Justin Baragona

Fox News host Laura Ingraham sneered at other news outlets on Monday night for catching her airing misleading images of empty store shelves, briefly issuing a grudging correction before mocking those who had the temerity to fact-check her. In recent weeks, right-wing media has increasingly featured out-of-context photos of bare grocery store shelves to blast President Joe Biden over the growing supply chain issue. While some shops around the country are indeed currently facing increasing challenges due to clogged ports in Los Angeles, labor shortages, and the ongoing pandemic, many of the images of barely stocked American supermarket shelves are outdated […]

Attention-seeking right-wing network Newsmax blasted conservative news giant Fox News on Monday for abandoning Trump supporters by “going woke,” pushing a “climate change agenda,” and being too nice to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. For the better part of a year now, Newsmax has actively courted MAGA viewers by portraying Fox News as overly critical of former President Donald Trump. And while Newsmax did make some viewership gains after disgruntled Trump fans abandoned Fox over its accurate 2020 election call, it still only attracts a small fraction of Fox News’ massive audience. The small pro-Trump outlet, for its part, has […]

Meghan McCain continued her scorched-earth trashing of The View on Tuesday night, running to the friendly confines of Sean Hannity’s primetime Fox News show to claim that she was “punished” for being a “strong conservative” in a “liberal space.” More specifically, the former View host said she suffered “real trauma” because she was “targeted for not voting for President Obama” and being pro-life. Two months after exiting the daytime ABC talk show she co-hosted for four years, McCain has been promoting her Audible memoir by dishing about all the juicy backstage drama between her and her former View colleagues. Likening the […]

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan didn’t mince words on Monday night over the damage he feels Fox News has caused, citing both the network’s Iraq War advocacy and its coverage of the pandemic to claim that “people actually die as a result of watching” the conservative news channel. Hosting Hasan and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg to discuss the late Colin Powell, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes contrasted Powell’s role in misleading the American public into the Iraq War with Fox News’ efforts to “further their agenda” by using Powell’s death from COVID-19 to “discredit vaccines.” “We are experiencing the deadliest bout […]

Right-wing provocateur Dan Bongino on Monday seemed to issue a challenge to his syndicated radio show’s carrier: Get rid of your vaccine mandate for employees or fire me. “You can’t have both,” he said. More than two months ago, Cumulus Media announced that ahead of the company’s scheduled Oct. 11 return-to-work date, employees would be required to get at least one shot of the approved COVID-19 vaccines before coming back to the office. CEO Mary Berner said the rule would apply to all employees save for those who permanently work from a remote location or those with legal exceptions. “Put simply, […]

Comedian Jon Stewart took a shot at the media in general on Sunday morning, claiming that the press “does a terrible job at de-escalation” when it comes to hot-button political and societal issues and instead just seeks to “expose the conflict lines.” Six years after leaving his iconic run as the host of The Daily Show, Stewart recently returned to television with a new (and far more serious) program, The Problem with Jon Stewart. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union to promote the series, Stewart and anchor Jake Tapper engaged in a lengthy and in-depth discussion on the current state […]

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explicitly called out Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Sunday morning, saying he wasn’t “going to apologize” to the conservative host for taking paternity leave to care for his newborn twins. During his Thursday night broadcast, Carlson mockingly took aim at the Biden administration official for taking time off to care for the two babies that he and his husband Chasten recently adopted. “Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child. Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went,” Carlson […]

A Native American organization is calling on Fox News to fire hosts Jesse Watters and Rachel Campos-Duffy over a segment in which they tied Native Americans’ struggles to “government dependency” and “alcoholism.” IllumiNative, which describes itself as a Native-led non-profit “dedicated to battling toxic misconceptions of Native Americans,” issued a statement from its founder and executive director Crystal Echo Hawk on the hosts’ “abhorrent statements.” “We are enraged. On Wednesday, Fox News hosts Jesse Watters, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and former Congressman Sean Duffy spewed outrageously false and harmful statements about Native Americans – while on national television,” Echo Hawk said. During a […]

Fox News star Tucker Carlson has no problem bashing the Biden administration on a nightly basis for imposing vaccine requirements for large companies, likening the policy to tyranny. But when it comes to his own employer’s strict vaccine policy—one that goes even further than the Biden rules by requiring daily COVID testing for unvaccinated staffers—Carlson’s attitude is that he’s “not qualified to speak for the company on this.” Appearing this week on the Vince & Jason Save the Nation podcast (part of The Daily Caller website founded by Carlson), the primetime star was confronted by liberal commentator Jason Nichols over Carlson’s […]

Massively popular podcaster Joe Rogan, who has repeatedly sown doubt about COVID-19 vaccines, admitted this week that he almost got vaccinated a few months ago but scheduling conflicts caused him to miss his appointment. During a marathon three-hour interview with CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan wanted to make it clear to both Gupta and his audience that he is not actually anti-vaccine. And his proof was that he had planned to get the shot but never actually did. According to the influential comedian, he actually made an appointment in Las Vegas earlier this […]

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith tore into Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving on Tuesday night, telling the All-Star guard “to hell with you” for his continued refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. With 96 percent of NBA athletes now vaccinated, Irving remains the league’s highest-profile player to decline the shot. Since New York City—where the Nets play their home games—requires individuals to have had at least one COVID-19 jab to enter indoor arenas, the team has benched Irving until he can become a “full participant” under the city’s COVID-19 rules. “Kyrie has made a personal choice, and we respect his individual […]

Fox News star Tucker Carlson says he’s “not pretending at all” to be against vaccine mandates in a craven pursuit for “prestige or ratings,” insisting that his outrage is indeed “real.” In recent months, and especially since President Joe Biden issued a series of vaccine requirements, Fox News hosts and commentators have railed against COVID-19 vaccine policies, likening them to tyranny while cheering on those who resist the mandates. Carlson, in particular, has been extremely outspoken against government and business mandates, even as Fox Corp. itself has instituted a much stricter policy than what the Biden administration is requiring for private-sector […]

