On Stern American, Tina Peters praises White House counsel David Warrington for "the work that he did to effectuate and work with" Gov. Jared Polis "for my release"
Media Matters weekly newsletter, August 14
Fox News has spent over 13 ½ hours fixated on the WNBA this summer. Right-wing media have been arguing for decades that fewer Americans should have the right to vote , laying the…
MAHA and right-wing media revive debunked claim about the COVID vaccine and miscarriages to attack Dr. Fauci
A press release from two Republican senators containing texts from Dr. Anthony Fauci has revived a bogus claim — based on a flawed interpretation of a 2021 study — that the…
Newsmax host claims Minnesota Senate candidate and Native American Peggy Flanagan "is not an Indian"
Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, has spoken openly and repeatedly about how she is a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. She is also the daughter of…
Steve Bannon and former Trump DHS adviser Todd Bensman agree ICE should be present at polling places
Newsmax host resurfaces a local news report from 2014 to attack Muslim students calling for halal lunches
The clip played by Newsmax is from a KPBS story from June 3, 2014.
Fox argues the Trump economy is “booming” as many indicators show otherwise
Many on Fox News and Fox Business are arguing that the economy under President Donald Trump is “booming” and “going gangbusters,” even though many months of the Trump…
Right-wing media's affordability burrito brawl
Last week, Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet's post about a college student noting the high price of a burrito sparked a debate among conservative commentators over whether food…
On LindellTV, Patrick Byrne criticizes "completely incompetent" Trump for his "very tepid little weak tea" election inteference speech
Newsmax host attacks Pete Hegseth over conditions aboard the USS Lincoln: "I suspect that Pete has Pete in mind more than the military"
Rudy Giuliani: Young people struggling economically are "privileged little shits" who need "somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them"
Trump says "stranger things have happened" after Wayne Allyn Root pitches his national security emergency idea on elections directly to him
In an interview with Wayne Allyn Root, a host for Real America's Voice and longtime supporter of the president, Donald Trump appeared to give credence to the emerging far-right…
Claro y Directo America host: “We'll turn our elections into the whores of the entire world. Here, anyone who wants to can vote. Whoever can afford the ticket, come and vote.”
Nick Fuentes attacks Candace Owens and Kai Cenat: "Black people cannot actually sound out words. ... This is difficult for them."
Nick Fuentes: “Dearborn, Michigan, should be Henry Ford, should be white people. Detroit, Michigan, should be that. Instead, it's Muslims.”
RAV Noticias guest calls for primary challenges against Republicans who vote against SAVE Act
Fox guest: Social media post from TPUSA spokesman highlighting affordability was pushing a socialist agenda
This week, a viral post from Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet about a college student's concern over the cost of a burrito sparked an online debate on the right about how…
Media Matters weekly newsletter, August 7
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Fox News gave no airtime to the Trump administration withholding funds to Democrat-led states. Major broadcast…
Right-wing media ramp up Islamophobic campaign against Abdul El-Sayed
Right-wing media launched a tirade of Islamophobic attacks against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed both leading up to and following his win in the August 4 Democratic…
Jack Keane: "We should go back to pre-February 28, the Strait of Hormuz was regarded as freedom of navigation in international waterways. No country had oversight of it, no one decided when ships would move through it."
Tudor Dixon tells Sean Hannity that Hasan Piker is "a birthright citizenship baby": "People mistakenly believe that he is also an American"
Fox Business celebrates July jobs report showing a loss of 23,000 jobs: “This is great news”
Sean Hannity: The idea that the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes "just is not true"
TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet says Abdul El-Sayed is "an Egyptian-descent Muslim man who is part of a larger scheme of the Islamification of America"
Ben Shapiro calls Tucker Carlson's manifesto a "deliberately simplistic, unsophisticated, semantically overloaded bunch of bullshit"
On LindellTV, Tina Peters calls on Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense to "to go in and demand to have these" voting machines "in their custody"
Megyn Kelly rages at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This bitch thinks she's going to be president”
How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal
Newsmax's Michael Savage: "ICE is not going after the worst of the worst. ... They're going after innocent people."
Patrick Bet-David on Tucker Carlson's manifesto: "I actually am disappointed that he didn't put a better plan together"
Right-wing media have been arguing for decades that fewer Americans should have the right to vote
With the midterms approaching, the Trump administration and its allies seem desperate to suppress the vote. The president has pressed Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a…
Fox News has spent over 13 1/2 hours waging a WNBA culture war this summer
Fox News has filled its summer programming with extensive coverage of the WNBA, airing at least 206 segments on the league and its players largely aimed at stoking culture war…