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Matthew Gertz
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Here's how Fox & Friends spun the Michael Cohen opening statement, featuring claims that there's nothing to see here and attacks on Democrats for purportedly trying to distract from Trump's summit with North Korea mediamatters.org/blog/2019/02/2…
This morning Steve Doocy asked Dan Bongino about the Matt Gaetz tweet. Bongino said that it's about "a rumor" that is "circulating on Twitter," which he described before adding, "We’ll see if there’s anything to that." #journalism
Fox & Friends has previously drawn criticism from Fox executives and a federal judge for its practice of sharing stories and rumors from the internet on the program without making the slightest attempt to verify them first.
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Matthew Gertz
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If the Democratic National Committee goes through with giving a primary debate to Fox News -- a network that can credibly be described as state TV -- it will be a strong sign that it is fundamentally unprepared to stop Trump's reelection. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
The absolute best case scenario is your candidates don't get annihilated but you legitimize the White House's propaganda outlet. That's the *best* case.
I am going out on a limb here: Marc Lotter, Rick Santorum, Pete Hegseth, and Matt Schlapp do not have the Democratic Party's best interests at heart. hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservat…
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Matthew Gertz
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Jane Mayer's tour de force on Fox News concludes by noting that the network gives President Trump a unique propaganda megaphone to help him avoid the consequences of investigations newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
More on this point from @ThePlumLineGS, who points out that Fox gives Trump the advantage that Nixon lacked. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
This isn't incidental -- after Watergate, conservatives blamed the media for Nixon's fall. Fox founder Roger Ailes had been a Nixon aide.
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I'm sorry, you don't get to say that Fox News was fine when they were paying you but got "crazy" after you left when you were Glenn Beck's coworker. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
I wrote about this when Woke Bill Kristol said roughly the same thing to John Harwood a year ago. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/2…

Some screengrabs from when Fox was paying him and things had not yet gotten "crazy."
Fox is more dangerous now because it has merged with the White House and the president is an extremely malleable racist with authoritarian leanings. The programming is not noticeably more "crazy" than it was a decade ago.
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1) Michael Cohen is in front of Congress for 3 reasons.

First and most important, he's been put there intentional to distract from Trump's Vietnam trip. Look at your feeds. It's wall to wall Cohen.

It should be wall to wall peace. #QAnon
2) Cohen's there as part of a deal he has made w/ the SDNY for a reduction of his prison sentence, he admitted it. Lanny Davis is the fixer for it.

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The desperate cries emanating from Trump’s reptilian lips comprise the death rattle of his presidency.

It seems a bit bleak out there, so let’s talk about how f*cked Trump is.

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