"Enjoy your time in hell," one Fox News contributor said.
Pocharapon Neammanee at HuffPost:
Black comedian Drew Desbordes, better known online as “Druski,” ignited a slew of conservative backlash this week after putting on white makeup to mock “conservative women” in a sketch that seemed to be aimed at Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk.
“Erika Kirk’s husband was assassinated in September,” Clay Travis, founder of conservative media outlet OutKick, wrote on X. “It’s March & a black comedian is putting on white face & mocking her in a video.”
Druski, 31, stirred up controversy last year with a video in which he made himself look like a white NASCAR fan who was “just proud to be an American.”
In his latest video, titled “How Conservative Women in America Act,” the influencer appears as a white woman with a blonde wig and heavy makeup. Although Druski did not say he was dressing up as Kirk specifically, many on the internet noticed similarities his character and to the Turning Point USA CEO.
The video begins with his character walking onto a stage, dancing to loud music as pyrotechnics go off. His outfit is similar to the one Kirk wore to her late husband Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, which also featured fireworks, in Arizona last year.
The video then shows Druski, as the “conservative” woman, doing press conferences, including one about the war in Iran; driving a car with Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” blasting; holding a Bible during an interview, and doing Pilates.
Cry more, MAGA whiners! Druski did nothing wrong dressing up as Erika Kirk in a sketch.
After former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally, right-wing media have claimed that Democrats and
Gideon Taaffe at MMFA:
After former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally, right-wing media have claimed that Democrats and others should tone down their supposedly inflaming rhetoric and President Joe Biden should pardon Trump. Meanwhile, right-wing media have repeatedly used overheated rhetoric when discussing Democrats, framing the 2024 election as a “political war” and “the end of the republic” if Biden wins.
Right-wing media are deceitfully using the assassination attempt on Donald Trump to tone police Democratic rhetoric against Trump warning about his threats to democracy as “out of control”, even as right-wing media continue to make unhinged attacks against those opposed to the Orange Führer.
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Describing groups of people as animals, using language like, "hunt them down" and "infestation" is an age old tactic to influence public opinion. And, it works. History shows when dehumanizing language is repeated, people start seeing their fellow human beings as sub-human.
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Biography of Fox News Contributor Joe Concha; Wife, Kids, Salary
Joe Concha is a FOX News contributor and a media and politics columnist. He is a regular guest on numerous shows including Hannity, Fox & Friends, Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, Watters World, Justice with Jeanine Pirro, Outnumbered, Kudlow, Varney & Co, and Mornings with Maria.
In addition, he is also a rotating co-host on The Big Saturday and Sunday Show and has co-hosted The Five. He is also a media and political columnist for The Messanger and Bleacher Report. He formerly contributed on The Hill and The Daily Beast.
Joe Concha is a FOX News contributor and a media and politics columnist. He is a columnist for Fox News, The NY Post, The Messanger and Blea
Appearing on Fox “Business” Network (FBN)’s Kudlow Tuesday, guest Mark Simone gave out callous and dismissive advice that pregnant people wh
Appearing on Fox “Business” Network (FBN)’s Kudlow Tuesday, guest Mark Simone gave out callous and dismissive advice that pregnant people who are being forced to travel out of their home states to obtain an abortion as “not the worst thing in the world.” Also in the same program, Simone laughably called GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump the “pro-choice candidate.”
Simone’s comments about abortion came on the same day as the all-GOP majority on the Arizona Supreme Court ruled 4-2 (thanks to former Gov. Doug Ducey (R) adding 2 seats to the court) in Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes to let the 1864 abortion ban law that bans abortion except for the life of the pregnant person to take effect and the day after Trump’s so-called abortion statement that purportedly leaves it to the states but in reality serves as a segue to a nationwide ban if given a chance to do so.
In reality, Trump is the anti-abortion candidate, as he has given praise to the Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe thanks to him putting 3 SCOTUS justices on the court to swing an already right-wing court further to the right and due to the fact that several organizations involved in Project 2025 seek to ban abortion entirely by executive fiat.
