Melissa Joskow / Media Matters

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a “freak show.” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) sounds like a “school marm scold” and is “best watched with the volume turned off.” The Democratic Party is defined by “racial identity politics hucksters.” There “are other viewpoints” on climate change science and it doesn’t matter anyway because the “earth will die when the sun does.”

Those comments aren’t by a random right-wing Twitter account but by Fox News reporter Doug McKelway, who is part of the network’s bureau in Washington, D.C.. Fox’s “news division” frequently dispatches McKelway to report on presidential politics and significant stories like the white supremacist rally Charlottesville, VA. He regularly appears on Fox’s “news”-side programming and occasionally guest-anchors Special Report with Bret Baier.

Fox News has recently touted its “news” division as separate from its “opinion” side, especially to advertisers and Democratic politicians. That distinction has long been a farce, but McKelway’s prominent presence in the “news” division only further illustrates that lie.

The Daily Beast’s Maxwell Tani and Andrew Kirell reported last week that in an email recently sent to some staff members, McKelway tried to defend President Donald Trump’s infamous comment that there were “very fine people on both sides” following the August 2017 neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally and resulting counter-protests. After Digital Senior Editor Cody Derespina agreed with McKelway, Fox News Radio White House correspondent Jon Decker responded by writing that they both sounded “like a White Supremacist chat room.”

In addition to attacking Democratic politicians, McKelway frequently uses his Twitter account to push right-wing views. He has claimed that “a good parent” would explain to their children that there are “viewpoints" other than the scientific consensus on climate change; the Green New Deal would impose “financial hardship on the US” and “won’t make a dent” on carbon reduction; special counsel Robert “Mueller's people  - or someone with apparent knowledge of the raid - tipped off Mueller ally @CNN” to the raid of Roger Stone's house (they didn't); “entitlements” are “looming like a giant ponzi scheme”; and social justice curriculums are “wasting your kids brain.”

Here are some of McKelway’s tweets:

If the @GOP is smart, they’ll sit idly by and watch this freak show self destruct. @ilhanMN is the personification of what Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: “never interfere with an enemy who is destroying himself.” https://t.co/UmKClyB6Ho

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) February 14, 2019

Her greatest liability is not her politics but something most viewers are only subliminally aware of - her voice. Harkens back to the school marm scold. Best watched with the volume turned off. https://t.co/O0gbDJ2gr8

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) April 11, 2019

Having made my living in a profession where voice is of huge importance, I pass this observation along. A strong, smart, tough, successful woman who I know remarked of @SenWarren’s Presidential announcement speech, “She sounds like a scold.”

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) February 10, 2019

Shameless pivot by a very old white man seeking acceptance by racial identity politics hucksters who define the party he belongs to. https://t.co/XXUQ0xlZh9

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) March 28, 2019

How bout this? Explain to your children your viewpoint. Then be a good parent and explain there are other viewpoints which find the earths climate has been in constant change, that man may be contributing to it, but that man can adapt. And that earth will die when the sun does. https://t.co/m0kfqrolLQ

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) March 13, 2019

This is the single most important moment of @SenSanders town hall. He evaded answering @marthamaccallum question that’s at the root of socialism. “Good for thee, but not for me.” Stripped of it’s guises, Socialism is at its core authoritarian. https://t.co/Rqyxx25lMJ

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) April 16, 2019

The look of many democratic faces here is priceless, almost like they’ve never heard this before. https://t.co/ib2PSZJZj1

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) April 10, 2019

Agreed, and when the didn’t cheer, as when he touted robust economy, they looked petty and vindictive over #’s that benefit all. https://t.co/wO6ZL1E76d

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) February 6, 2019

Good for @jordanbpeterson ! He rips the curtain off this troubling position of the @APA , which seems to have forgotten the Hippocratic oath, “First do no harm.” https://t.co/dLtzykCg6x

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) February 4, 2019

As well it should be... https://t.co/whQib0ASeC

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 25, 2018

Or is it the Maunder Minimum, as a lot of Russian scientists are predicting? Unusual lack of sun spot activity? New mini ice age coming? We’ll see. All I know is that cold kills a lot more people than heat. https://t.co/OW7SU3l6S6

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 30, 2019

A great story for our time, but so sad that millions of “educated” Americans are historically illiterate about this - just the way their professors want them to be. Millions more lack the attention span to read it. https://t.co/qhwWw2UdP5

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 29, 2019

You're looking for justice from Twitter? You'll be looking for a long time. https://t.co/DiLXEM5CQn

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 29, 2019

Nothing to see here... move along... Twitter is completely apolitical. https://t.co/gkro45pcHz

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) December 15, 2018

Have you talked to the people in China, India, or Africa - where industrialization is in its infancy - about the Green New Deal? Your imposition of financial hardship on the US, won’t make a dent, when the rest of the world is spewing carbon. https://t.co/3Nxr83G0Dq

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 29, 2019

Adding to my earlier observation... the fact that Mueller's people - or someone with apparent knowledge of the raid - tipped off Mueller ally @CNN to the raid, but not other media, also raises troubling questions. https://t.co/r34dbdDCrm

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 25, 2019

Agreed... one if the few people in Washington willing to broach the intractable problems of entitlements looming like a giant ponzi scheme with too few young people to pay for too many old people. https://t.co/TjEayvyh3W

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) December 19, 2018

Imagine wasting your kids brain and $70K in tuition for this?

Boston U. honors college abandons Socratic method, Western canon in favor of social justice curriculum https://t.co/ATp9OBdl5t via @collegefix

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) September 18, 2018

This guy nails it: How to Stop Mass Shootings - Breitbart http://t.co/WtfA7ItoMc via @BreitbartNews

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) October 2, 2015

Mendacious John Lewis? Told MTP that inaug will be “first one I missed.” But he boycotted G.W Bush's too. Civil rights hero diminished.

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) January 17, 2017

The problem with affirmative action in one picture https://t.co/5K8lMZTMa3 via @collegefix

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) June 24, 2016

Milo Yiannopoulos: Islam Is The Problem https://t.co/uKOGKcCnVk

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) June 15, 2016

Global-warming 'proof' is evaporating http://t.co/RAxlXA9L5l

— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) December 5, 2013