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President Donald Trump spoke with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House Thursday ahead of one of his trips to campaign in a red state. Among the comments he made was high praise for Fox News' Peter Doocy.

A reporter asked, "What are you looking for in a new press secretary?"

"We have a lot of people that want that job. I would say many of them are right here," Trump replied. "Would you like that job? Maybe a guy like Peter. But he's making too much money. He's gone. I lost him as soon as he negotiated his last contract."

Trump praised Doocy at one point, saying that he respects the Fox correspondent and that he has “always been very nice to me."

A dust-up in March 2026 stands out as one of the moments that drew anger from the president when Doocy asked Trump if Russia was helping Iran target U.S. forces. It has now been revealed that Russia has been helping Iran in its war with the U.S.

At the time, however, Trump called it a “stupid question,” though he repeated that he respected Doocy.

Trump also mocked Doocy at the White House Correspondents' Dinner for being "tongue-tied."

“They call me [the most transparent president in history]. You know who calls me that? Karoline. That’s about it. Would anybody else call me that? I think Peter would call me that. Am I the most transparent? [Former President Joe] Biden never used to answer your questions. He’d ask Biden 20 questions; he’d never get an answer. Who’s the most transparent president, Peter?”

Doocy didn't answer, so Trump commented, “Look at him, it’s the first time he’s tongue-tied. I cannot believe it. Oh, he’s not going to be happy tomorrow.”

Former press secretary Karoline Leavitt left the White House after returning from maternity leave. She said she would like to spend more time with her young children.

For months, CNN pundit Scott Jennings has been campaigning for the gig, and it has been reported by Politico's "Playbook" that Trump was asking allies whether they thought Jennings would be a good fit. Since that report, however, the president hasn't pulled the trigger on a hire.

When asked about it more specifically, Trump said he had a "mountain" of people to consider. MAGA world doesn't want Jennings, the New York Post reported.

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Fox Business host pushes conspiracy theory that energy efficiency standards are intended to end private home ownership

Fox & Friends neglected to inform its audience that the new standard would save homeowners nearly $1,000 per year on energy costs

Special PROGRAMSCLIMATE & ENERGY

WRITTEN BY ZACHARY PLEAT

PUBLISHED 05/30/24

On the May 30 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy and Fox Business host Charles Payne discussed a Biden administration proposal to increase the heating and cooling efficiency standards of new homes, focusing on a Department of Housing and Urban Development analysis that found it would add $7,200 to the average price of a new house but improve energy efficiency by 37%, leading to long-term savings for homeowners.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions” from homes and businesses are responsible for 31 percent of the United States’ total emissions. Politico reported that homebuilders oppose the implementation of new energy standards, citing cost concerns, while supporters point to the long-term cost savings homeowners will enjoy in addition to the environmental benefits. Politico also reported that the new standards conform with the “latest international standards for energy efficiency,” as “many U.S. homebuilders now use standards that are over a decade old and have weaker requirements for insulation, lighting, heating and cooling.”

During their segment, which glossed over the benefits of the new standards, Doocy and Payne completely ignored that the same HUD analysis found that the policy would lead to “average annual energy savings of almost $1,000 per household per year for single family homes and more than $400 per household in low-rise multifamily housing.”

Instead, Payne launched into a baseless conspiracy theory that the policy isn’t designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save homeowners on energy costs, but is instead meant to fulfill a progressive agenda to end home ownership:

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CitationFrom the May 30, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

CHARLES PAYNE (FOX BUSINESS HOST): Hey, listen. I'm going to tell you right now, progressives don't like ownership. They really — the ultimate goal is for you to not to own a home. That's the real ultimate goal. They love everyone to congregate around major cities and live on top of each other in apartments and share things. They have pushed for a sharing society.

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Right-wing Fox News has had plenty of turnover during its 28-year history.

But "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy, like Sean Hannity, has been with the right-wing cable TV outlet since 1996 — the year it was launched. And Fox News chose Doocy as a "Fox & Friends" co-host in 1998.

Politically, Doocy is clearly on the right; his politics have always been conservative. But the Washington Post's Jeremy Barr, in an article published on March 18, stresses that in recent months, Doocy has been "the resident dissenter" on "Fox & Friends" and "a rare member of the Fox News opinion wing who is challenging conventional Republican wisdom on a regular basis."

READ MORE:**How a 'tiny hole in the conservative safety net' soured James Comer on Fox News**

"In particular," Barr observes, "Doocy has stood out as a skeptic of congressional investigations into Joe and Hunter Biden, bucking the party line while Fox hosts like Sean Hannity regularly decry what they call 'the Biden crime family.' He has also emphasized the significance — and veracity — of the legal challenges facing (former President Donald) Trump, talked up Trump challengers like Nikki Haley, and dinged the MAGA wing of the Republican Party."

Barr notes that in 2021, Doocy "emerged as a prominent promoter of the coronavirus vaccine" — in contrast to all the anti-vaxxers on Fox News. Doocy, according to Barr, has "clashed with" Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) on immigration, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) is even boycotting "Fox & Friends" because of Doocy's views on the Biden impeachment effort.

Dan Cassino, author of the 2016 book "Fox News and American Politics: How One Channel Shapes American Politics and Society," told the Washington Post, "(Doocy) gets to express some skepticism about the narratives that are being pushed on his show that you don't get from anyone else. He's not there as part of the ideological project. He's there as an affable morning TV host."

READ MORE:[No 'concrete evidence': These Fox News hosts are deeply skeptical about Biden impeachment inquiry

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STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Here's a video you are going to be talking about today. Climate protesters causing a miles-long traffic jam when they blocked the only road leading into the Burning Man festival and then this happened.

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DOOCY: Okay. She is not happy. Jimmy Failla, hosts Fox Across America on Fox News radio and Fox Nation, he joins us now.They made a big mistake.

JIMMY FAILLA (FOX RADIO HOST): Well let me start here, I think it is very insensitive of the cop, who should have run them over in an electric pickup truck out of sensitivity to the cause of them blocking the road. How do you not watch this and just rejoice? Because we're so long overdue for some pushback on this garbage where people are inconvenienced whether it's at a museum or people are chaining themselves to the runway. The one note I want to add though, is they are going to, you said Burning Man. It is burning person, OK, let's not get ourselves canceled here. But what's funny is Burning Man is known for people getting stoned in the desert. None of whom figured out they could just drive around this road block, which has 20 feet on either side of the road of flat land. But they are like, I guess we are stuck. But I love these cops. These cops are heroes. 

DOOCY: Well these are not regular cops.

FAILLA: Yep, tribal.

DOOCY: This is tribal land. And so these are tribal rangers. They've got different rules.

FAILLA: Yup. Yes.

DOOCY: Apparently different than the cops here in New York City.

FAILLA: I'm down with them policing everything because they didn't worry about getting, you know, heaven forbid having to go protest or get, you know, go viral for the wrong reasons. They actually just protected the rights of everybody on that road who had somewhere to be. I mean listen, on a serious note. If you have a medical procedure to get to -- Yes, no, seriously! You have no right to do that to people. You don't know what's going on in that traffic jam you are causing. So good for them.

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Stephen James Doocy (/ˈduːsi/; born October 19, 1956) is an American television host, political commentator, and author. He is an anchor of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel.[1]^

Doocy was born in Algona, Iowa, the first child and only son of James "Jim" Edward Doocy, who worked in sales and construction, and JoAnne (née Sharp) Doocy. His paternal grandfather was of Irish descent and his maternal grandmother was of Swedish descent.[2][3] He was raised in Industry, Kansas, and attended Kansas grade schools in Russell, Salina, and Industry.[4] Doocy went to junior high in Wakefield and high school in Clay Center, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, with a Bachelor of Science in journalism. He was the first on-air disc jockey for KJHK radio, the student-operated radio station at 90.7 FM in Lawrence.[5]^

Career

Doocy started his television career with reporter jobs at TV stations in Topeka, Des Moines, Wichita, and Kansas City.[6] His first major market assignment was as a features reporter for WRC, in Washington, D.C. In 1990, he was named the host of NBC’s nationally syndicated program House Party with Steve Doocy, a remake of the 1960s Art Linkletter show, which was followed by the syndicated kids' series Not Just News’’.[7]

In 1994, he got his first morning show job, as the co-host of Wake Up America on NBC’s America’s Talking channel.[8] Doocy then anchored the morning newscast on CBS-TV's flagship station, WCBS-TV, in 1996 in New York City.[6] He was the live Times Square reporter onDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC-TV for four ball drops.

Doocy joined the Fox News Channel in 1996,[9] and began co-hosting the network's morning show Fox & Friends in 1998. ^[10] In 2004, he helped launch Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve special, All American New Year, whose hosts have included Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly.

The Fox & Friends program, after the presidential election of Donald Trump, interviewed Trump often, who had been a regular on-air contributor to the program for a number of years before the campaign. Once elected, Trump called it "the most honest morning show."[11] During his first year as president, Trump continued to watch and often quoted the program on Twitter.[12] This prompted the New York Times to call Fox & Friends "the most powerful TV show in America."[13]^

In 2019, it was revealed that President Donald Trump ranked the loyalty of many reporters, on a scale of 1 to 10. Steve Doocy received a "12 out of 10."[14]^

On September 15, 2020, Doocy made news when he challenged President Trump's announcement of a series of weekly appearances on Fox and Friends. Doocy responded: "You may want to do it every week, but Fox is not committed to that. We're going to take it on a case by case basis."[15] Doocy extended an invitation for Joe Biden to appear on the program, offering him equal airtime to Trump.[16]^

Doocy has earned TV reporting and writing awardsfrom the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists (formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi),[17] and 11 Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, ^[18][6]

Published works

In 2020, Doocy and his wife Kathy, published the Happy in a Hurry Cookbook, which debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller List[19] and became one of America's top cookbooks of that pandemic year.[20] It was a sequel to their successful 2018 Happy Cookbook: A Celebration of the Food That Makes America Smile’'.[21]^

The Doocys also authored The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook and Tales from the Dad Side.[22] All four books were published by William Morrow and Company, a division of HarperCollins and all were *New York Times* bestsellers.[^

