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MMA Rachel Campos-Duffy embodies the North Korean-style propaganda Trump demands from Fox News

Rachel Campos-Duffy embodies the North Korean-style propaganda Trump demands from Fox News

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 10/26/26

Rachel Campos-Duffy had harsh words on Monday morning for family members of Republican politicians who insert themselves into the public discourse, lamenting that James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas, “has also gotten support, unfortunately, of prominent members of the Bush family, which is really unfortunate.”

The Fox News host’s criticism of the Bush family as insufficiently loyal to the GOP carries extra weight because Campos-Duffy’s own husband, Sean Duffy, serves President Donald Trump as secretary of transportation. (Duffy is himself a former Fox host, one of more than two dozen former Foxers to join the administration.)

Campos-Duffy’s ongoing role at Fox is an ethical calamity — one that means that when the network’s executives subbed her in as a Fox & Friends co-host on Friday and Monday, just days before the midterm elections, they knew exactly what to expect: The North-Korea-style propaganda that Trump desperately wants Fox to provide at all times. (Campos-Duffy was filling in for Ainsley Earhardt, who over the weekend wed longtime Fox host and Trump propagandist Sean Hannity. They celebrated at Mar-A-Lago on Friday night, with the president in attendance.)

The host rose to the occasion, using the Fox & Friends platform to tout the “incredible” future prospects of the economy under her husband’s boss and the federal government’s probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as reasons for Republican voters to stream to the polls, while fearmongering about Democratic candidates “transing their children.”

Campos-Duffy on why to vote Republican: The Trump economy and Omar probe

With Republicans facing dismal prospects in next week’s midterm elections, Campos-Duffy has attempted to offer an antidote to voter concerns over Trump’s job performance and rising costs triggered in part by his war in Iran.

She acknowledged on Monday that “the gas situation is real,” which she attributed to the Iran war (without acknowledging that her husband’s boss was responsible for starting it), and said it would be fixed once the war ends.

“And so it's unfortunate that this war — that we're in this war, and that this war is doing what it's doing to the gas prices,” she said. “But if you had removed the war, the economic blooming that would have happened in April and the place we would be at right now would be incredible.”

She added, “My idea — and it's not just my idea, the president says it and economists say it — the second this war is over, because the president has continued to make investments in gas and oil and freeing it up in terms of regulation, the prices are going to come down and the economy is going to boom again. We just have to end this war.”

Campos-Duffy went on to claim “the foundation of this economy is incredible.”

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From the October 26, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends.

Likewise, on Friday she praised Trump for “working his tail off” to lower prices, including by “helping out farmers” through the importation of Russian diesel. “He understands he is hurting with these people, and he is trying to find ways to make it right because the war just went longer than he thought it was going to be,” she explained.

The Fox host also repeatedly highlighted the Trump administration’s probe of Omar’s citizenship on Friday as a reason for recalcitrant Republican voters to back the GOP. Campos-Duffy called the Democrat “the most ungrateful, anti-American congresswoman I have ever seen enter those halls” and told viewers “when you are going to the polls, you think about somebody who can expose this kind of stuff, only President Trump would have done that.”

“Make no mistake, this is the reason why people elected President Trump,” she later added. “If you believe it matters that your member of Congress, any member of Congress who has access to classified information and other sensitive information, actually be a U.S. citizen, there is no other DOJ other than Donald J. Trump's DOJ who would be willing to take on a case like this.”

“It’s a much bigger story because our country is going through an identity crisis, and we want people who represent us — who care about Americans, America, our land, our laws, our Constitution,” she concluded.

Campos-Duffy ramps up “fear porn” about Democratic candidates

When Campos-Duffy wasn’t singing the praises of the president and his administration, she was denouncing Democratic candidates for Congress. Much of her commentary fell into the category of what fellow Fox host Jesse Watters described as “fear porn,” overwrought commentary designed to convince voters that they need to go vote for Republicans because Democrats are “scary and dangerous.”

Campos-Duffy offered up some campaign advice to Texas Republicans on Friday, arguing they should target Hispanic voters by telling them Talarico wants to “mess with their kids.”

“If I was a Republican running in that state, I would focus on the Hispanic community, letting them know what he has said about God and what he has said about transing their children,” she said. “Because as soon as these people get power, they're going to go back to who they really are.”

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From the October 23, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends.

Likewise, Campos-Duffy described Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, as an “out and proud commie that Obama always wanted to be” (El-Sayed has repeatedly said he is a capitalist). She also echoed Trump’s bigoted and deceptive claims that El-Sayed, who is Muslim, might become a threat to “national security” because of his “access to national secrets” and suggested on Friday that he prefers “sharia law.”

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Others in right-wing media praised Trump’s dubious promise as “bold,” “creative,” and “outside the box” thinking

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy said the midterm payment plan “shows just how creative and rule-breaking and out of the box President Trump is,” adding, “I'm surprised no one has thought of this before.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/10/26]

On Newsmax, former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) said Trump is “thinking outside the box and coming up with new and bold ideas.” [Newsmax, Wake Up America Early, 9/10/26]

On Fox, former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus called Trump's pledge “a bet on the future.” Priebus said, “Obviously they're going to have to make sure that they've got congressional support but I think what it is is a bet on the future. … I think everyone's hoping that the issues in Iran come to an end, and oil goes down, and the economy will tick up like a rocket ship. But in the meantime, you know, that is the one thing that is slowing down the economy. I think the president is going to take care of that. I think he gets it completely, and he’s just making a bet on the future.” [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 9/10/26]

On Newsmax, podcaster Alec Lace said the payments “would be a blessing” and “help hard-working American families.” Lace stated, “This is going to help hard-working American families that can use the money right now, because we've all had a tough year with the Iran war going on and stuff. We’ve all suffered at the gas pump, we’ve suffered in the purse a little bit. A little rebate would be a blessing for President Donald Trump. We’d love to see it.” [Newsmax, National Report, 9/10/26]

On Fox, former California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson said Trump’s promise is “pretty exciting.” Patterson went on to say that Trump “understands what excites people, he understands what turns people out, and this is something that he is doing for the American people. Let me help you get ahead.” [Fox News, Fox News @ Night, 9/9/26]

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was a recurring staple in the final stretch of his son-in-law’s race.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been receiving criticism over his newly revealed reality television show, a road trip series that was filmed over the course of seven months when he was also presumably overseeing the entire U.S. transportation system. Critics have accused him not only of shirking his responsibilities while on the taxpayers’ dime, but of conflicts of interest with the corporations he’s supposed to be regulating. On Monday, his wife had an explosive response to one critic in particular: the husband of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“Stand down, Chas,” Duffy’s wife Rachel Campos Duffy, who also happens to be a co-host of Fox & Friends, posted over a retweet of criticism from Chasten Buttigieg. “You and I both know that my husband has done more in one year to transform the [Department of Transportation] and [Air Traffic Control] than your husband did in over 4 years on the job.”

In the same post, she also claimed that the show —The Great American Road Trip —was funded by a non-profit organization, even though, according to the Daily Beast, “the show’s sponsors, including Boeing, Shell, Toyota and United Airlines, are all companies whose business Duffy regulates as transport secretary.” This has ethics experts sounding the alarm.

For his part, Chasten Buttigieg has a personal element to his criticism of the Duffys, posting, “The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son's ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump's war of choice. How much more unfocused, unserious, and out of touch can you be?”

The Duffys are a longtime TV couple. Sean Duffy came into the public eye in 1997 during the show The Real World: Boston, then met his wife on Road Rules: All Stars. He’s been filming his new series, he says, between “moments where I might be able to do some work” as a member of Trump’s Cabinet.

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The Fox-Trump fusion in two Fox & Friends segments

Is it state-run media, or a media-run state? Yes.

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 01/21/26

A year into President Donald Trump’s second turn in the Oval Office, it has become virtually impossible to tell where his administration ends and Fox News begins.

Trump arrived for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday morning amid alarm from U.S. allies over his manic, unhinged, and unnerving demands for NATO member Denmark to hand over Greenland. At a Davos speech the day before, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of a “rupture” in the world order, in which international rules are being replaced by the mantra that “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”

Here’s how Fox & Friends co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy put it as a helicopter bearing the president touched down in Davos: “It feels like even though this meeting has been going on for a couple days and speeches have been made and interviews have been done, it feels like nothing starts until President Trump arrives — until daddy's home, as so many people say.”

“Just think about the anticipation, the stakes that are going to be made here, just with the presence of President Trump,” she glowed, adding: “Here you have this global conference where President Trump is about to blow it up in terms of his negotiations and stands, and yet nothing starts until he arrives.”

“It is a new day,” she concluded. “America is the center of everything. President Trump is the leader that everything hinges on.”

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From the January 21, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

Campos-Duffy isn’t just a typically sycophantic Fox host with a penchant for conspiracy theories. Her husband, former Fox contributor and Fox Business host Sean Duffy, is one of 24 former network employees who went through the revolving door between the network and the second Trump administration, and he is now the secretary of transportation (Fox & Friends’ former weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is Duffy’s Cabinet colleague as secretary of defense).

At a normal news outlet, employing the wife of a Cabinet secretary for a role which allowed her to shower the president with praise would be an unheard-of ethical disaster. But at Fox, it may not have even been the biggest such calamity of the day.

would be an unheard-of ethical disaster. But at Fox, it may not have even been the biggest such calamity of the day.

Less than 15 minutes before Campos-Duffy proclaimed Trump the world’s “daddy,” Fox & Friendsbrought on the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump. The network hired Lara Trump as a commentator after the president took office last year in an absurdly corrupt deal which put a lantern on Fox’s reemergence as a Trump propaganda outlet.

Lara Trump, who Fox employs as the host of a weekly program which she uses to give top Trump officials like Campos-Duffy’s husband soft-focus interviews about the great jobs they are doing for the American people, was there to take issue with the tenor of The View’s Tuesday sitdown with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“Lara, listen, obviously they’re going to like Zohran Mamdani, that’s The View,” said Fox & Friends guest co-host Johnny “Joey” Jones. “But when you see them just gushing over him like that — I mean, he’s been in office for a couple of days, but still.”

“Yeah, well, this is surprising to absolutely nobody,” Lara Trump replied, mocking the “hard-hitting hosts there” for being “obsessed with people like” Mamdani. Because if there’s one thing they won’t stand for on Fox & Friends, it’s shoddy journalism and hosts gushing over their favorite politicians.

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From the January 21, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

All of this happened on the program where Donald Trump built his political following with regular appearances, then watched obsessively throughout his first term for tips on how to govern the country while posting hundreds of times on social media about what he saw on the show.

Is it state-run media, or a media-run state? Yes.

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  1. ### From reality TV to warping reality: Rachel Campos-Duffy has made a career of pushing extremism, bigotry, and conspiracy theories

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After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and transported him to a federal detention center in New York City, U.S. President Donald Trump gave his support to Vice President Delcy Rodríguez — not opposition leader María Corina Machado. Rodríguez, an ally of Maduro and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, is now the South American country's acting president.

Supporters of Machado, a Nobel laureate, were hoping to see her give her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump — the goal, according to Daily Beast reporter Tom Latchem, being getting goal to endorse Machado as Venezuelan president.

Trump endorsed that idea during a Thursday night, January 8 appearance on Fox News. The U.S. president told longtime Fox News host Sean Hannity, "I've heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor…. I've stopped eight wars."

But according to the Norwegian Nobel Institute, rules forbid Machado to give someone else her prize.

A Nobel spokesperson told the Daily Beast, "A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked nor transferred to others. Once the announcement of the laureate(s) has been made, the decision stands for all time. As for the prize money, the laureate(s) are free to dispose of it as they see fit."

Latchem notes that Nobel's "organization’s refusal to bend its own rules" will "be a disappointment not just to Trump, but also, to some of his loyalists, who are reported to have lobbied for Machado to hand the president the prize he so covets."

Latchem reports, "Fox News presenter Rachel Campos-Duffy, the wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, both 54, is reported to have been working both publicly and privately to get Machado to offer the prize to Trump when they meet next week, according to political journalist Rachael Bade's Substack. Campos-Duffy is said to have worked hard to get Machado the Oval Office audience where she would 'give Trump her Nobel Peace Prize,' Bade writes, saying the push has come from Trump World insiders who know the president is fixated on the award."

*Read Tom Latchem's full article for the Daily Beast at this link (subscription required).

