Fox News: “It’s just so anti-American” to report on Trump without praising him
Trump’s propaganda team at Fox think any reporting on the president that doesn’t declare him a “rock star” is un-American.
By Tommy Christopher - January 29, 2018Trump’s propaganda team at Fox think any reporting on the president that doesn’t declare him a “rock star” is un-American.
By Tommy Christopher - January 29, 2018Trump supporter and Fox News host Laura Ingraham tried to intimidate the press for reporting the truth, but she was quickly shut down by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace.
By Oliver Willis - January 27, 2018Fox News host Sean Hannity told viewers that the New York Times was trying to “distract” them with the report that Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Mueller. Then, he promptly pivoted to the real news of the night: footage of a car chase in Arizona.
By Caroline Orr - January 26, 2018Even pro-Trump media outlets can see through the actions of the increasingly desperate Republicans in Congress.
By Caroline Orr - January 25, 2018“This is a very, very dangerous environment.”
By Tommy Christopher - January 25, 2018They’re not even pretending anymore.
By Tommy Christopher - January 24, 2018The former Olympic gymnastics doctor was convicted of serial sexual assault of the children and young women in his care, but Fox News says it was up to them to stop him.
By Oliver Willis - January 24, 2018Fox contributor, anti-feminist, and devoted Trump fan Tomi Lahren is hardly in a position to tell women why they should march.
By Tommy Christopher - January 24, 2018“These women out there are so anti-Trump, and I don’t even think they know why. They just think that’s the thing to do.”
By Tommy Christopher - January 23, 2018Fox News host Howard Kurtz is known for defending Trump from critical voices in the media which is exactly why his new book describing the chaotic Trump White House is so damning.
By Matthew Chapman - January 22, 2018Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney pushed the GOP line that Democrats are to blame for the government shutdown. But that effort isn’t fooling anyone, least of all Fox News host Chris Wallace.
By Tommy Christopher - January 21, 2018Fox News Judge Jeanine Pirro is poking around the woods in Chappaqua, NY, where she says she is “on the search for Hillary.”
By Matthew Chapman - January 19, 2018Shepard Smith is having none of Republicans frantic attempts to blame Democrats for the budget impasse.
By Matthew Chapman - January 19, 2018Even Fox News can’t cover for Trump all the time.
By Tommy Christopher - January 18, 2018Democrats are boycotting Trump’s State of the Union over his racist and sexist remarks and behavior. Fox thinks that’s “potentially racist” against Trump.
By Oliver Willis - January 18, 2018Trump’s propaganda arm succeeded only in heightening his embarrassing failure.
By Tommy Christopher - January 18, 2018Fox News attacked reporter April Ryan because she questioned Donald Trump’s racist comments. Now she is getting death threats.
By Oliver Willis - January 17, 2018The MSNBC host is widening her ratings lead over Donald Trump’s favorite Fox News cheerleader.
By Eric Boehlert - January 17, 2018In the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, Fox News decided not to run a blockbuster story about Trump’s affair with adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 16, 2018The Fox News host was correct about one thing: His question was, indeed, simple. He just didn’t want to hear the answer.
By Caroline Orr - January 15, 2018A Trump adviser tried to spew defamatory lies about the Clintons. Joy Reid was having none of it.
By Tommy Christopher - January 14, 2018Donald Trump has waged an unprecedented campaign against the free press in America, but “Fox & Friends” would like to remind you that at least he’s not killing any journalists. In response to Trump’s infantile (and as-yet-unscheduled) “Fake News Awards” ceremony, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) put out a list of top press oppressors […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 10, 2018Donald Trump could not even escape his failure as president in front of a friendly red state crowd at Monday night’s college football playoff game, where he was met with boos from the crowd. That failure was compounded by hypocrisy when Trump bungled the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Despite his crusade against NFL players […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 09, 2018It’s no secret that Donald Trump loves Fox News. He loves the network so much, in fact, that he frequently live-tweets its coverage and uses his Twitter account to promote it. But watching Fox News on a regular basis comes with side effects, as Trump demonstrated Saturday. In a bizarre press conference at Camp David, Trump […]
By Caroline Orr - January 06, 2018Fox News is very concerned about multiple reports questioning Donald Trump’s mental health. So as part of the right-wing media outlet’s propaganda efforts on his behalf, it has decided to promote the non-medical observations of a liver doctor. Recently, several members of Congress including a Republican senator met with a psychiatrist for a […]
By Oliver Willis - January 05, 2018The idea that the president of the United States could be on the verge of launching weapons that annihilate millions of people in seconds would elicit a reaction of horror from any reasonable person. But to Donald Trumps cheerleaders on Fox News, it is simply a big joke that he threatened nuclear-armed North Korean dictator […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 04, 2018MSNBC’s unabashed liberal primetime lineup produced a stunning ratings success for the network in 2017, boosting its viewership by nearly 50 percent compared to the 2016 campaign cycle. MSNBC finishes the year with its largest daily audience since the network debuted in 1996. The primetime home of Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell posted […]
By Eric Boehlert - December 28, 2017Fox News’ Sean Hannity is on the top tier of pro-Donald Trump propagandists at the right-wing “news” network, so it is perfectly in character for him to completely fall flat on his face while trying to attack real journalists. In an echo of Trump’s childish taunts about “fake news,” Hannity tweeted a message directed to […]
By Oliver Willis - December 21, 2017As the unofficial propaganda arm of the Trump White House, Fox News has played a key role in the escalating smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators. Nearly every week, Fox pundits like Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Greg Jarrett, and Lou Dobbs invent a new scandal in a coordinated effort to try to […]
By Caroline Orr - December 19, 2017To Sean Hannity and his panel, the news that an FBI agent assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation had sent anti-Trump text messages was “bigger than Watergate.” “Watergate on steroids, human growth hormone overdoses,” Hannity intoned on his show Thursday night. Hannity has been leading the attacks against Mueller for some time, and his […]
By Alison R. Parker - December 15, 2017