It's Election Day in Virginia, so here's a thread with some relevant stuff I wrote this year about the Fox/GOP effort to make the gubernatorial election all about "critical race theory."
Fox News ran nearly 100 segments on “critical race theory” in Virginia school systems from March through June, nearly five hours of coverage mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Fox regularly hosted people presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools who also had day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…
One such frequent guest, "Loudoun County Parent" Ian Prior, has worked for the Trump DOJ, the NRCC, the Senate Leadership Fund, and American Crossroads.
This GOP strategy is being road-tested in Virginia. If they come away from today thinking it succeeded, expect to see it rolled out in races across the country. mediamatters.org/critical-race-…
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Stephen Miller, who has described the Democratic Party as a "domestic extremist organization," is a key figure in the White House push to investigate progressive groups, with targets including ActBlue and George Soros' network, per a new Reuters investigation.
"'The goal is to destabilize Soros’ network,' a third White House official said." reuters.com/legal/governme…
A tell here is that Trump keeps complaining about the "very expensive" signs at protests, calling the protesters "paid anarchists," and threatening to come after the funders. No distinction drawn between protected speech and violence, just targeting opposition.
Crashing out and telling people it's because you're mad about the handling of the Epstein files sounds like a great way to stop doing hard work and get back to making tons of money podcasting...
Grain of salt but if the deputy director of the FBI resigns and says it's because the attorney general is directing a cover-up you kinda need to have congressional hearings at that point...
Bad state of affairs that the deputy attorney general had to come out and deny Laura Loomer's claims within the hour of her making them...
1. A Fox host told Trump over lunch two weeks ago that Iran was days from a nuke, which he apparently believed over the denials of the former Fox contributor he made director of national intelligence.
2. Then Trump woke up on Friday and saw wall-to-wall positive coverage of Israeli strikes on Iran, and decided he wanted some credit.
3. Now the former Fox host Trump named Secretary of Defense has the U.S. military marshaling forces in the region while a different former Fox host has been in a scorched-earth fight with the first Fox host to capture Trump's attention and stop it.
1. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually happened a day ago in order to avoid pointing out that Donald Trump was wrong about something.
2. A few hours ago at the White House, Trump was asked when he last spoke to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom. Trump replied that they had spoked "a day ago."
Pirro stands out, even among the long list of shills and propagandists Fox employs, as a diehard Trump sycophant. In 2018, my late colleague Simon Maloy wrote that her "advocacy for the president is so aggressive that it often borders on insane -- some of her commentary would be at home in an authoritarian state media apparatus." mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/…