By Jaden Satenstein: While figures like singer Sheryl Crow have condemned Jason Aldean (above) for misrepresenting the BLM movement and promoting racial violence, Republican presidential hopefuls are riling up their bases by showing support for the song. And it isn’t the first time Republicans have stirred the pot with their campaign song choices.
By David Lieberman: PublicSq is well-steeped in right-wing grievances. That suggests it’s primarily a marketing play – a bet on its ability to prod like-minded consumers to become so invested in the idea of shopping as a political act that they’ll overlook potential shortcomings including relatively high prices and limited selection.
By Kevin Howley: The party of esteemed cold warriors for generations of hardline Republicans is challenging US military spending, and raising the alarm over a third world war. What, you may ask, explains this abrupt about-face in Republican defense policy? It all comes down to the vision of one man. Donald J. Trump, peacenik
By Kevin Howley: The fallen Fox News anchor had a star turn at last week’s Family Leadership Summit where he had a star turn as inquisitor of 2024 GOP Republican contenders like Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott.
By Jon Friedman: The former Green Bay Packer quarterback is an aggressive anti-vax proponent. He may find that he is a stranger in a strange land. New York City is notoriously liberal in its political views, including positions on embracing Covid-19 vaccinations.
By Jaden Satenstein: Meta is trying to distinguish its new social media platform Threads by framing it as a place for “friendly” conversations, not news and political debates. Unlike Twitter, which has devolved into a far-right-friendly hellscape, Threads doesn’t promote political content.
By Jon Friedman: What matters here is that the Republican-tilting media are going down a bad road by criticizing environmental regulations like wood-burning pizza ovens as “woke.” Inventing scandals, which at root make no sense anyway, seems amateurish at a time when data show that inflation is receding as a national threat to our way of life.
By Howard Polskin: For the week beginning July 10, I followed Trump’s voluminous Truth Social posting of links to right wing websites . Breitbart seems to have a special place in Trump’s world view, according to a review of the past seven days.
By Kevin Howley: In recent weeks, climate scientists have issued dire predictions that 2023 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history. But the denial is strong in conservative circles. And we’re not referring to the results of the 2020 presidential election. With few exceptions, right wing media have hit peak stupidity this summer.
By Amanda Coopersmith: “Sound of Freedom” actor Jim Caviezel , who plays a former Homeland Security Agent who saves trafficked children, stoked controversy for the film with a number of eye-raising comments including support of Q’Anon and fringe conspiracy theories.
By J. Max Robins: Nigel Farage certainly checks the boxes on the job description for Raging Right-Wing Ranter. A major MAGA fanboy during The Donald’s 2016 White House run, he got up close and cozy with the campaign, forging an alliance with Brexit fellow-traveler Steve Bannon and Trump himself.
Kevin Howley: From Hunter’s laptop to “Cocainegate,” right wing operatives cast Joe’s boy as a drug-addled liar whose political connections are the only thing standing between him and prison. A review of recent headlines castigating Joe’s boy for scurrilous behavior demonstrates the right’s obsessive-compulsive disorder with Hunter Biden.
By Amanda Coopersmith: The casting of Black R&B singer Halle Bailey as Ariel in 2019, a character traditionally portrayed as white, began a sustained years-long criticism of the film “The Little Mermaid” by right wing media.
By Jon Friedman: If the right-wing media wrote damning stories about Trump, they’d not only risk incurring his well-honed wrath. They’d also risk angering his flock of followers, who might then prefer to get their brand of information from a source that had expressed total fealty to the former president.
By Kevin Howley: Who are GOP leaders like Ted Cruz and Jim Jordan gunning for this summer? It depends who you talk to. For some, Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is public enemy number one. For others, it’s Attorney General Merrick Garland. Still others are out to get President Joe Biden – aka the boss of the “Biden crime family.”
By David Lieberman: The Democratic candidate for president has received backing from the likes of Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks, a supporter of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, as well as Omeed Malik, a contributing editor and minority owner of the Daily Caller.
By Jon Friedman: Right wing journalists will take any bit of dirt and try to find a way to bring it to President Biden’s door – and as far as possible from Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster.
By Kevin Howley: Conservatives are tearing into the Defense Department’s recruitment efforts. As this year’s Pride Month festivities wind down, it’s worth considering how right wing extremists and their hate-filled allies are targeting military personnel with their “anti-woke” demagoguery.
By Michael Lovito: Gays Against Groomers doesn’t believe that all gay or trans people are groomers – but they do believe that introducing children to concepts related to homosexuality and trans identity could make them vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Its leadership has an unmistakably right wing pedigree.
By Amanda Coopersmith: Early in the CNN’s anchor career at the Daily Caller, Collins took some cheap shots at female Democratic leaders reporting cheekily that Hillary Clinton was “old as dirt” and offering advice on “how to glare like Michelle Obama.”
By Kevin Howley: With less than two weeks left in this year’s Pride Month, right wing media are claiming victory for putting “ultra-woke” corporations, politicians, and activists on the defensive. It remains to be seen if it will have a lasting impact on corporate America’s conditional commitment to DEI.
By Jon Friedman: MLB teams have been admirably celebrating Pride Night throughout June in ballparks. Still, the National Pastime is finding that inclusion, while a worthy pursuit, is not always easy to embrace. The sport must show that it can expand its notion of diversity when even some of its players make this goal difficult.
By Amanda Coopersmith: Produced by The Daily Wire and released to its subscribers in 2022, “What Is a Woman” has become one of the most controversial Trump-era documentaries especially since it was released free to Twitter at the beginning of Pride Month.
By Jon Friedman: Taking the long game remains a sensible political strategy. Why should DeSantis go out on a limb at this early juncture? Why risk looking reckless and stupid later? But for the righty journalists who are taking a wait-and-see attitude, out of fear, the posture stinks, pure and simple.