Personal life

Doocy is married to Kathy Doocy (nee Garrity), a former model and TV sports reporter who starred in a TV commercial for the Chatty Cathy Doll.[23] The couple have three adult children: Mary, Sally and Peter Doocy, the Fox News White House correspondent.[24] He lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey.[25] Kathy Doocy is a cancer survivor.[9]^

He is Roman Catholic and serves as a lector in his church.[26]^

Doocy was named Distinguished Kansan of the Year by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas in 2014.[27]^

References

  1. ^ "Steve Doocy". Fox News. March 25, 2022.
  2. ^ Doocy, Steve. "Tales from the Dad Side" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  3. ^ "James E. Doocy - Obituary - Danner Funeral Home". Retrieved September 29, 2016.
  4. ^ "Fox News host Steve Doocy to be honored as Distinguished Kansan of the Year". Topeka Capital-Journal. January 24, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
  5. ^ "Journalism School Grad to be Honored". January 21, 2014.
  6. ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Doocy#cite_ref-Kansapedia_6-1) c(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Doocy#cite_ref-Kansapedia_6-2) "Kansapedia: Steve Doocy".
  7. ^ "Steve Doocy Bio".
  8. ^ Schneider, Michael (December 1, 2020). "America's Talking: 2 years (1994-1996)".
  9. ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Doocy#cite_ref-:0_9-1) "Never mind Sean Hannity. Steve Doocy is the rare host at Fox actually promoting vaccines". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
  10. ^ "Meet the Doocys, the first family of Fox News". Deseret News. June 17, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
  11. ^ "Transcript: President Trump's exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta". CNN Business. February 16, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  12. ^ Silva, Danielle (April 3, 2017). "Trump praises 'Fox & Friends,' renews old feuds in early morning tweets". NBC News. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  13. ^ Savransky, Rebecca (July 27, 2017). "Trump quotes New York Times: 'Fox & Friends' is 'most powerful TV show in America':{":(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:. The Hill. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  14. ^ Mayer, Jane (March 4, 2019). "The Making of the Fox News White House". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  15. ^ Morrow, Brendan (September 15, 2020). "Trump says he'll be on Fox & Friends every week — but host Steve Doocy doesn't agree to have him". The Week. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  16. ^ Balluck, Kyle (September 15, 2020). "Fox News host says network 'not committed' to weekly segment after Trump mentions it". TheHill. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  17. ^ "Steven Doocy Books & Biography". www.harpercollins.ca.
  18. ^ Peasley, Sarah (June 20, 1988). "WRC TAKES 22 LOCAL EMMYS". The Washington Post.
  19. ^ "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books Best Sellers". The New York Times. October 18, 2020.
  20. ^ Severson, Kim (March 2, 2021). "How the Cookbooks of 2020 Tell the Stories of Our Pandemic Kitchens". The New York Times.
  21. ^ "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books Best Sellers". The New York Times. October 21, 2018.
  22. ^ "Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood by Steve Doocy". goodreads.com.
  23. ^ Cadelago, Christopher. "Is Fox's Peter Doocy Just Asking Questions — Or Trolling the White House?". POLITICO. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
  24. ^ Battaglio, Stephen (March 4, 2021). "Fox News' scrappy White House correspondent grills Biden, who plays along". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  25. ^ "New Jersey's Map of the Stars".
  26. ^ "A FOX Friends Christmas". December 25, 2013.
  27. ^ "kualumni.org: Steve Doocy".

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There is too much vandelism going on. --Purpleslog (talk) 13:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC):{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}:

That's because Steve Doocy and/or his producer(s) is/are editing the page while on-air and having fun doing so. GRX Dragon (talk) 13:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC):{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}:

Yeah, that's why it reads like a cheesy press release. Doocy has a pretty good sense of humor. I'm kinda surprised he let the vandalism get under his skin; doesn't he know that Wikipedia is a douche-a-rama?Simplemines (talk) 12:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC):(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply]:{:{}:

Unverified information.

SD age has been listed here as being 51, being born in 1956. However, he himself claims to be 67. I don't know his actual BD but unless sources can be found to verify it should not be included. Also, there is no evidence to him being Catholic, or doing some of the stuff people claim he has done. Arzel (talk) 04:07, 3 February 2008 (UTC):{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}:

My mistake, it does appear that he is 51, and there is evidence of the other stuff as well as noted by recent anoyn. Arzel (talk) 16:57, 3 February 2008 (UTC):{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}:

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I removed the external link to MMfA. It only serves to criticize Doocy, and does not offer a balanced view. Per WP:EL and WP:BLP and probably most specifically under WP:UNDUE it does not belong. Save for a moment that some feel it does belong, then by what means does one decide which belong? What makes MMfA so special that their criticism deserves special mention? By this logic we should have stories on Doocy from every source available. Arzel (talk) 05:34, 15 June 2008 (UTC):{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}::{}:

It's not a "special mention", it's just a link, and that is what the external links section is for. BLP, EL, and UNDUE do not disqualify this link. Legitimate criticism is appropriate and required by NPOV. You try to fight this battle on every article, and it's just not working. Gamaliel (talk) 06:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC):(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply]Undue weight applies to all aspects of the article. Your placement of a link to stories only critical of Doocy are hardly a balanced approach. Arzel (talk) 15:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC):(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply]I support the inclusion of links supportive of Doocy, such as his Fox bio. Gamaliel (talk) 17:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC):(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply]His Bio? Come on now, his bio simply states the relevant facts of his life. By you recent comment I can only conclude that his FOX bio alone violates NPOV because it is too positive. The nature of news tends to be negative. It is rare to find a site promoting the virtues of anyone, even your own KO positive stories from MMfA are not positie stories about KO, they are stories where KO criticizes someone else. You are going to have to do better than this. Arzel (talk) 17:23, 18 June 2008 (UTC):{:{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}::{:{Leaving out relevant facts is an NPOV violation. Presenting only positive aspects is an NPOV violation. If you want NPOV to apply to individual links like this, then it must apply to all links, not just links you do not like. Gamaliel }:(talk):{ 17:28, 18 June 2008 (UTC)}::{:{:(style="margin-right:0.25em"):}:[reply:{]}::{}:

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In August 2008, Doocy claimed that Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin does indeed have foreign policy experience because "Alaska is right up there next to Russia." [1][2][3][4] He was criticized by Jon Stewart on the The Daily Show for the remark.[3][5][4]

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Fox News knew it was pushing lies about Dominion

Fox largely chose to ignore its own reporting as it focused on spreading the “Big Lie” and wild conspiracy theories about voting machines

WRITTEN BY GIDEON TAAFFE & ZACHARY PLEAT

PUBLISHED 09/02/22

Reports from Fox News in mid-November 2020 make it clear that the network knew it was peddling falsehoods about Dominion voting machines, yet many of its personalities continued to overwhelmingly spew conspiracy theories on prime-time cable television.

Dominion is suing Fox for defamation after the right-wing cable channel extensively pushed false claims about the 2020 election and Dominion’s voting machines. In the two-week period after Fox News declared Joe Biden the president-elect, the network questioned the results of the election or pushed conspiracy theories about it almost 800 times, including by using Dominion as a scapegoat. Fox became an outlet that aired Trump campaign lies about Dominion voting machines getting hacked without any evidence. The channel’s coverage of the election mimicked the baseless claims of Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell.

For Dominion to prove that Fox acted with “actual malice,” the company must show that Fox knew the allegations made about Dominion were false, or that Fox acted in reckless disregard for the truth. In addition to pursuing how culpable the Murdochs were in this regard, Dominion lawyers are deposing Fox prime-time hosts and appear to have text messages that show employees knew Fox was peddling lies, according to Washington Post reporting.

While these lines of inquiry may be already sufficient to meet the “actual malice” standard, brief moments in Fox’s own programming also show the network was contemporaneously aware the Dominion allegations were lies, even if these few examples were drowned out. The Washington Post noted that Dominion may currently be trying to ascern “whether Fox personalities who challenged election fraud claims on air faced any repercussions.” 

Some articles and newsletters on FoxNews.com from November 2020 included statements from Dominion rejecting the baseless conspiracy theories or Fox staffers mocking the conspiracy theories. On the channel’s programming, some Fox personalities made the effort to debunk what their own colleagues were pushing and encouraged the Fox audience to accept the election. This included directly fact-checking lies about Dominion, labeling such claims as disinformation, and explaining that no evidence for these conspiracy theories had been presented. Unfortunately, vastly outnumbered by Fox lies about the election, these moments were brief and few:

Fox correspondent Eric Shawn debunked Trump lies about Dominion, citing cybersecurity experts at the Department of Homeland Security to call it an example of “disinformation.” [Fox News, Special Report, 11/12/20]

Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy debunked guest Jonathan Turley’s claim that Dominion voting software “had glitches.” Doocy said: “With that Dominion software: Five counties in Michigan and Georgia had problems. And the Dominion software was used in two of the counties. And in every instance, largely, it was human error – a problem, but the software did not affect the vote counts.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/13/20]

Days later, Doocy and Turley acknowledged that there was no evidence for the Dominion conspiracy theories. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/16/20]

Shawn offered to “clarify the election facts as we know them right now,” debunking several baseless claims of voter fraud on-air, reading off the response from Dominion to one particular claim about the company. Shawn also noted that the conspiracy theories are “designed to undermine your faith in American democracy.” [Fox News, America’s News HQ, 11/15/20]

Fox correspondent Rick Leventhal said Rudy Giuliani “offered no evidence” for his claims that Dominion is “a radical left company with ties to Venezuela, outright accusing it of fixing the 2020 results.” [Fox News, Fox News at Night, 11/16/20]

Fox News anchor Dana Perino and contributor Karl Rove recognized on-air that the accusations were all potential grounds for lawsuits by Dominion against Giuliani and Powell.[Fox News, The Daily Briefing, 11/19/20]

Shawn interviewed Dominion representative Michael Steel for nine minutes to debunk specific right-wing allegations against the company. [Fox News, America’s News HQ, 11/22/20]

Just two days before the Jan. 6 insurrection, Doocy repeatedly pointed out that Trump’s supporters have shown no evidence to support Dominion conspiracy theories. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/4/21]

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sTEVE DOOCY(CO-HOST): Battle for the American Mind, Uprooting a Century of Miseducation, a brand new book that hits the shelves today. In it, Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin discuss how American education has been destroyed and what we can do to restore it. Here's an excerpt. "Make no mistake about it the historical singularity that was America's founding was a result of classical Christian education. Full stop. Our founders did not stumble their way to brilliance of 1776. They were forged in the foundry of the education of their time." And Pete and David join us live right now. And they've got the number one book in the world. Who's who?

