Justin Baragona

Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson attempted to shirk responsibility on Sunday for signing a strict “trigger law” that would ban abortion in his state without any exceptions for rape and incest, insisting that Arkansas will revisit that matter if Roe v. Wade is overturned. Amid the bombshell leak of the draft majority Supreme Court opinion that would reverse the federal right to abortion, Republican-led states have come under scrutiny over anti-abortion laws that will automatically take effect if the high court overruled Roe v. Wade. One of these states with this so-called “trigger” ban is Arkansas, which was signed into law […]

A liberal Fox News guest took the opportunity on Thursday to call out the network for repeatedly peddling the white supremacist theory that was the self-stated reason for the alleged Buffalo shooter’s killing spree last week. Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, of course, waved away the criticism, saying her network would allow the court to “adjudicate the case without us commenting on it” before turning to a conservative guest to offer a rebuttal. Following the horrific massacre in which a gunman killed 10 people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, much media attention has focused on the alleged shooter’s […]

Tucker Carlson was against mocking Dan Crenshaw’s missing eye before he was very much for it. On Monday night, the Fox News host made fun of the Texas Republican for losing an eye in combat, jokingly referring to Crenshaw as “eyepatch McCain” over his support for Ukrainian military aid. Of course, Carlson’s attack comes just a few years after he tore into Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson over a similar joke at Crenshaw’s expense, claiming that SNL had sunk to a new low by ridiculing a wounded veteran. The far-right primetime star’s flip-flop on mocking vets came during a Monday […]

Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts declared on Sunday morning that he wants his state to pass a law banning all abortion with no exceptions for incest or rape, stating that it’s his “intention” to call a special legislative session to take “further steps” to “protect preborn babies.” Abortion rights have suddenly emerged as one of the top election issues heading into the midterms, following this month’s leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. The opinion, written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, would not only uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban but would also strike down the federal […]

Former President Donald Trump’s eldest son tossed out an absolutely bonkers conspiracy theory on Sunday morning about the bombshell leak of the majority Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. According to Donald Trump Jr., liberals may have leaked the high court’s decision that would strike down the federal right to abortion because they’re in a “panic” over edgelord billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter. During an appearance on ultra-MAGA anchor Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures, Trump went off on a tangent while railing against the Biden administration’s planned Disinformation Governance Board. Conservatives have labeled the […]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper repeatedly confronted Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Sunday over that state’s trigger laws that will snap into effect if and when Roe v. Wade is overturned, pressing the Republican on forcing women to carry pregnancies resulting from incest to term. Following the bombshell leak of a majority Supreme Court draft opinion that would strike down the landmark 1973 decision that established a federal right to abortion, much attention has focused on conservative-led states’ legislation that will automatically take effect if it is nullified. Mississippi, like many other Southern and Great Plains states, has a so-called “trigger law” […]

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro really wants the SCOTUS leaker charged with something, anything. But as for what crime the unidentified person committed, well, the former judge has no idea. Pirro followed in the steps of other Republicans and right-wing pundits on Tuesday, demanding on-air that the person who leaked the bombshell draft opinion suggesting a Supreme Court majority intends to overturn Roe v. Wade must be hit with criminal charges. Immediately after Politico reported that Justice Samuel Alito drafted the opinion reversing the landmark 1973 decision establishing the legal right to abortion, conservatives began calling the leak an “insurrection” and […]

Fox News hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth boasted on Sunday morning that they are unvaccinated, despite the fact that the network’s parent company requires that all New York City employees provide proof of vaccination to work in person. The declaration on Sunday morning, which on the surface seems to place both on-air personalities in violation of both corporate and city policy, came as they tried to push back on President Joe Biden’s joke about the network’s vaccine hypocrisy. During the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Sunday night, the president garnered perhaps his biggest laughs of the evening when he took […]

Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo shared her questions for President Donald Trump with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in advance of the ex-president’s first post-2020 election interview, texts obtained by CNN revealed on Friday. In a text exchange with Meadows less than an hour before her Nov. 29, 2020 on-air chat with Trump, Bartiromo shared a series of questions she planned on asking the outgoing president. At the time, Team Trump was attempting to overthrow President Joe Biden’s decisive election victory. Bartiromo was also one of the network’s top boosters of Trump’s election fraud lies. “Hi the public […]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) repeatedly called CNN anchor Jim Acosta a “liar” and accused him of “harassing” her on Thursday for asking questions about her now-infamous “Marshall law” text. CNN reported this week that just days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the MAGA congresswoman texted former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and urged him to tell outgoing President Donald Trump that several GOP lawmakers were calling for martial law following the Jan. 6 insurrection. “In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall […]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) once again had trouble remembering her wild insurrectionist actions on Wednesday night, this time telling Fox News that she doesn’t “recall ever advocating for martial law” in a text message to former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Attempting to cast doubt that the texts were even from her, the ultra-MAGA congresswoman also said she couldn’t “recall” if “that’s my text message.” Earlier this week, CNN obtained 2,319 text messages between former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and numerous prominent Republicans that have since been handed over to the Jan. 6 House committee. The […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tore into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday morning, calling the California congressman a “liar” and “traitor” over revelations that he privately told House Republicans that then-President Donald Trump was to blame for the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and should resign. In a series of audio recordings obtained by The New York Times, McCarthy not only contradicted his public comments by calling on Trump to step down but he also claimed the former president personally took responsibility for the attack. Additionally, McCarthy told GOP leadership that he’d “had it with this guy.” Trump, however, has indicated […]

Fox News star Greg Gutfeld gleefully gloated over the sudden collapse of CNN’s much-hyped streaming service on Thursday, taking the opportunity to make several jokes at the expense of his former longtime colleague Chris Wallace. After the network devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to CNN+ and made a number of splashy hires to staff it up, incoming network CEO Chris Licht informed the platform’s employees on Thursday that the subscription service would be shutting down just a month after its rocky launch. Addressing staffers, Licht conceded it was a “uniquely shitty situation” following the merger of Discovery with CNN’s parent […]

