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Media Matters weekly newsletter, July 11

07/11/25 10:45 AM EDT
Fox News relentlessly politicized extreme weather events during the Biden era. Now it’s accusing Democrats and the media of politicizing the Texas flooding.

07/11/25 9:08 AM EDT
Laura Ingraham: “Tariffs work. Always have, always will.”

07/10/25 8:01 PM EDT
On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how Donald Trump's betrayal of right-wing podcasts could impact Republicans in the midterm elections

07/10/25 7:33 PM EDT
Fox News hosts excuse ICE agents pointing their guns at protesters

07/10/25 5:43 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk called for Trump to put tariffs on Brazil in response to the trial of Bolsonaro. Trump just did.

07/10/25 2:56 PM EDT
Fox anchor says of Mamdani's drug and crime policies: “Crime and drug addiction, if you get enough of it in the streets and into the bloodstreams of the American people, they'll be easier to control"

07/10/25 1:22 PM EDT
A Newsmax guest called out Epstein’s 2008 plea deal. Its architect sits on Newsmax’s board.

07/10/25 11:31 AM EDT
The president's daughter-in-law hosts a weekly show on Fox News. To call it “propaganda” is too kind.

07/10/25 9:59 AM EDT
Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “Maybe Epstein is a patriot, for crying out loud. Maybe he was just doing what he was told, and it had nothing to do with the girls.”

07/10/25 9:21 AM EDT
Newsmax host: “It seems almost surreal to believe” that Trump “is now all of a sudden beholden to whatever it is that's trying to suppress a potential client list for Jeffrey Epstein”

07/10/25 8:46 AM EDT
Newsmax host on announcement of Comey and Brennan investigations: “It's almost like the Justice Department doesn't want us talking about Jeffrey Epstein anymore”

07/10/25 8:23 AM EDT
Jesse Watters says “no one even believes” the Trump administration claim about the Epstein files

07/09/25 6:26 PM EDT
The Trump administration singled out Lia Thomas. Fox News helped make her a target.

07/09/25 4:26 PM EDT
Outkick’s Clay Travis suggests “Jeffrey Epstein’s behavior would’ve actually been legal” in some jurisdictions because his victims were teenagers, “not 9 and 10-year old girls”

07/09/25 4:18 PM EDT
Ben Shapiro says Pam Bondi “acted really irresponsibly by feeding this monster” of Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories

07/09/25 1:20 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk on Texas flooding: “What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI”

07/09/25 12:42 PM EDT
Right-wing media downplayed the likelihood of a measles outbreak. U.S. cases just reached a new high since the disease was eliminated.

07/09/25 12:07 PM EDT

Media Matters weekly newsletter, July 11

Fox News relentlessly politicized extreme weather events during the Biden era. Now it’s accusing Democrats and the media of politicizing the Texas flooding.

Laura Ingraham: “Tariffs work. Always have, always will.”

On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how Donald Trump's betrayal of right-wing podcasts could impact Republicans in the midterm elections

Fox News hosts excuse ICE agents pointing their guns at protesters

Charlie Kirk called for Trump to put tariffs on Brazil in response to the trial of Bolsonaro. Trump just did.

Fox anchor says of Mamdani's drug and crime policies: “Crime and drug addiction, if you get enough of it in the streets and into the bloodstreams of the American people, they'll be easier to control"

A Newsmax guest called out Epstein’s 2008 plea deal. Its architect sits on Newsmax’s board.

The president's daughter-in-law hosts a weekly show on Fox News. To call it “propaganda” is too kind.

Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “Maybe Epstein is a patriot, for crying out loud. Maybe he was just doing what he was told, and it had nothing to do with the girls.”

Newsmax host: “It seems almost surreal to believe” that Trump “is now all of a sudden beholden to whatever it is that's trying to suppress a potential client list for Jeffrey Epstein”

Newsmax host on announcement of Comey and Brennan investigations: “It's almost like the Justice Department doesn't want us talking about Jeffrey Epstein anymore”

Jesse Watters says “no one even believes” the Trump administration claim about the Epstein files

The Trump administration singled out Lia Thomas. Fox News helped make her a target.

Outkick’s Clay Travis suggests “Jeffrey Epstein’s behavior would’ve actually been legal” in some jurisdictions because his victims were teenagers, “not 9 and 10-year old girls”

Ben Shapiro says Pam Bondi “acted really irresponsibly by feeding this monster” of Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories

Charlie Kirk on Texas flooding: “What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI”

Right-wing media downplayed the likelihood of a measles outbreak. U.S. cases just reached a new high since the disease was eliminated.

Blaming the left for Trump's weaponization of law enforcement means pretending his first term didn't happen

Right-wing media personalities seize on arson charge to falsely deny the role of climate change in Palisades Fire

Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: “I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals”

Nick Fuentes: “We will make sure Turning Point completes its groyper conversion”

Steve Bannon: “If it's going to be a two-state solution, why not a three-state solution?”