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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By David Lieberman: Salem Media Group’s stock plummeted 27 percent on Friday touching a 52-week low of $1.31 after it disclosed that its hard right content failed to deliver for its bottom line in the quarter ending in September – and will continue to be weak through the year end.
By Kevin Howley: Republican operatives know a thing or two about kicking a man when he’s down. But, to his credit, Fetterman isn’t out. Not yet. It remains to be seen if the good people of Pennsylvania will support a Democratic candidate struggling to overcome health challenges
By Michael Lovito: Richard Viguerie is the chairman of ConservativeHQ, a right-wing website that features calls to action just as provocative as the direct mail pleas he sent to voters in the 1970s and 80s. His writing staff, which is heavy on Republican political operatives, make it clear that Viguerie is less interested in publishing compelling content than he is in converting readers into donors and grassroots organizers.
By Kris Parker: One theme that has unified the Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson recently is criticism of the Biden administration’s response to the Russian war on Ukraine, which Gabbard frames as Democrats “dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.” Both Gabbard and Carlson have been routinely criticized for repeating Kremlin propaganda.
By Jaden Satenstein: Right-wing media outlets are obsessed with a slew of topics this month including voter fraud, John Fetterman’s health and Kari Lake’s rise to the top of the GOP.
By Kevin Howley: While the Hall of Fame NFL quarterback has made headlines for his involvement in the alleged mishandling of millions of dollars allocated to Mississippi welfare funds, conservative outlets have all but buried their heads in the sand on the growing scandal.
Did Brett Favre drop the ball handling state funds?
By Kevin Howley: Right-wing news outlets and the Trump-dominated GOP are engaged in an intensifying campaign just before the midterms to scare senior citizens with leftist boogeymen like border security, crime and inflation.
By Ade Adeniji : The conservative-friendly social platform has lost almost all of its traffic since January 2021 when it generated more than 12 million unique visitors. In August 2022, Parler attracted only 137,000 unique visitors.
By J. Max Robins: The impact of the late night talk shows like “The Late Show” on political discourse will continue to be huge despite some softness in the genre. Colbert , Fallon and Kimmel have millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram, as well as millions of subscribers to their YouTube channels that magnify their real-time impact exponentially.
Stephen Colbert gabbing with former executive producer Chris Licht.
By Jaden Satenstein: Where are the women? Men in general are more likely to swing right than women, making for a larger audience of conservative male listeners for conservative male podcasters to target.
Where are the women podcasters?