Nearly a year after the fact, former President Donald Trump is still bent out of shape over Fox News correctly projecting on election night that President Joe Biden won Arizona’s vote. In an interview that aired on Monday, the twice-impeached ex-president fumed to Newsmax anchor John Bachman about Fox’s decision to retain Arnon Mishkin as the head of the network’s vaunted “Decision Desk.” Bachman, who spoke to the president ahead of his Saturday night rally in Iowa, brought up Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott confirming last week that Mishkin would return for both the 2022 and 2024 elections. (While Mishkin is […]

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace continually grilled House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Sunday over the lawmaker’s refusal to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election fairly. Wallace, at one point, even asked the GOP leader if the bogus stolen election rhetoric is undermining “American democracy.” Appearing on Fox News Sunday to ostensibly rail against the Biden administration’s agenda, Scalise eventually found himself under the microscope for his support of Trump’s continued obsession with baseless conspiracies about widespread voter fraud costing him the election. “Do you think the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump?” Wallace asked. “And […]

CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday repeatedly confronted Facebook executive Nick Clegg over the social-media giant’s role in spreading dangerous misinformation ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Clegg, of course, ducked and dodged while attempting to shirk any responsibility on Facebook’s part. In the wake of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s damning testimony before the Senate, in which she detailed how the platform knowingly stokes division for profit, Clegg has made the media rounds in an effort to push back and offer a counter-narrative. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, the Facebook vice-president for global affairs was immediately […]

Former President Donald Trump stumbled down a well-worn, extremely racist path on Thursday night, striking fear into the hearts of Fox News viewers about how Haitian migrants coming into the United States “probably have AIDS,” and somehow represent a “death wish for our country.” Calling into his good buddy Sean Hannity’s primetime show on Thursday, Trump grumbled about the surge of asylum-seeking refugees and migrants making their way to the southern U.S. border. According to the twice-impeached ex-president, dozens of countries are purposely sending newly-released prisoners to America. “I hear it’s 50 countries! They are emptying out their prisons into the […]

Fox & Friends co-anchor Ainsley Earhardt not-so-subtly reminded viewers of her reported romantic relationship with fellow Fox star Sean Hannity on Thursday morning, cheerfully exclaiming “yes, he does” when the primetime star was asked if he has a favorite Fox & Friends host. While celebrating Fox News’ 25th anniversary on Thursday morning, Hannity appeared on the network’s flagship morning show to discuss his favorite moments and memories over his long career with the conservative channel. (Hannity has been with Fox News since its inception in 1996.) At one point, in an anecdote he repeated in several other interviews on the network’s […]

MSNBC star Rachel Maddow revealed on Wednesday night that she underwent surgery to remove a cancerous mole from her neck, reassuring viewers that she’ll “be totally fine” and urging them to get checked out for skin cancer. Having been off the air for the past few days, Maddow opened her primetime broadcast on Wednesday by asking her audience to “indulge me for a second” as she addressed a “quick personal matter.” After recounting a story about attending a minor league baseball game a couple of months ago with her spouse, Susan, Maddow said Susan noticed that a mole on her neck […]

CNN anchor Don Lemon tore into former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham over her recent redemption tour on Tuesday night, telling the one-time Trump spokesperson that she should “go on the Fox propaganda network” to sell her Trump tell-all book. In recent days, Grisham—who almost exclusively appeared on right-wing media during her time in the Trump White House—has made the rounds on CNN and broadcast networks to promote her salacious new book, I’ll Take Your Questions Now, in which she lambastes former President Donald Trump. A common theme throughout her media appearances, meanwhile, has been her attempt to repent for […]

Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone on Tuesday hyperbolically claimed that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) was “assaulted” when a fellow passenger asked the senator about her support for DACA during a flight this week. Casone claimed she was “shocked by that video,” wondering aloud why flight attendants or even the Federal Aviation Administration didn’t step in to prevent the senator from being calmly approached and questioned by a fellow traveler. As one of two Democratic senators refusing to fully support President Joe Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better agenda, Sinema has recently been confronted by activists and constituents for her opposition to the […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence insisted on Monday night that he “parted amicably” with former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 riot, during which enraged Trump supporters called for Pence to be hanged for not overturning the presidential election results. Appearing on Trump confidant Sean Hannity’s primetime Fox News program, the ex-veep spent much of his time blasting President Joe Biden over the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and his current agenda and policies. “I knew it would be bad. We worked our hearts out in that campaign last year. But I didn’t know it would be this bad,” Pence […]

Rudy Giuliani claimed in a recent deposition that the Trump campaign essentially had veto power over One America News reporter Christina Bobb’s stories while she volunteered for the Trump legal team following the 2020 presidential election. In a defamation lawsuit filed by former Dominion executive Eric Coomer against former President Donald Trump and several of his election-denying allies, including Giuliani and OAN, the former New York City mayor discussed the “agreement” he reached with OAN president Charles Herring to have Bobb work on the campaign’s legal team. “And my staff said she was terrific, she was very trustworthy and if we […]

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the Republican lawmaker’s full-throated opposition to President Joe Biden’s reconciliation spending package, noting that the bill not only contains provisions Barrasso has supported in the past but that his state would also overwhelmingly “benefit” from the bill. While the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continue to hash out the final details of the massive social policy spending bill, Republicans have remained united in opposition to it. Interviewing Barrasso on Fox News Sunday, Wallace wondered aloud if this was all a political game for the Wyoming […]

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), leader of the House progressives, pushed back on one of centrist West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s demands for Democrats’ massive reconciliation spending package, saying Sunday morning that she will not support the bill if it includes the Hyde Amendment. With the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continuing to negotiate President Joe Bidens’s agenda-setting $3.5 trillion social policy bill, Manchin—who describes himself as “pro-life”— made it clear last week that he would only vote for the bill if the Hyde Amendment is part of it. (The amendment prevents federal programs from covering abortion expenses.) “Yeah, […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis swore on Wednesday night that he isn’t considering a 2024 presidential run at the moment, claiming he’s too busy trying to “make sure people are not supporting critical race theory.” With early polls showing the Florida governor as one of the favorites—outside former President Donald Trump—to be the next Republican presidential nominee, DeSantis has repeatedly denied rumors that he is going to run. “All the speculation about me is purely manufactured,” he said earlier this month. “I hear all this stuff and honestly, it’s nonsense.” At the end of another extremely friendly interview with Fox News host […]

