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The right-wing media pipeline behind Trump’s election fraud lies

Trump promotes a "Socialism Research Center" director hosted by Tucker Carlson

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 09/09/24 mma

In a Sunday rant on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump lifted up a bogus claim of widespread election fraud during the 2020 presidential election, which he sourced to a guest of Tucker Carlson, the right-wing media star and sometime Trump adviser.

“An interview by Tucker Carlson of an election expert indicates that 20% of the Mail-In Ballots in Pennsylvania are fraudulent,” Trump wrote. “Here we go again! Where is the U.S. Attorney General and FBI to INVESTIGATE? Where is the Pennsylvania Republican Party? We will WIN Pennsylvania by a lot, unless the Dems are allowed to CHEAT. THE RNC MUST ACTIVATE, NOW!!!”

Throughout his campaign, Trump has lied about election fraud costing him the 2020 race and baselessly warned that any defeat in 2024 could only be attributed to cheating by Democrats. On Saturday, he pledged that “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences.”

Trump Truth Social Post, 9/7/24

The former president’s social media screeds illustrate the state of the right-wing media bullshit pipeline Trump used to try to steal the 2020 presidential election, which he will use again to delegitimize the 2024 election if he loses it.

### Trump’s claim originates with a bogus poll from a right-wing think tank’s “Socialism Research Center”

Trump appeared to be referencing an April interview Carlson conducted with Justin Haskins, a think-tanker at the right-wing Heartland Institute, as Mediaite noted.

Carlson introduced Haskins by falsely claimingthat Trump faced federal criminal prosecution simply because he suggested “the 2020 presidential campaign was not on the level,” asserting that “it’s worth denying the legitimacy of that election,” and alleging that a poll Heartland conducted demonstrated that widespread voter fraud did take place.

Haskins went on to detail the poll, in which respondents who said they voted absentee or with mail-in ballots in the 2020 election were asked if they engaged in various illegal actions, like voting in a state in which they were not a legal resident or forging the signature of someone else on their ballot.

“All told, it’s at least — and I say at least — 1 in 5 mail-in ballots involved some kind of fraudulent activity,” he concluded.

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But Heartland’s poll “instantly fails the smell test,” Washington Post reporter Philip Bump wrote in December, when Trump previously cited the results. Bump pointed out that the poll would indicate both a massive quantity of fraud happening undetected — and that Republicans were conducting that fraud at the same rate as Democrats. From the post:

A fifth of voters said they voted in a state where they no longer live? About 6 in 10 Americans have never moved out of the states in which they were born. Half of the rest, we are meant to believe, committed an obvious form of election fraud three years ago.

Without, I’ll add, being detected by any authority or by any of the thousands of people who, eager to prove Trump right, have been looking for examples of fraudulent voting. Those professional and amateur sleuths have also somehow not found evidence showing that 1 in 12 absentee voters — millions of people! — were offered cash for their votes. This would seem like it might leave a trail.

Rasmussen did provide a breakdown of the responses by demographic group, which does not exactly help Trump’s argument that the election was being stolen from him. After all, a quarter of the Republicans they interviewed said they also voted by absentee ballot, and their admissions of these federal crimes matched the rates of admission by Democrats.

While Trump in his Truth Social post described Haskins as an “election expert,” Haskins’ Heartland bio gives no indication of any actual expertise in that field. It identifies him as the director of its “Socialism Research Center,” and “the editor-in-chief of StoppingSocialism.com, one of the world’s largest and most influential publications devoted to challenging socialism,” and highlights his publication by various right-wing news outlets and his work co-authoring surveys.

### All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again

Trump is immersed in a right-wing media bubble that confirms his biases and stokes his worst inclinations. He often took action or spoke out during his presidency in response to what he was seeing from favorite outlets like Fox News, a pattern which very much applied to his seditious plot to delegitimize and subvert the 2020 election.

That plan depended on deluging the Republican base with a constant stream of nonsensical claims of election fraud in order to put pressure on its elected officials to act on Trump’s behalf — and right-wing media were more than willing to play their part to achieve those ends.

Trump began regularly promoting Fox reports about the election fraud in the months leading up to the vote.

After he falsely declared victory on the night of Election Day — even as his top campaign and administration aides reportedly told him he had lost — he relied instead on the deranged lies his favored Fox hosts were telling him. (Fox’s coverage ultimately resulted in a record $787.5 million defamation settlement with the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems).

Over the following weeks, Trump also began promoting even more baroque fever dreams from Fox’s fringe-right competitors Newsmax and One America News Network.

Ultimately, Trump sent at least 76 tweets in response to right-wing TV programming about purported fraud in the 2020 election in the weeks between Election Day and the eventual result of his incitement: the January 6, 2021, riot in which his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Trump’s Sunday social media post demonstrates that the pipeline that brought election fraud lies to the former president in 2020 is still online as the 2024 election approaches. But the right-wing ecosystem is more fractured and competitive than it was, as former Foxers like Carlson have left the network and attracted their own audiences. Given this ecosystem, we are likely to see the varied outlets and personalities — competing for Trump’s attention and favor — push each other to endorse ever-less-credible claims to support the GOP nominee’s contention that he can lose only if the election is stolen.

