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.
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“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?
Conservative Columnist Stephen Kruiser Uses Humor to Stomp Libs
By Michael Lovito: The PJ Media columnist uses sharp-edged humor to hammer home his far-right POV. For instances, Kruiser refers to Biden as “President LOLEightyonemillion,” a reference to President Biden’s 2020 vote total, which the daily columnist doesn’t think is legit.
Right Wing Media Desperate to Place Blame on Red Wave That Wasn’t
By Kevin Howley: Conservative media outlets are working overtime tossing out excuses to see what sticks in the wake of an unambiguous repudiation of the Republican-led assault on reproductive rights, election integrity, and the rule of law.
Should TV Provide Live Coverage of Trump Announcement?
By Howard Polskin: Do TV news executives want to play a role in the resuscitation of Trump’s political fortunes, starting with live coverage of his Tuesday night event (assuming it happens as planned)? Because that’s what could happen if they broadcast the entirety of the announcement.
Stoking Election Conspiracy in Five Easy Lessons
By Kevin Howley: While Kevin McCarthy is still down at the beach waiting for the red wave that never arrived, here are some classic examples of right wing media working the Republican base into a frenzy to further erode public confidence in the outcome of the 2022 midterm election.
How Right Wing Media Covered the Paul Pelosi Attack
By Jaden Satenstein: As we wait for the GOP to recover from its historically weak midterm performance, let’s recall the deranged lengths that the right wing media went to in its effort to distort the truth about a hammer attack on a man who happened to be married to MAGA enemy No. 1. It’s a textbook example of the kind of lies we can expect during the long partisan slog to 2024.
Oprah Blew Her Chance to Denounce Oz and Help Fetterman
By J. Max Robins: It’s easy to wonder if, had Oprah denounced Oz and given a full-throttle endorsement of Fetterman months ago – as she had done for other Democrats – the Pennsylvania race would still be the dead heat it is now on Election Day. Instead, she stayed calculatingly neutral about the former surgeon she made into a daytime TV star.