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The garbage pile that is Fox News just lost for the first time to Newsmax TV. It was only one metric, during one day, during a single hour. What matters, though, is that had you predicted such a victory was possible even six weeks ago, you would have felt the hot breath of laughter in your stupid face. Well, who’s laughing now? LOL! The answer to that question has to be especially humiliating for the garbage pile that is Fox News, because who’s laughing now is Newsmax TV, me, and CNNLOL’s Brian “Tater” Stelter, who is laughing all over the...

"We feel super confident about Fox News being able to compete in any environment going forward," Steve Tomsic said at an investor conference. Fox Corp. chief financial officer Steve Tomsic has a warning to outgoing President Donald Trump or anyone else looking to launch a new conservative cable news network to cut into Fox News' audience share. Loyal viewers and longtime dominance are tall hurdles to taking on the Goliath of the conservative news world. "We don't have a hubris bone in our body, so we don't take lightly the potential for competition, whether it's the existing sort of classic...

Fox News faced hostility from supporters of President Trump while on the scene of a rally where he is set to speak Saturday in support of Georgia Republicans competing in next month’s Senate races. People waiting to attend the rally in the southern Georgia city of Valdosta were caught on camera heckling a Fox News crew reporting ahead of the president speaking at the event several hours later. In another clip shared by a reporter for Al Jazeera, a man in a baseball cap bearing Mr. Trump‘s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” could be seen berating Fox correspondent Griff...

Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins got a hostile reception from fans of President Donald Trump, who chanted and hurled rebukes as they waited in line for Trump’s Valdosta, Georgia rally on Saturday. Sky News producer Sarah Gough posted video of Jenkins being engaged by members of the crowd, and wrote “Fox News journalists are getting the most abuse from the crowd lining up for Trump’s rally in Valdosta, Georgia. Cries of ‘we trusted you’ and ‘traitors’.” In the video, another man tells Jenkins, emphatically, “Fox News does not call the election!”

Nielsen Cable Ratings are in for Wednesday 12/2 Here are Fox ratings losses on Wednesday over 6 weeks: Cavuto -61% Hemmer -57% McCallum -52% Perino -49% Sandra -47% Hannity -46% Ingraham -46% Baier -45% Outnumbered -44% Fox and Friend -44% Carlson -43% The Five -42%

Nielsen Cable Ratings are in for Monday 11/30. Here are Fox ratings losses on Monday over 5 weeks: Ingraham -59% McCallum -58% Cavuto -56% Sandra -56% Baier -54% Hannity -54% Fox and Friend -54% Hemmer -54% Outnumbered -53% Carlson -51% Perino -50% The Five -40%

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale says that President Trump’s biggest policy error ahead of the 2020 election was showing a lack of public empathy about the novel coronavirus. “People were scared,” Parscale said in an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum that aired Tuesday evening. “I think if he would have been publicly empathetic, he would have won by a landslide there. He could have leaned into it instead of run away from it.” Parscale, who was pushed out of the role of campaign manager over the summer, said Trump’s decision to push for reopening the country instead...

Breaking News on FOX!! Did anyone hear Foxnews just do a breaking news story claiming a Senior White House person received Money for a Pardon?

Yesterday, RedState reported on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sudden change of heart about opening schools (see The Exalted Doctor Fauci Changes His Mind Again Because Our Experts Are Cowards). That came after he spent most of the year refusing to back President Trump’s calls to do just that. It’s almost like so much of Fauci’s advice was politically time, right? None of that sat well with Tucker Carlson. He went on air last night and unleashed a blistering monologue targeting Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, and our expert class in general. Tucker: Experts finally admit they were wrong from the beginningCarlson begins by...

Fox News host Eric Shawn took shots at Donald Trump following an interview with the President on his own network, suggesting he is unable to “wrap his brain around the fact” that he lost the election to Joe Biden. In an interview earlier in the day with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Trump continued to argue that there was massive fraud in the election. ... Shawn played a clip from the Trump interview on Fox News and offered his own assessment. “That is, of course, President Trump claiming massive voter fraud this morning,” Shawn told viewers. “His words, ‘they stuffed...

An intense rivalry over guest appearances and TV ratings is brewing between Fox News and Newsmax, according to CNN. Fox News sources told CNN that producers are now monitoring guest bookings on Newsmax, and pressuring guests who appear on both channels to stop going on Newsmax. Fox News denied to CNN that there was any directive from management for guests to stop appearing on the competing network. Business Insider has contacted Fox for comment as well. Newsmax told CNN that the pressure from Fox was indeed real. Its CEO, Chris Ruddy, accused Fox of an "anti-competitive violation" by trying to...

