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Noah VanDowe

Noah VanDowe

@vandowe

Media analyst @MMFA // Second fastest hedgehog on the planet I write about liars & propagandists in right-wing media -- and how they use MMA & the UFC as a cultural tool https://www.mediamatters.org/author/noah-dowe

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Fox anchor John Roberts perplexed by Trump's threat to blow up Oman: “President Trump became the first American president that I know of to ever threaten to take military action against Oman. ... Not quite sure what that was all about” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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On the Joe Rogan Experience, Marc Andreessen hypes AI by saying he used "Doctor GPT" for his recent case of food poisoning He then suggested it could be used for "anything legal that comes up" — and also "how to parent"

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Tucker Carlson on eugenics: "For about 50 years in the United States, it was basically not allowed for people to mention any of this in public because it was Hitler stuff, or whatever they said about it"

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Tucker: W- what did the angel of death say on the phone? Stone: I don't remember

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On Tucker Carlson's show, Sean Stone claims he was told "adrenochrome is being trafficked" into the US "Is it demonic food?"

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Tucker Carlson listens credulously as his guest Sean Stone claims to have received calls from satan and "the angel of death" on his cell phone "I would get phone calls from 666 numbers all the time. 666-6666. We want your soul"

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Big brain Tucker Carlson: "It was only in the last year, after a lifetime of living next to it, that I realized the Pentagon is the shape of a pentagram" 🤯🤯🤯

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Joe Rogan with some ridiculous fearmongering about Zohran Mamdani: "Some people are very fearful of what's going on in New York City with Mamdani. They think it's a Trojan horse. And that under the guise of progressivism ... you're gonna have call to prayer in the middle of Times Square every day."

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As children are dying from brain bleeds, Tenpenny says, "Just don't blindly lay your child on a table just as a sacrifice to the pharma gods. … I would say that parents who choose to not vaccinate isn't because they're irresponsible. They're more responsible"

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Fox guest Keith Kellogg on Iran: “Romans … went down to Carthage, they burned it to the ground, they took 50,000 prisoners and they finished the job. There was no more Carthage, and in fact they didn’t cause them problems again in the future. We ought to do that to the Iranians as well.”

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Fox anchor Harris Faulkner, who has worked for the network since 2005, tries and fails twice to pronounce the word "totalitarianism"

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Alex Jones apparently still hasn't learned his lesson, because he called the Sandy Hook massacre a "setup" on his show yesterday At the end of his rant, his mic seemingly is cut off by a producer -- Jones goes silent and looks off screen before pausing and putting his hand over his mouth

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One week away from the end of Infowars, and what is Alex Jones talking about? "The magnetosphere and much of the Earth's magnetic field is collapsing ... and that's a lot of the reasons that you've got this depopulation agenda going"

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Joe Rogan on Mamdani: "The thing that I would always be most concerned with is who's financing him" "He's just doing some wild stuff ... like he's trying to tax these billionaires"

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Alex Jones is now whining that "Trump signed on to the deep state closing us and is bragging about it” “Trump has joined with the Democrats to shut us down”

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Alex Jones is now whining that “Trump signed on to the deep state closing us and is bragging about it” “Trump has joined with the Democrats to shut us down”

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REPORTER: Mr. President, did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? TRUMP: It wasn't a depiction. It was me. I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker, which we support

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Today, Jones FINALLY addressed his drunken meltdown on last month's Timcast "I got up at 3 AM, couldn't sleep, worked really hard all day. I thought, let me have a couple double vodkas right before I go on ... I had like 4 shots over like 30 minutes ... would normally not even feel that"

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In 2022, when he was still working the Fox News job that elevated him into the Trump administration, Hegseth decried "insider trading" by federal officials "They enrich themselves while they're supposed to be temporary public servants"

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Alex is *still* not back today. Instead, we have Harrison Smith followed by Patrick Byrne, who remarks: "Alex is scraping the bottom of the barrel today when it comes to guest hosts"

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Jones is still not back hosting, but he sent in a few videos where he sounds pretty dejected: "Trump saying ... Mark Levin is my spirit animal ... If you don't endorse this Israel firster, then you're not MAGA" "Well, guess what, Trump? You're not MAGA anymore. You're make Israel great again"

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It's remarkable how much more coherent Jones seemed even in 2024, when he couldn't stop interrupting his crew while also seemingly plastered:

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Nothing more poetic than Alex Jones going on a disgusting coughing fit directly into the mic for half a minute, then sputtering out, "We're winning"

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Nothing more poetic than Alex Jones going on a disgusting coughing fit directly into the mic for half a minute, then sputtering out, "We're winning"

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Alex Jones: Infowars will be shutting down in “the middle of next month” On Tim Pool's show, Jones slurred his way through the announcement before leaving early; Pool later said Jones had "a very serious medical issue" At least one panelist mentioned they could "smell" the alcohol on Jones

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Joe Rogan calls Iran war “unnecessary aggression by the United States government” Rogan: “That's how you start a World War III ... we're just trying to prevent them from ever getting to a point where they're like North Korea? Who the fuck is worried about North Korea? Zero people”

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Joe Rogan says "people feel betrayed" by Trump's war in Iran: "He ran on no more wars" "Then we have one that we can't even really clearly define why we did it"

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Incredible creepy stuff from Brian Kilmeade this morning KILMEADE (after weather report): Break out the tight tank tops, right, Adam? ADAM KLOTZ: You know it. KILMEADE: For more on that, Carley Shimkus. SHIMKUS: Not quite that but do I have something ... talking about the measles here spreading

