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Newsmax's Greg Kelly defends Trump's “human scum” post: “What about when Obama said the n-word?”

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PUBLISHED 05/29/24

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Newsmax's Greg Kelly claims the Trump fake elector scheme that led to indictments in Arizona "happens every election cycle" | Media Matters for America

After Arizona indictment of Trump fake electors, Fox News host Mark Levin claims "there's nothing illegal" about the scheme | Media Matters for America

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...Hawking gold has been a financial mainstay of right-wing media outlets and online personalities for years. For religious-right pundits like Wallnau, promoting gold as a hedge against financial and societal collapse can dovetail with broader apocalyptic messaging.

A few months ago, The Washington Post wrote about the extensive marketing on right-wing media of gold coins as a retirement investment, often with outrageous markups. Reporter Hanna Kozlowska, one of the authors of the Post report, followed up with an August story for MSNBC, noting that their research found that older people who watch conservative media are “bombarded” with ads for gold:

We’ve spoken to customers who are disabled, homebound or living only on Social Security, their lives upended by losing their only nest eggs. And although complaints and allegations of fraud against these companies have been public for years, right-wing media outlets have continued to benefit by accepting their advertising.

The kind of fearmongering pitch Wallnau’s email included is a common sales tactic, according to Kozlowska. “To lure customers, the companies often use fear-based and politically tinged messaging in their advertising and on sales calls,” she wrote for MSNBC, citing an example of an ad sent to a Newsmax list claiming, “Nancy Pelosi has been on a secret mission to KILL the US Dollar.”

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2023 has been a chaotic year for Fox News, from a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems to the firing of Tucker Carlson in April. And the right-wing cable news channel is still facing a $2.7 billion lawsuit from Dominion competitor Smartmatic.

Fox News' problems have, at times, led to ratings surges for Newsmax, the bombastic cable news outlet that prides itself on being more right-wing, more MAGA and more pro-Donald Trump than Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business. But the Daily Beast's Justin Baragona, in a report published on December 28, emphasizes that those surges were merely "sugar highs" — and that its dreams of overtaking Fox News have never materialized.

"Just a few months ago," Baragona reports, "Newsmax was riding high. The MAGA network watched its ratings soar after disgruntled Fox News viewers ditched the conservative cable giant after it shockingly fired Tucker Carlson. Exploiting the MAGA rage against Fox over kicking its top right-wing star to the curb, Newsmax leaned even harder into its already over-the-top pro-Trump ethos, bluntly signaling to viewers that this was the channel to turn to for all their conservative comfort content needs."

The reporter continues, "They even went so far as to not-so-subtly suggest that Carlson could potentially join their airwaves. The gambit worked — for a while."

Newsmax, Baragona explains, experienced a "sugar high" not only after Carlson's departure in 2023, but also, after the 2020 presidential election. The problem for Newsmax, according to the Daily Beast reporter, is that its ratings bounces don't last.

Moreover, Newsmax is still facing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion, which alleges that it was defamed when Newsmax promoted the false, repeatedly debunked claim that its voting equipment was used to steal the 2020 election from Trump.

"Even if Newsmax can right the ship and continue to incrementally increase its market share," Baragona observes, "it may not matter. Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit against the network goes to trial in September. And it is a fair assumption that the bottom-feeding MAGA channel doesn't have $787.5 million laying around to settle it."

READ MORE:Why Newsmax wants to drag a Greek Orthodox priest into Dominion defamation case

*Read the Daily Beast's full report at this link (subscription required).

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• ## Police suffered injuries at the hands of the rioters and allowed some movement in an attempt to de-escalate
  • The police union has said 140 police officers suffered injuries from January 6.The Washington Post, [1/27/21]
  • Police battled to keep rioters out of the Capitol but in some cases stood by because they were outnumbered or engaged politely to try to de-escalate.CNN reported:

The claim that the rioters were invited into the Capitol is false. ... There were hours-long battles between police and rioters near some entrances. CNN obtained footage from police body-worn cameras showing how dozens of officers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters in a desperate effort to keep them out of the building. There are plenty of instances where rioters waltzed into the Capitol without a fight, but only after they had stormed past barricades and, in some cases, even stepped through broken windows. In some areas, police were so outnumbered by the mob that they retreated, stood aside or tried to politely engage with rioters to de-escalate the situation rather than fighting or making arrests, but that is clearly not the same as welcoming rioters into the building. CNN, [1/4/22]

• • Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger stated that Capitol Police “did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building.” In a memo to staff, Manger disputed “outrageous and false” claims that Capitol Police served as “tour guides” for Jacob Chansley, aka the QAnon Shaman. Manger wrote that “Capitol Police were badly outnumbered on Jan. 6” and that “those officers did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building.” The Washington Post, [3/7/23]
  • Capitol Police officers testified to the January 6 Committee that the day was “nothing short of brutal,” that there was “carnage” and it was a “war scene.” The committee also aired body camera footage from the officers that showed rioters shoving officers and pushing down barricades outside the Capitol. NPR, [7/27/21, 6/23/21, The Associated Press, 6/10/22]
  • Police onsite were massively outnumbered by rioters, with an estimated 2,000 people entering the Capitol building and under 200 officers at the Capitol building itself. Forbes, [12/16/21, ABC7, 1/6/22]

• ## Right-wing media claim police allowed protestors to enter the Capitol and suggest that means it wasn’t a violent insurrection
  • Newsmax host Greg Kelly stated that it is “actually not true” that rioters broke into the Capitol and instead “some people were invited inside, and the police officers seemed to welcome them there.” While showing footage of protestors entering, Kelly also asserted that “this blows open the preferred January 6 narrative.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [11/17/23]
  • Newsmax host Eric Bolling said the footage shows Capitol police “escorting the protestors.” He asked his guest Rudy Giuliani, “I mean, does that look like an overthrow of the United States government to you, sir?” Newsmax, *Eric Bolling The Balance*, [11/17/23]

• • Also on Newsmax, host Rob Schmitt claimed that protesters in the Capitol looked like they were taking “a tour,” adding that the “QAnon Shaman was actually escorted into the Capitol by police.” Schmitt acknowledged that there was some violence but nevertheless told his audience, “This is a much different day than it was portrayed by the media and by your members of Congress” and called the footage “an important reminder to always, always question what you are told by your government.” In fact, as The Associated Press reported in March, court documents and video footage from the attack show that the QAnon Shaman “entered the Capitol without permission, was repeatedly asked to leave the building and was not accompanied at all times.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [11/17/23; The Associated Press, 3/7/23]
  • Conservative podcast host Kyle Becker called the footage “bizarre” for showing rioters “casually walking the halls.”He posted, “This newly released J6 video is BIZARRE. All of these dangerous ‘insurrectionists’ casually walking the halls... right next to Capitol Police and FBI agents in full riot gear. WHAT is going on here? 👀” Twitter/X, [11/18/23]
  • Right-wing personality Liz Wheeler claimed that Capitol police were “directing the insurrectionists” with a “handshake & pat on the back.” She posted, “Capitol police directing the insurrectionists who to insurrection with a handshake & pat on the back. Mark my words, the key to alllll of this lies with Nancy Pelosi.” Twitter/X, [11/17/23]
  • Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk asserted that “the J6 Committee’s violent insurrection narrative has crumbled” and called for the immediate release of rioters. He posted, “And just like that the J6 Committee’s violent insurrection narrative has crumbled. The Capitol Police facilitated the protesters passage through the building. The vast majority of J6ers should be immediately released.” Twitter/X, [11/17/23]
  • Conservative commentator Benny Johnson noted police “were giving handshakes to protestors” and determined that “this is not an insurrection.” He posted, “Capitol Police were giving handshakes to protesters. Now ask yourselves this; In which ‘insurrection’ or ‘Rebellion’ in history would this have happened in? None — because this is not an ‘insurrection.’” Twitter/X, [11/17/23]
  • Conservative commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Draino, posted, “Wow what an ‘insurrection’! Watch as J6ers slowly walk past Capitol Police who just watch. Democrats said this was worse than 9/11.” X, [11/17/23]
  • Right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer dismissed concerns of right-wing violence at the Capitol because Capitol police were “fist-bumping” rioters. She said: “Oh, if these cops are so concerned, and this was really worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined, and, you know, it's like a modern day Nazi rally in our nation's capital, why is it that the Capitol Police are fist-bumping these people?” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [11/17/23]

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• ## Right-wing media support instituting a travel ban for all Muslims
• • On Hannity, former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller called to “reintroduce President Trump’s travel ban on jihadist regions” and deport foreign students who he alleged were “expressing support for terrorism” on college campuses. Miller argued, “We should not have sympathizers of Hamas, sympathizers of terrorism, sympathizers of the destruction and death of innocent people attending our universities and becoming part of America.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [10/12/23]
  • Anti-Muslim extremist Laura Loomer: “RESTORE THE ISLAMIC TERROR TRAVEL BAN!” Loomer called for the United States to “DEPORT ALL JIHADIS” in order to “MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!” Twitter/X, [10/28/23]
  • On Newsmax, guest and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi called to “reinstate President Trump’s travel ban immediately” and revoke visas for foreign students who allegedly “support Hamas.” Host Chris Salcedo agreed, decrying immigration from “people who are so antithetical to Western civilization” and seek to “undermine” America. Newsmax, *The Chris Salcedo Show*, [10/23/23]
  • On X (formerly Twitter), War Room CFO Grace Chong reposted Steve Bannon’s call to “STOP THE INVASION OF AMERICA” and “REINSTATE TRAVEL BAN” in response to Hamas’ terror attack on Israel. Twitter/X, [10/9/23]
  • Fox host Brian Kilmeade expressed support for Trump’s reinstatement of his Muslim ban in a potential second term. While Kilmeade criticized Trump’s application of the 2017 ban, he added that “hopefully he knows how to implement things better now — if he was to become president again.” Fox Business, *Varney & Co.*, [10/17/23]

• ## Right-wing media denied and downplayed the existence of Islamophobia

• • On his Fox News Radio show, Kilmeade claimed that “so-called” Islamophobia “really doesn’t exist.” Kilmeade and guest Dan Senor slammed the Biden administration for creating a national strategy to combat Islamophobia, failing to mention the national strategy to combat antisemitism released by the White House in May. Fox News Radio, *The Brian Kilmeade Show*, [10/24/23; NPR, 5/25/23]
  • Outkick co-host Buck Sexton called Islamophobia “a nonsensical term used by cynical people to bully the public.” Co-host and Outkick founder Clay Travis agreed, claiming,“No one is calling for anything of any violent act to be perpetrated against anyone of the Muslim faith at all.” OutKick, *The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show*, [11/2/23]
  • Levin denied a recent surge in Islamophobia and complained about the attention the White House has given to the bigotry. Levin ranted: “I’m sick and tired of this White House, every time they talk about antisemitism, talk about, what is it? Islamic bigotry? Islamophobia. There’s not a 4 or 500% increase in threats against Muslims in this country. What are they talking about? Are there Jews in the street and Christians in the street and other people in the street, really protesting about ‘Get rid of the Muslims, exterminate the Muslims, obliterate the Muslims?’ Tell me, who is that? Does anybody do it? Of course not.” Westwood One, *The Mark Levin Show*, [10/30/23]

Newsmax host: "Joe Biden is mandating government agencies spend their time and spend your money seeking to register as much of America's dead weight as they possibly can to vote" | Media Matters for America

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Newsmax is not known for shying away from support of “one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had,” as one host described alleged felon Donald J. Trump. That support includes the network’s coverage of Trump’s civil trial for fraud in New York, which has featured compliments for a Trump son's hair, a semi-regular soapbox for a Trump family member, and vicious attacks against Judge Arthur Engoron and his family over unverified photos and memes.

Like much of its pro-Trump coverage, Newsmax’s increasingly scummy, personal lines of attack seem geared to turn yet another thing that in theory should be a negative for Trump in the primary — this time, decades of alleged fraud — into a positive. To that end, the network has employed a familiar and false refrain, asserting that investors were not just paid but “overpaid, since the assets were inflated,” so “there were no victims,” just the perennial “witch hunt.” But, Newsmax warns, hinting at revenge, “the last laugh will be on all of them” once Trump returns to office.

On November 9, guest host Lidia Curanaj began The Chris Salcedo Show by celebrating that Trump “has truly damaged people on the left by proving all of his critics wrong, by being one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had.”

Citing a social media post featuring anti-Trump memes as an example of these “damaged” people, Curanaj scandalously reported that “the author of this tweet [is] reportedly the wife of Judge Engoron. Yes! The same Democrat activist judge that is now trying to dismantle President Trump’s substantial financial empire,” before going on to note that she has “refuted that it’s her X account.”

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CitationFrom the November 9, 2023, edition of Newsmax's The Chris Salcedo Show

She also attacked Engoron himself, calling him, “someone whose discernment is questionable, to say the least.”

“This guy is just so smug,” Curanaj complained, referencing a video of Engoron, “the way he smiles there, mugging for the cameras as if he’s the star of some kind of 90s sitcom.”

Then, after apologizing “if you just had some lunch or dinner,” Curanaj brought up the rumor that Judge Engoron “posted two nude torso photos of himself” online, commenting “thank god that camera was blocking the lower area.”

The unsubstantiated claim comes from a Gateway Pundit post that was soon shared by Trump on Truth Social; the photos are purportedly workout progress photos someone posted to Engoron’s high school alumni newsletter online, but it has not been confirmed that it’s him in the pictures.

With a “censored” bar covering the male figure’s nipples, Curanaj attempted to shame Engoron: “If there was a shirtless photo of me I would lose my job, right? Because Newsmax would say, ‘What kind of judgment does Lidia have to do something like that?’ And he just recently did it. This is not something he did many years ago.”

After also ripping into New York Attorney General Letitia James, Curanaj groused that “the last laugh will be on all of them when President Trump becomes the president of the United States again.”

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CitationFrom the November 9, 2023, edition of Newsmax's The Chris Salcedo Show

The network's over-the-top coverage of the civil fraud trial has been on display for weeks. On November 1, prime-time host Rob Schmitt read a brief report about Donald Trump Jr’s testimony, pausing to note that his “hair looks good” in the low-angle shot Newsmax used. When the picture changed to Judge Engoron, he quipped “that one, not so much,” before denouncing “one of the stupidest cases New York has ever brought, and believe me this state has brought some stupid cases,” noting that other New York real estate developers called it “outrageous.”

The entire time, the report shared half a screen with an advertisement for gold-backed IRA retirement accounts, telling viewers to text the promotional code “NEWSMAX” to a six-digit phone number.

“So that tells you a lot,” Schmitt said of the developers’ criticism.

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CitationFrom the November 1, 2023, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight

Newsmax has also continued to platform Trump’s daughter-in-law, and co-defendant Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump. Though Trump’s appearances and guest hosting spots are often dedicated to attacking President Joe Biden and pushing corruption allegations against his family, she also occasionally discusses her own family’s fraud trial.

“My husband and my brother-in-law were both in a New York courtroom today,” Trump complained while guest hosting Rob Schmitt Tonight on November 2. Parroting a real estate lawyer quoted by the New York Post, Trump insisted: “There were no victims. No one lost money. No one got hurt. Everyone got paid in full — even overpaid since the assets were inflated.”

“For this detestable woman,” Trump said of James, “it’s not about the law. It’s all about getting Trump.”

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CitationFrom the November 2, 2023, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight

“This witch hunt isn’t just unethical,” Trump warned, “this honestly could have ripple effects across other multi-billion dollar industries.” Her guest, right-wing attorney Jordan Sekulow, agreed, suggesting there was a deeper level of betrayal in the fact that the lawsuit came in New York, “after everything the Trump family has done for the city of New York.”

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Newsmax host: "A lot of people thought" Jill Biden's Halloween makeup "looked like a Hitler mustache" | Media Matters for America

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GOPer accusing Biden of 'treason' say he’ll file impeachment resolution related to 'drugs an prostitution'

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 09: U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-FL) speaks during testimony by Democratic and Republican counsels before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. The hearing is being held for the Judiciary Committee to formally receive evidence in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, whom Democrats say held back military aid for Ukraine while demanding they investigate his political rivals. The White House declared it would not participate in the hearing. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)

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U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, Republican of Florida, says he will file an impeachment resolution Friday against President Joe Biden on numerous alleged charges, including “financial involvement in drugs and prostitution.”

Steube, first elected to Congress in 2018 after his Democratic opponent died of a heart attack just weeks before the election, has been targeting President Biden for years. The Florida Republican sits on Chairman Jim Jordan’s House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.He was endorsed by Donald Trump in 2022, and has endorsed the ex-president, who is currently under three criminal indictments, for re-election.

In early July, Rep. Steube accused President Biden of “ treason,” and said he hopes the next Republican President will ensure Biden stands trial for the capital offense. The Washington Post says about 30 people in the entire history of the U.S. have ever been charged with treason.

READ MORE: Ex-federal prosecutor blasts Trump lawyers’ 'willingness to turn a blind eye to their ethical obligation'

Thursday night, talking with the far-right wing channelNewsmax, Rep. Steube announced his intent to begin the process of impeaching President Biden.

“And tomorrow, I intend on filing impeachment resolution on Joe Biden for bribery, for extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution, all of these things,” Steube said.

Republicans have not presented the American people with any veritable proofthat President Biden has engaged in any of those alleged offenses.

READ MORE: Dem strategist: 'The level of talent in the party is as high as any party has ever had in my lifetime'

He went on to claim, “we have all the facts and evidence now and in the beginning of this Congress, Republicans wanted to make sure that we did the investigations, that we got the information before the American people, you have witness testimony, you have financial records, you have the laptop, you have text messages, you have phone conversations, you have all of this evidence now to corroborate and support impeachment articles against the President, and I intend on filing those tomorrow on all of these corruption and bribery charges.”

In 2021 Steube was one of just 12 House Republicans voting against awarding congressional gold medals to the U.S. Capitol Police officers and others who helped protect the Capitol after the January 6 insurrection.

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Last year he was one of just 33 House Republicans who co-sponsored anti-LGBTQ “vigilante” legislation called a federal “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

READ MORE: 'Gonna end this family grift': Christie hits Trump over Kushner-Saudi relationship

Earlier this year Steube sponsored legislation that would ban all transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports in public schools across the country.

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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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WRITTEN BY ALLISON FISHER

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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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"):}::{, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[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, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[7/28/23:{]}:

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right-wing media are attacking Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will preside over Donald Trump’s pending criminal case in Washington D.C.

Chutkan was randomly selected to preside over the case. Appointed by former President Obama, she has been described as a “tough Jan. 6 sentencer”of defendants who participated in the insurrection, though she has “avoided some of the most pointed criticisms of Trump that some of her colleagues on the federal bench in D.C. have delivered.”

Media figures on the right have leveled numerous attacks and charges against her, describing her as politically motivated, and calling for her recusal in the case against the former president.

• Fox News host Mark Levin described Chutkan as “the worst, radical, left-wing, Obama judge in America” on Fox and Friends, adding that Trump would be indicted for “drinking too much orange juice.”
• On his radio show, Levin reiterated his claim and called Chutkan “a whack job.” He then asked, “Do you think Trump will get a fair shot with her? Of course not.” He added, “And so the system is really truly rigged. Really truly rigged.”
• On WABC’s Chat with the Mayor, alleged co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani called her “the most inhumane sentencer on the court for January 6 people.” He went on to claim, “This is the Soviet Union, Red China, or Nazi Germany. That judge should recuse herself if she has any ethics.”
• Newsmax host Greg Kelly called Chutkan “a bad judge” for Trump’s case and said, “She has major conflicts.” 
• The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro called Chutkan “a very left-wing judge” and said, “It is certainly fair to point out that Jack Smith is filing in a court in Washington D.C. with probably the most Trump-hating judge in Washington D.C.”
• Newsmax host Eric Bolling called Judge Chutkan “a very harsh judge on anything surrounding January 6.” 
• On her SiriusXM show, Megyn Kellyp**redicted, “This judge is going to hate Trump, and she's not going to dismiss this case on the papers.”
• Newsmax host Sebastian Gorka said, “This is their attempt to steal 2024,” and called Chutkan “the worst January 6 judge possible — an Obama appointee who has given the harshest sentences to people who walked through the velvet ropes on January 6.”
• Laura Ingraham said she has “doubts about her” and said, “I want to remind you tonight that she worked for Hunter Biden's law firm at one point, Boies and Schiller.” 
• On Fox Business, Alan Dershowitz and Kash Patel called for Chutkan to recuse herself from Trump’s case, with Derschowitz calling her former law firm “one of the most corrupt firms” and accusing them of being “Democratic hacks.” 
• Dershowitz also appeared on BlazeTV’s The Glenn Beck Program and asserted that Chutkan “has a very questionable background” and “worked for years for a firm that’s highly questionable.”
• On Steve Bannon’s War Room, Patel again called for Chutkan’s recusal, saying, “She’s so entrenched through her past legal representations and family to the Democratic national party and the Hillary Clinton campaign that she could not be a fair, detached … arbiter of facts.”
• On Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime, an over-the-shoulder graphic featured an image of Chutkan with the words, “the Obama Punisher,” and host Jesse Watters described her as “an Obama donor.”
• Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson called Chutkan “a very nasty judge” and added, “This judge worked with Hunter Biden at a law firm. This judge should be recused, of course.”
• On Newsmax, co-host Bianca de la Garza pointed to the ties between Chutkan’s law firm and the president’s son, saying, “The person who runs it is ahuge donor to the Democratic party.” She predicted that Trump’s team would request a different judge to preside over the case.
• On Newsmax’s special coverage of the indictment, Newsmax contributor Joe diGenova said Chutkan will be “very, very bad for Donald Trump” and suggested there’s a risk “that she will not conduct a proper jury selection process” in Trump’s case.
• On hisradio show, Fox News host Sean Hannitysaid, “The Obama-appointed judge overseeing this case once worked for the same law firm as Hunter Biden. Is anybody going to call that a conflict of any kind? I’d say that might be a conflict.”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-devin-nunes-says-several-dozen-current-and-former-doj-and-fbi-officials-should-be indicted

https://www.mediamatters.org/dick-morris/newsmax-contributor-vote-against-donald-trump-endorse-dictatorship

https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-peter-navarro-says-donald-trump-must-order-future-attorney-general-prosecute-jack

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https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmaxs-ceo-wants-big-payday-cable-providers-theres-no-reason-they-should-give in

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https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-says-republicans-should-shut-government-down-over-potential-trump-indictment

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newsmax has prided itself on being to the right of Fox News and more pro-Donald Trump than Fox News. But Newsmax's obsessive loyalty to Trump has had major financial repercussions for the Fox competitor, which, like Fox, has been sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems and Dominion competitor Smartmatic for promoting the false and thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that their voting equipment was used to help President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election.

Under the U.S. Supreme Court's 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, defamation is extreme difficult to prove. But in April, Fox News reached a settlement with Dominion, agreeing to pay $787.5 million. Fox News, however, is still being sued by Smartmatic, and Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against Newsmax continues as well.

In an article published by Rolling Stone on June 25, journalist Diana Falzone reports that Smartmatic has "subpoenaed several of the right-wing cable network's current and former employees for work and personal correspondence."

READ MORE:**'Panicked' Fox News ousts producer behind 'wannabe dictator' Biden chyron**

Falzone reports, "Several Newsmax insiders, who spoke with Rolling Stone under a condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal, said that roughly three weeks ago, they were told to hand over 'mirror images of their personal cell phone, personal e-mail, and iCloud' as Smartmatic's lawsuit against the network moves forward…. The Newsmax staffers who have been slapped with subpoenas for their texts and e-mails are not happy, telling Rolling Stone that the company has threatened to fire them if they don’t comply with the subpoenas."

One of the Newsmax employees told Rolling Stone, "Originally, when Newsmax asked us to do this, they said it wasn't compulsory, but now, due to the subpoena, if we don't comply, they have threatened our jobs. They basically said that if we don't hand it over, it prevents them from sufficiently being able to defend themselves in court, which in turn, could be seen as hurting the company — which is grounds for potential termination."

The Newsmax employee continued, "This is a civil lawsuit between two corporation. At no point should our personal data come into play. This goes beyond a violation of privacy. It is an invasion."

Another Newsmax employee told Rolling Stone, "It's a common sentiment among the network's staff. Many of us don't believe it's right to give our employer access to all of our personal privacy when we had nothing to do with the decision-making process. It's a major violation of privacy."....

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gRETA VAN SUSTEREN (HOST): A new chapter unfolding in the Russia-Ukraine war, and it's disturbing. This morning in Moscow, a city of 21 million people, there was a pre-dawn attack. Drone struck several buildings. According to Russia's Defense Ministry, five of eight drones were shot down, the three other drones had their systems jam, causing them to veer off course, The mayor of Moscow says there have been no serious injuries reported. And the strikes caused light damage to residential buildings. Russian President Vladimir Putin blames Ukraine for the strike, calling it a terrorist act. Ukraine denies any involvement and a Zelensky presidential advisor was quoted as saying, of course, we are pleased to watch and predict an increase in the number of attacks. But of course we had nothing to do with this.

The collapsed apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, is seen in this AP report:

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people on the left may be dismissing bans against natural gas-powered stoves and other items as conspiracy theories, but the push to block such items in the name of fighting climate change is today's "reality," Climate Depot founder Marc Morano, a former member of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, told Newsmax on Sunday. 

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"I'm old enough to remember when The New York Times called this a conspiracy theory just two months ago," Morano commented on Newsmax's "Wake Up America," while referring to the state's push to ban gas stoves in new construction. "They're going after every aspect of modern society to punish us for our climate sins."

He added that the "ideology" is "masquerading as a religion or even a cult" of people who believe that "by banning gas lawnmowers, gas stoves, and gas-powered vehicles that they're going to somehow improve hurricanes and tornadoes and Mother Earth will be smiling at us."

Morano pointed out that a few years ago, Discovery Magazine reported that the "air conditioner is killing the planet."

That led to The Washington Post saying, "'we don't need air conditioning. Neither do you,'" said Morano. "Spain just this past year was saying that residents aren't going to be able to turn their air conditioner colder than 81. Time magazine is talking about how air conditioners are terrible for the planet. Well, all of that is the ideology of activists who literally want to shut down our modern way…what's next in the regulatory agenda to go after our air conditioners are gone? After all our appliances?"

Advocates are also going after "meat eating; they've gone after our energy," he added. "They're collapsing our energy, transportation, food, our free speech. The fix is in."

Meanwhile, he said he was glad to see climate activists protesting at the Met Gala last week, as that is "where the ruling class elite is [who are] pushing all of these restrictions on the rest of us."

But still, the activists that went after the Met Gala and who are vandalizing works of art in galleries "are funded by the same people who attend the Met Gala," said Morano. "In other words, these are thebig millionaires and billionaires and corporate leftist groups that literally are paying these agitators to go out and create all this havoc in order to have a net zero climate-safe world."

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ERIC BOLLING (HOST): Here they go again, Ted. Obama tried to do it. Biden's trying to do it, go around Congress and take a God-given right away from us. Your thoughts.

TED NUGENT (GUEST): Well, the entire US government right now, it seems, only the guilty need to feel guilty, which would be about 99 percent are liars - psychotic, maniac, evil, tyrannical, oath-violating liars. Let me get this straight - if I'm keeping and bearing arms, then I'm legal based on, not just the self-evident truth of a God-given right, but those that are attempting to infringe on it, those are the bad guys. So let's say, I'm working with some of my friends at the ATF -- I think there's three good ones there -- and maybe some of the FBI -- I don't know if there's any good ones there anymore -- let's say they try to infringe on me. Let's say they try to tell me to pursue an immoral, illegal law in the United States of America and register my guns and get a permit for my First Amendment, or maybe a permit for my Second Amendment. If they give me that decree, I'm arresting them. They're infringing. He's infringing. Somebody arrest the president. He's the one violating the Constitution. Eric, who the hell doesn't know this? 

BOLLING: You know, Ted -- you know, meanwhile, they want to take our guns away, as you point out, which isprotection against a tyrannical government.That's what it was put in place for, noteworthy on Ides of March when, you know, Caesar was shot by Brutus and others because it was tyranny. 

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In late January, DirecTV dropped far-right Fox News competitor Newsmax from its satellite lineup when the two were unable to reach an agreement on license fees. MAGA Republicans were bitterly disappointed, as Newsmax prides itself on being more right-wing and more pro-Donald Trump than Fox News and Fox Business. However, DirecTV hasn't ruled out the possibility of bringing Newsmax back if they can come to an agreement on license fees.

Some of the MAGA Republicans who hated to see Newsmax removed from the DirecTV lineup are angrily accusing DirecTV of discriminating against the right. And one of them is Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), who now chairs the House Oversight Committee.

During a Friday, February 24 appearance on Newsmax, Comer threatened to use House Oversight against DirecTV if it doesn't restore Newsmax to its lineup.

READ MORE:**Watch: Newsmax host falsely declares that 'exclusively white Americans' fought to end slavery**

Comer told Newsmax host John Bachman, "I'm very concerned. I'm very upset that DirecTV does not have Newsmax on there. I've been in constant communication with the leadership at AT&T and DirecTV. I have strongly encouraged them to meet with your CEO, Mr. (Chris) Ruddy, to get this worked out — or else! If anyone has ever watched the House Oversight Committee — any of our first three hearings — they have to ask themselves: Do they really want to go in front of the House Oversight Committee?"

Fox News continues to have the highest ratings on right-wing cable TV. But in MAGA World, Newsmax appeals largely to people who believe that Fox News and Fox Business aren't far enough to the right.

On Bachman's show, Comer told the host, "We're all huge fans of Newsmax. We don't like to see Newsmax not being offered on DirecTV, especially considering Newsmax is the, I think, the fourth highest-rated news show on TV now."

Comer also said, "And they have dozens of other news shows that have much lower ratings than Newsmax. So, I'm doing everything in my ability to see that this gets worked out. If it doesn't, then I would expect the Republican majority to begin to take steps to take action in this."

READ MORE:**Republicans claiming 'censorship' threaten to haul AT&T, DirecTV into Congress for dropping far-right Newsmax**

DirecTV, however, has maintained that its decision to drop Newsmax was merely a business/budgetary matter — not an effort to silence Republicans.

In late January, a DirecTV spokesperson told Fierce Video, "On multiple occasions, we made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network, but ultimately, Newsmax's demands for rate increases would have led to significantly higher costs that we would have to pass on to our broad customer base. Anyone, including our customers, can watch the network for free via NewsmaxTV.com, YouTube.com and on multiple streaming platforms like Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Google Play. We continually evaluate the most relevant programming to provide our customers and expect to fill this available channel with new content."

READ MORE: 'Violation of my constitutional rights': Newsmax host attacks drag queens while defending Donald Trump

Watch The Daily Beast's video here (subscription required).

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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday shared a "viewership report" on his Truth Social app to gloat about the media ratings of his Wednesday publicity stunt in East Palestine, Ohio, where a February 3rd Northfolk Southern freight train derailment poisoned the surrounding environment with toxic substances.

As Mediaite noted, "Trump's live remarks from East Palestine, Ohio were ignored by thethree major cable news networks on Wednesday: CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News," while "Newsmax and OAN, both to the right of Fox News, carried the remarks live and offered analysis following the event. The report Trump shared noted that 'outlets like Fox News are woefully derelict' in their limited reporting on the trip."

It states:

VIEWERSHIP REPORT

President Trump’s 2/22 visit to East Palestine, OH

TOTAL PEOPLE THAT SAW COVERAGE (SOCIAL+ TRADITIONAL): 178,052,414

TOTAL SOCIAL MEDIA USERS THAT SAW COVERAGE: 144,037,338

TOTAL TRADITIONAL VIEWERS THAT SAW

COVERAGE: 34,015,076

This report searched for the term 'East Palestine' + 'Trump' what you will see is while traditional outlets like Fox News are woefully derelict in their reporting with what you did, the word is still getting out there in a big way. Specifically, when the announcement was made last week there was a bump of coverage reaching about 2 million on social channels and 10 million on other channels.

However, your numbers this Wednesday were off the charts with incredible reach, 144MM on social and 34MM in other channels. The visit meant a lot for the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities. The trip gave them hope and raised the awareness needed to combat the incompetence of the Biden Administration. As you will see a sharp spike in the positive sentiments as well.

READ MORE: 'We're not afraid to own our policies': Pete Buttigieg hits back at Donald Trump in Ohio train crash blame game

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Buttigieg addressed Trump's critiques at a press conference.

READ MORE: Donald Trump Jr.: Pete Buttigieg only became transportation secretary because 'he's the gay guy'

“I’m here for the work, and not for the politics. You can sense when you talk to local leaders and local residents that they’re getting sick of the politics too and this national ideological layer that’s been added into this," Buttigieg said, perForbes. But Buttigieg also fired back at Trump's claim that "he had nothing to do with" the accident amid uncertainty over whether Trump's railway safety regulatory rollbacks led to the mess.

"Yeah, you mentioned a national political figure who's decided to get involved? It sounds like you're talking about Trump and then you said, I need your help. How can he help?" a reporter asked Buttigieg.

"Well, one thing he could do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch. I heard him say he had nothing to do with it, even though it was in his administration. So if he had nothing to do with it and they did it in his administration against his will, maybe he could come out and say that he supports us moving in a different direction," Buttigieg replied. "We're not afraid to own our policies when it comes to raising the bar on regulation. And I've gotta think that him indicating that this is something that everybody, no matter how much you disagree on politics and presidential campaigns, can get behind – higher fines, tougher regulations on safety, Congress untying our hands on breaking rules – all the other things that go with that."

Buttigieg then quipped that it would "be a nice thing for him to do."

READ MORE: Republicans don't care about human health regardless of who is to blame for the Ohio train disaster

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If you’ve been paying attention to this asinine saga at all – and let’s hope for your sanity that’s not the case – you know that Newsmax, with its prior contract with DirecTV having run out, is suddenly demanding a massive pay-out from DirecTV. Newsmax is still providing the channel for free to the likes of YouTube, Roku, and more. Given that the contract had expired and a new agreement could not be reached, DirecTV pulled Newsmax from the air. It began airing The First, another right-wing cable network.

Despite all the indications that the end of the contract was a content-neutral decision by a company under siege from rising cord cutting among its customer base (not to mention having lost the NFL Sunday Ticket), Republican politicians have joined in with right-wing pundits to call this censorship. There have been talks of congressional hearings. Presidential candidates have weighed in. It’s one of the silliest big right-wing media stories since Breitbart broke the news of Obama giving a hug to one of his law school professors.

Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy played the hits in an interview with Mike Huckabee. If you don’t want to watch – and again, I do not recommend it – it starts with Huckabee endorsing a congressional investigation into DirecTV and Ruddy in turn saying that Mike Huckabee’s daughter – current Arkansas governor and former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders – will be president in the future   [vid]

the interview carries on with Ruddy saying that he was just asking for $1 per subscriber per year. That would be on the upper range of subscriber fees overall (above the likes of CNBC, FX, and Nickelodeon according to 2020 data) and would result in a higher bill for consumers, all of whom could right now access Newsmax content at no cost elsewhere.

Notably, DirecTV is not standing idly by. The company pushed back in a letter to Republican senators who have echoed Newsmax’s disingenuous “censorship” angle. The letter reads in part:

• When DIRECTV’s prior agreement with Newsmax was set to expire, Newsmax advised us that it would extend our right to distribute the channel only if we agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars in new licensing fees – a cost we would have to pass along to all of our customers. We did not agree. No other major pay TV operator in the market currently pays per subscriber fees to carry the channel.

• Newsmax seeks to change the model by which it commercializes its channel. To date, Newsmax has been an advertising-supported channel. To maximize ad sales it distributes the channel free of charge to the approximately 75 million US households that have a pay TV service as well as to the approximately 55 million US households that don’t and instead view the channel on Newsmax’s website or through services like Roku and Amazon Fire. Under its proposed new model, Newsmax plans to make its channel available exclusively in pay TV, to the detriment of the 55 million households that don’t have a pay TV service, and to start charging pay TV operators a per subscriber fee to distribute the channel.

• Newsmax insisted on its terms – as is its right to do – and we insisted on ours. Lacking continued authorization to distribute Newsmax, DIRECTV was forced to remove the channel from our lineup.

• Although not currently available on DIRECTV, Newsmax continues to be available on most other major pay TV operators and is also available free of charge (including to DIRECTV’s customers) on Newsmax’s website and on platforms like Roku and Amazon Fire.

• Newsmax’s claims that DIRECTV is biased against conservative voices is untrue. Importantly, DIRECTV recently launched The First, a conservative news and commentary channel featuring Bill O’Reilly, Jesse Kelly, Liz Wheeler, and Dana Loesch, among others.

• DIRECTV carries five channels that most people would consider to be predominately news: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, The First and NewsNation. By most people’s measure, two lean conservative (Fox News and The First), two lean liberal (CNN and MSNBC) and one is a new channel that is advertising that it is news focused and in the center (NewsNation). Fox News is by far the leader in terms of audience and household penetration. Newsmax, when we distributed it, was a distant fourth among news channels to Fox, MSNBC and CNN.

• The amounts DIRECTV pays for conservative channels, in the aggregate, is roughly similar to what we pay for liberal channels, in the aggregate.

The company makes clear that its decision was made from a content-neutral perspective. (It is darkly hilarious that the only structural discrimination that right-wing figures can see is a far-right election-denying media company run by a friend of Donald Trump not getting a massive handout from another private company, but that’s a story for another time.)

Newsmax has repeatedly whined that Fox News was being silent about the matter. Now, even the opinion page of the Murdoch-owned WSJ is taking pot shots at Republican politicians falling for the charade:

We take no side in this business dispute, and it’s bewildering why many Republicans are getting involved. Forty-two House Republicans last month wrote a letter to DirecTV executives and its joint owners, AT&T and TPG, threatening to investigate the TV provider for colluding with the government to suppress conservative voices.

Sens. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee and Tom Cotton piled on this month with a letter suggesting DirecTV may have dropped Newsmax because of “pressure from administration officials or Democrats in Congress” and “may be the latest example of big business suppressing politically disfavored speech at the behest of liberal Democrats.”

Their evidence? A letter from Democratic Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney to AT&T CEO John Stankey last February calling for the company to combat misinformation spread by conservative news networks. A letter from two Democratic Congress Members, which was also sent to other TV providers, doesn’t add up to a vast leftwing conspiracy. The Fox News channel, where these pages have a news program, is also a Democratic target.

DirecTV notes that it helped launch Newsmax in 2014 and recently launched the new conservative channel called “The First,” which will increase diversity and competition among conservative voices. Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy doesn’t want that. Instead, he is trying to bring political and government pressure to bear on DirecTV to force the satellite operator to carry the channel on Newsmax’s terms.

(First, a footnote about cable providers and Fox News: Fox News Channel has one of the highest carriage fees in the business, way out of line for what cable providers pay other networks. It’s so high thatFox News would remain profitable even with no advertising.)

It’s unclear where this story will go from here. There’s nothing that goes viral on the right like victimhood, and they simply cannot start examining those claims too closely given how many of them are snake oil. In the meantime, there’s no evidence that either consumers or DirecTV itself are the least bit intimidated by any of this. After all, it’s just another grift.

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following a monthlong absence from the network's on-air programming, conservative luminaries Matt and Mercedes Schlapp have found safe harbors with rival right-wing media outlets. The Schlapps had been frequent guests on Fox News and Fox Business until last month’s report of sexual assault.

Fox News and Fox Business have continued to leave frequent guests Matt and Mercedes Schlapp off their programming since a January 5 report that a Republican campaign staffer assigned as Matt’s driver in October said Matt had sexually assaulted him.

According to Media Matters’ internal database of cable news guest appearances, Matt appeared on Fox News’ weekday programs at least 29 times in 2022, and Mercedes appeared at least 56 times. Fox quietly pulled the Schlapps off-air after several appearances on the Fox channels in early January, and the network never mentioned the report or the subsequent lawsuit against the Schlapps filed by the staffer.During their hiatus from Fox, both Matt and Mercedes have instead appeared on Fox’s right-wing media rivals, such as Newsmax.

Matt is the chair of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference. Fox’s relationship with the Schlapps runs deeper than just hosting them dozens of times last year: Fox Nation has sponsored every stateside CPAC since 2019,one year after the streaming network launched. In 2021, Fox Nation was a “Featuring Sponsor” at the event, paying at least $250,000, and it was a top sponsor again in 2022. Even before Fox Nation started sponsoring the event, Fox News hosts often spoke at CPAC: Jeanine Pirro in, Sean Hannity in, and Tucker Carlson in.

It remains to be seen whether Fox will continue to support CPAC while the network continues to keep the Schlapps off its programming and ignores the report of sexual assault by Matt, aside from one story on FoxNews.com weeks ago. But at least one other right-wing media outlet, Newsmax, is welcoming the Schlapps, even as it too ignores this story. (Republican lawmakers are reportedly ignoring it as well.) Newsmax gave the Schlapps free rein to comment on GOP politics without asking them to address the report about Matt.

Newsmax provided a safe space for both Matt and Mercedes Schlapp on January 27, interviewing them on separate programs and failing to bring up the lawsuit filed against both of them or the sexual assault report. Instead, Mercedes was asked for her opinion about the Paul Pelosi video, a Biden judicial nomination, and DirecTV’s supposed “deplatforming” of Newsmax. Matt was asked about Trump's recent culture war attacks and the reelection of Ronna McDaniel as the Republican National Committee chair. [vids]

matt was also interviewed on January 27 and again on February 2 by right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon,Trump’s disgraced former strategic adviser. In the most recent appearance on Bannon’s show, Matt promised that the 2023 CPAC will be “a little bit Hungarian” in its treatment of unfriendly media outlets, possibly to avoid reporters asking difficult questions about him. Bannon did not bring up the report of sexual assault during either of these appearances.

Mercedes also had a safe space during her January 27 appearance onWMAL’s O’Connor & Company. While neither the lawsuit nor the allegation against Matt were mentioned during the interview, co-host Larry O’Connor closed it by saying to Mercedes: “I know you've been through hell the last couple of weeks” and offering his support.

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Timeline: GOP threatens DirecTV in defense of Newsmax

WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ

PUBLISHED 02/02/23

Republicans are accelerating their campaign to force private cable news carriers to not only carry right-wing propaganda networks but pay them for the privilege. The effort demonstrates how the party has institutionalized former President Donald Trump’s corrupt and authoritarian practice of retaliating against companies that refuse to prioritize the GOP’s partisan interests.

NewsmaxTV is a right-wing cable news channel founded by Christopher Ruddy, a conservative media veteran. Its stars include former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer and former Fox News host Eric Bolling, and it drew notoriety for its relentless lies about fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

NewsmaxTV is available for free on Newsmax’s website and through venues like YouTube and Roku, and it has at times paid cable providers to carry it. The channel loses money but helps burnish the company’s brand and drives new subscribers to the company’s various email lists. Those lists are the company’s profit center: Newsmax uses them to scare credulous seniors into buying scammy financial and health products.

DirecTV dropped NewsmaxTV last Tuesday after their carriage deal collapsed. According to DirecTV, the company had previously provided NewsmaxTV “at no cost to the programmer” but that Newsmax was “seeking significant fees” in a new deal, and it subsequently replaced it with another right-wing channel in a deal that did not include “extra fees.” But Ruddy declared Newsmax the victim of “political discrimination and censorship.” 

Republican officials have rallied to Newsmax’s defense – often securing network airtime to do so. They are threatening federal retribution against DirecTV and its parent, AT&T, in apparent hopes of forcing the companies to accept particular customers at their preferred price. Party chair Ronna McDaniel, presidential frontrunners Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and dozens of House Republicans, and several of their Senate colleagues have gotten involved in the private business matter.

The GOP’s Newsmax campaign is the latest in a series of Republican efforts to use the power of the state to target corporations for failing to support its partisan interests.

Key Events

January 20

Amid carriage negotiation, House Republicans lean on DirecTV and its owners. Forty-two House Republicans, including third-ranking member Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY), signed a letter from Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) to the CEOs of DirecTV, majority owner AT&T, and minority ownerTPG Capitalstating that DirecTV was “moving to de-platform NEWSMAX by denying it cable fees on a fair and equitable basis.” The signatories claimed that this would mean that DirecTV “is actively working to limit conservative viewpoints on its system” and suggested that they might respond with congressional “oversight.”

January 23

DirecTV says sticking point in negotiations is that Newsmax is “now seeking significant fees.” In a statement to the Washington Examiner for an article about the House GOP’s letter, a DirecTV spokesperson said: “We deliver Newsmax to our national base of satellite and IPTV customers today at no cost to the programmer or our customers, ultimately offering Newsmax the ability to generate considerable advertising revenue at no cost. … We’ve discussed with Newsmax on several occasions that we’d like to offer their programming, however, the network is now seeking significant fees that we cannot pass on to our broad customer base.”

January 24

DirecTV drops NewsmaxTV. At 11:59 p.m., DirecTV’s deal with NewsmaxTV expired and it stopped broadcasting the channel. In a statement, a spokesperson said, “On multiple occasions, we made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network, but ultimately Newsmax’s demands for rate increases would have led to significantly higher costs that we would have to pass on to our broad customer base.” Ruddy responded by calling the move “a blatant act of political discrimination and censorship against Newsmax," adding, “The most extreme liberal channels, even with tiny ratings, get fees from AT&T's DirecTV, but Newsmax and OAN need to be deplatformed.”

January 25

Newsmax tells viewers to demand congressional action. Using identical language, several Newsmax hosts implored their viewers to contact members of Congress and tell them to take action in response to DirecTV dropping Newsmax. “We are urging you to call your congressman and senator today and demand they investigate AT&T and DirecTV for their discrimination against conservative media,” host Rob Finnerty said after accusing the companies of “blatant political discrimination.” The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona reported that by the afternoon, “Newsmax anchors John Bachman, Bianca de la Garza, Shaun Kraisman, and Bob Sellers had also read the prepared monologue on air.”

