As medical professionals and local authorities across the country sound the alarm over shortages of life-saving equipment due to a surge in coronavirus patients, President Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off their warnings because, as he put it, “a lot of equipment is being asked for that I don’t think they will need.” Calling into Fox News host and unofficial presidential adviser Sean Hannity’s show on […]
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro found himself on the receiving end of a verbal buzzsaw Thursday afternoon when CNN anchor Brianna Keilar relentlessly grilled him on the administration’s lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, explicitly telling him he was “wasting everyone’s time.” With casualties from the deadly coronavirus surging across the nation and hospitals running out of needed supplies as they become overrun with […]
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the syndicated TV doc who Fox News has recently leaned for coronavirus expertise, said Thursday morning that he believes doctors now feel that the “worry and panic” over the disease will be “worse than the actual coronavirus.” With U.S. deaths from the pandemic now topping a thousand, Dr. Oz appeared on Fox & Friends and expressed hope that a medication could soon be […]
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci seemingly pushed back Wednesday night against President Donald Trump’s desire to quickly end coronavirus restrictions and reopen the economy, noting that “the virus makes the timeline.” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time to discuss the growing pandemic […]
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams pushed back on the hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday morning after the trio hyped up an anti-malaria drug as a potential treatment for coronavirus. Social distancing, the top doc said, is still currently the best way to stem the spread of the virus. In recent days, President Donald Trump has embraced chloroquine and its derivative hydroxychloroquine as a “game […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson ended his program Thursday night by calling for Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) to resign and face prosecution for insider trading if he can’t provide “an honest explanation” for dumping over $1 million of stock after he discovered the severity of the looming coronavirus pandemic. Shortly before Carlson went to air Thursday night, ProPublica reported that after the Senate Intelligence Committee that […]
During Wednesday’s broadcast of The View, conservative co-host Meghan McCain applauded President Donald Trump for insisting on calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus,” saying “P.C.” liberals will get him “re-elected” if they keep harping on it. His use of the racial term is “effective,” she said. Long-time host Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the program by noting that she was broadcasting from her home, noting that while her […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson applauded President Donald Trump on Tuesday night for doubling down on using the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the novel coronavirus, saying the moment was the president “at his very best.” During a coronavirus press conference on Tuesday afternoon in which Trump announced he’d be seeking roughly $1 trillion in stimulus help to boost the economy throughout the pandemic, the […]
Filling in for President Trump’s most recent Medal of Freedom honoree Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, conservative radio host Mark Steyn claimed that the reason why San Francisco announced a “shelter-in-place” order to contain the coronavirus outbreak is because it’s a “big gay town.” On Monday, Northern California officials revealed that the nearly 7 million residents in the Bay Area would be required to remain in their […]
On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin waved off the numerous misstatements made by President Donald Trump in his much-criticized Oval Office address last week. Mnuchin insisted that the president didn’t get “things wrong at all” despite the Trump administration having to clarify and correct multiple inaccuracies. Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Mnuchin boasted that the stock market reacted positively to the announcement of a bipartisan bill […]
One day after Fox News executives sent a memo to staffers emphasizing the network’s duty to keep its viewers informed with accurate information about the coronavirus crisis, Fox & Friends guest Jerry Falwell Jr. suggested the North Koreans worked in concert with China to create the virus specifically to harm America. Falwell, who is the president of Liberty University and a top supporter of President Donald […]
Ronald Martinez/Getty The NBA has suspended the rest of the season due to the coronavirus outbreak. The league says they “will use hiatus to determine next steps moving.” This is a breaking story. Read more at The Daily Beast. Source
Fox Business Network host Trish Regan unleashed a truly bonkers tirade at the top of her primetime program Monday night, insisting that the coronavirus outbreak is actually “another attempt to impeach” President Donald Trump. Regan—who seemingly competes with fellow FBN host Lou Dobbs over who can be a greater sycophant to the president—delivered her monologue in a breathless tenor that felt more at home in a […]
President Donald Trump announced from the White House on Monday evening that he’s looking at a potential payroll tax cut to help offset any damage and impact the coronavirus outbreak has had upon the American economy and stock market. Speaking from the White House press briefing room the same day the Dow Jones experienced a record drop amid concerns that the growing coronavirus pandemic will result […]
With the stock market experiencing record-setting drops on Monday morning that prompted trading to briefly halt, pro-Trump Fox Business Network hosts Stuart Varney and Maria Bartiromo turned their eyes to… uh… Joe Biden to boost the stocks. During Monday morning’s broadcast of Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co., the eponymous host wondered aloud whether the markets—plunging due to fear and uncertainty surrounding a coronavirus outbreak—could “see […]
HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, on Sunday refused to reveal how the administration is planning to handle the 3,500 passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship that has been hit with a coronavirus outbreak and is scheduled to dock in Oakland, California as early as Sunday afternoon. During his appearance on ABC’s This Week, Carson was asked by […]
In the wake of many of his supporters and progressives openly questioning the cognitive capabilities of former Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday that he doesn’t make “personal attacks” on Biden while waving off concerns that the ex-veep isn’t “up to the task” of being president. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, the democratic-socialist Vermont senator was […]
In response to a Thursday night segment in which a Fox News host seemingly peddled an anti-Semitic trope about Jewish billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt sent a letter to the network’s chief expressing how “deeply disturbed” he was that the host played into “deep seated anti-Semitic canards.” On Thursday night’s broadcast of The Ingraham Angle, Raymond Arroyo—filling in for regular host Laura Ingraham—dedicated […]
How did this ever make it to air? During Thursday night’s live broadcast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, anchor Brian Williams and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay both credulously believed a viral, flatly wrong tweet claiming that Michael Bloomberg could have gifted each American one million dollars with the money he spent on his failed campaign. Discussing Bloomberg’s plans to form a Super […]
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade grew incredibly defensive on Thursday morning when former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe noted that President Donald Trump has Fox News on his side, claiming that Trump “doesn’t have the whole network.” Discussing former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Trump’s favorite morning show, Kilmeade asked Plouffe why the suddenly resurgent candidate didn’t have a better fundraising foundation and […]
A day after former Vice President Joe Biden scored a series of dramatic primary victories on Super Tuesday to become the Democratic presidential frontrunner, President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud during an interview with sycophantic Fox News host Sean Hannity: He’s going to make Biden’s son a central part of his campaign against the ex-veep. Appearing on Hannity’s primetime show Wednesday night for […]
In a notably cringeworthy moment on Wednesday’s The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg called for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to appoint his wife Jill Biden as surgeon general should he win the White House—erroneously believing her to be an “amazing” medical doctor. Following Biden’s dominant Super Tuesday performance, in which he took the vast majority of the 14 state primaries up for grabs, the hosts of […]
The day after veteran MSNBC host Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement Monday night following a series of on-air screw-ups and accusations he made sexually inappropriate comments to female guests, the denizens of MSNBC’s Morning Joe expressed anger and indignation that their colleague was seemingly forced out. Calling it a “moving, moving night,” co-host Joe Scarborough praised Steve Kornacki—who was left stunned and speechless when taking […]
Former interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile lashed out Tuesday at Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel during a Fox News appearance, repeatedly telling McDaniel to “go to hell” for claiming the Democratic primary will be “rigged” against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Hours before polls close in 14 Democratic primary states, Brazile—now a Fox News contributor—was asked by America’s Newsroom anchor Sandra Smith to react […]