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Fox host warns that if Mamdani doesn't do anything about people throwing snowballs at NYPD it will lead to “Game of Thrones where everyone is just robbing everyone, taking their purse”

02/26/26

February 26, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Well, we interviewed a police officer yesterday and he said all we want to hear is you have our backs. That's what leadership needs to tell us, we have your backs. We're out there putting our lives on the line to keep our communities safe. Just have our back. What if you worked for someone who never had your back? Would you stay on the job that long? No, you wouldn't. And that's what is happening in New York. Police officers are leaving in droves. They're going down to Florida where they can retire there, where they're supported and they can get a bonus if they join some of the departments in Florida. So they're leaving because they don't feel supported we're going to get to a point - New York City back to the place where we were before.

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): That's it, Game of Thrones where everyone is just robbing everyone, taking their purse. I'm just telling you this, it start's with this, it starts with the snowball comparison, and it's just going to expand. So, if you don't nip it in the bud right now, it's just going to spiral. And it looks like this mayor, as you said, just wants to smile.

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  1. ### Right-wing media hyped a supposed “shovel” attack against ICE. Prosecutors just dropped the charges.

02/13/26 2:03 PM EST

  1. ### Fox News owes Rep. Escobar an apology over El Paso airspace shutdown

02/11/26 11:59 AM EST

  1. ### Fox News guest calls for Hunter Hess to be kicked off the United States Olympic team: “This guy is the absolute worst of America”

02/09/26

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Fox ignores climate change while covering collapsing houses along the North Carolina coast

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Written by Ilana Berger

Published09/19/25

During a September 18 segment, Fox & Friends covered the most recent instance of a house collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean — this time on Hatteras Island in North Carolina — and mentioned erosion along the coast, but left out that climate change is contributing to the problem. Sea-level rise and erosion from increasingly severe storms has helped claim 11 other homes in the unincorporated community of Rodanthe, North Carolina.

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From the September 18, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

CARLEY SHIMKUS (CO-HOST): A stilt house collapsing on the shore along the Outer Banks of North Carolina this week. It's now the 12th home claimed by the Atlantic Ocean in the past five years. The two-story beach home fell at the north end of Hatteras Island. Thankfully, the home was empty at the time. Officials say recent storms have worsened erosion, leading to more collapses like this. Those are your headlines, guys. Huge home.

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): It's interesting they let them just collapse. They don't destroy them before, knowing this is going to happen.

SHIMKUS: Yeah, that's right. And clearly the ocean is moving up the shore or they wouldn't have built that home in the first place.

EARHARDT: It's a big problem. It's a big problem on the East Coast. And you spend so much to have that beachfront property and then, you know — over time, it's gone.

SHIMKUS: It is, yes.

The Charlotte Observer correctly implicated the role of climate change in its reporting on the home’s destruction, highlighting that Hurricane Erin in August generated “waves as high as 50 feet,” causing “severe erosion in some places along the East Coast.”

The Observer noted that “the home was well away from the ocean and behind a vegetated dune when it was built in 1969. But a series of storms, which have occurred more frequently in recent years due to climate change, carved away the beach and the dune and brought the surf up to the pilings of the home and a string of others to its north and south.”

While the Fox & Friends segment mentioned that worsening storms “have caused erosion,” the network has repeatedly downplayed any connections between hurricanes and climate change, which has been making storms grow rapidly and more intense, destroying homes and businesses. Fox has also downplayed the threat of sea level rise, which occurs “mostly due to a combination of melt water from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms,” according to NASA.

As FactCheck.org pointed out, “For every inch of sea level rise, approximately 100 inches of beach are lost, according to NASA oceanographer and climate scientist Josh Willis.”

Trump’s Department of Energy recently published a so-called “critical review” of climate science, which included several climate contrarians as authors and “cherry-picks text, data, and studies that paint an incomplete picture” in order “to suggest rising sea-levels in the US are only due to land-sinking,” according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. The DOE report uses limited information to claim that there is “no obvious acceleration beyond the historical average rate of sea level rise.”

Meanwhile, members of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which manages the coastal area that was impacted, told The Charlotte Observer that “there are probably dozens of homes endangered on the oceanfront.”

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April 18, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): So let's talk Democrats. And for the most part, you're looking at a party looking for leaders. But one thing they are getting is big crowds. And they're getting big crowds where Bernie Sanders and AOC are traveling around. They're going to areas, and there's definitely people out there when you have 49, you know, when you have millions of people vote for Democrats, you can get a big crowd. I'm astounded to see Yale University did a survey, and it says that AOC is now in the second spot behind Kamala Harris as the most popular, but she's supposed to be the working class socialist. A message to those that oligarchs are ruining this country, and the rich are gonna get richer unless she is voted in, and 83 year old Bernie Sanders is the nominal leader.

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): So you got Kamala Harris at the top of the list.

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): It's — yes, you're right. Yeah.

JONES: She lost every swing state. The American people overwhelmingly rejected her. She was a bumbling mess on the campaign trail, could not complete her sentences accurately. No one really knew what she stood for. And then you got AOC that's right behind her, Ainsley.

EARHARDT: Is she tied with Cory Booker?

JONES: Exactly. A radical. The people in the country aren't gonna sign up for her agenda. I just think it's another double down on crazy.

EARHARDT: You know, this is what, this is what we all feared. I remember when Bernie Sanders came on the scene, and he said, ‘I'm a socialist.' We were like,‘What? No one's voting for you.' Now look at these crowds. This is where our country is going, and it is very, very scary. They are socialist. They are so far to the left. They are progressive.

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  1. ### Fox's obsession with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

11/15/18 2:57 PM EST

  1. ### The right-wing grift industry has found a new favorite target: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

03/13/19 1:56 PM EDT

  1. ### Fox News legal contributor says he fears Trump administration won't “honor due process”

04/21/25

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October 8, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Today is Tuesday. It is exactly four weeks before the election, and there's a brand new New York Times poll — came out, an hour and 14 minutes ago. And Kamala Harris has a slim lead. And once again, we've been talking about the polls. They are neck and neck. She's up by three. They were tied in mid-September. It is now 49 to 46.

That is why we're seeing more of her, and we've been talking a little bit about how she's trying to get ahead with the storms and stuff like that. That's one of the reasons why over the weekend, she was out, and the administration was promoting the fact that this administration has sent a hundred and fifty-sevel million dollars to Lebanon. Now that's one thing. But it comes as the same time that there are tens of thousands of Americans struggling, and the federal government doesn't have enough money for them. Peter Doocy asked some very basic questions about how lopsided that is. So let me get this straight. We got money for Lebanon. We don't have money for people in North Carolina. If you miss it, here is this extraordinary interchange.

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AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): She's missing what he was trying to ask. He was just saying why can we give all this money to Lebanon and without Congress's permission, but yet Congress has to come back to give money to our Americans in North Carolina and in Florida. That's all he was saying, and she's saying you don't want Congress to come back. No.

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Ainsley, she knows exactly what he's saying. She being intentionally obtuse, pretending like she doesn't understand there are people, I just got back from there — they are frustrated that they are not getting the resources at a faster rate. I know they say FEMA is there, but the people aren't seeing them. That's the bottom line. People are not seeing them on the ground. They are seeing Samaritan's Purse. The country is a giving country. But when they see other people getting resources before them, they get pretty hot about it. And there's dead bodies still having to be dragged out right now, which is sad. There's no government agency on the ground that's doing, those are private organizations that are doing the work. And so for Peter to ask the question that most Americans that are in this tragedy are feeling, and for her to reject it as disinformation, you don't like the question but it's not disinformation.

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): We're also watching everyone cover for this administration, The New York Times, the Washington Post, almost every network is not acknowledging the fact that they've taken a week to ask the military to get involved.

JONES: Yes.