Trump threatens AT&T and DirecTV over dropping Newsmax. On his Truth Social platform, former President Donald Trump commented: “The Radical Left seems to have taken over the mind and soul of AT&T. This is a big blow to the Republican Party, and to America itself. For DIRECTV to drop very popular NEWSMAX, without explanation, will not be accepted. I, for one, will be dropping all association with AT&T and DIRECTV, and I have plenty.”

Donald Trump, Jr. calls for a right-wing boycott of AT&T.Trump Jr. tweeted, “OUTRAGEOUS: ATT just dropped Newsmax! It’s time for Americans to return the favor and drop ATT. @PatriotMobile is the ONLY conservative mobile provider — use code “DONJR” for FREE activation!” According to its website, Patriot Mobile is “America’s ONLY Christian conservative wireless provider” and the company “is proud to partner with Donald Trump, Jr. in the fight to defend our freedom of speech.”

January 26

DirecTV announces it is replacing Newsmax with another right-wing network. DirecTV said that it would replace Newsmax with The First, another right-wing channel that features Fox and OAN castoffs Bill O’Reilly, Dana Loesch, and Liz Wheeler.A DirecTV spokesperson told the Daily Beast that the deal did not include any “extra fees” for The First, which like Newsmax is also available for free online.

On Newsmax, Reps. Waltz, Van Drew call for hearings into DirecTV. On Newsmax’s Wake Up America, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said that House Republicans could convene “public hearings” in which executives from DirecTV and AT&T “come to talk to usand explain this to us” about dropping the channel. Later that day, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) told the network that DirecTV dropping Newsmax “is what happens in authoritarian regimes” and said he is “going to push for hearings” in order to preserve “the future of our nation.”

Sen. Paul calls for boycott of DirecTVover dropping Newsmax. Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) tweeted, “I would cancel @DIRECTV for censoring @NEWSMAX but I already cancelled them for cancelling @OANN. I guess @DIRECTV doesn’t want conservative viewers so maybe we should all just quit their services and go elsewhere.”

January 27

House oversight chair promises DirecTV-Newsmax probe.Asked by Finnerty whether he would hold hearings, Comer replied, “Yes. There's gonna be a committee that's gonna hold hearings. We're sitting, we're gonna meet later today and try to discuss which committee's gonna do what. That's certainly on the agenda. I'm very concerned by this.”

Sen. Cruz on DirecTV dropping NewsmaxTV: “Conservative voices must not be silenced!” On Twitter, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shared a Washington Times editorial that described the Newsmax drop as the “censorship of conservative media.” He commented, “Conservative voices must not be silenced!” and included the handles of Newsmax, AT&T, DirecTV, and TPG.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sends letter of concern to DirecTV. Morrisey, a Republican who is considering a race for governor or U.S. Senate, sent a letter to the CEO of DirecTV stating, “Neither DirecTV nor the channels it carries should face an ongoing concern over whether programming is acceptable to powerful political elites.”

Newsmax’s Bolling condemns Fox for not covering the story. Bolling lashed out at his former employer for not covering DirecTV dropping Newsmax, saying, “By the way. Where are you, Fox? How about you, Fox? I mean, you stand up for us.”

January 30

Speaker McCarthy promises congressional “action,” says he spoke to AT&T directly. In a Newsmax appearance, McCarthy said he found DirecTV dropping the channel “very concerning” and told the hosts, “You're going to see action taken, because we believe it's responsible to allow everybody to have a choice of what news they want to listen to." He also said that he had told AT&T that “Newsmax should not be treated any differently based upon them being a conservative news outlet.”

RNC chair condemns DirecTV for “censoring” conservatives. McDanielshared a clip of Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on Newsmax castigating DirecTVand commented, “The woke agenda of many corporations is bent on censoring voices they disagree with. @MarkwayneMullin is right – by silencing @NEWSMAX, @DIRECTV is censoring voices who pay their bills.”

January 31

House Republicans give floor speeches condemning DirecTV. Eighteen House Republicans, including Reps. Van Drew, Lauren Boebert (CO), Eric Burlison (MO), and Matt Gaetz (FL), gave demagogic Special Order speeches denouncing DirecTV for dropping Newsmax.Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) wrapped up the event by noting, “many of the speakers today, many of the members of Congress who spoke, made it absolutely clear that they’re going to dedicate time and energy and staff resources to make sure that we look into this further.”

Gov. DeSantis supports congressional probe of DirecTV.Asked at a press conference about the debate, DeSantis said of DirecTV, “They will give different rationales for why they don’t want to do it, but the reality is they have so much other content that is very lightly viewed, and they keep that on, and it seems it is the One America News and the Newsmax that are being targeted. So I think it does warrant an investigation.” He added that Congress should “ensure that there’s not intellectual discrimination when it comes to what people are able to view.”

Rep. Gaetz calls for Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission to investigate AT&T. Gaetz tweeted: “AT&T's DirecTV has REMOVED @Newsmax from its lineup. This is blatant content-based censorship. Congress, the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, and the FCC need to investigate @ATT's decision immediately. Americans should not be denied their right to access diverse viewpoints.”

February 1

Senate Republicans send a letter asking DirecTV to explain the decision. Cruz and other GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Mike Lee (UT) and Tom Cotton (AR) sent a letter to DirecTV’s leadership stating that they are “deeply disturbed” by its decision and alleging that the company may be “suppressing politically disfavored speech at the behest of liberal Democrats.”

RNC chair praises House Republicans for demanding an investigation. McDaniel said in a statement that “DirecTV’s decision to censor Newsmax – the fourth-highest rated program on cable TV [sic] – is a slap in the face to the voters who pay the network’s bills.” She added, “I applaud House Republicans for taking important steps to hold DirecTV accountable for their censorship of Republican voices.”

February 2

McCarthy reiterates interest in congressional hearings. At a press conference, McCarthy said that “we should look at” DirecTV’s decision to drop Newsmax in order to ensure that the network hasn’t been “jeopardized from being on television simply because of their philosophical beliefs.”

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protests emerged around the country following the release of police body camera footage of officers fatally beating Tyre Nichols, Fox News and other right-wing media sources promoted an “antifa poster” whose authenticity has not been proved. The poster supposedly called for protesters to “burn it all down” and bring rocks and heavy objects to riots in New York City.

The image was initially shared in a Daily Mail article, which called it “a shocking poster,” and on Twitter by user Rob O’Donnell, per disinformation researcher Caroline Orr.

On January 27, Fox News’ Jesse Watters hosted O’Donnell, who said he knows the poster was “put out by antifa” and it’s “calling for protests and riots at all police precincts across the city, to bring rocks, to bring pipes, to bring box cutters,” saying it’s “circulating in the underground of New York City.”

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In the next hour, Fox host Tucker Carlson showed the poster, using it to suggest there is “an organized militia encouraging organized violence across the United States of America.” 

Carlson’s guest during the segment, former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, told Carlson the police should have “zero tolerance” for antifa protesters and chastised “Biden’s DOJ” for doing “absolutely nothing” about antifa, who he said are “threatening cities across this country.” 

Carlson also suggested the poster was evidence of a “criminal conspiracy” by antifa. 

Carlson’s commentary was circulated by right-wing blogs The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit, and FoxNews.com promoted his segment with Craig.

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With the poster on screen, Fox correspondent Christina Coleman saidon The Ingraham Anglethat “antifa put out this bulletin, calling for violence, even though Tyre's own family has called for peace.” 

The poster was also picked up by other right-wing outlets.

On Newsmax, host Lidia Curanaj said “a police source” sent her “a flyer that showed that antifa was organizing throughout the country” but did not show it on screen. She speculated that “a lot of times these horrible incidents, like what happened to Tyre Nichols, are amplified and used by other organizations in order to achieve their political agenda.” Later on the network, Curanaj repeated that the protests must have been planned ahead of time,  accused the protests of having “professional agitators,” and called on the media to “do their due diligence and actually investigate” the situation. 

The poster also appeared on far-right website The Post Millennial, in an article titled “Antifa vows to 'burn it all down' in NYC following death of Tyre Nichols,” which cites the Daily Mail as having obtained the poster. Neo-Nazi collaborator and Twitter personality Jack Posobiec shared the article on Twitter.

Right-wing commentary siteTownhallshared O’Donnell’s tweet, including the image in a Friday night piece warning about “potential riots” in Memphis. 

Newsmax’s Justine Brooke Murray shared the poster on Twitter, writing, “ANTIFA terrorists plan to burn down New York tonight. They’re blasting THIS out.” 

Right-wing radio host David Webb on Twitter claimed the image showed that “violence is not a solution but it is a possibility.”

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SEBASTIAN GORKA (NEWSMAX HOST): Yeah, absolutely stunning. I mean, a more blatant example of politically-motivated censorship is hard to imagine. And this coming as we have all the revelations, thanks to Elon Musk at Twitter, of government-sponsored censorship. Is this something being done in league with the White House, with the DNC? We don't know, but we know the facts of the case, that Newsmax was asking for fair remuneration, which is exactly the same for the top 75 channels on DirecTV, 22 of which, 22 are hardcore left-wing news channels. So, why is it that only Newsmax is treated like this? It's very clear - it's because Newsmax is growing in popularity, it's growing in influence, and they want to shut down a voice that isn't the mainstream lying media, but actually brings the facts to all of our viewers.

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HOGAN GIDLEY (GUEST): Thankfully, you know, I think people are outraged by it and they can take some action to try and fix it.

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The new GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives got off to a chaotic start when Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California was rejected as House speaker in no less than 14 roll-call votes before he finally closed the deal with the 15th vote on Friday night, January 6. It was an uphill battle, but McCarthy now has the House speaker position he has spent years hoping for.

Media Matters’ Matt Gertz, in a listicle published by Media Matters on January 10, offers five “key takeaways” on the role that right-wing media played when McCarthy was struggling to get the far-right “Never Kevin” holdouts to support him as House speaker.

“After a historic week of messy party infighting,” Gertz observes, “the Republican-led House of Representatives has finally selected a speaker, passed a rules package, and gotten to work on its agenda of making the country safer for wealthy tax cheats. There are important lessons to learn from the chaos given the likelihood of future interparty rifts over the next two years — and the centrality of the right-wing media to the GOP.”

READ MORE: ['Absolutely furious': How the 'Never Kevin' chaos created bitter infighting at Fox News

The “takeaways” that Gertz offers in his listicle are: (1) “The GOP’s leaders are fueled by right-wing media,” (2) “Fox (News) is now the GOP establishment,” (3) The narratives of the right-wing press will form the core of the GOP agenda,” (4) “Fox’s competitors will use party fights to gun for the network’s market share,” and (5) “Tucker Carlson is the most influential right-wing media figure.”

“Gaining prominence in the modern Republican Party virtually requires a willingness to rub elbows with the right-wing press,” Gertz explains. “New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spent the last several years cozying up to Fox hosts…. He also benefited from the backing of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the congresswoman from QAnon and an ally of Steve Bannon, and Jim Jordan (R-OH), whose regular Fox appearances helped him ascend from back-bencher to incoming House Judiciary chair.”

Gertz adds, “Meanwhile, McCarthy’s most prominent opponents included Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who has gained prominence entirely on the basis of his courting of the right-wing media and reportedly sought jobs at Fox and its competitors, and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), another favorite of the fringe-right press. The right-wing media will be the key battleground for future fights between those sides.”

Gertz points out that “almost all of” Fox News’ “prominent personalities lined up behind McCarthy’s bid and sought to stifle the revolt against him.”

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But while much of Fox News was rooting for McCarthy, some of the hosts at Newsmax TV expressed sympathy for the “Never Kevin” holdouts. Newsmax is the cable news outlet that prides itself on being to the right of Fox News and Fox Business and on being even more pro-Donald Trump.

“As Fox rallied behind McCarthy, its rivals in TV and digital media saw an opening,” Gertz observes. “They became the propaganda support for the anti-McCarthy campaign, savaging the would-be speaker and championing his critics. They also went after Fox, denouncing the network and its top hosts for purportedly selling out in an offensive more extensive than any from the right since late 2020, when Fox declared Joe Biden the president-elect and Trump urged his supporters to switch to its competitors. Expect more of this in the future as right-wing outlets try to use internal GOP fights to build their audiences at Fox’s expense.”

Carlson’s show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” debuted on Fox News in 2016, and he has since become the right-wing cable news channel’s top-rated host. And Carlson’s prominence at Fox News, according to Gertz, was obvious during McCarthy’s struggle to become House speaker.

“Carlson’s show is a festival of white nationalism, far-right conspiracy theories, and violent rhetoric that seeks to work his viewers into a frenzy,” Gertz writes. “It is also a guiding force in the modern GOP. While his colleagues were foursquare behind McCarthy, Carlson was playing all sides of the debate, criticizing the would-be speaker one moment, praising him the next, and, above all else, seeking specific concessions. It worked — Carlson got the House inquiry into the purported ‘weaponization’ of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies that he’s been building up to for years. Now, he’ll be able to spend the next two years cheering on the Republican efforts to spread his conspiracy theories about the January 6 insurrection and whatever else the panel tries to push.”

READ MORE: Why angry ‘Trump superfans' are turning against 'terrible journalist' Sean Hannity: report

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Right-wing Newsmax anchor Grant Stinchfield posited over the weekend that the culprit behind the thousands of canceled flights by Southwest Airlines was a "cyber hack" enabled by the carrier's inclusionary employment policies.

"So I told you my prediction is that Southwest Airlines was a victim of a cyber hack. I still believe that could be true. Let's go through the facts here," Stinchfield stated in a video. "Southwest said that it was a winter storm, and then they changed their story to an old antiquated system, and they couldn't keep track of their crews because of that outdated software and all of the IT stuff."

Indeed, that is what occurred. National Public Radio reported last Tuesday that "analysts say Southwest's problems are the result of a confluence of events — not just the severe weather, but staff shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as employees out sick with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Most important is an outdated computer system for crew scheduling that turned what would have been simply a challenging storm into a full-scale meltdown."

READ MORE: Senate Democrats seeking 'significant monetary compensation' for Southwest Airlines customers

The outlet noted that "another key factor is Southwest's heavily [sic] reliance on shorter, point-to-point flights, rather than a 'hub and spoke' model of many of its largest competitors. In fair weather, it's a system that has worked well for them. But in inclement weather, it can cause problems, says Kathleen Bangs, a former commercial airline pilot and spokesperson forFlightAware."

NPR also pointed out that "other airlines have had similar 'operational meltdowns' in the past," adding that "in summer 2021, for example, it was Spirit and American. And over Memorial Day this year, it was Delta Air Lines."

Although Stinchfield did not deny these facts, he nonetheless insisted – without presenting any corroborating evidence – that Southwest's massive failures were due to "vulnerability" from "wokeism" inside the company's hierarchy:

Here's the thing. Because it's outdated, that makes it vulnerable to a cyber hack. What do criminals do? What do terrorists do? They exploit vulnerability. Add into this why Southwest had outdated systems – because they've gone woke. Go woke, go broke. Go onto the corporate website of Southwest and you'll see diversity, inclusion, equity. You'll talk about sustainability. You'll talk about environmental issues, all on Southwest's website.

Southwest was concentrating more on pandering to the woke crowd than they were on helping customers than they were on serving customers. The bottom line is, provide a good service, serve your customers, and get people from one state to the other. That's what Southwest should be focused on, not wokeism. But for the last ten years or more, Southwest has been focused on wokeism and not hiring real good programmers and IT professionals. That's what they should have been doing.

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Basketball star Brittney Griner is back in the United States after her December 8 release from a Russian prison. Griner, who spent almost 10 months imprisoned in Russia, was serving a nine-year sentence on a drug smuggling charge but was released as part of a prisoner exchange; the United States agreed to release Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for Griner’s release.

Civil libertarians all over the world described Griner’s arrest and imprisonment as politically motivated, as it came during a time of considerable tensions between the United States and Russia. On February 17, Griner was detained after Russian customs officials found less than a gram of medically prescribed hash oil in her luggage. And in August, Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Griner’s release was applauded by countless civil libertarians and critics of the War on Drugs. But a long list of MAGA Republicans, on the other hand, are furious that the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player was released. And libertarian/conservative journalist Cathy Young vehemently calls them out in a biting article published by The Bulwark on December 16.

READ MORE: James Carville: Right-wing ire over Brittney Griner is because she 'is not white and is not straight'

“Since just about everything is potential fodder for culture wars these days,” Young argues, “it’s no surprise that the return to the United States of basketball player Brittney Griner, detained in Russia on a drug charge earlier this year, turned into another such skirmish. What is notable, though, is the extent to which American far-right punditry has been almost literally reciting Kremlin propaganda talking points — and putting identity politics over basic solidarity with a fellow American.”

Young describes Griner as a former “hostage” of the Kremlin.

“Bringing American hostages home — and there is little doubt that Griner, arrested days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was being held hostage — is surely a cause for patriotic celebration,” Young writes. “But many commentators on the right touted the trade as evidence that the Biden Administration was Woke Central: Griner is Black and gay — gay-married, even! — and spoke out against the American anthem being played at WNBA games during the summer 2020 racial justice protests. That two other Americans, ex-Marine Paul Whelan and history teacher Mark Fogel, still remain in Russian prisons — the former on spying charges, the latter in a marijuana-possession case very similar to Griner’s — became further evidence of wokeness run amok, or a decision based on ‘DEI’ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) policies.”

Young cites specific examples of anti-Griner comments from the far right. On December 8, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted, “The Biden Admin was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine.” And Matt Walsh, that same day, tweeted, “Unfortunately Marc Fogel and Paul Whelan made the mistake of being white men. The rules of intersectionality dictate that the black woman gets freed first. That's one of the primary factors driving this, whether we want to admit it out loud or not.”

READ MORE: Tucker Carlson pushes bizarre, racist theory about Britney Griner’s release from a Russian prison

Newsmax’s Benny Johnson said of Griner and the Biden Administration, “They knew they had to appeal (to) the left-wing, woke wing of their party. They wouldn’t allow a Black woman, lesbian woman, drug addict, America-hating woke, to be kept in prison in Russia. One of ours. Not the Marine. Not the person who served this country. No, no. One of ours. Somebody on the identity-politics spectrum who’s notched every single victory that you could ever hope for inside of the vector of woke politics.”

Young points out that similar rhetoric has been coming from the Russian media. For example, RT’s Margarita Simonyan, during an appearance on Russia’s TV-1 program “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov,” commented, “I found it very amusing, though not surprising, that Bout was finally traded for Griner, not Whelan…. (Whelan) is a hero, a decorated Marine covered in medals. He only has one — no, two — no, three, problems. First problem: He’s white. Second problem: He’s a man. Third problem: It seems he’s hetero. This is something that just can’t be forgiven these days…. American voters were given a choice: A hero who suffered in the service of his country…. or a black lesbian hooked on drugs who suffered for a vape with hash.”

Young also notes that in the prisoner exchange, the Biden Administration didn’t choose Griner over the other American prisoners being held in Russia; the Kremlin’s offer was “Griner or no one” — a fact that “right-wing propagandists in the United States” overlooked when they “recycled Kremlin talking points.”

“Also not mentioned: Trevor Reed, another former U.S. Marine and one-time Russian prisoner who happens to be white, male, and heterosexual,” Young writes. “Despite these three strikes, Reed — detained in Moscow in 2019 on probably bogus charges of assault on two police officers — was freed in late April in a swap for Russian pilot and convicted drug trafficker Konstantin Yaroshenko, a highly inconvenient fact for the ‘woke points’ narrative…. For the overwhelming majority, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan are both Americans. You’d think the ‘All Lives Matter’ gang could grasp that.”

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In 2013, Fox News dropped Dick Morris after he confidently predicted that Mitt Romney would win in a “landslide,” among other comical prognostications. Newsmax has so little respect for its viewers that it’s now airing Morris’ hopium, including his wildly inaccurate predictions that Republicans would win the midterms in a “wipeout” and cause “the extinction” of the Democratic Party.

Morris is the host of the weekend Newsmax program Dick Morris Democracy and the network’s supposed elections expert. The right-wing network hired him despite his reputation as an unethical commentator who is widely known for being so bad at his job that not even Fox News wanted his pro-Republican commentaries. (Newsmax’s business model is partly predicated on hiring other disgraced or washed-up former Fox News commentators, including Eric Bolling, James Rosen, and Greg Kelly.)

During the 2012 election cycle, Morris predicted Romney would win in a “landslide”; wrote that “it’s very possible” that President Barack Obama would drop out of the race; and told viewers Republicans would “win 10 seats” in the Senate (Democrats actually gained two seats).

While his venue has changed, Morris’ wildly inaccurate prognostication has remained the same. Now that the 2022 election is officially over with Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-GA) victory — Morris called GOP nominee Herschel Walker “an excellent candidate,” something Walker’s own staff didn’t believe — here are some examples of Morris’ midterm forecasts for Newsmax in the lead-up to the November election:

Morris on October 17 said Walker “evolved into an excellent candidate.”

Morris on October 22 spoke about expected Republican gains with the chyron “The Red Wave Is Coming.”

Morris on October 28: “I'm predicting something more than a tsunami, more than a tidal wave, more than an earthquake. … Do you remember, in the history books, how the theory is that a meteorite hit the Earth right around where the Caribbean Sea is and that the resulting dust killed all the dinosaurs and made them extinct? Well, that's the magnitude of what I think is going to happen.”

Morris added: “I think they may go up to 270. … I think they may pick up 60 seats. That's why I likened it to that prehistoric event because what I think you're really dealing with, to a certain extent, is the extinction of an entire generation of Democratic wannabees, Democratic candidates, where they're basically going to lose their whole freshman and sophomore class.”

Morris on November 1: “We have most likely Arizona, and Georgia, and Nevada as victories, and possibly New Hampshire, and possibly some others. So I see a minimum at this point of 53 Republican senators.”

Morris on November 2: “I think there's going to be a wipeout, I think Republicans will win something in the neighborhood of 60 seats in the House, I think that they will win the Senate.”

Morris on November 3: “I think the Democrats will lose all 60. … I think the [Republicans] are going to win a solid 60 seats in the House.”

Morris on November 7: “I do feel that in Pennsylvania, [GOP Senate nominee Mehmet] Oz is going to win. … I believe that the Republicans are going to end tomorrow night with somewhere between 52-55 seats in the Senate.”

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Lara Logan was once a mainstream television journalist who was known for her work as a “60 Minutes” correspondent and her reporting for CBS News, an association that lasted from 2002 to 2018. But after leaving CBS News, Logan reinvented herself as a far-right MAGA pundit — fully embracing QAnon and pushing outlandish conspiracy theories. Right-wing Fox News distanced itself from Logan after she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to the infamous Nazi, Dr. Josef Mengele, and now, the 51-year-old Logan is so extreme and unhinged that even Newsmax is banning her.

Newsmax prides itself on being more right-wing, more MAGA and more pro-Donald Trump than Fox News and Fox Business, but according to the Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona, comments that Logan made during a Wednesday, October 19 appearance on Eric Bolling’s Newsmax show were too much even for that hyper-MAGA cable news outlet.

