Decoding Fox News

Fox News hosts and guests blamed Kirk’s murder on leftwing extremism even though most political violence in the United States is committed by rightwing individuals and groups. In Colorado a young man radicalized in white supremacy committed a mass shooting at a school on the same day Kirk was killed. While the folks at Fox News called for an end to the violence and heated rhetoric they also demoni...

Last week most American media companies broadcast live coverage of a humble press conference organized by adult survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking criminal enterprise in front of the Capitol building. Fox News completely ignored it. The network spent most of its focus on Trump’s threats to send National Guard troops into Chicago, RFK Jr.’s Senate hearing and what one Fox contributor de...

Last week Fox News hosts rejoiced over the federal takeover of Washington D.C., praised Trump for an excessively long cabinet meeting and demonized all transgender people after another tragic mass shooting at a Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When President Donald J. Trump declared that he would send National Guard troops into Chicago the network celebrated the idea of U.S. military per...

Last week on Fox News California Governor Gavin Newsom’s social media posts got everyone worked up, Laura Ingraham celebrated Trump’s federal takeover of Washington D.C. and the network pretended Trump negotiated a major peace deal with Russia and Ukraine even though he didn’t. Fox also finally uttered the name of ‘he who shall not be named’ - Jeffrey Epstein. Fox News also spent a lot of time and...

Last week Fox News misled its viewers about gerrymandering, hyped up a summit with Putin in Alaska, downplayed Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into Washington D.C., demonized a man who hit a federal law enforcement agent with a foot-long Subway sandwich and finally admitted no one really cared about the Sydney Sweeney jeans commercial. “Fox & Friends,” “The Five,” and “Hannity” boasted...

Fox News hyped up the Trump-Putin summit as if it would be this huge victory for the president. It was an abject failure. The legit news team didn’t hide the fact that the summit was a nothing burger. The opinion news team attempted to spin it. I take you through the entire train wreck covering five hours of Fox News programming from “The Five” to “Hannity.” This is a public episode. If you'd like...

Fox News, the unofficial propaganda network for the Trump administration, continued to largely ignore the Epstein files, a trove of documents that might link the president to a child sex trafficking ring. Last week the network put most of its focus on a gerrymandering battle that involved Democratic Texas state representatives, the Trump administration, Texas Governor Greg Abbott along with the go...

Last week the folks at Fox News pretended the ‘Epstein files’ didn’t exist while everyone at the network got extremely worked up over an American Eagle commercial that featured the actress, Sydney Sweeney. The advertisement was yet another culture war fixation meant to distract from Trump’s possible involvement with the sex trafficking of underage girls. The political furor surrounding the Epstein...

Since Fox News decided to completely ignore the current scandal surrounding President Trump and The Epstein Files I went through my archives to find every past segment on Jeffrey Epstein from the past 3.5 years. I’m organized them by subject. The clips are full of selective outrage and hypocrisy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

Last week on Fox News the network weaved together the greatest hits from past rightwing conspiracies to create a new tapestry of lies meant to distract its viewers from a growing scandal involving President Trump and an underage sex trafficking ring led by his one-time close associate Jeffrey Epstein. The new fake Obama Russiagate scandal has a bit of everything - a director of national intelligen...

Anyone watching Fox News last week might think Trump is far more popular than most polls show, New York City is about to turn the entire country into a communist hellscape, the economy is soaring, and Democrats are to blame for the scandal surrounding the Epstein files. The network also produced a barrage of segments trashing the minority party including California Governor Gavin Newsom, and forme...

Last week Fox News tried desperately to avoid a story involving Donald J. Trump, a slew of conspiracy theories and a deceased serial abuser of underage girls. On July 7th the Department of Justice released an unsigned memo that stated plainly that the cause of Jeffery Epstein’s death was suicide and there was no list of powerful men associated with the billionaire who engaged in illicit behavior w...

Last week as most Americans looked forward to an extended holiday weekend Fox News went into overdrive as it promoted and pushed Trump’s - One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). Since Trump created his massive budget reconciliation bill Fox News has spoken about it in vague and broad terms. No one at the network spent much energy discussing what was included in the legislation until it was in the final st...

Last week on Fox News the network worked its audience into a frenzy of paranoia over possible secret Iranian sleeper cells while it celebrated the cruelty of a migrant detention center surrounded by alligators and pythons. As the network focused on fear and sadism it also lauded Donald J. Trump as the daddy of NATO. As a new detention center in Florida nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ was announced...

Last week before Trump decided to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran Fox News was more than happy to encourage him to start a new war in the Middle East - something he vowed he would avoid during his 2024 presidential campaign. When Fox News hosts weren’t standing in front of maps of Iran or going over various animated displays of bunker busting bombs, they were downplaying anti-Trump protests, demo...

This podcast covers special weekend editions of shows that were added by Sean Hannity, Bret Baier and others to cover the U.S. military strikes on Iran. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe

Last week as Fox News tried to hype up mostly peaceful protests against ICE raids across the country the network was hit with a giant asteroid of a story - one that was too big to ignore and incredibly hard to spin. Israel, seemingly frustrated with Trump’s lack of progress with a diplomatic solution, launched Operation Rising Lion and struck Iran’s nuclear sites. Iran immediately retaliated strik...

Trump tried to look like a fascist and failed miserably. Army 250 was the saddest parade in the world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe

Last week before Trump decided to abuse the power of the presidency with his inappropriate use of the U.S. military the network was dedicated to a story that most Americans couldn’t care less about - the former president’s use of an autopen. The term ‘autopen’ showed up 69 times in last week’s transcripts. Last week congressional Republicans led by Rep. James Comer launched a pointless investigati...

Enjoy laughing at the folks at Fox News melting down. In this episode I start with “The Five” and cover every show until “Hannity” on Thursday night 6/5/25 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe

Last week after Elon Musk announced he would be leaving his role in the Trump administration Fox News ramped up its hero worship of the eccentric billionaire to hyperdrive. For months Fox News has aggressively tried to promote Elon Musk as a selfless patriot who loved his adopted country so much that he donated his time and energy to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse to save the United Sta...

Last week started with the announcement that former president Joe Biden had an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bone. The folks at Fox used the former president’s diagnosis as even more proof that the entire Democratic Party was complicit in hiding his declining health to the American public. Meanwhile Trump continues to show signs of his own cognitive decline along...

Last week on Fox News the network overhyped an Instagram post of seashells by the seashore, downplayed a flagrant violation of the emoluments clause while barely mentioning that a major a financial services company downgraded the credit rating for the United States. The network also spent an inordinate amount of time trashing the Democratic Party while promoting the idea of a vast conspiracy to co...

Last week on Fox News the network shifted its focus as quickly as its glorious leader came up with another incredibly stupid idea. While President Trump openly questioned if he should negate the U.S. Constitution on “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker the folks at Fox News were more worked up about his plans to transform a crumbling national landmark into a state-of-the-art maximum security priso...

Last week on Fox News the network celebrated the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in office with a live studio audience on “Fox & Friends” that featured surprise appearances by popular Fox News personalities, a mentalist, a comedian and free copies of Dana Perino’s latest advice book. The network buried its recent poll that showed Trump’s approval rating falling with voters on nearly every ma...