Upset that his one-time buddy Piers Morgan pressed him on his 2020 election lies interview, former President Donald Trump stormed out of a pre-taped interview in a huff as he shouted “turn the cameras off.” In a conversation, set to air on April 25 on his new Fox Nation show Piers Morgan Uncensored, the first-ever Celebrity Apprentice winner repeatedly questioned the twice-impeached ex-president over his baseless claims that he only lost the 2020 presidential election because of widespread voter fraud. Trump insulted Morgan in response, calling him a “fool” and adding that he was “more honest” than the British tabloid veteran. […]

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) worried on Sunday morning that the Republican Party is currently in “troubled waters” because of the growing influence of far-right conspiracists such as Congresswomen Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Earlier this month, Upton announced he would retire rather than seek reelection, joining a growing list of GOP House members who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection who’ve since decided to exit Congress. The Michigan congressman was also one of only 13 House Republicans to vote for President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan last year, prompting Greene to publicly target […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a CNN interview that he not only wants President Joe Biden to visit Ukraine to witness the destruction caused by invading Russian forces, but that he believes Biden “will” personally make his way to Kyiv soon. Speaking to CNN anchor Jake Tapper in a conversation that aired on Sunday morning, the Ukrainian leader also declared that Ukraine will not give up any eastern territory to Russia as a condition to end the war, adding that the country is prepared to fight the Russian military to keep Donbas. “This is why it is very important for […]

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner tried and failed on Monday to push retired four-star General David Petraeus to criticize the Biden administration’s response to Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, only for Petraeus to repeatedly point out that he is not a partisan pundit. “I don’t do political support,” he emphasized at one point. “I do analysis of what administrations are doing. In this case, I think they are doing an impressive job.” Petraeus, the former CIA director whose career was derailed by an extramarital affair, was welcomed Monday onto The Faulkner Focus to ostensibly talk about British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s […]

National security adviser Jake Sullivan punted on Sunday morning when CNN anchor Jake Tapper confronted him about the atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine and whether the White House considers it genocide. Following global outrage over reports of mass civilian executions in Bucha and Odessa, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Russia’s unprovoked war had escalated to “genocide” against the Ukrainian people. At the same time, the Biden administration has labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal but has stopped short of saying the war has become genocidal. With the Russian military now bragging about killing dozens […]

Fox News anchor Sandra Smith had to step in and remind Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday afternoon that a recently completed Russian gas pipeline to Europe is not actually operational and, therefore, does not provide any current revenue to the Russian government. While interviewing the conservative lawmaker on Fox News’ America Reports, Smith brought up the global uproar over the latest atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians in Russia’s unprovoked war and wondered if this would increase U.S. involvement in the region. “Do we need to get tougher when it comes to sanctions, senator?” Smith asked. “Oh, yes, indeed,” Blackburn exclaimed. […]

Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan took a swing at a fellow GOP governor on Sunday morning when he called out Ron DeSantis for picking a “crazy fight” with Disney over Florida’s “absurd” Parental Rights in Education bill, which critics have labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” law. While right-wing media has launched a self-serving moral panic against Disney for pushing a “progressive LGBT agenda” and “grooming” kids based on a deceptive smear campaign, DeSantis has essentially declared war against the Mouse House for condemning his bill, which bars classroom discussion about LGBTQ issues. “Disney has alienated a lot of people now,” the […]

For years, Fox & Friends was the show that shamelessly carried water for former President Donald Trump while offering him a friendly forum to push his agenda. With the twice-impeached ex-president now residing in Mar-a-Lago, it looks like Fox News’ flagship morning show has rallied around its new shining star. Amid the right-wing media ecosphere launching a full-scale moral panic against Disney for “pushing [an] LGBT agenda” and “grooming” children, the Fox & Friends crew welcomed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and singer-songwriters Johnny and Donnie Van Zant to the show on Friday to rage against the Mouse House and “exclusively” debut […]

A Republican lawmaker insisted on Thursday that former President Donald Trump was just being sarcastic and tweaking the media when he brazenly called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release dirt on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. “Donald Trump is Donald Trump,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) shrugged during an appearance on MSNBC’s MTP Daily. In an interview earlier this week with JustTheNews’ John Solomon, who just so happens to be the architect of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine conspiracies that led to Trumps’ first impeachment, the ex-president implored America’s top adversary to release damaging information about the president of the United States. “As […]

Even Fox News isn’t buying Sen. Rick Scott’s ridiculous spin on his proposal to possibly “sunset” Social Security and force poor people to pay more in taxes. Ostensibly appearing on Fox News Sunday to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and President Joe Biden’s European trip, the Florida Republican soon found himself being grilled by anchor John Roberts over the legislative agenda he recently unveiled. As the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Scott hoped to give GOP candidate a platform to run on by putting forth his “11-Point Plan to Rescue America” last month. The plan, however, was roundly […]

Speaking out for the first time since ditching Fox News after nearly two decades, Chris Wallace said it had become “increasingly unsustainable” for him to remain with the conservative cable news giant as the network’s stars were unleashed to push out election denialism and Jan. 6 trutherism. In an extensive interview with the New York Times that was published Sunday, the 74-year-old venerable newsman also confirmed earlier reports that he complained to Fox News management about Tucker Carlson’s docu-series Patriot Purge, which baselessly suggested that the Capitol riots were a “false flag” operation to justify a new “war on terror” against […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) promised on Monday that the Senate confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “won’t be a circus.” And yet, by Wednesday afternoon, the conservative lawmaker had thrown overdramatic fits and dramatically stormed off for two straight days after contentious Q&A sessions with President Joe Biden’s pick for the high court. During his second go-round with Judge Jackson, the South Carolina senator once again used his time to air well-worn right-wing grievances, particularly over the way Democrats have supposedly mistreated conservative judicial nominees. At one point, he suggested that Jackson, a Black woman, should be happy […]

