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Newsmax host speculates that Jalen Hurts' blood clots are due to the COVID vaccine
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October 21, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): You know it's not normal. It keeps happening. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, a Super Bowl champion, out for the season, maybe the end of his career. Who knows? After blood clots were found in both lungs, he's in his 20's, and this just keeps happening.
Seemingly healthy young athletes dying or suffering major medical emergencies since getting the mRNA COVID vaccine that is still experimental. They were mass administered to a global population, and no one in the medical community seems to have any interest in connecting the dots or even attempting to do so between this vaccine, which Jalen Hurts was very vocal about getting, and athletes dying or getting really, really sick.
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Newsmax attacks Fox for ousting Maria Bartiromo
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- Fox announced last week that longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo has left the network; her attorney has disputed that. As Matt Gertz notes for MS Now, “The central offense that resulted in Fox apparently parting ways with her was that she gave the White House internal Fox News communications about claims Trump was pushing about China and the 2020 election. Rather than encouraging the network’s stars to tell their viewers the truth about the president’s fantasies, Fox executives ordered them not to mention them.”
- Steve Bannon, who has ties himself with Bartiromo, hosted White House adviser Peter Navarro. Navarro defiantly admitted that he shared a text from Bartiromo with the White House and told Bannon that Fox News' CEO Suzanne Scott “should prostrate herself before President Trump for disrespecting the office” and “put Maria right back in the anchor chair.”
- Perhaps one has jumped on this story more than people on air at Newsmax.
- Host Bob Brooks said Baritormo’s ouster suggests that Fox has moved further to the left, while host Rob Finnerty said Fox has a history of firing “very big Trump supporters.” Greg Kelly agreed that Fox is “anti-Trump."
- Newsmax is always happy to attack a competitor, but there may be more here than a petty rivalry. The Dominion case revealed that Fox News paid very close attention to how Newsmax tried to attack it from the right, and it reacted accordingly when it started to lose viewers. Should something similar happen again — say, if Republicans lose seats in the midterms and Fox acknowledges them while Newsmax says otherwise, and Fox's audience prefers the Newsmax narrative — Fox would be in the same bind it was in 2020. That is a hypothetical of course and there are numerous other ways this all may play out. Either way, this situation is worth keeping an eye on.
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August 13, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): In San Diego, this is so bizarre. So, several Muslims students are now requesting special foods in public schools because of their religion, even though they already get either free or reduced priced lunches.
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FINNERTY: OK, two things. One, she's very well spoken, but this is part of assimilation. Not only are you getting free lunch that the taxpayers are paying for, but I'm sorry if we don't provide falafel or whatever it is you want that's culturally appropriate. This is part of assimilation into this country. You're also getting free lunch. It's like my mom used to say when we were little. I was one of four and when dinner came, if one of us didn't like dinner and inevitably every night one of us didn't like whatever dinner was, she'd go you better eat because that's dinner. So you better eat, because that's lunch. And it's free. That's a good deal.
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Newsmax guest: "Where Islam grows, freedom dies"
August 11, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): We've been forced to accept a lot of change. Small American cities and towns all across the country have been changed completely over the last two decades. This is a wedding in Hamtramck, Michigan. Notice the knives. Amy Mekelburg is the founder of the RAIR Foundation. She is one of the only journalists in the country who's has been covering this slow erosion of Western culture across America.
Amy, appreciate you being here. I want to focus on the small city of Hamtramck, Michigan. So, it's right outside Detroit. It's a couple miles away from the Ford international headquarters, what used to be. Now it's a Muslim majority city, which is fine, but can you tell me what life is like now in Hamtramck?
AMY MEKELBURG (GUEST): Hi, it's nice to be here with you tonight. Yeah, so Hamtramck is a captured city, like I like to call it. It is an Islamic city that is operating in the United States. The city council, the mayors, all of the elected officials are Islamic. They do things as you would see in an Islamic country.
For example, they will have now halal slaughters that are allowed in their front yards and their backyards. The call to prayer rings out. So you can actually be in America and go to a city in Michigan that does not even resemble the United States any longer.
FINNERTY: OK.
MEKELBURG: As I just — yeah.
FINNERTY: No, would you call this, so again, it's not an anti-Muslim thing, but would you call Hamtramck, which is like five miles away from downtown Detroit, would you call this city a no-go zone for people of other religions? And I ask you that, because you've been.
MEKELBURG: Yeah, so I would absolutely say it's a no-go zone for non-Muslims. And unfortunately, what happens in any place that Islam comes in, the freedom starts to die. So, I always say, where Islam grows, freedom dies. And that's what America is known for, it's freedom, and that's being stripped.
Right here, in our cities across America, there are places that are operating now as complete little mini cities under Islamic control.
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April 8, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): And whether you believe in them or not, everybody has heard about beings from another planet. And the descriptions are almost always the same. They're smaller, big eyes, big heads, weak, stringy little arms, pale, no gender. And usually they're feminine and they always look the same. You never have seen an alien peeing standing up in a movie or like, yucking it up with his alien buddies. That's never happened.
And for some reason, the lines between gender are always blurred with aliens, which I think is very odd. And then you think about what's happening here, back on Earth right now on the left, where masculinity is being erased. And somehow in less than 100 years, we went from this right here, men being men, when that was accepted — these are the men who built the Empire State Building — to this, a man in a very fragile state, also in a building.
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FINNERTY: So that is the new normal now in this country. But could you ever imagine seeing something like that at a city council meeting when you were growing up in America? That would never happen. That guy would be laughed out of the building, which is not me being mean. I'm being honest. But today you're suddenly being forced to accept that. People saw that guy when he walked into the building, normal people like you, and they might have rolled their eyes behind his back, but they didn't say anything. They were polite and they waited in line and waited their turn to speak. And this is happening everywhere.
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Right-wing media attempt to justify baseless conspiracy theories that the attack on Ilhan Omar was staged
Podcaster Tim Pool admitted it “doesn't matter” if it wasn't staged because "the right would never believe her”
Written by Gideon Taaffe & Reed McMaster
Published 01/29/26
Right-wing media reacted to an attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by a man who sprayed a liquid at her during a January 27 town hall event by suggesting the attack was “suspicious” and “staged.”
President Donald Trump stoked conspiracy theories about the attack, telling ABC News that Omar “probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.” Right-wing media figures spread similar claims, suggesting it is “perfectly reasonable” to question whether Omar's assault was “fake” or “staged.”
- ## Rep. Ilhan Omar, a long-time target of right-wing media and Trump’s ire, was attacked by a man with an alleged history of violent rhetoric and “right-wing extremist” views
- Omar was attacked during a town hall on January 27 by a man who sprayed a liquid at her.Preliminary reports suggest the liquid was apple cider vinegar. The man was tackled and arrested, and Omar continued with the town hall. She later posted on social media, “I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.” The Hill, [1/27/26; Forbes, 1/28/26]
- The alleged attacker’s brother spoke to The Independent, calling him a “right-wing extremist” with a long-standing hatred of Somalis.He told The Independent, “He has had a hatred of the Somali community for probably 20 years,” adding, “There’s a reason I don’t talk to him. … He’s got a lot of anger, I have no idea where it comes from. He’s always been that way. In and out of treatment since he was a kid.” The Independent, [1/28/26]
- According to an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, the alleged attacker reportedly told an associate years earlier, “Somebody should kill that bitch,” while referring to Omar.BlueSky, 1/29/26; U.S. District Court of Minnesota, United States of America v. Anthony James Kazmierczak, Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint, [1/28/26]
- Asked about the incident by an ABC News reporter, Trump said Omar “probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.” He also said he had not seen the video of the attack, adding, “I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud.” ABC News, [1/28/26]
- Omar has been the target of right-wing media attacks for years, with many pundits suggesting she should return to Somalia.Late Fox News host Lou Dobbs questioned, “Who is she representing? Because it isn't America,” and Fox News contributor Ben Domenech suggested Omar buy a ticket to Somalia. Additionally, Trump ally and self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer has called for Omar to “leave my country” and accused Omar of “pushing for another 9/11.” Media Matters, [4/17/19, 6/17/25, 8/14/24]
- Trump recently called for an investigation into Omar’s finances after a Fox News host suggested her net worth had increased suspiciously. The representative’s financial disclosure revealed that her net worth increased to $30 million after her marriage to an entrepreneur and political consultant whose assets were estimated to range up to that figure.Trump baselessly claimed, “There is no way such wealth could have been accumulated, legally, while being paid the salary of a politician.” Media Matters, [1/23/26]
- ## Right-wing media figures claimed the attack was “fake” or “staged” — or suggested people had a reason to believe it was
- Daily Wire host Matt Walsh claimed it’s “a perfectly reasonable thing” to think Omar’s assault was staged.He said, “I think that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to worry about.” He then added, “Leftists are constantly using hoaxes. We know that. And we also know that Somalis love to scam and they love to use deception. … In Ilhan’s case, well she’s a Somali and a leftist, so the pattern points in a certain direction.” He then offered a caveat: “Typically if leftists are going to fake a hate crime or fake an attack of this type — which they do all the time — but they do it in a way that, where the culprit is never seen.” The Daily Wire, *The Matt Walsh Show*, [1/28/26]
- Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson said there's something “very suspicious” about the attack.Johnson claimed it was “extremely strange” that Omar decided to go back to giving her speech. YouTube, *The Benny Show*, [1/28/26]
- Townhall managing editor Matt Vespa wrote a column justifying people who questioned if the attack was fake, writing, “There are some who are suggesting that this could be another fake attack incident, a hoax worthy of Jussie Smollett’s talents.”Vespa linked to several social media posts alleging the incident was faked, adding, “I can see how there could be questions.” Townhall, [1/28/26]
- Right-wing podcaster Tim Pool claimed “it doesn’t matter” if the attack was real or not because “the right would never believe her.”He claimed, “The funny thing is no one believes her anyway. The right would never believe her. It doesn't matter. And I'm going to say what I always say, guys. It doesn't matter if it's true or not.” YouTube, Timcast, [1/28/26]
- The Daily Caller published an opinion piece titled “Not Many Believe Ilhan Omar And She Only Has Herself To Blame.” The piece justified online speculation from right-wing figures that the attack was fake. The Daily Caller, [1/28/26]
- The Independent reported that Laura Loomer reacted to the attack by writing, “Nobody cares about your staged victim propaganda.”Loomer continued, “Please go back to Somalia. We are getting really tired of people like you taking up space in our country.” The Independent, [1/28/26]
- The Independent also noted right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong’s claim that “nothing about the ‘attack’ on Ilhan Omar is real.” Cheong wrote, “Look at how Ilhan Omar looks at the guy who sprayed her and gives him a little nod right before he springs into action,” as supposed evidence. The Independent, [1/28/26]
- On his live show, right-wing podcaster Jeremy Hambly, known online as The Quartering, claimed, “She knew that it was a harmless liquid, in my opinion, because of the way she reacted.” He continued, “The reason I’m a 100% convinced she knew is because this chick is Muslim. What do they do in Muslim countries? Acid attacks. She was never even concerned for a millisecond about what was sprayed on her.” Rumble, *The Quartering*, [1/28/26; IMDb, accessed 1/29/26]
- Salem News host Mike Gallagher remarked that he’s “never seen such a pushback” on social media, adding, “Nobody believes it’s legit.” He continued, “It’s like Jussie Smollett 2.0, totally staged, a hoax. That’s what people are screaming on social media. And I have to admit, I’ve got a lot of questions. But the problem is, if it’s legit, it needs to be roundly condemned.” Salem News Channel, *The Mike Gallagher Show*, [1/28/26]
- Newsmax host Rob Finnerty questioned, “Do you think maybe this might all be about changing the subject for old Ilhan and not really some violent attack that she was barely able to escape through with her life?”Finnerty also suggested the attacker was a leftist, saying, “We're being told that he is definitely a Republican, Trump-supporting right-winger. And we're being told that with absolutely no evidence, even though he’s got kids with blue hair, he's got an ex-wife who was an Ilhan, AOC supporter.” Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [1/28/26]
- Newsmax host Carl Higbie said, “I've got plenty of questions” about the attack on Omar and noted the attacker allegedly had a “liberal activist” ex-wife.He stated, “Now they're making Republicans out to be the bad guys for this minor incident right here, which I've plenty of questions about. Apparently, this guy's wife is some big liberal activist — or ex-wife I should say.” Newsmax, *Carl Higbie Frontline*, [1/28/26]
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November 25, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): You're from Arizona. Why hasn't this happened? Why hasn't Mark Kelly already been court-martialed?
KARI LAKE (GUEST):Well, I hope that what we're hearing from the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, is true, that they are investigating this and that these considerations are being taken. I'm appalled for the people of Arizona, that we have somebody who acts in such a seditious way who's representing us here in Washington, D.C.
But I'm not surprised. I mean, after all, remember, Rob, this is a guy, Mark Kelly, who went into outer space. I think he left his brain there, but he's been wining and dining off of that accolade for his entire adult life. And then he used it to run for office.
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He sold us out a long time ago in Arizona. So I'm not surprised by this new video, this seditious video for him calling for our military to disobey the commands of the commander-in-chief, President Donald J. Trump.
