As if the obvious needs to be laid out even more clearly, this page presents several more examples of what I've been discussing on the
other Media Bias pages.
The news media sometimes show bias when they don't report current events. Another nearby page on
this site has a long list of suppressed news items.
Most recently, the press showed undeniable favoritism toward
Barack Obama in the 2008
election cycle, and now, even after President Obama has been elected and sworn in, the
favoritism
continues.
Other related pages:
Media bias in Joe Biden's favor
Media bias in Kamala Harris's favor
The case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin
Candy Crowley exhibits unmitigated bias as debate moderator
Biased news coverage of "tea parties".
Biased news stories about firearms.
Media bias related to Hurricane Katrina.
Media bias/dishonesty related to environmental issues.
Bias in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Bias in favor of Barack H. Obama.
Bias against Donald Trump.
News Media vs Covington Catholic High School.
Four dozen examples of media bias:
Scandal
Rap Sheet: 48 Excellent Reasons to Distrust & Despise the Media. Forget bias for a
moment. Forget mistakes and misstatements and stupid or nasty things said during live telecasts.
There isn't enough Internet to begin to list the countless instances of left-wing bias and politicking and
idiocy the media engage in. [...] All of these scandals involve an attempt by a media that advertises itself
as non-partisan (MSNBC excepted) to aid and abet the Democrat Party, or undermine Republicans, or advance the
media's primary cause, which is to increase the size and scope of America's central federal government.
As you read the list below, ask yourselves which American company or institution could survive a rap sheet
even half as long as this one — decades of lies, cover ups, dictator-coddling, outright fraud,
theft, and the fabrication of evidence.
Six
takeaways from Trump's stunning win over Harris. Donald Trump didn't just complete a
once-unlikely political comeback — he won a resounding victory despite legal jeopardy,
the unpopular end of federal abortion rights and rhetoric that repelled broad segments of the
electorate. Kamala Harris lost to Trump in stunning fashion, just as Hillary Clinton, the
first woman to be her party's presidential nominee, did in 2016. The former president built a
more diverse coalition of voters than any Republican nominee in 20 years, despite running a
racially charged, testosterone-soaked campaign that demonized immigrants.
The Editor says...
That's where I stopped reading, reasonably sure that the rest of the article was similarly biased and
dishonest. Harris lost "in stunning fashion" only if you believe the unrealistic polls
conducted by the same sort of "journalists" who wrote the article above. Trump did not run a
"racially charged" campaign, except to point out to minority voters that their habitual support of
the Democratic Party over the last 60 years has got them nowhere. If a
"testosterone-soaked campaign" succeeded, maybe that's what most voters are looking for, as an
antidote to drag queens in the public library, tampons in the boys' restrooms at school, sex-change
operations for little kids, and abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy — or
shortly afterward. Trump's campaign did not demonize immigrants, except the ones who are
present in this country illegally, many of them violent criminals (e.g., MS-13), or possibly Chinese
soldiers, and many of them carrying infectious diseases that will have to be addressed at U.S. taxpayers'
expense. Objecting to the socialist Democrats' plan to allow non-citizens to vote is not "demoniz[ing]
immigrants."
The
'Unite the Kingdom' rally report you DIDN'T see in the MSM. I was writing this when
the news broke that Tommy Robinson had been sentenced to 18 months in prison on a
contempt-of-court charge. So it seemed important first to state what is almost never
mentioned in the mainstream reports — namely what this charge stems from. It goes
all the way back to an investigative report Robinson did for Urban Scoop about the biased media
reporting of a school bullying story that resulted in a libel charge being brought against
him. It was in response to this that he made a documentary film showing that there were two
sides to the one-sided story the media had presented and the establishment uncritically
accepted. While contempt of court can be a criminal offence, the charge against Tommy
Robinson was for breaching an injunction not to screen that documentary in public. That is a
civil, not criminal, offence. Has any other journalist in British history been imprisoned on
a similar contempt-of-court charge? This is not the first time Tommy Robinson has been jailed
for his journalism. Last time he ended up in Belmarsh, the highest-security prison in the UK.
He spent much of his time in solitary confinement due to the threats to his life from Islamist
terrorists there, and suffered severe physical decline and PTSD as a result.
The
impenetrable arrogance of the left media. As the 2024 presidential campaign edges to
a close, the arrogance of the left, especially those in the media, is escalating to a fever
pitch. The best example of their tone-deaf hysteria is Martha Raddatz's attempt to humiliate
J.D.Vance over what she called lies about FEMA and Tren de Aragua. People like Raddatz never
learn from their egregious, foolish mistakes. She tried to assert that the reports of FEMA
failures were false when everyone with a pulse has heard the hundreds of horror stories from the
victims on the ground. She tried to stop Vance from speaking, so determined was she to push
the government-promulgated lie that FEMA has been on the job. She really stepped in it when
she brought up the overtaking of "several apartment complexes" by the Venezuelan gang Tren de
Aragua in Aurora, Colorado, cities in Texas, and Wisconsin. Raddatz suggested that
commandeering these "few apartment complexes" was just a minor annoyance. She tried to stop
Vance from speaking again by saying "I know exactly what happened." But she hasn't a clue and she
clearly has not given the issue any thought. She has no empathy for the hundreds of people
who live in those apartments suffering under these thugs from Venezuelan prisons. They are not a
problem in her neighborhood so it's not a problem. Therefore, Vance and Trump must be lying.
Were
the CBS Moderators Instructed to Affirm Climate Alarmist Talking Points?
[Scroll down] The moderators, or CBS, immediately showed their bias. After an
opening question about Israel and Iran, a perfectly logical lead-in topic as missiles were
literally raining down on Israel as the debate got underway, climate change was the second question
offered, before the economy and illegal immigration, despite it ranking dead last or near the
bottom in polls of voters as an issue of concern. Climate change ranks far below inflation,
health care, education, crime, and illegal immigration in every poll taken. But because it is
a liberal cause célèbre, it matters more to the left-leaning media than issues more
important to voters. Thus, its prominence in CBS' moderators questioning and their behavior
after. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, O'Donnell framed a question about climate change by
asserting that climate change makes hurricanes "larger, stronger, and more deadly because of the
historic rainfall." The data demonstrate that this is false, of course, but her handlers felt
the need to make sure she used the tragedy to apply pressure on the Republican vice presidential
candidate and emotionally charge the question.
Complaints
Ask FEC, FCC To Investigate ABC For Breaking Broadcast And Donation Rules In Debate.
Remember that brazenly biased presidential debate on Sept. 10, hosted by ABC television?
The one where ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis "fact-checked" former President Donald
Trump five times and Vice President Kamala Harris, not at all? The one advertised as a
legitimate debate that felt more like a 90-minute campaign commercial for Harris? The Center
for American Rights has filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the
Federal Elections Commission (FEC), asking these agencies to hold ABC and its local affiliate
accountable on two matters: an alleged campaign donation violation, and a concern about its
television broadcast license. Unlike print media, broadcast airwaves belong to the
public. While anyone can find some paper, start their own newsletter, and say whatever they
want, there is a finite number of airwaves across the broadcast spectrum, so they belong to
everyone. That is why the FCC licenses segments of the airwaves to broadcasters with the
condition that they must use a certain amount of their broadcast time to serve the public.
Word
games can't conceal the 'third world' truth about open borders. Politically incorrect
words don't kill, but Venezuelan gangs do. Donald Trump this week warned rally-goers in a
small Wisconsin community that "if Kamala is reelected, your town and every town ... will be
transformed into a third-world hellhole." He's repeatedly said that Biden-Harris open borders
are turning New York into a "third world nation" and America into a "third world
disaster" — and the rhetoric makes left-wing elites apoplectic. Never mind the
violence perpetrated by migrant gangs and the societal disorder caused by open borders: Their
problem is with the words. NPR says the term "third world" is "offensive." Foreign
Policy columnist Howard French calls it "utterly racist rhetoric." It's an intentional distraction.
Who
Fact Checks the Fact Checkers? Corporate media is obsessed with former President
Donald Trump and his so-called "lies." Fact-checking is a new media pastime, popularized
during the first Trump presidency. After Trump's first term, the Washington Post published an
article titled "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years." Wow!
How many reporters diligently fact-checked every exaggerated statement made by Trump, such as when
he theatrically claimed that his golf courses, clubs, or deals were the "biggest" or the "best"?
CNN weighed in, "Fact check: 12 completely fictional stories Trump has told in the last month."
Have they run any similar articles on Harris or Biden? Including Vice President Kamala Harris's
standard answer for every policy question, "I grew up a middle-class kid", which fact-checkers
would find false. Why wasn't fact-checking popular when past presidents claimed, "Saddam Hussein
has WMDs"? Or "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"? Or "If you like your health
insurance, you can keep your health insurance"? Given how Donald Trump receives most of the
fact-checking scrutiny, this appears to be a partisan activity.
MSNBC's
'Interview' of Harris Shows How Left-Wing Media Are Treating Election as Coronation.
Vice President Kamala Harris completed her second whole interview of her mostly cloistered
presidential campaign Wednesday night. Frankly, it was an embarrassment for American
corporate media and gives the lie to the idea that the Harris campaign is all about defending
"democracy." The interview was exactly what one would expect if you'd followed the Harris
campaign at all. It was a series of mostly softball questions, delivered in the friendliest
of confines on left-wing MSNBC, conducted by an admiring and sycophantic host, Stephanie
Ruhle. That setup was practically telegraphed ahead of time. Five days before the
interview, Ruhle went on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" and claimed that Harris didn't have to
answer any substantive questions from the media. "Kamala Harris isn't running for perfect,"
Ruhle heatedly told the New York Times' Bret Stephens, another guest on the program.
Deep
State Democrats and the Continuing Attempts to Kill President Trump. What triggers
the left-wing media? Outrage and their ego. They're outraged by sarcastic memes about
illegal migrants eating cats and geese. They're upset at those memes from "unsubstantiated"
political remarks that mock the Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden
for overwhelming a small town in Ohio. What is "substantiated" is that Biden and Harris have
sent an unwanted 20,000 or so impoverished migrants from violent Haiti to Springfield, OH.
Yes, this an outrage! The Democrats will not be ridiculed, especially not with memes.
But a president murdered before an election? That doesn't stoke media's indignation.
"Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign
trail itself," said NBC's Lester Holt. "Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue
to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in [Springfield] Ohio." And former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton [...] argued the most important thing is that the news media is not doing
enough to portray Trump as a threat to democracy.
Democracy
Truly Does Die in Darkness. Our nation's newspapers are purveyors of an ideology that
is in fact dangerous to democracy and the survival of the United States. Network and cable
news stations are part of the same conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump and the Republican Party,
ensure power remains in the hands of Democrats and their constituencies including Democrat
socialists, BLM, Islamists, Greenies, Planned Parenthood, teachers' unions, and other progressive
organizations and institutions that were all drawn together under a red-green alliance by Barack
Obama. Afterall, he promised the American people just prior to winning his first term that,
"[w]e are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." The
transformational process instituted by the world's greatest community organizer would have never
been possible without a compliant media. But the media bias actually began with the creation
of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Media-induced BDS resulted in the election of the dangerously
leftist community organizer seeking to change the world.
ABC's
David Muir Lied About Crime Falling Under Biden-Harris. The ABC moderators for the
presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris couldn't have been more biased.
Not once did they fact-check Harris' long list of lies. But I will leave the fact-checking of
David Muir and Linsey Davis' lies to others. I will focus on only one of Muir's discussions
on crime. DAVID MUIR: "President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is
coming down in this country, ..." In fact, Trump was correct about the increase in crime
under Biden. While violent crime fell by 17 percent under Trump, Biden has seen it rise
by 43 percent. Muir doesn't understand what the FBI is measuring. The FBI counts
the number of crimes reported to police. Trump was right that less than half of police
departments are now giving that data to the FBI, but, more importantly, Trump was discussing what
was happening to total crime, not just the number of crimes reported to police.
What
ABC moderators didn't ask. After watching the debate between President Trump and
Kamala Harris, what was essentially a dynamic of three-against-one as the two moderators obviously
teamed up with Harris, we're reminded that the media is one of the biggest enemies of the American
people. ABC didn't ask Kamala if she felt responsible for the Haitians overwhelming the town
or any deaths and other crimes they have committed. ABC didn't ask why Kamala spread the
false story that our border guards were whipping Haitians. Why were she and Biden, along with
so many journalists willing to destroy the guards' lives without evidence? Why didn't she
ever publicly apologize for her lies? ABC didn't ask Kamala about her responsibility in any
deaths or rapes at the hands of illegals. Why don't we know the names of all the
victims? ABC didn't ask why Joe Biden, to whom Kamala currently acts as a right-hand man,
signed so many executive orders to open the border as soon as he took office. If they cared
so much about securing the border and enforcing existing laws, why did they do that?
Political
Revenge: Time Snubs Elon Musk by Leaving Him Off Top 100 AI Influencers List.
Time Magazine's decision to omit tech mogul Elon Musk from its "100 Most Influential People in AI"
list has sparked controversy and criticism from social media users and industry experts
alike. The New York Post reports that Time has released its second annual "100 Most
Influential People in AI" list, which notably excludes tech titan and artificial intelligence
advocate Elon Musk. The magazine's 2024 cover, a composite image featuring 18 AI leaders,
prominently showcases actress Scarlett Johansson alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other
industry luminaries. The glaring absence of Musk, who launched xAI last summer and whose
chatbot, Grok, has been gaining traction against competitors like ChatGPT, has raised eyebrows and
drawn criticism from various quarters. Musk's contributions to the field of AI are
well-documented, with his companies, including Tesla making significant strides in AI and
self-driving technology, respectively.
PBS's
Very Biased 2024 Convention Coverage. The Republican and Democratic conventions are
over, and it's clear which party was the favorite of taxpayer-supported PBS in their nightly three
hours of live coverage in prime time. Not even the attempted assassination of former
President Donald Trump quelled the overwhelming negativity with which the PBS panel greeted the
Republican Party Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee in July. Yet a month later, Vice-President
Kamala Harris and a familiar crew of Democratic faces were greeted rapturously by the same network
at the Democratic Party Convention (DNC) in Chicago.
The
CBS Evening News is MAD That Texas AG Ken Paxton Is Investigating Voter Fraud. With
the presidential election drawing closer, it is reasonable to expect that the Regime Media will
begin to intensify its voter suppression fearmongering and race baiting. The time is upon us
where efforts to safeguard election integrity shall be deemed to be racist, no matter the
underlying set of facts. Such is the case with the CBS Evening News, and their coverage of
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's investigation into voter fraud. [Video clip]
By
The Way, Kamala Harris Is A Dangerous Authoritarian. With some hard work, pluck, the
right boyfriend, and a bit of genetic luck, Kamala Harris has found her way onto the presidential
ballot without having to secure a single primary vote. Don't tell me the American Dream is
dead. Sure, Harris is a demagogue who speaks in cringy, swirling, impenetrable
platitudes. And sure, according to Joe Biden, Kamala was an identity hire. But "Morning
Joe" says we're not supposed to talk about any of that. So, let's discuss her record and
stated positions. It seems like a lifetime ago that Biden named Harris his running
mate. What you may not recall is that the media tried to gaslight us into believing the
California senator was another apolitical dealmaker. Former Clinton fixer George
Stephanopoulos said Harris was "the middle-of-the-road, moderate wing of the Democratic Party."
The New York Times called her a "pragmatic moderate," while the Associated Press focused on her
"centrist record." And so on. A "small c conservative," one Washington Post columnist
wrote. The only problem was, according to GovTrack, Harris' record in the Senate was to the left of
red-diaper baby Bernie Sanders. She was least likely of any senator to join in any bipartisan bills.
MSNBC
Lets the Biden Cat out of the Bag. Morning Joe, or "Morning Joke" as I like to refer
to it as, is a propaganda arm for the Democrat party. But then again, so is CNN, network
news, and increasingly more often, Fox News. They are no longer even pretending to be
apolitical or objective, like how the left still pretends that men can become pregnant.
Morning Joe hit that mark this past week. [...] On last Thursday's show, Mika opined, "The Dems
need to get it together. They really need to get whatever they've got going, going.
Whatever it is, the problem should not be our candidate. The focus should be on Donald
Trump[.]" Our candidate? Joe and Mika's candidate? Or MSNBC's candidate? No
surprise but there it is. If Biden is their candidate, is their show considered a campaign
contribution to the Biden/Harris campaign? Why should the focus be on Trump? Biden has
been in charge for the past four years.
CNN
Admits White House Press Corps Didn't Cover Biden's Health Because It Helps Trump.
The corporate media — and the White House press corps in particular — ignored
signs of Joe Biden's cognitive decline because they feared negative stories on the matter would
help former President Donald J. Trump's 2024 election effort. Additionally, members of the
press had worries their reports on the 81-year-old incumbent's health would give legitimacy to
independent and right-wing media outlets. "Like all past presidents, Biden has good days and
bad days," CNN media correspondent Hadas Gold wrote late yesterday, tacitly defending the lack of
media coverage. She added: "It can be tricky to report on something as difficult to define as
a person aging, when his opponent is a convicted felon, who regularly lies and has threatened to
use the government to go after his political opponents."
The Editor says...
Just out of curiosity, can you name a few "right-wing media outlets" and explain why they are not legitimate?
Corporate
Media Vilify Judge Aileen Cannon For Doing Her Constitutional Duty. Anonymous sources
claimed to The New York Times last week that two federal judges allegedly urged Judge Aileen Cannon
in the Southern District of Florida to pass the high-profile case concerning former President
Donald Trump's classified documents to a colleague. The article, along with several other
seemingly scathing attacks by the press on the Columbian-born American for "pro-Trump rulings,"
conveniently made their rounds just a few weeks after a federal appeals court rejected Democrats'
"orchestrated" attempt to get Cannon to recuse herself from the case. [Advertisement]
According to media like the Times, Cannon is unable to fairly oversee this particular case because
Trump appointed her. Never mind that Democrat-appointed judges have escaped scrutiny for
years despite routinely presiding over political cases.
Study:
Wikipedia has Overwhelming Liberal Bias. On Thursday, the Manhattan Institute
released the results of a study which determined that the website Wikipedia has a clear bias
against conservative articles and in favor of liberal articles. [Advertisement] As the
Daily Caller reports, the study was conducted by analyzing 1,628 words that were used in
various articles to refer to political subjects. It found that negative terms were used far
more often to describe right-wing figures than left-wing figures. Wikipedia was also found to
use emotions such as anger and disgust to discuss the Right, and to use emotions associated with
happiness or positivity to describe the Left. [Advertisement] The study noted that the same
potential for bias exists in OpenAI language models which study Wikipedia as a reference, thus
increasing the risk of biased and unfair language being implemented as a result of OpenAI
technology, in addition to the direct actions of individual users on Wikipedia.
[Advertisement] "There is a degree of overlap in the prevailing sentiment associations of
political terms in word embeddings derived from Wikipedia content and word embeddings from the
OpenAI GPT series," the study explains. "This is not surprising, given that Wikipedia articles are
likely a prominent part of OpenAI's secret corpus of data used to train ChatGPT." [Advertisement]
The
New York Times Is The Democrat Party's Mouthpiece and Guardian. A good example of the
relentless advocacy press in the New York Times appears when its advocates (once called
"journalists") work to advance[.] This is especially true when it comes to the all-important
and fiendish belief in DEI. For example, in [a recent] article, ostensibly about
micro-schools, the Times subtly decries parental choice in managing a child's education. You
can smell the fear and self-righteous indignation oozing from the article. Written by Dana
Goldstein, the vibe is that parents who abandon public schools are boobs who are ill-equipped to
make choices for their children, while the government and teachers' unions are tried and tested.
AP
Style Guide Aims to Silence Dissent From Climate Alarmist Narrative. Most news
outlets rely on The Associated Press style guide — officially known as the AP
Stylebook — as the arbiter for grammar, spelling, and terminology in news
coverage. While AP puts forth its style guide as an impartial rubric for fair coverage, its
rules often exclude conservative views from the outset. Take AP's latest round of updates,
released Friday. The updates include guidance on how to avoid "stigmatizing" obese people,
admonitions to avoid calling people "homeless" as it might be "dehumanizing," and warnings to avoid
the term "female" since "some people object to its use as a descriptor for women because it can be
seen as emphasizing biology and reproductive capacity over gender identity." AP's style guide
prefers "anti-abortion" and "abortion-rights" as adjectives, urging journalists to avoid "pro-life,"
"pro-choice," and "pro-abortion." Yet one of the largest sections of the updated style guide
involves "climate change," a term that AP says "can be used interchangeably" with the term
"climate crisis."
The next two articles offer opposing viewpoints:
Gen
Z wants no part of Biden's unceasing support of Israel as civilian deaths in Gaza
mount. Cameron Jones is a sophomore at Columbia University. He has family in
Israel and has visited more than once, but he's also a member of the college's chapter of Jewish
Voice for Peace (JVP) and a vocal opponent of Israel's attacks on Gaza. His family abroad
doesn't know about the organizing he's done, nor do they know that he is one of the plaintiffs in a
lawsuit against Columbia after the JVP chapter was suspended in November. Since Hamas strikes
prompted Israel to begin attacking Gaza on Oct. 7, Jones and other students —
mostly queer people, people of color and women — have been organizing to demand Columbia
divest from companies and institutions that support Israel.
The
Biden administration's war against the government of Israel. The war rages in the
Gaza Strip, northern Israel, Lebanon, Eilat and on the streets of Israel's cities as Iran's
Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni proxies maintain and escalate their operations
against the Jewish state. Unmoved by this state of affairs, Israel's far left is reinstating
the anti-government riots that occurred regularly through the first three-quarters of 2023.
The newest round of leftist political violence began officially on Saturday night in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem in the first of what has been billed as four days of protests. As was the case in
the anti-government protests before Hamas's invasion of and one-day holocaust in southern Israel on
Oct. 7, in the current round, demonstrations are followed by riots in which a few dozen participate.
