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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">but smart tech is not big?   maybe // to jnz on sandy hook</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/election-fraud-2649563720">https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/election-fraud-2649563720</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News airs point-by-point fact check of wild election fraud claims during 3 of network's most pro-Trump shows</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump being interviewed by Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo, composite image.]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elizabeth Preza December 20, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">   </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News this weekend is airing a stunning point-by-point fact check to claims made on programs hosted by the network's most pro-Trump voices after voting technology company Smartmatic send a 20-page legal letter demanding "a full and complete retraction of all false and defamatory statements and reports."</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The segment, which features an interview with Palo Open Source Election Technology Institute voting technology expert Eddie Perez, aired on Lou Dobb's Friday show and Jeanine Pirro's Saturday show. Sunday Morning Futures with <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Maria Bartiromo will also show the segment.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In its Dec. 10 letter to Fox News Media, Smartmatic charged the company and its hosts with waging "a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic. Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by [the late Venezuelan President] Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes." The company also demanded the company "match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Washington Post reports:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"During Friday night's fact-checking segment, the questioner asked Perez: 'Have you seen any evidence of Smartmatic sending U.S. votes to be tabulated in foreign countries?'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This appeared to be a reference to Giuliani's Nov. 12 claim on the show that with Smartmatic software, 'the votes actually go to Barcelona, Spain.' Perez responded, 'No, I'm not aware of any evidence that Smartmatic is sending U.S. votes to be tabulated in foreign countries.'"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speaking with CNN, Perez said that while he was unaware of the nature of the interview when he spoke to Fox News about Smartmatic, it's important to clear up any confusion the network's viewers have about voting integrity in the United States.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I felt it was important to talk to Fox News," Perez said. "Of anything potentially more important to be speaking the facts to their audience because there are a lot of consumers of Fox News that have doubts about the election."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">in stunning segment, Lou Dobbs has come to Jesus moment and fact checks all the wild election conspiracy theories he’s been peddling on air. One-by-one he debunks them. Don’t expect Trump to retweet this clip. Note: Dobbs was threatened with legal action by the voting companies.</span> twt]</div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 1220</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A Fox News host erupted when a panelist called her out for ignoring the record number of COVID-19 deaths.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">More than 3,250 died in the United States on Wednesday, setting another daily record as the coronavirus pandemic explodes and overburdens hospitals nationwide, and "Outnumbered" panelist Marie Harf asked moderator Harris Faulkner why they hadn't mentioned the grim milestone.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Yeah, I mean, we are 43 minutes into the show and we haven't mentioned the 3,000 Americans that died yesterday, more than on 9/11, and every day for a while we're going to have that many American deaths," Harf said.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Harf urged government officials to do more to help prevent the spread of the deadly virus and help Americans whose livelihoods were hurt by those necessary regulations.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Congress should be doing more to help businesses," Harf said. "But as we can see, these regulations cannot lose sight of the tragedy that is unfolding everyday in this country, in large part because people want to go about life as normal and a lot of people don't want to wear masks even though the evidence is overwhelming that they save lives."</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Faulkner was still stuck on her guest's first comment.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Can I just quickly say, because I feel like, Marie, you took a shot there and maybe you felt like it was necessary, but if you don't think that our hearts are big enough to mourn the people we have lost during this pandemic, what exactly are you trying to say?" Faulkner said. "That is offensive and it is not true, it is not true. But the best way to protect those people that we love so much is to make sure that the decisions that we make give them longevity after the pandemic, as well, and to get what we do right based on the science, not just on, 'My gosh, the numbers are ballooning, let's just destroy everything in the process of trying to save it.'"</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"You are right, it didn't just happen nine days ago, it's been months now," Faulkner added, "the science you are teaching us, let's live by that but please, keep your judgment someplace where you know you can fact check it because <b>you can't see my heart,</b> and trust me when I tell you it hurts all of us to mourn those Americans and people around the world."</p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">an 1120</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While Fox News attempts to stay in the niche swirling the toilet bowl drain of ultra-right wing nationalism, it is important to remember that Fox News created the fake news space and showed the world how profitable hate and fearmongering could really be. Back in 2016, as the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns worked their ways around the country, 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was tragically killed in what Washington, D.C. police called a robbery gone wrong.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div>Fox News, with an assist from Sean Hannity and whomever it is he gets his bogus information from, promoted a conspiracy theory-laden web of lies about Seth's death, connecting it to Hillary Clinton and the now quaint "her emails" scandal. Joel and Mary Rich sued Fox News in 2018 saying that the right-wing lie factory "intentionally exploited" their son's death to push a political agenda. On Tuesday, the case was dismissed by both parties as Fox News has reached a settlement with the Riches.</div><div>
</div><div>The original story was published by Malia Zimmerman and Fox News promoted it relentlessly for a week before retracting it. No further followup into what had happened that allowed the news outlet to publish and push the baseless, arguably libelous insinuations that Hillary Clinton and her team had assassinated a young man over emails leaked to the press.</div><div>
</div><div>NPR reports that Zimmerman's reporting relied on help from Fox News "investment adviser" Edward Butowsky, and based a considerable amount of conspiratorial speculation on a story that "relied upon quotes from a private investigator that he never said." Something that both Butowsky and Zimmerman admitted to later. Why did they do that? Because they're parasitical scumbags, that's why.</div><div>
</div><div>The Riches also sued Zimmerman and Butowsky. The entire lawsuit was dismissed as part of the settlement. That ensures that Fox stars, including Hannity and Dobbs, will not have to give sworn testimony to the court that could be made public. Another lawsuit, brought by Seth's brother Aaron against Butowsky and others, is still pending.</div><div>The Rich family released a statement about the case, saying "The settlement with Fox News closes another chapter in our efforts to mourn the murder of our beloved Seth, whom we miss every single day. We are pleased with the settlement of this matter and sincerely hope that the media will take genuine caution in the future."</div><div>
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</div><div>RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ</div><div>
</div><div>PUBLISHED 11/19/20</div><div>
</div><div>Fox figures are attempting to defend the conspiratorial press conference from President Donald Trump’s legal team, during which his lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell pushed a bunch of conspiracy theories and generally laid out how they are trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election results.</div><div>
</div><div>This post will be updated throughout November 19.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNN Politics: “At no point did Trump’s legal team offer any proof for their allegations of widespread fraud.” Following Giuliani and Powell’s stunt, CNN’s Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand offered a fact check noting that the “briefing was overflowing with falsehoods and conspiracy theories” for which they provided no proof.</span> ” [CNN Politics, 11/19/20]</div><div>
</div><div>Politico: “Giuliani and fellow Trump lawyers crank out conspiracies as legal challenges implode.” Politico's Quint Forget and Alex Isenstadt examined how “the former New York mayor and his colleagues spun a web of mistruths that made mention of the Clinton Foundation, liberal megadonor George Soros and the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez.” [Politico, 11/19/20]</div><div>
</div><div>Fox figures lauded Giuliani and Powell</div><div><b>Fox host Lou Dobbs</b> talked up Giuliani and Powell's unhinged press conference [Media Matters, 11/19/20]</div><div>
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</div><div>CitationFrom the November 19, 2020, edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight </div><div>
</div><div>LOU DOBBS (HOST): President Trump's attorneys say they can prove illegal ballots were used to inflate Biden's vote tally in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona. The legal team also expects to file new lawsuits in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, perhaps even Virginia and New Mexico. That's in addition to the 20 lawsuits that are now being litigated by the campaign or Republican Party attorneys. </div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another issue at the center of today's news conference, the use of Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic software. Defense attorney Sidney Powell cited a whistleblower's stunning affidavit. It says Smartmatic's technology was used to rig elections in Venezuela, it is now in the, quote, DNA of every vote-tabulating company's software and system. Smartmatic and Dominion deny those charges. But Sidney Powell argues that algorithms in the Smartmatic software were used to change results in the presidential election. </span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Co-hosts of Fox’s The Five defended Giuliani and Powell. </b>[Fox News, The Five, 11/19/20]</div><div>
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</div><div>CitationFrom the November 19, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Five</div><div>
</div><div><b>On Sean Hannity’s radio show, Fox contributor Ken Starr compared Powell to John Adams. </b>[Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show, 11/19/20]</div><div>
</div><div>On Sean Hannity’s radio show, Fox contributor Ken Starr compares Sidney Powell to John Adams</div><div>NOVEMBER 19, 2020</div><div>Audio file</div><div>
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</div><div>CitationFrom the November 19, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show</div><div>
</div><div>Media outlets have debunked Rudy Giuliani's conspiracy theories. Ignoring that, Tucker Carlson now demands new investigations. [Media Matters, 11/19/20]</div><div>
</div><div>CitationFrom the November 19, 2020, edition of<b> Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News legal analyst: “The unabashed arrogance of the media was on full display today, as they were demanding to see the evidence. They’re not entitled to see the evidence.”</span> [Fox News, Hannity, 11/19/20]</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump and his supporters are actively working to overturn the results of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/can-trump-still-win.html?searchResultPosition=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">election he lost</a> to President-elect Joe Biden in order to keep him in power. Their <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/despicable-dangerous-right-wing-assault-2020-election" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">despicable plot</a> revolves around disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of Americans, in large part voters of color, on the grounds that their ballots were fraudulent. Their claims have been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-legal-challenges/2020/11/14/904fbd04-25e2-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">thoroughly demolished</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1329557156400599041?s=21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">legal proceedings</a> finding no evidence that widespread fraud took place, because it did not. Top federal, state, and local officials have said that there were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/election-officials-contradict-trump.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">no election security problems</a>, and the president’s legal team at times has <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-campaign-attorney-admits-in-court-that-there-are-no-fraud-or-eligibility-concerns-over-philadelphia-voters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">acknowledged</a> in court that no fraud took place.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the Trumpist effort to steal the election in broad daylight doesn’t rely on whether its arguments can stand up to scrutiny in court. It is a fundamentally political effort. Rudy Giuliani and other members of Trump’s legal team are propagating a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/fact-checking-craziest-news-conference-trump-presidency/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">shambling mass of lies and deranged conspiracy theories</a> about the election. They hope to create enough confusion to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-strategy/trumps-election-power-play-persuade-republican-legislators-to-do-what-u-s-voters-did-not-idUSKBN27Z30G" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">give cover</a> to Republican officials at the local, state, and federal level working to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-targets-vote-certification-fa1f61cc5de6352deaa588dab908128e" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">subvert the will of the electorate and use their power</a> to preserve the president’s. They want local and state Republican officials to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/19/wayne-county-rescind-certifying-election/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">refuse to certify election results</a> in key states that Trump lost, in hopes that either Republican state legislators in those states will <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/politics/trump-election.html?referringSource=articleShare" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">overturn the results</a> and hand the president a victory or the election is thrown to Congress, where Republicans can grant him a second term</span>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>T<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">his seditious conspiracy to shatter American democracy relies on the impermeability of the right-wing information bubble</span>: The facts are not on their side, and the law is not on their side, but the Trumpist media is on their side, so they are banging the table as loudly as they can. They will likely fail -- in no small part because the key players in the would-be coup are <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/rudy-giulianis-ludicrous-second-amendment-complaint-in-pennsylvania-was-as-bad-as-it-gets/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">incompetent</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sidney-powell-michael-flynns-new-attorney-anti-mueller-conspiracy-theorist-and-fox-regular" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">loons</a> -- but the cost America pays will be high nevertheless.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GOP leaders <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/why-conservatives-love-trumps-attacks-journalists" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spent decades</a> building an elaborate disinformation network of partisan media outlets and telling their supporters not to believe reporting from mainstream news sources. It worked -- polls <a href="https://today.yougov.com/topics/media/articles-reports/2020/06/18/trust-news-republican-democrat-poll" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">show</a> that Republicans <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/republicans-and-democrats-live-in-nearly-inverse-news-media-environments-pew-finds/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">overwhelmingly trust</a> right-wing outlets with low or nonexistent journalistic standards and scorn more credible news outlets, and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/19/stunning-extent-which-trumpism-is-centered-among-fox-news-watching-republicans/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">president’s most fervent supporters</a> are Republicans who trust Fox News.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> A vast swath of the public is now <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-fox-news-and-right-wing-media-failed-their-audience" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">firmly ensconced within an alternate reality</a>, making decisions about not only politics but their <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/six-different-polls-show-how-foxs-coronavirus-coverage-endangered-its-viewers" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">personal health and safety</a> based on propaganda and conspiracy theories. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Within that right-wing information bubble, it is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/despicable-dangerous-right-wing-assault-2020-election" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">virtually uncontested</a> that Trump is correct that the 2020 election was rife with voter fraud and that he actually won if you only count the “legal votes.” The result is that <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/13/trumps-crazy-and-confoundingly-successful-conspiracy-theory-436404" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">polls show</a> a <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-11-18/half-of-republicans-believe-president-trump-won-election-poll-finds" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">majority</a> of Republicans say that the election was stolen from Trump.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/07/fox-news-biden-president/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">declared</a> Biden the president-elect on November 7. But since then, both its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-has-cast-doubt-or-pushed-conspiracy-theories-about-election-results-nearly-600" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">news and opinion sides</a> have pushed conspiracy theories about the election and cast doubt on its results hundreds of times</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[graf]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> Fox hosts, contributors, and guests have</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/lou-dobbs-many-are-trying-steal-election-president-trump-there-no-doubt-about-it" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">claimed</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">that “<b>many </b>are trying to steal this election from President Trump”;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1324186141445267456" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">asserted</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">that “many Americans will never again accept the results of a presidential election”;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-theres-good-reason-here-not-have-confidence-or-not-believe-fair" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">declared</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">that “there's good reason here not to have confidence or not to believe this is fair”;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/lou-dobbs-war-battle-control-our-government" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">argued</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">that “this is a war, this is a battle for the control of our government and for the future of this nation”;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-attacks-georgia-gov-brian-kemp-allowing-election-results-stand" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">attacked</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Republican officials for being insufficiently committed to Trump’s scheme;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><b><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newt-gingrich/fox-news-newt-gingrich-calls-bill-barr-arrest-election-workers" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">called</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">for the arrests of election workers;</span></b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/judicial-watchs-tom-fitton-calls-states-appoint-clean-slate-electors-supports-president" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">suggested</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">that Republican state legislators in states Trump lost should “appoint a<b> clean</b> slate of electors” who support him; and</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1323985040968208384" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">demanded</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">lawsuits and congressional investigations. The network has</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-promo-hypes-opinion-hosts-casting-doubt-election-results" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">aired</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">promos that hype its prime-time line-up casting doubt on the election. </span></font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox’s work to systemically delegitimize the election is important not only because the network remains the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-led-trump-ruin-network-will-still-control-gop" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">largest and most powerful entity</a> within the right-wing media machine, but because Trump himself frequently watches its programming and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/study-two-years-trumps-live-tweeting-obsession-numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">amplifies</a> it to his Twitter followers. The president has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-fox-feedback-loop-powering-assault-democracy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">cast doubt</a> on the election <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/58-times-trump-has-cast-doubt-election-response-fox" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dozens of times</a> in response to Fox’s coverage, including by <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-fox-feedback-loop-amplifies-deranged-conspiracy-theory-about-dominion-and-vote" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">promoting</a> deranged conspiracy theories the network’s stars pushed about computer systems changing votes to benefit Biden.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In spite of this barrage of attacks on the democratic process, Fox has actually been <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-desperate-push-preserve-viewers-exposes-hollowness-its-news-side" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">under fire</a> from the president’s supporters for not going far enough. The network’s cable and digital competitors are <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1329456033534795777" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">even</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1329301996063449089" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">crazier</a> and more <a href="https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1329150451795759106" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">propagandistic</a>. And the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/q-fades-qanon-s-dominion-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theory-reaches-n1247780" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">social media channels</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformation-distortions#election-misinformation-often-evaded-youtubes-efforts-to-stop-it" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">bombarding</a> Republican users are <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/infamous-hoax-artist-behind-trumpworlds-new-voter-fraud-claim" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">completely unhinged</a>. </span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Republican officials targeted by the president's scheme are likely to be either swimming in that fever swamp or dependent on those who do. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the low end they look like William Hartmann, the Republican member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers who <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/michigan-detroit-election-results/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">temporarily blocked certification</a> of the county’s election results and subsequently <a href="https://www.wilx.com/2020/11/19/pair-of-wayne-county-board-of-canvassers-members-file-affidavits-to-rescind-certification-of-election-results/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">signed</a> an affidavit seeking to <b>rescind the certification. His social media feeds are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/republican-michigan-certification-conspiracy-theories/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">filled</a> with conspiracy theories about the election from OAN and other far-right sources. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further up the food chain, Republican members of Congress are <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-propagandists-and-gop-leaders-are-pushing-country-toward-abyss" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">going on Fox</a> to promote Trump’s election theft. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At every step in the process, at the local, state, and federal level, Republican officials can be pressured by the president’s supporters consuming this disinformation. Those are GOP primary voters who likely believe Trump actually won and can <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/1329527892536160256" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">threaten the jobs</a> of any politician who takes action to prevent him from staying in office.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This coup is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/11/no-hail-mary-plan-trump-isnt-going-work/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">likely to fail</a>; Biden’s lead is too great, Democrats hold key offices that can foil the attempt, and the plotters are too nutty. But the Republican base is being primed to treat Biden as illegitimate -</span>- and to question the results of any future elections the party loses. If this behavior is normalized, the next time the right-wing media machine pushes for an anti-democratic solution to an election defeat, the margin may be narrower, the playing field more favorable to Republicans, and the plotters more disciplined. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Our democracy is fragile, and it is under attack. If the truth of the election results can't break through the right-wing information bubble, it may not survive for long.</b></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most influential prime-time star, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/fox-executives-have-decided-give-you-more-tucker-carlson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a> on Monday that he would be taking on a bigger role at the network. Carlson claimed that he was discussing with Fox executives what he described as plans to “expand the amount of reporting and analysis we do in this hour across other parts of the company.” He told his viewers that “the people who run Fox News want more of it, not less.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>They are already getting it -- at the expense of the network’s putative “straight news” programs</b>. In the two days following Carlson’s announcement, those shows aired clips from his nightly “opinion” show at least 14 times. Fox “news” anchors and correspondents have incorporated clips from Carlson or his guests into packaged reports; used them as the jumping off point for panel discussions; and featured them in news briefs. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This drastic change in Fox’s typical programming habits suggests that the wall between the “news” and “opinion” side -- often touted by the network’s executives and defenders -- has become increasingly permeable. Carlson effectively served as Fox’s assignment editor over the last two days, with the network’s purportedly independent “news” side adopting his story selection and framing. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox executives know that Carlson is not a credible source for “news” content. The network lawyers won a court case by convincing a judge that no “reasonable viewer” should take him seriously. </b>He’s also a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/18/tucker-carlson-americas-new-moral-leader/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious demagogue</a>, particularly on issues related to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-descent-white-supremacy-timeline" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">diversity</a> and the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-praises-spanish-flu-anti-mask-rebellion" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coronavirus pandemic</a>, and his “anti-Black rhetoric” has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-insiders-fox-promoting-white-supremacy-and-hurting-black-americans" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly led to confrontations</a> between the network brass and its Black employees.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>But Carlson’s heightened profile during Fox’s “news” hours comes as the network <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-desperate-push-preserve-viewers-exposes-hollowness-its-news-side" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tries to stave off far-right competitors</a> by promoting its right-wing prime-time hosts.</b> Over the last week, Fox “news” shows have featured on-screen promos, advertisements, and the equivalent of live ad reads for Carlson and his prime-time colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday and Wednesday, Fox’s “news” programs aired clips from those three “opinion” shows at least 17 times. Wednesday’s edition of the morning show <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em> was effectively a show about the previous night’s prime-time lineup, accounting for a whopping 10 of the segments over its three hours. Of those, seven came from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>, two from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Ingraham Angle</em>, and one from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em> clips were also featured twice on the Tuesday edition of America’s Newsroom, once each that night on the flagship evening broadcast <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Special Report with Bret Baier</em> and late-night show <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox News @ Night</em>, and three times on Wednesday’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outnumbered Overtime</em>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox is deploying its “opinion” shows during its “news” hours in two ways, airing both comments from the monologues of their prime-time “opinion” hosts and remarks from their guests. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Clips from the monologues of the prime-time “opinion” hosts accounted for five of the “news” side segments, four of which came on Wednesday’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, which separately highlighted all three of the hosts.</b> These segments show Fox treating its employees as de facto newsmakers whose opinions are inherently worth providing the network’s audience during its “news” hours. It’s also a way of giving those viewers more access to their favorite pro-Trump personalities -- lest they change the channel to one of Fox’s competitors. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief breaking news correspondent Trace Gallagher, for example, anchored a news brief on Wednesday’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em> that seemed to have little purpose other than to tell viewers what Carlson thinks about coronavirus restrictions. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher highlighted new limitations on private indoor gatherings that some Democratic governors have rolled out to slow the spread of the coronavirus during the Thanksgiving holiday and commented, “Tucker Carlson blasting the new measures.” He then aired a clip of Carlson saying on Tuesday night’s show, “Politicians have now decided they have total power over you. They can literally decide who comes to Thanksgiving dinner at your house and where they can stand. Well that's lunatic; it’s never happened in American history before." After pointing to some sheriffs who say they won’t enforce the measures, Gallagher concluded the segment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">likewise, the anchors <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913576" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">twice </a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913521" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">used a clip</a> from Ingraham’s Tuesday monologue attacking “the Thanksgiving police” to frame Wednesday America’s Newsroom segments about the new coronavirus restrictions. </font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Twelve of the “news” segments, by contrast, featured clips of guests on Carlson’s show. </b>Conservative guests could already expect softball treatment from Carlson when talking about the prime-time host’s particular grievances, like trans youth or the perfidy of social media companies. Now, their talking points are also driving and framing additional coverage on the network's “news” programs.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wednesday’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, for example, anchor Sandra Smith <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913336" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913536" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">aired</a> comments that <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/11/clackamas-county-leader-plans-to-celebrate-thanksgiving-dinner-with-as-many-family-and-friends-as-i-can-find.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tootie Smith</a>, the incoming Republican chair of the board of commissioners of Clackamas County, Oregon, made on Carlson’s show the previous night attacking Gov. Kate Brown for tightening restrictions due to the coronavirus’s nationwide surge, including by limiting private gatherings. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“You look at what’s happening in Oregon, with this incoming Republican chair slamming these new COVID rules,</b>” the Fox anchor said during one of the segments. She then aired a video of the Republican telling Carlson that Brown’s actions were “a travesty” and “hypocrisy” because the<b> governor was going to “send the police into people's homes and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">arrest them and fine them for having a Thanksgiving meal with their family.”</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">that’s an overtly partisan and deeply questionable claim -- while <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/11/oregon-gov-kate-brown-says-large-parties-could-trigger-fines-or-jail-time-during-coronavirus-freeze.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violators</a> of Brown’s order could technically face jail time, the same set of penalties applied to violators of her stay-at-home order in March, and “authorities said at the time that they intended to inform people about the laws rather [than] issue punishments, and it’s not clear those penalties were ever applied.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carlson didn’t push back of course, because he’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-surges-across-country-fox-propagandists-are-fighting-new-efforts" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deeply invested</a> in poisoning the well for any efforts to prevent mass death from coronavirus -- which is the same reason he <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-tonight-local-news-broadcast-hell" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">decided to give airtime</a> to a county official who had a viral social media post in the first place. And Fox’s “news” side decided to prioritize her comments from Carlson’s “opinion” show and air them unchallenged, rather than highlighting an expert voice who could have provided insight into how to stay safe during the holiday.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-fox-feedback-loop-powering-assault-democracy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox's best efforts</a>, the United States will soon be transitioning to a Democratic administration -- and the network is sending every signal that it intends to respond by allowing its craziest elements to run the show, influencing the network’s programming well beyond their own timeslots.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump has been furious with Fox News, slamming the right-wing cable news outlet for calling Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night and urging his supporters to watch Newsmax TV or One America News instead. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, a Never Trump conservative who supported President-elect Joe Biden, discussed the evolution of Fox News during a Friday, November 20 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." And as Steele sees it, losing viewers to other right-wing outlets might force Fox News to feature more "center-right" reporting and less commentary from the extreme right.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On November 19, Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, held a press conference in which he reiterated nonsense claims that the election was stolen from Trump and that former Vice President Biden isn't really the United States' president-elect — and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">some of the most aggressive debunking of Giuliani's claims came from a Fox News reporter: Kristin Fisher. According to Steele, that type of fact-based reporting from Fisher or Chris Wallace shows that Fox News is "looking at the bottom line" and the need to "fill that gap" if many Trump supporters are turning to other right-wing outlets.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Those outlets, Steele told "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, could range from Newsmax TV to a media company that Trump might start after he leaves the White House. And the former RNC chairman said he expects to see more "center-right" reporting at Fox News, which he predicted will still have a conservative slant but be less Trumpian</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There were signs of trouble in paradise when Fox News' Rupert Murdoch predicted that Biden would win the election. 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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Key Republican leaders are collaborating with Fox News’ propagandists to further inflame their party’s base, standing behind <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/05/trumps-white-house-statement-falsehood-upon-falsehood/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">President Donald Trump's lies</a> that the election is being stolen from him through widespread voter fraud as the ballot count edges Democratic nominee Joe Biden closer to victory. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox’s prime-time programming on Wednesday was a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/despicable-dangerous-right-wing-assault-2020-election" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">vile slurry of innuendo and conspiracy theories</a>, as the network’s hosts parroted viral social media lies to their audience of millions in an effort to delegitimize the election results. Thursday night’s shows, which followed Trump’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-lets-donald-trump-lie-about-election-results-national-television" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deranged and lie-filled</a> performance before the White House press corps, were even more <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1324540769181540352" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">unhinged and reckless</a>. The hosts promoted <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1324523080845320198" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">nonsensical</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1324550922933063680" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">unverified</a> claims of voter fraud and <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1324519974405349376" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">cast doubt</a> on the legitimacy of the results, floating as remedies a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-do-over-pennsylvania-election-only-remedy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“do-over” election</a> in Pennsylvania and Republican state legislators <a href="https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1324541097880756226" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ignoring</a> the results in favor of Trump. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I can factually tell you tonight, it will be impossible to ever know the true, fair, accurate election results,” Fox star and Trump operative Sean Hannity <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-i-can-factually-tell-you-tonight-it-will-be-impossible-ever-know-true" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>. “Americans will never be able to believe in the integrity and legitimacy of these results.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The size of the Fox audience would make this reckless, incendiary rhetoric from its prime-time hosts concerning under any circumstances. But its coverage has been particularly unnerving given the slew of senior Republican leaders who rushed to the network’s airwaves in order to speak from the same hymnal. Together, they are pushing the country toward the abyss, risking a destruction of confidence in the election system -- and a <a href="https://6abc.com/philadelphia-attack-pennsylvania-convention-center-plot-pa-election/7689932/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violent backlash</a>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conspiracy theory-mongering extends to the highest ranks of the party’s congressional leadership. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claimed on Fox that the election results were corrupted by fraud and that Trump was the real victor. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“President Trump won this election,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1324566720414101507" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a> Laura Ingraham. “Everyone who is listening, do not be quiet, do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes. We need to unite together.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Likewise, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/05/trump-biden-election-live-updates/?no_nav=true#link-6HGNLHMXEZGURAMI7JQI2RZEM4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">went on</a> Fox and claimed the election had been rigged and that he was making a hefty donation to the president’s legal fund to stop it. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Everything should be on the table,” Graham <a href="https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1324564052597760000" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">replied</a> when Hannity asked him if the Pennsylvania state legislature should “invalidate” the results. “Philadelphia elections are crooked as a snake,” he added.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Potential 2024 GOP presidential candidates are also getting into the action. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used a Fox appearance to <a href="https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1324561121567789056" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely claim</a> poll watchers had been denied access in Philadelphia, and call the results into question.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What we've been seeing the last three days is outrageous. It is partisan, it is political, and it is lawless,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1324558397417549824" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a> Hannity. “I am angry and I think the American people are angry because by throwing the observers out, by clouding the vote counting in a shroud of darkness, they are setting the stage to potentially steal an election not just from the president, but from the over 60 million people across this country who voted for him all across this country.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), another 2024 contender, similarly undermined confidence in the election results.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We've seen reports of Detroit about ballots brought in there, new ballots in the middle of the night. And we've seen it in Philadelphia,” he told Fox’s Tucker Carlson. “Now, again, to your point a second ago, I don't know if these allegations are well founded or not.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and longtime Fox contributor, is what passes for a GOP elder statesman. He went on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em> to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newt-gingrich/fox-news-newt-gingrich-calls-bill-barr-arrest-election-workers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claim</a> that “you are watching an effort to steal the presidency of the United States” and to call on Attorney General William Barr to arrest election workers. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The party’s newest elected officials are doing the same thing. On Friday morning, Michelle Fischbach, a newly minted Republican representative-elect from Minnesota, was on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em> <a href="https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1324678889088688132" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claiming</a> that Trump “did win” but Democrats “didn't win the votes of the American people, they're just finding votes at this point.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s personal affinity for Fox gave the network an unrivaled influence on his administration. But even if he is defeated, Fox’s hold on his party seems unlikely to diminish. Politicians who want to gain and hold power within the GOP know that the network’s airwaves provide one of their <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/its-not-just-trump-house-republicans-are-also-taking-their-cues-fox-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">best opportunities</a> to accomplish that and so they’re willing to play ball with its conspiracy theories, no matter how damaging they are to the country. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Republican officials are <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1324684803392917504" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“privately” worried</a> that the president’s attacks on the country’s democratic system are dangerous, according to The Associated Press. But in public, they’re going on Fox and backing him to the hilt, no matter the cost.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trumps-limp-coup-is-falling-apart-but-right-wing-media-and-certain-gop-politicians-dont-know-when-to-cut-bait/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trumps-limp-coup-is-falling-apart-but-right-wing-media-and-certain-gop-politicians-dont-know-when-to-cut-bait/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most still-rational Americans, watching Donald Trump's atrocity of a press conference on Thursday night, had two simultaneous reactions: Wow, that man really is the worst living American, and also, yeah, this is all over except for the paperwork.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was an odd mix of emotions. There was the disgust of watching the actual president of the actual United States demand that legal votes be thrown out insinuating that millions of American voters were somehow fakes. But there was also the relief of seeing Trump's facade of bravado collapsing, exposing the loser that was always hiding behind that wall of bluster. Even many Trump voters knew, at that moment, that it was over. <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/11/05/clown-coup-trumps-effort-to-overthrow-democracy-as-well-run-as-his-business-and-presidency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Trump's attempted coup is collapsing under the weight of his own incompetence and laziness</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We are now at the portion of the right-wing cycle of failure where the supporters of the corrupt and failed Republican president slink away and pretend that they were never that into him in the first place. (See: Nixon, Richard M., and Bush, George W.) But for whatever reason, a decent number of rats are clinging fiercely to the side of the sinking ship, insisting, as the water starts lapping against their skinny tails, that Captain Bleach-Injector can still somehow save himself.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thursday night, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-do-over-pennsylvania-election-only-remedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a frantic Sean Hannity was on Fox News</a>, baselessly claiming that Philadelphia election officials counting Pennsylvania ballots are "violating the law" and suggesting, apparently not as a joke, "a do-over in that state." On his radio show, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-remedy-if-trump-loses-election-state-electors-going-against-popular-vote" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Hannity begged for state-appointed electors who'll vote for Trump</a>, defying the actual voters of Pennsylvania. (<a href="https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1324727522915921920" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">State GOP leaders have declined</a>.)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/EvanMcMullin/status/1324578689267322880" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show</a> and falsely claimed that "Trump won this election," demanding, "Everyone who's listening, do not be quiet." He then tweeted out the video clip, in case there was any doubt he was trying to rile up Republican voters with these lies. Twitter put a content warning on the video.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-blames-huge-amounts-money-mark-zuckerberg-and-george-soros-local" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ingraham went along with</a> McCarthy's antics, demanding that other Republican politicians "better stand and fight" for Trump and claiming that "we have huge amounts of money from Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros and others flooding" into "canvassing, you know, states like Pennsylvania." This claim is not only untrue but also nonsensical: The apparent implication is that, while Republicans are allowed to canvass and organize, Democrats have no such right.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tucker Carlson was relatively limp, trying to boost Trump's conspiracy theories and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-election-2020-trump-biden-reaction" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">complaining about "the media" calling the election</a>. The latter is a particularly shameless play, as Trump's entire coup plot — <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/24/trump-just-cant-keep-a-secret--especially-when-it-comes-to-his-plans-to-stage-a-coup/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">which he has laid out in great detail over the past couple of months </a>— was to seize on the appearance that he was ahead in early media reports on Tuesday night as evidence he had "won," even though all votes hadn't counted.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Hannity's show, South Carolina's Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham let loose with baseless accusations, which carried a strong whiff of racism, <a href="https://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP/status/1324543416110374913" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">that Philadelphia's elections are "crooked as a snake" while Arizona's</a> are to be trusted. (News flash: Trump will probably lose that state too.)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even former football coach Tommy Tuberville, having defeated Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama, <a href="https://twitter.com/TTuberville/status/1324521345615601670" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">decided that one of his first acts as a senator-elect was</a> to declare that "the game is over" but "the referees are suddenly adding touchdowns to the other team's side of the scoreboard." It's a false analogy that elides the fact that votes are <em>always</em> counted after the polls close.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/11/06/what-reasonable-republicans-gop-leaders-are-boosting-trumps-attack-on-democracy/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Salon's Sophia Tesfaye has an astounding list of other examples from GOP politicians</a>, so readers can get the full scale of how bad this is.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media whining has already drifted toward violent fantasies. Newt Gingrich, after letting loose with a racist rant about the "Philadelphia machine," the "Atlanta machine" and the "machine in Detroit," <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newt-gingrich/fox-news-newt-gingrich-calls-bill-barr-arrest-election-workers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">demanded on Fox News that Attorney General Bill Barr arrest election workers</a> and menacingly declared that "federal agents can carry guns in the pursuit of people who are breaking the law."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While interviewing Rudy Giuliani on his radio show, Trumpian pseudo-fascist crackpot <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sebastian-gorka/sebastian-gorka-we-should-just-force-our-way-election-centers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Sebastian Gorka declared </a>that "we should just force our way in" to voting centers to keep votes from being counted. This was a bridge too far even for Giuliani, who suggested "that would require a fistfight, which I guess our people don't want to get involved in."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/votes-still-being-counted-steve-bannon-declares-trump-already-his-second-term-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">falsely announcing that </a>"Trump won an overwhelming victory" and was already "in his second term" in a Fox Business interview, disgraced former Trump adviser <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-and-his-co-host-discuss-beheading-dr-anthony-fauci-and-fbi-director" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Steve Bannon went on his own radio show</a> and fantasized about killing Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I'd put the heads on pikes," Bannon said, "as a warning to federal bureaucrats."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All of this, it should go without saying, is deeply evil. These people aren't just undermining democracy and telling outragous lies, they're often trying to incite violence against their fellow Americans. But evil is, sadly, to be expected. That's what has become of the Republican Party after decades of dehumanizing propaganda and five years of Trumpism.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what's more puzzling is how <em>irrational</em> this behavior is. All these pundits and politicians are out there, flailing around and lying for Trump, and for what? He's a dead man walking, and they know it. <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/11/05/judges-are-tossing-out-president-trumps-last-minute-attempts-to-sue-his-way-to-victory-one-by-one/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The lawsuits Trump's team are filing are unbelievably feeble</a>, so much so that it's clear they're less meant as a serious effort to rescue Trump from electoral defeat than to bolster his delusions that he's being unfairly victimized.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There's no point in defending Trump now, especially not in the stick-your-neck-out way we're seeing from Fox News hosts and politicians like Graham or McCarthy. It's certainly not going to make it more likely there's some miracle where Trump pulls himself out of a nosedive.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The only purpose of all this nonsense is to soothe Trump's injured ego with pretty lies about how he should have won and it's all rigged and he's the real winner here and not the massive loser he looks like to the whole world right now.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And I have to ask: To what end? It's one thing to flatter Trump when he's the president — it's gross and cynical, but entirely rational, to want the power of having a president on your side. It's another thing entirely to keep at it when he's on his way out. It's especially weird to demonstrate loyalty to Trump, a man who will never return it and would sell out all his bootlickers to black-market organ salesmen if he thought that might save his sorry ass.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I'm forced to conclude that these people merely stunned and falling back on bad habits. After four years of relentless lying and toadying to this reality-TV villain who sleazed his way into the Oval Office, the Trump apologists don't know how to quit him. Even as the building collapses around them, they're carrying on as if Trump will somehow find a way to survive this, because that's what they've been conditioned to believe.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The saddest part? Their audiences and supporters will forget all this when Trump finally leaves office. That's when the right will move seamlessly into Phase II: Forget This Ever Happened.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">called Az early/1st "fox sucks" mob</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As election results are updated, President Donald Trump nears a day of reckoning he still cannot fathom: the reality that there is a strong possibility he will lose the presidency. Now, Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch may also be facing an uphill battle having to report factual information that may not align with the network's conservative audience.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since Trump's election in 2016, Fox News has become a conservative haven for the Republican Party within a deeply polarized America. However, many viewers were not pleased when the<b> network became the first to declare that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had won Arizona.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, a frustrated Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who also serves as a White House Senior Advisor, reportedly called Murdoch to express his disapproval of the network's decision, according to NPR. He even asked Murdoch to retract the projection, but to no avail. The network appears to have stood behind its decision.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, that occurrence may serve as a foreboding indication of viewers' reaction when Fox News may have to report an election victory for Biden. Over the course of the week, many of Trump's allies have appeared on Fox News echoing the president's conspiracies of rife voter fraud without providing any substantial information to support their arguments. Due to mass misinformation and conflicting reports that undermine America's democracy and election systems, the network's journalists are also fighting an uphill battle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Fox News' journalists</b> are, by and large, attempting to navigate a gentle landing for their audiences so that, should Biden defeat Trump, they will recognize the result. But the <b>network's stars are larding their shows with Trump advocates who make baseless but incendiary accusations to ensure that viewers never accept Biden as legitimate.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite the network's efforts to carefully navigate through the difficult outcome that may lie ahead, others have stressed the importance of Fox helping its viewers to accept the election results instead of giving Trump allies a platform to spew harmful misinformation that could potentially lead to civil unrest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN anchor Jake Tapper said, "The Murdochs and the people at Fox have an obligation to put their country above their profits."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><table role="presentation" class="yiv2183101306stylingblock-content-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2183101306stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table role="presentation" class="yiv2183101306stylingblock-content-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2183101306stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2183101306camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">f<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=3637ff7cd602478f4cc8bf2c1f261e788af413dad91a155337e311312a73cba732475f7617ce0c3840c372a95a8d01fc80f9376caf8dce34" title="Fox is behind Trump’s conspiracy theory about the coronavirus death count">ox is behind Trump’s conspiracy theory about the coronavirus death count</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table role="presentation" class="yiv2183101306stylingblock-content-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2183101306stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2183101306camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Over the final weeks of his campaign, President Donald Trump has begun casually accusing doctors and hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients of deliberately inflating the death toll to make more money.</b> His baseless conspiracy theory <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=3637ff7cd602478fe2c0e74c3e25b9af9d1dbf6b39be2c6e2e7c3ddc8f15aef00489a8d3ae7b2ba6815b62720a01d521eacdfe93d2b85e15" title="appears to originate">appears to originate</a> with one of his favorite Fox News shows. </font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fact-checkers have traced viral misinformation about hospital payments and the COVID-19 death count back to an April 8 appearance on Fox News’ <i>The Ingraham Angle</i> by Dr. <b>Scott Jensen </b>, a Republican state senator from Minnesota and family physician. Another Ingraham guest repeated the claim in July.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fact of the matter is that no evidence has emerged suggesting that medical personnel are fabricating COVID-19 cases. As a result of limited test capacity, such official tolls are a significant undercount of the actual number of deaths, as estimated from the number of excess deaths during the pandemic compared to a typical year.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Fact check failure:</b></i> <b>Chuck Todd</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=3637ff7cd602478f4d80feac86f851141908fbc940f8c8f2a5028c42622d893337331246008b5c11dd110225fe34ddfda97edb3590ebfa44" title="aired">aired</a> Trump's conspiracy theory without debunking it.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Also:</b></i> Right-wing media have been <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=3637ff7cd602478fc7243ff003b4069f7d9fccc231d1f2d549c317047905fb342f46ebd790ddfee4d0eb79791640a00b1f36c43c528a0ddf" title="spreading lies">spreading lies</a> and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 death count all year long.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Finally:</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Texas Republicans have petitioned a federal court to potentially throw out more than 100,000 ballots cast in drive-thru voting in Harris County, Texas. One of the plaintiffs is right-wing commentator <b>Steven Hotze</b>, a QAnon conspiracy theorist <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=402dc680fecd3a6b47692ef23c559a0096bf6c344de626060792af018d69dfc1a50d85c459fdc6e415456602710884e71d91c334dd988a61" title="who has said">who has said</a> that the coronavirus is “much ado about nothing” and speculated that the “deep state could have been the ones that orchestrated this whole viral problem with the virus.”</span></font></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/fox-host-democrats-climate-plan-impossible-unless-we-all-commit-suicide-i-mean-we" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/fox-host-democrats-climate-plan-impossible-unless-we-all-commit-suicide-i-mean-we</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10/30 mma</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MARK LEVIN (HOST): They're going to shut down assembly lines. They're going to shut down American corporations. They're going to use 100 percent no carbon dioxide. Zero carbon dioxide, which is impossible unless we all commit suicide. I mean, we breathe out carbon dioxide.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trump dumps covid bill, ~  25th aMeND</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/foxs-mark-levin-nancy-pelosi-mentally-ill-she-has-shakes-her-face-old-age-malformed" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/foxs-mark-levin-nancy-pelosi-mentally-ill-she-has-shakes-her-face-old-age-malformed</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although Fox News has always had a right-wing slant, there have been divisions between its far-right opinion hosts (Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham) and the more reasonable hard news division (Chris Wallace, Andrew Napolitano). But viewers who tune into Fox hoping for National Review-type conservatism are likely to encounter kooky World Net Daily-type conservatism instead, and journalist Alex Wagner — this week in an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/the-militia-that-fox-built/616788/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">article for The Atlantic</a> — warns that parts of Fox News have been encouraging the paranoia of America's extremists during the Trump era.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Fox News' unique blend of xenophobia and division has always been popular and highly lucrative," Wagner explains. "But now, with the advent of COVID-19, the channel has become a marketplace for something considerably more poisonous: increasingly dystopian coverage of the country that provides fodder for radicals."</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two of the radicals that Wagner was referring to were Chris Hill and Corey Wells, both members of the well-armed Security Force Three Percent — a far-right militia in Georgia. Hill believes that "coronavirus is a scam," and he views social distancing measures an assault on his civil liberties.