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Fox News’ Sean Hannity is longest-running primetime cable news host in TV history, passing Larry King
Thursday marks 25 consecutive years, six months and 15 days
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Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity is now the longest-running primetime cable news host in television history, breaking a longstanding record previously held by famed talk show host Larry King. Hannity, who has been with the network since it launched in 1996, has hosted a primetime program on Fox News for 25 consecutive years, six months and 15 days.
"Hannity" has finished No. 1 in its timeslot for 13-consecutive years among both total viewers and the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54 since launching as a solo hour in January 2009, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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No one wants to work for this pathetic VP...
Now Kamala's Chief of Staff quits: Tina Flournoy becomes VP's most senior aide to join exodus from her office
Vice President Kamala Harris' chief of staff Tina Flournoy is set to leave her post, it was reported Thursday, making her the 12th official to leave the VP's office.
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Now Kamala's Chief of Staff quits: Tina Flournoy becomes VP's most senior aide to join exodus from her office
Vice President Kamala Harris' chief of staff Tina Flournoy is set to leave her post, it was reported Thursday, making her the 12th official to leave the VP's office.
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Epic Fail...
'Epic disaster': CNN+ shutdown leaves laid-off staffers furious as Fox News gloats all evening: 'The Democratic bench is thinner than Chris Wallace's demo reel'
CNN+ staffers have reacted with fury to Thursday's decision to end the streaming service, only three weeks after it launched. Fox News hosts were laughing at their rival's difficulties, however - in particular given that former Fox host Chris Wallace abandoned them to join CNN+. Greg Gutfeld joked repeatedly about the situation on Thursday, commenting during a discussion about leaders of the Democratic Party: 'The Democratic bench is thinner than Chris Wallace's demo reel from CNN+.' He later added: 'BLM has done to black people what Chris Wallace did to CNN+. He enticed them with a promise and then ditched them on the side of the road.' In another instance he joked, 'A lot of these solutions that are coming from the left are unreliable, there are solar panels or windmills. Look at CNN+, how much money they invested in wind power by hiring Chris Wallace.'
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'Epic disaster': CNN+ shutdown leaves laid-off staffers furious as Fox News gloats all evening: 'The Democratic bench is thinner than Chris Wallace's demo reel'
CNN+ staffers have reacted with fury to Thursday's decision to end the streaming service, only three weeks after it launched. Fox News hosts were laughing at their rival's difficulties, however - in particular given that former Fox host Chris Wallace abandoned them to join CNN+. Greg Gutfeld joked repeatedly about the situation on Thursday, commenting during a discussion about leaders of the Democratic Party: 'The Democratic bench is thinner than Chris Wallace's demo reel from CNN+.' He later added: 'BLM has done to black people what Chris Wallace did to CNN+. He enticed them with a promise and then ditched them on the side of the road.' In another instance he joked, 'A lot of these solutions that are coming from the left are unreliable, there are solar panels or windmills. Look at CNN+, how much money they invested in wind power by hiring Chris Wallace.'
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Yours is a 67 Joe, not a 68. Dumbass.
Biden calls for 'climate-friendly' military fleet on Earth Day
Jet-set Biden vows ‘climate-friendly’ military, flexes gas-guzzling Corvette
By Steven Nelson
April 22, 2022 3:46pm
Updated
President Biden on Friday celebrated Earth Day in Seattle with a rambling speech vowing to make “every vehicle” in the military “climate-friendly” while admitting his personal fleet includes a prized Corvette that “does nothing but pollute.”
Biden didn’t offer specifics while telling local Democrats in a park that he intends to cut the emissions of war machines like tanks, helicopters and fighter jets. “I’m going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military — every vehicle is going to be climate-friendly. Every vehicle. No, I mean it. We’re spending billions of dollars to do it,” Biden said.