Welker
Lets Adam Schiff Answer at Length, But Lindsey Graham Gets the But! But!
But!. It's clear that NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker has two modes of
operation: Democrats get polite questioning, often about internal party matters, while
Republicans get hammered with rough questions and predictably interrupted with bickering.
There was a dramatic contrast on Sunday between Welker's polite approach to Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.) and her incessant bickering with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). I'll throw
some math in. Schiff received six questions in his interview, and he spoke for
827 words. That's about 138 words per answer. He had no reason to fear Welker
jumping in. Here's the agenda of questions, which is like two Democrats chatting: [...]
MSNBC's
Horrific Super Tuesday Panel Mocked Rural Voters Over This Issue. As expected, some
of the media reactions on Super Tuesday were unhinged. Others were fraught with outright
fiction, like how CNN's Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to spin how Trump Republicans aren't most of the
GOP. Has she seen how this primary is going? On MSNBC, it was a different story.
If Republicans want an ad that they can run throughout this cycle, please clip this panel
discussion between Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, and Joy Reid, where they mock immigration as a rising
issue among voters. [...] An illegal alien raped a Virginia teenager last week. And did these
women forget how Laken Riley was killed in Georgia? She was murdered on her morning run last
month by an illegal from Venezuela.
MSNBC
anchors mock Virginia voters for calling immigration their top issue. MSNBC anchors
Jen Psaki, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow joked about Virginia voters' concerns over immigration during
the Super Tuesday election coverage at the left-leaning network. In Virginia, which in recent
elections has become a swing state, early exit polls indicated immigration was the top issue for
Republican primary voters, reported MSNBC. While discussing those exit poll results on air,
anchors from the liberal network mocked voters from the Old Dominion state for their concerns.
Activist
Media Outlets Run Cover for Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Claim Scrutiny Is Motivated by
Racism. It was only a matter of time before folks on the left began throwing race
into the saga surrounding embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Activist
media outlets have begun spinning the narrative that the criticism and scrutiny of the prosecutor
isn't about her inappropriate romantic relationship with one of the prosecutors she hired to handle
the election interference case against former President Donald Trump but about the color of her
skin and her sex. The New York Times and Associated Press have published pieces
intimating that the furor over Willis' alleged corruption was due to racism and sexism and not the
fact that she clearly engaged in a torrid affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade. The only thing
surprising about this is that it took them so long to begin weaving this narrative.
Los
Angeles Times Tells Angelenos They're Wrong About Crime, Everything Is Fine. Reading
the morning paper was a ritual I continued until just a few years ago when I finally joined the
21st century and switched to the digital version. But last week I cancelled even that upon
reading its recent endorsement of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón for
reelection. For the first time in 40 years, I am no longer a subscriber. Just as
Los Angeles has changed dramatically in recent years, the L.A. Times has also changed. Of
course, it always had a left-wing bent. But it used to keep that reasonably in check.
It was aware it was the primary source of news for Angelenos as there was no significant competing
newspaper. [...] But with the change in the media climate, the L.A. Times has changed. The
newspaper is no longer the primary source of news for Angelenos, now competing with every other
news source available online. Thus, it is no longer compelled to keep its leftist tendencies
in check. This was on full display in its decision to endorse Mr. Gascón.
Connecticut
Woman's Assisted Suicide In Vermont Was Facilitated By News Crew. A woman who
traveled to Vermont to use their newly-expanded assisted suicide law was aided by a news crew who
vouched for her being of "sound mind". Setting aside the compromise in journalistic integrity, this
is an example of how supposed safeguards against abuse of assisted suicide are easily circumvented
by persons who want it to happen. Sadly, if you read the Boston Globe's article carefully,
the poor woman seemed to want more time. More time to write letters, to see friends and do
the things people want to do when they are dying. Instead she set an artificial date for her
death which seemed to induce regular stress for her and family. The fake solution proffered
by the article's end seemed to be for her to have committed suicide in CT. But how about no
suicide at all, and a chance for a peaceful and natural end to one's life with the help of hospice
instead of the state?
NBC
Skips March For Life To Hype Pro-Abort High Schoolers, ABC And CBS Also Ignore [It].
The Friday evening and Saturday morning shows for ABC, NBC, and CBS all ignored Friday's 51st
annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. where thousands turned out in the cold and the snow to
protest the killing of the unborn. Friday's NBC Nightly News was the worst offender
because not only did they ignore pro-lifers, they actively promoted pro-abortion high schoolers.
Reuters
and AP 'Journalists' Live-Streamed Themselves Encouraging Gazans to Invade Israel. In
an escalation of earlier reporting that showed multiple "journalists" working for the Associated
Press and The New York Times participating in the October 7th attack on Israel, live-stream
footage has now been uncovered that illustrates even more direct coordination with Hamas
terrorists. As RedState originally reported, Hassan Eslaiah, who was freelancing for CNN,
Reuters, and the AP, filmed himself riding into Israel on October 7th carrying a
grenade. Another "journalist" was also implicated, though the Times defended his work despite
evidence he had advance knowledge of the attack. The claim from the Times was that these
"journalists" had simply been caught up in quickly unfolding events and were merely trying to do
their jobs. That claim has now been proven false.
NBC
News is Worried Democrats Could Lose in 2024. This NBC News article is not an opinion
piece so far as I can tell. Titled "5 twists that could upend Democrats' best-laid plans for
the 2024 election," it's intended to be a combination of prognostication and analysis, but the
framing of the piece is clearly one-sided. It might as well be headlined 'How Democrats Could
Lose' which sort of implies that Democrats aren't supposed to lose. The natural order is for
them to win. As a matter of setting up this concept, the article opens with what Democrats
expect to happen: ["]Recognizing the stakes, and appreciative of strong economic growth
on Biden's watch, Americans dutifully put aside any misgivings about the president's age and give
him another four years in office.["] But the remainder of the article explores how
this could all go wrong because clearly if Democrats lose it's because something has gone wrong.
From
the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' win draws a sour grapes response from the eurotrash.
After decades of wokedom, self-satisfied establishmentarians in European capitals found themselves
'shocked' that populist/conservative Geert Wilders ran away with a big victory in the
Netherlands. Sour grapes is more like it. But to get even more specific, it was a
wake-up call. According to the Associated Press: ["]Anti-Islam populist Geert
Wilders said Thursday that he is ready to join the next Dutch coalition government after he surged
to a huge election victory that marked a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as
a beacon of tolerance.["] [...] "Stunning lurch to the far right"? Let's just say we
know how Mike and Raf voted if they are Dutch. What crazed, insulting language that bears no
resemblance to the subject of their article.
Anchor
Diplomacy: ABC's Muir Asks Bibi Six Times For A 'Humanitarian Pause' In Gaza.
One is left wondering what, exactly, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir tried to
accomplish during his interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which very quickly
veered into a negotiation over the long sought-after "humanitarian pause" in Gaza. Watch
this condensed excerpt of the interview, wherein Muir presses Netanyahu, on SIX different
occasions, for said humanitarian pause: [Video clip]
After
Media Bouquets for Pelosi, Predictable Brickbats for Johnson. The good news for
Republicans is they finally elected a new speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson. The
bad news for Republicans is the "objective" media exist to create bad news for Republicans.
The "Politico Playbook" announced the breaking spin over the breaking news: "Johnson is about to
become for Democrats what Nancy Pelosi was for Republicans: a base-motivating, money-raising
boogeyman who embodies everything they dislike most about the other party. At least that's
what Democrats are hoping." Politico added Democrats will paint Johnson, R-La., as "an election
denier, an anti-abortion extremist and a slasher of Social Security and Medicare." Surprise,
surprise: That's the tone the networks struck in their first evening news reports.
Study:
ABC, CBS, and NBC Are Shielding Pro-Hamas Democrats from the Public. Since the
October 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians, House Democratic members of the "Squad" have
drawn harsh criticism from even members of their own party for their rabidly anti-Israel
posturing. But rather than shining a spotlight on the controversy, the broadcast networks
(ABC, CBS, and NBC) instead dutifully sheltered them from public scrutiny; in fact, since the
attack, they have not received even a second of airtime on the evening newscasts. MRC
analysts combed through all of ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening newscasts from October 7 through
October 22 for any mention of the House Democrats colloquially known as "the Squad."
Despite dedicating a whopping 525 minutes (nearly 9 hours) of airtime to the ongoing tumult in
Gaza, none of these three networks gave even a second to any member of the progressive cadre.
That's not for a lack of action on the part of the Congresswomen (and one man). We compiled a
list of eight anti-Israel actions and remarks by Squad members which one might reasonably expect
serious journalistic outlets to mention in their Gaza coverage.
Synopsis: You're only "presumed innocent" by the news media if you're black.
The
Possible Reason CBS Blurred out Face of Ryan Carson's Murderer but Didn't Do That for Daniel
Penny. The saga of Ryan Carson, murdered radical leftist activist in New York, now
includes an alleged suspect in custody, but the legacy media is attempting to hide his identity
despite it being readily available. According to the New York Post, the suspect is
18-year-old Brian Dowling, a black male who lived on Lafayette Avenue. Police found evidence
of the murder in Dowling's home, including the dark shirt he wore Monday and the suspected murder
weapon. He's currently being charged with second-degree murder and criminal weapons
possession according to the NYPD. The Post was good enough to provide photographs of Dowling
which are now being circulated around the internet.
The
Weather Channel's Absurd 'Hot' Propaganda. The Weather Channel is absolutely
ridiculous. The channel's "Weather Across the Country" map on their homepage for September 19
had red colors EVERYWHERE! Because it's HOT HOT HOT! No area of the country is experiencing normal
weather for mid September, apparently. Chicago, for instance, was displayed as red to deep orange.
Warm, right? I can tell you from personal experience: It was "freezing" on Tuesday, September 19
in Northern Illinois for a day that is still technically summer. It rained all day and barely got over 60
all afternoon. I regretted not wearing a jacket to the office. On this map, Seattle is in
"yellow/green" denoting cooler weather, but I can assure you that today in Chicago felt like Seattle ...
and it probably felt a lot warmer in Seattle where The Weather Channel said, and showed with color,
that it was significantly "cooler." [...] Minot, North Dakota was allegedly 86 degrees today and is
in "cool" yellow. Jacksonville, Florida is one degree higher at 87 and is in "deep red hot."
Think
Impeachment Will Help Biden? Then Why Is He Behaving Like A Cornered Rat? Over
the weekend, we came across a story warning Republicans about their decision to start an
impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. [...] In just the past few days we've seen a
multitude of such warnings. Here's a small sampling:
• "Impeaching Biden Is a Desperate Gamble That Will Backfire"
• "Republicans would love to impeach Biden. It would backfire on them."
• "How Republicans' Push to Impeach Joe Biden Could Backfire"
• "Could the Biden impeachment inquiry backfire on Republicans?"
• "Will the House GOP's Biden impeachment probe backfire?"
• "This is the White House's Dream!"
Here's the strange thing. Every one of these headlines appeared in leftist newspapers, were penned by
leftist authors, or were uttered on leftist cable news programs. It's almost as though
these outlets all got their marching orders from a single source. Which, it turns, out, they
did — the Biden White House.
All
the news that wasn't fit to print. What if the media had actually treated
then-senator Obama like a presidential candidate rather than a political version of Harry Belafonte
doing the latest calypso to fawning reporters? Seriously, did Senator Obama get a serious
question in 2008? Or was he too smart to question? What if the media had been outraged when
President Obama used the IRS to eliminate his critics or use executive orders to issue diktats
around the Congress? What if the media had called for someone to fire Director Comey for
allowing Mrs. Clinton to get away with violating all the rules on the books over files?
Private server? What if the media had been outraged that so many Democrats were questioning
the 2016 results — and let's not forget 2000 or 2004. Remember when it was
fashionable to call the president illegitimate? What if all of those "sources" familiar with
the Russia investigation would have been ridiculed publicly for lying? And what about the 51
"intelligence officials" who signed the infamous Hunter-Biden-laptop-is-Russian-disinformation
letter? Any reporters showing up at their homes asking for an explanation? It's a
little too late now to turn into investigative journalists; the target is, and always has been,
President Trump.
MSNBC's
Joy Reid savors the 'demographic reality' that Trump's J6 judges are women of color.
Joy Reid just can't help herself when it comes to inserting race into absolutely everything and the
upcoming trial of former President Donald J. Trump in a Wahington, D.C. courtroom presided over by
a hostile Obama-appointed judge is no exception. During MSNBC's coverage of Trump's traveling
to the nation's capital for his arraignment on Thursday, the "race lady" took great pleasure in
pointing out that both of the judges who the former president faced would be women of color,
seeming to suggest that their ethnicity could have an effect on how the trial will play out.
Reid was clearly savoring the "demographic reality" of the D.C. courts and suggested that the
Trump team's desire for a change of venues was rooted in racism rather than the reality that there
is no way that he will get a fair trial in an area where the overwhelming majority of the jury pool
hates his guts.
CNBC
releases list of 'best and worst states to live in'. CNBC recently released a
remarkable ranking of "America's 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023."
Unsurprisingly, considering the source, the list consists exclusively of red states. The
rankings were purportedly based on crime rates, environmental quality, health care, quality and
availability of childcare, and inclusiveness in state laws such as reproductive rights, protections
against discrimination, and voting rights. Oh, got it. Guess we know how they weighted
these factors. Access to unfettered abortion ("reproductive rights"), worship of the LGBTQ
community ("Protection against discrimination"), and the "right" to vote sans identification, via
mail, and early and often, obviously superseded "crime rates." [Lists omitted for brevity.]
Notice something oddly amusing, gentle readers? Most of the states CNBC ranked as the worst
in which to live and work are the states everyone is moving to, and several of the states it
ranked as the best in which to live and work are the ones everyone is moving from.
DeSantis'
Problem Isn't Trump, [but rather] That Dems Rigged The Last Election. You might have
noticed a media narrative taking shape the last few days about how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis'
presidential campaign has "stalled." A Politico Playbook item over the weekend described it as a
"failure to launch," noting that polling for DeSantis peaked in January at 40.5 percent and has
since settled in the low 20s amid a barrage of attacks from former President Donald Trump.
Playbook also cited other news outlets recently casting doubt on the DeSantis operation, from
fundraising struggles to lack of endorsements to difficulties distinguishing himself from Trump on
policy. DeSantis super PAC official Steve Cortes added fuel to the narrative fire in an interview
Sunday night, bemoaning the polls and admitting, "clearly Donald Trump is the runaway frontrunner."
The
Liberal Media Need Shock Treatment.
• The IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden matter are ignored by the liberal media.
• Biden steals thousands of classified documents — without the authority to declassify them — when he was a senator and vice-president and the story disappears.
• FBI insiders bravely reveal the blatant pro-Democratic bias of the organization and their testimony is sloughed off.
• Joe Biden commits one embarrassing verbal gaffe after another, demonstrating an unarguable diminution of mental acuity, and the video clips are nowhere to be seen on the mainstream stations.
• James Comer finds one ironclad, tangible example after another of inappropriate, even illegal, financial dealings by the entire Biden family and Comer's investigation is dismissed by the liberal media as unfounded hearsay.
• Talk of the 2016 presidential election being stolen by President Trump from Hillary is hailed as heroic, patriotic protest, but presenting the mountains of indisputable evidence of 2020 election fraud committed by the Democrats against President Trump gets you branded as a traitor by the mainstream media.
This list of examples could go on and on, but for the sake of brevity and current relevance, we'll leave it there.
Nancy
Pelosi's Sudden Conversion Experience. What I value most about MSNBC's new lineup is
the ability of its hosts to do hard-hitting interviews with adverse guests. No Fox
News — like softballs here; instead we get former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki
interviewing former Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the results are every bit as
explosively contentious as you would expect from two people who have been blowing kisses to one
another over an explicitly shared political agenda for the last several years. (I assume it was not
Psaki's bona fides as a commentator wot got her the job as the Biden administration's mouthpiece.)
Among the hard questions Psaki put to Pelosi: Just how disappointed is she in this
conservative Supreme Court? ("Are you concerned the Supreme Court has lost its legitimacy?" she
boldly challenged her.) But I'm not really here for media critique today and besides, the shameless
by definition cannot be shamed. Instead I'm here because Nancy Pelosi's lengthy response to
that creampuff was a farrago of lies, cynical politicking, and howling personal hypocrisy notable
even for her.
Amanpour
Teams Up With Obama To Warn That The GOP Threatens Democracy. CNN's Christiane
Amanpour recently interviewed former President Barack Obama for an hour-long special that aired
Thursday night that carried the pretentious subtitle Will Democracy Win? CNN was not
subtle in trying to portray Republicans as a threat to democracy, beyond the subtitle, the opening
narrator hyped the location of the interview, "An in depth conversation on the state of American
democracy from the birthplace of democracy, Athens, Greece." Early on in the interview,
Obama described U.S. institutions as "creaky" from the strain of allegedly anti-democratic
sentiment. Amanpour took that idea and ran with it, "So, let's ask about the creaky or not
institutions in the United States. The spectacle of a former president being federally indicted, [...]"
CNN
Rules Republicans Are the Enemy of Kids and Climate. During Friday's CNN This
Morning, the network covered 16 young people suing the state of Montana over climate change.
Chief climate correspondent Bill Weir portrayed the young people as the heroes of a movie where
they attempt to fend off the Republican-controlled government, despite admitting that the lawsuit
would not change anything even if the judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. The lawsuit
merely singled out Montana Republicans and blamed them for the existence of fossil fuel. CNN
called it "fascinating" and "such a great story." The case hinged on the following clause in
the Montana state constitution: "The state shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful
environment for present and future generations." Nate Bellinger, senior staff attorney for Our
Children's Trust claimed that fossil fuel-induced climate change forfeited the young people's right
to a healthful environment.
The
Leftist Green Agenda Is Buying Its Way Into The News. One recent analysis found AP
stories mentioned the phrases "climate change," "global warming," and "Climate disaster" hundreds
of times since receiving grants totaling $8 million in early 2022. The stated purpose of the
money is to fund the AP's "Climate Journalism Initiative," which would employ 20 new reporters to
"transform how the AP covers the climate story." Perhaps it also funded the story that gave us
Biden's hard-hat environmentalism? In another example from the story, former top Clinton
adviser John Podesta is heavily quoted in his role as overseer of the $369 billion for green
energy from Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act. The story fails to mention Podesta's
political operative past, including his unofficial title of "White House clean-up chief" during the
Clinton years. Also quoted are the extreme eco-groups the Natural Resources Defense Council
and Center for Biological Diversity. They are all given a lot of space in a story with a lot
of reach. As a wire service, the hard-hat rebranding from the AP will appear in thousands of
newspapers across the world as news. We don't know if the millions the AP received for climate
coverage played a role in helping Biden rebrand his energy policy, and that's precisely the point.
Scientific
American Compares DeSantis to Mussolini. It is hardly breaking news that many
once-trustworthy science and medical publications have been infected by leftist ideology. One
of the worst cases involved the Lancet, which published an editorial in May of 2020 that
openly urged American voters to replace then-President Trump. Sadly, this disease has
continued to metastasize. The latest outbreak just appeared in Scientific American,
which published an opinion piece on Friday claiming that the education policies of Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis "mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American
democracy."
Slobbering
CBS News Interview With John Fetterman Ends With a Head-Scratching Suggestion. John
Fetterman finally left the hospital on Friday after a lengthy stay at Walter Reed for severe
depression. That was just the latest in a string of worsening health issues for the
newly-elected Pennsylvania senator, who suffered a massive, debilitating stroke during his 2022
campaign. Since then, Fetterman's condition has only worsened, with him now requiring a
closed captioning monitor to even attempt a basic conversation. Even then, his problems are
not just auditory, as the stroke has clearly affected his ability to not only understand what he's
hearing but also what he's saying. None of that matters to the mainstream press,
though. Instead of being transparent with the American people, they have run a relentless
cover-up operation, shaming anyone who would dare ask serious questions about Fetterman's fitness
for office. CBS News offered the latest example with a slobbering interview following his
release from Walter Reed. [...] [Jane] Pauley made a head-scratching suggestion. Namely, she
insinuated that Fetterman could run for president one day. [Tweet]
More
Climate Fiction From the BBC. Countless mainstream media programmes now incorporate
extremist green climate propaganda into their output, seemingly without any desire to question the
most outlandish and improbable statements. Last Monday's Start the Week on BBC Radio 4
provides a case study in how fiction is mixed with cherry-picked fact, doused in error-ridden
political Net Zero propaganda and presented as a learned contribution to our understanding of how
the climate is breaking down. Not to put too fine a point on it, the whole affair was a
one-sided, misinformed muddle.
Nets
Spend 273 Minutes on Trump, 0 Seconds on Biden Family Corruption. The Big Three (ABC,
CBS, NBC) networks continue to bury the Hunter Biden probe and the growing scandals surrounding the
Biden family's corruption, including the House Oversight Committee's revelations that Hunter, the
President's brother Jim and Hallie Biden (widow of son Beau) received payments from a Chinese
energy firm — something President Joe Biden firmly denied. However, their
voracious appetite for covering the various investigations (Stormy Daniels, Mara Lago documents,
January 6th) surrounding former President Donald Trump remains unsatiated. Beginning
with the House Oversight Committee's breaking of the Hallie Biden news through the evening of
Trump's indictment, MRC analysts tracked the glaring double-standard.
