Fox’s response to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo peddling thirdhand election fraud lies she didn’t bother to check demonstrates how the network has abandoned anything resembling journalistic standards in its quest to return Donald Trump to the White House.

mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-s… Bartiromo repeatedly told her Fox Business viewers this week about a “Democrat operation” to register “massive lines of illegals” to vote at Texas government offices, a story she originally attributed to the wife of a friend of a friend and made no apparent effort to verify.

Maria Bartiromo repeatedly used her Fox Business show to peddle an election fraud conspiracy theory that she claimed originated with the wife of a friend of a friend in Texas.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says her story is "kind of racist" and "simply false."

The local GOP calls it "erroneous." mediamatters.org/fox-business/m… On Sunday morning, Bartiromo posted an item to X alleging that “a massive line of immigrants” had been obtaining driver’s licenses and registering to vote at three Department of Motor Vehicles offices in Texas:

This WaPo factcheck says flatly there is "no evidence that Trump sent" "love letters to dictators," and that "we do not know what Trump wrote to Kim."

Bob Woodward accessed the 27 Trump-Kim letters for his 2020 book; CNN pubbed full transcripts of two. cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol…


Robert L. Carlin also got access to the letters and reported on their contents for Foreign Policy in 2021. foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/13/nor…

Psycho shit like this will get you lots of bookings on Tucker Carlson's show but normal Americans are too busy cheering the U.S. women in gymnastics to create chalkboard scrawls blaming Kamala Harris for who Algeria sends to the Olympics. Trump’s once-formidable polling lead evaporated, the Vance rollout is in shambles, and his supporters casting about for someone to blame.

They're responding with the hateful shit that the MAGA freakshow loves but that repulses normal people. mediamatters.org/fox-news/maga-…

They're really going for it. This is just sick.

JD Vance has sought to tamp down the firestorm over his "childless cat ladies" smear by claiming he was taken out of context.

But this wasn't a single rant. Here are 12 other times Vance disparaged people who “don't have kids” -- on Twitter, right-wing podcasts, and on Fox.🧵 1. In a November 2020 podcast interview, Vance said that “so many people, especially in America’s leadership class,” don’t have the “cadences of life” that come with having children, adding, “I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable

JD Vance claims his July 2021 comment to Tucker Carlson that "childless cat ladies" like Kamala Harris “don't really have a direct stake” in the country’s future was taken out of context.

I found him making similar comments in three more Fox interviews. mediamatters.org/fox-news/three… Fox News Primetime, 7/30/21

VANCE: I am sick of these bureaucrats experimenting on my children because that's what they're doing [with vax and mask mandates]. If you want to experiment on somebody's kids, Kamala Harris, AOC, and so forth, have your own kids, lay off of mine.

Fox News is flooding its airwaves with incendiary coverage blaming President Joe Biden for a handful of abhorrent crimes allegedly committed by migrants. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…






The network’s coverage relentlessly dehumanizes migrants with constant suggestions that the entire group is composed of dangerous criminals and lacks anything resembling subtext.

Major news outlets provided dramatically more coverage of Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial than former President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations this month that, if reelected as president, he may direct prosecutions of his political enemies.

The Big Three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) collectively produced 18 times more coverage of the trial than of Trump’s calls for politicized prosecutions, while the A-sections of five major newspapers featured six times more articles about the trial, according to a Media Matters review.
mediamatters.org/broadcast-netw…

Hunter Biden's guilty verdict on federal gun charges comes amid a years-long right-wing media effort to delegitimize the federal justice system as a weaponized arm of the Democratic Party. mediamatters.org/joe-biden/maga… But MAGA propagandists, rather than abandoning their conspiracy theories, are coalescing around a new twist: The conviction is an “op” in which Hunter Biden is being deliberately sacrificed to protect the rigged system.

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…
Trump says he'd use the National Guard and even (illegally) the military to arrest and deport millions of migrants. His "plan" is notably light on details, which seems like a guarantee for child-separation-style cruelty. time.com/6972022/donald…

FLASHBACK: A Trump-appointed prosecutor dropped an unfalsifiable partisan bomb on President Joe Biden Thursday, playing into a years-long right-wing media campaign — and U.S. political journalists decided to treat it as a valid and impartial charge.

mediamatters.org/joe-biden/poli… The New York Times ran 30 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded."

Sean Hannity's Fox News show ran with this informant's claims in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. He said they proved Joe Biden engaged in "public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/study…

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1758240350559240321

Of course the benefit of building wild conspiracy theories premised on the bogus idea that the DOJ under Biden is in the tank for Democrats is you can move directly to claiming this prosecution is part of the conspiracy. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…

1. Russia invaded Ukraine. A broad U.S. and E.U. coalition funded Ukraine's defense.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that supporting Ukraine was taking resources away from border security, so.... 2. Biden proposed a supplemental which included both funding for Ukraine and additional funds for border security.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that border funds weren't enough without policy changes, so...

TheBlaze’s Jason Whitlock hosts notorious antisemite to denounce supposed Jewish control of US government, Black people
mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla… JONES: "The Jews... have spent their entire time here in the United States of America undermining the moral fabric of the American people."

WHITLOCK: "“I get it, and I can’t say that I disagree." mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla…

Seems very, very bad. plus.thebulwark.com/p/theres-a-sto…
Trump is threatening to use the government to “come down hard” on the free press. Believe him.

mediamatters.org/msnbc/trump-th…

Probably a little dicey to marry someone who disagrees with you politically if one of the things he disagrees with you about politically might be whether women should be able to get a no-fault divorce...

On the broader point, "women find your hobby off-putting so you should probably find a new one if you want to date" seems like a pretty normal state of affairs.

NEW STUDY: Broadcast, cable, and print outlets have given Donald Trump calling his enemies "vermin" a tiny fraction of the coverage they gave Hillary Clinton's 2016 remark calling some Trump supporters "deplorables" mediamatters.org/donald-trump/m…
ABC/CBS/NBC news programs provided *18 times* more coverage of "deplorables" than "vermin"

“From the river to the sea, Palestinians will be free” seems like a chant that would have the vibe activists say they want, avoid the problem of literally calling for Israel’s elimination while raising questions about what happens to the Jews, and, crucially, still rhyme. Of course, the real problem with a vision for a secular, binational state with robust civil rights for all isn’t the chant, it’s that the actual existing Israeli and Palestinian populations don’t want that.

French journalist confirms Hamas terrorists beheaded babies at Kfar Aza, sourcing includes "courageous journalists from the foreign press who were able to see / agreed to see with their own eyes the bodies."

https://twitter.com/margothaddad/status/1711756690574479651

Personally I don't find a lot of distinction between "Hamas murdered babies but only beheaded adults" and "Hamas murdered and beheaded babies, as well as adults" but some people in my feed thought it was worth trying to debunk the latter, so there it is.

Charlotte's thread crystalizes where I'm at after a few days toggling between videos of Hamas terrorists murdering civilians and videos of avowed leftists cheering the murders on this website.

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1711500104476033197

I expect to see depraved right-wingers doing "fuck around find out" shit over images of destruction in Gaza. But cheering the murderers of hundreds of Israelis at a concert in the name of peace, justice, and decolonization is some depraved shit.