FINNERTY: And it just seems — go ahead.
LAKE: And I hope that we see some action on this.
FINNERTY: I do too. Mark Kelly tweeted this out. This is very bizarre. But he decided to tweet out all of his military achievements he was — and I'll read some of them. He was an ensign in the Navy. At 22, he served on the USS Midway, had 39 deployments in Desert Storm. He flew four missions to space for NASA. We thank him for his service, but he says he won't stand for anyone questioning his record.
He does have a great record, but so did Benedict Arnold, Kari. Don't you have a good record until suddenly you don't have a good record anymore?
LAKE: Yeah. When you call for — when you behave in a way that's seditious, your record immediately is tarnished. And his record, in my opinion, has been tarnished for some time. It's just that the American people maybe haven't known who he was or known much about it.
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I hope to see some action on this, because if we don't see action on the seditious six, we're going to see more of that kind of behavior and it could evolve into something truly dangerous for our great United States of America.
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Newsmax host downplays 9/11 when defending Trump hosting Saudi Arabia's crown prince, two weeks after invoking it to attack Mamdani
Rob Finnerty: “Donald Trump is transactional, and 9/11 was almost 25 years ago”
Written by Media Intel Staff
Published 11/19/25
On the November 18 edition of his Newsmax show, Rob Finnerty defended President Donald Trump's decision to host Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the country’s alleged role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Finnerty told his audience that “Trump is transactional, and 9/11 was almost 25 years ago,” before seeming to suggest that “Donald Trump normalizing relationships” with Saudi Arabia will help prevent “another 9/11.” However, just two weeks earlier, Finnerty attacked then-New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for airing an ad in Arabic “just 24 years after Islamic terrorists flew commercial airplanes into the Twin Towers,” calling the language “the native tongue of the terrorists.”
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From the November 18, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): Donald Trump is America first. And everything that Donald Trump does for the American public is American first. Saudi Arabia has got a whole lot of oil. And if we have a good relationship with Saudi Arabia, oil prices become more stable in this country, which then brings down inflation. Not to mention the crown prince also promised to invest over a trillion dollars in the U.S. economy, which is a good thing. Donald Trump is transactional, and if we didn't welcome Saudi Arabia in, China would have. The other part — 9/11 families were understandably upset by this, by Donald Trump inviting the crown prince to the White House. But Donald Trump is transactional, and 9/11 was almost 25 years ago. Twenty-five years after the Second World War, Japan and Germany were U.S. allies. Think about that. We are friends with Germany, we are friends with Japan today. Donald Trump was just in Japan last month. That is America first. Donald Trump [is] normalizing relationships so another 9/11 never happens again.
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From the November 3, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): We don't speak Arabic in this country. This is ridiculous! That was his final ad released a day ago to 10 million New Yorkers. And everyone thinks this is fine. Arabic is the same language that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers spoke. Arabic. Meaning just 24 years after Islamic terrorists flew commercial airplanes into the Twin Towers in New York City, the leading candidate for mayor of that city is now campaigning in the native tongue of the terrorists. And we're all supposed to think this is great.
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November 5, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): Republicans did not win last night, but Democrats really didn't win either. Democrat socialists had their biggest night ever last night after a communist was elected mayor of New York City, the Democrat Socialist Party of America. Ilhan Omar tweeting last night praise be to Allah in Arabic because that's a normal thing for a United States congresswoman to do, isn't it? Tweet something out in Arabic. Tweet in the language of the country that you immigrated from, not the country that you immigrated to, a country that's so amazing that it made you a member of Congress and you're tweeting in a foreign language.
And after eight years of Bill de Blasio and four of Eric Adams, the people of New York City just elected the most radical politician in American history, right up there with Jefferson Davis. He was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
And if you've ever been to New York City — maybe you haven't, but if you have been to New York City, hold on to those memories, because the city will never be the same again. Which is exactly what Zohran Mamdani wants to happen. Zohran never lied to us from the very beginning. He told us who he was — a man who spends his free time with terrorists. Remember this little number right here? The guy in the white, an unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. That photo was taken 19 days ago. Zohran never lied to us. And Zohran told us what he wanted to do to New York City and to America.
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October 7, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): OK. So I know that Kristi Noem met with that — the police chief, I think his name is Bob Day today. Were you there? Did you ask him about that?
BENNY JOHNSON: Yes. We witnessed Bob Day walk out in total and complete humiliation, profusely sweating, hanging his head low because Bob Day is fully aware of what's happened here in Portland. And it's not just this time around, it happens consistently in this city. I was here in the year 2020, when the Portland courthouse was under constant terrorist attack by the left.
This is a fallen city. And a question to Bob Day — if you're so concerned about the rule of law, why are you arresting Nick Sortor, who is a conservative influencer who is here just doing his job? Why are you violating his First Amendment rights and putting him in prison as left-wing terrorists roam the streets free? If you're so about law and order, where are all the antifa arrests, Bob Day? I think that's a very important question. I hope he answers it one of these days.
But unfortunately, this city has been conquered by antifa. And Bob Day knows it.
FINNERTY: We do too, by the way. And I just think it's always important to remind everybody, I know the audience knows this, but this is all in the name of criminal illegal aliens. That's how far from just reality and norms the Democratic Party has strayed.
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How right-wing media sow distrust and confusion around vaccines and science
As Florida ends school vaccine requirements and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership comes under fire, the right has repackaged anti-science talking points as well-meaning skepticism
Written by Gideon Taaffe, Isabella Sherk, Jack Wheatley & Jack Winstanley
Published 09/18/25
Amid the rise of the so-called “Make America Healthy Again” movement, right-wing media figures have employed a variety of tactics that sow doubt and confusion around vaccine efficacy and science more broadly. These efforts to capitalize on existing distrust of public health institutions and pharmaceutical companies have gained renewed momentum following Florida’s elimination of vaccine requirements for schools and comments made by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a contentious Senate hearing.
MAHA acolytes have challenged well-studied topics by “just asking questions,” described vaccination requirements as impediments to freedom and parental choice, and exploited post-pandemic mistrust of public health infrastructure and pharmaceutical companies.
The MAHA movement is fueling mistrust in medicine amid a CDC leadership shake-up and Florida's elimination of vaccine requirements
- In early September, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the state is working to eliminate all vaccine requirements for children in public schools, an announcement which quickly came under fire by doctors and public health experts. In his statement to the public, Ladapo said of vaccines, “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” The American Medical Association released a statement opposing the move, stating: “This unprecedented rollback would undermine decades of public health progress and place children and communities at increased risk for diseases such as measles, mumps, polio, and chickenpox resulting in serious illness, disability, and even death.” NBC News, [9/3/25; The American Medical Association, 9/3/25]
- After the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced scrutiny from both sides of the aisle at a contentious Senate hearing where many called for his resignation.Monarez’s firing spurred other top CDC officials to step down and caution the public over the state of the organization’s scientific independence. This, along with criticism for canceling $500 million in funding for mRNA research that produced the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, contributed to a dramatic hearing where senators sparred with Kennedy. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who voted for Kennedy’s confirmation, said the Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation that only people at high risk for complications and those over 65 need the vaccine effectively denies people access to the shot. NPR, [9/4/25; BBC News, 8/5/25; CBS News,8/28/25]
- At a September 17 Senate hearing, Monarez testified that Kennedy had told her “that the ‘childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September’ and that she ‘needed to be on board with it.’” According to NPR, Monarez told the senators that Kennedy “just wanted blanket approval” adding, “Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology.” NPR, [9/17/25]
- The New York Times used AI to analyze 38 MAHA figures and organizations featured in around 12,000 videos and podcasts, concluding that these influencers amplify frustration with the health care system to reel viewers in “using wellness content as a trojan horse for conspiracy theories.” The Times noted that some of these figures are using these platforms to sell a product rather than to meaningfully address public health problems like poverty or lack of access to nutritious food and health care. One interviewee who got pulled down the MAHA rabbit hole said, “I thought if my daughter got vaccinated, she would die in her sleep that night.” The New York Times, [9/9/25]
- ## Tactic 1: “Just asking questions” about established science as a means to sow doubt
- Right-wing media figures have presented uninformed, speculative questions about the safety of vaccines as legitimate criticism of the science, saying there’s nothing wrong with “wanting to ask questions” and often presenting their own queries as evidence that established bodies of research should be approached skeptically. In an essay for Big Think, Warren Berger argued that people falsely equate “questioning with critical thinking” and added that conspiracy theorists “act as if their uninformed, speculative questions demand that someone else provide answers.” Kelly Weirich, professor of philosophy at Pierce College, also stated that “while questions technically don’t make claims, they do affirm claims in a subtler way through the assumptions embedded in them.” University of Dayton lecturer Megan Donelson noted that the right’s tactic of “just asking questions” in this way “serves to undermine public trust in science and medicine.”
- Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones attacked Democrats questioning Kennedy, saying, “I guess the most frustrating thing about the entire hearing is there seems to be zero curiosity on why we're such a sick nation.” Jones continued, “I do have some genuine curiosity about the science about each vaccine. And it didn't seem like they were trying to get to the bottom of that or even hear him out.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/5/25]
- Fox & Friendsco-host Brian Kilmeade asked, “When do you give the vaccines? Are you giving them all at once? Does that play into autism?” He claimed that in a few weeks, Kennedy “will announce the cause of autism, or the likely cause, which I think is extremely beneficial for us.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/5/25]
- Jones later said that “there is something wrong with some of the vaccines,” adding that “not all of them are bad, but there are questions that Americans have about it.” He continued, “They should be able to give us answers. But we're not conducting our own studies. We depend on foreign people to do the studies, and there’s questions there.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/8/25]
- OnThe Five, co-host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery claimed, “I disagree with him [Kennedy] on a lot of stuff but at least he makes me think about vaccines.” She added, “I think that is the best thing we can do as a society. And have these honest discussions about how we look and what we are putting in our bodies, and the solutions we are giving our children when we are failing them — when all of these institutions are failing them.” Fox News, *The Five*, [9/4/25]
- Fox host and former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she doesn’t agree with everything Kennedy says but likes his “healthy skepticism for the science, wanting to ask questions about your children, what we are putting in their bodies.” Fox News, *The Five*, [9/5/25]
- Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked MAHA podcaster Gary Brecka, “Are we overprescribing generally as a society and overvaccinating?” Brecka responded, “We are the most over-medicalized nation in the world,” describing the U.S. as “the sickest, fattest, most disease-ridden nation in the world.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [9/4/25]
- Newsmax host Rob Finnerty asked if it's possible that former President Joe Biden is “vaccine-injured” and suggested vaccination caused his cancer. Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [9/2/25]
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham noted that “Kennedy and others have raised questions about the number of new vaccines added to the recommended pediatric schedule.” Citing the supposedly “staggering” increase in recommended vaccinations, Ingraham argued that it “makes total sense” to change COVID vaccine approvals. Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [9/4/25]
- ## Tactic 2: Presenting vaccine requirements as impediments to freedom and parental choice
- Criticisms against public health policy surged at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and rhetoric equating vaccine mandates to government overreach has persisted within the right-wing media ecosystem. The Nations Health, an outlet of the American Public Health Association, has highlighted several recent examples of the “medical freedom movement” undermining public health by removing fluoride from tap water and promoting alternative medicines. Additionally, the new CDC recommendations will make it more difficult for those who wish to get vaccinated for COVID-19, as the vaccines may no longer be covered by insurance companies.
- On his radio show, Fox host Sean Hannity celebrated the Florida mandate rescission, which he claimed was “giving people freedom and giving people choice, which I think is great.” Premiere Radio Network, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [9/4/25]
- Hannity: “Masks may be coming back to California while the free state of Florida is moving to end draconian vaccine mandates for your children in school.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [9/4/25]
- Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson wrote that “vaccine mandates are wrong” and “Florida is absolutely right to remove them,” adding, “Parents should have the final say over kids’ health, not the government.” Twitter/X, [9/4/25]
- Dr. Simone Gold, an anti-vaccine activist and January 6 participant, celebrated the FDA’s move to end Emergency Use Authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine, stating, “Mandates are dead. Freedom wins.” Twitter/X, [8/27/25, ABC News, 6/12/22]
- Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt emphasized parental choice while talking about COVID vaccines, saying, “As a mom, I’m going to decide what my child gets.”Earhardt: “There were a handful of us that didn't want our kids to have the COVID vaccine. That was my choice as a mom, because we interviewed so many kids — the kid who played soccer out on Long Island, who fell and had a heart problem, can’t play anymore, and his parents thought it was because of the vaccine. I just heard so many stories like that, I made the decision for myself.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/5/25]
- ## Tactic 3: Exploiting distrust of public health organizations, experts, and pharmaceutical manufacturers
- The MAHA movement and Kennedy — who according to NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin “seems to assume bad intent among experts” and who has accused public health agencies of “deliberately manipulating the truth” — have seized on a wider sense of mistrust and confusion following the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report from Politico, “An increasing number of families are projecting their attitudes toward the Covid-19 vaccine onto shots for measles, chickenpox, meningitis and other diseases,” and “parents who were hesitant to vaccinate their children before the pandemic have now been joined by people who think the government mishandled the crisis.” Now, despite evidence suggesting that the COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, Kennedy and his MAHA acolytes are exploiting this distrust in public health institutions to appeal to a base that “felt angered by a lot of early pandemic policies” and “felt betrayed by the government.”
- Fox News contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier claimed, “The CDC lost all credibility throughout the COVID pandemic when they continued to universally recommend the COVID vaccine, even after the science changed.” She continued, “The problem here we have is that all of these vaccines are being lumped as though that they are created equally and they have the same benefit, and the reality is that's not true. So while removing all vaccine mandates for school-aged children is swinging that pendulum from one extreme to the other extreme, truly Americans — and especially our children — deserve more of a nuanced discussion about this.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/4/25]
- Right-wing podcaster Liz Wheeler wrote that fewer people now believe the government should “forcibly vaxx kids” because “70+ shots added to the schedule, an insane epidemic of autism, ADHD, cancer, neurological issues, & autoimmune diseases among CHILDREN.” She continued, “A generation of children have been hurt, and we all know it. If you think Bobby Kennedy doesn’t have America’s support, you’re crazy.” Twitter/X, [9/4/25]
- Wheeler reposted a video of Kennedy onFox & Friendsclaiming the CDC was hiding vaccine safety data from him. She wrote, “I wonder why?” Twitter/X, [9/7/25]
- The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles claimed the CDC “lost their credibility during COVID,” adding, “They lied to us about vaccines.” He continued, “They lied to us about the efficacy of the vaccine. They lied to us about the safety of the vaccine. They lied to us about everything regarding the vaccine.” The Daily Wire, *The Michael Knowles Show*, [9/2/25]
- Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty claimed, “Hundreds of millions of people were forced to get the vaccine” during the COVID pandemic, adding, “People have had adverse reactions to this vaccine we were told was safe that was forced upon us.” Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [9/4/25]
- TownHall writer Scott Morefield shared a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump in which he asked pharmaceutical companies to “justify the success of their various Covid Drugs,” adding, “This kind of spotlight on the efficacy of the mRNA jabs could cause the whole house of cards to come crashing down.” Morefield celebrated Trump’s post, stating, “I didn’t think Trump’s ego would ever allow him to do this, but he continues to pleasantly surprise me,” and ending with “Bravo!” Twitter/X, [9/1/25]
- Fox News host Jesse Watters questioned the vaccine recommendations for children, saying the “people at the CDC recommending it are at the CDC because the vaccine industry put them there,” and he accused senators of “blindly defending vaccine companies like it's their job.” Watters: “Why does a baby get 18 shots before they are 18 months old? It used to be eight — now it's 18. Why does a kid have 76 shots before they are old enough to vote? We never used to get that many, but the CDC recommends this. And the people at the CDC recommending it are at the CDC because the vaccine industry put them there. Maybe 76 is the right amount. Maybe it could be a little less or a lot less. We don't know. RFK is just trying to get a fresh set of eyes on it and look at the data. And senators are blindly defending vaccine companies like it's their job.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/4/25]
- Watters suggested that people advocating for vaccinations are doing so to keep getting “pharma cash.” Watters: “If Kennedy isn’t recommending healthy 18-year-olds get COVID boosters, then there's less pharma cash to spread around to the politicians. If a baby gets eight vaccines instead of 18, less cash to spread around to the politicians. If doctors tell patients to eat healthy and exercise instead of get the fat shot, less cash to the politicians. Same thing with sex changes, diabetes medication, and antidepressants. Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics, some of their biggest donors — vaccine makers? Take the COVID vaccine. Nothing they said about the COVID vaccine turned out to be true.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/4/25]
- Newsmax's Rob Schmitt described comments from senators questioning Kennedy as “enraged insults from politicians who have either been bribed to protect Big Pharma or those who have fully drunk their Kool-Aid.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [9/4/25]
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After Kirk shooting, right-wing media revive false narrative about attack on Minnesota legislators
Written by Matt Gertz
Published09/17/25
In the wake of the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, many on the right have claimed that all political violence comes from the left, an argument used to justify a broad crackdown against their political enemies. The June shooting of two Democratic state legislators in Minnesota is the most prominent recent evidence against that argument (though hardly the only such case).
But several right-wing media figures have found a rhetorical solution by suggesting that the alleged Minnesota shooter — who reportedly had a “hit list” of dozens of other Democratic leaders and was, according to his friend and roommate, a supporter of President Donald Trump — is actually a leftist.
In fact, the right-wing media bubble is so impermeable to facts that contradict its narratives that prominent Republican figures, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Attorney General Pam Bondi, have pushed the same claims.
The right’s false narrative about the Minnesota shootings
Federal prosecutors allege that Vance Boelter committed “targeted political assassinations” when he shot and killed Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, then shot and wounded Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, in the early morning hours of June 14.
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And his targets were universally on the political left: Hortman, and Hoffman’s legislative district, were reportedly named in a “hit list” that law enforcement subsequently recovered from Boelter’s vehicle; the list also included Gov. Tim Walz, dozens of other Democratic lawmakers from Minnesota and elsewhere, and “figures with ties to the abortion rights movement, including Planned Parenthood.”}:
None of these facts should suggest that the political right or the Republican Party as a whole bear responsibility for Boelter’s alleged political violence or that their repression is justified to prevent similar attacks. They are relevant, however, to the question of whether political violence is solely directed from the left toward the right.
But while those facts were trickling out in the days following the attack, MAGA influencers were spinning up a narrative in which Boelter was actually a leftist. Some even suggested that the attacks may have been ordered by Walz, perhaps as retribution for the legislators supporting legislation the governor opposed. This argument rested on two ludicrously thin pieces of evidence. First, Walz had, in 2019, reappointed Boelter to a workforce development advisory board that reportedly “has about 60 members, many of whom are not politically connected or would have meaningful access to the governor or interactions with him.” Second, police found flyers with “No Kings” written on them in Boelter’s vehicle, which they said could have indicated he planned to target anti-Trump protests scheduled to take place later that day.
The right revives the false Minnesota narrative following Kirk’s killing
Many prominent right-wing figures seem to have either never heard any information about Boelter outside of those initial conspiracy theories, or learned of it but decided to hide the facts from their audiences. And now, in the wake of Kirk’s killing by an apparent leftist whose alleged motive was to stop Kirk’s “hate,” the false narrative has been revived by MAGA commentators who are trying to push back against arguments that the Minnesota shootings were a case of political violence from the right.
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, while listing recent cases of politically motivated killings on September 13, described the Minnesota shootings as follows: “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.” Neither Kilmeade nor Fox’s graphic identified the legislators as Democrats.
