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Eric Kleefeld
@EricKleefeld
Senior Writer, Rapid Response at @mmfa. Neoliberal social democrat, political punned-it. (Tweets are my own.)
Apr 1, 2023 • 33 tweets • 11 min read
This slipped by everyone’s attention Thursday, but while Trump was getting indicted NBC News also ran a totally credulous interview with ex-Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who claims Fox wants to make her the fall person in the Dominion case.

Did they do zero diligence on her? Yes, Fox News is guilty at a corporate level. But seriously, Abby Grossberg is in no way innocent. Anybody can just read the documents released in the Dominion lawsuit, which reveal her to have been a tinfoil believer in the election lies *and* in corrupt pursuit of ratings.
Oct 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fox Business contributor: “You want to know how bad inflation is? Yesterday, yes, I had a nice lunch at Taco Bell — cost me about $28 at Taco Bell for lunch.”

Um, how is that even physically possible? (Also, don’t think I’ll take financial advice from this guy.) The New York Times is stealing from me, cashing in on the trending topic without credit:
Sep 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Trump tells Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt that if he’s indicted, “I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before.”

Hewitt says “legacy media will say you’re attempting to incite violence,” asks for response. Like the WaPo? The Washington Post has written extensively on the threats to federal law enforcement that Trump has fomented. One of their resident Republican columnists treats it like a rhetorical strawman, tries to help Trump save himself.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

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Apr 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Fox Business’ economic guru and former Trump official Larry Kudlow pinpoints the moment when the American economy went all wrong: “Now, with the advent of secular stagnation in the Obama years, from 2000-2021, the economy only grew half as much, 1.8%.”

Wait a minute here… Kudlow didn’t just randomly misspeak. Later in the afternoon, he even brought in some visual elements to connect Obama to an entire era of American economic decline since the year 2000…
Apr 11, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Shot, and chaser. (Fox News, of course.) Basically, Stephen Moore and his pals are rigging up the results they want, prioritizing an “economic report card” over Covid deaths. But he’s also mutilating the facts, even on his preferred metric of age-adjusted deaths by state. nypost.com/2022/04/11/ny-…
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Feb 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yeah, we all know that Texas is a total green energy state, no fossil fuels there.

Quick fact check: Only ~20% of Texas’ electricity comes from wind. The state’s fossil fuel infrastructure is also now frozen over — failure to winterize it, as other places do under regulations. Tucker Carlson said the following: “So, unbeknownst to most people, the Green New Deal came to Texas. The power grid in the state became totally reliant on windmills.”

Seriously, what human being with even some basic prior knowledge of Texas would believe such a statement?
Mar 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We’ve gone from Republican scaremongering that Democrats were out to kill Grandma with socialized health care — to Republicans now calling upon Grandma to die to save capitalism. The Republican approach to health care and economics overall is really that scene from the first Simpsons clips episode, the one where Homer is in a coma.

Mr. Burns bursts through the door: “This man is costing my health plan $5,000 a day! I demand that he die with dignity!”