#Brian kilmeade

[tomorrowusa]

Fox News retainer Brian Kilmeade got his balls handed to him by the former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Kilmeade had tried to push a MAGA Hunter Biden conspiracy theory on live TV involving Ukraine.

At the heart of every single Republican conspiracy about both President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine is a single claim. The claim is that Joe Biden got Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin sacked in order to protect energy company Burisma, where Hunter Biden was on the board. That was the claim former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani brought back from Ukraine, and the basis on which Donald Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine and earned his first impeachment. [ ... ] The idea that Shokin was fired to protect Burisma has been debunked so many times that de bunk is exhausted, but it has seldom gone down with as much grim satisfaction as it did on Sunday when Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade interviewed former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. [ ... ] Kilmeade: Is that why he got fired? Because of the billion dollars and the former vice president, now president? Poroshenko: First of all, this is a completely crazy person. This is something wrong with him. Second, there is not one single word of truth. And third, I hate the idea to make any comments and to make any intervention in the American election. We have very much enjoyed bipartisan support. Please do not use such person like Shokin to undermine the trust between bipartisan support and Ukraine.

The Viktor Shokin thing has been debunked to death. Shokin is the "completely crazy person" Poroshenko refers to. But Republicans and far right US media have adopted the Goebbelsian strategy of endlessly repeating it in the hope that such repetition will cause it to get traction. It's the current version of "but her emails!".

Shokin’s own deputy testified that there was no active investigation into Burisma at the time of Biden’s actions. And not only was all this looked into as part of Trump’s impeachment, a Republican investigation launched in 2020 specifically to find any wrongdoing by Biden ended in an 87-page report that “contained no evidence that the elder Mr. Biden improperly manipulated American policy toward Ukraine or committed any other misdeed.” The claim that Biden did something wrong in Ukraine wasn’t true, isn’t true, and can’t be made true through repetition. Shokin was fired because he was corrupt, bad at his job, and everyone complained.

When the leader of their party is a four-times indicted, twice impeached, orange blob of mendacity, the only hope of the MAGA mob is to invest in a very dubious false equivalency.

Hunter Biden isn't Joe Biden. But if you really wish to compare presidential relatives, look to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner who (unlike Hunter Biden) were in a position in the White House actually to influence policy. The Trump offspring and offspring-in law could conduct a clinic on corruption through capitalizing on their names.

Facts never change the minds of brainwashed cult members. But if you shout louder and longer than the Trump cult it will reduce the impact they have on others.

#fox news #brian kilmeade #far right media #ukraine #petro poroshenko #hunter biden conspiracy theory #burisma #viktor shokin #trump corruption #donald trump #ivanka trump #jared kushner #the trump crime family #петро порошенко #віктор шокін #бурісма

[justinssportscorner]

LGBTQ Nation:

Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines has been on a tear since champion NCAA women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley voiced support for trans athletes ahead of her team winning the national championship game. [...] As Staley predicted, the right is incensed over her comments. Gaines – who has built an entire career over the fact that she tied for fifth place with a trans woman during an NCAA swimming competition – appeared on Fox News to say Staley is either “entirely incompetent or a sellout” despite her stellar record as a coach. “I don’t think she believes what she said,” Gaines claimed, adding that Staley appeared to hesitate as she spoke to reporters and positing that the fact that she took a drink of water while speaking “spoke volumes.”

Gaines then continued by explaining that men’s and women’s basketball are played differently, clearly implying her belief that trans women are not real women. “I think she knew she had to be politically correct… But the bottom line is she knows that men’s basketball, it’s a totally different sport than women’s basketball… She didn’t have the courage to stand with women. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her, and she blew it.” In a follow-up post on X, Gaines said she stands by her words “3000%” and continued to praise herself, declaring, “I hit the nail on the head.” “Personally, I think she’s a sellout. I also think she’s a dang good coach. 109-3 over three seasons is unheard of. She can be both at the same time. Neither is mutually exclusive.”

Appearing on Fox and Friends Monday, Outkick host and anti-trans extremist Riley Gaines calls 3x NCAA Women's Basketball champion South Carolina Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley a "sellout" for supporting the inclusion of trans women in women's sports.

From the 04.08.2024 edition of FNC's Fox and Friends:

#Outkick #Riley Gaines #Dawn Staley #Transphobia #Transgender Sports #2024 Women's March Madness Tournament #Women's College Basketball #College Basketball #South Carolina Gamecocks #FNC #Fox and Friends #Brian Kilmeade

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Former President Trump said he feels “like Elvis” after his song with a group of men convicted for the Jan 6., 2021 insurrection at the Capitol hit the top of music charts.