KILMEADE: These are hard-to-reach areas, it's different than Florida is going to need. These are hard-to-reach areas. You needed the army, they are literally one hour away and you waited a week. Don't say you didn't need them because you called them last Thursday when you could have had them in country, in the state working on Monday.

CBS News reports (emphasis added):

Only $1.6 billion remains in a federal program to help small businesses impacted by hurricanes and natural disasters — enough funding for only a few more weeks without emergency intervention by Congress. Multiple Biden administration and congressional sources told CBS News there are concerns funding will be depleted by the end of this month.

The remaining pot of funding in the Small Business Administration's disaster loan fund is being severely strained by the damage of Hurricane Helene, CBS News has learned, and the Small Business Administration has received at least 3,000 applications every day since Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast. One administration official said there is not sufficient money to last until Congress' scheduled return to Washington after the November elections.

Congress failed to include additional funding for the disaster fund when it passed a short-term spending bill to fund the federal government in September. Although there is optimism that sufficient money remains to help offset the costs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until Congress returns during the week of Nov. 12, there are growing concerns that the Small Business Administration disaster money will run dry.

CBS specifically notes that the Republican senator from Florida Rick Scott is among those asking Congress to reconvene immediately:

An aide to Sen. Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, told CBS News that Scott spoke with President Biden about the need for Congress to swiftly reconvene and approve new federal aid to respond to Helene's destruction.

“While I know from my experience with previous hurricanes that FEMA and SBA damage assessments take time, I am today urging Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately reconvene the U.S. Senate when those assessments are completed so that we can pass the clean supplemental disaster funding bill and other disaster relief legislation,” Scott said in a news release.

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Trump publicly bragged about tanking the border bill — now a Fox host is trying to help him revise history

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 09/27/24

Fox & Friendsco-host Ainsley Earhardt is helping former President Donald Trump run cover for his public sabotage of a bipartisan immigration bill he previously bragged about tanking.

On the September 27 episode, Earhardt argued that while Vice President Kamala Harris has been blaming Trump for the failed immigration bill, “he says, ‘I never called those lawmakers.’ Those lawmakers say the same thing. ‘No — he had nothing to do with it. We didn’t like the bill.'”

Earhardt’s attempt to help Trump revise history is stymied by a series of facts.

Trump publicly came out against the bill in a Truth Social post, stating, “I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION.” In a separate post, Trump wrote, “Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill.”

Trump himself has previously owned the blame for the failed bill. At a late January rally, Trump vowed to “fight it all the way” and stated, “A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me. Please.”

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Fox is in denial of reality just weeks before the election

Fox personalities have rejected data showing a reduction in violent crime, record energy production, plummeting inflation, and fewer unauthorized border crossings

Written by Zachary Pleat

Published 09/26/24 mma

In recent weeks, multiple Fox personalities have been in denial of objective reality that under the Biden-Harris administration, especially in recent months, violent crime has declined, inflation is steadily declining, oil and natural gas production are at record highs, and unauthorized border crossings have plummeted.

On September 23, the FBI released its annual crime statistics estimates, which showed a 3% decline in violent crime nationwide, including an 11.6% drop in “murder and non-negligent manslaughter.” These statistics were widely reported, and The New York Times noted that this continues a pattern of declining murder rates under the Biden-Harris administration, with the decline in murders showing “the largest year-to-year decline since national record-keeping began in 1960.”

Yet Fox, which spent more than half the year running nearly 1,000 weekday segments on the bogus “migrant crime” narrative, has denied these statistics showing a drop in violent crime.

Multiple measures of inflation have plummeted since their mid-2022 peak. Both the consumer price index and the personal consumption expenditures price index measures show 2.5% inflation — near the Federal Reserve’s 2% PCE target — and the producer price index measure shows a lower 1.7%. The improving inflation picture has at last galvanized the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, much to Fox’s displeasure. Yet Fox continues to cover inflation in a misleading manner, falsely claiming that it is currently at “record highs.”

American energy production is experiencing record highs under the Biden-Harris administration. In addition, the U.S. is on track to be the world’s leading exporter of liquefied natural gas for the second year in a row and is the largest supplier of LNG to Europe. In 2023, U.S. crude oil production, at an average of 12.9 million barrels per day, surpassed the record set in 2019, and the Energy Information Administration has forecasted a new record of 13.25 million barrels per day this year.

Report after report has shown that unauthorized border crossings in the Southwest have plummeted in recent months compared to previous years in the Biden-Harris administration. Even Fox News reported a huge drop in apprehensions at the border.

Yet Fox continues to challenge the data showing a huge drop in unauthorized border crossings by insisting that the number of people using the administration’s programs to entice immigrants to enter legally should be added to border crossing numbers. This denial of reality and goalpost shifting bears similarities to the rhetoric of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who has been purposefully referring to authorized migrants as “illegal aliens” after stirring up hate against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, with false smears.

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September 25, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

AINSLEY EARHARDT (FOX HOST): Think about the few speeches we have heard her give or interviews we have heard her give. She is not focusing on the environment anymore, climate.

STEVE DOOCY (HOST): Listen, and regarding costs of stuff. When she talks about how insurance — your insurance, your home insurance is going up, because of climate change, I have actually heard that from my insurance broker. They said okay. Your rates are going way up. I said why? Because of the weather. Because of climate change. So that is — that's somebody who is not a partisan.

AINSLEY EARHARDT: They just want to charge you more, It's the weather. El Nino.

STEVE DOOCY: Also why they are canceling people. That's why she is using that.

BRIAN KILMEADE (HOST): One more windmill and his insurance rates will go down. Fantastic. Get me those solar panels from China.

LAWRENCE JONES (HOST): Right.

As Media Matters recently documented:

During the August 28 edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Fox Business correspondent Max Gordon reported on the skyrocketing cost of car insurance, another one of the “big issues coming up in the campaign” according to anchor Dana Perino. Gordon went on to connect this pocketbook issue to climate change, noting that the, “Increase in severe weather events has been one of the main drivers behind these increasing premiums. Climate events that cause a billion dollars or more in damage have been steadily on the rise, impacting how insurers set rates.”

Notably, the climate crisis is creating a housing insurance crisis as well. Climate change is making storms and wildfires more destructive. Last year, the U.S. experienced a record 28 disasters that cost more than a billion dollars each in damage. In response, some private insurers are raising premiums in areas frequently hit by extreme weather or pulling out of high-risk areas altogether, leaving homeowners uninsured.

Rising insurance costs are not the only economic impact of climate change. A study released early this year found that climate change is among the factors driving inflation which is “driving up the prices of food and other goods worldwide.” As Axios reported: “This is not the first study to note the economic toll of climate change, or even the inflationary pressures of increasing temperatures and extreme weather events."

Here is a recent CBS News segment on how climate change is affecting insurance rates:

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....The Trump-aligned Project 2025, which was created to serve as the blueprint for his next presidential administration, also includes numerous proposals to further restrict overtime pay and protections for American workers.

Yet now Fox News is promoting his supposedly “pro-worker” announcement that he will move to eliminate taxes on overtime pay if reelected.

News organizations shouldn’t fall for Trump’s gimmick.

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Fox & Friends host pushes wildly inflated Pennsylvania fracking jobs estimate

BLS numbers put oil and gas production jobs in the state at 12,000 in 2023

Special ProgramsClimate & Energy

Written by Allison Fisher

Published 09/19/24 mma

During the September 19 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, host Ainsley Earhardt falsely claimed that the fracking industry supports “423,000 jobs in the state of Pennsylvania.” There is no credible evidence to support this figure. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, direct oil and gas production jobs in Pennsylvania numbered about 12,000 in 2023.

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The number Earhardt cited is also more than three times larger than the figure a Trump campaign ad cites. The ad falsely claims 120,000 jobs would be lost if Harris were elected, even though presidents cannot ban fracking on state and private lands, where the vast majority of fracking occurs.

