This won’t be the last race where MAGA media run wild. In November’s midterm elections, California’s House races may determine which party controls Congress. And rw media have laid down a marker that elections should not be trusted if Dems win, paving the way for a new round of election subversion.
Specific claims related to election fraud can be debunked, and outlets like Fox paid a hefty price after the 2020 election because the discrete lies they promoted were subject to defamation lawsuits. But no one can refute a vibe, letting them agitate their audiences without fearing consequences.
Election denial is table stakes for participants in President Donald Trump’s Republican Party and the MAGA media that support it. But their strategy is shifting. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
Gertz: "Post-proof election denial like this is the MAGA movement’s natural endpoint. Its champion claims that he is nationally beloved and no evidence to the contrary can be trusted."
This morning, the Consumer Price Index showed inflation accelerating at the highest annualized pace in 3 years.
Fox News viewers might have missed this enormous business and economic news today after the network dedicated just 22 seconds to the story.
www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...
Should prob consider not having a next Gen fighter and investing in drones.
They're five minutes away from calling it the language of the unheard.
A post-proof era of election denial is dawning as the right-wing media apparatus moves away from its prior strategy of ginning up myriad deranged conspiracy theories, with major implications for future American elections. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
For the MAGA sycophants at Fox News, the spectacle of their beloved president facing public disapproval — even in a city that rejected him by lopsided margins all three times he faced the voters — was apparently too much to bear. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
