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"But among the voices that rang powerfully for President Trump was that of one of his favorite Fox News hosts: Tucker Carlson." nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/…

Here's what the rest of the Fox News cabinet wants him to do on Iran: mediamatters.org/blog/2019/06/2…
That the situation, at least at this point, has been resolved along my preferred policy lines does not make it less insane that the president is dialing Fox News hosts for advice on whether to drop bombs.
(Indeed, a reasonable argument against bombing Iran is that Trump is a malleable buffoon who takes advice from the TV and shouldn't be in charge of what could easily spiral into war.)
Retired general Jack Keane, a Fox News military analyst who has twice turned down an offer to be Trump's Defense Secretary and privately advises him, also turns up in this story with a lot of detail on what Trump knew.
"But the battle for Trump's ear is not over."

Indeed: mediamatters.org/blog/2019/06/2…
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Four years ago, the Supreme Court held that state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. The right-wing media takes in response have not held up very well. mediamatters.org/research/2015/…
Notably, Martha MacCallum, whom Fox News describes as a "straight news" anchor and wanted to have moderate a Democratic debate on the network, argued at the time that the decision would lead to polygamy.
Here's a video @mmfa made at the time rounding up ten years of Fox News fearmongering about marriage equality. It would lead to people inevitably to everything from polygamy to incest to people marrying turtles.
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After getting off the phone with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo this morning, the president kept watching the network.

Left, Fox Business, 9:23 a.m.
Right, Trump, 10:27 a.m.
Anyway that random person who had tweeted twice before the president mistook her account for that of a U.S. soccer player with a similarly-spelled name probably has interesting mentions right now.

This will inevitably happen to me some day.
That Fox Business segment Trump tweeted about described Rapinoe as "opportunistic," "beneath contempt," "wrong," and "not patriotic." It closed with host Stuart Varney saying the team should "fire her as the co-captain," adding, "I'd love to see that."
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This was the NRA's response a few months after I took over @mmfa's guns team, hired @timothywjohnson as a researcher, and refocused our strategy on exposing its vile, extreme online programming. Thanks to the incredible work of Tim and @CydEHargis, NRATV was shut down last night.
@mmfa @timothywjohnson @CydEHargis Here's the timeline showing how @CydEHargis's monitoring NRATV's programming ultimately helped trigger a split between the NRA and its advertising agency, leading to NRATV's demise: mediamatters.org/research/2019/…
@mmfa @timothywjohnson @CydEHargis It's a big gun violence prevention movement, and a lot of activists did a great job getting out the word about how extreme NRATV's programming was. But for that to happen, someone had to watch it. And that job fell to @timothywjohnson, @CydEHargis, and @mmfa.
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