Rt Wing Media

Anger at Media Supporters

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Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 4/15/26

Headline: “Why Trump turned his rage on these MAGA mainstays”

“Last week, President Donald Trump went to war against some of his most diehard supporters in the world of right-wing media.

“These figures—conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pundit Megyn Kelly, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and conspiracy theorist and author Candace Owens—have bolstered Trump’s cause and attacked his political enemies without hesitation for years.

“But on April 9, Trump took a swing at them on Truth Social, calling them ‘nut jobs’ with ‘low IQs’ after they criticized his war in Iran. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/15/800019711/media-and-culture/why-trump-turned-his-rage-on-these-maga-mainstays/

Pushing Media Around

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 4/14/26

Headline: “Opinion | Trump’s Truth Social posts are driving the news cycle — and raising alarms”

Subhead:  “From threats about Iran to attacks on the pope and an AI image of himself as Jesus, the president’s posts have drawn unusually broad criticism”

“President Donald Trump has never been one to avoid chaos and controversy, especially on Truth Social. . .”

“Does he have a crazy-like-a-fox strategy behind his posts? Does he do it to troll people? Does he do it to draw focus away from other matters? Is he so starved for attention that he’ll post anything to be at the top of the news cycle?. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/trump-as-jesus-post-taken-down/

 

Media Concerned About Cuckoos?

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Article in Media Matters by Jason Campbell, 4/14/26

Headline:  “Even some in right-wing media are now asking questions about Trump’s age and mental acuity”

“In the past few days, some right-wing media pundits have criticized 79-year-old President Donald Trump over concerns about his age and mental acuity, describing him as an ‘old man.’ The New York Times recently scrutinized Trump’s potentially diminished mental and physical capacities to serve as president, and polls indicate that a majority of the American people are growing increasingly concerned that Trump’s advanced age is causing him to be more erratic.

“Over the past two months, a growing chorus of dissident voices in right-wing media have broken with Trump over his war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/even-some-right-wing-media-are-now-asking-questions-about-trumps-age-and-mental-acuity

Trump-Jesus in News Again.

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Article in Media Matters by Payton Armstrong, 4/8/26

Headline: ” ‘Heretic’: After Trump spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain likens Trump to Jesus during Easter, right-wing media figures lash out”

Subhead: “Tucker Carlson called it ‘so vile’ and ‘such a sacrilege,’ while conservative influencer Brett Cooper said, ‘Maybe these people should not be involved in our government’ “

“Right-wing media figures are lashing out at President Donald Trump’s personal spiritual adviser and senior adviser to the White House Faith Office Paula White-Cain for likening Trump to Jesus during an Easter event, labeling her an ‘unabashed heretic’ and ‘batsh*t crazy.’

“White-Cain is a televangelist, pastor, and Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser who has ‘long been a prominent and polarizing figure in evangelical circles.’ White-Cain has an extensive history of extreme rhetoric, including declaring that opposition to Trump is equivalent to opposition to God. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/heretic-after-trump-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-cain-likens-trump-jesus-during

News Predictions Can be Wrong?

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Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat, 4/10/26

Headline:  “Fox promised oil and gas prices would quickly drop once US attacks on Iran ended. Analysts say prices will be elevated well into next year.”

“Analyses from consulting firms, economists, and at least one government agency are contradicting rosy promises by Fox News personalities that oil and gasoline prices would quickly drop toward pre-war levels once U.S. attacks on Iran ceased. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-promised-oil-and-gas-prices-would-quickly-drop-once-us-attacks-iran-ended-analysts-say

Stupid Media People?

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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 4/9/26

Headline: “Trump slams conservative media figures over splitting with him on Iran “

“President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. . .”

“ ‘I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon,’ Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform. ‘Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people’. . .”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5824607-trump-iran-war-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly/

TV President Redux?

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Article in Poynter by Pete Croatto, 4/9/26

Headline:  “Q&A: What Tucker Carlson’s path reveals about where journalism is headed”

Subhead:  “New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle, author of a biography on the former Fox News star, breaks down why Carlson may run for president”

“Tucker Carlson’s career is ‘a good cautionary tale,’ says The New Yorker’s Jason Zengerle, author of ‘Hated By All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind,’ a riveting, sharp-eyed biography of the political pundit’s rise from acclaimed magazine writer to cable news mainstay to leading MAGA shriek.

“His path also represents the crumbling of journalism and the growing, troubling influence of a man who increasingly lives in an echo chamber. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/jason-zengerle-tucker-carlson-unraveling-conservative-mind/

Surrender or Victory?

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Article in Media Matters by Giddeon Taaffe, tri Lonergan, Noah Towe, 4/8/26

Headline:   “How fractured right-wing media are spinning Trump’s Iran capitulation”

Subhead:  “Right-wing media have been split over the war. As a ceasefire is agreed to, some figures claim Trump ‘negotiated the deal of his life,’ others argue he ‘chickened out again’ and warn the deal ‘could be an amazing victory for Iran.’ “

“Right-wing media are split on the temporary two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, with some calling it ‘victory’ and crediting Trump’s ‘hyperbolic rhetoric,’ while others remain skeptical, going as far as to call it ‘total U.S. defeat’ and arguing the deal is ‘very difficult to accept.’ Both critics and supporters of the war have criticized the terms of the ceasefire, saying it is a ‘defeat’ and that ‘Iran practically got everything that they wanted.’ ”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/how-fractured-right-wing-media-are-spinning-trumps-iran-capitulation

Media and “Shields”

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Article in Common Dreams by Stephen Prager, 4/7/26

Headline:  “Western Media Called Out for ‘Misleading’ Portrayal of Iranians Defending Infrastructure as ‘Human Shields’ “

“ ‘The real legal and moral question is why civilian infrastructure is being targeted at all,’ said one expert.

“After US President Donald Trump made his genocidal declaration on Tuesday that the ‘whole civilization’ of Iran ‘will die tonight,’ reports began to roll in of people across the country standing outside the power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure the president promised to bomb. . .”

“The government has encouraged Iranians, including children and young students, to take to the streets to form human chains around infrastructure that may come under threat, leading some Western media outlets to raise the fear that people were being used as ‘human shields.’

“Sina Toossi, a fellow at the Center for International Policy, however, said this “is a deeply misleading framing. . .”

“ ‘This is about people trying to safeguard electricity, water, and basic civilization under open threat,’ Toossi said. ‘The real legal and moral question is why civilian infrastructure is being targeted at all.’ ”

Read the whole article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/iranians-defend-infrastructure-trump

Christian Media Missiles?

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Article in Media Matters by Staff, 4/6/26

Headline:  “On The Weeknight, Angelo Carusone discusses how the Iran war is seen in the Christian nationalist media space: ‘They’re getting impassioned because he’s making these very explicit calls to their religion’ “

“. . .And the undercurrent that’s taking place that this is in fact a Holy War, that it is Biblical. And the rhetoric that you pointed to is the most mild examples of that. I mean, Trump has posted a video, tapping into a notion that he is the prophecy come to life, that part of what he is doing now was prophesized in the Bible. And that lit up Christian nationalist communities. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/weeknight-angelo-carusone-discusses-how-iran-war-seen-christian-nationalist-media