Fox host Will Cain claimed on his Tuesday broadcast that “essentially bullets are flying in one direction,” but the left is trying “to make this a both-sides problem of political violence” by falsely attributing cases like the Minnesota shootings to the right.
“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,” Cain said. “There is also some suggestion he was upset about the way Hortman voted when it came to illegal immigrants and health care. Before we assume it is both sides, let’s get the facts on each instance.”
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Newsmax host Rob Finnerty offered a similar explanation on his show later that night. “They're trying to pretend that what happened to Charlie Kirk has nothing to do with the left, that this happens all the time on both sides, which is not true,” he said, before turning to the Minnesota shootings.
“The problem with that, Melissa Hortman was a Democrat, and while her death was tragic, she was actually killed by another Democrat,” Finnerty claimed. “Not only that, 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.”
“Because that's the left,” he continued. “That's what they do as a party, and it's not being covered by the rest of the media. It's being covered up.”
This narrative about the Minnesota shooting is so prevalent in right-wing media — and the GOP’s leaders are so ensconced within the right-wing media bubble — that Republican politicians have promoted it.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who is pathologically online, had posted shortly after the June attack that the shooter had been a “Marxist.” He later deleted his posts after being confronted by Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), who had also been on the alleged “hit list.”
But three months later, their colleague Cruz also linked the Minnesota shooter to the left.
When Cruz called political violence “a left-wing problem” during a CNN interview on Tuesday, host Kaitlan Collins responded by pointing to the Minnesota shooting.
“You need to get your facts right,” Cruz replied. “The assassin there was not a right-wing assassin acting on a political motive. The assassin there was someone who had been an appointee of Tim Walz, and he was a deranged lunatic.”
Likewise, asked about the Minnesota shooting on Monday, Bondi said of the alleged killer, “I believe they said that they were supporters of Gov. Walz."
As I wrote last week, we can’t have a real conversation about political violence if we can’t admit that it has come from both sides. But many on the right just don’t seem capable of doing that, and they’re backfilling whatever explanations they can conjure up to avoid admitting the existence of political violence from the right.
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July 31, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
KELLY SADLER (GUEST): It also shows you how the media is played by the deep state. All of this sourcing was anonymous.
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): Right.
SADLER: This was Jim Comey, who after all of this came out, opened Crossfire Hurricane, which was the investigation into President Trump and his collusion with Russia, which there was absolutely no evidence of at the time. But that's what gave him credence to go to the media anonymously and say, hey, he's a Russian agent. And they just ran with this story with these anonymous sources. They never checked it —
FINNERTY: Well they were thrilled to do it —
SADLER: And they all have Trump derangement syndrome.
FINNERTY: Jake Tapper, these people — you know what I think is interesting, too? It's like if somebody told you — if your doctor said, look, if you smoke another cigarette, you know, there's a chance you might not wake up tomorrow morning and you get out of the doctor's office and you light up in the car, OK?
Half of these anchors and these hosts, I mean, we can go through the list, but many of the people that propagated this for a decade no longer work in television. OK? Every time another one bites the dust and Stephen Colbert has a podcast, you know what I mean? It just keeps happening. Yet they keep doing the same thing.
People have criticized James Comer, alright? Who's been in charge of Oversight for a while now. People have criticized Jim Jordan because for whatever reason, it seems like Republicans get weak in the knees when it comes to actually going beyond investigation and recommending something to Department of Justice.
I think Comer played a role in Kamala losing the race and Joe Biden getting out of the race, ultimately. I think they've done a great job, and I think they need to keep their foot on the gas because I think they are the first Republicans that are actually relentlessly pursuing the truth.
And it's not easy. Republicans want it like tomorrow. I want to see Barack Obama dragged out of his Martha's Vineyard mansion in handcuffs. I don't think it's going to happen tomorrow. But look, this stuff we are now — they are building a case methodically. And it could end there, Erin. It could end with arrests, indictments, people in leg irons.
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Five ways MAGA media are spinning Trump’s poll collapse
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 04/29/25
President Donald Trump’s zealous propagandists have been unable to come to terms with his increasing unpopularity, instead offering a range of pathetic excuses for his cratering poll numbers.
Surveys conducted for The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and other news organizations in preparation for the 100th day of Trump’s administration show his support in freefall. The president’s overall job approval numbers are dropping into the low 40s and even high 30s, levels several pollsters found to be historic lows for presidents at this point in their administration.
Trump is underwater with the public on nearly every issue, with particular warning signs on the economy — ABC’s poll found a majority said Trump had made the economy worse and nearly three-quarters of Americans say his policies are likely to cause a recession.
But the audience of MAGA media outlets largely consists of Trump’s most loyal supporters — the ones who would be the last to abandon him, if at all.
That gives the right-wing stars at Fox News and similar outlets every incentive to deny the reality that the American public has quickly become disenchanted with Trump’s actions and behavior and come up with alternate explanations for his slide.
The polls are fake
Trump himself responded to the collapse in support by denouncing what he termed “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.”
“The New York Times has only 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll has only 34% Trump Voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are,” he wrote, citing his pollster John McLaughlin in a Monday morning Truth Social post. “These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it.”
Partner Jim McLaughlin reiterated the point in a Monday night appearance on Newsmax.
“These are propaganda polls,” he said. “That's what they are. They're trying to lie to the American people. They're trying to sway public opinion.”
Host Rob Finnerty responded by suggesting it was a “coordinated takedown” of the president with “all five of these ridiculous polls coming out in the same day as the media continue to cheerlead against Trump.”
Pollster Matt Towery offered a similar analysis that night on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle.
“Now, last time I checked, Donald Trump got almost 50% of the vote,” Towery said. “So how in the world can that poll be correct? There’s no possible way.”
“He’s not in free fall,” Towery added. “He’s had a little bit of slippage because he’s doing a lot. He’s breaking a lot of eggs to make an omelet, but he is not dropping in any significant way. I can guarantee you, and I’m just not paying any attention to this nonsense.”
The polls are a “psyop”
Steve Bannon turned to Rasmussen Reports pollster Mark Mitchell to explain Trump’s polls on Monday.
“All day, Mitchell, they’re going to be bombarding us on the hundredth day that Trump is the most unpopular president in 100 years,” Bannon prompted him.
Mitchell responded by claiming that “there is a psychological operation going on.” According to him, numerous recent polls showing Trump’s polling swoon “all look the same” and large numbers of Google searches for “Trump approval” are “how I know it's a psyop. People are getting these stories shoved down their throats.”
The polls are only bad for now because Trump’s “agenda is not built for 100 days”
On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade rejected the premise of looking at Trump’s poll numbers at this point in his administration.