“Nearly a year after she was kicked to the curb by Fox News for essentially calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a Nazi,” Baragona explains in an article published on October 20, “Lara Logan was on Newsmax’s primetime airwaves pushing QAnon tropes, invoking blood libel, and fear-mongering about a ‘global cabal’ planning to ‘dilute the pool of patriots’ in the United States with ‘100 million illegal immigrants.’”

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Baragona continues, “Logan, a one-time award-winning reporter for CBS News, has embraced baseless conspiracy theories in an apparent effort to remake herself as a far-right pundit. Her increasingly unhinged rhetoric, though, eventually resulted in Fox News distancing itself from her and the loss of her series on the network’s streaming service. In recent weeks, however, Newsmax has showcased the former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, featuring her prominently on ex-Fox News host Eric Bolling’s primetime program.”

Bolling brought Logan on his October 19 show to discuss the Latin American migrants who Republican governors have been bussing from the U.S./Mexico border to parts of the northeastern U.S., and the interview quickly went off the rails when she claimed, with zero evidence, that the Biden Administration “is desperate to incite some kind of event” that will “incite people to act” and “will prove the lie of White terrorism and White supremacy in America today and give them an excuse to crack down.”

“They need a Reichstag fire,” Logan told Bolling. And she went on to claim that the migrants are part of a United Nations conspiracy to destroy the U.S.

Logan told Bolling, “This is a spiritual battle…. The fallen angel, otherwise known as Satan, doesn’t get to prevail in the world…. God believes in sovereignty, a national identity, of the sanctity of family and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time. And He knows that the open border is Satan's way of taking control of the world through all of these are people who are stooges and his servants.”

READ MORE: [Conspiracy theorist Lara Logan claims Darwin was 'employed' by the Rothschilds

During her rant against the UN and the World Economic Forum, Logan invoked the anti-Semitic blood libel conspiracy theory — and now, Newsmax is distancing itself from her.

In an official statement, Newsmax told the Beast, “Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan, and her views do not reflect our network. We have no plans to interview her again.”

READ MORE: ['It's actually called projection': Fox News host goes on wild propaganda-filled rant on right-wing talk show

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-texts-insurrection/

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When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia debated Marcus Flowers, her Democratic challenger in the 2022 midterms, on October 16, he lambasted her for encouraging the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Greene angrily responded that it was unfair to blame her for that attack in any way. But an article written by journalist/author Hunter Walker and published on SubStack following that debate demonstrates that Greene promoted the Big Lie after the 2020 election and encouraged MAGA efforts to overturn the election results.

Greene, during the debate, told Flowers, “You cannot accuse me of insurrection. I was a victim of the January 6 riot just as much as any other member of Congress. That was the third day I had on the job. I had nothing to do with what happened there that day, and I will not have you accuse me of that. That is wrong of you to do. You’re lying about me, and you will not defame my character in that manner.”

But text messages that Greene sent to former White House Chief of Starr Mark Meadows before January 6, 2021, according to Walker, “indicate” that she “was involved in organizing the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election at the U.S.”

READ MORE: ['Are they out of their minds?’: Former Reagan staffer slams WSJ for overlooking Kari Lake’s 'extremism'

Walker has had a lot to say about the January 6, 2021 insurrection. He wrote the new book, “The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th,” with former Rep. Denver Riggleman — a conservative/libertarian who served in the U.S. House of Representatives via Virginia before losing a GOP primary and has been vehemently critical of the MAGA movement.

In one of her pre-January 6, 2021 messages to Meadows, according to Walker, Greene wrote, “Good morning Mark, I’m here in DC. We have to get organized for the 6th. I would like to meet with Rudy Giuliani again. We didn’t get to speak with him long. Also anyone who can help…. We are getting a lot of members on board. And we need to lay out the best case for each state.”

In another text, Greene told Meadows, “Last night Sen (Lindsey) Graham told me that if I found 100 names of dead voters in GA that he would object. I have 100 dead voters names!!.... Tell President Trump!”

After the insurrectionists attacked the Capitol, Walker reports, Greene promoted the bogus conspiracy theory that they were members of Antifa.

READ MORE: More new texts reveal how deeply involved the Oath Keepers were in the January 6th insurrection

“Mark we don’t think these attackers are our people,” Greene told Meadows. “We think they are Antifa. Dressed like Trump supporters.”

On January 7, 2021, Greene told Meadows, “Yesterday was a terrible day. We tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states. I’m sorry nothing worked. I don’t think that President Trump caused the attack on the Capitol. It’s not his fault. Antifa was mixed in the crowed and instigated it, and sadly people followed. But when people try everything and no one listens and nothing works, I guess they think they have no other choice.”

Greene continued, “Absolutely no excuse and I fully denounce all of it, but after shut downs all year and a stolen election, people are saying that they have no other choice. I defended Trump last night on Newsmax. He has been the greatest President. I will continue to defend him.”

READ MORE: January 6th Select Committee: Secret Service ignored 'substantial intel' about Proud Boys threats

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Political operative Dick Morris claimed on Newsmax'sSaturday Report that the Democratic Party is abusing the American legal apparatus to prevent former President Donald Trump from seeking reelection in 2024 because they are upset about him having "incited a revolution" on January 6th, 2021.

Trump was impeached by the United States House of Representatives for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol after he exhausted all of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost in a landslide to President Joe Biden.

Morris, who worked in the administrations of Trump and ex-President Bill Clinton, believes that the more resistance Trump faces, the stronger he will become.

READ MORE: Legal experts believe Trump will soon 'get indicted' on criminal charges

"Trump derives energy from people who oppose him. And it fuels him. It orients him. He feels righteous. He feels that he's correct and it energizes him. And these raids and this persecution of Donald Trump is something that won't deter him from running. It'll accelerate him to run," said Morris.

He continued:

I think we have to understand the point I make in my book, 'The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback', Democrats have given up on the political process to keep Trump out of office. They've seen after primary, after primary, after primary, week after week, that Trump is winning everything; and they realized that they can't beat him in the Republican primary.

They had tried to get [Republican Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis and others into the race, but they see that they're not going to get in because Trump has a lock on this nomination. So what they're trying to do is to knock him off the ballot through the courts. And the vehicle they've chosen is to indict him for sedition, which is the crime that he allegedly committed when they claim that he incited a revolution against the United States on January 6th. In fact, it would be the only unarmed revolution in history. It's preposterous to say that this out-of-control mob was somehow a revolutionary army.

Morris then contradicted himself by stating that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's execution of a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on August 8th was akin to prohibiting Southern Confederates from serving in elected office after the Civil War.

READ MORE: Donald Trump claims FBI is being 'used' against him by the director he appointed

"The Democrats are trying to manufacture the idea that January 6th was such a rebellion because — and the timing of this is very significant to the Mar-a-Lago raid — because it came after Trump had a winning streak in primaries, thereby debunking the notion that he could be defeated by the ballot box," Morris proclaimed, adding that the warrant "was executed precisely 90 days before the midterm elections, so it did not run afoul of the FBI rule that you can't do anything to affect the election within 90 days."

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There was also a heavier dose of conspiracy on the new networks. Newsmax TV has aired "Roswell Top Secret," and it features Dick Morris, author of the 2012 bookHere Comes the Black Helicopters!. Fox was no longer the only place for the grassroots right to turn, nor the only channel where would-be conservative personalities could go to make a name for themselves.]]

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https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/manipulated-video-biden-awarding-medal-honor-gets-millions-views-social-media

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misleading manipulated video of President Joe Biden awarding the Medal of Honor to a veteran has received millions of views on social media platforms. The video has spread on multiple platforms, including Twitter, even though the platform seemingly prohibits this kind of deceptive content.

On July 5, Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to four veterans for their service during the Vietnam War. He bestowed the honor by putting the medal around their necks, as is normal procedure for awarding government medals.

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A grainy and blurry version of a clip in which Biden put the medal around one of the veterans, Dwight Birdwell, started circulating on social media platforms, with users falsely claiming that the president put the medal on backwards. A Media Matters review has found that the video has received more than 3.4 million views on mainstream platforms.

The vast majority of those views have been on Twitter, where just one upload of the video had at least 2.3 million views. Other uploads on the platform have also received hundreds of thousands of combined views. Multiple right-wing figures have also shared the video on Twitter as an accurate depiction of the ceremony, including thechairperson of the Texas Republican Party, a Newsmax host, and Infowars personality Paul Joseph Watson.}:

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Twitter rules prohibit “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.” If the platform does not remove the content, then it “may provide additional context on Tweets sharing the misleading media where they appear on Twitter,” which includes applying “a label and/or warning message to the Tweet.” Thus far, the uploads of the video have not been removed, nor has a label been put on them. Twitter has previously struggled to consistently enforce its labeling policy.

The spread of the video was not limited to Twitter. Multiple uploads of the video have gone up on YouTube, including a YouTube Short of the video with more than 170,000 views. YouTube rules prohibit “content that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users (beyond clips taken out of context) and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.”

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former President Donald Trump joined Newsmax for an interview that aired on Thursday morning in which he spewed out a laundry list of bizarre accusations against ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson,whose sworn testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol on Tuesday was absolutely devastating for Trump.

A visibly agitated Trump complained about Hutchinson's recounting of his behavior during the insurrection.

"Some whack job can stay this stuff and get away with it, and other things, that I wanted guns at my rally. Okay, now I'm speaking, why would I want guns? I don't want people having, standing with guns in my rally," he said on Wake Up America.

READ MORE: Legal experts weigh in on Donald Trump's possible witness tampering

Hutchinson recalled that Trump believed that his armed supporters were "not there to hurt me."

Trump maintained that "this woman, she wanted to work for me after January 6th. She was a big Trump fan. She wanted to work for me in Florida and we chose not to bring her down because I got very bad things."

Next, Trump repeated what he said on Tuesday – that "I hardly knew her," even though his and Hutchinson's West Wing offices were only a few yards apart. "And I said, 'well if she's no good, I got somebody called up, numerous people, that she's not good.''"

Trump then refused to say "why she's not good, plenty of reasons... she was not respected by the people in the White House. So they thought she shouldn't go down. I was going down to Florida with a group of people, great group of people, patriots, and her name was thrown out there and they said, 'stay away from her.' They said bad things about her."

Hutchinson's strange story about Trump trying to hijack his motorcade, which was told to her by Trump's then-deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, made him particularly upset.

"And then I see her, and again, I hardly know who she is. And then I see this woman getting up and she's making up stories, like one after another, but the craziest of all was that I tried to commandeer – they used that word – I tried to commandeer a car with Secret Service agents telling them to take us down to the Capitol," Trump said. "It was totally false, and that a person can get away with it... and then I watch the Times and The Washington Post, and I get reviews on MSDNC, and CNN, they hardly even talk about the fact that she's been totally discredited."

That is untrue, given that so far, nobody has refuted Hutchinson's damning statements under oath.

Watch below via Vox's Aaron Rupar:[twt]

trump's reaction rekindled widespread suspicions that he is attempting to engage in witness tampering in order to obfuscate the truth.

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newsmax host Chris Salcedo recently laid out a bizarre theory suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was part of a plot to have U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh killed so President Joe Biden could nominate a replacement.

On Tuesday, June 14, Salcedo spoke with Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) where he noted that the top-ranking Democratic lawmaker had been responsible for holding up the passing of legislation to enhance security measures for justices and members of their families.

“A lot of folks are starting to ask some questions out there, congressman,” Salcedo began. “They’re openly wondering why Nancy Pelosi sat on a bill that was passed by the Senate to protect Supreme Court justices. Now she’s moving after an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh. Are Americans right to question if Pelosi was actually hoping for, or encouraging violence that could lead to Joe Biden appointing a new Supreme Court justice?”

Salcedo's remarks come just days after an armed man was apprehended not far from Kavanaugh's Maryland home. At the time, the man reportedly admitted that he wanted to kill the justice.

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on Tuesday, House lawmakers also voted in favor of the bill. However, Davis appeared to pivot from the question.

“It’s certainly questions [sic] that Nancy Pelosi and others need to answer as to why she thought somehow Justice Kavanaugh – after having an assassin in his backyard – is somehow safe over the weekend. We could’ve gotten to this bill last week, but she chose to hold it up and she needs to answer as to why.”

Despite Salcedo's baseless theory, the bill for enhanced security passed with a staggering vote of 396-27. Biden is expected to sign the bill into law sometime next week. The opposing votes all came from Democratic lawmakers.

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rOB SCHMITT (HOST): One of the biggest problems this country has is our institutions becoming politicized. And law enforcement, of course, is the very latest. The politics of the offender are now critical to the response. And angry liberal rioting and looting and burning, and beating people is of absolutely no concern to America's political elite. They'll never have to deal with that problem. That's your problem. 

But those on the right who are angry and defiant, that is a huge threat to this country. They tell you that all the time – it's a huge threat because they're not complying with the official agenda. They're angry over this ridiculous country withopen borders.They're angry over white replacement because, you know what the left said, that's what they were going to do. It's not some crazy right-wing theory, it's exactly what's happening. They don't want our left-wing radicals indoctrinating their kids. They're the problem. They're mad their government is owned by lobbyists doing the bidding of major corporations. We need the DOJ spying on them.

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sixteen months into Joe Biden’s presidency, far-right pundit and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza continues to shamelessly promote theBig Lieand falsely claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump — a claim that the 61-year-old D’Souza makes in his new documentary “2000 Mules.” Journalist Anthony L. Fisher critiques “2000 Mules” in a scathing op-ed published by the Daily Beast on May 19, arguing that D’Souza’s documentary is so sloppy and badly done that even Fox News and Newsmaxhave ignored it.

“The new documentary ‘2000 Mules,’ a Dinesh D’Souza joint,is barely more credible than your average rando conspiracy theory video on YouTube, but its production values attach to it a superficial seriousness,” Fisher explains. “The film’s intended audience will see a rational ‘just asking questions’ kinda guy, D’Souza, talking with some ideological allies — like Charlie Kirk, Dennis Prager, Sebastian Gorka and Larry Elder — who are merely concerned about voter integrity in the America they love.”

Fisher continues, “But the bulk of the film consists of D’Souza’s highly dramatized explainer sessions with a couple of technological ‘experts,’ also credited as executive producers, whose claims that they’ve used geotracking data to uncover thousands of vote-harvesting mules fall apart under the barest of scrutiny. Surveillance footage of people taking selfies after dropping their votes in dropboxes is presented as ‘A-ha!’ evidence — while ignoring the fact that people taking voter selfies was a mundanely common thing to do in 2020, and for quite a few years prior.”

According to Fisher, “2000 Mules” suffers from “relentless repetition of innuendo” and “almost no verifiable facts.”D’Souza, Fisher notes, complains about Republicans who want to move on from the 2020 election and slams them as cowards.

“D’Souza’s whining extends beyond the film itself, and into coverage of the film,” Fisher observes. “Or in the case of Fox News and Newsmax, the lack of coverage around ‘2000 Mules’ — likely because both networks have already been sued for pushing potentially slanderous Big Lie accusations against voting technology companies. D’Souza’s white knight, Donald Trump, came to the film’s defense when he slammed Fox for ignoring ‘the greatest & most impactful documentary of our time.’But even a Trump-supporting right-wing firebreather like Ben Shapiro can’t bring himself to say D’Souza made a persuasive case with ‘2000 Mules,’ because the film’s central thesis simply isn’t backed by any supporting evidence— much less an overwhelming amount of verifiable, unimpeachable data.”

Someone who doesn’t already buy into the Big Lie, Fisher stresses, won’t change their mind because of “2000 Mules.”

“The film isn’t meant to persuade anyone, it’s meant to reinforce the already passionate certainty in people who believe in something that simply does not exist,” Fisher writes. “It is a vile piece of agitprop, pushing a falsehood that could very well tear our country apart. It’s also a very stupid movie, packaged as smart, fearless muckraking. In a sense, it’s a 90-minute safe space for MAGA snowflakes who can’t accept the fact that their hero is a loser.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsmax_TV

Newsmax TV is an American conservative news channel owned by Newsmax. The network primarily focuses on opinion-based talk shows. It carries a news/talk format throughout the day and night, with documentaries and films on weekends. During the 2020 United States presidential election, it grew rapidly by broadcasting conspiracy theories and allegations of voter fraud.^[1][2][3]

The channel was created by American journalist and Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy.It launched on June 16, 2014, to 35 million satellite subscribers through DirecTV and Dish Network.^[4] As of May 2019, the network reaches about 75 million cable homes and has wide streaming and digital media player/mobile device availability, including on Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Haystack News and more.^[5] The channel primarily broadcasts from Newsmax's New York studio on Manhattan's East Side, with two headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. and Washington, D.C.^[6][7][]

Newsmax TV holds a conservative-leaning political stance, broadcasting many programs hosted by conservative media personalities. CEO Christopher Ruddy has compared the network to Fox News. The company has hired many former Fox News Channel program hosts, including Greg Kelly, Rob Schmitt, Bob Sellers, and Heather Childers.^[8][9]

The Washington Post described Newsmax as "a landing spot for cable news personalities in need of a new home", citing the network's airing of Mark Halperin and Bill O'Reilly following their resignations from other networks due to controversies. Newsmax aired their programs under time purchase agreements, but O'Reilly is no longer affiliated with Newsmax.^[10]

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History

Network launch

In May 2014, U.S. news organization Newsmax announced that it had signed a distribution deal with DirecTV and would launch a national television news channel to compete directly with CNN, Fox News, and other American news networks. It was launched to provide independent news; its founder, Chris Ruddy described it as intended to be a "kinder, gentler Fox News," saying that "Our goal is to be a little more boomer-oriented, more information-based rather than being vituperative and polarizing."^[9]

Around the time of the channel launch, Businessweek Bloomberg profiled Ruddy and Newsmax in a feature story entitled "The Next Ailes: Newsmax's Chris Ruddy Preps TV Rival to Fox News.^[11] Businessweek Bloomberg reported that Newsmax planned to build off its success as a digital media player to challenge Fox News in the traditional cable arena while developing a stake in the emerging streaming OTT business.

A Fast Company report in December 2020 suggested Newsmax was on a course to "dethrone" Fox with its streaming digital strategy by offering the channel for free to platforms like Roku, Youtube, Pluto, Xumo and others. "You wouldn't know it by looking at cable TV ratings, but Fox News has a problem on its hands," Fast Company wrote, noting that "When you factor in Newsmax's streaming audience, the race between the two right-wing news networks is closer than you might think."^[12]

On January 16, 2016, Dennis Michael Lynch: Unfiltered debuted on the channel.^{[citation needed]} The program ended after the first segment of the August 10, 2016, episode after Lynch announced that he would resign from the network and made comments defending Fox News Channel and criticizing his network for its reporting of the Trump campaign and suggesting they were restricting his editorial control; he was escorted out from the network's New York studio during what would have been the first commercial break.^[13][14] It was replaced the next Monday with an hour-long video simulcast of radio's The Howie Carr Show from WRKO in Boston.^[15]

Beginning in 2020, the network significantly ramped up programming, adding evening shows with Greg Kelly, a former Fox News and local affiliate host, and Grant Stinchfield, a former NBC local correspondent and ex-NRA TV host.^[16] The network launched Spicer & Co. on March 3, 2020, featuring former Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and co-host Lyndsay Keith,^[17][18] The network's overnight programming is mainly made up of repeats of Newsmax's evening show line-up and historical documentaries.^{[citation needed]}

2020 election

During the 2020 United States presidential election, then-President Trump began to promote Newsmax over rival competitor Fox News.^[6][19][20] Trump's preference for Newsmax over Fox News became clearer after the latter became the first news outlet to call Arizona for Democratic challenger Joe Biden.^[21] Newsmax has made their more conservative leanings a selling point to disaffected Fox News viewers, as well as employing Fox News alumni to join their lineup on Newsmax TV, such as Rob Schmitt and Greg Kelly.^[21][22][23]

After the election was won by Democrat Joe Biden, Newsmax struck a defiant tone, focusing on conspiracy theories and allegations of voter fraud as a way to attract Fox News viewers angered by what they saw as insufficient loyalty to Trump.^[1][2][3] Emily VanDerWerff of Vox reported that the outlet did not "go full arch-conservative" and "doesn't give airtime to QAnon paranoiacs", but that it "spent lots of time arguing that other media outlets jumped the gun in calling the election for Biden and that Trump still has a path to win this thing."^[24] Newsmax was thus positioned further to the right of Fox but less so than One America News Network, another conservative news channel that embraced a far-right editorial stance during and after the Trump administration.^[25]

CNN's Brian Stelter, in an on-air interview, asked Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy why the network chose to air "election denialism" and "bogus voter fraud stuff," to which Ruddy replied that the network featured all points of view and argued that all of the other major news outlets who had reported Biden’s election win were "rushing."^[26]

Since the election, Newsmax has seen increasing viewership; according to Nielsen, Newsmax averaged 182,000 viewers in the week leading up to the election. In the week that followed, the average increased further with daily averages around 400,000 viewers, with Greg Kelly Reports and Spicer & Co. having attracted numbers in the 700,000–800,000 range.^[27] On December 7, 2020, Greg Kelly Reports beat its timeslot competitor on Fox News, The Story with Martha MacCallum, in average key demographic viewership for the first time (229,000 to 203,000), while Stelter observed that overall the program "has nearly a million viewers on a good night".^[28]

A small number of cable providers, including Breezeline (formerly Atlantic Broadband), dropped the channel in January 2022, noting the channel's wide free availability on streaming advertising-supported video-on-demand platforms, and that their drop of the channel came due to paid carriage being required by Newsmax TV, not its content.^[25]

Notable personalities

Program hosts

• John Bachman: Host of John Bachman Now and former co-host of Newsmax Now
• Tom Basile: Host of America Right Now and fill-in host, former co-host of Wake Up America Weekend
• Wendy Bell: Host of Wendy Bell Common Sense
• Alfred Bonati: Co-host of American Medicine Today
• Kimberly Bermel Bonati: Co-host of American Medicine Today
• Nancy Brinker: Host of Conversations with Nancy Brinker
• Eric Bolling: Host of Eric Bolling The Balance
• Rob Carson: Host of Rob Carson’s What In The World?
• Diamond and Silk: Hosts of Diamond and Silk Crystal Clear
• Rob Finnerty: Co-host of Wake Up America
• Sebastian Gorka: Host of The Gorka Reality Check and fill-in host for Greg Kelly Reports
• Carl Higbie: Host of Wake Up America Weekend and fill-in host, former host of Saturday Report
• Mike Huckabee: Host of Huckabee (shared with TBN)
• Benny Johnson: Host of The Benny Report
• Mark Kaye: Host of The Mark Kaye Show
• Lyndsay Keith: Co-host of Spicer & Co.
• Greg Kelly: Host of Greg Kelly Reports
• Jane King: Host of New To The Street
• Shaun Kraisman: Co-host of National Report
• Alison Maloni: Co-host of Wake Up America Weekend and fill-in host
• Dick Morris: Host of Dick Morris Democracy
• Jenn Pellegrino: Host of Prime News and former co-host of Cortes & Pellegrino
• Emma Rechenberg: Co-host of National Report
• Chris Salcedo: Host of The Chris Salcedo Show
• Bob Sellers: Host of American Agenda
• Rob Schmitt: Host of Rob Schmitt Tonight
• Sean Spicer: Co-host of Spicer & Co.
• Grant Stinchfield: Host of Stinchfield
• John Tabacco: Host of Wise Guys with John Tabacco
• Ethan Youker: Co-host of American Medicine Today

