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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
After 25 years, this is the best Fox News segment of all time.
For four years, these idiots provided the president of the United States with his morning briefing, shaping his worldview and the federal policymaking process.
Speaking of Fox anniversaries, Tuesday marked 13 years since Hannity hosted a lunatic infamous for calling a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race" to make wild claims about Obama and Bill Ayers mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/f…
More broadly, my thoughts on the impact, damage, and threat of Fox are here: mediamatters.org/fox-news/roger…

And here: mediamatters.org/fox-news/misin…

And here: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

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8 Oct
It's still like this every single night. ImageImageImage
Here's Tucker Carlson airing an ESPN employee's complaint about that network's vax mandate, then saying mandates are "sick and scary" but "happening everywhere and no one is saying anything about it."

He did not mention that Fox has a mandate because he's a hypocrite and coward.
Tonight's the night Tucker shows the courage of his convictions and quits in a blaze of glory, I can feel it. He doesn't care about the paycheck, he's no company man, this is it.
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8 Oct
Fox News keeps turning vaccine resisters into culture war heroes

The network has hosted dozens of people who refuse to get shots in the face of vaccine mandates

mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Twenty-eight individuals who said they were defying COVID-19 vaccine mandates by rejecting vaccination appeared a total of 30 times on Fox’s weekday programs from August 2 through October 5.
The tally includes nine appearances by nurses, six by law enforcement officers, five by teachers, and two by members of the U.S. military.
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6 Oct
It's still like this every single night.
New @mmfa study: Fox undermined the vaccination effort at least once on 181 out of 183 days from April through September. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
@mmfa How it started How it's going
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4 Oct
The creation of a presidential coup memo had its roots in the president of the United States watching Sunday night Fox News programming, really normal stuff.

mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-t…
Per the Times, Eastman’s "appeal to Trump "rested in large part on his expansive views of presidential power — and his willingness to tell Mr. Trump what he wanted to hear.”

That certainly comes through in the Fox interview that reportedly first caught Trump's attention.
Over the course of his hour-long sitdown with Levin, who introduced him as a “brilliant” legal scholar, Eastman explained how the Constitution and federal law supported all of Trump’s most corrupt and bigoted impulses.
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29 Sep
It's still like this every night -- wealthy and almost certainly vaccinated Fox hosts doing everything in their power to limit vaccination among their viewers.
If you're a doctor or nurse wondering over the next few weeks why your patients and/or family members are calling you a liar for saying your hospital is overstretched and you're exhausted, here's a clue as to why.
Risking the lives of your viewers is just good business sense apparently mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
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24 Sep
When I checked this afternoon, all of these shows had still ignored the Eastman/Trump coup memo. But surely the Sunday morning political talk shows will be all over it, I mean what are they for if not this? Right?
Excited for what I’m sure will be tons of great coverage of the Eastman coup memo and related news across the broadcast Sunday morning political shows, surely ABC/CBS/NBC have just been holding fire to let those shows do it. Right??
Meet the Press was the only one of the Sunday broadcast political talk shows to cover the literal presidential coup memo. Face the Nation and This Week both skipped, still a blackout on CBS and ABC News nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…
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