Seth Meyers Calls Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo ‘Unhinged’ for Touting Capitol Riot Conspiracies (Video)

Ashli Babbit, the insurrectionist who was killed breaking into the U.S. Capitol – and online observers immediately took her to task with one person saying, “Maria has gone full cuckoo.”On this week’s “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo,” she and Trump’s conversation about Babbit and what lead up to her being shot by Capitol police on Jan.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorExecutives at Fox News Channel believe one of the core elements behind the durability of the network’s late-afternoon panel program, “The Five,” is the connection between founding panelists Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld.

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“We watch the ‘NewsHour,’ and your leadership and assessment every night,” Carter said. “And that kind of helps to reassure us.“And I think we don’t watch Fox’s presentations very much.

wrote. Padden, who was with Murdoch during the early days of Fox and Fox News, said that “things have gone badly off the tracks” at the cable news network, which he called out for promoting numerous falsehoods, including the severity of COVID-19, the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen from Trump, and contributing to vaccine hesitancy (vaccination rates are much lower in Trump-supporting states and counties vs those that voted for Biden).

NEW YORK -- The New York City Commission on Human Rights has fined Fox News $1 million, the largest penalty in its history, for violations of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation.As part of a settlement agreement announced Tuesday, Fox also agreed to mandate anti-harassment training for its New York-based staff and contributors and to temporarily allow people who allege misconduct under human rights law to bring claims and not be subject to binding arbitration.The

A new report is making a shocking allegation about who Tucker Carlson voted for in the 2020 presidential election.

Ed Henry, who was fired last year from Fox News for alleged sexual misconduct, is suing the news channel and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott for defamation.

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Fox News handily topped the other cable news networks in second quarter ratings despite double-digit drops in viewership across the board.In total, Fox News averaged 1.190 million total viewers for the quarter, down 39% the same period in 2020. MSNBC averaged 847,000, down 30%, while CNN saw a 45% decline and averaged 654,000.In the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54, Fox News averaged 204,000.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert didn’t mince words Tuesday night when he laid into Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz during a discussion of the Capitol riot, calling them the “creme dela crazy” of the GOP. “There’s huge news about the January 6 Capitol riot investigation: We may finally learn what we already know happened,” said Colbert, explaining that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a bill to create a committee to investigate the deadly insurrection.

Fox News topped the June viewership figures as well as the second quarter ratings, but all of the news networks continued to show steep declines in a post-election, post Donald Trump presidency news environment.

they can produce their evidence. “I’m sure, yes, of course, if they say they weren’t and show proof they weren’t, of course, I would,” she said.Last month, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have established an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said that a select committee will be formed to investigate the Jan. 6 riot and attack on the Capitol, after a proposal to create an independent bipartisan was blocked by Senate Republicans.

Seth Meyers is not taking being back in the studio for granted.

brought it up again, dedicating another chunk of his show to the theory, which he sourced from right-wing website Revolver News, and decrying Twitter for slapping a warning label on his now-deleted tweet about it.The Washington Post on Wednesday ran an analysis piece blasting “Tucker Carlson’s tinfoil-hat theory,” which Republican lawyer George Conway called “an insult to tinfoil hats.”After Carlson doubled down on his claims for a second night, more coverage followed on Thursday.

Richard Barnett, the man who was photographed putting his feet up on Nancy Pelosi‘s desk amid the Capitol riot in January, is having a hard time making a living now.

Scott Huver “There’s nothing like an iPad and a slow internet connection to make TV sparkle,” laughs Seth Meyers, recalling the initial rough-around-the-edges technology that his talk show “Late Night with Seth Meyers” employed in the early days of the pandemic to ensure the show aired on its regular schedule.But working collectively with producer Mike Shoemaker — Meyers’ longtime behind-the-scenes partner since their “Saturday Night Live” days together — and the staff ultimately proved a boon