For
Five Straight Years, The Pulitzer Prizes Have Rewarded Misinformation. While the
Pulitzer Prizes have always been little more than self-dealing masquerading as journalistic beauty
pageant, it was a lot easier to believe in this manufactured prestige back when journalism was at
least slightly more competent and concerned with the appearance of objectivity. In fact, a
spin through the last five years of Pulitzer recipients reveals some interesting choices that add
up to a clear pattern. In 2018, a Pulitzer for national reporting was given to The New York
Times and Washington Post for reporting on the Donald Trump campaign's alleged collusion with
Russia. A 2019 Pulitzer for "Explanatory Reporting" was given to The New York Times for
reporting on Trump's taxes. The 2020 Pulitzer for commentary was given to Nikole Hannah-Jones
of The New York Times for the 1619 Project. In 2021, a public service Pulitzer was given to
The New York Times for its coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic "that exposed racial and economic
inequities, government failures in the U.S. and beyond." In 2022, the Washington Post won a public
service Pulitzer for its coverage of January 6.
ABC
Joins CBS, NBC in Coordinated Liberal PR Push to Smear Pro-Life Texas Law. Following
Monday's NBC Nightly News, Tuesday's CBS Evening News, and Wednesday's CBS
Mornings, ABC used Wednesday's Good Morning America to join what's the latest example of
a manufactured, public relations-driven campaign by liberal activists to promote the plantiffs of a
new lawsuit seeking to chip away at Texas's pro-life law that limits abortion to six weeks.
Of course, ABC gave no real attention to the pro-life cause, aside from a single sentence that
ended the two-minute-and-46-second segment that summarized a statement from the office of Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).
The
Media Keep Lying To Protect Ilhan Omar. After the House voted to deny Rep. Ilhan Omar a seat on the
Foreign Affairs Committee — using a precedent Democrats recently created but suddenly find deeply
offensive — AP tweeted: "BREAKING: House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep Ihan [sic] Omar from
the House Foreign Affairs committee. The vote to remove the Somali-born Muslim lawmaker came after her past
comments critical of Israel." Almost two years ago to the day, the Associated Press reported on the House removing
another congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, from her committee assignments like so: "BREAKING: The U.S. House
votes to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees for spreading violent, racist rhetoric." You'll notice that
when Democrats denied Taylor Greene a committee seat it was "the House," but it is "House Republicans" when Omar is
booted (and this was the case on NPR, PBS, Yahoo!, etc.). House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has the power to
unilaterally eject Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the intelligence committee, but the entire House was
needed to remove Omar. Obviously both votes were largely along partisan lines, as almost all votes are
these days. It's a newsworthy fact, no doubt. Yet AP editors left the partisan aspect of the story out of
the headline for only one of the incidents, even though Democrats were the ones creating the precedent.
'News
management' is a fact of media life. [Scroll down] Sponsors pulling their ads in the wake of
some disaster is not new. Back in the day, I was instructed to skip all airline commercials if a plane crash was
in the news. Today, it's the news that's skipped in deference to the sponsor. For years, the news reported
most mass murderers were on some form of behavior-altering psychotropic drugs. But the drugs were never named
despite the fact so many of the killers were taking the same drugs. "Why not" should be clear now. "Managing
the news" to remove stories embarrassing to sponsors, politicians and other 'celebrities' was denied by broadcast and
print media outlets for decades. Recent events involving the President and Hunter Biden, the Paul Pelosi incident,
and now, the Pfizer Drugs executive 'admission' offer proof news management is a fact of media life. The danger to
individual freedom and welfare comes when facts that present a danger to health and possibly national security 'manage'
to find a way out of the headlines and into the ignorance of those who need to know.
ABC
Appalled Armed Robber Got Stopped By Armed Good Samaritan. Seemingly on the side of criminals, ABC's
Good Morning America was appalled on Monday [1/9/2023] after they learned that an armed good Samaritan in
Houston, Texas shot and killed an armed robber who was holding up an entire restaurant. They portrayed the hero as
ducking police and the source of the fear in the restaurant that night. All of this was part of their anti-gun
narrative that bars even defensive uses of firearms.
Most
reporters are shills for Democrats and the latest string of news proves it. It is impossible to fathom how
anyone could possibly think that Kamala Harris had a fabulous year. It appears that a WaPo writer believes she did
because she went to some international meetings and talked about how important abortion is. It began like this:
["]Kamala Harris had a most excellent year
The vice president is finishing a banner year filled with domestic barnstorming and high-wire diplomacy.
By Jonathan Capehart["]
One of her main jobs was border czar and she clearly did nothing in two years. The border has gotten worse, and not
just worse, the worst it's ever been. [...] Anyone who is bragging about Kamala, with no achievements and whose word salads
are incomprehensible should not be a reporter.
ABC
News producer moonlights as corporate hitman. Well this is not exactly surprising. NPR and
Floodnight News have a report on an ABC News producer who used her credentials and perhaps corporate resources to do
side work as a corporate propagandist. And as if that is not bad enough, she was, shall we say, a bit free with
the truth. As in completely making up stories to embarrass or ruin her targets. These reporters called her a
"corporate operative." I would call her a corporate hitman, given that she was trying to destroy people.
GMA
producer was paid thousands of dollars by Florida-based lobbying firm to perform 'hit job' interviews on political
opponents. A Good Morning America producer, who was previously most known for her affair with To Catch a
Predator host Chris Hansen, used her title to gain access to politicians who were opposed to the interests of a major
political consulting firm she was also employed by. A bombshell report from NPR and Floodlight says that Kristen
Hentschel, who formerly went by the name Kristyn Caddell, had on least three occasions attempted to 'trip up Florida
politicians whose stances on environmental regulations cut against the interests' of clients of Matrix LLC. More
recently, Matrix has been accused of running surveillance operations against journalists and environmental activists.
Pointing
out lies from public health experts makes Ron DeSantis a bad guy. The Washington Post had a very odd piece
published on Saturday. I couldn't decide if it was only biased or totally ridiculous. It was actually a bit
of both. The biased part was the substance of the piece; the totally ridiculous part was the headline, which gave
away the media's game. [Tweet]
We don't have a
free press. If we had a free press, 30 reporters would never pose with Nancy Pelosi as if they were her
ladies-in-waiting. If we did, Hillary's 30,000 emails sent to a trucking company in Red China would have stopped
her presidential bid. If we had a free press, Seth Rich's murder would have been bigger than George Floyd's
overdose death. If we had a free press, journalists would not seek the approval of John Podesta (Hillary's
henchman) as we learned in the DNC emails leaked by Seth Rich. If we had a free press, Hillary's fake charity
which laundered bribes from foreigners would have landed her in prison. If we had a free press, the FBI spying on
Donald Trump would have landed Barack Obama in prison as well. If we had a free press, Jim Comey would have been
Obama's cellmate.
Renegade
Republicans are 'mavericks' to [the] media, while Kyrsten Sinema is a traitor. If it's "honorable" and
"brave" when a Republican man bucks his own party, what's it called when a Democratic woman does the same thing?
In the case of Kyrsten Sinema, I'm almost afraid to find out. The Arizona senator announced Friday [12/9/2022]
that after nearly two decades as a Democrat, she was switching her party affiliation to independent, stupefying liberals
and Democrats in her own party, now unsure as to what it means for the Democratic majority in the Senate. There's
nothing off brand about it. She literally tweeted after her first Senate victory in 2018, "I'll be an independent
voice for all Arizonans." And Sinema routinely agitates her caucus by either demonstrating a willingness to side
with Republicans or by withholding support for Democratic legislation that isn't closer to her own political
preferences. In recent months, Sinema has opposed eliminating the legislative filibuster and a major social
welfare package pushed by the Biden administration, both of which were priorities for her former party.
The
Media Makes Musk a Villain but Lets SBF Off Easy. When Sam Bankman-Fried sat down with George
Stephanopoulos for a Good Morning America interview this week in his signature T-shirt, it wasn't the first
national news appearance the disgraced former crypto wunderkind had given. Since losing tens of billions of
dollars in his over-leveraged and shadily funded businesses, FTX and Alameda, Bankman-Fried has been on a media tour,
showing up in reporters' DMs, on Vox, Axios, at The New York Times' DealBook Summit, and he is still scheduled
for a Twitter Space and a YouTube interview to round out his week. Somewhere, an expensive lawyer is pulling his
well-coiffed hair out — a contrast with Bankman-Fried, who seems relatively calm, his unkempt hair and
Bahamas abode unchanged in the wake of this stunning fall from financial grace. You know who else seems
calm? The media figures covering Bankman-Fried.
Apple
is now an active collaborator with China's murderous police state. Unless you read The Daily Mail, which
is an English paper published online, you probably didn't know that Chinese President Xi Jinping sent tanks into a major
city last night in order to put down protests against his rule. Virtually no American media outlets even
acknowledge that that happened, and that's pretty weird if you think about it. Imagine, for example, that
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán put tanks into Budapest to crush his political opponents. Would our media
notice? Oh, yeah, they would. It'd be on the front page of The New York Times. "Morning Joe" would
lead with it, and keep in mind that Hungary is a very small country. It's got a GDP smaller than South
Dakota's. China, by profound contrast, has the biggest economy in the world. China is our main global
rival. It's a highly significant place and yet somehow no one in any newsroom in America noticed when Xi
Jinping decided to replay Tiananmen Square. They didn't see it, even though the pictures were on the internet.
How is that possible? Could it be that the American news media is covering for the government of China?
Evening
News Spends Only 11 Seconds on Warnock Child Support Scandal. The double-standard is atrocious. The
Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening newscasts have almost completely buried Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock's child
support scandal, spending only 11 seconds on it since September 1. In stark contrast, the network
evening newscasts (September 1 [to] November 16) flooded their airwaves (36 minutes, 21 seconds)
with stories of women accusing his GOP opponent Herschel Walker of paying for abortions. That's almost
200 times more coverage to the Walker story than the Warnock scandal. On Tuesday, Warnock's ex-wife
Oulèye Ndoye requested that a court compel the Georgia Senator to face questioning over child custody. Ndoye
has also accused Warnock of failing to properly pay child care expenses. Despite the issue being brought up
in the October 14 Walker-Warnock debate the evening newscasts mostly looked the other way.
Gretchen
Whitmer seems to hint at future presidential run, delighting CNN hosts: Focused on Michigan 'for now'. On
the heels of her midterm victory, CNN was already pushing for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to run for president in
2024. The Democrat, who won re-election by a double-digit margin in the blue state, stopped by CNN Thursday
morning to talk about her priorities in her next term. Michigan was one of four states where Democrats gained
control of both legislative chambers and the governorship. Whitmer expressed hope for more gun control and pro-choice
legislation coming through Congress. Afterwards, CNN host Kaitlan Collins urged the Democrat to run in 2024.
The Editor says...
Fake news alert! [#1] Nobody just "stops by" CNN, or any other network, to talk about
themselves on the air. Guests are booked hours or days in advance, even if they're Democrats. [#2] She
wasn't even in the studio! She didn't "stop by" at all! The interview was done remotely,
since the guest was only in a big monitor. She might not have had to leave her house!
Here's
Why NBC News Deleted a Report on the Paul Pelosi Attack. [Scroll down] After trying to memory-hole
the report, NBC applied a strange note to the now-unplayable video's page: "The piece should not have aired because
it did not meet NBC News reporting standards." As some on Twitter pointed out, mainstream outlets reporting new
information, then quickly and quietly trying to pretend they didn't report it, does not do much to help assuage those
who think there's more to the story than is being explained. [Tweet] Authorities still say they will not
release body-worn camera footage from the responding officers — which would quickly clear up the disparity
between what Almaguer reported and what the FBI affidavit stated — nor the 911 call Pelosi placed. The
U.S. Capitol Police have also said they are not planning to release footage their cameras recorded the night of the break-in.
The
media's coverage of Kari Lake takes bias to new extremes. When it comes to Kari Lake, the mainstream,
drive-by, leftist media is in pants-wetting mode. [...] Until 2021, Lake was best known in the Phoenix area, where she
worked for 22 years as a television news anchor at KSAZ-TV. Her political identity was kind of all over the
place. She was originally a Republican, a registration she kept until 2006. That was when, because she was
dismayed by George Dubya's wars (which saw her voting for John Kerry in 2004), she switched to Independent. Then,
in 2008, clearly dazzled by Obama, she registered as a Democrat and donated to several Democrat campaigns.
However, in 2021, she launched her gubernatorial campaign as a Republican. Despite being substantially outspent
during the Republican primary, Lake won handily. Perhaps it was because she didn't let Democrats bully her into
hiding her suspicions that something was deeply wrong with the 2020 election results. [...] The media, of course, know
an enemy when they see one. That's why their coverage of Lake is venomous in the extreme. While their
coverage of most Republicans averages 87% negative, their coverage of Lake is 100% negative[.]
MSNBC's
Lawrence O'Donnell lays it on THICK for Fetterman, compares him to Winston Churchill. It's all hands on
deck to save Democrat Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman from himself after his historic implosion during
Tuesday's debate with his GOP rival Dr. Mehmet Oz and the party's propagandists are frantically trying to put
Humpty Dumpty back together again to mitigate the damage. Fetterman's performance was a nightmare scenario for the
party and the corrupt, partisan media is pulling out all stops to spin the debacle with the narrative now being pushed
that the hulking lieutenant governor's inability to form coherent thoughts and sentences despite having a closed
captioning system provided to him was a heroic effort due to his being a stroke survivor, a triumph over his disability
comparable to some of western civilization's most towering historic figures. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell likened
Fetterman to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, laying it on thick
with the sort of WWII rhetoric that makes gullible leftists with little real knowledge of history swoon. [Video clip]
Left-Wing
Media Insists the Parrot Isn't Dead. It's Just Resting. In a couple of weeks, John Fetterman will be
back home in Braddock, Penn., in his loft apartment, playing with his kids and continuing to recover from what we now
know was a devastating stroke. It's what he should have been doing since he suffered the stroke in May. But
because he and his campaign hid the severity of his condition from the media, his party, and especially his opponent,
Mehmet Oz, it came as a shock to see the 49-year-old giant of a man in such a confused state. Whether it was due
to hubris or simple denial of reality, Fetterman's vulnerabilities were exposed for all to see. That is, everyone
but a certain segment of the left-wing media that is working very hard to tell us that we didn't see what we actually
saw, that Fetterman didn't do that badly.
Corporate
Media Laugh At FBI Meddling With Republican Control Of Senate In Attempted Entrapment Of Ron Johnson.
Corporate media outlets are scoffing at Sen. Ron Johnson, who stated during the Wisconsin senate race debate last
night that he had been "set up" by the FBI — after his opponent, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela
Barnes, accused Johnson of being a Russian asset. Johnson, however, was indeed set up by the FBI, and in the
greatest twist of irony, it appears Barnes was the one used as a pawn for Russian disinformation. Johnson and
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, led an investigation into Hunter Biden's financial entanglements with overseas
oligarchs and the correlated effort by the FBI to cover it up before the 2020 election. In August 2020, the FBI
proceeded to then brief the two senators that their investigation "advanced Russian disinformation." After the
briefing, parts of the senators' supposedly "secure" conversation with the FBI were leaked to the public in what Johnson
says was an effort to "smear" him and his Hunter Biden investigation.
The Dancing
Vax media mocks the truth. Saul Alinsky's fifth Rule for Radicals is "Ridicule is man's most potent
weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the
opposition, who then react to your advantage." Which explains why corporate media has turned late-night TV shows
into Marxist Theater. Mockery serves the powerful. Last year, Stephen Colbert performed a Dancing Vaccines
skit using the song Tequila but changing the words to Vaccine because all the cool kids are getting the
shots. It was a bit he stole from Jay Leno's Dancing Judge Itos. This year, healthy athletes are dropping
like flies following their covid shots. The media won't report it because the media went all in on the covid
shots, with their late-night hosts mocking skeptics who refused to take an experimental drug.
The
mainstream media openly advocate for John Fetterman. It began with NBC News Reporter Dasha Burns doing an
in-person interview with Pennsylvania Senate Democrat candidate John Fetterman. Fetterman suffered a stroke in
May, causing his health to become a major issue in the Senate race. Burns revealed that Fetterman has "lingering
auditory processing issues" due to his stroke." Hence a monitor was set up before him so he could read a transcript
of her questions. She also revealed he has problems with his speech. Burns also said that once the closed
captioning was on, Fetterman was able to answer all questions during her 25-minute interview. This wasn't a
political hitjob but factual reporting. But since these inconvenient facts could harm the electoral prospects of a
Democrat, Burns received considerable backlash from various Democrat proxies in the mainstream media. They branded
Burns' reporting ableist.
MSNBC
Host Wants Barack Obama To Lead A Hotline To Save America From Republicans. MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace
suggested Monday that the United States might need a "Democracy commission" or some other organization that could save
America from the Republicans — and she thought that former President Barack Obama could potentially spearhead
such an effort. Wallace, who hosts "Deadline: White House" on the left-leaning network posed the question to
former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) — and even McCaskill quickly dismissed the idea that a "commission" of
any sort was necessary.
Democrats
are operating a series of 51 'fake news' websites pushing left-wing stories in toss-up states. A liberal
political media operation being run out of Washington, D.C., and Florida is pushing left-wing stories in 51 different
fake news outlets in order to influence the outcome of the November midterm elections, it is claimed. The
allegations came in a shocking new investigation from Axios that was published on Thursday. The report alleges
that in the past 12 months, multiple new 'news' website have appeared across the country, all run by a company named
Local Report Inc. They do report a wide variety of stories — but sprinkled throughout are news items pushing
Democrat lawmakers and policies.
Biased
media hit Florida before Ian. Were Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) not a national political juggernaut,
biased journalists would not be trying to blame him for a natural disaster and its largely inevitable ill effects.
And if you don't think that's what the journalists have been doing in the wake of Hurricane Ian, you need to look back
to before the storm struck Florida's west coast last week. Already at that point, they were attempting to lay the
groundwork for a storyline about a supposedly "lax response to the storm so far," as one reporter put it in a press
conference. DeSantis was not going to hear one word of it.
CBS
Economic Gaslighting Example, Face the Nation Pretends Not to Know Joe Biden Energy Policy Driving Higher
Prices. "Gaslighting" is essentially a term used to describe an abuser continually lying to victim in
order to make the victim misbelieve reality. Economic "gaslighting" is a process of lying about the nature of true
cause in order to continue advancing the abusive policy. Combine the economic gaslighting with the historic
leftist approach of pretending not to know things, and you get this dynamic on CBS Face the Nation today. In this
brief segment describing inflation, we see all the classic strategies deployed by ideological media. First, notice
they blame: (1) the pandemic recovery, (2) consumer demand, (3) Ukraine, and (4) a supply
chain 'muddle'. Not only are these issues ridiculous, but none of them are the cause of supply side inflation.
Blaming "consumer demand," which has transparently collapsed for the last year, is beyond nonsense. Watch, and also
pay attention to the graphics they use to manipulate the audience: [Video clip]
Do
the Democrats Have a Murder Problem? [Scroll down] Already, some conservatives on social media are
playing "name that party," noting the odd and consistent pattern where if an obscure local Republican official is caught
in an embarrassing scandal, the headline and first paragraph will often mention the party affiliation. But if an
obscure local Democratic official is caught in an embarrassing scandal, the headline and first paragraph will only
mention the person's title and location; the party affiliation will be mentioned deep in the story — if it is
mentioned at all. Like just about every official in Clark County, Telles is a Democrat. We might cut local
media some slack on this; they may well believe their audiences already know that any official from this area is all but
certain to be a Democrat.
A
journalist is murdered, a Democrat pol is charged, and a local reporter finds a way to blame Trump. Murder
is staring journalists in the face, now that a veteran investigative journalist, Jeff German of the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, has been stabbed and killed in cold blood, allegedly by a Democrat politician. But does that make
an impression on the local talent in the press pool? Not to at least one of them. [...] It's an amazingly
offensive take, given that a serious crime has happened, not just the killing an innocent man, but the taking a capable,
competent, journalist out of circulation in a mafia-like hit, and sending a chill to all other reporters that the same
fate could happen to them should they perform their jobs as fearlessly as German performed his. That's what
happens in places like Mexico, where the cartels have taken power based on their capacity to corrupt local politicians,
and now that vile and lethal political tactic has arrived here in the states. That's what the reporter in the
press pool should have been concerned about. But she wasn't. In her still-unserious mind, the emerging
problem wasn't an emerging problem and the real problem was President Trump.
Dems
want the midterms to be a referendum on Trump, not bungling Biden — and the media are compliant.
Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice once said that he was "the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral."
No matter what was going on, he always wound up the center of attention. The same could be said for former President
Donald Trump. No matter what's going on, he somehow seems to wind up driving the conversation. And today's news
almost seems calculated to bring Trump to the forefront. You have the FBI's questionable raid on Mar-a-Lago, where the
same agency that covered up Hunter Biden's laptop sent G-men to run their fingers through Melania's underwear. You have
President Joe Biden's positively Mephistophelean red-lit speech in Philadelphia following his declaration that his opponents
are "semi-fascists." You have Democratic officeholders in New York and Georgia trying to prosecute Trump. All
generating steady Trump-related headlines. Well, if it seems calculated to bring Trump to the forefront, it's because
it is calculated to bring Trump to the forefront. The truth is, the Biden people would rather this election
be a referendum on Trump than a referendum on Biden. That's because if it's a referendum on Biden, the Democrats will
lose, hands-down. And the press knows this, which is why it's cooperating.
Dishonest
'journalism' rules the airwaves. When Trump was president, the media, entertainers,
and other Democrats frequently went to the border to protest the supposedly inhumane
policies. Their protests and reporting virtually stopped when Biden took over, despite the
fact the situation worsened. That shows that they really don't care about the deaths, rapes,
drug-running, and human-smuggling. When Biden's spokespuppet said illegal aliens who aren't
vaccinated aren't walking in, the mainstream leftist media didn't report her blatant lie.
When the DHS secretary lies and says the border is secure, the media don't report the truth.
