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Tina Peters allegedly met with Trump to discuss election plans. Here's what that could mean for the midterms.

Written by Kayla Gogarty & John Whitehouse

Research contributions from Alex Kaplan & John Knefel

Published 10/06/26

Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters, who was released from prison on June 1 after being sentenced to nearly nine years for actions related to tampering with voting machines following the 2020 election, allegedly met with President Donald Trump on October 5 to discuss the midterm elections.

Tina Peters allegedly met with President Trump – again.

What is Tina Peters’ plan for the election?

What has Peters said about the president having authority to intervene in the midterms?

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https://www.gnosticwarrior.com › lara-logan-satan.html

Lara Logan: Global elites dine on the blood of children and are the ...

The award-winning former war correspondent, Lara Logan was interviewed on October 2022 by Newsmax host Eric Bolling, who anchors a show called "The Balance." Logan was asked to be interviewed to discuss global elites and their favoritism toward leftist policies. When Bolling questioned Logan about the situation along the Mexican border with large groups of […]

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Lara Logan had a normal one on Newsmax, as she declared that global elites want the rabble to eat “cockroaches” while they “dine on the blood of children.”

Appearing on Wednesday’s The Balance with Eric Bolling, Logan was asked about the alleged rise of socialism among global elites.

“I am a firm and solid and immovable believer in God,” Logan said. “And I believe that God wins. I believe that good is greater than evil. And I believe that the fallen angel – otherwise known as Satan – doesn’t get to prevail in this world. So, if you follow the Bible, or if you follow the Koran, or you follow the Book of Mormon, you know, people talk in various different ways about the End Times. And if you fight for God, God will fight for you.”

Bolling interrupted to ask Logan about God and immigration.

“I have to ask you this because my audience is very God-fearing, God-loving, etc.,” he said. “Is God ok with a closed border?”

Logan replied in the affirmative because, she said, God is a fan of national sovereignty:

It’s much bigger than that. God believes in sovereignty, and national identity, and 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 people who are his stooges and his and his servants.

And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us. you’ve all known [historian Yuval Noah] Harari and all the rest of them at the World Economic Forum. You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches, and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not gonna win. They’re not going to win.

Harari is a Jewish historian, so Logan’s decision to single him out is instructive, given her recent behavior. “Blood libel” as it is known, is a centuries-old myth about Jewish people murdering Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals.

Logan has made several questionable and outright anti-Semitic statements. She claimed the theory of evolution is a plot perpetrated by the Rothschilds – a wealthy Jewish banking family. She also shared a post alleging that Jews are behind a scheme to create a “one world government.”

Once a reputable reporter for 60 Minutes, Logan has become iLara Logan Goes on Unhinged Rant About Elites Wanting to ... - Mediaitencreasingly unhinged. Earlier this year, the Fox Nation streaming service dropped her as a host after she compared Anthony Fauci to notorious Nazi doctor and human experimenter Joseph Mengele.

Watch above via Newsmax.

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Newsmax's Eric Bolling says Judge Juan Merchan “should be tried for treason”

05/30/24

  1. ### Newsmax guest calls for Alejandro Mayorkas to be publicly hanged

05/30/24

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May 22, 2024, edition of Newsmax's *Eric Bolling: The Balance

ERIC BOLLING: I have to bring some of these things up. You're so right about all these things. License to kill - now, mind you, Mar-a-Lago is a secure location. It has U.S. Secret Service all over the place all the time. Those documents weren't gonna get stolen or mutilated during a raid.

License to shoot and kill — there were innocent people standing around Mar-a-Lago. People staying there, friends, guests. What happens if Donald Trump is there and sees someone — an FBI agent roughing up Barron Trump or Melania Trump in their — in her closet, which we know they went through, and decides to push back? Is there gonna be a gunfight at Mar-a-Lago because the FBI and the Secret Service are going to get into it? I'd also like to point out that picture we showed a couple of times with the classified documents that FBI gave us was fake, staged. Those aren't the documents they found. The documents they found that were classified, didn't have those markings on it.

That is a picture the FBI put together to make it look worse than it was. I can't even begin to tell you how angry I am at what's going on because they can do — Stephen, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was put in place for this and they're showing us that they are a tyrannical government that we need to be armed to protect ourselves from. Am I wrong?

Media Matters' Matt Gertz previously discussed the MAGA claims regarding FBI guidelines on use of force at Mar-a-Lago:

Over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.

Hundreds of pages of filings were unsealed on Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case, revealing that the former president — who is charged with 40 federal criminal counts related to his alleged willful retention of documents after leaving the White House — had multiple documents marked “classified” in his bedroom that were discovered months after the 2022 search.

Credible outlets reviewed the documents and produced a wave of news stories detailing what a judge described as “strong evidence” of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts. Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA media supporters ginned up a counternarrative based on a credulous reading of a deceptive argument from Trump’s lawyers that was included in the unsealed documents.

A Fox News reporter has since noted that the same “standard” use of force policy was in place when FBI agents visited the home of President Joe Biden.

Regarding Bolling's claim that the photo at Mar-a-Lago was staged, The New York Times reported in 2022:

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump took to his social media site to say that “the F.B.I., during the raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending that it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see.”

But the genesis of the photograph appears to be in keeping with standard protocols for how federal agents handle evidence they come across in a search.

The folders were arrayed by agents at Mar-a-Lago after being removed from what the filing indicated was Mr. Trump’s office — they were not discovered scattered on the floor, according to two federal law enforcement officials.

The Justice Department would not comment on the specifics of the photograph. But it is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for.

stepHen miller lawless regime that’s in power

host go after joe sixpACK...

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Newsmax's Eric Bolling complains about Biden eating a salad

04/30/24

ERIC BOLLING (HOST): First of all, grown man looks like Joe was dressed by his mommy. Did you all see cackling Kamala? Of course she'd laugh at Joe's jokes. She thought it was funny. That woman would laugh at a funeral. He's clearly scripted digs at Trump just expose the party's weakness. Sure, Joe is a big talker when he's speaking in a room full of biased left-wing media guests. Where is the confidence when Trump wants to debate?

Come on, Joe. Put your bow tie, take the stage across from a real leader who has a few policy victories to stand on. You can even bring Kamala and your new walking aides who will help you walk to the stage. Of course not. A debate is never happening. Joe Biden doesn't think highly enough of the American people to participate. This disgraceful president is finally getting a dose of reality. With every week. we're seeing new polls that favorite Trump more and more, which immediately make it to the White House. Trust me when I tell you Joe Biden would know his days in office are numbered if he could remember what day it actually was.

I'll leave you with this. Here is the President of the United States, the man with the nuclear codes, and his fingertips are grappling with a bowl of lettuce. He can barely feed himself. Just watch this for a second. This isn't slowed down. This isn't edited. This is Joe trying to eat a bite of salad. Just watch, just watch. This man has a nuclear code. That's the pre -- that's the President of the United States. The man who's going to push back on Russia, China, North Korea. Are you kidding me? He can't even take a bite of his own salad. This man is not suited for the job for four more minutes, let alone four more years.

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Newsmax's Eric Bolling: "We need Trump to get back in there and drain the swamp and exterminate the deep state cockroaches" | Media Matters for America

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Newsmax's Eric Bolling attacks "Mr. Pfizer" Travis Kelce and "useful idiot" Taylor Swift | Media Matters for America

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Newsmax's Eric Bolling says if Donald Trump "is behind bars, he will be elected president of the United States, and then he can pardon himself" | Media Matters for America

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far-right MAGA Republicans typically regard Fox News and Fox Businesses as safe spaces, expecting softball questions if they are interviewed by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham or Maria Bartiromo. But House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) is avoiding the morning show "Fox and Friends" after being mildly challenged by long-time co-host Steve Doocy.

Comer has been pushing for an impeachment of President Joe Biden and trying to link him to his son Hunter Biden's legal problems. But when Comer appeared on "Fox and Friends" on Monday morning, December 11, Doocy told him, "They've connected the dots, the Department of Justice did, on Hunter, but they have not shown where Joe Biden, you know, did anything illegally."

Doocy wasn't especially forceful. But when Comer was interviewed by Newsmax's Eric Bolling the following day, he announced that he has decided to avoid "Fox and Friends."

"He's had that position from the very beginning,” the far-right House Oversight chairman said of Doocy.

Comer told Bolling, "I've quit going on 'Fox & Friends' because of Doocy, you know? I mean, he's the one guy on Fox that's been very critical of the investigation. I have my theory why, and we'll talk about that at a later point. But at the end of the day, he's entitled to his opinion. But I don't think the average viewer of Fox News agrees with Doocy one bit."

The New Republic's Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, in an article published on December 13, emphasized that Comer was triggered by a "tiny hole in the conservative safety net."

"If Comer is too afraid to face down Fox News for even the mildest bout of criticism," Houghtaling writes, "what does that mean for the actual impeachment proceedings, which Republicans seemingly want to keep in the dark? Last week, the caucus threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he refused to appear for a closed-door deposition, despite the president's son's previously voiced preference for a public hearing, fearing that information from those interviews would be selectively leaked and used to 'manipulate, even distort, the facts and misinform the American public.'"

READ MORE:Maria Bartiromo ripped for pushing 'conspiracy' that Hunter Biden charges are part of a 'cover up'

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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]

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107070037

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ERIC BOLLING (HOST): When you see the former president being fingerprinted, having to show up, turn himself in, you see the mugshots of the other seven or eight who've turned themselves already, do you have concern for the country as I do?

SARAH PALIN (GUEST): Absolutely, I mean -- I think those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tiered system of justice and I want to ask them, "What the heck? Do you want us to be in Civil War?" because that's what's going to happen. We're not going to keep putting up with this. And Eric, I like that that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.

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8 23 snapshot // july record temp [also ocean]

https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/15-nonsensical-comments-made-right-wing-media-during-2023s-summer-climate-fueled

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

Special PROGRAMS

CLIMATE & ENERGY

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="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, [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:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, [7/11/23]...

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BOLLING (HOST): The Vatican is promoting a study calling for radical inclusion LGBTQ plus communities. Now, let's bring in host of the Eric Metaxas Radio Show and author of Is Atheism Dead. Eric, you know, every time I have you on I'm bringing you on for a different story and I'll ask you the same question. With these stories -- what we're seeing now in culture and life in America --are we approaching the end of times? I mean, the Vatican. Promoting LGBTQ plus ideology.

ERIC METAXAS (GUEST): That sounds logical, doesn't it? It sounds like the end of time. I'm not joking. When you hear about something like this, you think to yourself, listen, I don't care who you are,I don't care if you're the pope, you do not have the right to change fundamental doctrine. You don't change fundamental doctrine. Any faithful Catholic knows that once somebody says, we're not merely being inclusive -- this is the term they're throwing around -- they're basically blurring the line between what is good and what is evil. And when you start saying that we're promoting -- what's the spirit -- it's the spirit of the age, it's the world in which we live. The job of the church is to stand against the spirit of the age, to speak eternal truth. So when I hear something like this, it's hard not to be shocked, and it's hard not to say what you just said.It sounds like we're in the end times. No joking

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as the June 5 deadline to raise the nation’s debt limit approaches, right-wing media are attacking House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for allegedly capitulating to Democrats’ demands in a tentative deal.

The Treasury expects the government to run out of cash by Monday, June 5 if Congress does not raise the debt limit. The tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling until January 2025 would limit spending, expand work requirements for SNAP recipients, end the pause on student loans repayments and interest accrual, andamend environmental impact statements. Despite these concessions from the White House, there are still many conservatives pushing for more.

Biden and McCarthy have both touted the agreement as a bipartisan deal and are urging Congress to pass it. While some conservatives have praised the deal, many in right-wing media are willing to risk a default, urging Congress to reject the agreement and criticizing McCarthy for supposedly striking a bad deal that favors Democrats:

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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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BOLLING (HOST): You know, this whole revelations of the emails that Tucker Carlson at Fox was texting or emailing to, or texting to some of his producers and whatnot. And one of them is really disturbing to me. It's "I hate him passionately" – that Tucker said about President Trump. I mean, how how do you – like, I think people are giving Tucker a pass on this, but I just can't. I just can't get past this, Kari. I can't understand how a guy who can portray himself as a huge Trump fan on television, saying he hates him passionately is very, very much looking forward to the day he didn't have to cover Trump being in the White House every day.

KARI LAKE (GUEST):Well, from the way you describe it it sounds awful. I have not read the emails, so I'm reluctant to comment and say anything that would disparage Tucker because I haven't read all of the emails to even know what context that was in. But it sure on the surface sounds awful. And hopefully, he's had a change of heart and realizes that President Trump is the greatest president we've ever known and he is the man to turn this around.

And I'm assuming with the footage he put out on January 6th and the work he's doing to get the word out that there were so many lies told by our men and women in Congress – our elected officials told so many lies about January 6th, and we have a lot of people who are political prisoners sitting in jail, in prison right now who need to be let out. And I'm happy that he's doing that kind of work. But I just don't know enough about the context of those emails. I haven't read them myself. So I'm reluctant to comment on that.

https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-bolling/after-directv-removes-newsmax-newsmax-host-eric-bolling-lashes-out-fox-where-are-you

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when Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel announced in April that the GOP would no longer participate in debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, she said that her party was committed to identifying “newer, better debate platforms” to replace “the biased CPD.” For a glimpse of what they may be after, look no further than the motley collection of right-wing election deniers, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists selected to moderate recent Republican primary debates.

Right-wing commentators spend a lot of time complaining about purported liberal media bias, using regular salvos to work the refs and make excuses for their failures. Those complaints typically crescendoed every four years with the presidential debates. Republican politicians and conservative media figures would rage about the purported unfairness of the CPD-selected moderators, even as the party’s Fox News propaganda arm maintained a slot in the moderator rotation.

Debates for down-ballot races are generally more sedate affairs, typically moderated by anchors or reporters from local television affiliates, public radio stations, or print outlets. But this year, GOP primary candidates have also turned to national right-wing outlets, talk radio hosts, and fringe pundits.

Newsmax, a far-right cable network which infamously tried to seize market share from Fox by going all-in on then-President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him and currently faces lawsuits from multiple election technology companies in connection with that fraudulent reporting, has already hosted at least two high-profile Republican primary debates this cycle.

Eric Bolling moderated a New York gubernatorial primary debate for the network in June. Bolling, a former host for Fox and Sinclair Media Group, is a notorious bigot who lost his Fox gig after reportedly sending an unsolicited and unwanted photo of male genitalia to at least three female colleagues. He emerged in recent years as a key vector of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines who also regularly spread lies about purported fraud in the 2020 election.

Greta Van Susteren, who previously hosted shows at MSNBC, Fox, and CNN before joining Newsmax in May, also moderated a Pennsylvania GOP Senate debate that month.

Mark Levin, who hosts a weekly TV show for Fox, a streaming show for BlazeTV, and one of the right’s most popular syndicated talk radio broadcasts, will moderate two congressional primary debates in Florida this month. Levin, who was selected by the Republican Party of Florida, apparently helped mastermind the Trump plot to illegally reject electors from key states that supported Joe Biden and thus subvert the election to keep Trump in office and has a long record of bigoted commentary.

“I have Mark Levin that's going to moderate those. Obviously, he's a great guy, very smart," Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference about the events. DeSantis touted Levin’s support on his campaign website when he first ran for governor in 2018.

While Levin and Newsmax have national presences, in other cases, debate organizers have turned to lower-profile right-wing figures from the area. In Wisconsin, three GOP candidates for governor participated in a debate moderated by local right-wing radio host Joe Giganti last month.

These events don’t always accomplish their intent of promoting the candidates without the sinister involvement of the “liberal media.” Lara Logan, a former CBS News correspondent-turned-Fox-personality, toured the internet fever swamps this year touting an array of increasingly bonkers conspiracy theories. She also moderated a GOP primary debate for a Texas congressional race in February, and while her questions were firmly embedded in far-right talking points, she drew criticism from viewers for her rambling, discursive monologues.

Here is one of Logan’s questions from that debate:

LARA LOGAN (MODERATOR): So speaking of the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment, it didn't just – it wasn't just written for search and seizure in the Patriot Act. It was written also because what did the British do? They quartered in people's homes and they took everything from them and they prevented them from meeting and they prevented them from organizing and they prevented them from communicating. And what is happening in this country today, if you went to the Capitol on January 6, you can't even have a bank account in certain places in this country. And what that leads us into very neatly as well is Big Tech, you know? You know what happens? Everybody says, “Oh, we don't support Big Tech. We don't support Section 230 liability,” and yet we don't see anything change. Ted Cruz, he goes up there, he makes these grand speeches and they have fabulous. And you know what changes? Nothing. So I want to know how many of you have taken money from Google or Facebook or Twitter or any of them, if you would take money from any of them if they offered it to you? A lot of it because that's how they roll. And also, what would you do to break up these monopolies? Strip them of their Section 230 protections and stop the people in this audience and all over this country every single day being censored, every single day,because it is happening on a scale that is unimaginable and underreported. And the order for that is a high order crash. Are you sure? Twice in a row. Christian just. He just went first. Morgan, it's you first.

And sometimes the events fail to materialize. In Pennsylvania, four GOP gubernatorial candidates signed a letter to “the Pennsylvania press” demanding a Republican debate moderator. While they skipped a debate when such a moderator was not provided, they all ultimately folded and participated in at least one subsequent forum.

It’s hard to identify where Republicans might draw a line against having total loons moderating their debates. Last week, Jim Hoft published a press release on his Gateway Pundit website inviting the four leading candidates for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri to participate in a July 11 debate moderated by himself and Real America’s Voice host Gina Loudon.

It’s difficult to imagine that this will come together. Hoft is a far-right conspiracy theorist who is also perhaps the dumbest man on the internet, while Loudon is a charlatan and her outlet has provided a home for QAnon conspiracy theory content. And yet, given the trajectory of the GOP’s moderators, it’s not unthinkable.

There’s long been an incestuous relationship between the Republican Party and the right-wing media. GOP candidates try to stand out from their peers in hopes of attracting attention from the dominant players in the conservative echo chamber and ride that wave to victory. The most successful candidates were often those who sounded most like right-wing media figures – or those who actually were former right-wing media figures themselves.