Right-wing troll Matt Walsh bragged to Fox News on Tuesday night about circumventing a Virginia school board’s rules just so he could deliver a transphobic speech at a meeting, acknowledging that he pretended to be a local resident in order to deliver his attention-seeking rant. Walsh, who hosts a podcast for Ben Shapiro’s right-wing website The Daily Wire, took to Facebook last week to proclaim that he would lead a “Protect Your Kids” rally outside Loudoun County’s weekly school board meeting on Tuesday. Over the past year, the county’s school board has become ground zero in the conservative culture-war fight against […]

MSNBC host Chris Hayes took Fox News hosts to task Tuesday night for raging against vaccine mandates even as their own employer has implemented a strict vaccination policy, declaring that the rival network’s talkers lack the “courage” to call out Fox on the air. Hayes blasted Fox stars such as Tucker Carlson for “selling this poison because it’s profitable for them,” adding that “they truly do not care” about the damage their rhetoric is causing because “it’s great for ratings.” As the Daily Beast reported on Tuesday, the Republican Party is currently raising money off of the Biden administration’s “authoritarian” requirements […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson kept it classy as usual on Monday night, describing CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz as a “midget with the microphone.” Continuing his relentless campaign against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, despite the fact his own employer has implemented a strict vaccine policy of its own, Carlson groused about New York’s requirement that the state’s health-care workers all be vaccinated by Monday. At the same time, he praised the refusers who would rather get fired than meet the state’s vaccine requirement. “Thousands of protesters gathered in New York to oppose this grotesque mandate,” he declared. “Unfortunately, it was not millions, […]

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace repeatedly pressed Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday over the lack of an exception for rape and incest in his state’s near-total abortion ban, wondering aloud if Abbott’s bizarre promise to “eliminate” rapists was “reasonable.” Earlier this month, the Texas governor defended his state’s sweeping and highly restrictive abortion law that eliminates nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy—an extremely narrow time window in which most women are still unaware they’re pregnant. Besides essentially allowing bounty-hunting by private citizens to enforce the law, Senate Bill 8 also lacks any exceptions for victims of rape […]

The Anti-Defamation League is reiterating its calls for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson after the network’s primetime star went all-in on espousing the racist “Great Replacement” theory this week. The last time Carlson embraced the conspiracy theory, his boss Lachlan Murdoch dismissed the outrage, claiming the Fox star was merely talking about voting rights. But now, the ADL said, Carlson is “openly embracing white nationalist talking points.” The Fox News host has repeatedly fear-mongered about Democrats allegedly bringing in dark-skinned immigrants with the express purpose of “replacing” the American (read: white) electorate. On Wednesday night, he declared that the Biden […]

A lieutenant colonel who says he will resign from the Army rather than get the COVID-19 vaccine declared on Fox News Wednesday night that while he has taken all the other vaccinations required by the military, he won’t get the coronavirus shot because of “freedom.” In a resignation letter that was shared by his wife on Twitter last week, Lt. Col. Paul Douglas Hague objected to the Pentagon’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination order for all members of the U.S. military. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued the mandate after the Food and Drug Administration fully approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. “First, and foremost, I […]

Mega-billionaire Bill Gates appeared flustered and nervous on Tuesday night when PBS anchor Judy Woodruff repeatedly pressed him on his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Punctuating the awkwardness of the exchange, the Microsoft founder pointedly noted that Epstein was “dead” after Woodruff asked him if he learned from the mistakes he made with the deceased sex criminal. Ostensibly appearing on PBS Newshour to discuss his philanthropy and recent grants made by his foundation, Gates soon found himself under the microscope over his lengthy friendship with Epstein, who died by suicide in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking […]

Deviating from their usual Biden boosting on Tuesday, the hosts of The View expressed how “disappointed” they were in the president’s handling of the thousands of Haitian migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. While the White House has predictably been criticized by conservatives for its response to a surge of migrants at the southern border, progressives and immigrant advocacy groups have also slammed the administration for working to swiftly deport the asylum-seeking refugees. On top of that, the White House was also forced to address the “horrific” images of Border Patrol agents on horseback seemingly whipping Haitian migrants with reins […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued his relentless anti-vaccine crusade on Monday by bizarrely claiming that the military’s new vaccination mandate was an effort by the Biden administration to weed out Christians and “men with high testosterone.” Following the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus shot last month, the Pentagon ordered all active-duty military members to be fully vaccinated. According to Carlson, though, the vaccine requirement was a “new political purity test” by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “This was specifically designed to separate the obedient from the free,” the Fox host grumbled on Monday night. “Can’t have any […]

The daughter of an unvaccinated man who recently died from COVID-19 told CNN on Monday that she believes her father was a victim of misinformation, specifically saying Fox News star Tucker Carlson “played a role” in the vaccine hesitancy that led to his death. Patrick Lane, a Boeing designer for 20 years, died from COVID-19 just days before Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine received full federal approval. While healthy with no underlying conditions, Lane quickly deteriorated following his diagnosis and was soon placed on a ventilator. Since his death, Lane’s family has issued a public plea for people to get vaccinated. His two […]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper repeatedly confronted Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Sunday over his opposition to President Joe Biden’s vaccine policy despite Mississippi’s “heartbreaking” coronavirus death rate, flatly stating that Reeves’ “way is failing.” Defending the administration’s vaccine mandates last week amid Republican promises to fight the new rules, Biden singled out Reeves, who had blasted the requirements as “tyrannical” and unconstitutional. “In Mississippi, children are required to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis B, polio, tetanus, and more,” the president noted on Thursday. “These are state requirements. But in the midst of a pandemic that has already taken […]

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace pressed National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins on a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel rejecting President Joe Biden’s booster shot proposal, straight-up asking him on Sunday if the president had done the “exact opposite” of his pledge to “follow the science.” Weeks after the administration announced plans for Americans to get a third booster shot eight months after they had received their second shot of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, an FDA advisory panel on Friday overwhelmingly voted against recommending the third dose of the Pfizer jab for people younger than 65. […]

