Greg Kelly speculates that Maria Bartiromo may have been let go from Fox over a “rivalry” between Trump and Rupert Murdoch: “Maybe Rupert deep down thinks he should be the president.
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Should surveillance cameras Flock off? Right wing media are divided
Right-wing media are divided over Flock surveillance cameras
With public anger building against Flock Safety over privacy concerns with its database of automated license plate scanners, right-wing media figures are split on the surveillance company. Those defen...
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Carl Higbie: “I am calling on all Christian teachers to just go ahead and baptize Muslim students. See how you like that one, Allah.”
Tim Dillon refers to ICE as "a paramilitary group of psychopaths that you've recruited from a backyard wrestling event who are completely untrained"
Tim Dillon says ICE "has done a lot of damage, to the cause of actually having a secure border"
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Newsmax host attacks Pete Hegseth over conditions aboard the USS Lincoln: “I suspect that Pete has Pete in mind more than the military”
Newsmax host Greg Kelly on MN Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a registered member of Ojibwe whose father was a celebrated Native activist: "She passes herself off as an Indian — I have my doubts... Peggy is not an Indian, I don't care what they say, right?" www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
Newsmax's Greg Kelly claims Peggy Flanagan "is not an Indian"
Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, has spoken openly and repeatedly about how she is a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. She is also the daughter of the famed Native land r...
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Newsmax segment pushes great replacement theory, Islamophobia
Newsmax guest: "Where Islam grows, freedom dies"
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Michael Savage says ICE is "going after innocent people" because "they're afraid" that if they targeted actual criminals "they might get shot"
Newsmax's Michael Savage: "ICE is not going after the worst of the worst. ... They're going after innocent people."
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Ben Shapiro: "Jon Stewart is as Jewish as a ham sandwich"
Ben Shapiro says Sen. Bernie Sanders is "not actually" Jewish and comedian Jon Stewart is "as Jewish as a ham sandwich"
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Fox News hasn't dedicated any airtime to reporting from Politico and The New York Times showing that Trump denied disaster relief requests and terminated funding for clean energy grants in Democratic-led states
New reports show the Trump admin denied disaster requests and cancelled energy grants for blue states — Fox covered neither
Reporting from Politico and The New York Times showed that President Donald Trump denied disaster relief requests and terminated funding for clean energy grants in Democratic-led states. As of August ...
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Newsmax's Michael Savage claims Mayor Mamdani is "the head of the Muslim Brotherhood"
Newsmax's Michael Savage: Zohran Mamdani is "absolutely the head of the Muslim Brotherhood here in America, maybe in the whole Western world"
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Jacob Soboroff on Haley Stevens post accusing Abdul El-Sayed of wanting to 'blame all of [his] problems on Jewish Americans': "Sure sounds racist to me"
Billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis: The homeless should “live in Uganda for $8.13 a day. We'll give them the check for $8.13 a day, let them live somewhere else.”
From calling for homeless people to be sent to “internment camps” to fantasizing about making them “fight like gladiators,” right-wing media’s crusade against people without housing continues.
Right-wing media’s heinous rhetoric against people experiencing homelessness
Right-wing media have a long history of attacking homeless people, and so far 2026 has seen a continuation of that trend. Pundits have called for sending homeless people to different countries, “inter...
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With Pride Month underway, right-wing media figures are outraged over any supportive social media posts from corporations and are attacking sports teams for “trying to out-gay one another..."
How right-wing media covered corporate Pride campaigns in 2026
With Pride Month underway, right-wing media figures are celebrating that corporate Pride “is mostly over” and “beyond [its] peak,” crediting this decline to President Donald Trump and the right’s crus...
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Theo Von and environmental activist Erin Brockovich express support for the growing backlash against data centers: “It doesn't feel like we need this much expansion... people do not want it.”
“This is everything Alex Jones always talked about."
Podcaster Tim Dillon says Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC and increasing surveillance of Americans "should scare everybody"
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Right-wing podcaster Tim Dillon: "The Trump administration has basically been an auction... And everybody is submitting a bid on our country."
Podcaster Tim Dillon: The Trump administration "has basically been ... an auction" where "everybody is submitting a bid on our country"
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Fox Business guest Ashley Davis on student visa holders: "90% of Americans think that these people should not be in our country ... in my opinion, [they] shouldn't have any rights." Impossible to overstate the bloodlust in right-wing media right now (h/t @sagehodil.bsky.social)
Fox correspondent Cheryl Casone: "These people are disgusting, and it's not just Hamas, Maria. It is the Palestinian people. How can you be sympathetic anymore to this?" (h/t @sagehodil.bsky.social)
Fox News guest: "This is our Laken Riley right here. I think Californians have had enough. I really think this is the time to MAGA California."
Fox News guest somehow finds a way to make the wildfires about homeless people and drag queens
Maria Bartiromo: “All of these people who have come into America and wanting to disrupt our lives. I would like to see an investigation to ensure that we know that there were no outside agitators starting these fires.”