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Oct 5, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
Greg Gutfeld says "elections don't work" and "society is in peril and chaos because our elections don’t matter" while urging for a new American civil war.

In the following tweets, I will transcribe everything he says in this clip, because it goes into some very dark territory. "Only certain people get criminal mulligans and Jan. 6 protestors, they don’t get criminal mulligans and here’s why. They’re the oppressor. So the oppressed get criminal mulligans. The people who are complaining, like us, we’re actually oppressors..."
May 19, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Fox News and Newsmax rans dozens of segments and tons of online articles raging about how Democrats were throwing homeless vets to the wolves to accommodate migrants.

The story turned out to be a hoax -- and the networks haven't addressed it yet.

thedailybeast.com/fox-news-stoke… Also, not only has Newsmax not issued any corrections noting this whole story about hotels booting out homeless vets to make room for migrants was false, they've ran several news segments today touting the hoax.

thedailybeast.com/fox-news-stoke…
Mar 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Fox Business host Larry Kudlow: "Lord knows what other left-wing romping was going on in these woke banks. By the way, San Francisco Fed head Mary Daly is considered herself to be quite a wokester!" Kudlow: "Where were Mary Daly’s bank examiners? You know, Mary Daly, I hate to get personal but she is known as a woke Fed head, probably the leading woke."
Oct 28, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Fox News now reporting on the Pelosi attacker's social media activity.

John Roberts: "[Reads off a bunch of anti-trans, covid truther and election denier/Jan. 6 links] So, it looks like we potentially have somebody here who embraces conspiracy theories?" Sandra Smith: "She recalled him using Biblical justification to do harm."

Bret Baier: "I don’t think we have to say anything else."

John Roberts: "Again, how do you connect all of that with Nancy Pelosi? That’s the missing trail of dots here."
Sep 2, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Bill Barr to Fox News: "Well, I think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red herring... at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it’s a waste of time." Fox News anchor John Roberts: "Is there any legitimate reason for those materials to be in the former president’s possession?"

Bill Barr: "No. I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been."
Aug 11, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Fox Business's Charles Gasparino stands by his reporting that Team Trump wasn't given a copy of the warrant.

"I spoke with Trump people, I spoke with Eric Trump. They tell me they don’t have the warrant, okay? They’ve seen the warrant... They told me they don’t have it." Meanwhile, Charlie's Fox Business colleague Dagen McDowell was on Fox News earlier today and said that one thing we know for sure is that Team Trump DOES have the search warrant.

Jul 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Fox News just devoted an entire segment to @LachCartwright's report on Chris Cuomo applying to be a firefighter in the Hamptons.

Yet, they didn't once credit him or The Daily Beast for the reporting, instead just showing a screenshot of the New York Post's aggregation. Greg Gutfeld did the same thing last night while discussing Lachlan's Cuomo report on his late-night show, all while calling it "the best story of the year."
Mar 1, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
NEW from me:

A source close to Dennis Miller confirmed he will not be hosting his show on RT America going forward, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Jesse Ventura and William Shatner, however, remain silent about their status with the network.

thedailybeast.com/dennis-miller-… While William Shatner hasn't commented on his relationship with RT America, his show is produced by Ora TV -- which also produces Miller's program.

Ora confirmed on Tuesday that they've "paused production" of all its RT content given Putin's invasion.

thedailybeast.com/dennis-miller-…
Jan 25, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
After airing a preview of Tucker Carlson's new pro-Orban/anti-Soros documentary, Jesse Watters asks Tucker the following question:

"So what was the game plan for the Hungarian leader to fight back against George Soros?" Jeanine Pirro: "What are they doing about Soros? Have they tried to remove him, prosecute him or do any of the things he would do to us if he could?"

Tucker says Hungary is merely just pushing back against Soros "subverting democracy" before eventually doing his loud cackle.
Sep 2, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Just check out this chyron -- alongside footage of NYC facing a historic flood The majority of the hosts dismissed that climate change is accelerating by cherry-picking data, claiming the number of weather-related deaths in 2020 was a 30-year low.

The UN, however, just reported that extreme weather disasters increased nearly fivefold in the past 50 years.
Sep 1, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Fox News' Will Cain: "We have overplayed covid fears beyond the rational fear to the average human being out there. We have convinced people out there that unarmed black men are being gunned down in the streets by cops." Fox News anchor Shannon Bream: "You're not saying on the police shootings, they don't happen. It's not this massive number -- people would be stunned to find out what the real number is."

