Fox News contributors Sean Duffy and Rachel Campos-Duffy slammed liberals this week after one educator encouraged Thanksgiving lessons on the mistreatment of Native Americans.
During a Wednesday segment on Fox News, guest host Tammy Bruce complained after Washington, D.C. public school Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee recently suggested that terms like genocide, ethnic cleansing and "stolen land" should be used at Thanksgiving gatherings.
"Will you be taking the chancellor's advice?" Bruce asked Duffy. "Are you going to be talking about those things like genocide?"
"Stop trying to colonize our culture!" Duffy exclaimed. "You're trying to demonize our history and our founding, trying to make us feel bad about ourselves. I'm sick of it."
"If these people really believed in this garbage, when have they given up their wealth or their land or their jobs and given it back to native people?" he continued. "This is all meaningless garbage to try to change our culture."
Duffy said that aunts and uncles should take it upon themselves to teach kids the "true history" of the United States.
"There is just so much historical ignorance," Campos-Duffy agreed. "I mean, you cannot leave your children's history up to these cultural Marxists."
A former campaign surrogate for Joe Biden pushed back on Fox News Wednesday after the network repeatedly criticized the president over his Thanksgiving plans.
Throughout the day, Fox News had called out Biden for enjoying a "lush" holiday at the Nantucket home of a billionaire.
But reporters failed to note that former President Donald Trump often spent Thanksgiving breaks at his Mar-a-Lago resort. That all changed when former Biden surrogate Kevin Walling joined a panel discussion about Biden's vacation plans, which were called "lavish" by Fox News contributor Liz Peek.
"Is it tone deaf?" Fox News host Gillian Turner asked Walling.
"Listen, the right-wing media is going to attack the president if he's staying at a Best Western," Walling explained. "They're always just going to attack him no matter what he does. He's staying with friends in Nantucket, something that the Biden family has done since the president lost his first wife."
The guest then reminded Fox News viewers about Trump's frequent vacations.
"I actually prefer it this way where he's not charging the Americans people millions of dollars to secure him at his properties," Walling said. "The Secret Service isn't paying hundreds of thousands of dollars like they did with President Trump for just golf carts alone."
Fox News aired segments on Wednesday criticizing President Joe Biden for spending a "lush" Thanksgiving with friends and family but ignored former President Donald Trump's history of visiting Mar-a-Lago during his presidency.
During one segment, host Sandra Smith reported that Biden was planning to visit a "billionaire friend" during the holiday.
"So is Scranton Joe looking out of touch with the working class?" she wondered. "A lot of critics say, yes, indeed."
Meanwhile, the network displayed graphics with the words, "Let Them Eat Cake" and "Critics slam Biden for Lush Thanksgiving Vacation."
"The critics are all over this one," White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich agreed. "He boarded Air Force One to stay at a friend's [home] in Nantucket."
Heinrich went on to note that Biden would have access to a tennis court while at his friend's "compound."
"Critics say this luxurious stay shows that he's out of touch with the problems that are facing working-class Americans," she added.
Heinrich reported that Biden "is not the first president to spend a holiday with a wealthy friend" before pointing out that Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush had also visited Nantucket for the holiday.
CBS host Margaret Brennan reminded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday that there is "no evidence of fraud" that would overturn the 2020 election.
During an interview on Face the Nation, Brennan asked Cruz about reports that he had spoken to former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6.
"You knew there was no congressional authority to overturn the election," the CBS host noted. "Didn't indulging the doubters damage our democracy and our standing in the world?"
For his part, Cruz said that he was unaware of media reports claiming that he had spoken to the then-president on the same day that the U.S. Capitol was attacked.
"I didn't happen to have any conversations with President Trump on Jan. 6," Cruz insisted. "I had many conversations with him in the days, weeks and months leading up to Jan. 6. I talk to the president sometimes as often as once a week or once a day."
The senator went on to claim that he had a "responsibility" to object to the certification of electoral votes and "to review the claims of voter fraud."
"You know what you're laying out is an intellectualized argument here is not what people gathered and chanting things like Mike Pence were talking about," Brennan pointed out. "You know that."
Cruz agreed that the violence on Jan. 6 was "horrific" and should be prosecuted. But he continued to insist that Republicans could have overturned the election by appointing an electoral commission.
"Because we right now have a substantial chunk of our country that has real doubts about the integrity of the election," he opined. "And if we had had a credible electoral commission do an emergency audit, it would have enhanced faith in democracy. But instead, Democrats and a lot of the press decided to just engage in incendiary rhetoric rather than acknowledge voter fraud is real. It is a problem. And the allegations of voter fraud needed to be examined on the merits."
Brennan interrupted: "OK, Senator, there is no evidence of fraud that would really have drawn the outcome of the election into doubt. You know that."
Cruz tried to argue that voter fraud is "persistent" but Brennan ignored him and moved on to the next question.
