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Sep 29, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Here's Sean Hannity getting from "Joe Biden is struggling cognitively" to "Joe Biden has memorized all of the answers he's going to give during the debate" inside a minute and a half, kind of seem like conflicting arguments!
Sure why not.
Ari Fleischer questions whether Joe Biden can physically stand on a stage from 9:00 pm to 10:30 p.m., with Sean Hannity responding that Biden "has been readjusting his peak cognitive hour to 9:00 P.M."
They're really not sure what to do with expectations here/are liars.
Theory: The "cognitive decline" talking point was supposed to be Fox News primetime schtick for the rubes, with the hosts selectively distorting short video clips to hype up their viewers like they always do -- only the president is one of those rubes, and so here we are.
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A bunch of Fox live-tweets over the weekend, with the president repeatedly praising people giving his line on his television. 🧵
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Crashing out and telling people it's because you're mad about the handling of the Epstein files sounds like a great way to stop doing hard work and get back to making tons of money podcasting... Image
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Jun 18
1. A Fox host told Trump over lunch two weeks ago that Iran was days from a nuke, which he apparently believed over the denials of the former Fox contributor he made director of national intelligence.
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Jun 10
1. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually happened a day ago in order to avoid pointing out that Donald Trump was wrong about something.
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3. In response, Newsom denied the call had taken place.
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May 8
Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration.

She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."

Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
Pirro stands out, even among the long list of shills and propagandists Fox employs, as a diehard Trump sycophant. In 2018, my late colleague Simon Maloy wrote that her "advocacy for the president is so aggressive that it often borders on insane -- some of her commentary would be at home in an authoritarian state media apparatus." mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/…
Just a deranged level of demagoguery:
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Jan 14
Here's a thread of notes on Pete Hegseth, the Fox & Friends weekend co-host that Donald Trump is trying to make Defense Secretary, overseeing the U.S. military, massive Pentagon budget and bureaucracy, and sixth in line to the presidency.
Hegseth is an extreme hawk who has backed attacks on Iranian infrastructure and cultural sites and even floated a “preemptive strike” against North Korea. mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/t…
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