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Senior Researcher at Media Matters; Recovering Philosopher; “An evil piece of garbage” - Ben Shapiro
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MAGA media's pathetic polling collapse spin; Also, Trump officials appeared more than 500 times on Fox during the first 100 days. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Pete Hegseth's inevitable debacle; Also, hacky tariff defenses galore. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

How tariffs are fracturing the pro-Trump coalition; Also, the Right's assault on due process. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Despite ongoing tariff chaos, MAGA declares victory; Also, Fox News flails to defend the Trump administration's lack of due process. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

MAGA media spin tariff terror - RWM pundits react to stock market plunge with celebration and confusion. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Signalgate scrambles MAGA media - Fox News defends Trump officials for leaking sensitive information by calling them incompetent. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Benny Johnson suggests “a backdoor splinter cell group inside the CIA” added Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal chat

The Right's dominance over online media, explained; Plus, Republican voters are ringing the alarm on Trump administration abuses. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

They're coming for Medicaid; Also, MAGA media fiddles while the stock market burns. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

Newsmax's Greg Kelly says Joseph McCarthy "was on the right side of history"

Fox is pivoting to blaming Biden for Trump's economic mismanagement; Also, the Right's decades-long lurch to Putin's Russia. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “Everything that makes your life safer, more comfortable, more enjoyable was given to you by a white man” www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/d...

Even callers into pro-Trump radio shows are sounding an alarm; Also, Fox backtracks on its inflation promises. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “There's a lot of inbreeding in Somalia, which affects IQ” www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/d...

As Trump rails at the AP, Fox News takes both sides; Also, Trump's attacks on Ukraine divide conservatives. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Is CFPB protecting people from excessive overdraft fees woke too?; Also, Fox News hosts warned of a "tyrant" in the White House - in 2014. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “You need to get over slavery”

The passive authoritarian tense

Only president with a lower net approval this early in their term was Trump in 2017

Newsmax host attacks a blind witness at a government hearing: “Does that not complicate oversight? Just a fair question.” www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

Matt Walsh says Puerto Rico is “not American and it'll never be”

Newsmax host: “Who knew they had electricity in Sri Lanka?”

Media outlets are surrendering to Trump's assault on the free press; Also, MAGA media cheer Trump bluster and blunders. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Just 3 years ago Rubio wrote a letter to Biden suggesting they *increase* the USAID budget as a tool to “counter the CCP’s expanding global influence.” Contradicting comments he made Monday that dismissed concerns of China stepping in where USAID left. www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

Musk has rejected Congress's powers and appointed himself illegally as the sole arbiter of federal spending. What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following. www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...

Daily Wire host: “You have to find a woman who doesn't need to be smacked around in order to behave in a civilized way”

MAGA media's unhinged reaction to this week's deadly aircraft collision; Also, right-wing media is split on Robert F Kennedy Jr. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Trump's removal of a Democratic NLRB Board Member is obviously illegal. But that appears to be the point: The president is teeing up a challenge to the 90-year-old precedent that prevents him from seizing control over independent agencies. It's a fight he will likely win. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Daily Wire host likens Trump's mass deportation to the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, and more: “Mass deportation is as American as apple pie” www.mediamatters.org/michael-know...

Fox flip flips on pardons for violent J6 offenders; Also, Bishop Mariann Budde prayed for mercy - MAGA media melted down. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Feels like no one else has picked up on the reality that Trump’s low energy Gulf of America nonsense only applies to a part of the Gulf (from the gulf coast down to an invisible jagged line in the water) and therefore isn’t particularly useful for ordinary navigation or news coverage

Newsmax guest claims Bishop Mariann Budde “wants to sodomize the minds of our kids. She's a mental rapist.” www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

Newsmax host: “Donald Trump was dictator on day one, but a dictator that the American people voted for.”

NEW: My colleagues & I analyzed nearly 1.3k hours of footage (>2k videos) from nine wildly popular podcasters and streamers on YouTube to understand how they helped lift Trump to power. Now that he's back in office, the broadcasters are well-positioned to help build support for his political agenda.

REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers? TRUMP: Sure REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon? TRUMP: Well, I don't know

Ben Shapiro: “Jesus was not in favor of free migration across all borders”

With Los Angeles in ashes, right-wing media play games with federal aid to California; Also, TikTok is boosting LA wildfire misinformation. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Mark Zuckerberg surrenders to right-wing falsehoods; Also, right-wing media blame DEI for the LA wildfires. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Charlie Kirk calls for eliminating sign language interpreters during emergency briefings: “It's a distraction”

Ben Shapiro says Jimmy Carter “was a vindictive, not particularly nice human being” who did "quite evil things with his ex-presidency"

The truth about the New Orleans attack Fox News doesn't want to hear; Media Matters named anti-media intimidation the misinformer of 2024. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Conservative media is cheering on a government shutdown for Christmas - this week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Elon Musk, good businessman with great negotiating skills, shines again!

Elon Musk is fine with the government shutting down because he’s worth nearly $500 billion and will not be impacted Meanwhile members of the military, TSA agents, and postal workers — people with families to support — will be forced to work without pay

haha yes the gravy train is over for the, uh...the...uh...the kids...uh...with...the, uh, kids with...uhhhh...the kids with cancer

Ben Shapiro says a "government shutdown isn't the end of the world. We've done it before. It's not that big a deal. When I say it's not that big deal, it is for the people who are furloughed"

Kari Lake, an unhinged conspiracy theorist, is picked for a prestigious post in the Trump administration; Also, cable news ignores Trump's threats to Medicaid. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...