Lis Power
@lispower
Media Intelligence Director, Media Matters
Call the race now, Fox has found the ultimate oppo against El-Sayed -- he likes Ted Lasso as a coach smh, it's over
Oh no, not [checks notes] “reducing large gaps between rich and poor” and “guaranteeing basic needs” The absolute horrors!
Fox Business responds to the no good, very bad jobs report ... by celebrating? Baritromo: You wanted a weak report, you got it, was this too weak? Louis Navellier: No, not at all.
Fox anchor Trace Gallagher should issue a correction after he falsely smeared Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Gallagher claimed "we now know that they found three bags of methamphetamine in this car," That has proven to be false -- will Trace correct the record?
Trump tells Fox that images of the Minab School strike that left 100+ children dead and show fragments from US missiles are possibly AI Yingst: Is is possible old intelligence or a mistake ... led to this event? Trump: It is, but it's also possible those images that you have are AI generated
Trump rates Lindsey Graham a 99/100, he docks a point for Graham criticizing January 6th "He had one bad moment, J6 when he stood up and said 'now I've had it, this is it' ... then he called me 40 minutes later and said, 'did I really say that' and he took it back, so I give him a 99/100"
Not sure this is a message that Brian Kilmeade really wants his viewers to take to heart "Raise the standards a little bit about who you believe and what you believe"
This poll suggesting America invented democracy/freedom is breaking my brain (We also didn't invent the automobile)
Ben Shapiro on Fox News: "This MOU appears to be, just from the text, a disaster. This does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that was set by the administration at the beginning." "In my opinion ... the VP, the chief negotiator on this particular project, has not well served the president"
Fox's Kilmeade: "It doesn't look like Iran was brought to it's knees ... it seems like Iran got a lot out of it ... maybe the president wasn't expecting, because he has enough plates in the air he can't be in every detail... maybe VP wasn't the right person to bring this conflict to an end"
Fox anchor perplexed by Trump's threat to blow up Oman: "Not quite sure what that was all about" John Roberts: "President Trump became the first American president that I know of to ever threaten to take military action against Oman"
Fox News is spending May Day -- a day to celebrate workers' rights and labor -- defending the wealthy and upper class They're arguing calls for the wealthy to pay their fair share not just socialist or communist, but "anti-American"
Earhardt: Someone else we wish would resign, Mamdani Kilmeade: That's not what the prompter said Earhardt: Such a socialist, and he gets up there and smiles, probably a nice guy, but I don't agree with his policies. It's just so frustrating to hear him talk about inequality ...
Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
Fox's Griff Jenkins proudly declares his counter to TACO Jenkins: "Let me give you another acronym, NACHO: Never avoids confronting hard obstacles ... I made that up on my own!"
Fox anchor Dana Perino callously jokes that "it finally might be Infrastructure Week" if Trump makes good on his threats to destroy bridges and power plants in Iran (If anyone still needed convincing that Fox News doesn't actually care about the Iranian people, here ya go)
It has been 10 days since Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Arkansas Fox News is still talking about it ... A LOT
Fox correspondent: "Hegseth, Caine not giving a timeline for this military engagement, but they did reiterate the president's commitment that this is not going to be some kind of forever war. So sometime between now and forever is when it's going to end." h/t @mcmasterreed.bsky.social
A laughable chyron to have for many, many reasons but particularly just days after Trump launched us into a war
Fox News senior strategic analyst on Iran: "Believe me, people are going to get killed and wounded here."
Face The Nation reports on first known U.S. casualties in our war with Iran Trump video: "The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties, that often happens in war" Brennan: "That prophecy has now come true ... 3 service members are dead, 5 are seriously wounded"
Fox News anchor: Some GOP members are "silently, quietly, breathing a sigh of relief" that SCOTUS overturned Trump's tariffs How brave of them to silently admit the tariffs were hurting the economy
These chyrons were literally back to back on Fox this morning: A whole new meaning to war and peace "Rpts: U.S. military moves into place with the option for Iran strikes as soon as this weekend" "U.S. military buildup ramps up pressure on Iran" "Trump's Board of Peace to hold inaugural meeting"
Fox host: "You don't put yourself in a situation where you end up getting shot" According to Fox News, people you can blame for Border Patrol killing Alex Pretti: - Alex Pretti - Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey People who have no culpability at all: - Border Patrol
Fox hosts this morning have gone all in blaming Alex Pretti for his murder Charlie Hurt: "Only one person could have prevented this from happening, and it's Alex Pretti. He should not have been there, he should not have confronted ICE"
On Fox, Heritage Foundation's Lora Ries claimed “It's very simple to not be shot by federal agents: don't draw your gun on federal agents," goes on to call the victim a "radical goon" No reporting/video I've seen has suggested he drew his gun, but that's not stopping people on Fox from claiming it
Fourth: Blame Dems Guest: We have to let the facts come in here, but this situation has really spun out of control and a lot of the blame is on the Democratic side. Anchor Sandra Smith: That is why we will let the facts speak for themselves
Second: Preemptively try to discredit local police and politicians statements on the shooting prior to the local presser Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin: "Expect a bit of color or a bit of bias possibly, dare I say that, as they deliver the facts from here."
Fox News coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis so far First: Immediately run with administrations claim of a malicious ramming threatening officers lives, noting claims of domestic terrorism Anchor John Roberts: "Using your car as a deadly weapon just because your upset at what ICE is doing"