As a local journalist pointed out in a fact check aimed at Trump’s fracking ad, the 120,000 figure refers to an industry study by the Marcellus Shale Coalition that combines direct jobs in the industry and “estimates for jobs that the authors claim … would not exist if not for oil and gas production.”

In reality, the journalist goes on to explain:

The state of Pennsylvania reported about 26,000 direct jobs in the oil and gas industry in 2020, less than 1% of all jobs in the state. Four years later, that number is even smaller. Despite an increase in production post pandemic, jobs in the industry have not kept up, according to a recent report from E&E News, which cites the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics in which direct oil and gas production jobs in Pennsylvania was about 12,000 in 2023.

An early study on job creation from Penn State University, published in 2010 and paid for by the industry, said that by 2020, industry jobs would top 200,000 – it’s unclear if the study intended those to be direct or indirect. But six years later, another study from Penn State, with different authors, reported about 26,000 direct industry jobs, half of which were filled by out-of-state residents.

In fact, not only has the industry “shed thousands of workers in the state since 2019,” but it also has failed to deliver the wealth promised to many communities burdened with fracking wells. Meanwhile, “clean energy industries employ more than 8 times more PA workers than the state’s gas industry.”

Additionally, earlier in the program, host Lawrence Jones suggested that the oil and gas industry makes job cuts at “election time” based on “who is winning in the election” and “what the policies are,” but presidential policies have little impact on fracking that is done on state and private land, and evidence shows most energy-related job loss is due to automation in the industry.

As Politico reported:

The United States is pumping out more oil and gas than any country in history. But even as production soars, oil field employment keeps shrinking.​

The decadelong decline isn’t driven by climate policy or the rise in clean energy. Instead, it’s the result of boom-and-bust cycles — and the fossil fuel industry’s relentless push for efficiency.

“You just need fewer workers to produce more oil,” said Greg Upton, executive director of Louisiana State University’s Center for Energy Studies.

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On the September 18 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt praised former President Donald Trump, claiming he “gives specifics” for such policy proposals as decreasing energy bills by 50%, becoming “energy independent again,” and bringing back the state and local tax deduction.

Earhardt failed to mention that it was Trump who got rid of the SALT deduction, that the U.S. is currently energy independent, and that experts say the president has little ability to affect energy prices.

On September 17, Trump vowed to undo part of the signature tax policy of his first term — capping the SALT tax deduction — writing in a Truth Social post that he would “get SALT back” if he wins the election, without elaborating or providing specifics. NBC described Trump’s comment as “the latest in a series of seemingly impulsive policy comments that have turned heads within his party.”

On the campaign trail, Trump has also been questionably promising to cut energy costs by 50% in 12 months, while experts say that as president, Trump would be “equipped with few levers to influence energy prices, which are largely controlled by executives and policymakers across a range of oil-rich countries.”

But on the September 18 edition of Fox & Friends, Earhardt praised Trump for vowing to bring back the SALT deduction and to “lower your energy bill by 50% in the first 12 months,” claiming “he gives specifics” and criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for “word salads.”

During the segment, the on-screen chyron read: “Trump outlines a straightforward economic agenda while Harris remains vague.”

Earhardt failed to mention it was Trump who capped the SALT tax deduction, saying, “Donald Trump says he’s gonna bring back the SALT — the SALT, what do you call it? The SALT tax or deduction so you can deduct, yeah, your state and local tax from your income, which New Yorkers would love, Connecticut would love, all the high-tax states would love.”

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CitationFrom the September 18, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): They already broke with the boss by kicking him out and putting her in it, so I think she has to prove that I have better solutions for the economy, because under our administration, everything was up. We showed you the prices. But she doesn't have solutions. It's all a word salad about she grew up in the middle class. She wants your — everyone wants their lawns to look pretty. Opportunity economy. What is an opportunity economy?

Give me specifics of what you're gonna do. Like, Donald Trump says he's gonna bring back the SALT – the SALT, what do you call it? The SALT tax or deduction so you can deduct, yeah, your state and local tax from your income, which New Yorkers would love, Connecticut would love, all the high-tax states would love.

So he gives specifics. He talked about energy. He's gonna lower your energy bill by 50% in the first 12 months. She's talking in word salads, opportunity economy. What is that gonna do for us?

Later in the show, Earhardt again praised Trump for giving “specifics” such as saying he will “decrease your energy bills by 50% in the first 12 months” and make the U.S. “energy independent again.” (She failed to mention that the U.S. is currently energy independent under the Biden/Harris administration.) Earhardt said: “He gives specifics, but she doesn't. She does these just these phrases.”

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CitationFrom the September 18, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

EARHARDT: “Harris' formula for national media interviews: Don't make news.” And that's why she keeps saying the same phrases when she's asked what we're going to do for the economy, what are you going to do differently, and she says a new generation of leadership, opportunity economy, whatever that means.

You ask Donald Trump and he says, we're going to decrease your energy bills by 50% in the first 12 months, we're gonna be energy independent — I mean, dependent. Independent. Energy independent, again, like we used to be.

And he gives specifics, but she doesn't. She does these just these phrases. I don't know how they affect any of us.

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September 12, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): I would say I was never happy with the moderators. There was a controversy with the moderators with the commission too. We found out how they really thought.

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): The more debates the better. Don't touch on January 6th, We all know about January 6. We are sick of that. We need to move on. I want to hear about education, I want to hear about some of the issues. mma

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the “crime crisis” narrative Fox News concocted for Donald Trump was exposed at Tuesday night’s debate when moderator David Muir pointed out that FBI data shows violent crime has actually fallen dramatically in recent years. The network’s stars are responding by lashing out at Muir, falsely claiming violent crime is actually up, and arguing that even if data show violent crime is plummeting, “we're all a little bit more scared than we used to be.”

Trump, in a nonresponsive answer to a question about how he would carry out his plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, claimed that due to migration under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, “crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It's called migrant crime. And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.”

Trump’s assertion of rising crime echoed months of anecdote-based Fox coverage — but Muir pointed out in response that actual data shows the opposite, saying, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”

Indeed, preliminary FBI data released in June found “steep drops in every category of violent crime in every region in the first three months of 2024 compared to a year earlier, continuing a downward trend since a coronavirus pandemic surge” during Trump’s administration.

Trump responded to Muir by echoing baseless right-wing media claims that the FBI had been “defrauding” data. But the agency’s report is consistent with other sources showing that crime is falling.

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CitationFrom the September 10, 2024, presidential debate.

The co-hosts of Fox & Friends responded the next morning by arguing that data that shows violent crime has fallen is irrelevant in the face of the vibes.

“Any time people say violent crime is down in America,” offered Brian Kilmeade, “I ask you, people of Philadelphia, where they are hosting, find anyone in Philadelphia who thinks violent crime is down. I ask you, people of Chicago, site of the DNC, walk around and tell us how crime is under control. I ask you in Washington, D.C., where violent crime is down, the carjacking capital of the country, ask anyone in Washington, D.C., if they feel safer today than four years ago. There is the numbers and there is the reality.”

“It’s the word ‘violent,’ however they define ‘violent.’ Crime is up,” responded Ainsley Earhardt.

“Kamala Harris didn’t even make that point — it was the moderators,” Lawrence Jones added. “They’re not there covering these stories. They’re not going to all these major cities talking about the violence that is impacting urban America on the day to days, so they probably believe what the FBI numbers are saying.”

In fact, according to data compiled by the Major Cities Chiefs Association, all three cities Kilmeade mentioned have seen steep declines in homicides and at least one other category of violent crime the group reported (rapes, robberies, and/or aggravated assaults).

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CitationFrom the September 11, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends.

The trio returned to the subject later in the program.

“One of my favorite parts of the debate, and when it just became clear to me that the bias was jumping off the screen at one point, was the conversation about crime,” Jones complained. “And then David hops in and says, ‘Well, actually, the FBI is saying that the crime is going down.’”

