Tag: Fox News

Fox News anchor Shep Smith ripped Ricardo Rosselló to shreds last night in the Puerto Rican governor’s first interview since protests calling for his resignation broke out 10 days ago. Rosselló has been facing criticism regarding his mishandling of Hurricane Maria funds in 2017. The situation became exacerbated last week after a local media outlet published almost 900 pages from a leaked private group chat between him and 11 of his cronies revealing homophobic and other vile remarks. Among the writings...

Toward the end of the Democratic presidential primaries in 2016, a false conspiracy theory that a data analyst was murdered by Hillary Clinton was spread around the internet and promoted by Fox News, despite being denied by law enforcement officials and reputable media outlets. Now a Yahoo! News investigation found the origins of the conspiracy theory: a Russian intelligence agency. On July 10, 2016, Seth Rich, the Voter Expansion Data Director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was murdered in D.C....

Donald Trump might be weaseling out of his promise of a White House invitation after the U.S. won the Women’s World Cup, after Fox News broadcast people celebrating the victory by chanting “Fuck Trump!” Days ago, captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team Megan Rapinoe got into a war of words with Trump. She said in an interview that, if she’s invited to the White House, she definitely wouldn’t go. “I’m not going to the f–king White House,” she responded. “We’re not...

A Media Matters investigation found that major news networks have been largely ignoring the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ rights. While several new anti-LGBTQ initiatives were announced in the past few weeks, four of the major broadcast and cable news networks did not cover them at all, while the other two spent less than 11 minutes in total covering the initiatives over a 10-day period. Media Matters cited three attacks on LGBTQ rights from this past month. First, the Department of...

Not content to allow Mayor Pete Buttigieg to win over a Fox News townhall crowd, the network has slammed the South Bend, IN mayor as a “clown.” Buttigieg won big at a Fox News townhall meeting over the weekend, earning applause and cheers from the crowd for his candid remarks about abortion and immigration. He also called out Fox News personalities Laura Ingram and Tucker Carlson for their own anti-immigration remarks. That didn’t sit well with the hosts of Fox & Friends,...

Pete Buttgieg completely won over the room during a town hall hosted by Chris Wallace on Fox News last night. Prior to Mayor Pete’s appearance, Donald Trump took to Twitter to slam the network for “wasting airtime” on the out gay candidate. Asked by Wallace about what he thinks of Trump’s tweets, Buttigieg simply responded: “I don’t care.” To which the audience responded with thunderous applause. “It is a very effective way to command the attention of the media,” he continued. “We...

This just in: Fox News propagandist Laura Ingraham can dish it out but she definitely cannot take it. The 55-year-old TV anchor ripped into 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg on her show last night after he took a swipe at her during his Fox News town hall on Sunday evening. It all started when Buttigieg told Chris Wallace that he had to give it serious thought before agreeing to appear on the conservative news network. “You know a lot of folks in my party...

'I am as comfortable in a suit as I am a jockstrap' The former Fox and CBS news anchor turned gay porn star has spoken about his new life. Jim Walker has spent the last 19 months building himself a reputation in the gay porn industry. He left his job as a weatherman after being told by the network boss his co-workers did not like him. Jim Walker adopted Dallas Steele as his porn star name. ‘I am as comfortable in a suit as...

'I deal with holy hell around me I go home to the man I’m in love with' Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is opening up publicly for the first time about his struggle to come out as gay. ‘It wasn’t until like seven or eight or nine years ago I started living my truth,’ Smith told an audience recently at University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media where he was once a student. Smith admits that he hid...

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith revealed he is gay in an interview with the Huffington Post and defended former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes against claims that Ailes urged him to never come out about his sexual orientation in public. “ was as nice as he could be to me. I loved him like a father,” Smith said in the interview. “I trusted him with my career and with ― I trusted him and trusts were betrayed. People outside this...