Fox News Channel host Eric Shawn during Sunday’s broadcast of “America’s News HQ,” accused President Donald Trump of being unable to “wrap his brain around the fact” he lost the 2020 election. Shawn played a clip from Trump’s interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo earlier in which he said, “This election was a total fraud.” Shawn said, “That is, of course, President Trump claiming massive voter fraud this morning. His words, ‘they stuffed the ballot box. It was, quote a ‘fake election.’ All this despite the fact that his campaign has failed to prove any of this in court....

In order to grasp the magnitude of Fox News’ betrayal of its conservative base, I decided to look back at their ratings in August of 2020 and compare the results with its current viewership as of November 23, 2020. The numbers are devastating and telling. Fox has lost about 50% of its audience. You Trump loyalists are making them pay where it hurts–the pocketbook. Let me break it down by show: Neil Cavuto drew 2.192 million viewers in August. By November he was attracting only 1.3 million. The Five also suffered a big loss, going from 3.772 million in August...

Maria Bartiromo will interview President Trump on Fox News on Sunday morning - his first since the election. The interview is scheduled to run live at 10 a.m. ET, on “Sunday Morning Futures,” the network said. Trump has yet to speak to the media about the election, ignoring reporters’ shouted questions at his public appearances since then. He also has yet to concede that Joe Biden has won the Nov. 3 election, tweeting Saturday that “fraud and illegality” were rampant in Pennsylvania, where he hopes state Republicans can still contest the results.

Hosts of “Fox & Friends” said Wednesday that confusion about the presidential election — and the responsibility to clear up that confusion — lies squarely with President Donald Trump. “At some point, it’s going to be incumbent upon him” to acknowledge that Joe Biden has won the election and there was not widespread fraud that would overturn the results, Jedediah Bila said. “It’s going to fall on him. With great power comes great responsibility to say, ‘You know what? The process is done. This is the verdict. Let’s move on.'” Bila and co-host Steve Doocy both pointed out Trump’s responsibility...

See also: Sorry, Tucker, your outrage is too little, too lateIt’s no secret that I admire Tucker Carlson, an honest, brave, and extraordinarily insightful commentator whose Fox News program was, until recently, the most popular program on cable news. With Fox News’ news operation calling Arizona for Biden early on Election Night, and subsequently dogmatically labeling Biden “president-elect” and often dissing those who question the legitimacy of the election tabulations of the mainstream media and the media’s proclamation of the winner, conservatives are infuriated at the network and all its personnel.Dex Bahr today excoriates Tucker on these pages, but I...

In a bizarre video retweeted Tuesday by President Donald Trump, a sinister-looking Randy Quaid is seen in a closeup with flashing lights illuminating his bearded face as he intones, “Fox News daytime ratings have completely collapsed.” Did the actor, who posted his proclamation nearly two weeks ago, know what he was talking about? Fox’s daytime viewership dropped 32 percent from the two weeks prior to Election Day to the two weeks after, the Nielsen company said. The post-election, weekday average daytime viewership of 1.63 million was roughly equivalent to that of CNN (1.68 million) and MSNBC (1.71 million). CNN was...

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is calling for President Trump to accept the election results and move forward with a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden. While speaking at the Bank of America’s virtual European Credit Conference on Tuesday, Ryan said he believes it’s time for Trump to acknowledge that “the General Services Administration ascertained the election” so Biden can begin the process of populating his future administration. The Wisconsin Republican then called for the Trump campaign to end its legal challenges in multiple swing states, noting they have failed to produce evidence of voter fraud.

“I think maybe even more important is that these legal challenges to the outcome and the attacks on our voting system really need to stop, in my opinion,” Ryan said during Bank of America’s virtual European Credit Conference. “The outcome will not be changed, and it will only serve to undermine our faith in our system of government, our faith in our democracy. Ryan then took aim at President Trump’s legal team, accusing them of “doing damage to our country, to our democratic institutions and norms,” by challenging the election results in key battleground states. The former House Speaker stated:...

Nielsen Cable Ratings are in for Monday 11/23. Here are Fox ratings losses on Monday over 4 weeks: Ingraham -58% McCallum -57% Hannity -52% Cavuto -50% Baier -50% Carlson -46% Fox and Friend -44%, Perino -38% Nielsen ratings at the link.