PETE HEGSETH (AUTHOR, FOX AND FRIENDS WEEKEND CO-HOST): Pete. David.

DOOCY: Thank you very much. David, it's very nice to meet you. We were talking to Pete about this yesterday. This is part of a master plan that a lot of people don't have any idea has been going on for decades.

DAVID GOODWIN (AUTHOR): Right.

DOOCY: Regarding education in the country.

GOODWIN: Yes. Well, you know, that's when I was doing the research, some of the research through the original book, which The New Republic in the early part of the 20th century. I thought I would find a lot about labor unions and a lot about minimum wage, a lot about, you know, the things that we know that the progressives were talking about at the time. But education was in every issue. And I was wondering, why.

DOOCY: Right. And Pete who would –who drew up this master plan?

HEGSETH: Well, there were a lot of – there wasn't one master architect, John Dewey's the father of the progressive educational system.

DOOCY: But they were like-minded.

HEGSETH: Very like-minded. Almost all atheists. Almost all socialists. Eventually, almost all Marxists.And they had a plan to capture the minds of our youngest kids. And we're not talking about the lunacy of higher education. This is K through 12. They knew the affections of young people. Elementary school students would shape the way they view America, their faith, for the rest of their life. And so they set it out on a course. They didn't know exactly where it would lead, Steve. All of these architects of progressives, but they knew where it wouldn't lead: Not toward Biblical wisdom, not toward appreciation for our founding documents.And people say to David I all the time, How do I not know this history?

DOOCY: Right.

HEGSETH: 100-year history. You know why? Because the progressives write the history. They write the textbooks.

DOOCY: Right.

HEGSETH: So, David and I had to dig underneath everything that's hidden to find out the real story of how they captured K through 12.

DOOCY: You know, and David, we've known for a long time that America's colleges, for the most part. are way to the left, very progressive. But I don't think a lot of people realized until the last decade or so when they started looking in America'stextbooks,how far to the left aome are trying to drag K through 12.

GOODWIN: Well, they've had the advantage. When you have the college system, you control the instruments of education all the way down to the kindergarten. Right. Because you train the teachers, you train the administrators, you train the curriculum providers. You're the ones doing the accreditation, the college – at the college level. All of that flows right from the, you know, kind of nodes of control that the progressives had.

DOOCY: And, you know Pete, so many parents got a good look at what their kids were doing during COVID-19. Your first chapter is our COVID 1619 moment.

HEGSETH: It's exactly right. You're at home looking at your kid's curriculum through your laptop, and suddenly there's a new founding date on their screen, 1619 or they're talking about gender pronouns for seven or eight-year-olds.[note no eg]  So we start with the problem, and the first step to any recovery is understanding the depth of your problem. And we outline that. But the best part of the book, in our opinion is those five chapters at the end that are about the solution. AndDavid runs the Association of Classical Christian Schools.

DOOCY: Right.

HEGSETH: Classical Christian Dot Org. There are hundreds of wonderful brick-and-mortar schools across the country that are the exact opposite of what our government schools provide right now. There are online options, there arehomeschoolcurriculum options. The insurgency to take our classroom back has begun, and that's the preferred form of ideological warfare of the weak against the small. You do not have to default to progressive public schools, because otherwise, you're going to war with an educational complex that has 40 hours a week to capture your kid's mind. And that's why we call it a battle. It really is for parents and grandparents.

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Fact-checking Fox News’ narrative on “America’s Crime Crisis”

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fox News kicked off 2022 by incessantly reporting on what the network called “America’s Crime Crisis.” Fox hosts and figures told their viewers the country is in the midst of a growing crime spike, which they declared was predominantly occurring in “liberal-run” cities. The network chose to blame the entire “crisis” narrative on efforts to reform policing, a “subculture of homeless” people, and prosecutorial decisions made by district attorneys who were allegedly funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

Fox’s solution is to bring back “broken windows” policing, a theory that the physical appearance of a community -- including broken windows, graffiti, and loitering -- has an effect on crime rate, therefore law enforcement should aggressively police low-level crimes. But the coverage pushing this discredited policy ignores evidence that it hasn’t increased safety and has caused disproportionate policing of Black and Latinx people.

But the so-called “crime crisis” is much more complicated than Fox makes it seem. And while it may very well be years before the country understands exactly what has caused the increase in violent crime -- as was the case with the 1990s crime-rate increase -- there is no evidence that it’s related only to prosecutorial discretion or judicial system reforms.

