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WATCH Jim Jordan Babble Incoherently During A Fox Interview

Something downright bizarre happened during Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) appearance on the Fox show “Hannity” Wednesday evening, and it left many wondering if the congressman had lost what’s left of his mind.

Jordan, along with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), were appearing on Sean Hannity’s show to discuss House hearings earlier in the day that featured FBI Director Christopher Wray.

When the subject turned to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, Hannity asked Jordan, “Let me ask you about another line, Jim Jordan, that the FBI director used today – that the FBI does not moderate content.”

As Mediaite notes, that’s a reference to a lawsuit brought by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey:

Last week, a judge ruled in Missouri’s favor and issued a temporary injunction prohibiting federal agencies from contacting social media companies “for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”

Hannity continued:

“What did we learn in the Missouri case in terms of Yoel Roth – former integrity site head – who told us in those weekly meetings with big tech, in this case, Twitter but other big tech weekly as well, that the misinformation, you have to be on the lookout for, maybe about Hunter Biden. Didn’t he say that?”

That’s when Jordan had a brain fart on live TV.

“Yeah, a federal judge disagreed with what Christopher Wray testified to today and he did that decision on July 4th – just eight days ago for goodness sake.

“That’s exactly what happened with, yeah, with the decision, the, uh, when it came to the uh, the, the decision with, um, Mr. uh, I drew a blank there, Sean. I apologize. I got a huge echo in my ear and I can’t, I can’t even hear.”

Twitter users couldn’t resist mocking the Ohio Republican.

https://twitter.com/ZOOmility/status/1679327700706816001?s=20
 

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Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Video Views Plummet As He Discovers Fox Is What Made Him A Star

After he was fired from Fox in the wake of a massive $787.5 settlement to settle a lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, host Tucker Carlson announced that he would be doing weekly broadcasts on Twitter.

The first video from Carlson was a huge success, garnering 120 million views, which led some to suggest that “legacy media” was dying and totally irrelevant in the age of social media.

But subsequent episodes of Carlson’s Twitter broadcasts have not been nearly as successful, according to The Guardian, which reports that it appears Fox was exactly what made Carlson a star in the first place and continues to pursue legal actions against him for breach of the non-compete clause in his contract with them.

Fox has struggled to fill a hole in its primetime schedule as guest hosts try to replicate or replace Carlson’s blend of preppy ties and hard-right invective. But on Twitter, viewer numbers have fallen for Carlson too. Carlson’s most recent episode, on Hunter Biden’s plea deal on tax and gun charges, attracted fewer than 15m views.

From 120 million views to 15 million in a matter of weeks. That’s some major disinterest, and it suggests that Carlson and anyone else who tries to fight against the established news media model is facing a possibly intractable problem, according to Brian Stelter, the former host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Fox has all the leverage while Carlson has none.

“I think it’s very clear that Fox would like to keep him off the air … for as long as they contractually can. That is not always how these things go. There’s often a compromise between network and talent. Instead of being benched for two years, he might accept one year. But I think from the tea-leaf reading, Fox wants him benched for the entire rest of the contract.”

“There’s a long history in TV news of anchors being put on the proverbial bench,” Stelter added. “It’s called pay or play. A network [doesn’t] have to play you, it can choose to just pay. [In Carlson’s case], they are paying him but they don’t have to play him.”

So where does that leave Carlson? Simply put, in a no-win situation with diminishing returns that fail to even help him get another position with any other networks as long as he’s still tied to Fox.

In other words, Tucker Carlson is quickly becoming irrelevant, and for a person who gets paid to broadcast their opinions, that’s the worst fate imaginable, though it’s certainly the one he deserves.

 

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WATCH Katie Porter Swat Down A Fox Reporter’s Pathetic Attack On President Biden

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden had to undergo an emergency root canal procedure, and for some reason that led the fact-free clowns at Fox “News” to suggest it was proof that the president isn’t fit for office.

That led Fox reporter Hillary Vaughn to set up a camera outside the U.S. Capitol and ask Democratic lawmakers as they walked by if they thought Biden’s having to “take off work” was yet another indication that the president is too old to be reelected.

“Do you think he has the stamina for a second term?” Vaughn inquired.

