One of the more minor controversies involved whether author Harry Hurt III was actually escorted off the grounds of a Trump golf club. Newsmax has its own take on it in a…
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Newsmax’s Ruddy — A Trump Buddy — Is Concerned About Anti-Trump Media Coverage
A Dec. 19 Newsmax article summarizes its boss’ appearance on CNN: The news media was biased in its coverage of Donald Trump and that partiality had a bigger impact on the election…
ConWeb Is Well Represented in Secretive Right-Wing Group
In May, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a list members (as of 2014) of the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of right-wing power players in politics, culture and the…
Christopher Ruddy’s Jeb Fail
Jeb Bush is out of the presidential race now, though Newsmax editor Christopher Ruddy shilled hard for him of late, writing two columns in the past few weeks to boost him. Ruddy…
Newsmax’s Ruddy Defends O’Reilly Over Reagan Book, Says Will Should Quit Fox
Newsmax editor and CEO Christopher Ruddy has had enough of the feud between Bill O’Reilly and George Will over O’Reilly’s book “Killing Reagan” — and he’s taking O’Reilly’s side. In a Nov….
Pictures You Never Thought You’d See
Sure, Christopher Ruddy is trying to present Newsmax as something of a mainstream operation, and his rapproachement with the Clintons was a tad unlikely, but how do you explain this, from Ruddy’s…
Newsmax’s Ruddy Shoots Down Anti-Clinton Attack Book
The new anti-Clinton book by conservative writer Peter Schweizer has been easy to dismiss for its bias and shaky claims — so much so, in fact, that the ConWeb is not united…
Ruddy’s O’Reilly Defense Pays Off With Fox News Endorsement
Remember Christopher Ruddy’s enthusiastic defense of Bill O’Reilly in the face of his exaggerations and falsehoods? Well, it paid off in the publicity department. Jim Meyers happily writes in a March 4…
Newsmax’s Ruddy Defends O’Reilly
The conservative media continues to line up behind Bill O’Reilly. Newsmax’s Christopher Ruddy adds his whitewash in a March 2 column, declaring the controversy about O’Reilly’s fabrications and exaggerations to be “much…
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The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple interviews Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy about his $1 million donation to the Clinton Foundation that Fox News attacked him for. Ruddy points out something that Fox News…