“OK, well now, we know those numbers aren’t quite accurate,” he continued, echoing Trump’s false claim from the debate. Jones then urged Muir to spend more time focusing his broadcast on crime anecdotes, saying, “David, you have a newscast every single day. You may not report on it, but you have local affiliates in major cities all across this country. They are reporting on the crime in Chicago, in Philadelphia. Why not pick up the phone and call them and see what’s going on on the ground?”

“I think, Lawrence, the operative word there was ‘violent,’ and David said, ‘Violent crime has gone down,’” Earhardt replied. “We know that crime is up in these cities, we know that thousands, millions of more illegal immigrants have come over our border under this administration, many of them are affiliated with gangs.:{ We know that more of them have murdered more little girls or young women than ever in my lifetime.” (Earhardt was alive in the 1990s, when violent crime and homicides peaked at levels dramatically higher than the present.)}:

“So violent crime might be going down,” she continued, “but crime overall, we're all a little bit more scared than we used to be."

“Ask anybody in the streets of Philadelphia, outside where that debate was taking place, if they think crime is going down,” Kilmeade added. “In New York City, you walk the streets here, I don't care what the bar chart or the pie chart says, it’s not going down.”

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Fox News is championing RFK Jr's view of public health, even as it puts your kids at risk

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 08/27/24

Fox News hosts like Ainsley Earhardt are overjoyed about notorious anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purported ability to help former President Donald Trump’s campaign appeal to “moms” concerned with public health.

“I think moms around the country appreciate his stance for trying to make our children healthy again,” she said on Monday.

Earhardt noted that in Kennedy’s speech last week endorsing Trump, “he talked about how 75% of the budget from the FDA comes from pharmaceutical companies” and “said it's very profitable when a child is sick,” adding that Kennedy’s condemnation of “corruption in health care” is “music to every mom’s ears."

The culture warriors at Fox aren’t typically invested in talking about public health issues. But in one key health-related fight on which the network aligned with Kennedy — COVID-19 vaccines — the results have proved disastrous. Their combined assault on what Kennedy falsely termed “the deadliest vaccine ever made” helped trigger plummeting levels of support for childhood vaccinations among Republicans, with ongoing consequences for America’s kids.

Fox’s unique pull with its right-wing audience gave it a moral responsibility to encourage viewers to take the life-saving COVID-19 vaccines. Instead, the network — led by stars like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity — pandered to anti-vaxxers like Kennedy.

Fox conducted a yearslong campaign to undermine the vaccines, which the network falsely portrayed as ineffective and dangerous, while talking up the potential of fake cures for the virus. Its hosts were particularly scathing about public health efforts to require vaccination at schools and workplaces, which Ingraham described as a “crime against humanity.”

The right-wing assault on the COVID-19 vaccines led to lower rates of vaccinations among Republicans — and consequently higher death rates. But the anti-vaccine sentiment unleashed by the likes of Fox and Kennedy was not limited to COVID-19: There have been broader impacts on GOP support for the full range of childhood vaccinations.

Gallup reported earlier this month that the percentage of Americans who say it is important for parents to get their children vaccinated has tumbled since the COVID-19 pandemic — and that Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are responsible for that decline.

Nearly 20% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now say that it’s “not very important” or “not important at all” for parents to get their kids vaccinated, according to Gallup’s polling.

Gallup further found that the percentage of Americans who think the government should require parents to vaccinate their children against deadly contagions like the measles has fallen to 51%, down from 62% in 2019 and 81% in 1991. That decline is largely due to Republicans, 60% of whom now oppose such government mandates.

The result is a looming crisis for America's children. It takes a 95% vaccination rate to achieve herd immunity for measles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But immunization among kindergartners has fallen from 95% before the pandemic to 93% in the most recent school year. In 18 states, more than 4% of kindergartners have vaccine exemptions.

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The result is skyrocketing outbreaks of preventable and dangerous diseases among children — but things can still get so much worse.

Trump is more than willing to prioritize his political future over your kids. Playing to his base, he all but disavowed the COVID-19 vaccines his administration helped bring to fruition, and he vows that his administration “will not give one penny” to schools that require their students to be vaccinated.

He sought Kennedy’s endorsement and is dangling the prospect of rewarding him with a plum post — potentially secretary of Health and Human Services, where the anti-vaccine activist would wield incredible power. Far from trying to hold him back, Fox hosts like Earhardt and MAGA princes like Charlie Kirk are celebrating Kennedy’s supposed health bona fides.

For a glimpse of what an empowered Kennedy might mean for America’s parents, it's worth reviewing his role in “one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory,” as FactCheck.org put it:

In 2018, two infants in American Samoa died when nurses accidentally prepared the combined measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine with expired muscle relaxant rather than water. The Samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccination program, and anti-vaccine advocates — including Kennedy and his nonprofit — flooded the area with misinformation. The vaccination rate dropped to a dangerously low level. The next year, when a traveler brought measles to the islands, the disease tore through the population, sickening more than 5,700 people and killing 83, most of them young children.

That doesn’t sound like “music to every mom’s ears."

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Donald Trump falsely told a crowd of North Carolina supporters on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had sent Vice President Kamala Harris to meet with Vladimir Putin to prevent him from invading Ukraine in 2022, days before the Russian President ordered his forces to attack the sovereign nation.

“Remember when Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine?” Trump said at a rally in Asheboro, continuing to pronounce the Vice President’s name wrong, “She met with Putin, and then three days later, he attacked. How did she do, do you think she did a good job? She met with Putin to tell him, ‘don’t do it.’ And three days later he attacked. That’s when the attack started.”

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Trump repeated and embellished the same lie Thursday morning, telling Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” hosts in a call-in audio-only interview, “Biden sent, I called her ‘Comrade Kamala.’ Sent Comrade Kamala to see Putin in Russia three days before the attack. She went. She said she gave her case. He attacked three days later. He attacked. Three days later, he laughed at her. He thought she was a joke.”

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, a staunch Trump supporter, told viewers, “Yeah. And just as a quick clarification, we don’t have confirmation that the Vice President went to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin. I know she went over to Europe right before the incursion, when Russia invaded Ukraine, and it’s a war that’s still going on right now.”

But Fox News’ Ainsley Airhardt told Kilmeade, “I’ve heard that said a lot. You don’t have confirmation that that’s true?”

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“I don’t know if the vice president ever met Vladimir Putin,” Kilmeade remarked on a story that had already been debunked.

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Earlier in their interview, Airhardt told Trump that Democrats at this week’s Democratic National Convention are “spreading so many different lies.”

CNN Wednesday evening reported: “Trump’s claim is false. Harris has never met with Putin. In reality, she met with US allies, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Munich Security Conference in the days before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Putin was not at the conference.”

The network’s fact-checker, Daniel Dale, added a quote from a Kremlin spokesperson: “Frankly speaking, I cannot recall a single contact between President Putin and Mrs. Harris.”

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Ainsley Earhardt (born 1975/1976)[1] is an American conservative television host and author. She is a co-host of Fox & Friends.