Media
leftists got the memo on FBI raid; Here's the supercut of talking heads parroting talking points. One of the
main reasons why the left's propaganda is so effective with so many is the ability to stick to a script in order to present a
uniform narrative across media outlets with talking heads all regurgitating the same talking points, and a perfect example is
the aftermath of the FBI's storming of former President Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Following initial confusion
and outrage over the extreme escalation in the regime's political war against the leading candidate of the opposition party,
those whose livelihoods depend on their being able to sell falsehoods and distortions to the public clearly got the memo and
Grabien Media founder Tom Elliott put together a supercut collection of video clips showing the left-wing punditry defending
the outrageous actions of Biden's FBI and suggesting that any criticism of its actions could lead to violence.
Weather forecasts now use
a deep, dark red to represent glorious sunshine. Why? People are starting to notice some, uh,
less-than-subtle psychological conditioning rearing its head in modern weather forecasting. What was once the smiley,
happy face of the sun letting us know we could strip off and run through the neighborhood sprinklers [...] has been replaced with the deepest, darkest red that corporate media graphics departments can
create, designed to summon forth notions of hell on Earth. Observe, back in 1995 — when "John Kettley was
the weatherman, [...] — a temperature of 30 degrees celsius
was reflected with a gentle orange. That's 86 degrees to you Americans. Or "sweater weather" if you're in
Arizona. It wasn't a deep orange. It wasn't an offensive orange. It wasn't even as orange as a former
President freshly emerging from his tanning bed. No, by July 2022, the same temperatures (30 degrees), at the
same time of year, are reflected with the most sinister red you could imagine.
Don
Lemon Throws a Hissy Fit, Demands Republicans Be Treated as 'Danger to Society'. The new leadership at CNN came
in declaring that they wanted to get away from the biased journalism that has been the hallmark of CNN for the past few
years. But it sounds like Don Lemon is throwing a bit of a fit over the concept of being an objective unbiased
journalist — something he doesn't exactly know how to be. He doesn't think it's right to be "fair" to
Republicans, because he believes that Republicans are such a danger to society. [Video clip]
USA
Today demoted me for a tweet — because its woke newsrooms are out of touch with readers. Gannett,
the nation's largest newspaper chain, with more than 200 daily newspapers, announced this month that it's walking away from
opinion sections like the one you're reading. USA Today's liberal editorial page editor said they failed to "evolve."
I know something about Gannett's evolution since I was USA Today's deputy editorial page editor until August, when I was
demoted after I tweeted, "People who are pregnant are also women." That idea was forbidden because a "news reporter"
covering diversity, equity and inclusion wrote a story detailing how transgender men can get pregnant. I compounded my
sin against this new orthodoxy by calling the idea that men can get pregnant an "opinion."
Progressive
Writer Doggedly Tracks Down [the] Creator of Biden 'I Did That' Gas Pump Stickers. The media complex in this
country loves to drape itself with a veil of objectivity and unbiased delivery of the facts. They claim to be adherents
to only the facts, while holding those in power accountable. Yet we see frequently that there are times when simple
Americans break through the press narratives with inconvenient messaging. When that occurs we see that the press reacts
by holding those common citizens accountable. [For example, Joe The Plumbe and Nick Sandmann.] The latest example of
the media looking to blunt an effective political message is seen at gas stations. Throughout the country, it has
become commonplace for people to feel the sting of spiking gas prices, but that pain is assuaged slightly by the appearance
of a small sticker affixed to the front of the gas pump. Variations exist, but mostly the meme is an image of President
Biden pointing, with the words 'I DID THAT' in bold type, his finger gesturing at the swollen price-per-gallon visible
in the window. These stickers have proliferated across the country and across sales platforms.
New
York magazine's pointedly grotesque picture of Dianne Feinstein. Democrats desperately want to see the last of
Dianne Feinstein, who's becoming a risk and an embarrassment, and nothing makes that clearer than the photography New York
magazine used for an essay about her. [...] It's bad enough to have Joe Biden's dementia and Nancy Pelosi's bizarre affect,
complete with escalating eyebrows and manic hand gestures. DiFi is one decrepit Democrat too many. And if you
doubt me on that point, just get a load of the picture New York magazine used to illustrate its article. With that
headshot, DiFi could get the part of the Wicked Witch of the West in a remake of The Wizard of Oz. [Tweet]
Brian
Stelter's gushing Psaki farewell sets off social media. In a highly opinionated and, at times, almost wistful
homage to outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki's tenure, CNN's Brian Stelter bid a fond farewell to the future
MSNBC contributor in a manner "that would make the editors of Pravda blush." As Psaki made way Friday for her successor,
Karine Jean-Pierre, Stelter released an "analysis" of her 224 press briefings and myriad news appearances loaded with gushing
quotes from his favored and "reliable" sources. In so doing, the CNN host couldn't help but take potshots at the
previous administration, Fox News, and pretty much anyone who failed to subscribe to his worldview.
The
Media Let January 6 Committee Skate. [Scroll down] Notice anything curious here? Or should I say
curiously missing? That would be serious media coverage of the January 6 Committee members themselves, what they did or
did not do on January 6 and in the run-up to that day, not to mention their role afterwards in the establishment of the
Stalin-esque show trial Committee itself. Note well that the Committee has already issued subpoenas to AT&T, Verizon,
Sprint, T-Mobile and any other company that might have the texts, e-mails and phone records of Trump family and staff
members, conservative members of the media (think: Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.) In fact, predictably, the
Committee has leaked the private correspondence of various of these people to, but of course, the media. But what about
the media investigating the Committee itself? Where are they? Where are the media demands to make public the
texts, e-mails and phone records of the nine Committee members — 7 Democrats plus Republican Never Trumpers Liz
Cheney and Adam Kinzinger? Where are the demands for all of the same communications from the Committee staff members?
Media
standards for covering Biden and Trump? Make that a double. It's truly amazing how differently news
stories are handled, depending on whether or not Donald Trump can be painted as the villain. [...] This week's example was
yet another previously unthinkable event happening in Dementia Joe Biden's dysfunctional, dystopian America: a nationwide
shortage of baby formula. Ask yourself, how loud would the media be screaming if Donald Trump had done absolutely
nothing as this shortage of baby formula developed. And the suddenly the shelves were empty and young families were
panicking over whether they'd have enough food to feed their infants. And simultaneously, the criminal illegal aliens
swarming across the Southern border were being delivered endless pallets of free formula that law-abiding American taxpayers
can't even buy — let alone get for free, forever, on every welfare program known to man.
Fact
Checking the Fact Checkers: Debunking AP's '2000 Mules' Hit Piece. Many of us were alarmed on Election
Night 2020 when, while the results were looking good for Donald Trump, multiple states suddenly stopped counting votes.
As the night wore on and went into the next day, it seemed that every update was favorable for Biden until he was ultimately
named President-Elect. While Trump's campaign repeatedly promised to "release the Kraken" and bring forward evidence of
election fraud that would prove that the election was stolen, focusing on electronic voting machines, that evidence didn't
materialize. RedState's Scott Hounsell pointed out various states and cities — even down to the
precincts — that should be investigated, and that information was given to the Trump campaign to no avail.
'60 Minutes'
Enables FBI Dysfunction. Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" didn't tell his viewers whether FBI Director Christopher
Wray imposed conditions before agreeing to be interviewed on camera by CBS. But his slobbering pro-FBI questions, which
aired Sunday, had the feel of something Wray's communication director may have fed the "news" program. [...] Under Wray, the
FBI has disgraced itself with misconduct and abuse of power. In the days leading up to the interview, victims of serial
child molestor and Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sued the FBI for $130 million after agents charged with
investigating the abuse instead covered it up by fabricating victim statements. Pelly [sic] failed to ask Wray a single
question about the scandal. Pelley also failed to ask Wray about the humiliating acquittal of two men the FBI attempted
to entrap into the Governor Gretchen Whitmer plot engineered by the FBI to interfere in the 2020 election. Among the
FBI agents involved, one was accused of perjury, another of wife beating (now convicted), and a third of using the
investigation to help promote a side-business. Nor did Pelley ask about the FBI child rapist who rampaged across
multiple states for years under the noses of his colleagues responsible for protecting such victims, some younger than 13.
Nor did Pelley ask about the FBI's failure to stop the Jeffery Epstein child-rape-for-profit business. An FBI lawyer
pleaded guilty to falsifying evidence to help spy on a Trump campaign figure. Pelley didn't ask about that, either.
Washington
Post column calls for gender to be removed from U.S. passports. A Washington Post column called for gender,
including male and female labels, to be removed from U.S. passports in an effort to advance inclusion for transgender
travelers. In the Sunday column, transgender artist and writer Abeni Jones said that transitioning from male to female
has made travel "more difficult" and claimed that transgender individuals are frequently subjected to additional airport
screenings. The U.S. State Department, in conjunction with the Biden administration, announced in June 2021 that
passport applicants would soon have the option of marking X as their gender, a third gender marker as an alternative to
male (M) or female (F). The change went into effect on April 11 and the department announcement claimed
the change was enacted in an effort to "advance inclusion."
Rochester
Post Bulletin retracts hit piece portrayals of conservative policy fellow. A major local newspaper has issued a
front-page retraction after inaccurately and negatively portraying a conservative policy fellow in two articles. The
Rochester Post Bulletin had published two stories on Mar. 14 and 15 about the Center of the American Experiment's scheduled
event on crime levels and Minnesota's criminal justice system. The first was written by a new reporter named Molly
Castle Work and titled "Are 'crime wave' claims out of place in Rochester?" The second was written by reporter Emily
Cutts and titled "Lawsuit filed after Center of the American Experiment event canceled." The stories erroneously claimed
that Jeff Van Nest, American Experiment's public safety policy fellow, was "attached" and "tied to" the Pizzagate conspiracy
theory. Popularized during the 2016 presidential election, this theory alleged that a child sex ring was operated by
Democratic Party officials out of Washington D.C.'s Comet Ping Pong pizzeria.
Black
News Channel Shuts Down After Failing to Pay Their Employees. The Black News Channel shut down on Friday after
its lead investor bailed and they failed to pay their employees. Princell Hair, the company's president and CEO, let
the employees of the failed venture know on Friday that they were canceling live production and going into bankruptcy.
The chief investor, Shahid Khan, bailed when nobody wanted to watch the network's awful, leftist content.
Police
Officer In Hot Water After Tasing A Black Man For Recording His Traffic Stop. A Tennessee police officer fired
his stun gun at a food delivery man who had begun recording his traffic stop for speeding and asked to see the officer's
supervisor, video footage shows. The man wound up facing additional charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of
justice, his attorney said. Attorney Ryan Wheeler released the video at a news conference Friday, saying Delane Gordon
began recording when the March 10 stop started to make him feel unsafe. Police in Collegedale, a city of some 11,000
people about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Chattanooga, have thus far declined to identify the officer.
Gordon is Black and the officer is white, Gordon's legal team said. [Video clip]
The Editor says...
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in it you may notice that one guy is described as Black, with a capital B, and the other guy is lower-case white.
Anderson
Cooper's '60 Minutes' Softball Infomercial for Pete Buttigieg. The long-running CBS News program "60 Minutes"
has a manically split personality: Vicious attack dogs when Republicans are in power, but supportive infomercial
producers under Democrats. Take March 13 for example, when Anderson Cooper hosted a promotional segment for Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the "bipartisan infrastructure bill." Buttigieg was touted as "40 years old, a Harvard
graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and former Navy Reserve officer who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Now
he's dealing with a pandemic-related supply chain crisis and trying to ensure that hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are
well-spent on aging transportation systems in desperate need of repair." CBS began with a Pittsburgh bridge collapse from
January, as Cooper asked Buttigieg a series of bland softballs, such as: "When somebody's driving over a bridge, should
they feel confident?" Then Cooper followed up: "When grading the overall state of this country's infrastructure, the
American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave the U.S. a C-minus. How is it possible that a country like the United
States gets a C-minus on infrastructure?" These are easy pitches. They sound like questions Buttigieg's publicist
emailed to CBS.
AZ's
Keri Lake destroys agenda-driven 60 Minutes reporter, ends interview and shares unedited video. Arizona
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake walked out on a "60 Minutes Australia" interview, calling the host "insane" and
accusing him of "pushing propaganda." Lake, a former anchor for Fox News' Phoenix affiliate KSAZ, sat down with Liam
Bartlett in February to discuss her campaign for governor. However, the interview ended up being entirely focused on
former President Donald Trump along with perceptions of the 2020 election and January 6, 2021. In the selected clip
that recently went viral in the lead-up to the airing of the interview, Bartlett repeatedly calls Trump, "your man Donald"
because of the official endorsement of Lake's campaign. [...] Before answering on that topic, Lake called Bartlett out for
his disrespectful and flippant attitude, referring to his use of the expression, "your man Donald," before pointing out,
"It's obvious that you come into this interview and you don't like President Donald Trump."
Cops,
convoys, conservatives, and tyranny. The Mainstream Media inform us that Canadian authorities have "cleared
out" the truckers who had the temerity to think they could peacefully protest their government's COVID
vaccination-and-quarantine mandates. Note the choice of terminology: "Cleared out," as one would clear out an
infestation of vermin. In the propaganda game, words must be chosen carefully and deliberately, and the
propaganda-meisters of today (who not only "manage" the news, but frequently just invent it) make the infamous
Dr. Goebbels look like a mere tyro. [...] Anyone who's spent time on America's highways and observed big trucks knows
that the Confederate battle flag (the "Stars'n'Bars") is an emblem frequently displayed on such trucks, and not just in the
South, in numbers far in excess of those few that were seen on Canadian trucks. But the handful of such flags seen on
the Canadian trucks were enough for "journalists" to declare that such flags were proof that the Freedom Convoy was in
reality a rally of "white supremacists."
War over Trump spying.
Anyone who has followed political journalism for more than a minute or two could predict how some big outlets would cover the
revelation that operatives connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign spied on the Trump campaign. Once legacy media
journalists saw the story reported on Fox News, and especially when they saw former President Donald Trump promoting it, they
immediately thought: How can we knock this down? Normally, when news breaks — and the spying
information was contained in a court filing by Justice Department special counsel John Durham — a news
organization first reports the news. Then it might publish one or more analysis pieces, reaction pieces, and follow-up
stories. But first, they report the news. That didn't happen this time.
Doxing
Day in Canada. This week, one of the most popular small-donor fundraising sites for the Canadian truckers
protesting the COVID vaccine mandates, GiveSendGo, was hacked. The names of donors were shared with the public.
We know about this mostly because erstwhile news organizations, such as Reuters, have showered attention on the breach as if
they were providing a public service. Indeed, many of the same outlets that refused to report specifics about the
Hunter Biden email scoop in 2020 (though the story was obtained in a completely ethical journalistic manner) or share
specifics from the Democratic National Committee email hacks in 2016 (illegally obtained, but with high news value) have no
compunction highlighting a site that takes aim at ordinary people who have done nothing but engage in political
dissent. In Canada, the doxing has already begun.
Pelosi's Watergate.
There has been much written lately about the similarity of Watergate and Special Counsel John Durham's revelations about the
Clinton campaign and others spying on Donald Trump, both as a candidate and a sitting president. There is also the
entry into the offices of Rep. Troy Nehls by the Capitol Police. They are under the control of Nancy Pelosi, of
whom Rep. Nehls has been critical regarding her so-called J-6 investigation. [...] Were it not for a dishonest and
totally biased MSM, the call for investigations, incarcerations, and resignations would be plastered all over the news.
We don't have to imagine what the press would have done had it been President Trump doing the spying, because the press
swallowed the lies about Trump and Russia and ran it for over a year. Even though that link has been debunked, few MSM
agencies have had the journalistic integrity to correct their previous claims. Now that the shoe is on the other foot,
the silence is deafening. This story makes Watergate look like child's play. Where are the Woodwards and
Bernsteins of today?
Los
Angeles Times Slams 'Vitriol in Politics' — After Hiring Vitriolic Columnists. A recent editorial in
the Los Angeles Times [...] laments the decision by a two-term Los Angeles City Council member, who, after taking several
constituent-displeasing positions, decided not to run for reelection. Those positions include voting against an
ordinance to declare certain public streets and public areas off-limits to the homeless and voting to cut the city police
budget and redirect the money for "youth programs." What's not to like in a city plagued by rising homelessness and
homicides (up 50% since 2019)? But the point here is not to attack or defend the councilman's policy positions.
The point is the hypocrisy of the Times in denouncing the "vitriol in politics" that supposedly drove him to decide against
running for reelection.
CNN
Asks if Government Should Take Over Food and Gas Prices. History may not always repeat, but it rhymes. As
seen in just about every situation where socialism and government intervention in the market economy of any nation is
triggered, eventually you get to the point where government solutions to their created crisis take center stage. We
have seen this exact scenario repeated in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Europe, Cuba and more recently Venezuela.
The triggers are the same, and the outcomes are identical. Now, as unbelievable as it may seem, Joe Biden's socialist
policies have triggered the discussion in the United States. CTH warned this was going to become a narrative; and we
saw the first signs of it at the White House podium on January 12th.
Washington
Post rewards editor who led its unfair assault on Trump. The Washington Post has announced that it will promote
Steven Ginsberg, its national editor, to the position of managing editor. Ginsberg will now oversee the Post's main
news sections, including the national, metro, and sports sections. [...] It's understandable that the Post is rewarding
Ginsberg, though. His is a case of mission accomplished. The mission was to undermine Trump's presidency.
The secondary goals were to gain readers and esteem among other Trump haters in media land. Ginsberg delivered on all
counts. Ordinarily, I would be unhappy that the sports section will fall under the jurisdiction of this guy.
However, it's hard to see how that section could get much worse. It seems like nearly half of the front page articles
in the Post's sports section are woke in one way or another.
Media
Begins Their Week Long J6 Attack on Democracy Narrative Engineering Effort. Despite the predictability and
transparency of the propaganda effort, the media and democrats are going all-in. All the broadcast Sunday Talk shows
were filled with the "democracy in danger" talking points using the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests to drive the
agenda. [...] You might have heard that congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG) was permanently removed from Twitter today
under the auspices of breaking the approved speech rules for the Rona. However, it seems more likely — or at least more
convenient — that her voice was removed due to the forward operational needs of the J6 engineering team. It's not going
out on a limb to say the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico most likely have their J6 supportive articles written
and in the queue for sequentially planned distribution all week. Certainly, they will launch the first round of
articles, based on J6 committee leaks, starting tomorrow.
Democrats
Get Networks' Softball Questions for Holidays. As Christmas approaches, the network "news" divisions have
showered the Bidens with gifts. NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon gave President Joe Biden a free platform for 16 minutes
on Dec. 10, and hailed him as a "classy guy" who brought "class back" to the White House. Two days later, CBS reporter
Rita Braver gushed for 10 minutes over Biden and his wife, Jill — or "Dr. B," as Braver called her —
on "Sunday Morning." You didn't even have to win the presidency to be handed a shiny platter of publicity. On "Sunday
Today," NBC's Willie Geist offered 12 minutes of softballs to Hillary Clinton, still complaining about losing to Donald Trump
in 2016. The publicity hook was her business deal with Masterclass.com (no financial disclosures included) to talk about
"resilience," and part of this seminar includes Clinton mawkishly reading her 2016 "victory" speech. Geist, who usually
throws softballs at singers and actresses, asked a series of feel-your-pain questions.
Time
Magazine Actually Rewards Its "Person of the Year" Award to Someone Who Deserves It. [Scroll down] This
is the magazine that declared Adolf Hitler was the winner in 1938, then named Joseph Stalin the winner the very next
year. In 2011, they named "the protester" the person of the year, and then Greta Thunberg in 2019. To be sure,
they've put their fair share of Republicans on the cover for the award, but they do it with pretty much all presidents, and
being on the cover doesn't necessarily mean they'll be kind.
Contrasting
Coverage of Waukesha and Kenosha Shows Media Never Learns Its Lesson. That news media is so monotonously,
predictably biased that it has become absurd to hope for honest journalism. Every time something newsworthy occurs
involving politically charged circumstances, it becomes painfully obvious that the media cannot help but choose sides.
A perfect example is the disparate treatment of the vehicular attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last month and the Kyle
Rittenhouse shootings and subsequent trial in Kenosha, also in Wisconsin, last year. In Waukesha, 39-year-old Darrell
Brooks now faces six counts of intentional homicide after he drove his SUV through a crowded Christmas parade route on Nov. 21.
Law enforcement officials say he drove in a weaving pattern, leading them to conclude that he was intentionally striking
the parade participants. Brooks has a long arrest record. In fact, he was accused of punching a woman and running
her over with his car just weeks earlier. The woman was reportedly the mother of his child, and the car he used was the
same SUV he drove through the parade on Nov. 21.
The Politics of Weaponized Car
Attacks. As we learn more about the senseless SUV attack on the crowd attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha,
Wisconsin, some liberal media outlets are energetically attempting to spin away from the suspect Darrell Brooks and his
left-wing politics on social media. That's funny. With Kyle Rittenhouse, they quickly dug into his social media
activity.
Lies, Lies, Lies: A case study in journalistic
malpractice. When I open my homepage, the first trending story on the top right is: "Judge allowed Kyle
Rittenhouse to draw jurors from a raffle box to determine the 12 who will decide the verdict of his homicide trial." [...] At
this point, if I've been scanning Twitter casually for the news, I become alarmed. The defendant selected his
jurors? The judge allowed him to do this? It takes me a lot of scrolling to get to that phrase "at
random," and then it seems only to apply to the six jurors who will serve as alternates. [...] There is no story here.
It's nothing, a total irrelevancy, a meaningless controversy confected out of thin air. Confected by whom? By our
press, in collusion with the unaccountable tech corporations that now run our public square. It's not like they met in
some back room to plot it all out. They don't have to: they are in total agreement about how this case needs to go.
MSNBC
skips Kyle Rittenhouse defense's closing argument after airing prosecutor's case to jury. MSNBC snubbed the
defense team of Kyle Rittenhouse during closing arguments on Monday after airing the prosecutor's case to the jury that the
18-year-old was guilty of murder. Rittenhouse's trial is coming to a close after weeks of intensity in the courtroom
with prosecutors arguing to the jury that he intended to kill Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber as well as Gaige
Grosskreutz, who survived following the altercation. The defense argued Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense.
