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\n Editor\u2019s Note: <\/b>A version of this article first appeared in the \u201cReliable Sources\u201d newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Mitt Romney, once the Republican Party\u2019s standard-bearer, believes the right-wing media machine is at fault for much of the radicalization that has disfigured the GOP.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Utah senator and one-time GOP presidential nominee unleashed a torrent of criticism aimed squarely at the information universe in which most of his party\u2019s members consume their news, characterizing it in a new book as a dangerous propaganda factory detached from reality, poisoning the minds of its inhabitants.\n <\/p>\n

\n Romney\u2019s blunt assessment of the right-wing media apparatus comes in \u201cRomney: A Reckoning,\u201d the forthcoming book by McKay Coppins, a journalist with The Atlantic who was granted a series of interviews and unprecedented access to the outgoing senator.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine,\u201d Romney said in an excerpt of the book that Coppins shared with CNN, but Tucker Carlson is turning the GOP into \u201cthe pro-Russian, pro-authoritarian party.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s not what it used to be,\u201d Romney added.\n <\/p>\n

\n In another excerpt, Romney expressed alarm at how prominent storylines in the right-wing media space demonized people that he believed should have been celebrated, such as an Olympian struggling with mental health.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s almost like you take what is praiseworthy and of good report and you say, \u2018Let\u2019s attack that!\u2019\u201d Romney said.\n <\/p>\n

\n His stinging analysis of the media consumed by Republicans is particularly noteworthy, given that he once harbored a close relationship with its top figures. But that relationship was shattered when Donald Trump ascended within the Republican Party, ushering in a new era defined by vicious attacks on political opponents, the smearing of the press, embracement of conspiracy theories, and a brazen assault on the truth.\n <\/p>\n

\n The warped political environment made Romney, once the archetype of its traditional conservative values, an outcast to right-wing media figures, which after a brief civil war, wholly embraced Trump following his election. Speaking to Coppins, Romney expressed shock at how he personally became portrayed as a villain by the very same people who once championed him as a leader worthy of the highest office in the land.\n <\/p>\n

\n At one point in 2019, after seeing a clip of Fox News host and pro-Trump propagandist Sean Hannity rant about him as a \u201cweak, sanctimonious Washington swamp politician,\u201d Romney decided to phone up his old ally, Coppins wrote.\n <\/p>\n

\n But the call didn\u2019t go well, with Hannity scolding Romney and accusing him of making certain comments to appease the mainstream press. \u201cYou\u2019re just doing this because you want to get praise on MSNBC!\u201d Hannity told Romney, according to the book. Hannity then questioned Romney on Hunter Biden, and erupted when the senator confessed he was not aware of Burisma, according to the book: \u201cHow do you not know what Burisma is?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Romney wondered to Coppins whether Carlson \u2014 the former Fox News host who became the network\u2019s ratings king through ugly, anti-immigrant, conspiratorial rants \u2014 was influencing Hannity.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI can only imagine that Sean is consumed with Tucker Carlson being ahead of him, and his everyday effort is to find ways to reclaim the throne as the most watched,\u201d Romney told Coppins. \u201cHe\u2019s in the same vein as Tucker. Just not as effective as Tucker \u2014 Tucker\u2019s smart.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Through a spokesperson, Hannity said that he \u201conly wished the best for [the] soon to be former Senator.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s very clear losing the presidency has turned Mitt into a small, angry, and very bitter man,\u201d Hannity added. \u201cIt\u2019s sad to see.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Regardless of his feelings about Hannity, Romney acknowledged that the problem is more deeply rooted, blaming the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Fox News as an institution for some of the ugly rhetoric injected into the public discourse. After seeing the former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs fearmonger about immigrants, Romney wrote an email to a pair of political confidants, describing Fox as a \u201cserious problem.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLou is a moron,\u201d Romney wrote, according to Coppins. \u201cFox is an enabler.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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