American Family Association American Family Association (AFA) is an anti-LGBTQ group that organizes boycotts of businesses that support LGBTQ rights or have LGBTQ-inclusive policies. It also owns hundreds of media outlets nationwide, mostly radio stations.
Tim Russert Tim Russert was NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and was the longest-serving moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press. He moderated numerous gubernatorial, senatorial, and presidential debates and also served as a senior vice president for NBC News. He died in 2008.
Jan Mickelson Jan Mickelson is an Iowa-based talk radio host who is notorious for his bigotry against Muslims and LGBTQ Americans and for his extremist rhetoric on immigration. He interviewed many Republican presidential hopefuls during the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
The Weekly Standard The Weekly Standard was a conservative news magazine founded by editors Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes in 1995 and it served as a media outlet for neoconservatives. The magazine was a huge advocate for the U.S. invading Iraq. The Weekly Standard ceased publication in December 2018.
William Donohue William Donohue is the longtime president of the conservative Catholic League, a nonprofit that defends the public image of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Donohue has downplayed the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis and has a history of ugly anti-LGBTQ comments.
Associated Press The Associated Press was founded in 1846 as a cooperative organization whose members distribute and publish AP news reports. It has been awarded over 50 Pulitzer Prizes and its news stories are distributed in more than 100 countries around the world.
Andrew Sullivan Andrew Sullivan has written several books and has been a political blogger, editor, and writer for many years. He currently writes for New York magazine.
Betsy McCaughey Betsy McCaughey is a former Republican lieutenant governor of New York and a columnist for the New York Post. She was a frequent right-wing media source for information about Obamacare and the health care reform debate during the Obama administration and one of the primary pushers of the “death panel” lie.
Dennis Prager Dennis Prager is an anti-LGBTQ pundit who has hosted the nationally syndicated The Dennis Prager Show since 1999. In 2009, he founded the conservative nonprofit organization PragerU, which publishes short videos on political and international issues.
Gavin McInnes Gavin McInnes is a bigot who works for right-wing Canadian outlet Rebel Media, hosts a podcast called Get Off My Lawn, and has been kicked off of Fox News and CRTV. He also founded the violent far-right gang the Proud Boys.
Competitive Enterprise Institute The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a conservative think tank that has been funded in part by the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry. CEI works to stop action to mitigate climate change, placing op-eds and paid ads that misrepresent scientific research.
Brian Kilmeade Brian Kilmeade is a longtime Fox & Friends co-host and also hosts the Fox News Radio program The Brian Kilmeade Show. His tenure at Fox has been marked by repeated bigoted statements.
Las Vegas Review-Journal The Las Vegas Review-Journal is Nevada’s largest daily newspaper and was secretly purchased by right-wing casino magnate and Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson in 2015. During the early years of the Obama administration, the newspaper regularly published conservative misinformation under publisher Sherman Frederick.
George Will George Will has been a conservative Washington Post columnist since 1974 and is also currently a NBC and MSNBC contributor. Throughout his career he has failed to disclose his conflicts of interest in his columns, denied the scientific facts of climate change, and downplayed sexual violence against women.
Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory The Pizzagate conspiracy theory that a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant hid a pedophilia ring was spread by hoaxers such as Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich, and it led to a believer of the conspiracy theory appearing at the D.C. pizza restaurant in December 2016 and opening fire with a rifle.
Jerry Falwell Jerry Falwell was a famous fundamentalist Southern Baptist preacher who founded Liberty University and the right-wing Christian political organization Moral Majority. He was also extremely anti-LGBTQ and called the AIDS epidemic divine punishment for the existence of LGBTQ Americans in society. He died in 2007.
Melanie Morgan Morgan, who had made false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims regarding the Iraq war, retired from talk radio in 2016. She was a co-host of Lee Rodger’s talk radio show on KSFO, briefly hosted America’s Morning News, and worked for California radio station KSRO.
George Soros George Soros is a billionaire who made his fortune through hedge fund management and currency speculation and has donated billions of dollars through his Open Society Foundations philanthropic agency and to other progressive causes and organizations. He is a frequent target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in right-wing media.