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
Well as long as it pads the resume: Former deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino casts US war in Iran as “invaluable experience” for warfighters
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...
Right-wing pundits have accused the administration of taking “a kitchen sink approach” that makes it “impossible … to have an informed opinion”
Reacting to public disapproval of the Iran war, Newsmax host says “it's a good thing that nobody knows what we're doing”
MAGA media is split over the possibility of deploying Americans on the ground in Iran. The White House hasn’t ruled it out.
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]
Flooding Iran with weapons is a recipe for disaster and potentially state collapse. For Fox News hosts, that appears to be an acceptable outcome.
Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy.
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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.
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
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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.”
“They’re punishing us so much because we have the audacity to just exist”: Kansas media expose the dystopian reality of anti-trans law
Nick Fuentes on Trump's war against Iran: “You are a demonic force. You are a liar. You are diabolical. You are a traitor.”
Newsmax host says Fox News "has just been ridiculous all day cheerleading this war"
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.”
"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.
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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...
Benny Johnson: “Whatever you think about the Iran war, this moment should be the absolute and total initiation point for mass deportations”
Wrote about this: www.mediamatters.org/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.
"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."
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Critical thinking: Fox News host Will Cain says the mission in Iran is “not 100% clear” but “that’s not to suggest I don’t support 100% what is happening”
MAGA media figures like Benny Johnson and Greg Kelly seemed to have inside information about the Iran war before Trump launched it. Fox News' Brian Kilmeade said he attended a "briefing with high-ranking Trump officials" on Saturday. Congress, meanwhile, is scheduled to get briefed tomorrow.
“The MAGA movement is surely dead”
“We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore”
“Illegitimate regime”
MAGA media feud erupts over Trump’s war against Iran
New from me @mmfa.bsky.social
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In Iran, the most consequential test of the Fox-Trump feedback loop yet
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A MAGA media feud is erupting over Trump’s war against Iran: “We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore.”
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“This is supposed to be America first. We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore."
