Napolitano still in the News-Register
I'm working on a longer post but I couldn't help noting that today's Wheeling News-Register continues to run Andrew Napolitano's syndicated column. Earlier this week, even Fox News dropped him. From the LA Times:
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano is being kept off the air indefinitely amid the controversy over his unverified claims that British intelligence wiretapped Trump Tower at the behest of former President Obama.
Fox News did not respond to inquiries about Napolitano’s status Monday. Napolitano was conspicuously missing from the network’s coverage of the confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — an event in which he typically would have played a significant role.
He has not been on the air since Thursday.
Okay, Fox has kicked him off the air and from New Jersey.com we learn that he could be facing ethics charges:
TRENTON -- Fox News's senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, may face ethics violations for claiming without proof that President Barack Obama had ordered surveillance of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, according to a new report.
According to a report in the New Jersey Law Journal, Napolitano could face censure for making the claims -- which have been denied by U.S. and British intelligence officials -- in his column and on-air at Fox.
This is not his first over-the-top statement -- he has a long history as Media Matters explains:
He has used his Fox platform to champion 9/11 trutherism, suggest that Osama bin Laden wasn’t really dead, and blame President Abraham Lincoln for having "set about on the most murderous war in American history" over slavery.
Yes, but he's still good enough for the News-Register.