wednesday. "Fox Corp. agreed to pay $787.5 million in April to another voting-machine company, Dominion Voting Systems Inc., to resolve similar claims minutes before the start of a trial."
Story by Ed Mazza

The same Fox News hosts and commentators defending Donald Trump now after his combined 91 felony indictments in four different cases were singing a very different tune in 2016, as highlighted by a new MSNBC supercut video. When Hillary Clinton was running against Trump, multiple voices on the right-wing network cried out that the nation couldn’t handle a president under investigation.

“We cannot have a country led by a president subject to ongoing criminal investigations, potential indictment, and never-ending hearings,” Jeanine Pirro said in a segment that’s still available on Fox News’ YouTube channel. Pirro dismissed the charges against Trump as “a bunch of theater” and “a legal thing” in the video that aired on Sunday on “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”
Story by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

On the heels of Fox News hosts defending Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis‘ new education standards requiring children to be taught slavery was beneficial to slaves, one Fox News host is now saying Jews survived the Holocaust by being “useful.”

Critics are outraged. On Friday, Fox News host Jesse Watters in a segment called “Spinning History,” declared, “No one is arguing slaves benefited from slavery.”

“No one is saying that. It’s not true,” he insisted, before he then said it: “They’re teaching how Black people developed skills during slavery in some instances that could be applied for their own personal benefit.”
Alex Henderson, AlterNet

In April, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. And Fox News is still facing a separate $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion competitor Smartmatic.

On Monday, June 5, Democratic Oregon Ellen Rosenblum announced that she was conducting an investigation of Fox Corp.'s board of directors — which, she alleges, may have failed to live up to its obligations when it promoted the Big Lie. The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, according to the Associated Press, owns over 250,000 shares of Fox stock.
Story by Ed Mazza

Fox News host Harris Faulkner is getting called out on Twitter for uttering a “blatant” falsehood about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as she criticized the protective measures that were in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Faulkner, who is getting a tryout in former host Tucker Carlson’s old primetime slot, claimed schools didn’t close in 1918. Much like her predecessor, who becameinfamous for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, she was wrong.

School closures were not only common in 1918, studies have found they were effective in reducing the excess death rate from Spanish flu ― and so many people responded that a “community note” correcting the misinformation was appended.
Story by Jack Doyle

Despite their best attempts to convince viewers that “woke culture” and “trans agendas” are the biggest threats to the country’s children, Fox News once again proves that the real danger is their own programming.

Greg Gutfeld—the host of the right-wing network’s atrocious late-night “comedy” show—recently used his platform to discuss the merits of teacher/student sexual relationships. In a segment on Tracy Vanderhulst, a high school math teacher recently arrested and charged with the statutory rape of a 16-year-old boy, Gutfeld applauded Vanderhulst’s “heroic” actions. He compared the alleged assault to the Van Halen song “Hot For Teacher,” saying that he “would have died” for the opportunity to have sex with a teacher when he was the victim’s age.
Opinion by Amanda Marcotte

On Friday night, Fox News' Laura Ingraham did something nearly unheard of on the propaganda-masquerading-as-news network: She admitted that a story Fox had been hyping was wrong.

For a week, Fox News and other right-wing outlets had been heavily hyping claims that "homeless veterans" were being forced out of a hotel in upstate New York to make room for Central American refugees. Due to diligent reporting from local reporters at the Mid Hudson News, however, the story quickly unraveled. The hotel denied the claims and had receipts to refute the right-wing narrative. By the end of the week, the Mid Hudson News had a group of homeless men ready to talk about how Sharon Toney-Finch, the source of this tale and the head of a veteran advocacy group, had recruited them to pretend they were the displaced veterans. The whole thing was a hoax.
Story by Travis Gettys

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped conservative media outlets for misrepresenting findings by special counsel John Durham.

The Republican-appointed Durham finally issued a report in his years-long investigation into the origins of the Donald Trump-Russia probe that turned up no bombshell findings and included only minor recommendations for FBI reform, although several outlets owned by Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch suggested otherwise.

"I don't want to say their name in a critical light because they are the paper of record for 'Morning Joe,' but there is a certain tabloid in New York, you know, sort of like [suggested] it is true, Hillary spied on Trump," Scarborough said. "Wall Street Journal editorial page, which is my paper, I read it every day, they were going all in... George W. Bush once said, 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again.'" They obviously don't follow Bushisms."

