Decoding Fox News

Every week, host Juliet Jeske -a researcher and journalist with a background in covering extremism - does what the rest of us just can't face - she watches and analyzes more than 15 hours of Fox News. But understanding what the Right's chief propaganda network is saying is essential to saving democracy - and having Juliet DeCoding Fox News for us is essential to saving our sanity.

Fox News Loves Selective Vigilante Justice and Mysterious Drones

Last week on Fox News the subject of vigilante violence was center focus as the network lionized Daniel Penny, a former Marine who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide for killing a homeless man, while lambasting the public reaction towards the cold-blooded assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. The folks at Fox also seemed disappointed that Black Lives Matter protesters weren’t rioting across the country over Penny’s acquittal. Sean Hannity and Dr. Drew Pinsky both weaved fairy tales about the healthcare system in the United States while Hannity also obsessed over mysterious drones, Jessica Tarlov schooled her co-hosts on Biden’s economic accomplishments and Tom Homan said he would prosecute governors if they got in the way of his plans for mass deportations.

Fox News Nazi and neo-Nazis

December 19, 2024

The Hunter Biden Pardon Fox News Freakout

Last week on Fox the outrage machine was on overdrive as the overpaid stuffed shirts expressed their disgust at President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter. Judge Jeanine conveniently forgot to mention that Trump pardoned her ex-husband, Steve Doocy and Emily Compagno both declared that the president-elect was already improving the economy and Jesse Watters joked about annexing Canada and Greenland while promoting conspiracy theories about Iran rigging the 2020 election.Jessica Tarlov was the only person on the network that mentioned Donald J. Trump also pardoned a family member. Hunter Biden had fallen off the radar of Fox News but last week it was suddenly the most important topic in the world.

Joe Biden Hunter Biden Donald Trump

December 11, 2024

Fox News: Pay No Attention to All of the Sexual Predators Trump Picked for His Cabinet Kamala Spent Money

Juliet Jeske looks at the right-wing propaganda machine trying desperately to distract viewers from Trump's unqualified, radical sex scandal-plagued nominees, with segments about Kamala Harris "wasting" donor money by spending it.

2024 Presidential Election Far Right Extremism

December 4, 2024

Trump's Cabinet Picks: Tulsi Gabbard

A profile of the Russia Loving Conspiracy Theorist Whackjob Who Should be Nowhere Near U.S. Intelligence. I briefly go over a timeline of Gabbard’s political career while also breaking down some of her appearances on Fox News. This would should be nowhere near our intelligence community much less in charge of it.

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November 21, 2024

Fox News: Trump Won but the Rage Lingers

According to the folks at Fox News Donald J. Trump’s win is proof that legacy media and identity politics are dead while Americans are disgusted by transgender athletes and woke ideologies promoted by the far left. Greg Gutfeld called for the execution of doctors who perform gender affirming care, Ainsley Earhardt found divine intervention in Trump’s victory and Jesse Watters laughed about mass deportations.

Fox News Donald Trump LGBTQ Rights

November 19, 2024

Trump at Madison Square Garden

Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden was a six-hour festival of fascism. I reduced it down to 90 minutes with brief excerpts from every single speech. Trump also included five speakers with a net worth of $500 million or more.

Fox News New York Donald Trump

November 14, 2024

The Presidential Election - How Fox Propaganda Compared to PBS

Juliet watched nine hours of Fox News and roughly eight and a half hours of the PBS News Hour from of the night of the 2024 presidential election. This podcast breaks the whole thing down hour by hour with illuminating quotes from both networks. A legitimate news source versus rightwing propaganda.

Fox News 2024 Presidential Election

November 13, 2024

A McDonald's Nothingburger With A Side of Fascism

Donald J. Trump was lauded as a political genius for cosplaying as a minimum wage worker at a McDonald’s franchise while The New York Times published an audio interview of Gen. John F. Kelly describing Trump as a fascist and admirer of Hitler. Fox decided to bury the story in a heap of French fries prepared by the same wannabe dictator Kelly was trying to warn the American public about. Everyone clutched their pearls to dust after Kamala Harris called Trump a fascist. Stephen A. Smith verbally mopped the floor with Sean Hannity in an amusing and delightful extended rant.

Donald Trump Fascism 2024 Presidential Election

October 30, 2024

Fox News - Kamala's Gotta Get That Bro Vote

Last week on Fox News the 2024 election was reduced to a battle to win over one of the smallest voting demographics in the American electorate - Black men a group normally loyal to the Democratic Party. The network also ramped up fear of the emasculating left by pushing stories of trans female athletes and government programs that pay for gender affirming surgeries for prisoners. Kamala Harris was presented as an evil shrew while Tim Walz was an ineffective effeminate even though he’s been a highly successful politician since he flipped a Republican Congressional district blue and rose to the highest office in the state of Minnesota.

Fox News Democratic Party 2024 Presidential Election

October 23, 2024

Fox News: Misinformation Means We Will Promote Trump's Lies No Matter What!

Last week on Fox the term misinformation became a code word for a crackdown on free speech while Vice President Kamala Harris was vilified for not doing enough and for doing too much to help hurricane victims. Kayleigh McEnany’s friend might have met a Black person, Melania Trump was pushing her merch on ‘The Five,’ while Jessica Tarlov revealed Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bibles’ were printed in China.

Fox News 2024 Presidential Election Kamala Harris

October 17, 2024

Fox News Repeats Trump's Lies about Hurricane Helene

Fox News decided to lean into the skid and scare the bejeezus out of its audience with a combination of the longshoreman strike, increased violence in the Middle East and the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Late in the week Donald J. Trump told multiple lies about the federal response to the hurricane that Fox News hosts were happy to amplify. Sean Hannity mentioned lies about FEMA over 50 times in two days. Greg Gutfeld pretended he was an expert on climate change and a Harris supporter snuck into a Breakfast with Friends segment on Fox & Friends.

Fox News Donald Trump Palestinian Territory, Occupied

October 9, 2024

Fox News Invents Reality About Kamala Harris and NYC Mayor Eric Adams

When Fox News doesn’t like reality it makes up its own. Fox News hosts pretended Kamala Harris was tanking in the polls when she’s actually gaining more ground on Trump. Fox also ignored the easily verifiable timeline associated with the criminal indictment surrounding New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The FBI started investigating Adams two years before the mayor started feuding with President Biden. Fox also gave up an hour of its airtime for Trump to use as a platform for his campaign. Jesse Watters compared Kamala Harris to an actual infant.

Fox News Kamala Harris New York

October 3, 2024

How Dare You Call Our Divine Leader a Fascist!

Fox made a dramatic pivot from trashing Kamala Harris to promoting Donald J. Trump. The network also obsessively covered the second assassination attempt on the former president. Fox hosts complained about heated rhetoric while ignoring Trump’s inflammatory words. The network also featured a lot of Trump including him on a n episode of “Gutfeld,” and giving away it’s primetime coverage to show a live feed of a Trump rally in Long Island, NY. Laura Ingraham whipped up fear about Haitian immigrants while Lawrence Jones claims there was no racial aspects to their harassment. Fox & Friends tried to make it seem like the recent interest rate cut by the Fed was a bad thing.

Fox News Donald Trump 2024 Presidential Election

September 25, 2024

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