CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers pushed back on a massive report from CNN on “entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus” from Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff. The CNN piece — by Edward-Isaac Dovere and Jasmine Wright, who spoke to almost three dozen sources — cast Harris in a harsh light. When assessing her […]
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Here’s some good news, courtesy of David Leonhardt in the New York Times: In Seattle, the hospitalization rate for Covid-19 among the vaccinated is 1.2 in a million. The flu hospitalization rate in the U.S. in a typical year, Leonhardt notes for comparison, is more than twice as high. (We know this because, as Leonhardt […]
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No writer has tracked the Republican and evangelical political movement of the last few years with as much understanding as David French, and he joins Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin today on a range of topics, including the odds of a national break-up.
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy expressed his strong support for vaccinating children against Covid-19 after actor Matthew McConaughey said he opposed mandating inoculation for kids. “I couldn’t mandate having to vaccinate the younger kids. I still want to find out more information,” McConaughey, who is considering a run for governor of Texas, said at […]
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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was suspended from Twitter for posting an email correspondence with the editor of Business Insider. Portnoy been on the attack against Insider since the website published a lengthy expose in which several women accused him of sexual misconduct. Two women told Insider that Portnoy choked them during sex and filmed […]
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) decried those spreading “lies” about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, comparing them to 9/11 truthers. Notably, she did so in an appearance on Fox News, home to the chief propagator of such theories: Tucker Carlson. Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace asked Cheney, during a segment on polarization in the United […]
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Are vaccine mandates a useful tool for limiting the spread and toll of Covid-19 or are they a crazed infringement on personal liberty? For Fox News, the answer is complicated. The network’s top hosts have waged a campaign against vaccine mandates for months (on Thursday night a Fox host aired a petrifying graphic during a […]
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Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy defended his son Pete from a clash with President Joe Biden over a report on payments to families separated at the border under the previous administration. Pete Doocy, a Fox News White House reporter, asked Biden at a press conference Thursday about a report that the administration is in […]
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Newsmax TV issued a pair of statements expressing strong support for Covid-19 vaccines after one of its reporters embraced a bizarre conspiracy about the drugs on social media.
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We here at Mediaite have documented, in our daily ratings coverage, the remarkable rise of Fox News show The Five. The program has taken to regularly beating out all of prime time on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, a considerable feat for a 5 p.m. show. Now ratings for the month of October are in, […]
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