“When you look at the hundred days of Trump, the problem with the hundred days and looking at the polls, this format and his agenda is not built for 100 days,” he said on Monday’s show. “He's redoing the base. He is framing out the house. A lot of it was rotted, and now he is replacing it. There’s not a lot of glory in framing out a house.”
Kilmeade added that Trump “is rebuilding and he has got a plan,” urging viewers to look ahead to potential trade deals and passage of Trump’s tax agenda.
Actually, the polls are “not bad”
Fox contributor Ari Fleischer highlighted Trump’s continued support from his political base and downplayed his low job approval numbers from the overall public.
“The base will not crack,” he told Ingraham on Monday. “The base is solid for Donald Trump, and they understand that he's got a lot of high hurdles because he's put high hurdles in front of himself because he's taking on consequential big issues that have been neglected for so long.”
Fleischer went on to claim that “the average of all the polls … shows that Trump has a 45% job approval. That is not bad. In our modern polarized era, a 45% job approval is middling, but it is not the stuff of doom, gloom, negativity, or decline. It's just the way modern politics is.”
It’s impossible to not see this administration is a “huge success”
Asked Tuesday about Trump’s “soft numbers” on Fox’s America’s Newsroom, Fox Business host and Trumpist shill Maria Bartiromo responded, “There's no other way to look at this first 100 days other than a huge success.”
The majority of Americans who disagree in Fox’s own poll are apparently just delusional.
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April 24, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): The TV sign off. The signature TV sign off was started by that last guy you heard from, Edward R Murrow, one of the first television reporters, in many ways a pioneer in our business, blah blah blah blah blah.
Frankly, I work in this industry — I think Edward R. Murrow is totally overrated.
We always seem to attach this odd reverence to firsts in American culture. Doesn't matter what it is. First case of Covid-19, the first person to weigh 1,000 pounds — we love the first.
And Edward R. Murrow is credited with a lot of firsts in television news. We even hand out the vaunted Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in journalism every year. And if you get one of those, well, my word, you must be really good at journalism.
And by the way, he went by Ed when he was alive, he was just Ed Murrow to his friends like, I'm Rob Finnerty. I don't go by Robert J. Finnerty, the Robert J. Finnerty Award for mediocrity in journalism.
But Murrow was not above the fray. He was just as biased and partisan as Jake Tapper is today. In 1956, Edward R. Murrow worked to get Democrat Adlai Stevenson elected president. Now it didn't work. Stevenson lost to Dwight Eisenhower. But Edward, sorry, Ed, was a Democrat, and he was biased and partisan.
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February 11, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
BOB BROOKS (HOST): Now you know their intentions — erase the whole Trump presidency. That will be their goal at the end. For reaction, let's welcome in former U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C, Joe DiGenova and the host of The Tudor Dixon Podcast, the one, the only Tudor Dixon. Good to see you both.
JOE DIGENOVA (GUEST): Good to see you.
BROOKS: Joe, I want to start with you. You know, the courts. You know D.C, who's running things now? Judges or the President of the United States. What's going on?
DIGENOVA: Well, what you've seen over the last few days, both in New York, Washington, D.C, and Boston, are a group of federal district court judges who don't understand their role. They have overreached. They have done things which are clearly in error. They are interfering in the executive function. And I think President Trump ultimately will win. The problem is, there's going to be a time delay in his victory, but he will win. What he's doing is perfectly legal. There's no legitimate constitutional objection to what he's doing. And in particular, Judge Engelmayer in New York, who said that the Secretary of the Treasury could not look at certain accounts — he should be impeached for that.
Let me just tell you something right now. There needs to be a new project started in the House of Representatives, and that's to start getting names of federal district court judges who need to be impeached.
BROOKS: Well, hey, House members, maybe they're listening to Joe tonight because we got some problems. If the president can't control our websites — my God.
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ROB FINNERTY (HOST): Look, I get that she's a woman of the cloth, but I don't think it's her place to lecture the new president and the vice president less than a day after they both took the oath of office. What was your reaction to what she had to say?
JOHN AMANCHUKWU (GUEST): Well, first and foremost, anarchy begets anarchy. You know, you can't be a he and a she at the same time, nor can you be a she and a he at the same time. A woman can't be a husband and a husband can't be a wife.
The Bible tells us clearly the role of the bishop and who should be in that role. Number one, as it relates to the qualifications, the bishop must be blameless, and it must also be a male. She's out of order. Therefore, her message is out of order.
I traveled this country Rob fighting against books like this, that this bishop, this trans swamp bishop, the Bishop of DC, talks about. You know, this book like Sparkle Boy and this book here, like It's Perfectly Normal. These are the kinds of content that I've been fighting against around this country, after traveling to 18 states. She wants to sodomize the minds of our kids. She's a mental rapist. And she pushed her agenda upon President Donald J. Trump. But she's not dealing with Joe Biden now. She has a real man in the Oval Office, and we're going to fight her tooth and nail.
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January 23, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): DEI ended in the federal government yesterday at 5 P.M. Eastern time because DEI was Jim Crow by another name. DEI was a workaround for discrimination, racial discrimination, and it was a failure because it was also based on principles that make people really uncomfortable to talk about. DEI was created to oppress, especially white males. DEI was never about diversity, DEI was always about exclusion. And you might not see that in print, but that's what it was all about. And it's against the law. It's unconstitutional, and it is racial discrimination disguised by three little letters — DEI.
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Newsmax host: “Donald Trump was dictator on day one, but a dictator that the American people voted for”
Rob Finnerty: “They all asked for this and voted for this”
Written by Media Matters Staff
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ROB FINNERTY (HOST): And I have no idea how Donald Trump does what he does. The man who was made for this job is doing exactly what he said he would do. Yes, Donald Trump was dictator on day one, but a dictator that the American people voted for. They all asked for this and voted for this. And according to our borders czar today, Tom Homan, over 300 criminal illegal aliens were arrested on day one. It took one day. And did you hear anything negative about it? I didn't. Did you hear about roundups? Did you hear about ICE agents going into the ghettos and banging down doors? No, because that didn't happen. And that is exactly what the American people voted for. And if you don't believe me, just ask the only guy over at CNN that should work at Newsmax.
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FINNERTY: Donald Trump took the oath of office just about 55 hours ago, and so far, it has been a complete show of force. The new administration, again, doing exactly what they said they were going to do. In fact, they're moving so fast that it's been impossible for the rest of the media to keep up, and they're doing that on purpose. If you go quickly, the legacy media doesn't have time to criticize every little thing you do. It's been total shock and awe, and it's moving too fast for them.
