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Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”

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If only someone could have predicted this...

06.03.2026 20:44 👍 185 🔁 61 💬 7 📌 2
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The US economy has lost jobs since Trump’s “Liberation Day.” Fox is still celebrating his destructive import taxes.

My latest: The US economy has lost jobs since Trump’s “Liberation Day.” Fox is still celebrating his destructive import taxes. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... The February jobs report showed that total employment has declined by 19,000 jobs compared to April 2025

06.03.2026 18:25 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Mark Levin is crashing out over opposition to Trump's war with Iran - goes after Tucker "Qatarlson," "Bloated Bannon," and "dumb blonde" Megyn Kelly

Also calls for @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to be "denaturalized and deported" for daring to question Trump

06.03.2026 17:29 👍 40 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1
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Media Matters weekly newsletter, March 6 Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: The war with Iran is the most consequential test of the Fox-Trump feedback loop yet. The Iran war has unleashed a firestorm of right-wing m...

A firestorm of infighting in MAGA media over the war in Iran; Also, some pundits try to bridge the divide by pushing Trump to deport Muslim Americans.

This week's Media Matters newsletter:
www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

06.03.2026 16:02 👍 28 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

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06.03.2026 14:33 👍 170 🔁 36 💬 14 📌 4

almost as if these people don't know what they're talking about

06.03.2026 13:45 👍 69 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 0
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Laura Ingraham: "Trump has already won in Iran"

Mission Accomplished. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/lau...

06.03.2026 13:30 👍 288 🔁 26 💬 31 📌 9

how it's playing out in right-wing media: "fake sermons and fake passages from the Bible” “Skin suit of Christianity” “straight up demonic" www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso... via @slawton.bsky.social

05.03.2026 21:33 👍 94 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 4
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Former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino casts US war in Iran as "invaluable experience"

Well as long as it pads the resume: Former deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino casts US war in Iran as “invaluable experience” for warfighters

05.03.2026 20:16 👍 67 🔁 16 💬 27 📌 6
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As Trump’s new Middle East war spikes gas prices, Fox guest blames Joe Biden for Americans’ affordability concerns

New from me: As Trump’s new Middle East war spikes gas prices, Fox guest blames Joe Biden for Americans’ affordability concerns www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

05.03.2026 17:12 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 11 📌 4
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Even some right-wing media suggest they don’t know the goal of Trump’s war in Iran A number of right-wing media figures have questioned the goals of President Donald Trump’s war in Iran and suggested they found the administration’s explanations lacking. Some have called the administ...

Right-wing pundits have accused the administration of taking “a kitchen sink approach” that makes it “impossible … to have an informed opinion”

05.03.2026 14:35 👍 72 🔁 14 💬 10 📌 2
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Reacting to public disapproval of the Iran war, Newsmax host says “it's a good thing that nobody knows what we're doing”

05.03.2026 12:54 👍 73 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 4
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Right-wing media figures have drawn a line on sending American ground troops to Iran. The White House has not ruled them out. A number of right-wing media figures have drawn the line on sending American ground troops to Iran.Fox News’ Sean Hannity — who has jockeyed for regime change in Iran for decades — explicitly promised...

MAGA media is split over the possibility of deploying Americans on the ground in Iran. The White House hasn’t ruled it out.

04.03.2026 23:28 👍 53 🔁 13 💬 9 📌 0
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Fox News hosts want to flood Iran with small arms to incite regime change

Fox News' Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Jesse Watters want to flood Iran with small arms to incite regime change (or more likely state collapse), an idea so reckless even one of Fox's biggest war cheerleaders, retired Gen. Jack Keane, said it was a bad idea [research from @slawton.bsky.social]

04.03.2026 19:30 👍 75 🔁 21 💬 9 📌 5
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Fox News hosts want to flood Iran with small arms to incite regime change

Flooding Iran with weapons is a recipe for disaster and potentially state collapse. For Fox News hosts, that appears to be an acceptable outcome.

04.03.2026 19:38 👍 91 🔁 13 💬 11 📌 2
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Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy.

➡️ www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

04.03.2026 18:45 👍 167 🔁 84 💬 59 📌 33
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Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Influential right-wing voices are trying to heal the divide in MAGA media over Trump's war in Iran by urging the president to target American Muslims for denaturalization and removal.

04.03.2026 18:29 👍 50 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 4
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Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Influential right-wing voices are seeking to bridge the divide in MAGA media over Donald Trump's war in Iran by urging the president to launch a new phase of mass deportations targeting American Muslims for denaturalization and removal.