Early life and education

Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Earhardt as a young child moved with her family to the Foxcroft area of Charlotte, North Carolina. Earhardt's family moved to the Columbia, South Carolina, area when she was still in elementary school. She graduated from Spring Valley High School.[2]

After high school, Earhardt attended Florida State University before transferring to the University of South Carolina, where she graduated with a B.A. in journalism.[3][4]

Career

Earhardt was hired as a reporter for WLTX, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina, before she graduated from University of South Carolina.[5] From 2000 to 2004 she worked as the morning and noon anchor. She traveled to New York City after the September 11 attacks to cover South Carolina middle school students' raising nearly half a million dollars for firefighters to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at the World Trade Center site.[6]

In 2005, Earhardt moved to San Antonio, Texas, and anchored weekday morning and noon newscasts at KENS-TV.[5][7] While living in Texas, she completed the Austin, Texas half-marathon, went skydiving with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights and, at the Air Force Academy, flew in an F-16 with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds.[6]

Earhardt has written three children's books (Take Heart, My Child,Through Your Eyes, and I'm So Glad You Were Born) and a memoir, The Light Within Me.[8]

Fox News

Earhardt moved to New York City and began working at Fox News Channel in 2007.[6] Earhardt has stated that she "did not know the first thing about politics" before she was hired by Roger Ailes to work at the network.[5] She appeared on Hannity with her own segment called "Ainsley Across America", and has co-hosted Fox and Friends Weekend, All-American New Year's Eve, America's News Headquarters. She has appeared as a panelist on The Live Desk and Greg Gutfeld's Red Eye.[9]

Earhardt became a co-host of Fox & Friends in 2016.[10] President Donald Trump tweeted about the show more than 100 times in the first eight months of his presidency.[5] Earhardt has interviewed both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.[11] During a 2018 interview, she praised Trump for threatening former FBI Director James Comey with alleged audio recordings, stating it "was a smart way to make sure he stayed honest" in congressional hearings.[12][5][13][14][15]

Shortly prior to the interview, Trump had withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement; Earhardt asked him, Why did President [Barack] Obama . . . why did his administration think this agreement was okay for America?" In a later interview with Pence, she described the Paris Climate Agreement as "unfair" to the United States.[5]

Earhardt defended Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, saying "he gets to decide who works for him. Someone who works for him who is not supportive of him, he gets rid of them."[16]

Amid the Trump administration's negotiations with Kim Jong-Un, Fox & Friends ran North Korean images of Kim Jong-Un touring industry in his country; Earhardt described the images as "very romantic".[17] In 2017, she falsely claimed that "5.7 million . . . illegal immigrants might have voted" in the 2008 election.[18]

In August 2018, Earhardt stated incorrectly on Fox & Friends that the U.S. defeat of "communist Japan" was an event that had made "America great".[19][20] When the U.S. defeated Japan in World War II, Japan was actually an imperial fascist regime and an Axis nation.[21][22] Her co-host, Steve Doocy, tried to mask her blunder, but it soon went viral.[19][20]

In May 2019, after The New York Times documented Trump's "deep financial distress" between 1985 and 1994 that included losing more money than almost any other American taxpayer, Earhardt praised Trump. She said, "It's pretty impressive, all the things that he's done in his life. It's beyond what most of us could ever achieve."[23][24]

Earhardt criticized "the liberal media", saying that Republicans will not run for office anymore "because they know the liberal media is going to take them down."[25] In October 2018, after The New York Times documented how Trump obtained nearly half a billion dollars from his father, Fred Trump Sr., through "dubious tax schemes" and possible tax fraud, Earhardt accused the Times of "bashing" Trump's father.[26]

According to Eliza Relman at Business Insider, "few subjects animate [Earhardt] more than stories about alleged attacks on Christianity."[5] When a Missouri sheriff's department was criticized for putting "In God We Trust" decals on their squad cars, Earhardt defended the sheriff's department, asking "What about the majority? I'm so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?"[5]

After Trump ordered the assassination of a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general, Qasem Soleimani, citing intelligence he said necessitated it, Earhardt defended the administration against requests that the administration show the intelligence. She said, "I find it interesting that people are critical of the president's decisions, of our intelligence community's decisions, or general's decisions... Everything can't be made public." She paraphrased Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, "you just have to trust us." Previously, Earhardt had shown considerable distrust of the intelligence community during Trump's presidency; she had also advanced "deep state" conspiracy theories.[27][28][29]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Earhardt encouraged readers to travel by plane, saying "it's actually the safest time to fly."[30][31] Her comments contradicted guidance from the Center for Disease Control.[30] She criticized Democrats and "the media", saying that they were making the pandemic "political".[32]

In December 2021, Earhardt drew criticism after stating on air: "It's [the Fox Christmas tree] a tree that unites us, that brings us together. It is about the Christmas spirit, it is about the holiday season, it is about Jesus, it is about Hanukkah." Her incorrect characterization of the Christmas tree as a symbol of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah drew ridicule on social media and corrections in the news media.[33][34][35]

Personal life

Earhardt's first marriage to Kevin McKinney in April 2005 ended in divorce in 2009. In October 2012, Earhardt married former Clemson University quarterback Will Proctor.[36][37][38] They have one child.[39][40] They divorced in 2019.[41]

According to Vanity Fair, in August 2019, Earhardt began a relationship with fellow Fox News personality Sean Hannity after the two arrived together as guests for a wedding at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey.[42] Vanity Fair asserts that during the COVID-19 pandemic, she had been hosting her Fox & Friends program from a remote studio in the basement of Hannity's Long Island mansion.[42] At the time, Earhardt denied any relationship.[42]

Earhardt is a Christian.[43][44]

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Ainsley Earhardt currently serves a co-host of Fox News Channel's (FNC) Fox & Friends (weekdays 6-9AM/ET) alongside Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. She joined the network in 2007 and is based in New York.

Most recently, Earhardt served as a co-host of Fox & Friends First (weekdays 5-6AM/ET) where she provided live coverage of Pope Francis' most recent visit to New York City, the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC and the Fort Hood military base massacre. She also reported on the mass shootings at two of Chattanooga, Tennessee's military installations, the Veterans Affairs hospital investigation in Phoenix, AZ and the murder investigation involving the New England Patriot's Aaron Hernandez.

Earhardt grew up in South Carolina and graduated from the University of South Carolina with top honors. She first attended Florida State University (FSU) on a leadership and academic scholarship, majoring in biology where she served the student body as a senator in student government. She then transferred to the University of South Carolina (USC) after deciding to pursue a degree in journalism. Earhardt received an academic scholarship at USC and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree (B.A.) in Journalism. She was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, inducted into 4 honor societies, won the Caroliniana Creed Award based on character, leadership and personality and was elected to the University's Homecoming Court. Earhardt was awarded the University of South Carolina's Young Alumni Award and named the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's 2007 "Outstanding Young Alumna". She is actively involved in fundraising for the new journalism school at the University of South Carolina and is a proud donor.

Viewers voted Earhardt "Best Personality of the Year" by Columbia Metropolitan Magazine while being the morning news anchor for WLTX-News 19, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina. Both shows she anchored, morning and noon, were rated #1 at WLTX and Earhardt won a South Carolina Star Award for her breaking news coverage. Earhardt traveled to New York City to cover South Carolina middle school students donating nearly half a million dollars to firefighters after the September 11 attacks. The money was raised to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at the World Trade Center site.

In 2005, Earhardt moved to San Antonio, Texas and anchored weekday newscasts of KENS-TV Eyewitness News This Morning (5 AM-7:30 AM) and Eyewitness News at Noon (both #1 rated shows). She completed the Austin, Texas half-marathon.

In 2007, Earhardt moved to New York City and began working at the FOX News Channel. She has covered a myriad of breaking news stories, including presidential elections, the Pope's visit to NYC, broke the VA hospital investigation in Phoenix, covered Spring Break in Panama City, Florida (her coverage on "Hannity" forced the city council to change drinking laws and make the beaches safer), traveled to Cleveland to cover the arrest of Ariel Castro after he was accused of holding 3 women hostage in his basement for 10 years, the Time's Square New Year's Eve celebrations, went skydiving with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights, skydiving with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and flew in an F-16 with the Air Force Academy.

Earhardt is married to Will Proctor, a former professional football player and former starting quarterback at Clemson University. Proctor now works in New York City in the investment business.

