Over the weekend, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified, top GOP donors gathered in New Orleans for the Republican National Committee’s closed-door spring retreat. Keynote speakers included former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday, followed by former President Trump on Saturday. And while Pence’s comments attempting to distance himself from Trump made headlines Friday, (“There …

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Hear that? It’s faint, we know, but you can almost hear it. That hideous guffaw. That self-satisfied chortle.  That is Lachlan Murdoch’s delighted cackling, carried on the wind across the Pacific, all the way from his Australian mansion.  Not because the Fox Corporation heir and CEO is actively rooting for Russia, necessarily, although his network …

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“Democracy.” “Proof.” “Oppression.” In the opening rant for his February 1st edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News’s favorite con artist, Tucker Carlson, “proved” one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt: even America’s most cherished words can’t have mutually agreed upon meanings. Sometimes the same words will even have drastically different meanings in the …

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Newt Gingrich takes the stage and stands for a moment in silence, wanting his audience to admire his full military regalia. His pins and medals glitter beneath the bright stage lights. He’s at a flag-draped podium. On flagpoles near the crowded auditorium’s entry doors the flags shift and flutter slightly, although there is no breeze. …

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