Now GOP candidates aren’t just preening for the attention of propagandists like Levin and kooks like Logan – those are the people the party wants moderating its debates.

https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-bolling/newsmax-promotes-rand-paul-campaign-ad-attacking-college-swimmer-lia-thomas-whose

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During an appearance on Newsmax on Saturday, former United States National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton refused to elaborate on his confession to CNN's Jake Tapper that he had personally been involved in foreign coups d'état.

Anchor Eric Bolling was curious about the specifics.

"Care to elaborate?" Bolling asked Bolton.

READ MORE: ['It takes a lot of work': John Bolton says Donald Trump was too lazy to lead a genuine coup on January 6th

"Well, Venezuela's a good example. I wrote about it in my book. You know, this is something that some of the snowflakes on the left really were kinda shocked at but when you're looking out for America's best interests you do what's necessary to protect those interests," Bolton replied.

He called for toppling the governments of some of the United States' most prominent adversaries.

"So, take the current threat of countries getting nuclear weapons or engaged in international terrorism like Iran and North Korea. To protect the United States against the threat of nuclear weapons, would a coup d'état with regime change against their governments be appropriate? I think the answer is entirely yes," Bolton continued. He did not mention Russia's genocidal invasion of Ukraine.

"Okay, you mentioned coup d'état in the plural form. Can you tell us some of the others?" Bolling pressed Bolton, who avoided answering the question.

READ MORE: [Trump says he has 'no idea' what a 'burner phone' is — but John Bolton says otherwise

"Well, I'm just saying if you're looking for examples of what the United States has done over the years under presidents, Democratic and Republican..." Bolton said. But he was cut off by Bolling, who repeated his request for Bolton's experience.

"No sir, no sir, sir, sir sir, I'm asking for your examples. You said you had been involved in coups d'état in other places," said Bolling.

"Well and as I said, as I said, I'm obviously not gonna get into details because I did write about the Venezuela example at some length in my book..." Bolton noted as Bolling interjected for a second time.

"That's what I want to do. I want to talk about the details. I get Maduro, I get the whole Venezuela thing, but, I dunno, was, would you consider Iraq a coup d'état?" Bolling wondered.

Bolton defended former President George W. Bush's war in Iraq.

"No I wouldn't consider Iraq a coup d'état although it had the effect of regime change and I think that was the right thing to do, and I think George W. Bush pursued the right policy to protect America and its national interests," Bolton said, again hocking his book.

"I'm not going to get into the others because the chapter on Venezuela went through a very rigorous pre-publication review process as did my entire book to make sure there's no classified information in it. So I'm not gonna talk about it here without that."

Bolton's dodges began to visibly fluster Bolling.

"You don't have to talk about specifics. You can tell us where the United States was involved in behind-the-scenes support for coups d'état," he insisted, although he changed the subject to the January 6th insurrection.

Watch below or at this link.

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after Democratic aide Seth Rich was shot and killed in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, July 10, 2016, it didn’t take right-wing media outlets long to promote bogus conspiracy theories about his death. Police believe that Rich was the victim of a street robbery, but Fox News persisted in pushing conspiracy theories about his death — inspiring Rich’s parents, Joel and Mary Rich, to file a lawsuit against the right-wing cable news outlet. And a new interview with National Public Radio (NPR) is the first public interview they have granted since reaching a settlement with Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp. in 2020.

Joel Rich told NPR, "We're just beside ourselves. With all the international stories and all the national media, how do you live with that, when you know it's all false about your son and his legacy?"

Under the terms of the settlement they reached with Fox News/Fox Corp. in 2020, Joel and Mary Rich could not speak directly about Fox News or any of its hosts during the NPR interview. But they talked about their son and the pain that conspiracy theorists brought them after his death. [twt tpx]

"After Seth's death,” NPR reporter David Folkenflik explains, “figures friendly to former President Donald Trump portrayed him as a disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporter. They peddled false claims that he had secretly stolen thousands of e-mails and given them to WikiLeaks to try to stop Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency. They suggested Clinton and the Democrats had arranged his killing, and that the Riches themselves were in on some kind of cover-up. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fueled the suspicions, aided by such extremist blogs as Gateway Pundit. None of this was true.”

Folkenflik adds, “As intelligence agencies in the Obama and Trump Administrations, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee and Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded, hackers were deployed by the Russian government to disrupt U.S. elections. But the falsehoods helped deflect growing evidence that the Russians had interfered in Trump's election win.”

Folkenflik notes that Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs were among the hosts at Fox News or Fox Business who “baselessly suggested that Seth Rich had been the leaker and that he was murdered because of those leaks.”

Seth Rich’s death wasn’t the first time Fox News’ willingness to promote nonsense conspiracy theories created legal problems for them. Fox News is presently facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for promoting the false claim that its voting equipmentwas used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 presidential election. A civil trial in that case is set for April 2023.

Fox News has also been sued for defamation by Smartmatic, a Dominion competitor. Smartmatic’s voting equipment was never used to help Democrats steal any votes in 2020, but that didn’t prevent Fox News hosts from promoting that false claim just as it promoted false claims involving Dominion. And Smartmatic asked for $2.7 billion in its lawsuit.

Although Joel Rich couldn’t get into the specifics of the settlement with Fox News/Fox Corp., he told NPR, “We are still glad we did this, because you get a settlement. It may not have the words 'I'm sorry.' But (in effect), you have the admission they did something wrong.”

Fox News, not surprisingly, declined to be interviewed for NPR’s article on Joel and Mary Rich. During the interview, they reiterated that the ludicrous conspiracy theories involving their son had no basis in fact.

Mary Rich told NPR, “We thought that when the lawsuit was over, our lives would be able to go back (to a sense of normalcy)…. People would know and understand that there was a big lie. And I have realized since then, our lives will never ever be able to return.”

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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.

https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/sinclair-about-air-steve-bannon-peddling-discredited-voting-fraud-theory

Nearly two weeks after former Trump administration adviser Steve Bannon called for the beheadings of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sinclair’s Eric Bolling invited him on his program to peddle election conspiracy theories and a Trump campaign plot to discard the results of the 2020 presidential election. During the interview, Bolling failed to mention Bannon’s ghastly call for violence.

Bolling’s interview with Bannon has been available for streaming on the websites of multiple Sinclair-owned or -operated stations since Wednesday evening, and his program America This Week typically airs on several dozen Sinclair stations over the weekend. During this interview, which has not yet aired on Sinclair’s network of local TV stations, Bolling invited Bannon to elaborate on conspiracy theories related to Dominion Voting Systems, whose voting machines were used in several locations.

BOLLING (HOST): Dominion voting machines, it seems to be a big issue. We've had Sidney Powell on, who claims that she knows for a fact that there's a back door into the Dominion voting machines, and that it may be -- able to be not only hacked, but alter the outcome of already cast ballots. Do you know anything? What do you know?

STEVE BANNON (FORMER TRUMP CHIEF STRATEGIST): Well, here’s what I do know is the state of Texas has a report out where they rejected, on every level, the Dominion system. And they did that I think nine months ago. ThisDominion systems -- we talked to technology people, there are many questions about this, about the software, the interoperability, and about this back door having access to it.

So I think you are going to start to see -- now you got to be able to prove all that. It just can't be, you know, some sort of thing you're putting together. But I think Sidney Powelland other team of lawyers and technology people are working that right now. That's why I think you’re going to see many more lawsuits coming up about the way this was held, what systems they used, and about the anomalies in these numbers. So I think they're even -- the more intense lawsuits and the parties in those lawsuits are all about, are gonna be in the next couple of days.

To be clear, these claims that Bolling and Bannon are commenting on are deranged, false, and were debunked approximately a week before the interview was streamed. A tweet from Trump expressing the conspiracy theory both in more detail and in all caps apparently spurred a response from the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council Executive Committee and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, which said in a joint statement on November 12 that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” (In response, Trump fired the head of the Department of Homeland Security agency that had released the statement.) Fox News has also been pushing this false conspiracy theory, but Bolling still asked Bannon if the network is “moving away from President Trump.”

Besides that conspiracy theory, they also spent time discussing one of the Trump campaign’s strategies to steal the election by blocking enough state vote certifications so that Biden would fail to reach 270 electoral votes, forcing the House of Representatives to decide the election.

But something which Bolling failed to bring up was Bannon’s comments on November 5 calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray to be beheaded and their heads to be put “on pikes … at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats.” A teaser for the interview indirectly referenced Bannon's call for violence, but Bolling failed to mention it during the conversation.

After Bannon made his comments about Fauci, Twitter permanently banned him from the platform -- which Bannon complained about during the interview without mentioning why it happened. But it seems for Sinclair, such violent commentary bears no consequences and you can still get a platform to spread conspiracy theories to local TV stations.

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Sinclair Broadcasting Group has dropped Boris Epshteyn as a commentator.

Over the past several years, Epshteyn has featured in right-wing propaganda “news” segments that Sinclair forced its local stations around the country to air.

Prior to working for Sinclair, Epsteyn was an aide to Donald Trump in the White House. Not surprisingly, Epshteyn used his segments to directly advocate for Republican policies, defend the president from attacks, and give softball interviews to officials in the Trump administration.