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Simone’s dismissive statement that pregnant people can just go to another state to obtain an abortion obscures the reality of the costs to obtaining an abortion beyond the procedure itself: travel, lodging, food, and gas.
Online news organizations almost exclusively headquartered in deep-blue New York or D.C. keep expanding.
To say there’s a disconnect between many journalists and the public they serve is a gross understatement, according to a new in-depth survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
Per Pew, 65 percent of the nearly 12,000 journalists surveyed say the media do a solid job of “covering the most important stories of the day” and reporting news accurately. But a solid majority of the American public at large has the opposite view, with just 35 percent feeling the same way. That’s a 30-point perception gap.
When asked if journalists perform well when “serving as a watchdog over elected leaders,” 52 percent of journalists agreed. But the number dropped precipitously again when the general public was asked, with less than 3 in 10 agreeing with the assessment.
When asked if journalists manage and correct misinformation consistently, 43 percent of those in the industry said yes, while just 25 percent of the general public agreed.
Almost half (46 percent) of journalists said they felt connected to their readers and viewers, while just one-quarter of the public says they feel connected to the media outlets from which they get their news.
So why the disconnect? Perhaps it’s like the old saying about the key to good real estate: Location, location location. Most of the national media are located in two places: New York City and Washington, D.C.
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Since 2004, approximately 1,800 newspapers have shut down because of the collapse of print advertising and readers turning to more convenient online consumption. Fewer reporters and editors has resulted in less trust as news gathering becomes more and more confined to two or three cities.
Overall, according to Pew, just 29 percent of U.S. adults say they have at least a fair amount of trust in the information they receive. In 1976 in the post-Watergate era, trust in the media stood at 72 percent, or 43 points higher.
A perfect example of the disconnect between certain journalists and the public came from CNN anchor Don Lemon.
“At CNN, we don’t do opinion, we put the story out there and we try to stay in the middle of the road,” he claimed on air recently. In a related story, 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in office was negative, according to a Harvard study, and it somehow got worse from there.
But during the same segment, Lemon offered this opinion: “There is one party, right now, that is not operating in fact, that has been misleading the American people, and that is the Republican Party.” The host went on to praise the Democratic Party for “standing up for democracy.” You can’t make this stuff up.
Nothing will change any time soon, either. More and more, local newspapers are cutting staffs as profits dwindle in the digital age. The result is that online news organizations almost exclusively headquartered in deep-blue New York or D.C. keep expanding.
Another finding from the Pew study may be the most revealing: When asked to characterize the journalism industry in one word, 74 percent of journalists applied a word with a negative connotation, including “chaos” and “struggling.” Other words applied included “biased,” “partisan” and “stressful.” Despite those descriptions, 77 percent of journalists surveyed say they would choose the same career all over again.
A 2013 study by University of Indiana journalism professors Lars Wilnat and David Weaver found that just 7 percent of journalists identify as Republican. In 2002, that number was 18 percent.
So if you’re a Republican interviewing for a job at The New York Times, which hasn’t endorsed a Republican presidential candidate in 66 years, or at The Washington Post, which has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate, it would probably be a bad idea to share your party affiliation.
Such is the state of media in 2022, where the bubbles in the Big Apple and the nation’s capital are increasingly soundproof, shutting out the rest of the world.
The Trump White House press secretary logged a "helloooo pot, meet kettle" moment in her new Fox News gig.
Ron Dicker at HuffPost:
Kayleigh McEnany, the new Fox Newsie who parroted ex-President Donald Trump’s falsehoods as White House press secretary, railed against media accountability on Sean Hannity’s show Tuesday night. (Watch the video below.)
McEnany chimed in on a “60 Minutes” report linking the distribution of vaccines at Publix supermarkets in Florida to the chain’s $100,000 contribution to a PAC supporting GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis. The segment built a case that the governor favored wealthy supporters for special vaccine access, but it has been vehemently disputed by DeSantis, Publix and even some Democrats.
You have zero leg to stand on, Kayleigh, because you have a penchant for lying.