The president, who uses large amounts of fossil fuels for regular weekend trips home to Delaware, admitted he’s had a hard time practicing what he is preaching. “I’m an automobile buff. I have a ’68 Corvette that does nothing but pollute the air. But I don’t drive it very much,” Biden joked, appearing to refer to his 1967 Corvette Stingray.The gaffe-prone president’s week began with an aide dressed as an Easter bunny intervening to stop him from talking to reporters, but no staffers stepped in as he proceeded to use baby-talk to imitate a child’s plea for him to”pwomise” him to “pwease” protect the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
Biden signs an Executive Order strengthening the nation’s forests, communities and local economies during an Earth Day event in Seattle.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Biden then crouched behind his lectern and delivered a wide-eyed whisper to acknowledge that some people find windmills ugly.
“I made it clear to my friends up in Nantucket and that area, ‘I don’t want to hear any more about you don’t like looking at them.’ They’re pretty,” Biden said.
Biden went on to tell his crowd that he has asthma as a result of oil refineries near his childhood home in northern Delaware — despite the fact that his doctor didn’t note the ailment in an annual health report last year.
“When it came to spring, I mean it came the fall — this is the God’s truth — and you get in a car and there’s a little frost on the window, you turn on the windshield wiper, there’d be an oil slick, not a joke,” Biden said.
Biden admitted to his ’68 Corvette doing “nothing but pollute the air.”
Adam Schultz/Biden For President
“I have asthma and 80 percent of the people who in fact we grew up with have asthma. That’s what you call a fenceline community. I understand what it’s like.”
Biden previously cited asthma to avoid being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War, but his memoir “Promises to Keep” didn’t mention the condition while describing football exploits and work as a lifeguard.
The president also told his audience that he wants to pay Brazil and other “third world” countries to protect their forests — but seemed to sense the derogatory implication of the term and backtracked.
“You’re not going to — maybe — like this. We should be paying the Brazilians not to cut down the forests. We got to cut ours down. We got to cut ours down. We got the benefit of it. We’ve got these third world countries — not third world, some are — in Africa and in South America. We got to — the industrial countries have to help,” Biden said.
Much of Biden’s proposed environmental spending is unlikely to pass Congress, where Democrats hold slim majorities and centrists are expressing alarm about inflation hitting 40-year highs.
President Biden spoke at Seward Park in Seattle on Earth Day on April 22, 2022.
Andrew Harnik/AP
Biden’s stalled Build Back Better Act seeks $555 billion in environmental spending, including $320 billion in tax credits for people to buy electric vehicles, install solar panels and improve home energy efficiency. A press release describing Biden’s annual budget proposal this year describes a $3.3 billion request “to support clean energy projects.”
Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, which he signed in November, included $7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle charging stations. The administration is beginning to disburse funds to install charging stations every 50 miles along major highways. That bill also included $5 billion for electric and low-emission buses.
Biden calls for 'climate-friendly' military fleet on Earth Day
Jet-set Biden vows ‘climate-friendly’ military, flexes gas-guzzling Corvette
By Steven Nelson
April 22, 2022 3:46pm
Updated
President Biden on Friday celebrated Earth Day in Seattle with a rambling speech vowing to make “every vehicle” in the military “climate-friendly” while admitting his personal fleet includes a prized Corvette that “does nothing but pollute.”
Biden didn’t offer specifics while telling local Democrats in a park that he intends to cut the emissions of war machines like tanks, helicopters and fighter jets. “I’m going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military — every vehicle is going to be climate-friendly. Every vehicle. No, I mean it. We’re spending billions of dollars to do it,” Biden said.
The president, who uses large amounts of fossil fuels for regular weekend trips home to Delaware, admitted he’s had a hard time practicing what he is preaching. “I’m an automobile buff. I have a ’68 Corvette that does nothing but pollute the air. But I don’t drive it very much,” Biden joked, appearing to refer to his 1967 Corvette Stingray.The gaffe-prone president’s week began with an aide dressed as an Easter bunny intervening to stop him from talking to reporters, but no staffers stepped in as he proceeded to use baby-talk to imitate a child’s plea for him to”pwomise” him to “pwease” protect the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
Biden signs an Executive Order strengthening the nation’s forests, communities and local economies during an Earth Day event in Seattle.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Biden then crouched behind his lectern and delivered a wide-eyed whisper to acknowledge that some people find windmills ugly.
