By Jaden Satenstein: Those who are still happily aboard the Trump train have unleashed nasty attacks on Haley for daring to challenge their leader. And, it seems, for daring to be a woman of color.
Publication: A Righting Original
Almost Unlistenable “Bannon’s War Room” Becomes a Top Apple Podcast
By David Andrew Stoler: For such a prodigious podcast, it is also almost unlistenable, filled with non-sequiturs, twisted metaphors, and seemingly random sound bites. There have been more than 2500 episodes!
Right Wing Media Alive with Bogus Stories of Jab-Related Deaths
By Kevin Howley: According to conservative news outlets and affiliated media hysterics, if you’ve been on the receiving end of a Covid jab, you’re one heartbeat away from eternity.
Small Florida News Sites Loom Large with Friendly GOP Coverage
By Michael Lovito: The Florida Standard and Florida’s Voice, two right-leaning news sites covering the Sunshine State, aren’t just a pair of new publications catering to conservatives skeptical of mainstream media. They are two pieces of a larger strategy by Florida Republicans to reshape the state’s media landscape.
A Valentine’s Day Guide to Right Wing Femininity
By Kevin Howley: Tradwives aren’t simply rejecting feminism, they’re waging a war against a radical left agenda that promotes reproductive rights, critical race theory, gender affirmative care, and an assault weapons ban.
Candace Owens Is Just Boring
By David Andrew Stoler: She knows how to step blandly into a controversy, yes; and there’s no need to guess why an attractive podcaster who is both Black and keen to propagate the finest White Supremacy sentiment might become popular with the Far Right. But to delve much deeper into her podcasts is to find yourself hitting bottom right quick
Obscure Right Wing TV News Network Gets Ready for Its Close-Up
By J. Max Robins: Since its launch in 2019, The First has been a kind of witness protection program channel for a murderer’s row of mostly past-their-prime-pundits. Recently, however, The First’s fortunes brightened. Late last month, DirecTV announced it would carry the conservative network, making it available to its more than 13 million subscribers.
Right Wing Media Kicks Off Coverage of the Trump-DeSantis Battle
By Kevin Howley: Ever since Trump announced his re-election bid last November, the disgraced former president has taunted DeSantis as only he can. For months, DeSantis hasn’t taken the bait. All that changed last week.
Top Right Wing Podcaster Victim-Blames Tyre Nichols
By David Andrew Stoler: On his podcast, Ben Shapiro can hardly contain his glee as he reads the names of the police officers charged with Nichols beating and murder – they’re all black! And they killed a black man! See, it can’t be racist.
The Babylon Bee Hates Harriet Tubman
By David Andrew Stoler: The conservative humor site has been mocking civil rights icons.
Right Wing Media’s Coverage of Abortion Puts Pressure on GOP
By Jaden Satenstein: As Republicans hunt for a new stance on the abortion issue, which was once considered a simple political litmus test, right-wing media outlets are staking out ever-more extreme positions, forcing the GOP to make a difficult choice between reason and a reckless disregard for the reasonable.
4chan Remains Today’s Thought Leader in Tomorrow’s Conspiracy Theories
By David Andrew Stoler: 4chan’s general M.O. is as simple. Someone takes a piece of news, posts it with a controversial image and then the “fun” starts – the replies, the comments, the memes – the raison d’être for the site. It’s from this sewage that the Right’s talking points bubble up.
Don Jr.’s New Podcast Is a Trainwreck
By Kevin Howley: By minute 20, Don Jr. reveals what is arguably the evening’s worst kept secret. “This is new to me. I am totally winging it.” Maybe conservative media audiences are more forgiving than I, but this train wreck has barely left the station and the wheels are coming off.
Inside Right Wing Media’s “Operation Gaslight”
By Kevin Howley: You’d think Biden was selling nuclear launch codes to the highest bidder. Instead, conservatives are sounding a five-alarm fire over mere proposals to phase out gas stoves for cleaner more efficient electric cooking ranges.
“The Morning Wire” Podcast Is Easy Listening Right Wing Media
By Michael Lovito: “The Morning Wire” doesn’t go out of its way to court controversy. Indeed, it gives its listeners as gentle a morning news update as possible. The show certainly has a point of view, but it inserts it subtly, avoiding the open provocations of other conservative podcasts.
Brazil Riots: Three Hot Takes from Right Wing Media
By Kevin Howley: All the schadenfreude and “whataboutism” over Biden’s latest gift to political opponents hasn’t stopped right wing media from cheering fascist thugs who stormed government buildings in Brazil last weekend in a bid to oust democratically elected Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
Chris Wallace’s CNN Problems
By J. Max Robins: Can Chris Wallace’s reputation as the down-the-middle guy at Fox News, the flagship of right wing media, help CNN shed the network’s left-leaning image and tack to the political center? A better bet is that in a couple of years, when his contract is up, there won’t be anyone talking to Wallace on CNN.
Walmart Is an Unlikely (and Powerful) LGBTQ Ally
By Michael Lovito: This shift to the left by a company associated with small town America has caught the attention of a handful of conservative media outlets, who have taken aim at both Walmart and the Waltons’ donations as well as their business practices.
Dumpster Fire on Steroids: Speaker Stalemate Inflames Right Wing Media
By Kevin Howley: Not since that tumult of the Trump era have we witnessed a GOP flame war of such epic proportions. Then the Donald took to Truth Social to support McCarthy’s floundering speaker bid. Call it a Trumpster fire.
Rasmussen Reports Is Here to Stay, Facts Be Damned
By Michael Lovito: Experts on the left, right, and center have long taken issue with Rasmussen Reports’ research methods and telegraphed political preferences, but there’s no denying that its results have generated headlines and boosted Republican morale. It doesn’t matter if the mainstream media isn’t buying what Rasmussen is selling – its target audience is.
11 Surprising Predictions for Right Wing Media in 2023
By Howard Polskin: What will right wing outlets be focusing on? Who are their targets? Who are the teacher’s pets? Prediction #8: drag queen story hour will become even more politicized.
The Right Wing Media Guide to McCarthy’s Shaky Speaker Bid
By Kevin Howley: Kevin McCarthy may yet realize his longtime ambition to wield the speaker’s gavel. But if reporting from the right is any indication, come January 3 there could be an epic floor fight between “Only Kevin” and “Never Kevin” Republicans that’ll make C-SPAN look like a WWE pay-per-view spectacular.
The Best Political TV Series of 2022
By J. Max Robins: Who other than Rupert Murdoch should be the immoral center of the year’s best real-life “Succession” docuseries? “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence” aired on CNN and it became essential viewing for anyone interested in the astonishing power of partisan media, where facts are relative and making millions and wielding influence is everything.
J6 Finale Triggers Right Wing Media’s Tri-Polar Disorder
By Kevin Howley: Most right wing coverage of the historic Jan. 6 hearing defended the disgraced former president with all of the piss and vinegar you’d expect. A sampling of this coverage tells you all you need to know about the right’s tentative grasp on reality.