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Wells told The Atlantic, "This country right now is a tinder box. This whole country is like California — just waiting on a spark to land in it. And when it does, it's gonna be bad. The original Civil War has nothing on what's coming."</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wells, Wagner stresses, <em style="">only</em> trusts far-right media figures like Carlson and Hannity — and Fox News, she warns, is keeping the far right fired up with its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Fox News' opinion hosts have often downplayed the dangers of COVID-19 and claimed that social distancing restrictions are anti-freedom — a message that, Wagner observes, militia members like Hill and Wells have been buying into.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"In previous years, Fox could claim credit for Republican intransigence on immigration reform and the party's willful denial of climate change," Wagner explains. "Today, Fox plays a significant role in stoking fear that it may be time for a second American civil war."</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">President Donald Trump, according to Wagner, has also been encouraging fringe groups — for example, his refusal to criticize QAnon, which believes that the federal government has been infiltrated by an international cabal of child sex traffickers, Satanists and cannibals and that Democrats play a key role in that cabal.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Wagner explains, "The concentric circles of paranoia that once separated the most radical theorists from the most mainstream conservatives have, with the assistance of Fox, grown dramatically smaller — indeed, under President Trump, they might even overlap…. Fox has undeniably poisoned a broad section of the American public through its constant drumbeat of stories promoting fear and mistrust, eroding confidence in institutions and our democracy."</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">brain room nixed:  an 1020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">st<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ephanie Rawlings-Blake, a surrogate for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, on Thursday blasted Fox News host Sandra Smith for repeatedly asking about unproven accusations against the candidate's son, Hunter.</span></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We can assume that the president is sharpening his attacks particularly when it comes to Hunter and Joe Biden," Smith told Rawlings-Blake. "How is Joe Biden preparing to respond and defend himself against those attacks, particularly now that Hunter Biden's former business partner is coming forward."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The way the [vice president] is going to prepare is the same way that Fox prepared when this story first showed up," Rawlings-Blake explained, "which is to turn it down."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We don't know that," Smith complained. "That's news to us."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's part of — as the FBI says — potentially a Russian conspiracy to interfere with our election," Rawlings-Blake continued. "And my hope is that our country will not be led down this road again by Putin and allow Russia to interfere with our election. And my hope is that Fox won't participate in the interference in our election by continuing to perpetuate a bogus story."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"When you reference a bogus story that Fox turned down, we have no information on that," Smith said. "When this story surfaced, it was news to us."</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is the debate that's going to take place on that stage tonight," the Fox News host remarked. "How does Joe Biden respond considering we have not seen him answer any questions about it?"</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"He responds by acknowledging — just like the FBI did — that this is a bogus story," Rawlings-Blake replied, "perpetuated and put out in the fake news network to interfere with the election. These are desperate times. President Trump sees the numbers. Fox News sees the numbers, but I want to assure Fox News and all of the watchers, you'll have advertisers after this election is over, you'll have airtime after this election is over. It will be OK. You will be able to report on real news without desperately needing a circus."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Smith pressed: "What if the question comes up? Joe Biden, do you refuse the fact that these were real emails that were exchanged? Was this Hunter Biden's laptop? I hear you calling it a false story. There's no evidence that it's false or made up. But how does Joe Biden respond to that?"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I'm sure Vice President Biden is prepared to answer those questions," Rawlings-Blake insisted. "I'm also sure that your repeated bringing these emails up is — as the FBI said — a possibility or an interest of the Russians to interfere with our election."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"And I understand while it seems like an interesting story, I have no interest in helping Russia interfere with our election," she added. "They did it in 2016 and we will not have it done again."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch the video below from Fox News.</font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">anti-sci GOP gives us covid fail, specifically:</font></div><div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump's promise in an ABC News town hall last month that the United States would soon achieve herd immunity for the coronavirus, and conflating that with herd mentality, may be explained because Trump is counting on the latter to rescue his second term. It's otherwise impossible to imagine a campaign whose endgame is to recover the lost loyalty of voters over 65 selecting as its closing argument, "Not enough of you have died yet."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It's a safe bet that none of his 2016 Republican primary challengers would have embraced the idea that the solution to the pandemic was more American casualties than the Civil War and World War II combined.</b> But many of Trump's Republican comrades-in-arms have embraced, often eagerly, a default preference for herd immunity — harkening back to the harsh social Darwinism that underlies much of modern conservatism. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/15/gop-coronavirus-economy-death/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>Early on in the pandemic there were</u></a> Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Rep. Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana and radio host Glenn Beck, all of whom argued that the loss of more American lives was preferable to scaling back the economy. Then, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/8/7/21357400/anti-mask-protest-rallies-donald-trump-covid-19" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>when the issue became wearing masks</u></a>, some opponents argued "if I'm going to get COVID and die from it, so be it …" Of course they really meant, "If <em>you</em> are going to get COVID ..." Wearing masks was a deprivation of freedom — although this argument seems never to have been extended by Republicans to the prohibition on public nudity.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">As the pandemic surged again, by October Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was referring to "unjustified hysteria" about covid, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavrius-republicans-election/2020/10/05/fdc570ea-071a-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>and asked,</u></a> after he became infected, ""Why do we think we actually can stop the progression of a contagious disease?"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (The obvious answer is that we have been doing so, with increasing success, since the 1854 cholera pump moment. That is rejected by many on the right, because stopping a pandemic may require the government to prevent citizens from endangering others.)</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Herd immunity can sometimes reduce mortality from a disease, but over the centuries has failed to end the curse of influenza, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, rabies or dengue fever. It fits neatly, however, into a social Darwinist framework. Those who die are the "weak" — the poorest, the youngest and the oldest young —<b> or can at any rate be classified as weak and deserving to die, because they died. </b>Survival of the fittest requires discarding the weak.<b> Remember the "let them die" hecklers who populated some of the 2011 Republican debates on health care.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This underlying value distortion — <em>my</em> personal freedom extends to <em>my</em> right to endanger you — spreads out across a range of other issues. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Today's Republican reluctance to curb pollution even when it is demonstrably is killing a power plant's neighbors, to keep pesticides that kill farm workers out of the fields or to do anything at all about the climate crisis, which conservatives have privately conceded for years was real and caused by carbon pollution, are all illustrations of how the toxin of social Darwinism still contaminates much of the right's thinking about <b>freedom.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So Trump's response to the COVID crisis — and the willingness of the Republican congressional establishment to enable it — illustrates a deep-rooted flaw in the American right. In a world in which we are, like it or not, all bound together, a tolerable conservatism is one that is willing to protect me from irresponsible neighbors, whether those are COVID-risking teenagers, irresponsible gun owners or multinational chemical companies.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>D<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">r.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/10/15/herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-gupta-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Sanjay Gupta</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>, chief medical correspondent for CNN, has stressed that if the United States took a "herd immunity" approach to the coronavirus pandemic, millions would die.</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But over at Fox News, Dr. Scott Atlas — a major proponent of the "herd immunity" argument — has received a lot of favorable coverage. And <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/scott-atlas-reportedly-derailing-coronavirus-task-force-dangerous-misinformation-hes-only" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Media Matters' Matt Gertz</a>, this week, argues that Fox News has endangered the public's health by encouraging President Donald Trump to make Atlas more prominent on the White House's coronavirus task force.</span></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Atlas seized control from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government experts on public health and infectious diseases, and he has derailed their efforts to slow the spread of the virus,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gertz explains. "This is what governance by Fox News looks like. The White House plucked a purveyor of the network's coronavirus happy talk from its green room, and his view has overwhelmed those who have actual expertise on the subject — with potentially disastrous results."</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hosts at Fox News, Gertz notes, have "denounced public health officials like Fauci" but "propped up Atlas" — who, Gertz stresses, now "dominates" the White House coronavirus task force despite his "lack of qualifications in public health or infectious diseases."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Atlas, who joined the task force in August, is a neuroradiologist. But unlike Fauci, he isn't an immunologist. Fauci is one of the United States' leading experts on infectious diseases.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Gertz quotes a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-den-of-dissent-inside-the-white-house-task-force-as-coronavirus-surges/2020/10/19/7ff8ee6a-0a6e-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">report from the Washington Post</a>, noting that Atlas "has pushed a baseless theory inside the task force that the U.S. population is close to herd immunity — the point at which enough people become immune to a disease either by becoming infected or getting vaccinated that its spread slows — despite a scientific consensus that the United States is nowhere close.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Atlas, Gertz points out, has argued against social distancing measures, saying, "All restrictions should be lifted, schools should be opened and only the most vulnerable populations, such as nursing home residents, should be sheltered." </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">And when Fox hosts praise Atlas, according to Gertz, Trump is paying close attention</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Fox hosts dictated the pandemic response through their shows and in meetings with Trump and his top advisers, until they finally managed to place one of their own within his ranks," Gertz explains. "The result has been a calamity: hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead, the economy is in shambles, and the virus is still out of control."</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">As outlandish as QAnon's beliefs are, the conspiracy cult has been gaining ground in the Republican Party. A <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-half-of-trump-supporters-believe-q-anons-imaginary-claims-124025042.html?guccounter=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Yahoo News/YouGov poll</a> finds that <b>roughly 50% of President Donald Trump's supporters now embrace at least some of QAnon's claims.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">QAnon believes that the United States' federal government has been infiltrated by an international cabal of pedophiles, Satanists and cannibals and that Trump was put in the White House to lead the fight against the cabal. According to the fictional belief set, an anonymous figure named Q is providing updates on Trump's battle. And one of QAnon's beliefs is that <b>R&B superstar <a href="https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/an-exclusive-interview-with-ann-marie-lastrassi-who-wou-1844281115" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Beyoncé</a> isn't really African-American but rather, is really an Italian woman named Ann Marie Latrassi who is passing herself off as Black as part of the conspiracy.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Yahoo/YouGov poll, conducted October 16-18, asked participants, "Do you believe that top Democrats are involved in elite child sex trafficking rings?" — and 50% of Trump supporters said "yes" compared to only <b>5% of former Vice President Joe Biden's supporters.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The poll also asked, "Do you believe that President Trump is working to dismantle an elite child sex trafficking ring involving top Democrats?" — to which 52% of Trump supporters responded "yes," while only 4% of Biden supporters said "yes."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Yahoo News reporters Andrew Romano and Caitlin Dickson note that only 16% of Trump supporters who were familiar were QAnon were willing to dismiss the entire movement as conspiracy nonsense that has no basis in fact.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The inroads that QAnon has made in the GOP were evident when, in August, QAnon supporter <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/how-a-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-won-a-georgia-gop-congressional-primary-battle-with-the-help-of-mark-meadows-and-jim-jordan/" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> won a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511396-qanon-backer-marjorie-taylor-greene-wins-georgia-gop-runoff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Republican congressional primary in Georgia</a>. Because her district is overwhelmingly Republican, Greene will likely win the general election on November 3 and be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Well-known Republicans who have made donations to Green's campaign include Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. And after her primary win, Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293525010523578375" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">congratulated Greene on Twitter</a> and exalted her as a "future Republican star."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nina Jankowicz of the nonpartisan Wilson Center told Yahoo News that it's "really crazy" that "such a high number" of Trump supporters embrace QAnon's conspiracy theory.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Jankowicz explained, "It seems, increasingly, like we're dealing with two different sets of facts in this country, sometimes more. The fact is that QAnon is a movement, a conspiracy that has been cited by the FBI as potentially inciting terrorist and other violent extremist acts in this country. It shouldn't be something that we're this split (on) along partisan lines."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a recent town hall event hosted by NBC News, moderator Savannah Guthrie grilled Trump about QAnon — and he maintained, "I know nothing about QAnon." But Trump added that from what he has heard, "They are very strongly against pedophilia, and I agree with that."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jankowicz told Yahoo News, "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The fact that we have so many political candidates who are public adherents of QAnon and a president who himself has refused to disavow the theory (amounts to) a <b>tacit endorsement of a different set of facts</b>. 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</font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-murdoch-merger-continues-hope-hicks-heads-fox" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">effectively merged</a> with the Trump administration, an event with no analogue in modern American history.</b> The network’s sway over the political universe has become so great in recent years that whether you watch it or not, its coverage and commentators have had a tangible effect on your life. In 2020, that impact of the president’s fixation with Fox's coverage culminated in the deaths of an <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/six-different-polls-show-how-foxs-coronavirus-coverage-endangered-its-viewers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">untold number</a> of Americans during the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-fox-news-trump-feedback-loop-will-get-people-killed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coronavirus pandemic</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump and Fox have a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/donald-trump-fox-news-timeline-relationship" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">symbiotic relationship</a> dating back nearly a decade. He used its platform and supportive coverage to propel himself to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/flashback-how-fox-news-promoted-trumps-birtherism" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conservative political stardom</a>, the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/study-trump-won-fox-primary-doubling-any-other-candidate-interview-airtime" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Republican presidential nomination</a>, and the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/study-trumps-retreat-fox-news-numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">presidency</a>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since his election, Trump has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/comprehensive-review-revolving-door-between-fox-and-trump-administration" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">filled the top ranks</a> of his administration with <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/reported-candidates-top-defense-department-post-have-made-over-90-fox-appearances-combined" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">friendly</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/kfile-douglas-macgregor-german-ambassador-pick/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">faces</a> from the network’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/trumps-new-coronavirus-adviser-right-wing-media-talking-head-who-consistently" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">airwaves</a> -- but those who remained at Fox rather than joining the administration may be even more powerful. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several network hosts have also become <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-fox-news-revolving-door-perfect-hope-hicks-terrible-america-ncna1137211" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">informal presidential advisers</a>, dual roles that <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-trump-political-operative-and-fox-news-doesnt-care" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">would not pass muster</a> at any other news outlet. Sean Hannity’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/unbelievable-hypocrisy-sean-hannity-recipient-unsecured-presidential-phone-calls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">unsecured</a> <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">nightly phone calls</a> with the president led White House aides to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hannitys-rising-role-in-trumps-world-he-basically-has-a-desk-in-the-place/2018/04/17/e2483018-4260-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">describe him</a> as the shadow chief of staff. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-laura-ingraham-reportedly-advised-trump-using-anti-malarials-coronavirus-cure" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Laura Ingraham</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jeanine Pirro</a> counseled Trump during West Wing visits, while Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/timeline-how-trumps-fox-news-fixation-shaped-federal-coronavirus-response" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">traveled</a> to his Mar-a-Lago resort to do the same. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dined-with-fox-news-seb-gorka-and-jesse-watters-at-the-white-house-this-week/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jesse Watters</a> and <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/trump-invited-fox-friends-co-host-pete-hegseth-private-dinner-white-house/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Pete Hegseth</a> are close enough to the president to be invited to the White House for private dinners. Trump even reportedly had Lou Dobbs <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-cherishes-lou-dobbs-so-much-he-puts-him-on-speakerphone-for-oval-office-meetings" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conferenced in</a> to provide feedback during administration meetings. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/it-bad-president-takes-advice-his-television" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dangerous</a> that the president takes advice from the people he sees on his TV. The members of his Fox News Cabinet are bigoted extremists who lack anything resembling the qualifications you would want in senior advisers to the most powerful man on the planet. They have their jobs because they are willing and effective members of a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-news-team-essential-cog-corrupt-propaganda-machine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">corrupt propaganda machine</a> -- they know how to wield disinformation and marshal the fear and hatred of the network’s hard-right viewers to keep them coming back for more and supporting Republican politicians. And they have the president’s ear because they use their programs to praise him and denounce his foes. Those aren’t credentials for presidential advisers -- they are ingredients for disaster.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, the president’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">most important source of information</a> isn’t the U.S. intelligence community -- it’s the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/bigotry-and-idiocy-donald-trumps-favorite-news-show" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dimwitted pro-Trump shills</a> at the network’s morning show, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>. The president watches hours of Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, each day and regularly tweets in response to segments that attract his attention -- at times dramatically shifting the news cycle and government policy. He sent 1,146 of these Fox live tweets from September 2018 through August 2020 -- 7.5% of his total tweets during that period -- according to a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/study-two-years-trumps-live-tweeting-obsession-numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">new Media Matters report</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Trump-Fox feedback loop impacts the president’s worldview -- and thus, the government’s actions -- on a scope far beyond any other news outlet in the recent past. And the network’s hold on both have <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/presidency-one-means-nation-ruled-fox-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">only been strengthened</a> over the course of his administration. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Here are 15 ways Fox drove federal policymaking and political events over the last two years.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The caravan coverage. </strong>In the closing weeks of the 2018 midterms, Trump’s live tweets turned Fox’s obsessive, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/study-caravan-coverage-has-taken-over-news-cycle-thats-exactly-what-fox-news-and-trump-wanted" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">fearmongering coverage</a> of a caravan of migrants approaching the U.S. border from Central America into a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-wanted-exploit-caravan-migrants-midterm-election-issue-so-thats-what-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">key election issue</a>. After the election, his administration initiated <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/20/20997299/asylum-border-mexico-us-iom-unhcr-usaid-migration-international-humanitarian-aid-matamoros-juarez" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">harsh</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-trump-remain-in-mexico/2020/03/11/7abd4b9c-62d7-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">potentially illegal</a> policies to curtail that flow of asylum seekers.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Replacing Sessions with Barr. </strong>After the midterm election, Trump finally <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-wants-blatantly-politicize-justice-department-and-his-fox-news-allies-are-trying" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">took the advice</a> of his <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-top-tv-advisers-keep-telling-him-fire-the-shill-jeff-sessions-now" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox supporters</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/politics/sessions-resigns.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">got rid of</a> Attorney General Jeff Sessions. His replacement, William Barr, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-going-love-trump-attorney-general-pick-william-barr" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">had bought into</a> the conspiracy theories of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/introducing-sean-hannity-extended-universe-foxs-anti-mueller-alternative-reality" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Hannity and his ilk</a>, and he <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/muellers-statement-was-indictment-press" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">used lies</a> to help stymie special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He then <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/fox-news-was-right-about-william-barr" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pushed</a> for Fox’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/trump-campaign-crediting-hannity-launching-doj-investigation-obama-administration-and" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">long-sought</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mueller-investigation-over-conservative-media-declare-its-time-investigate-investigators" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">criminal investigation</a> into the onset of that inquiry.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The government shutdown.</strong> In December 2018, Fox personalities <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/right-wing-media-figures-goad-trump-vetoing-any-spending-bill-doesnt-include-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">goaded</a> Trump into partially shutting down the federal government and then <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumps-fox-cabinet-returns-vacation-urges-him-stay-strong-shutdown" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">keeping it shuttered</a> for a <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/national/trump-tweets-government-shutdown-looms/Cj8SI7JIiSkUHbOifsaVcN/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">record 35 days</a> over funding for his border wall. The president <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumps-fox-advisers-keep-telling-him-hes-winning-shutdown-which-why-it-wont-end-any-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spent much of the shutdown</a> watching and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/fox-news-shutdown-here-and-trump-tweeting-through-it" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tweeting reactions to Fox</a> and seeking advice on negotiation strategy from <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/lou-dobbs-and-sean-hannity-advised-trump-shutdown-strategy-his-oval-office-speech" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Dobbs and Hannity</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Impeachment. </strong>Fox (and Hannity in particular) played a key role in <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumps-ukraine-scandal-fox-news-story" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">virtually every aspect</a> of the Ukraine abuse of power scandal that led to Trump’s impeachment, from <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-stoked-trumps-rage-towards-ukraine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stoking</a> Trump’s rage toward that country, to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/timeline-how-trump-allies-and-propagandists-teamed-try-smear-biden-over-ukraine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supercharging</a> the corrupt anti-Biden disinformation campaign, to providing the talking points the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/nearly-half-trumps-tweets-about-ukraine-abuse-power-scandal-have-been-fox-related" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">president</a> and his <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/president-trumps-fox-obsession-reshaped-political-universe-2019" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supporters</a> used to respond, to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cable-news/members-trumps-impeachment-team-have-been-fixtures-cable-news-primarily-fox" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">staffing</a> Trump’s Senate defense team.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pardoning war criminals. </strong>Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/trumps-fox-news-pardon-pipeline-comprehensive-review" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">frequently pardons</a> people with Fox ties, and in July 2019, he <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/after-being-urged-fox-news-host-donald-trump-pardons-war-crimes" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">granted clemency</a> to three accused or convicted war criminals following an aggressive <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/fox-host-lobbied-trump-pardon-accused-and-convicted-war-criminals-heres-how-fox-talked" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">on-air and behind-the-scenes</a> <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2019-11-29/all-the-seals-men-the-fox-news-campaign-that-made-eddie-gallagher-untouchable" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lobbying campaign</a> from Pete Hegseth. The Navy secretary was later <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/navy-secretary-forced-out-after-losing-power-struggle-fox-host" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">forced out</a> after losing a power struggle with Hegseth over his treatment of one of them.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Who builds the wall? </strong>A construction company won <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ceo-won-17-billion-border-wall-contracts-using-trump-fox-feedback-loop-his-last-wall" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">$1.7 billion in federal contracts</a> to build sections of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border after Trump repeatedly saw its CEO promoting his bid on Fox and overruled skeptical government officials. One contract is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/05/19/trump-favored-construction-firm-involved-in-ongoing-inspector-general-investigation-wins-13b-border-wall-contract/#52404aa7bcfc" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">under investigation</a>, and the firm’s “showcase piece” of wall is reportedly at risk of falling down -- while the leaders of its private funder <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/these-right-wing-outlets-and-personalities-promoted-steve-bannon-and-brian-kolfages" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">have been charged</a> with fraud. </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Calling off missile strikes.</strong> In June 2019, Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/politics/trump-iran-attack.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed to have called off</a> missile strikes on three Iranian sites with minutes to spare. According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/politics/trump-iran-strike.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The New York Times</a>, Trump was responding at least in part to Carlson’s argument, made both on his show and to the president personally, that using force against Iran could spiral into a war that would endanger his reelection.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hiring, then firing, his national security adviser.</strong> Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/john-bolton/fox-news-got-john-bolton-hired-then-it-got-him-fired" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hired</a> John Bolton as national security adviser in March 2018, reportedly because he was enamored with the longtime Fox contributor’s on-air defenses of his policies. But 18 months later, Bolton was forced out of the administration after Carlson reportedly spent months “lobbying” the president “to fire” him.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Investigating Google’s “treason.” </strong>In response to misleading and conspiracy-minded Fox coverage of Google, Trump has accused the company of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/28/why-president-trump-attacking-google/221120" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“suppressing voices of Conservatives,”</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/trump-attacking-google-again-because-hes-been-watching-lou-dobbs-again" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“illegal”</a> activities, and even </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/trump-calls-treason-investigation-based-fox-friends-news-brief" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“treason,</span>”</a> and promised to use federal power to investigate its operations. He subsequently held a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/07/09/Here-are-the-extremist-figures-going-to-the-White-House-social-media-summit/224147" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">White House event</a> in July 2019 and issued an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">executive order</a> in May over the bias claim, and the Department of Justice is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/google-antitrust-justice-department.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly planning to file</a> an antitrust lawsuit against the company after Barr overruled career attorneys who sought more time to build the case.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Retaliation against Iran. </strong>In January, after the U.S. killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a key figure in Iran’s military and government, and Iran launched a retaliatory strike at a U.S. base, Trump decided not to order a further military escalation. Carlson’s on-air <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/risks-tucker-carlsons-iran-commentary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">commentary</a> opposing “a new Middle East war” <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/it-bad-president-takes-advice-his-television" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly played a role</a>, as Trump “told people that he had watched Carlson’s show and it had affected his view on the Iran situation.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Americans died because the Fox feedback loop slowed coronavirus response.</strong> Fox irresponsibly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-downplaying-risk-coronavirus-could-get-people-killed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">downplayed</a> the threat of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in late February and early March, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-fox-news-trump-feedback-loop-will-get-people-killed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">likely leading</a> to Trump and the rest of the network's audience failing to take the virus seriously during initial weeks that were vital to curbing the spread -- with lethal results. The president briefly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/timeline-how-trumps-fox-news-fixation-shaped-federal-coronavirus-response" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">changed his tune</a> after Carlson, in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-much-of-america-takes-drastic-action-some-republicans-remain-skeptical-of-the-severity-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/2020/03/17/f8b199c8-6786-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">monologue</a> and a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/tucker-carlson-on-how-he-brought-coronavirus-message-to-mar-a-lago?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_Hive_031820&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9fa8a2ddf9c72dc88e2d9&cndid=33535378&hasha=d9aa5cf5315189ef6324c576e1af6113&hashb=de85a7deadd998919572fd358f6d1f9aff286b89&hashc=a723ff2c123cf7e64e6d706b433a1519cfa0fda8629ca1827d68895767db6df3&esrc=article-newsletter&utm_campaign=VF_Hive_031820&utm_term=VYF_Hive" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">personal visit</a>, warned that the virus “could be really bad.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The coronavirus “miracle cure.”</strong> After Ingraham and Carlson ran credulous segments touting the untested antimalarial drugs <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/comprehensive-guide-foxs-promotion-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine</a> as coronavirus treatments, Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-fox-news-convinced-trump-it-found-miracle-cure-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">touted the drugs</a>, leading to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-has-promoted-hydroxychloroquine-nearly-300-times-two-week-period" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">weeks of Fox relentlessly promoting</a> them. In response to Fox’s coverage -- and a White House <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-laura-ingraham-reportedly-advised-trump-using-anti-malarials-coronavirus-cure" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">meeting</a> with Ingraham -- Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/timeline-how-trumps-fox-news-fixation-shaped-federal-coronavirus-response" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly pressured</a> federal agencies to focus on the drugs as potential therapies. The government now owns a massive stockpile of the drugs -- even as the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/theres-now-more-evidence-foxs-coronavirus-miracle-drug-doesnt-work" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accumulated</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-all-ignores-fda-pulling-authorizations-drugs-it-championed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">evidence</a> suggests they are ineffective and the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">NIH</a>, and <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters?gclid=CjwKCAjw19z6BRAYEiwAmo64LWdzN0RJ7WzwyTYJGQaeBdIK2SWIYyOQT7JUt4ORRiW2nmPve8JN1BoCsBEQAvD_BwE#chloroquine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">World Health Organization</a> have all issued cautions regarding its use.  </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Reopening” the economy.</strong> Beginning in late March, Fox hosts <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-needs-get-its-hosts-under-control-or-take-them-air" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">goaded</a> Trump to focus on <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/conservative-media-are-goading-trump-prioritizing-economy-over-saving-lives" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ending business closures rather than stopping the virus</a>, and by early April they were claiming the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-dangerous-coronavirus-mission-accomplished-moment" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">crisis had passed</a> on-air while Ingraham <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/34-days-of-pandemic-inside-trumps-desperate-attempts-to-reopen-america/2020/05/02/e99911f4-8b54-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pressed the same argument</a> in the Oval Office. Trump adopted their message, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/trump-tweets-praise-right-wing-protests-against-social-distancing-measures" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">endorsing</a> anti-social distancing protests after seeing a Fox segment on them and <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-roundtable-industry-executives-plan-opening-america/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">celebrating</a> “reopening our country” after the Fox Cabinet <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-dismisses-health-experts-declares-america-ready-reopen-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">insisted</a> that experts were wrong and it was time to do so.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Turning protests against police brutality into quasi-fascistic campaign fodder.</strong> In late May, the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor triggered nationwide protests against police brutality and racism. For months, Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/study-trump-live-tweeted-his-television-nearly-300-times-first-six-months-2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">steeped himself</a> in <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/nine-ways-fox-has-pushed-disinformation-about-civil-unrest-terrify-its-audience" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">often-misleading</a> Fox coverage from Carson and others, which focused on virulently denouncing instances of rioting, arson, looting, and property damage. In <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-fuels-trumps-dangerous-portland-law-and-order-strategy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">response</a>, he abandoned legislative efforts at police reform; delivered a quasi-fascist speech at Mount Rushmore in which he echoed Carlson’s monologues; made that demagogic message the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/from-sleepy-joe-to-the-dystopian-candidate-how-trump-has-recast-his-attacks-on-biden/2020/07/18/5a6a3e36-c830-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">centerpiece</a> of his reelection campaign; and ordered federal law enforcement deployed to U.S. cities. </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">A coronavirus adviser from Fox’s green room. </strong>Radiologist and conservative think-tanker Scott Atlas <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/millions-could-die-if-trump-listens-adviser-he-hired-foxs-green-room" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">became</a> a White House coronavirus adviser in August because he reportedly “caught Trump’s attention with a spate of Fox News appearances in recent months” in which he <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/trumps-new-coronavirus-adviser-right-wing-media-talking-head-who-consistently" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praised the president’s response</a>. In that role, he has reportedly urged Trump to allow the virus to spread through the country’s population in order to build “herd immunity,” a strategy public health experts warn may prove ultimately while incurring a staggering death toll. </font></li></ul><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">STUDY: Trump live-tweeted his television nearly 300 times in the first six months of 2020</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>07/13/20 9:44 AM EDT</div><div>President Trump’s Fox obsession reshaped the political universe in 2019</div><div>12/19/19 9:03 AM EST</div><div>STUDY: Trump sent 657 live tweets of Fox programming in 2019</div><div>01/19/20 10:29 AM EST</div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/is-fox-news-obsessed-with-hate-study-finds-network-uses-this-word-5-times-more-than-its-rivals/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/is-fox-news-obsessed-with-hate-study-finds-network-uses-this-word-5-times-more-than-its-rivals/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tu<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">cker Carlson is a big fan of the phrase 'they hate.' Usually, he's talking about Democrats.</span></b></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/curd-knupfer-1154068" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Curd Knüpfer</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/freie-universitat-berlin-797" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Freie Universität Berlin</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/robert-mathew-entman-1154986" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Robert Mathew Entman</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/george-washington-university-1262" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">George Washington University</a>
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">`Fox News is up to five times more likely to use the word “hate" in its programming than its main competitors, <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/1255/Hate_on_Fox_News_draft_report_9-28-20.pdf?1601308357" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">according to our new study of how cable news channels use language</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox particularly uses the term when explaining opposition to Donald Trump. His opponents are said to “hate" Trump, his values and his followers.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our research, which ran from Jan. 1 to May 8, 2020, initially explored news of Trump's impeachment. Then came the coronavirus. As we sifted through hundreds of cable news transcripts over five months, we noticed consistent differences between the<b> vocabulary used on Fox News and that of MSNBC.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While their news agendas were largely similar, the words they used to describe these newsworthy events diverged greatly.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox and hate</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For our study, we analyzed 1,088 program transcripts from the two ideologically branded channels – right-wing Fox and left-wing MSNBC – between 6 p.m. and 10:59 p.m.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Because polarized media diets <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-partisan-pandemic-do-we-now-live-in-alternative-realities-140290" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">contribute to partisan conflict</a>, our quantitative analysis identified terms indicating antipathy or resentment, such as “dislike," “despise," “can't stand" and “hate."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We expected to find that both of the strongly ideological networks made use of such words, perhaps in different ways. Instead, we found that Fox used antipathy words five times more often than MSNBC. “Hate" really stood out: It appeared 647 times on Fox, compared to 118 on MSNBC.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox usually pairs certain words alongside “hate." The most notable was “they" – as in, “they hate." Fox used this phrase 101 times between January and May. MSNBC used it just five times.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To put these findings in historic context, we then used the <a href="https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-television-api-debuts/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">GDELT Television database</a> to search for occurrences of the phrase “they hate" on both networks going back to 2009. We included CNN for an additional comparison.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">We found Fox's usage of “they hate" has increased over time, with a clear spike around the <b>polarizing 2016 Trump-Clinton election. </b>But Fox's use of “hate" really took off when Trump's presidency began. Beginning in January 2017, the mean usage of “they hate" on the network doubled.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Us' versus 'them'</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So who is doing all this hating – and why – according to Fox News?</font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mainly, it's Democrats, liberals, political elites and the media. Though these groups do not actually have the same interests, ideology or job description, our analysis finds Fox lumps them together as the “they" in “they hate."</font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As for the object of all this hatred, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and other Fox hosts most often name Trump. Anchors also identify their audience – “you," “Christians" and “us" – as the target of animosity.<b> Only 13 instances of “they hate" also cited a reason. Examples included “they can't accept the fact that he won" or “because we voted for [Trump]."</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Citing liberal hate as a fact that needs no explanation serves to dismiss criticism of specific policies or events. It paints criticism or moral outrage directed at Trump as inherently irrational.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For loyal Fox viewers, these <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/fox-news-trump-language-stelter-hoax/616309/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">language patterns construct a coherent</a> but potentially dangerous narrative about the world.</b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Our data show intensely partisan hosts like Hannity and Carlson are <a href="https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tv/tv?format=html&startdatetime=20170101000000&last24=yes&query=%22they%20hate%22%20(station:CNN%20OR%20station:FOXNEWS%20OR%20station:MSNBC%20)%20&mode=showchart" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">more likely than other Fox anchors to use “they hate"</a> in this way. </b>Nevertheless, the phrase permeates Fox's evening programming, uttered by hosts, interviewees and Republican sources, all <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/24/right-wing-websites-are-demonizing-antifa-heres-how-they-portray-threat/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">painting Trump critics not as legitimate opponents but hateful enemies working in bad faith</a>.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">By repeatedly telling its viewers they are bound together as objects of the contempt of a <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1548412" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">powerful and hateful left-leaning “elite</a>," Fox has constructed two <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2017.1336779" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">imagined communities</a>. On the one side: Trump along with good folks under siege. On the other: nefarious Democrats, liberals, the left and mainstream media.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v1i1.96" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Research confirms</a> that repeated exposure to polarized media messages can lead news consumers to form firm opinions and can foster what's called an <a href="https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/in-group-bias/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">“in-group" identity</a>. The us-versus-them mentality, in turn, deepens feelings of antipathy toward the perceived “out-group."</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Pew Research Center reports an increasing tendency, especially among Republicans, to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/10/10/partisan-antipathy-more-intense-more-personal/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">view members of the other party as immoral and unpatriotic</a>. Pew also finds <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/08/five-facts-about-fox-news/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Republicans trust Fox News more than any other media outlet</a>.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Americans' <a href="https://www.journalism.org/2020/01/24/u-s-media-polarization-and-the-2020-election-a-nation-divided/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">divergent media sources</a> – and specifically Fox's “hate"-filled rhetoric – aren't solely to blame here. Cable news is part of a <a href="https://www.moreincommon.com/media/0fmblxb3/the-perception-gap.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">larger picture</a> of <a href="http://www.apsanet.org/portals/54/Files/Task%20Force%20Reports/Chapter2Mansbridge.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">heightened polarization</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379415001857" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">intense partisanship</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/11/coronavirus-relief-congress-economy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">paralysis in Congress</a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[vid "hate & hysteria]</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Hannity portrays criticism of Donald Trump as hate-based.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="source" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49DUbjCqO8" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">YouTube/Fox News</font></a></font></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Good business</font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Leaning into intense partisanship has been good for Fox News, though. In summer 2020 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-ratings-most-watched-channel-summer-2020-primetime-2020-9?r=DE&IR=T" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">it was the country's most watched network</a>. But using hate to explain the news is a dangerous business plan when shared crises <a href="http://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp20023.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">demand Americans' empathy, negotiation and compromise</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox's talk of hate undermines <a href="https://voxeu.org/article/civic-capital-and-social-distancing" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">democratic values like tolerance</a> and reduces <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-paradoxical-role-of-social-capital-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Americans' trust of their fellow citizens</a>.</b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">This fraying of social ties helps explain America's failures in managing the pandemic</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> –</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> and bodes badly for its handling of what seems likely to be a chaotic, divisive presidential election. In pitting its viewers against the rest of the country, Fox News works against potential solutions to the the very crises it covers.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/curd-knupfer-1154068" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Curd Knüpfer</a>, Assistant Professor of Political Science, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/freie-universitat-berlin-797" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Freie Universität Berlin</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/robert-mathew-entman-1154986" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Robert Mathew Entman</a>, J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Media and Public Affairs, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/george-washington-university-1262" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">George Washington University</a></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The Conversation</a> </font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-breaks-out-all-tools-denier-playbook-downplay-climate-changes-role-western-wildfires">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-breaks-out-all-tools-denier-playbook-downplay-climate-changes-role-western-wildfires</a></div><div>
</div><div><b>fox breaks out all the tools in the denier playbook to downplay climate change's role in western wildfires</b></div><div>09/17/20 12:15 PM EDT</div><div>
</div><div>Climate denial, conspiracy theories, and misleading information -- Fox recycles old arguments year after year in wildfire coverage</div><div>
</div><div>Special PROGRAMS</div><div>CLIMATE & ENERGY</div><div>
</div><div>WRITTEN BY TED MACDONALD</div><div>
</div><div>PUBLISHED 09/17/20 12:15 PM EDT</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ignoring the clear scientific links between the climate crisis and this year’s apocalyptic wildfires on the West Coast, coverage on Fox News and Fox Business has downplayed and denied the role of climate change in these devastating fires, deflecting from climate science while pushing President Donald Trump’s perennial claim that forest mismanagement is to blame. <b>At least two Fox programs have even falsely suggested that an organized campaign of arson is responsible for igniting the fires in the Pacific Northwest -- a harmful conspiracy theory that has also quickly spread across social media platforms.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Fox shows are following a playbook that they have used with other major fire disasters linked to climate change, including last year’s catastrophic bushfires in Australia and previous catastrophic fires in California.</div><div>
</div><div>The goal of Fox’s coverage is always the same: deflect from the scientific reality of climate change and paint Democratic policies as the true culprits in worsening the wildfires.</div><div>
</div><div>Deny and downplay the climate crisis</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson is leading the network on denying the indisputable connection between climate change and the catastrophic fires burning on the West Coast. On three recent episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host and his guests spread dangerous disinformation about the fires.</b></div><div>
</div><div>On September 10, Carlson claimed that “there’s no evidence” climate change contributed to the western wildfires, instead arguing that state regulations and energy grid mismanagement were the real problems responsible for the blazes. Carlson took this a step further on September 11, when he called climate change “systemic racism in the sky” and stated with a straight face that “there is not a single scientist on Earth who knows whether or by how much these fires may have been, quote, ‘exacerbated’ by warmer temperatures caused by climate change.”</div><div>
</div><div>To top it off, Carlson invited Marc Morano -- perhaps the most notorious climate denier in the U.S. -- on the September 15 edition of his show to falsely claim that these fires are “not unprecedented” and that it’s really just “climate ambulance-chasing at its core” and “weaponizing weather events” to link them to climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>The exact same line of “weaponizing weather” was used on an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight last year to dismiss climate connections during the Amazon fires. During a segment discussing those fires in August 2019, climate-denying meteorologist Joe Bastardi claimed that “if humans are causing climate change, it's very, very slight,” and said that any attempts to pin the Amazon fires on climate change was “weaponization of the weather.”</div><div>
</div><div>Carlson’s climate-denying rants fly in the face of well-established scientific evidence that climate change is both prolonging the fire season and intensifying the size and scale of the fires. Climate scientists have also called these wildfires “unprecedented” and linked a climate-fueled drought to conditions worsening the fires.</div><div>
</div><div>Additionally, Carlson’s claim that “not a single scientist” can link the fires to climate change is also demonstrably false -- and taken laughably out of context. Climate scientist Daniel Swain addressed this point on Twitter, noting that his featured quote from Carlson’s show was “fundamentally misrepresenting climate scientists' public statements on wildfires and climate change”:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Carlson is no stranger to peddling dangerous climate misinformation. Just last year, he invited Morano to hype a silly, debunked document that claims clouds are responsible for global warming</span>. In March 2019, he stated without evidence that if climate change is affecting natural disasters, “it might be making them in some ways better too.” (Earlier that same month, the Fox host also baselessly accused undocumented immigrants of killing more people in the U.S. than climate change.)</div><div>
</div><div>In addition to outright denial, the network has regularly downplayed the connection between climate and the catastrophic fires. A Media Matters study from 2018 found that Fox ran only two segments on California’s wildfires in November of that year that mentioned climate; both of those segments downplayed the role of climate change.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In recent days, Fox shows have attempted to downplay climate’s role by politicizing the climate argument and purposely shifting blame for the fires to other issues. Neil Cavuto did just this on the September 10 edition of Fox Business’ Cavuto: Coast to Coast:</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>On the September 14 edition of Special Report with Bret Baier, correspondent John Roberts provided cover for Trump’s outright denial of climate change by calling it a “glaring difference of opinion” with California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom</b>. Later on in the show, Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt attempted to pass off Trump’s clear climate denial as a problem for both sides of the political aisle, calling his response an example of “why people hate our system, because when bad things happen, the two parties want to pick and choose what’s to blame. … Instead, what they hear is politicians picking and choosing the things they like from the menu.”</div><div>
</div><div>This strategy of partisan obfuscation also has precedent on Fox: During California’s 2019 fire season, Fox & Friends responded to Newsom criticizing Trump’s assault on climate action by bringing a talk show host with no background in science, Mike Slater, to explain why “liberal policies are really to blame” for that year’s massive wildfires in California.</div><div>
</div><div>Jumping to blame “forest management” practices for the fires, while generally ignoring the role of climate change</div><div>On the September 14 edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cal Fire Assistant Deputy Director Daniel Berlant dropped a rare example of climate truth on Fox:</div><div>
</div><div>DANIEL BERLANT (CAL FIRE): In California, there really is no debate that our fire seasons are getting longer. We are seeing larger fires and more explosive fires. In fact, on average right now, our fire season is on average 75 days longer than they were just four decades ago. And so, you know, we can debate all we want, but I can tell you here on the ground, we are seeing fires that are incredibly destructive and incredibly fast moving.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But right after this segment, guest host Sandra Smith interviewed Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) to downplay climate’s role in the fires and instead promote “sound scientific management” of forests and his Trillion Trees Act, which climate scientists say is absolutely not a way of solving climate change, as the best solutions to worsening wildfires.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Poor forest management has played a role in California wildfires along with climate change and the expansion of people moving into the wildlife-urban interface, which “has increased the likelihood that wildfires will threaten structures and people.” But from watching coverage of the fires in numerous Fox segments, one would probably come away with the idea that it’s been only California’s forest management policies driving the worsening fires.</div><div>
</div><div>The jump by Fox to assign blame to the state for poor forest management as a tactic to downplay climate change goes back to at least 2018, when Trump first blamed California’s forestry policies while touring the aftermath of the deadly Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise. At the time, Trump’s response was parroted by Fox News host Sean Hannity, who stated that he was “right” to blame California wildfires on poor forest management, and Fox’s Laura Ingraham, who on her radio show cherry-picked a BBC article to claim that “Trump was right” about wildfires and forest management.</div><div>
</div><div>Neither of these segments mentioned climate change. Even worse, Ingraham glossed over the major mentions of climate in the BBC article, which specifically stated that “many experts point out that climate change has made things worse” in relation to those fires.</div><div>
</div><div>This framing of the fires by zeroing-in entirely on forest management doesn’t hold up to what climate science is saying -- especially this year. Fire scientists have said that “climate change, not forest management, is a driving factor behind the state’s fires becoming worse and more deadly.” Wildfire expert Stefan Doerr has also stated, “The bottom line remains that the extreme meteorological conditions are the main drivers for these extreme fires,” and he specifically noted hotter, drier, and windier conditions with climate change “has now created a tinderbox of vegetation.” Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe also pointed out on Twitter that it’s a myth to suggest that “the only reason wildfires are burning more area is because of poor forest management.”</div><div>
</div><div>Fox’s attempts to cast blame solely on the state’s leadership for poor forest management also fall flat when you consider that the federal government owns the majority of land out west -- in California, 57% is owned by the federal government, while the state government only owns 3%.</div><div>