However, after hours of coverage dedicated to the prosecutors, both MSNBC as well as CNN opted out of covering the kickoff of
the defense team's closing argument, airing the White House ceremony of President Biden signing the bipartisan infrastructure
bill into law.
Proving
They Are Puppets of the Administration, the Press Defends Fake Vaccine Information. This all began when a bid
to convince children to get the newly approved vaccine was encouraged by the famed Sesame Street character. A tweet was
sent out where Big Bird stated he had actually received the shot. This in itself is hardly a big deal, as he has in the
past touted vaccines on the children's show. [Tweet] Things take a turn, however, when this gets shot through the
prism of our political climate. Ted Cruz weighed in on the tweet, making mention of the government looking to coerce.
In his response, he said, with a noted amount of brevity, "Government propaganda... for your 5 year old."
Well, that was all it took for a media firestorm to erupt, as our unbiased gatekeepers of the truth rose up en masse
to defend the high honor of... a make-believe character.
The Editor says...
If a video surfaces with Barney the Dinosaur effusively recommending the Covid shots, what would the Left do? They hate Barney!
At
28 percent approval, say goodbye to Kamala Harris being Plan B to an aging Biden. Harris's struggles are primarily
twofold: [#1] She's practically invisible. It's been 153 days since her last sit-down interview with a
major broadcast news entity, in the form of NBC's Lester Holt. You may recall that was the beginning of the end of the
administration's confidence in her abilities to handle even the most basic of questions. [...] Since then, the only interview
Harris has granted was to "The View" on ABC. Her own staff couldn't have provided a gentler platform. The vice
president has yet to do a solo press conference.
Our
mostly complicit, compliant, sycophant press has no concern about facts, only Democrat power. The corruption
and dishonesty of the media have been clear for decades. Here are some things they haven't cared about or have lied
about as they campaigned for Democrats and set out to destroy their political opponents. Didn't care about how many
women the Clintons physically and mentally abused. People who we are told respect women called them bimbos and trailer
trash. The women were disposable as the media, entertainers, and other Democrats campaigned for Bill. Didn't care
about Bill committing perjury and causing a young subordinate to commit perjury and obstruct justice. Monica was
disposable. Didn't care how many trips Bill took with known pedophile Epstein. The young girls were disposable if
the Clintons wanted power. How many women and young girls were sexually abused by powerful men because so many were
campaigning for the Clintons? Didn't vet Obama, or care that he associated with radical leftists such as Reverend
Wright and Bill Ayers. They also didn't care about Obama's record as they sought to destroy McCain and Palin. All
that mattered was electing Obama. Didn't care about all the lies used to pass Obamacare, nor did they care that Pelosi
wouldn't let members of Congress, the media, or the public see it before it was voted on. All the media cared about was
the agenda. Didn't care about the separation of powers when Obama illegally bypassed Congress to pay for shortfalls in
Obamacare. Didn't care when Obama and Holder obstructed justice for years on Fast and Furious. Didn't care when
Holder or others in the Obama administration committed perjury before Congress. They were above the law.
MSNBC
Demonizes Concerned Parents As 'Radicalized' 'Far Right Threat'. Sunday night [10/24/2021] MSNBC went all out
smearing parents in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Loudoun County as domestic terrorists. On Alicia Menendez's
American Voices, the MSNBC host and her far-left guest cruelly painted parents standing up to school boards, including a
father whose daughter was allegedly raped by a transgender student on campus because of the schools' liberal policies, as
radical rioters who were like the January 6 "insurrectionists." Menendez set up the smear campaign against concerned
parents with a graphic that read, "The Radicalized Right" in big bold letters at the bottom of the screen and "Threats of Violence"
in the top corner. Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat running in the state's gubernatorial race is facing backlash for saying
parents don't have a say in their child's education. There has been uprisings from parents across the country, including
in Virginia, over Critical Race Theory and transgender bathroom policies.
CNN
Touts Abortion as Vital for Underage Girls, No Reason to Regret. On Saturday night [10/16/2021], CNN
Newsroom weekend host Pamela Brown devoted a segment to promoting abortion as an important option for underage girls as
she spoke with a young woman who had an abortion at age 17, and does not regret doing it. The pro-abortion activist
even claimed that it "saved my life" by making it easier to go to college. The segment also suggested that it was
unreasonable to require underage girls to get either the consent of their parents or of a judge before getting an abortion.
Mainstream
Media Silent After Florida Reports 3rd Lowest Rate Of Covid Infection. The media took great joy in seeing the
Florida Covid spike over the summer, but now they are being eerily quiet. It felt like Florida was the top news story
every evening on the left-wing networks as they slammed Ron DeSantis for doing a "poor job". Funny enough, whenever covid
spikes hit blue states, the media kept their mouths shut. Now, however, they're being silent about Florida because they
have just reached the 3rd lowest rate of infection in the United States.
CBS,
NBC Are Terrified By Start of SCOTUS Session. Monday [10/4/2021] was day one of the new session of the Supreme
Court and the liberal media were absolutely terrified by what ruling could come from the conservative majority when it came
to the right to life and Second Amendment rights. CBS and NBC both attempted to stir their viewers into sharing their
freight as they warned that abortions could be outlawed and people could carry a firearm for self-defense outside the
home. "Tonight, the Supreme Court began its new term, one that could be the most consequential in a generation, with
abortion rights topping the agenda," announced CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell at the top of the segment as
legal correspondent Jan Crawford delivered the story. Both networks invoked the same fearmongering tactic of declaring
"what's at stake" this session with the conservative majority:
MSNBC
Warns SCOTUS Not To Overturn Roe, Claims '80%' Support Abortion. On his Monday [10/4/2021] show on MSNBC, Jose
Diaz-Balart welcomed on network contributor and University of Texas Prof. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto to discuss the
Supreme Court's upcoming term. DeFrancesco warned the Court that "80%" of Americans support abortion, so if they want
to avoid a public trust crisis, they better not overturn Roe v. Wade. Not only is playing to public
opinion not the Court's job, the 80% figure is wildly misleading. Diaz-Balart asked about "the significance of this
moment. We're talking about the two states now that have just instituted these much more restrictive abortion
guidelines. What is the impact of this?"
Black
Lives Matter Is Threatening An 'Uprising' Against 'Racist' Vaccine Mandates. It's a rule in the national media
that vaccine hesitancy is worthy of shame and scorn, right up until it collides with their most precious cause, the Black
Lives Matter movement. Hesitant (white) nurses? Outcast. Hesitant (white) Facebook moms? Shun.
Hesitant (white) Trump supporters? Guillotine. But there's oddly been no prescription for the Black Lives Matter
crew in New York who are accusing the city of racial discrimination by mandating vaccines for public, indoor activity.
Hawk Newsome, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, was quoted Saturday in the New York Times
saying that restaurants "are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and excluding black patrons."
Few topics create as much
hypocrisy as executive use of power. [Compare] how the press has covered Biden's vaccine mandate announcement
vs. Trump's threat to override governors on houses of worship. Spot the difference? Back in May 2020,
President Trump said he would override governors who wouldn't allow houses of worship to open. Yesterday, President
Biden said he would do the same about governors who wouldn't enforce a vaccine mandate. Can you spot the difference in
how @CNN covered it?
The
media refuse to call Biden a liar on Afghanistan despite the evidence — unlike what they did with
Trump. You won't find a more powerful example of the media's pro-Democratic tilt — and outright
hostility toward former President Donald Trump — than their refusal this week to call out President Joe Biden as a
downright liar, as they did with his predecessor, when it comes to his comments about his Afghanistan pullout. Back in
July, the prez flatly rejected suggestions that the intelligence community feared an increasingly rapid collapse of the
Afghan government as US troops withdrew. "Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will
likely collapse," a reporter noted at the July 8 presser. Biden denied it. "Can you please clarify what
[intelligence officials] have told you?" he was asked. Biden fumed again: "They did not — they
didn't — did not reach that conclusion." Indeed, the president insisted that the idea there's "going to be
one unified government in Afghanistan controlling the whole country is highly unlikely."
NBC
News complains the GOP has 'seized' on 'optical comparison' of the fall of Kabul and Saigon. NBC News White
House correspondent Monica Alba noted on Sunday that Republicans "have seized on" the "optical comparison" of the hasty U.S.
withdrawals from both Kabul, Afghanistan, and then-Saigon, South Vietnam, after photos of similar helicopters lifting off
from the respective U.S. embassies in both countries 45 years apart went viral Sunday [8/15/2021]. CH-47 Chinook
helicopters were seen ferrying American diplomatic personnel and Afghan allies from the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul
for much of the day Saturday and into Sunday, images that were broadcast by news agencies sent out over wire service
reports. During her report, Alba noted that last month President Joe Biden assured Americans that the withdrawal from
Afghanistan would not at all resemble the chaotic scenes in what was at the time the capital of South Vietnam ahead of
rapidly advancing North Vietnamese troops.
The
LA Times begs Californians not to boot Newsom. We're one month out from the California recall election and the
polls have continued to tighten, though most of them predict Newsom surviving by a slim margin. Perhaps it's the
unexpected closeness of the vote that moved the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times to publish a beseeching letter to
Californians, urging them to not be tempted into opting for some new blood in the Governor's mansion. Their concern for
the welfare of the state (or should we simply say "the welfare state?") seems touching, but the editors also don't do a very
good job of hiding their real reason for wanting to keep him. Also, when they get around to attempting to defend
Newsom's performance as governor during his first term, it comes off as more of an apology for him than a defense.
Ghoulish
WH Reporters Demand Biden, Psaki Claim Abbott, DeSantis Are Spreading COVID. The White House press corps
continued into Tuesday [8/3/2021] its strategy to turn their guns toward Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as, over the course of
a press briefing and presidential press conference, numerous reporters urged President Biden and Press Secretary Jen Psaki to
declare that DeSantis and fellow Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) were sickening their own citizens with the coronavirus due to
their refusal to reimplement restrictions. CBS's Nancy Cordes broke the ice by telling Psaki that DeSantis "is taking a
very different approach than New York" in not requiring vaccination to enter indoor places as the Sunshine State "hit another
record today of Covid cases, and yet he's pushing back on local municipalities that are trying to impose new mask mandates
and other means of keeping people protected."
The Vaccine Aristocrats.
On This Week With George Stephanopoulos this past Sunday [7/25/2021], a gathering of Washington poo-bahs including
Chris Christie, Rahm Emmanuel, Margaret Hoover, and Donna Brazile — Stephanopoulos calls the segment his
"Powerhouse Roundtable," which to my ear sounds like a Denny's breakfast sampler, but I guess he couldn't name it Four
Hated Windbags — discussed vaccine holdouts. The former George W. Bush and Giuliani aide Hoover
said it was time to stop playing nice: ["]If you're going to get government-provided health care, if you're
getting VA treatment, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, anything — and Social Security obviously isn't health
care — you should be getting the vaccine. Okay? Because we are going to have to take care of you on
the back end.["] Brazile nodded sagely, but Emmanuel all but gushed cartoon hearts. "You know, I'm having
an out of body experience, because I agree with you," said Obama's former hatchet man, before adding, over the chyron, FRUSTRATION MOUNTS WITH UNVACCINATED AMERICANS:
["]I would close the space in. Meaning if you want to participate in X or Y activity, you gotta show you're
vaccinated. So it becomes a reward-punishment type system, and you make your own calculation.["]
AP
'Reporter' Lemire Blasts 'Deeply Cynical' Republicans, Praises 'Good-Faith' Dems. On Thursday's [7/22/2021]
Morning Joe, AP White House reporter Jonathan Lemire addressed Nancy Pelosi's rejection of two Republican appointees
to the January 6th committee, and Kevin McCarthy's announcement that unless Pelosi reversed course he would pull all
Republican appointees. Predictably, Lemire put all the blame on Republicans while plumping for Pelosi and Democrats at
large. How does this analysis sound any different than a Democratic member of Congress? [Video clip]
Dems
have mental breakdown over photo of DeSantis throwing out pitch at little league game. Left-wing opponents of
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could not contain themselves on social media in response to a photo of the popular Republican
throwing out a pitch at a little league baseball game on Friday [7/16/2021]. [...] DeSantis has grown increasingly popular
with 'America First' conservatives who also support former President Donald Trump. In recent polling, he consistently
ranks at the top of 2024 GOP presidential nominee polls under Trump, though in one outlier survey conducted among a few
hundred participants at the Western Conservative Summit last month in Denver, the Florida governor actually out-polled the
former president. But the Sunshine State governor is currently committed to being reelected next year and has not at
all given any indication he wants to seek the 2024 GOP nom[ination]. For that matter, neither has Trump; he has
consistently teased the notion but has yet to say unequivocally he's in.
Only
2 Networks (Barely) Mention New Record in Border Crisis, All Skip Hunter Biden Scoop. On Friday [7/16/2021],
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported another record number of apprehensions at the Mexican border in June: almost
190,000. This number does not include those who have been able to get away from Border Patrol. But somehow, this
is not an ongoing Biden border crisis. On Friday night's newscasts, only ABC and NBC mentioned it. CBS and PBS
did not. NBC tossed just 19 seconds on the border.
11
'heavily armed' members of an extremist militia group arrested; media buries mention that they are Black.
Imagine if these people were White! It would be the top story all weekend, and you know it. But they are Black,
so only in the 22nd paragraph of this New York Times article does the word "Black" appear.
In
Cable News, It's Better To Be A Pervert Than A Conservative. One day, we may look back and dub this month in
cable news history "the return of the pervert," as CNN and MSNBC welcomed back commentators and contributors accused of
sexual harassment or other carnal improprieties to their airwaves. Abusing their position to obtain sexual favors,
exposing themselves, or racking up a years-long history of inappropriate comments to female guests and co-workers could not
stand in the way of Leftists' return to the class of punditry. Everyone from former Rep. Katie Hill (D, naturally,
CA), to Jeffrey Toobin, to Chris Matthews have shaken off the muck of scandal and plunged into the ranks of cable news
talking heads. Katie Hill's "throuple" with a young staffer exploded into public view after the Daily Mail published
photos of Hill and her then-husband pawing a woman roughly half her age. The power differential between Hill and the
employee raised questions of sexual harassment in the age of #MeToo. Still, CNN not only invited Hill, who spent less
than a year in Congress, to offer commentary on a subject about which she clearly had no expertise, but CNN host Brianna
Keilar practically begged her to return to politics.
Jim
Acosta's Obsession With Marjorie Taylor Greene Takes a Really Weird Turn. CNN's Jim Acosta is not a
journalist. That's been thoroughly established over the last several years, from his wild, partisan rantings as a White
House correspondent during the Trump era to his profanity-filled tirades on the low-rated weekend show he now anchors.
This is a man with serious issues, and those issues have been exacerbated by his obsession with January 6th, and by proxy,
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Apparently, the stalwart newsman decided he'd go to Capitol Hill to "get answers"
about the now almost seven-month-old incident. You know, because no one has talked about January 6th to this
point. We obviously need more "answers." Things just get weird from there. [...]
Lone
GOPer on Meet The Press Panel Calls Out Lies Against GOP Election Laws. In the closing minutes of Sunday's
[6/27/2021] Meet the Press, NBC political director Chuck Todd led a panel of mostly liberal media types in a
discussion accusing the Republican Party of a nationwide effort to strip Biden voters, more specifically minorities, of their
right to vote. Luckily, Danielle Pletka, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute stood in the breach and
called out the lies, gave examples of liberal states enacting the same election policies, and made heads rhetorically explode
while doing it. After Todd played a clip of Attorney General Merrick Garland announcing that the Department of Justice
was looking to take states to court over their election integrity laws, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor led
the way in praising the politically motivated move and peddled smears against Republicans.
Chris
Hayes calls for the jailing of those who continue to question the 2020 election results. A few weeks ago, I
wrote an article here about MSNBC's Joe Scarborough going on a rant about the ongoing Maricopa County, Arizona, audit of the
2020 presidential election. Scarborough stated that anyone who questioned the election results should leave the
country. I described this as an all-time low for MSNBC, but a few weeks later, they topped it: MSNBC's Chris
Hayes described the Maricopa County election audit as "ridiculous and dangerous." On June 3rd, Hayes ridiculed
Pennsylvania GOP State Senator Douglas Mastriano for visiting the Arizona audit. The audit, Hayes said, was an "assault
on democracy." "They are trying to destroy" democracy's legitimacy, Hayes said of those who question the election
results. The audit is a "mass delusion," he claimed, that will cause damage and destruction to democracy.
Washington
Post is condemned for video urging Americans to set up 'white accountability groups'. The Washington Post has
been branded 'neoracist' and accused of promoting a 'pseudoreligious movement' after the airing of a controversial video
declaring people should feel 'shame for being white' and urging readers to form 'white accountability groups'. The
latest episode of the series, hosted by Nicole Ellis and called the New Normal, was released on Friday and discussed how
white people can combat white supremacy. 'An antiracist culture does not exist among white people,' trauma specialist
and author Resmaa Menakem says when introducing the concept. 'White people need to start getting together specifically
around race.'
National Geographic: There's No Such
Thing As Race But White People Should Be Ashamed Of Their Race. National Geographic editor in chief Susan
Goldberg published a dramatic front-page article in 2018 stating that the concept of race is "a made-up label" with "no
scientific basis." "There's no scientific basis for race — it's a made-up label," the article title
read. "It's been used to define and separate people for millennia," said the subheadline. "But the concept of
race is not grounded in genetics." Last week, Goldberg published an article bashing white people as a group that
prominently featured a white woman declaring, "I'm ashamed for my ancestors' race."
Univision
Fangirling of VP Harris at Mexico Presser, or MAJOR Security Breach? When "María Fernanda from Univision" took the mic on
Tuesday night [6/8/2021] and asked Vice President Kamala Harris a flattering question to cap off her trip to Mexico, it seemed like
Univision's sycophantic day had taken a turn for the worse. But the truth might be far worse than what it seems. Watch as
"Maria Fernanda from Univision" asked what seemed like a question totally in line with Univision's editorial line, "I voted for you" aside:
[Video clip, transcript, tweets] Further complicating the issue is the fact that Univision Mexico City correspondent Jésica Zermeño was on site at the Harris press conference (who retweeted Coronell's statement). Given all these elements, we are faced with one of only two possible scenarios which are, by degrees of exponential magnitude, far worse than the original "Univision reporter fangirls over Kamala, says 'I voted for you'" story:
• Coronell's statement is true, in which case we are talking about a MAJOR security breach and vetting failure from the Secret Service, Mexican state security, and the White House press team (led by former CNN political commentator Symone Sanders)
• Coronell is lying, in which case (as my colleague Curtis Houck pointed out) Univision has a major journalistic scandal on their hands.
This is a developing story with multiple angles, and we will keep you posted as they unfold.
MSNBC's
Nicolle Wallace Fawns Over Fauci In First Interview After Email Dump. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace tossed a series
of sugar-coated softballs at Dr. Anthony Fauci during the first interview since his personal emails were made
public. Instead of focusing on the fact that a number of the emails flew in the face of prevailing
narratives — about face masks (both the efficacy of and necessity for) and the possibility that the novel
coronavirus originated in and then leaked from a Wuhan lab — Wallace praised Fauci for refraining from attacking
former President Donald Trump, even in his private emails.
Coming Up Next.
On Sunday [5/30/2021], two people were killed and 21 others injured at a mass shooting in Miami. News reports rather
cryptically said that this occurred at a "banquet hall" and, for reasons we can only guess at, did not mention that it was a
rap concert. The shootings were by three thugs who jumped from a white van and opened fire, then drove away. And
despite the van being described as "white," no color was ascribed to the shooters. Including in the security video that
showed three black guys with guns. But a mysterious shooting at a banquet hall just doesn't fit the desired news
narrative as well as "black guys shoot up rap concert crowd because they can."
Reporters
Say Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Was Disregarded Because It Came From GOP. A number of reporters from mainstream media
outlets have recently admitted that the Wuhan "lab leak" theory was originally dismissed because it came from
Republicans. Jonathan Karl, ABC News Washington correspondent admitted to ABC's "This Week" host on Sunday [5/30/2021]
that the lab leak theory was not taken seriously because it came from the Trump administration but, "now serious people are
saying it needs a serious inquiry." "Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face," Karl said. "This was an
idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump, and look, some things may be true even if
Donald Trump said them. Because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control ... he said flatly this came
from that lab, and it was widely dismissed ... but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry." Besides
Trump and Pompeo, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued that the origin of the virus should be investigated because it does
not appear to have come from the animal market, as claimed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Ron
DeSantis Mic Drops Florida Reporter in 15 Seconds After She Tried Tying Big Tech Bill to Trump. Though
relationships between the press and politicians are supposed to be adversarial by nature, it's no big secret that Ron
DeSantis and the mainstream media's exchanges are more combative than most. There are two big reasons for that.
He's the popular Republican governor of a red state and one who chose a vastly different (and what appears to be a far more
successful) approach to handling the coronavirus outbreak than the more draconian ones preferred by the MSM in blue states
with Democratic governors like New York and Michigan. [...] In yet another example of how hatred of the former president
drives their reporting on DeSantis, the Miami Herald thought they had a big gotcha moment earlier today during the signing
ceremony for a bill DeSantis says will crack down on Big Tech censorship of conservatives.
Poynter
Institute Rebukes CNN's Chris Cuomo for Advising Brother Governor on Damage Control. The Poynter Institute for
Media Studies has published a harsh reprimand of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo Thursday for his taking part in strategy sessions
advising his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amid the fallout from the governor's sexual misconduct
allegations. Poyter's Tom Jones argued that Chris Cuomo was "deservedly under scrutiny for crossing a journalistic
line" following revelations that he took part in advisory calls with Andrew Cuomo and some of his staff members, with Jones
calling the situation "a conflict of interest that has been more than a year in the making." "Stop and think about what
happened here," Jones wrote. "The host of a primetime show on one of the country's biggest and most influential cable
news networks is advising one of the most powerful and influential politicians in this country on how to handle serious
sexual misconduct allegations."