With the 2024 election shaping up to be a close one, the Republican Party and its propagandists turning election denial into a core value, and the right-wing ecosystem primed to rerun the demagoguery that helped bring about an insurrection, the next few months are looking grim.

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Fox News published an article Feb. 27, titled “These 51 big businesses target conservatives. Here’s what you can do to stop them,” that calls out several of its own advertisers as being “at war with conservatives” and suggests readers boycott as well.

The February 27 article by Justin Haskins, director of The Heartland Institute’s Socialism Research Center,complains that “over the past decade, hundreds of large U.S. corporations have adopted woke policies, regularly injecting left-wing ideals into their products, services and employment practices.” The article cites a “new project launched by the 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit organization,” that “assesses more than 1,000 companies’ ‘policies, practices, and other relevant criteria to determine the likelihood a company will cancel a contract or client, or boycott, divest, or deny services based on views or beliefs,’” sorting them into “lower risk,” “medium risk,” and “high risk” categories. (Media Matters has written extensively about the Heartland Institute, particularly around its climate denial.)

The list includes 147 companies that the 1792 Exchange has identified as “high risk.” The author chose to spotlight “51 of the most impactful for this article” and suggested that readers should “switch” away from these companies “whenever possible.” He also suggested conservatives should “send a letter to businesses that are engaging in discrimination to tell them that you’re considering leaving because of their actions.”

The 51 companies listed are: Ally Financial, Amalgamated Bank, Bank of America, Berkshire Bank, BMO Harris, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Eastern Bank, Fifth Third Bank, First Republic Bank,JPMorgan Chase,Morgan Stanley, PNC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Bank, Bancorp, Trillium Asset Management, Truist, US Bank,Wells Fargo, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, XPO Logistics, Best Buy, Home Depot,Kohl’s, Lululemon, Macy’s, Madewell, Target, Walmart. Alibaba, Amazon, Chewy, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, Warby Parker. Altria, Ben & Jerry’s, Cargill, Coca-Cola,HelloFresh, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Starbucks,and the JM Smucker Company.

Here are some of these companies which have advertised on Fox News over the past year, according to Media Matters’ internal database.

Amazon

Amazon and its subsidiaries have advertised on Fox News over 100 times in the past year.

Bank of America

Bank of America and its subsidiaries have advertised on Fox News over 800 times in the past year.

Chewy

Chewy has advertised on Fox News over 100 times in the past year.

Citigroup

Citigroup has advertised on Fox News over 100 times in the past year.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase and its subsidiaries have advertised on Fox News over 900 times over the past year.

PNC Financial Services

PNC has advertised on Fox News over 300 times over the past year.

Walmart

Walmart has advertised on Fox News over 200 times in the past year.

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These 51 big businesses target conservatives. Here’s what you can do to stop them

Banks, transportation firms, retail giants and food companies make up 51 businesses at war with conservatives

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It is not a secret that over the past decade, hundreds of large U.S. corporations have adopted woke policies, regularly injecting left-wing ideals into their products, services and employment practices. But some of these businesses have recently gone much further than merely promoting social justice causes; they have chosen to target conservative customers and employees, coercing or forcing Americans to abandon their deeply held beliefs in order to receive important goods or services or to stay employed.

Although many conservatives have heard stories about corporate discrimination in recent years, they have often struggled to keep track of which businesses have been part of this movement, and which have largely stayed on the sidelines. A new project launched by the 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit organization, seeks to shed light on this important problem.

The 1792 Exchange recently launched its Spotlight Report, which assesses more than 1,000 companies’ "policies, practices, and other relevant criteria to determine the likelihood a company will cancel a contract or client, or boycott, divest, or deny services based on views or beliefs."

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The 1792 Exchange team then used those assessments to assign businesses to three categories — "Lower Risk," "Medium Risk," and "High Risk."

According to the group's website, "‘High Risk’ companies have generally canceled or denied business relationships based on viewpoint disagreements or pose a high risk of canceling people and businesses who do not share their views." Out of the more than 1,000 companies evaluated, 147 are currently classified as "High Risk," which means they are much more likely than other businesses to engage in direct discrimination.

I have carefully reviewed the assessments produced by the 1792 Exchange and have selected 51 of the most impactful for this article. Those companies are grouped by category and listed below.

Banks

Perhaps the most influential groups of woke companies in the report are banks. Numerous large banks are using their financial might to effectively force business customers into adopting climate change policies, even when it will require that those customers dramatically change their business practices.

Many of these banks have also weaponized their operations to promote social and ideological views favored by the left. For example, Bank of America vets its vendors based on their commitment to LGBTQ views, and it has ceased lending with some gun manufacturers. It has also provided funding to Planned Parenthood, as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has a long track record of targeting conservative groups.

