On Sirius XM, Media Matters' Andrew Lawrence discusses infighting in right-wing media: “There is no honor among thieves”
Lawrence: “These are people that are going to say what they need to say in order to make money”
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On Sirius XM, Media Matters' Andrew Lawrence discusses infighting in right-wing media: "There is no honor among thieves"
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From the April 24, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Dean Obeidallah Show
MAX BURNS (GUEST HOST): The MAGA media, to your point, and I love your posts on this too, is in a total meltdown. I think that we saw Tucker Carlson now condemning Donald Trump and apologizing for endorsing him. Megyn Kelly's firing shots. Trump just posted something like Candace Owens being a low IQ person right as we went on. You've been following these freaks. Does any of this surprise you?
ANDREW LAWRENCE (GUEST): No, not at all. I mean, these people are all — it is dog-eat-dog in right-wing media. They are going to take any little advantage that they can in order to get somebody else's viewers. There is no honor among thieves, I think, is the best way to put it. These people, they do not really like each other, and they are all fighting for the same viewers, the same listeners, the same subscribers, the same eyeballs on their podcasts and their videos.
And so if there is something that they can sort of press and take advantage of — they don't like each other. I mean, they just don't like any — you know, these are fundamentally very unhappy people. And I think that they're all just in it for money, you know, really the — that is the bottom line. And so, no, no, not really. They're just miserable people. Like, of course, there's going to be infighting. You know?
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LAWRENCE: The infighting is good. The schisms that we see in right-wing media, when they're training their fire on each other instead of trans people or immigrants or whoever their villain of the day is, you know. It's good when they're going after each other, but it's also really important to keep in mind that these are not arbiters of truth as well.