But when Vaughn queried Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) on the matter, the congresswoman didn’t even break stride as she responded, “Have you ever had a root canal?”

Porter later shared the video on Twitter, along with this note:

“Wishing @JoeBiden a speedy recovery!”

The video has since gone viral, with over 365,000 views.

The president later joked about the procedure:

“I apologize for having to reschedule yesterday. I had a lot of fun yesterday afternoon. I had a little toothache problem they took care of.”

Twitter users also joined the debate.

https://twitter.com/MitchumConnie/status/1668964490514165760?s=20

https://twitter.com/socalwendyh/status/1669015445519892481?s=20
 

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Social Media Calls BS On Fox Host’s Claim She Was Told To Leave A Restaurant For Praying Over Her Food

For years now, Fox “News” has suggested that there’s a war on Christians, Christianity, and the Christmas holiday, though the “proof” they usually supply to support such claims is tissue thin and downright laughable.

Such is the case with something Fox host Harris Faulkner said while hosting “Fox News Tonight” on Monday.

Faulkner told viewers, “For those of us who believe, we must be bold in our faith right now. When you gather in public spaces, pray thankfully over your food — even when the server gives you the stink eye or tells the manager that your peaceful grace is triggering them.”

She added, “I had it happen to me. I’ve been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing my head in prayer hands — in America. It’s all good. They don’t deserve my money anyway.”

Did that really happen? Hard to tell, especially since Fox is known to traffic in lies and conspiracy theories. That’s why they recently had to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for repeatedly lying about the 2020 election, which some of its hosts insisted was “stolen” from failed former president Donald Trump, despite there being no evidence to support such a claim.

Twitter users weren’t buying what Faulkner was selling.

 

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Fox News Is FURIOUS Because Casey DeSantis Has Been Dubbed The ‘Walmart Melania’

Proving yet again that the biggest snowflakes on the planet are those on the political right end of the spectrum, they’re in full meltdown mode over at Fox News because an article from the Daily Beast dared to refer to Casey DeSantis, wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who is also seeking the 2024 GOP Presidential nomination as “Walmart Melania.”

Katie Baker wrote this about Mrs. DeSantis, and quite frankly, it’s on-point in more than a few ways:

The First Lady of Florida showed up on the campaign trail in Iowa this weekend wearing a ghastly black leather jacket—American flag on the front, an alligator and the silhouette of her state on the back, with the sneering words, “Where Woke Goes to Die”—that brought to mind nothing so much as the racks of a Red State big-bin store where it would be retailing for $24.99.

To be fair, Casey DeSantis wore the bomber to a charity biker rally and I’m sure the campaign intended it to be a viral moment, like Melania Trump’s infamous “I Really Don’t Care” coat that the former First Lady donned to check out the border crisis.

But it was the title of Baker’s article, “Casey DeSantis is the Walmart Melania” that drew the ire of the gang at Fox’s “Outnumbered,” where the discussion soon turned to how it was yet another attack on average Americans, though they failed to explain what’s “average” about either Ron or Casey DeSantis.

According to Emily Compagno, who was one of the guests on “Outnumbered,” Baker’s article was a slap at every American who struggles to make ends meet and therefore shops at Walmart.

“This is why it is so repetitively disheartening to open up the paper and read what people actually think of us. Us. We are the ones who put food on our table. We earn our income. We fly the American flag. We wear clothes from where we can afford proudly, and rightly so.”

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“We disgust the elitist left. We disgust them by existing and by being proud of being American, being proud of being modest and humble and coming from humble beginnings and moderate ends.”

We? Who in the hell is Compagno trying to pretend she is? Because the truth is that she’s a wealthy attorney and TV host who can afford to shop anywhere she wants and probably doesn’t hang out around Walmart very much. After all, she has a net worth of millions.

Casey DeSantis, by many reports, is a conniving and cutthroat spouse who protects her husband because she sees herself getting ahead as a result of being his wife.

But here’s some free advice for Casey, Ron, and the gang at Fox: You’d better grow some thicker skin because the barbs are only going to get sharper from this point forward.

Or, as Harry Truman once wisely advised, If you can’t stand the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen.