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Matthew Gertz
@mattgertz.bsky.social
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Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · Dec 3
I gotta give the people what they want.
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The Antifa Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · Dec 3
Can we still pretend you're Matt Gaetz when he does something terrible though?
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19h
Most Americans think Jan. 6 was quite bad; unfortunately that group does not include the president, the top federal law enforcement officials, virtually all GOP politicians, and the media megaphone supporting them all.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/why...
Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19h
Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/why...
Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1d
A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...
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Bill Press @billpress.bsky.social · 7d
Trump and his complicit Attorney General Pam Bondi are using Charlie Kirk's assassination to illegally target the left. @mattgertz.bsky.social explains on today's pod.
bit.ly/Click-2-Listen
youtu.be/3jZwMU8DqMA
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4d
Mentions of the Obamacare subsidies whose elimination they support are few and far between, as the hosts instead try to redirect the attention of their audience and stoke their rage over the prospect of undocumented immigrants receiving benefits. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mas...
The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8d
A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...
A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12d
I warned about this possibility last October. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12d
. @adamserwer.bsky.social is correct. A major difference between Trump I and II is that lots of people decided not to fight this time around. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13d
The president does not believe in free speech and his administration’s efforts to punish critics and coerce media outlets will continue until he can turn on his TV, flip through the channels, and see nothing but Fox-style propaganda on every network. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our free speech rights
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13d
Vance leads a segment of the right-wing commentariat which seems determined to offer statements as if Donald Trump were not the president. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14d
Four ways Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance: Ignoring it, excusing it, aiding it, cheering it.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
How Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance
The job of a Fox News evening host isn’t to cover President Donald Trump and his administration, it’s to give them cover. The network’s stars are shameless propagandists who employ a variety of tactic...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14d
Monday night was a perfect case study in how Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
How Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance
The job of a Fox News evening host isn’t to cover President Donald Trump and his administration, it’s to give them cover. The network’s stars are shameless propagandists who employ a variety of tactic...
www.mediamatters.org
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15d
As of noon ET, Fox News has not mentioned reports that its then-employee Tom Homan accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents as part of a corruption probe closed under the Trump administration. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
Fox averts its eyes from former employee Homan reportedly receiving a bag of cash
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19d
I warned last October that if Donald Trump returned to the White House, the fate of the free press would depend on the willingness of corporate media executives to fight for it.

It's not going well. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19d
Jimmy Kimmel thought he still lived in a free country. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Jimmy Kimmel and the MAGA strong-arming of American media
Molly Butler / Media Matters
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19d
Jimmy Kimmel and the MAGA strong-arming of American media www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Jimmy Kimmel and the MAGA strong-arming of American media
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
In the wake of Kirk’s killing by an apparent leftist whose alleged motive was to stop Kirk’s “hate,” they are backfilling whatever explanations they can conjure up to avoid admitting the existence of political violence from the right. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/aft...
After Kirk shooting, right-wing media revive false narrative about attack on Minnesota legislators
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
Because there's little real distinction between the right's posters and its politicians, Ted Cruz pushed the same line.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
Newsmax host Rob Finnerty similarly claimed that the MN shooter was "a Democrat who worked directly for Tim Walz, was appointed by Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, Kamala's running mate, meaning that in this case, a Democrat literally assassinated another Democrat.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
Fox's Will Cain: “What we know about that particular suspect’s motivations remains somewhat unclear, but we do know that he had with him flyers that had No Kings Day protests solicitation on them."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
Brian Kilmeade claimed Sunday: “And then, June 14, these Minnesota legislators were killed, something to do with what’s going on locally — they didn’t like what Tim Walz was doing, or a former staffer of Tim Walz.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
MAGA influencers responded to the shootings by spinning up a narrative in which Boelter was actually a leftist. Some even suggested that the attacks may have been ordered by Walz.

Those claims are now being revived.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
The alleged shooter was reportedly an evangelical Trump supporter who preached against abortion and LGBTQ people. He had a hit list of dozens of Democrats as well as Planned Parenthood figures.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20d
Hosts of Newsmax and Fox News shows are still claiming the alleged shooter of MN legislators was a leftist. They are trying to make the case that all political violence is on the left to justify its repression.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21d
How many orders of magnitude worse is Trump’s corruption than various Hunter Biden claims the right said justified his father’s impeachment: An investigation
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