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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Sep. 4, 2025

Greetings! Dept. of What Else Is New? The Trump administration favors Fox News. Here’s the proof.  For the third month in a row, the White House Wire, the Drudge-Report-like mini-aggregation newsletter featuring good news about the Trump administration, has showered far more links on Fox News than any other news website.  According to TheRighting’s just-released analysis of the White House Wire, it linked 22 times to Fox News in August, almost twice as its closest competitor….Speaking of Fox News, rival Newsmax just filed an antitrust lawsuit against the right-wing juggernaut alleging major violations. In the three months TheRighting has been tracking the White House Wire, Newsmax has been linked to twice, while Fox News has been linked to 73 times…Good question:  The National Review wonders if we’re at war with Venezuela after the U.S. military’s lethal strike of a powerboat suspected of carrying illegal drugs…A new nonfiction book by right-wing podcast superstar Ben Shapiro dropped Tuesday. The main contention of Lions and Scavengers is that lions (such as the nation’s founding fathers) aim high to promote ideals like prosperity and freedom, but scavengers denigrate those concepts and foster entitlement and resentment….Who is an AWFL? American Thinkers describes them as Affluent, White, Female Liberals…The right-wing website Human Events declares that America is in a sex recessionHere’s why (in case you’re wondering)….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard