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Has Newsmax Ghosted Their Star Meathead?<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Newsmax</p> <p><em>This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of </em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em>Confider</em></a><em>, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe </em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em>here</em></a><em> and send your questions, tips, and complaints </em><a href="mailto:confider@thedailybeast.com"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p>Newsmax meathead Grant Stinchfield has disappeared from its airwaves—and nobody knows what the channel’s plans are with the <a href="https://elink.thedailybeast.com/click/28419887.1716/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZGFpbHliZWFzdC5jb20vdW5oaW5nZWQtbmV3c21heC1ob3N0LWdyYW50LXN0aW5jaGZpZWxkLWFuZ3JpbHktY3V0cy1vZmYtdmV0ZXJhbi1mb3ItbWlsZGx5LWNyaXRpY2l6aW5nLXRydW1wP3ZpYT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnNvdXJjZT1zb3VyY2VtYXRlcmlhbA/500739748f88e31ae715d889Ba4bfe01f/email">frequently unhinged host</a>.</p> <p>Early last month, <a href="https://elink.thedailybeast.com/click/28419887.1716/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZGFpbHliZWFzdC5jb20vbmV3c21heC1yYXRpbmdzLWFyZS1jb2xsYXBzaW5nLWJ1dC1pbnNpZGVycy1jbGFpbS12aWN0b3J5P3ZpYT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnNvdXJjZT1zb3VyY2VtYXRlcmlhbA/500739748f88e31ae715d889Bc9a3294a/email">the ratings-challenged Fox News wannabe</a> overhauled its lineup to <a href="https://elink.thedailybeast.com/click/28419887.1716/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZGFpbHliZWFzdC5jb20vbmV3c21heC1oaXJlcy1ncmV0YS12YW4tc3VzdGVyZW4tYnVtcHMtc2Vhbi1zcGljZXItYW1pZC1zaGFrZXVwP3ZpYT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnNvdXJjZT1zb3VyY2VtYXRlcmlhbA/500739748f88e31ae715d889B953e120f/email">make room for</a> Greta Van Susteren. The former Fox News anchor was given the 6 p.m. ET slot, bumping former Trump flack Sean Spicer to 5 p.m. and moving another ex-Fox star, Eric Bolling, to primetime—in Stinchfield’s 8 p.m. slot.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/has-newsmax-ghosted-their-star-meathead-grant-stinchfield?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Newsmax

This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.

Newsmax meathead Grant Stinchfield has disappeared from its airwaves—and nobody knows what the channel’s plans are with the frequently unhinged host.

Early last month, the ratings-challenged Fox News wannabe overhauled its lineup to make room for Greta Van Susteren. The former Fox News anchor was given the 6 p.m. ET slot, bumping former Trump flack Sean Spicer to 5 p.m. and moving another ex-Fox star, Eric Bolling, to primetime—in Stinchfield’s 8 p.m. slot.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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