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MAGA media respond to annual jobs report revisions with conspiracy theories

Pro-Trump media claim that the routine BLS revisions are “cooking the books” and “election interference”

Written by Zachary Pleat

Published 08/21/24

Earlier this week, economists with Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo predicted that upcoming benchmark revisions scheduled to be published on August 21 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics would show a negative revision of up to 1 million net jobs created over the past year. (The actual preliminary estimate published this morning was -818,000 jobs.) In response to these negative expectations, right-wing commentators, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and advisers to his campaign swung into action.

Fox News and other pro-Trump media trafficked in conspiracy theories, even falsely suggesting that the United States is in recession, in response to the BLS’ annual benchmark revisions of employment data between March 2023-24. They ludicrously claimed that jobs numbers had been fabricated to benefit the Biden administration and that the BLS was “cooking the books” in service of the Democrats’ presidential campaign.

The right-wing histrionics neglected to mention how the same BLS published negative revisions during the Trump administration, including -501,000 in 2019, nor that the same benchmarking process in 2022 actually revealed that the government had significantly undercounted job growth. Additionally, as Bloomberg reported, this revision is routine and occurs every year as “a more accurate but less timely data source” that “covers nearly all US jobs” becomes available.

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* Trump senior adviser Jason Miller: “This isn’t a ‘revision’ … this is a LIE! And it’s Election Interference!” Miller added: “The Harris Administration has been cooking the books the entire time and now it’s caught up to them!” Twitter/X, [8/20/24]

* Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo: “You are talking up to a million jobs that were basically fake.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [8/20/24]

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* Citing ZeroHedge, right-wing commentator and conspiracy theorist Bill Mitchell wrote: “You gotta love these HUGE downward revisions to jobs numbers when no one is paying attention. How do you miss by a million?” Twitter/X, [8/20/24]

* Wall Street Journal economic correspondent Nick Timiraos: “While some people might point to such revisions as an example of ‘cooking the books,’ this is not true. It's actually evidence that there's a high fidelity to making sure the numbers are as accurate as they can be.” In a lengthy post, Timiraos outlined a series of frequently asked questions about the BLS benchmark revision process, noting that this August figure is only preliminary and will not be finalized for another six months, and specifically debunking accusations that a negative revision is proof that BLS was “cooking the books” over the prior year. In a subsequent post, Timiraos explained that the expected negative revisions were not unprecedented — for example, the data in 2009 were revised down by a similar amount. TwitterX, [8/20/24, 8/20/24]

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Fox News is not content with knowingly lying to its audience and spreading dangerous claims in the pursuit of profit. The network is also seeking to further destabilize the country along partisan lines, as its hosts and guests are increasingly promoting various schemes like a “national divorce” to break up parts of the United States.

Last month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) issued an absurd call for a “national divorce.” But Fox’s obsession with finding some way to split the country internally goes back a long way, since at least President Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012, when both Fox prime-time host Sean Hannity and the cast of Fox’s *The Five* responded sympathetically to fruitless secession petitions from aggrieved Republicans in states Obama did not carry.

Later, in December 2020, the network gave a friendly interview to the Texas state GOP chair who called for red states to “form a Union of states” and to push back in some unspecified manner after the Supreme Court had upheld Joe Biden’s victory and rejected the defeated President Donald Trump’s legal challenges.

More recently, the network’s on-air talent have supported efforts to split off conservative counties in California into a new state called “Jefferson.” (Fox has previously been very interested in the so-called “Calexit” movement, an ostensibly left-wing call for Californian independence, which was ironically supported by right-wing Russian dictatorVladimir Putin.)

The “national divorce”

The network is now defending Greene’s impossible proposal for what she called a “national divorce.” Last week, Fox prime-time host Sean Hannity endorsed her idea that people who move from blue states to red states should be barred from voting for five years to avoid altering the partisanship of their new home states. (It’s possible Hannity hadn’t considered the implications of such a policy, which would bar someone like himself — a New Yorker — from voting if he were to move to a Republican-controlled state.)

So far just this week, the network has supported two different internal separatist movements in the United States, in addition to Greene’s proposed “national divorce.”

“Greater Idaho”

To start with, on Monday morning one of the network’s purported “straight news” personalities openly approved of a push for Republican-voting counties in Oregon to join the Republican-dominated state of Idaho instead. After quoting an op-ed saying the plan would free “rural, conservative communities from progressive blue-state law," Fox News correspondent and overnight anchor Ashley Strohmier stated simply, “I would be OK with it.” Later that night, FoxNews.com published an article further promoting the so-called “Greater Idaho” plan.

Two days later, the Wednesday edition of Fox & Friends aired a credulous segment on the plan, interviewing Republican Idaho state Rep. Barbara Ehardt, a proponent.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt concluded the interview by pining for such right-wing separatist movements to sprout up elsewhere: “There are people in New York that would love to do this, too. Because New York City’s so liberal, but the fringe area is not at all. So, it does affect elections."

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in 2022, the “Greater Idaho” movement was given the level of attention and analysis it actually deserves from legitimate news outlets: *The Daily Showdismantled the scheme, which an expert estimated could cost the state of Idaho $10-15 billion.

“Buckhead City”

Fox has also taken up the cause of so-called “Buckhead City,” a wealthy district in Atlanta where some activists have sought for years to separate from the city and form their own municipality. On Monday, a committee in the Republican-controlled state Senate advanced a bill that would allow Buckhead to separate. The bill must still pass through a full vote in the state Senate, separate passage in the state House, and be signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

Greene appeared again with Hannity on Tuesday night’s show, during which the two further discussed her “national divorce” proposals, and Greene declared that conservatives “want our own safe space, and we deserve it.” Hannity then brought up the Buckhead case, which Greene of course supported.

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 HANNITY (HOST): What would you say about cases like we see counties in Oregon wanting to join Idaho? We see Buckhead — I used to live in Georgia for four years, where you are — and Buckhead wants to separate, for example, from Atlanta, have their own police department, their own government. So you have these examples where people want to join up with another state or another county or another town. Should they have the right to do that?

REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): Absolutely. Don’t we believe in freedom in America? Isn’t that what America is all about? It’s the -- it’s the people and their choices, and the freedom to do so. I’m a huge supporter of Buckhead City.

Then on Wednesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host interviewed the volunteer CEO of the Buckhead secession committee. Carlson declared that the neighborhood’s push for separation “really is a test of democracy,” rhetorically asking, “Since when did democracy become so unfashionable? I thought everyone was in favor of democracy. What happened?” (Carlson has a prolific record of spreading conspiracy theories about the January 6 insurrection, recently questioned the legitimacy of American democracy, and has made various pronouncements about which groups of people shouldn’t be allowed to vote.)

Carlson concluded the interview by wishing the group success and calling for more such separatist movements: “So if you win this, I think it will be a sign for towns across the country: You don’t have to be managed into the ground by criminals who hate you. You can run your own affairs. It’s democracy."

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fox gave the Buckhead push more promotion Thursday morning, with Fox & Friends hosting local talk radio host MalaniKai Massey, who is also a Buckhead resident.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardtmentioned briefly at the start of the segment that Kemp was “throwing cold water on the proposal, questioning its legality,” a topic that she did not revisit in any major detail.

Massey briefly addressed the topic, sounding a cautiously optimistic note: “Is everything on paper always going to go as planned? Absolutely not. However, you’ve got to talk to the bond people. You’ve got to talk to the attorneys, have addressed all of Gov. Kemp’s concerns that he put out yesterday.”

Earhardt concluded the interview: “I’m sure some government officials don’t like this because they’re worried other neighborhoods, your surrounding neighborhoods, will do the same thing and they’ll lose more and more money."

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the Buckhead proposal actually presents major legal and financial difficulties, with a coalition of area business groups warning on Monday that the proposal would “choke off economic development” in Buckhead itself. Then on Tuesday, Kemp’s executive counsel warned that the proposal was potentially unconstitutional for the manner in which it would seek to apportion the city of Atlanta’s public debt, and that the specter of further city break-ups could trigger the “possible widespread default” of local government bonds in Georgia. Fox’s own online reporting Thursday depicted this letter as a sign that Kemp himself had “delivered a blow” to the Buckhead City cause.