Correspondents and substitute anchors

• Olly Barratt - London correspondent
• Amanda Brilhante
• Mike Carter - National correspondent and fill-in host of The Count
• Julia Chapman - Moscow correspondent
• Michael A. Charbon - Toronto correspondent
• Heather Childers
• Daniel Cohen - Jerusalem correspondent
• Rita Cosby - Fill-in host of Saturday Report
• Bianca de la Garza
• Kilmeny Duchardt - Congressional correspondent and fill-in host of American Agenda and The Count
• Leonardo Feldman - Miami correspondent
• Patrick Fok - Beijing correspondent
• Giles Gibson - Moscow correspondent
• John Gizzi - Chief political columnist and Senior White House correspondent
• Chuck Holton - Foreign correspondent
• Jaeson Jones - Border correspondent
• Alex Kraemer
• Betsy McCaughey - Fill-in host
• Trent Murray - Berlin correspondent
• Logan Ratick - National correspondent
• James Rosen - Chief White House correspondent
• Alex Salvi - Rome correspondent
• Mercedes Schlapp - Fill-in host
• Stuart Smith - Moscow correspondent
• Christina Thompson
• Toni Waterman - Texas correspondent
• Sarah Williamson

Regular guests and contributors

• T.W. Shannon
• Peter Morici
• Nan Hayworth - Former Congresswoman
• Bob Barr - Former Congressman
• Erin Elmore
• Chrissy Clark
• **Jenna Ellis**
• Scott Walker - Former Wisconsin Governor
• Rick Santorum - Former US Senator
• Ben Carson - Former Hud Secretary
• Sen. Alfonse D'Amato
• Danny Danon - Former Israeli UN ambassador
• Alan Dershowitz – Former host of You and The Law
• Jessie Jane Duff
• Jenna Ellis
• Steve Forbes
• **Joseph diGenova**
• **Tom Fitton**
• John Fund
• Andrew Giuliani
• **Richard Grenell**
• Ron Kessler
• Peter King - Former Congressman
• Mark Halperin – Former host of Mark Halperin’s Focus Group
• Bryan E. Leib
• Michael Reagan President Reagan's Son.
• Trish Regan
• Christopher Ruddy Newsmax Founder
• **Matt Schlapp**
• Winsome Earle Sears Virginia Lt. Governor
• Jordan Sekulow
• Craig Shirley
• Victoria Toensing
• Abraham Jacob Terkeltaub
• Heather Zumarraga

Previous

• Steve Bannon – Host of War Room (moved to Real America's Voice)
• Ed Berliner – Former host of Midpoint with Ed Berliner and The Hard Line with Ed Berliner
• Adam Brandon – Former host of Save the Nation
• Herman Cain – Was slated to host a show for Newsmax TV but died of coronavirus disease before making it to series^[29]
• Howie Carr – Host of The Howie Carr Show (now radio-only)
• Steve Cortes – Former co-host of Cortes & Pellegrino
• Callista Gingrich – Former host of Let Freedom Ring
• J. D. Hayworth – Former host of Newsmax Prime and America's Forum
• Miranda Khan – Former co-host of Newsmax Now
• Dennis Michael Lynch – Former host of Dennis Michael Lynch: Unfiltered
• Michelle Malkin – Former host of Michelle Malkin Sovereign Nation
• Steve Malzberg – Former host of America Talks Live and The Steve Malzberg Show
• Bill O'Reilly – Host of No Spin News with Bill O'Reilly (since moved to The F1rst)
• Joe Pags – Host of The Joe Pags Show (now radio-only)
• Joe Pinion – Former host of Saturday Agenda and fill-in host
• Emerald Robinson – Former White House correspondent
• Rachel Rollar – Former co-host of Wake Up America
• Wayne Allyn Root – Host of The Wayne Allyn Root Show (now radio-only)
• Jesse Lee Peterson – Host of The Jesse Lee Peterson Show (now radio-only)
• Todd Schnitt – Former host of The Schnitt Show
• Ben Swann – Former fill-in host of The Steve Malzberg Show

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Newsmax host Eric Boiling is appealing to Fox News' Tucker Carlson to refrain from circulating Russian propaganda during his news segments. During Boiling's Tuesday broadcast, he insisted that Carlson has gone too far with his support of Russian President Vladamir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, per HuffPost.

“My compadre continues to push falsehoods that Putin and his propagandists are exploiting to show that, yes, some Americans do indeed side with Russia in this war,” Bolling said.

“Is that the side of history ... you want to be on?” he said as he addressed the Fox News primetime host. “There are far too many wars right here in our own country.”

While he did agree with the conservative host's sentiment that “most Americans don’t want to get further involved in Ukraine,” he also noted that it is possible to argue that point without publicly siding with Putin. “But isn’t it possible to make that point without seeming to be on Putin’s side?” he asked.

Boiling's latest appeal to his former Fox News colleague comes after weeks of Carlson's pandering of Putin and his repeated attempts to circulate Russian propaganda. On April 6, Boiling also verbalized his concerns about Carlson's actions. During that segment, he initially addressed the issue.

“I want to be very clear for our audience,” Bolling cautioned. “I’m anti-war and I believe we should always secure America’s interests first and foremost, and that of the lives of our own citizens, of American citizens, should matter more than any other. Sorry, but that’s true.”

Boiling also noted that the unrest in Ukraine should be the breaking point as it deserves to be condemned, worldwide.

“Blatant and horrifying war crimes committed by Russians against Ukrainian civilians have made it very clear that, yes, this war is in fact more black and white now than ever,” he said. ”If we say anything otherwise then we are on the wrong side of history.”

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How Mike Lindell and 'a mysterious dark money organization' pushed a bogus 'snake-oil treatment' for COVID-19

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaking at the 2020 Student Action Summit, hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Gage Skidmore

Alex Henderson February 07, 2022

A variety of bogus “treatments” or “cures” for COVID-19 have been promoted in MAGA World, from hydroxychloroquine to oleandrin (an extract from the poisonous oleander plant). According to Daily Beast reporters Roger Sollenberger and William Bredderman, one of the companies that haspromoted oleandrin as a COVID-19 miracle cure is Propter Strategies— which has ties to two major allies of former President Donald Trump: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.

“It’s an all-too-familiar story at this point: A person pushing an unproven COVID-19 cure — and pushing back against the vaccines — pays the ultimate price for their skepticism,” Sollenberger and Bredderman report. “But this time, there’s a new wrinkle. It’s not just one person dabbling in COVID quackery with tragic results; it’s actually a mysterious dark money organization, with ties to influential MAGA figures like Steve Bannon and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.”

The organization, according Sollenberger and Bredderman, was Propter Strategies — and the person who became a “victim” of its “secretive work” was partner Kenneth Happel.

“To this day, Propter Strategies is a black hole, despite its high-profile connections and multi-million-dollar budget,” the Beast reporters explain. “Aside from Happel’s account, there is no evidence of Propter’s activities anywhere in the public record. And that might be with good reason: Those activities included hawking the snake-oil COVID treatment oleandrin at the highest levels of the government, as the pandemic’s lethal second wave peaked across the country.”

Happel, according to Sollenberger and Bredderman, is presently hospitalized with his second COVID-19 infection — and his wife died from COVID-19 in January.

“In a phone interview from his hospital bed, Happel, 72, remained unrepentant and defiant about the numerous baseless theories that quite likely landed him back in the hospital, and killed the wife he loved dearly,” Sollenberger and Bredderman write. “Happel still places hope in the pseudo-science that he, Propter Strategies, and Lindell had pushed so hard — a proprietary compound derived from oleander extract, which the pillow tycoon and at least one Propter official had invested in.”

Registration data, according to Sollenberger and Bredderman, shows that Happel is the owner of Proper’s website, needsp.us, and Happel has “confirmed” to the Beast “that the Propter Strategies cited on his page was, in fact, the same group linked to those leading MAGA figures.”

“Happel, a former Tea Party activist with an entrepreneurial history that intersects with biotechnology, recounted working on oleandrin in 2020 with Propter board member Andrew Whitney,” Sollenberger and Bredderman note. “A serial entrepreneur and former Bain Capital investor, Whitney was actually pulling oleandrin double-duty — he was on the board at the nonprofit Propter, as well as at Texas-based Phoenix Biotechnologies, whose research centered on the product. Happel also acknowledged the connection toLindell, who, it turns out, also holds a financial stake in Phoenix Biotechnologies.”

Whitney and Lindell, according to the Beast reporters, “paired up for a MAGA media parade” and promoted oleandrin “as a neglected medical miracle” on right-wing outlets such as Newsmax andDiamond & Silk’s YouTube show. And Lindell “confirmed he still has a financial stake in Phoenix.”

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Pandemic conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson’s latest turn on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show, in which he called for the withdrawal of the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 and said that “no one should get them” or “get boosted,” based on the false premises that the vaccines do not work and are “dangerous,” has rightly spurred a wave of revulsion.

As everyone from progressive MSNBC hosts to conservative National Review writers has noted, programming like this is killing Fox’s viewers by discouraging them from taking shots that are incredibly effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.

And that’s apparently how the Fox brass likes it.

Berenson’s pattern of spreading coronavirus misinformation is well-documented – he’s been described as “the pandemic’s wrongest man” and banned from Twitter over his constant falsehoods. But his “contrarian” willingness to denounce any and all measures to contain the pandemic, from masks to vaccines, has made him a fixture on Fox: Tuesday marked his 105th appearance since January 2020, 47 of which have come on Carlson’s show.

While Carlson himself is a constant font of anti-vaccine talking points and doubtlessly wants to host people who agree with his lies, the responsibility for Berenson’s ongoing presence on the network’s most-watched programs ultimately rests with Fox’s executives, like Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and Suzanne Scott. Even if they aren’t willing to part with Carlson for the sake of their viewers, they could dispense with Berenson in a second if they wanted to. Over the years, they have repeatedly – and effectively – banned particular guests from the airwaves based on their off-air behavior or on-air commentary. Carlson has obeyed those diktats when they have come down, just like his fellow prime-time stars.

Fox hosted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) hundreds of times from August 2017 to March 2021, including at least three dozen hits with Carlson, according to the Media Matters guest database. But on March 30 of the latter year, The New York Times reported that he was under federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking. After one last bizarre appearance on Carlson’s show to respond to the story that night, the network apparently left him for dead.

Fox’s executives were responsible for Gaetz’s disappearance from the network, with The Daily Beast reporting a few weeks later that Fox’s executives had put the congressman “on an informal blacklist” for trying “to rope the Fox News star into the congressman’s scandal.”Gaetz regularly appears on other right-wing networks like Newsmax, but he has not returned to Fox. Carlson, who was reportedly initially “livid” with Gaetz but subsequently suggested on-air that the congressman had been treated unfairly, has not defied that corporate mandate.

Something similar appears to have happened to Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing,both longtime fixtures at Fox who were apparently banished from its airwaves in fall 2019. Both of them stopped appearing on Fox News amid reporting that they were deeply involved in the genesis of the Ukrainian dirt about Joe Biden that they were often called upon to opine about. The pair continued to appear on Fox Business, vanishing from that outlet as well after diGenova was widely criticized for an odious antisemitic rant about progressive philanthropist George Soros.

Fox refused to respond to reporters’ queries about whether the pair had been formally banned in the months after they disappeared, but they have not returned in the years since – including to Carlson’s show, which had hosted diGenova at least 27 times, according to the Media Matters guest database.

Similarly, in October 2018 a top Fox executive publicly condemned the rhetoric of Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell, and a spokesperson said he would not be allowed to return to Fox News or Fox Business, following an uproar caused by the conservative political operative using an appearance on the latter network to falsely accuse Soros of masterminding a caravan of migrants headed toward the U.S. border from Central America.

Fox does not have anything resembling a consistent standard for this type of despicable commentary – indeed, Carlson just did an odious anti-Soros special for Fox Nation – but what matters for this discussion is that the ban stuck and Farrell has not been allowed back in subsequent years. Likewise, no Fox program has violated the network’s public bans of Harlan Hill (who tweeted in 2020 that Kamala Harris “comes off as an insufferable lying bitch,” or retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (who said on-air in 2018 that torture “worked” on then-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

Fox’s executives have proved themselves to be capable of keeping unsavory guests off the air when they chose to do so. But with Berenson, they haven’t bothered trying. The network has made the calculation that keeping its viewers from needlessly dying isn’t worth it. As one Fox insider explained, the network is running anti-vaccine commentary because it is “great for ratings.”

The more than 3 million people who tuned into Carlson’s show on Tuesday heard a kook denounce lifesaving vaccines and urge them not to take them. If they listen to him, they could die. And Fox’s leadership is entirely uninterested in preventing that dire outcome.

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A dozen times right-wing media said something ridiculous about climate change in 2021

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CLIMATE & ENERGY

WRITTEN BY TED MACDONALD

PUBLISHED 12/23/21

1. The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro doesn’t think that 4 degrees Celsius of warming is an emergency

On the April 14 edition of The Daily Wire’s The Ben Shapiro Show, host Ben Shapiro stated that “I do not consider it a quote-unquote ‘emergency’ if the climate were to warm 4 degrees Celsius over the course of the next century. … It’s just a way for them to create a certain level of alarmism that is unjustifiable by the facts on the ground."

It’s a good thing that Shapiro, whose publication is backed by fracking billionaires, has no authority or credibility within the climate science community: 4 C of warming would be literally catastrophic for large swaths of the globe. As The Guardian reported in 2019, at 4 C of climate change, we’d have sea levels that would be around 2 meters higher than today (which would render many coastal areas obsolete), destruction of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, oceanic dead zones, temperatures in the equatorial belt so high that would make for impossible living conditions for most of the year, and the beginning of a potential mass extinction for many species. This is not the first time that Shapiro has said something ignorant about the climate crisis; he once theorized that people affected by rising sea levels could just sell their inundated homes and move.

2. Fox’s Dagen McDowell thinks that cold temperatures in certain parts of the U.S. entirely disprove global warming

Fox News personalities regularly conflate climate with weather, and they generally do it to dismiss global warming. On the April 21 edition of The Five, co-host Dagen McDowell mockingly suggested that “they stopped calling it global warming” because of abnormally cold U.S. temperatures.

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CitationFrom the April 21, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Five

In reality, our warming climate has not eradicated cold weather, and in some cases, it has even made cold weather more severe and unpredictable. Nor have abnormally cold temperatures caused a dent in the Earth’s alarming warming trend, in which the past decade was the warmest on record.

3. Ex-coal lobbyist Steve Milloy lies about warming temperatures on One America News: “The June 2021 temperature was actually below the 40-year average”

On the August 2 edition of OAN’s The Tipping Point, former coal lobbyist and Fox News contributor Steve Milloy stated: “The June 2021 temperature was actually below the 40-year average. … There’s just so much bad information going on around, and you know, you’ve just got to be careful with climate alarmists.”

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In reality, the U.S. suffered through its hottest June on record, while it was the fifth-warmest June on record globally (followed by the hottest July ever recorded in earth’s history). Milloy is a longstanding figure in the climate denial community, and viewers have really “got to be careful” with his objectively false information.

4. Fox's Laura Ingraham suggests that climate change is really “about controlling the people” and fearmongers that climate action will lead to pandemic-style lockdowns

On both the May 18 and 19 editions of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham theorized that Democrats will use climate change to control Americans’ lives through pandemic-style lockdowns.

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CitationFrom the May 19, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

This is a dangerous conspiracy theory being pushed by prominent climate deniers that has taken hold among far-right media figures. To be clear, the way to fight climate change is not via lockdowns (COVID-19 lockdowns “only marginally reduced greenhouse gas emissions”), but by bringing about systemic change in our energy system and reimagining our economy and the way we live.

5. Newsmax’s Chris Salcedo doesn’t believe in “proof” that CO2 emissions are contributing to climate change

There were multiple times this year when Newsmax host Chris Salcedo went on a perplexing rant claiming there’s somehow no proof that rising CO2 emissions affect temperatures in any meaningful way. On the August 18 edition of The Chris Salcedo Show, Salcedo called global warming a “religion” that “has not been proven through science” before going on to say, “There's no mathematical proof out there that states that X amount of man-made CO2 yields Y amount of temperature change.”

Then on the December 14 edition of his show, Salcedo stated: “From experts I have read and interviewed over the years, I can say that there is no proof that man's C02 emissions are destroying the planet.” Salcedo must be interviewing some pretty fringe climate deniers as “experts,” as there is effectively unanimous scientific consensus that “humans are changing Earth's climate, primarily through greenhouse gas emissions.”

6. Fox’s Tucker Carlson rants that climate change is somehow a conspiracy to shrink your children

While Tucker Carlson is no stranger to promoting weird conspiracy theories about climate change, one of his segments from June went completely overboard. On the June 22 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Fox prime-time host accused climate scientists of wanting to use “human engineering” to “make human children smaller than they are now” and thereby reduce their lifetime greenhouse gas emissions: “All we need to do is experiment on human children and we can solve climate change.”

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Carlson’s claim was based on a speech given by a bioethicist nearly five years ago. As Gizmodo reported, “The ideas are bad, but they’re utterly fringe. Activists are clamoring for transforming society, not individual humans. You’d never know that from watching the segment, though.” But taking a fringe remark out of context and repurposing it to claim that the government will take over our lives seems pretty on-brand for Fox News.

7. Dennis Prager thinks the simple solution to a warming climate is to just use more air conditioning

Conservative commentator Dennis Prager, who leads a nonprofit online “university” that promotes climate denial, among other conservative talking points, offered his own absurd “solution” to climate change during a talk on September 22: “Did you know that there is a solution to a warm climate? It's called air conditioning. It's very effective.”

Prager’s comments follow a concerning new form of climate denial in right-wing media: acknowledging the climate is changing but claiming there’s nothing we can do to prevent it -- we must learn to live with it instead. In Prager’s case, he suggests that well-off people can just adapt to the warming climate by using air conditioning when it gets hot (which would only increase emissions even further), while those without access to air conditioning will suffer.

8. On Fox News’ The Five, Greg Gutfeld claims that the data to prove climate change is “never there”

On the September 2 edition of Fox News’ The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld criticized those who connect climate change to extreme weather events -- specifically to the destructive Hurricane Ida. He stated that the data is “never there,” and that “the severity” of such storms “has been on the decline.”

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CitationFrom the September 2, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Five

For one, science has shown that climate change is affecting hurricanes in a number of ways as storms are dumping more rain, moving slower, and rapidly intensifying -- all hallmarks of Hurricane Ida. Secondly, the data is indeed “there,” as climate models have been correct over the past 50 years. Additionally, Gutfeld talks about “severity” only in terms of decreasing deaths from natural disasters. However, focusing on this statistic obscures the many other reasons that climate change is a serious and deadly threat. As one scientist puts it, “climate change kills, from poor nutrition status and poor health linked to episodes of drought and harvest failures, the spread of infectious diseases, … increasing violent conflict, … and of course the impact of extreme events like tropical cyclones and flash floods.”

9. On Newsmax, Republican commentator Ford O’Connell claims that “climate change is the ultimate Trojan horse for socialism” before stating that the Earth “may or not be warming”

Newsmax had a wild year of promoting climate denial, and right-wing pundit Ford O’Connell’s claim that the Earth “may or may not be warming” on the October 25 edition of American Agenda is just another sad example.

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CitationFrom the October 25, 2021, edition of Newsmax's American Agenda

The context behind this segment is noteworthy -- Newsmax was attacking its much larger rival Fox News for “going woke” and “making a permanent hard-left turn” by suggesting that the newly launched Fox Weather streaming service is taking climate change too seriously. In actuality, Fox Weather is just ignoring the issue altogether, but it’s funny to see Newsmax melt down over the fact that Fox is apparently not right-wing enough.

10. On Fox Business, Patricia Lee Onwuka of the Independent Women’s Forum claims that climate change is a “fallacy”

Discussing President Biden’s response to Hurricane Ida on the September 3 edition of Fox Business' Mornings With Maria, right-wing commentator Patricia Lee Onwuka suggested that climate change is a “fallacy” that Biden is using to advance his agenda; she also said that “the facts dispute” the idea that extreme weather events like hurricanes are connected to climate change.

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CitationFrom the September 3, 2021, edition of Fox Business' Mornings With Maria

As noted above, we already know the ways in which climate change is affecting hurricanes and worsening their impacts on our warming world. Those facts don’t seem to matter to Onwuka or the Independent Women’s Forum, which has received both Koch and tobacco industry money and has a history of climate denial.

11. On OAN, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) says that “we have the cleanest environment anywhere in the world” because of the fossil fuel industry

A lot of stupid things were said by right-wing media regarding this year’s United Nations climate conference, known as COP26. One of the more head-scratching comments came from Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), who was featured on a November edition of OAN’s In Focus With Stephanie Hamill to downplay the seriousness of climate change. He went on to hype up the U.S. fossil fuel industry by stating that “we have the cleanest environment anywhere in the world” because of “clean energy practices” like fracking.

While Cawthorn was alluding to the fact that natural gas obtained by fracking is cleaner than coal (it emits much less CO2 than coal when burned), it’s important to remember that fracking also releases methane, which is about 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. And like coal, there are numerous water and air pollution problems associated with its use. In any case, the side effects of fossil fuel operations involve literally polluting our air and waterways, so in no way are they responsible for making our environment clean and safe. Additionally, despite Cawthorn’s boast that “I’ll put our air [quality] up against anyone’s,” the U.S. is nowhere near the top of global environmental rankings by any metric.

12. Fossil fuel lobbyist Daniel Turner thinks concern about climate change is “so overblown that it is hyperbolic and silly”

On the November 1 edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Daniel Turner of the fossil fuel shill group Power the Future tried to throw cold water on COP26 by claiming that “climate change panic is so overblown that it is hyperbolic and silly” and suggesting that the U.N. tries to scare people by publishing “nonsense reports.”

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CitationFrom the November 1, 2021, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom

We’re not sure what’s so “silly” about being concerned with a planet that’s on track for over 2.5 C of warming, which will have devastating consequences for billions of people around the world. Turner, who has spent almost his entire career working for Koch-backed groups, has made similar ludicrous statements in the past, including claiming that climate activists are somehow thrilled with the COVID-19 pandemic because it’s supposedly accomplishing their goals of implementing a Green New Deal.

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teenage vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse, recently acquitted on homicide and attempted homicide charges, is being exalted as a hero by far-right MAGA Republicans —some of whom are offering him internships. Steve Benen, a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show" who frequently writes for Maddow's MaddowBlog on MSNBC's website, weighs in on these internship offers in an op-ed published on November 24 and describes some ways in which they are becoming "increasingly bizarre."