Since 2017, Media Matters’ Pamela Vogel has watched all of Epshteyn’s “must-run” segments and pointed out his worst moments, often prompting media coverage of the right-wing propaganda. We compiled some of the worst moments here.

Also: No one has tracked Sinclair more than Vogel. She examined what its propaganda will look like post-Epshteyn.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/boris-epshteyn/sinclairs-right-wing-propaganda-will-outlast-boris-epshteyn

After subjecting the American public to more than two years of near-daily pro-Trump commentary that ranged from morally appalling to just aggressively tepid, Sinclair Broadcast Group is reportedly relegating chief political commentator Boris Epshteyn to the sales department. As a researcher who’s tracked every one of his segments, I’m relieved -- but also worried about what's to come.

Epshteyn has been the deeply uncharismatic face of the right-wing local news giant since the spring of 2017, when he began regularly producing right-wing political commentary that Sinclair sent out as “must-run” segments to its local news stations across the country. But on December 11, NBC News reported that Sinclair was ending Epshteyn’s commentary segments, along with those from liberal commentator Ameshia Cross. Their final segments will air today, and Epshteyn will reportedly transition to a role in “sales.”

Since June 2017, I have been engaging in a task I would never wish on another human being: I have watched every single “Bottom Line with Boris” segment he’s ever narrated for Sinclair. (As of publishing, there have been at least 603 and one more to go.) I’ve written dozens of posts about this person and the horrifying things he’s said in defense of Trump.

And here is my bottom line: Epshteyn is a cheap knock-off with no charisma -- and, more important, he’s a bully.

Epshteyn joined Sinclair fresh off a stint in the Trump administration and, before that, on the presidential campaign. He was a Trump spokesperson who reportedly terrorized the nation’s green rooms off-camera, and he’s a personal friend of the president’s adult sons. A few months after Epshteyn started his new role at Sinclair, HBO’s John Oliver memorablydescribed him as “a rejected extra from The Sopranosin a J.C. Penney tie whose voice sounds like Sylvester Stallone with a mouthful of bees.”

Seventy-five percent of his segments were so utterly boring I couldn’t get through a single 90-second clip without accidentally zoning out and having to rewatch it. But the other 25% were completely depraved. He is most well-known to the general public as the talking head who defended the tear-gassing of migrants at the southern border, dismissed the cruelty of separating children from their parents and holding them in cages in camps, and implied that child rape is a major consequence of illegal immigration.

I’m elated to no longer have to watch him every day. And I’m significantly more elated that the millions of people who are just trying to catch the traffic report or some local sports updates aren’t going to have to see it anymore either.

But I’m also not optimistic at all -- because bullies stick together. And Sinclair is also a bully.

The company infamously cuts corners, in all senses of the word. It is known for abusing regulatory loopholes to buy up more and more local news stations, and then taking the stations over and cutting local anchors with close community relationships. Local journalists face a difficult choice if Sinclair takes control of their station: They can stay and fight through the corporate cuts and the “must-runs” or they can leave quietly and re-enter a market dominated by other Sinclair jobs. Some have been subjected to unusually restrictive contract clauses limiting their ability to find new work; some have even been sued by their former employer, which brings in more than $3 billion in annual revenue.

Its owners’ support for conservative causes didn’t begin with Epshteyn and won’t end with him, either. Sinclair has a long history of openly engaging with right-wing politics and, of course, it’s a giant corporation that would benefit from deregulatory policies supported by the right. And the Smiths -- the family that founded and owns Sinclair -- have thrown some of their financial support to particularly notorious Republicans, like racist criminal Joe Arpaio and Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT), who physically assaulted a reporter just days before receiving the donation.

In keeping with the myriad ways conservative politics overlap with xenophobia and racism, Sinclair has shown no signs of slowing down its anti-Muslim fearmongering “Terrorism Alert Desk” segments. Sinclair also suggested in its announcement about Epshteyn and Cross that the company will be making room for more local investigative reporting instead, like their Seattle station’s highly problematic special programming on homelessness in the city.

Sinclair also still employs other right-wing thugs: namely, former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka and former Fox News host Eric Bolling. Bolling has been hosting a weekly political show for Sinclair since April, and he appears to be thenew face of political analysis for the company. He was a host at Fox News until 2017, when he left amid reports he sent unsolicited images of genitalia to multiple co-workers. (When this was first reported, he threatened the reporter with a lawsuit, too, in a classic bullying move.) 

On his Sinclair show, Bolling has given friendly interviews to seemingly every member of the Trump administration including the president himself, some more than once. He’s also hosted a gamut of right-wing grifters and conspiracy theorists, including his “friend” Alex Jones, who currently faces a lawsuit because of his claims that the deaths of 26 young children and school employees in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting were a hoax.

Boris Epshteyn was merely one convenient indicator of the sum total of Sinclair’s toxic, bullying behavior. And I haven’t even mentioned the single most enraging aspect of it all, which won’t change one iota with the end of his commentary segments: Sinclair is bullying you. Sinclair is bullying us all.

From the start, what made the Sinclair beat most appealing to me at Media Matters was the layers of nefariousness. Much of its nationally produced news programming is as conservative as Fox News, but it’s also highly dishonest in a structural way, and with an arguably even more personal cost.

The whole reason this $3 billion company has grown and thrived for so long is because it flew under the radar. No one is tuning into their local news stations and seeing a Sinclair logo on the screen, and it’s even harder to trace the company to the dozens of stations it operates via legal agreements because it’s not technically allowed to own them at all. Like a lot of local news, what actually airs on many Sinclair-controlled stations is also a black box; it’s difficult to track the content of so many newscasts on smaller stations in any systematic way.

All of these factors swirl together to underpin Sinclair’s greatest bullying tactic of all: exploiting everyone’s trust in their local news. At least when you watch Fox or One America News or listen to Rush Limbaugh, you know what you’re signing up for. Sinclair, on the other hand, is banking on being able to surprise you by slipping in some conservative talking points between weather and community news, just as the local anchors you know and trust cut to commercial break. It’s fundamentally unethical behavior that damages media credibility as a whole, and it’s a cowardly and disrespectful way to treat your audience.

Sinclair leadership mandated these segments in the first place, of course, because they knew no one would voluntarily choose to hear Epshteyn’s garbage of the day. It’s scary because they clearly didn’t care about what they owe their viewers as stewards of our public airwaves.

But what scares me even more is what lessons they may have learned. Bullies don’t usually just give up randomly one day; sometimes their tactics just change. What if this time around, the propaganda becomes better, more charismatic, less clumsy -- easier to watch but harder to notice?

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https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/eric-bolling-using-his-sinclair-and-blazetv-shows-elevate-conspiracy

Right-wing media personality Eric Bolling now hosts regular programs at two different outlets: Sinclair Broadcast Group and BlazeTV. In the space of a week, he has used both platforms to interview well-known conspiracy theorists -- and appeared on one of their shows as well.

In early April, Bolling began hosting a weekly show for Sinclair called America This Week, which streams online on websites of Sinclair news stations and is promoted with on-air teasers or sometimes aired in full on some Sinclair news stations. The program has also already featured a number of right-wing media talking heads and members of the Trump orbit, including: President Donald Trump himself, former Trump adviser and Sinclair contributor Sebastian Gorka, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Sinclair reporter and former Fox employee James Rosen, presidential daughter-in-law and current Trump campaign adviser Lara Trump, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, and Sinclair chief political commentator and former Trump staffer Boris Epshteyn.

On the May 1 edition of Sinclair's America This Week, Bolling interviewed longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone. Stone is a sexist, racist conspiracy theorist who has pushed conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terror attacks, the JFK assassination, the Clintons and Bushes (saying they committed murders), the 2016 presidential election, the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, and more. In January, Stone was indicted for obstruction, making false statements to Congress, and witness tampering as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In the 10-minute interview with Bolling, Stone discussed his current criminal defense, his background as an aide to President Richard Nixon, his relationship with Trump, and the 2020 presidential election. Below is the full segment: [vid]

Before joining Sinclair, Bolling was already hosting a regular program on the conservative outlet Blaze Media’s streaming platform BlazeTV. The show, America with Eric Bolling, continues to stream online most weekdays for a subscription audience.

The April 24 edition of America with Eric Bollingfeatured an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Major social media networks have taken actions against Jones and his outlet Infowars to limit their ability to share content. Jones has used his outlet to spread rampant bigotry, hint at violence, host and promote white supremacists, and push conspiracy theories about mass tragedies including the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Parkland high school shooting, the 9/11 attacks, and the Boston Marathon bombings, as well as the 2016 presidential election and “globalist” plots by prominent political figures such as the Clinton and Obama families.

In the episode, Bolling introduced Jones as a “good friend of the show, good friend of mine.” The segment also re-aired an Infowars clip (of Jones yelling into a bullhorn outside the White House). At one point during their interview outside the Capitol, the men attempt to confront a woman who called one of them a liar as she passed by. Bolling half-heartedly tried to downplay some of Jones’ more extreme views, saying that he disagreed with what Jones has said about Sandy Hook and 9/11 specifically but that he believes Jones should be free to say what he wants. Jones responded by asserting that media and tech companies conspired to twist his words on those topics, which Bolling did not challenge. (Jones has repeatedly tried to rewrite the history of his comments on Sandy Hook, but Media Matters has documented his repeated lies on the subject.)