The other panelists cracked up as Scarborough read a headline from the New York Post, which blared that Trump had been the victim of a "whack job" by his political enemies.
Story by Joe DePaolo

Tucker Carlson is reportedly “preparing for war” against Fox News in an effort to pry himself loose from his contract with the network prior to its January 2025 end date.

According to Axios, Carlson is ready to escalate his battle with the network. A person described as a “close Carlson friend” told Axios that, up until now, the fired host has been telling friends “I want to get this done quiet and clean.” But now, according to the friend, Carlson is about to change tactics.

“We’re going from peacetime to Defcon 1,” Carlson’s friend told the outlet. “His team is preparing for war. He wants his freedom.” A Carlson source told Axios that the fired host “knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and is ready to start drawing a map.”
Another story another lie from Fox News.

Story by Tommy Christopher

Fox Biz host Gerry Baker claimed President Joe Biden doesn’t “like Britain” because he didn’t attend the coronation of King Charles III — an event American presidents customarily do not attend. All three cable news networks carried the coronation live Saturday morning, and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden represented the United States by attending.

On Saturday morning’s edition of Fox Business Network’s WSJ At Large, Baker expressed disdain for the ceremony, but also criticized Biden. When a guest called it “odd” that Biden didn’t attend, Baker said “Biden doesn’t seem to like Britain. Is that fair?”

Another panelist replied “I wouldn’t say that” but suggested there is tension between the countries over trade. When it was announced in April that President Biden would not attend, he drew criticism from conservatives and questions from the press on the heels of the announcement that Biden would not be going. At that briefing, the White House was emphatic that this was not a “snub”:
Story by Kevin C. Neece

In early April, an LGBTQ rights organization in Canada began the process of petitioning the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) to ban Fox News on the basis of inflammatory misinformation spread by then-host Tucker Carlson about transgender people. The organization, known as Egal, cited specific commentary from the incendiary TV personality as dangerous and potentially inciting of violence toward the already threatened transgender community. Like sexual minorities such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, trans people are especially vulnerable to violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes, in no small part because of media spreading falsehoods and supporting legislation that harms their community.

Fox News is being exposed with increasing clarity as a regular source of false and misleading reports that help fuel such animosity, with a recent settlement granted to Dominion Voting Systems of $787 million in its defamation lawsuit against the network. As Canada’s National Post reports, the Egal petition was started before that landmark case concluded and before Fox’s subsequent firing of Carlson. The inciting incident for the motion from Egal was a March broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

More damning texts from Fox News anchors revealed in a report from The Daily Beast. It shows Tucker Carlson texting with Brett Baier, who touts “straight news” coordinating misleading election calls with Carlson. It puts a new Fox host in middle of the networks “big lie” scandal after settling the largest defamation case of all time. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports.
Story by Stephen Battaglio

If you thought Fox News would take a new direction in prime time following the ouster of conservative provocateur Tucker Carlson, the choice for fill-in host in the hour next week suggests otherwise. Kayleigh McEnany, who served 10 months as press secretary in the Trump administration, is getting a weeklong tryout in the high profile 8 p.m. Eastern hour starting Monday.

The network is searching for a replacement for Carlson, who was fired April 24 amid revelations that he made racist comments, promoted a conspiracy about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and sent texts critical of Fox News correspondents who fact-checked the unfounded election fraud claims on the network, even though he did not believe them himself.
Story by Dominick Mastrangelo

Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports have surfaced pertaining to leaked text messages from Tucker Carlson, a former top host at the network.

In a letter dated Friday, Fox lawyers said the company had learned documents Fox produced as part of its recent litigation against the voting systems provider “were disclosed to media organizations and published for mass consumption.”

The letter urges officials at Dominion to “investigate and confirm that you are not the source of these improper disclosures.”

Leakage of court documents and redacted exhibits, the network’s lawyers said, would violate “the text and spirit of the parties agreement.”
Story by Ed Mazza

Some of the biggest names on Fox News have downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol or even tried to rewrite that history altogether.

“They were peaceful. They were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists,” said Tucker Carlson in a special that aired before he parted ways with the right-wing network. “They were sightseers.”

Now a new CNN video points out one common line of defense used by Fox News hosts ― one that has since turned out to be completely wrong.
Story by jshamsian@insider.com (Jacob Shamsian)

Tucker Carlson extracted concessions from Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California that cinched the votes he needed from far-right members to Congress to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, the former Fox News host said in text messages obtained by Insider.

The text messages demonstrate how Carlson shaped the direction of the Republican party behind the scenes, using his powerful primetime perch at Fox News before his firing last month to make one of the most powerful elected Republicans in America do his bidding.
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