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MAGA TV praises Trump for his cave on Epstein disclosures; Also, Fox News buries a bad Trump poll result.
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Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: MAGA TV praises Trump for his Epstein cave. Once supportive of Epstein disclosures, Steve Bannon is now quiet - he's all over recent congre...
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
Steve Bannon's unseen Jeffrey Epstein footage; And MAGA's infighting over H-1B visas.
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Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Steve Bannon is all over the newly released Epstein documents, raising questions about the 15 hours of interviews he promised to release. M...
MAGA's election despair and the crisis of affordability; Also, Fox News remains largely silent during firestorm over Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes.
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Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: MAGA’s despair following this week’s elections — and Sean Hannity’s attempt to whitewash the New Jersey gubernatorial election. Right-wing ...
Fox News and Fox Business glossed over rising food and grocery prices last month, while Trump redoubled his efforts to simply lie about the worsening inflation situation hitting hundreds of millions of Americans.
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Fox News and Fox Business spent just 1 hour and 23 minutes discussing high and rising grocery prices in the month of October, as high-profile off-year elections approached. The two networks’ relative ...
Newsmax host on election results: “It's like a funeral in here”
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No treats, just tricks: Right-wing media cheer SNAP cuts.
This weeks' Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: MAGA split on SNAP — some pundits horrifically attack recipients while others use them as a cudgel against Democrats. Right-wing figures an...
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
This isn't remotely the point, but the pedant in me feels obligated to point out: "un-painless" just means…painful.
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
The complete inversion of morals on the right is not surprising but it's still shocking. Imagine being on the side of intentionally starving children.
