Meyers Mocks Tucker Carlson for Cherry-Picking Jan. 6 Footage: There’s ‘Footage From John Wick That Proves He’s Not Violent’ (Video)

private texts of him denouncing former president Donald Trump were released earlier this month as part of Fox News’ ongoing lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, Carlson addressed the damning messages Tuesday in conversation with conservative host Bo Snerdley on WABC Radio.“I love Trump,” Carlson said, later adding that he was “humiliated” at the time and “enraged” that his private texts were aired out for all to see. You can listen to the conversation below via MediaMatters.“I spent four years defending his policies and I — I’m going to defend them again tonight,” Carlson said of Trump on Tuesday. “And actually, and I’m pretty straight forward, I’m — I love Trump.

passionately,” Tucker Carlson remains, publicly, one of Trump’s biggest media allies. So it comes as no surprise that the star of Fox News’ primetime lineup is very, very opposed to the idea of Donald Trump being arrested.But on Tuesday Carlson had a highly idiosyncratic hope for how Trump might be saved from legal accountability: Help from President Joe Biden. Now as a reminder, on Saturday, as part of a larger ALL CAPS rant on his Twitter clone, Truth Social, about various things that make him angry, Trump claimed that we would likely be arrested on Tuesday (today).

Joe Biden’s first White House press secretary Jen Psaki began her new MSNBC program on Sunday by telling the audience, “It’s a hell of a week of launch a new show.”

Bill Maher was in his frequent “down with religion” state of mind during Friday’s “Real Time,” landing a one-two blow to both the Catholic church and his favorite former president to razz, Donald Trump.It being St. Patrick’s Day and all, Maher’s New Rules began with a shout to Ireland, which quickly turned into a political comparison of the country’s division over religion to the current state in the Republican party.“[Ireland] went through a period where political hatred born of religion turned into something called ‘the troubles,’ which meant the hatred got so bad it could not be contained by the usual means of disagreement. So people lived with bombings and sniping and urban warfare, which Tucker Carlson calls sightseeing,” Maher said, cutting to images of Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Jan.

With the 2024 presidential election getting closer, twice-impeached former president is turning hard on his party (or at least, those who have fallen out of step with him). It’s getting to a point where Seth Meyers thinks it’s not outside the realm of possibility for Trump to eventually backtrack his long criticisms of Barack Obama.During his “A Closer Look” segment on Thursday night, Meyers mocked Florida governor Ron DeSantis for attracting “the bloodshot Eye of Sauron” as he potentially gets closer to announcing a presidential bid.

Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch for creating “monsters” like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, then trying to disavow their words.Those words, of course, came in the form of emails and text messages, which have been steadily released in court filings from Dominion. Quite a bit has come out, so here’s what you need to know: At the end of February, Dominion docs revealed that several Fox hosts, including Ingraham and Hannity, were privately bashing election deniers that were being brought on their shows in 2020.Among the messages: “Sidney Powell is lying,” sent from Tucker Carlson to his producer Alex Pfeiffer on Nov.

Colin Jost kicked off Weekend Update with a couple of Oscar yuks, including one that reference John Travolta and how he botched Idina Menzel’s name at the 2014 Academy Awards.

Former Vice President Mike Pence was one of the featured speakers at the white tie Gridiron Club dinner in Washington on Saturday, an event that typically is a showcase of sometimes biting humor.

If Chelsea Handler had to take a guess as to who would survive for the GOP Presential ticket, it would be Florida governor Ron DeSantis over former President Donald Trump.

LIVE – Updated at 17:40A federal judge has ruled that E Jean Carroll can use the infamous Access Hollywood tape in her rape defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, further compounding the former president’s legal woes. Judge Lewis Kaplan also ruled that he will allow the testimony of two other women who have claimed that Mr Trump sexually assaulted them, Natasha Stoynoff and Jessica Leeds.

@TuckerCarlson tells me I am the first person to ask him for access to the Jan 6 tapes. pic.twitter.com/w4bvKlcQfvCarlson and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” disclosed that they had requested to see the footage from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who acknowledged the transfer.Beck still could not believe that no one reached out and asked for some kind of preview.“So nobody from the news department, any news department …,” Beck said.

After new texts from Tucker Carlson were revealed this week, in which he admitted he hates twice-impeached former president Donald Trump “passionately,” Jimmy Fallon is actually defending the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host. According to Fallon, most friend groups bash at least one member in private.On Tuesday, new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems were made public as part of their ongoing $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

As Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News continues, more texts from Fox hosts have been revealed. And Marlon Wayans had an absolute blast with what they revealed on Wednesday night.In case you missed it, on Tuesday, new court filings from Dominion were made public as part of their ongoing $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. In the filings, it was revealed that Carlson sent texts two days before the Jan.

Stephen Colbert continued to roast Tucker Carlson on Wednesday’s “The Late Show,” this time deploying a rather creative use of the latest fad technology to do it.Specifically, Colbert used AI to recreate Carlson’s own voice, and made said voice read tweets Carlson sent bashing former president Donald Trump. It’s pretty funny but more important, it’s eerily spot-on.Now, we’re sure by now you know what inspired this, but just in case, Fox News is being sued for billions by Dominion Voting Systems over the network content that falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen by Donald Trump and that somehow, Dominion was involved.

telling another Fox News personality “I hate him passionately,” referring to Donald Trump. It’s just one of dozens of highly embarrassing revelations about Fox News to emerge from the trial.Per usual, the cold open started with news clips reporting the text message thread from Carlson which included him saying, “I hate him passionately,” about Trump.

a statement. “We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible,” Bates added, referring to testimony stemming from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox that David Clark, a senior vice president at Fox News, does not consider Carlson a credible source of news.

CNN’s Jake Tapper slammed Fox News on Tuesday after the conservative network aired select clips from about 40,000 hours of Capitol security footage during the events of Jan. 6, 2021. “Fox used the footage given to them exclusively by House speaker Kevin McCarthy to frame a description of the events of Jan.

multiple false claimss related to the Jan. 6 attacks, and also deployed selectively edited footage to misrepresent them as a peaceful protest. And yes, Carlson also repeated the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.This resulted in widespread criticism even from fellow Republicans, among them Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

the New York Times once described as “what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news,” he was clearly angry, even if he presented a big, sarcastic grin while talking about it.But Carlson presented a hostile message: Republicans and Democrats in congress are, he said, essentially conspiring with each other against the American people — and he urged his viewers to “keep a list” of the Republicans in particular who act like this.You can watch the whole clip at the top of the page (courtesy of @Acyn on Twitter), but before we go on, a little context. On Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson made numerous false statements about Jan.

The chief of Capitol Police blasted Tucker Carlson’s characterization of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, calling the Fox News host’s conclusions “offensive and misleading.”