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15 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Fox's primetime shows all but ignored Biden's rollout of $1.9 billion in stimulus and covid relief last night, here's some of what they covered instead.
The closest they got to covering it is that Laura Ingraham really doesn't want to increase the minimum wage.
Doing policy segments is not as much fun for the hosts or interesting for the audience as inflammatory culture war stuff, but I'm sure they'll find a way to bridge the gap (probably by calling Biden's policies Marxist attempts to destroy America if past is prologue).
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15 Jan
It looks like the My Pillow guy was urging the president to use the "Insurrection Act now as a result of the attack" and then "martial law if necessary."
The name of the document appears to be "[Steps?] To Be Taken Immediately To Save The [WORDS HIDDEN BY FOLD] To The Constitution."

Sounds like coup instructions.
It seems like the president hosted someone who suggested that he put loyalists in as national security adviser and CIA director, invoke the Insurrection Act, and attribute the election results to "Foreign Interference" by "China/Iran."

Pretty bad stuff.
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11 Jan
If Republican leaders are actually interested in "unity" rather than using its rhetoric to avoid accountability, here's something they could do. It doesn't involve much in the way of consequences, but it does feature truth-telling, apologies and requests for reconciliation.
To be clear, I don't think any of this would actually happen, but it would be nice (if insufficient) if it did.
Ronna McDaniel, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley could issue a joint statement and do a press conference in which they acknowledged that Joe Biden is president-elect and that he won a free and fair election by a sizable margin.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
10 Jan
“Unity” cannot mean that Democrats agree not to hold anyone responsible for what happened last week and over the last four years and Republicans agree to keep doing exactly what they’ve been doing.
I mean it can and Republicans would certainly prefer that it did, but that path just brings us right back here.
Pretty cynical effort by Trumpists to turn criticism of Trump and other Republican leaders whose lies incited the crowd into an attack on all 75 million who voted for him.

Good plan for avoiding accountability; bad plan for avoiding more violence from their supporters.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
9 Jan
President Trump has sent 1,375 tweets in response to things he saw on his television since September 1, 2018.

Of those, 1,289 came in response to Fox News or Fox Business.

This was the last one, which set his banning in motion.
While Trump had recently started tweeting competitors like Newsmax and OAN more frequently, his last seven live-tweets all came in response to Fox News segments.
I started studying this Fox-Trump feedback loop in October 2017, and explained his live-tweeting phenomenon In January 2018. At the time, it was almost a frivolity -- an explanation for the president's bizarre and hyperaggressive online behavior. politico.com/magazine/story…
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
7 Jan
Here's Lou Dobbs and Rep. Mo Brooks baselessly speculating that the hundreds of insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol today actually may have included antifa false flag elements.
Now Sarah Palin, on a Fox "news" show, says "we don't know who all were the instigators in this of these horrible things that happen today, I think a lot of it is the antifa folks" per "pictures she was sent, no response at all from Martha MacCallum.

There is no Fox "news" side.
Lou Dobbs was more skeptical of this bullshit that MacCallum, who Fox bills as one of its flagship anchors.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
6 Jan
You can start seeing the Trumpist media's response to the insurrectionist mob sacking the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power coming together -- in its full force it will look like this.
1. Of course the violence is wrong, but it's DC government's fault for not doing enough to secure the Capitol.
2. It's shameful for Democrats, the media, and RINOs to blame any of this on the president or his congressional and media allies.
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