It’s been clear for some time that #Alito was the #FoxNews (or an even further right-wing channel) justice on #SupremeCourt bench. The past 2 weeks have helped to cement that into the public consciousness for those who don’t hear him at oral arguments or read his opinions — particularly his concurrences and dissents. He doesn’t have a #legal#philosophy beyond counting to 5, and he doesn’t write opinions for the ages. He writes for now and, almost always, for #republicanshttps://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem
I recently joined a gym. That's given me about an hour a day of Fox News exposure. As bad as I thought it was, it is far worse. The biggest news events coverage were about how illegal immigrants are behind the unprecedented crime waves afflicting all cities. Meanwhile crime is now back to pre-pandemic levels and even at its pandemic height was still at multi-decade lows. Also, Democrats are giving illegal immigrants free housing, food, phones, and laptops. Why? "Oh you know why..." Readers get to fill in the blanks with that sort of lede. Then we had the completely political hack attack on Trump even though he's never done anything wrong, a major scandal around Hunter Biden's congressional testimony and Fauci's assistant's testimony around something else. That's the big news. The right has a profitable multi-billion dollar industry, far beyond Fox News, to propagandize. There is no counter-balance. And don't say the supposedly liberal MSM. AT best they are led around by the nose by the right wing media and politicians. At worst they have similarly sympathetic coverage when it comes to things like properly addressing wealth inequality, monopolies/trusts, and holding rich powerful people to account. #rant#uspoli#msm#foxnews
Someone really needs to kick #FoxNews#nepobaby#PeterDoocy's head off his narrow shoulders. This guy is a smarmy, dishonest prick whose entire job seems to be instigating irrelevant #gotcha moments in the #WhiteHouse press room. This is a perfect example...
Rs are broadcasting their sinister plans. MSM isn't sounding the alarm:
Evidence is everywhere: the right is planning to end representative govt if it fails to legitimately return #TFG to the WH -clear a few months after #J6 that the RW propaganda apparatus was laying the groundwork to try again in 2024. #FoxNews & #MAGAMedia spent the weeks after the 2020 election fabricating & amplifying election fraud lies... to institutionalize TFG's #TheBigLie.
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
#MichaelCohen said that he made sure to tell #Trump that he got the denial from #StormyDaniels “to get credit that I was continuing to ensure he was protected.” He wanted Trump to know that he had “stayed loyal.”
Prosecution shows texts that Cohen was trying to get Daniels booked on #SeanHannity’s #FoxNews show on 18 Jan, 2018, to deny that she'd had an affair w/Trump.
"Although Mr. Biden and his attorneys have not formally filed a lawsuit against Fox 'News' as of yet, they plan to sue Fox News 'imminently.' A letter obtained by NBC News says action is pending because of Fox’s alleged "conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light"
Paul Waldman on how Republicans and Fox News were so gung-ho about impeaching the mysteriously corrupt Biden. And then they weren't, and what does that tell us?
"Once it became clear that impeachment was fizzling out, Fox News stopped talking about the subject.
That silence only drives home that these hearings weren’t designed to root out corruption, but to score political points."
"The fruitless quest to find something criminal Biden did is particularly ironic given that Republicans are working so hard to return possibly the most corrupt president in history to the White House. Even now, they support him as he argues to the Supreme Court that presidents must be immune from prosecution for any crimes they might commit while in office. So if they want to find corruption, they know where they can look."
"on Fox News’ Special Report, chief political anchor Bret Baier suggested that news outlets are providing too much coverage of the first-ever criminal trial for a former president, and criticized them in particular for covering the spectacle of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s inability to stay awake in the courtroom... Others praised Trump for falling asleep in court" https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/i-think-id-fall-asleep-if-i-was-there-maga-media-praise-trump-nodding-court
— #media#foxnews
I was visiting my father yesterday and he was watching #foxnews Since I detest that station I turned on Pandora on my phone, put the speaker next to my ear and listened to music. Suddenly my Dad changed the channel to the History Channel and my Dad started talking about Swamp People. I stoped listening to my music and I had a nice visit with my father. Now I know how to get him to switch off Fox News when I’m around
#WillCain at #FoxNews is apoplectic over #HillaryClinton's completely accurate assessment of #Trump. Cain just can't understand how anyone could claim that Trump wants to eliminate our system of #checksAndBalances, or seek retribution on his political and media enemies. It's almost as if Cain has been living on a totally different planet for the past 8 years.
A #juror was quickly dismissed at the start. She was among the 7 already selected, she said she was very worried that despite the fact the court ruled to keep jurors’ name secret, she would still be exposed & targeted.
It’s unclear what her friends were messaging, but the concerns reflect the reality that #media outlets are publishing details about jurors were revealed in open court, that some #RightWingcommentators use to say if jurors would be pro #Trump or not.
Prosecutors asked Judge #Merchan to rule Trump violated his #GagOrder by posting a quote from #FoxNews’ #JesseWatters falsely claiming that some of the prospective jurors are “undercover liberal activists." [#disinformation#propaganda]
More about the question of whether #Trump violated his #GagOrder by posting a quote from #FoxNews' #JesseWatters, Trump didn’t “repost” Watters, he wrote out his own post referencing Watters’s false characterization of prospective jurors.
Just watched part of a 5 minute clip of the #ingramangle on #foxnews had to turn it off. Wow what a bunch of nonsense how can anyone take that crap seriously?
#JesseWatters is truly one of the dumbest people in media. #FoxNews is literally the only place he could hold down a media job. Watters got his big break after accosting Asian New Yorkers on the street, and humiliating them with astonishingly racist mockery and insults. He would have been fired from any other job, but Fox recognized a unique POS who would resonate with their audience. I wanna spit in his face so bad...
"Today, I received an unlawful and politically motivated subpoena from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman #DickDurbin," Leo said in a statement on Thursday.