Matt Gertz
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Tucker Carlson’s newly re-imagined Jan. 6 coverage is just a long con
After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy let Carlson access Capitol security footage of the Jan. 6 attack, the Fox News host repeated claims of a rigged election. → Read More
How Fox News Pushes Trump to Make Every Bad Decision
No story has demonstrated the power of this unending Trump-Fox feedback loop like the partial government shutdown. → Read More
Fox News Hires Benghazi Fabulist Trey Gowdy
Gowdy was one of the Republican members who benefited the most from Fox’s spotlight. → Read More
Turning Over Airwaves To Lying Trump Is Wrong
Everyone knows that the president is a liar. He lies all the time, on matters large and small, at a rate and scope far beyond that of any politician in recent memory. → Read More
Shutdown: Trump Is Watching Fox, Then Tweeting
After shutting down the government to placate his allies at Fox News, President Donald Trump spent the holidays stuck in the White House, tweeting in response to the network’s programming. → Read More
How The Flynn Hearing Demolished Trump's Fox News Chorus
Jeanine Pirro, a key player in the pro-Trump media ecosystem's anti-Mueller effort, used the opening monologue of her Saturday night Fox News program to declare that victory was at hand. → Read More
Fox News Auditions Would-Be White House Chief Of Staff
Some at the network are promoting contributor David Bossie for the gig. → Read More
Why Trump's Reported Choice For Attorney General Will Thrill Fox Media
Barr, who served as attorney general to President George H.W. Bush, is Trump’s “leading candidate” to return to that office, The Washington Post reported Thursday. → Read More
Trump's Unsecured Phone Doesn't Bother Hypocritical Hannity
This is one of those cases where Fox News host Sean Hannity’s hypocrisy is so gobsmackingly clear that it's difficult to figure out how much one can write about it. → Read More
Khashoggi’s Blood Is On Donald Trump’s Hands
Jamal Khashoggi is a journalist, a critic of his native Saudi Arabia’s oppressive regime who had been living in self-imposed exile in Virginia, London, and Istanbul, Turkey. → Read More
Fox Midterm Message: Democrats Are ‘Violent Mob’
“Anyone who sits right of center, anyone who’s a Trump supporter, we’re all targets” of public harassment from the left, contributor Tomi Lahren explained on Fox & Friends. → Read More
Trump, Giuliani Promote Anti-Semitic Attacks On Soros
President Donald Trump’s Twitter attack last week on George Soros set off a round of anti-Semitic attacks on the Jewish financier. → Read More
The Disastrous Choices Journalists Are Making In The Wake Of Kavanaugh's Confirmation
Journalists made some terrible choices this weekend in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Supreme Court justice. → Read More
When Trump Shuts Down Government, Blame Fox News
It seems inevitable that President Donald Trump will take the advice of his supporters at Fox News and shut down the federal government. → Read More
Right-Wing War On The Press Actually Threatening Reporters' Safety
Trump’s years of vicious invective — echoed by his allies at Fox News — are bearing fruit. → Read More
Puffery, Not Journalism: How 'Fox & Friends' Interviews Trump
Pete Hegseth isn’t a journalist, he’s a hype man. → Read More
Hannity Laid Groundwork For Trump's Lawless Response To Russia Probe
I reviewed all 487 of Sean Hannity’s segments about the first year of Robert Mueller's investigation. Here’s what I found. → Read More
Trump Reveals Media Strategy To 'Fox & Friends'
When President Donald Trump called in this morning to his favorite program, the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, it seemed inevitable that sooner or later the conversation would turn to the president’s virulent hatred for journalists. → Read More
NY Times Reporter Admits She Was 'Unwitting Agent' Of Russians
What comes next after a NY Times reporter admitted becoming “an unwitting agent of Russian intelligence”... → Read More
Fox News 'Fully' Supports Hannity In Lawyer Fiasco
For many, including myself, this was simply confirmation of the obvious: Fox has no rules for the likes of Hannity. The network prioritizes keeping its top ratings star happy over its responsibility to the public. → Read More