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Bank of America and its CEO, Brian Moynihan, as well as many of the other banks that have been assigned a "High Risk" score by the 1792 Exchange have been some of the biggest supporters of the radical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement. ESG is a kind of social credit scoring model that aims to fundamentally transform the global economy so that it’s more in line with the United Nations’ left-wing Sustainable Development Goals.

The 1792 Exchange identified 21 "High Risk" banks: Ally Financial, Amalgamated Bank, Bank of America, Berkshire Bank, BMO Harris, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Eastern Bank, Fifth Third Bank, First Republic Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, PNC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Bank, Bancorp, Trillium Asset Management, Truist, US Bank, and Wells Fargo.

Transportation

The 1792 Exchange determined that five large transportation companies fall into its "High Risk" category — Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and XPO Logistics.

Although the transportation companies listed in the 1792 Exchange report do not regularly refuse to do business based on ideological or religious considerations, they have engaged in left-wing activism and even promoted partisan legislation.

American Airlines is one of five airlines on the ‘High Risk’ list. It fought against the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act.

For instance, American Airlines publicly fought against the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act — commonly and falsely labeled the "Don’t Say Gay Bill" by liberals. The legislation prevents public schools from teaching young children, kindergarten through third grade, about topics related to sex and gender identity.

Similarly, Southwest Airlines fought against state laws that sought to enhance election integrity by limiting questionable practices like mail-in balloting.

Retail Giants

The 1792 Exchange labeled 15 large businesses in the "Retailing" industry as "High Risk" companies, including popular brick-and-mortar stores Best Buy, Home Depot, Kohl’s, Lululemon, Macy’s, Madewell, Target and Walmart. The online retailers included in the report as "High Risk" are Alibaba, Amazon, Chewy, eBay, Etsy, Shopify and Warby Parker.

The reasons behind the decision to identify these companies as "High Risk" varied, but in every case, the 1792 Exchange provided significant evidence showing that these businesses have actively promoted left-wing ideological views.

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For example, 1792 Exchange notes Home Depot "advertised flyers to its employees about confronting their ‘white privilege, Christian privilege, heterosexual privilege, able-bodied privilege,’ etc."

Target has removed books from its stores at the request of liberal activists, and it has fought against numerous legislative proposals backed by conservative lawmakers, including election integrity legislation in Georgia.

Food and Beverage Companies

Ten large food and beverage companies were given "High Risk" ratings in the 1792 Exchange report: Altria, Ben & Jerry’s, Cargill, Coca-Cola, HelloFresh, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Starbucks and the JM Smucker Company.

Although all of these businesses engaged in troubling activities, the company with the most radical practices is, by far, Ben & Jerry’s. The famous Vermont-based ice cream company has promoted "Defund the Police" campaigns, opposed legislation meant to limit election fraud, said that the criminal justice system "must be dismantled," and openly advocated for pro-abortion policies, among many other actions.

Home Depot is one of the 15 retail giants on the ‘High Risk’ list. The woke company confronted workers about ‘white privilege, Christian privilege, heterosexual privilege, able-bodied privilege.'

Fighting Back

Unfortunately, the 51 companies mentioned throughout this article are just the tip of the iceberg. Numerous other important corporations are also actively undermining conservatives and/or discriminating against families or businesses who do not share their radical views.

The 1792 Exchange outlined nearly 100 additional "High Risk" companies in its report, including some of the most powerful in the world, like Alphabet (the owners of Google), Disney, and Apple.

How can conservatives push back against these businesses?

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The first step is to share instances of discrimination and reports like the one produced by the 1792 Exchange with like-minded friends and family.

Conservatives should identify companies that offer similar products and services to those offered by businesses that discriminate and switch, whenever possible. If you can switch products or services, be sure to tell both the business you’re leaving and the new, non-discriminatory business why you’re making the change.

If there aren’t any good alternatives, then send a letter to businesses that are engaging in discrimination to tell them that you’re considering leaving because of their actions. Companies don’t often receive letters like these, so they do have an impact.

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Finally, conservative lawmakers need to prioritize policies that reject ESG social credit scores and other systematic attempts meant to coerce companies into embracing leftist causes. The legislation proposed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis earlier this month that would limit the use of ESG scores in banking is a great place to start.

If conservatives don’t soon make a concerted effort to fight back against woke corporations, America could soon be transformed beyond repair. We simply cannot afford to wait any longer.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JUSTIN HASKINS

Justin Haskins is the director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute and a New York Times bestselling author.

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Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chair of the World Economic Forum, raised an :{important question:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: last December: “What kind of capitalism do we want?” He posited that there were three potential forms:

Shareholder capitalism—which currently dominates Western corporations and is focused on maximizing short-term profits;
State capitalism—otherwise known as “democratic socialism”—which trusts the government with setting the direction of the economy; or
Stakeholder capitalism—a system in which corporations serve the interests of all their stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and local communities.

Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in part to promote the benefits of stakeholder capitalism. During a speech in July, President-elect Joe Biden :{said that:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: “It’s way past time to put the end to the era of shareholder capitalism. The idea [that] the only responsibility a corporation has is its shareholders—that is simply not true …They have a responsibility to their workers, their community, to their country.”

Recognizing that the coronavirus pandemic had exposed “inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems—from health and financial to energy and education,” the World Economic Forum launched :{an initiative called:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}:“The Great Reset” in June 2020 to extol the principles of stakeholder capitalism. Klaus :{wrote:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: that the initiative’s goals would have three main components.

Governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.”
Investments should advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability.
Innovations of the :{Fourth Industrial Revolution:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: should be harnessed to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges.

Of course, those on the far left who are :{committed:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}:to viewing corporations as the enemy have responded to this initiative with derision. But they have a point. For the most part, the Great Reset relies on voluntary efforts from corporations to reform themselves, asking the government to merely “create the conditions” for change. While such efforts may be laudable, they have never been sufficient. Some form of regulatory oversight is necessary.

On the far right, however, the Great Reset has become grist for massive QAnon-like conspiracy theories used by various groups to promote their own self-interests. For example, Justin Haskins is often :{referred:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: to as “a leading authority on the Great Reset” in right-wing media. He not only :{writes:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: for publications like Breitbart, he is the :{editorial director:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: and a research fellow at the Heartland Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank :{founded:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: in 1984 to deny the science of climate change. That is the backdrop on which Haskins distorts the message of the Great Reset, transforming it into a socialist plot to implement the Green New Deal, when in fact it is anything but socialist.

In short, the Great Reset is a proposal to completely alter the entire global economy, moving it more toward collectivism and away from capitalism. According to its most ardent supporters, the purpose for the “Great Reset” is three-fold: (1) repairing the global economic damage caused by the coronavirus; (2) stopping a coming climate change catastrophe; and (3) using the two previously mentioned “crises” as an opportunity to advance socialist ideals, including the destruction of capitalism and individual rights.

Another major proponent of a conspiracy theory about the Great Reset is Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and an outspoken adversary of Pope Francis. In October, he :{penned a letter:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: to Donald Trump warning that “the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity.”

A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations…

The purpose of the Great Resetis the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures, hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt. The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups…

As is now clear, the one who occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist ideology, supporting the agenda of the deep church, who chose him from its ranks.

According to Viganò, the “deep state” has now been joined by the “deep church,” headed by the Pope he :{attempted:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: to unseat.

Tucked away in Viganò’s letter is a reference to another conspiracy theory recently :{promoted:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: by televangelist Pat Robertson about Biden merely being a placeholder for a Harris presidency. The archbishop wrote that, “It is obvious that those who manipulate [Biden] already have someone worse than him ready, with whom they will replace him as soon as the opportunity arises.” It should come as no surprise, then, that Christian nationalists have once again joined far right Catholics in spreading lies.

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if all of this talk about a globalist conspiracy crafted by the elites sounds familiar, that’s because it has always been the foundational message coming from Steve Bannon, who :{joined:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: Archbishop Viganò in attempting to undermine Pope Francis. Bannon is now using his Youtube channel :{to promote:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}: a slightly different, but even more sinister take on the Great Reset.

In Bannon-land, the great reset is an opportunity for the elite cabal to “depopulate” the earth to 500 million, then genetically engineer humankind using “the convergence of artificial intelligence, advances in chip design and bioengineering.” He explains that the Democrats are attempting to “steal this election” because “if they can thwart the will of the people in this country,” they’ll be able to achieve the great reset by taking down populist movements in other countries as well.

As you can see, whether your agenda is to deny climate change, challenge the Pope, or warn of an impending apocalypse, the Great Reset can be twisted into a conspiracy theory to meet your needs, regardless of how many lies that requires.

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in 2018,myriad extreme weather events wreaked havoc across the globe. Dire, authoritative reports were released, confirming unequivocally that the climate crisis is happening, that it’s driven by the burning of fossil fuels and that it requires immediate and bold action.

The first half of 2019 has already delivered more of the same undeniable climate chaos.

But dangerous climate denial still persists in our political institutions, funded by Big Polluters and fed to large parts of the populace by right-wing media, further contributing to ongoing and deadly inaction.

In the face of a crisis that threatens our very existence, the :{most watched cable news network in the country:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: — the Fox News Network — is still promoting climate misinformation and deploying tactics to distract from the urgency of the climate crisis, ensuring that its viewers’ understanding of the issue is based on deliberately distorted facts and distractions.

The millions of Americans who tune into Fox News are regularly bombarded with messages intended to undermine climate science, cast climate advocates as hysterical and frame climate policy as dangerous and un-American.