While confronting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday over the military alliance’s response to Russia’s deadly and unprovoked war on Ukraine, NBC News anchor Chuck Todd asked the NATO chief “how long” they will “stand by and watch” amid Russian attacks on civilians. President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to Europe this week to take part in a series of emergency summits over the month-long war in Ukraine, which could include world leaders unveiling a new series of punitive measures against Russia. At the same time, while Russia increasingly targets Ukrainian civilians, NATO has pulled some items that Ukraine […]

An exasperated Brian Kilmeade was forced to rebut Fox & Friends co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Tuesday after the ex-star of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco repeatedly insisted that the U.S. “provoked” Russia into a war with Ukraine. With Fox News drawing recent backlash for some of its stars pushing Kremlin-friendly commentary and pro-Putin talking points, Campos-Duffy took it upon herself Tuesday morning to suggest that Russia is somehow not the actual aggressor in its full-scale invasion of its sovereign neighbor. Filling in for regular Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt, Campos-Duffy repeatedly claimed that Russia’s “red line” was the possibility […]

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo was just asking questions on Sunday morning when she wondered whether or not the White House wanted to see Ukraine “taken down” and was looking to “sell out” the country. Bartiromo’s curious questions came less than an hour after she asserted on air that “some people” had told her that the White House doesn’t see Russian President Vladimir Putin as an enemy but rather a “partner” throughout the Ukraine crisis. During an interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, the South Carolina lawmaker seemingly revealed himself to be one of the […]

The set of ABC talk show The View grew a bit tense on Friday as co-host Sunny Hostin chastised her fellow panelists for sticking with the Republican Party, telling them in no uncertain terms that they were “complicit” in causing division and harm in the country. During a segment that was ostensibly about former President Donald Trump begging his supporters to buy him a new plane, former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham—who has served as The View’s conservative guest-host all week—noted that the ex-president is “doing everything he can to get paid” by his fanatical MAGA base. “I want […]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday revealed that the United States was engaging with its European allies on a potential ban on Russian oil imports, as the international community looks to inflict further punishment for its unprovoked war on Ukraine. In a private Zoom call this weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emotionally appealed to U.S. lawmakers to impose even more crippling economic sanctions on Russia in an effort to cease President Vladimir Putin’s assault on his country. Zelensky also urged America to target Russia’s oil industry, asked for more direct military aid, and pushed for the establishment of a “no-fly […]

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday brushed off criticism he and another GOP lawmaker received for tweeting out photos from a video call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—even though participants were specifically asked not to share any pictures on social media. Rubio—the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee—and Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) were blasted by Democratic lawmakers after they both tweeted images of the Ukrainian leader, while noting they were currently on a call with him about the Russian invasion. “The Ukrainian Ambassador very intentionally asked each of us on the zoom to NOT share anything on social media during […]

A sitting United States senator thought it was a good idea on Thursday night to explicitly call for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. During an appearance on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s primetime program, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) declared that the only way to end the escalating crisis caused by Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine is if his political allies killed Putin. “What happens is that Putin looks at Biden, he sized him up, he thinks he can get away with it, and he’s going to keep going and going and going, and nobody in the West is going […]

A sitting United States senator thought it was a good idea on Thursday night to explicitly call for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. During an appearance on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s primetime program, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) declared that the only way to end the escalating crisis caused by Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine is if his political allies killed Putin. “What happens is that Putin looks at Biden, he sized him up, he thinks he can get away with it, and he’s going to keep going and going and going, and nobody in the West is going […]

Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin just can’t stop at this point. The highly respected journalist, who has been with Fox News since 1996, has recently gained notoriety for busting a number of right-wing narratives about the Ukraine crisis while on Fox airwaves, schooling her network colleagues in the process. She once again found herself in that position on Sunday night. Prior to bringing Griffin on to discuss her insights into the latest developments of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Fox News host Trey Gowdy interviewed Ret. Col. Douglas MacGregor, a former Trump military adviser, on Russia’s escalating aggression. The […]

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called out members of his own party on Sunday for attending a white supremacist conference this weekend, likening MAGA-boosting GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar to “morons” who are “certainly missing a few IQ points.” Republican leadership has been mostly silent in the wake of Greene’s surprise appearance at Friday’s America First Political Action Conference, which is a white nationalist rival of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Prior to Greene taking the stage, AFPAC founder Nick Fuentes praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine. Fuentes even went so far after Greene’s speech to sympathetically […]

Liz Wahl, a former correspondent for the Kremlin-controlled RT network, repeatedly clashed with NewsNation anchor Dan Abrams over her assertion that Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s pro-Putin rhetoric is “indistinguishable” from Russian state media. Appearing on Thursday night’s broadcast of Dan Abrams Live, Wahl—who famously quit RT live on-air in 2014 over Russia’s annexation of Crimea—spent much of her interview discussing Russia’s use of RT broadcasts to peddle state propaganda to Americans about its invasion of Ukraine. Eventually, Wahl observed that RT’s American branch has recently recruited a number of Trump supporters to fill out its ranks, noting that “the narratives […]

Throughout Russia’s transparent and brazen march to war in Ukraine, Fox News hosts and commentators have unleashed a flurry of deeply cynical, hyper-partisan rhetoric aimed at attacking Biden for the invasion or even deflecting blame from Russian President Vladimir Putin. While much of this unhinged commentary has gone unchallenged on Fox airwaves, in recent days one of the network’s last remaining well-respected journalists has taken on the role of schooling some of her colleagues on-air for pushing misleading or downright false claims about the unfolding crisis. Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has been a constant presence on the network […]

With explosions rocking Kyiv after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” against Ukraine, former President Donald Trump ran to Fox News on Wednesday night and blamed the violent and unprovoked Russian invasion of a sovereign nation on a “rigged election.” Calling into Trump loyalist Laura Ingraham’s primetime program, the twice-impeached ex-president immediately asserted that none of this would be happening if he were still occupying the White House. At the same time, he also heaped praise on Putin—a years-long habit he hasn’t broken in recent days. “It’s a terrible thing. The way it started, I don’t believe he […]