According to a report from the Daily Beast's Zachary Petrizzo, on Friday night MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced plans for a protest outside the New York City headquarters of Fox News, claiming the conservative network is "a big part of our country being taken from us."
Lindell has been at war with Fox after they banned him as a guest for pushing 2020 presidential election conspiracies, including one accusing Dominion Voting Systems of allowing their voting machines to be hacked which then led to a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed against him in February.
After pulling his ubiquitous ads from the network for a brief period, they have since returned, but Lindell's war with the network is still ongoing.
The Beast reports that Lindell told his followers, "We are going to do something out in front of Fox News, I think we should have—you know, if people want to go down there, maybe we should give out Frank Speech signs," referring to his "Frank" social media platform.
Petrizzo adds Lindell labeled Fox the "controlled opposition" stating, "They [Fox News] are a big part of our country being taken from us."
The Beast also adds that Lindell's sidekick Douglas Frank launched an attack on the network on Saturday night on Telegram, saying Fox News is "not a credible source of news" and that some of their hosts are "traitors to our country."
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) suggested that he could select Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo as his vice presidential running mate because she would "start disrupting things" in Washington, D.C.
During an interview on Fox Business, Bartiromo asked Christie if he planned to run for president again in 2024.
"If I do it, it will be because I think I can win and make a contribution to the country," Christie explained.
"There's a report that you would run with Liz Cheney," Bartiromo pressed. "Is that something that you would consider?"
"I have no plans about running mates," Christie laughed, "Liz Cheney or anybody else. You know, I would consider you too if you wanted to be. If you're done with the TV gig, we get you to Washington, Maria, and then we really start disrupting things."
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Tuesday reacted to charges against him for contempt of Congress by vowing to punish President Joe Biden with a "massive investigation" over his ties to China.
Just a day after Bannon surrendered himself to the FBI, the conservative provocateur returned to his podcast by playing video clips from the 1979 film "Apocalypse Now."
"MAGA is punching back," Bannon said. "OK? We're not going to sit here and just take it anymore. After months and months and months and months of just their rhetoric and trying to weaponize the law and weaponize DOJ, we're not going to take it. We're going on offense."
He went on to claim that President Joe Biden's meeting with China's leader, Xi Jinping, was a "surrender" to the Chinese Communist Party.
"Their whole family is compromised by [China's] money," Bannon charged. "There will be a massive investigation as soon as we take back the House."
"They know they're going to be in the minority!" he continued. "We're going to rub their noses publicly in the malfeasance that their lives are. OK?"
He then argued that Democrats are "enemies of the United States of America."
"Gloves are off!" Bannon insisted. "We're going all-in on this thing and we've got so many patriots aligned with us."
Later in the show, Bannon raised his voice.
"This is the war that they've brought to us!" he shouted. "We're going to fight it every day and we don't care what [Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)], we don't care what the Marxist -- from his Marxist traitor father -- little Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and the Farrakhan mouthpiece [Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)] -- brilliant Bennie Thompson. Brilliant in quotes."
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki could be heard audibly sighing on Monday after Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy complained that President Joe Biden called Kyle Rittenhouse a "white supremacist."
Doocy brought up the topic at the daily White House briefing.
"Why did President Biden suggest that Kyle Rittenhouse, on trial in Kenosha, is a white supremacist?" the Fox News correspondent wondered.
An audible sigh could be heard coming from Psaki's microphone. But she declined to address the Rittenhouse trial directly.
"What I can reiterate for you is the president's view that we shouldn't have -- broadly speaking -- vigilantes patrolling our communities with assault weapons," she explained. "We shouldn't have opportunists corrupting peaceful protests by rioting and burning down the communities they claim to represent."
Fox Business anchor Liz Claman on Sunday accused Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) of sharing a "snuff film" on Twitter.
In a tweet earlier this month, Gosar shared an anime video that showed him attacking President Joe Biden with swords and killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
"Have we lost all decorum?" Claman asked. "It was bad enough when Kathy Griffin held up the Donald Trump beheaded mask but Paul Gosar is a sitting congressman who put up basically the meme version of a snuff film on his Instagram and Twitter accounts."
The Fox Business anchor called the move "low-rent" and a "race to the bottom."
"This is getting completely out of control," she insisted.
Former U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore told Fox News on Sunday that he expects Kyle Rittenhouse to be found guilty on some counts in his trial for the alleged intentional homicide of two people and wounding a third person.
"I think when you start talking about whether he was hit with a skateboard and that type of thing by one of the victims, that becomes a little bit more unbelievable, given that he had no injuries," Moore explained. "He had a very scripted examination. You know, that's tougher to believe too. And I don't think it's going to be lost on this jury that there weren't a lot of real -- what appeared to be at least -- tears coming out of a performance on the stand."
"You've got a guy who shouldn't have had an AR-15 walking through a crowded area he shouldn't have been in shooting people," he continued.