Joe
Scarborough Completely Loses His Mind in Screaming Rant Against Trump Supporters. The MSNBC and CNN guys who
built their whole gigs around attacking President Donald Trump are losing their minds. Trump really isn't there to
attack anymore. But they are still going after him as if he were and going after anyone who supports him. Listen
to this crazy rant as MSNBC's Joe Scarborough just absolutely loses it talking about the Arizona audit.
[Video clip]
NBC's
Chuck Todd Was Amy Klobuchar's Landlord, Didn't Disclose During Interviews and Coverage. In 2008, shortly after
becoming a U.S. senator, Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and her husband, John Bessler, began renting a house in Arlington, Virginia,
from Chuck Todd, then NBC News' political director. [...] According to Page Six, which first reported the relationship,
Klobuchar and her husband paid the Todds $3,200 a month. This relationship went undisclosed for years, even though Todd
went on to question Klobuchar at least eight times on-air during her 2020 campaign, including as the moderator of two of the
primary debates.
Liberal
Media Tries To Derail DeSantis With Laughable Hit Piece. Democrats are terrified of Ron DeSantis, whose
national profile has been elevated by his performance as the nation's best governor. The Florida Republican has become
the national model for the successful management of the COVID crisis without destroying his state's economy and respecting
civil liberties at the same time. This of course has earned him the contempt of his unscrupulous opponents and their
allies in the media whose specialty is the smear campaign. Now, the activist left is buzzing over a newly launched hit
piece published by Politico.
Two
Florida Newspapers Embarrass Themselves and Display How Scared They Are of Ron DeSantis. It is no shocker that
in South Florida, a distinctly Indigo-hued segment of a red state, the local press leans left. As an example, after
winning a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the graft and incompetence in the Broward Sheriff's office following the Parkland
shooting, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel backed the embattled Scott Israel in his bid to retain his office, because
the last thing they would do is support a Republican candidate running for the position. Well, that same paper just
turned hysterical regarding Governor Ron DeSantis.
Our Garbage
Media At Work. The Washington Free Beacon has compiled a supercuts video displaying the judgments of prominent
media gasbags on the speeches of President Joe Biden and Senator Tim Scott this past Wednesday evening. [Video clip]
The
True Face Of Racism. Did you know that "news" has a race? I bet you didn't. It didn't always, it
used to just be news — which is simply the recounting of what happened. But now it has a skin color. A
few years ago, NBC News created "NBC Black," which bills itself as "Elevating America's conversation about black identity,
politics, & culture. Telling stories by, for, and about the black community." They also have "NBC Latino," which
they surprisingly haven't yet renamed LatinX (likely because they want people to know what [...] they're talking about, since
only mostly white, ultra-leftists use that made up term), which purports to exist to "Elevating the conversation around
Latinos in the United States." And, of course, there is NBC LGBTQ, "NBC Out is the LGBTQ section of @NBCNews. We
write and produce content about and of interest to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community," and NBC
Asian American — "News, features, videos about #AAPI communities." [...] Maybe it's good business, but it's not
good for the country.
Media
Outlet Identified! — CNN Is Caught Outside AZ Audit Center Parking Lot Harassing State Audit Workers. On Friday night [4/30/2021]
The Gateway Pundit Jordan Conradson interviewed Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett on the latest developments in the historic Maricopa County forensic audit.
Ken gave The Gateway Pundit an exclusive on the historic audit that continued Friday at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. Ken Bennett also dropped this
bomb during the interview. The liberal media is attempting to dox the audit workers! [Video clip]
A Great New Idea for Reducing
Police Shootings. Our country's social stasis is disrupted terribly by police shootings. Now that police
wear body cams and members of the public scour the streets for interesting events to film on smartphones and then to post to
social media, more police shootings get disseminated than ever before. When the target of the shooting is Black, we
become infused with the news. When the target is White, we instantly move on because a White target generates few
clicks and followers and fails to accord with the left-media narrative. In the same way, on the rare occasion that an
Arab Muslim is attacked, the media run wild, but when a Haredi Jew is attacked in broad daylight on the streets of Brooklyn
it barely merits a mention in the Food & Wildlife section.
Propagandists:
Latino TV Networks Cheer Dems' Court-Packing Bill. Gone are the days when the nation's leading Spanish-language
networks would cover the U.S. presidency with adversarial scrutiny. Their coverage of the Democrats' efforts to pack
the Supreme Court proves their pivot to advocacy propaganda. Watch as anchors from Telemundo and Univision,
respectively, hail Democrat efforts to pack the Court: [Video clip]
This newspaper article reeks with bias:
Texas
Senate passes transgender sports bill that critics decry as another 'bathroom bill'. The Texas Senate approved
a controversial transgender sports bill Thursday [4/15/2021] that would force young athletes in Texas to compete in sports
that align with the sex designated on their original birth certificate rather than with their gender identity. The
18-12 vote followed a marathon March 26 hearing that featured emotional testimony on the bill, which foes decry as
discriminatory and anti-LGBTQ.
USA
Today Beats Up On 'Hateful,' Ignorant Red States For Opposing Trans Athletes. USA Today ultra-leftist
Nancy Armour swung a big bat Tuesday [4/13/2021], verbally bludgeoning hateful, ignorant conservative state lawmakers working
to protect women's sports. She accused them of trying to "otherize" trans athletes and open a new front in the culture
war, repeated LGBT talking points and urged the NCAA to hurt conservative states in the pocketbook. Nearly half the
state legislatures are trying to protect women's sports from the intrusion of confused males competing with females.
Armour accused them of passing bills that aren't based on scientific facts. It's bigotry that comes with a price, and
she exhorted the NCAA to inflict financial pain on conservative states.
MSNBC
host calls on liberal Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire after his warning against 'court-packing'. MSNBC
host Mehdi Hasan has called on liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the bench after he spoke out
forcefully against court-packing earlier this week. In the piece, published Thursday [4/8/2021] and starkly headlined
"Justice Stephen Breyer Should Retire from the Supreme Court," Hasan accused Breyer of intentionally overlooking the
"partisanship" of his conservative colleagues, and dismissed his position as "naive, misguided and self-serving." "It
feels odd for me to have to remind a sitting justice that nowhere in the Constitution does it say there should be nine
justices on the court," Hasan wrote at one point. In a lecture at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, Breyer argued that
politically-driven changes to the Supreme Court risked damaging the rule of law in the United States.
When Joey Met Franky.
In his first White House press conference last month, Joe Biden needed a cheat sheet and marked photos of approved
reporters. The Delaware Democrat thus invites a comparison to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who, many Americans still
believe, was fully able-bodied and a tower of strength during World War II. Hugh Gregory Gallagher challenged that
perception in FDR's Splendid Deception, which carried the subtitle, "The moving story of Roosevelt's massive
disability — and the intense efforts to conceal it from the public." In 1920, FDR was the Democratic
candidate for vice president under James Cox. The next year, he suffered an attack of polio, and as Gallagher notes,
FDR was "anxious that the press should not know how severely paralyzed he had become." FDR associate Louis Howe "constantly
misled reporters" and worked out "a scheme to transfer Roosevelt without reporters discovering just how ill he really was."
As Gallagher recalled, "FDR had made it a rule, during his first campaign for governor, that photographers were not to take
pictures of him looking crippled or helpless." During his entire career, reporters obeyed with startling fidelity.
CBS News blasted for 'Dem
activism' with report on '3 ways companies can help fight' Georgia election law. CBS News drew some sharp
reactions Friday [4/2/2021] over a so-called "report" that critics declared seemed more like full-throated Democratic
activism. In a piece titled, "3 ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law," CBS Money Watch
reporter Khristopher J. Brooks appeared to offer advice on how corporations can put political pressure on Georgia
Republicans, who just passed and signed election reform into law. "1. Do not donate," Brooks wrote.
"Activists said companies should immediately stop making donations to Barry Fleming and Michael Dugan, the Georgia Republicans
who co-sponsored the voting changes." The CBS reporter then shamed companies like Coca-Cola, Delta, Home Depot, and UPS for
their various donations to Fleming and Dugan since 2018.
CBS
Repeatedly Lobbies: Why Not Just Boycott Georgia Over GOP Voting Law? It's not enough to trash Georgia's
new voting law as racist, now the hosts of CBS This Morning are prompting business leaders to encourage a boycott.
After prominent African American CEOs placed an ad in The New York Times calling for corporate America to speak out,
Gayle King demanded they do more. Talking to a former CEO of Xerox, King pressed, "Ursula Burns, there was no call for a
boycott even though other people are calling for boycotts. Why was the decision not to go that far?" After reading
a quote from a full page ad appearing in The New York Times, King underlined, "But they do not call for an outright
boycott of the state."
The
AP steps up to help flailing Biden admin, tells staffers not to use the word "crisis" when writing about the border
crisis. As the Biden administration lies about the border crisis and tries to bully Republican lawmakers into
deleting their photos of Biden's over-crowded illegal immigrant cages, the media works overtime to try to obfuscate the
crisis. It's not working, though, according to a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll that shows the majority of Americans see
the border crisis as a crisis and disapproves of Biden's handling of it. Biden has banned news media from the cramped
"pods" (new word for "cages") where the Wuhan coronavirus runs rampant amid inhumane conditions, and the media is happy to
accept that. We hear no cries of suppression of the press or fascism now that their guy is in the White House, and we
will not. [Tweets] [...] So serious are media outlets about propping up Sleepy Joe "Kids in Cages" Biden that the AP has
instructed staffers not to use the term "crisis" in discussing the border crisis. I kid you not.
Comparison
of Biden vs. Trump Media Coverage of the Border Crisis. The mainstream media is made up of biased
hacks. I know, hardly groundbreaking, but this montage put out by our friends over at the Media Research Center is
worth the watch for its sheer entertainment value alone. I mean, it takes real skill to lack this much shame, as you'll
see in a second. The setup is that the border has deteriorated to unseen levels, with over ten thousand illegal alien
children now in custody. Meanwhile, the general surge at the border is also at historic levels. The Biden
administration is not prepared, and their policies and rhetoric caused a dangerous humanitarian crisis that didn't need to
happen. In other words, things are objectively worse, and there are more "kids in cages" today than at any time during
the Trump administration. Yet, this is the comparison in coverage.
DC
Statehood Is The Next Unicorn The Democrats Are Chasing. The Washington Post is doing an admirable job of
cheerleading for the next unicorn that congressional Democrats are set to pursue, that being DC statehood. The obvious
nature of the power grab that the Democrats are trying to pull off doesn't seem to sway their media enablers in the
slightest. Nor do the historical reasons as to why the District of Columbia wasn't created as a state to begin
with. All that really matters is the opportunity to summon up two more senators from a reliably blue neighborhood, that
is smaller in both physical size and population than your average county. The job for the GOP at this moment, as Yahoo
News reports, is to educate the public about what the Democrats are trying to do and why this scheme shouldn't be allowed to
come to pass.
Propaganda,
Chris Wallace and Anthony Fauci Edition. Once you realize that COVID-19 is being pushed as a purposeful
political control tool, it becomes easy to spot the propaganda as it is delivered. The statistics just do not match the
expressed narrative. Small jumps are labeled "massive spikes." For an audio visual demonstration, watch this
prompted segment from Fox News Sunday and the DC Swamp Gatekeeper Chris Wallace as he discusses narrated statistics of the
virus. Compare what he is saying to the graph he displays to support what he is saying. They do not align.
[Video clip]
NBC's
Chuck Todd: A Lot People Believe More Pandemics 'Inevitable' Because of Climate Change. NBC anchor Chuck
Todd said Sunday [3/14/2021] on NBC's "Meet the Press" that a lot of people believe it is "inevitable" we'll have more
pandemics in the future because of "climate change."
The Editor says...
Chuck Todd made this statement as part of a "question" for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who then failed to take the bait,
and didn't mention climate change in his answer. Chuck Todd attempted to inject global warming into a
discussion where it has no place. That's fake news.
CNN
Doesn't Get Why Americans Are Concerned About Biden's Address. How dare we have such concerns and don't just
thank our government for their concern for us and dictating the right think for us! Thank you, Dear Leader! But
it's CNN, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. They're the closest thing to "state media" now or political operative
arm of the Democrats. This is CNN.
This article is replete with left-wing bias:
Biden
honors Covid victims, accelerates vaccine timeline. In his first prime-time presidential address, President Joe
Biden said on Thursday night [3/11/2021] that he would order states to make coronavirus vaccines available to all American
adults by May 1, in an effort to accelerate the mass vaccination effort critical to ending the pandemic. [...] Recommendations
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Monday specifically allowed for fully vaccinated people to visit
indoors with unvaccinated healthy people from a single household without wearing masks or physical distancing.
The Editor says...
The First Amendment, in the Bill of Rights, allows ALL people to visit indoors OR OUT with ALL people from
ANY household without wearing masks or physical distancing.
So
Much For Bringing Dogs Back To The White House. When I covered the White House for The Washington Times during
the George W. Bush administration, I used to play a game with then-Press Secretary Dana Perino, now a Fox News host.
The game was simple: One of us would send the other an email that said, "Can you imagine if W. had ___." You could fill
in the blank with anything that the Democrats were currently getting away with in the milquetoast U.S. media. The game,
of course, can still be played today, just with different players. Take former President Donald Trump. He said in
March 2020 that masks weren't needed to combat COVID-19. That's exactly what the nation's top immunologist Dr. Anthony
Fauci was saying at the time. "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of
an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not
providing the perfect protection that people think that it is," the doctor said on CBS News.
Things
that don't make sense, except to Democrats. [Scroll down] Now that cases, deaths, and hospitalizations
are declining rapidly we see fewer stories. They have to get the $1.9 Trillion leftist slush fund passed before the
public is allowed to learn the truth. I also am seeing frequent reporting complaining that not as many people are
getting tested. The media, bureaucrats and other Democrats should be cheering that fewer people are scared and fewer
people feel the need to get tested but they are complaining. The cheers should be very loud because even with fewer
people testing, the positivity rate has dropped rapidly. It's as if the media and other Democrats would rather keep
destroying the economy and children instead of getting schools and businesses open. The cheerleading and campaigning
for Democrats is what reporters do. How is that valuable to the American people?
Minneapolis
Paying 'Influencers' $1.2M to Shape Public Opinion During Derek Chauvin Trial. Well, it looks like the Sixth
Amendment may be as unwelcome and out-of-date in whatever it is America appears to be degenerating into as the First
Amendment clearly is. The local CBS affiliate is reporting the almost unbelievable news that Minneapolis officials plan
on shelling out around $1.2 million in taxpayer money to "six social media influencers, with a large local following, to
help push their message" during Derek Chauvin's second-degree murder trial for the death of George Floyd.
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Dead, 15% of Oregon Lost Power: Why Don't We Hear About It? The answer is obvious. When a disaster
hits a Democrat state, it's the fault of global warming and vague conditions. But when a disaster hits a Republican
state, it's the fault of the Republicans. Even if, in reality, they have as little to do with it as Senator Ted Cruz
does. The media is in the propaganda business. Not the business of facts. While the situation in Texas is
worse than in Oregon, for obvious reasons of scale and weather, 600,000 people lost power in Oregon, the National Guard has
been deployed, and, currently, some 50,000 people still don't have power. And yet coverage of the situation is minimal
to non-existent. While the media loudly blares coverage of "survivors" of the storm in Texas, there's not much coming
out of Oregon.
MSNBC,
CNN Give Rush the Soviet Treatment, Black Out Morning News of His Death. Love Rush Limbaugh or hate him, it is
undeniable that he was a huge, transformative media figure. If there was ever a more impactful conservative media voice
in the last 30 years, who would it be? As just two examples of how Rush's importance spanned decades, consider that
over a quarter-century ago, Republicans saluted Rush as the "majority maker" and made him an honorary member of the
House. Republicans credited Rush for helping them win back the majority after decades in the wilderness. And it
can rightly be said that Rush was instrumental in the success of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential run. So Rush's death
is, indisputably, a tremendously newsworthy event — his life and legacy eminently deserving of discussion.
And yet, incredibly, despicably, during their combined six hours of airtime this morning, neither MSNBC's Morning
Joe nor CNN's New Day devoted a single moment to a discussion of Rush's passing. On New Day, the
blackout was absolute. The word "Rush" never crossed the lips of any of the hosts, reporters, or guests.
Katy
Tur Tries to Gaslight Over 'Insurrection'. Katy Tur has never been known as a straight shooter. One of
the more partisan voices on MSNBC (and that's saying something), she presents herself as a hard news anchor while finding it
absolutely impossible to not let her left-wing bias show through. At one point, she compared journalists to fire
fighters, rushing into burning buildings because there's no more a delusional group of people on the planet than those who
work in the legacy news industry. [...] Perhaps Tur was comatose over last summer's festivities. The rest of us recall
the court houses on fire, the police precincts burned down, the stores looted, the violent political demands of groups like
Black Lives Matter, and the dozens of people killed and murdered. In fact, if we want to get technical, the only recent
example of a real insurrection happened in Seattle, where a group of lefty nut jobs setup an "autonomous" zone that ended up
in multiple people dead.
As
[the] 'walls close in' on Gov. Cuomo, rank media favoritism [is] exposed in [a] devastating thread. If
there was going to be a case study on the corrupt bias of the media establishment, it would have to center on the coverage of
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. You may recall that back in the early days of
the Democratic primary, when Biden was coming in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, before his revival in South
Carolina, there appeared to be an effort afoot in the media to sell Cuomo as a possible alternative.
Media
"news" is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. [Scroll down] First, why
get snarky with Senator Cruz to begin with? Why not just report that his reference was incorrect if she thought it was,
as a news reporter should? The answer, of course, is that news reporters do that — get snarky —
these days when their target is a Republican. Second, why not double-check that you're right before correcting someone
in front of millions of people? The answer is that journalists are too lazy to double check things, especially when
they think it reflects badly on Republicans. Third, why not double-check that you're right when the person you're
correcting is a genuine intellectual? Ted Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton and magna cum laude
from Harvard Law School, then went on to clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the U.S. Supreme Court. In
practicing law, Cruz argued nine cases before the Supreme Court. The answer is that Mitchell is pathologically arrogant.
Schadenfreude
overload as Andrea Mitchell attempts to correct Ted Cruz and reveals her ignorance. It is a foundational tenet
of Trump-hatred that the 45th president and all who support him are stupid. With the Senate impeachment trial underway,
anyone criticizing it must be an idiot, because everyone knows that Trump is evil incarnate, possibly even worse than
Hitler. That may explain why Andrea Mitchell of NBC News thought she could shame Ted Cruz as an ignoramus for
criticizing the Senate impeachment trial yesterday.
CNN's
Jake Tapper Says Trump Supporters Who Question 2020 Election Results Need to be 'Held Accountable'. CNN's
"State of the Union" anchor Jake Tapper labeled Trump supporters 'terrorists' and said people who question the 2020 election
results must be held accountable. After pushing the 'Trump-Russia collusion' lie for years, CNN is now telling Trump
supporters to sit down and shut up about the Democrat voter fraud in the 2020 election. "If there is no accountability
and no attempt by the Republican Party to stop these insane lies that have taken root in their party... This is not going
to be the end of MAGA terrorism, this will only be the beginning," Jake Tapper said. [Video clip] Not a word
from Jake Tapper about BLM-Antifa terrorists marching through DC last night chanting, "Burn it down!"
"Wildly
irresponsible": CNN slams Cuomo for dismissing expert opinion on vaccinations. I'm trying not to be
conspiratorial about the beating Cuomo's taken in the media lately, coincidentally at the very moment Joe Biden has
supplanted him as the Democratic leader of America's pandemic response. For almost a year that role was filled by
Cuomo, starting with New York's hellacious outbreak last March — made more hellacious through his
mismanagement — and continuing with months of press conferences that contrasted favorably with Trump's meandering
rants. Sleepy Joe has finally arrived to relieve him of duty. Now the press can finally tell the truth about how
terribly he's done and how Trumpy he's been at times in his performance. [...] I'm guessing Team Cuomo's going to pivot hard soon
to a message of "Why is everyone focused on what happened months ago with COVID when they should be focused on what's happening
now?" That's some new water that the press can carry for him, if it's so inclined. And they probably are inclined.
Watch:
Furious Woman Whose Mother Died In NY Nursing Home Says NBC News Blocked Her Mentioning Cuomo's Name. On Monday
[2/1/2021], in an explosive condemnation of both the mainstream media and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a woman who lost
her mother to COVID-19 in a New York nursing home told Fox News that NBC News barred her from using Cuomo's name when she
spoke of her mother's death. Dawn Best, whose mother died in April 2020, told Brian Kilmeade of "Fox & Friends" that
she was told by NBC News, "Can you say that a different way without Governor Cuomo's name, and just say New York failed you?"
Best continued, "So I had no choice. So I had to say, 'New York failed me.'"
MSNBC's
Clint Watts: If International Terrorists Used Trump's Rhetoric 'We Would Be Talking About a Drone Strike'. MSNBC
national security analyst, former FBI special agent Clint Watts said Thursday [1/28/2021] on MSNBC's "Deadline" that if international
terrorists had the similar rhetoric to former President Donald Trump, "we would be talking about a drone strike overseas."