A review of Fox News programs for the first half of 2019 reveals that the network continues to give ample airtime to long debunked climate myths and fringe deniers. Among Fox’s roster of contributors on climate issues, not one is a climate scientist, and none has appeared on any other major network to talk about climate during the period reviewed.

Methodology

For this analysis, we searched Fox News Network television transcripts from the first six months of 2019 that mentions of “climate change” or “global warming.”

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Key Findings

From January through June 2019, Fox News Network programs mentioned climate change or global warming 391 times, which amounts to roughly 65 mentions per month.
Of those mentions, 247 involved considerable discussion of the issue. The remaining 144 mentions were brief.
Of the 247 segments, 212 or 86% were dismissive of the climate crisis, cast warming and its consequences in doubt or employed fear mongering when discussing climate solutions.
Two programs, “Special Report With Bret Baier” and “Fox News @ Night” together accounted for 24 of the 35 segments that were neutral when mentioning climate change or discussion of climate solutions. And four of the five segments on “Fox News Sunday” with host Chris Wallace were neutral.
Fox News’s three top-rated programs for the first quarter of 2019 account for 35% of segments. They are “Hannity” (3.12 million total viewers on average), “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (2.98 million viewers) and “The Ingraham Angle” (2.43 million viewers).
Fox News’s three top-rated programs ran 25 more segments, or four more per month, than MSNBC’s three top-rated programs. “The Rachel Maddow Show” ran 15 segments, “The Final Word With Lawrence O’Donnell” ran 10 and “All In With Chris Hayes” ran 36.
In absolute terms, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” ran the most climate denial segments with 41 or approximately seven per month, followed by “Hannity” with 32 and “The Five” with 29.
Fox News programs had 10 contributors who commented on climate related issues at least twice during the six-month period. None of these contributors is a climate scientist and none has appeared on another network.
The Green New Deal, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic primary were the main drivers prompting discussion of the climate crisis on Fox programs in the first six months of 2019. Combined, they provide the context for 62% of the 247 segments.
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Denial Is Alive and Deadly on Fox News

With 391 mentions of climate change or global warming on programs airing from January to June, Fox News Network is far from silent on climate.

In fact, Fox News three most-viewed programs are discussing climate more than their liberal counterparts at MSNBC. From January through June 2019, “Hannity,” “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and “The Ingraham Angle” collectively mentioned climate change or global warming in 86 different segments. During the same period, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “The Final Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” and “All In With Chris Hayes” ran a combined 61 segments discussing the climate crisis.

Overall, the right-wing network ran 247 segments. The vast majority — 212 or 86% — were dismissive of the climate crisis, cast its consequences in doubt or employed fear mongering when discussing climate solutions. A mere 35 segments were neutral on the issue or represented straight reporting on the climate crisis or solutions absent editorializing.

Two programs, “Special Report With Bret Baier” and “Fox News @ Night,” accounted for 71% of segments that were neutral when mentioning climate change or global warming.

Fox Whistles: Top Three Messages Used by Fox News to Undermine Climate Action

A common tactic Fox News uses to undermine climate science, action and advocacy is to frame the climate crisis as a political construct. In these cases, the host or guest assigns values to climate that are misaligned with the network’s largest demographic — those who identify as conservative and Republican. These commentators rarely, if ever, address the body of scientific evidence or climate events directly, but rather project the issue through a political lens. Viewers are left to form opinions about the issues in the absence of facts and evidence.

In the past six months, the following three messages have been invoked repeatedly, in some form, across the majority of Fox News programs, but were highly concentrated in the network’s most popular opinion programs. They are intended to elicit a negative response to the climate crisis and those who advocate the changes needed to address it.

Message 1: Climate Change Is a Vehicle for the Democrats’ Radical Big-Government Agenda

Seventy-two segments discussing the climate crisis (34%) suggested that responding to climate change, especially through policies like a Green New Deal, will result in government control over our lives.

“Hannity” had the most segments featuring this message with 18, or 56% of total segments, followed by “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with 13 (32%) and “The Five” with 12 (41%).

Message 2: Responding to the Climate Crisis would Kill Our Economy and Send Us Back to the Stone Age

Closely associated with the “Big Government” message and often used in the same breath is the suggestion that climate action would mean extreme individual sacrifice and the demise of prosperity. Fifty-five segments (26%) equate climate action, including the transition to a clean-energy economy, with economic collapse.

“Hannity” leads again, using this message 11 times (in 34% of segments on climate), followed by “The Five” using the message 10 times (34% of climate segments). “Fox News @ Night” uses the message six times (26% of climate segments).

Message 3: Concern About the Climate Crisis Is Liberal Hysteria

Rounding out the top three messages is one intended to undermine the urgency of the climate crisis by painting climate advocates or climate scientists as “alarmists”, “hysterical”, “chicken littles” and a “doomsday climate cult.” These labels not only deepen the political divide; they send a clear message to viewers to interpret the latest science on climate as exaggerated and to view scientists and advocates with distrust. Twenty-six segments, or 12% of discussions on the climate crisis used this form of name calling or used the terms “hysteria” or “alarmism” when referring to climate science.

