#neil cavuto

[reality-detective]

Will The Trump Administration go after Neil Cavuto? 🤔

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Whitehouse and John Knefel at MMFA:

Right-wing media have long railed against rules requiring corporations to pay overtime to workers for work done in excess of regular working hours. Project 2025 reflects this fixation, pushing for regulations and laws that would roll back overtime pay requirements. A survey has shown that this is wildly out of step with the sentiment of the American public. Right-wing media have waged a long crusade against overtime pay while Democrats keep trying to expand legal guarantees Media Matters has documented right-wing media complaints against overtime pay for over a decade. In 2014, in response to President Barack Obama’s move to raise the salary threshold for overtime eligibility, a Fox News anchor claimed that overtime pay creates a “disincentive to stand out” at work and amounts to “forced income redistribution.” 

[...]

The complaints continued into the last year of Obama’s presidency, as the rule to raise overtime eligibility was finalized. A federal judge eventually struck down the rule, but the Biden administration moved to increase overtime eligibility separately earlier this year; Republicans in Congress are already moving to overturn it. A federal judge recently upheld the rule.

Project 2025 aims to roll back overtime protections

The radical anti-labor agenda from Project 2025 -- led by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation -- calls for allowing employers to eviscerate overtime regulations and potentially withhold pay. One proposal is to allow workers to take vacation instead of time-and-a-half compensation, but at least 40 percent of lower- and middle-income workers already don’t use their allotted paid time off. Under this proposal, employers could coerce workers into “voluntarily” selecting vacation that they’re either formally or informally prohibited from taking.

Project 2025 further recommends that workers and bosses agree to extend the overtime threshold from one week to a period of two weeks or one month. The likely outcome would be management overloading busy weeks with extra-long shifts and taking advantage of slow periods through under-scheduling — effectively eliminating overtime altogether. Relatedly, another attack on overtime comes in the form of allowing workers to negotiate away time-and-a-half pay in exchange for noncompensation benefits like “predictable scheduling.” In effect, this incentivizes predatory scheduling to coerce workers to give up overtime.

Media Matters for America reports that Project 2025, spearheaded by right-wing group The Heritage Foundation and at least 100 partners, is pushing to roll back or repeal overtime pay entirely.

A new poll from Navigator Research conducted between June 20th and the 24th reveals that 84% of the people surveyed oppose removing or weakening overtime pay.

To sum it up, if you want to protect overtime pay and stop Project 2025, vote Blue up and down the ticket!

#StopProject2025

[dadsinsuits]

Neil Cavuto

[jamespoeartistry]

Cavuto says farewell to Fox News after almost 30 years

[thenewdemocratus]

Paul Ryan On Donald Trump

Source:CNN talking about former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s latest comments on former President Donald J. Trump. Source:The New Democrat “Political commentator David Axelrod joins Manu Raju to discuss former House speaker Paul Ryan calling former President Donald Trump unfit for office on Fox News.” From CNN “Paul Ryan: I wish we had a different presidential choice. Former House Speaker Paul…

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Walter Einenkel at Daily Kos:

The Republican Party and its presidential nominee Donald Trump have a problem: They are sexist and their policies are misogynistic. This means that women voters are repelled by Trump and he has only a small number of female campaign surrogates who aren’t related to him. One such surrogate is Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina. Mace broke with Trump back when he attempted to overthrow our country’s election results, but she has since returned to the MAGA fold. The congresswoman appeared on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News show to attack Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and argue that a Trump presidency will be better for women. "As a woman, I want to vote for someone who's going to protect women like me, who are survivors of rape,” Mace told Cavuto.

[...] “[Trump] can go toe to toe with [Harris] on women's issues,” Mace said with a straight face. “I feel very confident about that.” The MAGA world isn’t an echo chamber; it’s a hall of delusions.

Are you delulu, Mrs. Nancy Mace? Donald Trump is NOT pro-women nor is the “protect women” candidate.