It's a really dark trend

www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

04.03.2026 17:19 👍 379 🔁 180 💬 21 📌 23
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Christian media figures have claimed that the Iran war could signal “the second coming” or the “End Times” and said “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass” Right-wing Christian media are praising President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching military strikes against Iran, with some figures likening Trump to Cyrus the Great and Constantine...

Trump joined Israel in striking Iran — a longtime goal of right-wing evangelicals who believe in End Times prophecy, telling audiences, “It’s all going to be happening in God's timing.”

04.03.2026 16:37 👍 76 🔁 37 💬 12 📌 6
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“They’re punishing us so much because we have the audacity to just exist”: Kansas media expose the dystopian reality of anti-trans law Several of Kansas’ local media outlets highlighted the harsh realities of draconian restrictions on trans residents. On February 26, Kansas enacted one of the strictest anti-trans laws in the country,...

“They’re punishing us so much because we have the audacity to just exist”: Kansas media expose the dystopian reality of anti-trans law

04.03.2026 15:24 👍 164 🔁 67 💬 2 📌 2
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Nick Fuentes on Trump's war against Iran: “You are a demonic force. You are a liar. You are diabolical. You are a traitor.”

04.03.2026 14:38 👍 116 🔁 31 💬 32 📌 12
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Newsmax host says Fox News "has just been ridiculous all day cheerleading this war"

04.03.2026 13:44 👍 255 🔁 66 💬 24 📌 16
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Ben Shapiro on Megyn Kelly: “She is such an unbelievable coward. You don't like President Trump? You don't like what he's saying? Just say his name, you coward.”

03.03.2026 19:34 👍 63 🔁 7 💬 13 📌 6
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You can’t celebrate the First Amendment with Donald Trump

"But as a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both," writes @mattgertz.bsky.social.

www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

03.03.2026 18:27 👍 163 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 1
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): We should be just extremely grateful for a president that speaks with the kind of tenor and clarity like this. I mean, again, say what you will about President Trump, I've waited my entire life to hear that type of clarity and verve from a president. Like, damn it. You better be grateful for this nation or you should go home.

And as we have said, whatever you think about the Iran war, this moment should be the absolute and total initiation point for mass deportations, grand and mass deportations of every criminal alien, mass denaturalizations of everyone who gives aid and comfort to the enemy. There is an enemy. There are ideologies that are incompatible with Western civilization. That is a matter of fact, and we should not want them inside of our lands. It doesn't mean that we need to go kill them in their lands, but we shouldn't want them in our lands. 

Ilhan Omar, a walking billboard for what happens when you allow this to fester.

BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): We should be just extremely grateful for a president that speaks with the kind of tenor and clarity like this. I mean, again, say what you will about President Trump, I've waited my entire life to hear that type of clarity and verve from a president. Like, damn it. You better be grateful for this nation or you should go home. And as we have said, whatever you think about the Iran war, this moment should be the absolute and total initiation point for mass deportations, grand and mass deportations of every criminal alien, mass denaturalizations of everyone who gives aid and comfort to the enemy. There is an enemy. There are ideologies that are incompatible with Western civilization. That is a matter of fact, and we should not want them inside of our lands. It doesn't mean that we need to go kill them in their lands, but we shouldn't want them in our lands. Ilhan Omar, a walking billboard for what happens when you allow this to fester.

I think it's very bad that the play for MAGA types trying to keep the movement together amid the Iran war is offering up the mass denaturalization and deportation of its Muslim-American critics as a little treat. www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

03.03.2026 17:28 👍 244 🔁 64 💬 12 📌 1
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Benny Johnson: “Whatever you think about the Iran war, this moment should be the absolute and total initiation point for mass deportations”

03.03.2026 17:34 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 11 📌 4

Wrote about this: www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

03.03.2026 17:23 👍 241 🔁 39 💬 13 📌 1
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You can’t celebrate the First Amendment with Donald Trump

You can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can't have both.

03.03.2026 16:56 👍 290 🔁 79 💬 6 📌 4
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Mainstream media rallies for war, again Why Donald Trump isn't bothering to make the case for war against Iran

"There is a ritual in American war-making that predates the particular pathology of Trumpism. The targets shift and the platforms move from broadcast television to social media, but the punditry lusting for regime change fantasies feels eerily familiar."

03.03.2026 16:43 👍 142 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 1
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