Donald Trump today closing the border officially to all illegal immigrants, signing an executive order at 3:22 PM in Washington, empowering officials to arrest, prosecute, and deport anyone who crosses the border illegally. Think about the message that that sends to the rest of the world. It is crystal clear. Try it, and you will not only go to jail, but you will also be deported. Criminals will finally be treated as criminals again in this country, and that's refreshing.
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Rob Finnerty (born May 1, 1982) is an American television news anchor and host. He previously hosted the morning news/talk program Wake Up America on Newsmax TV.[1] In October 2024, Finnerty started hosting a nightly Newsmax primetime show, Finnerty, starting October 8th. Finnerty airs at 8 pm ET, a timeslot previously occupied by Eric Bolling before exiting Newsmax earlier in the year.[2]^
Early life and education
Finnerty was born in Massachusetts and attended Fairfield University in Connecticut.[3]^
Career
Finnerty worked for WTSP in Tampa Bay as a morning news anchor.
He also worked for one year at KCTV in Kansas City and KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, California.[1]^
He currently works at Newsmax TV.
Controversies
In November 2008, Finnerty was charged with homicide and operating under the influence after hitting and killing a pedestrian in Boston.[4](better source needed then this paywall[citation ^needed])[5] The homicide charges were ultimately dropped when Suffolk District Attorney dismissed the charge[6](better source needed then this paywall[citation ^needed]) when a collision analysis report showed there was no way any driver – impaired or sober – could have avoided striking the pedestrian when he stepped into the street, Finnerty pleaded guilty to OUI in November 2009.[7](better source needed then this paywall[citation ^needed])^
On May 10, 2021, Finnerty made national headlines when he confronted former Obama speechwriter David Litt for trying to insert Newsmax criticisms during an interview about Elon Musk and Saturday Night Live.[8]^
On April 1, 2022, Finnerty interrupted his show with the false breaking news that "Russia has apparently surrendered" to Ukraine, then asking unaware guest Mark Halperin for his thoughts.[9] When Halperin began to respond, Finnerty cut him off "to gleefully say that the whole thing was a prank" and mock Halperin for falling for it, upsetting fellow Newsmax employees behind the scenes, according to several news outlets.[10]^
Personal life
He is married with two children – a son and a daughter.[11]^
References
- ^ Jump up to:^a ^b Roa, Ray. "Former Tampa Bay news anchor Rob Finnerty now works for Trump's favorite channel Newsmax". Creative Loafing.
- Newsmax Tabs Rob Finnerty to Host New Primetime Program
- "Rob Finnerty Bio". Fact Profiles. February 19, 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- "WEEI Guy Charged in Fatal Crash". Boston Herald. November 18, 2008.
- https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/transcript-tab/2008/11/19/man-killed-by-drunk-driver/40467568007/
- "Homicide rap dropped in fatal OUI". November 6, 2009.
- "Homicide Rap Dropped in Fatal OUI". Boston Herald. November 6, 2009.
- "Ex-Obama speechwriter confronts Newsmax host over false election claims". Yahoo. Axios.
- Falzone, Diana (April 9, 2022). "Newsmax 'Furious' Over Anchor's 'Embarrassing' April Fools' Joke About Russia". Daily Beast.
- Getahun, Hannah. "Newsmax employees are furious after an anchor falsely said on air that Russia surrendered to Ukraine as part of an April Fools' prank, report says". Insider.
- "Rob Finnerty Bio". Fact Profiles. February 19, 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
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- American political commentators
- Newsmax TV people
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Robert Finnerty has years of experience as a sports anchor and reporter. He has worked for several stations and programs, including WEEI 850AM Sports Radio, ESPN Radio in Bristol, New England Cable News, and Fox 25 News. Finnerty has a Bachelor or Arts in Communication from Fairfield University and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Robert Finnerty recently worked as a Wealth Management Advisor for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, where he was responsible for developing strategies to protect and expand the wealth of high-net worth individuals. He specialized in mutual funds, stocks and bonds, due diligence analysis, client relations, and financial planning. Finnerty has his Series 7 & 66 licenses for general security sales. From 2010 to 2011, he worked for New Balance Partners Inc. as a Special Projects Consultant, managing meetings, overseeing daily activities, and coordinating projects in his department. In 2010, he worked as part of the Media and Public Affairs Team for Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications.
Robert Finnerty currently works at Robert Half International, the world’s largest finance and accounting staffing company. He is also a Teaching Assistant at Emerson College, where he assists media professors in television studies and teaches students editing software techniques.
Finnerty is an avid jogger and enjoys biking and fishing. He regularly volunteers at Little Sisters of the Poor in Somerville and is a parishioner at St. Mary’s Church in Charlestown. Finnerty is an advocate for cancer research and has been involved in many charitable events and fundraisers in the Boston area, including the annual WEEI-NESN Radio Telethon, Cradles to Crayons, and Stars for Strikes. He is also an active supporter of the Jimmy Fund at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Since 2009, Robert Finnerty has participated in the New Balance Falmouth Road Race for cancer research. He is a member of the American Ireland Fund, the Boston College Club, the Lawrence Academy Alumni Association, and the Boston Chapter of the Fairfield University Alumni.
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[### Rob Finnerty
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Rob Finnerty (born May 1, 1982) is an American television news anchor and host. He previously hosted the morning news/talk program Wake Up America on ...
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@RobFinnertyUSA. Have faith. Something beyond this world is at work right now… 4:30 AM · Nov 6, 2024. ·. 5,454. Views. 45. 59. 677. Read 45 replies.
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Aug 7, 2024 — I guess Josh Shaprio's religion was just too weird for democrats... @NEWSMAX.
[### About Robert Finnerty
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Robert Finnerty has years of experience as a sports anchor and reporter. He has worked for several stations and programs, including WEEI 850AM Sports Radio.
[### Rob Finnerty - Apparently 40 is the new 30... I'll take it. @ ...
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Happy (belated) Birthday, to my favorite morning news anchor!!! Love your show! media1.tenor.co.
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Rob Finnerty is the host of "WAKE UP AMERICA" on NEWSMAX in New York, NY, and is… · Experience: Newsmax Media, Inc. · Education: Fairfield University ...
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On Friday's "Newsline," NEWSMAX host Rob Finnerty previewed his new prime-time show, "Finnerty," which debuts on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 8 pm ET.
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May 7, 2024 — After Rob Finnerty said he doubted whether Noem is still on Trump's VP shortlist, the governor lashed out at the Newsmax host over his ...
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I turned on Newsmax during the 2020 election because I was tired of listening to a supposedly conservative news channel. I haven't turned Newsmax off since!
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I joined Rob Finnerty on NEWSMAX this evening to discuss the clear signs of Kamala's struggling campaign. WATCH:
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