“I made it clear to my friends up in Nantucket and that area, ‘I don’t want to hear any more about you don’t like looking at them.’ They’re pretty,” Biden said.
Biden went on to tell his crowd that he has asthma as a result of oil refineries near his childhood home in northern Delaware — despite the fact that his doctor didn’t note the ailment in an annual health report last year.
“When it came to spring, I mean it came the fall — this is the God’s truth — and you get in a car and there’s a little frost on the window, you turn on the windshield wiper, there’d be an oil slick, not a joke,” Biden said.
Biden admitted to his ’68 Corvette doing “nothing but pollute the air.”
Adam Schultz/Biden For President
“I have asthma and 80 percent of the people who in fact we grew up with have asthma. That’s what you call a fenceline community. I understand what it’s like.”
Biden previously cited asthma to avoid being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War, but his memoir “Promises to Keep” didn’t mention the condition while describing football exploits and work as a lifeguard.
The president also told his audience that he wants to pay Brazil and other “third world” countries to protect their forests — but seemed to sense the derogatory implication of the term and backtracked.
“You’re not going to — maybe — like this. We should be paying the Brazilians not to cut down the forests. We got to cut ours down. We got to cut ours down. We got the benefit of it. We’ve got these third world countries — not third world, some are — in Africa and in South America. We got to — the industrial countries have to help,” Biden said.
Much of Biden’s proposed environmental spending is unlikely to pass Congress, where Democrats hold slim majorities and centrists are expressing alarm about inflation hitting 40-year highs.
President Biden spoke at Seward Park in Seattle on Earth Day on April 22, 2022.
Andrew Harnik/AP
Biden’s stalled Build Back Better Act seeks $555 billion in environmental spending, including $320 billion in tax credits for people to buy electric vehicles, install solar panels and improve home energy efficiency. A press release describing Biden’s annual budget proposal this year describes a $3.3 billion request “to support clean energy projects.”
Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, which he signed in November, included $7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle charging stations. The administration is beginning to disburse funds to install charging stations every 50 miles along major highways. That bill also included $5 billion for electric and low-emission buses.
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'It reeks of pay-to-play': Joe Biden and his staff met with Hunter's top business partner at the White House THROUGHOUT his Vice Presidency, visitor logs reveal
Hunter Biden's top business partner had met with then-vice President Joe Biden in one of 19 visits he made to the White House between 2009 and 2015, according to visitor logs from the Obama administration. Eric Schwerin, former president of Hunter's now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca, met with Biden on November 17, 2010, just as Hunter was striking multi-million dollar deals abroad, the New York Post reported. The logs revealed that Schwerin made a total of 19 visits to the White House during Biden's vice presidency, with nine of those visits including meetings with Biden, members of his staff and members of Jill Biden's staff.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a vocal critic of the Bidens, told the Post that the logs were the latest evidence of Hunter using his father to secure business deals and called on the Bidens to be investigated for corruption. 'It's increasingly obvious that Hunter Biden's business revolved around providing access to his father and the highest levers of power,' Cruz said. 'It reeks of pay-to-play. 'The clear solution is a Special Counsel investigation to fairly investigate the disturbing allegations of Biden family corruption.' The revelation comes as Hunter is currently under federal prosecution for alleged tax fraud, money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying.
Hunter Biden's top business partner had met with then-vice President Joe Biden in one of 19 visits he made to the White House between 2009 and 2015, according to visitor logs from the Obama administration. Eric Schwerin, former president of Hunter's now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca, met with Biden on November 17, 2010, just as Hunter was striking multi-million dollar deals abroad, the New York Post reported. The logs revealed that Schwerin made a total of 19 visits to the White House during Biden's vice presidency, with nine of those visits including meetings with Biden, members of his staff and members of Jill Biden's staff.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a vocal critic of the Bidens, told the Post that the logs were the latest evidence of Hunter using his father to secure business deals and called on the Bidens to be investigated for corruption. 'It's increasingly obvious that Hunter Biden's business revolved around providing access to his father and the highest levers of power,' Cruz said. 'It reeks of pay-to-play. 'The clear solution is a Special Counsel investigation to fairly investigate the disturbing allegations of Biden family corruption.' The revelation comes as Hunter is currently under federal prosecution for alleged tax fraud, money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying.
