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Matthew Gertz
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The timeline details everything we know about how FoxNews.com came to publish and retract its original story, how it fell apart, and who pushed it on Fox's airwaves then and since. All the ghoulish details are here.

One bright note from this report: please enjoy @ChuckLane1, on Fox's Special Report days after the network retracted its Seth Rich story, relentlessly dunking on conservatives who push Rich conspiracies while the rest of the panel sits there awkwardly and James Rosen squirms.
@ChuckLane1 This happened twice over the course of the same panel discussion. Just brutal.
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Matthew Gertz
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Sigh.
One source's "short" can be another source's "lengthy" even if both sources have the same information on the statement's length, that's probably what's happening here.
Eight minutes is much more precise! And can reasonable be described as either short or lengthy depending on your perspective.
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Matthew Gertz
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Holding-pattern, news-is-coming-and-we-don't-know-what-it-is cable news is the worst cable news.
(It is also a bad twitter, but all twitters are bad.)
(My tweets are also bad.)
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Matthew Gertz
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Cuccinelli has suggested that states invoke “war powers” to turn back the migrant “invasion” mediamatters.org/blog/2019/05/2…
"They can literally just line their National Guard up with, presumably with riot gear like they would if they had a civil disturbance and turn people back at the border. ... You just point them back across the river and let them swim for it."
Cuccinelli also has a long, long record of anti-LGBTQ bigotry: mediamatters.org/blog/2019/05/2…
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Truth To Power
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Several of you seem perplexed as to why #FoxNews is suddenly #FauxNews. Allow me to try to explain.

A short oversimplified answer is that the sons now run Fox, Faux news.

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But it's more complicated than just this. Initially the sons advertised taking fox news in a different direction but their attempts met with a crash in ratings and major push back. Therefore funding for the millionaire elite boys was decreased.

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Fox News has now deleted the copy of the complaint it posted, but this makes it sound like Rep. Nunes is suing a newspaper for $150m for writng true things but not in the order he would have liked, which was a conspiracy to derail his Russia investigation. foxnews.com/politics/nunes…
Update: The link from the story went to a deleted file, but Fox also has a version here: scribd.com/document/40551…
In paragraph 6, Rep. Nunes alleges that his most recent re-election campaign wasn't much fun.
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1) #FoxNews ==> Ocasio-Cortez slammed as 'financially illiterate' at Sharpton event over Amazon, faces calls to be ousted from office
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@marklevinshow Watching your interview and have a few things to mention, starting with asking if you ever interviewed @AnnCoulter about her book Treason, where she lays out this Soviet infiltration stuff too.
@marklevinshow @AnnCoulter What got me in your interview is I think you assumed people knew Harry Dexter White, who he is, a few likely do but he was The Vice President of the United States and was a Soviet Spy according to Venona, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A…, raw data, nsa.gov/news-features/…
@marklevinshow @AnnCoulter But also, and I hope one of you get wind of what I am about to bring up here, you and your guest mentioned W. Averell Harriman in opposition to Alger Hiss as advisors to FDR, well consider that this was Hitler's Representative to POTUS, foxnews.com/story/document… per #FoxNews
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M.I.B - Winter is HERE!
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So let’s get this straight, shall we?

So far, the following accounts stopped tweeting:

Fox News11/8
KimDotCom11/8
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3. Same day, #FoxNews Rupert Murdoch met with Mitch McConnell

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