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unabashedly hyped the white supremacist “Great Replacement” theory on Thursday night, ominously warning Fox News viewers that Democrats are using immigrants to “take over our country without firing a shot.” Appearing on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, Patrick discussed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency order shutting down six points of entry along the southern border amid a renewed surge in migrants. In the border community of Del Rio, U.S. Border Patrol says there are more than 9,000 migrants crowded into a temporary staging area, with thousands more expected to cross the border soon. It didn’t […]

What dumb thing are we outraged about tonight, folks? In the case of Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield, it’s that another media outlet called Dr. Anthony Fauci sexy on social media. Right-wing media found its latest thing to huff about on Wednesday after The Guardian’s Instagram account labeled the nation’s top infectious disease expert the “sexiest man alive” in a post promoting the upcoming documentary Fauci. (The chief White House medical adviser was nominated earlier this year by People magazine for the title, which ended up going to actor Michael B. Jordan.) Toward the end of his eponymous Newsmax show Wednesday night, […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson capped off a second straight night of coverage of Nicki Minaj’s wild claim that the coronavirus vaccine causes swollen testicles by urging the rap superstar’s cousin’s friend to contact him for an interview. In case you are somehow still unaware, Minaj faced harsh public backlash on Monday when she admitted on Twitter that she hadn’t yet gotten vaccinated, saying that she was doing her own “research” into the shot. At the same time, she shared an anecdote that she suggested had fed into her vaccine hesitancy. “My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his […]

As Fox News incessantly rails against President Joe Biden’s new vaccine and testing requirements as “tyranny” and “authoritarianism,” the network’s parent company on Tuesday boasted of its own internal policies similar to those exact policies. In a memo obtained by CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, Fox Corp. human resources chief Kevin Lord bragged that the vast majority of the company’s workforce is now vaccinated after calling upon staffers to input their vaccination status into a company-wide database. “Following our request for employees to upload their vaccination status in our secure system, we are pleased to share that more than 90% of our […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson confessed over the weekend that he will “lie” whenever he’s “really cornered or something.” During a Sunday appearance on right-wing provocateur Dave Rubin’s podcast, Carlson took aim at his rivals on CNN over what he claimed was their habit of telling falsehoods on the air. (The segment was first flagged by Media Matters, a liberal watchdog and Carlson nemesis.) “How do you think they live with themselves at this point when they just lie again and again and we have the internet to expose the lies?” Rubin asked, adding: “We can expose it now and they […]

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace repeatedly confronted Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts over his opposition to the Biden administration’s new coronavirus vaccine mandates and requirements, highlighting the governor’s seemingly contradictory position on other vaccines. After President Joe Biden announced a new series of rules that will mandate all federal employees to be vaccinated and require many private-sector employees to either be inoculated or tested weekly, several Republican governors—including Ricketts—threatened to fight the president’s requirements in court. “Have at it,” Biden curtly responded to the GOP threats. Interviewing Ricketts on Fox News Sunday, Wallace asked the governor why he was fighting the […]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Friday criticized President Joe Biden for being too mean to unvaccinated Americans, blasting the president’s allegedly “scolding tone” during the announcement of his new six-prong plan to combat the surging COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, the president revealed sweeping vaccine rules attempting to push the large minority of Americans who remain unvaccinated to finally get the shot. Besides requiring all federal employees to be vaccinated within 75 days, Biden also announced new rules requiring a sizable number of private-sector employees to either be vaccinated or produce weekly negative COVID-19 test results. During his speech, the president also […]

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy compared COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions to “apartheid” on Tuesday night, even though the network that employs her currently has a system in place to track their employees’ vaccination status. Sitting in as this week’s host of Fox News Primetime, Campos-Duffy complained that it was “creepy” that doctors are now advocating for stricter restrictions on unvaccinated Americans as the Delta variant continues to run wild, especially in areas with low vaccination rates. She specifically took issue with remarks made by former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen, who said recently that it “needs to be hard […]

Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren pushed forth a growing Fox News narrative on Tuesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom will only survive the California recall by rigging the election, outright claiming that the “only thing” that will save him is “voter fraud.” Months after former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Republicans and right-wing media have continued to latch onto baseless election conspiracies to not only justify Trump’s loss but now to preemptively explain away future GOP losses. With the California recall only a week […]

Struggling Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner attempted to claim Tuesday morning that she supported a “woman’s right to choose”—while simultaneously defending Texas’ draconian new law that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. With just a week left before California votes on whether to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, Jenner made the media rounds on Tuesday in an effort to boost her floundering campaign. (Recent polls show only one percent of California voters support her candidacy while Newsom has opened up a double-digit lead on remaining in office.) Appearing on CNN’s New Day, the reality TV star was pressed by anchor […]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) joined a growing Democratic chorus on Sunday, calling on the Senate to abolish the filibuster in order to codify Roe v. Wade into law following the Supreme Court’s refusal to block Texas’ new draconian abortion ban. With conservatives holding a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, fears that abortion could again be left to the states to decide on inched closer to reality after the court declined to step in and stop S.B. 8, the new Texas law that prohibits Texas women from getting an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy—before many women even know they are […]

Taking his criticism of vaccine mandates to a whole new level on Thursday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson seemingly advocated for unvaccinated people to obtain fake vaccination cards, claiming it’s “not a serious crime” but instead an “act of desperation” for law-abiding Americans who’ve been “forced into a corner.” Earlier this week, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced that 15 people are now facing charges over a conspiracy to forge COVID-19 vaccine cards and fraudulently enter unvaccinated people into New York’s vaccination database. Thirteen of the people charged for buying the bogus cards are “believed to work in […]