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Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income - as emails show he paid Hunter's legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as 'big guy' to get a 10% cut in another
Joe Biden agreed to pay son Hunter's legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company, emails reveal. The revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter's overseas business dealings – and makes his previous claims that he never discussed them with his son, even less plausible. Joe was able to pay the bills after earning millions of dollars through his and his wife's companies after he left office as vice president. Some of the wave of cash came from their book deals and speaking engagements. But the president's financial filings reveal that he declared almost $7million more income on his tax returns than he did on his government transparency reports, an analysis by DailyMail.com of the president's financial records shows. Some of that difference can be accounted for with salaries earned by First Lady Jill Biden and other sums not required on his reports – but still leaves $5.2million earned by Joe's company and not listed on his transparency reports. The 'missing millions' – combined with emails on Hunter's abandoned laptop suggesting Joe would have a 10% share in Hunter's blockbuster deal with the Chinese – raise a troubling question: did Joe Biden receive money from the foreign venture?
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Joe Biden agreed to pay son Hunter's legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company, emails reveal. The revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter's overseas business dealings – and makes his previous claims that he never discussed them with his son, even less plausible. Joe was able to pay the bills after earning millions of dollars through his and his wife's companies after he left office as vice president. Some of the wave of cash came from their book deals and speaking engagements. But the president's financial filings reveal that he declared almost $7million more income on his tax returns than he did on his government transparency reports, an analysis by DailyMail.com of the president's financial records shows. Some of that difference can be accounted for with salaries earned by First Lady Jill Biden and other sums not required on his reports – but still leaves $5.2million earned by Joe's company and not listed on his transparency reports. The 'missing millions' – combined with emails on Hunter's abandoned laptop suggesting Joe would have a 10% share in Hunter's blockbuster deal with the Chinese – raise a troubling question: did Joe Biden receive money from the foreign venture?
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Biden sets up 'Disinformation Governance Board' to combat midterm fake news headed by Russia 'expert' who called Hunter's laptop a 'Trump campaign product' and said she 'shudders to think' about Elon Musk taking over Twitter
The administration is setting up a new board to combat disinformation related to homeland security - headed by a woman who questioned the validity of Hunter Biden's laptop and criticized free speech on social media. Nina Jankowicz will head The Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board as executive director, Politico Playbook reported Wednesday morning. 'Cat's out of the bag: here's what I've been up to the past two months, and why I've been a bit quiet on here,' Jankowicz tweeted of her new endeavor and the new DHS board.
The administration is setting up a new board to combat disinformation related to homeland security - headed by a woman who questioned the validity of Hunter Biden's laptop and criticized free speech on social media. Nina Jankowicz will head The Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board as executive director, Politico Playbook reported Wednesday morning. 'Cat's out of the bag: here's what I've been up to the past two months, and why I've been a bit quiet on here,' Jankowicz tweeted of her new endeavor and the new DHS board.
