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.
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Axios, the team of opinion host Tucker Carlson has received 41,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 attack, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds.“So the Speaker of the House just gave them all of the security camera footage from the actual Capitol for them to play with, to see what they can do,” the anchor said during Monday evening’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”.
“Here you go, Fox News Primetime. Hopefully you can use this official government material to concoct an alternate narrative to give us some more convenient revisionist history about what happened on January 6.”In addition to her criticism of McCarthy and Carlson, Maddow knocked the GOP in Michigan for choosing election denier Kristina Karamo to be the leader of the state’s party and the GOP in Georgia for paying the legal bills of 16 fake electors who face potential criminal prosecution for signing forged documents claiming that former President Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 election.
She argued that the “fever is not breaking” when it comes to the Republican Party’s devotion to “the stolen election lie,” to “denying the results of elections that they don’t like” and to “rewriting their history of their attempts to overturn previous elections.”“This problem they’ve got is not diminishing over time,” Maddow concluded. “It is not getting better as time goes on.
Not at all.”Watch the full monologue in the video above.
.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.
@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.
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough railed against House speaker Kevin McCarthy Thursday following news that a Republican-led subcommittee plans to launch an investigation into the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee.The Jan. 6 Committee, which was tasked with investigating the attack on the Capitol that unfolded in response to the results of the 2020 election, expired when Democrats lost control of the House following the midterm elections in November.
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.
second callback this week to the Carlson meltdown of January 2022. As a quick refresher, Mars Inc., the manufacturers of M&Ms, announced then that its candy character mascots would be updated to be more inclusive and reflect its “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive.”Those changes included swapping the green M&M’s go-go boots for more sensible sneakers and lowering the brown M&M’s stilettos to block heels.
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.
The White House went on the attack against Tucker Carlson over his segments that downplayed the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
wrote on Twitter that he would only join him after Carlson “admits to his viewers live on air that he has been lying to them about the 2020 elections and about what happened on January 6.”
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.
Like other late night hosts, Wayans wasn’t exactly surprised by Carlson’s take on things, arguing that it was bound to happen with cherry-picked video footage.“All Tucker Carlson proved is that you can make anything look better by not showing the bad part,” Wayans said, before taking a guess at how Carlson might spin another violent event in history, asking, “How come they never show 9/11 planes taking off?”You can watch the full segment from “The Daily Show” in the video above.
continue lying to his viewers. So, on Tuesday night, the “Late Night” host showed how easy it is to cherry-pick video footage to create a narrative — using John Wick as an example.On Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson repeated the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, and made multiple false claims related to the 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.”
Tucker Carlson aired the first clips of January 6th Capitol surveillance footag on Monday, and the Fox News host spent much of the time using clips to downplay the attack on the Capitol and cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election.
deposition he gave last month that he knew Fox News Channel was spreading false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Claims that Dominion voting machines were compromised are the basis of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems. Darcy said Murdoch’s deposition will be detrimental to the channel, especially the case goes to trial.“It will be devastating for Fox, I mean this is a taste of what’s to come. Imagine Rupert Murdoch on the stand, Lachlan Murdoch on the stand, Sean Hannity on the stand, Tucker Carlson on the stand,” said Darcy. “This will be weeks and weeks of damning headlines, which could really damage Fox’s brand.
reported on Wednesday. And according to McCarthy, any backlash over the decision from Democrats or the media is simply a matter of jealousy that they didn’t land the opportunity instead of Carlson.“People like exclusives, and Tucker is some[one] that’s been asking for it. So I let him come in and see it, but everyone’s gonna get it,” McCarthy said.
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