Jones ended the interview by promoting his website and telling viewers, “Tune in to this guy, spread the word about his show, my show, and the free, independent media that’s bringing this country back.”

On the same day, Bolling and Jones also filmed a second interview -- this time with Jones interviewing Bolling for Infowars. A video was posted to the Infowars website on April 27 that included both Jones’ interview of Bolling and Bolling’s previously aired interview of Jones for BlazeTV. In the Infowars interview footage, Bolling and Jones discussed several supposed smear campaigns against them from “the left” and each talked about his personal relationship with Trump. At one point, Jones called former first lady Michelle Obama an anti-trans slur and referred to her as “Michael Obama,” and Bolling laughed and said he was staying out of it. The interview ended with Bolling promoting his BlazeTV and Sinclair shows and discussing Sinclair’s move toward hiring more conservatives and possibly competing with Fox News.

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During his lengthy tenure as a host at Fox News, Bolling himself trafficked in conspiracy theories. He was one of the outlet’s leading voices pushing the racist Obama birther conspiracy theory and also hinted at far-right claims about the tragic death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Bolling left Fox in 2017 amid reports that he had sent multiple colleagues unsolicited images of genitalia.

Bolling is now in the unusual position of simultaneously hosting shows on dual media platforms with ostensibly different missions. Sinclair is now well-known for injecting conservative bias into its local news broadcasts and for employing an outsize number of right-wing personalities, but it still styles itself as a more neutral media outlet. BlazeTV is a relatively new right-wing behemoth cobbled together from two obviously and openly conservative online outlets: Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze and Mark Levin’s CRTV. Both of Bolling’s shows attempt to create a veneer of legitimacy by bringing on token liberals or actual journalists for discussions, but they do far greater harm by elevating far-right conspiracy theorists in the same place.

Notably, Bolling also uses the two shows to cross-promote his own work. During one Sinclair special program in February, Bolling appeared in front of a background with the BlazeTV logo and aired clips from his interviews for BlazeTV. Advertising for BlazeTV programming was also shown on screen. And on his BlazeTV show, Bolling has aired snippets of his Sinclair interview with Trump and told viewers to tune in to his Sinclair show.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/eric-bollings-new-show-sinclair-broadcast-group-brings-worst-right-wing

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s newest program signals the conservative media giant’s shift toward more openly embracing right-wing propaganda and hiring Fox News castoffs.

On April 2, Mediaite reported that Sinclair was set to debut America This Week,a new weekly program hosted by Eric Bolling. The first episode would include appearances by several members of the Trump inner circle: former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and 2020 campaign adviser and the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump. Bolling is a newly official Sinclair personality who has been making appearances on its national programming for months, and he also hosts a streaming show with right-wing outlet BlazeTV. He was previously a host and co-host at Fox News -- where he regularly trafficked in conspiracy theories, misogyny, and race-baiting -- but he left in 2017 amid reports that he sent multiple colleagues unsolicited images of genitalia.

The first two episodes of Eric Bolling’s America This Weekprogram are straight out of Fox News

In a sign of Sinclair’s increasing willingness to adopt the Fox News model of poisoning viewers against any other news sources, much of the first hour-long program was devoted to decrying so-called media bias against President Donald Trump:

The second episode had similarly Fox-y elements:

The episodes attempt to show some balance by including short segments from Sinclair local reporters in different states, and bringing in reporters at national outlets for a segment called “Balls and Strikes” in which Bolling goes over stories of the week (so far, Politico’s Gabby Orr, Time’s Brian Bennett, and The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay have appeared).

Next week, Bolling said, will feature an interview with the president.

America This Week premiered mostly online

The first two full episodes of America This Week were posted on local Sinclair station websites on April 3 and April 10. Whileinitialreporting suggested the show would air on Sinclair news stations across the country weekly, thus far it appears to have been distributed primarily online, with short excerpts aired on TV.

According to the iQ media database, on April 3 and 4, local stations typically aired one (or both) of two short clips from Bolling’s interview with Bannon and then told audiences to head to the station website to see the entire program. The teasers and interview snippets aired on at least 61 Sinclair stations in 29 states and the District of Columbia. A handful of stations told viewers the full program would be broadcast on Sunday nights at a certain time, but iQ media video showed those stations airing different national programming such as Entertainment Tonight or wrestling matches at those times instead.

The America This Week snippets that some local news viewers saw on air last week were these two clips:

Steve Bannon railing against media bias at The New York Times and CNN (as seen here on KEYE in Austin, TX):

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/inoculation-as-a-form-of-propaganda

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Inoculation as a form of propaganda

written by Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly June 12, 2019

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Meeting charges with countercharges brings a disease into the body politic that's a prophylactic against accountability.

With so much focus on Fox News providing a propaganda platform for Donald Trump, national news outlets haven’t been paying as much attention to theSinclair Broadcasting Group — which has been trying to take over local broadcast news.

It is worth remembering that a 2018 report from Emory University found that “when Sinclair buys a local station, its news program begin to cover more national and less local politics, the coverage becomes more conservative, and viewership actually falls — suggesting that the rightward tilt isn’t enacted as a strategy to win more viewers but as part of a persuasion effort.” In other words, Sinclair has become the local right-wing propaganda network.

True to form, Eric Bolling’s show on Sinclair recently featured an interview with Peter Schweizer. You might remember him as Steve Bannon’s partner who authored the book Clinton Cash, which was weaponized by the Trump campaign in 2016. More recently, Schweizer wrote Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends. His discussion with Bolling represents a form of propaganda we’re seeing quite often these days.

“The problem is the corruption is being globalized,” Schweizer said. “What that means is thatforeign governments and foreign oligarchs are looking to recruit the family members of politiciansbecause they believe by striking commercial bargains with them—helping politician families become rich—that they’re going to get favorable treatment.”[CHAO MCCONNELL?!]

“And Joe Biden has been a major recipient of that kind of largesse from them,” Schweizer added.

As he did with Clinton Cash, Schweizer backs up his allegations of corruption with inferences and innuendo, but zero actual evidence. What struck me most was the fact that stories about “globalized corruption” in the form of allegations about countries like Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia have been rampant when it comes to Donald Trump and his family. As a matter of fact, this story broke at about the same time as Schweizer’s interview.

A real estate company part-owned by Jared Kushner has received $90m in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle since he entered the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump.

Investment has flowed from overseas to the company, Cadre, while Kushner works as an international envoy for the US, according to corporate filings and interviews. The money came through a vehicle run by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guarantees corporate secrecy.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s elder daughter Ivanka, kept a stake in Cadre after joining the administration, while selling other assets. His holding is now valued at up to $50m, according to his financial disclosure documents.

When right-winger’s like Schweizer level these kind of charges about the Bidens, they are obviously forms of hypocrisy and projection. But it’s also a type of propaganda that we could call “inoculation,” because they introduce the disease into the body politic as a prophylactic against accountability. To mitigate charges of corruption against Trump and his family, similar charges are leveled against their opponents. As we’re seeing now with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the investigators, that ultimately leads to charges being met with countercharges in an attempt to confuse the public and ward off accountability.

The reason that kind of propaganda works for Republicans is because low-information voters — spurred by a media obsessed with bothsiderism — tend to respond by saying “they all do it,” which promotes cynicism and a disengagement from the political process. As Barack Obama once wrote:

A polarized electorate that is turned off of politics, and easily dismisses both parties because of the nasty, dishonest tone of the debate, works perfectly well for those who seek to chip away at the very idea of government because, in the end, a cynical electorate is a selfish electorate.

As with all forms of propaganda, this one is not easy to combat. But the first step is to recognize what’s going on. From there, taking personal responsibility for staying grounded in facts and evidence, no matter where they lead, is the only possible antidote.

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mma Also: Eric Bolling, a former Fox host who left the network after being fired for reportedly sending sexually explicit photos to colleagues, showed up on Alex Jones' show. For some reason Bolling in recent months has been appearing on Morning Joe and the Sunday shows as a Trump expert.

Trump Fanboy And Possible Administration Hire Eric Bolling’s Bigotry And Conspiracy Theories

At Fox News, BollingHas Pushed Racism, Anti-Muslim Views, Conspiracy Theories, And More

Blog ››› November 21, 2016 12:05 PM EST ››› ZACHARY PLEAT & JARED HOLT

Fox News host Eric Bolling is reportedly in discussion to take a position in the Department of Commerce in the upcoming Donald Trump administration. During his employment by Fox News -- where the self-described Trump “fan” was one of the loudest pro-Trump voices on a pro-Trump network -- Bolling has trafficked in racist stereotypes, spread fear of Muslims in America, and engaged in conspiracy theories, including the birtherism made famous by Trump.

Bolling’s Race Problem

Bolling: "I Don't Think There's Racism," Because We Have A Black President And Black Entertainment Channels.

Bolling: Rappers Should Be Happy White People Are Buying “The Black” Music And “Financing Their Lifestyles.”