Myth: The country is in the middle of a “crime wave”

Fact: Fox is oversimplifying the narrative, and though violent crime increased, the rate of nonviolent crime such as burglary and larceny dropped

Myth: This “crime wave” is happening mainly in “liberal-run” cities

Fact: While full data is not in yet for 2021, past trends show the homicide rate has increased nationwide

Myth: The “crime wave” is a result of “progressive policies”

Fact: Policies including bail reform and not prosecuting petty crime improve public safety, and a larger police force does not mean less crime

Myth: “Soros-funded” district attorneys are eroding public safety

Fact: This narrative that Soros is controlling DAs is an antisemitic conspiracy theory with no basis in reality

Myth: The U.S. needs to bring back “broken windows” policing

Fact: Broken windows has had no effect on crime, but has resulted in disproportionate policing of people of color

Myth: Homeless people are causing a crime wave and pose a threat to society

Fact: Unhoused people are more likely to be the victims of crime

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for weeks **Fox News** has been ramping up its anti-vaxx attacks on the U.S. public, even using medical doctors and its own hosts to spread false claims, disinformation, and doubt about the COVID-19 vaccines.

On Monday morning in a surprise move one Fox News host actually urged Americans to get vaccinated – to the anger of another, **Brian Kilmeade**.

"If you didn't get a vaccination, that's your choice," Kilmeade told "Fox & Friends" viewers Monday morning. "And if you did, like I did, and they did," he added, revealing the vaccination status of his two co-hosts, "and maybe you did, then you should not wear a mask."

"And if you didn't" get the coronavirus vaccine, "and you want to go cliff diving this weekend, you don't have to check with me. It's a little dangerous, but I'm not going to judge you."

"And if you go and put yourself in danger, if you feel that this is not something for you," Kilmeade said of getting vaccinated, "don't do it, but don't affect my life."

Kilmeade revealed to Fox News viewers that he has yet to understand that anyone who is not vaccinated poises a potential threat to not only those who have yet to get vaccinated, but to those who have – as breakthrough cases are being seen given that the vaccine is close to but not 100% effective. They also create a greater likelihood of new and potentially even more deadly coronavirus variants will develop.

"99% of the people who are dying from COVID are unvaccinated," co-host Steve Doocy interjected, as Kilmeade appeared to roll his eyes.

"That's their choice," Kilmeade, a 57-year old father of three insisted.

"They don't want to die," retorted Doocy, in a rare smack-down of his colleague. "So they are, the administration and the government are saying, we need the mask mandate to protect the unvaccinated."

Kilmeade, who has written five books on the Founders and American history, almost prayerfully clasped his hands together and declared falsely, "That's not their job, it's not their job to protect anybody!"

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Fox News propagandists continue to push fever-swamp fantasies that voting machines switched a large number of votes from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden, even after election security officials conclusively determined that was not the case, and Trump is amplifying those wildly irresponsible claims to falsely assert that he won the election.

With his reelection hopes thwarted at the ballot box, Trump is trying to steal the election if he can and delegitimize it if he can’t, with the help of his sycophants at Fox and Republican leaders.

Those despicable and dangerous efforts originally revolved around baseless allegations of voter fraud committed through mail-in ballots. But as those claims have been shot down in court, Trump and his right-wing media allies have pushed increasingly deranged conspiracy theories about computer systems changing votes to benefit Biden. They have focused in particular on Dominion Voter Systems, which makes software used in voting machines in localities around the country, including some in Georgia and Michigan.

This campaign against the democratic system will not change the results of the election, but it has already resulted in a majority of Republicans believing the election was stolen from Trump.

On Thursday, Trump, who has spent the days since the election watching cable news coverage and ranting on Twitter, live-tweeted a segment from the far-right network One America News that claimed that “DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE.”

This claim is crazy, false, and apparently based on the “analysis” of an anonymous poster at a pro-Trump message board whose findings were credulously parroted by the Gateway Pundit conspiracy theory blog.

Trump’s tweet apparently spurred a response from Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council Executive Committee and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, who said in a joint statement released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history” and that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” The signatories include top U.S. cybersecurity officials, state and local elections administrators, and voting machine industry representatives.

Even Fox’s “news” side pointed out that Trump’s claim was baseless. Network correspondent Eric Shawn reported on “the president's attacks on Dominion voting machines” during a Thursday night Special Report package, explaining that experts, including cybersecurity officials at DHS, say that what Trump claimed had not happened. He described Trump’s comments as “disinformation.”

But Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has never allowed facts to get in the way of his adulation for the president and his willingness to champion Trump’s lies. “President Trump is zeroing in on Dominion voting machines," he said, shortly before the CISA statement went out on Thursday evening. “Dominion voting systems used in 28 states across the country including battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”

After highlighting purported flaws with the Dominion machines identified by Texas elections officials, he asked Trump lawyerRudy Giuliani, “How important do you believe the concerns that are being expressed in a number of states about the ability of these machines not to be hacked?” Giuliani replied, “First of all, the machines can be hacked. There's no question about that. Their machines can be hacked.” He added that Dominion was “founded as a company to fix elections. They have a terrible record and they are extremely hackable.”

Giuliani went on to claim that he had identified hundreds of thousands of “illegal votes” in Pennsylvania and Michigan that will “overturn the vote” in those states (this will not happen). He concluded, “This was a stolen election.”

Fox prime-time star and Trump operative Sean Hannity alsofloated the Dominion conspiracy theory, a few hours after federal, state, and local officials and his own network had debunked it. After describing purported flaws with Dominion systems, Hannity referred to a 2017 congressional hearing about cybersecurity of voting machines, airing a comment from an expert about “how you hack a voting machine to cheat” using a “vote stealing program” that, if installed, “could steal elections without detection for years to come.”

“Now, am I saying tonight this happened with Dominion in this cycle?” Hannity asked after airing that comment. “No. How would I possibly know?” But without further review, he claimed, “there's good reason to not have confidence or not to believe this is fair."

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trump cheered the Fox segments for pushing a conspiracy theory that had been debunked by his own government’s cybersecurity experts.

“Must see @seanhannity takedown of the horrible, inaccurate and anything but secure Dominion Voting System which is used in States where tens of thousands of votes were stolen from us and given to Biden,” he tweeted shortly after Hannity’s segment. “Likewise, the Great @LouDobbs has a confirming and powerful piece!”

Sharing video from Hannity’s segment on Twitter, Trump commented, “These states in question should immediately be put in the Trump Win column. Biden did not win, he lost by a lot!”

By the next morning, the conspiracy theory had made it to Fox & Friends, with George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley falsely claiming that Dominion voting systems switched “thousands” of Michigan votes -- only to be shot down by Steve Doocy of all people, who pointed out that “the software did not affect the vote counts.”

The Trump-Fox feedback loop is powering increasingly unhinged attacks on American democracy. And the longer it goes on, the clearer it becomes that the Murdochs and other network executives either have no control over their hosts, or want them to do exactly what they’re doing.

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although President Donald Trump has used Twitter incessantly to promote himself, he has been furious with the social media outlet this week for fact-checking two of his tweets — so furious that on Thursday, he issued an executive order targeting social media companies and claimed that he did so to “defend free speech.” Twitter hasn’t removed any of Trump’s tweets, but flagged or hidden them as inaccurate or violent. While legal scholars have been asserting that the order cannot withstand legal scrutiny, Media Matters’ Matt Gertz stresses that it serves a useful purpose for Trump nonetheless — and that purpose has been identified by the “notoriously stupid” Fox News host Steve Doocy.

“President Donald Trump capped off a multi-day tantrum at Twitter for appending a mild fact-check to one of his false tweets by retaliating with the power of the federal government,” Gertz explains. “The executive order he signed Thursday is slapdash and incoherent, rooted in a false premise, hypocritical and potentially unconstitutional, legally unenforceable yet dangerously authoritarian, with sections that read like a Fox News screed. But to analyze the executive order’s flaws is to miss the point entirely.”

That purpose, according to Gertz, is “raising the cost of defiance until his perceived enemies break” — and the executive order “forces Twitter to expend resources fighting it, but if the company bends to Trump and does what he wants, maybe it will just go away.”

“Steve Doocy of all people — the notoriously stupid ‘Fox & Friends’ host who is one of the president’s favorite cable news personalities — (inadvertently) nailed it on Wednesday,” Gertz notes. “Social media companies would face ‘a big headache’ if Trump tried to repeal the section of federal law that the executive order targets, he exclaimed, so ‘they might think twice about putting a footnote on a tweet from the president of the United States.’”

Gertz emphasizes that with his executive order, Trump is “drawing a line between companies that defy him and are punished and those that work to benefit him and receive praise.” Trump, Gertz observes, “lauded Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for criticizing Twitter’s decision to fact-check him.”

“Zuckerberg is the poster child for what Trump wants from the head of a social media company,” according to Gertz. “The Republican political operatives he hired to run Facebook’s policy wing have carved out exemptions from the site’s rules for Trump and his media allies. Trump is making clear that it is in the interests of other social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube to adopt that same corporate strategy — and he will continue to raise the temperature until they do.”

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BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): The homeless crisis is growing in America's second largest city: Los Angeles, California.

LISA BOOTHE (GUEST CO-HOST): Well, Fox News contributor Emily Compagno recently visited the appalling conditions on the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Wow, look at that.

STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): How can that be allowed? She joins us right now with part two of her investigation. Why does it look like that out there?

BOOTHE: I mean, that is just crazy.

EMILY COMPAGNO (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): It is. Thank you so much for having me this morning. We're about to find out, as we saw in part one of our series, homelessness, mental illness, drug abuse, and rat infestation have brought the Skid Row area of Los Angeles to a crisis point.

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DOOCY: "They come there to die."

COMPAGNO: I know. How sad is that? No one throws away people like Los Angeles. What was so striking to me about being down there is that it's not just squalor. It's not just poverty. It is so much worse than that. And it's not people sitting there lucid and asking for help with signs. These are zombies. These are absolute drug addicts with mental illnesses. And in talking to the law enforcement consultancy on Joseph, I was struck by how hamstringed they are. How much these policies have crippled and made the entire situation worse.