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As Trump threatens regime change in Venezuela, right-wing media embrace opposition figure María Corina Machado

Conservative pundits have given Machado a platform to agitate in favor of Trump’s aggressive military campaign, while she’s given them fuel for discredited conspiracy theories

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Alex Kaplan, Sophie Lawton, Monica Rodriguez & Ben Van Bloem

Published 12/03/25

Right-wing media figures have spent the last year championing Venezuela opposition figure María Corina Machado, who has supported President Donald Trump’s threats of regime change in her home country.

The relationship between Machado and conservative media is mutually reinforcing: She provides right-wing outlets with inflammatory claims about President Nicolás Maduro — including exaggerated or false accusations of tampering in U.S. elections and running narcotics enterprises — and in return these outlets provide her with a platform to agitate for his ouster. As The New York Times reported, Machado recently endorsed the debunked conspiracy theory that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 U.S. election, further ingratiating herself to MAGA by adopting one of the movement’s core tenets. She has also claimed without evidence that Maduro is the leader of two drug cartels, one of which doesn't even exist as a discrete or coherent organization, according to many experts.

Since early September, President Donald Trump has ordered airstrikes on at least 21 boats, killing at least 83 people, in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean — part of a larger pressure campaign aimed at removing Maduro from office. In October, the administration ended diplomatic outreach to the country, though Trump and Maduro reportedly spoke over the phone in late November. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a key Machado-backer, has been pushing for Maduro’s ouster for months with what some believe is an eye toward eventually collapsing the government of Cuba as well.

Right-wing media responded to Trump’s escalation by defending the extrajudicial boat strikes and pushing for even greater incursions into Venezuela, including toppling Maduro’s government. Many in conservative media have told their audiences that regime change in Venezuela would be easy, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Right-wing coverage of Machado often relies on a blurry distinction between supporting Machado and cheering the removal of Maduro on the one hand while misleadingly claiming to oppose U.S.-led regime change on the other — arguably a distinction without a difference. Sometimes Machado employs this sleight-of-hand rhetorical device herself, seemingly to assure her audience that attacking Maduro’s government would not result in a replay of George W. Bush’s unpopular forever wars.

Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy is perhaps Machado’s most significant ally in right-wing media, having interviewed her in both English- and Spanish-language media. Campos-Duffy’s colleagues at Fox have also praised Machado, as has Donald Trump Jr. on his Triggered podcast. Other conservative figures celebrated her even prior to Trump’s election in November 2024.

Machado’s rise has also given election deniers an opportunity to revive the long debunked conspiracy theory that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 U.S. election against Trump. Machado — who had recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — repeated that false claim during an October 31 interview on a Bloomberg podcast. “I have no doubt that Nicolás Maduro, Jorge Rodríguez, and many others are, you know, the masterminds of a system that has rigged elections in many countries, including in the U.S.,” Machado said. “I have no doubt about that.”

Former Overstock CEO and "prominent election denier" Patrick Byrne mocked a post criticizing Machado’s interview on his Telegram channel, writing that people who say the 2020 U.S. was fair “doth protest too much.” In August, Byrne claimed that Smartmatic, which provides electronic voting systems, is “a spinoff of the Venezuelan government” and that the company “has been rigging elections for people around the world.” In October, Bryne said the United States had to “overthrow the governments of Venezuela and Cuba" because they “overthrew our republic.”

In November, Trump promoted a right-wing show on social media during which a guest said “there are at least a dozen people in Venezuela that have more money and power” than the CIA, adding: “This is the largest transnational criminal organization in the world that no one knew about, or no one wanted to talk about, until they stole our election in 2020."

For all of the right-wing media claims that Maduro interfered in the 2020 election, it’s worth underscoring that in 2002 the United States at least tacitly supported a failed coup against then-President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. During Trump’s first term, his administration engineered an unsuccessful campaign to oust Maduro and install opposition figure Juan Guaidó.

:{Despite those failures, conservative media have embraced Machado in a way that’s reminiscent of earlier episodes in U.S. foreign policy, when media and government officials celebrated opposition figures in the early years of the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

As The New York Times notes, Machado has been a “darling” of Washington for decades, and her people are in constant contact with Secretary Rubio, the Trump administration figure leading the charge to topple Maduro. One possible reason Washington has been enthralled with her for so long is that, according to Bloomberg, she “favors privatizing all industries in Venezuela,” including the state-owned oil company, if the United States takes out Maduro. Ian Bremmer noted that U.S. action in Venezuelawould be “in large part about the oil.”}:

Should Trump's plan move forward, Machado is the most likely candidate for his administration to rally behind. She’s already won over right-wing outlets — but as U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan showed, sometimes an opposition figure’s charm offensive is the easiest battle of the war.

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A Fox News host is urging viewers to defend America’s “western Christian culture” and to think “communism” whenever they hear about feminism or secularism.

Rachel Campos-Duffy, a “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host, told viewers on Monday, “I think it’s really up to us to reclaim our culture.”

“We can sit and complain about it, but when we give in to those atheist groups that keep suing, we should come right back — this is our culture,” she said. “I’m not going to let, you know, pro-Palestinian or whatever they’re putting forward — these are all fronts for, you know, whenever you see any of these groups, just think feminism, secularism, just think communism. This is what they’re really about.”

“It’s always been about communism,” Campos-Duffy insisted.

“Making the state the center, removing the power of religion and family from our culture. It’s up to us to make sure that our culture remains what it is, which is a Western Christian culture with a beautiful history that we have in this country, and that we have to defend these things every single day, especially with our children.”

Campos-Duffy has a history of targeting feminism.

“Feminists like Hillary Clinton have robbed women of so much over the years, of minimizing the importance of what our purpose as mothers and as wives, and, I think, and really demeaning it and saying that it’s not the most important,” she said in September.

“Always remember that feminism has never been about women. It’s always been about ABORTION and COMMUNISM,” she wrote in 2023.

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Right-wing media outlets are claiming regime change in Venezuela would be easy. Evidence and history suggest otherwise.

Conservative pundits are promising a small US footprint and an easy transition should the Trump administration topple Maduro, but the reality would likely be much more complicated

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Sophie Lawton

Published 10/29/25

Right-wing media outlets have spent months telling their audiences that a U.S. military campaign to topple the Venezuelan government would be simple and straightforward, requiring a minimal military footprint or lasting commitments to the country. In some cases, these outlets have suggested that the transition to a new government, following the toppling of President Nicolás Maduro, would be easy and organic.

Even if the United States were able to defeat the Venezuelan military fairly quickly in a conventional war, many experts warn that regime collapse would likely lead to an extended, bloody conflict that could have lasting ramifications throughout Venezuela, the surrounding region, and potentially the entire hemisphere. To date, the United States has carried out 13 known strikes on boats the Trump administration has alleged, without evidence, were engaged in the drug trade, killing at least 57 people, and has amassed the largest show of force in the region since the Cuban missile crisis.

Right-wing media suggest U.S.-supported “indigenous regime change” in Venezuela would be simple

According to numerous media outlets, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the Trump administration’s campaign to topple the Maduro government, a long-running obsession of his. Rubio nominated opposition leader María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won this year, and praised her in Time magazine’s 2025 list of 100 most influential people in the world. Machado, in turn, has been a rallying point for U.S. interests seeking Maduro’s ouster.

Right-wing media figures have frequently cited Machado’s standing as evidence that Maduro could be overthrown and replaced with few complications.

In March, Erik Prince, arguably the United States’ most prominent mercenary, appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s Triggered podcast to make that argument. Prince said the Maduro government is “going to have to be pushed out.”

“And it doesn’t require U.S. military,” he continued. “It can be covert action from the intelligence community or covert action from Venezuelan patriots helped by outsiders.” It’s not hard to imagine Prince considering himself or his allies as the “outsiders” in question, given his reported ties to anti-Maduro forces.

“María Corina Machado is a brave woman and deserving of our help and our support,” Prince said earlier in the interview.

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In August, as conservative outlets began beating the drums of war, Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy — a vocal opponent of Maduro — conducted an interview with Machado. Campos-Duffy asked her to persuade Americans who support Trump “taking on Nicolás Maduro” but worry that “this kind of smells like regime change.”

“This has nothing to do with regime change … because the change of the regime was already mandated by the presidential election,” Machado replied. She added: “We are ready to take power — the legitimate government, elected. Venezuela will move orderly and peacefully to the transition.”

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The same month, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh pushed to escalate in Venezuela based on what he referred to as “American chauvinism."

“They're a small, weak, pathetic, puny, poor country, and so they just have to do what we say,” Walsh said. “A war with Venezuela would last about four minutes.”

On September 10, following the Trump administration’s initial boat strike, Campos-Duffy appeared in a breezy segment with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth aboard a U.S. naval ship in the region.

“I was literally in awe of what I saw. And it's not just the military equipment,” Campos-Duffy said.

“It's the soldiers. It's how well-trained they are. How fit they are,” she continued. “How well-fed they are, which I say ‘well-fed’ because Maduro, of course, is threatening with his own militia, which we know is starving over there — they don't have anything that even comes a fraction of close to what we saw here on the USS Iwo Jima.”

The more recent U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan should serve as cautionary tales of American hubris

As Trump’s extrajudicial killing spree escalated in mid-September, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board argued that “disgruntled military who want to liberate their country are living under the repressive arm of Mr. Maduro’s military counter-intelligence.”

In October, Fox News host Jesse Watters predicted that “there is going to be major action against Maduro pretty soon.” Even as he acknowledged it could go “sideways,” he stressed that it could be a “layup” to depose Maduro. Watters went on to pun on the Monroe Doctrine — referring to the “Don-roe Doctrine” — to argue that the United States has the right to interfere in Latin American countries’ internal affairs virtually at will.

On October 20, Fox News host Sean Hannity made that case directly, arguing that Machado “sounds like a pretty good leader for the people of Venezuela and the end of narco terrorism.”

A week later, The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro argued that a “full-scale ground invasion of Venezuela” would not “be a good policy for the United States.” But, he countered, “if some sort of covert CIA action were to topple the regime in Venezuela, that would be a good thing.”

Shapiro argued there is a “bizarre idea that the best available scenario is always to leave the worst dictator in power because: Saddam Hussein,” but that that analysis “is benighted.” He added: “Sometimes the analogies work and sometimes they just don’t.”

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The same day, former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland said in an interview on Newsmax that she gets “really nervous” when “people start talking about regime change and implying that it's going to be the American Marines who do it.” She then reassured viewers that Trump has “always been very, very hesitant about American military force, American Marines’ boots on the ground.”

“Now, he's been very much in favor of regime change,” McFarland continued. “But how does that come about? That comes about because of the people of every country want a regime change.”

“It's an indigenous regime change,” she said.

McFarland escalated her rhetoric just two days later on Fox News. “Behind Maduro, there’s a very strong opposition leader, who, if — and that’s not with the U.S. Marines — but if there was a regime change in that country, there’s a very credible, powerful, potential Trump ally waiting in the wings as the new leader.”

What Venezuela regime collapse could look like

At a baseline level, the U.S. military could likely overwhelm the Venezuelan army in a conventional war fairly quickly, though Venezuela’s air and missile defenses are robust and could pose a threat to U.S. fighters, bombers, and ships in the area.

Even if the Trump administration opted for a “shock and awe”-style bombing campaign that decimated Maduro’s government, what comes after that is anybody’s guess. Reporting from The Guardian suggests that U.S. or aligned forces would not only come up against Venezuela’s official military, but could also face substantial informal resistance.

The history of Latin America is rife with examples of U.S. intervention leading to extended periods of civil war and brutal crackdowns on civilians

If Maduro were assassinated or forced to flee, factions within his government and outside armed forces would likely attempt to assert power over parts of the country. The history of Latin America is rife with examples of U.S. intervention leading to extended periods of civil war and brutal crackdowns on civilians. The more recent U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan should serve as cautionary tales of American hubris; in both cases elites were convinced that an opposition leader could simply be installed with few complications — assumptions that proved to be catastrophically wrong.

And while pro-war conservative pundits point to Venezuela’s 2024 election, which failed to meet free and fair standards, as proof of mass support for the opposition, those dynamics could shift if Caracas’ new government were installed on the back of U.S. tanks or as a result of a CIA-backed coup. The United States gave tacit approval, at least, for a coup attempt in 2002 that briefly removed Hugo Chavez from power, and in Trump’s first term he tried to install then-opposition leader Juan Guaidó into office in a pressure campaign. Both efforts ultimately failed.