From the 08.29.2024 edition of FNC's Your World With Neil Cavuto:

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Neil Cavuto

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

September 29, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

“What a day we are having…. As a former director of emergency management, I know a disaster when I see one,” Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said yesterday in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, overseen by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee chaired by James Comer (R-KY). 

Moskowitz wasn’t wrong. After a hearing that lasted more than six hours, highlights of which Aaron Rupar of Public Notice reposted on social media, Neil Cavuto of the Fox News Channel was unimpressed. He said that although Comer had promised to present “a mountain of evidence” against President Biden, “none of the expert witnesses today presented…any proof for impeachment…. The way this was built up, ‘where there’s smoke there would be fire,’... but where’s there’s smoke today, we just got a lot more smoke.”   

The Republicans on the committee repeatedly talked about the volume of evidence they have uncovered, but they were never able to link their piles of evidence to the president. Under questioning, their own witnesses said there was not enough evidence to impeach President Biden.

It seemed as if Republicans have become so accustomed to being able to say anything they want to on right-wing media without being challenged they thought a congressional committee would operate the same way. When the Democrats pushed back, they seemed flummoxed. 

Comer lost control of the hearing as Democrats on the committee, thoroughly prepared, came out swinging. Representative Shontel Brown (D-OH) noted that “[t]he DOJ and FBI under former President Trump spent 5 long years looking into these Republican conspiracy theories, and debunked them. Repeatedly.” Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said, “The majority sits completely empty handed with no evidence of any presidential wrongdoing, no smoking gun, no gun, no smoke.” 

Representative Summer Lee (D-PA) called out the Republicans by name for holding a sham impeachment hearing instead of funding the government and working for their constituents. She noted that 217,583 people living in the districts of the Republicans on the committee would lose their paychecks because of the Republican shutdown.

Most notably, the Democrats called out the places where witnesses or committee members had deleted words in quotations that changed their meanings. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) emphasized that the four Republican witnesses said they had not presented any first-hand witness accounts of crimes committed by President Biden, while the committee was blocking the testimony of witnesses who could testify to actual facts. She also noted that members of Congress could say anything they wanted because they are covered by the Constitution’s Speech and Debate clause protecting them, 

Democrats also called out the many ways in which the Republicans were trying to discredit President Biden with speculation during an impeachment hearing to distract from the very real legal troubles of former president Trump. Representatives Mike Garcia (D-CA) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA) called out the Republicans for focusing on allegations about Hunter Biden and ignoring the very real issues involving Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who could not get a security clearance until Trump demanded he be given one, worked on Middle East issues in the White House, and then received a $2 billion investment from the Saudis shortly after Trump left office.

Most dramatically, Representative Greg Cesar (D-TX) asked the members of the Oversight Committee to raise their hands if they believe that both Hunter and Trump should be held accountable if they are found guilty on any of their indictments. The Democrats all raised their hands. The Republicans did not. 

One senior republican aide told CNN’s Melanie Zanona: “This is an unmitigated disaster.”

It did not get better after the hearing ended. A fact-check by CNN’s Daniel Dale, Marshall Cohen and Annie Grayer tore apart the committee’s “evidence.” Although Comer said in his opening remarks that the committee has uncovered how “the Bidens and their associates…raked in over $20 million between 2014 and 2019,” all but about $7 million went to Hunter Biden’s business associates, who according to the Washington Post had “legitimate business interests,” and there is no evidence that President Biden himself received any of this money. 

Comer’s accusation that money was wired to Joe Biden’s Delaware address did not note that the money was a loan, and it went to Hunter Biden’s bank account. Hunter Biden’s lawyers say that he used the Bidens’ Delaware home as his address at the time. 

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) claimed that documents released Wednesday from 2020 showed that the Department of Justice was protecting President Biden. But in 2020 Trump, not Biden, was president, and the official who urged Biden senior’s name be kept off a search warrant did so because there was no legal basis to include him in a search warrant concerning a business involving his adult son. 

And on it went. 

Charlie Sykes of The Bulwark wrote: “The charitable view is that the first hearing was a dumpster fire inside a clown car wrapped in a fiasco. To put it mildly, the GOP did not bring their best.” 