Rittenhouse, now 18, was only 17 when he went to a racial justice demonstration in August 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin carrying an AR-15-style weapon. And shot three Black Lives Matters supporters, two of them fatally. Rittenhouse, during his trial, insisted that he acted in self-defense, and the jury voted "not guilty" on the charges he was facing.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida are among the far-right MAGA Republicans who have offered Rittenhouse internships.

"As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial unfolded," Benen observes, "a variety of Republican officials and candidates saw a political opportunity to exploit. The defendant, charged in the fatal shooting of two men during protests in Wisconsin last year, took on totemic value for the far-right. With this in mind, in the wake of Rittenhouse's acquittal late last week, many Republicans quickly embraced and celebrated the verdict as a victory in some kind of culture war. This, in and of itself, said a great deal about the state of the GOP and its unhealthy approach to our civic life."

Benen continues, "But then it got a little weird. Some congressional Republicans not only saw Rittenhouse's acquittal as validation of a conservative worldview — they wanted to be personally and directly associated with the defendant."

After Gaetz offered Rittenhouse an internship, far-right Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona — who recently drew widespread condemnation for posting an animated video that depicted him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — tweeted, "I will arm wrestle @mattgaetz to get dibs for Kyle as an intern."

Benen says of Gosar, "It's possible the Arizonan was kidding. It's also possible he wasn't. The fact that it's become difficult to tell the difference is itself disconcerting."

Justice was served for #KyleRittenhouse and he is fully exonerated. As I said last year, obviously self-defense. \n\nI will arm wrestle @mattgaetz to get dibs for Kyle as an intern.https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1461760240739917832\u00a0\u2026

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Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado is also offering Benen an intership. Appearing on Newsmax TV, Benen told Sebastian Gorka (a former Donald Trump aide turned cable news host), "Now, I do have some colleagues on the Hill who have, just like me, offered Kyle Rittenhouse an internship in their office. And Madison Cawthorn, he said that he would arm wrestle me for this Kyle Rittenhouse internship. But Madison Cawthorn has some pretty big guns, and so, I would like to challenge him to a sprint instead…. Let's make this fair."

Benen notes that because Cawthorn is in a wheelchair, "competing in a sprint isn't much of an option."

"Given his attorney's recent comments, it seems unlikely that Rittenhouse will intern for any of these GOP officials," Benen writes. "But that doesn't change the fact that it's unsettling to see them compete for his affection in increasingly bizarre ways."

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house Republicans have no problem with one of their members posting a tweet depicting him murdering Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but they are outraged at 13 members of their caucus who voted to pass President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill.

According to Jake Sherman's Punchbowl News, rank and file GOP members of Congress are trying to force Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to strip the 13 of their committee assignments, noting that "GOP leadership is bracing" for the attempt. McCarthy was opposed to the bill, which will vastly improve basic necessities like roads, bridges, rail, and the nation's ports, expand broadband access, and help localities protect against climate change.

Not only are GOP members of Congress angry the 13 voted for the legislation, they are angry they voted "early," rather than forcing Democrats to cross the majority threshold of votes to pass the bill without Republicans.

"Much of the anger is directed at Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.),who voted early for the legislation. Katko is the ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee. Katko told multiple lawmakers on the House floor that he had seen Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on television talking about the infrastructure bill, and he was voting early."

Members of the Sedition Caucus, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz have publicly attacked their fellow Republicans for voting to help the American people by voting for the bill.

Greene especially has been at war with her 13 GOP colleagues, even posting their phone numbers. Here are two of several of her attacks:

And CongressmanGaetz told far right Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield Katko should be stripped of his ranking member status:

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newsmax is pushing back against the bizarre conspiracy theory its White House correspondent circulated about the COVID-19 vaccine.

On Tuesday, November 2, Newsmax issued statements to address Monday tweets from Emerald Robinson. The network's White House correspondent claimed COVID-19 vaccines "contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked."

Robinson echoed a satanic conspiracy theory that has been circulating on the Internet for the last couple of months, according to Mediaite. However, there is no truth to it.

Although Robinson's tweets were removed from the social media platform, Eliot Jacobson, Newsmax's executive vice president and chief content officer, released a statement to show the network's support of the vaccine.

"Newsmax is a strong proponent that Covid 19 vaccines are overarchingly safe and effective, while at the same time raising concerns that mandates infringe on personal liberty and privacy," the network wrote. "We have seen no evidence to suggest LUCIFERASE or LUCIFERIN are present in any vaccines or that they are used as any sort of bioluminescent marker."

"Newsmax strongly believes and has reported that the Covid 19 vaccines are safe and effective," the network said. "We do not believe the vaccines contain any toxic materials or tracking markers, and such false claims have never been reported on Newsmax. The many medical experts appearing on Newsmax have supported the use of the vaccine."

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newsmax is emerging as one of the new voices in right-wing media that are competing with Fox News for the viewer base of Trump supporters — and it helps that the network’s CEO openly says that the company makes no guarantee of its hosts’ accuracy.

But one story the company may now want to take a closer look at involves its own White House correspondent, Emerald Robinson, who has been spreading rampant anti-vaccine conspiracy theories on her social media accounts — which also cut against the network’s main messaging that vaccines for COVID-19 should be counted as one of President Donald Trump’s great accomplishments.

Just on Wednesday, Robinson posted a tweet, which was mirrored at her Facebook account, declaring that the public did not need a COVID-19 vaccine — but rather that it was a tool of government control. (Robinson’s tweets are also largely mirrored at her account on the right-wing social media platform Parler.)[twt says 99% survive]

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Even besides Robinson seriously understating the disease’s mortality rate — it’s about four times higher, even with improving trends — she also disregards other negative impacts of “long COVID” in which symptoms persist for three months or more after infection, such as organ damage in younger patients.

In other tweets, Robinson has called for Vice President Mike Pence to shut down the coronavirus task force, warned that mandatory vaccination would be “part of the move to one-world government” linked to “The Great Reset” conspiracy theory, and joked that for Christmas, people should “donate your Fauci/Gates coronavirus vaccine to a garbage dump of your choice!” She has also spread theories about the vaccines rewriting DNA while repeatedly seeking to implicate Dr. Anthony Fauci and philanthropist Bill Gates in some kind of global conspiracy — even suggesting “the plan” for global public health policy involves “using vaccines to track people.”

And back in July, Robinson said that Trump was making a political mistake by pushing for a vaccine at all — and thus getting out of touch with his real supporters. [twt]

robinson even replied this past Monday to one of Trump’s tweets in which he boasted about the vaccine developments, in order to tell him: “I don’t know anyone who voted for you who is going to take these Fauci/Gates vaccines.”

On air, Newsmax has argued that Trump should have received more credit for vaccines (even as vaccines are developed and approved outside the United States).

“If it were not for President Trump and his determination in pushing Operation Warp Speed on the drug companies, the vaccine would still be months away,” host Grant Stinchfield, in a November 9 monologue attacking Pfizer for not announcing their vaccine’s trial results until a week after the election. “Pfizer owed it to the president to announce this terrific news before the election. He deserved that, at the least. Instead, they apparently sat on the news.”

The network also featured a friendly interview two weeks ago with one of the in the Moderna vaccine trial, who described what the whole experience was like. And this week, anchor John Bachman interviewed a doctor who explained that the vaccines now being announced all looked highly promising. Bachman even stated explicitly that he was “playing devil’s advocate here” by asking skeptical questions about the experts’ advice so the doctor could answer them.

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/newsmax-distances-from-its-own-white-house-correspondent-over-false-vaccine-claims/

https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/mike-lindell-newsmax/

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https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-suggests-democrats-may-have-set-january-6-insurrection

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w**hite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki** was forced to push back against a right wing reporter who was trying to spin conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden in the press briefing room.

"There's no reason to yell, I'm certainly not yelling," Psaki had to tell Newsmax reporter **Emerald Robinson**.

"Though the President has said during the campaign that none of his family will have any business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or foreign country wouldn't it be assuring to the American people," Robinson declared, "if they just let the American people know if Hunter has divulged himself?" (She appears to have meant "divested," not "divulged.")

"I conveyed to you and then I think I'm gonna have to move on, that you should talk to, you should talk to his representatives and – there's no reason to yell, I'm certainly not yelling. You should talk to his representatives, that remains his policy, he's been working to wind that down. Beyond that, I'd say talk to his representatives."

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eric Bolling, a former co-host for the popular Fox News roundtable show "The Five" who was ousted following a report of inappropriate conduct toward former female colleagues, has joined the network's upstart competitor Newsmax.

The Boca Raton, Fla.-based channel announced Monday that Bolling, 58, will start as a fill-in host immediately and get his own program lineup in July.

A former commodities trader, Bolling was part of "The Five" from 2010-17 and a frequent fill-in for Bill O'Reilly when he was the most-watched personality on Fox News, and Sean Hannity. He also appeared on the Fox Business Network.

Bolling was cut loose from Fox News in September 2017 following an investigation into a HuffPost report that he used his cellphone to send unsolicited pictures of male genitalia to current and former female colleagues at the network. He denied the allegations.

Just after his Fox News departure was announced, Bolling learned that his 19-year-old son Eric Chase had died from an accidental overdose of cocaine and the opioid fentanyl. Bolling set up a foundation in his son's name to educate parents on the opioid crisis.

Bolling is the highest-profile former Fox News personality to join Newsmax, a conservative news channel that saw its ratings surge late last year as its hosts were strident advocates of former President Trump.

Newsmax currently has former "Fox & Friends" weekend co-host Rob Schmitt and Greg Kelly, a one-time correspondent at the channel, as part of its lineup of hosts.

The channel continues to provide live coverage of Trump's rallies and speeches that are no longer automatically carried by Fox News, CNN or MSNBC.

Newsmax ratings have come off the highs set last year. On cable, the channel averaged 147,000 viewers in prime time during May, according to Nielsen. The service can also be streamed without a pay TV subscription.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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Newsmax host dangerously declares vaccines go ‘against nature’: Diseases are ‘supposed to’ wipe out people

David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement July 12, 2021

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt on Monday dangerously declared he believes vaccines go "against nature" and diseases are "supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that's just kind of the way evolution goes."

Admitting he's "not a doctor," as Media Matters reports, Schmitt mused on-air, "I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm not a pro-vaxxer. I'm somebody that's looking at this thing and trying to figure it out."

"I've always thought about vaccines, and I always think about just nature, and the way everything works. And I feel like a vaccination in a weird way is just generally kind of going against nature," he claimed, ignoring the fact that all medicine in theory does too – if you define evolution in the most basic "survival of the fittest" terms.

"Like, I mean, if there is some disease out there -- maybe there's just an ebb and flow to life where something's supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that's just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that. Do you follow what I'm saying? Does that make sense to somebody in medicine?"

Schmitt was speaking to Dr. Peter McCullough, a professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine, who wrongly claimed the Delta variant of the coronavirus is only 30% of COVID-19 cases (it is 51.7%) and wrongly claimed that as time goes on the variants get "weaker." The Delta variant "is more contagious than the other virus strains," Yale Medicine reports.

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The World Health Organization calls it “the fastest and fittest."

"Delta is spreading 50% faster than Alpha, which was 50% more contagious than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2," Yale Medicine epidemiologist Dr. Perry Wilson says.

Schmitt went on to tell viewers that "if you don't have a risk, I just, I can't comprehend why you would take something -- they start learning about the heart inflammation and stuff like that. I just don't understand why it's being pushed so hard on people that are very young. And now they're trying to give it to kids."

Three weeks ago the Associated Press reported, "Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren't vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine."

Watch:

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ROB SCHMITT (HOST): I certainly hope that's not the decision made based on a few bad actors in this massive, massive crowd that was, let's be honest, if this is fifty, a hundred thousand or more people, I mean, this could be point zero zero zero one percent of that crowd stirring up all this nonsense inside the Capitol building.

...

SCHMITT: There's a tremendous amount of frustration. And I do think a lot of it comes from a very, very logical place. I think some of it comes from a somewhat of a crazy place. But I absolutely think that there were a lot of things that were unfair about this election for Donald Trump. No question.

TOM BASILE (HOST): And this isn't just about the election. I mean, what we're seeing play out in Washington D.C. is four years -- four years of the Russia hoax. Four years of the impeachment. Four years he's not my president. Four years of thousands of hours of the left-wing media and big tech maligning Donald Trump, maligning conservatives, maligning his supporters. And when you do that to an administration, when you do that to tens of millions of people in this country, eventually it's going to bubble over and boil over. And I think that's a lot of what we're seeing today.

SCHMITT: Yeah, no, I mean. That is very beautifully said. I mean, that puts it right -- that's the nail right on the head. Absolutely. You've seen four years -- and I mean, how long did the Democrats just say that the election was rigged, that it was illegitimate, that Russia did it. I mean, they played that hand -- they overplayed that hand and stirred up so much nonsense in this country. And as soon as there was an election where their guy won, all of a sudden everything is hunky-dory, American elections are always perfect, and there's no fraud. I mean, the level of nonsense from the left over the past four years has just been astounding.

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newsmax host Greg Kelly facing network investigation over controversial tweets that may 'appeal to racists'

Meaghan Ellis

June 15, 2021

Newsmax host Greg Kelly is now at the center of an investigation being conducted by the conservative news network following a string of tweets he posted and deleted on Sunday about racism and the U.S.

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newsmax host loses it over Lucky Charms 'gay leprechaun' and Kellogg’s 'forcing kids to be confused about their gender'

David Badash The New Civil Rights Movement

May 26, 2021

Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield had a homophobic Tuesday night freak out over kids' breakfast cereals.

After being strongly criticized two weeks ago for disgusting antisemitic remarks, Stinchfield is back to....

DC insider calls out Newsmax host live on-air for spreading Trump election lies

Alex Henderson

On Saturday, May 8, Elon Musk hosted NBC's long-running "Saturday Night Live" — and the following Monday morning, Newmax TV's Rob Finnerty, who hosts the show "Wake Up,...

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/qanon-newsmax/

Far right wing cable channel Newsmax TV hosted a QAnon conspiracy theorist Monday night who told viewers Donald Trump is still president and his vice president is John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in a tragic plane accident in 1999 at the age of 38.

JFK, Jr. being alive is one of the QAnon cult's beliefs.

Newsmax introduced its guest as "a Minnesota business owner who refused to take down a massive, massive Trump 2020 flag that violated his city's ordinance," as Media Matters reports. The cable channel is owned by former President Donald Trump's longtime friend Chris Ruddy.

"Jay Johnson is facing increased fines and says not even jail time can stop him from flying this huge flag over his construction business," Newsmax's Rob Schmitt said. "Just this weekend, he doubled down, put up an even bigger flag. This one is 40 by 60 [feet]. It is 900 square feet bigger than his previous flag. So this thing's like 3,600 square feet. It is huge. The size of the footprint of a house. He's also flying it proudly in the small city of Buffalo, Minnesota, which is, I guess, is technically a blue state which makes it even funnier."

The flag, Schmitt noted, "has the names Trump and JFK Jr. on it, is that right? With the slogan 'where we go one we go all.' Explain this flag."

"Well," Johnson replied, "Trump, to me, is the lone ranger and the lone ranger needs a guy by his side, and that's JFK. And, so, I decided to put it up and leave the people — think about what's going on."

"Well, JFK and Donald Trump were friends," Johnson claims (which is debatable.) "And, I don't know if you know this, but Donald Trump is president and Donald Trump needs a vice president. So when the time was right, I bring him out. And he's your new vice president."

The phrase "where we go one we go all," is a QAnon conspiracy motto, one popularized by former Trump national security advisor Mike Flynn in an oath he took on camera.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/david-horowitz/newsmax-guest-if-slavery-was-original-sin-its-african-sin

apr 22 show

bOB SELLERS (HOST): David, give me your feeling for this. You have ten reasons. We don't have time for ten, but what are some of the ones that you think people should be most aware of.

DAVID HOROWITZ (GUEST): It doesn't make any sense to sue the government that freed the slaves. You should be suing the Confederacy, that was this warring power. The United States spent probably the equivalent of trillions of dollars, they -- we gave 350,000 lives, mainly white lives, in the Union Army to free the slaves. There isn't a slave alive, there's not the child of a slave alive, probably not even the grandchild of the slave alive. This is just racial extortion. The majority of Blacks in America - and this is a well-kept secret - are in the middle class. Not to mention, you know, the multi-millionaires and billionaires like, one of my favorite billionaires, Shaquille O'Neal.

But American Blacks have more privilege, more opportunity, more equality, more rights, more wealth than the Blacks in any other nation on Earth, including all of Black Africa and the Black Caribbean.

If you are a Black person, you are blessed to have been born in the United States. That's just the reality. You just have to look, you know, at the TV screens. Look at the ads. I bet 70% of them feature Black actors and actresses, integrated couples, taboo relationships like Black men and white -- well, what used to be taboo. So do you think these wealthy companies want to lose money? They know that their customers aren't racist, otherwise they'd wouldn't be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in ads that feature Black people, would they?

SELLERS: Ok, well, you also make the point you -- I think want to -- correct me if I'm wrong --one of your bullet points is that African-Americans in this country have already been paid reparations. And I don't know exactly what you mean by that. So why don't you explain?

HOROWITZ: They've been paid 20, whatever -- last time I looked it was $22 trillion spent on the war on poverty. A lot of that affects Black people, although it wasn't specifically for them, they get to benefit by it. You know, I have to laugh when people say Blacks have marginalized and therefore oppressed. Blacks are the center of attention in our country, they're the beneficiaries of most of the goodies that the government gives out -- in compensation for what? For people who have never been slaves. For people whose parents have never been slaves. Come on! It's, you know, we should remember the tragic origins of our country when slavery was global.

SELLERS: Ok, ok.

HOROWITZ: If slavery was an original sin it's an African sin because every Black person who is shipped to this country as a slave was enslaved by Black Africans who took --

SELLERS: Ok, ok. we're running out of time, David. I got to go. I'll just point out it's two white guys talking about this, but I think a lot of people agree with you, including a number of people of color. So we appreciate your joining us.

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Newsmax was harshly criticized after the company settled a lawsuit and issued a public apology for their lies about election fraud.

"Newsmax would like to clarify its coverage of Dr. Coomer and note that while Newsmax initially covered claims by President Trump's lawyers, supporters and others that Dr. Coomer played a role in manipulating Dominion voting machines, Dominion voting software, and the final vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, Newsmax subsequently found no evidence that such allegations were true. Many of the states whose results were contested by the Trump campaign after the November 2020 election have conducted extensive recounts and audits, and each of these states certified the results as legal and final," Newsmax said in a statement.

"There are several facts that our viewers should be aware of. Newsmax has found no evidence that Dr. Coomer interfered with Dominion voting machines or voting software in any way, nor that Dr. Coomer ever claimed to have done so. Nor has Newsmax found any evidence that Dr. Coomer ever participated in any conversation with members of 'Antifa,' nor that he was directly involved with any partisan political organization," Newsmax explained.

"On behalf of Newsmax, we would like to apologize for any harm that our reporting of the allegations against Dr. Coomer may have caused to Dr. Coomer and his family," Newsmax said.

Here's some of what people were saying about the far-right cable network:

anchor later apologized for walking off? stop steal BS

https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/mike-lindell/

https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-reacts-president-bidens-call-unity-calling-his-inaugural-speech-dark-and-divisive

https://www.mediamatters.org/grant-stinchfield/newsmax-host-warns-democrats-will-round-all-republicans-covid-internment-camps

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Newsmax has been grifting its audience by falsely claiming that there’s a “natural cure for Alzheimer’s.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/gavin-mcinnes/proud-boys-are-linked-capitol-attack-newsmax-gives-founder-gavin-mcinnes-friendly

https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/trump-antifa/

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elusional GOP lawmakers, Trump supporters now blaming 'antifa' for Capitol Hill chaos

Meaghan Ellis January 07, 2021

Most Americans clearly heard President Donald Trump encourage his supporters to march to Capitol Hill and demand the 2020 presidential election results be overturned in his favor. Shortly after Trump's directive, his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building.

But despite all evidence to the contrary, several delusional Republican lawmakers and a disturbing number of Trump loyalists insist antifa is to blame for their own behavior. Hours after law enforcement managed to gain control of the chaotic situation, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) expressed outrage over what ensued. However, he did not hold the Trump supporters accountable, reports the Washington Post.

According to the Republican lawmaker, some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters. They were masquerading as Trump supporters and in fact, were members of the "violent terrorist group" antifa. Antifa, a left-wing anti-fascist movement, has been described by some on the right at a "terrorist" organization, but the Southern Poverty Law Center cautions that designation is "dangerous" and "threatens civil liberties."

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) also took to Twitter with a flurry of tweets that claimed there's "evidence" to suggest antifa was behind the riot — all of which, appears to be hearsay. On Thursday, Jan. 7, Brooks tweeted, "Please, don't be like #FakeNewsMedia, don't rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears.Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics. Evidence follows:"

He also broke down his claims saying:

1. A Congressman warned me on MONDAY of a growing ANTIFA threat & advised that I sleep in my office rather than leaving Capitol complex & sleeping in my condo. I heeded that advice & have slept on office floor for 4 straight nights.

2. Congressman told me he was warned on TUESDAY by Capitol Police officer that intelligence suggested fascist ANTIFA was going to try to infiltrate the Trump rally by dressing like Trump supporters.[vs proud boy say dress like anifa?]

3. Capitol Police advised TUESDAY that it best not to leave Capitol complex.

4. Evidence, much public, surfacing that many Capitol assaulters were fascist ANTIFAs, not Trump supporters. Again, time will reveal truth. Don't rush to judgment. Don't be fooled by #FakeNewsMedia whose political judgment drives their reporting.

My view: fully prosecute all!

Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) also tweeted an excuse for what occurred. Just hours after the breach, Gosar tweeted, "This has all the hallmarks of Antifa provocation."[ie FALSE FLAG?]

Conservative media figures and Trump supporters took to social media with bizarre claims in an effort to take the blame off the pro-Trump mob.

...

However, many Twitter users have pushed back with obvious clues that Trump supporters were, indeed, responsible for the Capitol building breach, noting masks were non-existent and there was no social distancing. Media outlets are also revealing the identities of some of the rioters photographed at the Capitol building.

Despite conservative attempts to divert from what happened, many of the rioters are, indeed, right-wing extremists.

newsmax: uS Army combat veteran @CoryMills_PACEM says "I'm pissed off at what I am seeing on American soil, I'm pissed off that I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting this terroristic behavior only to see it on our soil." http://nws.mx/tv

Many lawmakers are calling for those identified to face charges for their actions and involvement in the Capitol breach.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/newsmax-fact-check/

dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic have received a great deal of attention as right-wing media figures promote the claims of attorney Sidney Powell and other Trump allies who have made up claims that ballot-counting software stole the 2020 election for Joe Biden. But now Newsmax, which has grown in popularity since the election by elevating President Donald Trump's bogus election fraud claims, has been forced to debunk unfounded claims about Smartmatic and Dominion stealing the election, much of to the chagrin of its own readers and viewers.

Recent Newsmax segments showed anchors reading conspicuously and carefully scripted claims about the election systems companies that sharply contrasted with the outlet's previous claims.