“It’s Donald Trump and the J Six prisoners,” Trump said in a new interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“On iTunes and on Amazon and on Billboard, which is the big deal, number one. Donald Trump,” he said. “So now I feel like Elvis.”

The single “Justice for All,” — a rendition of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” sung by prisoners as Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance — hit number one on Billboard’s digital song sales chart.

It also hit the top of the iTunes sales chart. The proceeds benefit those incarcerated in connection with Jan. 6.

“It was number one. And you know what that is? That’s a tribute to the fact that people feel that J Six people have been very unfairly treated,” Trump said.

The former president opened his first official 2024 campaign rally by playing the song and reportedly showing footage of the insurrection.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday called it “insane” for Trump to continue focusing on Jan. 6.

#us politics #news #the hill #Billboard #republicans #conservatives #donald trump #iTunes #Justice for All #The Star-Spangled Banner #Pledge of Allegiance #Sean Hannity #fox news #Brian Kilmeade #jan 6 insurrection #insurrectionists #alt right #2023

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

Fixed it... and a few others

#brian kilmeade #seditious domestic terrorism #tre45on #fox news

[jerseydeanne]

Kitty Links: Thought this was fascinating

Kitty, it's a fantastic story of how we won the revolutionary war with the help of a cabbage farmer and some patriots.

Today, we call to arms every patriot of the human race worldwide to fight against oppression and tyranny. No matter what color, race, creed, or sexual orientation.

Stop the wars now and release us from bondage.

Bringing criminals to justice for releasing deadly viruses upon the human race.

Stop the use of AI against us. Have you guys watched the movie 2001? Hal, the AI, was given instructions and killed the entire crew. Ai can be used for good but also evil. It should never fall into the wrong hands.

#Kitty links #turn #brian kilmeade #Washingtons spies #WEF #evil #AI #viruses #Youtube

[joe-england]

DeSantis and GOP Blame "Wokeness" for Bank Crisis After Gutting Dodd-Fra...

And now washing machines.  Good flippin’ lord.

#youtube #washing machines #woke #biden #desantis #a closer look #seth meyers #bank crisis #dodd frank #trump #conservatives #gop #culture war #republicans #fox news #wokeness #silicon valley bank #randy johnson #baseball #brian kilmeade #svb #talking points #politics #comedy #news #america #tucker carlson #propaganda #obama #seinfeld

[louhastings]

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#reading #books #nonfiction #american history #brian kilmeade

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade

What could a wealthy man who would one day become president of the USA and a poor black man born in slavery have in common? Well, a whole lot more than you might ever imagine! This book is a well-written, fluid, biography of two men well known in history. I had a bit of knowledge about both men but this book, well, it opened my eyes and made the two men come alive as I read.

I sometimes think we have come “a long way” and then read books like this and do see change but also see that there is still oppression, bias, bigotry and cruelty over a century after the civil war.

So, what did these two men have in common? Drive, ambition, wanting better for others, the willingness to reach out and make things happen for themselves and for others. They both revered education and the spoken and written word. They wanted to see the betterment of the fellow man. BUT, they were also men of their era and influenced by the beliefs of their times.

Both men lost women they loved, gave much to become who they were, and became symbols of their era that live on today.

The author managed to make both men come alive through his writing and made me see them, experience some of what they did, and come away with admiration for both men. I also was happy to NOT live back then when medical science was less than it is now and women and children (and perhaps men, too) died too young.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Teddy Roosevelt and/or Booker T. Washington because this book is easy reading with information that is relevant now while telling the stories of two great men of the past.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sentinel – Penguin Random House for the ARC – this is my honest review.

5 Stars

BLURB

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country’s most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if newly freed citizens were condemned to lives as share croppers, how much improvement would their lives really see? In Teddy and Booker T., Brian Kilmeade tells the story of how two wildly different Americans faced the challenge of keeping America moving toward the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation.Theodore Roosevelt was white, born into incredible wealth and privilege in New York City. Booker T. Washington was Black, born on a plantation without even a last name. But both men embodied the rugged, pioneering spirit of America. Kilmeade takes us to San Juan Hill, where Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to a thrilling victory that set the stage for a legendary presidency, and to a small town in Alabama, where Washington founded the first university for African Americans, paving the way for the Civil Rights Movement. Both men abhorred the decadence and moral rot the nation had fallen into, believed that improvement through careful collaboration was possible, and trusted that the American ideals of individual liberty and hard work could propel the neediest toward success, if only those holding them back would step aside.As he did in George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade has transformed this nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out how these two heroes, through their principles and courage, not only changed each other, but helped lay the groundwork for true equality.