Nicolle
Wallace Again Floats 'Drone Strikes' as Solution to 'Domestic Terrorism'. Nicolle Wallace has Republicans and
drone strikes on the noggin. Yesterday [1/28/2021], we caught MSNBC analyst and former FBI agent Clint Watts saying on
Wallace's show that if Anwar Awlaki had said what Trump said, the result would be a "drone strike." Wallace took it an
insane step further on her show this evening, saying: ["]We had a policy, and it was very controversial, it was
carried out under the Bush years, and under the Obama years, of attacking terrorism at its root, of going after and killing,
and in the case of Anwar Awlaki, an American, a Yemeni-American, with a drone strike for the crime of inciting violence,
inciting terrorism. ... The way you root out terrorism, is to take on, in the case of Islamic terrorism, kill those who
incite it.["]
Rand
Paul pushes back against Stephanopoulos narrative. Although technically a "journalist," [George] Stephanopoulos
is famously partisan, routinely serving as an attack dog for the Democrat party. He certainly showed that side of
himself in the interview with Sen. Paul. What Stephanopoulos hadn't counted on is that Paul has an advantage
compared to many of the elected officials, bureaucrats, and assorted famous people that Stephanopoulos bullies... er,
interviews on his show. Paul is a principled man. His values do not change depending on where he sees an
advantage to himself. That gives him a moral clarity that makes it impossible to bully him, as Stephanopoulos
discovered to his cost.
Rand Paul Serves As An Example Of
How Not To Be Bullied As George Stephanopoulos Badgers Him On Election Fraud. Some GOP legislators are finally
beginning to understand the only way to survive a decidedly progressive Democrat majority and possibly keep Biden to one term
is a refusal to be cowed and bullied by members of a partisan press functioning as ad hoc propagandists for progressive
policies. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is one such legislator. In a duel of words that spanned topics from
potential election irregularities, to the role of journalists, to whether or not some of the state election fraud cases may
eventually make it to the Supreme Court, Paul stood his ground as he was berated and triple-dog-dared into declaring
definitively that the 2020 election was clean by a dismissive and agenda-drive George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week.
Everything
You Need to Know About Kamala's Niece, Resistance Grifter Meena Harris. "Ambition runs in the Harris family,"
said Jenna Bush Hager during a recent Today Show interview with Meena Harris, the 36-year-old niece of Vice
President-elect Kamala Harris. No argument there. It's why Joe Biden's team was skeptical about choosing Kamala
as a running mate, and it's why Meena's "woke" apparel company, Phenomenal, will print the word "ambitious" on a sweatshirt
for $59. Ambition isn't the only thing Kamala and Meena have in common. Both are also adored by professional
journalists to an unhealthy degree. Meena, for example, was recently the subject of a New York Times profile
that is indistinguishable from a professional public relations campaign.
Photojournalist
for CNN-NPR Jade Sacker embedded with BLM/Antifa leader John Sullivan during siege on US Capitol while cheering "We Did It!"
after inciting riot. As soon as the siege on the Capitol took place every left winger I know was screaming
about how bad boy Trump and all his riff raff followers had ruined yet another glorious day. There was violence, there
was chaos, people died, and according to them, it was all Trump's fault for "calling for violence." Except he
didn't. Politicians and special interests groups have been marching on the Capitol for as long as I can remember and
that's exactly what Trump asked everyone to do. I listened to that speech at least a half dozen times and not once did
I hear Trump even insinuate that the crowd should perpetrator what later ensued. I didn't hear anything from him that I
haven't heard dozens of times from a magnitude of speakers over various causes from that very spot.
Liberal
Journalist Calls For Pelosi To Be Expelled From House. Whatever you think of Twitter, it does have one virtue:
it has exposed the carelessness and low intelligence of American journalists. Gohmert couldn't have been clearer, and
yet these dim bulbs didn't get the point. More importantly, though: these journalists thought the quote was shocking
when they attributed it to Gohmert. One wanted to expel Gohmert from the House. So, does that mean that she now
wants Nancy Pelosi expelled? And do the other journalists quoted above now think that Pelosi's quote was reprehensible?
Will they jump to condemn Pelosi, as they did Gohmert? Or are statements tolerant of rioting, or even encouraging rioting,
perfectly fine when they are made by Democrats?
Media Have Hypocritical Double Standard
on Trump vs BLM Protests. Wednesday was proof that how corporate media and Democrat politicians report and
comment on acts of civil unrest depends upon who is engaged in the rioting. Six months ago The New York Times, which
has been described as the national "newspaper of record," made excuses for rioters who attempted to take over the federal
courthouse in Portland, Oregon. It reported that "the nightly assault on the federal courthouse has been part of a much
wider peaceful resistance ... that began assembling nearly two months ago in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of
the Minneapolis police." The Times continued, "the aim, as it has been in other cities, was to assemble for sweeping
police reform and racial justice." Reporting on Wednesday's protest in Washington, D.C., The Times' "peaceful resistance"
suddenly became a "mob." Instead of "assembling," the protesters engaged in "rampage" and "chaos," incited by President
Trump, which became a "part of his legacy."
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Times Media And Democrats Excused Or Endorsed Violence Committed By Left-Wing Activists. [Numerous video clips]
Media Word of the Week: 'Insurrection'.
he most recent Gallup survey on media credibility found that the percentage of Americans who trust the Fourth Estate "a great
deal" is 9 percent. Assuming that this abysmal showing doesn't constitute some perverse source of pride in America's
newsrooms, an honest self-examination of their coverage concerning Wednesday's mayhem on Capitol Hill would be a good way to
begin rehabilitating their reputation. Their response to that utterly predictable event was both monolithic and
moronic. That they are guilty of both charges can be validated by typing "insurrection" into Google and searching
News. This word is used — fallaciously — in countless headlines about an event that didn't
remotely justify such a description. Newsday keeps it simple: "Trump's Insurrection." The Atlantic
insists, "Republicans Own This Insurrection." The Washington Post asks, "Why weren't officials at the Capitol more
prepared for this insurrection?" AP hits the racism angle: "Race double standard clear in rioters' Capitol
insurrection." ABC offered, "Insurrection marks moment of reckoning for Republicans." CNN declared, "Insurrection
fueled by conspiracy groups, extremists and fringe movements." The Wall Street Journal intones:
"Insurrection Demands Forceful Response." One could easily churn out 850 words by simply cutting and pasting
more of this balderdash, but it wouldn't explain why these "journalists" don't know the definition of "insurrection."
ABC
demands 'cleansing' Trump movement from America. Beware, 75 million Trump voters. The media is calling
for your ideological "cleansing" of Trump thought. In a column and tweet, ABC's well-respected political director Rick
Klein made the call after yesterday's [1/7/2021] pro-Trump riots inside the halls of Congress. It is a sentiment
throughout much of the political media and among Democrats who are also pointing an accusing finger at aides to President
Trump who are resigning before their jobs end on Joe Biden's Inauguration Day in 13 days.
ABC
News: 'Getting Rid of Trump Easy Part'; 'Cleansing' America of 'Movement He Commands' Something Else. In the
aftermath of the pro-Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, ABC News Political Director Rick Klein is calling
for a "cleansing" of the Trump "movement," across America. Getting rid of Trump "is the easy part," Klien tweeted;
getting rid of the movement Trump "commands" is another. [...] "Cleansing the movement"? Just me, or does that sound a tad
too close to "cleansing" Adolf Hitler and the Nazis from post-WWII Germany?
The Editor says...
Here's a better idea: Let's cleanse America of ABC News. There is no law requiring you to own a television.
If you insist on keeping a TV in your house, nobody is forcing you to watch the ABC network, or any ABC affiliate.
If you keep watching the ABC station, you're putting money in the pockets of people who hate conservatives.
'The
View' Explodes After McCain Presses Warnock to Reject His Party's Extremism. Wednesday marks the third day in a
row of shocking blowups on The View. Georgia's Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock was being blessed with heavy praise
and softball questions from the liberal hosts when conservative co-host Meghan McCain changed things by asking him a real
critical question. But when she kept pressing Warnock for a direct answer, she faced the wrath of co-host Whoopi
Goldberg and the show's producers. Before this crazy part, each host shamelessly fawned over their Democrat
guest. A beaming Whoopi Goldberg couldn't contain her excitement.
Just
What Were You Expecting? [Scroll down] Whether walking on the street or gathered on the Capitol steps,
people were waving flags and as far as I could see, nobody was throwing punches. Nobody was throwing bricks or Molotov
cocktails. In fact, one video clip I found very interesting, was one group of protestors who managed to gain entry to
the Capitol Building, was walking/strolling through Statuary Hall, and they were all staying inside the velvet guide ropes
running down the center!! Nobody toppled any statues over or anything like that. Surely not some "maddened mob" as
the media kept hyping all afternoon long. Here are some things that bother me. First of all, the media. The
way they were hyping this, you would think there was an all out assault by heavily armed rioters, hell bent on killing
everyone inside the building. The media kept using the words, "shots fired," implying that the "mob" had shot somebody,
maybe even a policeman. Turns out, it was a Capitol policeman who shot an unarmed female protestor.
News
media: 'Extremist' Trump 'Militias' Head to D.C. for 'Violence'. The widely-circulated tabloid newspaper
USA Today warns the "Nation's capital braces for violence as extremist groups converge to protest Donald Trump's
election loss." Braces! Violence! Extremist! Eeek! Did we ever see such warnings before the numerous
summer social justice riots infected cities around the country with ritualized looting, arson and assaults? Readers are
warned, without evidence, that the rallies will "attract large numbers of President Donald Trump's supporters, including
conspiracy theorists, militia groups and members of the extremist group the Proud Boys, raising concerns of violent
confrontations."
Politico
reporter urges journalists to drop 'conservative,' switch to 'extremist'. Journalists have one job: to
fairly and accurately report the news. But, in today's climate, many do quite the opposite. The left-wing media
conglomerate works tirelessly to put Democrats on a pedestal, all while making republicans look like eternal villains.
Now, a top Politico reporter is calling on his fellow journalists to stop referring to republicans as
conservatives. Instead, refer to them as "extremists."
CNN's
Cuomo mocks Rubio's faith, calling senator 'Bible Boy' during anti-Trump rant. Chris Cuomo says President
Trump's departure from the White House will not offer political relief for the country as long as "Bible boy" Sen. Marco
Rubio is around. The "CNN Tonight" host mocked the Florida Republican's outspoken faith Monday evening while opining on
post-Trump America with colleague Don Lemon. [...] "You know Mr. Bible Boy," Mr. Cuomo said. "He's got a
Bible quote for every moment. He just never speaks truth to power or acts on any of it in the interest of his own state
or of this country. They remain, and they all know what they're doing is bogus. They know what they're doing on
the 6th is bogus." Mr. Lemon blasted senators who want an emergency audit of the 2020 election and said they
engineered their own support with lies.
Hundreds
of Trump supporters flock to DC ahead of vote. Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump descended on
the nation's capital Tuesday to cheer his baseless claims of election fraud a day before a congressional vote to affirm Joe
Biden's victory. Just blocks from the White House, protesters — many without masks — gathered in
Freedom Plaza to decry the vote in the Electoral College.
The Editor says...
[#1] President Trumps claims of election fraud are not baseless. [#2] The Associated Press writer apparently thinks that individuals congregating in
public without face masks is newsworthy. It's a detail important enough to put in the second sentence of the article above. Either the AP writer finds
such behavior offensive, or he or she is making note of it in case there's a surge of Covid cases next week.
Washington
Post Defends Leftist Mob that Terrorized Sen. Josh Hawley's Wife and Newborn at Their Home. The Washington
Post defended a mob of leftist protesters, who under the cover of night yelled through a megaphone and trespassed at the home
of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., while Hawley was away and his wife and children, including a newborn, were inside.
"Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who
can't travel," Hawley wrote on Twitter. "They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door."
WaPo
and NYT ring in the new year with attacks on capitalism. In the year of Joe Biden, set to steal a fraudulently
won presidency, the mainstream media are pushing another fraudulent "narrative," this one of America rejecting
capitalism. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post opened the new year with an appalling attack on free
markets. [...] These attacks are propaganda, same as the Soviets used to do, designed to make Americans blame capitalism
rather than big government, using the pandemic to extend its reach and power. A few crony capitalists gain in the
process, creating a propagandistic narrative with the explicit aim of making Americans hate and blame capitalism, matching
their other self-created narrative of encouraging Americans to hate their country. The aim of course is socialism.
Which is rather redolent of the last time they tried this, in the famous 2009 Newsweek headline in the wake of President
Obama's election claiming: "We're All Socialists Now." We all know how well that worked out.
'Perfect
Case Of Media Bias': Major Atlanta Paper Slammed Over Coverage Of Loeffler/Warnock Race. On Wednesday
[11/23/2020], the day after a video emerged of the former wife of Georgia Democratic senatorial candidate Raphael Warnock
saying in March 2020 that she had kept his allegedly problematic private behavior "under wraps for a long time," The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, covering the Senate run-off race between Warnock and incumbent Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler, titled
their side-by-side articles of the the two candidates like this:
"Untouched in first round, Warnock endures
attacks."
"Losing moderate image, Loeffler turns hard right."
The overt bias in the newspaper's coverage
elicited a strong response among conservatives, as they noted the implicit attack on Loeffler while the paper made Warnock
look like a victim.
Washington
Post Cartoon Borrows Page From Nazi Playbook. In Sunday's Washington Post, a dehumanizing cartoon of Republican
lawmakers and government officials graced both sides of the fold in the opinion section. The giant, tasteless cartoon
by Ann Telnaes shows dozens of rats representing various Republicans who the cartoonist identifies as President Trump's
collaborators. "All the Republican rats" reads the headline, followed by the lead, "All of the state attorney generals
and U.S. Congress members who collaborated with President Trump in his attempt to subvert the Constitution and stay in
office." Telnaes then labels each rat in the cartoon with a Republican's name so that Washington Post readers know who to
hate. The Nazi's used the same propaganda to dehumanize the Jews.
China,
Spies, And Sexual Harassment: 3 Bombshell Stories The Legacy Media Are Hiding From You. Early last week, Axios
reported that an alleged Chinese spy, a woman named Fang Fang or Christine Fang, had "forged ties with Swalwell while he was
a city council member in Dublin, California." Fang had helped fundraise for Swalwell's 2014 reelection campaign, and
even placed an intern in his office. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany excoriated the legacy media for their
complete disinterest in the possibility that Swalwell — who still sits on the House Intelligence Committee
and was a vocal instigator in the Russia collusion hoax — could have been compromised by a Chinese spy. On
December 17th, The Hill reported that the "CBS, NBC and ABC evening newscasts haven't dedicated one second to the story,"
that Rep. Swalwell was "barely pressed" during an interview with CNN, and that The New York Times had failed to report
on the story in any fashion. One would imagine that had it been a Republican Congressman who was accused of sleeping
with a spy, the legacy media may have expressed more interest.
News Anchors Say The Quiet Part Loud.
WQAD anchors, Katherine Bauer and Morgan Strackbein didn't know they were live when this candid conversation took place last
weekend. [Video clip]
Narcissistic
NBC News shows that the media's bias has no bounds. [Scroll down] This type of narcissism echoes Soviet
level reporting. The tragedy of those lies in the Soviet media was that reporters were forced to lie to save their
lives. Stop toeing the party line and you might find yourself doing hard labor in a Siberian gulag. The tragedy
of these lies in the United States is that the narcissistic reporters are doing this voluntarily. The notion of honest
reporting is utterly alien to them. For them, truth is always defined by their ideological needs. Even worse, if
they stop toeing the party line, they might find themselves disinvited from the cool kids' parties and forced to hold a real
job (or maybe learn to code) somewhere in flyover country.
Flashback:
Four Years Ago, ABC Was Excited Hillary Wasn't 'Going Away'. If the liberal media didn't have double standards,
they would have no standards at all. Although journalists now are angry that anyone would question President-Elect Joe
Biden, ABC four years ago was speculating on Donald Trump being "delegitimized." The network was also excited that
Hillary Clinton wasn't "going away." Think they'll feel the same way about Trump? On the December 9, 2016 Good
Morning America, reporter Jon Karl hailed Clinton's return "to the spotlight," calling her "the most prominent voice in the
Democratic Party." Former Bill Clinton hack George Stephanopoulos cheered, "She's not going away." Karl gushed:
["]Absolutely not. You know, after that contentious 2000 campaign which Al Gore won the popular vote and
basically disappeared after the election. That is not going to be the case, I believe, with Hillary Clinton.["]
[Video clip]
CNN
daily nightmare is unfolding courtesy of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. Appearing last night on Hannity,
James O'Keefe joked about an advent calendar — like daily set of presents for CNN and its CEO, Jeff Zucker.
If you haven't heard already, Project Veritas has been recording telephone conference calls at CNN, courtesy of an inside
whistleblower, according to what O'Keefe told Hannity. While CNN is fulminating about a lawsuit, O'Keefe is confident
in his legal advisers' position that recording and releasing the calls is legal. CNN's new corporate parent, AT&T, is
rumored to be trying to sell the network in order to reduce its corporate debt. There are already worries that if Trump
does not prevail in his lawsuits and Biden takes office, CNN will not be able use TDS as a lure for viewers. Further
damage to its credibility via release of phone calls will not help in gathering viewers.
CNN's
Zucker Busted By Project Veritas Saying President Trump Not Conceding is Like 9/11. Project Veritas released
tapes on Tuesday [12/1/2020] of CNN's 9 a.m. rundown calls that they have secretly been recording for months. These
tapes expose CNN president Jeff Zucker and several other CNN executives expressing their extreme political biases against the
president. "This is yet another investigation Project Veritas has conducted into CNN, and once again they've demonstrated
their partisan political agenda and total disconnect with journalistic ethics," said Project Veritas founder and CEO James O'Keefe.
The
press conference the media mocked, derided, and refused to cover. I watched the news conference Thursday
conducted by President Trump's campaign attorneys, and later visited the websites of the major networks to see what their
interpretation of the bombshell would be. CNN said they wouldn't even air the news conference because it was 'so
bananas' and 'full of BS.' Yes, really. MSNBC linked to a Chuck Todd commentary saying: "This has been a
bonkers press conference." ABC linked to this headline: "Promising more lawsuits, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani
recycles debunked claims." CBS News, at 9:32 p.m., had no mention of the news conference at all. NBC News put
out: "Rudy Giuliani baselessly alleges 'centralized' voter fraud at free-wheeling news conference." Fox News's
Kristin Fisher blatantly called Giuliani a liar.
Fox
News continues to alienate its viewers. Fox News continues to insult its audience. This time, the insults
came from Kristin Fisher, who was speaking from either ignorance or malice when she attacked Rudy Giuliani after Trump's
legal team gave a press conference. The press conference was the equivalent of an opening argument in a trial.
Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis each stated one aspect of the upcoming case: Giuliani described on-the-ground
voter fraud, Powell described a sophisticated computer system created in Venezuela to steal votes, and Ellis reminded people
that this was an opening argument rather than an evidentiary hearing. The evidence, she said, will come. The
conference was essentially a preview of coming attractions. In a trial, first you tell your story, then you prove your
story, and then you summarize your story. The legal team is at Phase One. That didn't stop Kristin Fisher
from proving that she's a lousy listener and is staggeringly ignorant about how the American legal system works.
Embarrassing:
Lapdog Biden Journalists Debase Their Profession in Latest Presser. If anyone was hoping the third time would
be the charm for consistently constructive or tough questions at a post-election Joe Biden press conference, Thursday
illustrated that such a hope was a fool's errand. Over the course of the 15-minute availability, the Biden team had the
former vice president receive questions from only four reporters with three of them offering softballs. ABC senior
congressional correspondent Mary Bruce continued her accumulation of quite a highlight reel if she ever wanted to join the
Biden administration, wondering to Biden in the first of two questions: "How many lives do you think are at risk here
if this transition remains stalled?" Her second and third questions weren't any better [...]
DAY
5 of Obama TV on CBS: Vacation Pal Gayle King Cheers Michelle. Tuesday [11/17/2020] was day five of Obama TV.
Also known as CBS This Morning. Co-host Gayle King, an Obama donor who has vacationed with the family, yet
again highlighted the latest on the Democrats. King cheered the "powerful message" of Mrs. Obama going after
Donald Trump again.
Mr. Obama, The 'Strangulation' Victim Is Not George Floyd.
On Sunday, 60 Minutes' resident sycophant, Scott Pelley, walked former president Barack Obama through a racial
landscape unrecognizable to those who know the lay of the land, especially readers of The American Spectator.
Pelley kicked off the misdirection with the question, "Did you watch the video of George Floyd's strangulation?" Yes,
strangulation. Knowing Obama's weakness for racial scare-mongering, I was not at all surprised by his refusal to
correct Pelley. He probably did not know enough to do so in any case. "Of course," said Obama. "It was
heartbreaking." He then blathered on about an African-American "reality" that exists only in America's newsrooms. As to
the aftermath of the Floyd death, Obama claimed to have been "heartened and inspired" by the "marches." He offered not a
single word about the stores looted, the buildings burned, the people killed. Nor did Pelley venture a single question.
Did
Fox News's premature Arizona call for Biden trigger the massive cheating operation? [Scroll down] But at
11:20 P.M., Fox News made a shocking announcement by calling Arizona for Joe Biden. Never mind that about 900,000 votes
were yet uncounted, including absentee ballots. Other news outlets, including The New York Times and CNN, did not make
a call until two days later. [...] There are two problems with this call. First, you don't call it when it is still in
statistical probability. The word "most likely" means that the chance is less than 100%. You call a state for one
candidate when it is mathematically impossible for the other candidate to catch up. Secondly, when [Arnon]
Mishkin and his team were deliberating whether to make the call for Biden or not, the percentage of the votes counted was
most likely still about 60% or so. Arizona is not a solid blue state. Trump carried the state in 2016 by a
healthy 3.5% margin. [...] The question is, why did Fox News call it so early? Or, rather, who is Arnon Mishkin?
Mishkin is a registered Democrat.
The Death of Fox News.
On Election Night, I tuned into Fox News, just like millions of other Americans. [...] Fox called Arizona, where nearly a
million votes remained to be counted, for Biden. Given what we now know about how close the result in Arizona will be,
this was grossly inappropriate and unprofessional. As it turns out though, it was much more than that: it was also
potentially the deciding factor in the election. Imagine if Fox had not made its despicable, unforgivable call.