At the end of the day, it seemed as if Democrats had flipped the script that has worked so well for so long on right-wing media. Rather than being on the defensive themselves, they put Republicans on the defensive. And because their hits were based in reality, rather than a false narrative, they left the Republican committee members with few options today other than to take to social media, once again, to boast of all the evidence they have accumulated against President Biden. 

The hearing was designed to give the extremists of the Freedom Caucus one of their demands, likely in the hope that they would agree to pass a stopgap funding bill that would at least make it look like the House Republicans were trying to fund the government. But today, when House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) brought to the floor an extreme bill that would have made 30% cuts to food assistance, housing, education, funding for border agents, and so on, and insisted on closing the border while funding the government for only another 30 days, 21 extremists voted with the Democrats to kill it by a vote of 198 to 232.

This was a harsh blow not only to McCarthy but to all the Republicans in swing districts. House leaders forced them all to vote for a measure chock full of enormously unpopular cuts and then snatched away the prize of funding the government. Such a political disaster speaks very poorly of McCarthy, who should have never put members of his conference in such a position. Losing 21 of his members in this vote is an embarrassment. The loss weakens the party for 2024: the Democratic ads will pretty much write themselves.

And the members refusing to fund the government simply don’t appear to care, either about their colleagues or their constituents.

At any point, McCarthy could bring up before the House the bipartisan measure already passed by the Senate. Democrats would then likely make up the votes he would lose in his own conference. But the extremists would then challenge his speakership, and that is apparently a challenge he is unwilling to brave.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Nikki Haley and Tim Scott Are Here to Remind You Republicans Hate Unions. This weekend, Neil Cavuto of Fox News asked former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley what should have been an easy question about the ongoing UAW strike. Donald Trump had already... https://t.co/gSIBsABlO7 http://dlvr.it/SwNzQz

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Birthdays 9.22

Beer Birthdays

Lord Chesterfield; English statesman (1694)

Alfred Vinzenz Werthmueller (1835)

George Kennth Hotson Younger (1931)

Carlos Sanchez (1958)

Dave McLean (1969)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bilbo Baggins; Hobbit character

Frodo Baggins; Lord of the Rings character

Michael Faraday; English scientist (1791)

Joan Jett; rock singer, guitarist (1958)

Tatiana Maslany; Canadian actor (1985)

Famous Birthdays

King Sunny Ade; Nigerian reggae singer (1946)

Scott Baio; actor (1960)

Eric Baker; English activist, co-founded Amnesty Int’l (1920)

Toni Basil; pop singer (1943)

Elizabeth Bear; author and poet (1971)

Shari Belafonte; actor (1954)

Maurice Blanchot; French philosopher (1907)

Andrea Bocelli; Italian singer-songwriter (1958)

Debby Boone; pop singer (1956)

Barthold Heinrich Brockes; German poet (1680)

Harold Carmichael; Philadelphia Eagles WR (1949)

Nick Cave; rock musician (1957)

Neil Cavuto; journalist and author (1958)

Ellen Church; 1st airline stewardess (1904)

Dave Coverdale; rock singer (1951)

Quintin Craufurd; Scottish author (1743)

Babette Deutsch; poet (1895)

Ashley Eckstein; actress (1981)

Will Elder; illustrator (1921)

György Faludy; Hungarian poet & author (1910)

Tom Felton; English actor (1987)

Grigory Frid; Russian pianist & composer (1915)

Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin; German mathematician, astronomer & poet (1547)

Theodore Hook; English composer (1788)

John Houseman; actor (1902)

Bonnie Hunt; actor (1964)

Ruth Jones; Welsh actress (1966)

Anna Karina; actor (1940)

Brian Keene; novelist (1967)

Charles Keeping; English author & illustrator (1924)

Allan "Rocky" Lane; voice of "Mr. Ed" (1909)

Tommy Lasorda; Los Angeles Dodgers coach (1927)

Paul Le Mat; actor (1945)

Katie Lowes; actress (1982)

Matthäus Merian; Swiss-German engraver & cartographer (1593)

