Dear Readers,

Although I wish I were chilling at the beach, even better is the fact I have family in town for the first time in two years and more on the way this week. In order to have maximum time with them, I am going to step away from the blog until next Monday.

It's been a long, hard year for me and my family and I need to take a breather from this blog. I plan to continue posting at Crooks and Liars as usual (Tuesday through Saturday).

Hope to "see" everybody next Monday.

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It’s almost as if Fox News hosts and the Murdochs are trying to kill Americans.

As guest Matt Zeller called out the Trump administration for shutting down visas for Afghan allies, host Charles Payne interrupted to “jump in before we go back too far in history.”

Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt helped advance Fox’s anti-America, pro-death message by likening mask mandates – which save lives – to Taliban extremism and suggesting that anyone who supports mask mandates should move to Afghanistan (where they’d likely be killed).

Fox now has face mask mandates, too. But Tucker Carlson (almost definitely vaccinated) kept up his pro-death, anti-American assault on public health measures tonight by comparing criticism of the unvaccinated to lynchings.

After lying and covering up for Donald Trump’s lies, incompetence and worse, Kayleigh McEnany helped Fox amplify right-wing calls for President Joe Biden to be removed from office via the 25th Amendment.

Leave it to Tucker Carlson to exploit a tragedy like the fall of Afghanistan for his hate-mongering, anti-American agenda.

Fox host Jillian Mele and guest Lara Trump put on quite a charade of pretending that Donald Trump's daughter-in-law is a legit analyst of the crisis in Afghanistan.

Now that the NSA watchdog has decided to investigate Tucker Carlson’s phony-baloney claim that the agency was spying on him and leaked their spoils in order to take him off the air, Carlson wants you to think his hammy paranoia has been validated. More likely, the watchdog will confirm what Carlson probably knew all along: that there’s no there there.

We need more public protests outside Fox, please!