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16 Feb, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Thread of every time Tucker Carlson's face was on Fox News today.

Fox & Friends First, 4:49 a.m., clip
Fox & Friends First, 5:20 a.m., ad
Fox & Friends First, 5:47 a.m., clip
Fox & Friends, 6:22 a.m., ad
Fox & Friends, 6:52 a.m., clip
Fox & Friends, 8:08 a.m. clip
Fox & Friends, 8:49 a.m., ad
That's at least four Tucker Carlson clips and three promos as of 9 a.m..
America's Newsroom, 10:41 a.m., ad
The Faulkner Focus, 11:39 a.m., clip, also this effort to blame green energy for Texas' current crisis is totally wrong and dumb.

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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
17 Feb
The first person to bring the "frozen wind and solar caused the Texas grid failure" canard to Fox was Steve Moore on Monday morning.
That evening, Tucker Carlson discovered the real villain -- the Green New Deal. ImageImageImageImage
And because he's basically running Fox, that was all the network talked about yesterday. ImageImageImageImage
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
16 Feb
More than 100 posts on Newsbusters' "Capitol Hill Riot" tag, guessing none of them say "Oh by the way our boss' son was one of the rioters." newsbusters.org/issues-events-…
Why won't the media talk about how it's really the Democrats' fault that my boss' son was able to break into the Capitol so easily?
Brent Bozell III went on Fox Business to complain that the left is smearing all Republicans as if they were those who stormed the Capitol. It turns out his son was one of the stormers.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
16 Feb
Seriously take the quarter-second necessary to think through a take that revolves around liberals having too much political power in Texas.
Texas public officials would really like to avoid any accountability whatsoever for decisions they've made regarding Texas' grid, and Fox is more than willing to play ball.
More on this.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
11 Feb
Decent chance he’s on Tucker Carlson’s show by the end of the week.
He did Ingraham’s podcast last week, she was talking up a left-right alliance against the “Big Science” vaccination effort. mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham…
Carlson’s doing a cowardly “why won’t big tech and the experts let you ask questions about the vaccine” schtick that this slots into perfectly. And he’s hosted RFK Jr. to do anti-vaccine commentary in the past. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
10 Feb
The latest sign that Fox is punishing its "news" side and promoting its "opinion" demagogues as it desperately tries to rebuild its ratings. Now scheduling five straight hours of right-wing propaganda, from 7 p.m. to midnight.
mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-t…
Adding insult to injury, Gutfeld mocked Chris Wallace's response to the Biden inauguration. mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld/g…
Anyway, this is the guy Fox News decided should have a bigger platform.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
10 Feb
A thread of some things I wrote that are newly relevant today.

Sept. 17: "Trump will likely respond [to Biden gaining ground after trailing] by trying to delegitimize the vote in tweets fueled by Fox News’ conspiracy-minded, fraud-obsessed coverage." mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…
Nov. 4: "President Donald Trump and his propagandists at Fox News are seeking to reduce confidence in the election tallies in order to build a case to toss out Democratic ballots and steal the election." mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…
Nov. 5: "Trumpist media figures are recklessly touting false and nonsensical fraud accusations to bolster the president’s position.... h a full-spectrum effort to undermine confidence in the election results, raising tensions and fomenting unrest." mediamatters.org/fox-news/despi…
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