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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Fox & Friends keeping the president focused like a laser on the issues marginal voters in swing states care about the most.
The president is down by double digits in recent polls amid his COVID diagnosis, and his Fox cabinet thinks his way back is... this?
Good luck, folks.
References on Fox & Friends this morning, via closed captioning.

"stimulus": 9
"covid": 23

"clinton": 39
"email": 13

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7 Oct
Trump, Barr, and Fox News are working in concert to undermine confidence in the election

The playbook here is obvious -- throw together some sketchy investigations and use them to throw doubt on the election results.
mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson… Image
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Looks like there's no evidence that this had anything to do with the election -- the ballots were among "roughly 1,875 pieces of mail" recovered from dumpsters -- but the Barr/Fox machine is flogging that anyway to undermine confidence in the election. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/usp…
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3 Oct
Dawning realization that nine months into the pandemic. senior WH officials think that if you test negative it means that you definitely have not caught the virus and can do whatever you want and don't need to quarantine if you've been in contact with someone with COVID.
cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
The president's Fox News buddies told him the virus was nothing to worry about so he took as few precautions as possible and here we are. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
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30 Sep
Fox theoretically has a "news division" but here we are right before the debate and they've got Tucker Carlson doing his show, saying Joe Biden "may be senile" and passing on the claim that he backed out of getting his ears examined for an earpiece.
Now Brit Hume is on to say that Biden is definitely senile but there's a chance that won't be visible tonight and he'll be well-prepped and perform well anyway.
Carlson has said at least three times already that he didn't expect Biden to actually show up tonight.
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29 Sep
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."
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28 Sep
Unclear whether the press will sustain the coverage, but this is what using the agenda-setting power looks like.
When I say it matters whether the press sustains the coverage, this is what I'm talking about -- the 2018 NYT bombshell about how Trump's fortune was built on tax fraud faded quickly, didn't make the Sunday shows that week: mediamatters.org/donald-trump/p…
Leading the news shows today.
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24 Sep
The New York Times ran its story on Trump refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power on page A15, Washington Post on A4. Can't tell if or where they ran stories but it isn't on the Newseum's front pages for Wall Street Journal, LA Times, USA Today, or Chicago Tribune.
The Times prioritized room on the front for “Trump buoyed in the suburbs of Milwaukee.”
It's the second story after Louisville on NBC's Today, with Peter Alexander saying Trump "is taking a position that is not just unprecedented but, critics warn, it is dangerous, refusing to endorse one of the most basic tenets of American democracy."
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