</div><div>The network’s discussion of forest management hit a high point during midday of September 14, when Trump visited California and once again blamed forest management for the wildfires, ignoring climate change. In one example on the September 14 edition of Outnumbered Overtime, Fox contributor Jason Chaffetz called Trump “absolutely right” and blamed the wildfires primarily on a lack of clearing brush, saying “Democrats have been the biggest impediment to doing so.” Later on The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld stated that forest management is “the problem in California. It's not climate change. It’s forest management.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Other examples abound. On two separate occasions in the past week, Fox Business’ Varney & Co. hosted conservative talk radio host Larry Elder to talk up poor forest management.</b> On the September 8 edition, he agreed with Trump’s comments and said, “You can’t do a whole lot about the weather but you can do something about the fuel that these fires feed upon that makes these fires so intense and so serious.” Again on the September 14 edition, he repeated that forest management is the biggest issue in fighting the fires and said that “Donald Trump does not believe in climate change alarmism.”</div><div>
</div><div>On Fox News, Environmental Progress president and climate contrarian Michael Shellenberger appeared on the September 10 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight to talk up the role of poor forest management at the expense of climate change, claiming that the media’s climate coverage of the fires “has been really irresponsible.” He largely dismissed climate change again on the September 14 edition of Fox News @ Night, when he falsely stated that saturated wood fuel “is driving the intensity of these fires. It's not climate change.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Later that night on Hannity, host Sean Hannity again made forest management the focal point of blame for the fires, calling it “an important piece of the puzzle.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Advancing the dangerous arson conspiracy theory</div><div>While the conspiracy theory that arson is behind the wildfires has not yet been as pervasive on Fox News as it was in January, when the network’s prime-time hosts pushed the debunked idea that arson was driving the Australian wildfires, it has already been pushed by at least two of Fox News’ shows covering the West Coast fires.</div><div>
</div><div>As Media Matters reported on September 14:</div><div>
</div><div>During the month of September, record wildfires made worse by climate change have raged across California, Oregon, and Washington. As the fires have spread and officials have tried to contain them, a conspiracy theory claiming that “antifa” has been behind the wildfires has spread across major social media platforms. In reality, as NBC News noted, incidents like “lightning, faulty or knocked-down power lines and accidents” have been reported as the cause of many of the fires. Authorities, including the FBI, have been forced to rebut the false “antifa“ claim as people have refused to evacuate and militia groups are getting active.</div><div>
</div><div>The use of focus on arson as a counter-narrative to climate change follows the exact same playbook used during Australia's deadly wildfires from late 2019 into early 2020, when Murdoch-owned media and other right wing outlets peddled false claims that arsonists were to blame for the historic blazes, and not climate change. However, this talking point was debunked; as one study found, only a handful of blazes out of 11,000 were deliberately set. Notably, the arson conspiracy theory now not only distracts from the climate crisis, but is also an attempt to vilify activists protesting police brutality. For right-wing media, this false narrative is the proverbial killing of two birds with one stone.</div><div>
</div><div>On the September 13 edition of Fox & Friends Weekend, co-host Jedediah Bila briefly discussed a story accusing a supposed left-wing activist of deliberately setting fires:</div><div>
</div><div>JEDEDIAH BILA (CO-HOST): Another man is accused of setting a fire near a Washington highway. A report says he is a regular attendee of defund police rallies in Seattle. That last detail unfolding [is] pretty amazing. It is really incredible to see.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">WILL CAIN (CO-HOST): These arsonists, as of yet we do not know exactly their ties to any extremist organizations or what their motivations might be, but I think one thing is clear: We now know many of these fires in the West were set intentionally. What does that reveal, Pete?</span> What it reveals is the brazen political monopolization of a tragedy by people like Gov. Gavin Newsom who quickly jumped out and blamed these fires on climate change. There’s no tragedy, there’s no moment too soon to jump and advance your political agenda and pin awful events on your political opponents.</div><div>
</div><div>While discussing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s recent climate speech on the September 14 edition of The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham brought up arson unprompted, asking, “Did Biden anywhere in that speech lay out his solution to prevent any wildfires in the future or the people who are actually intentionally setting them in California, including antifa?”</div><div>
</div><div>Her guest, Victor David Hanson, glossed over this comment and directed his ire at Biden for even considering to blame climate change for the fires.</div><div>
</div><div>The mentions by Fox hosts are particularly irresponsible and egregious given that several days earlier both The Intercept and The New York Times reported that these claims were unfounded and that local law enforcement were “pleading with the public to stop calling 911 to pass on unfounded rumors that antifascist political activists have intentionally set the blazes.” On social media, the arson rumors have been pushed by a number of far-right accounts and groups including QAnon, which the FBI identifies as a domestic terrorism threat. It is alarming that Fox is undermining law enforcement and continuing to align itself with dangerous factions in spreading such conspiracy theories.</div><div>
</div><div>Fox has, and continues to be, the main purveyor of climate denial in the United States. It’s no surprise that their minimization of climate change’s role in this year’s western wildfires is lazy, cheap, and similar to Murdoch-owned Australian media’s role in downplaying climate change from earlier this year; we can expect to see more of it in the future.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">do executives at Fox News secretly hope that Donald Trump loses this November because that would be good for the network’s ratings? Before you dismiss that as crazy talk, given the record ratings Fox News has seen during Trump’s presidency, realize that Fox could see even higher ratings when it no longer has to defend Trump’s unpredictable words and deeds and can solely focus on what Brian Stelter calls its “secret sauce”: attacking Democrats and liberals.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Stelter, the host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” and author of the new book, “<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2464/9781982142445" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth</a>,</b>” raised that very scenario during our “Salon Talks” conversation. As he explains it, Fox News has always been more comfortable attacking Democratic administrations, which traditionally has yielded a ratings boon for the network. “The network in a Biden presidency is almost a situation where tails you win and heads you win,” he said. Fox News might face other problems with Trump as a former president, however. Stelter describes Trump as the Frankenstein monster that Fox News helped create, and as in the tale of Frankenstein, he could end up turning against his creator and starting a competing right-wing network.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In our recent conversation, Stelter also addressed Trump’s nonstop attacks on the media, which Stelter says have taken a toll on the credibility of the Fourth Estate: “He has said ‘fake news’ and ‘hoax’ so many times that it has poisoned the public discourse. It’s like a slow-acting poison that kind of gradually moves to the veins of the American body. And we can’t fully know what the impacts are of that yet.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch my “Salon Talks” interview with Brian Stelter below or read the following transcript of our conversation — lightly edited for length and clarity — to learn more about “Hoax,” his harsh words on the Fox News obsession with ratings and his blunt advice for how larger media outlets can rehabilitate their credibility in a post-Trump America.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Your book “Hoax” is like a</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> feedback loop. Does Trump drive Fox News, does Fox News drive Trump, or does it move back and forth all the time?</span></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It is hard to tell where Fox ends and Trump begins. But if I had to choose one side of this, I would say Fox drives Trump more than Trump drives Fox</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">. <b>Fox has more of an agenda setting role than the President does, </b>which is an astonishing thing to say. But when you look at the power of “Fox & Friends,” when you look at the power of Sean Hannity and recently Tucker Carlson, who is achieving policy goals based on segments he produces on his show. I think it’s clear that Trump is usually in a reactive mode, reacting to what he sees and hears on Fox.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just this morning Trump was tweeting again about what was going on on “Fox & Friends.” It really is his morning briefing. You mention in the book that Fox News does not have a traditional standards-and-practices department like other news organizations do. Even I have encountered this as a columnist for CNN Opinion. Just this past weekend, the standards department made me rework an op-ed. I was like, “But it’s an opinion piece!” They still had issues because they had our common best interests in mind. Could you share with people what standards and practices do traditionally? And by contrast what is going on at Fox News?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox is described as a news operation, a news network, but it’s also a political operation. And right now the propaganda is winning and the news is losing. I had staffers at the network say to me that it’s like working at a place that’s anti-journalism. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So you’re trying to produce journalism at a place that’s anti-journalism. I’m wearing my CNN hoodie right now. It says “The World Needs Journalists.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The sense that the world needs journalists, that should be a pretty basic concept. It’s hard to disagree with that idea. However, at Fox, there is disagreement. So Sean Hannity says journalism is dead. You’ve got all these folks on Fox denigrating the media every single day and saying the world doesn’t need these journalists.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That creates a real hostile environment for the actual reporters who do still work at Fox. I point out in “Hoax” that many have left. And I have a lot of stories about people that have left for various reasons, including Shep Smith, but a lot of other names you might not know. For the journalists who remain there, it’s this really awkward, tough, sometimes hostile environment.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> I think the lack of standards and practices speaks to this problem. There is not a unit, a desk or a division that’s charged with vetting news before it gets onto the air. There are some informal processes, but there’s not that official checks and balances system that CNN has. And every other outlet has — forget about CNN — at the New York Times or Washington Post, there are reasons why there are editors and vetters and researchers. That structure just doesn’t exist at Fox.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">You make the point that at Fox, ratings are everything. Everyone is profoundly afraid of losing the audience. Does that then mean that the people bringing in a lot of money, Hannity or Tucker Carlson or Laura Ingraham, can literally say anything they want on air, as long as it feeds the audience?</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Is there no one at Fox News who will say, hey, that’s beyond the pale of what’s acceptable?</span></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There are some exceptions, but what you just said is broadly correct, broadly true and really problematic. There is not this kind of follow-through or accountability that I know happens at other networks and should happen everywhere. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is really most clear in primetime with Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. When something really bad happens, when something really outrageous or racist happens on the air, there’s finger-pointing that goes on inside Fox. Some people will point the finger at the <b>head of the network, Suzanne Scott</b>. Others will point at a woman named <b>Meade Cooper, who’s the executive vice president of primetime</b>. Others will point at the executive producers for those specific shows, right? So they’ll shift the blame, no one agrees on who’s responsible or who’s at fault. And then there’s an attempt to move on and pretend that these embarrassing episodes didn’t happen.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s when they go on vacation, right. All of a sudden <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/21/confirmed-fox-knew-of-allegations-against-tucker-carlson-before-his-pre-planned-vacation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tucker Carlson is on a pre-planned vacation</a>?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sometimes. Although I promise some of these vacations are actually scheduled, they’re just at bad times. Bill O’Reilly truly was always going to go to Italy when the scandal erupted about his secret settlements with women that accused him of harassment. So he decided to go on the vacation that he already scheduled, and then of course, he never came back. He was forced out when he was in Italy. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But there are other times, yes, where Fox uses this vacation illusion where they’ll say someone’s going on vacation to let the noise subside around their program and try to preserve their advertisers.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of the really interesting things in the book are the little details. You mention</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Bill O’Reilly going to Italy and meeting with the pope. It seemed like, at least the way you were shaping it, that perhaps the pope could save his job</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Even that didn’t work out. </span></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I think there’s so many stories about the last five years, these big stars at Fox, who thought they were kings of the world, who thought they were bigger than the network. And it turns out no, Fox is the star, not these individuals. No matter who’s on at 8 p.m. or 9 p.m., Fox’s ratings are going to remain really high. It speaks to the fact that Fox has a monopoly position in this area of the media.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You write about how Fox got sued because of what some people viewed as misinformation regarding COVID-19 by some of the hosts. When it comes to Fox News and the misinformation that it has shared about COVID, do you feel that the network has responsibility for misleading Americans?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I think there’s a lot of blame and a lot of responsibility to go around about the pandemic, but Fox had the biggest platform on cable and President Trump had the biggest platform in the country. He has the loudest megaphone and he knows how to use it. So the failures of Trump and his media allies to warn the country and prepare the country for what was coming were absolutely shameful. That’s why we called the book “Hoax.” We were originally going to call it “Wingman.” But when Trump came out and said, “These Democrats, they tried to impeach me, now they’re hyping coronavirus, they’re politicizing the virus. It’s their new hoax.” And Sean Hannity said something very similar a week and a half later. They were viewing this as politics, not as a medical emergency. That was the fundamental problem.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And they were always two or three weeks too late, meaning that when Trump finally took action involving flights from Europe, the virus had already gotten in and it was spreading silently across New York City and several other states. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And of course, when he announced the European restrictions, there were these long lines of people all shoved together at airports. Fox, to its credit, had a reporter who called that out and criticized the government for it. There were these moments on Fox where there was great reporting, excellent medical advice, excellent segments with doctors. But I think those segments were drowned out by the downplaying of the disease, by the attempts to politicize this and downplay it.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’ve never seen a president make life and death a partisan issue. And it’s not over. In North Carolina, he and his supporters were not wearing masks</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Donald Trump Jr. has been out there attacking the media saying that it’s a lie, that people were wearing masks</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Last week, Trump made fun of Joe Biden for wearing a mask. If you take a step back and look at this is, does it feel surreal that you have a president dealing with a life-and-death pandemic in this way, where it’s all about him? Everyone’s doing things to hurt him as opposed to wanting to simply save lives.</span></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s embarrassing. And sometimes you need a little bit of perspective, you need to zoom out a little bit. You need to think back six months — it’s been about exactly six months since all our lives changed and these lockdowns began. Now we’re slowly coming out of it and looking around and seeing what the world is like. And the words from the president six months ago sound even worse now, right? We had a sense when he was contradicting his science experts and health experts that he was doing damage. We had a sense when he was downplaying the disease that it was dangerous. We know now, much more clearly, how dangerous and damaging it was.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is true for his media allies as well. His pro-Trump propagandists. Trump was calling up Hannity at the end of March and saying, “How are my ratings? How do we rate? I called into your show, Sean, how did I rate?” A good friend would have said to him, “Donald, don’t ever ask about that again, we’re in the middle of a crisis. We’ve got hospitals overwhelmed by the surge, we’re trying to order body bags. Don’t ask about your ratings. Please don’t tweet about your ratings again. Please don’t do it, it’s bad for you.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> But instead, his so-called friends feed his ego rather than trying to actually help him</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. I would argue that they actually hurt him when they claim to help him by telling him about his ratings.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book could have been called “Ratings, Ratings, Ratings” because that’s what Fox News is moved by. It’s a profit machine. When your only touchstone as a news outlet is ratings, what compromises do you end up seeing on screen?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let me be clear, I’m in television, I’m on CNN. I care about ratings. I care about my show doing well. I look at the ratings every day. But there’s much more of a fixation at Fox on winning because this network’s been No. 1 for 18 years. Everybody knows what’s at stake and what’s on the line, and there’s this intense desire to feed the audience what it wants and keep the audience at all costs. I had producers at Fox describe this as a really unhealthy relationship, where sometimes they fear the audience. Sometimes they don’t respect the audience</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, but they’re desperate to keep the audience’s attention. What that leads to is Trumpier and Trumpier segments. Segments that are unhinged from reality, that are based in conspiracy theory, that are feeding the audience’s wants and desires and not what they need. And again, this is the problem across television. It is much more severe at Fox.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As you mentioned, at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">CNN, MSNBC and all the big media outlets, ratings are important. They are connected to profits. But when your only goal is ratings, it’s going to cause massive compromises. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shep Smith and others behind the scenes at Fox News understood that they were putting their careers on the line given that ratings are everything.</span></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Well, also, the ratings also tell you what the audience wants, what the audience expects</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Shep Smith’s show at 3 p.m. was the lowest-rated show in daytime, the lowest-rated hour of the day on Fox. It meant that viewers were turning the channel actively when he came on. They did not want to hear him with his corrections to what was aired earlier in the day and his fact checks of the president’s lies.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the ratings for notable Democratic events, like Joe Biden’s speech or the funeral of John Lewis, you see dramatic declines in Fox’s ratings. Viewers turn it off when the Democrats are speaking and they turn it back on when the rebuttal from the Republicans is starting. So you end up thinking that the audience has been radicalized. What else can you say?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They’ve been served a diet of red meat. Fox News should come with a warning: It serves so much red meat that it’s not healthy. I mean, look, Chris Wallace, Bret Baier, they’re more news journalists. On some level, though, they’re part of the Fox News machine. Is it fair to say they’re also complicit in what is going on?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Well, that’s certainly what some of their friends say, or their former friends. The Trump era has done damage to those kind of gentlemanly, old-fashioned, courteous relationships that you see between television anchors and rivals and all that. And certainly throughout my reporting, talking to dozens of people that were complicit that came up a lot, this sense that the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> news anchors there are like fig leaves of respectability. One person once said to Chris Wallace at a Columbia event, “Do you think you are there to truth-wash primetime?” That was an interesting term, “truth-wash.” Wallace is on one hour a week, Sean Hannity’s on one hour, five nights a week, in a much, much higher-rated program. You’ve got to look at Fox and say that the identity of Fox is Hannity and “Fox & Friends,” these bigger shows</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I still think the journalists there do serve important purposes. I understand why they stay. They want to be there for big events. They want to provide a reality check, a fact check to the rest of the programming. But let’s say <b>Bret Baier’</b>s show, for example, is on at 6 p.m. “The Five” is much higher rated at 5 p.m., and then the ratings drop at 6. Not everybody wants to see a newscast, but even his newscast is tilted to the right toward Trump. His panels, for example, in the back half of the show, are tilted to the right. Sometimes the lefty will be a journalist and then he’ll have a pro-Trump person and another right-wing figure.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He tells people that he does this because he wants to have left, right and Trump. And I get it that sometimes “right” and “Trump” are not the same thing, but those panels are not balanced. Those panels are not representative of where the country is, right? If you want to have a panel that represented the country, that’s not how it would look. My point is, even on the newscasts, these programs are tilted in Trump’s favor.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clearly, Trump has had an impact on Fox News. You’ve mentioned that Trump is their Frankenstein monster, but I want to get a sense from you on how the rest of the media is doing. Do you think the media is better at covering Trump this time, in terms of using the right language? For a long time, people didn’t want to call him a liar, you probably remember that. Now we’re beyond that. We’re two months out from 2020, using terms like “white supremacist” about Donald Trump, using the term “fascist” in an academic sense, not a hyperbolic sense. Are we at the point where the media can speak bluntly about it? </font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The answer is always yes and no to something like this, because some outlets are using the L-word all the time and others are not. And no matter what NBC and CNN and the New York Times do, there will always be this megaphone at Fox, which is what’s believed by a sizable minority of the population, and will always tread very lightly, be very cautious. What I find frustrating is that when I talk to folks at Fox on background, meaning anonymously — more than 140 current staffers and 180 former staffers and others around Fox World — some of those folks said they had the same concerns about Trump that the rest of the media folks did. You hear on CNN about Trump’s mental fitness, about his fitness for office. There are people at Fox asking those same questions, but they’re only asking them off the air. They’re not asking them on the air.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s the fundamental part of the problem. You’re always going to have this pro-Trump universe of media that is not going to call them out on the serial lying and fabricating, and not going to call them out on the racist rhetoric. But I do think the other major outlets have more of a — I don’t want to say a willingness to call it what it is, but you do see that happening more often in the news coverage.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump is a unique person, we get it. He understands the media, he was a household name before he ran, he has a lot of money. At some point, Trump will no longer be president. Do you think Fox News finds their new Trump? Because he has been really obviously great for ratings. They’ve set records.</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There will be others that try to pull a Trump and use the same entertaining techniques and use the same rally techniques, and Fox may well glom onto that and give that a lot of attention. But Fox’s true secret sauce is that it’s more anti-Democrat than it is pro-Trump, it’s more anti-Democrat than it is pro-Republican. That’s what is preferred by a lot of the staffers there, a lot of the stars there. It’s easier to be against something than for something in the Fox universe, sad though tat may be. So actually, the network in a Biden presidency is almost a situation where it’s tails you win and heads you win. They win either way because the audience is so loyal and so committed to these shows that whether it’s Biden or Trump, the network stands to gain either way.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You make the point that if Trump loses he might not go on Fox as much. He might even start his own competitive network.</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Right, he might become a rival. And in that case, I think Fox is bigger than Trump. I do. I may be proven wrong. Now I’m on the record saying this, but I think that Fox is bigger than Trump. He would have a hard time launching a Fox rival. It would be one thing to start what he’s doing for his campaign, which is web video shows. But for him to launch a widely distributed television network in 80 million homes and get a Nielsen rating on it, I think would be very, very difficult. It’s possible, but I think it’d be very difficult.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big picture, do you think Trump has done lasting damage to the credibility of the media overall?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I don’t know if lasting means 10 years or 50 years. I think for the 10-year horizon, yes, he has done damage. He has said “fake news” and “hoax” so many times that it has poisoned the public discourse. It’s like a slow-acting poison that kind of gradually moves to the veins of the American body. And we can’t fully know what the impacts are yet. I’d like to think that in a longer time horizon, let’s say a 50-year time horizon, hopefully his attacks on the media will be viewed as an aberration, not the new normal. Hopefully other politicians will not follow this same shameless path, but I don’t know what Donald Trump Jr. will do, for example.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You’re a media critic. What can the major media do to bolster credibility in a post-Trump world, to try to get people, at least a big swath of this country, to have confidence in them again? </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are people on the left who have issues with the media the same way people on the right do, but from different points of view, like they’re not tough enough on Trump. While people on the right go, “You’re too tough on Trump.” Is there anything we can do, or is this now a world where everyone gets their own cable channel and you can watch whatever you want any time. </strong></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, I think everybody trusts some form of media. It’s just that everybody trusts different outlets and different forms of media. There’s a sense of media distrust when, in fact, everybody has their own silos that they do trust. I think what big mainstream brands that try to appeal to everybody can do is to take on these issues and these concerns head-on. Don’t be afraid of them. Talk about why we do what we do. Be accessible and transparent. Show that we are human beings and not robots reading the news and reading our columns. Show that we have reasons for why we do what we do and let people find the primary sources for themselves.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When we say the president is lying about something — it’s one thing for me to say it, and another thing for me to show it. During his inauguration, he said the sun came out at the end of his speech, when in fact it was raining. It doesn’t take me to say that. All I have to do is show you the video of the speech and then show the lie. Primary source material, letting people find it for themselves and being transparent with the audience — I hope that gradually helps. with these. It’s not a full solution. These are all partial solutions.</font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>shameless sycophants at Fox News, who spent late February and early March deluding their audience about the danger posed by the novel coronavirus, are arguing that President Donald Trump was correct -- in fact, noble -- to intentionally “play it down,” as he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_woodward-1210p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a> in an interview with The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In taped interviews with Woodward for his forthcoming book, Trump said on February 7 that the virus was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus” (contradicting his public statements at the time), and added on March 19 that he was “playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wednesday leak of those interviews triggered a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-09/furor-erupts-over-trump-telling-woodward-on-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">media and political firestorm</a> over the president’s deception. But Fox quickly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/trump-admitted-tape-he-misled-country-about-covid-19-fox-personalities" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rallied</a> to the president, and after he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-reaction-woodward-interview-coronavirus/2020/09/09/fc21e67e-f2ca-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">doubled down</a> at an afternoon press conference by saying that he intentionally downplayed the virus to avoid a “frenzy,” the network’s hosts have settled on the position that he was right to do that. Their argument implicitly excuses their own <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-downplaying-risk-coronavirus-could-get-people-killed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">irresponsible coverage</a> as the virus spread across the country.[vid]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> Hannity, who</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-claims-people-are-faking-concern-about-coronavirus-bludgeon-trump-new" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">used</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">his</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-fox-news-and-right-wing-media-failed-their-audience" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">prime-time show</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">during the period between those two Trump interviews to</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/dont-believe-fox-news-coronavirus-much-more-dangerous-flu" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">compare the virus</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">to the flu and to argue that Democrats and the media were</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-is-downplaying-the-coronavirus-to-more-vulnerable-audience-2020-2" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">“weaponizing”</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">concerns about it as a</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-claims-people-are-faking-concern-about-coronavirus-bludgeon-trump-new" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">“new hoax”</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">to damage the president politically,</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-compares-trump-misleading-public-dangers-covid-president-roosevelts" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">claimed</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">on Wednesday night that Trump’s coronavirus statements were comparable to those of President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II or President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“The president's job is to maintain order, and by the way, right the ship during and after a crisis, not spread panic, not spreading fear among the population,” he added, assuring his audience that “President Trump has never misled or distorted the truth about this deadly disease.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>, where co-hosts had claimed on March 8 <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-pete-hegseth-coronavirus-i-feel-more-i-learn-about-less-there-worry" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">that</a> “the more I learn about this, the less there is to worry about” and on March 13 <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/during-coronavirus-pandemic-ainsley-earhardt-says-its-actually-safest-time-fly" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">that</a> “it’s actually the safest time to fly,” Trump’s coronavirus statements were <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-friends-likens-trump-downplaying-risk-covid-19-fdrs-fireside-chats-during" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">similarly likened</a> to Roosevelt’s “fireside chats to calm America,” and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-steve-doocy-invokes-911-defend-tape-trump-admitting-he-wants-downplay" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/11</a>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What we have heard from the leaders on both sides is that during times of trouble, our leaders know what’s going on behind the scenes, but they don’t want us to freak out,” Steve Doocy <a href="https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1304006112870572032?s=21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">explained</a>. “Did we know everything back then that we know now? No, absolutely not,” he continued. “And so when Bob Woodward brings out these recordings, it looks like, ‘Ah ha!,’ but nonetheless, when you hear the president say, ‘I just wanted people to calm down, I didn’t want them to freak out,’ does that make sense to you? That’s the big question.”  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There are two major flaws with Fox’s Trump-excusing fairy tale. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First, contrary to Trump’s claims and those of his Fox supporters, the president wasn’t simply adopting a measured tone to prevent panic during the period in question. He was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-timeline/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">telling the public</a> -- including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/putting-lives-risk-fox-news-helps-trump-push-misinformation-about-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox’s audience</a> -- that the number of patients suffering from COVID-19 was minimal and would soon fade away, that the virus was “not that severe” and comparable to the flu, and that Democrats and journalists were talking up the dangers of the virus to hurt him politically.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This misinformation -- disinformation, if his March 19 statement to Woodward wasn’t another of his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/13/president-trump-has-made-more-than-20000-false-or-misleading-claims/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">constant lies</a> -- <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/six-different-polls-show-how-foxs-coronavirus-coverage-endangered-its-viewers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">encouraged people</a> not to take the virus seriously or take steps to protect themselves and others, and it <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/07/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-response-is-increasingly-damning/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coincided</a> with a lax federal response. Trump’s message was <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-fox-news-trump-feedback-loop-will-get-people-killed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">amplified and validated</a> by Fox hosts like Hannity, and it <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/new-study-finds-hannity-viewership-correlates-more-covid-19-cases-and" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">got people killed</a>.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Second, the notion that Trump was intentionally downplaying the virus because he wanted to keep the public calm is literally incredible given everything else he has done over the course of his political rise and presidency.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">From <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/migrant-caravan-fearmongering-new-ebola-panic" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deliberately panicking</a> Americans over Ebola in 2014, to his <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38688507" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">inaugural speech</a> warning of “American carnage,” to <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">threatening nuclear war</a> over a Fox segment, to a midterm message that revolved around the danger posed by the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-midterm-engagement-strategy-telling-its-viewers-democrats-are-coming-kill-them" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“angry mob” of Democrats</a> and purportedly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/study-caravan-coverage-has-taken-over-news-cycle-thats-exactly-what-fox-news-and-trump-wanted" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violent migrant caravans</a>, to his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/10/some-assertions-donald-i-dont-want-people-panic-trump-has-made-since-february/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">frequent, paranoid claims</a> this year that Democrats are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/aug/24/donald-trump-accuses-democrats-of-plot-to-steal-election-at-republican-convention-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">plotting</a> to “steal” the election and will “destroy this country” if they succeed, he constantly acts to raise the political temperature, not to lower it</span>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, here he is projecting calm and trying not to panic the public, just like FDR, on Thursday morning:</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More than 200,000 Americans <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deaths-us.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">have died</a> of COVID-19. It didn’t have to be this way. But Trump and Fox spent crucial weeks locked in a feedback loop in which they told the public that the virus was nothing to worry about, and here we are.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, rather than take responsibility for how badly they <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-fox-news-and-right-wing-media-failed-their-audience" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">failed their audience</a> in a moment of crisis, Fox hosts are valorizing Trump’s response. It’s sickening -- but it’s not surprising.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News is full of Trump sycophants, from Sean Hannity to Tucker Carlson to Laura Ingraham to Jeanine Pirro —and the right-wing cable news outlet is stridently pro-Trump more often than not. But for President Donald Trump, any criticism at all from Fox News or Fox Business is way too much. And journalist Gabriel Sherman, in <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/trump-fears-fox-news-is-going-rogue#intcid=recommendations_vf-trending-legacy_663dc5e1-11c9-4717-a768-f9c0ea989e27_popular4-1" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Vanity Fair</a>, addresses<b> Trump’s fears that Fox News will be insufficiently supportive of him as Election Day draws closer.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two of the people at Fox News who haven’t been shy about criticizing Trump at times are Andrew Napolitano, a libertarian, and Chris Wallace — who, on <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/chris-wallace-presidential-debate-2020-fox-news-donald-trump" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">September 29 in Cleveland</a>, will be hosting the first of <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514782-moderators-announced-for-presidential-debates" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">three presidential debates</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sherman explains, “Perhaps anticipating a grilling by Wallace, Trump has been ratcheting up his anger at Fox. Last week, Trump called on Fox to fire national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin after she appeared on air and confirmed parts of Jeffrey Goldberg’s <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">explosive Atlantic story</a> detailing Trump allegedly making disparaging comments about America’s war dead. Trump has also taken to promoting fringe Fox competitor One America News, which has provided glowing coverage of the president and amplified pro-Trump conspiracy theories.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump, according to Sherman’s sources, is even complaining about Fox News’ Rupert Murdoch. An anonymous source described by Sherman as a “Republican close to the White House” told Vanity Fair, “Trump definitely thinks Rupert is not in his corner.” And another source told Vanity Fair that Trump screamed at Murdoch during a phone conservation earlier this summer.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"They had a humongous blowup,” according to that source. “Trump yelled that Fox’s coverage is unfair and the polling is fake. Rupert defended the network’s standards and polling.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of Trump’s sycophants at Fox News, Sherman reports, wish that Wallace weren’t moderating the first Trump/Biden debate. A source described by Sherman as a “pro-Trump Fox personality” told Vanity Fair, “Chris hates Trump. He’s a passionate Democrat” — which is misleading. Although Wallace is a registered Democrat, he leans conservative and has said that he has a long history of voting for Republicans. But Wallace registered as a Democrat in order to vote in primary elections in Washington, D.C., where Democrats dominate the city government.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Trump campaign had hoped that the Commission on Presidential Debates would choose Bret Baier or Martha MacCallum — Fox anchors who are seen as less aggressive than Wallace,” Sherman reports. “Sources close to Trump are worried that Trump is unprepared to handle what Wallace could throw at him.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A source described by Sherman as a “former West Wing official” told Vanity Fair, “Any Republican who thinks Wallace will go easy on Trump is badly mistaken. He’s no joke.”</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see fear image ~ crit think</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 920</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">f<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b574717491f73dbc2232b8783ccf64680415d0418b2164cfb51f6b39bb22565c7e88e46aefeeaaa5be889e6855411cc5495d65d493439df1" title="Fox News prime-time shows spent over 3 hours displaying violent imagery in August" style="">ox News prime-time shows spent over 3 hours displaying violent imagery in August</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s prime-time evening shows -- <b>Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle</b> -- <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b574717491f73dbc8bab3a1b2a39c9041c5c7f2e8b1b73bd6939d0d5e6339d3b77849ba87eafadc762e9cd9432b87fd4189250d03acea1f1" title="spent more than 3 hours" style="">spent more than 3 hours</a> displaying violent imagery throughout August, often using images that were days or months old, as they discussed the ongoing protests against police brutality across America.</font></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;" /></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Fox News’ 3 hours and 15 minutes barrage of violent imagery the network included images of looting, crime scenes, acts of violence, fires, and the aftermath of violence or destruction. Of the 252 instances of violent imagery, 81 instances included images of burning objects.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At least 50 times, Fox displayed images or videos that were over five days old. And on more than 20 occasions, the images or videos shown in August were from May or June.</font></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 920</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0efcf303ec486cd903e5b36843601b2acf7c538cc303eddfd6d0498b09ad391ac6828b0dffa94e21acbc4ad525617e69bd" title="A Fox News reporter confirmed Trump's insults of fallen troops. Fox hosts are still calling the story a hoax.">Fox News reporter confirmed Trump's insults of fallen troops. Fox hosts are still calling the story a hoax.</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;" /></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new bombshell report from The Atlantic, reporting that President <b>Donald Trump</b> had repeatedly disparaged fallen U.S. troops as “losers” and “suckers,” <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0e8910349c3e470bb6c7fc1425b6d0bfef2df4926eeeab09a4d59d27928acdd5c9d2fcf2d2554c2fc998b361b4ab9e97fe" title="has now been echoed">has now been echoed</a> by Fox News national security correspondent <b>Jennifer Griffin</b>. This latest confirmation comes after Fox’s previous coverage of the story continually backed Trump’s denials.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Griffin’s reporting corroborated multiple details of The Atlantic’s article: That Trump simply didn’t want to drive to the World War I cemetery, though it was possible to do so; that he did not want wounded veterans included in his July 4, 2019, military parade, calling it “not a good look”; and that Trump maintained an obsessive hatred of the late Sen. <b>John McCain </b>(R-AZ) — Trump had famously insulted McCain’s history as a prisoner of war in 2015 — and opposed lowering the American flag to half-staff when McCain died in 2018. One of Griffin’s sources even added another detail: “When the president spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, ‘It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker.’”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This of course, completely contradicts Fox News' <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0ecdcdf1d112c56b81cf0cc41fb4d4adaea7e9571f85bf795a25da39ac5b7a0c4b95b283715687aefb74aaec9e28b80ef2" title="earlier coverage">earlier coverage</a>, in which the network’s commentators insisted that The Atlantic article had to be completely false. (It also comes after years of Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0e50557f39c00dc41b8a4e5270b7788d98d0c8bae2b4c1ea3e6da04c34b35e2b82e52447070b63fdeb8fa031b65d8bf250" title="ginning up fake scandals">ginning up fake scandals</a> to accuse former President <b>Barack Obama</b> of disrespecting the troops, everything from the "latte salute" to saying that he visited the wrong cemetary in 2010.)</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox hosts called the story a "scam" and a "hoax" after Griffin's reporting was already public. On Saturday night, <b>Jeanine Pirro</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0eeb4709671ef04b84b9271e1ef1c9a0be79ecc3a6cbf7aafff33602969f5ce3d4128af19f33110be06a894a66a9a34361" title="declared">declared</a> that it was a "perfect time for a hoax" without ever mentioning that Griffin had corroborated the report.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">M<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ore interesting, though, is how Fox's news side gave more credence to Trump's denials than it did to what its own correspondent filed. Fox's flagship "straight news" program <i>Special Report</i> used the chyron "Fake News" when covering the story. One Fox contributor called the story an "information operation" against Trump and Fox's chief political anchor <b>Bret Baier</b> cast doubt on the story as wel</span>l.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters' <b>Madeline Peltz</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=dcba65cfb13c3e38c9d16128627f6a6300fa2d8f6d541a34600d50e9a3e40b54f49bf70b7db694bbc89af089b8eb97d66ae31335e4df350a" title="put together a timeline">put together a timeline</a> of how Fox threw Griffin under the bus on Friday.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It all goes to show how Fox is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=dcba65cfb13c3e38764b25a119375f8625eb3488d02a6cbc6ab37a7133858827e13e95ae1b81210461380b4794378dc189246dcb178e72ea" title="not a news organization">not a news organization</a>.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/chaos-at-fox-news-as-some-refuse-to-believe-the-networks-own-reporting-on-trumps-contempt-for-troops/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/chaos-at-fox-news-as-some-refuse-to-believe-the-networks-own-reporting-on-trumps-contempt-for-troops/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>Bob Brigham / Raw Story September 5, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>On Friday, Fox News confirmed much of the reporting by The Atlantic on President Donald Trump disparaging American service members.</div><div>
</div><div>The network followed the Associated Press and The Washington Post in largely confirming the reporting.</div><div>
</div><div>But even after Fox News reporters matched the reporting, Fox News personality Greg Gutfield falsely claimed on-air that the story had been “debunked.”</div><div>twt: <span style="background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" ubuntu="Ubuntu" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">As Fox's own reporters confirm parts of the Atlantic story, Greg Gutfeld refers to it on air as a "hoax" and a "scam"</span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" 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</div><div>The split continued throughout the day.</div><div>
</div><div>“Fox contributor knocks Fox reporter for noting Fox has now confirmed key details of The Atlantic’s reporting,” CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy noted.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" ubuntu="Ubuntu" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Fox contributor knocks Fox reporter for noting Fox has now confirmed key details of The Atlantic's reporting. </span></div><div>
</div><div>Darcy also noted a bizarre headline on the Fox News website following the network’s confirmation of the reporting. This was noticed by his CNN colleague Jon Passantino, who used to manage the webpage for Fox News,</div><div>and suggested the editorial choice was “extraordinary and unusual.”</div><div>
</div><div>[I used to manage the Fox News dot com homepage. This would be an extraordinary and unusual decision to run this denial as the top story despite having confirmed key details of the reporting</div><div>
</div><div>Oliver Darcy</div><div>@oliverdarcy</div><div>Replying to @oliverdarcy @JenGriffinFNC and @BretBaier</div><div>Just remarkable that after Fox's own reporter CONFIRMS key details of The Atlantic's report, this is the headline on the network's website.]</div><div>
</div><div>But Fox News personality Laura Ingraham seemed to be bashing her colleagues for a “fake” story on Friday evening.</div><div>
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</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>The uncomfortable position the network is in was hilariously driven home by Pete Buttigieg on Friday evening.</div><div>
</div><div>[PeteButtigieg</div><div>Even if you don't believe the multiple news organizations—including @FoxNews—that have confirmed these reports, believe your own eyes.</div><div>
</div><div>These comments are part of Donald Trump's pattern of disrespect for the military since he faked an injury to get out of serving in Vietnam.]</div><div>
</div><div>Chaos at Fox News as analysts refuse to believe the network’s reporting — because makes Trump look awful</div><div>
</div><div>Here is the Fox News reporting:...[twt]</div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">random grab 920 mma</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2304804704stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2304804704camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host <b>Jesse Watters</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e28b81cc3b183c57ee578ed58acacf339a74b6c75cc64864787768c4bc62991ece4dab4b130663b94cc703462c696b75b4" title="claims" style="">claimed</a> COVID-19 lockdowns cause an “explosion in cases and deaths."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox anchor <b>Martha MacCallum</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e2cdabe66bb892c27b1983715cb2a9d3b2e38e1dd95444ba74f67ea8ae5dfb3bf5ac2e791e673811f5dbb285cdc29dee2c" title="claims" style="">claimed</a> that “nobody is being supportive” of the Kenosha shooter one day after Trump himself defended the Kenosha shooter.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TPUSA's <b><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e2872c60d38132a17de186452b3b979344d7c9b003fd69165615dc031ec7fc4bf5ce218a9797baea9ce32eaa62eae03548" title="Charlie Kirk" style="">Charlie Kirk</a></b>: “By historical standards, this is not a pandemic."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rush Limbaugh</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e23efab9a9702c48eafd9da399b3756b069d095d11314882ba0d24c26b55b0641e4eafe2346afab5377d8ca07472cc6ab9" title="claimed that" style="">claimed that</a> the report of Trump disrespecting fallen troops was a plot to distract from the "Pelosi hair salon story."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Limbaugh <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e2fff7d58d70524ab34fca36df2218559338590fc3eab536d23531d55f524392594f076dd65eb74c13080fa91ec4e5d104" title="also pushed" style="">also pushed</a> a new conspiracy theory about mail-in voting, and his plan for Trump to steal the election.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson </b>guest <b>Eric Metaxas</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e283430313fb1c9b42ed47fbeb9965099bf31220e3c4bd8962a50ced5a085b4cf91818c3b24635e3dc68babc0a0503deb5" title="compares" style="">compared</a> recognizing “white privilege” in church to having a “swastika on the altar."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox's <b>Tammy Bruce</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e28a1a29509ce9c3960703f0462c04a29730f4203aa4fb29aaaed5eaf5e84f18d9dc37aad8b5a6651a3b6fb5f85225f7bb" title="claims" style="">claimed</a> Donald Trump “never said” there were “very fine people on both sides." That's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b3d79ada348659e28347f9c71584c43d527840d618aa58a3866b8377861aa3dcc05f64580610ba7a5976f1ccd9ac5c5583a4fc23ba6a14c9" title="a total lie" style="">a total lie</a>.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host <b>Greg Gutfeld </b><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1bec079b994763c5f344c40bab874d6a07cb90a5408c8a4c1d62577be0e0a1a904aa4469a1866c542d5eeb7d60ea1059af45a07b46800fb" title="dismisses" style="">dismissed</a> violence from right-wing militias as “a lie” and “easily disprovable.”</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1bec079b994763c614bd2e9b402548f5dc572330fa89924c4b8703205c36c9fc2020b857836a888430584bdcf2fd1abb5498307cacc1079" title="encouraged" style="">encouraged</a> his supporters to commit voter fraud, but too much of the media responded with a shrug.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-vaccine figure <b>Del Bigtree</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1bec079b994763c97ac8fec4358d48dae9be5d1c38a216b213a845651fb8fa1388d118be43b59d276f428cdc572ed102ddfb02753ac55ac" title="partnered" style="">partnered</a> with Roku after YouTube banned him for sharing dangerous coronavirus misinformation; he's still on Facebook as well.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Kenosha shootings, former Sheriff <b>David Clarke</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1bec079b994763ceccc6fac0ca12df51f1df0ce5b168c18213bfe13a2fbbf3be2fd674241726d3f94212510d2e6c82c01483be97b90ad4a" title="advised" style="">advised</a> radio listeners on how to get away with killing protesters.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mainstream media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1bec079b994763cafcc18367b515925030cb575a36cc2723a7ec1e9e291f8297620bc5edbca4ebac8c51af37899bb6b3222e89f1cab5e83" title="are whitewashing" style="">are whitewashing</a> Patriot Prayer, a violent far-right group in Portland.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook's political ad ban before Election Day is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1bec079b994763c6a15bbbb03f7dc453dfd6dfcfae3ca801f6f15dc0a933e40a7fa19996da504fc702fcc810dcb1c5c8344e96de5206222" title="little more" style="">little more</a> than a public relations stunt.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 920</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">given that Fox News, as well as some conservative radio stations, have <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/18/1928649/-Watch-the-sharply-shifting-coronavirus-rhetoric-from-Fox-News-over-the-last-two-weeks" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">downplayed</a> the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s not too surprising that people who rely on such sources for their news may not take all advised precautions seriously at this point in the public health crisis. What sort of precautions? Oh, one of the most essential, basic ones: <a title="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/us/covid-conservative-masks-nh-poll-trnd/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">wearing a face mask</a> in public.<b> A new <a href="https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conservative-media-consumers-views-COVID-19" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">poll</a> from the University of New Hampshire found that where we get our news can have a seriously big impact on our mask-wearing, and from what we know about this public health crisis, that’s far from good.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to this research, which was conducted in July 2020 and involved 995 New Hampshire residents, 77% of people living in New Hampshire do, indeed, always wear a face mask in public, unless they are outside and properly socially distanced. Only <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">half</em> of the respondents who said they regularly watch Fox News, however, report the same. For conservative radio listeners in the state, that drops to one-third.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>80% of surveyed residents who never tuned in to Fox News or similar conservative outlets wanted the government to make prioritizing containing the virus a bigger priority over the economy. Just over 10% of regular Fox News viewers felt the same</b>. Similarly, three-quarters of people who never consumed these conservative media sources believed that the worst of the virus is still yet to come; less than one-quarter of conservative viewers, however, believe that to be the case.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is certainly not the first poll to show such variation; for example, in the Daily Kos/Civiqs <a href="https://civiqs.com/documents/Civiqs_DailyKos_monthly_banner_book_2020_07_d7fhn9.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">poll</a> from July, only 20% of frequent Fox News viewers believed that wearing a face mask helps prevent the spread of the virus. A majority of Fox News viewers also felt comfortable with schools reopening; as we’ve already covered, campuses are seeing fresh clusters of cases seemingly by the day.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interestingly, according to the New Hampshire polling, some people who regularly watch Fox News <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</em> concerned about the virus. 25% of respondents said they were worried about either their own health or someone else’s. The majority of respondents, coming in at two-thirds, who did not watch conservative media, however, were worried about health amid the global pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Hampshire is an interesting place to conduct this poll as it actually doesn’t have a statewide mask mandate, though Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has ordered that masks must be worn in gatherings of more than 100 people. Some cities do have mask mandates, and businesses are allowed to enforce them as well. That 100 people guideline garnered quite a bit of attention when Trump held a rally in New Hampshire last week; masks were supposed to be worn, but many attendees <a href="https://www.wcax.com/2020/09/01/sununu-says-hes-not-concerned-by-lack-of-masks-at-trump-rally/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reportedly</a> did not wear them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Looking at some viral images from Trump arriving in North Carolina this afternoon, we see many people greeting him without masks or social distancing.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-right-has-seized-on-a-misunderstood-cdc-statement-as-proof-that-isnt-that/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-right-has-seized-on-a-misunderstood-cdc-statement-as-proof-that-isnt-that/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">salon matt r</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>conservative social media networks and right-wing personalities, including Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce, have seized on a misunderstood COVID-19 mortality statistic from the CDC as “evidence” that pandemic public health fears are overblown. The viral spread of the “6%” meme seems to speak to both a larger scientific illiteracy and the rapidity with which the conspiratorial right jumps on misinformation that appears convenient to their political narrative.</b> Salon spoke with scientific experts to understand the origin of this meme, and how it has been misinterpreted.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3-wrg3tTKK5-9tOHPGAHWFVO3DfslkJ0KsDEPQpWmPbKtp6EsoVV2Qs1Q#ExcessDeaths" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report</a> published earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote that “for 6% of the deaths” reported involving the novel coronavirus, the data indicates that “COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”</span> <b>This means that there were co-morbid conditions — meaning multiple health conditions that compounded the coronavirus’ effects — associated with the COVID-19 death on 94% of the other occasions. The CDC added that, “for deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many on Twitter seized upon the “6%” data point to argue that the United States has been overreacting to the pandemic.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“All of this for SIX PERCENT!” tweeted conservative writer and former congressional candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/status/1300414798367252482" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">DeAnna Lorraine</a>. </b>Another former congressional candidate, this one a veteran and self-described “Torah Observant Christian” named <a href="https://twitter.com/votenickmoutos/status/1300310892878462976" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Nick Moutos</a>, tweeted “#Fact Only 6% of reported #COVID19 deaths were “from” the virus. The other 94% were from other comorbidities. Death toll actually near 10K, or roughly .003% of the US population. #SixPercent"</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">fox News contributor and Fox Nation host </span><a href="https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/1300175483016019968" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Tammy Bruce</a></b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b> tweeted about the meme,</b> too,</span></span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> making her point through understatement: “6% Six. Percent.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1300135845555396613" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Charlie Kirk</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, the founder and president of right-wing campus group </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/25/how-a-diaper-protest-led-to-the-implosion-of-a-conservative-student-group/" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Turning Point USA</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, echoed Bruce, tweeting simply: “6%.”</span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A self-described pro-Trump political candidate in Virginia, <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonRobergeVA/status/1300224704008073216" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jason Alexander Roberge</a>, tweeted that “I was called a conspiracy theorist in March for calling out the FAKE covid numbers: 6% Six Percent.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perhaps most shockingly, a Twitter account called <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1300415126986731524" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Cain Gang</a> — which describes itself as “formerly run by <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/15/herman-cains-twitter-account-is-creeping-everyone-out-it-is-still-trolling-after-his-death_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Herman Cain</a>, now supervised by his team and family” — tweeted that “it looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be.” That tweet was later deleted. Cain <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/15/herman-cains-twitter-account-is-creeping-everyone-out-it-is-still-trolling-after-his-death_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">died of COVID-19</a> on July 30.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These tweets all reflect a profound misunderstanding of what “comorbidity” means, <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/658/alfred-sommer" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Alfred Sommer</a>, an epidemiologist and dean emeritus at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Salon by email.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“People with co-morbidities die at higher rates, as do older people (some without serious co-morbidities but with aging, less responsive immune systems),” he wrote. “None of which makes any difference —<b> if these people had not contracted COVID they would not have died at this time! So they are ALL COVID-caused deaths.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sommer believes the number of deaths attributed to the pandemic has actually been underestimated, as many who were ill — either with COVID-19 or something else — were unable to seek care because of the public health situation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nobody counts the increase in the number of deaths caused by the pandemic — but not directly by infection: people who had heart attacks and related who couldn’t get care, or were afraid to seek care, because of COVID,” Sommer added. “The rate of these deaths has been running substantially higher this year than in past years.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/drericding?lang=en" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding</a>, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, called the “6%” meme “a ludicrous misunderstanding and misinformation.” “Basically, [they are] arguing that if you die with COVID and have any risk factors, then it somehow doesn’t count as COVID,” he told Salon. Feigl-Ding compared the situation to that of cancer patients, who frequently have compounding conditions that increase their risk of dying of cancer.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Most cancer patients have many other risk factors, which by their logic means a person didn’t die of cancer if someone has anything else,” he said.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/2566/justin-lessler" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Justin Lessler</a>, an associate professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, also told Salon that the six percent figure needs to be viewed in an appropriate context.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The ‘six percent’ figure represents those people with only COVID-19 on their death certificate. This will be very unusual,” Lessler explained by email. “First, COVID-19 causes many of the co-morbidities mentioned, which are respiratory conditions. So, having, for example, respiratory failure on your death certificate in addition to COVID-19 is not really having another cause of death, as your coronavirus infection almost certainly caused the respiratory failure. Second, many of the other co-morbidities, such as heart disease, are common in the US and increase your chances of dying from COVID-19, so may be contributing factors to death but not necessarily the root cause.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He concluded, “The most important thing to remember, is that no matter what the co-morbidities listed are, pretty much all of these people would have lived longer, probably a lot longer, if they had not been infected with the virus.”</b></font></p><article style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://apha.org/about-apha/executive-board-and-staff/apha-staff/georges-c-benjamin-md" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Georges Benjamin</a>, executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and former secretary of health in Maryland, confirmed to Salon by email that the six percent figure is being characterized “incorrectly.””The 6% figure was the percent that did not have any other diseases listed on the death certificate as a contributing factor for their death. That does not tell us what the risk to the U.S. population is,” Benjamin explained by email. “Approximately 40% of the U.S. population have at least one chronic disease (₁₃₀ million people [out of] 330 million). That means 40% (130 million) of the country is at risk of getting severe disease if they get infected with SARS-CoV2 the virus that causes COVID-19. That is a significant risk to the overall population. COVID-19 was a contributing cause for the death and may have been the precipitating cause of death.”He added, “The way they are interpreting the 6% figure implies that the individual would have died from their underlying disease regardless of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, which you cannot say.”</font></article></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div><b>From the August 21, 2020, edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show</b></div><div>