Host John Tabacco explained:"Since Election Day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems — both companies that offer voting software in the U.S. And Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note that it has not reported, as true, certain claims made about these companies. There are several facts our viewers and readers should be aware of."

Tabacco continued: "Newsmax has found no evidence that either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other or has any business association with each other. We have no evidence that Dominion uses Smartmatic's software or vice-versa." [twt]

an article published on Newsmax's website offers some more clarifications — for example, "Dominion has stated its company has no ownership relationship with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's family, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's family, the Clinton family, Hugo Chavez, or the government of Venezuela. Neither Dominion nor Smartmatic has any relationship with George Soros."

Powell has claimed that Dominion's equipment was used in Venezuela to the advantage of the late Huge Chavez. But Dominion, in response, stressed that its equipment has never even been used in that country. And Newsmax's article noted, "Smartmatic is a U.S. company and not owned by the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chavez or any foreign official or entity. Smartmatic states it has no operations in Venezuela."

Newsmax TV, like One American News, has been promoting itself as more favorable to President Donald Trump than Fox News. The viewers have clearly gotten used to this positioning, though, and comments on the outlet's site suggest many are angry that the outlet has been forced to defend Dominion and Smartmatic — almost certainly because Smartmatic has threatened legal action.

"Newsmax is so WEAK," said one commenter in response to the article fact-checking claims about the voting systems.

"Now I learned, that NewsMax is just a part of the DeepState, supporting the cheaters and trying to wipe the traces of the vote-stealing..." said another. "What a pity, I almost thought that this channel will be the the new Robin Hood of news agencies... So they will be not."

One commenter with the name Flacon2325 said: "WAY over 300 SWORN affidavits ARE evidence of illegal activity but the liberals everywhere just ignore the truth. They are not after Justice . They are after POWER!"

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-coup-2649538441

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Four chilling signs Trump's attempted coup is escalating

Bob Brigham December 18, 2020

President Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede that he lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden.

There were four major signs on Thursday evening that the Republican effort to overthrow the election is escalating.

The first sign was when former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn suggested on NewsMax Trump could use "military capabilities" to overturn the election in swing states hold do-over elections.[mart law used 64x]

The second sign occurred a short time later on Fox News when White House advisor Peter Navarro said President-elect Biden would be an "illegal and illegitimate president."

The third sign was when White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany argued on Fox News that Congress could use "alternate slates" of electors to steal the election.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1339758838535180288

The fourth sign was Trump's Twitter account.

Trump complimented Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for saying he would back Trump's efforts to overturn the election in Congress.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339758142381551629

Trump then falsely claimed he won Wisconsin and that the vote was rigged.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339759289234317312

And then Trump complained about the United States Supreme Court refusing to go along with his efforts to overturn the election.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339759289234317312

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-network/

after weeks of refusing to acknowledge or accept the outcome of the 2020 election, President Donald Trump's "alternative facts" news networks are clearly struggling with how to proceed. But with the meeting of the Electoral College, the reality of President-elect Joe Biden's win is creeping in. Newsmax is finally reporting the truth about Biden becoming the next president of the United States, while One America News Network has a slightly different stance.

The Washington Post reported that, unlike Newsmax, the smaller OANN downplayed the Electoral College in its television coverage. Nevertheless, the network quietly shared a retweet acknowledging the vote.

That tweet read: "BREAKING: Joe Biden has cleared the 270-electoral-vote mark to formalize his presidential victory with California's 55 votes. (Per AP)"...However, their site continues to publish pieces suggesting that widespread voter fraud is the reason for Biden's victory despite having no evidence to support those claims. The allegations of fraud are supported by misinterpretations of the facts, misunderstandings of the law, special pleading, and some outright lies.

Both conservative networks have been the main television sources airing Trump's unfounded grievances and unproven claims of voter fraud. Fox News, which played a significant role in initially calling the election for Biden, alienated many of its viewers with the truth, even as much of its coverage gave excessive credence to Trump's fraud claims.

No matter how outlandish the claim, Newsmax and OANN have enthusiastically reported the president's claims and refused to accept the outcome of the election.In fact, they have even advocated for Trump's attempts to overturn the outcome of the election. Conservative attorneys Victoria Toensinga and Joseph diGenova said on Newsmax still believe there will be more avenues to argue Trump's points.

"There will be a lot discussed about this over the next 24 hours," diGenova said, the Post reported. Toensing chimed in as she added, "Maybe only on Newsmax."

However, it appears NewsMax is generally turning a corner.The Post reported that one of the outlet's anchors tried to break the news of Biden's win gently to its audience.

"What I'm trying to do is manage everyone's expectations," host John Bachman said. "These judges don't seem to be taking up these cases. This is the reality. This is the motion set in place."

Meanwhile, the Newsmax homepage now highlights Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) remarks acknowledging Biden's win.

"Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result," McConnell said of Biden's win. "But our system of government has the processes to determine who will be sworn in on Jan. 20. The Electoral College has spoken."

Like the conservative networks and McConnell, a number of other Republican lawmakers have finally conceded that Trump will not be re-elected for a second term. Sen. John Thune (R-S.C) also another top-ranking Republican senator, admitted that there comes a time when you just have to move forward. For him, the official vote on Monday was a breaking point.

"At some point, you have to face the music," said Thune. "Once the Electoral College settles the issue today, it's time for everybody to move on."

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/greg-kelly

ME

Not  even the Electoral College vote has stopped some of the conspiracy theories and misinformation being circulated by right-wing media sites and news outlets. While Newsmax has admitted Joe Biden is the President-elect of the United States, the network also insists: "We also recognize President Trump continues to contest the results and we will cover aspects of that news story."

And on his recent broadcasts, network host Greg Kelly's is digging in his heels on Trump's contestation by refusing to move on and accept the election results. The network saw a rating surge after Biden was declared the winner of the election on November 7 — and Kelly has made it a point to continue sowing false seeds of hope.

On Monday evening after Electoral College voting concluded, Kelly, the network's most-watched host, adamantly disagreed with conservative members of the media who began acknowledging Biden as the president-elect.

Kelly said, "Now, I do know that there are smart, informed people who are saying that Joe Biden is the president-elect. Now, I disagree with them, and it's not just a hunch that I'm going on, it's the Constitution." god term, no explan?

Despite the Trump campaign having more than 50 lawsuits tossed out of court due to no substantial evidence to back claims of voter fraud, Kelly is still arguing that justification is needed. "At this point, there is some political and some historical justification for them to do so at this point.I personally feel they're wrong."

During the same segment, Kelly criticized Biden's address following the Electoral College vote as he insisted that there is still a "significant chance" Trump could be the candidate inaugurated in January 2021.

"Hey, remember Joe Biden's speech yesterday when purportedly, he clinched the Electoral College? He didn't do too much talking," Kelly said. "He did more coughing, it seemed like. A small sample of the coughs and I'm concerned because the way it's looking for Joe, his health, I don't think he's gonna make it for Donald Trump's second inauguration."

He added, "Yes, on January 20th, I do believe that there is a significant chance that Donald Trump could be inaugurated."

Repeatedly, Kelly continued to spread dangerous misinformation as he argued that the election is still "not over."

"Hey, it is not over," Kelly said, adding, "It's not, actually. You can look it up in the Constitution. See what happens folks."

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Newsmax host attacks Fox News by trying to tie it to Barack Obama

12/11/20 5:49 PM EST

cHRIS SALCEDO (HOST): Obama and Fox News Channel are finding more in common. That's the sad news that I have to report in tonight's preamble. In some of the email I'm getting, folks invariably ask me what the hell is going on over at Fox. Truth is, I don't know. I suspect it has something to do with the dedicated Democrats who run that channel these days. In all honesty, I thought we'd never be here. I thought that we and Fox would be fighting side by side, you know, against those folks trying to wash this wave of anti-American socialism that has swallowed the Democrat socialist party and the rest of the biased press. Well, it's not worked out that way. It's a bit discouraging, I'm not going to lie to you.

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President Barack Hussein Obama has been pimping a book around the country, you might have heard. In one interview, he lamented how white conservatives supported him at one time.

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Typical left-wing extremist. As often as Barack Obama looks in the mirror you'd think the former narcissist-in-chief could get a clearer picture or have at least a greater idea, some self-awareness. The reason so many people stopped supporting you, Mr. Obama, wasn't because of anybody else but you. The reason Obama lost support, folks, was because he opened his big mouth and implemented policies that told us who he really was. The media refused to vet Obama before his election. So many people were shocked to discover that he's an anti-American leftist who despises the United States and worked to prop up our enemies in Iran, Cuba, and China.

But who does Obama think is responsible for his loss of popularity? Rush Limbaugh, of course. Just like Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera laughingly bashed Rush Limbaugh for making a fair and accurate analysis. With all due respect, Geraldo, Rush does more good for this country in one of his opening monologues than any of your socialist pals have done in their entire careers. Although, I really did enjoy the contents of Al Capone's vault. It turns out your critique of Rush was just about as substantive.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/newsmax/

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following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's election lawsuit, NewsMax host Greg Kelly quickly fired back with a delusional rebuke of the court's ruling.

To make matters worse, he dangerously continued to perpetuate a sense of false hope for his viewers by declaring that the election is still "not over," according to The Daily Beast.

On Friday evening, Kelly opened "The Greg Kelly Show" with remarks about the court's ruling. "First off, it's not over," a distressed Kelly began. "The Supreme Court did turn down the Texas case." Before offering details about the ruling, Kelly focused on what he believes is a slight glimmer of hope.

"We have the situation in Pennsylvania that has not been settled. We have Georgia that has not been settled, we have Michigan that has not been settled, independent of this lawsuit from Texas."

During the show, NewsMax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson also agreed with Kelly's claim about the election not being over. What appears to have been most surprising for conservatives is the fact that all three of the Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices' —Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch— ruled against the case. [vid]

apparently, they assumed the Trump-appointed justices would automatically side with the president even without evidence. Since they opted to uphold the Constitutional oath they took to protect America's democracy, Kelly and Robinson surmised that they must not "understand the gravity of the situation."

"What I'm hearing from a lot of conservatives is that they wonder if Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, and the new justice, Amy Coney Barrett, actually understand the gravity of the situation," Robinson said.

She added, "The president put three Supreme Court justices on the bench during his first term, yet none of those that he put on the bench—at the recommendation of the Federalist Society—were with the team, or with Alito and Thomas, in actually deciding to hear the case. They chose not to. They sided with the liberal judges."...Sadly, it appears Robinson failed to look at the ruling through an objective lens. It was never about siding with a political party. The ruling was always centered on upholding the law....Tucker Carlson dispels rumor he's leaving Fox for Newsmax ... ›

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https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-ceo-defends-conspiracy-theories-peddled-network-were-not-saying-our-hosts-are

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grabbing fox defectors, 150K --> 1.1 million trms?

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/right-wing-media/

Trump was furious when, on Election Night, Fox News' decision desk called Arizona for Joe Biden — and many of Trump's followers share his sense of betrayal. Trump has been urging his MAGA base to look to sources other than Fox News or Fox Business for information, and according to Renée DiResta — a technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory — some right-wing social media outlets are happy to tell Trump devotees what they want to hear.

After Fox News called Arizona for Biden, DiResta notes this week in an article for The Atlantic, the internet was full of anti-Fox hashtags from his supporters. And Trump devotees, according to DiResta, are also angry with Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

DiResta explains, "Throughout Election Day, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube had been cracking down on a flurry of allegations about voter fraud in Arizona; the platforms quickly applied warning labels to new posts containing false or disputed information and reduced the distribution of groups spreading them. In response, pro-Trump influencers exhorted their followers to congregate on Parler."[twt]

DiResta cites the social media app Parler as one of the right-wing outlets that has been willing to help Trump promote "baseless conspiracy theories." And she points out that for some Trump supporters, Newsmax TV and One America News have become far-right alternatives to Fox News.

"For most of Trump's term, Facebook and others had been loath to crack down on even baseless conspiracy theories, including those repeated by the president himself," DiResta explains. "Freedom of expression, the argument went, covers the right to think and say even floridly false things, which were best addressed through corrections and counter-speech. Yet the major platforms concluded that misleading theories about the election were a distinct class of misinformation because of their potential to cause significant harm to the body politic."

Other Trump-friendly outlets, DiResta observes, range from the tube sites Rumble and BitChute to the social media site Gab — which has been described as a far-right equivalent of Twitter.

"People are joining Parler today to find like-minded users to validate their own beliefs, but ultimately, some percentage will get bored and move on," DiResta argues. "That subset will ultimately drift away from the app. It's less user-friendly than Facebook, and it lacks one of the primary appeals that Twitter affords its core users: the ability to criticize people at the other end of the political spectrum. For some Trump supporters, the whole point of politics is to 'own the libs,' but on Parler, there are no libs around to own."

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‘Do you feel embarrassed?’ Journalist Mehdi Hasan grills Newsmax CEO on why he airs claim COVID is a ‘scam

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/pro-trump-newsmax-ceo-admits-to-spreading-false-information-about-the-election-because-its-great-for-ratings/

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Furious because Fox News' decision desk called Arizona for former Vice President Joe Biden on Election Night, President Donald Trump has been angrily railing against the right-wing cable news outlet and encouraging his supporters to watch Newsmax TV or One America News instead — and Newsmax TV has been enjoying a post-election ratings surge by going out of its way to be more Trumpian than Fox News or Fox Business. The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner discussed, among other things, Newsmax's post-election success during an interview with Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy. And Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake is noting that Ruddy, during the interview, basically admitted that Newsmax has been promoting Trump's bogus voter fraud claims without even investigating them.

During the interview, Ruddy indicated to Chotiner that he didn't necessarily believe all of Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud. But the Newsmax CEO acknowledged that promoting them has been great for ratings.

Ruddy told Chotiner, "At the end of the day, it's great for news. The news cycle is red-hot, and Newsmax is getting one million people per minute, according to Nielsen, tuning into Newsmax TV. I think it's good."...

https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-guest-calls-all-patriotic-americans-resist-public-health-guidelines

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newsmax host calls on Trump supporters to overthrow GOP and form 'MAGA Party'

Meaghan Ellis

Newsmax host Greg Kelly is calling on conservative Trump supporters to overthrow the Republican

press conf: rudy: votes counter in Germany and ---- smartmatic owned by biz partner of Soros, maduro and chavez Kumer?  soros #1 donor blm, antifa and dems

[radiolab math  ]  globalist dictators, corps everyone against us except trump;

dominion maCHINE, smartmatic software, we need paper copy (which we have in GA? counting the same fraud ballots b/c sep from outer envelope) mayor daley held votes, broward cty

10 dem corrupt cities, pols went to jail for decades

big tech censors us

lawyers drop out b/c of death threats

video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6bzv1TMl8

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-repeats-unsubstantiated-claims-of-broad-vote-fraud

11/20/20

wASHINGTON (AFP) – With hair dye streaming down his cheeks and Donald Trump watching on television, the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani unleashed eyebrow-raising claims on Thursday (Nov 19) that George Soros, China and a dead Venezuelan dictator conspired with Democratic “crooks” to hand America’s election to Joe Biden.

In an extraordinary 90-minute press conference at the Republican National Committee in Washington, Mr Giuliani and other members of Mr Trump’s legal team left no doubt they were refusing to acknowledge President-elect Biden’s win, arguing instead that a broad “national conspiracy” to deny Mr Trump re-election was underway.

Mr Giuliani opened with a frontal attack on “corrupt” Democratic-led cities like Detroit he accused of purposely flipping thousands of votes to Mr Biden, spoke of “a plan from a centralised place to execute” voter fraud, and warned of an “iron curtain of censorship” denying the American people facts about the election.

Then it turned bizarre.

“Did you all watch ‘My Cousin Vinny’?” asked Mr Giuliani, who proceeded to deliver his best Joe Pesci impersonation, copying the actor’s mafioso persona from the hit 1992 movie.

“How many fingers do I got up?” he groaned, apparently complaining about how far away election monitors were kept from the ballot-counting in swing states like Georgia.

Patting his beading brow with a handkerchief, and with sweat mixed with hair dye dripping down from his temples, Mr Giuliani’s attacks veered towards the outlandish.  “You should be more astounded by the fact that our votes are counted in Germany, and in Spain by a company owned by affiliates of Chavez and Maduro,” Mr Giuliani lectured reporters, referring to Venezuela’s notorious strongman Hugo Chavez, who has been dead for seven years, and the country’s current leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

The company in question is elections software firm Smartmatic, founded in 2000 in Florida by two men born in Venezuela.

Smartmatic’s chairman Mark Malloch-Brown is on the board of the Open Society Foundation begun by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a recurring bogeyman of Republican politicians.

The company’s chairman “is a close associate and business partner of George Soros, the biggest donor to the Democratic Party, the biggest donor to Antifa – and the biggest donor of Black Lives Matter,” Mr Giuliani said.

“My goodness. What do we have to do to get you to give our people the truth?” he said.

Accusing Mr Biden’s aides of orchestrating the alleged fraud, Mr Giuliani asserted: “They made significant mistakes, like all crooks do, and we caught them.”

‘Craziest’ press conference?

As Mr Giuliani repeated conspiracy theories and discussed the various “pathways to victory” for his boss,Mr Trump reveled in the lawyer’s message as he looked on from the White House, tweeting of “an open and shut case of voter fraud".

Important News Conference today by lawyers on a very clear and viable path to victory. Pieces are very nicely falling into place. RNC at 12:00 P.M.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2020

The president’s claims of mass cheating have been debunked by a cybersecurity agency in Mr Trump’s own administration that declared November’s election “the most secure in American history.”

That agency’s head, Chris Krebs, was fired this week by Mr Trump. Like the president he too was watching Mr Giuliani’s performance.

“That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest,” Mr Krebs said on Twitter.

mr Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, took a dig at a big city rival when he claimed that New Jersey residents crossing state lines to vote in Pennsylvania was “as frequent as getting beaten up at a Philadelphia Eagle football game.”

He and fellow lawyers Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and others crowded into a room at RNC headquarters, maskless in the midst of a runaway coronavirus pandemic that has killed 250,000 Americans.

They spent considerable time detailing complaints made in multiple affidavits that allege malfeasance, including from one registered Democrat in Detroit who blew the whistle on fraud she was allegedly asked to perpetrate.

The poll worker who submitted that affidavit, Jessy Jacob, “was basically trained to cheat,” Mr Giuliani said, after holding up copies of the affidavit and challenging journalists to read and report on the legal challenges.

“I don’t know, maybe you could say she’s lying? But you can’t say there’s no evidence,” he added.

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https://en.panampost.com/jose-gregorio-martinez/2020/11/20/former-chavez-guard-to-be-trumps-witness-in-his-fraud-allegation-against-smartmatic/

former Chávez Guard to Be Trump’s Witness in his Fraud Allegation against Smartmatic

Trump attorney Sidney Powell claims to have evidence of the vulnerability of Smartmatic - used for years in Venezuela - changing votes without being detected, according to the confession of a former high-ranking Chavista military officer. Journalist Joshua Goodman said it would be Leamsy Salazar.

Spanish – The hours of uncertainty for Venezuelans to know the election results during the Chavista era became longer for Americans who had to wait days to have at least one projection this year. The sudden turn of electoral tendencies during the vote count also became common in Venezuela. The case of the 2004 recall referendum against Hugo Chávez was the first and most bitter experience. Now Venezuela and the United States have two things in common: Smartmatic and the ghost of fraud.

It was just these two irregularities that set off the alarms in the Republican Party. President Donald Trump led the results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the early morning of November 4. In all of them, the scrutiny was extended for days. In all, the trend suddenly reversed, and Democrat Joe Biden was projected as the winner. Trump’s legal team soon put together the pieces that pointed to Venezuela. Smartmatic was exposed as a company linked to the Chavista regime that has a technology that changes votes without being detected. This is what Chávez asked for, and this is how it was executed.

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The results requested by Chávez

This is the complaint made public on Newsmax by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign. Citing an affidavit from a high-ranking ex-military officer of the Chavista regime, Powell claimed to have evidence of the vulnerability of the voting system. This technology used this year in 28 states of the American Union is the same that for almost two decades has guaranteed the permanence in power of Chavismo in Venezuela with rigged elections.

“Designed in a way that the system could change the vote of each voter without being detected. Chávez wanted the software itself to function in such a manner that if the voter were to place their thumbprint or fingerprint on a scanner, then the thumbprint would be tied to a record of the voter’s name and identity as having voted, but that voter would not be tracked to the changed vote. He made it clear that the system would have to be set up but not leave any evidence of the changed vote for the specific voter, and that there would be no evidence to show, and nothing to contradict that the name and the fingerprint or thumbprint was going with a changed vote. Smartmatic agreed to create such a system and produced the software and the hardware that accomplished the result for President [Hugo] Chavez,” said the witness.

Sidney Powell explained on Newsmax that Smartmatic’s system was created so that Hugo Chávez would not lose an election. And that’s how it was. He was in power until his death. She added that it was later exported to Argentina and other South American countries until it reached the United States. During her interview on the TV channel, she recommended reading the statement on her Twitter account.

From Chávez’s escort to Trump’s witness

Later, the Associated Press (AP) correspondent for Latin America, Joshua Goodman, revealed who this Chavista military member could be. Although he clarified that the name is reserved, he said, “it seems that the witness is Captain Leamsy Salazar.”

Lieutenant Commander Leamsy Salazar was part of the Military House, in charge of presidential custody. For nearly ten years, he was head of security and personal assistant to Hugo Chávez. Then the second in command of the regime, Diosdado Cabello, requested his services after Chávez’s death.

Salazar fled to the United States in December 2014 as a protected witness from Washington. This made him the highest-ranking active military officer who broke with Chavismo to reveal the criminal activities related to drug trafficking of the Chavista high command, reported ABC.

Data manipulation in real-time

In the affidavit, the Venezuelan witness -specifically because of the litigation in Georgia– explains how the manipulation of the vote is done from a secret ballot center in real-time, taking the case of Venezuela as an example.

“All of the tabulations of computer-controlled voting is done in a closed environment so that the voter and any observer cannot detect what is happening unless there is a malfunction or other event that causes the observer to question the process. I saw first hand that the manipulation and switching of votes can be done in real-time, in the secret ballot center that existed in Caracas, Venezuela. For me, it was something very surprising and disturbing.”

The informant confesses that Smartmatic’s performance in Venezuela allowed him to realize that “it does not matter what the voter decides or what the ballot says. It is the operator of the software and the software that decide what counts.”

The informant also refers to the electoral frauds committed in Venezuela. According to the source, after being implemented in the country, Smartmatic’s electoral system closely observed elections in which the result was manipulated and changed as in the 2006 presidential election of Hugo Chávez against Manuel Rosales and in the 2013 election of Nicolás Maduro against Henrique Capriles.

The links between Dominion and Smartmatic

On November 12th, the former mayor of New York and also the lawyer of President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, alleged in an interview with Fox Business that Dominion Voting Systems is owned by Smartmatic.

“Smartmatic was founded in 2004. It was formed by three Venezuelans, who were very close to the dictator Hugo Chávez. It was created to arrange elections. That is the company that owns Dominion. Although Dominion is Canadian, all its software is from Smartmatic,” added Giuliani.