Bolling: El Chapo Is "The One Mexican We Want, We Can't Get."

Bolling Calls Obama, Holder "Race Merchants" For Defending Voting Rights Act.

Fox's Bolling: "In America, We Create, We Make iPhones," Whereas The Chinese Make "Finger Trap[s]."

Bolling Tweet: President Obama Is "Chugging 40's" In Ireland "While Tornadoes Ravage

Bolling: "What's With All The Hoods In The Hizzy?" During the June 10, 2011, edition of his Fox Business show, Bolling teased a segment about President Barack Obama hosting Ali Bongo Ondimba, president of Gabon, by saying: "Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa's kleptocrats. It's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse." In a subsequent tease, Bolling said, "Smile for the birdie," while footage of a smiling Bongo with a flashing tooth, apparently made to resemble a gold-plated tooth, was shown on-air. Bolling continued: "Our president's sitting with one of Africa's most wanted. It's not the first time he's had a hood in the big crib." Footage of rapper Common appeared on air as Bolling spoke. Bolling began the actual segment by saying: "So what's with all the hoods in the hizzy?"

Bolling: "There's No Racial Aspect Of Profiling."

Bolling’s Anti-Muslim Record

Fox's Eric Bolling: "Every Terrorist On American Soil Has Been A Muslim."

Bolling: Downtown NYC Islamic Center "May Be A Meeting Place For Some Of The Scariest Minds -- Some Of The Biggest Terrorist Minds."

Bolling: "The People Who Flew Planes Into [The Twin Towers] Are Going To Be Represented 500 Feet Away" At The Downtown NYC Islamic Center.

Bolling Defended GOP Presidential Candidate Ben Carson’s Objection To A Muslim Being President. On the September 21, 2015, edition of Fox News’ The Five, Bolling said, “unless you're willing to denounce Sharia law as the governing law over yourself, and anyone you oversee, I wouldn't vote for a Muslim either.”

Bolling Defended Trump Lie About U.S. Muslims Celebrating 9/11: "I Know There Were Muslims" In The U.S. "Who Were Happy That The World Trade Center Came Down."

Bolling Claimed The Obama Administration "Answers To The Quran First And The Constitution Second." On the September 17, 2012 edition of Fox News’ The Five, Bolling said, “the Obama administration, through all this appeasement and apologizing, answers to the Quran first and to the Constitution second.” Later in the show, Bolling said, “I have to clarify something very quickly. You remember when I said Obama, he answers to the Quran before the Constitution? What I meant was, rather than appeasing the Muslims, he should worry about free speech first. That's it. I'm done with it, and I don't want to hear about it."

Bolling’s Conspiracy Theories

Bolling: Border On Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate "Had To Be Photoshopped In." Following the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate, Bolling claimed that the birth certificate's "green border … had to be Photoshopped in." Bolling also suggested Obama's birth certificate wasn't authentic because the doctor "who signed it" didn't tell his family he had helped deliver baby Obama. [Fox Business, Follow the Money, 4/27/11]

Bolling Repeatedly Suggested That Obama "Let" The Deepwater Horizon Rig Leak So He Could Limit Offshore Drilling. Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, Bolling suggested on the May 3, 2010, edition of Fox & Friends that the Obama administration might have "let" the rig leak before "address[ing] it." On the May 27, 2010, edition of Happy Hour, Bolling again speculated about whether Obama "let" the rig leak so he "could renege on his promise ... to allow some offshore drilling." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/3/10; Fox Business, Happy Hour, 5/27/10]

Bolling Allowed Ann Coulter To Bring Lie That Obama “Attended Madrassas”Onto Fox News. While serving as a guest host for The O'Reilly Factor on December 28, 2009, and for Fox News' Glenn Beck on December 30, 2009, Bolling hosted conservative author Ann Coulter, who falsely claimed Obama "attended madrassas" or Islamic schools. As previously reported by Media Matters, Bolling did not challenge Coulter's claims on either show. [Media Matters, 12/31/09]

Bolling Floats Conspiracy Theory That DNC Staffer Murdered In DC “Was A Hit.” As guest host on the August 10 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Bolling and frequent Fox News contributor Monica Crowley floated the idea that a Democratic National Committee staff murdered in Washington, D.C, was the victim of a “hit” and that there was “something more here” than what the official reports of the murder stated. “Where there is smoke, there is fire,” Bolling said. “Lots of smoke right now.” [Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, 8/10/16]

Bolling Claimed United Nations Was Working To Achieve "Centralized Control Over All Of Human Life On Planet Earth."Bolling adopted conservative commentator Glenn Beck’s conspiracy theory that President Obama's White House Rural Council was evidence that he was implementing a United Nations plan aimed at achieving "centralized control over all of human life on planet Earth" and then creating a new "One World Order." [Media Matters, 6/25/11]

Bolling Thought Obama Would Conduct A Military Strike In Libya To Benefit His Re-Election. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Bolling spun a conspiracy theory that claimed that when Obama mentioned a “bump in the road,” he was talking about American deaths in Libya, and that he might conduct a military strike in retaliation for those deaths -- but really for the benefit of his own re-election. Bolling said Obama should use a military strike “for the right reasons” instead of as “a campaign event.” [Media Matters, 9/26/12]

Bolling Claimed The Muppets Was “Brainwashing” Children With A Liberal Agenda. In 2011, Bolling speculated that the writers of the movie The Muppets were trying to “brainwash” children with an anti-oil-industry liberal agenda, asking, “Is there any Occupy Wall Street muppets?” [Fox Business, Follow the Money, 12/2/2011]

Bolling Thought Obama Was Trying To "Bring People Closer To The Cities" To Keep An Eye On Them. In 2012, Bolling claimed that “a lot of people” think the Obama administration is conducting “a whole social engineering thing” to bring people “closer to the cities” where there are “a lot more eyeballs they can keep on them.” [Fox News, The Five, 6/1/12]

Bolling: "Did [Soros] Know? Does He Know" About $2 Billion Petrobras Deal?During a guest appearance on Fox News' Fox & Friends, Bolling revived the false conspiracy theory that Obama arranged for an Export-Import Bank of the United States loan to a Brazilian oil company in order to enrich billionaire philanthropist George Soros at the expense of the United States. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/24/11]

Bolling Admitted Being A “Fan” Of Trump Throughout Presidential Campaign

Daily Beast Reported That Bolling’s Colleagues Described Him As A “Trump Apologist.” The Daily Beast reported in a March 7 article that Bolling was “an unabashed Trump fan” whose colleagues have described him “as a Trump ‘apologist’ who ‘Trumpsplains’ the candidate's various offenses”:

[Eric] Bolling himself is an unabashed Trump fan.

The self-described "friend of [the] Trump family" has been described by his own colleagues as a Trump "apologist" who "Trumpsplains" the candidate's various offenses. Bolling's special guest for the network's New Year's Eve was none other than The Donald; and his interviews with the GOP frontrunner are games of slow-pitch softball. [The Daily Beast, 3/17/16]

Bolling: "I'm A Fan" Of Trump. When discussing Trump's decision to sue Univision on the July 1, 2015, edition of The Five, Bolling said, "Donald Trump is just being Donald Trump on and off the campaign trail. I'm a fan." [Fox News, The Five, 7/1/15, via Nexis]

Bolling Agrees With Greg Gutfeld's Assertion That Bolling "Love[s] Talking About Trump." On the July 24, 2015, edition of The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld said, "You love talking about Trump." Bolling responded by saying, "No, no, I do":

ERIC BOLLING: And so this is Friday, right? And now we're talking about this. And Martin O'Malley said, did mention this on Sunglass Sunday, right?

[...]

BOLLING: Five days later, because of the big Trump announcement, the big Trump hoopla that the media that's been following Donald Trump around everywhere, this was something we started to talk about on Monday.

GREG GUTFELD: But you love talking about Trump.

BOLLING: No, no, I do.

GUTFELD: That's what's you talked about. [Fox News, The Five, 7/24/15, via Nexis]

Bolling Praised Trump In Interview: "I Like What Donald Trump Is Saying. I Like What He's Doing." During an interview with Trump on the August 1, 2015, edition of Fox News' Cashin' In, host Eric Bolling praised the then-candidate, saying:

ERIC BOLLING: Yeah, so I've come out and said I like what Donald Trump is saying, I like what he's doing. I have a lot of -- a lot of my fans supports him, my fan base says I like Donald because he says what he means, means what he says, and it's refreshing to hear it. But I get beat up, even from some people in my own tent at times, for defending some of the things you're saying. [Fox News, Cashin' In, 8/1/15]

Bolling: Trump Is Making The Rest Of Republican Presidential Field Better. On the June 17 edition of The Five, Bolling said Trump “is making the rest of the field better because he's speaking his mind" and "he's got the rest of the field thinking":

[ERIC] BOLLING: Well. Look, I'm not done Donald Trump's spokesperson, but I will tell you I understand where he's coming from. We need to get tough with China. We need to get tough with all the other countries that are dumping their goods into America without any fees, but if we try to sell into Brazil, we try to sell into China, Japan, some of the other developed and developing countries, they charge us a fee, a tax. So it's like this unfair trade balance that goes on. I get it. He says get tough with them.