“Hannity” used these labels eight times or during 25% of segments on climate. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” used them six times or during 15% of segments and “Fox News @ Night” used them five times or during 22% of segments.

Fox Fallacies and Tricks

In addition to these partisan signals, Fox News Network employed a number of other false arguments and tricks to keep climate denial and doubt alive during an era when climate catastrophe is becoming increasingly apparent to Americans.

Ad Hominem Attacks

In the past six months, those who advocate climate action have been subjected to personal attack by Fox News hosts.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has served as a regular punching bag for Fox News hosts and their guests. In one exchange between Sean Hannity and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile, she jabs the network for its obsession with AOC, joking that programs have mentioned ”AOC well over 3,000 times.” For Ocasio-Cortez’s acknowledgment of the climate crisis and support for the Green New Deal, Fox News has accused her of “capitalizing on a fear” and “pushing doom and gloom day and night.” She’s been called a “radical nut job”, “Scary-o-Cortez” and “dumb and totally ignorant of everything.”

While Ocasio-Cortez is by far the most vilified and attacked climate advocate, she is not the only one. Another example is provided by science communicator Bill Nye. After appearing on John Oliver’s HBO program, “Last Week Tonight,” Nye was Hannity’s “Villain of the Day.” A guest on “The Ingraham Angle” suggested that calling Bill Nye a scientist was akin to referring to “George Clooney as a doctor or Harrison Ford as an archaeologist.” Tucker Carlson suggested that Nye’s appearance was just a stunt to get his own Netflix series.

Red Herring

A favorite distraction tactic used by Fox News hosts is to pivot any discussion about warming to the “hypocrisy” of “elites” and “liberals” who advocate climate solutions. The argument is that, if climate change is an existential crisis, then climate advocates would reduce their own carbon footprints to zero. But because climate champions like U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fly on private jets and Ocasio-Cortez uses Uber instead of public transportation, the crisis must not be real or very urgent.

The hypocrisy argument takes many forms, but on at least 11 occasions in the past six months, Fox News hosts have referenced the use of air travel to discredit those concerned about climate or to question the reality of human-induced warming, like this example from Tucker Carlson on January 14:

Elites love to impose gas taxes on everyone else while flying private to conferences in Switzerland, where they worry about melting ice caps. That’s obviously a scam. Let’s just be honest about it.

Whether or not driving or using other forms of private transportation is hypocrisy is not the point. In reality, while individual action on climate is important, it is wholly inadequate for addressing the scale of the climate crisis. The crisis requires, above all, systemic policy responses that can be implemented only by governments.

Slippery Slope

Another oft-repeated argument directed at climate scientists is that “they have been wrong before, so they must be wrong now.” The most common version of this argument is the myth that climate scientists predicted in the 1970s that there would be a dramatic period of global cooling. As Sean Hannity said in a typical segment, “Look at that, the big freeze, the next Ice Age is coming.” That’s what they told us in the ’70s. That then evolved into, uh-oh, the world has a fever, as Al Gore said and scaring people.” The reality is that a small pocket of scientists suggested the Earth could enter a new ice age in the next few centuries.:{ At the time, 62% of climate scientists predicted warming.:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: Forty years of observation and analysis have brought that number up to :{97% of climate scientists agreeing that human beings are causing global warming.:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:

In the past six months, Fox News has not once referenced the scientific consensus around the climate crisis. :{According to recent polling:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, one in four Americans (25%) think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether or not global warming is happening, and a mere 17% understand that there is a scientific consensus that human-caused global warming is happening. This lack of public understanding cannot be pinned solely on Fox News, but the media plays a role in public perception and understanding of issues. And no other major media outlet is pushing out climate doubt, to so many viewers, as often as Fox News.

Cherry-picking

Frequently during the first half of 2019, Fox News hosts latched on to singular comments by Democratic politicians and what they deemed to be extreme responses to the climate crisis. These topics were brought up and mocked repeatedly in an attempt to deny the climate crisis, discredit policymakers and vilify climate policy.

The most common use of this tactic is the repetitive mention and mocking of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that “:{the world is going to end in 12 years if we do not address climate change:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:” (a claim she later deemed “:{dry humor + sarcasm:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:”). The comment was made in reference to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) :{Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, which asserts that global temperature warming will likely reach 1.5°C by the year 2030.

Fox News hosts referenced Ocasio-Cortez’s world-ending comment 56 times in the first six months of 2019. Out of 56 references, the IPCC report was mentioned only five times. On only two occasions did the network discuss the staggering conclusions of the report that informed Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks. A premade video segment from correspondent Peter Doocy identified that the report “doesn’t call for the end of the world in 12 years, but rather irreversible damage to the planet in a decade if emissions aren’t quickly curbed” and was aired on two seperate programs immediately following Ocasio-Cortez’s comment.

The video clip of Ocasio-Cortez’s claim was played eight times during the remainder of January and continued to be replayed 12 more times, with the last showing on June 4.

Sixteen references to the world ending in 12 years did not reference Ocasio-Cortez. These mentions were used to mock advocates of climate policy, deny the climate crisis and criticize Democrats’ attempts to enact climate policy.

Fox News Climate “CON”tributors

Assisting Fox News Network in climate denial and misinformation is a roster of long discredited climate contrarians whose views are solicited only by Fox News. None of the following men have appeared on other major television news networks to speak on matters related to climate.

When discussing climate change in the first half of 2019, the Fox News Network repeatedly featured and legitimized contributors whose climate views contradict the consensus of the climate science community. Many of these contributors have ties to the fossil fuel industry and have been criticized for spreading misinformation about climate change. Notably, none are climate scientists. The following contributors each appeared on the Fox News Network to discuss climate change at least twice in the first six months of 2019.

Joe Bastardi is a meteorologist and :{a climate skeptic:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. He is currently the chief forecaster for :{WeatherBell Analytics LLC:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. He also works as a senior advisor at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (formerly known as American Tradition Institute), a group :{denounced:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for contributing to an “environment that inhibits the free exchange of scientific findings and ideas.” Bastardi insists that carbon dioxide is not a major player in determining global temperatures: :{“I believe the sun, ocean cycles and stochastic events play a much more significant role.:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}::{”:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: He has been a contributor on Fox News Network for more than a decade.

In March, while appearing on “Hannity,” he suggested that human activity is not “controlling the climate,” which is effectively contrary to the conclusion of n:{early 200 worldwide scientific organizations:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: and the :{UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:.

Justin Haskins is an editorial director and a research fellow at the Exxon Mobil and Koch Foundation-funded:{ Heartland Institute:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. With a background in communication and political science, Haskins is largely involved in publications and productions by Heartland. In 2017, he published a piece detailing six reasons he was a climate skeptic and was :{criticized for the falsehoods:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: they presented.

In April 2019, :{Haskins told a Fox Business:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: reporter that he saw “no evidence that modest warming is creating any sort of a [sic] environmental crisis.”

Chris Horner is a :{senior legal fellow:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: for the:{Energy and Environment Legal Institute:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: (E&E Legal). Horner formerly served as a senior fellow for :{Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI):(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, one of Washington, D.C.’s top conservative think tanks. CEI has received at least $2.1 million from fossil fuel giant Exxon Mobil. :{Bankruptcy filings for Alpha Natural Resources in 2015:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: exposed Horner’s deep financial ties to the coal industry and work he has done on behalf of big polluters.

In March, he went on “Hannity” to revive the debunked argument, intended to discredit climate scientists, that the same scientific community that is predicting warming :{predicted global cooling in the 1970s:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:.

Rush Limbaugh is a conservative political commentator and host of the radio talk show “:{The Rush Limbaugh Show:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:.” He does :{frequent segments:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: on his radio show pushing his conspiracy theory that climate change is the creation of agenda-driven scientists who develop computer models that exaggerate scientific findings in efforts to prove climate change. He has proclaimed himself as “an expert in debunking this whole leftist political argument in man-made climate change.”

In February, he appeared on “Fox News Sunday” again asserting that climate change is a hoax. “Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what’s going to happen in 50 years or 30,” Limbaugh stated. “Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next ten years. They’re always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true.”

Bjorn Lomborg is a political scientist, author, and the founder and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. Lomborg has published three books that downplay the risk of climate change, despite having no background in climate science. Lomborg has frequently asserted that the risks of climate change are :{not great enough to justify:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: large-scale policies to reduce carbon emissions, instead :{arguing:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: that “drastic carbon cuts would be the poorest way to respond to global warming.” Claims made by Lomborg in his books have been frequently criticized. His first book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” drew criticism for failing to “:{meet basic standards of credible scientific analysis:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:” and his second book, “Cool It,” for being “:{riddled with small inaccuracies:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:” and “displaying a pervasive bias in its coverage and evaluations of climate issues.” Lomberg has ties to both the Heartland Institute and CEI and received an award from CEI in 2003.

In April, Lomborg appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show and stated, “They’re telling us global warming is a problem. But it’s also a moderate one…”

Steve Milloy is the founder and publisher of junkscience.com and self-described as exposing “faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special interests and hidden agendas.” In addition to spreading doubt about the science of the climate crisis, he is a senior policy fellow at the :{Energy & Environment Legal Institute:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: and :{former director:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: of internal policy and strategy at Murray Energy, the largest privately held coal producer in the U.S., and the co-founder of :{“Burn More Coal.”:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: Milloy has financial ties to the tobacco, chemical and oil and gas industries, having gotten his :{start as a denialist:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: for the tobacco and chemical industries in the 1990s. In 1998, he helped write the American Petroleum Institute’s strategy to challenge climate science. Milloy previously served as an adjunct scholar at both the :{Cato Institute:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: and the :{Competitive Enterprise Institute:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: (CEI) and currently serves as a policy advisor to the :{Heartland Institute:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:.