Dominion has denied its connection to Smartmatic. However, the former Chavista military member assures in his statement that he is aware of the partnership between both companies and explains how they are related. “I would like to point out that the software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral system of Dominion and other electoral tabulation companies are based on software that is a descendant of the Smartmatic Electoral Management System.

Highlighting that Dominion is one of the top three vote tabulation companies in the United States, he adds that this company uses the same methods and fundamentally the same software design for data storage, transfer, and calculation of voter identification and voting data.

“Dominion and Smartmatic did business. The software, hardware, and system have the same flaws. Fundamentally, it has multiple opportunities to corrupt data and masks the process in a way that the average person cannot detect any fraud or manipulation. The fact that the voting machine displays the result the voter wants and then prints a ballot that reflects it does not matter. It is the software that counts the digitized vote and reports the results. The software itself is the one that changes the information electronically to get the result that the software operator and the vote-counting system intend to generate. This is how it is done”.

The votes that traveled to Europe

President Trump’s legal team – led by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis – held a press conference Thursday to report on the status of the fraud investigation into the November 3 presidential election.

Giuliani added to the puzzle a fact he had already advanced on Wednesday in an interview with Fox Business: the votes of the 28 states where Dominion operated were counted in Germany and Spain by Smartmatic.He also noted that high-ranking Dominion personnel support the radical leftist group Antifa,which has been involved in violence in several cities since May 25, following the death of George Floyd.

When asked about the competence of the FBI to verify the allegations, the former mayor of New York harshly questioned the actions of this body. “I don’t know where the FBI has been for the last four years. I don’t know where the FBI was when our votes were counted in a foreign country by a company controlled by friends of an enemy of the United States.”

Soros and left-wing globalism

The network of left-wing globalism would be behind the plan to impose the Democrat on the White House. And when it comes to globalism, all roads lead to Soros. Trump’s lawyer warned that the irregularities detected in the presidential election constitute a national security problem, where many foreign interests are involved.

He highlighted the fact that the votes were counted in Germany and Spain by a Venezuelan company, which would be linked to George Soros, the chief promoter of globalism, whom he pointed out as the key financier of the Democratic Party and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

The violent character of BLM and Antifa has been widely documented. A recent U.S. Crisis Monitor study states that between May 26 and September 12, 637 riots were reported in the United States, and 91% of them involved BLM. In the violent protests that took place in several cities after the death of George Floyd, Antifa emerged as a protagonist in the looting, destruction, and assassinations.

Smartmatic, from Chávez to Biden

Rudy Giuliani closed his speech by emphasizing that no other choice should be made with the participation of Dominion and Smartmatic. He reiterated that what happened with the presidential election was a massive attack on the integrity of the voting system.

Adding to Smartmatic’s discredit is the fact that Democrat Joe Biden, projected by the media as the winner of the election, included in his transition team Peter Neffenger, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral who currently serves as Smartmatic’s Chairman of the U.S. Board of Directors.

Smartmatic’s name has been heard in Venezuela since 2004. That year, the same year in which the company was formed, its technology was used for the first time on the occasion of the recall referendum against Hugo Chávez. The experience was a bitter one. An electronic voting system that promised speedy results ended up being slower than manual counting. At that time, the result took about 10 hours. The exit polls had guaranteed Chavez’s defeat by a 20% difference.

In 2017, after lending itself to the election of the illegitimate National Constituent Assembly (ANC) in which only Chavista candidates participated, Smartmatic admitted that the announced result was manipulated., as reported by BBC Mundo.

Between the certification and the election

During the press conference that lasted more than an hour, Sidney Powell insisted that they have evidence that a large number of Trump’s votes were simply discarded. “They were thrown away,” she said.

In Michigan, one of the states being challenged, two Republicans refused to certify the election in Wayne County, where Detroit City is located. The deadline for certification in this state is November 23, as it is in Pennsylvania. In Georgia, the deadline is this Friday, November 20.

Certification is a process before the appointment of statewide voters to the Electoral College. It is these representatives from the 50 states who actually elect the president at the December 14 vote.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/fox-news-trump/

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Although Fox News has long been accused of contributing to polarization in America, many conservatives still do not believe the network is pro-Trump enough. And now, supporters of President Donald Trump are quickly becoming disgruntled with Fox News over its coverage of the presidential election — and Newsmax could be the next conservative news network on the horizon.

Just days after the presidential election, news outlets like Breitbart, Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics saw a significant drop in traffic compared to Newsmax and Gateway Pundit, based on data accumulated by the web analytics platform, SimilarWeb.

During an interview with Axiox, Newsmax founder Chris Ruddy indicated that the traffic surge came as Fox News called Arizona for President-elect Joe Biden. Although the call was ultimately accurate, it infuriated Trump supporters echoing the president's claims of voter fraud.

"It felt like it was an earthquake on election night," Ruddy said during a 40-minute interview. "The walls have been breached."

Ruddy, who happens to be a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, revealed the president called him last week to congratulate him on the ratings surge. Out for revenge, Trump has reportedly expressed interest in starting his own "direct-to-consumer, digital streaming media company" to tackle Fox News.

In fact, on Sunday, he also alluded to such when he commended One American News Network and other conservative outlets he deemed as "great alternatives" to Fox News.

"Many great alternatives are forming & exist. Try @OANN & @newsmax, among others!" Trump tweeted on Sunday.[eric btwt]

despite Trump's complaints about Fox News, the network stands by its decision to call Arizona for Biden during the 2020 election.

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Newsmax, which is run by one of Trump's closest friends, hired a white nationalist sympathizer.

520 she's baaaaccccccckkkk.

https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-hired-white-nationalist-sympathizer-michelle-malkin

conservative media outlet Newsmax TV announced on May 21 that it was hiring far-right blogger and white nationalist sympathizer Michelle Malkin.

Malkin has a long history of promoting racist and anti-Semitic claims and conspiracy theories. For instance:

• Malkin has advocated for racial profiling and defended the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
• A former Fox contributor, Malkin said on Fox & Friendsthat allowing Muslims into Western societies would be “suicide.”
• Malkin said on Fox News that migrant caravans traveling toward the U.S. from Central America were “coordinated globally” by “menaces inside and outside of our country.” 
• Malkin appeared onFox & Friends promoting the same anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that motivated the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. The attack resulted in the deaths of 11 people.

aha note escalator, and rexycling mutation/hybridization of older conspir BS

he's the next soros re covid?

Bill Gates coronavirus conspiracy theory spread on social media and then to a Fox News host.

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/bill-gates-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-spread-social-media-and-then-fox-news

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Bill Gates coronavirus conspiracy theory spread on social media and then to a Fox News host

Conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, white nationalists, and QAnon supporters spread the false claim online

WRITTEN BY ALEX KAPLAN

PUBLISHED 04/08/20 12:13 PM EDT

A conspiracy theory about Microsoft founder Bill Gates and a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus has been circulating for weeks on social media platforms, getting high engagement numbers, and has since been pushed by both Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a Newsmax correspondent.

As the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the United States, Gates, who runs an organization that focuses on public health worldwide and has warned of the threat of epidemics for years, has been leading efforts to and spoken out about finding a vaccine. That has included spending billions of dollars to find a cure via his foundation and doing interviews on shows including Fox News Sunday and The Daily Show about the need for a vaccine.

Gates on March 18 also participated in a Reddit “AMA” (“Ask me anything”) Q&A, where he encouraged a “national tracking system” for the coronavirus and “some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.”Scientific American reported in December that Gates had been funding efforts to create an invisible ink that could go into people’s skin to see who has been vaccinated. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology bioengineer said the ink could provide data that is useful in fighting disease around the world, noting, “If we don’t have good data, it’s really difficult to eradicate disease” (though the outlet also quoted a bioengineering professor admitting it could raise privacy concerns).

During this time, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, white nationalists, and supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory have spread a baseless conspiracy theory on multiple social media platforms, far-right sites, and message boards claiming that Gates’ effort to help develop a vaccine is some kind of nefarious attempt to control, follow, or even depopulate the world’s population via a “microchip” of some sort (the “depopulation” claim is based on a major misreading of Gates’ past remarks).

A review by Media Matters found that the conspiracy theory first seemed to gain traction around March 17, when a YouTube video about the virus mischaracterized Gates’ work to develop trackable vaccine data as “implanting everybody with a global ID” and compared it to tattoos on Holocaust victims. The video received more than 120,000 views. On that same day, conspiracy theory outlet Infowars published a piece and video of an Infowars host suggesting Gates was using the situation to “reduce the world’s population,” citing the invisible ink, and tied it to claiming the government would give out a “color-coded wristband that will be used for traveling Americans during an impending COVID-19 lockdown.” The Infowars article subsequently spread in Facebook groups and showed up as a meme on Instagram.

Infowars Bill Gates

Following Gates’ AMA and his “digital certificates” comment, the conspiracy theory spread on March 18, moving to message boards including 4chan’s “/pol/” and the conspiracy subreddit on Reddit, where a user called Gates’ Reddit posts “pretext for introduction of certificate of movement” and a plan to be “fully enslaved by the Deep State.” On Telegram that evening, white nationalist Faith Goldy wrote that Gates’ posts were “underreported” and that a “microchip implant ID” would be harmful to “nationalists.”

Faith Goldy Bill Gates

The following day, as the conspiracy theory continued to circulate on 4chan, it was picked up by NewsPunch, a disinformation site formerly known as YourNewsWire, which accused Gates of pushing for technology that will be “adopted for its ‘convenience and safety’ and then overnight will become mandatory for you and your family – or else.” That piece, too, circulated on social media and as a meme, along with other memes accusing Gates of using a vaccine to work with “globalists” for a “new world order.”

Bill Gates Instagram3

On March 21, another YouTube video was uploaded saying Gates wants to implant microchips in people and calling them a “mark of Satan” that could be used for “identifying us to the United Nations.” The video has received nearly 1.8 million views and at least 1.2 million Facebook engagements, according to the tracking tool BuzzSumo. That includes shares in QAnon Facebook groups and on a major anti-vaxx Facebook page.

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Throughout the rest of March, more videos popped up on YouTube (despite the platform’s pledge to crack down on coronavirus misinformation) accusing Gates of wanting “eugenics” and “population control” and claiming he is the antichrist and that he essentially supports genocide; they racked up another 1.6 million views combined. The videos included a clip from anti-Semitic conspiracy theory outlet TruNews and a video whose title called the virus a “hoax” (those videos received hundreds of thousands of Facebook engagements combined).

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Videos on social media platform TikTok pushing the conspiracy theory in late March and early April also racked up many views(despite the platform’s anti-misinformation policy). One video that received more than 230,000 views included in the caption “#fvaccines” and accused Gates of pushing for everyone on the planet to have a “digital ID … by combining mandatory vaccines with implantable microchips.” (Media Matters removes identifying information from videos created by or featuring minors to protect their identity.) Another video that received tens of thousands of views claimed Gates was “evil” and connected him to a plan to “get everybody microchipped” via vaccines.

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The conspiracy theory continued to spread following news in early April of Gates’ spending for a coronavirus cure. Another major white nationalist Telegram account shared a post saying Gates wants the population “extinguished,” and multiple accounts on Facebook and Instagram, including QAnon and anti-vaxx accounts, shared a meme urging people to take “no vaccine from some shady ass nerd that wants to depopulate the planet.” Ben Garrison, a far-right and pro-Trump cartoonist, drew a cartoon pushing the conspiracy theory that portrays Gates as a Nazi, which was also posted on the backup site of the pro-Trump subreddit “r/The_Donald.”

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By April 6, bigger QAnon accounts on social media had spread the conspiracy theory, such as Dylan Wheeler, who accused Gates of using “microchip[s]” in order to be “the face of the New World Order.”

That afternoon, Emerald Robinson, Newsmax’s White House correspondent, tweeted a thread accusing Gates of “control[ling] global health policy” and saying that his “plan” was to use “vaccines to track people.”

On the morning of April 7, Fox host Laura Ingraham, while quote-tweeting an anti-vaxx musician's post about Gates’ AMA, said “globalists” see the pandemic as a “perfect vehicle” for their “dream” of “digitally tracking Americans’ every move.”

The spread of the conspiracy theory comes as multiple other conspiracy theories about the coronavirus have circulated on social media, including others about Gates and the virus.

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Emerald Robinson is the White House Correspondent for Newsmax TV. Prior to joining the network, she served as the chief White House Correspondent for OAN. As part of her White House coverage, Robinson has traveled with the president to Europe and Asia reporting live during the Helsinki and Singapore Summits.

Robinson joined OAN in 2017 after heading up media relations for the Institute for Global Economic Growth (IGEG). While at IGEG, Robinson produced an international documentary series in partnership with Sinclair Broadcast Group detailing global economic policy in countries such as Chile, Estonia, and Switzerland. The series, called Improbable Success, garnered more than six million viewers in its initial broadcast and has been shown to audiences worldwide.

Robinson began her career as a journalist as the host of the Daily Orbit, a daily syndicated science news show providing the top science and technology headlines in short order. Robinson's journalistic experience includes entertainment, cultural, political, and economic beats.

Robinson received a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Virginia. She grew up in the mountains of Southwest Virginia in a small coal mining community. She now resides in the D.C. suburbs with her husband and son.

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Jerome Corsi and Larry Klayman Threaten to Sue Gateway Pundit

By Jared Holt | January 31, 2019 1:01 pm

Jerome Corsi and one of his lawyers are waging threats to sue against The Gateway Pundit, an outlet that has been overwhelmingly supportive of Corsi before he began singing to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators in the Justice Department probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Corsi admits that he corroborated evidence that the Mueller team had involving the interactions he had with Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone,who was arraigned on Tuesday, with regard to the WikiLeaks dumps of emails hacked from the Clinton campaign by Russian intelligence operatives.

Larry Klayman, the estranged founder of Judicial Watch who is representing Corsi as he processes through Mueller’s probe, appeared on NewsmaxTV yesterday with host John Cardillo to spar with Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks, who had taken to Twitter the day before to call Corsi “a deranged old man,” and to criticize Mueller for taking information from him. Corsi is also represented by New Jersey attorney David Gray.

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It’s worth noting that many in Stone’s orbit—a right-wing media universe that includes Fairbanks—have sought to smear and discredit Corsi, believing that the former Infowars writer is directly responsible for Stone’s ensnarement in the Mueller probe. Stone was indicted last Friday for allegedly lying to federal officials about his communications with senior Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks releases that were published during the summer before the 2016 election. Corsi and Stone are currently threatening to sue each other for defamation.

“All of this is kind of smoke. It means nothing in terms of what Mueller has and Roger should take it seriously,” Klayman said. “Dr. Corsi has been the hero here. He’s actually sued Robert Mueller twice with criminal complaints, with civil complaints. I haven’t seen Roger do that.”

Last year, Corsi filed a lawsuit against Mueller accusing that the special counsel of goading him to provide false testimony and of leaking grand jury secrets.

On Newsmax TV, Fairbanks defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,with whom she has a personal relationship, and argued that Corsi could not be considered a credible source on WikiLeaks. She went on to assert that Corsi had made numerous false predictions about WikiLeaks releases, had plagiarized her work to promote QAnon conspiracy theories, and had “no basic understanding” of how WikiLeaks operates. She also pointed out that Corsi once solicited charity donations to pay a cancer doctor that didn’t exist.

“The fact that anybody is taking him seriously at all makes me completely just—it makes me laugh,” Fairbanks said.

Klayman told Cardillo that Corsi wouldn’t hesitate to bring defamation cases and that “we can sort this out in court if she wants to get to the bottom of it.” That was echoed by Corsi on Twitter, where he claimed that Gateway Pundit owner Jim Hoft had been “put on legal notice,” and that he had demanded the outlet issue a retraction of Fairbanks’ claims.

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Fairbanks told Right Wing Watch that no legal notice was sent.

“We didn’t receive legal notice. He and his lawyer called my boss ratting on me, threatening lawsuits and saying they were going to Mueller about me,” she wrote to us via email. “I told Jim to tell them to contact my lawyer, as I am only a contributor to Gateway and it doesn’t really concern him. Corsi’s lawyer is just an idiot.”

Klayman did not answer our request for comment via email.

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Newsmax TV and Rebel Media host John Cardillo amplified a far-right conspiracy theory that originated from message boards and social media accounts and accuses Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) of staging the alleged anti-queer and racist attack against actor Jussie Smollett. The conspiracy theory contends that the senators' intent in drawing attention to a case like Smollet's was to help pass their proposed anti-lynching legislation. The baseless claim connects with the far-right narrative that Smollett's alleged attack -- which reportedly included the attackers wrapping a rope around the Empire star’s neck -- was a hoax in efforts to minimize the importance of anti-lynching legislation.

Harris and Booker, both of whom recently announced their 2020 presidential candidacies, introduced the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) last summer. The bill, which unanimously passed in the Senate, would classify lynching as a federal hate crime. Earlier attempts to pass anti-lynching legislation in Congress failed repeatedly during the 19th and 20th centuries when the act of racial terrorism was widespread across the country. Both Harris and Booker have called the attack on Smollett a “modern-day lynching.”

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Move along now, I'm really enjoying these Eggs Benedict': Ex-NYPD cop sparks outrage with gun-selfie response to #blackbrunch protests

John Cardillo, a former New York officer who served in the 1990s, is now a self-styled, right-wing media commentator

He posted a picture on Twitter pointing a gun and the message: 'I'm really enjoying these Eggs Benedict so move along now. #BlackBrunchNYC'

Mr Cardillo, 45, who lives in Florida, said on Tuesday that it was 'ludicrous' to suggest he was threatening protesters by posting the photo

He also said of the protesters: 'I found those protesters to be blatant racists because they targeted ''white faces'''

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A former cop who posted a picture on Twitter of himself pointing a gun has denied the photo was a threat against anti-police violence protesters and claimed that the activists were 'blatant racists' for demonstrating in places they deemed 'white spaces'.

John Cardillo, who served as an officer with the NYPD in the 1990s, is now a self-styled, right-wing media commentator and runs a data analytics company.

On Sunday, demonstrators showed up at popular brunch spots in New York and California to protest the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Carrying banners, the chanting activists entered a number of venues that they had identified as 'white spaces'.

In response, Mr Cardillo took a selfie in his American flag baseball cap, with the camera looking down the barrel of a gun. He added the words: 'I'm really enjoying these Eggs Benedict so move along now. #BlackBrunchNYC'

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Inflammatory: Former cop John Cardillo posted this picture on Twitter in response to anti-police violence protesters storming restaurants in New York and California on Sunday, organized by #BlackBrunchNYC +3

Inflammatory: Former cop John Cardillo posted this picture on Twitter in response to anti-police violence protesters storming restaurants in New York and California on Sunday, organized by #BlackBrunchNYC

The chanting #BlackBrunchNYC activists entered a number of venues that they identified as 'white spaces' on Sunday to protest police violence, including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner +3

The chanting #BlackBrunchNYC activists entered a number of venues that they identified as 'white spaces' on Sunday to protest police violence, including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner

Mr Cardillo, 45, who now lives in Florida, told Daily Mail Online on Tuesday that it was 'ludicrous' to suggest he was threatening protesters with a picture of himself raising and pointing the gun.

He said: 'My photo is protected by the First Amendment. I was sitting in my own home, with no one else there, pointing an unloaded firearm.

'I published the photo as an experiment to expose the left-wing protest community - those people who support violence, encourage and cheer the murder of police officers, along with rioting and looting.'

'Those same people who were offended by my photograph, weren't offended by people being hurt in the real world.'

Mr Cardillo said that he was a fan of legitimate protests -  even if he didn't agree with the message. However he slammed the activists who descended on restaurants on Sunday.

He said: 'I don't support what they were doing because they entered private businesses and harassed people.

'I found those protesters to be blatant racists because they targeted ''white faces.'' What is more racist than finding a place that certain races go to and targeting those places?'

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Mr Cardillo said on Tuesday that Sunday's protesters were blatant racists because they targeted 'white faces' +3

Mr Cardillo said on Tuesday that Sunday's protesters were blatant racists because they targeted 'white faces'

'A war on black lives': Alongside an image of protesters inside a New York restaurant, Sharmin Ultra (above) tweeted: 'We interrupt your brunch time to let you know there is a war on Black lives. We will not stay silent'

'A war on black lives': Alongside an image of protesters inside a New York restaurant, Sharmin Ultra (above) tweeted: 'We interrupt your brunch time to let you know there is a war on Black lives. We will not stay silent'

Zane Jones offered a simple message to Mr Cardillo on Twitter following his gun selfie picture

Zane Jones offered a simple message to Mr Cardillo on Twitter following his gun selfie picture

Mr Cardillo added: 'You could argue because of the level of criminal harassment that their actions were hate crimes.'

The former police officer went on to say that he did not believe that his Twitpic was inflammatory but was 'controversial', adding that it had brought him widespread media coverage.

He said that he felt the image had nothing to do with his former job as a member of the NYPD.

He added: 'It's my First Amendment right and was absolutely the right thing to do. I posted the picture to spark debate. It's controversial but harmless.'

However some fellow Twitter users appeared to disagree with the former cop's defiant stance.

?@TillmanRaymond tweeted: 'should protesters take this as a threat for there lives? B/c it would taken as one for cops if they did this.'

While ?@zanejones426 wrote: 'some people just don't get it there enough pain in the usa right now think I pray u and other just grow up.'

A Twitter user called Ted wasn't pleased with the disruption and tweeted: 'How dare folks go out for an omelette with friends and family on a Sunday! #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunch'

A Twitter user called Ted wasn't pleased with the disruption and tweeted: 'How dare folks go out for an omelette with friends and family on a Sunday! #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunch'

Dozens of demonstrators stormed restaurants and targeted white diners in New York and California as part of a 'Black Brunch' protest against alleged police violence at the weekend.

Once inside, they 'disrupted' customers' meals by reading out the names of African-Americans killed by police, including Michael Brown, 17, who was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson last August.

Addressing staff and patrons, they shouted: 'Every 28 hours, a black person in America is killed by the police. These are our brothers and sisters. Today and every day, we honor their lives.'

Throughout the day, many of the three dozen protesters - who also targeted 'predominantly white' restaurants in Oakland, California - posted photos of the 'Black Brunch' demonstration online.

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Alongside an image of protesters inside a New York restaurant, Sharmin Ultra, tweeted: 'We interrupt your brunch time to let you know there is a war on Black lives. We will not stay silent.'

Although the demonstration were largely peaceful - with no arrests made - there were reports of protesters getting into heated discussions with staff and customers.

And while many have applauded the nonviolent tactic online, other social media users mocked it and some have even criticized the protests as 'pathetic' and 'ridiculous'.

Bob Owens said: '#BlackBrunchNYC is the most desperate and pathetic cry for relevance I've seen in a long time.'

And a user called Ted added: 'How dare folks go out for an omelette with friends and family on a Sunday! #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunch.'

Bob Owens said the protest was 'the most desperate and pathetic cry for relevance I've seen in a long time'

Bob Owens said the protest was 'the most desperate and pathetic cry for relevance I've seen in a long time'

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