Trump launched a comeback bid on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, with his usual fact-free bombast and braggadoccio. His hour-long rant, carried live only by Fox and CNN, was filled with lies, exaggerations, and distortions (for examples, see story here). It also put people to sleep; both Fox and CNN cut[...]
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September 20th, 2022 - 4:23 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media
More proof Fox isn’t a news organization
Journalism, like other professions, has standards. Don’t call yourself a new organization if you don’t adhere to them. A new book by New York Times journalists says Fox personality Bret Baier tried to pressure his superiors to rescind Fox News’ decision desk call of Arizona for Bid[...]
Why the Fox reporter shouldn’t have tried to diagnose Biden on the air
Because she made an ass of herself, that’s why. Just a few weeks ago, Fox News medical correspondent Marc Siegel, M.D., wrote this (here): “Americans have come to falsely believe that we can evaluate our leaders based on TV snippets. Some doctors too easily fall into this trap, too, but [...]
Did Fox commit libel against the search warrant judge?
While filling in for Tucker Carlson on Thursday, August 11, 2022, Fox host Brian Kilmeade displayed a doctored photo of federal magistrate Bruce Reinhart “having his feet massaged by convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell and holding Oreo cookies and alcohol” on Jeffrey Epstein’s[...]
Why should anyone take Fox seriously?
Parsing today’s dramatic Jan. 6 testimony, Fox News commentator Martha MacCallum remarked (story here), “I’m not sure that it really shocks anybody that the president, just knowing what we’ve seen, observing him over the years if he got angry, that he might throw his lunch.” While [...]
June 14th, 2022 - 12:59 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
If GOP pols want to get rid of Trump, why don’t they do it?
“Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume suggested that many elected Republicans are secretly hoping that the Jan. 6 House select committee ruins Donald Trump’s chances of running for president again in 2024,” Huffington Post reported on Monday, June 13, 2022 (story here). This isn[...]
June 14th, 2022 - 12:38 am § in News Media, Politics
More proof Fox is a propaganda, not a news, network
Veteran journalist Chris Stirewalt (bio here) “was working Fox News’ decision desk on Election Night 2020,” and called Arizona for Biden, before any other network. That incensed Trump and his allies, and Fox fired him for it. “Stirewalt’s reporting was totally accurate,” [...]
Trumper who screeched about “rampant voting fraud” voted twice using her dead mother’s ballot
Crystal Mason, a black woman, got 5 years in a Texas prison for casting a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted because a pollworker told her she could. I’ve posted about numerous cases of deliberate voting fraud committed by white Trump supporters, and none of them got jail time. What&[...]
Trumpers can’t get Ukraine right
Russia’s vicious, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is dividing Trump’s fan base. I’ll get to that in a moment. But first, Ukraine, a peaceful country, was attacked because Putin doesn’t like its democracy and wants to grab its territory. He’s bombing apartment buildings, [...]
December 16th, 2021 - 6:15 pm § in Misc.
Delaware judge rules Dominion Voting Systems can sue Fox News
A Delaware judge declined to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion libel suit against Fox News on Thursday, December 16, 2021 (story here). The ruling doesn’t mean Dominion will prevail in the lawsuit, nor say anything about potential damages if it does. The judge didn’t de[...]