How Sean Hannity changed his tune on high gas prices; Also, Fox News buries a dismal inflation report. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

What MAGA media are not telling their audience about energy prices; Also, Bret Baier's failed promise to investigate Trump corruption. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Ben Shapiro: “For the sake of America, the Knicks must lose” www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/...

MAGA splinters on "a pretty bad deal" to end the war with Iran; Also, Fox's deranged reaction to Mamdani's affordable housing proposal. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Newsmax host on alleged hunger strikes in a ICE detention facilities: “If they want to not eat, that's on them. I don't really care. Saves us some taxpayer money, I guess.” www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

It’s apparently another make-or-break week where the direction of national and global affairs turns on what the president sees on Fox — though whatever he ends up deciding to do, the network’s hosts will surely fall in line. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ami...

Ben Shapiro: "The question is not why there are poor people and rich people. The question is why even the poor people in the United States are, by any historical marker, very, very rich."

Ben Shapiro: "The vast majority of human beings in the United States can afford rent on their salary. By afford I mean they are not homeless"

Right-wing media desperately try to downplay surging gas prices; Also, local news is spotlighting the crisis in American household budgets. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Fox promised gas prices had peaked. Whoops!; Also, right-wing media blame the media for Trump's unpopular war. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

The finance industry listened to Trump's absolutely bonkers interview with CNBC and thought "sounds good, buy buy buy"

Newsmax's Greg Kelly says everyone needs to "chillax a little bit" about measles

Benny Johnson: "The more you watch Star Wars, the more you side with Darth Vader"

Ben Shapiro: "All these people saying, well [Trump's] goal is regime change. He never said it was regime change. In fact, he overtly kept saying it wasn't regime change. It was regime change behavior, that the behavior should change."

How right-wing media is responding to Trump's capitulation to Iran. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Newsmax host: "You never have seen an alien peeing standing up in a movie...And for some reason the lines between gender are always blurred with aliens, which I think is very odd."

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Tim Pool: “If Donald Trump does not make a move on Iran and they refuse to back down, it's over. Trump has lost. This will be his final gambit. If Trump does not fire on Iran, assuming Iran says no deal, we will see the emperor has no clothes." www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

MAGA media accuse Trump of market manipulation; Also, right-wing media are calling on ICE to "surround the polls" in the midterm elections. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Newsmax host: “I know it stinks, but please bear with the 10 to $20 more for a tank of gas for another week or two”

Newsmax host: "We're in a war with -- or, let's not call it a war -- but we're in a conflict with Iran"

When everything is going just great

Right-wing media now says it's patriotic to pay more for gas 🇺🇸; Also, what MAGA media are saying comes next for Iran. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Newsmax host: “The Strait of Hormuz is not in great shape, as the president claimed”

The FBI is now just a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Kash Patel

Newsmax contributor: "We're risking a famine for every day the straits are not open. It's a big deal. And so, other than that, everything is swimming right along. Revolution ahead."

Newsmax host: “Hold on for like two to three tanks of gas for -- it will be an extra 10 to 12 bucks a tank, while Trump wraps this up. I'm asking you to trust the guy here.”

Matt Walsh: "America treated the Indians, for the most part, in a very decent and merciful way"

Right-wing media's message is basically we've already won the war that we didn't start and also the war, that Iran started 40 years ago, should probably end soon and also don't call it a war

Homer Simpson couldn’t spend $140,000 on donuts

I predict: This will not age well

The man has literally never had to buy groceries

Ben Shapiro: “A lot of Trump's critics today are pointing out this tragic incident with an Iranian school at which a 160 girls were killed. That is indeed tragic, and it's terrible. And it's also called collateral damage in war.”

Attacks leave dead vs killed

if you believed this you should be fired on the spot because you are one of the dumbest people alive

Trump’s slanderous accusation that Iran and not his own government committed this horrific atrocity in Minab was obviously going to be untenable, and it’s already falling apart in a way that will tarnish America’s reputation around the world.

DOGE, but for foreign policy

Gallup Poll (3/5/26): Do you approve of $8 gas No: 99% Yes: 1% Do you approve of Donald Trump's $8 gas policy No: 46.6% Yes: 38.9% Unsure: 14.5%

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...

Oops

Golden age!!!!

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

"As last month's jobs report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 92,000 jobs in February" "Actually, we lost 92,000 jobs" "OK, so that was wrong in the script"

Newsmax host: "I don't even brush my teeth every single day"

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

The nature of human rights is that they apply to, you know, all humans

Ten goddamn years of the US right insisting it hates Middle East military adventures just to snap back cheering for the next step in the “Axis of Evil”