With regards to the southern border, we talked about it yesterday. And I had no idea what his plan was, but I suggested maybe -- I don't know, maybe telling Mexico we're going to pay you $2 less per barrel of oil. Every barrel we buy from you, all the millions of barrels per day that we buy from you and spend the money securing the border. Whether it's a fence, whether it's a moat, whatever you do. Even if it's not even a fence, even if it's a border patrol, pay the border patrol through that. Look, here's the thing. Donald Trump is making the rest of the field better because he's speaking his mind. He's talking to people who have ideas and who are angry about the way politics have been for the last 20, 30, 40 or 50 years. And then finally, someone's willing to step up and have some other ideas. Let's at least try them. Let's at least think about them. See whether or not you like Donald, but you think he can be your president or not, he's got the rest of the field thinking. I think that's a good thing. [Fox News, The Five, 6/17/15, via Nexis]

Bolling Gushes Over Trump Family: "When The Kids Talk, It's Just, It's Amazing." On the July 18 edition of Fox News’ The Five, Bolling showered the Trump for raising “kids like that who love him the way they do” and who are “amazing” when they speak. Bolling also said Trump’s marriage seemed like “a great relationship all the way around.” [Fox News, The Five, 7/18/16s]

Bolling Describes Himself As “A Friend Of Trump Family” In a Tweet.

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Eric Bolling ? @ericbolling

Actually I've been a friend of Trump family for well over a decade.. but thanks for the cheap shot.. https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/650004511235383296 …

10:52 AM - 2 Oct 2015

46 46 Retweets   82 82 likes

[Twitter.com, 10/2/15]

Bolling: People Calling For Boycotts Of Trump Products Are "Economic Terrorists." On the July 2 edition of The Five, Bolling criticized those calling for boycotts of Trump's products as "economic terrorists." [Fox News, The Five, 7/2/15]

Bolling Defended Trump After He Attacked John McCain's War Heroism. On the July 20 edition of The Five, Bolling defended Trump's remark that Senator John McCain wasn't a war hero, suggesting "it just kind of fell out of his mouth" and that Trump "wished he could take it back":

BOLLING: Geraldo, do you really think that Donald Trump has disrespect or doesn't think that someone who is captured by the enemy and spent five years in captivity isn't a war hero? Do you honestly think that.

RIVERA: I think.

BOLLING: Do you think it just kind of fell out of his mouth and he, you know, he would wished he could take it back. Don't forget, the context of this was someone asked him about John McCain's service to the veterans and he said John McCain who dropped the ball as far as the veteran's administration. [Fox News, The Five, 7/20/15, via Nexis]

Bolling Has Been Forced To Apologize For Other Inappropriate Remarks

Bolling Had To Apologize For Asking If The First Female UAE Pilot Who Bombed Islamic State “Would Be Considered Boobs On The Ground.” Bolling had to apologize for asking if the first female pilot leading the United Arab Emirates who conducted bombing against Islamic State terrorists “would be considered boobs on the ground.” Bolling said he “got home” and “got the look” from his wife and “realized some people didn’t think it was funny at all.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/25/14]

Bolling Forced To Apologize For Claiming Obama Was A Drug Dealer.

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Eric Bolling ? @ericbolling

Said yesterday that I thought the President had admitted to buying or selling drugs.I was wrong.and I apologize to him for my mistake

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called out by jon s 9/14

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/08/eric-bollings-sour-grapes-good-bye-jon

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brad friedman bradblog:

h, noes! I've been blocked on the Twitters by Eric Bolling, the pretend journalist, pundit, propagandist or whatever he calls himself, of The Fiveon Fox "News"!

Never mind that I've never followed him there, so I'll probably survive having been "blocked" by him, but it seems thin-skinned li'l Eric doesn't like it too much when folks point out thewildly inaccurate "facts" he presents to viewers on his afternoon Fox "News" show.

The Twitter exchange between the very handsome Bolling and me is posted below. In full. It's brief.I correct his long-ago debunked falsehood about Arctic ice, he calls me a name and links to a long-ago debunked article in a British tabloid to support his long-ago debunked nonsense, I call him a name and link him to actual facts, he calls me a "d-bag", announces he'll be blocking me, and then offers me and my "miserable life" a warm farewell. It's fun.

For the record, the exchange started after he misinformed his viewers on his The Five show Monday, in an effort to pretend climate change isn't happening, that "Arctic sea ice is approaching a record high level this year!" But it isn't. Not by a long shot. In fact, the Arctic sea ice minimum extent is at its 6th lowest level ever recorded this year, as those know-nothing, d-bag, loser "scientists" at NASA noted last week, based on satellite imagery.

We (and a whole bunch of actual scientists) completely debunked demolished Bolling's canard about this year's Arctic sea ice minimum a few weeks ago, after a British tabloid first put it forward, falsely declaring that the increase in sea ice this year over last year's all-time low, meant that the globe is now "COOLING!"

As NASA explains, that'snot even close to true...

The 2013 summertime minimum extent is in line with the long-term downward trend of about 12 percent per decade since the late 1970s, a decline that has accelerated after 2007. This year’s rebound from 2012 does not disagree with this downward trend and is not a surprise to scientists.

The same article also notes that "The remaining Arctic sea ice cover is much thinner on average than it was years ago. Satellite imagery, submarine sonar measurements, and data collected from NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, indicate that the Arctic sea ice thickness is as much as 50 percent thinner than it was in previous decades."

But Bolling and Fox "News" have never let facts get in the way of some good fossil fuel-industry propaganda. Greg Gutfeld, one of Bolling's similarly fact-free co-hosts on The Five, used the same Arctic ice canard on the show a few weeks ago to trumpet: "Global warming, yes, it's finally dead!" (Video here.)

Inaccurately citing the increase in this year's sea ice over last year's all-time record low, Gutfeld went on to declare (also inaccurately): "That means all predictions, computer forecasts have been wrong! Thank you." The same nonsense was wildly repeated and linked and tweeted, etc. by the incurious dupes, stooges, pawns, chumps, rubes and suckers of the Climate Change Denial Industry, including Rush Limbaugh who lied to his millions of listeners that "the Arctic ice sheet is at a record size for this time of year. They told us the ice was melting in the Arctic Ice Sheet. It's not. There's a record amount of ice, in the modern era, for this time of year."

And the thanks I got for trying to help Bolling out by tweeting to him that he was wrong, and that, in fact, Arctic ice was "at its 6th lowest recorded rate ever"? He sent me the link to that long-ago debunked Mail on Sunday article, called me a "twitter troll", a "d-bag", an "angry little man" and blocked me because, it seems, I called him "hateful names". (He later told someone else on Twitter who was critical of him for blocking me, that he doesn't "block for opinion," but "for name calling/personal attacks."

You be the judge of how "hateful" I was. Admittedly, using the word "dolt" is pretty rough stuff for a sensitive fella like Eric.

* * *

My brief Twitter exchange yesterday with the fact-challenged, Fox "News" dolt Eric Bolling follows in full below...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10281

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Eric Bolling

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born

March 2, 1963

Chicago

OccupationFOX News and FOX Business Network anchor/investor
Other namesThe Admiral
TitleAnalyst Host Columnist Investor

Eric Bolling (born March 2, 1963) is an American television personality who specializes in financial news and political commentary. He has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television. Bolling was involved in developing CNBC's Fast Money. Bolling left CNBC in August 2007 and moved to the new Fox Business Network as one of the network's financial analysts. He hosted the business show Happy Hour, which ran opposite Fast Money in the 5 pm time slot. Bolling also appears on Fox News Channel as a panelist on their show Bulls and Bears airing Saturday mornings, as the host of the business hour on Foxnews.com Strategy Room at 3 pm, and as a panelist on the weekday show The Five. He also now hosts Follow The Money, formerly titled Money Rocks. Political issues are also prominent in his broadcasts. He is a contributor to the Foxnews.com opinion blog Fox Forum.[1] and is a regular fill-in host on The Glenn Beck Program, The O'Reilly Factor and Fox and Friends.

[edit] Personal life

Bolling was formerly a commodities trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange. He specialized in trading natural gas, crude oil, gold, and other commodities.

After spending five years on the Board Of Directors at the NYMEX (now CME Group), Bolling became a strategic adviser to the Exchange's Board of Directors. He has been included in Trader Monthly Top 100 in 2005 and 2006. Bolling was the recipient of the Maybach Man of the Year Award at the Trader Monthly Awards, January 17, 2007.[2]

Bolling graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He attended Duke University after graduating from Rollins. Bolling was drafted in the 22nd round of the 1984 draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. His playing career was cut short due to a torn rotator cuff.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Bowling For Eric (With Lawyers)". Mediabistro. August 27, 2007.
  2. ^ "Eric Bolling – Maybach Man of the Year". Trader Daily. January 17, 2007

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Is Eric Bolling FOX News’ Rising Star and Chief Liar?

by arizona-unapologetic-liberal on Jul. 16, 2011

Well, we’ve all seen what has been happening with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch, I think many of us are loudly wishing that it trickles down to FAUX News. However, Murdoch and his spin machine didn’t get to where they’re at by being weak or easily susceptible to attacks from the left or the :{government:(style="font-weight:inherit"):}:. As a matter of fact, I do believe they own part of the government, at the very least they certainly do have a slew of politicians in their deep hip pocket.