KILMEADE: Because these people are also dangerous to civilians who are just trying to go about their lives, to families. Because look where they're set up. And the law enforcement, it's no longer a misdemeanor to do a lot of these things. So law enforcement says I really can't do anything. So I'm not even going to go there anymore.

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Thursday, deceptively edited videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) meant to cast doubt on her competency made the rounds on social media and right-wing websites. Later, Fox put its weight behind the narrative, and the network’s most prominent viewer, President Donald Trump, tweeted out a Fox clip about it.

The smears seem like an obvious attempt to discredit Pelosi after she questioned Trump's fitness for office during a May 23 press conference, saying she wished “his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country.” A day earlier, Pelosi had made the true statement that Trump was engaged in a cover-up. As CNN’s Brian Stelter pointed out in the May 24 edition of his Reliable Sourcesnewsletter, “What's going on here is pretty obvious. Pelosi is questioning President Trump's competency -- saying she's concerned about the president's well-being, suggesting an ‘intervention’ is needed -- so Trump's allies are saying the exact same things about her.” MIRROR

There are actually two videos circulating in the pro-Trump media sphere. One spliced together clips of Pelosi’s comments on Thursday to make it seem like she stammered throughout the press conference. The other significantly slowed remarks Pelosi made during an appearance at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on May 22 to make her look inebriated. (Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani tweeted and later deleted that manipulated video.)

Conspiracy theory website Infowars pushed the narrative with the headline “Watch Nancy Pelosi Stutter Slur And Suffer Memory Lapses in Press Conference.” Then Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight adopted a similar frame in an on-screen chyron and aired the deceptively spliced clip of the May 23 press conference. Trump then tweeted the Fox segment out to his 60.5 million followers.

[vid?]OnFox’s Fox & Friends this morning, guests Diamond and Silk falsely accused Pelosi of inebriation, possibly referring to the doctored footage of her appearance at CAP. Co-host Steve Doocy claimed in a later segment that he was unfamiliar with the doctored video but issued a correction for Diamond and Silk’s accusation by citing the Post.However, the two Fox Nation hosts refused to back down:

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Copies of the videos continue to spread on social media platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter, garnering thousands of interactions. Though these videos are deceptive, the tech giants seem unable to halt their spread -- and in some cases, they may even be making money from views,as at least one video pushing the smear on YouTube featured an ad.

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On multiple occasions, a Fox correspondent in Mexico floated a "rumor"that a migrant seeking asylum in America hadEbola. The "rumor" had already been debunked, of course, but Steve Doocy even thanked the reporter for bringing it up. There's a long history of nativists spreading rumors of diseases to gin up anti-immigrant sentiment, and it's arecurring feature on Fox.

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When  "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy asked a panel of independent voters for their thoughts on a caravan of 5,000 Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to reach the United States, he seemed surprised by their answers, which expressed sympathy for the individuals fleeing poverty, oppression and violence.

"I think uneven immigration laws are a problem for any country," one independent voter told Doocy when asked about America's immigration laws. "And I think our immigration laws need to be modernized and updated. But this country is founded on immigration. And all of us come from immigrants."

When asked how he would feel if the caravan reached 20,000 people, the voter responded, "This is the mightiest country on the planet, I think we can handle a caravan of people, unarmed, coming to this country," although he added that the government should "process them properly."  "There’s a humanitarian crisis taking place in Central America. And yet, this issue gets turned into a complete political football. There’s very little honest discussion about what’s actually happening, it gets turned into talking points," he told Doocy.

A third panelist, seemingly referring to Fox News' coverage of the issue, commented that, "Treating this as an ‘invasion’ is a bad idea and it’s going to end horribly... People have to realize these are human beings coming here, and there needs to be a real solution offered in dealing with it."

Earlier, "Fox & Friends" host Doocy implied sinister forces were at work behind the caravan.

At a different point in the Fox News program on Monday, co-host Brian Kilmeade seemed to undermine his network's own fearmongering coverage."I imagine these are good people. Most of them are good people. I'm sure some are up to no good. I'm sure they just want a better life. I get that."

At the same time, Kilmeade pointed the finger of blame at Sen. Dianne Feinstein, claiming that she had supported policies which had encouraged lax immigration policies.

"Where are they getting water? Where are they getting food? Who's handling the logistics? I mean, I was reading in the LA Times that apparently a number of Mexicans who live in the area lined the highway, handed out clothes and sandwiches and bottles of water, but still: 7,000 people. You know, that's an army of people. Who is feeding them?" Doocy asked. His comments played into a larger right-wing theory that the immigrant caravan is being secretly funded by wealthy left-wingers, with Jewish business magnate and philanthropist George Soros frequently cited as one such villain.

The individuals in the caravan have a number of backgrounds, according to The Washington Post. They include men and women fleeing political turmoil in Nicaragua, poverty in Guatemala and violent crime in Honduras. Many of them are migrants who had lived in the United States for years but been deported and are now attempting to reunite with their families and get back their old jobs. Trump, by contrast, has depicted the migrants in disparaging terms, claiming last week that "there are some bad people in that group. This country doesn’t want them."

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