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.
Publication: A Righting Original
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.
The Top 10 Right Wing Media Soundbites of 2022
By Kevin Howley: Sound bite #4 is courtesy of the reliably mind-blowing far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who invited her followers to win an opportunity to go wild hog hunting with her from a helicopter.
Wannabe Speaker Kevin McCarthy Draws Ire of Right Wing Media
By Kevin Howley: Whether Kevin McCarthy decides to be naughty or nice this Christmas, expect the GOP’s internecine warfare to escalate between now and the new year.
Conservative Candace Owens Is Still Trying to Get Blacks to Shift Right
By Jaden Satenstein: It’s clear that BLEXIT isn’t as compelling as the rising conservative podcaster Candace Owens thinks, especially considering the fact that the GOP continues to double down on racist rhetoric and policies that disenfranchise Black voters and promote white supremacist ideology.
Bad Company: Kanye, Neo-Nazis and Right Wing Media
By Kevin Howley: Right wing media outlets slow-walked muted responses to Trump’s gathering of neo-Nazis at Mar-a-Lago and the firestorm following Ye’s praise for the Fuhrer that left Infowars host Alex Jones looking like a paragon of propriety.
Mickey Mouse in the White House: Is Disney’s Iger Eyeing a 2024 Run?
By J. Max Robins: Iger going up against DeSantis or the Commander-in-Chief of Mar-a-Lago would be big box office for right wing websites that have seen traffic dive. This is the kind of cultural war series the Tucker Carlsons of the world dream about.
Right Wing Media to Single Women: Get Back in the Kitchen
By Jaden Satenstein: Some conservative outlets argue that toxic femininity is costing Republican elections. Furthermore, they assert that the only way to win back the female vote is to embrace traditional womanhood.
Right Wing Media’s Tough on Crime Talking Points Ring Hollow After Mass Shootings
By Kevin Howley: When will Republicans, the so-called party of law and order, finally come to terms with the death cult it continually panders to, even as the body count reaches epic proportions?