Rather than addressing the numerous problems that these Balkanization proposals would actually pose, Fox’s hosts have instead extolled the desire of conservative voters to have “their own government” in the name of “democracy,” in an attempt to declare that they shouldn’t have to live under a political system when they don’t like the majority results.

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Panelists on Tuesday morning's edition of Fox & Friends threw a fit about M&M's announcing its new spokesperson – actress Maya Rudolph – and then transitioned into a diatribe regarding the energy-saving feature that Microsoft offers on its Xbox Series X.

As GamesRadar explained in December 2022, "using Xbox Series X standby sleep mode will boot up your console almost instantly and will even run at reduced power when off to do things in the background. However, this obviously slowly chews through more power, so you can sacrifice a bit of convenience for a more economical option in the form of the energy-saving Shut-down mode."

The Vergealso noted the monetary savings that users can generate by using the console's expedited shutdown.

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This struck a nerve with conservative Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt and host Jimmy Failla, who claimed that Xbox's manufacturer is trying to brainwash kids into "woke" beliefs about climate change.

Earhardt:

Well, M&M's putting its woke spokescandies on hold. The candy giant most notably changing the green M&M's white go-go boots to sneakers. Remember that last year? Well in a statement, the company now is saying, 'We've decided to take an infinite pause from the spokescandies. In their place, we are proud to announce a spokesperson America can agree on: the beloved Maya Rudolph.' Remember her from 'Saturday Night Live' and from 'Loot, and also from 'Bridesmaids.' She's really funny. And another funny guy Jimmy Failla, who hosts Fox Across America, on Fox News Radio and Fox Nation joins us now.

Failla:

Hey, hey, hey. Be honest, did you book me for this story because I look like I get paid in M&M's? Tell the truth, Ainsley, come clean with me. There is a really valuable message here for companies around the world: If it ain't woke, don't fix it. And what I mean by that is M&M's injected a social justice initiative into a bag of candy and nobody had asked for this initiative. People don't go to candy to get identity politics. They go to candy to get love handles. They go because they want to eat and escape the day. I mean, that's what candy always was to kids. It was like alcohol for kids. You're having a rough day, you bag down some M&M's, you get on with your life. But in this instance, they found themselves in the middle of a little bit of a social justice firestorm. But thankfully the customer base pushed back as they should.

Earhardt:

What do you think about Maya Rudolph being the new spokesperson?

READ MORE: Far-right blasts Fox News’ Sean Hannity for saying he never believed Trump’s election lie

Failla:

I think they blew this! No no. Maya Rudolph is actually, she's really funny and I really genuinely like her a lot. But I still think they blew it. They should have leaned into the fact that this is some of the most fattening content on Earth and gotten, like, me, okay? I am a good spokesperson. If I wasn't on cable news, I would be a before model, okay? That's who you want pushing your product, it gives everyone permission to eat this candy. Maya Rudolph makes me want to go to the gym; she looks great. You need a Jimmy Failla, that's all I am saying.

Earhardt:

So Xbox is also announced they're going woke too in – you know, because of climate change – that they are adding a new feature to their default settings. So if you own an Xbox you can upload this new program and it will turn off after so long to save the environment, the power. And also they are saying the energy saving shut down feature is going to have a slower boot time. Ted Cruz writes on Twitter, first gas stoves and then your coffee, now you're gunning for my Xbox.

Failla:

Ah ha ha ha ha. Isn't it crazy though? Like when we were kids you were a rebel if you had like a leather jacket and a pack of cigarettes. Now you have like a full-powered Xbox and you're eating pizza rolls on a gas stove. I mean it's crazy what they're doing. But we understand what this is. It's not that it's actually going to offset emissions. The level of reduction is infinitesimal. But they are trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age. Make them climate conscious now.

Earhardt:

Yeah, I didn't think of that, you're right. They are going after the children.

Failla:

Of course they are. But again, what's the point of video games? It's for kids to be kids. Now you sit down, pick up a controller and they're like by the way the world is on fire. You know what I mean? You just want to play the game. And if they cared, I think they would stop making games that kept kids trapped in the house.My kid played so much Xbox during the lockdowns he didn't know there was a lockdown until two months in.

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"Fox & Friends" is defending what it is calling "conservative voices" and "conservative speech" by denouncing Twitter expunging 70,000 accounts tied to extremist groups like QAnon. Friday morning the Fox News morning show declared these extremists peddling often dangerous conspiracy theories and lies about the election are important voices of "truth" in the national conversation, which is false.

"It's very scary as to how this is going to affect you," co-host Ainsley Earhardt told viewers, "because they're trying to shut down voices so that you don't know the full story, and you can't make a decision based on truth."

QAnon conspiracy theorists believe "the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who are plotting against [President] Trump while operating a global child sex-trafficking ring," The New York Times reports.

"Many of them also believe that, in addition to molesting children, members of this group kill and eat their victims in order to extract a life-extending chemical from their blood."

That's just a small portion of what QAnon followers believe.

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Earhardt also ginned up fear by telling Fox News viewers that "they're not going to give contributions, campaign dollars to certain Republicans anymore."

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"They" appears to be the dozens of corporations that have announced they will no longer donate to any of the 147 congressional lawmakers who voted try to overturn the free and fair presidential election last week. And although Earhardt neglects to tell Fox News viewers, a number of companies have also announced they are stopping all political campaign donations for the time being.

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Such a shock’: Fox News host is flabbergasted when confronted with the disturbing facts about COVID-19 in kids

Alex Henderson

Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt discussed the coronavirus crisis and the threat it poses to children with Dr. Natasha Kathuria — an emergency physician…

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even ‘Fox & Friends’ host Ainsley Earhardt is questioning Trump’s immigration ban: What about my au pair?

Roger Sollenberger / Salon

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/dumbassery-conservative-editor-calls-out-right-wing-medias-bad-takes-on-deadly-coronavirus-pandemic/

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‘Dumbassery’: Conservative editor calls out right-wing media’s ‘bad takes’ on deadly coronavirus pandemic

Written by Alex Henderson March 17, 2020

As the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow in the United States and many other countries, one thing The Bulwark can take pride in is the fact that — unlike so many other right-wing media outlets — it didn’t spend weeks trying to convince readers that coronavirus was merely a liberal hoax or “fake news” designed to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency. The Never Trump conservatives at The Bulwark always took the pandemic seriously, including The Bulwark’s senior editor, Jim Swift — who lambasts some of the incredibly moronic things that various Trumpistas and far-right media figures have said about coronavirus recently.

“The internet being what it is, and politics being what it is — and 2020 dumbassery being what it is — there are a lot of bad covid-19 takes floating around,” Swift asserts. And he cities Newsmax writer John Cardillo as a glaring example.

On March 13, Cardillo went to Twitter and said of coronavirus, “Treat it like the flu. The panic and hysteria created by the media is criminal. They are destroying lives, businesses, and the economy to make Trump look bad and again screw with elections.”

In response to Cardillo’s tweet, Swift writes, “Sure, John. The news media aren’t covering this story because it’s important and deadly, they’re only covering it because they want to take down President Donald J. Trump.”

In other words, treat it like the flu.

The panic and hysteria created by the media is criminal.

They are destroying lives, businesses, and the economy to make Trump look bad and again screw with elections. https://t.co/Pmclsy25wJ

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 13, 2020

Swift also slams Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell, Jr. Appearing as a guest on Fox News’“Fox and Friends,” Falwell argued that Americans are “overreacting” to coronavirus and that all the media coverage of the pandemic is merely an “attempt to get Trump.” Moreover, Falwell claimed that coronavirus is a North Korean bioweapon.

On Fox & Friends, Jerry Falwell Jr claims people are “overreacting” to coronavirus, the national response is “their next attempt to get Trump,” and the virus itself is a North Korean bioweapon. pic.twitter.com/2JPuNBW7C3

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 13, 2020

Swift goes on to lambast Infowars’ Alex Jones and “old-school televangelist grifter Jim Bakker” for “hawking” bogus treatments they claim will cure coronavirus. And Swift cites a March 12 tweet from The Federalist’s Sean Davis as another example of idiocy: Davis tweeted, “Corporate political media hate you, they hate the country, and they will stop at nothing to reclaim power to rule over you. If that means that they destroy the economy via a panic that they helped incite, all while running interference for the communist country that started it, so be it.”

Truly deranged, InfoWars level stuff from The Federalist. pic.twitter.com/FzBTldunsg

— andrew kaczynski?? (@KFILE) March 13, 2020

Sarcastically describing Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt as an “aviation expert…. not to be confused with Amelia Earhart,” Swift notes her recent comment, “It’s actually the safest time to fly. Everyone I know that’s flying right now, terminals are pretty much dead.”

Ainsley Earhardt: “It’s actually the safest time to fly. Everyone I know that’s flying right now, terminals are pretty much dead.” (It is not the safest time to fly.) pic.twitter.com/a3BnajAbj5

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 13, 2020

AmGreatness’ Julie Kelly, who Swift describes as a “nutty, bad-faith operator,” has called social distancing a left-wing plot to “get control” that is “far scarier than any virus.”

Scientists and health officials say social distancing (reducing contact, temporarily) is an effective way to reduce infections. Naturally, some are claiming it’s a leftist plot to gain control of the country. pic.twitter.com/TDMJM6ddir

— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) March 13, 2020

At this point I think you have a greater chance of being attacked by Joe Biden than catching coronavirus

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) March 10, 2020

China. https://t.co/VULqyrceUH

— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) March 13, 2020

Good news on the coronavirus you won’t find anywhere else:

-China has closed down its last coronavirus hospital. Not enough new cases to support them.

-Italy is hit hard, experts say, because they have the oldest population in Europe (average age of those that have died is 81).

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 13, 2020

Swift concludes his article by warning that as coronavirus “spreads” in the U.S., Americans will do themselves a favor by not taking nonsense from Fox News seriously.

“Things are going to get worse — not only as the pandemic spreads, but as the bad takes spread too,” Swift warns. “If you’re stuck at home, I’d encourage you not to watch cable news — and encourage your family to avoid it, too. Especially Fox News.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/fox-and-friends-bizarrely-claims-climate-change-is-the-lefts-religion-its-how-they-control-your-life/

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Fox and Friends bizarrely claims climate change is the left’s ‘religion’: It’s how they ‘control your life’

Image via Twitter.

Written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement August 13, 2019

“Fox and Friends” took a swing at the very real crisis of man-made climate change Tuesday morning, with guest co-host Pete Hegseth saying it’s not a “real threat,” like ISIS.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt mocked Senator Bernie Sanders for saying climate change is a greater threat to U.S. national security than ISIS (the DoD has made similar observations). Hegseth, who once was on President Donald Trump’s short list to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, launched into a rant.

“The Left says that all the time. This is what they believe – it is their religion,” Hegseth told viewers. They want to fight the weather, the rest of us want to deal with real threats that want to take away our freedom.”

Hegseth then credited President Trump with “destroying ISIS,” while acknowledging there are still “remnants” that need to be addressed. “That’s taking on a real threat directly.”

“Whether it’s hot or cold, the enemy is here, as far as liberals are concerned. It’s all about control for them. That’s why climate change is the perfect enemy. They get to control your life to deal with it, no matter what’s happening,” said Hegseth, who once said “germs are not a real thing,” while bragging he has not washed his hands in ten years.

He then went on to complain that college students aren’t “learning about radical Islam, they’re learning about environmentalism, and radical environmentalism, and they’re being told its the most important thing.”

The highly-respected website Just Security, which is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, last year reported that climate change “is a grave threat to national security. Indeed, it may be the threat.” They added it also “exacerbates and accelerates already existing threats.”

Watch Fox and Friends:

Pete Hegseth goes on a rant about The Left trying to “fight the weather” as a means to “control your life,” and that college kids are “not learning about radical Islam, they’re learning about environmentalism.” pic.twitter.com/Y6jKCu7zTd

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https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/homophobia-misogyny-and-islamophobia-rights-new-darling-mark-keith-robinson-has-it-all

This  Saturday, pro-gun control MAGA hordes will gather at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Among the speakers will be the newest darling of the right—recently granted fawning coverage by outlets such as Breitbart, Twitchy, Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze—Mark Keith Robinson. The right’s latest attack dog epitomizes the current Republican brand, as a “birther pundit who says gay people are ‘devil-worshipping child molesters,’ black Democrats are ‘slaves,’ the student survivors of the Parkland shooting are ‘silly little immature media prosti-tots,’ and Michelle Obama is a man.”

As Shareblue Media notes, Robinson became a favorite among alt-right and right-wing media back in April after delivering a pro-gun speech at a town council meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. But he’s also incredibly vocal on social media. In a Facebook post dated February 7, Robinson wrote that homosexuality has been “pushed...over the top” and hysterically concludes “PEDOPHILLA is next, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”

There is nothing more beloved by the GOP than a token visible minority who’s eager to promote the party’s racist views. Robinson, who is African-American, frequently promotes the ahistorical GOP view that the party remains that of Abraham Lincoln, and tacitly accuses black people of being too stupid to understand their own political interests. “Half of black Democrats don't realize they are slaves and don't know who their masters are,” Robinson posted on Facebook in February, employing a corruption of a totally fake Harriet Tubman quote. “The other half don't care.” (“Nor do all of them vote. Yet always the first to complain,” wrote a fan of Robinson’s in the comments.)  In March, Robinson posted a meme that declares President Barack Obama “entered the White House with a fake birth certificate.” And in yet another example of his misunderstanding of how slavery worked, Robinson recently compared Senator Maxine Waters, an African-American woman, to 19th-century “PRO SLAVERY Democrat Preston Brooks,” and labeled her an “OVERSEER.” Following his lead, fans of Robinson filled the comments with overtly racist and misogynoir responses, including memes that paint Sen. Waters as a “crack addict” and imagine her speaking in clumsy, misspelled, inarticulate phrases.

Just this Friday, Robinson took to Facebook to call Hillary Clinton a “witch,” a word he apparently thinks works for pretty much any woman he doesn’t like, considering he used the same term in 2016 to describe Beyonce. Shareblue points out that Robinson “uses the male pronoun to refer to Michelle Obama, echoing a conservative theory that she is male.”

Robinson has also disparaged Muslims via his social media. In one deleted post (saved in this screenshot), he declared, “The question is not ‘When is the last time you saw anyone but a Muslim holding a severed head and smiling’....The question is, when is the last time you saw a Muslim protesting against a Muslim who severed a head, or bombed a shopping mall, or ran down a group of humans with a truck, or shot up a nightclub, or burned someone alive.....”

Despite—or rather, because of—Robinson’s remarks, he’s become a highly sought-after speaker on the right. There are appearances this summer in Broward County, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among many others. This month, Robinson shares a bill with Candace Owens, the black conservative provocateur who wrote that Trump “isn’t just the leader of the free world, but the savior of it as well.” During his April appearance on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt gushed, “You’re great; I really think you should run for office.”

As previously mentioned, Robinson’s latest stop will be a speaking gig at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this Saturday. In a press statement, Hillsborough Progressives Taking Action (HPTA) notes that he’ll be joined by “speakers from Grass Roots NC, whose PAC ‘recommends’ white supremacist and anti-Semitic House candidate Russell Walker.”

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