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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
DOJ/FBI/DHS/CISA assess that Putin "had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach," the Ukrainian legislator who collaborated with Rudy Giuliani on Biden smears (these were championed by OAN in particular).

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
The agencies claim that the notion that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election is false -- Sean Hannity pushed this one relentlessly, stoking Trump's rage toward the country. mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/s…
Right, the report: "Russian proxies... made contact with established U.S. media figures and helped produce a documentary that aired on a U.S. television network in late January 2020."

Left, OAN documentary that aired January 25 of that year.
According to OAN's press release, Caputo interviewed Andrii Telizhenko, a key source for the Solomon/Giuliani/Toensing/DiGenova axis oann.com/one-america-ne… mediamatters.org/john-solomon/s…

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18 Mar
Greg Walden and Tucker Carlson once teamed up for the single hackiest Fox segment I've ever seen. Thread...
I was working the Saturday morning shift back in 2013, watching Carlson's show at the time, Fox & Friends Saturday, when Walden, then the NRCC chair, came on for an interview.
At the time, the big story in Washington was the sequester, the mandatory budget cuts required under a deal between Obama and the Republicans. The GOP was trying to make hay over the stuff the Obama admin was supposedly cutting and not cutting.
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Fox News spent virtually no time on Trump’s call for his supporters to get vaccinated, giving the comments roughly 6 minutes 30 seconds of coverage in the following 36 hours. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Trump's comments were important because his supporters are the ones most resistant to vaccination.

But they'll only have an impact if those followers hear about them -- and Fox isn't doing its part to make that happen.
Fox has a particular responsibility here because its hosts have convinced viewers not to trust any other news source. That means that they're the best way for Trump's comments to reach that audience.
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16 Mar
These are all bad policy outcomes on issues that should be subject to majority votes.
Also, they are both bad and relatively modest, speaking either to the Republican Party's lack of ambition on policy or its unwillingness to openly discuss what it would do if it could pass bills with a majority.
(I think it's probably the latter and they'd do a bunch of bills to limit voting if they got the chance.)
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16 Mar
Fox News learned nothing from its deadly coronavirus failure.

A year after the network's downplaying of the crisis helped fuel a catastrophe, it's become a platform for anti-vaccine talking points. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
Fox has a unique moral responsibility with regard to public health because it has successfully convinced viewers not to believe news from any other media outlet. It's the primary source that can reach its audience.
But for crucial weeks in late February through mid-March a year ago, Fox treated the coronavirus primarily as a political problem to solve for President Donald Trump.
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16 Mar
tfw you are so disgusted by leftist filth that you just have to keep playing the video over and over again
Fun fact! In 2007, Laura Ingraham noted Fox News' “constant” use of video depicting scantily clad women as part of its news reports, and said the practice indicated "a rampant midlife crisis going on on this network among the male anchors." mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham…
old school @JMillzDC byline there
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9 Mar
If you were paying attention in 2009, you remember that President Obama's stimulus package was greeted with an all-consuming attack from right-wing media.

I tried to get at why we aren't seeing the same thing now, as Dr. Seuss sucks up attention. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
It's not that they support the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that Democrats are enacting this week. They just... don't care about it as much as they do about Mr. Potato Head and their other culture war stuff.
Tucker Carlson, for example, last Tuesday described the bill as "an insult for the people who died and to the country itself.”

He didn't mention it again for the rest of the week -- but did find time for his second and third nights of Dr. Seuss coverage.
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