White House on Liz Cheney: Disturbing to see her attacked for speaking truth Brittany Shepherd
WASHINGTON The White House is alarmed over the GOP’s barrage of attacks on now former Republican conference leader Rep. Liz Cheney, casting its Wednesday morning ouster of the Wyoming lawmaker as “disturbing.”
“Our democracy was attacked and six people lost their lives,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki Wednesday afternoon during a press briefing. “It’s disturbing to see any leader, regardless of party, being attacked for simply speaking the truth. And as the president said last week, it is hard to understand.”
Fox News White House correspondent Kristin Fisher to leave network Tal Axelrod
Fox News White House correspondent Kristin Fisher announced Friday she is leaving the network.
Fisher, who has covered the White House since 2019, said on Special Report with Bret Baier that her appearance Friday marked my last live shot on my last day at Fox News, and I ve had an incredible run.
She did not clarify on air where she will be going next, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill that she will go to CNN to serve as a correspondent covering space. I started out 6 years ago on the early morning weekend shift. I made it all the way to the White House, which is something that has been at the very top of my career bucket list ever since I was a very little girl. But I ve just realized that there are a few other things on that list that I would like to try to tick off, she said Friday on Fox.
During a White House press briefing, a Fox News correspondent asked about a false allegation that Vice President Kamala Harris’ book was being distributed to migrant children arriving at a California shelter and she was profiting off of it. Conservative media used the press secretary’s answer that she’d “certainly check” with relevant parties, to fuel outrage that the White House was supposedly avoiding answering the question.
In a since revised April 23 article, the Murdoch-owned New York Post claimed that though Vice President Harris has not visited the border since she was tapped to deal with a growing number of migrant crossings, “a children’s book she wrote is waiting there for young migrants who are being welcomed into the country.” According to the piece, the book, called Superheroes are Everywhere appeared in a so-called “welcome kit” for the children brought to a newly renovated California shelter to deal with underage migrants.
How Fox News Channel Invented The Biden Burger Ban Screenshot from Fox News
Update (4/26/21 4 p.m.): This piece has been updated, to include Fox News anchor John Roberts on-air correction Monday.
After a right-wing British news site introduced a blatant lie about President Joe Biden s green-energy and infrastructure proposals â fraudulently suggesting that the administration is attempting to limit people to having one hamburger a month â Fox News then stepped up as the venue to amplify it into a much wider and frankly embarrassing discourse with its American audience.
In doing so, the network s purported news -side personalities are just as guilty as the officially billed opinion hosts, who have all contributed to this fake story now being spread by high-level Republican politicians. For one, the Biden administration does not have a specific plan yet âbut rather an outline of goals to reduce emissions, with a focus on transitioning to clean-ene
PolitiFact s ruling: Pants on Fire
Here s why: One day after President Joe Biden pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half, Fox News and Fox Business Network personalities repeatedly and baselessly claimed that the move would also force Americans to say goodbye to hamburgers and steaks. To meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to, get this, America has to stop eating meat, said Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow, a former economic adviser to President Donald Trump, on April 23. No burger on July 4. No steaks on the barbecue.
Biden’s climate plans do not include restrictions on red meat consumption, a White House official confirmed to PolitiFact. Biden never mentioned red meat when he announced his plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to 52% below 2005 levels by 2030, a move that would double the U.S.’s commitment under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.