#Brian Kilmeade #NetGalley #penguin random house #history #biography #Booker T. Washington #Teddy Roosevelt

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality by Brian Kilmeade #ARCReview #NetGalley #BookReview #Presidents #Roosevelt #SentinelBooks

Did you know that the first guest Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House was Booker T. Washington? #TeddyandBookerT #Briankilmeade #theodoreroosevelt #bookertwashington #arcreview #netgalley #sentinelbooks #racerelations #bargainsleuth #bookreview

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country’s most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist…

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#ARC Review #Book Review #Booker T. Washington #Brian Kilmeade #NetGalley #New Books #November 2023 Books #Race Relations #Sentinel Books #Teddy and Booker T #Teddy Roosevelt #Theodore Roosevelt #U.S. Presidents

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#capitalism #democracy #democrats #donald trump #economy #government #republicans #conservatives #sean hannity #tucker carlson #brian kilmeade #laura ingraham #controlled opposition

[tomorrowusa]

At a Florida diner, Brian Kilmeade of Fox News isn’t finding a lot of patrons who support Ron DeSantis for president. 

One diner outside of Jacksonville may be just a tiny sample of voters in Florida. But the people there (generally older and apparently all white) do represent the sort of demographic which predominates in GOP primaries.

Kilmeade’s bosses at Fox have already anointed DeSantis as their choice for 2024.

Early polling shows DeSantis with an edge over Trump. That may be true but there’s usually a bump for candidates when they seem like novelties. When that novelty starts to wear off then we get a more realistic picture.

Whatever the case, it does look bad when a candidate can’t win an impromptu poll in his home state in the week his new book is published.

And the Murdoch media empire may again be overestimating its influence as it did during the 2016 primary season.

#florida #ponte vedra #fox news #brian kilmeade #election 2024 #ron desantis #republican primaries #the gop #donald trump

[biglisbonnews]

Fox's Brian Kilmeade tries to find a DeSantis voter in a MAGA crowd but fails miserably Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade got it wrong (per usual) when he said Gov. Ron DeSantis "is winning over Americans." Visiting a Florida diner this morning where MAGA folk were chowing down on breakfast, he doggedly surveyed the crowd to see "Who's your man, who's your woman?" — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/02/28/foxs-brian-kilmeade-tries-to-find-a-desantis-voter-in-a-maga-crowd-but-fails-miserably.html

#Post #Video #2024 #brian kilmeade #donald trump #fox and friends #fox news #ron desantis #Carla Sinclair #Boing Boing

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Right-wing Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) claimed a debate audience burst into laughter during one of his answers last week because college students in the crowd were fed “leftist propaganda.”

Someone dared to “let in” college students to watch the televised debate at Marquette University last Thursday in Milwaukee, Johnson complained Sunday to Fox News host Brian Kilmeade.

“My guess ... college students” in the crowd laughed at him, Johnson said.

“Let’s face it, our colleges today aren’t exactly teaching history. They’re really not talking about the relevant things that students really oughta learn in college,” Johnson continued. “They’re being taught leftist propaganda.”

The debate audience burst out laughing when Johnson claimed at one point that he had been “set up” by the FBI.

Johnson was responding to an attack by his Democratic opponent Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor, who pointed out that the Senator was warned by the FBI in 2019 that Kremlin operatives had been feeding him disinformation in a plot to turn him into a Russian asset.

“We cannot trust Sen. Johnson to protect democracy abroad because we can’t even trust Sen. Johnson to protect democracy here at home,” Barnes charged.

Johnson’s retort, which greatly amused the audience: “The FBI set me up with a corrupt briefing and then leaked that to smear me.”

Johnson is widely regarded as the most vulnerable Senator in the upcoming election, but he has recently been inching ahead in polls after focusing on crime.

#us politics #news #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #wisconsin #sen. ron johnson #Mandela Barnes #fbi #russia #Kremlin #2019 #disinformation #@acyn #fox news #brian kilmeade #Marquette University #huffington post

[mctexterson]

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

- - by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager

#thomas jefferson #brian kilmeade #biography #hardcover #nonfiction #don yeaget

[meandmybigmouth]

#fox news #the daily show #sean hannity #laura ingraham #brian kilmeade

[pitch-and-moan]

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates and Islamaphobia and Jingoism

A faithful film adaptation of Brian Killmeade's terrible and terribly written book about the Barbary Wars, but with VH1 Pop-Up video style bubbles explaining the nuance missed by the book, and correcting the racism and idiocy in the book, until by the end the actual film is completely obscured by the bubbles trying to explain things.

#bad idea #movie pitch #pitch and moan #thomas jefferson #tripoli #barbary coast #barbary pirates #barbary wars #america #united states #history #brian kilmeade #adaptation #navy #piracy #sailing #boats #mediterranean #mediterranean sea #pop-up #pop-up bubble