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Fox News primetime is all in on the COVID-19 death total being deliberately inflated. This is bonkers. mediamatters.org/fox-news/hanni…
One of the strikes against Diamond and Silk was that they were doing this. Fox sacrifices low-level commentators when they get bad media attention for saying things that the big stars get away with. mediamatters.org/fox-news/diamo…
The Fox News primetime takeaway on coronavirus right now:

1) The COVID death total is inflated
2) The virus was less deadly than expected
3) Social distancing did nothing
4) We should reopen the economy immediately
5) Trump's response was brilliant
6) Dems/media are bad
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This is the equivalent of every Republican U.S. senator saying "I didn't see the tweet."
The most revealing example Barr assembles is Bret Baier declining to answer a question about whether it is ethical for Sean Hannity to constantly be talking to President Trump.
Sean Hannity is a Trump political operative and Fox News -- including Baier -- doesn’t care mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-…
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Red line is coronavirus, purple line is 1957-8 flu.
“Brit Hume is either deeply dishonest or an idiot” is really the only explanation for how this keeps happening at this point.
We are already past the lower bound estimate he’s talking about and we’ve done it WITH the lockdown and in a handful of months and he thinks this HELPS his argument?
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