Fox News’ audience continued to grow in May while its main cable news rivals saw viewership declines.
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criticizing her disdain for celebrity cardiothoracic surgeon-turned-Pennsylvania Senate candidate, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and saying she “has a cork up her nose” about this “perfectly legitimate conservative.”“For some reason the 10 p.m.-er has a real hate-on for Oz,” he said, on Friday’s “The Mark Levin Show,” substituting her name for her timeslot on the ultra-right-wing network. “I don’t hate Oz.
I don’t hate [Pennsylvania Senate candidate David] McCormick. I think they’re both terrific men. I don’t really hate any of these candidates.
But there’s something going on with the 10 p.m.-er. I’m a Pennsylvanian. 10 p.m.-er is not a Pennsylvanian.
But some people, because they have a camera in their face, actually think they know what’s best for you without actually inquiring into it.”He continued, “Sounds like a perfectly nice guy, sounds like a perfectly legitimate conservative. No reason to tear the guy down, I don’t think — Do you Mr. Producer? And yet these people get these platforms, they think they’re so smart.
10 p.m.-er has a cork up her nose at this. I don’t know what the problem is.”You can listen to Levin by clicking here. Last month, “The Ingraham Angle” host decried former president Donald Trump and fellow Fox News colleague Sean Hannity over their support of Oz.
Ingraham called their endorsement a “mistake” and said she couldn’t get behind the candidate’s previous liberal standpoints which he has not walked back, such as his takes on gun control and abortion. Dr. Oz announced he was entering the Pennsylvania Senate race in November, writing on his official website his reasoning. “Today, America’s heartbeat is in a code red in need of a defibrillator to shock it back to life,” it begins.
Fox News’ audience continued to grow in May while its main cable news rivals saw viewership declines.
Chris Stirewalt, who was a veteran politics editor at Fox News until he was let go in the aftermath of the 2020 election, is joining NewsNation, Nexstar’s non-partisan news venture.
The Simpsons took aim at Fox News and Facebook during a musical number in Sunday’s (May 22) season 33 finale.In the episode titled ‘Poorhouse Rock’, Hugh Jackman and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich led a song about the death of the US middle class.During the number, a character resembling Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is shown (via Deadline), saying: “Putin for president, next on Fox News.”Facebook is similarly called out for spreading misinformation in the song’s lyrics: “Facebook feeds our fright / They convince us things were great when gas was cheap and men were white.” A Mark Zuckerberg-like character is also seen pressing a red button which reads “death of democracy”.Is that a new carbon blob in Sector 7-G, @RealHughJackman? pic.twitter.com/8xjZ7HqxV7— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) May 23, 2022Jackman, voicing a singing janitor, begins the eight-minute musical number as a challenge to Bart Simpson – who is inspired by his father Homer’s job at the nuclear power plant.
Just days after Fox made a portfolio pitch to advertisers at its upfront showcasing Fox shows, including The Simpsons, and Fox News in the same breath, Matt Groenig & Co. shot back.
Sasha Urban editor“The Simpsons” took aim at the Fox Corporation on Sunday in a musical number about the death of the U.S. middle class, during the finale of its 33rd season.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pointed to former President Donald Trump as a big reason for the Biden administration’s “avoidance strategy” when it came to feuding with Fox News.She also detailed her relationship with Fox News’ Peter Doocy after being asked about it in a forum discussion. The forum, titled “Notes from the Frying Pan to the Fire” took place at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. The IOP Speakers Series director and moderator Jennifer Steinhauer went straight for it in one of her first questions to Psaki.“We’re just going to do the Doocy,” Steinhauer quipped. “The country was sort of mesmerized by these weekly, or often more than that, sparring that you had with the Fox News reporter in the briefing room.
tweet saying he can no longer vote Democrat because they are “the party of division and hate.” “I think it’s interesting that Elon Musk thinks that the Democratic Party is the party of hate, when the Republican Party produced a failed insurrection on January 6,” Knight responded. “This is also the party that you know has supported the big lie.
Despite a stamp of support from former president and fellow TV personality Donald Trump, celebrity-doctor-turned U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Mehmet Oz failed tonight to clinch the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.
J. Kim Murphy Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has demanded that Fox News “cease all dissemination of false white nationalist, far-right conspiracy theories” in a letter sent to the network’s leaders and owner Rupert Murdoch.In the document, published by The New York Times on Tuesday, Schumer cites an alarming statistic measured by AP, indicating that “nearly one third of American adults believe that a group of people is trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.” Schumer also cites that viewers of Fox News are three times as likely to believe the theory, with marquee anchor Tucker Carlson having amplified it “in more than 400 episodes.”“I urge you to take into consideration the very real impacts of the dangerous rhetoric being broadcast on your network on a nightly basis,” Schumer wrote.
Fox News faces widespread criticism for star host Tucker Carlson’s repeated focus on the racist ideology known as “replacement theory.” On Saturday, a mass shooter killed 10 people and wounded several more in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store after posting a manifesto expressing support for the ideology. Fox News also drew a seeming rebuke from President Biden after the Buffalo attack, though Biden did not name the network or any of its hosts specifically. The Media Matters survey of the Fox News coverage, which features a daily falsehood paired with an explanation and a countering factual statement, includes topics ranging from COVID-19 masking and vaccines to migration across the southern border and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
John Legend has called for Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to be “de-platformed”, accusing the presenter of espousing a racist theory that the Buffalo mass shooting suspect allegedly posted online.Payton S. Gendron, 18, is accused of carrying out what authorities have said was a racially-motivated attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday (May 14) that left 10 people dead and three injured.
John Legend isn’t holding back his criticism of Tucker Carlson.
A man bites dog moment happened on Friday in the White House, as the lion laid down with the lamb, at least for a photo.
would go back on him to make sure he always had proper sourcing for his claims, and applauded her for constantly being prepared for him.“All that extra homework … probably has made me a better reporter, and so I am grateful to her for that,” he said.bYou can watch the full segment from Fox & Friends in the video here and above.
Jimmy Kimmel clearly isn’t supporting Dr. Oz’s run for the U.S. Senate.
for a job at MSNBC, forcing her to defend her integrity and “high ethical standard.” Psaki, who will step down at the end of this coming week, defended herself from claims of conflicts of interest by continuing to work as President Biden’s top press liaison even after reportedly taking a position at one of the media outlets covering her press conferences. While she did not directly mention MSNBC, she said that she recused herself from any meetings involving media outlets that may employ her after leaving the White House.“I know you can’t discuss your next job for ethical reasons,” Kurtz said.
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Mehmet Oz’s rivals in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S.
One of the hallmarks of Biden Administration press conferences has been the ongoing repartee between Fox News White House Correspondent/gadfly Peter Doocy and press secretary Jen Psaki.
Trevor Noah took aim at former President Donald Trump and the Ohio GOP on Monday night while recapping the latest news about the state’s upcoming primary election.As it stands, there are four candidates running for the Republican senate and Noah mocked each of them during “The Daily Show” for spending their campaign “trying to show that they are the Trumpiest” — even after several of them had denounced him during his time in office.“Basically everyone spent this entire race trying to get the seal of approval from King Donald. Even the people who secretly don’t think too highly of him, which we see time and time again. It’s normal now,” he said.