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Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch told Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, that there was nothing he could do about the network’s decision to call Arizona for President Biden on election night 2020. In an upcoming memoir, Kushner writes about election night at the White house and says he called Murdoch shortly after Fox’s Decision Desk called Arizona for Biden, a move that shocked and infuriated the Trump campaign. Murdoch told Kushner he would look into it, Kushner wrote, and then the media mogul called him back. “Sorry, Jared, there is nothing I can...

Fox News's Decision Desk Director Arnon Mishkin, who called Arizona for President Biden during the 2020 presidential election, will return for the network's coverage of the 2022 and 2024 elections, according to a new report. News of Mishkin's return was reported by the Hollywood Reporter as part of a wide-ranging profile on Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott. During the 2020 election, President Biden won Arizona by less than a percentage point — the first Democrat to win the state in more than 20 years.

For the second time in two weeks, Newsmax is the big ratings winner, this time for its live coverage of Saturday’s rally for Donald Trump — and it's beating Fox in key Nielsens. Last Saturday night, Newsmax estimates, more than 3 million U.S. viewers tuned in on traditional cable and through streaming OTT to watch former President Trump’s “Save America” rally live from Sarasota, Florida. Nielsen reported that Newsmax drew a total audience coverage rating of .86, compared to Fox News .70, CNN’s .33 and MSNBC’s miniscule .16. Newsmax was only major cable channel to cover the Trump July 3...

James Murdoch, an heir to the Fox News fortune, spent $20 million opposing Donald Trump's 2020 reelection while funneling another $100 million through a nonprofit to support leftwing political groups, according to a new report. James and his wife, Kathryn Murdoch, have largely backed Democrats or liberal, nonpartisan causes, according to CNBC, which found the large contribution while reviewing the 2019 tax return documents of Quadrivium, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit the couple control. Quadrivium was founded in 2014. It has been widely known that the young Murdochs backed President Joe Biden's candidacy, but the $100 million for Democrats and other PACs...

Following President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Fox News'sChris Wallace had nothing but good things to say, as he stated, "You know, I think this is going to be a popular speech with the American public. He offered a lot of stuff. Four trillion dollars will buy a lot of stuff from millions of jobs to child care to community health centers, all kinds of stuff, community colleges. The other thing that's pretty popular, he said, you're not going to have to pay for it. Big corporations are going to pay for it....

Fox News will serve as the 'loyal opposition' to Joe Biden, CEO Lachlan Murdoch has announced - adding that the move was designed to boost their ratings. In what was seen as the most frank assessment of the network to date, Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, said that the network would hold the new president to account. Speaking on Thursday at a Morgan Stanley conference, the 49-year-old said that Fox News was aiming to echo MSNBC's success in acting as the main White House critic. 'The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings point of view...

In recent months, the hatred of Fox News from the left has been almost matched by trending memes – from the right! Examples include (to paraphrase) “Fox News has turned left.” “Fox News is being run by Disney.” “The woke wives of the Murdoch sons are running Fox.” “RINO Paul Ryan is running Fox News from his seat on the company’s board of directors.” And so on. All of that is false. Total BS. How do I know? Unlike most of the new anti-Fox critics, I actually watch the Fox News Channel (FNC). I take notes. I have monitored the...

Update on the Fox News Post-Steal ratings collapse. Going from all-time record ratings before their duplicitous Arizona call, to their catastrophic ratings collapse by Monday 1/25. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses since The Steal according to Nielsen as of Monday 1/25: 7am Fox/Friendless -51% 8am Fox/Friendless -51% 9am Perino/Hemmer -48% 10am Perino/Hemmer -41% 11am Faulkner -40% 12pm Outnumbered -41% 1pm Smith/Roberts -32% 2pm Smith/Roberts -38% (used to be Perino's show) 3pm MacCallum -39% (used to be Hemmer's show) 4pm Cavuto -44% 5pm The Five -36% 6pm Baier -51% 7pm Fox Primetime -49% (used to be MacCallum's show)...

Politics editor Chris Stirewalt, along with nearly two dozen digital journalists, have been fired from Fox News. Stirewalt is listed by the New York Times as one of two “senior leaders” exiting the network as Fox “tries to lure back viewers who balked at its coverage of the 2020 election and its aftermath.” The other is Bill Sammon, Fox News’s longtime Washington bureau chief, who told staff that he would be retiring at the end of the month. Stirewalt, however, was “fired” according to the Times, along with “roughly 20 Fox News digital journalists” who were laid off on Tuesday....

Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive. Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive. Both have been lightning rods for conservatives since the election. The Associated Press reports: Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox’s Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday. On Tuesday,...

@daveweigel Unexpected statement from Paul Ryan: "It is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of Americans." More...

"The Trump campaign had ample opportunity to challenge election results, and those efforts failed from lack of evidence. The legal process was exhausted, and the results were decisively confirmed. The Department of Justice, too, found no basis for overturning the result."

Brit Hume @brithume With apologies to Shakespeare, it will be said of Trump that nothing in his presidency became him less than the leaving of it. Quote Tweet Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 2h The U.S. Supreme Court has been totally incompetent and weak on the massive Election Fraud that took place in the 2020 Presidential Election. We have absolute PROOF, but they don’t want to see it - No “standing”, they say. If we have corrupt elections, we have no country! 9:31 AM · Dec 26, 2020·Twitter for iPad

“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace said on this week’s broadcast of his program that the “fuss” over Jill Biden’s title of “doctor” had not been applied to “Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.” Wallace said, “There has been some criticism recently from conservatives, including some conservatives on Fox News about the fact that First Lady-to-be Jill Biden goes by the title doctor. I wonder what is the Biden’s reaction to that, especially given the fact that so many people over the years — I think of Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King have...

Fox News said it extended primetime host Laura Ingraham’s contract with the network, ensuring her 10 p.m. program, “The Ingraham Angle,” will remain in its lineup for the foreseeable future. Fox News characterized the new pact as a “multi-year deal.” Ingraham joined Fox News Channel full-time in October of 2017 after establishing herself with a long-running radio program. She previously served as a contributor to Fox News starting in 2007. “Laura’s one-of-a-kind expertise and powerful commentary has provided an important voice to millions of Americans as a staple of our primetime lineup and we are thrilled to feature her insightful...

December's Ratings Collapse for Fox News continues to be a disaster for the Murdochs and the Fox News Crown Loyalists. Going from record ratings in November, to massive ratings collapse by Tuesday 12/15. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses as of Tues 12/15 according to Nielsen. Ingraham -57% MacCallum -56% Cavuto -55% Baier -53% Hannity -52% Carlson -50% Hemmer -50% Sandra -49% Outnumbered -47% Fox/Friend -46% Perino -44% The Five -42%

Ingraham, who hosts 'The Ingraham Angle' in the 10 p.m. hour, first joined Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity on Fox's primetime lineup in October 2017. Fox News Channel has signed a new multi-year contract with one of its primetime hosts, Laura Ingraham. Ingraham, who hosts The Ingraham Angle in the 10 p.m. hour, joined Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity on Fox's primetime lineup in October 2017. "Laura’s one-of-a-kind expertise and powerful commentary has provided an important voice to millions of Americans as a staple of our primetime lineup and we are thrilled to feature her insightful perspective across our platforms...

President Donald Trump continued tearing into Fox News Channel first thing Wednesday morning proclaiming that the right-leaning network was 'dead.' 'Can't believe how badly @FoxNews is doing in the ratings. They played right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats & now are floating in limboland,' Trump tweeted. 'Hiring fired Donna Brazile, and far worse, allowing endless negative and unedited commercials. Fox News is dead. Really Sad!' Trump has been at war with Fox News Channel for weeks over the network's decision to first call Arizona in favor of President-elect Joe Biden on election night - and later join...

A majority of voters said in a Fox News poll released this week that they believe President Trump is weakening American democracy as he and his legal team press forward with lawsuits challenging the election results. In the new poll, which surveyed 1,007 registered voters nationwide between Dec. 6 and Dec. 9, 56 percent of respondents said they think Trump is weakening American democracy by contesting the results in multiple states. Thirty-six percent of respondents said the opposite - that they believe the president is strengthening American democracy by challenging the election results. Eight percent answered they didn't know when...

Fox News host Chris Wallace confronted House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on his and other congressional Republicans’ support for a Texas lawsuit that would have thrown out the results of the presidential election in four key battleground states. “You were talking about disenfranchising the 10 million Biden voters who supported [President-elect Joe Biden] in those four states,” Wallace said on “Fox News Sunday,” referring to the Texas lawsuit that was rejected late Friday. “Do you feel comfortable throwing out millions of votes of your fellow Americans?” Wallace asked Scalise.