Cain then adds that it is actually in the "single digits" each year -- which is incorrect.
Aug 30, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Things got very hairy for NBC News reporter Shaquille Brewster during a live Hurricane Ida report from Gulfport, MS.

Some guy jumps out of a pickup truck and angrily confronts Brewster's crew, prompting a shaken Craig Melvin to express extreme concern for his colleague. Moments later, Craig Melvin informs viewers that Shaquille Brewster is fine after a "wacky guy" disrupted his live shot.

"Shaq, he's okay."
Aug 29, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
My wife and I are having a debate right now -- who is the best bad guy ever in a movie? Also should have pointed out -- no anti-heroes.

Aug 19, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
"Earlier in the relationship, Datig said, she was pressured repeatedly by Elder to get a tattoo declaring her to be 'Larry’s Girl' — and even urged her to design one which included the Superman logo."

politico.com/news/2021/08/1… "And she didn’t speak up when a large nude portrait of her with the tattoo on her lower back was displayed in their home for visitors to see, Datig said.

[...]

As a former victim of human trafficking and the sex trade, she said, she now realizes it was a kind of 'branding'"
Aug 19, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Gonna be that kind of night on Tucker's show The person that Miranda Devine and Tucker are relying on as their unimpeachable source that Ilhan Omar married her brother is Anton Lazzaro, who was recently charged with underage sex trafficking.

In fact, they imply Lazzaro was only arrested because he was about to reveal this.
Aug 12, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
So the last day of Mike Lindell's "cyber symposium" kicks off with him claiming he was attacked outside of his hotel and that outside forces are infiltrating the event.

"So this is this is a typical, um, insurrection type activities. This is part of the colour revolution." Mike Lindell: "You can say, 'Oh, my god it wasn't China, it wasn't this!' Does it matter? They did it through the -- it doesn't even matter who did it anymore!"

Last night, Lindell's lead "cyber expert" admitted that their data proving China hacked the election is bogus.
Aug 11, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
There's been a bit of drama at today's "cyber symposium" as Ron Watkins aka CodeMonkey (who is likely Q) reada statement from his lawyer that they need to stop their "data review" because hard drives may have been "taken without authorization" from Mesa County. Ron Watkins adds an update to his previous statement, as things get weirder (and legal peril concerns apparently intensify):

"Conan [Hayes] did have permission to take the hard drive but did not have permission to upload it."

Confusion abounds.
Aug 9, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
According to the Washington Post, Chris Cuomo is STILL advising his brother Andrew on his sexual misconduct scandals.

washingtonpost.com/politics/cuomo… After it was first revealed he was advising his brother on how to handle his sexual harassment allegations, including telling Andrew to blame it on "cancel culture," Chris said on-air "it would never happen again" and he knew "where the line is"

thedailybeast.com/chris-cuomo-so…
Aug 9, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
Fox News' Joe Concha slams the Sunday talk shows for not giving any coverage to Obama's birthday party.

I assume that means he is also criticizing Fox News Sunday -- which was hosted by Bret Baier this past Sunday -- for not spending any time on the bash.
Jul 29, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Tucker Carlson: "Our identity, The Record said, was included in an intel intercept and then 'unmasked.' The Record didn't explain how that would be legal. But it happened, as we said it did."

No, you said the NSA intercepted YOUR communications in an effort to cancel your show. The Record reported that Tucker's communications were neither targeted by the NSA nor were they intercepted via "incidental collection.

Rather, Tucker's name was mentioned by third parties under surveillance and therefore revealed via "unmasking."

therecord.media/nsa-review-fin…
Jul 20, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
This is a really disingenuous interpretation by Fox News' John Roberts on Kamala Harris' comments about the vaccine before the election.

Of course, the clip he plays excludes her saying she'd trust a "credible source of information" and just won't take Trump's word alone on it. Yes, as has been pointed out, the Daily Beast did indeed report at the time that Kamala seeded doubt about taking the vaccine under Trump. Without a doubt, she did that.

At the same time, Roberts still deliberately excised her comments to engage in a bad-faith interpretation.