According to the former U.S. attorney, Rittenhouse created a problem by testifying in his own defense.
"His responses to me sounded much, much too scripted," he said. "Because his answers were trying to fit the law as opposed to telling his own story about what he was really feeling. And I thought that his emotional outburst seemed to be fake. It's hard to have a big emotional outburst and then jump right back into telling the law."
Moore added: "I think it's likely to be a guilty verdict at least on some of the counts. I think the charge where Rittenhouse says he was being hit with the skateboard, I think that's likely a conviction."
Fox News host Chris Wallace challenged Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to explain why Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has issued an executive order preventing private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines for their employees.
During an interview on
Fox News Sunday, Paxton argued that President Joe Biden and the federal government do not have the power to require companies with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccines or weekly testing for Covid-19.
Wallace pressed: "You say Texas companies should take care of their own workers so, given that, how do you justify the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, issuing an executive order that bans any business in Texas from issuing a vaccine mandate and how do you justify the governor issuing a ban on all school districts on mask mandates -- a ban that was overturned just this week by a federal judge?"
"So I justify it -- the governor has the authority under state law in an emergency," Paxton replied. "And so he has done just that. Obviously, it's his view that these mask mandates are unnecessary and that vaccine requirements are also unnecessary so it's my job as the state's attorney to go defend what he's done and what the legislature has done and I'm perfectly comfortable doing that."
"You said that Texas companies should take care of their own workers," Wallace tried again. "Is that consistent with the governor's executive order and your enforcement of that order, which bans companies from taking care of their own workers as they see fit?"
But Paxton insisted that Biden "doesn't have the authority to force companies" to require vaccines.
"Yeah, but you said that the businesses should take care of their own workers and the governor is saying they can't take care of their own workers as they see fit," Wallace said. "They're prohibited from deciding, if they so choose, to issue a vaccine mandate. That's not consistent."
"We're dealing with different types of requirements here," Paxton argued. "We've got state government requirements. So it's clear that the governor has a different executive order than [the federal government] and we've been in all types of litigation with school districts and counties, trying to stop them from forcing mandates in San Antonio and vaccines and we've been successful."
Wallace again attempted to get a straight answer from Paxton.
"I just want to go through this one more time," he remarked. "You're saying that they should have the authority and the ability to decide what their workers should do. The governor's executive order prohibits them from deciding what they want to do. He bans vaccine mandates."
"I think your question is a little confusing," Paxton complained. "But yes, the federal government has no authority to do this. Right now, we have OSHA guidelines that have not been authorized by the Congress. They absolutely have no authority to do this. The governor has a different authority under state law that the legislature has given him and he's operating under that state law."
"So he can tell private businesses what to do?" Wallace interrupted. "It's OK and they can't take care of their own?"
But Abbott refused to back down, asserting that "the states have more authority over these areas than the federal government."
"And I would even question whether Congress has the authority," he added.
Teddy Daniels, a Republican congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, blasted LeBron James on Thursday after the basketball player questioned the authenticity of Kyle Rittenhouse's emotional breakdown in court.
In a tweet on Wednesday, James noted that he did not see any tears when Rittenhouse appeared to become emotional in court.
Daniels reacted with anger during a Thursday interview on Newsmax.
"That whole segment just has me fired up," Daniels opined. "I am amazed at the composure of this young man, Kyle Rittenhouse."
The GOP candidate went on to explain that he had been a "use of force" instructor and a "court-recognized police expert."
"This young man did everything by the book," he continued. "This young man, in my opinion, did everything right, according to even law enforcement standards."
"And let me tell you, the meltdown that this poor kid had on the stand, folks, I've had to pull the trigger on people and they were terrorists," Daniels said. "And I'll tell you this. It does affect you and these talking heads, these idiots like LeBron James and the rest of them, they never put themselves in a situation where they had to pull the trigger on somebody and live with that for the rest of their lives."
The Newsmax guest added: "These guys are hypocrites and they're clowns. And no wonder LeBron James is the least popular athletic figure right now nationally. I can't stand the guy. Just shut your mouth and go play basketball, be a puppet to China, be a puppet to the left. Keep your opinion out of this kind of stuff."
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Republican candidate Teddy Daniels says LeBron James is a "hypocrite" because he hasn't killed anyone like "poor kid" Kyle Rittenhouse.
Kyle Rittenhouse's mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, is expected to join Fox News host Sean Hannity for an interview on Thursday.
The network announced on Thursday that the accused killer's mom would make an appearance on Hannity's evening broadcast. Rittenhouse allegedly shot two people to death and wounded a third person during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year. He has testified that he was at the protest to provide medical aid.
"Wendy Rittenhouse, Kyle's mother, will join Hannity tonight live at 9:00 p.m. for her first television interview since Kyle's trial began," Fox News host Todd Pirro revealed on Thursday morning.