The Monroe Doctrine and a Fox pundit’s dream of a right-wing Latin America

MAGA media figures have pushed to reinvigorate their version of the Monroe Doctrine, which conceives of the Western Hemisphere as the rightful dominion of the United States, for years. The escalation against Venezuela is a key part of this ideology, as is right-wing media’s support for Argentine President Javier Milei and its defense of former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, both MAGA favorites. At the same time, Trump has waged a pressure campaign against President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, a leftist, by imposing sanctions on him and his family for alleged involvement in the drug trade. Trump has additionally threatened Colombia with increased tariffs and cutting off aid.

A recent comment from Fox’s Campos-Duffy suggests that the Rubio-led campaign against Venezuela is in fact even larger in scope than is currently appreciated.

“A lot of people saying, we’ve heard María Corina Machado say it on our show as well, if Venezuela returns to the people who won the election last July, to the opposition party, and the Marxist, you know, socialist government of Maduro goes down, so will Cuba and so will Nicaragua. It will essentially get all of the communists out of our hemisphere,” Campos-Duffy said. (Some observers believe Rubio’s campaign to remove Maduro is a precursor to his goal of overthrowing Cuba’s communist government.)

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From the October 25, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Weekend

Campos-Duffy’s scheme, if put into practice, would not represent the first time the United States has tried to crush left-wing governments and social movements in Latin America. As journalist Vincent Bevins details in The Jakarta Method, which examines the history of U.S.-supported anticommunist efforts around the world, forces backed by the U.S. military and CIA have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies across Central and South America.

That bloody history doesn’t fit neatly within the current right-wing media fantasy of a quick and easy operation in Venezuela. So, like the many victims of U.S.-backed regimes in Latin America, that context simply gets disappeared.

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Fox praised and validated Trump's legally questionable boat strikes in the Caribbean

Some at the network have been pressing for further US intervention – even regime change in Venezuela

Written by Jack Winstanley & Emma Mae Weber

Published 10/29/25

Fox News has celebrated the Trump administration's lethal strikes against supposed drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean, despite concerns from legal experts over the strikes’ legality and bipartisan warnings from congressional members that they have seen no evidence to support the administration's claims that the strikes are targeting drug traffickers.

Along with championing the strikes — many of which have targeted boats coming from Venezuela — as “pretty spectacular” and a “great move” and praising the administration’s “aggressive” approach, some Fox figures and guests have gone so far as to suggest they would support regime change in Venezuela, claiming that the Maduro government is “part of the cartel.”

\Trump’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean draw legal questions from experts and legislators

NPR noted that the Trump administration “has designated several South and Central American drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, but Congress has not authorized the use of force against them” and quoted a former State Department legal adviser, who said, “Outside of armed conflict, there is a word for the premeditated killing of people, and that word is 'murder.'" He added, “And just because the administration puts together this fig leaf of a legal justification does not legitimize these premeditated killings in the Caribbean.” The New York Times, [10/24/25; NPR, 10/24/25]}:

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  1. ### An intelligence report debunked MAGA media claims about Tren de Aragua and Venezuela. A Trump official is now under fire for reportedly ordering the report be redone.

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  1. ### Fox Noticias host Rachel Campos-Duffy argues that “foreign-born” citizens shouldn't be allowed to serve in Congress

08/05/25

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Marc Morano

Weekly update ⋅ May 2, 2025

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Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters Primetime," Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano warned of "risky" ...

Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano warned of “risky” experiments conducted by Harvard University and bankrolled by billionaire Bill Gates in the name of global warming.

Gates likened the efforts to injecting pollution back into the atmosphere.

“Talk to me about this geoengineering,” fill-in host Rachel Campos-Duffy said. “What is it? A lot of people wonder what it is.”

“All it is, is retro 1970s — in the 1970s, they said fossil fuels caused global cooling,” Morano replied. “Now, of course, they say global warming. So, they proposed all kinds of geoengineering back in the 70s. They wanted to put black soot on the Arctic, use nuclear energy to heat up the Arctic in order to melt it, because they thought the ice was growing too much. Fast forward, now they want to block the sun and inject sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to try to block the sun and cool the Earth. It’s not just England doing it. Bill Gates through Harvard University is funding studies and have been pushing this. A lot of the other billionaire class have been pushing this kind of radical, risky experiment, and it makes absolutely no sense.”

He continued, “We spent decades since the first Earth Day, cleaning up our atmosphere, and now they want to inject pollution back in. It truly is, they want to prove a point, I think, in the end, that global warming is man-made and climate change is man-made, and it’s because governments are injecting these chemicals into the sky to alter the Earth. I think they’re ultimately probably not going to go through with it. It’s a scare tactic to say you’re not supporting the Green New Deal or Net Zero. We’re going to have to do this radical, risky experiment on our atmosphere.”

*Follow Jeff Poor on X @jeff_poor

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mma January 3, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): We know what was happening with ISIS when he was in office, they were on the run, he destroyed them. Right now, it looks like they are emerging stronger and we have no response right now, Rachel.

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX NEWS HOST): Yeah, our foreign policy is also dysfunctional. Just think about it, we are still funding the Taliban through NGOs in Afghanistan. We are funding Islamist rebels in Syria, and what we need to do is focus on security here at home. For me Lawrence, it's really personal. Donald Trump is about to assume office January 20. I am bringing my family, my children, over to the inauguration because as you know, Sean is nominated to be Secretary of Transportation. And we have an FBI, a DOD, and a Homeland Security that has given us zero confidence. They've said nothing with a border open and terrorists flowing over the borders. They've been directing agents to go after political dissidents from J6, from January 6, instead of going after terrorists. We know that within the military, they were flagging Pete Hegseth as a white supremacist because of a tattoo.

JONES: The ultimate patriot.

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: And meanwhile, we have this guy who was a veteran who turned to ISIS. So, this so dysfunctional. And right now, you know Lawrence, Donald Trump and senators are calling for Donald Trump's national security team, Tulsi, Pete Hegseth -- Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Kash Patel to be confirmed immediately because they don't trust this current administration's FBI, DOD, and Homeland Security, and I don't blame them. Lawrence, we still don't know about the two people that tried to assassinate Donald Trump this summer. We know nothing about this situation. These are not crimes that have been solved. And yet I'm supposed to feel OK taking my kids to an inauguration on January 20 with this team in place for national security? It is a joke.

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Spanish-language conservative media downplay Trump’s mass deportation plan

Conservative TikTok personality Luis Sin Filtro: “If you are informed and have not committed any crimes in this country, you won't be affected negatively"

Written by G. Capuano

Research contributions from Janos Balazs & Monica Rodriguez

Published 12/18/24 mma

Conservative Spanish-language media personalities have been downplaying President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations, claiming that Democrats and the media are fearmongering about Trump’s deportation scheme, which economists suggest would increase inflation as well as food and housing costs. These media figures have claimed that Trump “will not deport working immigrants” and that he is considering “immigration reform for all of those in the United States that are doing it right.”

In truth, Trump has vowed to stage the “largest deportation operation in American History,” and Tom Homan — the Project 2025 contributor and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director who Trump selected to carry out this campaign — has claimed, “No one’s off the table.”

Recently, during an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Trump doubled down on his campaign promise to end birthright citizenship, falsely suggesting he could enact his plan through executive action and that he would “change” the 14th Amendment.

Rather than focusing on these claims, conservative personalities on social media turned attention to Trump’s claims that he was willing to “work something out” for Dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the US as minors and remain undocumented. Ignoring his previous failed attempt to gut the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which has provided benefits like temporary relief from deportation and work authorization to more than 835,000 migrants who came to the U.S. as children — conservative personalities argued Trump has “dismantled the narrative” that he is “racist.”

Downplaying Trump's plans for mass deportations

Conservative Spanish-language personalities are claiming that the left is “sowing fear” about Trump’s plans for mass deportations and that Trump “will not deport working migrants.”

Ignoring Trump's hostility to DACA

Despite Trump’s previous attempts to gut DACA, Spanish-language social media figures are claiming his comments on Meet the Press that he would potentially “work something out” for Dreamers “dismantled the narrative” that he is “racist” and “the most anti-immigrant man ever.”

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  1. ### Leader of far-right sheriffs organization says he doesn't think Trump's plan for mass deportations “is even constitutional”

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  1. ### Fox News is playing along with Trump claiming he’ll work on a plan for Dreamers despite trying to dismantle DACA in his first term

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  1. ### Fox News anchor calls birthright citizenship a “loophole”

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just loathesome, demonization

December 12, 2024, edition of Fox News' Hannity

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Checking in with Tim and Gwen Walz, they released this incredibly, kind of cringeworthy video while decorating their Christmas tree. Take a look.

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My only question is, Rachel, I wonder if they put any feminine hygiene products on the tree, number one. Number two, I wonder if they're burning tires outside their homes so they can get that smell of freedom back that they love so much.

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (GUEST): Yeah, this was so cringe, it almost felt like SNL. By the way, notice how they don't call their tree a Christmas tree, it's a "family tree." These guys were such communists. I have to tell you, we really dodged a bullet not just with Kamala but also imagine if this was the vice president and his second lady. I mean, these people are very strange. And it's weird, remember they went around saying JD Vance was weird. This is weird.

HANNITY: Yeah, you probably can't see this, Jason, but he walks on — up in the air, kicking his feet in the air — bowing. I mean, the weirdest guy I've ever seen in my life. But I do wonder, I mean, what did they decorate the tree with? I mean, if they believe so much in feminine hygiene products in boys bathrooms in school, why wouldn't they put it on their Christmas tree?

JASON CHAFFETZ (GUEST): Well, they put a toilet paper roll on top. I mean, they're just -- there are just some things that you're not supposed to share with the whole rest of the world. I mean, this is so embarrassing. The contrast couldn't be bigger. You've got freedom ringing out, you've got people chanting "USA," they're feeling, you know — they're talking about patriotism with Donald Trump. Meanwhile, we go to the Walz basement or wherever they're at, I mean, it's like taking the green casserole from Thanksgiving. You got to take it out of the fridge and at some point you just have to throw it away. And that's what we need to do here.

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Fox’s Trumpian propaganda can now be watched on the network’s new Spanish-language news program, Fox Noticias

11/01/24 mma

Fox’s Trumpian propaganda can now be watched on the network’s new Spanish-language news program, Fox Noticias

Written by G. Capuano

Research contributions from Janos Balazs & Monica Rodriguez

Published 11/01/24 mma

Just two weeks after its launch on Fox Deportes,Fox Noticias — a daily Spanish-language news show hosted by longtime network fixture Rachel Campos-Duffy — has shown it will feature more of the same false, propagandist bigotry that appears on Fox’s broader programming.

Campos-Duffy has previously both been a Fox News host and contributor. She has spent years spreading anti-immigrant rhetoric and misinformation about abortion and COVID-19. Notably, she has also pushed the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that international climate actions are a globalist front to strip people of their freedoms. She has also spread the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that there is a plot engineered by elites to replace white Americans with nonwhite immigrants.

This is not the first time the network has tried to reach Hispanic audiences. In 2010, Fox News launched Fox News Latino, which was found to be tailoring coverage of the same news events to pander to Latino audiences before it shut down in 2016.

Now, as Fox Noticias gets into swing, Campos-Duffy has made it clear that the show will be another arm of the Fox propaganda machine, mirroring Fox News’ model by fearmongering about migrant crime, spreading misinformation about COVID-19, spreading false conspiracy theories about gender-affirming care, falsely linking Vice President Kamala Harris to communism and price controls, and, of course, playing cover-up for former President Donald Trump.

Most recently, on Fox Noticias'next-day coverage of Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, Campos-Duffy failed to cover the racist “floating island of garbage” remarks that were made about Puerto Rico.

In just her first few weeks on Fox Noticias, Campos-Duffy has claimed there is a “deep state that is trying to manipulate us with lies and censorship,” praised Trump for supposedly being “macho,” pushed the smear that Democrats are sexualizing children, and more:

* Campos-Duffy claimed Harris wants to “convince minorities that we are unable to succeed without handouts.” During the segment, she claimed, “Kamala’s dream is of power and dependence and starts by trying to convince minorities that we are unable to succeed without handouts.” Later, in response to a clip of a Harris interview, Campos-Duffy said, “Forgiving loans to Black people? In other words, she thinks that Black people are incapable of paying back these loans or that they lack the morals to do so.” Fox Deportes, *Fox Noticias*, [10/16/24]

// Fox Noticias ignored “floating island of garbage” remarks about Puerto Rico from Trump's MSG rally

10/29/24

  1. ### Univision’s elDetector and Elián Zidán omit crucial context about Donald Trump’s links to Project 2025

10/18/24

  1. ### Univision knows how to fact-check Trump. Will the network do it during his town hall?

10/09/24

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From reality TV to warping reality: Rachel Campos-Duffy has made a career of pushing extremism, bigotry, and conspiracy theories

Written by Emma Mae Weber & Pete Tsipis

Published 09/09/24 mma

Former reality TV star Rachel Campos-Duffy has spent eight years spreading extremism and conspiracy theories as a contributor and host at Fox News, where she has pushed the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, complained about “the eugenics mentality of the pro-choice movement,” and claimed that feminism is about “abortion and communism.”

## Campos-Duffy built a career at Fox News after appearing on reality TV and being a conservative activist

Campos-Duffy joined Fox as a contributor in 2016 and guest-hosted various shows until she was named an official co-host of Fox & Friends Weekendin 2021. Campos-Duffy has hosted other Fox projects such as a Fox Nation show called Moms, a roundtable show that explored parental topics, and she still co-hosts the podcast From the Kitchen Table with her husband, Fox News contributor and former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI). USA Today, [5/24/21]

Before her work on Fox News, Campos-Duffy was a reality TV star and conservative activist. In 1994, Campos-Duffy starred on MTV’s The Real World, where she met her husband. Campos-Duffy worked as the national spokesperson for LIBRE, a nonprofit that seeks to advance conservative policies in the Hispanic community. BuzzFeed, [1/7/14; The Hill, 6/24/24; The Arizona Republic, 12/4/15]

## Campos-Duffy has a long history of spreading conspiracy theories, including falsely claiming that Chinese bioweapons labs were found in California

Campos-Duffy pushed the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory, calling it a plot “to control populations,” and accused Pope Francis of being involved. The conspiracy theory, which gained traction during the COVID-19 pandemic, claims that a plan for global climate action with the name “Great Reset” is a globalist front to take away people's freedoms. In reality, it’s a set of proposals envisioned by World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab in June 2020 that suggested ways to take advantage of a unique opportunity to mitigate climate change post-pandemic. Campos-Duffy accused Pope Francis of “reordering our economic system” and baselessly claimed that the Biden administration, “elites,” and the U.N. were using climate change mitigation efforts as a plot “to control populations.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [11/29/20,12/3/23; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/14/23; Media Matters, 11/8/22]

Campos-Duffy has spread the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. The racist conspiracy theory claims that there is a plot engineered by elites for nonwhite immigrants to outnumber and replace white Americans. Campos-Duffy said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should “just admit” the Biden administration’s immigration policy is to “get more votes.” Campos-Duffy also accused nongovernmental organizations of helping Democrats bring in “a new wave of immigrants, perhaps future voters.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [11/23/23; PBS, 5/16/22; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 2/27/24]

Campos-Duffy suggested that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci conspired with Democrats to use the COVID-19 pandemic to normalize mail-in voting. “You will never convince me that that was not coordinated with Fauci and the Democrats,” Campos-Duffy said, “It's very clear that this whole made-up 6 feet of social distancing was about creating fear, including fear and the justification for not voting in person and creating mass mail-in ballots to become the norm.” This conspiracy theory is a key component of the debunked 2000 Mules film, which was recently pulled by its distributor, Salem Media Group, in May after the company was sued for defamation. Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [6/5/24; The Associated Press, 5/3/22, 5/31/24]

On Fox & Friends, Campos-Duffy falsely claimed Chinese bioweapons labs were found in California. Campos-Duffy fearmongered that “you have the Chinese exerting influence all over our hemisphere,” including by “buying up farmland, setting up secret police, bioweapons labs found in California,” seemingly referring to debunked conspiracy theories about the owner of “an unauthorized central California lab” who was “arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits.” In reality, The Associated Press reported that criminal charges against the lab’s owner “deal with federal health regulations, nothing related to online conspiracy theories about China purportedly trying to engineer biological weapons in rural America.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [6/5/24; The Associated Press, 10/20/23]

More recently, Campos-Duffy claimed the Harris-Walz campaign is “a globalist ticket with these mystery puppet masters running it.” “We don't really know who is making the decisions on the other side,” she said, referring to Democrats. Campos-Duffy also said former President Donald Trump “isn't really running against Kamala Harris, he is running against a corrupt system. And I think he's promising, along with RFK Jr. and JD Vance, to sort of blow up that system, expose the corruption.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/26/24]

Campos-Duffy speculated that pro-Palestinian protests were an intentional distraction “to what is coming across the border.” Campos-Duffy theorized that Democrats are attempting to cover up “the numbers of people they want to come through to change our elections and our electorate.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [5/3/24]

Campos-Duffy has expressed extreme opposition to reproductive freedom, argued that “having an abortion is not going to undo the pain of a rape,” and celebrated the end of Roe v. Wade as “a wonderful victory”}:

Campos-Duffy minimized what she called “the rape excuse” when discussing reasons why people decide to have abortions, saying, “Having an abortion is not going to undo the pain of a rape.” She also claimed abortion “doesn't solve any of the problems. It just creates a whole new set of problems.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [10/9/22]

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Campos-Duffy drew a parallel between abortion and slavery.Campos-Duffy said, “It has divided America for the same grave moral reasons that slavery did. Who gets to decide who is human enough to enjoy life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [6/26/22]

Campos-Duffy called the overturning of Roe v. Wade“a wonderful victory.” While interviewing Lynne Fitch, the attorney general behind the case that reversed the right to abortion access, Campos-Duffy said, “There is a lot of pro-life work yet to do. I think that's the challenge, is to say Roe v. Wade, it was a wonderful victory, let's celebrate, but let's also get back to work.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [1/20/23]

While praising the rapper Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), Campos-Duffy said that “the real killer of the Black community is abortion.” She continued, “Those are things you’re not allowed to say on TV, and he says it. And he even wears a sweatshirt with an ultrasound, which again, we’re supposed to believe isn't a baby. So this guy is changing culture. And politics is changed by culture first.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [10/7/22]

Campos-Duffy criticized “the eugenics mentality of the pro-choice movement” and called abortion clinics “butcher shops.” She attacked abortion clinics, saying, “I refuse to call them health centers. They are not. They are profit centers. You can call them butcher shops if you like.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [6/26/22]

Campos-Duffy pushed the conspiracy theory that Planned Parenthood was “selling human body parts.” Campos-Duffy attacked Vice President Kamala Harris for her work while she was the California district attorney, saying, “She was the prosecutor … when there were whistle-blowers that had come out and found that there were the sale of human baby body parts, and she was the one who squashed the whistle-blower.” Campos-Duffy added, “She’s someone who is not really interested in getting to the bottom of crimes. Indeed, selling human body parts is a crime, and Planned Parenthood was involved in it.” In fact, multiple investigations into this baseless claim against Planned Parenthood came up empty, with investigators finding no evidence that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue. Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [10/9/22; NPR, 1/28/16]

While discouraging the use of birth control, Campos-Duffy theorized that the population decline is due to younger generations consuming “globalist population and climate alarmists” propaganda. Campos-Duffy stated, “You talked about this yesterday, Will -- this anti-human agenda, and it is in direct contrast with the Judeo-Christian idea of be fruitful and multiply. Instead, they see fertility as a curse. You know, always wanting to give women pills to take care of that. And children as burdens. And it's a lie.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [1/22/23]

Campos-Duffy claimed, “The feminist movement is not about women. It's always been about abortion and communism.” Ranting about a supposed lack of support from feminists for Israel’s war in Gaza, Campos-Duffy said: “ If you're looking for feminism to stand on the side of the voiceless, and the powerless against violence, well don't look to the pro-abortion feminists. That's not going to happen. That's not their agenda, it never has been.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [11/30/23]

## Campos-Duffy tried to undermine viewers' confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine, accused Sesame Street of spreading “propaganda” for Big Pharma, and claimed vaccine mandates are the “beginning of the communist-style social credit system”

Campos-Duffy accused Sesame Streetof spreading “propaganda” in some “really creepy ways” when the show educated kids on the COVID-19 vaccine. Complaining about “the authoritarianism we see creeping into our society and our culture, what's most disturbing is what we're seeing done to our kids,” Campos-Duffy showed a clip of “Big Bird talking about getting the vaccine” and said, “Sanjay Gupta should be talking to mommy and papi and not to little kids on this — what looks like a Big Pharma commercial on Sesame Street.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [11/7/21]

Campos-Duffy said “Joe Biden declared war on freedom” by issuing vaccine requirements for federal employees. Claiming “Biden threw the Constitution out the window,” the Fox host added that the policy announcement “took authoritarianism to a whole new level by forcing vaccines on millions of Americans.” Fox News, *Fox News Primetime*, [9/10/21]

Campos-Duffy hypothesized that the Biden administration wanted “to criminalize the unvaccinated.” She later said she was in favor of “civil disobedience” to Biden’s vaccine mandates. Fox News, *Fox News Primetime*, [9/10/21]

Campos-Duffy fearmongered that COVID-19 vaccine mandates were the “beginning of the communist-style social credit system.” Campos-Duffy suggested that other freedoms are next, claiming, “This happens in China. … This is the beginning of that system where if you're a dissident, if you don't agree with the party in power, you will be punished.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/13/21]

Campos-Duffy said getting the COVID-19 vaccine would make people more likely to get the omicron variant. The National Institutes of Health said independent studies showed the vaccine generated cellular immunity against omicron. Campos-Duffy questioned, “Why are we forcing people to get vaccinated when you’re more likely to get the virus if you’re vaccinated in the variant that we have right now?” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [1/8/22; National Institutes of Health, 2/15/22]

Campos-Duffy compared the Biden administration’s immigration policy to the push for COVID-19 vaccinations, claiming they are harmful to children. While interviewing Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Campos-Duffy stated, “We should have seen that in COVID, by the way. They didn't care what happened to our kids there, either. They just wanted their vaccinations, their policies, and they wanted to shut down schools to make the point. They didn't care about the children there and many of the vaccine injuries that happened to children as a result of it.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [4/30/23]

Explaining her distrust of vaccines, Campos-Duffy declared, “I don’t trust anything with pharma anymore.” Responding to a guest who claimed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “skeptical of all vaccines,” Campos-Duffy admitted, “I'm starting to get there too.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/3/23]

## Campos-Duffy fearmongered about public schools, claiming they can’t be “trusted to teach your children,” and complained that U.S. educators are all “licensed through these Marxist teaching schools”

Campos-Duffy has said public school teachers can’t be “trusted to teach your children.” She said: “If I was in the Chicago school district right now, I would be fighting really, really hard to get that money, to get a voucher, to have that money attached to my kid and not a system, because these people aren't even to be trusted to teach your children." Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [1/9/22]

Campos-Duffy has denigrated public schools while advocating for school choice, saying, “You won't be held hostage by your local public school.” She has also spoken in support of “a universal school choice program where the money is attached to the kid and not the system.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [1/2/22, 1/9/22]

Campos-Duffy blamed low reading scores on children “getting sexualized and racialized” in public schools. Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [6/30/23]

Campos-Duffy praised Moms for Liberty, an organization that considers itself part of the “parental rights movement,” for partnering with Gays Against Groomers, an anti-trans group, on a seminar attacking sex education. Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [6/30/24; Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed 8/28/24]

Campos-Duffy claimed that teachers in the U.S. are all “licensed through these Marxist teaching schools.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/31/23]

## Campos-Duffy spewed anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, attacking the pope, “trans activists,” and the American Library Association

Campos-Duffy accused the American Library Association of “trying so hard to sexualize our children.” Campos-Duffy suggested labeling books with LGBTQ themes as diverse was just a sneaky way to allow porn in libraries. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [11/2/23]

Campos-Duffy asked, “Could a lesbian Virgin Mary be coming to a church near you, now that the Pope has approved blessings for same-sex couples?” Campos-Duffy blamed Pope Francis for a nativity scene depicting two mothers, saying he “failed to protect our sacred doctrine and traditions.” Mediaite, [12/26/23]

Campos-Duffy said “trans activists” are “intimidating parents” of trans children.While criticizing Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for vetoing a bill that would ban trans youth from receiving gender-affirming care and playing sports, Campos-Duffy also said there are parents of trans children who are “weirdos who are convincing their kids to do these kinds of things for their own psychological reasons.” Media Matters, [1/10/24]

## Campos-Duffy criticized environmental concerns, including suggesting “green energy fetishes” are to blame for inflation

Campos-Duffy said a hurricane would be an excuse for Democrats to push an “anti-human agenda.” When discussing the destruction from Hurricane Idalia, Campos-Duffy warned that Democrats “are not going to let this go to waste. This is going to be another, you know, reason for them to push this very anti-human agenda.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/31/23]

Campos-Duffy suggested that “green energy fetishes” are to blame for inflation. Business Insider, [5/30/22]

Campos-Duffy criticized wind farms, saying they are ugly and “there's so many effects of it that we don't even know about.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [11/4/23]

## Campos-Duffy defended conditions in detention centers for migrant kids, attacked a nonprofit giving humanitarian aid to asylum-seekers, and claimed “illegal alien criminals are raping and murdering our women and children”

Campos-Duffy harassed the employees and guests of a Catholic charity helping asylum-seekers, claiming it ran a “secret hotel housing illegal immigrants.” Arriving unannounced and with cameras, Campos-Duffy confronted the staff of Casa Alitas, a program run by the Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona that provides shelter, food, medical assistance, and other necessities for asylum-seekers. Campos-Duffy later posted on X, “Last night I found & walked into a #CasaAlitas … . Instant panic ensued.” In the video, she was asked to leave multiple times and can be seen snooping behind workers' desks. Twitter/X, [2/26/24; KVOA, 7/2/24]

Campos-Duffy defended the conditions of detention centers for migrant children who were separated from their families, claiming that African Americans told her they are “better than” public housing. When asked by The New York Times about her comment, Campos-Duffy wrote, “The centers are not ideal, but they are safe, supervised, and provide three square meals, instruction and other resources. Those are indeed better conditions than many poor American children have.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [6/21/18; The New York Times, 6/23/18]

Campos-Duffy said that immigrants in New York should be happy with the Randall's Island migrant facility, saying it's “paradise” compared to “eating their pets.” Campos-Duffy stated, “It's amazing compared to — if you are living in a village in Guatemala or Honduras, or if you're coming from Venezuela where people are eating their pets and zoo animals, this is paradise, but what has happened again, these NGOs have empowered and emboldened them to want more and more and they are coming here meaning handouts. That's not the way that immigration used to work, that's not how immigrant mentalities were a generation ago.” Immigrants who have been staying at the facility have spoken out against its conditions, saying there is not enough security to keep everyone safe, while rules barring cooking inside the facility left some to prepare raw meat inside public restrooms. Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [1/30/23; The Associated Press, 1/25/24]

Campos-Duffy repeatedly linked undocumented immigrants to violent crime. Campos-Duffy claimed that “hundreds of thousands of illegals are breaking into the country and illegal alien criminals are raping and murdering our women and children.” In another instance discussing Latino voters, she said migrants “are bringing with them crime. A lot of it is the crime that their parents were telling them was happening in El Salvador and many other countries in Latin America.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [8/14/24; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/24/24]

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August 26, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX NEWS HOST): What's the other side? It's a globalist ticket with these mystery puppet masters running it. We don't really know who is making the decisions on the other side. And I think this is so interesting because so many times people say, you know, "we want unity" and they accuse Donald Trump, in particular, of being so divisive and here you have RFK Jr., you know, a prominent Democrat and Donald Trump, the nominee for the Republican Party, reaching across the aisle, to find common ground. And I was thinking, Ainsley, what are those common issues?

It's the border. The economy, government surveillance, free speech, peace in the world, and food policy. Think about the other side, we just had a week of the Democrat convention. I can't tell you what their policies are. Other than abortion. And so I just think these are huge issues, the one's that I laid out for you that RFK and Donald Trump agree on. I think this is a real threat just to the system and kind of speaks to what I always thought, Donald Trump isn't really running against Kamala Harris, he is running against a corrupt system. And I think he's promising, along with RFK Jr. and JD Vance, to sort of blow up that system, expose the corruption. And nowhere do you see that more than in our food policy.

Fox host pushes conspiracy theory that Dr. Fauci conspired with Democrats to use COVID to normalize mail-in voting | Media Matters for America

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): Republicans have always liked the idea of voting on Election Day. I don't even like early voting. Unless you are in the military or sick in a hospital somewhere, most Republicans go in person with an I.D. --

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): On election day.

:{:{CAMPOS-DUFFY: -- because they care about that. But COVID, by the way this testimony this week with [Dr. Anthony] Fauci was fascinating to me. Because it's very clear that this whole made up six feet of social distancing was about creating fear, including fear and the justification for not voting in person and creating mass mail-in ballots to become the norm.}:

And Republicans have always resisted that but COVID became the excuse, and you will never convince me that that was not coordinated with Fauci and the Democrats. I believe that. Nonetheless, what Donald Trump is saying, and he said, he warned when they were making these laws, some of them unconstitutionally, that you shouldn't do these mail-in ballots. He was saying this is going to cause a lot of cheating and problems in the election integrity. But, now that this is the law, we got to get on board because we can't change it before the election.}:

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fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy falsely claims there were Chinese bioweapons labs found in California

In reality, as The Associated Press reported at the time, “The charges deal with federal health regulations, nothing related to online conspiracy theories about China purportedly trying to engineer biological weapons in rural America”

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During a June 5 diatribe about the dangers of Chinese influence within our hemisphere, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy wrongly asserted that “bioweapons labs [were] found in California.” The host was seemingly referring to debunked conspiracy theories that had circulated the previous fall.

In 2023, an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration found an unauthorized lab in Fresno, California, which was owned by Jia Bei Zhu. Zhu was arrested on “charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV.”

Discovery of the lab had fueled conspiracy theories about bioweapons, but as The Associated Press reported at the time, “The charges deal with federal health regulations, nothing related to online conspiracy theories about China purportedly trying to engineer biological weapons in rural America.” Additionally, according to the article, “The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there was no sign that the lab was illegally in possession of the materials or had select agents or toxins that could be used as bioweapons.”

Yet during a morning rant about the supposed dangers permeating American borders, Campos-Duffy seemingly referred to the lab while fearmongering about “the Chinese exerting influence all over our hemisphere.” She went on to allege that “some people [are] saying the election in Mexico, the Chinese were very much involved in that election.”

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CitationFrom the June 5, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): What's happening in our own hemisphere, you have Mexico turning into a narco-state but, more importantly, you have the Chinese exerting influence all over our hemisphere: flying, you know, spy balloons over our country, buying up farmland, setting up secret police, bioweapons labs found in California, and then buying up all kinds of, you know, mines and infrastructure and ports all over Latin America. This is unheard of in our own backyard. This is a massive problem. Many people are saying it's actually the biggest problem. And some people saying the election in Mexico, the Chinese were very much involved in that election. And we had 34 candidates who were killed in this campaign season in Mexico. Mexico is a very hot spot right now.

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Expert shares the year’s worst climate hypocrites, from King Charles to John Kerry | Fox News Video

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fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday called for an "honest conversation" about how Democrats should be considered "communists and fascists."

During a discussion about Donald Trump's campaign stops in Iowa, Campos-Duffy praised Trumpfor attacking Democrats.

"As the Democrats have sort of removed the mask of who they are — and we've seen it on display in many ways, especially over the last couple months through these protests — I love that he is just naming it out, calling them communists and fascists," she said. "Let's just have a really blunt, honest conversation about what are the choices in this election."

"I like the phrase, the destroyers of democracy," co-host Will Cain added. "Now, listen, I don't know if it's a matter of human nature, but I definitely know it's a matter of political strategy, that the left has engaged successfully for a good half a decade now of accusing their opponents of the sins which they are committing."

"What they have done is demonize others for the things that they are secretly doing," he added. "And it's been revealed to itself as well through this lens of, you're a threat to democracy."

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Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy: "The feminist movement is not about women, it's always been about abortion and communism” | Media Matters for America

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RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY [CO-HOST, FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND]: Absolutely, from just a purely, you know, political perspective. It was the right thing to do morally but it was also politically, as you said, really good. I want to mention with Joe Biden, he has taken this opportunity to basically double down on, 'This is all because of climate,' and, you know, pushing this whole climate change, climate, you know, emergency agenda. And this has been his talking point on this although he has given credit, rightfully so, to the governor for doing things right and trying to help. That's wonderful. But make no mistake. They are not going to let this go to waste. This is going to be another, you know, reason for them to push this very anti-human agenda that they're obsessed with.

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CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX NEWS CO-HOST): It's interesting. This is actually a charter school which claims to be a classical education, and so they've had to do a big, you know, turn around on their point because the parents are really upset. They think, but this a great example -- first, I wanna talk about a couple things. The mom, so calm. I'm impressed. Like, I wouldn't be that calm. Like, you know me. I'm not gonna go in be that nice about it, but kind of very politely educated the teacher who is not very educated, doesn't understand American history, and tried to associate with racism or something like that. So that's one thing. Two, the boy. He's so polite. He's so well-mannered. There was a subsequent video where he comes back, he had just done some podcasts and, you know, sort of gave his point of view and said, you know, I've come back, a lot of kids are now -- he came back to school and other kids are putting don't tread on me patches all over their lockers and their backpacks, and he said, this the sad part, he said I made some new friends, kids that I didn't know before that are now supportive of me, but the teachers were so mean to me, some of the teachers. How disgusting is that? So that was really bothersome.This is a reminder that you are your child's first and most important teacher. That mother taught that son about what don't tread on me. The rattlesnake was the symbol of America because the rattlesnake, if you try to step on it, it's gonna bite you back, and so this is a symbol of standing up. That's what that boy was doing. He's so -- he's such a patriot, I thought, I think that Brian Kilmeade is gonna adopt him.

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CAMPOS-DUFFY: Well, we see all these scores on how our kids are doing on these, you know, on these national tests and history's very bad. We need to give these tests to the teachers. 

STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): I thought they did before they got their teaching certificate.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: No, because they all get licensed through these Marxist teaching schools that we have inside of all these universities. That's also why you have teachers that turn out like that, that have no idea about American history. They don't care about it. They get hired by a classical academy, a charter school where parents are supposedly pulling their kids out of public school to get a better education, and here's what they get. So just always be alert.

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15 nonsensical comments made by right-wing media during 2023’s summer of climate-fueled extreme weather events

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PUBLISHED 08/07/23

July 2023 was the earth’s hottest month on record, punctuated by record-shattering extreme heat events, catastrophic floods, and historic wildfires. While major media outlets sounded the alarm on the climate crisis, climate denial and downplay reached a fever pitch among right-wing media outlets and influencers.

Many in the right-wing media have downplayed the record heat — suggesting that it’s normal summer weather, despite clear evidence that the intensity of this summer’s heat waves would not have been possible without climate change — or dismissed its lethal impact by arguing that more people die of cold than heat. Others have said those linking July’s extreme weather to climate change are weaponizing these events to push a radical climate agenda or call for climate lockdowns.

