Let's see what else we can get outraged about today
They've been teasing this segment for an hour now
The whole segment was about a Portland high school named after Ida B. Wells debating whether it's a good idea to rename their mascot after a tree, wondering if there'd be concerns over connotations of lynching.
The Fox News segment on "cancel culture coming for the trees" ended with anchor John Roberts saying they'll try to find the person who expressed these concerns to come on air to debate Leo Terrell.
"I love Leo," Roberts says several times at the end.
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Once again, the main factors for the power outages are "frozen instruments at natural gas, coal and even nuclear facilities, as well as limited supplies of natural gas" and wind turbine shutdowns accounted for "less than 13%" of the outages.
Juan Williams points out that the vast majority of Texas outages were due to frozen fossil fuel and nuclear generators, only for Jesse Watters to stick with the Fox narrative:
"Okay, so all the video we’ve seen of the frozen wind turbines is fake news, Juan?"
Harris Faulkner: "Our power panel on critics calling out Democrats’ double standard as they push to strip a Republican congresswoman of committee assignments"
Yeah, this is going to be their THING today
This is ALWAYS the playbook they run to when they can't defend what a Republican does -- they complain about a DOUBLE STANDARD and say "what about this situation that isn't even remotely comparable?"
They went this entire segment without once bringing up Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was the main subject of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's complaints about the GOP having "white supremacist sympathizers" in their midst.
Fox News is really going out of its way to criticize AOC for her "white supremacist sympathizers" comments about the GOP while simultaneously not mentioning Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is at the center of AOC's remarks.
Here's another example where Greene's name never came up:
Marie Harf: "We are all for unity, but not with white supremacists, and not for people who, like Marjorie Taylor Greene--"
Sandra Smith: "But didn’t [AOC] just paint with a broad brush the Republican Party?"
Both CNN and MSNBC beat Fox News across the board in ratings on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Prior to that, according to Nielsen, the last time Fox News lost to both networks in total viewers was over 20 years ago, on 9/24/2000.
On Friday, all of Fox's primetime programs finished 3rd in total viewers and the demo.
That includes Tucker Carlson, which drew 3.36 mill viewers and 535,000 in the demo.
Chris Hayes totaled 3.74 mill and 706K in the demo & Anderson Cooper had 4.855 mill and 1.44 mill in demo.
Fox's The Story with Martha MacCallum, which just got moved to 3 pm, only drew 1.741 mill viewers and 308K in the demo on Friday.
In comparison, MSNBC's The ReidOut totaled 3.369 mill and 706K in demo and CNN Erin Burnett nabbed 4.221 mill & 1.296 mill in demo.