</div><div>fox got him to ignore covid? fox repeats lie he stopped covid from coming from chine; chyron text effective; they know they have influence; fox & fr abnd prime time have power; </div><div>trump is a run-on sentence, not well</div><div>
</div><div>ailes fired during election? no rudder, so trump took over; fox fears trump will start his own rival network; they are anti-Dem channel, prefer to having (any?) GOP prez?</div><div>
</div><div>hann got bolton hired and tucker fired; pirro killed jeff; K N DHS dobbs fired; pat cippolini ingraham fired; hann hillary colluded w/ ukraine 2016; NK bigger button, iran "never threaten US again!" pardons, attack google, caravans = fox public servants = treason</div><div>
</div><div>trump-fox feedback loop re covid: gregg gutfield 2/24</div><div>disappear w/ warmer weather thank god fo global warming"  2/27 disapear like a miracle;  hann covid hysteria; ingraham dems party of pandemic; fox execs knew lie and taking precaut ; watters i'm not afraid you shd not be either; mark steigal fx doc worse case scenarion flu</div><div>staert of march steps, canceled mtg for advertisers; ainsly earhardt safest time to fly, xian </div><div>
</div><div>hazardous, dangerous, irresponsible fox staff said pvtly;</div><div>
</div><div>film your hospital BS  Sara Carter see on twitter;</div><div>
</div><div>2/20 trump told wd die in hot weather in April; 3/13 phone to geraldo 2x</div><div>
</div><div>trump busy with post impeach? purge so no deal w/ covid hope hicks came back</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'If you were hearing what I'm hearing, you'd be vaping too': Sean Hannity privately called Trump 'bats--- crazy,' according to a new book</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jake Lahut Aug 20, 2020, 7:37 AM</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new book details private conversations the Fox News host Sean Hannity had with friends in which he expressed dismay at what he was hearing from President Donald Trump.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Early on in the Trump age, Hannity gained weight and vaped incessantly, which some members of his inner circle blamed on Trump-related stress," Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent, wrote in "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth," set to be published next week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book — an excerpt of which was published by Vanity Fair on Thursday — says Hannity told a colleague, "If you were hearing what I'm hearing, you'd be vaping too."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I barely get a word in," Hannity told another confidant of his conversations with Trump, Stelter wrote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seeking an escape from President Donald Trump's rambling monologues over the phone early in his presidency, the Fox News opinion host Sean Hannity turned to vaping and stress-eating, a new book from CNN's Brian Stelter says.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stelter said he spoke with more than 140 staffers at Fox News and 180 former employees and people "with direct ties to the network" for the book.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book focuses on Trump's relationship with Hannity — "the president's 'shadow chief of staff,' as he was known around the White House," Stelter wrote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The access Hannity enjoyed also came with some downsides, Stelter's sources said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Hannity counseled Trump at all hours of the day; one of his confidants said the president treated Hannity like Melania, a wife in a sexless marriage," he wrote. "Arguably, he treated Hannity better than Melania."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For all his pro-Trump coverage on his 9 p.m. show, Hannity, the longest-serving Fox News anchor, privately griped about the president, the book says.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"'Hannity would tell you, off-off-off the record, that Trump is a bats--- crazy person,' one of his associates said," Stelter wrote, adding that another friend told him, "Hannity has said to me more than once, 'he's crazy.'"</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity also told a colleague that on his calls with Trump, "I barely get a word in," the book says.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump, who often live-tweets Fox News programming, would also chat with Hannity as a fan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Trump was just like the rest of Hannity's viewers: He wanted more of Gregg Jarrett on the show, more of Dan Bongino, more of Newt Gingrich—the toadiest toads possible," Stelter wrote.</font></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dobbs got her fired? stelter bk trms</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/foxs-lou-dobbs-served-as-the-shadow-chief-of-staff-of-the-trump-administration-ex-dhs-official/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/foxs-lou-dobbs-served-as-the-shadow-chief-of-staff-of-the-trump-administration-ex-dhs-official/</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>former senior Trump administration official Miles Taylor said that President Donald Trump would regularly berate staffers for not following the advice of Fox News host Lou Dobbs.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is really disheartening but there was a period of time where, at first jokingly, we would say that Fox late night host <b>Lou Dobbs was the sort of shadow chief of staff of the Trump administration,”</b> Miles told CNN host Anderson Cooper on Friday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Why did we say that? Because the president would call us and he would say, and pardon my language, why the hell didn’t you watch Lou Dobb last night? You need to listen to Lou. What Lou says is what I want to do,” he explained.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So if Lou Dobbs peddled a conspiracy theory on late night television or made an erroneous claim about what should be done at the border or with some law enforcement operation, the president wanted us to be tuning in every night,” Miles said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"My response to that was I don’t have any time to watch Lou Dobbs in the evening. You have us running a 250,000-person department and we’re trying to guard against some of the most severe threats to the country. We can can’t be watching Lou Dobbs and taking our orders from him, but this happened on a regular basis.”</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Miles, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, recently endorsed Biden for president.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Trump’s Wednesday endorsement of the deranged and dangerous QAnon movement as people who “love this country” <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-supporters-overjoyed-after-trump-endorses-unhinged-conspiracy-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">thrilled its supporters</a> while horrifying observers, who pointed out that his validation of an extremist ideology linked to violent acts would swell its ranks.</b> But during his first interview following those remarks on Thursday night, the president faced no questions about his praise for unhinged pro-Trump conspiracy theorists who claim that he is on the verge of unraveling a global pedophile ring of Satan-worshipping Democrats and celebrities. <b>As Fox News host Sean Hannity provided the president with his typical mix of sycophancy and softballs over the course of the half-hour phoner, Trump’s embrace of QAnon never came up.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity’s decision to ignore the story put a capstone on Fox’s lackadaisical response to the president’s praise for advocates of a bizarre conspiracy theory that the FBI has termed a domestic terror threat. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Fox News political analyst Karl Rove <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-panel-hammers-trump-for-praising-qanon" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">garnered</a> <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/karl-rove-slams-trump-for-qanon-answer-this-is-a-group-of-nuts-and-kooks-he-should-disavow-them/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">press</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/just-ridiculous-karl-rove-says-trump-failing-to-condemn-qanon-was-a-big-mistake" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">attention</a> on Wednesday for calling QAnon supporters “nuts and kooks” and saying the president “ought to disavow them</b>” on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Special Report</em>, and that program <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6183099876001" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ran a segment</a> on the “conspiracy theory” the following day. But none of the network’s highly rated prime-time hosts have mentioned Trump’s remarks at all, and by Thursday morning, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em> was <a href="https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1296391055789764608" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">decontextualizing</a> part of the president’s comment as an anodyne reference to his administration “saving the world.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump backing the QAnon movement seems like a natural fit -- the president is a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/trump-promotes-unhinged-oan-conspiracy-theory-about-battered-75-year-old" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/joe-scarborough/joe-scarborough-conspiracy-theory-donald-trump-sending-mob-boss-message" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/flashback-how-fox-news-promoted-trumps-birtherism" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">theorist</a> who finds it nearly impossible to disavow <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/01/donald-trump-and-david-duke-for-the-record/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">even his most reprehensible supporters</a>. But his praise for the group can’t be separated from Fox’s unwillingness to try to establish guard rails for the Republican Party by denouncing it.</b> Trump relies on Fox for news and information, and its coverage constantly shapes his worldview. If Fox’s hosts had condemned the QAnon movement in the years since it first emerged, it’s hard to imagine that the president would be praising it today -- or that it would have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">metastasized through the GOP</a> to the extent that it has.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Fox has largely kept discussions of the QAnon movement and its violent and unhinged ideology off its airwaves, even as its spread within the Republican Party has ensured that the network has repeatedly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/definitive-guide-fox-news-treatment-qanon-conspiracy-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ended up promoting its supporters</a></b>. I noted <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/fox-news-dangerous-dance-qanon" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">last week</a>, after one of its adherents received the GOP congressional nod for a blood-red district, that QAnon has been referenced on only eight broadcasts on the network’s weekday evening programming over the previous two years -- almost all passing references that failed to describe the conspiracy theory’s dangers. The network’s on-air talent have alternately denied knowing anything about the movement and played footsie with it, engaging with its followers on social media, downplaying its extremism, and even praising aspects of it on Fox shows. Meanwhile, the network’s executives <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/fox-nation-host-isaiah-washington-qanon-supporter-and-conspiracy-theorist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hired</a> a prominent QAnon-supporting influencer to host a cooking show on Fox’s streaming service. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We know what it looks like when Fox tries to destroy the credibility of a movement with its audience, and that isn’t it. Fox hosts and personalities highlighted the Black Lives Matter movement during 288 weekday evening broadcasts over the same two-year span, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/hate-group-nazis-fox-news-ramps-their-war-black-lives-matter" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">building</a> on racist and unhinged <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/how-fox-news-primetime-lineup-demonized-black-lives-matter-2015" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">smears</a> the network has deployed against its supporters since its founding</span>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent months, as the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor drove new attention to Black Lives Matter’s campaign against racial injustice and police brutality, Fox <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/fox-business-host-lou-dobbs-attacks-businesses-supporting-black-lives-matter" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hosts</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/fox-news-propped-black-lives-matter-leader-who-has-no-affiliation-official-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">redoubled</a> their <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/fox-news-keeps-spreading-debunked-conspiracy-theory-about-black-lives-matter" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">efforts</a> to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/right-wing-media-vilify-black-lives-matter-movement-grows" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">delegitimize</a> it. Network star Tucker Carlson, perhaps the Fox host with the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/how-tucker-carlson-became-fox-host-trump-listens-most" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">most influence on Trump</a> right now, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-using-nativist-conspiracy-theories-attack-black-lives-matter" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">turned his program</a> into a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/tucker-carlsons-racist-and-extreme-descriptions-black-lives-matter-movement" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">nightly assault</a> on the group. He called it a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-black-lives-matter-totalitarian-political-movement-and-someone-needs" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“totalitarian political movement”</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/will-gop-let-tucker-carlson-control-its-police-brutality-debate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">denounced Republican leaders</a> who expressed support for it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump got the message. He <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/trump-black-lives-matter-347051" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-anthem-kneeling-black-lives-matter-marxist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lashed out</a> at Black Lives Matter this summer, at times in direct response to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lashes-out-at-black-lives-matter-accuses-one-member-of-treason/2020/06/25/45667ec8-b70f-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">segments he was watching</a> about it on Fox</b>. The president was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/fact-check-trump-pigs-blanket-black-lives-matter/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">particularly aggrieved</a> by an anti-police chant that members of a Minnesota-based Black Lives Matter group used during a march in 2015 -- one that Fox has <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1278439433054937088" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">highlighted dozens of times</a> in the years since. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If Fox had devoted even a fraction of the venomous demonization it launched at Black Lives Matter activists to QAnon conspiracy theorists, the network could have warned off its millions of viewers -- including the president -- from the movement. But Fox has not chosen that path, which would require trying to curb the excesses of the radicalized Republicans whose <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1296630377927389184" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anti-Democratic fervor</a> powers the network’s ratings</span>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Instead, Fox sold out its viewers to a cult.</b> The longer the network held its fire, the more vulnerable its audience was to the movement’s entreaties, and the harder it became to pry Trump supporters away from its conspiracy theories. <b>Now QAnon’s ranks have swelled, its supporters <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">have effectively become</a> a key GOP constituency, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dozens are running for Congress</a>, and at least one will likely be elected to the House in the fall. With the president himself signing on as a validator, it may be too late to keep QAnon away from the levers of power.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">QAnon may garner criticism here and there from some at Fox who, like Rove, find the spectacle of the president cozying up to “kooks” too much to bear. But I doubt very much that the network as a whole will engage in the full-spectrum denunciation needed to curtail QAnon’s growth. Instead, the days to come will likely bring a range of responses from Fox personalities, from ignoring the movement, to downplaying its importance and extremism, to condemning its critics for attacking Trump supporters. The press will be hammered for covering the story. Some network figures will claim that the QAnon movement makes some good points, perhaps even outing themselves as full-fledged supporters. <b>Others will rely on <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">whataboutism</span>, with the president’s defenders pushing back against reporting on QAnon by demanding to know why the media isn’t asking Democrats to condemn antifa or Black Lives Matter.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox is a Republican propaganda outlet that is deeply devoted to Trump. 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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Donald Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/KUSINews/status/1292956180914958337" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a> this week that <a href="https://www.hoover.org/profiles/scott-w-atlas" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Dr. Scott Atlas</a>, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, will serve as a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/scott-atlas-donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">new “adviser” to the president</a> on COVID-19. Atlas, whose background is in diagnostic radiology, is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/08/12/who-is-dr-scott-atlas-trumps-new-covid-health-adviser-seen-as-counter-to-fauci-and-birx/#5f64626020a4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">not an expert in infectious disease</a> but rather a pundit and frequent Fox guest who has been repeatedly wrong about the pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Atlas, who has appeared 20 times on Fox News since the end of April, predicted in March that there would only be 10,000 deaths from COVID in America, said in April that the pandemic “appears to be entering the containment phase,” and claimed in May that “the curves have been flattened.” More recently, he has taken to making unproven claims <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-dangerous-efforts-downplay-covids-impact-kids-mirror-trumps-push-reopen-schools" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">downplaying the risk of COVID-19</a> in considering whether to reopen schools for in-person learning.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Fox News and other right-wing outlets have elevated his politically convenient though dubious commentary; and on August 12 he <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-081320/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">gave brief remarks</a> during a White House press briefing after Trump asked him to come up to the podium.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here is a noncomprehensive list of Atlas’ false claims, incorrect predictions, and pro-Trump sycophancy that preceded his new role at the White House.</b></font></p><ul dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atlas claimed in a <a href="https://twitter.com/SWAtlasHoover/status/1239741933192265728" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">March 16 tweet</a>, “Virus infections typically have seasons. This is temporary.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/26/widespread-isolation-and-stopping-all-human-intera/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">March 26 op-ed in The Washington Times</a>, Atlas wrote, “This virus could cause about 10,000 deaths in the United States overall.” </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a <a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/scott-w-atlas-covid-19-and-health-care-hoover-virtual-policy-briefing-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">March 26 “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hoover</span> Virtual Policy Briefing,”</a> Atlas claimed, “All reasonable numbers point to the fact that our number of severe outcomes will be peaking around three weeks or so.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/490582-the-case-for-optimism" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">April 1<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> op-ed in The Hill</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, </span>Atlas wrote that “Americans should not panic. The United States has the most advanced medical care in the world for situations like this.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the <a href="https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-deaths" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">national curve of daily deaths continued to rise</a>, Atlas wrote in an <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/492514-reentry-after-the-panic-paying-the-health-price-of-extreme-isolation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">April 13 op-ed in The Hill</a> that “we now need to reenter normal life” and that “continuing full-population isolation and waiting for a vaccine would be doubling down and yielding to panic.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atlas opened his <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">April 22 op-ed in The Hill</a> by declaring, “The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889721" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">April 26 appearance</a> on Fox News' <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</em>, Atlas told the host, “Young people under 18 have virtually no risk of serious illness or death, so it's logical to open most schools. It's logical to open most businesses.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atlas claimed <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889576" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">on the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">April 27 edition of Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em></span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, “It’s actually good news that the virus spreads widely and without high risk to the vast majority of people … because that means we have a better chance of developing population immunity</span>.” The Mayo clinic <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/herd-immunity-and-coronavirus/art-20486808" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">describes</a> “major problems” with the idea that herd immunity can be achieved through natural infection as it is unknown to what extent an individual is immune to further infection after exposure. Also, according to the Mayo clinic, even if it was possible for herd immunity to be achieved this way, it “could also lead to serious complications and millions of deaths, especially among older people and those who have chronic conditions.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889581" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">May 11 edition of Fox News' <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Story with Martha MacCallum</em></a>, Atlas referenced the social distancing measures and claimed that “the cure is bigger than the disease at this point.” He also told the audience that “the curves have been flattened.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889556" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">June 8 edition of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Story with Martha MacCallum</em></a>, Atlas <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-dangerous-efforts-downplay-covids-impact-kids-mirror-trumps-push-reopen-schools" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely</a> claimed “there is really no risk to young people” when it comes to COVID-19.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3888966" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">June 22 edition of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Story with Martha MacCallum</em></a>, host Martha MacCallum mentioned to Atlas former Food and Drug Adminstration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s claim that 25% of hospitalizations in Texas are among people aged 20 to 29. Atlas responded that he didn’t believe the number, saying, “I question if those people who are positive for COVID-19 and being hospitalized for something else are classified as COVID-19 hospitalizations. That's a big difference.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889611" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">June 29 edition of Fox News' <span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tucker Carlson Tonight</span></a>, Atlas falsely claimed young people “do not have a significant problem, they do not have the serious complications, they do not die” from COVID-19. (The data <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/coronavirus-cases-young-people.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">showed at the time</a> of this appearance and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/young-people-are-dying-from-coronavirus-in-florida-too/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">continues to show</a> that young people do in fact die or suffer serious complications from the virus.) He also said it’s “fantastic news that we have a lot of cases,” which common sense and real-time data show to be false.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889551" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">July 6 edition of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Story with Martha MacCallum</em></a>, Atlas repeated the falsehood that “it doesn’t really matter how many cases, it only matters who gets the cases” because young people die at a lower rate than older people. But <a href="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-young-people-spread-5a0cd9e0-1b25-4c42-9ef9-da9d9ebce367.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">increased caseloads lead to an increased strain on the capacity of health systems</a> and may spread the virus to people who are more vulnerable to serious complications from the disease, even if the vast majority of young people who make up the increased number of cases do not.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atlas downplayed the potential risks that COVID-19 poses to people under 70 on the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889586" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">July 7 edition of Fox News' <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Ingraham Angle</em></a>, claiming, “The risk of this has been grossly overblown.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3888891" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">July 15 edition of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America's Newsroom</em></a>, Atlas <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/what-do-we-know-about-children-and-coronavirus-transmission/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely claimed</a>, “It doesn’t matter if children get the disease. ... The data shows that they do not significantly transmit to adults.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3889571" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">July 25 edition of Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Watters World</em></a>, Atlas uncritically shilled for the <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/14/fix-covid-19-dumpster-fire-us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Trump’s disastrous COVID-19 response</a>, saying, “I think the president’s briefings that were done this week were excellent, and I think it’s obvious to everyone that there’s a focus on the data, that they’re closely monitoring the situation.” He also falsely claimed that it’s been “established” that “ children are not significant spreaders,” when in fact the science on this issue <a href="https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/childrens-health/why-relationship-between-kids-and-spread-of-covid-remains-unclear" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">remains unsettled</a>.</font></li></ul></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> at long last, mainstream reporters are starting to take the QAnon conspiracy cult seriously. With at least one QAnon devotee about to be <a title="elected to Congress" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/qanon-congressional-candidates/index.html" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">elected to Congress</a>, <a title="millions" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-millions-members-facebook-documents-show-n1236317" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">millions</a> of online followers and several <a title="big" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-promotes-pedo-ring-conspiracy-theories-now-theyre-stealing-kids?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">big</a> stories in <a title="major publications" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/opinion/qanon-marjorie-greene-congress.html" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">major publications</a>, the cult has come into its own. <b>Pushback against it has come too little, too late. Facebook, Twitter and TikTok only recently started deactivating major QAnon promoters and groups, even as those accounts engage in coordinated ban evasion and continue to peddle lies on other platforms.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I (as <a title="others have" href="https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-qanon-conspiracy-cult-is-growing-and-the-media-is-helping.php" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">others have</a>) use the word “cult” here very intentionally. QAnon is not a political movement centered around an ideology or policy platform: it is a freewheeling grab bag of mostly far-right but also non-partisan conspiracy theories from flat-earthers to believers in <a title="lizard people" href="https://www.vox.com/2014/11/5/7158371/lizard-people-conspiracy-theory-explainer" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">lizard people</a> to those who believe that JFK Jr is still alive and coordinating the arrests of a massive global pedophile and Satanic child sacrifice ring.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Its adherents demand not allegiance to a specific orthodoxy, but only blind faith in the leader: an anonymous online figure nicknamed “Q” who began posting on 4chan during the early days of the Trump Administration, claiming to be a member of the administration with<b> top “Q” level security clearance (no such clearance actually exists</b>.) </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Members spend countless hours analyzing specific “drops” from Q, using numerology and other hokey deep reading techniques to parse misspelling in Trump tweets for hidden messages and patterns, fitting them into bizarre and hopelessly complicated “calendars” and “<a title="clocks" href="https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1234529488148451331" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">clocks</a>.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The key catchphrases of the movement are typical of cultic in-groups with political overtones. “</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trust the Plan</span>.” “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Patriots Are in Control.</span>” “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where We Go One We Go All.</span>”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It provides a built-in community of fellow believers, and a chiliastic all-encompassing spiritual battle against both human and supernatural enemies. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As with an adventist cult, Q followers are supposed to be<b> essential team members laying the groundwork for the exposure of the “truth”: a giant global ring of child-eating Satanist pedophiles restricting access to </b></span><b><a title="free energy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_suppression_conspiracy_theory" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">free energy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a title="debt jubilees" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">debt jubilees</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> and world peace</b>. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Central to all of this is the figure of Donald Trump, who will supposedly one day bring “the pain”: the mass arrest and summary execution of all the cult’s enemies, ranging from standard right-wing targets like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to celebrities like Tom Hanks and Chrissy Teigen. (The fact that President Trump, leader of the Executive Branch of the United States, has supposedly allowed this ring to exist unhampered for nearly four years while an anonymous 8chan user spreads the gospel is dismissed as a minor inconvenience.) <b>All of it is overlaid on existing white supremacist and anti-semitic themes, as the enemy is supposed to be a “globalist” cabal using minorities to overwhelm majority-white Christian nations.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">QAnon followers are also suffering the same sorts of social isolation and estrangement from family and friends that is typical of new cult members. QAnon leaders, for their part, offer a substitute family for them in replacement. As QAnon influencer Martin Geddes once <a title="tweeted" href="https://twitter.com/martingeddes/status/1285625269907263488?s=20" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tweeted</a> before his account was suspended:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Part of the struggle of being “awake(ish)” is that many of your normal sources of support become flimsy or even can attack. Your preacher, teacher, therapist, mother, lover etc can be under the spell of false narratives or devious doctrines. Requires building a whole new network.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is not a political movement. It is a </span><a title="novel form of online religion" href="https://www.cjr.org/first_person/qanon-conspiracy-religion-journalism.php" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">novel form of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">online religion</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> enabled by social media algorithms</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And it is deeply dangerous, not just because of its capacity for catapulting all sorts of misinformation but also because of its natural tendency toward political</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> violence.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> After all, if you believed that such things were true and such people existed, what would </span></b><b><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> do to stop them?</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One would think that the Republican Party would see the danger of this phenomenon and try to nip it in the bud, as surely as any political entity would try to quell a cult growing like a cancer within it<b>. But it hasn’t. House GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has <a title="come under fire" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/discontent-with-mccarthy-rises-as-gop-considers-a-possible-post-trump-world/2020/08/13/ec04786a-dd8f-11ea-b4af-72895e22941d_story.html" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">come under fire</a> for not doing enough to stop QAnon within Republican circles and hewing too close to Trump, but he is unlikely to be seriously threatened for leadership. Trump himself <a title="refuses" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/08/14/trump-wont-disavow-qanon-conspiracy-theory/#306b335e35a0" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">refuses</a> to try to squelch the conspiracy group, seeing any supporter as a good supporter.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The problem is that Republican Party has been relying on only <a title="slightly milder forms of conspiratorial politics" href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/10/the-conspiracy-theories-a-republican-must-believe-today/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">slightly milder forms of conspiratorial politics</a> for years now.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It’s staggering to ponder the implications of modern Republican ideology all at once, but consider a few examples.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> To be a modern Republican you have to believe that thousands of climate scientists are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy to falsify data for grant money, while oil executives are victims trying to expose the truth. You have to believe that hundreds of thousands or even millions of people are engaged in coordinated voter impersonation fraud, abetted by hundreds of local elections officials in both blue and red areas, and no one has ever leaked it or been caught. You have to believe in a massively coordinated effort to take away guns not to protect children from being shot in schools and movie theaters, but to leave white people defenseless in a race war or implement a Stalinist state tyranny. You have to believe that social services are a racket to keep racial minorities voting for Democrats, rather than an attempt to mitigate the inequities of brutal capital markets in a society riddled with horrific structural racism. And so on.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">These (among others) are truly bizarre beliefs, but they are preached from the Fox News pulpit 24-hours-a-day on America’s most-watched cable news network</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. They have become part of our daily political existence, such that we barely stop to remark anymore on just how outlandish and nonsensical they are when given a moment’s thought.<b>It’s a deeply conspiratorial worldview that depends on its adherents remaining ensconced in a bubble of alternative misinformation.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So it’s not a huge logical leap from these conspiracy theories into even more fantastical QAnon territory. It’s not a big step, for instance, from ridiculously claiming that climate scientists are all lying for grant money–which lacks real credibility as a motive–to speculating that they’re lying for deeper, more nefarious ends. In some ways the Republican tropes actually gain more credibility the more villainous the opponents’ motives are claimed to be. If you’re going to claim that Democrats want to offer universal childcare as an evil scheme to gain power to do vague unspecified things, why not go all the way to claiming that they want to keep patriots subdued so they can harvest babies for adrenochrome? If you’re going to vilify your enemies with absurd claims and keep your followers in a tightly controlled information bubble, why stop at a partially enraptured cable news/AM radio audience? Why not go all the way?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is why the GOP can’t control QAnon. Once the Republican Party handed over control of its messaging to cable news and radio hosts, and once it began to depend on an alternative universe of conspiracy theories promulgated on social media to prop itself up, it was only a matter of time before these things started to take on a life of their own.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now we are all paying the price as this toxic cult threatens to infuse American politics with even more extremism, misinformation and violence. But it was the “mainstream” Republican Party and its allies that laid all the groundwork for it.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">all hands defend nra fraud AG NY</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">fox News contributor </span><b style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Rachel Campos-Duffy</b><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=ef24d128bf6555c27fa478a2517e22005cc423201290bd78c8bc0bbb1b11e1388b5d5e233acc9a3887ac3a60597128f140fc77c825f34edd" title="falsely claimed" style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">falsely claimed</a><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> that there is "some debate" about wearing masks. Even her co-panelists immediately corrected her</span></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-loving-medias-s-on-joe-biden-have-all-been-epic-flops-so-far-data/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-loving-medias-s-on-joe-biden-have-all-been-epic-flops-so-far-data/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 820</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pro-Trump media websites have been trying to pull the same trick on Joe Biden that they pulled on Hillary Clinton in 2016 — but so far, none of their attacks on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee have gained traction.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2020-election-conservative-media-ac7c454a-d8cd-4e3b-b7c5-26359e5e31a0.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Axios</em> reports</a> that data from right-wing news websites shows that <b>reader engagement on three key anti-Biden stories — his alleged mental decline, his son Hunter Biden’s former job with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and sexual assault allegations by Tara Reade — have all fizzled.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Unlike other storylines that right-wing publishers have feasted on in the past — where new morsels of information reinvigorated news cycles — there have been no new revelations in the Burisma story, and Tara Reade stopped giving press interviews,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Axios</em> reports. <b>“By contrast, the drip-drip of information about Hillary Clinton’s email server and the DNC leak fueled news cycles for months during the 2016 campaign.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This lack of interest in Biden stories comes as Trump has struggled to settle on narrative about his presumptive opponent, whom he’s accused both of being a racist who wants to put Black Americans in jail and of being a wild-eyed radical who will let Black Lives Matter demonstrators lawlessly overrun American cities.</b></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-host-fired-for-coming-to-work-visibly-sick-during-pandemic-despite-begging-trump-to-intervene/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-host-fired-for-coming-to-work-visibly-sick-during-pandemic-despite-begging-trump-to-intervene/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">aha: trump whisperer, fox feedback loop?  alt fact post truth there's an alternate reality made of images on Fox (videotape editied, which is a futher subset of story, which is a further subset of POV of that story, which is in turn a subset of other stories/ bigger context; recall also seattle autonomous zone with camo guy superimposed/photoshopped, when called on it call a "collage" tho only 2 pix?</font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/heres-why-the-white-house-is-sending-stormtroopers-into-portland/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/heres-why-the-white-house-is-sending-stormtroopers-into-portland/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In  one of the most alarming developments of Trump’s presidency, dozens of federal agents in full camouflage <a title="seized" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">seized</a> protesters and threw them into unmarked cars, taking them to locations unknown without specifying a reason for arrest. It appears that at least some of the agents involved <a title="belonged" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/border-patrol-portland-arrest/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">belonged</a> to the US Customs and Border Protection (colloquially known as Border Patrol), an organization that obviously has no business whatsoever conducted counterinsurgency tactics against peaceful American protesters in Portland, Oregon. Neither the mayor of Portland nor the governor of Oregon wanted them there; in fact, they specifically <a title="requested" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/17/oregon-governor-wants-federal-officers-out-portland-trump-officials-wont-listen-why/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">requested</a> that they leave. And now a U.S. Attorney for the State of Oregon is calling for an <a title="investigation" href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/us-attorney-oregon-investigation-portland-protester-arrests/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">investigation</a> into the arrests, even as the Acting head of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, is <a title="vowing" href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1284095516276592641" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">vowing</a> to ramp up these actions both in Portland and reportedly elsewhere.</font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Needless to say, this is a chilling step toward police state authoritarian rule in the United States, one that was presaged by Attorney General Barr’s approval of an pre-curfew assault on protesters instigated in Lafayette Square to clear the way for a presidential campaign photo op. Few took it seriously when leftist organizers were warning that the border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were being culturally and structurally converted into stormtroopers for the Trump regime, equally ready to be deployed against politically inconvenient American citizens as against undocumented immigrants seeking a better life. Those warnings should be heeded now.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We should not allow ourselves to become numb to this. It is helpful psychologically–even if tired and stale as a rhetorical device–to remind ourselves what the reactions would be if a Democrat were acting similarly. Imagine if President Obama had sent in in military-garbed federal stormtroopers to round up Tea Party protesters into unmarked cars, over the top of the objections of local governors and mayors. It’s unthinkable. It’s the sort of thing that drove bizarre right-wing conspiracy theories like <a title="Jade Helm" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jade Helm</a>, but that if any shred of them were true would instantly have embroiled the country in a civil war.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So why is Trump doing it?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">many theories abound—none of them entirely convincing on their own, but all of them deeply disturbing. One explanation is that it’s a </span><a title="trial run" href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33347230/portland-oregon-protesters-detained/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">trial run</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> for future police state actions, partly to push the window of the possible, partly to desensitize the public to further abuses, and partly to see precisely what they can get away with and what Americans will tolerate.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is no doubt true to a certain extent, but the challenge is that it also carries enormous downside risk. If Trump doesn’t win re-election he has less than six months left in his presidency–hardly time enough for a deeply unpopular and divisive president to engineer a police state coup. And just as with the outrage in Lafayette Square, the mere action itself will likely make Trump even more unpopular with the few undecided voters who remain.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Another convergent explanation is that making a show of supposed toughness in conducting military counterinsurgency in Democratic-controlled cities that want no part of it will thrill Trump’s base.</b> This is reasonable to assume, since Trump’s base <a title="takes" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">takes</a> no greater joy than in seeing authoritarian cruelty exercised against their political enemies. And it’s likely true, since Trump is obsessed with his base to the exclusion of all else beyond his own personal profit. But the problem is that almost everyone in the Trump campaign’s immediate orbit beyond the president himself knows that Trump must expand beyond his shrinking base to have any chance of winning re-election. The more Trump gives aging bigots dopamine hits, the more the rest of the country falls away from him. Camouflaged stormtroopers used against American citizens will almost certainly lose him more votes than he gains.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But there is a third explanation, simultaneously dumber and yet more convincing:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> the Fox News effect.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Trump spends endless hours watching garbage cable television, specifically One America News (OAN) and Fox News. Judging from Trump’s tweets, his entire political universe revolves around Fox News–and, more recently, the even more bizarrely propagandistic OAN when even Fox News fails to adequately toe the line.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ever since the beginning of the protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, Fox News has been portraying liberal American cities as hellscapes of violence in which the police and the Trump Administration played the role of hero against rampaging hordes. Most Americans, of course, didn’t see it that way. But if you live entirely in the Fox News bubble, then this narrative is as self-evident a truth as the rising of the sun in the east. Most recently, Fox News has been describing Portland in particular, <a title="in the words" href="https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1284136083127701504?s=20" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">in the words</a> of former Media Matters for America contributor Oliver Willis, as if it were Baghdad circa 2003. This is not the case, of course. <b>Crime rates in Portland have been on a steady decline for decades, with the last month being no significant exception. In fact, the worst Acting HHS Secretary Wolf could point to was literally <a title="a few instances" href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1284095525122453504?s=20" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a few instances</a> of graffiti. No kidding.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But if Fox News were the sum of your reality, you would believe that emergency action needed to be taken before the residents started to erect a Thunderdome and the services of <a title="Snake Plissken " href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Plissken" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Snake Plissken </a>would be required. You would send in the troops despite the potential cost out of a belief that relieved Americans would be desperately grateful for your embrace of “<b>law and order” (even if it were heavy on the “order” and light on the “law.</b>”) You would do whatever it took to bring the situation to heel, and figure the public approval would follow from the new Pax Trumpiana. After all, Fox News declared it must be so.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This last scenario is admittedly ridiculous. But it’s also likely closest to the truth. While figures like Stephen Miller no doubt have a laser focus on instituting an authoritarian apartheid regime to save white supremacist Republican rule the demographic tsunami preparing to overwhelm them, they are not the president.</b>Donald Trump is. Trump is a man of impulse, not of plans. His head is not set on the next 20 years of power, but on tomorrow’s cable news ratings. The constructed reality of Fox News <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is</em> his reality. The rest of the authoritarian project follows from there.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that more than anything else likely explains why the president is precipitating a constitutional crisis by sending stormtroopers into Portland.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-melts-down-over-bidens-climate-speech"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-melts-down-over-bidens-climate-speech</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fox News melts down over Biden’s climate speech</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network continues its toxic rhetoric against climate action</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITTEN BY ALLISON FISHER, EVLONDO COOPER & TED MACDONALD</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED 07/15/20 3:52 PM EDT</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden unveiled his revamped climate plan, which now calls for a $2 trillion investment in clean energy over four years with a goal of getting the U.S. to run on 100% clean electricity by 2035.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the release of the climate plan yesterday, six Fox programs, The Daily Briefing, Bill Hemmer Reports, The Five, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, and Fox News @ Night have discussed it -- and they have covered it exactly how you think they would. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plan triggered the usual hysterical claims by Fox anchors, hosts, and their guests about any policy or plan related to the reduction of carbon emissions: It’s part of a radical agenda, based on climate alarmism, pushed by extreme elements of the Democratic Party that will devastate the U.S. economy.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or the shorthand of that narrative: the Green New Deal.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All six programs invoked this narrative while providing little substance around the goals of the plan or the multiple crises it’s intended to address including climate change, the country’s aging and toxic infrastructure, and mass unemployment.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three programs -- Bill Hemmer Reports, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Fox News @ Night -- brought on guests to discuss the plan. But these discussions were lousy with falsehoods and agenda pushing.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox “news side” kicks off the dishonest attacks on Biden’s climate plan </b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a well-worn routine, the Fox “news” team provided the network’s right-wing stars with an opportunity to opine about the news of the day, which in this instance was Biden’s climate plan. <b>The network’s “straight news” anchors have not been honest brokers on climate change and energy; yesterday was no exception.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino, which carried live Biden’s speech introducing the plan, invited anchor Bret Baier to weigh in on it.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although Baier, in particular, has a reputation for not being as bad on climate issues as some of the more explicit climate deniers on the network, he has given climate skeptics a platform to attack climate science and climate action, often with very little pushback. Baier was the first person to disingenuously label Biden’s plan “a light green new deal that would still have a big government price tag to it.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Hemmer, who took over former-anchor Shepard Smith’s news hour timeslot in January, told the Associated Press, “I’m much more comfortable in this news lane than I would ever be as an opinion anchor.”<b> But during yesterday’s episode of Bill Hemmer Reports, the anchor allowed network correspondent Peter Doocy to read the Republican National Committee’s response to Biden’s climate plan with no pushback or contextualization. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hemmer’s subsequent questions to Biden surrogate Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) adopted a right-wing framing about the costs of climate action rather than the costs of inaction.[// lomborg/shill]</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Bill Hemmer Reports</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With that, the “news” side had laid the groundwork for the “opinion” side to further distort Biden’s climate plan, which Fox figures did with abandon (more on this below). After the opinion hosts were done for the night, “straight news” anchor Shannon Bream allowed Larry Kudlow, director of the Trump administration’s National Economic Council, to lie about Biden’s climate plan with only the most cursory pushback.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Fox News at Night</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News’ opinion hosts use Biden’s climate plan to beat the Green New Deal drum</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For over a year, while other TV news networks have dropped the ball on articulating what the Green New Deal is and what it would accomplish, Fox News has been hammering the same messaging -- tethering the proposal to radical socialism, climate alarmism, and economic devastation, while vilifying those who champion it.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a result, for Fox viewers, the Green New Deal has become synonymous with extreme socialism manifested by a fake climate crisis. The network’s opinion show hosts readily invoke the Green New Deal every chance they get.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As The New Times noted, right-wing media, in addition to Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign, “have also labeled virtually every climate change effort as part of the Green New Deal — an ambitious plan championed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, both democratic socialist — whether they are part of the proposal or not.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biden’s climate plan is no exception.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox’s The Five was the first opinion program to air after Biden's live speech, and co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters both invoked the Green New Deal and its chief architects in an effort to align Biden and his plan with socialism and climate alarmism:</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Five </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, whose July 14 edition was guest hosted by Brian Kilmeade invited discredited and self-proclaimed “environmentalist” Michael Shellenberger to respond to the plan.</b> In their exchange, Kilmeade suggested that the plan must have been penned by more radical elements of the Democratic Party to which Shellenberger agreed: </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRIAN KILMEADE (GUEST HOST): Michael, who is writing this stuff? There is a presumption that we heard Jay Inslee talk about, we heard Elizabeth Warren talk about. This has never been part of Joe Biden's agenda. Since when?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MICHAEL SHELLENGERGER: That's probably fair. …<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> I just think that the radical left has just taken a big part of the Democratic Party. One of the things that I was really surprised to discover in researching Apocalypse Never is that really it’s just about a dozen people that were major donors to President Obama who benefited the most from really about 90 billion in subsidies, in taxpayer subsidies.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kilmeade ramped up his rhetoric even more the next morning while hosting Fox & Friends, claiming that Biden’s plan is based on the idea that the climate crisis, if left unchecked, will mean the end of the world in nine years:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 15, 2020, edition of Fox & Friends</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prime-time host Sean Hannity did not mention Biden’s climate plan explicitly on his eponymous show last night. But during a rant directed at the presidential candidate, Hannity summarized the Green New Deal narrative with precision and demonstrated how foundational it has become to the network’s campaign against the Democratic Party. <b>Hannity claimed that Biden “has taken his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced,’ including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video Player</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Hannity</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox guests push bad faith arguments and falsehoods</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox’s guests invoked bad-faith arguments and misinformation to criticize Biden’s climate plan. On Bill Hemmer Reports, longtime Republican operative <b>Karl Rove</b>sidestepped the actual details of Biden’s plan to focus on fracking, which he said that Biden has “endorsed the immediate end” of. Biden’s plan makes no mention of fracking, while Biden himself has not called for a ban on it. In Rove’s mind, only jobs in the fossil fuel industry matter -- despite the fact that clean energy jobs “outnumber fossil fuels jobs nearly three to one.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Larry Kudlow,</b> appearing on Fox News @ Night, generally echoed Rove. He lamented the loss of natural gas, coal, and oil, and failed to mention the climate catastrophe that mining and using these products are getting us to. And again, he ignored the millions of jobs that Biden’s climate plan intends to create.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More natural gas hype occurred on the July 15 edition of Fox & Friends. Texas Republican congressional candidate Wesley Hunt misleadingly categorized fracking as a technology that made the U.S. energy independent; falsely stated that “we’re doing just fine” through fracking; and repeated the age-old Republican mantra of “innovate for the future” to reduce carbon footprint. In reality, “innovation” to Republicans is just a way to continue burning fossil fuels and worsen climate change.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Tucker Carlson Tonight, guest-host Kilmeade hosted Michael Shellenberger to criticize the Biden climate plan</b>. Shellenberger, a pro-nuclear activist who has a history of pushing contrarian and bad-faith views about the environmental movement, mentioned a high price tag of renewable energy, even though renewable energy prices are at record lows, even lower than those of fossil fuel and nuclear. He also exaggerated fracking and nuclear power as a climate solution. While replacing coal with natural gas has led to lower U.S. carbon emissions, natural gas is still an incredibly dirty energy source, and its continued usage will be a disaster for climate change. Nuclear power generation, which is incredibly expensive, is also mentioned in Biden’s climate plan, making Shellenberger’s hand-wringing over the issue unnecessary.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News is a key cog in the right-wing climate misinformation network</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox has played a critical role in undermining the public consensus around climate change by eroding the trust of its viewers in climate scientists and scientific institutions. According to a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 72% of Fox News segments about climate science in 2013 “contained misleading statements.”</span> Since then, the network has continued to parade a coterie of network personalities, fringe cranks, and conspiracy theorists to push misinformation about climate change and thwart climate action.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2018, “climate denial claims dominated 86% of climate change segments on Fox News,” according to progressive nonprofit think tank Public Citizen.</b> And, in 2019, Fox’s climate denial reached unhinged new levels even as global temperatures reached record heights, natural disasters wreaked havoc on the most marginalized populations, and youth environmental activism sparked large-scale protests around the world.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the general election campaign ramps up, Fox will continue going to great lengths to avoid having good-faith discussions about tackling the climate crisis. By painting any climate proposal as absurd and ignoring President Donald Trump’s climate denial and ongoing assault on environmental protections, Fox aims to fulfill its role as a propaganda machine for the Trump administration and the fossil fuel industry that is “reaping a regulatory windfall” during his presidential term.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">also shillenberger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Lomborg’s book was given a <a href="https://twitter.com/jswatz/status/1283731552988475393" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">scathing review</a> in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lomborg-false-alarm-joseph-stiglitz.html?smid=tw-share" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The New York Times</a> by Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, </b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">noting the “many contradictions within the book” and taking to task his “underestimation of the damage associated with climate change.” (Indeed, during Lomborg’s appearances on both </span><em style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3883746" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Varney & Co.</a> </em><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">and </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3884301" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Making Money with Charles Payne</em></a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">, he did not once mention the cost of inaction on climate change, which is estimated to be </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/moodys-analytics-says-climate-change-could-cost-69-trillion-by-2100/2019/07/02/f9fb94ac-99cb-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">many trillions of dollars</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> -- </span><a href="https://skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=11" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">much greater than actually taking action</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">.) The Times’ review closed by saying “Lomborg’s work would be downright dangerous were it to succeed in persuading anyone that there was merit in its arguments.</span></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biden is GND lite?</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">presumptive Democratic nominee <b>Joe Biden</b> released his overhauled climate plan, which now calls for a $2 trillion investment in clean energy over four years with a goal of getting the U.S. to run on 100% clean electricity by 2035.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Fox News and right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc6ac5b45173a19068b4adf7b5503e7030a66849be6941bd76cb101b86e807eae34c08deb4e72484f85a824b52c915e1d4" title=" have promoted" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">have promoted</a> their same old hysterical, dishonest messaging about any climate related policy: It’s part of a radical agenda, based on climate alarmism, pushed by extreme elements of the Democratic Party that will devastate the U.S. economy.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7/20 random grab</font></p><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> New York Times <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfcfbd4e32cc7ad1942d70efe82e88543cdc883984528f4afee54d1707e69001670f39ff1a0eed62ce5dc37d9038d58e967" title="reported that" style="">reported that</a> Roger Stone used a racial slur during a recent interview. Stone has a <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc4b79b1c9a43162da2984105131471f2fd606381208efba1c14122f6adbf87e15b7fd105bdbc8c64284af65c486ff74fb" title="long history of racism" style="">long history of racism</a>, in addition to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc5a94e698e9c24ae08946b08885332402a0b5d0d2ad8f390f2ede655b9e144e2d12e677acf79a16d78f726f8f75012c7e" title="his corruption" style="">his corruption</a>, and we've <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc535417eeed19db596ce9767b3579ce6b08da842e1d90b4bc02faf65857c9a1051fbf1ecf397ecffb22798285ad6a7598" title="documented" style="">documented</a> Stone using that same racial slur previously.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfce2dbbeadd9f34e4ca870a0429843e7c30036954faba7c69b2c79f839152cf9ba9a5f60781e081b06c0357bd19c624244" title="says" style="">said that</a> “there is no evidence” masks help stop the spread of coronavirus. He said otherwise <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc56b8a01bb25fe245ef935ee2de23a21191e4fbf53f4d2523ec4e323cf0dc9223001426dc158f10c2bb70685df6937b00" title="previously" style="">previously</a>.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mike Huckabee</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc59da6e5b18465f6fd9e06e9fd2d151a9b118c13fcee12783a704876b46d99d974989a98507306e65926a6951ae27da69" title="calls" style="">called</a> the former name of Washington D.C.'s football team a “tribute” to Native Americans.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox guest <b>Rebecca Friedrichs</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc61ccf824b31558f4d62b6d3bd46f4d422d4d404be1b6a21c3dde4a8a4cdcacf126a0167be98629c3693fa7f6f654f7ad" title="says" style="">said that</a> teachers are “grooming our children for sexual predators to use them."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sean Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc2f1ed45ff0fb23247036ecdcc2d5ae05560ac629313491d2471270716ecfc916e3e0e28aedf4cdf7b6561f70621a3325" title="says" style="">said that</a> if <b>Joe Biden</b> wins the election, “America as you know it, we know it, will be destroyed." He also <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc8c908c12491dfaf899226a5d5db22b5630ab62e8d68152ddbd2e79ec86d6571b15cb9bd6c0b6d964f246330e0d6794ad" title="said that" style="">said that</a> Biden has "the most radical, extreme socialist agenda I've ever seen in any election."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rush Limbaugh</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc73283bbdfe3e59bc3e89ee164bfb1b5fc2c587f796a0ff927256821443e3b026543ab3e2e2ae8f24e794c63501179b16" title="spins web" style="">spun a web</a> of conspiracy theories about “false causes on death certificates” and “staged overrunning of hospitals."</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox medical contributor <b>Marc Siegel</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc7244bf8560b06a7ae34a63d265521b540af5d45fc4dee174ff0e0615a07b93c2a3f06d047cb5c0f2c3816ca5e0ae17cb" title="criticizes" style="">criticized</a> states with COVID surges for rolling back reopening.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Laura Ingraham</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc923e3897fa2feec33cd692e27004c0a4ab88ca79a9fc53b285fed3db5919c83dc29ba9f53939c63cc99b16ca51eb06d0" title="questions" style="">railed at</a> experts and science on masks helping to slow the spread of coronavirus. A <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfc066202964313a0306f1e6e39b4c0b62afd49c353f3c9b78cad7624da0a657a6d3d8c00b2d27b4b86a6771d317416cdf8" title="viral Twitter thread" style="">viral Twitter thread</a> later explained just how dishonest Ingraham was.</font></li></ul></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-peddled-misinformation-about-the-coronavirus-253-times-in-five-days-study/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-peddled-misinformation-about-the-coronavirus-253-times-in-five-days-study/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new study finds that Fox News <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/unproven-drug-treatment-for-coronavirus-championed-by-trump-and-fox-news-shows-no-benefit-study/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">peddled misinformation</a> about the coronavirus pandemic 253 times in only five days. The documented instances included <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/tucker-carlson-exposed-as-coronavirus-truther-how-the-fox-news-host-masks-conspiracies-in-populism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">claims which undermined science</a> and <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/study-fox-news-viewership-linked-to-higher-non-compliance-with-stay-at-home-orders/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">faith in experts</a>, as well as demands that <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/bless-you-fox-news-stars-shower-blessings-upon-protesters-for-violating-coronavirus-restrictions/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">schools and businesses reopen at the risk of public health</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/hydroxychloroquine-truther-laura-ingraham-urges-trump-campaign-to-ignore-alarmist-covid-drivel/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Primetime host Laura Ingraham</a>, who has no medical or scientific background whatsoever, led the pack with about a quarter of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/05/fox-news-laura-ingraham-falsely-claims-there-was-no-real-scientific-basis-for-social-distancing/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the claims</a> — 63 total, or just more than 12 per show. Additionally, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/as-covid-deaths-mounted-lindsey-graham-kept-moving-the-goalposts-for-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the network’s “straight news” programs contributed</a> about 35% of the misinformation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-pushed-coronavirus-misinformation-253-times-just-five-days" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">study</a>, published Thursday by media watchdog Media Matters for America, was conducted from July 6 to 10 — the week after a Yahoo News <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/as-coronavirus-surges-fox-news-shifts-its-message-on-masks-200834996.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report</a> proclaimed that Fox’s coronavirus coverage had taken a “remarkable turn” for the better:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">However haltingly and incompletely, the president’s favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge, across various programs and its news site, that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even [President Donald] Trump himself will acknowledge.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That report cited two articles on the network’s website and two instances of Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Steve Doocy making remarks about masks that, while stopping short of endorsements, did not mock them outright.</b></font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The article also pointed out that Fox News requires its employees to wear masks at work <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1273692843161325571" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">most of the time</a>. Additionally, the network appears to have canceled a Fox Nation show about the pandemic hosted by coronavirus conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson, though extant episodes remain available.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">new study finds that Fox News <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/unproven-drug-treatment-for-coronavirus-championed-by-trump-and-fox-news-shows-no-benefit-study/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">peddled misinformation</a> about the coronavirus pandemic 253 times in only five days. The documented instances included <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/tucker-carlson-exposed-as-coronavirus-truther-how-the-fox-news-host-masks-conspiracies-in-populism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">claims which undermined science</a> and <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/study-fox-news-viewership-linked-to-higher-non-compliance-with-stay-at-home-orders/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">faith in experts</a>, as well as demands that <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/bless-you-fox-news-stars-shower-blessings-upon-protesters-for-violating-coronavirus-restrictions/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">schools and businesses reopen at the risk of public health</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/hydroxychloroquine-truther-laura-ingraham-urges-trump-campaign-to-ignore-alarmist-covid-drivel/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Primetime host Laura Ingraham</a>, who has no medical or scientific background whatsoever, led the pack with about a quarter of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/05/fox-news-laura-ingraham-falsely-claims-there-was-no-real-scientific-basis-for-social-distancing/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the claims</a> — 63 total, or just more than 12 per show. Additionally, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/as-covid-deaths-mounted-lindsey-graham-kept-moving-the-goalposts-for-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the network’s “straight news” programs contributed</a> about 35% of the misinformation.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The data in the Media Matters study flatly contradicts the isolated examples from the Yahoo report. Here is a quick breakdown:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; list-style: none;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About half the incidents — 115 claims — challenged scientific consensus and undermined official government recommendations, such as social distancing and masking guidelines.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The <b>Ingraham Angle” was the clear leader of the pack, pushing misinformation 63 times, more than half of which came from Ingraham herself, who undermined science a staggering 21 times in five days</b>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox & Friends” took second place with 45 instances; “Hannity” and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” finished in a dead heat for third, clocking 21 and 20 instances, respectively.</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Straight news programs delivered more than a third of the misinformation, led by Martha MacCallum’s “The Story” with 20 claims.</b></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Eight claims defended or endorsed unproven remedies such as hydroxychloroquine,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> days after the FDA told people </span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">not to take it</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> outside of hospitals or clinical trials.</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b>network politicized the pandemic 63 times, including 51 claims that regulations requiring masks and closing businesses were rooted in politics and 10 false claims linking recent racial justice protests to a surge in new infections.</b></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hosts advocated 34 times to disregard public health concerns in favor of reopening the country’s more than 100,000 K-12 schools.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The misinformation and the seeming coordination with official White House talking points has raised alarm among experts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For instance, in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-fauci-made-lot-mistakes-n1233402" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a “Hannity” interview July 10</a>, the last day covered in the study, Trump responded to a question about the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, by saying “he’s made a lot of mistakes.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That interview fed an ongoing <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/13/white-house-sends-oppo-dump-im-attempt-to-discredit-fauci-after-he-disputes-trump-on-coronavirus/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">White House effort to discredit Fauci</a>, who <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/trump-fauci-coronavirus-pandemic-oppo/614224/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">pushed back</a> by calling such efforts “bizarre.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Ultimately, it hurts the president,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then there is the matter of schools. The network and the administration, including Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, for weeks trumpeted an American Academy of Pediatrics statement advising a measured reopening of schools.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The misinformation’s momentum eventually compelled the academy — together with with the two largest educators’ unions in the country and the School Superintendents Association — to <a href="https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2020/pediatricians-educators-and-superintendents-urge-a-safe-return-to-school-this-fall/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">clarify</a> its statement. It now says that reopening “will clearly require substantial new investments in our schools and campuses,” and calls on Congress and the administration “to provide the federal resources needed” to safely educate and care for students.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an earlier <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/20/fox-news-coronavirus-coverage-decreased-more-than-40-over-the-past-month-study-reveals/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Media Matters audit</a> of the cable network, Fox News posted a 20% decline in its coronavirus coverage between March and May.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But this unrelenting misinformation campaign comes amid a massive surge in COVID-19 infections, which has ravaged healthcare resources in Sun Belt states such as <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/14/texas-and-arizona-request-refrigerated-trucks-as-morgues-run-out-of-space-to-store-coronavirus-dead/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Arizona</a>, California, Florida <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/11/austin-mayor-steve-adler-on-battling-the-pandemic-when-this-virus-comes-it-comes-fast/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">and Texas</a>. In recent weeks, the U.S. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/coronavirus-updates.html#link-7ee57c33" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">has set</a> seven records for daily new cases, topping 68,000 on July 10, the same day which Trump, who said on numerous occasions that the virus would “miraculously” disappear in April, told Hannity that Fauci had “made a lot of mistakes.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, many states <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/more-states-reverse-or-slow-reopening-plans-as-coronavirus-cases-climb.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">are walking back</a> reopening measures. California closed restaurants, movie theaters and bars. Arizona <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/arizona-rolls-back-reopening-as-coronavirus-cases-grow-in-majority-of-us-states.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">also shuttered</a> movie theaters and bars, plus gyms and water parks.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On July 13, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs wondered “what in hell is going on” as closures increased. Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox medical expert, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/fox-medical-contributor-marc-siegel-criticizes-states-covid-surges-rolling-back" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">criticized</a> the policies as “not consistent,” “punitive” and “draconian.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>However, there are some fractures within the network. A study from April showed that viewers of Hannity were more likely to die of COVID-19 than Carlson’s viewers. Now, the two seem neck-and-neck in misinformation.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Carlson, who in June <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/what-tucker-carlson-is-doing-with-his-newfound-clout-attacking-republicans/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">broke Hannity’s all-time ratings record</a>, recently claimed there was “no evidence” that masks help constrain the pandemic, in contradiction of guidance from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hannity, meanwhile, took the opposite view.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I went to my grocery store every week. Guess what?” the host recently asked. “They wore masks. Nobody at my grocery store, thank God, got coronavirus.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think they work,” he added.</font></p></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/here-are-all-the-times-fox-news-hosts-went-on-vacation-an-investigation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/here-are-all-the-times-fox-news-hosts-went-on-vacation-an-investigation</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">News personality and frozen food heir-apparent <a href="https://www.salon.com/topic/tucker_carlson" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson</a> drew eye-rolls Monday when <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/13/tucker-carlson-announces-vacation-after-his-top-fox-news-show-writer-resigns-for-racists-posts_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">he told viewers</a> that he was embarking on a “pre-planned vacation,” widely understood to be <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/08/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson-calls-white-supremacy-a-hoax-after-fbi-warns-of-domestic-terror-threat/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a euphemism</a> for <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/10/were-becoming-north-korea-tucker-carlson-speaks-out-against-the-propaganda-of-sesame-street/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a network timeout</a>.His respite, however, was uncannily timed to an <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/bye-bye-tucker-carlson-advertisers-bail-on-fox-news-hosts-program-after-race-baiting-screed/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">onslaught of criticism</a> after CNN revealed that the show’s longtime top writer had been secretly posting vile and hateful comments on the internet for years. It also comes on the heels of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/03/tucker-carlson-warns-fox-news-viewers-that-what-youre-watching-is-class-war-disguised-as-race-war/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a marked escalation</a> in Carlson’s own <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/26/foxs-tucker-carlson-black-lives-matter-protesters-would-be-called-terrorists-if-they-were-saudi/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">race-baiting rhetoric</a>, which Carlson pushed far enough to draw <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/08/hate-speech-tucker-carlson-accused-of-echoing-white-supremacist-14-words-slogan-on-fox-news/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">accusations of hate speech</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Carlson has also been in some senses riding high, turning in <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/what-tucker-carlson-is-doing-with-his-newfound-clout-attacking-republicans/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the highest cable news ratings in history</a> and drawing <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/06/tucker-carlson-2024-is-the-fox-news-superstar-positioning-himself-as-trumps-natural-successor/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">speculation about his possible political ambitions</a>, he’s also currently the subject of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/exclusive-tucker-carlson-founded-daily-caller-violated-tax-law-irs-complaint-alleges/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">an IRS criminal complaint</a> and an ongoing <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/18/fox-news-lawyer-tells-judge-that-tucker-carlsons-audience-doesnt-expect-him-to-report-the-facts/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">high-profile defamation lawsuit</a> against his network.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the announcement, Salon took up an intrepid investigation into other Fox News personalities who have taken conspicuously timed “vacations” over the years. Here’s what we found.</font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura Ingraham </font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2018, the primetime host told her audience she’d be taking a family vacation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’ll be off next week for Easter break with my kids,” she said. A Fox News spokesperson <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/02/fox-news-laura-ingraham-takes-vacation-as-more-advertisers-drop-her-show.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">told</a> several outlets the vacation was indeed pre-planned.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, it was suspiciously close — within days, even — to <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/29/advertisers-drop-laura-ingraham-after-she-mocks-parkland-survivor/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a storm of controversy</a> that Ingraham generated when she mocked the academic record of <a href="https://www.salon.com/topic/david-hogg" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">David Hogg</a>, an outspoken teenage gun control advocate who had just one month earlier survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Had Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA… totally unpredictable given acceptance rates,” Ingraham had <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/979021639458459648" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tweeted</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her show quickly hemorrhaged advertisers after Hogg and others organized a boycott, and she eventually offered an apology. In response, Hogg told her she should <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/04/01/david-hogg-laura-ingraham-should-apologize-to-lebron-james-too/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">apologize to more people</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shepard Smith</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The same month as Ingraham, March 2018, Smith also took a week-long “pre-planned” vacation. Smith was just coming off an intra-network spat with Ingraham and primetime personality Sean Hannity, precipitated by Smith’s remarks to Time magazine that opinion hosts on his network “don’t have rules” and are there “strictly to be entertaining.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response, Hannity called Smith “clueless” about the opinion side of news. Ingraham said his statements were “inconsiderate and inaccurate.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity has claimed <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/18/fox-news-lawyer-tells-judge-that-tucker-carlsons-audience-doesnt-expect-him-to-report-the-facts/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">multiple times</a> in recent years that he is not a journalist.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For instance, when asked about possible professional conflicts from his friendship with Trump in 2016, Hannity told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/business/media/sean-hannity-turns-adviser-in-the-service-of-donald-trump.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">New York Times</a>: “I never claimed to be a journalist.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m not a journalist,” Hannity <a href="https://www.salon.com/2016/04/20/sean_hannity_flips_out_on_ted_cruz_for_bashing_donald_trump_you_gotta_stop_im_getting_sick_of_it/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tweeted</a> that same year. “I’m a talk host.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And in a 2017 Times interview, Hannity <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/16/theres-a-feud-brewing-between-shepard-smith-and-sean-hannity-over-whos-a-journalist-at-fox-news/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">said</a>: “I’m a journalist, but I’m an advocacy journalist, or an opinion journalist.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just before departing, Smith told colleague Chris Wallace during on-air banter, that everything would be “peachy-keen” on his return.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Going to take a one-week vacation that was previously planned, and be back in a week, and everything will be peachy-keen and hunky-dory,” he said. “I can’t wait.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That’s what they always say: Previously planned and one-week vacation,” Wallace replied.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith eventually departed Fox News in 2019 after a public dust-up with Tucker Carlson. The network sided with Carlson.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Megyn Kelly</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly took a spring break vacation in 2016 following conflicts with then-candidate Donald Trump, who had made a string of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2016/03/16/trump_has_given_women_a_new_reason_to_hate_him_by_vowing_punishment_for_abortions_but_lets_not_forget_how_anti_women_cruz_and_kasich_are_too/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">sexist</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/711631122036293632" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">aggressive comments</a> targeting the network anchor.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though the network said that the vacation was <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/megyn-kellys-vacation-has-nothing-to-do-with-donald-trump/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">not related to Trump</a>, soon after her return she had changed her approach, giving Trump <a href="https://www.salon.com/2016/05/18/megyn_kelly_settles_the_fox_news_host_proves_shes_toeing_the_party_line_with_a_flattering_fawning_interview_of_donald_trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a mawkishly soft interview</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/business/media/megyn-kelly-skips-today-blackface-nbc.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Kelly also took a brief leave at NBC</a> after wondering aloud why it shouldn’t be OK for white people to wear blackface for Halloween.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sean Hannity</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity was sent on a Memorial Day break in 2017 after he continued to promote conspiracy theories about the 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, despite emotional pleas from the Rich family that he stop.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Rich family hired a private investigator, and the network was forced to retract its news story about the allegations. Hannity, however, soldiered on, at one point allegedly seeking and receiving a go-ahead from Trump, until the spectacle became so heinous that half a dozen advertisers pulled up stakes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The seriousness of the moment did not seem to register with Hannity, who appeared to take glee in teasing his critics, writing in a <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/867577957124108289" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">since-deleted tweet</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Uh oh My ANNUAL Memorial Day long weekend starts NOW. Destroy Trump/Conservative media breathless coverage starts! Did Hannity do last show?</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox released a <a href="https://deadline.com/2017/05/sean-hannity-fox-news-statement-memorial-day-vacation-1202102289/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">statement</a> saying that the vacation was just for Memorial Day and he would be back the next Tuesday. “Those who suggest otherwise are going to look foolish,” the statement said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jesse Watters</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The co-host of weeknight talk show “The Five” and Saturday’s “Watters’ World” announced he was taking a family vacation in April 2017 after making an off-color comment about senior White House adviser and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watters was responding to video of Ivanka being <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/europe/ivanka-trump-is-jeered-in-berlin-after-defending-her-father.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">booed</a> while participating in a panel in Berlin about female entrepreneurship. First, he defended her.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s funny, the left says they really respect women, and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that, they boo and hiss,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But he added, smirking: “So I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watters denied that the remark was sexual.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“During the break we were commenting on Ivanka’s voice and how it was low and steady and resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ,” he said in a statement. “This was in no way a joke about anything else.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In that same statement he announced a two-day vacation from the air.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m going to be taking a vacation with my family, so I’m not going to be here tomorrow and Friday,” he said. “But I’ll be back on Monday, so try not to miss me too much.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox News spokeswoman did not respond when <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/business/media/jesse-watters-ivanka-trump.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the New York Times inquired</a> whether the vacation was pre-planned.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill O’Reilly</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just a couple of weeks before Watters took his 2017 vacation, Bill O’Reilly, coincidentally something of a mentor to Watters, announced that he too would take a vacation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The announcement came after the New York Times revealed that O’Reilly had a long, dark history of alleged sexual harassment targeting female colleagues at the network.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amid the scorching backlash, the host said he would take two weeks off and return to the network. But he didn’t get the chance: Fox quickly forced him out when more than 50 advertisers told the network they were pulling their buys.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, Fox gave O’Reilly a fat <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/04/20/bill-oreillys-golden-parachute-from-fox-news-is-almost-twice-as-big-as-the-payouts-to-his-five-accusers/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">$25 million goodbye kiss</a>, which O’Reilly literally used to go on vacation. He was soon spotted in Rome, <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/world/bill-oreilly-loses-fox-news-job-following-reports-of-hushed-up-harassment-allegations" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Associated Press reported</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News had settled with <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/12/04/bill-oreilly-faces-another-lawsuit-from-woman-he-allegedly-abused/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">at least half a dozen women</a> who accused O’Reilly of sexual misconduct, dating back to 2002. The network paid the women a total of $13 million, about half of what it paid their abuser to go away.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gretchen Carlson</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carlson had wrestled for a long time with whether she should come forward with accusations of serial sexual harassment at the hands of network chief Roger Ailes. In June 2015 the network informed her that her contract would not be renewed, and she went on vacation from June 27 through July 4.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two days after she returned, Carlson filed her <a href="https://www.salon.com/2016/07/06/bombshell_sexual_harassment_allegations_at_fox_news_longtime_host_gretchen_carlson_sues_roger_ailes_after_being_fired/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">earth-shattering sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes</a>, kicking off the #metoo era and heralding the arrival of a long-overdue reckoning for the network.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7/10 scary spike</font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-coronavirus-coverage-dangerous-ever"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-coronavirus-coverage-dangerous-ever</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic Fox has proven itself an unreliable source of public health information.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Across the network, its guests and hosts have downplayed the severity of the crisis by insinuating death and case numbers are <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-weekslong-campaign-downplay-americas-coronavirus-death-toll" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">inflated</a>, have consistently questioned efficacy of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-trump-reopen-america.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lifesaving</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wearing-face-masks-could-save-33000-us-lives-2020-6?op=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">measures</a> like <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/promotion-praise-and-ton-coverage-how-fox-news-embraced-protests-against-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stay-at-home orders</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/how-fox-news-helped-turn-masks-another-culture-war-flashpoint" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">mask-wearing guidelines</a>, and have even hocked dangerous medications like <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/comprehensive-guide-foxs-promotion-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hydroxychloroquine</a> as miracle drugs despite no supporting evidence. And as cases surge in dozens of states, Fox has done everything in its power to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-doing-all-it-can-deny-coronavirus-pandemic-getting-worse" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deny</a> the crisis is getting worse. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The results of the network's <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-coverage-covid-19-pandemic-medically-inaccurate-malevolently-racist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">misinformation</a> have been devastating. New <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/25/fox-news-hannity-coronavirus-misinformation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">studies</a> suggest that death and infection rates are higher in places with higher Fox viewership. And there's plenty of anecdotal <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/07/the-last-days-of-rosemarie-gabriele-pasco-countys-first-coronavirus-victim/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">evidence</a> to support such conclusions. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent weeks, however, some have <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/even-fox-and-friends-is-begging-trump-to-wear-a-mask.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">credited</a> Fox for softening its message on the efficacy of masks and other public health measures. For example, a Yahoo story from last week <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/as-coronavirus-surges-fox-news-shifts-its-message-on-masks-200834996.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pointed</a> to a recent moment when <b>Fox “news”-side anchor Sandra Smith allowed a former Centers for Disease Control (CDC) director to make a point about the utility of masks without challenge.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But has Fox's message really shifted? The past week of coverage suggests otherwise:</b></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 9, Fox News contributor and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1281366299709509633?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a> Fox anchor Trace Gallagher that “there’s very very little evidence that masks work to slow the community transmission of SARS-COV-2 or any respiratory virus,” despite ample <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/13/spate-new-research-supports-wearing-masks-control-coronavirus-spread/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">research</a> that says otherwise. </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">July 9 edition of her prime-time show, Fox’s Laura Ingraham <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-were-getting-closer-herd-immunity-and-not-scheduling-football-games" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a> without evidence that the U.S. is “closer to herd immunity.” Ingraham also mocked experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci for suggesting stay-at-home orders may be needed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, saying such measures amount to “a war against our way of life.”</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 8, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em> co-host Brian Kilmeade <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-host-says-schools-should-reopen-so-kids-can-learn-take-risks-and-overcome" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">downplayed</a> the risk of reopening schools in the fall amid viral spread, saying, “Life is full of risks, kids should learn that early that life is full of hurdles.” </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the July 7 edition of his prime-time show, Fox’s Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-says-masks-and-social-distancing-have-no-basis-any-kind-science" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">criticized</a> schools that plan to implement social distancing and mask-wearing policies when they reopen, calling the measures “bizarre health theater” that have “no basis of any kind of science.” </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an interview with Fox contributor Dr. Marc Siegel on July 7, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends'</em> Kilmeade <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3881771" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a> the discussion around the coronavirus needed to “stop focusing on the [number of] cases” because “the fatality rate’s 0.04%” for people under 70. “I agree with that completely,” Siegel said. </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host Steve Hilton made several specious claims in a July 7 tweet, blaming viral spread on protests and writing that “99% cases [are] not significant.” In reality, COVID-19 has also been linked to other health complications like <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172220.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">diabetes</a>, <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247086-the-coronavirus-is-leaving-some-people-with-permanent-lung-damage/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">permanent lung damage</a>, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/25/covid-19-brain-complications/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">strokes, psychosis</a>, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/children/mis-c.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children</a>, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-effects-symptoms" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">more</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[hilton twet]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also on July 7, Siegel <a href="https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1280569957567389696?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spun</a> Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comment that “we’re still knee-deep in the first wave” of the coronavirus as a positive development. “I like his expression knee-deep,” he said. “Notice he didn't say thigh-deep, he said knee-deep." </font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a discussion about reopening schools on Fox’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outnumbered</em> on July 7, The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3881846" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">downplayed</a> the risk of reopening schools, saying, “It's actually kind of criminal to ban children from school, and it's absurd that so many people have been doing it given the low risk of getting coronavirus or transmitting it.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A few days earlier, as a guest on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">MediaBuzz</em>, Hemingway expressed <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-contributor-denounces-outrage-and-shame-directed-skeptics-mask" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">outrage</a> on behalf of mask skeptics. </b>“The outrage and shame directed at skeptics of mask-wearing is excessive and almost certainly counterproductive. ... The media have overstated their confidence.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>During the July 6 edition of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outnumbered Overtime</em>, Fox contributor Mike Huckabee <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3881656" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">blamed</a> Americans’ unwillingness to wear masks on mixed messages from public health officials:</b> “The very people who are telling them they must wear a mask now are the ones in early March and April who said, "Don't wear a mask, it's very dangerous. … So for all the people who say, ‘well, the president shouldn't say it's harmless,’ I would also say those health people really messed up by giving mixed messages early on and then later completely reversing course.”</font></li></ul></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox is doing all it can to deny the coronavirus pandemic is getting worse</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITTEN BY CASEY WEXLER & OLIVIA LITTLE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News has pushed misinformation about the novel coronavirus since the pandemic began. And as the country hit record-high new case numbers toward the end of June, Fox News denied that the COVID-19 crisis was worsening. </b>When hosts and guests did admit that cases are rising, they claimed the threat is overblown because death rates are low and young people aren’t as susceptible to the virus. Meanwhile, they continued to push for schools to reopen, with some even suggesting children are not susceptible to COVID-19. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are a few recent examples of how Fox News has denied the reality of the coronavirus pandemic:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Claiming the pandemic is ending </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coronavirus cases are currently on the rise in over half the country. On June 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the number of cases is probably 10 times higher than in official reporting. That same day, the number of confirmed cases increased by more than 40,000, a record for the United States that was surpassed the very next day. But Fox News viewers heard a different story, as Fox hosts and their guests claimed numerous times in the last week that the COVID-19 pandemic was actually ending, not worsening -- despite an avalanche of evidence to the contrary.  </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the June 22 edition of Outnumbered, Fox Business host Dagen McDowell claimed the pandemic was waning while criticizing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for not making public appearances.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the June 22, 2020 edition of Fox's Outnumbered </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Townhall editor and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich defended the low turnout at President Donald Trump's June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, “during the end of a pandemic.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about rising numbers of infections among young people on the June 22 edition of The Ingraham Angle, guest Dr. Ramin Oskoui said, “I think what it means is herd immunity is starting to develop.” He added, “This is what happens as a viral pandemic like this winds down.” Though he admitted that COVID-19 case numbers were increasing, he focused on still-low death rates, which even host Laura Ingraham acknowledged were “a lagging indicator” of the outbreak. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the June 22, 2020 edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While some on Fox were talking about “the end of a pandemic,” ICU beds were filling up in Houston hospitals and a 17-year-old in Florida had recently lost her life to COVID-19 complications, becoming “one of the youngest victims of the pandemic” in the state.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Declaring rising infections are not an issue since death rates are still low </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even when Fox has been willing to admit that the coronavirus pandemic is not going away, hosts and guests often claimed that the virus is not an issue as long as the number of deaths remain low. But this narrative is false for a few reasons. Experts fear that death rates will begin to climb significantly in the near future. And there’s evidence that some patients who “recover” from the virus can experience lasting negative health effects. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox host Laura Ingraham has been a frequent peddler of coronavirus misinformation throughout the pandemic; as recently as June 15, she was still promoting the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 </b>even as the Food and Drug Administration ended authorizations for its use. Last week, not only did she use her prime-time show to host people denying the COVID-19 crisis was worsening, but she herself pushed the narrative that death rates would remain low.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the June 22 edition of The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham said the mainstream media was pushing a narrative of “COVID armageddon” and then suggested death rates would continue declining despite the massive rise in the coronavirus cases. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Epidemiologist Harvey Risch downplayed rising case numbers on the June 23 edition of The Ingraham Angle, saying that “if this second wave is largely of young people, as it’s progressing now, then it might not matter that much.” Risch went on to compare new cases of COVID-19 to “an influenza-like illness” that is “mostly just inconvenience and discomfort,” despite horror stories from survivors as young as 16. He concluded, “If the hospitalizations stay down and the deaths stay down, then why should we worry whether we’re having more cases.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the June 23, 2020 edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ingraham’s prime-time colleagues have also echoed these talking points to downplay new case numbers. On June 29, Fox host Tucker Carlson claimed on Tucker Carlson Tonight that “while coronavirus cases are growing quickly, deaths and hospitalizations are not. It's not clear exactly why.” </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is blatant misinformation. Hospitals are approaching capacity in multiple states with death rates in the worst outbreak areas often taking weeks following increases in case counts. A recent outbreak won’t show corresponding deaths until two or more weeks later.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, Ingraham and Risch claim that the reason death rates are low is that most of the new cases are among younger patients. But this argument assumes that these young infected people will not infect their parents or other older adults they interact with in daily life and ignores the “concerns that asymptomatic young people are helping to spread the virus to more vulnerable Americans at a time when cases are surging dangerously in the South and the West.” The CDC also recently added obesity and pregnancy to its list of conditions that may place people at higher risk for severe illness, noting that “an estimated 60 percent of American adults have at least one chronic medical condition.” The virus is not just an issue for young people to deal with right now. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Suggesting children are not susceptible to coronavirus</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox has pushed hard for months to end the economic lockdowns and stay-at-home orders in place to stop the coronavirus spread, and the network remains adamant about the need for schools to reopen in the fall. (Experts’ opinions on reopening schools are more nuanced.) Fox figures have resorted to pushing misinformation in service of this argument, not only claiming that the disease is not “particularly fatal” to young people, but also ignoring that children can spread the virus to others who are more vulnerable. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On June 23, Fox “news”-side anchor Jon Scott suggested that COVID-19 “is not a disease that is particularly fatal to young people” and that “there is no reason to be closing schools and colleges right now,” only to be corrected by Dr. Robert Lahita.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the June 23, 2020, edition of Fox News' Bill Hemmer Reports</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ingraham claimed on June 26, “There is no science that supports keeping kids, especially those in the younger grades, away from the classroom.” Ingraham argued that “the evidence for reopening our schools is overwhelming,” quoting an education policy expert saying that “there are almost no recorded cases of child-to-adult transmission of COVID-19. It's not a zero risk, but we are acting with the March 2020 understanding of COVID-19 and kids and not with the June 2020 understanding of COVID-19 and kids.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the June 26, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For months, Fox News has watered down the serious complications children with COVID-19 face, conflating the pandemic with the common flu. Previously, on the April 27 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said that “by the numbers, the annual flu is much more dangerous to children than the coronavirus is,” but “we’ve shut down education nationwide.” He added, “Many schools and colleges are considering staying closed in the fall. For the kids who go to those schools and their families this is a disaster, so it’s fair to ask who has been saved by doing this?” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The assertion that children are resistant enough to be safe from severe cases of the coronavirus is demonstrably false. While children seem to be more resistant to the virus, they can still contract it. Additionally, little is known about what role they play in spreading the virus. Current evidence indicates children could be vectors for the spread of the disease even if they are asymptomatic, potentially spreading the virus to their parents, teachers, school janitorial staff, administrators, and others. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even more alarming, an inflammatory syndrome tied to COVID-19 is currently hospitalizing children. Multisystem inflammation syndrome (MIS-C) is a severe and sometimes fatal side-effect of COVID-19 requiring intensive care. Researchers have already identified nearly 300 cases of MIS-C in children suffering from COVID-19. To suggest that COVID-19 is not “particularly fatal” to children is to ignore the severe and unpredictable complications faced by those who contract the disease. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite signs that coronavirus cases and death rates will continue to worsen, Fox News seems determined to downplay and even disregard the severity of the pandemic.</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">720 mma  </font></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9070058077stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9070058077stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9070058077stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9070058077stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9070058077camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f6e278dd6e2a6c7a0330450cdc77e595d2bda863ddb7d7047d02f9547b56cbe27b2d71fef0120fda09c3319dfb6b45a866647fae7e2a8c79" title="A CEO won $1.7 billion in border wall contracts using the Trump-Fox feedback loop. His last wall project reportedly could collapse." style=""> CEO won $1.7 billion in border wall contracts using the Trump-Fox feedback loop. His last wall project reportedly could collapse.</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9070058077stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9070058077stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9070058077camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lesson here is simple: Don't hand out federal contracts based on who catches President <b>Trump</b>'s eye on Fox News.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tommy Fisher</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f6e278dd6e2a6c7aec8c636c60f3ca9799343570e9cc87ca71ace9b05d9dc72a297686ba1a41b97c15f4b13bec1b74854853a1bcf42b3054" title="received" style="">received</a> over a billion dollars in federal contracts for his construction company to build sections of Trump's wall by appealing directly to the president in appearances on Fox News. As we've previously reported in this space, Fisher made at least 11 appearances on Fox to claim that he could build the wall faster and cheaper than anyone else. It worked: He got $1.7 billion in federal contracts because Trump had seen his appearances on Fox -- including what was reportedly the largest border wall contract ever awarded.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And now, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f6e278dd6e2a6c7a7b97f4222e5dc053e76d99a8c05693ef958c2a4cd05f9d301faa0030b800ac6d5341b43f9959ccdf69cbb3ed5af0b6f2" title="a new report" style="">a new report</a> by ProPublica reveals that a private wall project of Fisher's shows signs of "runoff erosion" and is in danger of collapsing into the Rio Grande, with experts saying that it was built far too close to the river.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style=""><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">720 mma</font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At a press conference Tuesday, Fox News correspondent <b style="">Douglas McKelway</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f6e278dd6e2a6c7a798eb4c0541fe74c29bb2a4fc8f8c56bd382d133bc0be0c053cdb803bec4eafa4f18bd75377afabcb7f5081b46818263" title="told" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">told</a> presumptive Democratic presidential nominee <b style="">Joe Biden </b>that “some have speculated” he is experiencing “cognitive decline</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” and asked if the former vice president had been tested for it. Biden replied that he is “constantly tested,” adding, “I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I’m running against.” After the press conference was over, McKelway suggested on-air that Biden may have "mild dementia," because "there is speculation and it is widespread." </span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The "speculation" that McKelway referred to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f6e278dd6e2a6c7a85d71d25914f643e776de78b6551171573dd5853a3acc07eeda39eb048e87bf493ba25f6f840acd6813e0c8841030c49" title="neatly lines up" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">neatly lines up</a> with <b>Sean Hannity</b>'s talking points. The day before the press conference, Hannity alleged that Biden “can barely string two sentences together” and challenged the “mob and the media” to ask whether Biden has dementia.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Briefly, on McKelway: <b>Roger Ailes</b> hired McKelway after the then-local news correspondent became a conservative cause celebre for a bogus report criticizing then-President <b>Barack Obama</b> and “far left environmental groups.” He regularly attacked Democrats on his (now-deleted) Twitter feed, and drew criticism from within Fox after he sent an email to colleagues trying to defend Trump’s infamous comment that there were “very fine people on both sides” following the August 2017 neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally and resulting counter-protests. He was subsequently dispatched to cover the Democratic primary in spite (or because of) his past attacks on the candidates.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McKelway played his part at the Biden presser: A whole slew of Fox programs covered McKelway's question; anchor <b style="">Bill Hemmer</b> lauded him for it, as did Hannity himself.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The entire episode reveals how things work at Fox: The “opinion” side of the organization speculates; The "news" side reports what other people are speculating -- no matter what factual issues there may be.</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">fox News removes ‘unethical’ digitally altered images of police brutality protests in Seattle</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Royalty-free stock photo ID: 1288386304 Tallinn, Estonia - 01/18/2019: Fox News website homepage. Fox News channel logo visible through a magnifying glass.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Written by Roger Sollenberger / Salon June 16, 2020</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News over the weekend removed misleading images from stories about protests against police brutality in Seattle from its website after it was revealed they had been digitally altered in a manner which made the scene appear dangerous.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Seattle Times published a report Friday calling out multiple images from Fox News coverage of the police-free “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) in the city.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One photo illustration appearing on the Fox News homepage showed a masked man with an assault rifle and tactical vest standing in front of a sign reading, “You are now entering Free Cap Hill.” The outlet did not originally disclose that the photo of the scene and the photo of the armed man had been spliced together using two different photos, which were taken more than a week apart.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The original photo, from Getty Images, shows the armed man in front of a car.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He was digitally placed in front of the entrance sign.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The same image of the man appeared in at least one other image on Fox News’ website, in front of a smashed retail storefront. According to The Times, it was also a combination of multiple images.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It is definitely Photoshopped,” freelance photographer David Ryder, who took the original photo and published it through Getty images, told the outlet. “To use a photo out of context in a journalistic setting like that seems unethical.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservatives, including President Donald Trump, have attempted to sculpt the CHAZ storyline into a political flashpoint. Protesters converted the area into a street festival after police, who teargassed demonstrators, left the precinct in an effort to de-escalate tensions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump tweeted Thursday that “Radical Left Governor [J]ay Inslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before. Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped [sic] IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The mayor told the president, “Make us all safe. Go back to your bunker.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News on Friday used a photo of a man running through an urban inferno as a banner image for a group of stories about Seattle under the headline, “CRAZY TOWN || Seattle helpless as armed guards patrol anarchists’ autonomous zone, shake down businesses: cops.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The photo was unaltered, but it was an AP photo taken May 30 in St. Paul, Minn. Fox News later removed it.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The articles did not notify readers that the photos were altered, and it remains unclear who was responsible for the decision to do so. A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to Salon’s request for comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an emailed statement, a Fox News spokeswoman told The Times: “We have replaced our photo illustration with the clearly delineated images of a gunman and a shattered storefront, both of which were taken this week in Seattle’s autonomous zone.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>However, that statement itself was inaccurate. While the gunman was photographed that week — June 10 — the smashed storefront images were first published by Getty on May 30.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News fully apologized Saturday in an editor’s note accompanying its CHAZ coverage, acknowledging that it “did not clearly delineate” the photo illustrations, which it labeled a “collage.” The site also apologized for falsely attributing the shot of the Minneapolis fire. “Fox News regrets these errors,” the note said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Talent at the conservative network have attempted to use the Seattle protests as a political wedge issue. For example, primetime host Tucker Carlson accused the people in the zone of advocating segregation.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The network also reported an anecdotal claim from Seattle Assistant Chief of Police Deanna Nollette.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We’ve heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area,” Nollette said. “This is the crime of extortion.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Police Chief Carmen Best later corrected that statement.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We haven’t had any formal reports of this occurring,” she said, indicating the reports had come from rumors spread on social media.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Though the Seattle protests have at times been home to contentious scenes of unrest — including a cop filmed forcibly removing his partner’s knee from someone’s neck and a man filmed driving into a crowd of protesters and shooting a black man — the CHAZ street scene has been almost entirely peaceful, featuring musical and visual artists, free street food, concerts and movies.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best said she did not think the officers should have abandoned the precinct, a move which she claims has led to longer 911 response times.