Here are 15 other examples that illustrate the lengths to which right-wing media are going — often deploying nonsensical arguments or outright lies that attempt to ignore the fact that there is scientific consensus that carbon emissions are heating our planet— to maintain climate denial in the face of climate-fueled catastrophes: 

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  1. response to extreme weather that grounded planes in the Northeast, Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy said the left is “trying to control the weather” and “trying to be God.:{” Fox News, Fox & Friends, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[7/3/23:{]}:
  2. Responding to calls for climate action, Newsmax host Eric Bolling denied that human activity is responsible for warming: “Real scientists, meaning those not purchased by the kings of propaganda, well, they’ll tell you there is actually no such thing as climate change.” Newsmax, Eric Bolling The Balance, [7/11/23]
  3. Fossil fuel shill Steve Milloy on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight: “The Earth is greener than ever before. Have we affected the planet and wildlife? Yeah, sure. But you know, in the end, it's been, I think, positive. The Earth is carrying more life now than ever before thanks to warming, thanks to CO2, thanks to fossil fuel use.” Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, [7/11/23]
  4. Newsmax host Greg Kelly said that “LGBTQ+IA whatever has been kind of pushed so relentlessly. … I think climate change and the whole phony debate about it has something to do with it,” suggesting the goal is to decrease population in order to reduce climate impacts. Newsmax, Greg Kelly Reports, [7/11/23]
  5. Fox host Jesse Watters suggested that U.S. special presidential envoy for climateJohn Kerry made it “impossible” to believe in climate change because according to Watters he lied about using a private plane. Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, [7/13/23]
  6. Conservative radio and Fox News host Mark Levin on his radioshow said climate change is a religion not based on science: “This is a religion. This is an ideology. This isn’t science. ...Don't you see how hot it is in Nevada? In the middle of the damn summer?It's what we have air conditioning for.”Westwood One, The Mark Levin Show, [7/13/23]
  7. Far-right media host Steven Crowder claims that carbon dioxide is not pollution because plants use it: “Is carbon dioxide the — basically, you know, the neurotoxin atmospheric poison that people make it out to be? Because you just pointed out plants thrive on it.” Rumble, Louder with Crowder, [7/15/23]
  8. Fox host Greg Gutfeld attempted to downplay the record-breaking heat with bizarre logic: “The problem with using weather — like saying, ‘This place broke records’ — how many states,how many countries didn't break records? Nobody ever provides you the context. They’re going, ‘Three countries had record-breaking heat waves.’ It’s like, well, how many countries are there?” Fox News, The Five, [7/17/23]
  9. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh claimed that the record heat is not a result of human activity but the sun: “The sun … that’s what calls the shots on Earth. It determines the temperature. It determines everything in terms of weather. … And until you can figure out a way to literally control the sun, there is basically nothing we can do to intentionally and significantly raise, lower, or otherwise affect the temperature on Earth.” The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, [7/18/23]
  10. The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro: “Thank God we have this thing called air conditioning. … You know what’s a great cure for being super-duper hot outside? Being a first world country.” The Daily Wire, The Ben Shapiro Show, [7/20/23]
  11. Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on America Reports: “This is not an overly hot July. ... Hot weather happens in some places; cooler weather happens in other places. We do not have a climate catastrophe.” Fox News, America Reports, [7/21/23]
  12. :{Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on climate science and why carbon dioxide is not pollution: “The science is not solid. The science is debated. They look at science as if it is religious, irrefutable dogma.” Kirk added, “The built-in premise of the climate hoax is carbon is bad. OK, well, carbon is life, actually. …:{ Don’t plants thrive on carbon dioxide?}:” :{Real America’s Voice:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:, The Charlie Kirk Show, [7/24/23]}:
  13. On The Ingraham Angle, American Majority founder Ned Ryun called climate change a “hoax”: “It is nothing more than an attempt to manipulate people into a state of fear to have them give more control over to a ruling elitewho would take this hoax and enforce it through a whole host of means.” Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, [7/27/23]
  14. :{:{On America’s Newsroom, fossil fuel shill Daniel Turner deliberately conflated weather with climate}:: “And if you look at the weather forecast for this great city, where I’m born and raised, next Friday is mid-70s. So we are in what's called a heat wave.” :{Fox News, America’s Newsroom:(style="background-color:#6633ffff"):}:, [7/28/23]}:
  15. Climate denier Marc Morano on Jesse Watters Primetime blamed global wildfires on arsonists, dismissing the role of climate change: “This is a global problem of people starting this. Now, is it climate change? Well, this would be the equivalent of blowing up a dam or sabotaging a dam and allowing a valley to flood and then saying, oh, look, climate change is causing more floods.” Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, [7/28/23]

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The right-wing Barbie meltdown shows how reactionary forces are losing the culture wars

Ben Shapiro: “Get ready, folks. It’s going to be liberated Barbie time."

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PUBLISHED 07/18/23

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CitationAndrea Austria / Media Matters

The Barbie movie is scheduled to be released on July 21; as it stands, there is no evidence that anti-trans attacks by right-wing influencers have resonated with audiences at all. (Barbie is distributed by Warner Bros. Movies, which is currently being struck by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.)

Greta Gerwig, director of the film, recently explained the underlying thesis of her latest project in a New York Times Magazine article.

“People say, ‘Well, what’s the story of Barbie?’” Gerwig recalls. “The story of Barbie is the fight that’s been going on about Barbie.”

In keeping with recent anti-LGBTQ extremist campaigns, right-wing media personalities have now imposed their anti-trans agenda onto that fight. They certainly have the muscle memory for ideologically wrestling with toys: Great battles in the conservative culture war have been waged over Mr. Potato Head, Legos, Xbox, Muppets, and more.

Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and the gambit of right-wing blogs are outraged that Hari Nef, a transgender model and actor, stars in the movie as Doctor Barbie. (There are more than a dozen characters named Barbie in the movie, per IMDb, and an audio clip of each Barbie greeting each other by the same name has gone viral on TikTok.) This is not the first time Mattel has celebrated transgender representation through the Barbie brand: In 2022, the company released a doll version of Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox.

On June 30, Kirk called the movie “trans propaganda that is in this hyper-feminine, ultra pink propaganda thing, but it’s really been taken over by the trans mafia.” He later added the trailer for Barbie was “the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen,” then floated a boycott of the film.

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CitationFrom the June 30, 2023 edition of Real America's Voice's The Charlie Kirk Show

After repeatedly tweeting about Nef’s casting, Shapiro warned, “The new Barbie movie is going to be a woke bleep show.” He attacked Nef for writing a letter to Gerwig advocating that she be cast in the movie and predictably went on to repeatedly misgender her.

“Get ready, folks. It’s going to be liberated Barbie time.”

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CitationFrom the June 28, 2023 edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show

On Fox, Campos-Duffy complained that “the left has given Barbie a complete feminist makeover,” then went on to misgender and attack Nef. “They couldn’t get a woman to play a doctor?”

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CitationFrom the July 3, 2023, edition of Jesse Watters Primetime

In a panel segment following her monologue, Campos-Duffy said Gerwig’sBarbie is “another indoctrination vehicle.”

On his podcast, right-wing pundit Dave Rubin asked, “Why do they go out of their way to have a biological boy play a girl who’s supposed to be completely a girl in the Barbie movie unless they’re trying to confuse kids?”

Right-wing blogs are also furiously churning out their own Barbie takes. Conspiracy theory-peddling website Revolver News ran a guest post by Federalist contributor Peachy Keenan titled “The Pink Menace” that described Gerwig as the “Destroyer of Dolls” and zeroed in on Nef, labeling her “Groomer Barbie.”

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An article on right-wing “media watchdog” NewsBusters asked whether the movie was preparing a “Woke Barbie Bait-and Switch” from its press tour to the actual contents of the film, suggesting (baselessly) that the promotion was intentionally papering over Barbie’s “potentially progressive leanings,” citing “the movie’s aggressively diverse cast” and the inclusion of Nef as Barbie.

Both Fox News and the Washington Examinerwrote about Christian movie review site Movieguide instructing audiences not to take children to see the upcoming movie.

From the decades-long legacy of the doll to the upcoming star-studded merchandisable movie, Barbie is a phenomenon. Social media users are flooding feeds with “Barbiecore”: hot pink outfit inspiration, adorably plastic makeup tutorials, and rankings of red carpet looks from the movie’s premiere events. There’s been an “explosion” of Barbie-themed launches selling out across the market — from frozen yogurt to shoes and clothes to couches.

Mainstream audiences simply do not hate transgender actors enough to hold back their enthusiasm for the film.

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BATYA UNGAR-SARGON (GUEST): The problem is, he's not anti-Covid vaccine. He's skeptical of all vaccines.

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (HOST): I'm starting to get there too, though, Batya. I don't trust anything with pharma anymore. 

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RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): Which incidents have the most impact on the American people? A sitting president, who we now know received at least $10 million in a bribe from the Ukraine, where we are now spending gazillions of dollars, I think $120 billion that we've spent so far over there in a money laundering scheme, in my opinion. And, you know, what impacts your life more,that Donald Trump didn't put the right things in the right boxes,or didn't, you know, did he declassify, did he classify, when we know he's the president and he has the ability to do that? Or what we're seeing, this corruption that's actually impacting our foreign policy and national security.

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PETE HEGSETH (FOX HOST): It's so scary for our country, and that's why I do think that it will have the effect of Republican voters who maybe were looking at the field of options saying, "I don't have an option now." And I'm not saying this is every Republican out there, I get it -- but if I'm voting for someone else, I'm giving in to the scheme of the establishment that wants to force me in a different direction.

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX HOST): I couldn't agree more with you on that. If you are a Republican and you don't want Democrats, the media or the establishment -- or the uni-party as you call it -- or the DOJ to pick your candidate, there's no choice then to go, "You know what you, we are going to pick our own guy, and it's going to be Donald Trump." It's just looking like that. 

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RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (HOST): Pandemic would have been a really great time to scare America back into shape. We learned early on that one of the biggest predictors of COVID-related deaths was obesity.

But what did Democrats do? They shut down the playgrounds, gyms, and they forced you to stay in your house and order takeout. Instead of focusing on our health, America put on the pandemic equivalent of the freshman 15.

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If her response sounds strange, this might put some of the missing pieces together. Dr. Stanford has taken thousands of dollars from pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk which manufactures the miracle weight loss drug Ozempic. Can you say conflict of interest?

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RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): This entry of RFK Jr. into this race is a real problem for Democrats, but it could also be a problem for Republicans should he become the nominee. And that's a big if, of course, but it's interesting, Will, you often talk about how the left and the right, kind of — there is a circle, a place where left and right actually meet — and I think for a lot of Americans it was during COVID where a lot of Republicans and conservatives who had more faith in corporations sort of lost that faith as they saw how horribly pharma and big government had colludedand in many ways to suppress information and take away people's rights. And then people on the left were also going wait a minute, we're health liberty people, we don't like being forced to take things. And a lot of them are old-school liberals who never trusted big pharma.There are a lot of powerful forces that don't want JFK to get elected because he's been a truth-teller in many ways.

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May as well rename COP27 to the "China Empowerment Summit" - HotAir

HotAir

CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Marc Morano joins me now, he is the author of the great reset and plush everywhere of climate depot.com. Mark, great to have you.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Marc Morano joins me now, he is the author of the great reset and plush everywhere of climate depot.com. Mark, great to have you. You heard my monologue. Am I right. Is this whole green thing a big scam?”

mORANO: “Impact our children, the green energy revolution that everyone talks about it’s easier than fossil fuels. United Nations climate summit. You can rename it a China empowerment summit. All it’s going to do is make the once energy dominant west more reliant on China for all this rare earth mining and with lower environmental standards and this is the most important aspect, Rachel, lower human rights standards. Whether you are talking about the uyghurs in China or particularly in relation to your opening, kids as young as 8, 9 years old in the coming go mining cobalt. Now, this has been reported over the years, years ago by cbs news, by CNN, so, the mainstream media is aware of it. But they haven’t connected any dots and they don’t hardly ever talk about it although they did cover it. But, essentially, we are empowering China by more and more mandates rely on them. Very little oversight; what’s going on with the kids in africa and just human rights in africa with these Chinese owned companie

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During the final weekend of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, two Fox News programs invited longtime climate denier Marc Morano to discuss the conference and link it to a conspiracy theory about the Great Reset.

As Media Matters wrote last week, adherents to the Great Reset conspiracy theory absurdly believe that global elites are using climate change policies in order to crush individual freedoms and install a global dictatorial government. Morano is a key driver of the climate denial components of this conspiracy theory. We also noted that given the high-profile nature of COP27 and the presence of numerous world leaders there, this conspiracy theory would proliferate within right-wing discussions of the conference.

And now, the most-watched cable news network in the U.S. has prominently featured the false claims in its discussions around COP27.

On the November 12 edition of Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, Morano stated that world leaders want to “use the COVID template to fight climate, i.e. authoritarianism, you don’t have a say, democracy goes to die.” He also falsely downplayed the health threats associated with climate change, wrongly dismissed the need for climate action as too expensive, and directly referred to COP27 as “the Great Reset summit.”

Host Dan Bongino also brought up a key tenet of the Great Reset conspiracy theory, which is that climate change is all about control. He stated that the conference is “a totalitarian way to control things. This has nothing to do with climate science."

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MORANO (FOUNDER, CLIMATEDEPOT.COM): I'm here in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, at this conference. And not only is the World Economic Forum here, the home of the Great Reset — they were on the panel with John Kerry when he went to use the COVID template to fight climate, i.e. authoritarianism, you don’t have a say, democracy goes to die when they talk like that. But the World Health Organization was also here to morph COVID and climate together by declaring climate a massive public health threat. Despite the fact, Dan, that climate-related deaths have dropped 99% in the last hundred years and they’ve declined due to wealth creation, and development, infrastructure, and fossil fuels. So, this is very scary. This is John Kerry. Al Gore also is here. Along with John Kerry he's pushing his climate trace app that’s going to be tracing all individual CO2 contributors globally. Remember, humans inhale oxygen; we exhale CO2. So they’re modeling a track and trace app for CO2 to go after businesses and agriculture. This is the Great Reset summit here in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

DAN BONGINO (FOX HOST): Marc, and you’ve been sounding the alarm about this forever. This is all about control. This has nothing to do with science. When the vax started to lose effectiveness against transmission, they almost doubled down on mandates. Their push for digital ID, digital currencies, you know, CO2 monitors — this is just a totalitarian way to control people. This has nothing to do with climate science.