Fox News pulled out of Thursday morning’s New York briefing on the area’s deadly storms and floods after a Democratic congressman cited climate change as a factor in the devastation, with anchor Bill Hemmer grumbling that it had turned “political quite quickly.” Days after Hurricane Ida slammed Louisiana and Mississippi, the remnants of the powerful storm spawned tornadoes and dumped a record-setting amount of rain on New York City and New Jersey, resulting in unprecedented flash flooding, building collapses, transportation shutdowns, and at least 18 deaths. In the Thursday morning briefing, elected officials such as N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson ridiculed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday night for avoiding his show, calling the Republican senator out for running to friendlier Fox programs to beg for money on his “never-ending fundraising tour.” And in the process, Carlson was perhaps tweaking his Fox News primetime colleague Sean Hannity, who has hosted Graham on his show no less than 35 times this year. Over the past few days, Carlson has devoted near-nightly segments to criticizing Graham over his record as a lawmaker. Last week, for instance, the Fox News star spent the final few minutes of his show […]

Several Fox News hosts on Wednesday praised a Florida restaurant owner’s decision to ban supporters of President Joe Biden from eating at her establishment, saying it’s “understandable” and that it could “lead to a lot more business for her.” With conservative anger towards the Biden administration reaching a fever pitch following the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the owner of Debary Diner posted a sign outside her business telling Biden voters not to enter following the Kabul terror attack. “If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House that is […]

Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter who became “the pandemic’s wrongest man,” suggested on Monday night that he would sue Twitter for banning his account for repeatedly violating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. And Fox News host Tucker Carlson not only urged the self-professed “COVID contrarian” to “sue the crap” out of the social media site but he also offered to “fund” Berenson’s potential lawsuit. Over the weekend, Berenson was permanently suspended from Twitter after building up a massive following on the platform by peddling skepticism and misinformation about the virus, mitigation efforts, and the coronavirus vaccines. The ex-reporter […]

MAGA-boosting Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) seemingly proposed another “Stop the Steal”-type rally in D.C. this week while sympathizing with the “political hostages” that were arrested and charged for participating in the violent Jan. 6 Capitol riots. On top of that, the far-right congressman further spoke in hypothetical terms about trying to “bust” out those jailed for crimes related to the insurrection, repeatedly referring to them as political prisoners. (Pro-Trump Republicans and right-wing media figures have increasingly portrayed the Capitol rioters, who sought to overturn President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, as mere protesters who were unfairly targeted for their political beliefs.) Speaking […]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken strongly disputed reports that the United States government had provided what’s been described as a “kill list” to the Taliban, stating on Sunday morning that “it’s simply not the case.” Just hours after a deadly suicide bombing attack killed 13 U.S. service members outside the Kabul airport, Politico reported on Thursday that U.S. officials gave the Taliban a list of American citizens, residents and Afghan allies to grant entry through the outside perimeter of the airport, which is controlled by Taliban militants. The report prompted immediate backlash and outrage from lawmakers and military officials, with many […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, exasperatedly called on Americans to please stop ingesting a horse dewormer drug to treat and prevent COVID-19, stating on Sunday that there’s “no evidence whatsoever” that the medication works. Egged on by right-wing media figures and conservative politicians, Americans who are hesitant to get vaccinated have instead turned to the anti-parasite drug ivermectin—much like hydroxychloroquine last year—as a “miracle” cure for COVID-19. And while studies show that ivermectin provides no benefits as a coronavirus preventative, pharmacies across the country have been besieged with prescriptions for the human-approved version of the drug, creating […]

Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder has suddenly risen to front-runner status in the race to replace Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall. But just six months ago, Elder explicitly said on-air that he wouldn’t run because he doesn’t have the “temperament” or “stomach” to be governor. During the Feb. 4 broadcast of The Larry Elder Show, first spotlighted by liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America, the right-wing commentator addressed his listeners’ desire for him to throw his hat in the recall race. At the time, Elder said he preferred to remain a radio host. “Most recently, somebody […]

On the same morning that at least 12 U.S. service members were killed in a bloody terror attack in Kabul, former President Donald Trump suggested Osama bin Laden wasn’t a big deal and only “had one hit.” Calling into conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show on Thursday morning, Trump doubled down on his recent claims that the Taliban wouldn’t have quickly taken over Afghanistan following American troop withdrawal if he were still in charge. (Trump negotiated the original peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020, which included a May 1 withdrawal date and the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.) At […]

Fox News star Tucker Carlson said on Wednesday night that he finds it a “little confusing” that bisexual Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is married to a man, apparently forgetting what the “bi” means in bisexual. Kicking off his primetime show by taking aim at Brown for enacting mask mandates in most outdoor public settings amid a dramatic surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, the far-right host suggested that Brown was only elected because she presented herself as a pioneer. “Kate Brown was first elected governor of Oregon all the way back in 2015,” he said. “At the time, there was not a whole […]

A federal judge on Wednesday granted the motion of sanctions filed by the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit against the so-called “Kraken” attorneys over their conspiracy-tinged litigation hoping to overturn the 2020 presidential election, ordering that they face “possible suspension or disbarment” and be referred for a professional conduct probe. U.S. District Judge Linda Parker did not hold back in chastising the lawyers—including infamous pro-Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood—for “undermining the People’s faith in our democracy.” “This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” Parker wrote in a lengthy 110-page ruling. […]

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted on Tuesday night that the United States “didn’t see crisis after crisis” under former President Donald Trump, a strange claim considering the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died from a crippling pandemic during Trump’s tenure. Largely due to the summer resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic and his handling of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has seen his once sturdy job approval numbers plunge in recent weeks. A new USA Today poll, for instance, gave Biden only a 41 percent total approval rating, down from 60 percent in the […]

Failed Republican congressional candidate turned pro-Trump pundit Kimberly Klacik has filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against fellow right-wing provocateur Candace Owens over a social-media video Owens posted in June accusing Klacik of being a strip club “madame” who laundered money and used campaign funds to do cocaine. In the lawsuit that was filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court, first reported by Fox Baltimore, Klacik claimed she has seen her career in right-wing media crater after Owens posted the 44-minute Instagram video on June 22. According to Klacik’s attorney, the pundit has lost a book deal, been pulled from political fundraisers, […]

Sports columnist turned right-wing pundit Jason Whitlock cited racial justice and trans rights to outright claim that “a lot of what the Left supports is satanic,” a view Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he “completely” agreed with on Monday night. Discussing his recent column in which he describes Bill Maher as “red-pilled” due to the fact that the late-night host has loudly been criticizing the “woke” left lately, Whitlock claimed that the only thing lumping Maher in with other Democrats and liberals is their shared hatred of former President Donald Trump. “So every week he is coming out trashing the […]

Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt recounted the “terrible feeling of humiliation” over getting fired by the network after he defended the Fox News decision desk’s early but accurate election night call for President Joe Biden to win Arizona, adding that it was “very challenging” to tell his kids he was suddenly kicked to the curb. Stirewalt was among several former Fox News employees to speak with Australia’s ABC TV for a multi-episode documentary about Fox’s evolution into a propaganda outlet for former President Donald Trump. In part one, which first aired Monday, a number of Fox insiders, including Stirewalt, […]

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar confronted National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Sunday morning over claims President Joe Biden made on Friday about the Afghanistan withdrawal, wondering aloud why the president was “misleading with his words.” Amid the evacuation crisis in Afghanistan following the government’s collapse and the Taliban’s return to power, the president promised during a Friday press conference to evacuate all Americans from the country while defending the chaotic withdrawal from the country. Biden, at one point, insisted that his administration has seen “no indication” that Americans “haven’t been able to get through the [Kabul] airport,” adding that the U.S. […]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper blasted former U.S Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley and other former Trump officials on Thursday for their “attempted memory hole” of former President Donald Trump’s negotiations and peace agreement with the Taliban, calling it “insulting to everyone.” Amid the sudden collapse of the Afghan government following American troop withdrawals, which has resulted in Americans and Afghan allies scrambling to leave as the Taliban takes over, Republicans and Trumpworld figures have sought to place all of the blame for the evacuation crisis squarely on the Biden administration. At the same time, they’ve either sidestepped their own personal […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest on Wednesday night decided to run with an accused child sex trafficker as their source to prove a long-running right-wing conspiracy about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Yes, you read that correctly. For years now, Omar—a naturalized American citizen born in Somalia—has been dogged by unproven and largely baseless rumors from the right that her ex-husband is actually her biological brother and that she married him so he could obtain American citizenship. As The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer wrote back in 2019, the origin of the conspiracy centers on a single anonymous online post […]

Afghanistan war veteran and former CIA analyst Matt Zeller tore into former Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller on Wednesday for suggesting Afghan refugees don’t deserve to come to America, saying Miller “should be held accountable for war crimes” because he was as “responsible” as the Taliban for “these people’s deaths.” Zeller has worked tirelessly for years to bring Afghan interpreters and support personnel who worked with US troops to America, urging U.S. officials to ensure our Afghan allies can be safely evacuated out of Afghanistan. With the sudden and chaotic collapse of the Afghan government following the withdrawal of U.S. troops […]

Fox News star Sean Hannity has repeatedly used the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan as a sales line to plug his radio show’s sponsors in recent days, comparing the chaotic evacuation in Kabul to a “stampede away from high prices.” Hannity has spent much of his radio and television airtime since Sunday railing against the Biden administration over the Taliban rapidly taking over Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops, which has resulted in the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and thousands of petrified Afghan citizens rushing to leave the country. In between many of those segments, however, the conservative […]

Fringe right-wing network One America News lost its appeal of its defamation suit against MSNBC and star host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday, with a panel upholding a previous federal court ruling against OAN that required them to pay $250,000 of the defendants’ legal fees. OAN, owned by Herring Networks, initially sued Maddow for $10 million in July 2019 after the MSNBC star said on her show that the Trump-boosting network is “paid Russian propaganda,” calling her remarks “malicious and utterly false.” Maddow’s comments, however, were based on a Daily Beast story detailing how OAN employs Kristian Rouz, a reporter who simultaneously […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson warned his viewers on Monday night that U.S. elites would use the sudden collapse of Afghanistan to resettle “millions” of Afghan migrants “in your neighborhood,” describing the granting of asylum to war refugees as an invasion. Carlson, who has repeatedly promoted the so-called Great Replacement conspiracy theory that argues liberals are replacing white citizens with obedient non-white immigrants, kicked off his Monday night primetime show by first suggesting America lost in Afghanistan because of “radical gender politics.” “It caused revolts, but officials kept doing it, they kept pushing radical gender politics anyway, because they could, because […]

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, fresh off a well-timed vacation that coincided with his brother Andrew’s resignation as New York governor over a sexual harassment scandal, addressed the elephant in the room at the end of his primetime show Monday night. And he let viewers know that this would be his “final word on it.” The CNN star, who previously apologized in May for advising his brother on how to handle his unfolding sexual misconduct controversy, testified in the New York attorney general’s report that concluded Andrew Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women. The report also found that Chris Cuomo appeared to […]

Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany parroted the GOP’s recent attempt to memory hole the Trump administration’s role in the destabilizing collapse of Afghanistan, loudly declaring on Monday that the Taliban quickly seizing control of the Afghan capital of Kabul “would have never happened” under President Donald Trump. Since the Taliban’s sweeping takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops—which has resulted in the chaotic evacuation of American diplomats and Afghan refugees—a number of former Trump officials (including Trump himself) have sought to lay all of the blame solely at the Biden administration’s feet. The chastising and finger-pointing has taken place […]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper relentlessly pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday over the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, asking Blinken straight up how President Joe Biden “got this so wrong.” With the Taliban now occupying the Afghanistan capital of Kabul and negotiating with the Afghan government for a “peaceful” transfer of power, Tapper brought up Biden’s remarks just a few weeks ago in which the president said it was “not true” that the Afghan government would likely collapse once the U.S. left the nation. “Secretary Blinken, as you know, the Taliban has closed in on Kabul,” Tapper said to the […]

Amid the widespread criticism that’s been thrown at the Biden administration over the collapse of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace kept it fair and balanced on Sunday morning when he confronted former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his own record of legitimizing and emboldening the Taliban. With the Taliban essentially taking over the entire country in a matter of a few short weeks and the Afghan president fleeing the country after the group surrounded the capital of Kabul, Pompeo appeared on Fox News Sunday to blast President Joe Biden for supposedly folding to […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson took his sexist attacks against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to a new level on Thursday night, telling the progressive lawmaker to “get a therapist, honey” over her detailing her fear of getting raped during the violent Jan. 6 insurrection. Since the day former President Donald Trump incited an enraged mob to storm the U.S Capitol in hopes of stopping Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory, Ocasio-Cortez has openly and emotionally discussed her experience during the riot, explaining how scared she was that angry rioters could potentially kill her. At the same time, Carlson has relentlessly […]