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Trump called demonstrators “domestic terrorists” over the weekend and threatened federal action unless local officials “take back” the area. He also falsely claimed that antifa forces had taken over the city.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Propaganda’: Fox News photoshops gunman into stories about Seattle’s autonomous zone</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image via Screengrab.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by The New Civil Rights Movement June 14, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern noticed that Fox News added a man carrying a military-assault rifle into images of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) on Friday. The CHAZ is a police-free area currently occupied by protesters police violence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News featured the images on their website without any mention that they had been altered. They placed the exact same gunman in two different photos. In one, the gunman’s left arm had been weirdly cut off in a straight line from the shoulder to the elbow.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox claimed that the image of a shattered window in the CHAZ was taken this week, but it seems it was actually taken on May 30.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Joseph Stern</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@mjs_DC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News, a totally normal and respectable media outlet, digitally manipulated photos of Seattle’s “autonomous zone” by photoshopping in a gunman. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/fox-news-runs-digitally-altered-images-in-coverage-of-seattles-protests-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/ …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Given how vigorously Fox News personalities have argued that men toting assault weapons in public are not inherently threatening,” Stern wrote, “it’s curious the outlet digitally inserted a man toting a gun to make the autonomous zone seem more threatening and scary.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News eventually issued the following editor’s note:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A FoxNews.com home page photo collage</b> which originally accompanied this story included multiple scenes from Seattle’s ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ and of wreckage following recent riots. The collage did not clearly delineate between these images, and has since been replaced. In addition, a recent slideshow depicting scenes from Seattle mistakenly included a picture from St. Paul, Minnesota. Fox News regrets these errors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Propaganda’: Fox News photoshops gunman into stories about Seattle’s autonomous zone</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image via Screengrab.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by The New Civil Rights Movement June 14, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern noticed that Fox News added a man carrying a military-assault rifle into images of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) on Friday. The CHAZ is a police-free area currently occupied by protesters police violence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News featured the images on their website without any mention that they had been altered. They placed the exact same gunman in two different photos. In one, the gunman’s left arm had been weirdly cut off in a straight line from the shoulder to the elbow.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox claimed that the image of a shattered window in the CHAZ was taken this week, but it seems it was actually taken on May 30.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Joseph Stern</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@mjs_DC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News, a totally normal and respectable media outlet, digitally manipulated photos of Seattle’s “autonomous zone” by photoshopping in a gunman. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/fox-news-runs-digitally-altered-images-in-coverage-of-seattles-protests-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/ …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Given how vigorously Fox News personalities have argued that men toting assault weapons in public are not inherently threatening,” Stern wrote, “it’s curious the outlet digitally inserted a man toting a gun to make the autonomous zone seem more threatening and scary.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News eventually issued the following editor’s note:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A FoxNews.com home page photo collage</b> which originally accompanied this story included multiple scenes from Seattle’s ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ and of wreckage following recent riots. The collage did not clearly delineate between these images, and has since been replaced. In addition, a recent slideshow depicting scenes from Seattle mistakenly included a picture from St. Paul, Minnesota. Fox News regrets these errors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are some reactions to the news of Fox’s photoshopping from Twitter:...</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/the-deadly-formula-behind-the-fox-news-trump-syndicate"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/the-deadly-formula-behind-the-fox-news-trump-syndicate</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s the coronavirus crisis rages on, Fox News is contributing almost as much to the deaths and disease as is Trump’s White House.</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump spouts a shocking amount of misinformation during his daily press briefings, but it’s Fox News’ equally misleading coverage of the crisis that closes the lethal circuit of lies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s easy to feel outraged and defeated by Fox News. (“I can’t believe they’re saying that! How are they getting away with this?”) But it’s important to understand its formula for misleading Americans, particularly in the crisis we’re in.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The formula goes like this:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">First, deny there’s a problem</strong>. Lay the groundwork for later conspiracy theories by calling it “a hoax.” Blame political opponents for “using” the issue to make Trump look bad. Mock anyone taking it seriously, and downplay the consequences.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, when deaths mount and the coronavirus can no longer be denied, promote the same dangerous miracle cures Trump promotes.</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Third,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> attack the experts.</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Question what public-health experts recommend, such as social distancing. Question whether the death toll from Covid-19 is even true, and broadcast misleading graphics. Attack the experts themselves, and parade around alternative “experts” to promote an array of conspiracy theories.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fourth, deflect attention from Trump</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’s botched response by blaming others.  </span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blame China! As the virus hits black and brown communities especially hard, trot out the white supremacists.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If nothing else works, revise history.</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finally, make reopening the economy about “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">freedom,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” and attack Democratic governors who are trying to keep people safe.</span></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s Fox News’s tried-and-true formula, folks: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Deny, promote quack remedies, attack the experts, blame others, and change the subject to “freedom.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It works for Fox. It keeps Fox viewers. It helps protect Trump.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it is making a deadly calamity even more deadly.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Polls show that a majority of Republicans think it’s perfectly safe to go to establishments like nail salons and dine-in restaurants, and a new study found that Sean Hannity’s viewers were less likely to adhere to social distancing guidelines.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, a conspiracy theory peddled by Tucker Carlson made it all the way to the White House, where it fell on Trump’s receptive ears and led him to yank a multimillion-dollar grant to an organization on the frontlines of coronavirus research.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In theory, the FCC prohibits broadcasting false information about a catastrophe if the broadcaster knows the information is false and will cause substantial “public harm” if aired. But Trump’s FCC won’t do a thing, and Fox News has no broadcast ethics. It has no journalistic integrity.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If this formula of deceit shows us anything, it’s that they know what they’re doing, and they don’t care who they hurt.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So, what can you do?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">First, make a ruckus. Speak out. Write letters to your local paper, and local Fox News outlets. </strong>That’s precisely what forced Fox to cut ties with Trish Regan, and with 5G Conspiracy peddlers Diamond and Silk.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Second, boycott Fox’s major advertisers. </strong>That helped get Bill O’Reilly off the air.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Third: leverage your power. Correct Fox’s lies when you see them. Share this video with Fox News viewers you care about.</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You might just save a life.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch:</font></p><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bye-bye-tucker-far-right-fox-news-host-loses-multiple-advertisers-following-unhinged-rants-against-black-lives-matter/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bye-bye-tucker-far-right-fox-news-host-loses-multiple-advertisers-following-unhinged-rants-against-black-lives-matter/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hannity: Black Lives Matter is “planning to train armed militia for war on police”</font></span></a></h2><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; align-items: center; display: flex; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="dateline-compacttype" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--video" aria-labelledby="icon-label--video" /><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><use xlink:href="#video" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /></font></font></span><time datetime="2020-06-03T21:42:12-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">06/03/20 9:42 PM EDT</font></time></p></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2273701877stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2273701877stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2273701877stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2273701877stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2273701877camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8a52754446280d617b7c0ac8e1a34d91644259a4cd7647dcb77a662ba3c6c0806b1ea658ca53f3b7878c9e8571b67c4944e51f26e99bc759" title="Many brands that claim to support Black Lives Matter are also advertising on Fox News">Many brands that claim to support Black Lives Matter are also advertising on Fox News</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv2273701877stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv2273701877stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv2273701877camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We have put together <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8a52754446280d61b1ef0f086c1b67a3adff96552e05f29c0b7b43096f33107e70a39201e5998d163ee97fb998647a39239c61760eb50188" title="a list of advertisers">a list of advertisers</a> that have run advertisements on Fox News since May 27. The network’s coverage of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the nationwide uprising following his death has been viciously racist, dehumanizing, full of lies, and disturbingly anti-free speech.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These advertisers claim to support the Black Lives Matter movement, as evidenced by statements they’ve put out on social media. But they should put their money where their mouth is and stop funding racism by advertising on the hate-for-profit scam that is Fox News.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Also:</b></i> I <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8a52754446280d61fc5ba7f0aaca9e0bdf89487f7df443f9701b6d5306ff596a66522e552eccb176dbe9db1f7b6d3c489612a62dbdca917c" title="wrote this week">wrote this week</a> about Fox Corp. CEO <b>Lachlan Murdoch</b>'s hypocrisy. Murdoch wrote in a letter that "Black lives matter" and that Fox is committed to diversity -- even while Fox News attacked those ideas on the air.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b style="">Bring it on:</b> The Murdochs <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8a52754446280d617633dd5bb40016b07cf39a9114560802e241ab26fd9082088f97cb195cd46c10b46525977c9f106c9b1351d46df4782e" title="have reportedly secretly hired">have reportedly secretly hired </a>a conservative operative and two former conservative bloggers to fight back against the work of Media Matters and advertiser education campaigners Sleeping Giants.</span> From a business perspective, Murdoch has cause for concern; Fox News is actually suffering quite severely on the advertising front (due in large part to the efforts of Media Matters, Sleeping Giants, advocacy organizations, and online activists). Over the past few years, the network has actually lost hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenue. We're <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8a52754446280d611de34f0fb0fb6bfe43116a9119c43fadddab001add5b2c5fdf60a3121d18872982a9df796fabeea33f489e73ea3f97ef" title="now at a critical time">now at a critical time </a>where Fox News could actually lose a lot more money due to upcoming cable fee negotiations.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 620</font></div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5b2d8496749207ce7592b535b81315a003f09ec58043f9a4db9345d5dcf8ff669f26c75165af9cb5cd5922182e6e95d200c0a1bda27c773d" title="unwittingly admits" style="">unwittingly admits</a> his complete ignorance on what the term “systemic racism” means.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook has been <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5b2d8496749207cefb2450269496fce30ff0b4284b2bab2d44809525d949c62e4d4fc9a12d8a6005a8286999ab531e0bac6c0eb657ce1bbd" title="absolutely overrun" style="">absolutely overrun</a> with right-wing propaganda in recent days.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Fox & Friends</i> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5b2d8496749207ce5b31db8f3d1f34ffd1db31954f1b1ceaa7ef7acec82ca809cf2a47a94d0fde6b4a20e4384d94f309d8a0d4a3fc70c655" title="spreads" style="">spread</a> a debunked conspiracy theory about “bricks and pickaxes” near protest sites.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox's <b>Jesse Watters</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5b2d8496749207ce26c8abc3cf34e4b646f401753eda436d4cfccfb0833b3ef43bd82e09b55d776a99fad7377011d4d92fbe682c75eaafc1" title="floats conspiracies" style="">floats an Infowars conspiracy theory</a> that George Floyd was maybe killed because there was something going on at the club he worked at.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5b2d8496749207ce737cb966bd909e4aad72762fea072f1847609561b7fd9868f4deec814584d2f6a55a6c5731a6f048569798fc176f433a" title="deceptively edited" style="">deceptively edited</a> a video of police officers wrongfully handcuffing a Black family.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox guest <b>Bernie Kerik</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5b2d8496749207ce6696be5bd15a1b021d741e0fe0bbd69124a0804aa9d4f667d1157519049c134a613b785da7cb4cc2855ce885b40ec713" title="spreads conspiracy theory" style="">spreads conspiracy theory</a> that George Soros is funding national unrest, police protests.</font></li></ul></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/a-1-increase-in-fox-news-viewership-reduced-compliance-with-stay-at-home-orders-by-8-9-study/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">1% increase in Fox News viewership reduced compliance with stay-at-home orders by 8.9%: study</font></a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/igor-derysh/" title="Posts by Igor Derysh" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Igor Derysh</a> / <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/salon/" title="Posts by Salon " class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Salon</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Researchers at Columbia University and the University of Chicago linked Fox News viewership with reduced compliance with states’ stay-at-home orders.</font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ORIG SPARK:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3/22 not even all mma:</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> ...Fox host <b>Tucker Carlson</b> was widely cited by journalists after attacking Sen. Burr on Thursday night. But those journalists <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cef4db9e5922fd81fbbac16c6e598362518722ae1fb7fe282fa82a9cb3cbb7f2101cef75906897db382f1c1c2367b4b01" title="missed the context" style="">missed the context</a>: Carlson had long been a critic of Burr, and while the Fox host never called coronavirus or COVID-19 a hoax like his colleagues, he has used it to push his nativist agenda and to attack homeless people. Too often we've seen people who should know better give Carlson undue credit simply for not being as bad as other people on Fox News. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cbb099f6d48099b1225b115216ebbd0dc6dd40e791e30da59c11f72f7cd7d6c18c19f87c14be2311cc12979b55ba68e05" title="Everyone should know better by now" style="">Everyone should know better by now</a>.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cbfc8caaae2844650e104fdf595aecb75ea2d5307492ae2f3141df1d103755b57855ceaf67d99d4688c2274064bb6b242" title="Grift watch: How right-wing media are trying to profit off a pandemic" style="">Grift watch: How right-wing media are trying to profit off a pandemic</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We've talked about how right-wing media are trying to downplay the pandemic. Even worse are those that are trying to profit off of it.</font></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump</b> ally, Newsmax TV host, and Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist <b>Wayne Allyn Root</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cb359204cd43a1dcce5e8959cfb1f4e7e0207227f5db5c4d1159cf4c1a7e868ac5a526c3d404224b19814b1a89708c397" title="has been dangerously suggesting" style="">has been dangerously suggesting</a> that if people contract the novel coronavirus, they should take doses of an “alkaline structured silver” product he endorses because it supposedly “kills [the] virus” and can “save your life.”</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After he said that, the Las Vegas Review-Journal told Media Matters that they were parting ways with Root, and that this was a factor.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York State Office of the Attorney General <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cbcfc64fd06ed9f6b573af9518feb04f1fe5b6b52e9a3d5de584fbfff2dfa2c1a0d20f964c99f8443d60a406c466312f1" title="has told Root" style="">has told Root</a> “to immediately cease and desist from making misleading claims,” in reference to his comments on silver. Newsmax airs in 70 million homes, and currently airs a show featuring disgraced former White House spokesperson <b>Sean Spicer</b>. Newsmax is also owned by a close Trump ally.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c078096430c04f38ce104ca56294158a2bdc9b68acb4b9c67f9962bf555e11e8a4e49fba7ff3132c6b728fba1bf4a168f" title="has also called" style="">has also called</a> on Newsmax to stop pushing a false advertisement from Monetary Gold which claims that banks can seize people's accounts. Townhall has run the same ad.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Enquirer pushed a dangerous lie that “coronavirus cures” have been “found” and are “at your fingertips!" We spoke with a doctor who was cited in the piece: It turns out that he never spoke with the publication and demanded a retraction. A spokesperson for the National Enquirer <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c7efcb143b8ac8bda2fbf0027b547dd06c6379a917cc89d0a6828db865e74970ee40059dd407ce0e61820648db6a1b7e6" title="told us" style="">told us</a> that “a correction clarifying that there was an error in what was attributed to the doctor will appear in a future issue in the next couple of weeks.”</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro-Trump OAN pushes wild conspiracy theory that novel coronavirus was created in a North Carolina lab</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro-<b>Trump</b> cable news network OAN aired a special "investigative" look into the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. The network’s chief White House correspondent, <b>Chanel Rion</b>, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c771ef1d42101b99034ba610c184e421d8bf791f6c84a0a5ff8d192ba05de4dc8afcadfa392851d6bdf3cc84c69351959" title="suggested" style="">suggested</a> that the novel coronavirus responsible for the current pandemic may have originated in a North Carolina laboratory.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As support, Rion cited <b>Greg Rubini</b>, whom she described in the special as “a citizen investigator and monitored source amongst a certain set in the D.C. intelligence community.” There is no evidence that Rubini is a “monitored source” for anyone but Rion. He has pushed QAnon conspiracy theories about the “deep state” on Twitter. Rubini also preposterously suggested that Dr. <b>Anthony Fauci</b> funded the creation of the novel coronavirus and that Trump's political opponents spread it around the world, from China to Italy to back to the United States. This is obviously a totally bananas conspiracy theory -- but it's one the network fell for.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This would be bad enough, but the Trump White House has credentialed the networked as well. And on Wednesday, Trump called on Rion during a White House briefing, where <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c8b7002104c48880df73085b63649662f00003949340061e7062cfaec208dca5eaa9226c653e71c627539fd95ee9973c8" title="she asked" style="">she asked</a> if the phrase "Chinese food" was racist, and accused the rest of the media of “siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after making a mockery of a public briefing in the middle of a pandemic that could kill millions, Rion <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c7e3b84bb62085a995742d60c51ad4a096b075ba419c96cf3fdcd4555ab0a71995be0b468315b40d537f6173941b6bf6c" title="said that" style="">said that</a> China was making an "odd" accusation that the novel coronavirus was created in the United States -- the same conspiracy theory that Rion herself had endorsed just days earlier.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This isn't going to end, either: On Saturday, Trump <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c46f953fafc5ed304bafa53fb3e4760d632b3e911e5da39559b6440c226d08966a55324fbd0daa5f6236d6ca6199ae271" title="again called on OAN" style="">again called on OAN</a> and used its question to attack The Washington Post.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Featured Media</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox News medical contributor <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cc305f12efeffa0d148d71568db7a13a001cf07b0bbd244334419ee38a361773be4f9c15a56b1742e132009fdd5d9f439" title="blamed" style="">blamed</a> millennials for comparing coronavirus to the flu. The comparison was all over Fox -- including from that contributor.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Show <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c4ff0bbe2d090c0370b869991b4734365fcb2f214cd71deb5d0b7ac69926e25934752b2c78938006445d44c0a061e75ec" title="mocked" style="">mocked</a> the attempt by <b>Trump</b> and Fox News to make a pandemic racist.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. <b>Beth Cameron</b>, the former director of the National Security Council's pandemic response office, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26ce5669a76be71a65f4165cf7c326daf15b3a69cde16cfb37095166bb366ad8ec6a5bc5ac271dd4fca642a7744b188d2c6" title="talked to" style="">talked to</a> <i>Morning Joe</i> about how that office could have helped coordinate the response to the current pandemic, and why Trump was wrong to close it.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jake Tapper</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c71e3bca733cc43c6a1e6af9536e3aced0c2e2981d7d06d95169df563eb6dca658e91ea74242553d2bb9299509ee9cb95" title="didn't mince words" style="">didn't mince words</a>: "we cannot ignore that much of Mr. Trump's personal response to the pandemic has been insufficient and deceptive and not focused enough clearly on one issue, saving lives."</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters' <b>Kayla Gogarty</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cdc06c101dd8e6e4f70c6740b0b62f43696b4b39c73dd24b0c443ef7435eedbde217b5e59de45b072deac6625293db89e" title="talked to" style="">talked to</a> Al Jazeera's <i>Listening Post</i> about how Trump and Fox News are misinforming about coronavirus and COVID-19.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News cut into Gov. <b>Andrew Cuomo</b>'s press conference for White House press secretary <b>Stephanie Grisham</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c043d27857b69cf5929d86333057cff54ed31635a5b59301548c1a9e1133d9c51afc5f8660881a1bc46e49efe12301f55" title="to bash" style="">to bash</a> how media outlets cover Trump.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media figures are making <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c43f5c258100675c075c800c88daf476dc13fe97795a14bf1b82e2e87e5227baf75953f4a89c8339677b83b2948f85f82" title="unhinged connections" style="">unhinged connections</a> between the coronavirus and climate action.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A major online gun retailer <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c24fb788f2b6af5e83c62fa921d6236b20db8719080b3de18a1176f7c84e8dbbdc1ef9973a5edceecaed5edbf0377d7b8" title="is advertising on" style="">is advertising on</a> the social media platform favored by white nationalists -- including the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gateway Pundit's <b>Jim Hoft</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c2d53fd2c56b334f79d281c253e011ce0b8be0d0314506eb6fd879917f1044cae5f7c75b86e4d32cd0bfa9dc48f7f2e5a" title="told" style="">told</a> <b>Alex Jones</b> that coronavirus in the U.S. is “the deep state” trying to take out Trump.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News and right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cff6cd63f1f6032862d00a64e669b71b4f13af14212962971ffed3e37325368023fdddb88f4a2247e5323db63743bbd9f" title="have seized on" style="">have seized on</a> coronavirus crisis to attack abortion.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Erick Erickson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c7e6772ad2e4bf2085f0f5e3b1d4cacb2602c3e26b275bb98a9bcff7f2e37203eb1c4aa31da9cdb44841117e13a408170" title="tweeted and then deleted" style="">tweeted and then deleted</a> a celebration of an Asian American reporter's offense at racist coronavirus comment.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s <b>Dan Bongino</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c11f74b817fd59c73704c22a55a81de145d8e9ae5137f3e8376ee850ea2d8a34e4c7492fff6cda306fe486f5d6132bc51" title="said that" style="">said that</a> you can’t be racist about China because “China is not a race.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rush Limbaugh</b> guest host <b>Mark Steyn</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cd74f56697d2be2dbaa51a9302efd82d5b9d5afcc445846d099a83503df8a9424745ae1f511009a6cc3df02d21c6b51f9" title="said that" style="">said that</a> San Francisco faces a COVID-19 shutdown because it's “a big gay town.” (In case you are wondering, Limbaugh was off all week.)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox Business guest <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c1e414a06fec638d351ff68723ae24959fa7bfddb5c3f6c6d2ab1de8d21ec77167dc36fb88dfd73aa4f539e20c21d276f" title="complained" style="">complained</a> about precautions taken to prevent COVID-19: “Better safe than sorry” for coronavirus is “the strategy of losers, not the strategy of winners.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host <b>Jesse Watters</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cf8875d7d7a10135de057d3f7022a04e0870df2c7c6fabfa6a78ec76114b2c465df9e2b754eca784e3be8df144c95819b" title="admitted that" style="">admitted that</a> he didn’t take coronavirus seriously until this week.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sean Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cfd186457a0049b08065a2d430f92eff55f4a2e4ff87496dc3c9b95188df1c77c3c6f2f25b2f224b07637a0b3b46bad33" title="suggested" style="">suggested</a> that vaping prevents people from getting coronavirus. We've seen no evidence of that at all.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN’s <b>Dana Bash</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c56f01eb49372f682fddd0b3a0d193415c6feef56d82bf1096467e57648d2851730e64121d7e867ceb3551aa4e4045521" title="inexplicably called" style="">inexplicably called</a> Trump “the kind of leader that people need” after he gave a single subdued press conference. Meanwhile, a CNN reporter fact-checked a number of Trump lies from the same press conference.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c1fe13e5bd48434f522e30c93ebb8801f423e193e05fdc6dbc4d324ddf3bb48a6ddc8a792a879621652856f405e42a574" title="defended" style="">defended</a> Trump's meltdown at a reporter who asked the president to comfort the nation. CNN's <b>John King</b>, who often seems loathe to criticize politicians, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26cf11d6f3397f37dc5949772e2e2db66087611033c4168567736f96ab6931a716bee41cee398164112011ca1aafd43b731" title="called out" style="">called out</a> Trump's rancid behavior.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c14f239d3393fcb10a1e9eddb4e0ebcef8637555d7ba0ecc94afc55023a662b8eb77e37050fa76c046a833b84f99d8323" title="are blaming Democrats" style="">are blaming Democrats</a> for coronavirus, because of impeachment.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">QAnon supporters and far-right conspiracy theorists <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c20f0def5b0f8ed102e3b80d8bc21621601f421878479b69b4d8876881c645c0013303ef5fe580e0e352c6372b470872a" title="helped spread" style="">helped spread</a> a hoax about <b>Oprah Winfrey</b> on Twitter.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A GOP group <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c8b1db8e032add93fe08da62aedf152e82f63010d974386bfde5d5feb1c33d457372ca45caf1e73439730d91c7994af86" title="was set" style="">was set</a> to host <b>Steve Bannon</b> and <b>Katie Hopkins</b> at a fundraiser, even after Hopkins said that she wanted to host parties to give people the coronavirus to build up their immune systems. The outbreak in NYC forced the cancellation for now.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lou Dobbs</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c9311feba7ad5d1b14f53d24d32ea66647151ac00e0338acd786679f0378d3c81dbf9c6498724f73cb8cae84932247886" title="spent just 80 seconds" style="">spent just 80 seconds</a> covering the second-largest percentage drop in Dow Jones history.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font 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</div><div><b>Coronavirus and Fox News:</b></div><div>Trump watching Fox News amid pandemic </div><div>Timeline: How Trump’s Fox News fixation shaped the federal coronavirus response</div><div>05/07/20 11:52 AM EDT</div><div>Fox & Friends advertises protests against social distancing 4/18/20</div><div>Promotion, praise, and a ton of coverage: How Fox News embraced protests against coronavirus safety measures</div><div>04/20/20 6:22 PM EDT</div><div>laura-ingraham-what-trump-needs-to-do-control-narrative-testing-04-21-2020.jpg</div><div>Fox News spins to “control the narrative” of Trump's failures on coronavirus testing</div><div>04/22/20 2:14 PM EDT</div><div>Hannity 4/9/20</div><div>Sean Hannity’s astounding coronavirus hypocrisy</div><div>04/10/20 2:22 PM EDT</div><div>Fox News interviews Arizona sheriff who won't enforce social distancing orders </div><div>Fox is cheering on rogue sheriffs linked to a pro-militia group</div><div>05/07/20 1:56 PM EDT</div><div>Sean Hannity</div><div>Six different polls show how Fox’s coronavirus coverage endangered its viewers</div><div>04/09/20 1:28 PM EDT</div><div>Sean Hannity defends Trump's outburst against reporter who asked him what he would say to frightened Americans</div><div>How Fox’s Sean Hannity has downplayed the coronavirus pandemic in America</div><div>04/01/20 1:17 PM EDT</div><div>Laura-Ingraham-Attack-Seth-Rich-Family.png</div><div>Laura Ingraham's coronavirus coverage has been a cesspool of misinformation — and a danger to public health</div><div>05/08/20 7:08 AM EDT</div><div>Ebola Trump</div><div>Fox News' coronavirus coverage stands in stark contrast to its coverage of Ebola in 2014</div><div>03/10/20 11:51 AM EDT</div><div>Coronavirus and right-wing media:</div><div>hugh-hewitt-mitchmcconnell-interview-states-bankruptcy-04-22-2020.jpg</div><div>Led by Hugh Hewitt, right-wing media cheer for states to file “bankruptcy” from coronavirus as a chance to cut public pensions</div><div>04/24/20 5:36 PM EDT</div><div>fake-news-radio-1.png</div><div><b>Across the country, right-wing talk radio hosts promote local protests against stay-at-home orders</b></div><div>04/24/20 10:27 AM EDT</div><div>rush-limbaugh-coronavirus-deaths-04-07-2020.jpg</div><div><b>Coronavirus deaths are being undercounted. Rush Limbaugh continues to allege the opposite.</b></div><div>04/07/20 5:18 PM EDT</div><div>Coronavirus social media</div><div>A Bill Gates coronavirus conspiracy theory spread on social media and to right-wing media figures</div><div>04/08/20 12:13 PM EDT</div><div>Dr. Anthony Fauci</div><div>Pro-Trump media have ramped up attacks against Dr. Anthony Fauci</div><div>03/24/20 2:21 PM EDT</div><div>Coronavirus COVID-19</div><div>Right-wing media figures spread “empty hospitals" theory to downplay the threat of coronavirus</div><div>03/30/20 2:58 PM EDT</div><div>Chanel Rion OAN</div><div>Pro-Trump OAN pushes wild conspiracy theory that novel coronavirus was created in a North Carolina lab</div><div>03/18/20 11:26 AM EDT</div><div>Bryan Fischer</div><div><b>American Family Association is lying about coronavirus on its evangelical radio network</b></div><div>03/25/20 4:48 PM EDT</div><div>Facebook </div><div>The Daily Wire and The Western Journal use Facebook page networks to spread right-wing spin about coronavirus</div><div>03/25/20 4:08 PM EDT</div><div>Coronavirus and mainstream media:</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">520 24th mma</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Thursday, while watching Fox, Trump tweeted partly, “Many will disagree, but<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd.” Trump called out Fox News for having on Democratic strategists who “repeat the worst of the Democrat speaking points, and lies.”</span></b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As we have long <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03529cbafd1fa2c18fed708240eeaf1eccf41bee2b95419896c19295fddb8745dca4d3ed98a24ea63d6dd79bd1ff373e268" title="documented" style="">documented</a>, Trump’s obsession with Fox News has reshaped the political universe, so much so that he has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035af7832562b9352bb56d6b33c607fc699e23d32c6b57990f551257c6ba485afe7076d410da47175c421f0ecc82b572ca7" title="stocked his administration" style="">stocked his administration</a> with former Fox News employees, and vice versa. Though at times Trump has shown a willingness to criticize the network’s coverage of his administration; his latest outburst goes a bit further.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s tweets reflect his true view of Fox’s role, not as a news channel, but as a propaganda network that exists solely to further the electoral success of the Republican Party. His view of the network is for the most part correct, but Fox’s business model also depends on advertisers treating the network as a legitimate news source; it is not.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Media Matters’ <b>Matt Gertz</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035450173838c4966f70cd162c7c928b29a890f17f450f1a80285716eff70e5ff2e088406233f0b742722682c683bb324a4" title="explained" style="">explained</a>, “Trump is pitting the two halves of the network’s business model against each other. If its executives respond by making the network even more supportive, they are risking flight from advertisers and cable providers concerned with being too closely associated with the president. If they don’t, they are risking outlets like OAN, which has little interest in pretending to be a real news outlet, peeling off their viewers.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035d3c0c1142f540c96d521e47ca84dfc33309fa18f172cce8a7a9d3450914c8a10e52d35927384fef4df8e646f043de99b" title="More evidence that Fox’s miracle coronavirus cure doesn’t work" style="">More evidence that Fox’s miracle coronavirus cure doesn’t work</a></font></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Also:</b></i> Right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03511774fba1ed9f8648363129cb03e9f2893bcdd6b75b388b09f71c421d0117dac57eef7ce22ebbc9b07418aeb2cf3e0bc" title="are furiously lying" style="">are furiously lying</a> about efforts to promote mail-in voting during the pandemic.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Featured Media</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox VP <b>Neil Cavuto</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03516c49648ad0574597c7ed119c0b43779ae5d5af790d3f3d8661939b71ff9ecd41a0d0d44f54d05236511da7d4e9bda4e" title="warns" style="">warned</a> vulnerable populations that hydroxychloroquine “will kill you.” Sean Hannity was <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b0355ceecb32aca28191e6a351dd5c36f862274db10081e1248e7b512cb7f53d86f2a5c15619b28c8918dad8a593d2faa01c" title="not-so-subtle" style="">hardly subtle</a> in his response.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How <b>Fox News</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03555c67e4e49116d11ad3e3e7323ec7aef28a465d4096cbac6f3323842e2f0ec38a2bbb5ddad1b7cd66e0012b24e66ed3a" title="dismisses" style="">dismisses</a> thousands of Americans dying: "Every death is tragic, but ... "</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>This Daily Show</i> show <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035b57ba1c23bc9e7c7f4f1e0f8c1e352a97d154876c03ca6b925b87e8cc68e32841c2910d5894abbd37adff6c759a01d1c" title="video" style="">video</a> on Fox News is pretty brilliant.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03584dc208032b2e4a8fcbf7bacf27e8156d09cc243a85671947a690b03110ae91fc8cf33fb70e84ebe5c0b4ff25868d0c2" title="says" style="">says</a> vidoes that violate YouTube's terms of service give better public health advice than Dr. Fauci.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s immigration policies are spreading COVID-19. Fox News personalities are <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03533e3a52274c1cd6488245ace7af81a2a393aeccc4f33cb2ef92cb1f471b7ff34035931edc33cd5685bb2131802cea615" title="cheering it on" style="">cheering it on</a>.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After months of inaction, Google <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03585199c8780bed5fd0223f195d1c03dd5c3e74900c690c1c49f960c1fc1d851431e9ac6d5066c1a0a10080fe2275ddd0c" title="has finally" style="">has finally</a> removed QAnon apps that violated terms of service from its store.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">How the sausage is made: After an AP report on the Trump campaign trying to round up pro-Trump, anti-lockdown doctors, Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035a1f0d8778a15eda1936b1cc4aeba2d785181fde2f88408f35470109880ddc6f52c68ae7134c7324c736be07494994963" title="pushed" style="">pushed</a> a letter from new doctor group.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President <b>Donald Trump</b> admitted that Secretary of State <b>Mike Pompeo</b> asked him to fire the State Department inspector general; some major news outlets <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035f9e46cfbbaa7c32471783b4d5a89eb9dec3fb7bfc493cd33c986d58f0a00349c9ca99855831db0257dd93ae0188bdd78" title="ignored the story" style="">ignored the story</a>.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsmax, which is run by one of Trump's closest friends, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035d61ccc25dc2d60322c0df81c153c063a84577f5d9d766f3be910835a60dc72256fc8be23fe50f8d7b8ee9dd9066c3e9f" title="hired" style="">hired</a> a white nationalist sympathizer.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox News anchor wondered why no one from the Obama administration warned then President-Elect <b>Donald Trump</b> about <b>Michael Flynn</b>. President <b>Barack Obama</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035c91cf821ed6a4bbadadadab4d957881ded78759f27e00e8300a4fe51016bf6f77e79364c6b2e260faca2c61346ede7d2" title="warned Trump" style="">warned Trump</a> personally.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Fox contributor <b style="">Karl Rove</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035d700f2b23b36df3f02416c849dc98c65e4fc9ca4b873adff1d807dde01e7b42a47ca119c8a91feb81e2d99f9aa098b69" title="is advising" style="">is advising</a> the Trump campaign</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> — and Fox News doesn't disclose it. Rove also <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03596c321b0835678752f3d3b3dbc16af3854b0f13317fa4744c8a729e4a83da60537800eb4092de743eaf243df467310ce" title="accused" style="">accused</a> Obama of committing a "political drive-by shooting" with his commencement speech.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox contributor <b>Sarah Sanders</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b03539d077e725b4c65a074592ab11f3d18b554418081dbb813ca9d7f1e52d5ea0c052cb5d6646d4042d6712a3f01759c985" title="cited" style="">cited</a> “the whole illusion of the Russia hoax” as a reason to oppose mail-in ballots.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035db74ad336afac4b41ddbbfae44a6250f66a8c454d8df7b7f1b473589f4db834be2e386f3f6db6cdf767a36946d3a7fa1" title="asserts" style="">asserted</a> that there precisely no evidence that the lockdowns in America saved lives anywhere. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035f06fcf47cdc0f6451d85deb63da538e7ab425f77deda02db6fd9f1ba20325ea951affdf7fb1cd9ef1c835a5149382918" title="He is wrong" style="">He is wrong</a>.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How bad has Fox News been on COVID-19? Media Matters' <b>Madeline Peltz</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035ad581d91b644b5a21b45a4fa03f60054b31b55f1077648d763ca4ae6178efb2dd81b4f24120b28ecb7f2536add7c561c" title="counted the ways" style="">counted the ways</a>.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"straight news"?</font></h1><p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omg wow conscience?</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 5/20</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/this-will-kill-you-fox-news-host-desperately-warns-viewers-of-danger-after-trump-say-hes-taking-hydroxychloroquine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">This will kill you!’: Fox News host desperately warns viewers of danger after Trump say he’s taking hydroxychloroquine</a></font></div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/cody-fenwick/" title="Posts by Cody Fenwick" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cody Fenwick</font></a></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host Neil Cavuto rushed to warn viewers on Monday that despite President Donald Trump’s new claim that he is taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent the infection by the coronavirus, the…</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5/17/20</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3108294762stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3108294762stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3108294762stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3108294762stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv3108294762camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">f<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8d2ba1ad92ca8042c6df19b1af49a18fea7e7e3f923e5a32322bb30e3210803dd981db43639bf796aed98d15a516cc270c27cc4d7d3b1e3d" title="Fox News’ desperate attempt to turn the pandemic into the latest culture war battle" style="">ox News’ desperate attempt to turn the pandemic into the latest culture war battle</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3108294762stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3108294762stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv3108294762camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you turn onto Fox News these days -- and we do not recommend it -- you will probably see the network lifting up sheriffs or a small business owner as a martyr as a resulting from the stay-at-home orders. This week, the network focused on <b>Shelly Luther</b>, a salon owner in Texas who refused to go along with the shutdown; Fox hosted her repeatedly. The goal is simple: Turn the pandemic into <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8d2ba1ad92ca8042c7622ae57fe64822edcf6a642bd8b0854bd44813c6e0e96b200ee00e01fd487f4fe0f949928e6cb248590f1dca604748" title="just another part of the culture war" style="">just another part of the culture war</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even when they talk about COVID-19, there's no real mourning for the lives lost or concern that projections show deaths rising in future weeks. Meanwhile, a barber who cut hair "illicitly" in recent weeks <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8d2ba1ad92ca8042410e28d3de5866d0b334ba716b97f21829518fdb1b7bb31771f7d671775a238ba96be38d7c3b40bd66e6e33327022b2e" title="contracted the virus" style="">contracted the virus</a>; as far as I can tell, he was not on Fox to tell his story.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-advertisers-are-sponsoring-fox-news-while-they-neglect-covid-coverage"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-advertisers-are-sponsoring-fox-news-while-they-neglect-covid-coverage</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><ul class="field field--name-field-stories-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden l--gutter-pull narrative-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -58.625px 1.5em; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li class="narrative-listitem-bullet narrative-listitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px 58.625px 3rem; position: relative;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leading Fox News advertisers are sponsoring the network’s politically motivated <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-starts-turn-its-attention-away-coronavirus-pandemic" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pivot away from its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic</a> -- which has consistently spread <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-coverage-covid-19-pandemic-medically-inaccurate-malevolently-racist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">misinformation</a> during the public health crisis -- to instead promoting the bogus “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/trumprussia/fox-news-why-trump-thinks-he-can-get-away-nixonian-corruption-barrs-doj" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Obamagate</a>” conspiracy theory and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/sheriffs-salon-owners-and-fox-news-desperate-attempt-turn-pandemic-latest" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">culture war stories of small business owners</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/promotion-praise-and-ton-coverage-how-fox-news-embraced-protests-against-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">protesters defying stay-at-home orders</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>From April 13 to May 11, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/month-month-fox-news-coronavirus-coverage-has-dropped-more-20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox News’ coverage of the coronavirus dropped more than 20%</a>. Here’s a list of recent advertisers on the network who should reconsider advertising on the network.</b></font></p></div></div></li><li class="narrative-listitem-bullet narrative-listitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px 58.625px 3rem; position: relative;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="http://twitter.com/amazon" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Amazon</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="http://twitter.com/SIRIUSXM" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sirius XM</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/usps" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">United State Postal Service</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ProcterGamble" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Procter & Gamble</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/KraftHeinzCo" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kraft Heinz</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="http://twitter.com/disney" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Disney</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/McDonalds" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">McDonald’s</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="http://twitter.com/progressive" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Progressive</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="http://twitter.com/allstate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Allstate</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SandalsResorts" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sandals Resorts</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/overstock" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Overstock.com</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AbbottNews" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Abbott</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://twitter.com/goloforlife" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">GOLO</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><a href="http://twitter.com/carvana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; 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line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">despite knowing full well the furor that Vice President Mike Pence raised by <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/mike-pence-unmasked-now-trumps-mob-disgraces-the-mayo-clinic/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">not wearing a mask during a Mayo Clinic visit</a> in late April, Donald Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/22a3a71168630ab75d14243306ece7d3" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">refused to wear a mask when visiting Honeywell factory</a> in Arizona earlier this week — a factory that makes masks. This wasn’t just a symbolic nose-thumbing at people’s reasonable desire to be safe. Trump and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows were putting the lives of Honeywell employees in danger.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After all, masks are not primarily meant to protect the mask-wearer, but to protect others, since there’s clear evidence that people who are infected but have no symptoms can spread the coronavirus. Trump is regularly exposed to the virus, in fact — <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/07/navy-official-who-worked-as-a-personal-valet-for-president-trump-tests-positive-for-covid-19_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">one of his personal valets just tested positive</a> — and is a prime candidate to be such a carrier.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course Trump doesn’t care about other people, only his ego and his appearance. <a href="https://apnews.com/7dce310db6e85b31d735e81d0af6769c" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Reporting from the Associated Press confirms this</a>, as a Thursday article explained Trump told advisers that wearing a mask would “send the wrong message.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The president said doing so would make it seem like he is preoccupied with health instead of focused on reopening the nation’s economy,” the AP reporters write.</font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is another example of Trump’s <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/20/dont-fall-for-trumps-false-dichotomy-its-not-a-choice-between-human-lives-and-the-economy/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">false dichotomy</a> between saving the economy and fighting the virus. After all, the economy isn’t going to recover if millions are sick and people are afraid to leave their houses — and early evidence from the states that have tried to “reopen” their economies makes that clear. But there’s also good reason to believe that the Trump-Pence antipathy to wearing masks signals to something deeper and darker.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even before Trump started to make a big show out of not wearing a mask, it was common, at least in my South Philadelphia neighborhood, to see MAGA-hat-clad white men walking around without masks, delivering contemptuous sneers to the rest of us suckers who are covering our noses and mouths. Fox News host Laura Ingraham, in her friendly competition with fellow host Tucker Carlson to see who can be the most obnoxious, has started to demonize mask-wearing by claiming that <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/30/laura-ingraham-falsely-claims-urging-people-to-wear-masks-is-a-plot-to-sow-fear-and-intimidation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">public health advisories are somehow a conspiracy</a> to sow “fear and intimidation.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Considering that mask-wearing to protect others took off in Asia long before Trump even ran for president, Ingraham’s conspiracy theory doesn’t possess even the most remote logical consistency.)</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Between Trump and Fox News, the practice of mask-wearing is swiftly becoming another culture-war flashpoint. But the question is why. After all, masks seem to make people feel more comfortable with going out in public and going to work, and those are both things Trump dearly wants Americans to return to doing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Trump and his most ardent supporters seem almost physically repulsed at the very idea of wearing a mask. <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/republican-ohio-state-lawmaker-refuses-wear-face-mask-because-god-created-humans-without-one-1501909" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">One Republican Ohio state legislator even claimed</a> that since “we are all created in the image and likeness of God,” covering the face with a mask is an affront to God’s creation. (Many have noted that this same argument could be made against the practice of wearing pants.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, the rejection of mask-wearing really goes back to the fact that Trump, Ingraham and their most faithful followers are guided by fascist impulse, even when they don’t or can’t articulate a fully fleshed-out fascist ideology. Above all other things, the fascist personality is one that rejects even the possibility of sickness. To wear a mask is to publicly admit that one’s body is suspectible to illness, which is coded as “weak” and therefore unacceptable.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Natascha Strobl, an Austrian political scientist who is an expert in far-right organizing and rhetoric, <a href="https://twitter.com/Natascha_Strobl/status/1247606764914302979" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">had an important English-language Twitter thread in early April </a>about why the far right was embracing the view that the coronavirus should simply be allowed to run wild. From the beginning, this has been the view Trump clearly prefers on an emotional level and has pushed federal policy toward all along. While Strobl didn’t mention masks, her observations also help explain why these same folks are repulsed by mask-wearing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fascist narrative, Strobl explained, is that “men aren’t men anymore, but nervous, urban, overly intellectualized and (here it comes) sickly weaklings.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Weakness is never worthy of protection and has to be cast out. This is fascism,” she continues. The fascist believes that those viewed as “weak” have an obligation to die “without protest for the greater good” and that if “they don’t do it, they are weak and the weak drag everyone else down and therefore must be done away with.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To wear a mask, in other words, indicates a belief that your personal body can become infected. A fascist-minded person like Trump cannot admit such a thing, either because he genuinely believes he is too strong to be affected by the virus or because he fears looking weak in public. Just as important, wearing a mask indicates care and concern for others, especially those who are high-risk. But the fascist-minded person doesn’t want to protect those viewed as “weak” — in fact, those people are expected to die so as not to be a burden on others. As Strobl points out, the far right believes that by becoming seriously ill or dying in service to some warped conception of the greater good, the “weak” can prove themselves strong through their sacrifice.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump hasn’t exactly concealed his impulse to see the coronavirus as a force that culls the herd of its weakest members, or to perceive that the “weak” can be redeemed through this morbid, sadistic ritual sacrifice. This week, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-warriors-coronavirus-pandemic-reopen/2020/05/07/579c631a-9071-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">he repeatedly insisted that Americans should think of themselves</a> as “warriors” who bravely go forth and face the virus for the cause of, well, his re-election, which he is convinced depends on reopening the economy without bothering with the testing protocols, contact tracing and other precautions that could make doing so both safe and feasible.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Even if people are willing to die for a noble cause, it’s worth pausing here and observing gently that Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is not such a cause.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, Trump has always made a point of presenting himself as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch#Nazism" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the fascist version of the Übermensch</a>, even as he is likely too dim to know that word or what it signifies. <a href="https://time.com/4936612/donald-trump-genes-genetics/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump is forever bragging </a>about <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eugenics_n_57ec4cc2e4b024a52d2cc7f9" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">his alleged “good genes,”</a> which he often invokes as being so powerful as to render him <a href="https://www.axios.com/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody-b278b592-cff0-47dc-a75f-5767f42bcf1e.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a genius-level expert in any number of subjects</a>, from medicine to economics to military strategy, without any need to do anything as weak and effeminate as learning stuff. Wearing a mask would go against his effort to present himself as possessing near-supernatural genetic powers to repel the sorts of viruses with which mere mortals must contend.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, Trump doesn’t actually believe his own lies on this subject (nor on many others). <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/military-official-working-white-house-tests-positive-coronavirus-n1202061" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">As NBC News has reported</a>, when Trump found out that a White House valet had the coronavirus, he became “lava level mad” at his staff and accused them of not doing enough to protect him. His public bravado is, as with all things Trump, a thin mask plastered over a deep well of insecurity. He may want you to believe his immune system is superhuman, but he knows full well that his obese and shattered 73-year-old physique puts him in the category of the high-risk people he and his fellow Republicans are treating as weaklings better off culled from the herd.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, because face masks have become such a potent symbol to far-right culture warriors of values they reject, such as equality and compassion, we can only expect the symbolic clash over masks to escalate. More and more conservatives, especially men, will try to prove their superior masculine strength and power by refusing to wear them. This is childish, selfish and entirely counterproductive, of course. What else can we expect from Trump and his followers, who are the real weaklings in this unhappy social equation?</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/sheriffs-salon-owners-and-fox-news-desperate-attempt-turn-pandemic-latest"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/sheriffs-salon-owners-and-fox-news-desperate-attempt-turn-pandemic-latest</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media personalities have long struggled to find a conservative hero in their culture war, someone to serve as an ideological martyr for their cause -- and they’ve made some pretty ridiculous attempts to force it along the way. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gun owners? <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/ted-nugent/ted-nugent-calls-gun-owners-next-rosa-parks" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rosa Parks</a>. A police officer who arrested a Black man for breaking into his own home? <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/breitbart-news/wash-times-column-breitbart-declares-officer-gates-arrest-rosa-parks-rush-judgment?redirect_source=/blog/2009/07/27/in-wash-times-column-breitbart-declares-officer/152489" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rosa Parks with a badge</a>. Rogue rancher Cliven Bundy? <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/kevin-williamson/allies-repeatedly-compared-racist-rancher-civil-rights-figures" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rosa Parks on the open range</a>. If only conservative media were more interested in <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/rosa-parkss-memorial-received-scant-coverage-fox-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rosa Parks herself</a>, maybe they’d understand why those comparisons are ludicrous. But that hasn’t stopped conservative media figures from continuing to <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/shelley_luther_is_americas_new_rosa_parks.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">draw parallels</a> between civil rights activism and a new front in the right-wing culture war: opposition to stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weeks after the network began hyping protests against the coronavirus safety measures, Fox News has found a folk hero in Texas salon owner <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/06/dallas-salon-owner-jailed-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Shelley Luther</a>, who defied the state’s stay-at-home order to reopen her salon and refused to comply in a court appearance. The network — unlike conservative commentator and former Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/1257787179172007936" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Allen West</a> — hasn’t made explicit comparisons between Luther and Parks just yet. But Fox has used its platform to promote local sheriffs and business owners who are defying lockdown orders. And it's made Luther into the de facto face of the anti-lockdown movement against big, overreaching government, utilizing an old playbook to turn a public health emergency into a battle in the culture war.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News worked to portray Luther as a martyr to stay-at-home orders.</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luther reopened her salon on April 24 in defiance of the state’s stay-at-home order. On April 28, District Judge Eric Moyé <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/04/28/judge-orders-dallas-salon-to-close-after-owner-refused-to-follow-emergency-orders/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">issued a temporary restraining order</a> against Luther. On May 5, after she refused to follow that order, Moyé found Luther in contempt of court and <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/05/dallas-salon-owner-jail-sentence-reopening-shelley-luther-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sentenced her</a> to seven days in jail, though she would be <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/07/texas-dallas-salon-owner-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">released</a> less than 48 hours later. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The order Luther violated was issued by Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and came with a <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-14_Statewide_Essential_Service_and_Activity_COVID-19_IMAGE_03-31-2020.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">maximum penalty of $1,000 in fines and 180 days in jail</a>. Moyé offered Luther the opportunity to <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/metroplex/dallas-salon-owner-shelley-luther-fined-and-jailed/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">avoid jail time</a> if she would acknowledge that she had broken the order and agree to shut down her salon until the stay-at-home order was lifted, but she refused. Luther claimed that she needed to keep her salon open to feed her kids, even though she had applied for and <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1259869380781002752" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">received $18,000 in financial aid</a> through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. And given that a <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/dallas-salon-arrest-gofundme/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">GoFundMe page</a> had been set up for her a day before she first reopened, it’s hard to see this as anything other than a public relations stunt; thanks to Fox News, it would be a very successful one.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Abbott, along with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/05/06/straight-up-wrong-texas-conservatives-defend-dallas-salon-owner-jailed-for-keeping-open-business-amid-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">criticized the judge</a> for enforcing Abbott’s own executive order.