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Judge Dismisses Fox News Move to Dismiss Dominion Libel Lawsuit
Only a fraction of Murdoch's wealth but it would be very satisfying to see the old cnut lose it nonetheless!
 

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The Type A shout must be why Jesse separated after four years, couldn't further hack it in the Type A USMC world and as such become admiring of them.

His kind of mindset is the type that would have committed a war crime if given the opportunity.
 

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Fox News doing Fox Newsian things.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/21/media/fauci-fox-jesse-watters/index.html
Fauci calls for Fox News host to be fired 'on the spot' for 'kill shot' comments

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday said that Fox News host Jesse Watters should be fired for using violent language at a conservative conference to encourage attendees to conduct an ambush interview with him in hopes of creating a viral moment.
"I mean, that's crazy," Fauci added. "The guy should be fired on the spot."

Fox News defended Watters. A spokesperson said in a statement, "Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it's more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context."

Watters made his remarks Monday at the right-wing Turning Points USA conference where he gave students a playbook on how to record a viral moment that Fox News would air and that other right wing outlets would amplify.

"Now you go in for the kill shot. The kill shot? With an ambush? Deadly. Because he doesn't see it coming," Watters said.

Fauci reacted with shock to the "awful" comments on Tuesday, but also acknowledged that it's "very likely" Watters would go "unaccountable" at Fox News.

"The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask," Fauci said on "New Day."
"And for that," Fauci continued, "you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a kill shot to ambush me? I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?"

Watters' comments come just weeks after Lara Logan, another Fox News personality who hosts a show on the channel's streaming network, compared Fauci to a Nazi doctor infamous for experimenting on prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp.
At the time, Fauci called out Fox News for staying silent and not commenting on Logan's comments.

"What I find striking, Chris, is how she gets no discipline whatsoever from the Fox network," Fauci said at the time to MSNBC host Chris Hayes. "How they can let her say that with no comment and no disciplinary action. I'm astounded by that."
 

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Acquiescing to the NYC mandate...

Most of those feckers were likely vaccinated. Take Twat Carlson for example. He was spreading covid conspiracies and minimizing the risk, while apparently he was living in self-imposed quarantine and got vaccinated as early as it was possible.

fecking hypocrites but it is not that we don’t know this.
 

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That's funny on two levels. Because obviously it's a completely ridiculous question/statement by Tucker Carlson, but it's not like the US has always been "on the side of democracy" when it comes to foreign policy. In fact, it's played a very minor role compared to all the other factors.

To his credit, Turner also mentioned some valid strategic concerns, so he's not just playing the democracy card.
 

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Talking to a work friend (big time Fox News viewer) earlier at lunch about how you can’t vote in national elections if you’re not a citizen. He genuinely thinks anyone can and that’s why there’s so much voter fraud.
He also thinks no one gets deported and people can just stream right across our ‘open’ borders. I tried to explain the reality but he says that’s why there’s so much controversy. I told him it’s not controversy, just lies. Still, I doubt he listened.
 
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Guessing this week will be nonstop chatter about Biden's on the mic comment about Doocy. Definite national crisis. Reps should be drawing articles of impeachment soon.
 

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throwback to when Hitchens went on Hannity and zero fecks were given

Some very quotable put downs in there. I don't really get why Hannity invited him though. Surely he knows he is not equiped to successfully debate Hitchens?
 

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Some very quotable put downs in there. I don't really get why Hannity invited him though. Surely he knows he is not equiped to successfully debate Hitchens?
His audience probably saw it as christian and reasonable Hannity not lowering himself to the level of the rude and arrogant guest. Because Sean is civilized like that.