FOX will get dinged, but it won’t be anything serious. However we seem to be watching an attempt to change the old guard, that or some of the new blood is getting more outrageous as to attract attention. Case in question, Eric Bolling who currently hosts “Follow The Money” on FOX.

I’ve noticed Bolling getting more and more outlandish since we caught wind that Beck was leaving. I’m sure he was privy to that information much before we were. In any event it’s clear that Bolling is not only pushing the envelope when it comes to outlandish comments, he is outright lying. I guess no one told him about Media Matters and other fact checking progressive machines that specifically monitor the lying right. Believe me, FOX has plenty of fodder for Media Matters.

As I said Bolling’s an offensive “POL”, plain old liar! Here are some of his gems.

On his show “Follow The Money,” Bolling criticized Obama’s visit with Ali Bongo, the president of Gabon, by saying, “Guess who’s coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa’s kleptocrats. It’s not the first time he’s had a hoodlum in the hizzouse.”

As he said “hizzouse,” a picture of rapper Common appeared on the screen. Common’s appearance at a White House poetry event drew loud complaints from conservatives.

Later, Bolling made similar comments. “What’s with all the hoods in the hizzy?” he asked, saying that Bongo has been “accused of human rights violations and plundering billions of his country’s dollars.”

Mr. Obama, you’ve decided that chugging a few 40s and rediscovering you’re Irish is more important than a presidential visit to a community trying to figure out what just hit them.

Discussing Obama’s budget proposal, Bolling stated: “How does increasing :{taxes:(style="font-weight:inherit"):}: count as spending cuts in your world, Mr. Obama? Maybe in Kenya, but certainly not here.

” Following the release of Obama’s long-form birth certificate, Bolling claimed that the birth certificate’s “green border” “had to be Photoshopped in.”

Here is what we should do: privatize [TSA]. Fire them all. Let independent :{companies:(style="font-weight:inherit"):}: come in, take it over, and then do this: aggressive profiling, not just behavioral profiling, cultural profiling as well. Get the airways safe again.

The May 11, 2009, edition of Fox Business’ Happy Hour featured a graphic of various politicians pictured around a baseball diamond. When pointing to Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who is openly gay, Bolling said that Frank was “appropriately positioned … catching, of :{course:(style="font-weight:inherit"):}:.

On the June 2, 2011, edition of Fox & Friends, Bolling said that Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson “is so pro-green” that “you could almost call him an eco-terrorist.

Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, Bolling suggested on the May 3, 2010, edition of Fox & Friends that the Obama administration might have “let” the rig leak before “address[ing] it.” On the May 27, 2010, edition of Happy Hour, Bolling again wondered if Obama “let” the rig leak so he “could renege on his promise … to allow some offshore drilling.”

I could go on and on with quotes and instances of this low life’s offensive rhetoric and lies, but let’s get to the video of Bolling demeaning a woman and calling her a kid. I mean if he doesn’t respect one minority, people of color, why should he respect another, :{women:(style="font-weight:inherit"):}:.

The discussion got a bit testy when Bolling referred to his guest as “kid” and she later responded mockingly back to him as “dad.” Yet the most heated moment came when Heldman admitted “Democrats are using a bit of hyperbole” by claiming Social Security checks won’t go out if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. Bolling exploded in response and demonstrated his own hyperbole:

“You just called that hyperbole? Because I call it threatening, fear-mongering, putting a hatchet over a chicken’s head.”

Then Bolling’s biggest and best lie of all. With demagogue and ex White House Spokesperson under Bush’s regime, Dana Perino sitting right smack next to him, Bolling let loose with,

“America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008,” he said. “I don’t remember any attacks on American soil during that period of time.”

Perino throws a fit because Bob Beckel a Democratic strategist and FOX News contributor refers to Bush’s outright lies about WMD’s in Iraq which as we all know misled :{congress:(style="font-weight:inherit"):}: and launched us into a war based on misinformation, which in turn led to our current state of affairs, trillions in debt to a communist country. Hell, our founding fathers must be turning in their graves right about now. Yet, Perino does not say a damn word about Bolling’s great lie.

I’m telling you, this Republican machine called FOX News is tantamount to a terrorist organization with deep pockets cloaked in the American flag.

So is Bolling the new Glenn Beck? Willing to risk his career by spewing offensive racist comments and lies to rise to the top of the pond scum called right wing political television, or as some call it, FOX News?

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana and the Tucson Citizen. Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/http://www.carlosgalindo.com

Jon Stewart Roasts Republicans Who Deny Climate Change

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Jon Stewart blasts climate change deniers at Fox News

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Last night, Jon Stewart was back for his first show of 2014, and he blasted those on Fox News for being climate change deniers, and then talked with Jessica Williams about these denials.

Hey, you know what?  This is nice.  No name-calling, no left vs. right ideological bullshit, it's just the pleasure of watching news anchors slowly perish from hypothermia.

MELISSA FRANCIS (1/2/2014): All this snow, and still cries over global warming.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.  Hold on there, but the weather where you are on a particular day doesn't... don't... don't do this, don't.

ERIC BOLLING (1/4/2014): We're having a hard time understand how global warming alarmists are still trying to push their radical position.

DANIEL HENNINGER (1/4/2014): Global warming, a phrase we're all familiar with, I think it's going to die this year ... given the kind of incredible cold weather we've had this weekend.

(disappointed audience laughter)

Right now there are parts of my body that are getting angry that I didn't even know could get angry.  (audience cheering and applause for earlier joke reference)  And it's... they're getting so angry right now that it's... I'm not going to tell you which part it is... it's my balls.  (audience laughter)  Right now, I have angry balls.  Oh my God, I think I just invented a new video game

(audience laughter)

"Are you kids playing Angry Balls?  Hey you kids!  Stop playing Angry Balls!"

Just when you think it's over, they pull you back in!

There you have it.  War on Christmas is over, the War on Carbon begins.  Global warming, just one more liberal conspiracy.  Because even though there is a great deal of scientific data establishing climate trends, even though many of the models of global warming predict more extremes of weather — not just warming — apparently decades of peer-reviewed scientific study can be, like a ficus plant, destroyed in one cold weekend.

STUART VARNEY (1/2/2014): Looks to me like we're looking at global cooling.  Forget this global warming.  That's just my opinion.

Yeah!  You're fucking opinion!  That's your opinion!  It means nothing!!  Sorry.  (yells at balls)  Guys, settle down!  (audience laughter)

What... it's your opinion!  "Yeah, based on its flavor, I think lead paint is good to drink.  That's my opinion.  Peeing into a fountain the same time as another person is a good way to switch souls with them.  My opinion!"

1/4/2014: DAN WEISS, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: If 97 doctors told you that that lump on your lung was something to worry about, and 3 scientists — er, doctors — told you not to worry about it, are you going to listen to the 97, or the 3?  Sounds like you might listen to the 3, which would be sad.

ERIC BOLLING: Well, it really matters to me if the 97 were getting paid to tell me I had a lump on my lung, and it was bad.

(confused audience laughter)

You know, that is how doctors get paid, right?  You go to them, and then they charge you to diagnose and treat your problem.  Although, I think I've figured out where the lump is.  (looks at image of Eric Bolling)

All right, let's follow this climate science money.

ERIC BOLLING (1/4/2014): I gotta tell you, I think these scientists are laughing from their lavish laboratories, and their vacations up at the Arctic,in their nice boats that are well-equipped.

(shocked audience laughter)

This Arctic?  This lavish boat?

Yeah, that's the dream, man.  I remember thinking, when I get older, I'm gonna be taking one of them Arctic research cruises.  And monitor shit, 'cause all the ladies be like, "Damn, your readings are so accurate."  (audience laughter)

But I get it.  You can't trust these scientists, their judgment is clouded by money.  Why do you oppose these scientists?

NEIL CAVUTO (5/4/2013): I think it borders on lunacy that we commit billions — dare I say it, Charles — trillions of dollars to something that might not be.

STEVE FORBES (11/24/2012): This is simply another government attempt to extort money from businesses.

Ah, so the integrity and research of corporations saving millions of dollars by denying climate change is unimpeachable.  But keep an eye on those tricky global warming scientist thousand-aires.  I've never trusted them since I found out one of the elements on their Periodic Table — gold.  Pretty convenient!

Look, it seems like there's a simple way to solve this.  Just bring on someone whose opinion we all respect, and whose expertise in this field cannot be denied.

DONALD TRUMP (1/6/2014): This whole global warming hoax.

(Jon facepalms as audience bursts into laughter)

(in Jerry Lewis voice)  Nooooo!  Oh, the doctor is in!

DONALD TRUMP (1/6/2014): This winter is brutal!  I mean, I'm in New York right now, the airports were closed, everything's closed, it's freezing!

Oh!  So global warming must be a hoax.  Because, I mean, Mr. Trump would never conceal a bald-faced truth or go through any effort to hide when something's clearly receding over the years.  (scratches hair as audience laughs)

1/14 fox

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/07/1267926/-Jon-Stewart-blasts-climate-change-deniers-at-Fox-News