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Media Matters for America is the nation's premier progressive media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News' "Brain Room"
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Newsmax guest defends Chick-Fil-A: “They sell fried chicken. I don't know how much more inclusive we can get.”
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Fox News' Jesse Watters suggests Joe and Hunter Biden, the Mexican president and drug cartels are conspiring to steal the 2024 election
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Sean Hannity promises he won’t challenge or fact-check Donald Trump during Iowa town hall
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In their first commitment of the 2024 cycle, Charlie Kirk's Turning Point Action is raising money for a $5 million ballot chasing effort in Wisconsin in collaboration with a QAnon conspiracy theorist mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira
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Arizona state Sen. Janae Shamp has promoted neo-Nazis and other virulent antisemites; Shamp also compared herself to a Holocaust victim.
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The debt ceiling deal collapses the right’s Biden “dementia” smear and they don't know how to handle it
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Fox News has once again pushed a patently false story even after it was debunked
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reportedly giving January 6 security footage to conspiracy theorist Julie Kelly ( / Media Matters for America)
mediamatters.org/julie-kelly/sp
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Today Marge Greene announced that at her request Speaker McCarthy is providing unrestricted access to January 6th surveillance tapes to discredited journalist John Solomon, a Jan 6th conspiracy theorist named Julie Kelly and another unnamed party.
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Musk removes state affiliated media labels from Chinese state outlet.
Chinese state outlet then puts out positive videos on his visit to China.
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#Tesla's founder & CEO @elonmusk, thanked the Shanghai Gigafactory's employees when he delivered a speech at the plant on Wednesday night. "Thank you for being here late at night...I just want to let you know, it warms my heart."
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ABC News is suspending its relationship with Chris Christie in light of his reportedly imminent announcement that he is once again running for president, a spokesperson confirms to Media Matters.
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Sean Hannity calls the debt ceiling deal “a typical DC swamp sewer bill”
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Target does not sell "tuck swimsuits" in child sizes but I don't think we should lose sight that the "scandal" here is the right making up a lie about kids' swimsuits having extra coverage in the crotch area and then getting mad about that.
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It’s worth being reminded every once in a while that QAnon is just mainstream conservative orthodoxy these days
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Fox News is attacking Target for supporting a group that works to reduce death by suicide for LGBTQ people. That’s gross by itself - and it’s also hypocritical, because the Fox Corporation turns out to support the same organization.
More from : mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n
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Fox News attacks Target’s support for GLSEN after its parent Fox Corp. bragged about supporting the pro-LGBTQ group mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n
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Honestly impressive how the organizing principle of right-wing outrage went from 'let's complain about cancel culture' to 'let's cancel everything' and no one on the right even batted an eye
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While some conservatives have praised the deal, many in right-wing media are willing to risk a default
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Whoa. Twitter failed to remove hate speech by blue-check users in 99% of the instances reported.
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Here we are again. Mace is running the Stefanik playbook to reposition herself within the House GOP.
Yesterday she told reporters she's opposed to the debt bill because there aren't enough cuts
Today she's in studio reiterating this position to Steve Bannon
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Rep. Nancy Mace, who positions herself as a moderate in the GOP, is in studio with insurrectionist Steve Bannon this morning to push House Oversight's "investigation" into Biden
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Why does Newsmax keep doing this?
In February 2022, they aired footage of Syria during a broadcast on the Ukraine invasion mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsma
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Wow. As pointed out by others, NewsMax was reporting on drone strikes in Russia and used a video of a collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa.
What a joke.
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Wow. As pointed out by others, NewsMax was reporting on drone strikes in Russia and used a video of a collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa.
What a joke.👇
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Sean Hannity's “take” last night on the debt ceiling deal was “many on both sides of the aisle are either happy or unhappy about the, quote, compromise,” if you're wondering whether Fox has knives out for Kevin McCarthy.
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Ah yes, Ron DeSantis media favorite.
Kurtz concocts an extensive media conspiracy to take down without bothering to try to prove that essential claim.
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From the New York Times on his use of private jets from undisclosed pals to Politico likening his wife to Lady Macbeth, DeSantis is getting hammered by a media establishment that he openly disdains. He’s gone from media favorite to media piñata tinyurl.com/bdh5kybz
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I don't know about you guys but I don't think this is about protecting kids.
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Broadcast and cable news shows aired a combined 9 minutes of coverage about a recent Pacific Northwest heat wave, and none of them mentioned climate change.
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Fox News covered Pride Month displays in Target for more than two hours; by contrast, the network covered a new report detailing sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Illinois for just 22 seconds.
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‼️On today's Show‼️
of discusses Elon Musk's attempts to poach Fox News's audience
🔊Listen Here: siriusxm.us/Signorile
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Reminder that anytime a track tops the iTunes Charts, it's because of digital *sales* - *not* streams on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
Songs can hit #1 with just a couple thousand sales.
Jezebel did a great write up on this: jezebel.com/what-no-1-itun
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Newsmax bucking to get sued for libel again.
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Arizona state Sen. Janae Shamp has shared QAnon propaganda on social media dozens of times
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Fox’s Dominion failure is much deeper than one of poor legal strategy.
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AZ Republicans claimed a committee using an acronym that's popular with QAnon was just a coincidence. But found that chair and state Sen. Janae Shamp has shared QAnon propaganda dozens of times, including the phrase of the acronym. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira
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Fox’s Dominion failure is much deeper than one of poor legal strategy
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It's the defamation, stupid.
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EXCLUSIVE: keeps railing against 'groomers.' But one of the corporate sponsors of his 'pastors summit' is led by a registered sex offender.
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BREAKING: A Target in Layton was evacuated after officials said they were informed of a bomb threat to multiple Utah locations. They said the threat mentioned Target's Pride merchandise displays.
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Fox News' Miranda Devine suggests January 6 pipe bombs were “a false flag operation”
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