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'You cannot have a Ministry of Truth in this country': Ron DeSantis says Biden 'won't get away' with having a 'Disinformation' board that can 'silence critics' - as cringeworthy new video shows czar singing about misinformation to Mary Poppins tune
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has joined the chorus of critics tearing into the Biden administration's new 'Disinformation Governance Board'. 'You cannot have a Ministry of Truth in this country. We're not going to let Biden get away with this one. So we will be fighting back,' the Republican said on Friday at a news conference. 'When you're not doing well, you have two options: You can try to do better. Or you can try to silence your critics. [The Biden Administration] is doing the latter,' he added. DeSantis led the uptick in fury as Republican Senator Tom Cotton said he would introduce legislation to have the new 'Disinformation' board defunded and a new video showed its head Nina Jankowicz singing about 'misinformation' to the tune of the Mary Poppins song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' Jankowicz, a self-described 'Russia expert', has questioned the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop by calling it a 'product of the Trump campaign' - even though its contents have been verified. In March 2020 she also said on COVID restrictions: 'Lock us down. People are not taking this (COVID) seriously'. 'Information laundering is really quite ferocious. It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious,' she sings in the new video.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has joined the chorus of critics tearing into the Biden administration's new 'Disinformation Governance Board'. 'You cannot have a Ministry of Truth in this country. We're not going to let Biden get away with this one. So we will be fighting back,' the Republican said on Friday at a news conference. 'When you're not doing well, you have two options: You can try to do better. Or you can try to silence your critics. [The Biden Administration] is doing the latter,' he added. DeSantis led the uptick in fury as Republican Senator Tom Cotton said he would introduce legislation to have the new 'Disinformation' board defunded and a new video showed its head Nina Jankowicz singing about 'misinformation' to the tune of the Mary Poppins song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' Jankowicz, a self-described 'Russia expert', has questioned the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop by calling it a 'product of the Trump campaign' - even though its contents have been verified. In March 2020 she also said on COVID restrictions: 'Lock us down. People are not taking this (COVID) seriously'. 'Information laundering is really quite ferocious. It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious,' she sings in the new video.
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DHS 'Orwellian' disinformation board should 'shock the core' of American belief system
The top law enforcement officer in Missouri is condemning the creation of the "Orwellian" new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misinformation board, claiming it's another example of how the Biden administration is attacking American liberties.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the department created a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat online disinformation during his testimony Wednesday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Attorney General Eric Schmitt wrote to Mayorkas Friday, in a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, in which he states the focus of the "Orewellian" board to focus resources on the threat of "mis/disinformation" should "shock the very core of the American belief system, a threat to free speech that will rightly alarm freedom-loving people across America, including those in my home state of Missouri."
He says that "shadowy" government programs that promise protection from the "bogeyman" are "clumsy attempts by deep-staters to slowly steal our liberties and invade our privacy step by step, while hoping we don't notice. We are noticing."
The attorney general said Missouri, which is known as the "Show Me State" and has a suspicion of government bureaucracy, is rightly skeptical of DHS and the new board. He cited examples from 2020 when social media platforms censored speech related to the COVID-19 lab leak theory, despite it being more widely accepted today. In addition, he references how the Hunter Biden laptop story was labeled as "disinformation" despite it being accepted as genuine over a year later.
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The top law enforcement officer in Missouri is condemning the creation of the "Orwellian" new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misinformation board, claiming it's another example of how the Biden administration is attacking American liberties.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the department created a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat online disinformation during his testimony Wednesday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Attorney General Eric Schmitt wrote to Mayorkas Friday, in a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, in which he states the focus of the "Orewellian" board to focus resources on the threat of "mis/disinformation" should "shock the very core of the American belief system, a threat to free speech that will rightly alarm freedom-loving people across America, including those in my home state of Missouri."
He says that "shadowy" government programs that promise protection from the "bogeyman" are "clumsy attempts by deep-staters to slowly steal our liberties and invade our privacy step by step, while hoping we don't notice. We are noticing."
The attorney general said Missouri, which is known as the "Show Me State" and has a suspicion of government bureaucracy, is rightly skeptical of DHS and the new board. He cited examples from 2020 when social media platforms censored speech related to the COVID-19 lab leak theory, despite it being more widely accepted today. In addition, he references how the Hunter Biden laptop story was labeled as "disinformation" despite it being accepted as genuine over a year later.
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Biden's 'Ministry of Truth' sparks widespread free speech fears
Federal and state lawmakers, constitutional scholars and other experts are expressing concerns with the Department of Homeland Security's new misinformation board, which they say is the Biden administration's attempt to stifle free speech.
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