MORANO: It has nothing to do. Here’s how absurd it is. Goldman Sachs economist two weeks ago said on CNBC that we’ve spent almost $4 trillion to reduce fossil fuels 1%. And so, and you’d would think they’d look at that and say solar and wind are failing, you cannot replace fossil fuels at any scale they’re talking. Al Gore comes this week along with John Kerry and wants private industry to spent $4 trillion per year to fight climate change.

That’s how insane this is. It's almost like the old, you know, socialism never failed, it wasn't done correctly in the Soviet Union, it wasn’t done correctly in Venezuela, it wasn’t done correctly in Eastern Europe, it wasn’t done correctly in Cuba. They are now literally looking at this and saying all the failure we see everywhere is more of a reason to double down. And this is what’s scary, Dan: You have every major corporation listed as quote “main partners” at this U.N. climate Great Reset summit including IBM, Google, Coca-Cola, Bank of America.

The next morning, on Fox & Friends Sunday, Morano again fearmongered about the Great Reset at COP27. In addition to claiming that climate change is all about control, he also invoked the idea of lockdowns and the idea that global elites want to disrupt agriculture — also key tenets of the Great Reset conspiracy theory. He closed the interview by insinuating, again, that COP27 is all about the Great Reset, and that these global elites want to increase their power at the expense of human liberties.

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CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX HOST): President Joe Biden pledging $150 million to advance Africa's resilience to climate change. This despite 146 million people across the country going hungry. ClimateDepot.com publisher, and author of The Great Reset: Global Elites and The Permanent Lockdown, Marc Morano joins us now. Marc, always great to have you on the show. So 34 million Africans are actually in danger of famine right now. So, why are they offering them money for climate policies and initiatives and not food?

MARC MORANO (FOUNDER, CLIMATEDEPOT.COM): This is an incredible situation. They have it completely backwards. Instead of looking at all the problems in the world, and saying we need more food production, we need high-yield agriculture, they look at it and say we need to stop climate change. And this whole agenda, they have harmed Africa, first of all through COVID policy —

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Yes.

MORANO: — and this is chiefly occurring through COVID lockdowns, which, by the way, the World Health Organization was there, the World Economic Forum was at this U.N. Climate summit where Biden was. And they're pushing more response to climate as the same template as COVID, which means essentially bypassing democracy. But what the Biden administration’s done, they’re allowing this to happen in Africa. We've seen it in the Netherlands. They're collapsing modern high-yield agriculture.They’re doing it in Australia, in Canada. They’re making food more expensive, creating shortages. They’re doing the same thing in transportation and doing the same thing in energy, all in the name of climate change. 

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CAMPOS-DUFFY: Marc, really quickly, yes or no. Is this summit, and all of the initiatives that they're pushing, even thistracking app — is it about the environment, or is it about the Great Reset and population control?

MORANO: This is all about increasing their power, imposing their vision, and their vision is population control, economic control, and basically civil liberties control of every human on the earth. That is really what this conference is about. That is what the United Nations teaming up with the World Economic Forum is all about.

Later in the program, host Rachel Campos-Duffy again brought up the Great Reset. After a discussion about Biden meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping, Campos-Duffy stated that Morano “wrote a book about climate change and how it is part of the Great Reset. It is really fantastic, being very clear what this is about. Climate change is not about the climate. He actually proves it is not really affecting the climate and certainly not worth the trillions of investment that the world and especially America have made in that. But he says it’s about the Great Reset, it’s about control, and it’s ultimately about population control.”

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fuck your feelings: [cspan book TV had several on slavery eg UVA?] free exge of idea (free mkt in the gift shop? buy it or not, or buy and burn it.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy lashed out on Sunday because she said she was made to feel "ashamed" and "guilty" after visiting the home of former President Thomas Jefferson and learning about how he owned slaves.

During a discussion on Fox & Friends,host Pete Hegseth complained about how the "whole tone" at Jefferson's Monticello home has changed to focus on his slave ownership.

"It's overwhelmingly negative!" Hegseth exclaimed. "You go to visit the legacy of Thomas Jefferson and you learn about what a terrible person Thomas Jefferson was."

Hegseth said that one visitor noted that "half of the comments on Jefferson were critical."

Campos-Duffy recounted her visit to Monticello.

"I visited many of these homes," she recalled. "And that is definitely what I picked up from all of this, that there is a reorienting, reconstructing of the history to basically make sure that the idea that they had slaves is on the same level as what they did for our country."

"There are slaves across human history," the Fox News host continued. "I get that. It's a terrible history we should talk about but we should not feel guilty or ashamed of our leaders when we go and visit the people who brought us the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence. You leave feeling that way."

Campos-Duffy complained that "anti-racism" books could be found in the gift shop at Jefferson's home.

"These were great men as far as their ideas go but they were able to build this on the backs of slaves and we honor that," co-host Joey Jones chimed in. "And we talk about that. That's different than re-writing the importance of Jefferson, the importance of Washington or whoever it may be. And why have Monticello at all if you're only going to use it for grievance?"

Jones argued that liberal leaders are not "perfect" either.

"Socialists," Campos-Duffy quipped. "You come away thinking how terrible this country is."

"Where's all this coming from?" she asked. "The homes of these presidents are being populated -- this is avery diabolical plan on the part of the left. So what they've done is they've taken their donors on the left and they've populated the boards of these estates with leftists."

"Don't look over here at all the amazing things that Thomas Jefferson unleashed," Hegseth agreed. "It's always about inclusivity. It's the buzzword they use. And we fall into the trap! Because good, earnest historians who take care of Monticello sit there and they go, 'Oh, you're right. You know what? We haven't included enough about the fact that he was a slave owner. So let's include more of that.' And then the ideologues come in with their money and say, let's make it all about that!"

"And then you get kids coming through thinking Thomas Jefferson was a bad guy," he remarked. "We get accused of wanting to 'whitewash' or not talk about that. We will talk about that. We know that. That's a real deal. But making it about America being an evil place is when we get into the realm of a cultural revolution."

Watch the video below from Fox News.

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CONGRESS

Sean Duffy heads to K Street after resigning from Congress

The former Wisconsin congressman and Trump defender is joining BGR Group.

Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy

By THEODORIC MEYER

11/12/2019

Sean Duffy, the former Republican congressman who has aggressively defended President Donald Trump, is heading to K Street after resigning from Congress in September.

Duffy will become a senior counsel at BGR Group, a Republican-leaning lobbying firm that’s also home to former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. The firm’s lobbyists represent corporate clients such as Comcast and Pfizer, as well as the governments of Bahrain, Bangladesh, India and South Korea, according to disclosure filings.

Duffy, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee’s housing subcommittee, will head up BGR’s financial services practice. BGR lobbies for Credit Suisse and MassMutual,among other financial clients. He plans to register as a lobbyist, according to the firm.

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The Wisconsin Republican became famous starring on the MTV reality series “The Real World” in 1997. He later became a district attorney in northern Wisconsin and was elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the Republican wave. He left office on Sept. 23, saying that he and his wife were expecting a child in October who “will need even more love, time and attention due to complications, including a heart condition.”

After resigning, he joined CNN as a paid contributor, where he attracted criticism last month for suggesting there’s a missing Democratic National Committee server in Ukraine — an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that’s been pushed by Trump.

He also questioned on CNN’s “New Day” whether Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army officer and National Security Council staffer who’s become a critical witness in the House impeachment inquiry, might be more sympathetic to Ukrainian interests than American ones.

“It seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense,” Duffy said, referring to Vindman, who immigrated from Ukraine as a child. “I don’t know that he’s concerned about American policy.”

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Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s chief legal analyst, described Duffy’s remarks as “insanity and, frankly, anti-immigrant bigotry.” Rebecca Kutler, a CNN executive, defended Duffy’s remarks at the time, saying that it was important to have contributors who reflected Trump supporters’ point of view.

Under House ethics rules, Duffy is banned from lobbying Congress for a year after leaving, but he’s allowed to lobby the Trump administration immediately — including former House colleagues such as Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In a statement, Duffy said he was “eager to grow a financial services practice built on my experience working on behalf of the people with the Administration and federal regulators” as well as Republican and Democrats in Congress. He plans to advise financial services companies, trade associations and their members, he said.

Duffy didn’t start discussions with BGR until after he resigned, according to the firm.

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STEPHEN MOORE (FORMER TRUMP ECONOMIC ADVISER): The entire Russian economy is really financed with oil. And it is so frustrating, and even almost immoral, that here we are in a situation today where we're now actually importing oil from the Russians. And in fact, that means that we're actually inadvertently helping finance the Russian war machine. And that would not be happening if Donald Trump were president today. Under President Trump 14 months ago, the United States was independent of oil from Russia and Saudi Arabia. So, I do believe that this situation we're in now is the direct consequence of a radical green energy policy by the Biden administration that wasn't taking into account the consequences of America giving up its energy independence....By the way, the Europeans are not blameless here either. Trump warned five years ago the Europeans to not become dependent on and addicted to Russian oil and gas. That's exactly what's happened, and I do believe that's one of the reasons we're in the predicament today, and the Ukrainians are fighting these Russian tanks in the streets of Ukraine.&...Stephen, you are 100% right. I have been calling this the Green New Deal war, because absolutely-- 

MOORE: Exactly.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: This should not have happened.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Campos-Duffy

Rachel Campos-Duffy[1] ^(born October 22, 1971) is a conservative American television personality. She first appeared on television in 1994 as a cast member on the MTV reality television series The Real World:San Francisco, before moving on to work as a television host. She was a guest host on the ABC talk show The View, before moving to Fox News,[2] where she has guest-hosted the show Outnumbered[3] before being hired as a permanent co-host on Fox & Friends Weekend in May 2021.[4]^

Early life

Rachel Campos grew up in Tempe, Arizona,[5][6] to Miguel Campos and Maria del Pilar,[7][8] junior-high school teachers in Chandler, Arizona.[8] She has two brothers,[9] Patrick Campos and Joseph Campos. Her sister,[6] Leah Campos Schandlbauer, is a former CIA operations officer who ran for the U.S. Congress[7] in Arizona in 2012.[10] Campos and her siblings were raised in a strict Catholic home.[6] Campos-Duffy graduated from Seton Catholic Preparatory High School.[11] Campos' grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico.[12] Campos graduated from Arizona State University in December 1993, with a degree in economics.[13] She was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, which she had planned to use to attend graduate school, with the goal of being a college professor.[14] Campos earned a master's degree in international affairs from the University of California, San Diego.[13]^

Career

The Real World: San Francisco

Campos was cast on The Real World: San Francisco in January 1994, and lived in the house on Russian Hill in San Francisco with her six housemates from February 12 to June 19.[15] The season premiered on July 6, 1994.

Although the castmates were informed ahead of time that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, they were not informed which housemate it would be.[16] On the cast's first night in the house, Campos’ housemate, AIDS educator Pedro Zamora, informed the housemates that he had AIDS by showing them his scrapbook of his career as an HIV educator. Campos felt uncomfortable and initially distanced herself from Zamora, stating that she wanted to know how his health status would affect her. However, she said nothing to the other housemates for fear of appearing homophobic.[17] Although Zamora took this as an act of rejection on her part, the two eventually became friends, with Zamora traveling to Arizona with Campos to visit her family.[6] During her time on the series, she had both a romantic relationship and tumultuous friendship with housemate David "Puck" Rainey.[18] Fellow cast member Judd Winick attributed this attraction on her part to her taste for rebellious men, or "bad boys". Campos conceded this,[9] and admitted that she was sometimes an initial bad judge of character, and too trusting.[14] Campos' friendship with Rainey eventually dissolved, as did Rainey's friendship with the rest of the cast,[19] resulting in his eviction.[20] Campos subsequently became best friends with Rainey's replacement, Joanna Rhodes, and the two of them were referred to by Winick as "high maintenance twins".[21]^

On the show and in MTV's promotional materials for the show, Campos was depicted as a passionate Republican,[14] whose heroes included**Jack Kem**p,[22] and as a Catholic, though she conceded her strict religious upbringing fostered within her a rebellious streak that sometimes brought her into conflict with her parents.[6] Her political viewpoints led to conflict with her housemates on more than one occasion, as when Mohammed Bilal ridiculed the Republican housing ideas that she expressed in Episode 3.[23] In Episode 18, after Campos invited her housemates to a College Republicans function, self-described liberal Winick[17] opined that the speakers at the function were sexist, homophobic, and racist, a view which Campos objected to as unfair.[22]^

In 1998 Campos taped Road Rules: All Stars, along with alumni of other past Real World seasons, such as Sean Duffy of the Real World: Boston cast, whom she would later marry.[13]^

Campos-Duffy was one of ten Real World alumni who starred in the 2003 film The Wedding Video, a Real World parody centered on the wedding of first season alumnus Norman Korpi.[24]^

The View

She tried out three times for a co-host spot on the daytime television talk show The View . After Debbie Matenopoulos left the show in 1999, Campos competed in an on-air try-out with Lisa Ling and Lauren Sánchez.[] Ling was eventually hired. After Ling's departure in 2002,[25] Campos—who by then held her own "coffee talk" show with other Wisconsin housewives—again competed in a week-long on-air try-out, this time against Erin Hershey Presley and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.[] In November 2003 Hasselbeck was hired to replace Ling. In July 2013 when Hasselbeck left The View to replace Gretchen Carlson as the female co-host of Fox & Friends, Campos once again tried out but Jenny McCarthy was hired to fill the spot.[26][27]^

Fox News

On June 21, 2018, during an appearance on the Fox News program The Ingraham Angle, Campos-Duffy defended the Trump administration's controversial practice of separating immigrant families arrested crossing the US border. Speaking of the facilities where the children were housed, she said, "The detention centers are far safer than the journey that these children just came on, and I will say this...people aren't stupid. I spoke to some African-Americans who say, 'Gosh, the conditions of the detention centers are better than some of the projects that I grew up in.'"[12][28][29] The comments drew immediate criticism,[12][29] including from black Vox reporter Jane Coaston,[30] New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones,[12][31] Britni Danielle of Essence magazine,[32] and filmmaker Ava DuVernay.[32][33]^

In 2017, Campos-Duffy praised Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte of Montana for physically assaulting Ben Jacobs, a reporter for The Guardian. The incident occurred when Gianforte grabbed Jacobs, threw him to the ground and punched him after Jacobs tried to interview him about the Republican health care plan, whichCampos-Duffy called "Montana justice".[34]^

After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election against President Donald Trump, Campos-Duffy claimed that there had been "fraud and shenanigans" in the election.[35]^

On August 22, 2021, Campos-Duffy criticized President Joe Biden for the Taliban retaking of Afghanistan, blaming his "mental state" for the event.[36] She also blamed First Lady Jill Biden by saying that she failed the country by allowing her husband to run for president.[37] Jill Biden's press secretary Michael LaRosa, responded the following day, calling the comments "disgusting" and saying that "[Campos-Duffy and Fox News] know better. They can do better and their viewers deserve better. I hope they'll apologize to the First Lady and leave this kind of talk in the [trash] where it belongs."[38][39][40]^

In May 2021 Campos-Duffy was hired as a permanent co-host on Fox & Friends Weekend.[4]^

Activism and advocacy

Campos-Duffy is the national spokesperson for the LIBRE initiative, a non-profit organization[41][42][43] whose stated mission is to promote ideas about constitutionally limited government, property rights, rule of law, economic stability, and free market capitalism to the Hispanic community.[41][42]^

Campos-Duffy supported Scott Walkerin the Republican primary for the 2016 presidential election.[44]^

Personal life

After her stint on The Real World ended, while the fifth season of the show (set in Miami) was being filmed, Campos was involved in a head-on car collision after the driver of an oncoming vehicle fell asleep at the wheel. Campos' boyfriend and his friend, who was driving their rented car, died in the accident. Campos was thrown out of the passenger-side window and sustained serious injuries to her right leg that caused long-term problems such as arthritis, a limp and difficulty running.[45][46]^

Campos married her Road Rules: All Stars costar Sean Duffy.[47][48] They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin, where Duffy was the District Attorney of Ashland County.[47][49] In 2011, Duffy became a Republican member of Congress for the 7th district of Wisconsin.[48][49] The Duffys moved from Ashland to Weston, Wisconsin in late 2011,[50] and in 2013, they moved to Wausau, Wisconsin so that Sean would be closer to an airport for his weekly commute to Washington, D.C. where he spent three or four days a week.[13]^

In 2008, Campos-Duffy revealed that she suffered two miscarriages.[51] As of May 2016, they had eight children.[52] The Duffys ninth child was born, a daughter, in 2019.[53] She was born one month early and has Down Syndrome.[54] Due to the baby's anticipated health complications, including a heart condition, Sean Duffy announced that he was resigning from Congress, effective September 23, 2019, in order to focus his time andattention on his family.[48][55]^

In popular culture

In Pedro, Nick Oceano's 2008 film dramatizing Pedro Zamora's life, Campos-Duffy is portrayed by Karolina Luna.[56]^

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Campos-Duffy, Rachel (December 19, 2007). "I'm Expecting My 5th: What To Make Of The Trend In Bigger Families". Parent Dish.
  2. ^ "Rachel Campos-Duffy". Fox News. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
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The LIBRE Initiative, the Koch brothers’ organization that promotes right-wing economic ideology to Latinos, put out a press releaseon Friday celebrating that Congress had tucked into the recent budget bill a three-year reauthorization for the private school voucher program that it had originally imposed on the District of Columbia during the George W. Bush administration. 

While LIBRE President Daniel Garza claimed that “educational choice programs offer tremendous potential benefits to Latinos and others around the country,” the evidence suggests that the D.C. voucher program hurts rather than helps student achievement.

LIBRE’s press release claimedthat “there is growing evidence that this program is effective at breaking the link between poverty and poor education.” Really? The press release links “growing evidence” to an article from 2009. Meanwhile, just last month, the U.S. Department of Education published an evaluation that found that students using a voucher to attend private schools score worse in math a year later than their counterparts who applied for a voucher but were not offered one. Reading scores for voucher students were also lower, but not by a statistically significant amount.

As PFAW’s blog noted at the time:

These results throw more cold water on voucher supporters’ enthusiasm for the program, but history suggests that privatization advocates are not deterred by dismal data. That’s whyone scholar called the nomination of voucher cheerleader Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education “a triumph of ideology over evidence that should worry anyone who wants to improve results for children.”

In March, members of the DC Council sent a letter to Rep Jason Chaffetz, chair of the Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, opposing reauthorization of the program, which the councilmembers wrote “should be phased out because participation in the program and similar initatives has not only failed to improve students’ academic performance, but worsened it, as found in a series of recent studies.”

People For the American Way and the African American Ministers In Action were among 62 organizations that signed a National Coalition for Public Education letter opposing reauthorization of the program, which the signers said “has proven ineffective and unaccountable to taxpayers.”

The recent Department of Education analysis wasn’t the first bad news for the D.C. voucher program. A 2012 Washington Post investigation found that quality control and accountability were lacking.

Last year People For the American Way worked with Brave New Films to release “Koch Brothers Exposed,” which explains how LIBRE fits the Koch Brothers’ larger strategy to promote right-wing economic policies.

LIBRE’s Daniel Garza was listed earlier this year at #19 on right-wing site Newsmax’s list of 50 most influential Latino Republicans; Garza ally Samuel Rodriguez was next on the list at #20. Two other LIBRE spokespersons, Marilinda Garcia and Rachel Campos-Duffy, also made the top 50. In 2013, at aprayer breakfast organized by Religious Right operative Ralph Reed, Campos-Duffy criticized school breakfast programsfor low-income students, saying they hurt family bonding by giving parents an excuse not to make breakfast for their own kids.

Although LIBRE and the Koch Brothers have had their disputes with Trump, a high-level former LIBRE and Americans for Prosperity staffer Andeliz Castillo joined Vice President Mike Pence’s staff this year, part of a wave of Koch-connected people moving into senior administration positions.

More information on the LIBRE Initiative is available in our 2015 Right Wing Watch In Focus report.

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faux News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Wednesday reacted to potential Republican losses in the Georgia runoff races by blaming Black people who she said had been "captured" by Democrats.

The morning after the Tuesday runoffs, Fox News host Sandra Smith spoke to Campos-Duffy about the results.

"You're analysis is very important this morning," Smith said. "You and your husband, Sean Duffy, are very strong voices in the Republican Party. You see what's happening, you just watched what's happening down in Georgia."

"I think there are limits to what [Republican] politics can do," Campos-Duffy replied. "I believe culture is more important, that elections are lagging indicators of what is happening in the culture. And let's be very clear, we have been under a multi-generational, very patient, very potent indoctrination program by the left."

"And they have captured so many aspects of American life," she continued. "From media, social media, big tech, corporate America, all the way down -- you know, our education system, not just our universities, but all the way down into, you know, our elementary schools."

Campos-Duffy then opined on the Black community.

"The African-American vote was very important in this vote," she said. "It really is what won the day."

"And the African-American culture has been captured by the left," the pundit added, "whether it's sports, media, their leaders. I mean, to the point where you have a pastor -- a pastor, a Christian pastor -- who unabashedly announces that he is pro-abortion."

Campos-Duffy claimed that the state of African-American politics "is a very serious problem."

"Make no mistake, Sandra, last night on the ballot, socialism was on the ticket and socialism won," she remarked. "And if socialism can win in deep-South Georgia, socialism can win anywhere!"

"This is a massive wakeup call to conservatives, to Republicans, that it is -- we're going to lose our country and our values if we don't engage in this culture war," Campos-Duffy insisted. "Our ideas are not passed on in the bloodstream to our children, they are taught."

She revealed that she was "trying not to be too dramatic about this."

"But I really do think that so much is at stake," she concluded. "The African-American vote was so important. As I mentioned before, they were captured. As you look at this Hispanic vote, not as susceptible to socialism."

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Fox News is passing off the Koch-funded Libre Initiative as a grassroots organization founded “to empower Hispanics” and advance “liberty, freedom and prosperity.” In reality, the group urges Hispanics to support policies that experts say go “against their own interests” and “disenfranchise Hispanic voters.”

The Libre Initiative was founded in 2011 and claims to be a “non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization that advances the principles and values of economic freedom to empower the U.S. Hispanic community.” The group “has a presence in eight states” and “plans to expand to Wisconsin and North Carolina this year and increase its staff by about 30 percent ahead of 2016.”

Fox has portrayed the group as the product of “a coalition of Hispanic leadership organizations.” But Libre is staffed by veteran Republican operatives, and the group has received over $10 million in funding from oil billionaires Charles and David Koch. Libre has admitted its message “aligns more with Republicans” and “with the principles and ideas of Charles and David Koch.”

The group promotes the agenda of people like the Kochs at the expense of Hispanics. Libre opposes the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which helps Hispanics get health insurance. They oppose a federal minimum wage increase, which would help more than 6.7 million Hispanics. They support voter ID laws that serve “to disenfranchise Hispanic voters.” They've joined Fox News in pushing misinformation about “illegals” and immigration. Libre has also campaigned against politicians that support immigration reform due to those politicians' support of the Affordable Care Act.

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“Why does she have to work?”Peterson asked. “Why doesn’t she stay home, be a wife, a mother, and help raise the children? And now this guy has to step down because this baby apparently has some issues … He shouldn’t quit his job for that. I guarantee you she is making him do it.”

“This woman is a selfish, egotistical woman and this man is too beta male to make her do the right thing,” Peterson continued. “This woman is a selfish woman. She has nine kids and she’s trying to be like a man, ‘I want to be seen by the world as such a working woman.’ Women, God has given you the gift of being the assistant of the man, to watch over his children, to make sure things are well at home, to be there when the kids come home, to cook, clean, provide in that way. There is no greater job for a woman than that. And I don’t know why these men would marry these women if they don’t have that mindset. It’s like being married to another man. It’s selfishness, it’s not love.”

“She has control over him,” Peterson added. “He’s a beta male. So Sean Duffy, Representative Duffy, you are a beta male! It’s ridiculous, really ridiculous, and it’s sad for the children. Nine children? You need to be home, and the man, you need to be out providing and being the light for your family … Men, you need to come back to your proper state of being so God can give you the right kind of woman to marry. I wouldn’t recommend you marry these educated women with these degrees; they don’t make for good wives and mothers.”

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