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Fox News host floats impeachment for Nancy Pelosi over her 'role' in Capitol attack

Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Monday suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) deserves to be impeached because she did not provide enough security after President Donald Trump incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

During a segment which ignored Trump's role in the attack, Faulkner reported that Republicans are "demanding answers on security decisions leading up to and on the day of the U.S. Capitol attack."

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OAN lashes out at Eric Swalwell for calling God a woman: 'He should not be trying to lecture people'

Conservative media outlets Fox News and OAN criticized Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) after he recently suggested God is a woman.

Following Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, Swalwell told MSNBC that most Republicans would not have voted to convict the former president if "God herself" intervened.

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Fox News blasted for 'dangerous' impeachment trial coverage

Fox News received harsh criticism for how it covered Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

Bill Goodykoontz, the Arizona Republic's media critic, took on the subject under the headline, "Why this Fox News tweet about Republicans turning on Trump was misleading and dangerous."

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'Mandalorian' actress axed over divisive social media posts

Gina Carano, star of the hit Star Wars TV series "The Mandalorian," has been dropped by Lucasfilm after sharing "abhorrent" social media posts on topics including the Holocaust.

The departure of former mixed martial arts fighter Carano -- who has long stoked controversy with outspoken political views -- follows an online #FireGinaCarano campaign, but has also drawn accusations of "cancel culture" from her defenders.

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'We saw abuses in last election': Conspiracy theories return to Maria Bartiromo's show after massive lawsuit

Maria Bartiromo's Fox Business morning show once again aired conspiracy theories about the 2020 election after she was named in a massive $2.7 billion lawsuit from Smartmatic, a voting machine vendor.

During a Tuesday appearance on Mornings with Maria, Trump adviser Jason Miller argued that the impeachment of former President Donald Trump is unconstitutional.

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Facebook ramps up effort to curb vaccine hoaxes

Facebook on Monday said it is ramping up efforts to stem the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, spread facts, and figure out who might be wary of getting the jab.

The move includes banning groups which repeatedly spread misinformation and debunked claims about the virus and vaccines.

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'Present your data': Jen Psaki smacks down Peter Doocy's gotcha question on Keystone Pipeline jobs

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday challenged Fox News correspondent to back up his question on Keystone Pipeline job losses with actual data.

During a White House press briefing, Doocy suggested that President Joe Biden had failed to keep his promise on creating green energy jobs.

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'She has done nothing': Fox News pundit blames 'useless' Michelle Obama for school closings

Democratic strategist Jose Aristimuno clashed with Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy after she blamed Michelle and Barack Obama for school closings that have been caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Campos-Duffy made the remarks during a Fox News segment that accused President Joe Biden of hurting children by not ordering schools to open.

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'Constantly owning yourself': Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for promoting satirical website as real news

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was mocked on Monday after she shared a transphobic article from a satirical news website.

In a Monday morning tweet, Greene included a link from "The Babylon Bee," which bills itself as "fake news you can trust."

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‘Fox & Friends’ furious ICE isn’t deporting as many ‘hoodlums who are nesting somewhere’

The co-hosts at Fox & Friends are furious that ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, allegedly isn't deporting as many undocumented immigrants under President Joe Biden as it did under President Donald Trump.

Brian Kilmeade blasted what he says is a decision by ICE management to tamp down deportations while awaiting instructions from the new Biden administration – and he's furious they are supposedly forced to get permission from superiors in Washington, D.C., presumably at Homeland Security.

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'That was his right': Fox News host defends Lou Dobbs for election lies that 'sometimes went too far'

Fox News host Howard Kurtz on Sunday defended the "right" of ousted Fox Business host Lou Dobbs to repeat lies about the 2020 election on the air.

On Sunday, Kurtz reported that Dobbs' show had been cancelled following a $2.7 billion lawsuit from voting company Smartmatic, which Dobbs had falsely linked to attempts to steal the 2020 election from then-President Donald Trump.

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Ayanna Pressley brilliantly nails reasons behind Trump's Capitol riot: 'A metaphor for America'

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday morning, an impassioned Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) made not only the case for Donald Trump to be convicted for sedition over the Jan. 6th Capitol riot, but also roped in Republicans who helped the ex-president encourage it.

Speaking with host Jake Tapper, Pressley got right down to it.

"If we really believe that this is a moment of reckoning in every way, then we must act accordingly. and that means that Donald J. Trump must be held accountable because he is culpable for having incited this insurrection by perpetuating this big lie" she began. "This House has twice done its job. He will forever be the twice-impeached president by the Democratic majority, and now the Senate must not only hold Donald Trump accountable but also to bar him from running for public office ever again."

"And then we know that he had accomplices who told on themselves in broad daylight," she continued. "They aided and abetted this insurrection by perpetuating this big lie and they must be expelled. Then we must continue investigating, Jake, so that any individuals or agencies that enabled this insurrection are taken into account."

"Let me say this: for those who continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6th, as a black woman, to be barricaded in my office using office furniture and water bottles, on the ground, in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me," she explained. "And I want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge of white supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff are safe in the Capitol, it is that we're safe in America. And one of the images I'm haunted by is the black custodial staff cleaning up the mess left by that violent white supremacist mob. That is a metaphor for America. We have been cleaning up after white supremacist mobs for centuries."

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Trump's favorite news outlet OAN is struggling in the post-Trump era -- here's why

In a Politico deep dive into a day of watching hyper-conservative One America News (OAN), reporter Tina Ngyuen wrote that the network is struggling to fill time with Donald Trump off the stage and staying out of the public eye while awaiting his impeachment trial in the Senate next week.

The network, which was just slapped with having pay to $250,000 in attorney's fees stemming from a defamation lawsuit that was dismissed last year against MSNBC, has been elevated by the ex-president as his network of choice after his falling out with Fox News but now, as the report notes, won't even grace them with an interview to help boost their viewership.

As the report states, "Since the election, conservative networks have been locked in a three-way wrestling match for who gets the MAGA television audience. Fox News has been deemed traitorous by Trump's fans for reporting that Joe Biden fairly won the presidential election, and is seeing its worst ratings in decades. Newsmax initially ate into Fox's pro-Trump audience post-election, but more recently the network has alienated many of its fans for the same reason."

However, without the ex-president making public appearances and rallying his base -- and with his social media accounts shuttered -- the network has little in the way of red meat to throw to his avid supporters who depend on them for MAGA-influenced news.

"Without Trump providing feedback or free advertising in real time, OAN was a strange, empty temple to MAGA culture, with its acolytes and prophets filling in the gaps of his silence with their fantasies—often illogical, frequently venomous and largely a collection of memes—of what they thought their leader would want them to say," Nguyen wrote before reporting, "And they missed him. Boy, did they miss him. 'Pass our best wishes on to President Trump if you could, please,' primetime host Dan Ball said to Trump adviser Jason Miller at one point. 'And I'll throw it out there, we're requesting that interview. We keep asking. We're gonna ask again.' Miller gamely laughed."

The report also notes that the network is mostly filling time sniping at President Joe Biden's administration, but the longing for Trump is still strong with the Nguyen reporting that, during primetime, "The host of the 6 p.m. block had the night off, so OAN instead re-broadcast a documentary they had aired on Inauguration Day, entitled 'Trump: the Legacy of a Patriot.' For the next 45 minutes, a man in a star-spangled tie presented a stream of bullet points detailing Trump's accomplishments."

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