CNN anchor John King roasted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Wednesday for falsely claiming on Fox News that his Republican policy proposal doesn’t contain a tax hike for millions of Americans. “Reading is fundamental,” King helpfully reminded the Republican lawmaker while holding up a copy of his agenda. Scott, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chair, released his “11 Point Plan to Rescue America” on Tuesday to widespread mockery and even groans from within his own party. Besides pushing standard right-wing culture-war issues and demanding the completion of a Donald Trump-named border wall, Scott proposed raising income taxes on low-income Americans so […]

Former President Donald Trump did what he does best on Tuesday afternoon: Heaping praise upon Russian President Vladimir Putin. This time, the twice-impeached ex-president lauded the authoritarian leader’s “genius” invasion of Ukraine as “very savvy.” Just ahead of President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will impose a round of “firm” economic sanctions against Russia for deploying military troops into Ukraine, Trump—who was impeached for withholding military aid as a way to pressure Kyiv to meddle in the 2020 election—claimed on right-wing talk radio that “this never would have happened” under his presidency. “In the last 24 hours, we know Russia has […]

Fox News host Sean Hannity felt the need to “interrupt” newly announced CPAC speaker Tulsi Gabbard’s defense of Russian “security” concerns over Ukraine, telling the former Democratic congresswoman on Monday night that President Vladimir Putin has long harbored “territorial ambitions” in the region. With the crisis in Ukraine exponentially escalating in recent days, Fox’s coverage of the Russian march towards a full-scale invasion of its neighbor has largely been all over the map. Despite the network building its identity around the broad concept of patriotism, many Fox News hosts and commentators have painted President Joe Biden as “weak” while boasting about […]

Longtime Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto returned to the airwaves after a five-week absence he said was due to a battle with COVID-induced pneumonia. “I’m back,” Cavuto declared Monday morning on his Fox Business Network show, which has featured a rotation of fill-in hosts while he was off-air for previously undisclosed reasons. “I did get COVID again—but a far, far more serious strand, what doctors call ‘COVID pneumonia,’” he confirmed. “It landed me in intensive care for quite a while and it really was touch-and-go.” The affable host joked: “Some of you who’ve wanted to put me out of my misery […]

Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said on Sunday morning that he is indeed considering a 2024 run for president and would announce his decision after his gubernatorial term ends next year. At the same time, while insisting that there is a “very large lane” for a “common-sense conservative” to defeat former President Donald Trump, Hogan also railed against the “insanity” of members of his party labeling the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection “legitimate political discourse.” Much like New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, another fairly popular Republican governor in a largely Democratic state, Hogan left Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) disappointed when […]

CNN anchors took turns this week ridiculing Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for shamelessly debasing herself in front of Trump Tower and pledging her undying loyalty to former President Donald Trump, calling her “thirsty” and noting “one only gives up one’s own dignity willingly.” As a first-term congresswoman, Mace has run afoul of her MAGA colleagues and Trump himself over her criticism of the more extreme elements of her party. She drew the ire of the twice-impeached ex-president just days into her tenure, blaming him for the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and saying he “put all of our lives at risk” by […]

What are we outraged about today, folks? Right-wing media and Fox News added to their long history of manufacturing news cycles out of fake outrage this week by pretending the “woke mob” was attempting to “cancel” pop superstar Adele for expressing her love of womanhood. In the end, all of the supposed backlash to Adele’s remarks boiled down to a handful of tweets from obscure accounts—some of whom were obviously joking. During Tuesday night’s Brit Awards in London, the “Easy on Me” singer collected the trophy for Artist of the Year. As this is the first year the Brits ditched the […]

Following a Fox News-fueled outrage over misinformation that the president was handing out free crack pipes in the name of “racial equity,” the Biden administration seemingly caved to GOP pressure this week by reassuring the public that a grant program to reduce harm among illicit drug users wouldn’t include funding for pipes. Yet even after the White House said on Wednesday afternoon that it was “inaccurate” to claim the administration was distributing crack pipes, Fox News continued to obsessively cover the faux-scandal throughout its programming. It all started with a breathlessly hyped report from the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news […]

Marc Short, the former chief of staff of Vice President Mike Pence, pushed back against the Republican National Committee’s recent description of the seditious attack on the U.S. Capitol during a Sunday morning interview. “I did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse,” Short said on NBC’s Meet the Press. Censuring GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for taking part in the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the RNC passed a resolution last week saying the two lawmakers were participating in “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Though party […]

One-time Trump acolyte Chris Christie forcefully denounced former President Donald Trump on Sunday over his false assertion that the vice-president has the legal authority to change election results. Furthermore, the former New Jersey governor mocked the disgraced ex-president for unintentionally telling the truth and admitting that he wanted the 2020 presidential election overturned on Jan. 6. In recent days, Trump has increasingly taken aim at former Vice President Mike Pence for bucking Team Trump’s pressure campaign to reject electoral votes when Congress met to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory. Besides falsely claiming Pence could have “overturned the election,” the twice-impeached […]

A day after The View’s Whoopi Goldberg drew intense backlash for claiming the Holocaust wasn’t about race, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told the show to fill its co-hosting vacancy with a Jewish person. “So yesterday on our show, I misspoke, and I tweeted about it last night, but I kind of want you to hear it from me directly,” Goldberg noted at the top of Tuesday’s show. “I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined because my words upset so many people which was never my intention. And I understand why now, and for that, I […]

ABC’s The View took an uncomfortable turn on Monday when moderator Whoopi Goldberg repeatedly insisted the Holocaust was not about race, prompting a heated discussion among the show’s roundtable. Devoting one of the talk show’s “Hot Topics” to the recent controversy over Maus, the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, the hosts were largely in agreement that a Tennessee school board banning the book due to profanity and nudity was silly given the content matter. “I’m surprised that’s what made you uncomfortable, the fact that there was some nudity. I mean, it’s about the Holocaust, the killing of 6 million people, […]

While criticizing Fox News star Tucker Carlson for questioning why the United States should support Ukraine amid increasing tensions with Russia, Sen. James Risch (R-ID) said on Sunday that “we side always with countries that are democracies.” In a display of bipartisanship, Risch—the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—appeared alongside committee chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on Sunday morning’s broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union. The two lawmakers first revealed on the program that they are close to finalizing legislation to impose economic sanctions on Russia if the country invades neighboring Ukraine. “There is an incredible bipartisan resolve […]

Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) placed some distance between himself and former President Donald Trump on Sunday morning, vehemently disagreeing with the disgraced ex-president’s pledge to pardon convicted Jan. 6 rioters if he get back to the White House in 2024. “If I run and I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly, we will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly,” Trump declared during a Saturday evening rally in Texas. While the twice-impeached ex-president’s remarks were quickly embraced by the far-right, Sununu (who has carved […]

Reacting to news that a progressive congresswoman’s car was recently hit with gunfire, a NYPD officer and commentator told Fox News on Thursday that “we need” Democratic lawmakers “to be victims” of criminal violence so they can “see firsthand how bad the streets really are” and support his preferred policies. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), an outspoken Black Lives Matter ally and criminal justice reform supporter, revealed on Thursday that her vehicle had been struck by gunfire this past weekend in the St. Louis area. A spokesperson for the lawmaker said Bush was not in the car and there was no evidence […]

Moments after it was reported that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, Fox News began running wild with unfounded speculation about who President Joe Biden will nominate to replace the liberal justice. According to Fox’s supposed “straight news” anchor Harris Faulkner and her colleague Kayleigh McEnany, one “credible” theory that is that Biden will try to place Vice-President Kamala Harris on the bench in order to push her out of the White House. Prior to even winning the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, Biden promised he would nominate the first-ever Black woman to the Supreme Court if the opportunity arose. […]

Podcast host Joe Rogan once again courted controversy this week when he questioned the racial identity of a prominent African-American professor, saying it was “very strange” that anyone would call themselves Black unless they’re from the “darkest place” of Africa. During Tuesday’s broadcast of the immensely popular “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan brought on clinical psychologist and cultural commentator Jordan Peterson, a fellow charter member of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web. While the conversation went through many hilariously weird turns—such as Peterson’s confident claim that there is no such thing as climate—it was the pair’s discussion on race that really raised […]

President Joe Biden didn’t take too kindly to a shouted question by Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Monday, calling the reporter a “stupid son of a bitch” for asking him about inflation. Ahead of a Monday afternoon meeting with members of his administration on efforts to lower prices for working families, the president briefly addressed members of the White House press corps. As the reporters were ushered out of the room following the president’s public comments, a number of them lobbed a series of questions at Biden—including Doocy, who has carved out a niche for himself as a […]

Tearing into Bill Maher for declaring that he’s over COVID-19 this past weekend, The View’s Whoopi Goldberg denounced the late-night comedian’s “flippant” attitude and said his remarks were “not funny.” On Friday’s broadcast of his long-running HBO show Real Time, Maher’s guest Bari Weiss drew praise from conservatives and mandate critics when she mitigation efforts during the ongoing pandemic would be remembered as a “catastrophic moral crime” in America. “I am done with COVID! I’m done,” the self-described “left-leaning centrist” exclaimed on Friday, adding: “I think it’s, like, at this point… it’s a pandemic of bureaucracy. It’s not real anymore!” Maher, […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wholeheartedly agreed on Sunday with the Arizona Democratic Party’s decision to censure centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema after the Arizona lawmaker voted against weakening the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. Sinema, along with fellow moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), were the only two Democrats to join all 50 Republican senators in upholding the filibuster last week. With Sinema’s vote preventing an expansive law that would have protected voting rights from passing, the executive board of her home state’s Democratic Party took action against her. “[O]n the matter of the filibuster and the urgency to protect […]

CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Thursday repeatedly confronted White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki over President Joe Biden’s voting-rights comments during the day prior’s White House briefing. The relentless grilling Psaki received on the airwaves of CNN—a network she once worked for as an on-air contributor—was in stark contrast to the surprisingly friendly and congenial conversation she had just hours earlier on conservative cable giant Fox News. Tapper, who was highly critical of the president’s remarks following Biden’s marathon presser on Wednesday, kicked off Thursday afternoon’s interview by questioning Psaki’s recent clean-up attempt. “This morning you said President Biden ‘was not […]

One America News anchor Christina Bobb assisted Rudy Giuliani on the Trump campaign’s outlandish plan to submit rival Republican elector slates to affirm then-President Donald Trump’s victory in five states President Joe Biden won, according to The Washington Post. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack are now focusing heavily on the origins of the rival Trump electors, seeing if it was all part of an orchestrated campaign assembled by the Trump team. While the operation was conducted in plain sight in Dec. 2020, and cited by right-wing media and campaign officials at the time as necessary for […]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki marked the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Thursday by walking into the lion’s den. For the first time in her role as Biden’s top flack, she appeared on a Fox News weekday show. Those expecting a knock-down, drag-out fight between the spokesperson and Fox anchors, however, would have been left largely disappointed. In the end, the 13-minute interview was a mostly friendly affair that ended with light questioning and well-wishes for Psaki’s favorite NFL team. Co-anchors Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino kicked off the lengthy chat on Thursday morning with some friendly […]

Less than a week after exiting her role as digital editor-in-chief of the New York Post, Michelle Gotthelf has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the paper alleging her boss editor-in-chief pushed her out after she revealed she was sexually harassed by Col Allan, the paper’s previous longtime boss. In the complaint, filed Tuesday by law firm Wigdor LLP, Gotthelf claimed that in the fall of 2015, Allan, then the Post’s editor-in-chief, sexually propositioned her during one dinner meeting and then retaliated against her for rejecting his advances. “When the two were alone,” the complaint alleged, “Mr. Allan steered the conversation […]

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Sunday expressed a tiny glimmer of hope for Democrats’ election reform bills that appear to be stalled in the Senate, claiming the legislation “may be on life support” but isn’t necessarily dead yet. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) announced that the Senate would be voting on voting rights legislation on Tuesday despite the fact that centrist Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Joe Manchin (WV) have already reiterated their support for retaining the chamber’s 60-vote threshold needed for passing bills. Sinema and Manchin, who have both claimed that they support the […]

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) attempted to wave off any concerns on Sunday about former President Donald Trump’s push to install election-denying supporters into election supervisory positions, claiming that “it’s just not true” that these officials could impact final vote counts. At the same time, Cassidy insisted that the American public won’t fall for Trump-backed candidates pushing the “Big Lie” at the ballot box. “The American people are not going to vote for a cheat,” he confidently proclaimed. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Cassidy—who voted to convict Trump of impeachment for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection—defended […]

Viewers tuning into Fox News over the past two days may have come away with the belief that defeated 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is absolutely ramping up a 2024 White House run. But finally, on Thursday, that reality-free bubble was busted a bit on-air when Fox News contributor Richard Fowler tossed cold water on the fantasy, calling it “ridiculous” and saying it “made no sense.” Citing a farcical Wall Street Journal op-ed written by two Trump-supporting political operatives urging Clinton to run as a “change candidate,” Fox News has run wild with the fanfic that the ex-secretary of state […]

A year after Fox News booted “straight news” anchor Martha MacCallum from the 7 p.m. time slot during a shakeup of the weekday lineup, the network finally announced on Monday that Jesse Watters would permanently take over as host of the pivotal hour. Fox News Primetime, which will now be named Jesse Watters Primetime, has been manned by a series of rotating (and competing) hosts over the past year. Besides Watters, the hour-long opinion talk show has been hosted by veteran Fox News personalities such as Maria Bartiromo and Brian Kilmeade, as well as lesser-known contributors like Tammy Bruce and Ben […]

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was confronted on Sunday with the notion that the public’s “trust and confidence” in the CDC has plummeted recently amid confusion over the agency’s COVID-19 guidance. Defending the constantly changing guidelines as the result of “ever-evolving science,” Walensky added that it “is hard” to continually provide updated recommendations as the virus mutates and the pandemic rages on. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Walensky was first pressed by anchor Bret Baier on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dubious claim that over 100,000 children were in “serious condition” with COVID-19, many […]

Barely a week into his tenure as New York City mayor, Eric Adams is already facing criticism and accusations of nepotism for appointing his younger brother as a deputy police commissioner. On Sunday, he tried to explain himself. Adams confirmed that he had indeed tapped Bernard Adams—a retired New York Police Department sergeant—for the post, which commands an annual salary of $242,000. Justifying the move, the mayor said his brother was “qualified” for the position and would be in charge of his personal security. Interviewing Adams on CNN’s State of the Union, anchor Jake Tapper noted that both the New York […]

A day after Tucker Carlson publicly scolded him for the unforgivable sin of calling the Jan. 6 insurrection a “violent terrorist attack,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hightailed it to the Fox News star’s show on Thursday night to grovel for forgiveness. Yet, while Cruz repeatedly claimed he’d made a “mistake” due to “sloppy and frankly dumb” phrasing, Carlson wouldn’t let the Texas senator off the hook—prompting the one-time presidential contender to plead harder for Carlson’s approval. Cruz, one of eight senators who objected to the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, drew Carlson’s wrath on Wednesday when he solemnly described […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson lambasted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday for the unforgivable sin of calling the Capitol insurrection a “violent terrorist attack,” accusing the ultra-conservative lawmaker of “repeating the talking points that Merrick Garland has written.” Cruz, one of eight GOP senators who objected to the certification of President Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6, 2021, drew the wrath of the MAGA faithful on Wednesday when he described the storming of the U.S. Capitol in stark terms. “We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week,” Cruz said in a Senate Rules Committee hearing. “And it is an anniversary […]

The Oregon father of four who quickly rose to infamy by blurting out “Let’s Go Brandon” during a Christmas Eve call with President Joe Biden is—of course—now fully leaning into his newfound right-wing celebrity status. Jared Schmeck on Monday donned a red MAGA hat and embraced election denialism during an appearance on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s insurrectionist podcast. While taking calls from the NORAD “Santa tracker,” the president and First Lady Jill Biden were connected with Schmeck, a 35-year-old ex-cop now working for an electric company. After a fairly pleasant chat featuring the Bidens asking what his children wanted for […]

Is the former editor of Stuff magazine who used to host a 3 a.m. talk show now poised to become a top dog at Fox News? If recent viewership numbers are any indication, that may just be the case. Greg Gutfeld, the 57-year-old self-described “libertarian” known for his right-wing humor and increasingly hostile politics, currently hosts two of the most-watched shows on cable news. In the process, Gutfeld has played a key role in relegating Sean Hannity—whose name was once synonymous with Fox News—to third-place status at the network. And he is seemingly on the verge of overtaking Tucker Carlson as […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was “stunned” on Sunday that former President Donald Trump was jeered by some of his supporters over the revelation that he had received a COVID-19 booster vaccination shot. In recent days, the disgraced ex-president has made headlines over his support for the vaccines, which has resulted in loud criticism from many of the MAGA faithful who have actively embraced anti-vaccine rhetoric. During an event he co-hosted with former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly this month, Trump drew groans from the crowd for both enthusiastically endorsing the vaccine and noting he had recently been boosted. Days later, […]

President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he doesn’t see it as a “failure” of his administration that there has been a dire shortage of COVID-19 tests amid the recent explosion in cases due to the Omicron variant. At the same time, he did seem to express some regret that he didn’t ramp up necessary supplies before the nation got hit with yet another winter coronavirus surge. Announcing his plan to deal with the Omicron outbreak on Tuesday, the president declared that the government would distribute 500 million free rapid in-home test kits in an effort to slow the spread of […]

Yes, Mia, there is a West Virginia. Former Republican congresswoman and current CNN commentator Mia Love seemed extremely confused on Tuesday about what state Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) represents, repeatedly suggesting that it was Virginia. During a CNN panel debate on Tuesday afternoon that also featured former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), Love was first asked whether she thought Manchin would leave the Democratic Party amid the fallout over his opposition to the Biden administration’s Build Back Better Act. After saying she was unsure whether he’d switch parties, Love, who represented a Congressional district in Utah for two terms, went on to […]

Fox News contributor and right-wing firebrand Tomi Lahren urged a bit of caution to her fellow MAGA acolytes on Tuesday, urging them to be a “little careful” about treating Kyle Rittenhouse “like he is a rock star or a celebrity.” Lahren’s somewhat surprising warning came after the 18-year-old—recently acquitted of murder after he shot and killed two men during a Black Lives Matter protest—received a thunderous ovation during his appearance at right-wing youth group Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention. Speaking live from the halls of the TPUSA event, Fox News co-host and former Trump spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany kicked off a panel […]

Fox News employees located in the network’s New York City offices will now be required to have at least one vaccination shot by Dec. 27 if they want to work in the office, according to an internal memo sent to the company’s staffers. “All workers in NYC who perform in-person work at an office location, including Fox employees, must show proof of receiving at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine,” the Fox Corp. memo, first obtained by The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr, stated. Fox Corp. is the parent company of Fox News. New York City-based Fox staffers will no longer […]

Former President Donald Trump found himself on the receiving end of his supporters’ disapproval this weekend after revealing that he had recently received a booster vaccination shot against COVID-19. Trump’s booster announcement came during Sunday’s final stop on the “History Tour” he co-headlined with disgraced former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly. The tour, which Trump had promised would bring “big crowds,” has so far been beset by middling attendance and empty seats. At one point during the event, as reported by Newsweek, Trump bragged that the COVID-19 vaccines were developed by his administration under Operation Warp Speed. Calling the effort “historic,” […]

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) finally put the nail in the coffin of the Biden administration’s ambitious Build Back Better social spending package, declaring on Sunday that he was a “no” on the legislation and “can’t vote for it.” The centrist Democrat made the definitive announcement on Fox News, of all places. Manchin and fellow moderate Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have been the main roadblocks in the way of President Joe Biden’s top legislative priority, as the Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate means the entire caucus is needed to pass a bill that Republicans universally oppose. The planned Senate vote on […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson shared wholly inaccurate and deceptive numbers on Thursday night to push a narrative that women are replacing men in the workforce and that is why the national economy is facing a labor shortage. Devoting his show-opening monologue on Thursday to inflation and its root causes, Carlson largely placed the blame on the federal government pumping too much money into the economy via COVID-19 stimulus and increased unemployment benefits. That created a disincentive to work, he claimed, prompting people to quit their jobs or drop out of the labor force altogether. Still, the fiercely anti-immigrant primetime host […]

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) confirmed on Wednesday that he was the GOP lawmaker who texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that Vice President Mike Pence “should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all” on Jan. 6. On Wednesday night, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said the news that Jordan sent the text is further proof that the staunch Trump loyalist is a “traitor to the Constitution of the United States” who is helping lead a “slow-moving coup.” After the Jan. 6 House select committee earlier this week unveiled a bevy of […]

After waiting an entire day to come up with a coordinated response following a wave of backlash, Fox News stars Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Laura Ingraham finally addressed the damning texts of them begging White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to halt the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. According to Hannity and Ingraham, it was a disturbing invasion of privacy that their texts with a prominent figure were shared by the House Jan. 6 committee. At the same time, there is nothing at all contradictory about these messages and they were consistent about condemning the […]

Expressing concern on Monday that the departure of veteran anchor Chris Wallace would further radicalize Fox News, the hosts of The View asked if the channel is now just the “Tucker Carlson Fake News Network.” Noting that “many in the news media world were surprised” to see Wallace jump from Fox to CNN’s new streaming service this week, moderator Whoopi Goldberg asked her View colleagues how they thought the consummate newsman’s exit would impact Fox News. “You mean QAnon News?” co-host Joy Behar quipped. “We can now call it Trump News. Just call it Trump News.”After the liberal firebrand said that […]

Chris Wallace shocked the media world on Sunday when he suddenly announced at the end of his Sunday political talk show that he was leaving Fox News, effective immediately. He will be joining the network’s rival CNN to host a weekday show on the channel’s new streaming service. The Fox News Sunday moderator had long been the face of the right-wing network’s “straight news” division, lending the channel an air of gravitas and respectability whenever he was on-air. Despite working for Fox News, long criticized as a communications arm of the Republican Party and conservative movement, Wallace was equally tough on […]

Longtime NBC News anchor Brian Williams signed off from his final MSNBC broadcast on Thursday night, lamenting “the darkness” that’s engulfed America and saying his “biggest worry is for my country.” Last month, Williams announced that he would be leaving NBC in December after 28 years with the network, adding that while it is “the end of a chapter” he did not plan to retire. “There are many things I want to do, and I’ll pop up again somewhere,” he said in a statement at the time. At the end of Thursday evening’s The 11th Hour, the nightly MSNBC news program […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson once again made a wild claim about COVID-19 on Wednesday, this time claiming that getting the disease appears to “feminize people.” Interviewing far-right British politician Nigel Farage on his Fox Nation series Tucker Carlson Today, Carlson brought up United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bout with the virus last year, suggesting that it left the British leader permanently weakened. Grumbling about Johnson’s handling of the pandemic—especially regarding lockdowns and vaccine mandates—Farage said that the prime minister “doesn’t have” the ability to lead anymore, adding that Johnson’s made “more U-turns in policy” than he can recall in […]

Fox News host Emily Compagno left her colleagues a bit stunned on Wednesday when she gleefully celebrated a startup’s controversial CEO callously firing 900 employees over Zoom last week, repeatedly exclaiming that she “loved” it. Online mortgage company Better.com is currently mired in a public-relations disaster after CEO Vishal Garg brutally canned 15 percent of the company’s workforce in a three-minute Zoom call. As a result, a number of the firm’s top executives have resigned, with sources telling The Daily Beast that more will follow. While the “surreal” firings left hundreds of people jobless just weeks before the holidays, and the […]

Newsmax host John Bachman on Monday played footsie with the belief that white nationalist hate group Patriot Front’s weekend march was a false flag operation by the FBI. Though he did not outright declare it to have been so, Bachman felt the need to ask such questions because “we’ve had these issues with the feds” before. Neo-fascist, white supremacist org Patriot Front broke off from the prominent neo-Nazis in Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017—largely in an attempt to rehabilitate the image of white nationalism. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Texas-based group […]

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) slammed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday, calling the top Republican a “liar” and “coward” for refusing to condemn the Islamophobic attacks made by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). In an apparent attempt to downplay the increasingly inflammatory rhetoric coming from the most extreme members of his caucus, McCarthy last week defended Boebert after video clips surfaced of the Colorado lawmaker likening Omar to a terrorist suicide bomber while mocking her Muslim faith. “She apologized publicly, she apologized personally,” McCarthy told reporters, referencing the far-right congresswoman’s tweet in which she said she’s sorry to “anyone in the […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci fired back at Sen. Ron Johnson on Sunday, calling the Wisconsin Republican “preposterous” for recently claiming that he “overhyped” the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s. A frequent critic of COVID-19 mitigation efforts who has repeatedly questioned the efficacy of vaccines, Johnson complained to Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade last week that public health experts were trying to “create a state of fear” to “maintain control” amid concerns over the Omicron variant. Specifically taking aim at the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Johnson likened Fauci’s groundbreaking research into AIDS and HIV decades ago with how the chief White House medical […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci responded on Thursday night to Fox Nation host Lara Logan comparing him to infamous Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, calling her remarks “disgusting” and saying it was “striking” that Fox News had not taken any disciplinary action against her. Logan, a once-respected investigative reporter turned right-wing provocateur, sparked intense backlash from Jewish organizations and Holocaust remembrance groups this week when she likened the nation’s top infectious disease expert to Mengele, the Nazi doctor known as the “Angel of Death” who notoriously experimented on Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz. “What you see on Dr. Fauci—this is what people say to […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night heaped praise on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, claiming the Sandy Hook hoaxer is a “better journalist” than reporters at NBC and CBS while defending Jones’ participation in the Jan. 6 riot. Carlson, as he has done countless times in recent months, railed against the Jan. 6 House select committee during his Wednesday primetime broadcast. Describing it as nothing more than “an attempt to punish critics of the Democratic Party,” the Fox News star took issue with the committee’s recent subpoenas of self-described “dirty trickster” Roger Stone and Jones, among others. After claiming […]

After comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, and receiving widespread criticism from Jewish groups and the Auschwitz Museum, Fox Nation host Lara Logan is only digging in. On Wednesday, the disgraced investigative reporter swung at her critics, posting links to conspiracy websites that claim HIV is “entirely fake” while boosting a tweet attacking the Auschwitz Museum for criticizing Logan. The ordeal began earlier this week when Logan claimed during a Monday night appearance on Fox News that the White House was overhyping the super-mutated Omicron variant, likening the nation’s top infectious disease expert to Mengele, a Nazi […]

Lara Logan, once a deeply respected and award-winning investigative reporter, told Fox News viewers on Monday night that “people all across the world” are telling her that America’s top infectious disease expert is just like Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor known as the “Angel of Death.” With the new super-mutated Omicron variant sparking concern around the globe over a possible new round of lockdowns and restrictions, conservatives and right-wing media have started pushing conspiracy theories about the new virus strain. A number of Fox News hosts and GOP politicians have suggested that Democrats are making up COVID-19 variants in an […]

Documents released by the New York Attorney General’s office on Monday reveal that CNN host Chris Cuomo offered to use his media “sources” to dig up information about women who had accused his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, of sexual harassment. The network, which has stood by its controversial primetime star as calls for his firing over journalistic malpractice have mounted, said on Monday they are currently reviewing the situation. “The thousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits that were released today by the NY Attorney General deserve a thorough review and consideration,” CNN said in a statement on […]

CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp didn’t mince words on Monday morning as he blasted several Fox News hosts as “evil” for suggesting that Democrats invented the latest super-mutated COVID-19 variant as part of a politically motivated conspiracy. Amid global concerns that the Omicron variant will spark a new round of lockdowns and restrictions, a number of Republicans and pundits have claimed that the Democratic Party is using fears over the virus—which was first detected in South Africa—to “cheat” in the upcoming midterms. During a weekend broadcast of morning show Fox & Friends, for instance, all three hosts implied that the White […]

Fox News host Trace Gallagher briefly pressed Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the GOP senator’s refusal to support raising the debt ceiling, wondering aloud why Barrasso is against it since it covers already authorized government expenses. Following the Thanksgiving break, the U.S. Senate is poised for an extremely busy and tense next few weeks. Democrats, who hold a very slim majority in the chamber, will be tasked not only with trying to find a way to iron out intra-party squabbles over the Build Back Better social spending plan but they’re also forced to go it alone in terms of […]

Amid growing fears over a new super-mutated COVID-19 variant that looks to be quickly spreading across the world, Dr. Anthony Fauci said over the weekend that Americans are “going to have to start living” with the virus as “we’re not going to eradicate” it. Nearly two years into an ongoing pandemic that’s killed millions worldwide and over 750,000 in the U.S., global markets were spooked last week after coronavirus cases dramatically surged in South Africa. The spike has been blamed on the Omicron variant and has prompted the United States to place travel restrictions on eight African countries. At the same […]

More than a year after Donald Trump decisively lost the 2020 presidential election, there are still some pro-Trump Fox News personalities who believe the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen. Fox News host Sean Duffy, a former Republican congressman and ex-cast member of MTV’s The Real World, used concerns over a newly identified COVID-19 variant on Friday to baselessly accuse Democrats of “cheating” in the 2020 elections. Filling in as one of the panelists on late-afternoon opinion show The Five, Duffy quickly pivoted from his co-hosts’ complaints that President Joe Biden hasn’t done enough to stem the tide of COVID-19 […]

Immediately after all three defendants were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery on Wednesday, Fox News contributor Ted Williams tore into the defense team’s “very offensive” actions throughout the emotional trial. Attempting to build a case that their white clients were trying to enforce a citizen’s arrest on a supposedly dangerous criminal and were forced to kill the unarmed Arbery in self-defense, one attorney went so far as to traffic in racist tropes about the deceased Black man. “Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to […]