Ian Mortimer; English historian & novelist (1967)

Paul Muni; actor (1895)

Catherine Oxenburg; actor (1961)

Peter Simon Pallas; German zoologist & botanist (1741)

Rupert Penry-Jones; English actor (1970)

Sue Perkins; English comedian, actress (1969)

Saul Perlmutter; astrophysicist, astronomer (1959)

Rosamunde Pilcher; English author (1924)

Billie Piper; English singer, actor (1982)

Arthur Pryor; trombonist, composer (1870)

Paolo Ruffini; Italian mathematician & philosopher (1765)

Martha Scott; actor (1914)

Elizabeth Simcoe; English-Canadian painter & author (1762)

Bill Smith; clarinet player & composer (1926)

Theodore Clement Steele; artist (1847)

Michael Torke; composer (1961)

Ken Vandermark; saxophonist & composer (1964)

Charles Waterhouse; painter (1924)

Fay Weldon; English writer (1931)

Billy West; actor (1892)

Ray Wetzel; trumpet player & composer (1924)

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Justin Baragona at The Independent:

Weeks after Fox News original Neil Cavuto shockingly revealed that he was immediately leaving the network he’d called home since 1996, the conservative cable giant announced that it had decided to tap Fox & Friends Weekend host Will Cain as Cavuto’s mid-afternoon replacement. Unveiling a series of programming changes across the weekday and weekend schedules of both Fox News and Fox Business Network, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott boasted about the upcoming The Will Cain Show, along with the host’s credentials and experience. “As the media landscape continues to evolve, we are always looking to innovate our programming lineup to meet the needs of our viewers, and we are confident the new lineup will best position FOX News Media for the future,” Scott said in a press release. “Will Cain brings years of experience to the 4 PM hour as an accomplished broadcaster and a lawyer and we look forward to adding his insights to what will no doubt be another historic news cycle ahead this year.” Cain added that it was “an honor to wake up with America these past four years” as co-host of the network’s weekend morning show and that he looked forward to helping Fox viewers “understand the headlines through thought-provoking content and analysis every weekday afternoon.”

According to the network’s announcement, Cain will take over Cavuto’s old 4 p.m. ET Fox News weekday slot on January 21. This also means that Cain, who also hosts a podcast for Fox News, will step down as co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend on January 18. Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt will replace Cain. Fox is also expanding Fox Business Network’s The Big Money Show to two hours on January 27, taking over the weekday noon hour previously hosted by Cavuto on the channel. Dagen McDowell, who will continue to co-host early evening Fox Business show The Bottom Line, will join the program. Additionally, the network is expanding the weekend programs The Fox Report and The Big Weekend Show to two hours, beginning on January 18. The Fox Report, anchored by Jon Scott, will air from 3-5 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday, while The Big Weekend Show will broadcast both nights at 6-8 p.m. ET. The network still hasn’t landed on a permanent replacement anchor for Cavuto’s Saturday morning time slot. For now, Fox News will continue to air live news coverage from 10 a.m. to noon and feature a rotation of substitute anchors.

GOP propaganda mouthpiece outlets FBN and FNC have announced their post-Neil Cavuto departure schedule plans.

Will Cain takes his weekday Fox “News” spot, will begin his 4PM ET/3PM CT show called The Will Cain Show the day after Trump’s 2nd inauguration on January 21st. As a result, Cain will vacate his Fox and Friends Weekend spot to Charles Hurt.

As for Cavuto Live on Saturdays, rotating hosts will cover those two hours.

Over on Fox “Business”, The Big Money Show will expand to 2 hours to replace Cavuto: Coast To Coast.

[alphaman99]

"It’s about food. It’s about your home. It’s about your life.

The government is worried about all of the above.

All I’m saying is you should be worried they’re worried. Here’s why:

They’re telling you that you can’t take care of yourself.

You can’t be trusted with what you put in your mouth

or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line.

So they’ll tell you what to put in your mouth and

they’ll save you from what you signed on that dotted line.

Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has

now become government responsibility."-- Neil Cavuto 2015