While media outlets left and right are covering election-denying MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s bonkers “symposium,” one powerful network is completely ignoring it: Fox News. And the pillow mogul is making sure everyone knows how pissed he is about that. While a denizen of fraudsters, grifters, wannabe politicians, and right-wing media outlets have descended upon Sioux Falls to witness Lindell’s unveiling of “world-changing” data that will—in his words—force the Supreme Court to reinstate a President Donald Trump, mainstream news outlets and actual cybersecurity experts are also in attendance. Many journalists, such as CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, who cover right-wing disinformation and how Lindell’s […]

Well, it looks like the “con is winding down.” Trump-boosting pillow salesman Mike Lindell had offered $5 million to anyone who showed up to his three-day “cyber symposium” and could disprove his claims that China hacked the 2020 presidential election via voting machines. That offer is no longer on the table as of Wednesday evening, according to Josh Merritt, the MyPillow CEO’s lead cyber expert. In an interview with The Washington Times on Wednesday, Merritt acknowledged that the data Lindell had long promised to reveal at this week’s symposium in South Dakota was bogus. While the pillow mogul has long boasted […]

Fox News host Mark Levin railed against the 19 Republican senators who voted to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Tuesday, demanding primary challengers oust the GOP lawmakers from office for choosing “tyranny” and selling out the party. Speaking to fellow Fox host Sean Hannity, another pro-Trump conservative who has been highly critical of the popular spending plan, Levin launched into a five-minute tirade lambasting Republicans who supported the $1.2 trillion deal. (Some of those GOP senators, such as Lindsey Graham, are frequent guests of Hannity’s program.) “We choose liberty, but the 19 Republicans in the Senate chose tyranny,” Levin grumbled. […]

In a surprise move, Fox News host Tucker Carlson stood up for Chris Cuomo on Monday night, saying it was “understandable” that the embattled CNN anchor would advise his brother Andrew amid the New York governor’s spiraling sexual harassment scandal because “loyalty should be to your family above all else.” Carlson, who has repeatedly taken snarky shots at the CNN star over the years, let his viewers know Monday that he was going to “take time to defend the chief bodybuilding correspondent at CNN.” Noting that Chris Cuomo just recently took an extremely well-timed vacation as Andrew Cuomo’s controversy threatens to […]

Dan Bongino on Monday criticized Fox News, his employer, for posting an edited version of his interview with former President Donald Trump to YouTube over the weekend. Over the past couple of days, the vociferously pro-Trump pundit has faced the MAGA wrath after a Trump spokesperson pointed out that the ex-president saying the 2020 election was “fake” during his Saturday night Fox News chat with Bongino had been cut when the segment was published on YouTube. “It’s a disgrace what’s happening, and I don’t think the country’s gonna stand for much longer. They are disgusted. You have a fake election, you […]

Trump-boosting Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo chastised Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) on Sunday over his support of the broadly popular bipartisan infrastructure bill that is on the verge of passage, asking him point-blank if he’s “betraying the Republican base” while complaining that the spending package doesn’t include money for a border wall. With the long slog to passing the trillion-dollar bill finally nearing the finish line—and GOP negotiators saying that up to 18 Republican senators have indicated they support the package—Cramer appeared on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures to explain why he was going to vote for one of President Joe […]

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) distanced himself from one of his party’s biggest stars on Sunday, saying he disagrees with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to ban local mask mandates amid a dramatic surge of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. Despite Florida representing one in every five new COVID-19 cases in the country and the state’s ICUs and hospitals reaching capacity, DeSantis recently pushed Florida’s health and education departments to issue a rule barring school districts from implementing mask mandates. The executive order has already been met with multiple lawsuits, with parents noting that many children are currently too young to receive a […]

Trump-boosting pillow magnate Mike Lindell, whose company MyPillow is one of Fox News’ largest advertisers, said on Thursday night that he is pulling his commercials from the network because they won’t run a commercial pushing baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on Lindell’s decision. In response to Lindell’s claim that he was immediately pulling his ads, Fox News said in a statement: “It’s unfortunate Mr. Lindell has chosen to pause his commercial time on FOX News given the level of success he’s experienced in building his brand through advertising […]

Ahead of President Joe Biden’s Thursday announcement of a vaccine requirement for federal workers, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Perine likened the mandate to the company-wide policy recently implemented at one of the administration’s chief critics: Fox News. During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Jean-Perine was immediately pressed by reporters about how exactly Biden’s upcoming mandate would work, specifically if there would be disciplinary action for workers who don’t get vaccinated and whether the federal government would collect proof of vaccination. While Jean-Perine noted that the official guidance hadn’t yet been made public, and therefore she didn’t want to get ahead of […]

Quickly approaching her last day on The View, Meghan McCain defended the role nepotism has had on her career on Thursday, stating that she “no longer cares” what people think because her “work ethic speaks for itself.” Regular viewers of The View are well aware that McCain’s father is the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), as she has not been shy about dropping his name and repeatedly mentioning how she is “John McCain’s daughter.” At the same time, the conservative host has been sensitive about charges of nepotism, even as she relentlessly trades on her family name. In one of the […]

For the second day in a row on Wednesday, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera passionately advocated for vaccine mandates while labeling Americans who are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as “selfish” and “arrogant.” This time around, however, he also threatened to kick his co-host Greg Gutfeld “in the ass” if he came into his grandchildrens’ home without first being vaccinated. During Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News panel show The Five, the hosts largely revisited their off-the-rails argument from the previous day, which revolved around the CDC reversing course and recommending indoor mask usage for vaccinated people in high-transmission areas. Besides grumbling […]