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Fox Business' Dagen McDowell on rising gas prices due to Trump's war in Iran: “My father ... would hold up the, food rationing, the coupon book from World War II, and say, this is what we went through when our men and our boys were fighting for our freedom then" "Perspective is much needed here"

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Mark Levin is crashing out over opposition to Trump's war with Iran - goes after Tucker "Qatarlson," "Bloated Bannon," and "dumb blonde" Megyn Kelly Also calls for @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to be "denaturalized and deported" for daring to question Trump

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Fox audience cheers as Brian Kilmeade declares "we'll keep killing everyone" in Iran "until we get a normal person to lead the country" I'm sure there will be no hard feelings

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UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell -- who made headlines for praising Hitler shortly after attending Trump's inauguration -- is now breaking with the president over Epstein "He's protecting them. You know he is, and he's been compromised, bro." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo threw a tantrum because skier Mikaela Shiffrin said "fuck" after winning a gold medal at the Olympics

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Now wishy-washy Rogan is dismissing Trump's name being in the Epstein files "thousands of times" "He is the guy that was in contact with the FBI about Epstein. He did contact the FBI after Epstein was arrested and thanked them for arresting him and getting him, because that guy was a real problem"

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Tense moments on Tim Pool's show as Alex Stein and Elad Eliahu get into a shouting match that descends into back-and-forth slurs Stein: "If you weren't on Tim's dick, nobody would know who you are ... you have that f*ggot fucking mustache"

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Joe Rogan says the Epstein scandal “looks fucking terrible” for Trump Rogan: “He was saying that none of this was real, this is all a hoax. This is not a hoax.”

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Patrick Bet-David: "The biggest fumble of the Trump administration and the responsibility keeps going back to Bondi"

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Newsmax's Carl Higbie: A “complete disaster” and a “disservice to Donald Trump and this nation” “After today, I don't know how her political career survives.”

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Joe Rogan's dumbest guest yet: "I don't think that any history before 1600 -- I think everything has been falsified before the year 1600." "About a thousand years have been added"

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"Comedian" Dave Landau on Fox News: "You look at somebody like Bad Bunny or you look at somebody like Trevor Noah. They don't have the actual ability to talk trash in their own countries ... in their homeland they would be killed for doing the very same thing." (Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico)

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UFC fighter Colby Covington on Hulk Hogan's wrestling league: "It's one of the oldest sports of all time. Wrestling, you know, was done by the gladiators in the Colosseum, it was done by the Greeks in, you know, the Olympic games, and now it's done by Real American Freestyle, only on Fox Nation."

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Newsmax's Greg Kelly ran an absurd and pathetic segment comparing Pretti to the BTK serial killer "He was a family man. Everybody liked him."

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Fox contributor Joe Concha hallucinated (a charitable interpretation) that Pretti "pulls a gun on an ICE officer"

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Nick Fuentes called Pretti a "race traitor" and cried about... minority-owned businesses oppressing him?

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Known plagiarist Benny Johnson claimed Pretti "attempted to pull this Sig Sauer handgun on federal officers and commit a mass murder"

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Tucker Carlson says the US taking Greenland would end NATO, calls it a “huge victory for the world and for the United States” Carlson: “NATO was going out anyway. Is it really bad that NATO's going away?”

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Joe Rogan on Trump's false 2020 election claims: “I feel like if you say that, you've got to have some, like, really good evidence” Rogan: “If I ran for president and I told you, dude, they stole the election, and you're like, how? I would have an answer. ... No one has an answer.”

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Rogan said “one of the problems” with the administration is “that they're really good at, like, pointing fingers at the other side and polarizing, and really bad at uniting us all"

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Rogan called the continuation of the Ukraine-Russia war “a big failure of the promises of the Trump administration.” “Trump famously said that he would get it done in 24 hours. You can't get it done at all.”

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On Signalgate: “You can't have that happen when you're fucking planning bombs.”

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On Epstein: "You had the director of the FBI on this show saying there's no — if there was, nothing you're looking for is on those tapes ... They’ve got videotape and then all of a sudden they don’t … Why would they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible shit?”

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Rogan criticized the admin for “kicking students out that, like, write articles they don’t like.” “You got a bunch of people that are totally innocent. They're gonna get caught up, and they have been. … A lot of people that have green cards. A lot of people that are supposed to be over here”

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Rogan called Trump's targeting of migrant workers for deportation “insane” “There's two things that are insane. One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up at construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners."

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In June, Rogan decried “fucking nuts” ICE raids on Home Depots and construction sites, saying, “I don't think anybody would have signed up for that.” “They said, we're gonna get rid of the criminals and the gang members first, right? And now we're, we're seeing, like, Home Depots get raided.”

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Without a shred of irony, floundering conservative "influencer" Kyle Rittenhouse joined Infowars to suggest the left "like to see brutal murders against people who vote the right way" He also attacked Renee Good as a "crazy lesbian freak"

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Fox anchor Sandra Smith on potential "investment" by US oil companies in Venezuela: "Certainly there's a huge opportunity here and a huge opportunity for the people of Venezuela to benefit from the natural resources on which they sit."

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Megyn Kelly on WaPo's reporting that the US launched a second strike on a boat in the Caribbean, killing two survivors of the initial one: "I’d really like to see them suffer" "Make it last a long time, so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little"

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