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Oct 24, 2024 | therighting.com | Howard Polskin

Bill Adair has built a stellar career based on lying. But he’s no liar. Far from it. He is one of the country’s foremost experts studying lying in politics.  Well  before the age of Trump, which ushered in the golden age of political lying, Adair created PolitiFact in 2007, a Pulitzer Prize-winning website dedicated in its inception to examining what politicians were saying and then rating those statements for accuracy.

May 3, 2024 | therighting.com | Howard Polskin |David Lieberman |Amy Reiter |Michael Lovito

Righting Originals represent articles and opinion pieces commissioned by the editors of TheRighting that reflect the mainstream and/or liberal perspective on Right-wing media.

Dec 12, 2023 | therighting.com | Michael Lovito

By Michael Lovito, December 11, 2023The holidays are here, and so is the holiday movie season, when dozens of new releases flood theaters and television. Throughout 2023, TheRighting has published stories about conservative shopping apps, children’s books, and streaming services designed to provide like-minded Americans with ideologically pure alternatives to mainstream brands.

Jul 21, 2023 | therighting.com | Howard Polskin

By Howard Polskin, May 24, 2023Who’s the next Tucker Carlson? Or Rush Limbaugh? The conservative media watchdog group, the Media Research Center, believes it may have some answers. For the second year in a row, the Virginia-based organization has released it Bulldog Awards, “honoring conservatives in the media who truly deserve accolades yet will never receive them from the news media establishment.”The awards were announced May 9 – the day after the Pulitzer Prizes. That was no coincidence.

Jul 21, 2023 | therighting.com | Howard Polskin

By Howard Polskin, May 2, 2022There’s no mystery behind the success of the enigmatic Citizen Free Press conservative website.  All it took was one obsessed news junkie toiling almost every waking hour for the past 1825 straight days curating right-wing content specially tailored to capture the MAGA zeitgeist.  Today, a day after the site’s May 1 fifth anniversary, it’s clear that Citizen Free Press (CFP) has quietly emerged as a growing force in conservative media.