Well, that didn’t take long. Following superstar gymnast Simone Biles citing concerns of mental health after shockingly pulling out of the women’s team competition, a number of conservative media figures and pundits attacked her on Tuesday for supposedly being a “quitter” and “selfish sociopath” who had brought “shame on her country.” Universally considered the greatest female gymnast of all time, Biles followed up an uncharacteristically sloppy preliminary round with an unusually poor start in the team event on Tuesday. Later saying she wasn’t in “the right headspace,” the four-time Olympic champion withdrew after she looked lost during her first vault attempt. […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson took his overt downplaying of the Capitol insurrection to a new low on Tuesday night, literally laughing at an officer who had described the vicious beating he suffered that day and the psychological trauma that followed in congressional testimony. Carlson, who has routinely dismissed the violence that occurred during the deadly riot as nothing more than a “political protest that got out of hand,” took aim at the Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone and the three Capitol police officers who emotionally testified about the brutality they witnessed at Tuesday’s hearing before the Jan. 6 House Select […]

Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield said on Monday night that he was “happy” to root against multiple U.S. Olympic teams because they don’t share his personal politics, declaring that he “took pleasure” in both the men’s basketball team’s surprising loss to France and Sweden’s defeat of the women’s soccer squad. In recent weeks, some right-wing media figures and politicians have loudly criticized American athletes who have engaged in social justice protests, such as calling for hammer thrower Gwen Berry to be kicked off the Olympic team for her national anthem demonstration during trials. At the same time, they’ve also suggested this year’s […]

The View’s Meghan McCain on Monday dramatically denounced a Montana man who confronted Fox News star Tucker Carlson at a sporting goods store, describing the local fly-fishing guide’s actions as “incredibly dangerous” and comparing him to the congressional baseball shooter. In a video that he shared on his Instagram account over the weekend, Dan Bailey can be seen telling Carlson “you are the worst human being known to mankind” as the Fox host was shopping at Dan Bailey’s Outdoor Company. (Oddly enough, Bailey has no affiliation with the shop other than sharing a name with the late founder.) During the brief […]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Sunday morning that she intends to name another Republican to the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, saying her “plan” was to choose Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). Last week, Pelosi made the unprecedented move of rejecting two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s appointments to the committee, claiming the inclusion of Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN) was “ridiculous.” Both congressmen have been vocal supporters of former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen and objected to Congress’ certification of President Joe […]

Fox News star Sean Hannity was very angry on Thursday night over the plaudits he received from liberals and mainstream media outlets for seemingly endorsing the COVID-19 vaccines this week, making it “very clear” that he “never told anyone to get a vaccine.” Amid a noticeable shift in much—but definitely not all—of Fox News’ coverage in recent days towards a more pro-vaccine stance, complete with a new PSA featuring anchors urging viewers to get their shots, Hannity delivered a message on Tuesday night imploring his audience to “please take COVID seriously.” “And it absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get […]

Once again, The View’s Meghan McCain chastised a Jewish guest for supposedly not speaking out loudly enough against antisemitism. During Thursday’s broadcast of The View, the soon-to-be ex-host confronted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on what she claimed was his silence on both the Israel–Palestine conflict earlier this year and the spate of antisemitic attacks that occurred as the violence raged abroad. “Senator Schumer, you are well known for support of your Jewish supporters and Israel and you even tell your Jewish supporters your last name comes from the Hebrew term shomer, or guard, and you will be a guard […]

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto rallied to the defense of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, saying conservatives’ attacks against the nation’s top infectious disease expert are unfair and lamenting that Fauci has been “vilified” like “Lex Luthor.” Cavuto’s full-throated defense of Fauci could be seen as a not-so-subtle swipe at his Fox News colleagues who have led the charge in denigrating the public health expert over the past year. During a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning, Fauci lashed out against Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) after the Kentucky lawmaker accused him of lying to Congress about his personal involvement in funding so-called […]

Fox News host Sean Hannity took some time out of his broadcast Monday night to deliver a direct message to Fox News viewers, telling them to take the coronavirus pandemic “seriously” and declaring that he believes in the “science of vaccines.” Amid a frightening surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations due to the rapid spread of the Delta variant and stagnating vaccination rates, Fox News has come under intense fire in recent days over its hosts and pundits relentlessly peddling vaccine hesitancy and skepticism. With the unvaccinated making up over 99 percent of recent COVID deaths, critics have wondered aloud whether […]

The View’s Meghan McCain suggested on Monday morning that nobody at Fox News had actually told viewers not to “get the vaccine,” though the soon-to-be ex-View host did concede that she may be “misinformed” about Fox personalities’ anti-vaccine efforts. Amid a surge in new coronavirus cases that’s largely been attributed to swaths of the country refusing to get vaccinated, much of the blame has been placed on conservative media for peddling coronavirus misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. With the unvaccinated accounting for over 99 percent of recent COVID-19 deaths, critics have wondered aloud if Fox News is literally “killing people” with its […]

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade stepped all over his colleague’s pro-vaccine message on Monday morning, declaring that it’s Americans’ “choice” to die from COVID-19 while insisting that it isn’t the government’s job to “protect anybody” from the virus. Fox News has come under intense fire recently over the anti-vaccine rhetoric emanating from its most visible stars, with critics outright blaming the news network for the low vaccination rates in GOP-dominated states and counties that have led to a resurgence of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. With unvaccinated people accounting for over 99 percent of recent COVID-19 deaths and 97 percent of […]

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stopped just short of outright saying Fox News is killing people with COVID-19 misinformation on Sunday, telling CNN that conservative media’s anti-vaccine rhetoric is “having a real cost that can be measured in lives lost.” With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surging across the nation among the unvaccinated, prompting some areas to reimpose coronavirus restrictions and mask mandates, the White House sounded the alarm on the impact misinformation is having on the administration’s vaccination campaign and mitigation efforts. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, for instance, said last week that Facebook is not doing enough to push back […]

Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt cavalierly suggested on Friday night that vaccines are “against nature” because some diseases are just “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people” since that’s just the “way evolution goes.” In recent weeks, right-wing media has seamlessly shifted from casually pushing vaccine hesitancy on its viewers to outright advocating for vaccine resistance, culminating in a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas this weekend cheering at the fact that the federal government hasn’t met its vaccination goals. As red-state counties and states with relatively low vaccination rates experience a surge in COVID-19 infections and […]