12 times Fox News goofed in 2018

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The year was pretty ridonkulous across the board, but Fox News had itself a doozy of a 2018, with a string of controversies, slip-ups, feuds, and strange happenings. 

The news network has long since tied its fortunes to President Trump. They seem to sink or swim along with the president — with the occasional aside from figures like Shep Smith, the lone voices of reason among a collection of pro-Trump pundits.

From beefs with teen school shooting survivors to fear-mongering about, well, all sorts of things, it was another weird, wacky, controversial year for The House That Roger Ailes Built. Here are 12 moments that stuck out above the rest. Read more…

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Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Trevor Noah well and truly dragged Sean Hannity

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The day when President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was revealed to have Fox News host Sean Hannity as a client was always going to be a good day for late night talk show hosts.

And they went for it.

Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, and Stephen Colbert went absolutely ham on Hannity on Monday night, unpacking the Cohen connection.

On Monday, Cohen told a federal judge that he had given legal advice to three people in the past year. One was obviously Trump. The second was Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy, and the third was a person whose identity Cohen refused to disclose until forced — it’s Hannity. Read more…

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Jimmy Kimmel ends the weird war Sean Hannity started against him

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Sean Hannity is always preying on something, and this time it’s Jimmy Kimmel.

Kimmel explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night that he woke up to news that Sean Hannity called him a “despicable disgrace” and an “ass clown”—which Kimmel explains is because “there’s nothing important going on in the country right now”—for imitating Melania Trump’s accent as she read a book to children on Easter.

Hannity calls Kimmel’s joke “brutal,” asking Kimmel how many languages he speaks, because “that’s her fifth language.”

But what Kimmel is most interested in is the meaning of the phrase “ass clown:” “is it an ass that’s a clown or a clown that actually lives in an ass?” Read more…

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Brands have no idea how to deal with being caught in a political firestorm

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Coffeemaker wreckage, political pizza purchases, and erratic boycott calls flooded social media this week as major brands struggle to navigate the riptide of America’s culture wars.

Controversies like Fox News host Sean Hannity’s defense of accused sex predator and Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore and NFL player protests have once again thrust consumer companies into the middle of loud fights over charged topics like racism in America and society’s treatment of sexual assault.

Brands have responded to this activism with all the rigid conviction of an inflatable tube man at a car lot.  Read more…

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Actually, destroying Keurig coffee machines is good

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Conservative internet dudes are smashing their Keurig coffee brewers to take a political stand, and reader, they might just be on to something. 

It’s definitely not the point they’re trying to make, but it’s a point all the same. Keurig machines and the coffee pods they squirt hot water through are extremely bad — for the planet, for consumers, and evidently for Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, from which the java giant pulled advertising this weekend. 

Some quick background on this mess: Hannity’s in the spotlight for playing nice with Roy Moore, a Senate candidate accused of pursuing relationships with teenagers while he was in his 30s. In response to a tweet from Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters for America, Keurig said it removed ads from Hannity’s show. Read more…

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