In February 2019, Milloy appeared on “Special Report with Bret Baier” and claimed that climate change was just the Democrats’ pretext for advancing radical political agendas. “We always knew climate was a stalking horse for socialism, communism, totalitarianism, whatever you want to call it,” Milloy said.

Patrick Moore is a nuclear energy advocate and the founder of Greenspirit Strategies, a :{PR company:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: that works “with many leading organizations in forestry, biotechnology, aquaculture and plastics, developing solutions in the areas of natural resources, biodiversity, energy and climate change.” Moore self-identifies as a founding member of Greenpeace, but the organization has :{denied this claim:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, stating that Moore “often misrepresents himself in the media as an environmental ‘expert’ or even an ‘environmentalist,’ while offering anti-environmental opinions on a wide range of issues and taking a distinctly anti-environmental stance.” Greenpeace also identified him as “a paid spokesman for a variety of polluting industries for more than 30 years.” Moore denies the role of carbon dioxide in climate change and has previously :{encouraged the celebration:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: of carbon, stating, “carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is the stuff of life, the currency of life, indeed the backbone of life on Earth.”

While a guest on “Fox News @ Night” in March, Moore claimed a lack of evidence that carbon dioxide in contributing to climate change, stating “the climate crisis is not just fake news, it’s fake science.”

In May he appeared on “Special Report With Bret Baier” attempting to discredit the United Nations’ climate reports, claiming their sole interests reside in politics and not science. He called the U.N. “a self-interested lobbying organization.”

Mark Steyn is a Canadian author and columnist of SteynOnline.com. Steyn attended the :{King Edward’s School in Birmingham:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, U.K., leaving in 1978 when he was 18 years old. Steyn is often a featured speaker at climate denial conferences hosted by groups such as the CO2 Coalition, The New Criterion and the Heartland Institute. These events, with titles such as :{The Climate Surprise: Why CO2 Is Good for the Earth and the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, are funded by :{Exxon Mobil, DonorsTrust and the Koch Brothers:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. He is infamously known for attacking Michael Mann’s “Hockey Stick” graph, which predicted a sharp rise in global temperatures as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased. He went on to call Mann :{“the Jerry Sandusky of climate science”:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: and claim he “has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and the planet.”

While a guest on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” on April 22, Steyn deflected the climate crisis while claiming Democrats merely use it as a platform to appeal to voters. “Climate change is essentially a boutique issue, it’s almost like an accessory for Western liberal politicians to flaunt how much they care while actually doing nothing about the people and the jurisdictions for which they’re actually responsible.”

Daniel Turner is the founder and executive director of :{Power the Future:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, an energy advocacy organization that supports the fossil fuel industry. Despite its focus on energy, the nonprofit has no official stance on climate change. However, Turner previously told climate change campaigners in a blog post that if they :{“are so anti-energy, don’t use it.”:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: Turner is an :{alumnus:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}: of the Charles Koch Institute and previously worked for the Koch-tied non-profit, Generation Opportunity. After earning a degree in Philosophy, he went on to specialize in :{communications and public affairs:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. He is also an affiliate of the Heartland Institute.

During a June appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Turner criticized Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden’s announced climate plan which aims to achieve :{net-zero emissions by 2050:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:, calling it “nonsensical.” He went on to claim that “every proposal that involves climate change, usually enriches their donors and their donor base, or it takes away individual rights and individual liberty.”

Conclusion

This year we experienced the :{hottest June ever recorded:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. In India, deadly temperatures reached and stayed :{above 120 degrees for days:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:. France experienced its most brutally hot day in recorded history, :{at nearly 115 degrees:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;transition-property:var(--t8n_p1), color;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:border-box"):}:.

The rapid overheating of our planet from the burning of fossil fuels is a clear and present threat. There is no debate that the climate crisis is now.

One should be hard pressed, in this era of climate catastrophe, to find climate denial in legitimate media sources. In fact, the presence of regular deniers and dissemination of misinformation about the climate crisis should disqualify a news outlet as a fair and balanced source of information – and most importantly, should not be trusted.

The Fox News Network and its hosts, with few exceptions, are peddling climate denial to millions of Americans on a regular basis.

This review began with the hypothesis that Fox News Network might be using newer, more nuanced and sophisticated forms of climate denial to keep audiences doubting the reality playing out before their eyes. This hypothesis was wrong. This review shows that Fox News’ denial handbook has not been updated. The misinformation the network is pushing out and the deniers it gives a platform to are long debunked and well exposed. The tactics they use, from naming calling to mockery, are transparent and inflammatory.

More than that, denial, like our rapidly warming climate, is becoming increasingly dangerous. By keeping doubt alive and deniers in business, Fox New Network is contributing to U.S. climate inaction.