THE LIGHTBULB Want more stories on Trump's energy and environmental policy? Sign up here. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has embarked on a whirlwind conservative media tour, seeking to defend himself amid a blizzard of news stories about potential ethical violations during his first year running the agency. Over the past two days alone, Pruitt sat down for interviews with the Washington Examiner to play down his cheap $50-per-night lease for a Capitol Hill condo from the wife of a lobbyist (“I’m dumbfounded that that’s controversial") and with the Washington Times to dismiss inquiries about spending most of last August outside Washington while running a federal agency ("The next thing … is going to be, ‘Do you like brown shoes or black shoes?’ "). At these and other right leaning outlets, President Trump's environmental enforcer was given breathing room. But not so at the biggest … [Read more...] about The Energy 202: Fox News disrupts Scott Pruitt’s otherwise friendly conservative media tour
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Twitter unhinged after Fox News asks Fabio if California can be saved
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Fox News Melts Down After Hillary Clinton Mocks Them For ‘Trying To Impeach Me’
POLITICS 04/04/2018 10:47 pm ET The network isn't handling the critique very well. By Ed Mazza 9.5k 110 Hillary Clinton called out President Donald Trump and Fox News over their obsession with her nearly a year and a half after the election. “When he can’t think of anything to say, Trump starts chanting it and you sit there and you think, ‘Does he think I was elected?’” she said Tuesday. “I said something publicly a few months ago, Fox News is always trying to impeach me, so someone needs to tell them that it doesn’t apply to a private citizen.” Clinton was speaking at a Wing workspace panel discussion in New York, where she took on a wide range of issues, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and the tone of today’s politics. “I would hope that we can change the political culture,” she said. “Because I don’t want anybody going through that. I don’t care who you … [Read more...] about Fox News Melts Down After Hillary Clinton Mocks Them For ‘Trying To Impeach Me’
Scott Pruitt pushes back on big pay raises for aides, condo controversy on Fox News
Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt fired back at critics Wednesday, defending his decision to take a $50 a day condo rental and claiming he just found out about a controversial pay raise for two of his staff members.“My staff and I found out about it yesterday, and I changed it,” Pruitt told Fox News in an exclusive wide-ranging interview.When pressed to provide specifics, Pruitt said he wasn’t sure who would be held accountable or if the person who authorized the raise was a career EPA employee or a political appointee.“You don’t know? You run the agency. You don’t know who did it?” Fox News’ Ed Henry asked.“I found out this yesterday and I corrected the action and we are in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting it,” Pruitt responded, though he didn’t say if anyone would be fired.Read more at FoxNews.com. … [Read more...] about Scott Pruitt pushes back on big pay raises for aides, condo controversy on Fox News
Eagles’ Chris Long skewers Fox News for LeBron James smear
Chris Long was not happy when Fox News host Laura Ingraham took a shot at LeBron James' intelligence on the air Thursday night after the NBA superstar criticized President Donald Trump on an ESPN podcast this week. And as the outspoken Philadelphia Eagles defensive end and two-time Super Bowl winner often does, Long called foul on Twitter. James and Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant weighed in on the president during a pre-recorded conversation with ESPN's Cari Champion in January. "The No. 1 job in America, the point person, is someone who doesn't understand the people, and really don't give a f**k about the people," James said in the video.Calling the comments "barely intelligible" and "ungrammatical," Ingraham advised James to just "shut up and dribble.""I’m numb to this commentary – like. Must they run their mouths like that?" Ingraham said on her show. "Look, there might be a cautionary lesson in LeBron for kids. This is what happens when you … [Read more...] about Eagles’ Chris Long skewers Fox News for LeBron James smear