</b> Fox News quickly hosted Patrick <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dan-patrick-defends-shelley-luther-not-what-america-is-about" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-defends-jailed-salon-owner-she-should-be-home-for-mothers-day" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">times</a> on <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6155033090001#sp=show-clips" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the network</a><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-defends-jailed-salon-owner-she-should-be-home-for-mothers-day" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">,</a> where he advocated for Luther and accused Moyé of making “a giant overreach.” (Luther, for her part, has advocated for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh17eh0kO1Q" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">removing Moyé,</a> who is up for reelection this year.) </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/boyfriend-jailed-dallas-salon-owner-hannity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">May 6</a>, Fox prime-time host Sean Hannity interviewed Luther’s boyfriend, Tim Georgeff, and compared Luther’s punishment to the Mel Gibson character's execution for treason in the movie <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Braveheart</em></b>. Prime-time host Tucker Carlson invited Luther’s attorney Warren Norred to appear on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/shelley-luther-lawyer-dallas-judge-bend-knee" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</a></em> the same day and said that he hopes Luther’s story “awakens people.” In the interview, Norred criticized “tiny tyrants” in government and complained that the judge treated Luther as a “heretic” and demanded that she “bend the knee.” Luther herself appeared on the <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6155128906001#sp=show-clips" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">May 8</a> edition of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em> after she was released, and Hannity again compared her ordeal to that of William Wallace in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Braveheart</em>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-covered-jailed-salon-owner-over-7-times-more-ahmaud-arbery" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox News</a> devoted 2 hours and 48 minutes of coverage to Luther’s story between May 5 and 2 p.m. EDT May 8. To put this in context, Fox News covered the high-profile killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man shot in Georgia while out for a jog, for only 47 minutes between May 3 and 2 p.m. EDT May 8. </font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News is using an old playbook to turn a public health emergency into a battle in the culture war.</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For years, Fox News has propped up conservative figures as heroes in a war against big government. In 2014, Fox went <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/fox-news-carnival-barkers-gin-range-war?redirect_source=/blog/2014/04/18/fox-news-carnival-barkers-gin-up-a-range-war/198946" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">all-in</a> on Nevada rancher <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/conservative-media-who-brought-you-cliven-bundy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Cliven Bundy</a> and his protests that led to an armed standoff with the federal government.</span> Fox did the same in 2014 as it worked to portray <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duck Dynasty</em> star <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-fox-news-helped-make-duck-dynastys-phil-robertson-conservative-media-darling" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Phil Robertson</a> as a martyr when A&E temporarily put the show on hiatus after he made anti-LGBTQ comments. Similarly, in 2015, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets rallied around <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/conservative-pundits-invoke-civil-rights-icons-defend-anti-lgbt-county-clerk-kim-davis" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Kim Davis</a>, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage certificates for same-sex couples.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The strategy of portraying conservatives as the victims of liberal policies -- even when, as was the case for Luther, the policy being violated was implemented by a Republican -- makes sense as part of Fox’s political messaging, as it furthers a narrative of conservative oppression. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In addition to Luther, Fox has recently taken to elevating other anti-lockdown activists.</b> An Arizona <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">sheriff </b>named <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxLgH9W4OqI" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Doug Schuster</a> appeared on<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Tucker Carlson Tonight</em> to discuss his decision not to enforce the state’s stay-at-home order. Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County, California, appeared on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ca-sheriff-refuses-to-enforce-states-stay-at-home-orders" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox & Friends</a></em>. <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-cheering-rogue-sheriffs-connected-extremist-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Three other sheriffs</a> who’ve made recent Fox News appearances to decry stay-at-home orders have ties to the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, an extremist group. Business owners <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/eliot-rabin-nyc-tailor-reopens-coronavirus-defiance" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Eliot Rabin</a>, <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6153574855001#sp=show-clips" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Juan Desmarais</a>, and <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6153312167001#sp=show-clips" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rick Savage</a> have all appeared on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em> to discuss their decisions to defy stay-at-home orders by keeping their businesses open. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April, Fox News helped uplift the anti-lockdown protests with an overwhelming amount of coverage. In just over one week, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/promotion-praise-and-ton-coverage-how-fox-news-embraced-protests-against-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox News ran 91 segments</a> about those protests, amounting to roughly six hours of programming. As the pandemic stretched into May, Fox began attempting to shift focus away from the mounting death toll and the president’s lagging approval ratings on his handling of the disaster, limiting what pandemic-related stories it aired to pieces about conservatives who were supposedly harmed by stay-at-home orders. The raging pandemic is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/coronavirus-death-toll-rises-fox-hosts-agree-crisis-over-even-if-they-cant-agree-why" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">starting</a> to become <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/month-month-fox-news-coronavirus-coverage-has-dropped-more-20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">an afterthought</a> on the network, and Fox is moving on to topics like the Department of Justice’s decision to drop charges against former Trump national security adviser <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-flynn/fox-news-laid-groundwork-department-justices-decision-drop-charges-against-michael" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Michael Flynn</a> and the phony “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/trumprussia/fox-news-why-trump-thinks-he-can-get-away-nixonian-corruption-barrs-doj" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Obamagate</a>” scandal. With its coverage of Luther’s case, Fox has found a way to portray conservatives as the real victims in this public health crisis.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservatives keep fighting their culture war amid a deadly pandemic.</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While a certain <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">intellectual gladiator of the right</a> may claim that “facts don’t care about your feelings,” Fox News knows this isn’t quite right. The network needs to downplay the pandemic to protect President Donald Trump. But you can't convince an audience that a deadly pandemic is just an acceptable fact of life with #facts and #logic; you need to sell them on it by playing to their emotions, giving them a hero to cheer for and a villain to rage against.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taking Luther’s story as an example, a rational analysis of what happened would show her as a person who didn’t think the law the rest of us are expected to follow should apply to her, who was given an opportunity to avoid jail after violating the law and refused, who applied for and received government assistance, and who raised nearly <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/shelley-luther-fund?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">$500,000</a> from a GoFundMe page started before reopening the business. To convince an audience that the victim in this situation is the salon owner -- especially an audience that likes to think of itself as supporting “law and order” -- you have to appeal to their emotions to override the massive amounts of cognitive dissonance involved.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A pandemic is no time for culture war gamesmanship, but as Fox News’ latest cavalcade of conservative martyrs shows, it’s the only game the network knows how to play.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">random grab not all: 5/20</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv8464980585camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host <b>Laura Ingraham</b> went after recommendations for Americans to wear masks in public on Wednesday night, describing them as an alarming social conditioning push by public health experts and the media to frighten people so they keep supporting state lockdowns. But there's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a5b63039c23d312c0e2f9e75d4373e4453b76864cbba29abe0af52fb0ae8d868c96ff0cfb319e676a1980d4ba7e3bc37c" title="more to the story" style="">more to the story </a>: Ingraham herself spent late March and early April talking up the benefits of widespread mask use. On her Twitter feed and Fox prime-time show, she portrayed them as an alternative to stay-at-home orders that would help get people back to work. Ingraham even used her Fox platform to teach viewers to make their own cloth masks.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What changed? Well, the throughline to Laura Ingraham’s coronavirus coverage is that she disagrees with whatever public health officials say.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv8464980585camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Featured Media</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv8464980585camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC's <b>Chris Hayes</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a249094837a77747ff884aa9612e62db527e4912b407cc56a5f4c29e8c1793339e115c8a6fbf3e4f0ddee3497b0cc01f5" title="called out" style="">called out</a> Tucker Carlson’s coronavirus hypocrisy and fake populism.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Appearing on Fox News, <b>Jared Kushner</b> called the government's response to COVID-19 a success story. Seth Meyers <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a961d97cf81fb588a295c1704fb02b5b63713abc45fcaa61b3c7ac0fc7954b7d95719abea1269d9c7909d4700ede42934" title="looked at that claim" style="">looked at that claim</a>.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Samantha Bee</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9aee39974ff26cd4b697da5c8ecb3d5ae1c56053b5ba8c12f3fb31b6ee93bda7adb9752b8b3d95d1a777b3b436b20574a3" title="looked at" style="">looked at</a> the right-wing campaign to undermine the Post Office.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Donald Trump</b> appeared on the show of Fox contributor <b>Dan Bongino</b> and talked about <b>Stephen Colbert</b>'s show. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a82a3c59ee4657c2c90ff0df8941637f0457296c2be7c5cbcc8b0ef4be43d53da11ef9e6ab6317039642c0d0775c1f2b1" title="Watch Colbert's response" style="">Watch Colbert's response</a>.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv8464980585camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8464980585stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv8464980585camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media suggested COVID-19 fatalities were overcounted. Actual data <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9ab268830df5ba62500eb3c0ef22399f47e5f7f5b9b614989dc0e2e6ed34af251c8166bd98a56c576ffc1c1e31210d5956" title="suggests" style="">suggest</a> a significant undercount.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The NRA is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a3ed99f36789d86c93bcf236fe240e9897bfbecf012cf50ffbcd8f1fa237432a1ab178b83aeb16e7f61aba0dd6249e70b" title="encouraging people" style="">encouraging people</a> to spend their COVID-19 relief checks on guns.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Far-right message boards <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a17e4112d8a280499932478ddb782b60e9eae8fb25ab3d9ff6932c2e358bbed24771f805f4ff1f9e4276013c3a4ba6d32" title="are trying to sabotage" style="">are trying to sabotage</a> a Pennsylvania coronavirus compliance program.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With his tweets pushing coronavirus conspiracy theories, Tesla CEO <b>Elon Musk</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a8e0c894dce958884170c0eee5435bcdb100a69292ac2f720f76b5507df132bceedfb0d21088f9656cb1ed4828e7db6b5" title="has become a major purveyor" style="">has become a major purveyor</a> of right-wing disinformation.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>James O'Keefe</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a87b04658a1b0ab1a3a65898e0b40ddb9e8ef921e69350ea34f77ac0181dd13d6ab631702eb4877f7c68b35bb23cffabe" title="fell flat again" style="">fell flat again</a>, in his supposed “investigation” of COVID-19 deaths. <b>Sean Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9aca5b3f93d46874b9dfa1f93688f91c26316bb169d11deabdcdc7a61d7bb057c803bf8fec880987f38a0c839a50e9dee2" title="was among the few" style="">was among the few</a> that ran with it.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Giving up any pretense of subtlety, an OAN host <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9af9a6be5eb7d033bf129b47f91228d47e3d70a0b251b9cb0cef49028aa70e113e5aa204ad64d4f77f3f0ad21df870e7a8" title="likened" style="">likened</a> Democratic politicians in California to Nazis.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Laura Ingraham</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9abff64cc70516dd374a043d069788e5ccd961048d2e3a34a02a2265165526229108db694995e6f9ee0335fcf554a52c09" title="retweeted" style="">retweeted</a> an article from white nationalist group VDare blaming immigrant workers for coronavirus hotspots.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9abf49579ee173c2e90bf16880a1fb6ce5394fb708b3a6c1778373d863531fe97739f13cccb0f34b87a6440052d6ccf69b" title="repeatedly and wrongly claimed" style="">repeatedly and wrongly claimed</a> that social distancing doesn't work to stop the spread of coronavirus.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9af32485e9cfb046484f70213e4f6910fbec77a8103c7b3cd6a43f9eb5fded319472fc29a19646c4bbff252fd91df81360" title="complained" style="">complained</a> about New York’s “mansion taxes.”</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox host <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9abbf7a6b948b68fc02c21f16f91eecdc4dc1da25fc83828f26cd15311c2d14a2d39b7d3b392528de5d3d03235194df43d" title="compared" style="">compared</a> the need for more coronavirus testing to wearing a helmet if there's snow on the ground.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's official: Even Donald Trump's Department of Justice says that Media Matters is reliable. Following our reporting, a US District Court <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a4b4fa40ba8f3e2753c9b690082b388336fb966d348362c933a5d9047fbf1bae68419d48368a49fa016449eb01c709610" title="issued a temporary restraining order" style="">issued a temporary restraining order</a> against a coronavirus silver scammer.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">520</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></u></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">week, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Fox parted ways Diamond and Silk (stage names of Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson) over their promotion of dangerous conspiracy theories related to the spread of the coronavirus</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The Trump supporters and Fox commentators have promoted a </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9afd3fb3f1b2d93e1d37c3e841ff6e7ec4819826dc157add4ddfb04beb4e222249951eebec8169aeec1afe9305e1833903" title="variety of conspiracy theories" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">variety of conspiracy theories</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, including claims that people are increasing the number of coronavirus deaths to make Trump look bad, as well as speculating that virus is being spread deliberately. Twitter even deleted their tweet opposing quarantines and calling for people to expose themselves to the virus.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">F<b>ox’s actions removing low-level commentators are simply a public relations strategy. The network lets their big stars to amplify the same messages to larger audiences, while punishing low-level people who get too much bad press</b>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example, Fox host <b>Tucker Carlson</b> and <b>Brit Hume</b>, Fox’s senior political analyst, argued earlier this month that the COVID-19 death toll had been inflated due to what Carlson termed journalists’ “agenda.” Further, just hours after news broke that Diamond and Silk were shown the door, Carlson argued on his show that there is no scientific justification for quarantines and baselessly claimed that the spread of the virus has been slowed not by social distancing measures.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The language and content of these conspiracy theories are nearly identical, though Fox’s most notable figures are rarely held accountable. As Media Matters' <b>Matt Gertz</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9ad7a4149aeed62dc16eac4dd777c89b39ed171033c982edc1abd6eea05033cf25837be913b74ae6947eb10c93e8e728fa" title="explained">explained</a>, “Fox’s executives have made the calculation that its big stars are too big to fail. Unless further pressure from advertisers and cable providers changes the financial equation, they will have no reason to hold them accountable.”</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">random 4/27/20</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv3201549088camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Featured Media</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv3201549088camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters president <b>Angelo Carusone</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bc005c0ae7251c631c65baa5c4043159be3ba88e258bc7a1f3f0b50b0a31a4a19fd0b51583efaff8437bb2f62b5bce9f4" title="spoke with" style="">spoke with</a> MSNBC's <b>Chris Hayes</b> about how Fox News laid the groundwork for demonstrations against coronavirus measures.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b23ae35c4ebe6cc253aa80abbb59fd901b15a825b69027a0fc6940f3c60c3d34fe070f07572db3e5036e310858b41668c" title="has embraced" style="">has embraced</a> far-right demonstrations against coronavirus safety measures.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Samantha Bee</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b555f54c7a98a7060419b67806647924e5877273b89925cd1465333e55a21c6823e6edfc5c9a123a45304d94f675508d0" title="looked at" style="">looked at</a> how Fox is trying to get coronavirus restrictions lifted prematurely.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Show's <b>Desi Lydic</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b9f6b6fe5e718b0851c2168b8f151db8cd14f55db0ebdde9385ef82292301461b0fd34b66e27509e1491813991620122f" title="mocked" style="">mocked</a> Fox's horrible coronavirus coverage.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>John Oliver</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bcd3cbd057156db7de9faf65133cddf67f30bdec648bcf8ca07fb08e9bef8317727f382e3b655b17acf6bfa3933ae8ac2" title="took a deep dive" style="">took a deep dive</a> on how the feedback loop between <b>Donald Trump</b> and Fox News / right-wing media is making the pandemic even worse.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv3201549088camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv3201549088stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv3201549088camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Pat Robertson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b5723206f9a236b127af7b06198dea7adbae7f9d4682ae674bfdb34b8c86a2a1ca70328b9729e04897d91cfdd7f3833f8" title="linked" style="">linked</a> the COVID-19 pandemic to marriage equality and abortion.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An OAN host <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bcdfee335241dfa38342d27a303f205b57bd8c849a17be7aeab498efb4a45f56d41193e4e7e50acd8bbb9ea62ead31b93" title="claimed that" style="">claimed that</a> the COVID-19 death count is inflated and that hospitals are “fudging the numbers.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b6094583368497e114499f8b707eb746b2fb9b3ca7159c509290a670b937df4c19728b16ace597b741867f5fca6526009" title="argued that" style="">argued that</a> Trump's immigration ban doesn’t go far enough. Carlson <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bca18aa99cc4d3849084cf9d634bfaaaad3644559c128f0ed6b08389cb059ec12dbf1d8f307156ab28d25aacccc9be90f" title="also said" style="">also said</a> that “The threat to rural America from this virus is minuscule.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ben Shapiro</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bfcc48c0ada5af11bb8d74f91f19f36b0393933971a49fc0de00aa82dedca91efb3d48ac47548394d816e21983a5fb541" title="slammed" style="">slammed</a> <b>Pope Francis</b> for promoting “pagan holiday” Earth Day.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Fox News, <b>Mike Huckabee</b> and his guest <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b4ee7f228e8ee1fe765fc56c8e0fcb8603c0d874edf673c0027a563552ddda678cfc7d2666a021f0ab28ea3d699f761a8" title="suggested" style="">suggested</a> that the coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox host <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b032f82b17577538999bc3bfe140863ad1c1934ff6556e4f3250b4b28d05636e0fc942840d137aa8cdc92185a05bbefcb" title="said that" style="">said that</a> states must end restrictions “everywhere as quickly as possible” because COVID-19 is “only terrible for a very small group of people”.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b805fc510c6f6e980e95c847907df51eaff0ec6a9461cbf359a8c7281048e082221288c52a5711290182b5c733b4bd711" title="hosted" style="">hosted</a> <b>Dinesh D’Souza</b> after he spread a conspiracy theory about coronavirus death counts.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Sinclair news segment about protests against coronavirus social distancing <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140ba8e33e29ddb01c2d79be8fe068f446829b6da9f6b56c17d1c42e946f022f5117c2652b5edb74adcf912ff3880dd10ec5" title="omitted" style="">omitted</a> health experts’ warnings.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NPR <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bbd7ae0c1071025b8ea98ea9148ede2bc9d2c07452e8c645bccac260d4e327cf76e319f2695e85cfd77a9eb84ebe68ffc" title="promoted" style="">promoted</a> right-wing talking points about government support in an unevenly reported story about a coffee shop’s closure.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump surrogates and Fox hosts <b>Diamond</b> and <b>Silk</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140be7fc81db8e6f48f1451c06a57cc95d0566b907604c4b76f155cc3ca384f918bce3fdb4d9eb86c9c6ab7b88f5bbcba988" title="are pushing" style="">are pushing</a> dangerous coronavirus conspiracy theories.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Across the country, right-wing talk radio hosts <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b10fe42249f12dcf2095d10e050a7efd45e642a95d552bddf38d1e7f239a162c43c58b08441dd5a65608ec281dd34b900" title="are talking up" style="">are talking up</a> protests against stay-at-home orders.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b6c862fbc753e11d25549cdd50465fcc74948877c3fd65697c7eec6729e86a15d9ff7653d317e12e792ee1bf893cee4d0" title="have promoted" style="">have promoted</a> protests outside abortion clinics during the coronavirus pandemic.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro-gun activists and anti-government extremists <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b55c7b724a0be2a6d4e39c4a96d500d294510ff0c2e7c1a0e2718e5d8c028fb1fad71ae864554b830fdf034d6852fe2f8" title="cheered" style="">cheered</a> protests against stay-at-home orders.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite rules about misinformation, a YouTube video calling coronavirus a “false flag” related to 5G <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140be13e5d53fcf3d1ab62a6e18af8bc099bc6934d73feaadf3bd2027d165abe015dfd2791fd9710445a063c87a3c3f0fa30" title="racked up" style="">racked up</a> millions of views.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News mentions of hydroxychloroquine <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140bbdf06d259e1be1c2a6c5e4926f56bb314de700ec0a8b2f5d32c3eab6ca8436e48ed929aca25d386706b43c35ab0658db" title="have significantly dropped off" style="">have significantly dropped off</a>. <b>Laura Ingraham</b> and <b>Sean Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b269348d8545f14de9a12063c8048fb82009c3393d8734897624129ecf2a4cc341f7f03c5dcb5c4a186774a39914cd978" title="both" style="">both</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140b4583df853900f0f458d7360abc8a3b649d172d74be0a2eb36d50fa397dacdcde0cb6e7a39a63407418b44c67fe0842de" title="lashed out" style="">lashed out </a>at a VA study showing that the drug is ineffective and potentially dangerous. After the FDA issued a warning, Tucker Carlson <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=6052e6d64a51140be0eff32a05c10e892543d26c7a3278356afbf5eed02717577265ac0c12ab79a05c47f24d9d8a69738a683ca0e7c433a5" title="accused" style="">accused</a> the media of being obsessed with the drug.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-tucker-carlson-is-crafting-a-dangerous-and-preposterous-conspiracy-theory-to-prop-up-trump/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-tucker-carlson-is-crafting-a-dangerous-and-preposterous-conspiracy-theory-to-prop-up-trump/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How Tucker Carlson is crafting a dangerous and preposterous conspiracy theory to prop up Trump</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Written by Amanda Marcotte / Salon April 23, 2020</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the months when Donald Trump thought he could somehow defeat the novel coronavirus by lying, minimizing it and calling concerns about the coming pandemic a “hoax,” most Fox News hosts were right there with him.  The one major exception, however, was popular prime time host Tucker Carlson. While Sean Hannity kept calling the coronavirus crisis a “hoax” and Laura Ingraham described people concerned about it as “panic pushers,” Carlson actually criticized Trump and his Fox colleagues for “minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem,” arguing that the virus was “a major event” that “will affect your life.” The fact Trump made a reluctant pivot and began to admit that the coronavirus was a real threat — even though he’s still trying to cover up the spread of the disease — is likely due to Carlson’s pressure.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In fact, the difference between Carlson’s approach and that of his fellow Fox News hosts, especially Hannity, was so pronounced that it likely altered the course of the disease. A new study shows that communities that favored Hannity’s show over Carlson’s show had more cases of COVID-19 and more deaths. The reason is simple: Because Hannity downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus, his viewers were less likely to follow stay-at-home recommendations and therefore more likely spread the disease.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Don’t get too soft on Tucker, however. He wasn’t motivated by a real concern about the safety of his audience, much less about Americans at large. He simply took a more opportunistic attitude, viewing the inevitable panic and instability that would result from the<b> pandemic as a chance to push his white nationalist views by blaming immigrants.</b></span> He encouraged people to embrace racist frames that implied people of color were dirtier than white people, and encouraged Trump to use the pandemic as an excuse to shut down immigration. Trump has taken that advice, although his ban — which only affects people seeking green cards, not those seeking temporary work visas — has already been criticized by Carlson, who thinks it doesn’t go far enough.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But now even Carlson’s racism-inflected willingness to take the coronavirus seriously has abruptly ended. Starting at the beginning of April, even after his Fox News colleagues had begun to take the virus more seriously,<b> Carlson switched gears and moved toward a denialist viewpoint. He started attacking public health officials for the stay-at-home orders and saying the economic results of the lockdown were worse than the disease.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(This argument, it should be noted, is entirely false. The notion that the economy would be doing fine with a highly contagious and often deadly disease ripping through the population is asinine. Evidence shows that the economy will not rebound, even if politicians remove the lockdown orders. And, as I’ve repeatedly argued, workers who stay home because they’re sick aren’t any more productive than workers who stay home because they’re under lockdown.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As happened with his emerging white nationalism, Carlson’s denialist stance towards the coronavirus has only grown more extreme in the past few weeks. Last week, he praised the astroturfed protesters who swarmed state capitals, armed with rifles and Confederate flags, to portray the lockdowns as an elite conspiracy to destroy Trump.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wednesday night, Carlson stopped playing footsie with the conspiracy theorists and went full science denial.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mass quarantines, they tell us again and again, are the only way to save lives, but that’s a lie,” he said, bizarrely suggesting that quarantines have “never been done” and saying that we “have spent trillions of dollars and crushed millions of people, purely on the guess that a nationwide lockdown would save us from the coronavirus.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carlson is lying, which should be obvious without even doing a moment’s worth of historical research. If quarantines are a brand new thing that no one has ever considered before, why do we have a word for the practice? How is it that the word for this novel, unheard-of practice is so common that everyone knows what it means? How many other words does the English language have for things that don’t exist and no one has ever heard of?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Humans figured out quarantines worked before they even knew why they worked</b>. The CDC website I found after a Google search for “history of quarantine” explains that the “practice of quarantine, as we know it, began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coastal cities from plague epidemics,” by holding ships at anchor for 40 days before docking. The website for PBS’ “Nova” dates the practice back to 549 A.D. Boston first instituted maritime quarantines in 1647. Federal management of quarantine orders dates back to the 19th century.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Famous works of literature — including the Bible, with its references to leper colonies — have references to the practice. “The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio, one of the most famous literary works of the Renaissance, is about people telling stories to pass the time as they shelter in place to avoid the bubonic plague. “The Plague” by Albert Camus tells the story of a plague and quarantine measures in a 1940s setting. Why do Romeo and Juliet die in the famous Shakespearean play? Because a messenger with a letter outlining the plan for their survival is waylaid by a quarantine. (Those of us still awaiting Amazon packages can relate.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker claims he’s the protector of the great traditions of “Western civilization,” mind you, but when it comes to actual history, he’s decided to play ignoramus.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, it’s hardly news that Carlson thinks his audience consists of illiterate morons who don’t know any history prior to 1982, but even for him this is a stretch. People know how disease spreads and why reducing exposure works. Polling shows that not only are Americans broadly supportive of the shelter-in-place orders, but that even a majority of Republicans aren’t keen on ignoring well-established germ theory just because Fox News tells them to.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Still, Carlson is doing this for a reason: He needs to give his audience some excuse to claim that none of this is Trump’s fault. (Narrator: It is Trump’s fault.)</b> He’s offering them a conspiracy theory that these lockdowns aren’t an authentic attempt to slow the spread of a deadly disease, but an invented crisis aimed at bringing down Trump. It’s true that Carlson hasn’t come out and said that, but it’s the only real conclusion one can draw from his accusation that thousands of public health experts, bureaucrats and elected officials are working together (and none are blowing the whistle!) to crash the economy in order to grab “godlike power” for themselves.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no small amount of projection in his rant, in which he complains that “mediocre people” are trying to control “when people can get married, which medical procedures you are allowed to have.” The people who are actually interested in doing that are, of course, Republicans who would like to ban same-sex marriage and abortion. But of course, accusing your opponents of doing what you are actually doing is exactly what right-wing conspiracy theorists do.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Carlson’s full-blown Alex Jones-style conspiracy theories aren’t just a threat to our democracy. They’re a threat to the health of his viewers.</b> As the study mentioned earlier in this piece has shown, many Fox News viewers are willing to break the stay-at-home orders to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump and faith in Fox News. Some have already died because of this. Tucker Carlson clearly doesn’t care how many of his own viewers get sick and die. He has a larger agenda: Create some explanation, no matter how preposterous, that deflects the blame for this national catastrophe away from Donald Trump.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><u><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fox News promotes protests against social distancing</font></u></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the last few days, Fox News has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=946c24a6dfc04f40f7bc8c6c068d4588ae9ede239fcac564e4ca7109a5a539c8834201c613fba830e181a2f1d110c632bc68c6e535018470" title="enthusiastically promoted" style="">enthusiastically promoted</a> protests against social distancing orders. Hosts and other network figures have promoted and encouraged viewers to join in.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Saturday, Fox <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=946c24a6dfc04f40f13fc16bc2cb9999098ec531e8b5882f8ec714d50d5901799dd98d6137346346514d3b20f8f51b28da5f7c52679ab220" title="aired" style="">aired</a> the above map of planned protests. The entire affair is very similar to how the network promoted Tea Party protests in 2009. In fact, the map was even similar.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=946c24a6dfc04f407631c61f70b5d26eb9069f5fc3520da97ad351f66571b9378e6941a776f37574872d5faf8653b60b7185d126150e348d" title="substantial" style="">substantial</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d045023880c253bd1e4f298f18029121ff273203b6c1ef9a16042268edd276137169c4910cdcb05fb514bfcf0a68cbe500a4403fb" title="evidence" style="">evidence</a> that some of these protests are astro-turfed. But even taking into account that some people really do feel this way, the fact is that polls show that the vast majority of Americans are <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d04502388de759a41120aeca9f761c8f32cd438f34893bb7d2a745f694cff8cf3cf5fefc6902b22181f4409e694d291a4202d5738" title="more worried" style="">more worried</a> about governments opening things too quickly.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Media Matters president <b>Angelo Carusone</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d04502388e3e9247f87ff9af29f00ff7c4bb4c274b9a8911a27c3d631bf5f4df33df60fa0b3ff217c3463f1f8f8a42a4604a864a2" title="told Vox" style="">told Vox</a>, Fox News and right-wing media didn't create these protests, but they are legitimizing them, whitewashing extremist ties, and bringing them to a larger audience, both in terms of pushing people to participate and pushing other media outlets to cover them. The goal is to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d0450238812296e1405aafc012299a6ee6c0133aa287a13a571cb2134c1b2763dd99aff7d64e418c6b13d0d1ca36064822edd691b" title="change public opinion" style="">change public opinion</a> about the pandemic.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The difference this time is that this is about science, not politics. And these protests -- and those like Fox that promote them -- only help spread the virus.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d04502388e5d762a6e598c9e51f4dd9534ff4c835662adc8093cb68ad9dd339eebcfc926ef6a740179f7430fe8cc396a4dc2c0de2" title="Fox News triggered Trump's all-caps endorsement of protests against his own guidelines for re-opening the economy" style="">Fox News triggered Trump's all-caps endorsement of protests against his own guidelines for re-opening the economy</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President <b>Donald Trump</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d04502388d468b156cfbedcb672609522d96c8b4ac4b3cd565f92be2892fc5c746e649b6a3c1db718f594bef6acb6c6b99dd3e56f" title="endorsed" style="">endorsed</a> conservative protests against social distancing measures in three states immediately after Fox News aired a segment on the efforts. Trump, who was apparently watching the segment, responded to it in real-time by expressing support for the protests, sending multiple tweets saying, “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!,” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!,” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this week, Fox hosts cheered on protests by conservative activists against Michigan’s stay-at-home order. As <b>Matt Gertz</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d04502388efe2843f88e57912665f2baf0c25d54185aaac6c228f262fb835938cc9dd1e1394b5f448e4905564a0e2cbd6c6df6cc8" title="noted at the time" style="">noted at the time</a>: “If Trump sees Fox’s protest coverage and endorses the effort, social distancing will become even more politically polarized. The hard-won progress in the fight against the virus could evaporate in an instant, leaving behind a shattered economy and an influx of COVID-19 deaths.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not hyperbole. We've already seen data indicate that there <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c8e7425d0450238898b1933384da0068da5470247019d0796c1921bc3c61819995173cbce96b935e3061a940143a9c1ba42a623109f28199" title="may be a surge" style="">may be a surge</a> in COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin after Republicans and the Supreme Court forced that state's voters to go to the polls.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7501852295stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7501852295camarker-inner" 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</div><div>Why the Murdochs backed Donald Trump’s COVID-19 denialism</div><div>2020/4/17 01:00 (BST)</div><div>©openDemocracy</div><div>
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</div><div>Hammy contrition</div><div>Murdoch’s miscalculation</div><div>
</div><div>Sean Hannity, one of Fox News's biggest stars, said that the coronavirus was a "new hoax" in March. | Fox News</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Earlier this month, Fox News aired a one-hour special, ‘America Together’</b>, that featured some of its biggest stars. In a radical departure for the fiercely partisan network, the show ostensibly marked the launch of a new “editorial initiative” aimed at promoting national unity. The content of the special, however, remained typically Fox. “As we face this COVID-19 crisis, you, me, our kids, our parents and our grandparents: We can and should turn to one place for comfort – the Holy Bible,” host Peter Hegseth advised viewers with a commendably straight face.</span></div><div>
</div><div>This was the same Peter Hegseth who alleged on air on 28 February that Democrats were “rooting” for the infection. “They have yet to find a reason to drag down the presidency of Donald Trump,” he said. Sean Hannity, one of Fox’s most famous names and a close ally of Trump similarly told viewers, “If you are over the mass hysteria, if you're over politicizing and weaponizing the coronavirus, you are not alone.” With only one exception – the extreme right-wing host Tucker Carlson– Fox News repeated the line that COVID-19 was nothing to worry about, no more dangerous than the flu, or “a hoax” that was being used to “bludgeon Trump”, in Hannity’s words.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This was not simply a matter of a big media outlet getting the story wrong. This was the biggest, most consequential mistake of Fox News chairman Rupert Murdoch’s career, including the Hitler Diaries farce and the UK phone hacking scandal, which cost his companies well over £300 million</span>. Fox’s support for Trump’s line, from January to mid-March, that the threat from the virus was negligible and that the spread was, in any event, under control may have cost lives among its devoted viewers who, with a median age of 65, are most at risk from the often fatal outcome of the disease.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Fox not only failed to report the chaos and missteps in the White house, it also cheered the president’s denial and delay, the effects of which are writ large in the United States coronavirus figures.</b> At the time of writing, the US has had 609, 516 reported cases of COVID-19 and 26,057 deaths from the virus, a third of which have occurred in New York State. The disease is spreading rapidly from big conurbations, which are largely Democrat to the Midwest and South, which tend to be Republican.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This week, Trump clashed with state governors, including those in his own party, over who has the ultimate authority to reopen states and when. Meanwhile, protests have erupted in some conservative and rural counties demanding an end to stay-at-home measures.<b> Fox News's Laura Ingraham was among those heaping praise on protesters, tweeting that it was "time to get your freedom back".</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Hammy contrition</div><div>
</div><div>Fox’s lets-bring-America-together-again response is reminiscent of the hammy contrition displayed by Murdoch’s News International after the phone hacking scandal, but it is unlikely to silence the anger over Fox’s coverage. MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, Boston Globe and the Washington Post regularly remind their audiences of how Trump and Fox News supported each other’s denialism. <b>Trevor Noah’s ‘Daily Show’ on Comedy Central gathered all the clips from Fox and other corona-sceptics in one item, which they called the “Heroes of the Pandumbic”. </b>More seriously, an open letter signed by 74 journalism professors criticised the company for spreading misinformation that endangered the public. In addition, Washington non-profit WASHLITE has filed a suit against the company alleging it “wilfully and maliciously deceived the public.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Fox viewers were far less likely to take the crisis seriously... 90% said that they were not staying at home.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Since its founding under the former Nixon aide Roger Ailes, Fox News has been seen as a damaging and divisive force in journalism. But now, there seems to be striking evidence that actual, physical harm may have been caused by Fox’s editorial line on COVID-19 before its mid-March volte face. A poll by Survey 160 and Gradients Metrics carried out between 13-16 March shows that Fox viewers were far less likely to stay at home, or take the crisis seriously, which is important given that its viewership is particularly at risk from the virus.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Of those who identified as Republican and who had watched Fox News in the past 24 hours, 90% said that they were not staying at home. That fell to 70% among those Republicans who had not watched Fox News.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The link between cause and effect will never be conclusive. Nonetheless, it is significant that when asked whether the threat from COVID–19 had been exaggerated, 60% of Republicans who had watched Fox New said “yes”, while only 40% of those Republicans who hadn’t watched agreed. The difference between the two may be a measure of Fox News’s influence.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Murdoch has promised a robust defence of the case brought by WASHLITE and this, too, is reminiscent of the company’s initial response to the phone-hacking allegations, when it threw everything at the Guardian newspaper,</b> which published the allegations over several years, and its then editor Alan Rusbridger. “They went round the lobby (in Parliament) saying it was all lies,” he recalls, “issued a statement that it was all lies, published pieces in the Sunday Times and Times saying it was all lies. Let’s not forget this was a public company making dishonest statements.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox Corp, which owns Fox News, is also a public company, although the Murdoch family have 39% of the voting power. Rupert Murdoch, 89, executive co-chair of Fox News and his eldest son Lachlan, 48, co-chair and chief executive, have clearly decided that the only way to deal with this disaster is to pretend it never happened. That is why Fox now promotes uplifting stories of Americans helping each other. They are counting on mass forgetfulness and hope Sean Hannity, its biggest star, will be believed when he said of the journalism professors, “It’s the same Democrats, media mob and liberal professors who are so lazy they won’t even look at what I’ve said about the virus… I never called it a ‘hoax’. I said it was a hoax for them to be using it as a bludgeon on Trump.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Hannity’s contortions are a footnote to the national tragedy. The bigger story is about Fox’s journalism and Murdoch’s credibility as a media owner. While every other established outlet can point to Trump’s record and hold him to account in the run up to the election on 3 November, Fox must abjure because of its past support for the president’s calamitous policy failings.</div><div>
</div><div>Murdoch’s miscalculation</div><div>
</div><div><b>Even though those who, like me, regard Rupert Murdoch and his interests as an international menace, still credit him with a sure judgment when it comes to using politicians to further the interests of his company.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In the past, he has never had a problem shedding long-standing allies to catch a new political wind. He famously deserted the British Conservative Party in the mid 90s to support Tony Blair’s New Labour, despite the Tories’ support for him through his fight with the print unions. In 2016, he quickly discarded Jeb Bush in favour of Trump in the run up to the primaries, but not before tweeting in 2015, “When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?” Trump is more than an embarrassment now. The economy is tanking, a depression is threatened, thousands of Americans are dying and record numbers of them are filing for unemployment, but Fox can’t apply itself to the job of scrutiny without questioning its own role.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>When Murdoch plumped for Trump in 2016, it seemed a sensible business decision. No obstacles were placed by the Trump administration in the way of the $71 billion sale of Twenty-First Century Fox’s film and TV assets to Disney, although Trump was revealed to have tried to block a very similar merger between AT&T; and Time</b> Warner which also went through a year ago. The new Fox Corp which runs Fox News and is headed by Lachlan Murdoch is doing well financially, reporting total quarterly revenues of $3.78 billion, a 5% increase from the $3.58 billion of revenues in the prior year quarter.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Being shackled to a lunatic is all very well if it serves your purposes – until that lunatic drags you into the path of an oncoming train. For Fox, it’s too late to escape: <b>Lachlan Murdoch has failed to create a distance between his company and Trump.</b> In an article in the New York Times that pulled no punches, the media correspondent Ben Smith blamed Lachlan Murdoch. “Fox failed its viewers and the broader public in ways both revealing and potentially lethal. In particular, Lachlan Murdoch failed to pry its most important voices away from their embrace of the president’s early line: that the virus was not a big threat in the United States.”</div><div>
</div><div>How could Rupert Murdoch and his son make such a catastrophic error of judgment? Why are they still chained to Trump as he loses support and, in the face of the daily death toll, can only react with a repellent display of narcissism and self-interest? The answer is surprisingly simple. Supporting Trump wasn’t just a strategic choice, but Rupert Murdoch’s personal political conviction. It has all the hallmarks of the same crude conservatism evident in the editorial line pushed by his Australian media outletswhich heaped blame for last year’s bushfires on environmentalists.</div><div>
</div><div>As with climate change, Rupert Murdoch put his politics ahead of business interests by pushing coronavirus skepticism. It’s bad for him and Fox, but much, much worse for humanity.</div><div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News fights coronavirus misinformation lawsuit: First Amendment protects ‘false’ speech</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Written by Igor Derysh / Salon April 16, 2020</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Washington state group accusing the network of “deceptive” coronavirus coverage by arguing that the First Amendment protects “false” and “outrageous” speech.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The network’s lawyers said in a motion seeking to dismiss the lawsuit that the “First Amendment does not permit censoring this type of speech based on the theory that it is ‘false’ or ‘outrageous.’ Nor does the law of the State of Washington.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics (WASHLITE) filed a lawsuit in King County earlier this month seeking a court order barring the network from “interfering with reasonable and necessary measures to contain the virus by publishing further false and deceptive content.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The suit accused the network of violating the state’s Consumer Protection Act by “falsely and deceptively disseminating ‘news’ via cable news contracts that the coronavirus was a ‘hoax’ and that it was otherwise not a danger to public health and safety.”</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The suit specifically cited Fox News host Sean Hannity and former Fox Business host Trish Regan for having “acted in bad faith to willfully and maliciously disseminate false information denying and minimizing the danger posed by the spread of the novel coronavirus.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hannity downplayed the threat of the coronavirus and argued it was less dangerous than the flu. Regan was fired shortly after accusing Democrats of pushing a “coronavirus impeachment scam.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Though there are numerous examples of Fox opinion hosts downplaying the threat posed by the virus, many legal experts have dismissed the idea that the network could be sued for its coverage of the pandemic. One of the lawyers involved in the lawsuit has since withdrawn from the case.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s Constitutional Law 101: the First Amendment protects our right to speak openly and freely on matters of public concern,” Fox News Media general counsel Lily Fu Claffee said in a statement. “If WASHLITE doesn’t like what we said, it can criticize us, but it can’t silence us with a lawsuit.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The network’s 76-page filing, which includes dozens of pages of show transcripts and examples of other media outlets purportedly downplaying the risk of the virus early this year, argues that the hosts “never described the Coronavirus as a ‘hoax’ or a ‘conspiracy,’ but instead used those terms to comment on efforts to exploit the pandemic for political points.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The network’s lawyers argued that Hannity and Regan simply took part in an “intense public debate” over “how serious of a threat” the virus posed, noting that Hannity, in March, urged the elderly and people with compromised immune systems to take “extra, extra, extra caution.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The motion also noted that when Regan wrongly argued that the “flu … can be even more deadly” than the coronavirus, she emphasized that she was “not saying that people should not take [the coronavirus] seriously.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Under the First Amendment and state law, the truth or falsity of this type of speech must be resolved through free and open debate in the marketplace of ideas — not through burdensome litigation seeking to impose legal penalties on political statements that a jury might deem ‘false’ or ‘outrageous,'” the motion said. “In addition, the Complaint also fails because the statements are constitutionally protected opinions. Again, even accepting the Complaint’s characterization of the speech at issue, the Fox commentators were expressing their view on the scientific question of how dangerous the Coronavirus is and how society should respond to it — including what type of governmental action should be taken.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The motion went on to cite CNN and New York Times coverage that compared the coronavirus to the flu, arguing that “If this type of allegedly ‘false’ speech can be censored, then free and open debate on matters of public concern is a dead letter.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The network added that WASHLITE’s bid to get an injunction preventing Fox News from expressing similar opinions in the future is an example of unlawful “extraordinary prior restraint.” The Washington CPA also “does not regulate political commentary … <b>nor is such commentary the type of ‘extreme and outrageous conduct’ covered by the tort of ‘outrage,'” the motion said.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Legal experts largely agreed with the network’s position that the lawsuit was unlikely to succeed.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Catherine Clark, an attorney for WASHLITE, vowed to respond to the motion and told Variety that the suit “was not about prohibiting free speech, but making sure that news organizations convey accurate information.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Legal culpability aside, media analysts have widely criticized Fox News for putting their viewers at risk by downplaying the threat posed by the virus, which has now killed 26,000 people in the United States.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Fox failed its viewers and the broader public in ways both revealing and potentially lethal,” wrote New York Times columnist Ben Smith.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A letter signed by more than 70 journalism professors around the country criticized Fox News for spreading “misinformation” about the virus.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Viewers of Fox News, including the president of the United States, have been regularly subjected to misinformation relayed by the network — false statements downplaying the prevalence of COVID-19 and its harms; misleading recommendations of activities that people should undertake to protect themselves and others, including casual recommendations of untested drugs; false assessments of the value of measures urged upon the public by their elected political leadership and public health authorities,” the letter said, pointing to a recent poll that found that 79% of Fox News viewers believed the media had overstated the danger posed by the virus.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The network’s competitors have seized on the criticism.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“There are surveys on this, showing a majority of people who get information from Fox still think the virus threat is overblown,” MSNBC host Ari Melber said last week:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They’re more likely to downplay it even compared to other Republicans. If you don’t get your information from Fox News or online conspiracy theories, you’re less likely to think it’s overblown because it’s not overblown. For Fox viewers, it’s especially perilous. The median age there is 67. That mostly older audience, especially vulnerable if they contract this virus. And as we just showed you, they’ve been told to basically downplay it.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read the full Fox News motion below:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><header class="editorial-fullheader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dateline--group" style="box-sizing: border-box; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><p class="dateline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> <time datetime="2020-04-10T16:07:52-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box;">04/10/20 4:07 PM EDT</time></font></p></div></header><div class="editorial-fullarticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem;"><div class="field field--name-field-stories-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Many pharmaceutical companies that are conducting ongoing research into COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines are among the top sponsors of the Fox News Channel, </b>a cesspool of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/how-foxs-sean-hannity-has-downplayed-coronavirus-pandemic-america" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">medical misinformation</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-coverage-covid-19-pandemic-medically-inaccurate-malevolently-racist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">racist fearmongering</a>, and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-has-promoted-hydroxychloroquine-nearly-300-times-two-week-period" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reckless speculation</a> that put <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/coronavirus-fox-news.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">vulnerable populations</a> in <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/07/the-last-days-of-rosemarie-gabriele-pasco-countys-first-coronavirus-victim/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">harm’s way</a>. These companies, many of which are spending millions to research therapies and donate specialized resources that might alleviate the toll of the virus, are undermining their own work by advertising on Fox News, whose coverage of the pandemic has been <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/chris-hayes-fox-news-has-posed-genuine-public-health-threat" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">described</a> as a “genuine public health threat.” </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here’s a list of these pharmaceutical companies. You can let them know they must stop sponsoring the spread of deadly misinformation during a global pandemic. </font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="http://twitter.com/gsk" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)</font></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">GlaxoSmithKline is a U.K.-based global pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturer and a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-are-fox-news-leading-advertisers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">leading Fox News advertiser</a>.</span> It has <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/glaxosmithkline-and-vir-aim-to-take-on-covid-19-with-antibodies-and-crispr/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">invested hundreds of millions of dollars</a> into researching COVID-19 therapeutics and has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-52212777" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">partnered with the British government and AstraZeneca</a> to set up a testing facility at the University of Cambridge. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The company has run over 3,000 ads on Fox News since January 2019 a</b>nd recently advertised on shows that have misinformed viewers about COVID-19, including <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox & Friends</a></span> and <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1241937796165775360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1241937796165775360&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmemo.com%2Ffox-news-must-control-its-dangerously-wacky-hosts%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</a></span>.</font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="http://twitter.com/pfizer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pfizer Inc.</font></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pfizer is an American biopharmaceutical company and a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-are-fox-news-leading-advertisers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">top Fox News advertiser</a>. </span>The company has <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/09/pfizer-coronavirus-testing-fall/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spent hundreds of millions of dollars</a> to scale up its manufacturing capacity to fight COVID-19 and is running multiple <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/09/us/09reuters-health-coronavirus-pfizer.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">studies</a> into potential therapeutics.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pfizer has run over 2,600 ads on Fox News since January 2019. </font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Novartis" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Novartis</font></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Novartis is a Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer and a Fox News advertiser. The company makes hydroxychloroquine and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/michael-cohen-donald-trump-novartis-twitter-covid-19-1496291" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">has promised</a> to donate its entire inventory “not already allocated to existing orders and customers” to combat COVID-19. </span>It also recently <a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/abbvie-pledges-35-million-covid-19-disaster-relief-urges-other-companies-to-step-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">established</a> the COVID-19 Response Fund, pledging “$20 million in grants to support public health initiatives.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The company has run nearly 1,900 ads on Fox News since January 2019. In 2020, it has advertised on shows hosted by COVID misinformers such as <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-anchor-maria-bartiromo-and-sen-tom-cotton-keep-pushing-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Maria Bartiromo</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-questions-listening-public-health-experts-ending-social-distancing" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Laura Ingraham</a>.</b></font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="http://twitter.com/sanofi" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sanofi</font></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Sanofi is a multinational pharmaceutical company, a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi-exclusive/exclusive-sanofi-can-produce-millions-of-doses-of-potential-coronavirus-drug-ceo-idUSKBN21K3AD" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">manufacturer of hydroxychloroquine</a>, and a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/these-are-sean-hannitys-leading-advertisers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">top advertiser</a> on <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/how-foxs-sean-hannity-has-downplayed-coronavirus-pandemic-america" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">COVID misinformer Sean Hannity</a>’s prime-time show</b>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi is currently <a href="http://www.news.sanofi.us/2020-03-16-Sanofi-and-Regeneron-begin-global-Kevzara-R-sarilumab-clinical-trial-program-in-patients-with-severe-COVID-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">testing</a> a prescription medication designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis among COVID patients in New York with the hope that the drug can alleviate fevers and aid patients with oxygen intake. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since January 2019, Sanofi-owned brands have advertised on Fox News over 1,700 times.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Besides being a top advertiser on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>, Sanofi has paid for programming on <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-death-projections-are-down-because-social-distancing-which-fox" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">shows that have advocated for the premature end to social distancing guidelines</a>, including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Ingraham Angle</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>. Previously, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20170405-usa-media-advertisers-bmw-sanofi-fox-news-bill-o-reilly-factor-sexual-harassment-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sanofi dropped</a> Bill O’Reilly’s now-defunct prime-time show when he was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. It remains to be seen if the company will do the same when even more is at stake.</span></font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="https://twitter.com/vandapharma" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Vanda Pharmaceuticals</font></a></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a therapeutics manufacturer based in Washington, D.C. It is <a href="https://vandapharmaceuticalsinc.gcs-web.com/node/14056/pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">currently running a clinical study</a> of potential COVID treatments. The company has run 269 advertisements on Fox News since January 2019, including following <a href="https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1247707399995232257" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sean Hannity’s interview with President Donald Trump</a> in which Trump touted “potential cures” for coronavirus that might benefit Prime Minister Boris Johnson.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="http://twitter.com/bayer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bayer</font></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Bayer is a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer that also manufactures chloroquine phosphate, and it is a top advertiser on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em> and Fox News overall.</span> The company has made <a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/bayer-preps-u-s-donation-malaria-med-chloroquine-to-help-covid-19-fight-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.media.bayer.com/baynews/baynews.nsf/id/Bayer-supports-fight-against-corona-pandemic-Spain-with-measures-totaling-approximately-EUR-1?" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pledges</a> to donate resources to fight COVID-19 in the U.S. and Spain. It is also paying for the spread of medical misinformation by advertising on Fox News: the company has run over 3,900 ads since January 2019, including 493 since the beginning of 2020. Brands owned by Bayer that run advertisements on the network include <a href="https://twitter.com/bayeraspirin" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Bayer Aspirin</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/aleve/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Aleve</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Claritin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Claritin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DrScholls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Dr. Scholl’s</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlkaSeltzer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Alka-Seltzer</a>, among many others.</font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GileadSciences" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Gilead Sciences</font></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gilead Sciences is a California-based pharmaceutical research and development company that has a <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/gilead-remdesivir-data-coming-soon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">forthcoming study</a> of its drug Remdesivir and whether it has therapeutic properties to treat COVID-19. It has run 269 advertisements on Fox since January 2019. This year, the company advertised on shows hosted by coronavirus misinformers, including Sean Hannity and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-downplays-talk-about-coronavirus-being-more-deadly-flu" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jeanine Pirro</a>.</font></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="http://twitter.com/astrazeneca" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">AstraZeneca</font></a></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>AstraZeneca is a multinational biopharmaceutical company that frequently advertises on Fox News. </b>The company is currently <a href="https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/articles/2020/researching-antibodies-to-target-covid-19.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">researching</a> potential treatments for coronavirus using antibody therapeutics. It has also publicly <a href="https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-to-donate-9-million-face-masks-to-support-healthcare-workers-around-the-world-in-the-fight-against-covid-19.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">committed to donating</a> 9 million face masks to health care workers across the world. The company is also a major sponsor of programs spreading COVID-19 misinformation; since January 2019 it has run over 700 advertisements on Fox News, including on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-host-says-america-should-use-power-positive-thinking-beat-coronavirus" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Five</a></span>.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><a href="https://twitter.com/TakedaPharma" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Takeda</font></a></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Takeda is a global pharmaceutical company and a Fox News advertiser that recently <a href="https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/takeda-hyperimmune-therapy-covid-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a> it is partnering with plasma companies to develop an antibody therapeutic to treat complications associated with COVID-19.<b> It has advertised on Fox 563 times since January 2019 </b>and recently ran ads on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</em>, a show that has promoted an approach to COVID-19 that runs afoul of guidance from public health experts.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">random mma 420</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">tucker: </font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1197470280camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather than engage with Ruhle substantively on policy, Carlson just wants to hurl insults and push workers back into society much more quickly than medical experts recommend -- all while portraying himself as working people’s best friend.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1197470280camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Featured Media</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1197470280camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his April 9 monologue, Fox News host <b>Sean Hannity</b> railed against how other media outlets covered the coronavirus pandemic, partly for downplaying the risk. There was just one problem: Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c28785786172bb5d6687d91dac77070589e0088d2cd1cdb91a8c7c9ff8135171fe9ef72f8e4f0118cbd12227c748710d739" title="was guilty of" style="">was guilty of</a> what he accused other outlets of doing.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PBS' <b>Yamiche Alcindor</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c286cd4679dcc968789ff8dd6e573279b9d57981116d2397e65d0f11a5fa978e2b438e9ce3aa6395de15dd38b74bf9886ae" title="talked to" style="">talked to</a> <b>Seth Meyers</b> about Trump's attacks on journalists like herself.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c287d3e4085cd041b48a9ef4633e1795f5d34f0403fb91a8a3eb2afbbbfab31add073d49c06ee9aac35413c422783cebaac" title="this BBC report " style="">this BBC report</a> on the devastating impact of coronavirus in the United States.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC's <b>Ari Melber</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c284e8835a757b24a911e157e8d8c72a0597c8ce7e459aa9981bf074707991f6933c78d3590a3bb3e2bb7c3556db2c6aaa8" title="highlighted" style="">highlighted</a> Fox News’ dangerous coronavirus lies and how it puts their viewers at risk. <b>Chris Hayes</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c28066ab3bec25908346dd0b27a15dc6cb4057e8b3bcda4289257be64db8dcc1ebd1c82edf766b24b9e44d6fa704c8ecdb6" title="noted it as well" style="">noted it as well</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trevor Noah</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c28b13a96ed3ca5dba98bbbb4c00333b074e5d298e048e00ba9d92ee1699c179d130dac540f9eb6621bd7cee406b2e2a837" title="spoke with" style="">spoke with</a> the president of the Ford Foundation <b>Darren Walker</b> about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting incarcerated people.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1197470280camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv1197470280stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1197470280camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Laura Ingraham</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c28187fc11afaae836e3675eca47689d42a7c5832e79d648c332436b4f8cc880cc981b97837b46f1596d06cc0081093a5cd" title="floated" style="">floated</a> firing the CDC director for his remarks about the antimalarial drug she touts as a miracle drug against COVID-19. Fox News, including Ingraham, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7f2be87222bf4c288fb5048405f3abbb6eb932ebfceac9121aaf98d75a221c9be4021884197a6eec4fceb115ce8cf6e07409933e8138b345" title="promoted" style="">promoted</a> hydroxychloroquine nearly 300 times in a two-week period even though medical professionals have downplayed it and warned that medical trials are needed.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks to Fox News and <b>Sean Hannity</b>, <b>Donald Trump</b> is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9048a4a1a2177ceedc88257c070b40d2556b8ce5f46cfd897f677f883bb61ff4ce0d55ef2af92e0161c54805ed7ac3052" title="now taking medical cues" style="">now taking medical cues</a> from Dr. <b>Mehmet Oz</b>, who has a troubling history of pushing bogus, unreliable medical theories lacking in evidence. Oz <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9792a68d27f4efa931846baf73bfd3698861fcbacf9b07560c59213ccc4f19d339309a41793c897c67c3aeba0673549af" title="told Fox this week" style="">told Fox this week</a> that he disagreed with Dr. <b>Anthony Fauci</b>'s concerns about hydroxychloroquine.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coronavirus death projections are down because of social distancing — which Fox hosts <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9f1dc225cd7a4e1b2aa892e269dc7f01b8ef7e6488c9045e3dcbfe75a5e62fa8a7896c7e636a3249068ce46fd916db73b" title="now want to roll back" style="">now want to roll back</a>.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An OAN host <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9168e93812172f06c5e9d8b6caf494c52054458e7f03b8b484132ff1477e7cf12be21be26577fdb17691bf1f6fe5edbdc" title="called for" style="">called for</a> more Americans to get coronavirus to build herd immunity. This would lead to many, many more Americans dying.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Six different polls <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9bd5d6730e979226e0f2913228b4415c42a5057be9b5c52229c0fcb41afc4bc6b31cf89a0bf69a242999a30233cb47420" title="show how" style="">show how</a> Fox’s coronavirus coverage endangered its viewers -- and the rest of society.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tucker Carlson</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca94660751ae7603d4af05cb8ba99d7bdabb1ffffa42360c41c3633929436677b846cd35afea960ccf9564f625a2405581d" title="claimed that" style="">claimed that</a> vote by mail is “an invitation to widespread fraud and manipulation.” Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Utah <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca951bc4e95bdace41551c558eba6feaedcc229e0bc613f49fdf31549663e7cea4a8b3cfab66d3b10aba32848cfd255bef5" title="currently conduct elections by mail" style="">currently conduct elections by mail</a> and things are fine.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bill O'Reilly</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9ad7a169ae101e4ff4e9476231bd8c86c59720154594a345ede75e4437865def86d1c91f7622912603c7c8ea01f0ae841" title="told Hannity" style="">told Hannity</a> that “many people who are dying, both here and around the world, were on their last legs anyway.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Broadcast and cable news <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9af5588f30856a0aaa2ddd882dccc0c35a6fffa71558c9d12e11270de47874aeda950b00c9f3d7f191dff2c2451b94b9f" title="are ignoring" style="">are ignoring</a> the brazen Big Polluter agenda happening under the cover of the coronavirus.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. <b>Lindsey Graham</b> (R-SC), echoing Tucker Carlson, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=21eebf9608944ca9276747bffc0468bd0538b735f33c1bd665493cc4a07df2e473e9fd548fe775411d9b88140fb2baeeb8886350dc299ba7" title="proposed repudiating" style="">proposed repudiating</a> Treasury debt owed to China.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=19c9d0c412f164bbd66cd05b0da427b518028b9dd90750ca57958f1ec6eec06a90ba6d82a5223c505da4a4612eb8fb6075913e3f4d9b2f9f" title="pharmaceutical companies" style="">pharmaceutical companies</a> are funding the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on Fox News.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media and abortion opponents <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=19c9d0c412f164bbfe0b4c0d2c2b8868ff5aab153aa991cb0669fbacab4fccff64935afa9a770cba1a6fbaaee0d9d19b97060367251ccef3" title="have used the coronavirus pandemic" style="">have used the coronavirus pandemic</a> to promote information about abortion that is unscientific and not medically sound.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <b>Bill Gates</b> coronavirus conspiracy theory <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=19c9d0c412f164bbdf5e5cd69129e07f5b521ac77e38597f5c7edfd7fd10d1543bfa51dda611de811ac6497f73f512982f4bbdeac5b1423c" title="spread on social media" style="">spread on social media</a> and then to a Fox News host.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coronavirus deaths are being undercounted. <b>Rush Limbaugh</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=19c9d0c412f164bbd48da3672541a7ce09411d033655bc4e1f96a981f27f81ec114607d09b11aea7b5689efa1ee0a2940de81096b471b003" title="continues to allege the opposite" style="">continues to allege the opposite</a>.</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/heres-how-fox-news-is-badly-misinterpreting-the-coronavirus-science"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/heres-how-fox-news-is-badly-misinterpreting-the-coronavirus-science</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here’s how Fox News is badly misinterpreting the coronavirus science</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Alex Henderson <b>April 10, 2020</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While MSNBC and CNN have offered more than their share of high-quality, informative reporting during the coronavirus pandemic, one cannot say the same about Fox News — which seriously downplayed the pandemic’s severity back in January and February. Fox News’ tone has shifted considerably since then, and its hosts are no longer claiming that the pandemic doesn’t pose a major threat to the United States. But as Media Matters’ Eric Kleefeld explains in an article published this week, some Fox News hosts are calling for a premature end to social distancing — despite evidence that it is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and lowering the number of deaths.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Fox News is continuing its effort to declare victory in the country’s struggle to get through the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to continued downward revisions in the projected death count to argue that the regular economy should be reopened,</b>” Kleefeld writes. “In fact, those downward revisions are happening precisely because of the social distancing measures that Fox commentators want to start peeling back.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Members of Trump’s coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, have warned that based on some models, coronavirus could eventually kill 100,000-240,000 people in the United States. But on Wednesday, Kleefeld notes, CNN reported a more optimistic model of around 60,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. over the next four months.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The more optimistic projections, Kleefeld stresses, indicate that social distancing is working — and underscore a need for the U.S. to double down on social distancing, not let up on it. But some Fox News hosts, according to Kleefeld, want to let up on it.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>One of the Fox pundits who is badly misinterpreting the 60,000 projection, Kleefeld reports, is Sean Hannity — who told his viewers, “No state has experienced a surge anywhere near what was told and expected. … Now, while we continue to fight COVID-19, this country must also harness its ingenuity, its brilliance, the free market system — and figure a way to get Americans safely back to work as soon as possible,<i> </i></b>where they want to be. You can’t allow America’s businesses to wither on the vine and die.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kleefeld points out that other Fox News pundits, including Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson, have been insisting that the 100,000-240,000 projection was wrong from the beginning</b>. But the more optimistic 60,000 projection, according to Kleefeld, doesn’t show that the 100,000-240,000 projection was inherently flawed — it shows that social distancing is a success and is helping the U.S. to avoid the deadlier scenario.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Trump continues to base policy on what he hears on Fox News</b></div><div>
</div><div>Written by Nancy LeTourneau / The Washington Monthly April 4, 2020</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>On Thursday night, Donald Trump finally invoked the Defense Production Act. He made the announcement on Twitter, of course.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their Masks. “P Act” all the way. Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing – will have a big price to pay!</span></div><div>
</div><div>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>According to a report from Kevin Breuninger, the president issued an order on Thursday night directing Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to “use any and all authority available under the Act to acquire, from any appropriate subsidiary or affiliate of 3M Company, the number of N-95 respirators that the Administrator determines to be appropriate.”</div><div>
</div><div>Here is the response from 3M’s CEO.</div><div>
</div><div>“The narrative that we aren’t doing everything we can as a company is just not true,” 3M CEO Mike Roman says, after President Trump criticized the manufacturing giant and invoked the DPA to force 3M to step up production of respirator masks. https://t.co/Lfa4xPqVwo pic.twitter.com/3cxA2FUDiu</div><div>
</div><div>— CNBC (@CNBC) April 3, 2020</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In commenting on this, Kevin Drum identified the problem with Trump’s selective use of this authority.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The White House didn’t explain this, and it’s a little unnerving to see Trump using the DPA in such a gleefully punitive way. It’s supposed to be a technocratic tool for coordinating production, not a way for a president to score political points on Twitter.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">All of this raises the question of what 3M did that earned the ire of the president. As it turns out, this segment of Tucker Carlson’s show aired on Fox News not long before Trump fired off his tweet.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Tucker Carlson & @JaredEMoskowitz Calling Out @3M Selling Masks to Foreign Governments Instead of to Americans</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Jared: “I can’t & other emergency management directors can’t get this life-saving PPE because a company decided to make a Globalist decision and not put America First.</span>” pic.twitter.com/wPoFQnm6ej</div><div>
</div><div>— The Columbia Bugle ???? (@ColumbiaBugle) April 3, 2020</div><div>
</div><div><b>Carlson’s guest, Jared Moskowitz, works for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis as his director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. He railed about not being able to get face masks from 3M.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">It is difficult to sort out the truth from the lies in that segment. Some of the issues Moskowitz is pointing to surfaced after we learned that the federal government, probably under the direction of Jared Kushner, has turned the supply chain for these critical supplies over to the private sector. Josh Marshall documented the issues that raises.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First is that there’s no clear mechanism to allocate these supplies on the basis of need based on a coherent national plan or framework. Secondly, it opens the door to massive profiteering. Even if companies aren’t technically gouging, that’s what bidding is. And you really can’t call this a legitimate private sector market if every state is having to bid with private companies to secure medical supplies during a historic national health emergency. The private sector rationale is also undermined if the US military has taken over a significant part of the fulfillment process.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The man who turned around the Bush administration’s botched response to Katrina, Lt. General Russel Honore, explained why that is a recipe for disaster.</b></div><div>
</div><div>After hearing the White House say critical supplies are going to commercial distributors who are then selling them to the states which are begging for help, I called @ltgrusselhonore who commanded federal troops after Hurricane Katrina to get his reaction. Watch this: pic.twitter.com/x7u3qoQ0v6</div><div>
</div><div>— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 3, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>Regardless of any complicity on the part of 3M, none of the issues Moskowitz complained about would be happening if this administration was taking charge of the supply chain rather than turning it over to the private sector. Those are the facts.</div><div>
</div><div>But beyond all of that, what we see is that once again the President of the United States took retributive action based on a segment he watched on Fox News. If you think his son-in-law, who has now been put in charge of managing this effort, will do any better, take a look at this.</div><div>
</div><div>Well, this is concerning.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kushner says Trump finally acted on addressing supplies shortages after hearing about them “just this morning” from “friends of his in New York.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Not the governor. Not the hospitals. Friends.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is how Trump runs your country</span>. pic.twitter.com/vlwDR86WWs</div><div>
</div><div>— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) April 2, 2020</div><div>
</div><div><b>What we have is a president who, during a national emergency, is directing policy based on what he hears on Fox News and from his “friends.” Of course, that’s what he’s always done. In the past, it was bad news. But it is now unconscionable.</b></div><div>
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</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/fox-news-doctor-says-its-time-for-covid-19-patients-to-come-off-ventilators-either-survive-or-die/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/fox-news-doctor-says-its-time-for-covid-19-patients-to-come-off-ventilators-either-survive-or-die/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News doctor says it’s time for COVID-19 patients to ‘come off’ ventilators: ‘Either survive or die’</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by David Edwards / Raw Story April 5, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">113</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier on Sunday said COVID-19 patients would soon need to be removed from ventilators even if they cannot breathe on their own.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There’s going to be more deaths this coming week,” Saphier said on Fox & Friends. “The reason I try and explain that to people is although our rates of hospitalization are going down, that is a good thing.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But we’re going to start seeing more deaths,” she continued. “Because the people that are having to be in the ICU on the ventilators, they are being kept on the ventilators from anywhere one to four weeks.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saphier argued that “at some point, they will have to come off the ventilators.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And they’re either going to survive or they’re either going to die,” she added. “Some of the mortality rates coming out of China are ranging from 60 to 90% of people on the ventilators [who die]. Thankfully, here in the United States, that number varies.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kilmeade: Anthony Fauci was wrong about coronavirus</font></span></a></h3><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3rem 0px 0px; align-items: center; display: flex; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><span class="dateline-compacttype" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--video" aria-labelledby="icon-label--video" /><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><use xlink:href="#video" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /></font></font><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><svg id="video" viewbox="0 0 25 24" /></font></font></span><time datetime="2020-03-27T09:20:37-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">03/27/20 9:20 AM EDT</font></time></p></article></li><li class="editorial-listitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><article role="article" about="/coronavirus-covid-19/donald-trump-postponed-call-president-xi-china-conduct-interview-sean-hannity" class="teaser-compact--major article article--compact editorial-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><h3 class="editorial-compacttitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/donald-trump-postponed-call-president-xi-china-conduct-interview-sean-hannity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donald Trump postponed a call with President Xi of China to conduct an interview with Sean Hannity</font></span></a></h3><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3rem 0px 0px; align-items: center; display: flex; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><span class="dateline-compacttype" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--video" aria-labelledby="icon-label--video" /><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><use xlink:href="#video" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /></font></font><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><svg id="video" viewbox="0 0 25 24" /></font></font></span><time datetime="2020-03-26T22:18:05-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">03/26/20 10:18 PM EDT</font></time></p></article></li></ol></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/beyond-parody-fox-news-host-blasted-for-saying-people-are-dying-but-my-friends-cant-get-their-nails-done/" rel="bookmark" title="‘Beyond parody’: Fox News host blasted for saying ‘people are dying’ — but my friends ‘can’t get their nails done’" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important">Beyond parody’: Fox News host blasted for saying ‘people are dying’ — but my friends ‘can’t get their nails done’</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Here are just some of the most notable examples of conservative media pushing this negligent narrative:</b></font></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom </em>co-anchor <a href="https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1242443271634386952" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Ed Henry</a> said that “you don’t want to minimize any lives,” but then noted a “best estimate” of the mortality rate is less than 1%, and asked “what is the balance?”</font></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox primetime host <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-you-cant-just-let-epidemiologists-run-country" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tucker Carlson</a> argued that “you can't just let epidemiologists run a country.”  </font></b></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texas Lt. Gov. <a href="https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Dan Patrick</a> appeared on Carlson’s show to suggest that many grandparents, like himself, would be willing to die if it meant saving the economy. </font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing radio host Buck Sexton <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3861001" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tweeted</a>, then deleted, a comment saying that “America is going to have to go back to work very soon, even if that means there are more casualties from Covid-19 than would occur under this continued extreme shutdown.” Sexton added that, “it’s a hard thing to say, but it is reality and we need to accept and act on it.”</font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-host-criticizes-dr-faucis-quarantine-recommendations-it-will-hurt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Steve Hilton</a> said: “You know that famous phrase ‘the cure is worse than the disease’? That is exactly the territory we are hurtling towards"</font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix]</font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Fox News’<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Bill Hemmer Reports</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Heritage Foundation fellow <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3860686" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Stephen Moore</a>, a former Trump adviser, said that “we have reached the point where maybe the cure is worse than the disease.”</span></font></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A panel on Fox Business’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-business-panel-says-economic-shutdown-worse-virus-praises-uk-strategy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Mornings with Maria</a></em> agreed that the economic shutdown is worse then the deadly virus itself, expressing support for the U.K.’s strategy of “encouraging people to go out, pretty much expecting that everybody will get it, and that's the point.”</font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/23/is-social-distancing-saving-lives-or-ruining-them/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Federalist</a> published an article asking the “harsh” question of “whether the nation might be better off letting a few hundred thousand people die.” The article argues that social distancing policies restrict “freedom” and are giving Americans “a dress rehearsal for tyranny."</font></span></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another article published in <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/19/will-the-costs-of-a-great-depression-outweigh-the-risks-of-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Federalist</a> asked, “<b>Will the costs of a Great Depression outweigh the risks of coronavirus?” </b></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/rethinking-the-coronavirus-shutdown-11584659154?mod=opinion_lead_pos1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Wall Street Journal</a> published an op-ed titled “Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown: No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its economic health.” </font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox Nation host <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1242252300078313472" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tomi Lahren</a> tweeted, “these Democratic governors and mayors are LOVING all this power. Every day they take away a little more and a little more.” In another tweet, <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1242254064026451968" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Lahren</a> attacked California Governor Gavin Newsom for closing hiking trails and state parks.</font></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top Trump economic adviser <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-kudlow-says-well-have-to-make-difficult-tradeoffs-on-coronavirus-and-economy?ref=wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Larry Kudlow</a> appeared on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, where he told co-anchor Ed Henry that he agrees with the president that “the cure can’t be worse than the disease, and we’re gonna have to make some difficult trade-offs.” </font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/trump-posts-flurry-of-tweets-suggesting-the-destruction-of-the-us-economy-over-chinese-flu-is-not-in-his-plans/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Gateway Pundit</a> published an article cheering Trump's tweets for suggesting “the destruction of the US economy over [the] Chinese Flu is not in his plans.”</font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Right-wing commentator <a href="https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1241843382512766976" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Bill Mitchell</a> theorized that the virus was a bioweapon designed to hurt the economy, tweeting, “The difference between a #BioWeapon and a #BioEconomicWeapon</span>? A #BioWeapon is designed to destroy the enemy's fighting and working age population. A #BioEconomicWeapon is designed to destroy an enemy's economy through fear. #BioEconomicWeapons require #Media allies to work.”</font></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3860711" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Mark Levin</a> said that “we cannot have medical experts and scientists making economic policy. We just can’t. So there needs to be a more sober look at this.” ...</font></p></li></ul></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">an 3/24</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New 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</div><div><b>Here’s the disturbing Fox News clip that appears to have triggered one of Trump’s most dangerous tweets yet</b></div><div>
</div><div>Written by Cody Fenwick March 23, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>While the idea of social distancing as the best way to fight coronavirus pandemic has slowly been catching on, President Donald Trump appears to be on course to undermine all that, based on a truly frightening tweet he sent late Sunday night:</div><div>
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</div><div>Donald J. Trump</div><div>@realDonaldTrump</div><div>WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM [note does not use usual "disease"]ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!</div><div>
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</div><div>WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!</div><div>
</div><div>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>The suggestion seemed to be that Trump wants to soon roll back the administration’s recommendations that Americans across the country strictly limit their in-person interactions with others outside of their homes. These recommendations have been superseded in many jurisdictions by stay-at-home orders, school closures, business closures, and limitations on the size of social gatherings. But if the Trump administration decides to advocate an end to social distancing, some localities may be inclined to follow suit — even though public health experts have warned that a premature cessation of the policy would be extremely dangerous.</div><div>
</div><div>John Whitehouse and Matthew Gertz pointed out that, as is often the case with Trump’s outrageous tweets, this outburst was apparently inspired by a disturbing segment on Fox News:</div><div>
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</div><div>John Whitehouse</div><div>@existentialfish</div><div>I suspect that Trump all-caps tweet is a livetweet of Fox from tonight (though obviously @MattGertz would know for sure). Host Steve Hilton used similar language. (No way that Trump read that Medium piece)</div><div>
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</div><div>I suspect that Trump all-caps tweet is a livetweet of Fox from tonight (though obviously @MattGertz would know for sure). Host Steve Hilton used similar language. (No way that Trump read that Medium piece) pic.twitter.com/VS0I29Xgqx</div><div>
</div><div>— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) March 23, 2020</div><div>
</div><div><b>Host Steve Hilton used the phase “cure is worse than the disease” to describe the economic impact of social distancing, echoed in Trump’s tweet, making it quite likely that he was directly inspired to send his tweet by this segment. (Though there are indications that Trump had concerns about the economic cost of social distancing prior to seeing the clip.)</b></div><div>
</div><div>The basic argument that Hilton and Trump are making is ghastly. They seem to be dismissing the potential death of millions of Americans from coronavirus because of the potential economic costs of avoiding the usual course of business.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, as Hilton points out, a recession triggered by the coronavirus and our attempts to keep it from spreading can itself be deadly. And this is certainly true; the death toll and immense social costs of recession are always worth taking seriously. But the government can and should do a lot through fiscal policy to mitigate the costs of the recession so that Americans don’t need to suffer the financial burden as much. It doesn’t seem Congress is yet prepared to marshal the resources needed to adequately fight the downturn, but that’s where ire should be directed — not at the social distancing measures.</div><div>
</div><div>And as MSNBC host Chris Hayes argued on Twitter Monday, the idea that we can save the economy by unleashing the coronavirus is probably entirely misguided in the first place.</div><div>
</div><div>“[If] you stopped lockdowns, and sent everyone back to work, lots and lots of people would get sick. You’d have workplaces where half the staff were out. And this would roll through all kinds of places, people who maintain the electrical grid and water treatment and sewage systems, etc… Not only that, as the hospitals filled up and horror stories emerged, you’d have tons of deaths from things other than Covid-19 that couldn’t get treated. This would make [people] more scared of getting the bug and lead to further retreat,” he wrote. “Which is to say, even if you care about economic activity as the only value here, it’s really not clear that anything like ‘business as usual’ is even a possibility in the midst of a roaring pandemic, even if you let everything stay open.”</div><div>
</div><div>He added: “In fact, you risk ending up with the worst of both worlds: mass death and sickness AND ALSO an economy that’s essentially shut down.”</div><div>
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</font></div><div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leading advertisers</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SandalsResorts" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sandals Hotel</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ProcterGamble" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Procter & Gamble</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tivity Health Inc (<a href="https://twitter.com/nutrisystem" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Nutrisystem</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/southbeachdiet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">South Beach Diet</a>)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyMutual" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Liberty Mutual</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/trivago" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Expedia</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Allstate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Allstate</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/geico" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">GEICO</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Bayer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bayer</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MyPillowUSA" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MyPillow</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IAC (<a href="https://twitter.com/AngiesList" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Angie’s List</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/Match" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"> Match.com</a>, &<a href="https://twitter.com/OurTimeDating" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"> OurTime.com</a>)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GM" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">General Motors</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LifeLock" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lifelock</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewDayUSA" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">NewDay USA</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GSK" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Glaxosmithkline</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/pfizer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pfizer</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dine Brands Global (<a href="https://twitter.com/applebees" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Applebees</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/IHOP" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">IHOP</a>)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/USAA" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">USAA</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/KraftBrand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Abbott Lab</a> (Ensure & Glucerna)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/KraftBrand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kraft Heinz</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Carvana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Carvana</font></a></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, March 9,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>Trish Regan</b> opened her Fox Business show by complaining of the “Coronavirus impeachment scam.” Her deranged monologue received widespread ridicule after a tweet by Media Matters’ Andrew Lawrence that has been viewed millions of times.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Friday, March 13, Fox issued a statement that Regan’s 8 p.m. show, <i>Trish Regan Primetime</i>, was being <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2249d89c0d40d9590920c4ca34abd443f7b0182b693fd53d6a4586a9250ddc3d9762e62a7ab160c555f6b77596f2b72e6" title="put on hiatus" style="">put on hiatus</a> due to the coronavirus pandemic.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regan's segments on coronavirus had a powerful viewer: The president of the United States. On multiple occasions, <b>Donald Trump</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b23f49045f3a8691904ca27e7d0ea87f9f97146fb25eb65175dc454475432328e35c9054d4542091a66b7bd177be63f7a3" title="tweeted about" style="">tweeted about</a> Regan segments; on February 27, Trump <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b22fa84dcec06079b3ac5709421fc1afcfb7b96232e8a41d964b9a93c46fe5f08831cb7ab7d54df95c74ffce66a4e8b4f8" title="cited Regan" style="">cited Regan</a> in a tweet which complained that media were not covering what a great job his administration was doing to combat the virus.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b25c9d636489847a26c441acbc5f14c17e8b08bf814a81419284d999d93362d835edc5ff8a3161df9f5502df38e6ccdd38" title="Why can't mainstream media stop echoing Trump’s coronavirus misinformation?" style="">Why can't mainstream media stop echoing Trump’s coronavirus misinformation?</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the past two months, President <b>Donald Trump</b> has claimed that the novel coronavirus was “totally under control” and limited to only “one person coming in from China”; was “pretty much” shut down; would be gone by April; was “very much under control” and not a threat to the stock market; was limited to just 15 people in the U.S. which would be down to zero “within a couple of days”; will “disappear one day … like a miracle”; will have a vaccine ready within “months”; and will “go away” on its own, along with claims that “anybody who wants a test gets a test” and that Americans were being tested for COVID-19 upon reentry to the U.S.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every single one of these statements was either misleading or flat-out false, but as this crisis has gone on, many media outlets have been functioning as vessels for Trump’s misinformation to reach the general public. More than three years into his presidency and many, many thousands of lies later, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2ed5f33d0654f74d3d45ca07df04a6a19d4a26b03e65b87d9915ebf5ab87b53380a866514b3786ae47f095032f1134b42" title="journalists continue to cover Trump" style="">journalists continue to cover Trump</a> in the same ways they would cover a head of state with a far more reliable track record for telling the truth.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Also:</b></i> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It's not just repeating Trump's lies. Mainstream outlets <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2f1a3847a5447adc796ce4cee18929f0df220580c8e306fb3c0b5107e7999d3b445bc587bc4092263970221ca051fdf1e" title="actively reframe Trump's remarks" style="">actively reframe Trump's remarks</a> to avoid showing how disjointed and incoherent he is</span>. That's less of a problem if it happens occasionally when the stakes are low, but as the country faces one of its most serious crises ever, that's a real issue that only serves to cover up Trump's behavior. The country needs outlets like The New York Times to be fully honest and truthful now -- the time to worry about hurt feelings is over.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2da5ffb12fb5a7b0471d0f361d3f3167ab535614018930e949e08fbb51cf05e34361024642256ed23a6d944e8b5ae1a93" title="Trump dismissed the pandemic leadership team in 2018. Mainstream coverage of that fact has been horrendous." style="">Trump dismissed the pandemic leadership team in 2018. Mainstream coverage of that fact has been horrendous.</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2018, <b>Donald Trump</b> and then-national security adviser <b>John Bolton</b> fired the “entire pandemic response chain of command” implemented by former President Barack Obama following the 2014 Ebola crisis. Broadcast news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2720fa322512c1f0c2d28445b8a91c36585eedff80ccd28718905fe753269eee77832739643ebd3a8e823f1031d97663f" title="have ignored" style="">have ignored</a> the firings. In fact, Democratic presidential candidates were the only people to mention the firings -- so in practice, these networks are turning Trump's incompetence and irresponsibility into a partisan issue.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[graf]</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in the lead up to the 2014 midterms, Fox News stoked fear in their viewers over the Ebola outbreak in Africa, even suggesting that <b>Barack Obama</b> wanted to infect America with the disease. As the country faces a legitimate pandemic under <b>Trump</b>, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2ba589347e20c22ee5767a639761a22884bebd88e25719ae1f8750f6cf9d57b8b01200da0565f8a8614cccda2c9722b84" title="many of those same people are now singing a different tune" style="">many of those same people are now singing a different tune</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2b59cfb9722d8487efdeca31ceabaf29cbdaa1b8ff2c2e67c49e0314e6f4550067d0ec74f4bd15aa2e573400b08c3a201" title="cannot resist" style="">cannot resist</a> using racist rhetoric to talk about coronavirus and COVID-19.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Samantha Bee</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e6a51b733f87bd03a1649f22a14c131e4d44608a4916b25440a5ef8f2b0d5dbe70c60b1a3a9b7c84e4a209c83a83bde07" title="called out " style="">called out </a>Fox's bigotry: “Tying coronavirus to China and Chinese people isn't just a racist dog whistle, it's a whole racist orchestra.”</font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This Week In Dumb</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Maria Bartiromo</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e28287e160505b2391b5e53133538f5d5b51340fefb64f27a9cbffdc72bac72750a70abe2fdb83e633c90a110b03c1c90" title="agreed with" style="">agreed with</a> Rep. <b>Devin Nunes</b> that now is a great time for people to go out.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News contributor <b><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ebc2bc43163d2183f4a19f2973d243fc6b22e975db32ef6645e790b05e8f6684e8043bf036d46bbeed958c629df7c1d4b" title="Alveda King" style="">Alveda King</a></b>: “It seems as though<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> biological warfare </span>was involved in this.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox guest <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Jerry Falwell Jr.</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e0c6802dc2782fb1e73f6631df48df5a4fd5d576328666cae895be049f3c29a714f11e1e0db7b2478bcbe05c9599cd920" title="speculated that" style="">speculated that</a> North Korea “got together with China” to create coronavirus.</span></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Congress looked to pass a bill to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ed952f41c70040d88685eb5430a1529dc30d55d3c0ad5923937a3bfa9ef58e09acb5c6dea42b9fceede239fc47aa6f5bc" title="falsely blamed" style="">falsely blamed</a> the inclusion of abortion funding for GOP resistance to the bill.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox board member <b>Paul Ryan</b> told people to follow the CDC. He <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ef335e2c70cde83722a406ce644878e9226abfdf7b086a34d003d04d64a030452d43dd975a0e472da8d3507ab53faca46" title="should clean up Fox News" style="">should clean up Fox News</a> before lecturing anyone on social media.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">businessman who claims coronavirus is a race-targeting bioweapon <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69eae8dfa3b70feaf76f4a0f0a6af50a49a10d047555409a0be803579d2790454ad1ff5fbe56597f33ac5ba26ed48662d8d" title="says he advised" style="">says he advised</a> Texas Gov. <b>Greg Abbott</b> on response to the pandemic.</span></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barstool Sports founder <b>Dave Portnoy</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e5590ef0c8606dd44e5c8757a875491794deebddd4407cf49dfaf3fad7505cf5ea55e58503ffe4385c8a25b9ecf022834" title="has pushed" style="">has pushed</a> a coronavirus “truther” theory.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox's <b>Martha MacCallum</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e6cb6e719b133a13c36eeda8fcc5b8743cfa28dd3f6c9341b1f13eb2ac266aa4a4d3c76cbd50a0e75ecf3fcd6ba19884f" title="defended" style="">defended</a> <b>Trump</b> from criticism: It was “only the second time he has done an Oval Office speech.”</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">T<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">alking about coronavirus in the Oval Office, Trump <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69edd2850f8fed295f21f643df17e5522f4a0da78628151a84599561263dc396e08853ac7877ec639802b6402e572837efb" title="repeated a lie" style="">repeated a lie</a> from <b>Sean Hannity</b> about <b>Obama</b> and the H1N1 flu.</span></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kourtney <b>Kardashian's “lifestyle” website is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e8ddf9d17b19ab3e7e4877dea6972a689c5b595cca087763e4f706b49f20193fdd21df7e9fa199c447b0c62a1639d523a" title="using coronavirus" style="">using coronavirus</a> to sell luxury emergency kits.</b></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Fox & Friends</i> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69eb6dbe6601bc4bc0861c30cfdda277716adabef6db8003db35e7707a764383032ab8fe187e35c5289fea7c0f32dac1528" title="downplayed" style="">downplayed</a> major errors in Trump's coronavirus address.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s payroll tax push would gravely endanger Social Security and Medicare — and right-wing media <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ed4f53acb7e44b028526967058558b6ef48bfc5f1c8739d2cbb162ce106e2f1d7d14c12cd7e8444d62b24ece1646b6460" title="are lying about it" style="">are lying about it</a>.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ef26dabb25aa20e5669e1e0c2194637bd865b029cf62c3f82ee7c0c0d6fcba286adfa109125a945cc720ac4a8e5784d6e" title="praised Trump" style="">praised Trump</a> for “the number of Americans that did not contract” coronavirus.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Fox News anchor <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e9c12a422bdfb7a91e40cf79b5529d07db0907cd558141fad0b9a0e3152c918a3615e6208df6d23094c7f4e4fa802943d" title="scolded" style="">scolded</a> a Democratic congressman for bringing up Trump’s coronavirus lies.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e5f5f32a1b97e31ec3c69ce3ccdf59ff318edf79f81601cec7e9208e4a09bfeb832d4b71b0b0f14ea7f25328b5d74b4a4" title="isn’t concerned" style="">isn’t concerned</a> about coronavirus because “we’re all dying” anyway.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ec3ab8fbf0f16faa551e4f42fccea2ea567111193511b597e14c3f6e0a02885cee3af3a458acf409e8dc92ae2d3977658" title="also said that" style="">also said that</a> the "deep state" may be using coronavirus to manipulate markets, suppress dissent, and push mandated vaccines.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e04ff861c5d7373cce42e7e2a80083227df35d6c6d5ee65b98c65d9cdd461297a277f0082b49b1b476bb058affc43051d" title="also instructed" style="">also instructed</a> his audience to ignore what Democrats say about coronavirus.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News' chief medical correspondent <b>Marc Siegel</b> has been <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69eb600b0ba97871f55d8b59d9ee6c7819f5c3875ce11c39fe9bf79fe87b655db30d23b7494e6a9e39ff66c61ad407e2f9e" title="repeatedly wrong" style="">repeatedly wrong</a> about the coronavirus, even likening it to the flu -- while experts <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ebc73814f99fdda4f4e94a1e4129afb9a6d9615e26184dbce66c394c07ab6fecbb36fd233a1ae79be5a421c554a306f2f" title="everywhere else" style="">everywhere else</a> have <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69e0d0be72c627b1fad6416a96ed52316fa82ab2d2b8ecbeb1fe516ac914ba029a48557300d9048b274de9a5a5c3789f246" title="explicitly warned against" style="">explicitly warned against</a> such a comparison.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ingraham's response to coronavirus was, incredibly, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a623a0208bdfb69ee5704c60e591d9d60a6397467226763aabd7b561ca3f1a0b09627c5d0c4add6b5da978ff8092460040427a3ecb7994ea" title="" benghazi="Benghazi" style="">"Benghazi."</a></span></font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As </font><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">s the death toll rises and the coronavirus threatens to impact many aspects of the daily lives of Americans, right-wing media have <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2520d507bf65e22ba0aebda3b1fac2510c7c0f49544d9e581b81d17165bf0707c9884a3c3dd8c1bbfe769c580704cee5e" title="disregarded the advice of public health experts " style="">disregarded the advice of public health experts </a>and spent this week rebranding COVID-19 as the “Wuhan” or “Chinese” virus. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2394cdae1ee3f216f7daaa5c43d8395c59f4dc7859e9e19e53adf39163c204881c851093d7cc1f2116a49ac441dd166d5" title="explained" style="">explained</a> this week how connecting groups of people to infectious diseases has historically been used to dehumanize people along racial and ethnic lines. Levenson concluded that <i>“</i>emphasizing place rather than the clinical details of how a disease works and spreads means that epidemics get a head start.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, conservative media have purposely ignored the recommendations of experts in an effort to divert attention away from the Trump Administration’s slow <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2d1ff2a1cf19601afcb25e3b140c5c5dcd846ac9c8251bb410fa33376684d54be15755ef86010432de286afdcc88eca01" title="initial" style="">initial</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2d6acfb58a8417bfbc5e5821c137f03bef429b7397155f6e8d76e515415a8559be6d3efae78fb2b2899abadbd1f04093f" title="response" style="">response</a> that potentially exacerbated the spread of the virus. Right-wing media’s efforts to rebrand the virus arrive amid concern over the political impact that the outbreak could have on the president’s reelection chances in 2020.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b23a5e672bcd4361894c6ecf0812de500ca8d9e2a2d73ff86a0f77d2d4102590add68dd55442872c29cfcd10048605c71e" title="Fox News downplays coronavirus" style="">Fox News downplays coronavirus</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News’ coverage of coronavirus has taken many ugly forms the past several weeks, including bigotry and promoting right-wing conspiracy theories. Even worse, the network has systematically downplayed the risk of the virus. That <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2f3a54eb755524d5803a3f52d24e8c572feadb87b30b0ef2f5d531a7d8c4144f6631550ef7534f98bf092e7f2a35c7f07" title="could get people killed" style="">could get people killed</a>. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Considering Fox’s audience skews older - a population most at risk of adverse reactions to the virus - the network’s efforts to minimize the risk of the coronavirus are dangerous. Here are some of the ways Fox has downplayed the coronavirus or misrepresented the administration’s response to the outbreak:</font></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just days ago, <i>Fox & Friends</i> host <b>Ainsley Earhardt</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2827b2811e405972e8b38990b0d5615fb078cd6c50eb0e78b597d0f23ec92bf4686ca66492452fd521cab8663865a1647" title="said that" style="">said that</a> now is "actually the safest time to fly."</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox prime-time host <b>Sean Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2f8a5917e187a6a92e13f4498611054d0937198462348fe82ef2fea8ea14f58641372c9778bc8ffa0b79228d16ac1a7ac" title="claimed" style="">claimed</a> people are faking concern about coronavirus just to “bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.”</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Hannity, Fox News medical correspondent <b>Marc Siegel</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b268b4c3e8a311535b1141527ce37681764980180009fb5827ce73ec34d412cfabe188bff22a098a5d427e74b6f677f673" title="said that" style="">said that</a> the “worst case scenario” with coronavirus is that “it could be the flu.” </font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host <b>Pete Hegseth</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2a0dfdc11c04e040217a48412d65fe89de72737964ce7d6b1dd1c1559c268f8032d05244c573dfc4d679377d9eaaaf705" title="downplayed" style="">downplayed</a> the impact of coronavirus: “I feel like the more I learn about this, the less there is to worry about.”</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox Nation host <b>Tammy Bruce</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2b46e8d84cbca36cdd54276b08afee87e4dec52f2395ca8c41c551936f64b3d019a23df6d6006332a8f1eac79ca9ea017" title="told Fox & Friends" style="">told <i>Fox & Friends</i></a> that “The president's gotten the country healthy, healthy enough of course to withstand this.”</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox Nation host <b>Tomi Lahren</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2ad9762acf7725f5e70d931722dae2112e7dfe42c96d56bcfefdfc674a54e7b3ab701d607e5d830bb5dfc258ca72b0d47" title="said that " style="">said that </a>she is more concerned with stepping on a heroin needle than coronavirus.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox "straight news" anchor <b>Ed Henry</b> said that two people dying from COVID-19 in Florida <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b22dc9a62cc5e8887701a1cff2db2d796302c732d65db4bb7deead002c57ebf002beba7aa639b9c1110c8d301368a729ca" title="wasn't a big deal" style="">wasn't a big deal</a> because they had traveled recently.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox Business host <b>Charles Payne</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2405a2a32d3395157f34bb6094042efe3d10c02e2056556f94f60ff63c8315034b182515ccfc206d6205ff5b7ba69caf6" title="suggested that" style="">suggested that</a> people take advantage of low gas prices and "go somewhere" during the pandemic.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host <b>Jesse Watters</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b230403b2bfd88889940670b87f4a0ec99751cd07ecff40deb378207c5c9e89676efad09fe990734240b7b0156da36add3" title="argued that" style="">argued that</a> “the power of positive thinking” can beat coronavirus. Watters then patted himself on the back for sitting next to an Asian man on the subway without harassing him before going home and eating Chinese food.  </font></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2276ba84d58823dad7c1ee6bd490b6462a1a64019d427ba26d2596904b907ed908223ae091f6e2e38c7ef06fbfc3f048e" title="Grift watch: How right-wing media are trying to profit off a pandemic" style="">Grift watch: How right-wing media are trying to profit off a pandemic</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9195317834stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9195317834camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We've talked about how right-wing media are trying to downplay the pandemic. Even worse are those that are trying to profit off of it.</font></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Infowars host <b>Alex Jones</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b290a08b66ac631af332ee43e0d21950e1e504d97732cf32345b5f092f3c1fbdcb7e2c9a3b74872659c57d7a6f0e64bedc" title="claimed that" style="">claimed that</a> his supplements were "literally a stopgap" against coronavirus.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b21f37e145e8c79e00f5d28419ce1af791eb6d125ca2e1a78d2c5b45de5ece867619bc91a9cbe64696739bca9a465a6e32" title="then claimed" style="">then claimed</a> that his toothpaste kills coronavirus. After he did that, New York's Attorney General <b>Letitia James</b> told Jones to "immediately cease and desist selling and marketing products as a treatment or cure for the coronavirus."</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsmax <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b2ec3240757120bd42d15947935a6a62dda5a385ea9933d83c2eadb93d39c7f176390f17ada17ab9b3e8b4ea68b9efa161" title="told its older-leaning audience" style="">told its older-leaning audience</a> to avoid a future coronavirus vaccine and instead give it money for something “far more effective.” After we reported on that, Newsmax issued a statement disavowing the claims. And yet, days later, Newsmax <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b22be039e23bd262dd34fec88f0af792dbc74b766d2d71e18144b14d2272adfb3aa0b3bac63ec474c015e51da3931ae888" title="sent an email" style="">sent an email </a>saying that if you give it money, you can learn “secrets” to “never getting sick,” including from the coronavirus.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HuffPost has reported on even more right-wing outlets <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=e927f96fa742d8b264fd0065cdb00099072ecb93c2ea74fa052e3cb9f39996da1509f0d8a544f169d0f4a35694bcb71a5b94e12c7e4ae700" title="using similar grifting tactics" style="">using similar grifting tactics</a>.</font></li></ul><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/fox-news-is-a-fascist-network-propping-up-an-incompetent-buffoon-of-a-leader-coronavirus-proved-it/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/fox-news-is-a-fascist-network-propping-up-an-incompetent-buffoon-of-a-leader-coronavirus-proved-it/</font></a></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News is a fascist network propping up an incompetent buffoon of a leader. Coronavirus proved it</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Hunter / Daily Kos March 17, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Only hours after Donald Trump on Friday gave a press conference begrudgingly admitting the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic he had been insisting was “under control” for nearly a month, Fox News’ most toxic hosts revised their own previously denial-heavy rhetoric to match. Once again, it demonstrates the status of the network as “state news” operation devoted near-exclusively to the needs of conservative propaganda.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the line from Dear Leader is that alarm over the virus is a “hoax” intended to damage him, that is what Sean Hannity will also say—even knowing that his words will kill some of the network’s own viewers. If the line from Dear Leader is that alarm over the virus is now warranted, Sean Hannity is himself freed to declare that alarm is warranted. But this, too, will be used primarily as a launching point for further praise of the self-promoting, incompetent Dear Leader.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here is Sean Hannity on Friday, the evening after Trump shifted tone from sneering at administration critics to declaring a national emergency, while still sneering at administration critics.</b> “Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention. A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. It will give us reason to be proud as a country. The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note the use of the word “bold,” one of the otherwise near-illiterate president’s favorite adjectives. It is Dear Leader’s “leadership” that has allowed the United States to finally do what it has done in every similar crisis; declaring a national emergency is now not a longstanding designation allowing our or any government to take specific, defined steps to combat a new threat but a “bold new precedent” from Dear Leader, for the “benefit” of the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sean<b> Hannity spent weeks lying about the virus, downplaying its dangerousness and its spread.</b> Now that the game is up and members of his audience will, with near-certainty, be dying in large part due to Dear Leader’s inaction and Sean Hannity’s teleprompter, Sean Hannity will now spend weeks praising Dear Leader’s “boldness” with a North Korean polish and a distinctly Fox News sneer. <b>The Washington Post notes that Hannity was matched in this new revision of state propaganda by Laura Ingraham, among others.</b> Go only so far as Dear Leader himself is willing to; follow Dear Leader as Dear Leader meanders his mental way through each new moment of revelation. No further.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Devil-among-us Jerry Falwell Jr., a frequent Fox guest, was on the network Friday morning telling the Fox & Friends couch that his Liberty University would not be shuttering during the crisis, displaying the trademark Fox sneer while downplaying virus scares as “hype,” and saying “maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump</span>.” After Trump’s Friday declaration, Falwell changed his own tune to acknowledge the severity of the crisis—sort of. In practice, he defended his original decision but said that the Virginia governor’s ban on gatherings of 100 or more people “left us no practical choice.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week, after a “somber” Trump once again bowed to realities his advisers had never before been able to drill into his skull, Fox News hosts matched his new rhetoric as well. Useful network idiot Jesse Watters changed his tune over the weekend. Not because of the presidential about-face, certainly not. It was “mom.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“She is suspicious that I might have coronavirus. I wore the gloves all afternoon in the house. That’s what it is. I didn’t take the social distancing that seriously Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, I went out to dinner here in the city. And I woke up this morning I realized that was not the right move.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Do we really believe that Watters had not noticed that the world outside the Fox News studio was incongruent with the reports from inside until a morning revelation? Or was Monday morning the first moment in which it was safe to note it without penalty?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I <b>am tired of this. I am very, very tired of the pretense that anything this scabby sore of a network does revolves around anything but propping up the most narrow and most radical of agendas; demonization of Dear Leader’s enemies and maudlin praise for Dear Leader’s boldness.</b> It is a fascist network using the bog-standard rhetorical tools of fascism to prop up a fascist, incompetent buffoon of a leader. They will attack anyone on Dear Leader’s behalf. They will let their audience die—they will provide the crematory, if needed—if Dear Leader needs to just one more evening of adulation to get him through the next day without full-on emotional collapse.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sean Hannity goads his viewers into support for ignoring even a pandemic until the moment it can no longer be ignored. He will goad his viewers again, this time into believing it was Dear Leader who limited the deaths to whatever horrific number they may rise to. Very, very rich men who want just a bit more money than they already have will watch him do it, and allow him to do it, and will pay him to do it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They will, if anything, order that more flags be added to the network graphics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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