All signs on election night would have pointed to a Trump victory. Trump unambiguously would have declared
victory. Americans would have gone to bed believing, despite media hand wringing and equivocating, that Trump was the
victor. The same momentum and sense of inevitability that now attaches itself to Vice President Biden, rightly or
wrongly, would have attached itself to President Trump.
Don't Give
an Inch. For five years, the Democratic party and their allies in the corporate media, the coddled government
bureaucracies, and the Big Tech platforms have fought Trump with every weapon at their disposal. They uncritically and
feverishly repeated every deranged theory that Trump was really a Russian asset operating as Putin's Manchurian candidate,
and then cheered on his impeachment for it. An FBI lawyer altered evidence to spy on a U.S. citizen while texting "viva
la resistance" to his colleagues. When, less than a month before the election, Facebook and Twitter outright banned the
circulation of a New York Post story involving corruption in the Biden family, media outlets happily did the
same. The New York Times accused Trump of faking his post-COVID White House appearance with a green screen and
using secret Twitter code to activate right-wing extremists. CNN is now settling libel suits for its role in
instigating a vicious social media campaign and physical threats against a Catholic high school kid — all for the
crime of wearing a MAGA hat. Media outlets that breathlessly ran with a fake story about Trump killing an entire pond
of koi fish refused to cover the violent riots that broke out across the country this summer. They stood in front of
buildings that were literally on fire, claiming the protests were "fiery, but mostly peaceful." They told us that border
walls don't stop illegal immigration, riots don't spread COVID-19 (but schools and church services do), and Joe Biden would
win in a landslide.
Ronna
McDaniel Presents 131 Affidavits, 2,800 Incident Reports of Alleged Voter Fraud in MI: Media Still Demands 'Evidence'.
During a press conference Monday, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel presented evidence of alleged voter fraud in Michigan that Republicans
think could have tipped the scales for Joe Biden. "In Wayne County, Republican poll watchers were denied their legal right to
monitor the election and purposefully kept in the dark... there are thousands of reports of poll watchers being intimidated and unable
to do their job and as of 4 p.m. this afternoon, 131 affidavits have been completed just in Michigan with over 2,800 incident
reports that have been submitted to us since election day. Two new lawsuits were filed today by people who were working in
Detroit and a whistleblower [came forward]." [...] Watching the news these days is a lot like watching a Monty Python skit because
immediately after McDaniel gave her evidence and told the press where to find the affidavits, they demanded that she show "evidence"
of the alleged fraud.
Fox
News pays the price for betraying its viewership. Under Roger Ailes, Fox News was reliably conservative.
When he left, and when Rupert Murdoch handed the reins over to his sons James and Lachlan, things started getting
shaky. James, the fiery leftist, only left Fox this July. Now Lachlan, who is married to a fiery leftist, is at
the helm, helped by Paul Ryan, the RINO rodent, among others on the Board. With this leadership, while voters have
rightly suspected creeping NeverTrumperism in the newsroom for some time now, it all came to a head with this election.
Things went pretty sour for viewers when Chris Wallace turned the first presidential debate into a three-way affair, with
Wallace siding with Biden. Nevertheless, viewers were willing to give Fox another chance on election night. Fox
failed that test. The kill switch for many viewers was that Fox News hired a hard leftist to run its election desk on
Election Night. Predictably, Arnon Mishkin called the race in ways only a leftist could love. With hundreds of
thousands of votes outstanding, he called Arizona for Biden. Meanwhile, he refused to call obviously pro-Trump states
such as Texas and Alaska. Things have gotten worse since then.
Liberal
media applauded Stacey Abrams for challenging election results, condemns Trump for same thing. President Trump
seems to be taking a page from the Democrat's playbook, but he doesn't have the mainstream media on his side. Former
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was praised by the mainstream media for refusing to concede after her 2018 loss
to Republican Brian Kemp, while accusing the GOP of stealing the election. "While it was the Georgia governorship and
not the presidency, it was still a gross denigration of our Democratic norms to even still maintain that she should be the
Peach State's rightful governor," NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck told Fox News.
The
biggest loser in this election? Confidence in the voting process. I was looking at one breathless report
from the Associated Press while having coffee this morning and was struck by how desperately many MSM outlets seem to be to
bat down any questions about how fairly, accurately and legally the counting is being handled. At this point, they're
attacking Republican objections to perceived irregularities more stridently than they are the President himself. Words
such as "baseless" and "unproven" are dominating the headlines this weekend. And reporters are more interested in which
Republicans are going along with Trump or gainsaying him than the underlying questions being raised. [...]
The
Mainstream Media's COVID Cover-up Continues. On October 5th, The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) was
released to the public, almost three full weeks before Biden's interview. For those who've never heard of the GBD, you
shouldn't feel left out. Our mainstream media has barely covered its existence, and are in fact doing everything they
can to ignore it. Written by three renowned infectious disease epidemiologists — one each from Harvard,
Stanford and Oxford — the GBD makes several recommendations that sound suspiciously similar to what Dr. Atlas
has advocated for, and what President Trump has pitched to the American public. Among other things, the document
advises:
• "Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as
normal."
• "Restaurants and other businesses should open."
• "Schools and
universities should be open for in-person teaching."
The GBD advises that communities and countries strive for herd
immunity. The very mention of herd immunity has become verboten in many circles, with opponents such as
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the CDC suggesting such an approach will kill people. But the credibility of the GBD is not
simply limited to the credentials of its three authors, though their résumés are thoroughly impressive.
To date, there have been over 11,000 medical and public health scientists from around the world that have also signed the
declaration, along with another 32,000 medical practitioners. But Joe Biden told 17 million Americans that "no serious
doctor around the world" agrees with Dr. Atlas? And Norah O'Donnell just went right along with the lie? As
Joe might say, "C'mon man."
Boston
Globe Columnist Compares Trump Caravans to ISIS Terrorists. Renee Graham, a columnist for the Boston Globe,
compared the caravans springing up around the country in support of President Donald Trump with Islamic State terrorist
invasions. "See the difference? Me neither." Graham tweeted on Saturday under two photos, one of a pro-Trump
caravan and the other of footage of armed ISIS terrorists.
Former
journalist receives AP survey, laughs out loud at huge bias in questions. [Scroll down] The poll goes on
to ask many questions that are intentionally, manipulatively inaccurate, and others that are structured to allow the AP to
interpret to suit its predetermined goal. For example, in attempting to gauge the respondent's primary issues of
importance, one question asked if the "economic downturn" would factor into his selection process. The possible answers
to that question range from "very likely" to "not at all." The obvious question is what economic downturn, but the poll
does not allow one to ask. Essentially, the poll attempts to subconsciously plant the idea that some undisputed
"economic downturn" is taking place. Was the question referencing the economic downturn in Democrat-run, riot- and
looting-ridden cities that have shut down and forbidden life outside liberal rabble-rousing? If so, it should clearly
state such. That is not what the poll's intention is, though. It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to
imply that the economy is not improving under President Donald Trump — something categorically false, deceptive,
and intentional on the part of the AP.
Mainstream
Media Runs Damage Control On O'Keefe Texas Hit. Leave it to mainstream media to run a puff piece on the woman
caught on hidden video encouraging and engaging in various voter fraud activities. The video, launched by Project
Veritas and James O'Keefe, showed Raquel Rodriguez offering to buy people off to vote the way she wanted them to, admitting
that Trump was right and that voter fraud was rampant, admitted to bringing in 7000 votes, possibly all fraudulently, and
openly admitted that what she's doing is illegal and she could go to jail for doing it. Now News 4 San Antonio is
running tear jerker stories on Rodriguez in an attempt to gain public sympathy for her.
Media
Titans Subvert Reality About Biden/Ukraine Profiteering. After big tech companies suppressed a New York Post
article exposing written evidence that Joe Biden "spent some time together" with a top executive of a corrupt Ukrainian
energy firm that was enriching his son, media titans are misleading the public about the central facts of this explosive
affair. Twitter, for a prime example, pinned a post to the top of its home page claiming that Biden "played no role in
pressuring Ukraine officials into firing the prosecutor" at the core of this case. That is flatly disproven by the
words of Biden himself, who stated on video that he told Ukraine's president and its prime minister that he would withhold $1
billion in U.S. aid from their nation unless they removed the prosecutor. "If the prosecutor is not fired," warned
Biden, "you're not getting the money."
The
MSM Reports About NYPD Smashing the Windows of a Vehicle With a Driver Inside — Fails to Mention that The Driver
Was Strategizing With the Rioters Throughout the Night. Dozens of marching protesters were arrested in Brooklyn
on Tuesday night after clashing with NYPD cops and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake in response to the
Philadelphia police shooting death of an armed black man. About 200 protesters met in Fort Greene Park before snaking
their way through the streets, vandalizing police vehicles, torching an American flag and igniting at least one rubbish fire
during their travels. Near Willoughby and Jay streets, several protesters chucked rocks and bottles at police officers,
sources said. Others in the group wielded pieces of wood. Nearby, a man in the crowd stole a pumpkin off the
steps of a brownstone and hurled it at a car windshield. Other protesters were spotted tagging random buildings in the
group's path.
How
Decades of Media and Faculty Bias Have Pushed America to the Left. [Scroll down] We've seen a few
examples of this over the past week. The first example is Twitter's concerted and admitted effort to hide the NY
Post's exposé on potentially damaging emails from Joe Biden's son. Twitter's CEO, Jack Dorsey, first claimed
that the company's efforts to prevent Twitter users from sharing the story were a "mistake" and offered some rather
implausible explanations. After the Post and a variety of right-leaning groups expressed outrage over the affair, the
company backed down. This is just the latest of many cases of media companies making efforts to edit, curate, and
control the information being communicated on their websites. Another example comes from Wikipedia, where —
in spite of the apparent veracity of the Post's story on Hunter Biden — the claims against Hunter Biden are
casually dismissed as "debunked." No evidence has been presented to support this claim, and the Biden campaign has not
denied the claims made in the Post's story.
China's
Communist Party is backing the left's revolution, seeking our downfall and subjugation. It is remarkable that
the New York Times is embracing left revolution by ignoring and covering up the very obvious fact that Biden is bought
and paid for by the Chinese communists. In the 1930's the Times was an apologist for Soviet Russia and
Stalin. In 1932 the Times' Moscow Bureau Chief, Walter Duranty, won a Pulitzer prize, apparently for his
glorification of the Soviet Union, while famine raged in Ukraine, a famine deliberately imposed by Stalin. Now a
Pulitzer has been won for the vicious rewriting of American history featured by the New York Times, the 1619
Project. The first slave ships arrived in 1619. The left is busy turning the 1619 Project into a school
curriculum. The object of the 1619 Project is to claim that America is all about racism and to destroy young people's
attachment to their country. Promoting Biden as president serves the objective of the left. Since he is grossly
corrupt, when the time comes to get rid of him, it will not be necessary to fabricate false charges. That he suffers
from age related mental decline is all the better, making it easy to manipulate him.
Washington
Post piece calls on media to report Hunter Biden leaks as foreign disinformation, even if it 'probably' isn't.
An analysis piece in the Washington Post stated journalists should treat the leaked emails allegedly recovered from
Hunter Biden's laptop as a foreign disinformation campaign, even if the claim lacks evidence. "Take a step back, and
the Russian interference of 2016 holds valuable lessons on what to do and what not to do in 2020," wrote Thomas Rid in the
Washington Post under the paper's "Perspective" section. "We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a
foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren't." "What an incredible admission in the
Washington Post, wow. The hubris it must take to issue journalistic marching orders this contrived in full view
of the public," Daily Caller editor Geoffrey Ingersoll said of the Washington Post's article on Twitter.
Chris
Wallace Chimes in on Hunter Biden Scandal, And It's as Silly as You'd Expect. The TDS crowd is still trying to
spin the Hunter Biden influence peddling scandal into a nothingburger despite all of the revelations showing that the
business dealings of the Biden family are ultra shady at best. Fox News host Chris Wallace on Thursday [10/22/2020]
intimated that the allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden are untrue. His reasoning is about as goofy as a
soup sandwich. While discussing the upcoming presidential debate, Wallace claimed that if the accusations against Joe
Biden were true, the FBI would have confirmed it by now.
The Editor says...
Either Chris Wallace just fell off the turnip truck, or he is deliberately covering for Joe Biden. The FBI doesn't reveal everything
it knows about anything, and certainly can't be expected to spill the beans about Biden, if those beans have a lot of potential benefit
to the FBI itself.
Jake
Tapper declares Hunter Biden claims 'too disgusting' to repeat on CNN. CNN anchor Jake Tapper declared that the
growing allegations made against Hunter Biden ahead of the final presidential debate are "too disgusting" to repeat
on-air. Ever since The New York Post released its initial batch of emails that allegedly came from Hunter Biden's
laptop, a trove of other emails and text messages emerged suggesting impropriety between his foreign business deals and his
father Joe Biden while he was vice president. During a panel discussion on what advice President Trump and Joe Biden
should take ahead of the final debate, Tapper alluded to the line of attacks the president is likely to make against his
Democratic opponent and his son, though he avoided sharing details of the explosive claims to his viewers.
CNN's
Tapper: Trump Was 'Off in Breitbart Land Talking About Laptops'. CNN anchor Jake Tapper said President
Donald Trump's attacks at Thursday night's [10/22/2020] presidential debate about former Vice President Joe Biden's son
Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings were "off in Breitbart land."
Tapper:
Hunter Biden Story 'Too Disgusting' to Cover on CNN. CNN's Jake Tapper is the epidemy of modern journalism;
partisan, incurious, grossly opinionated, and dedicated to his cause. Tapper was involved in a panel discussion with
political commentator Bakari Sellers and made some startling statements about the Hunter Biden story that show what's
terribly wrong with journalists and CNN. [...] As an aside, Tapper and CNN didn't consider it "too disgusting" to report on
every salacious rumor about Donald Trump before and after the 2016 campaign.
Frank Luntz's Interesting
Response to Revelation of Email Exchange He Allegedly Had With Hunter Biden. We've been reporting on how many
in the liberal media are either running as far as they can from covering the Biden scandal or doing their best to spin it
with false cover, such as calling it "Russian disinformation" or claiming that it "can't be verified," as Lesley Stahl did
during her interview with President Donald Trump. The reason is simple. Many are just pro-Democrats and have too
much time invested over the years getting close to Democrats. They're supposed to be objective but they're just
not. So that brings us to the Frank Luntz email. There's more than enough evidence that the email from the Hunter
Biden laptop are real. But here's just a little more with all it also about that "objectivity." The email exchange
from October 31, 2012 starts with Hunter Biden complaining to pollster Frank Luntz that he didn't bring up "the Jeep ad"
which he, Hunter, thought was a "fabrication" against Obama/Biden during the campaign. Hunter tells Luntz he and his
brother Beau love him.
A
calm, masterful Donald Trump made mincemeat of Joe Biden. As expected, [Kristen] Welker was a biased
moderator. To her credit, she asked Biden about China and Ukraine, although she left the topic as quickly as
possible. Otherwise, as with Chris Wallace and, during the town hall, Savannah Guthrie, every question that Welker
posed to Trump came from a Democrat, not a neutral, position. Even more irritating than the premise of her questions,
though, was Welker's determination to cut Trump's rebuttals off immediately while letting Biden answer at length.
Indeed, when Trump reminded Biden that Hunter walked out of China with $1.5 billion and started discussing the newly
released emails, Welker frantically interrupted Trump to ensure that Biden wouldn't have to try to answer the question.
Welker also argued constantly with Trump, something she never did with Biden. Candy Crowley apparently set a new
standard for moderators getting into it with Republican candidates and we may as well get used to it.
'Biden
can fix this mess': Dozens of major news outlets have endorsed Joe Biden for president. Media endorsements are
pouring in for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, with the election less than two weeks away. Some major
publications, including USA Today and Scientific American, broke with decades-long traditions to give their nods to the former
vice president. The outlets join at least 40 newspapers across the nation that have backed Biden as of October 22.
The University of California Santa Barbara tracks major newspaper endorsements, which it defines as the largest 100 newspapers by
circulation. Biden is also receiving a growing number of magazine endorsements.
NBC reporter Brandy Zadrozny
appears to use paid, dark-data search engines to dox the personal information of anonymous Trump supporters
online. [Thread reader] Earlier today [10/21/2020], NBC's @BrandyZadrozny messaged me for an upcoming
slime piece, which will try to make me radioactive for popularizing awareness of Color Revolution against Trump : mass civil
unrest + mass claims of voter suppression[.] [...] Zadrozny is part of a press corps deployed to cover "misinformation,
disinformation, and extremism" after the Internet fueled @realDonaldTrump's win in 2016. This new journo beat was
created to surveil, slander, and censor online voices that counter ruling class narratives[.] The Foreign Policy Blob
could not have sent a worse representative to take me out than Brandy Zadrozny. [...] The time has come to start taking legal
action against second-rate Stasi agents like Brandy Zabrozny when their incitements drive a brainless mob to attack you.
We are all Nick Sandmann: if they try to ruin your life, a "confidential settlement" is the expected price.
Wikipedia
bans editors from expressing support for traditional marriage. Wikipedia has decided to restrict its editors
from expressing opposition to same-sex marriage on its platform — a decision that comes months after co-founder
Larry Sanger said the site's neutrality policy was "dead." Volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia's articles can no
longer include on their profile page any "userbox" — a badge expressing their beliefs — that is against
gay marriage. For example, one such userbox states, "This user believes marriage is between one man and one woman."
The decision was made after a recent discussion where "predominantly left-wing editors" argued such a stance was
"discriminatory" and against site policy, according to Breitbart.
Brian
Stelter Hilariously Proves Trump's Point in Segment Explaining Why CNN Covers Him More Than Biden. [Scroll
down] [T]he media's coverage of Trump isn't so lopsided in comparison to Biden because Trump is allegedly "shocking."
And Biden isn't "protecting his lead in the polls with a less-is-more approach." Biden's lead is not being "protected"
by Biden but instead by "news" networks like CNN who ignore shocking stories that are damaging to Biden's faux "decent guy"
image by keeping the focus on Trump and off of Biden's flubs, gaffes, stumbles and negative news stories that have the
potential to swing voters in Trump's direction. Think about how CNN, for example, "covered" Tara Reade's sexual assault
allegations against Biden. It took them several WEEKS before they first reported on them, and even when they did
they admitted that their reporting relied mostly on what the New York Times and the Washington Post had dug up about
Reade. Even now, several months later, CNN is still not covering Biden like they should be. Instead, they cover
for Biden, as has been evidenced by how they've treated the NY Post's explosive story on Hunter Biden's emails as
fake news.
The
media 'cover' Joe Biden the way a protection racket does. Joe Biden is the most cosseted presidential candidate
in memory. He has run a minimalist campaign that has avoided the press as much as possible, while the press hasn't been
braying for more access and answers, but eager to avoid anything that could be discomfiting to the campaign. Never
before have the media been so openly fearful of asking or reporting something that might hurt a presidential candidate.
What are supposed to be the animating values of our adversarial press — informing the public, getting answers,
holding the powerful to account — have all been subordinated to the protection racket that is coverage of Joe Biden.
5
Other Things We'll Learn About Biden After The Election. [#3] The economy has been doing much better than the
public had been led to believe. Back in 1996, when George H.W. Bush was running for reelection, the press treated
the economy as though it were in another depression, which just so happened to coincide with Bill Clinton's campaign
messaging. As soon as the election was over, coverage of the economy suddenly became more upbeat, and the public
learned that the very mild recession had ended way back in March 1991.
Media Tries
to Use Hunter Biden's Drug Problem to Protect Daddy Joe. As everyone knows, Joe Biden has had his cravenness
and corruption publicly exposed via a series of emails residing on at least one laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The
emails show that Joe Biden was not merely a doting father who corruptly peddled his influence to create business
opportunities for a ne'er-do-well son; he was a direct beneficiary of those business opportunities. The emails are
being attacked on two fronts. Both attacks are ridiculous. Both are pathetic in their transparency. On the
one hand, we have the same people who fluffed the Steele Dossier for four years as gospel now claiming, with zero evidence,
that the whole thing is a Kremlin plot. The other attack is "leave Hunter out of it because he's an addict." In
essence, this attack says that if you use the emails, you are hurting Hunter's recovery, and that makes you a very, very bad man.
How
The Mainstream Media Covered For Joe Biden. At a Democratic primary debate last year, Biden emphatically denied
any wrongdoing. "My son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong," Biden said. Following the debate, CNN
wrote this headline, "Joe Biden offers forceful defense of his son's Ukraine work at Democratic debate." Evidently
Biden's "forceful" defense was sincere enough for CNN to absolve him of any wrongdoing. Of course, when Trump
accurately denied that he colluded with the Russian government to interfere in our election, CNN decided not to believe his
"forceful" defense and instead chose to mislead the American people for three years. The New York Times,
apparently satisfied that there was nothing to see, wrote, "...no evidence has surfaced that the former vice president
intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor's dismissal." Around the same time as the
Times article came out, Buzzfeed published an article titled, "Trump's Attacks On Hunter Biden Have Gone Nowhere, But
He Can't Let Them Go."
Joe
Biden town hall likened to an episode of Mister Rogers. It was a beautiful night in the neighborhood for Joe
Biden, according to critics who compared the Democratic presidential candidate's town hall on ABC News to a Mister Rogers
episode. The former veep was mostly lobbed softballs by George Stephanopoulos in Philadelphia on Thursday [10/15/2020]
while President Trump was grilled by NBC News' Savannah Guthrie in Miami, where the former litigator peppered him with
questions and fact checks. "This is a townhall? where is the town? its just Savannah badgering. what a joke," Fox News
host Greg Gutfeld said in a tweet.
Social
Media Acts Like a Cartel. It Should Be Treated as One. Social media had spent four years training for
this moment. Democrats had spent four years arguing that the media paying attention to Hillary's emails and social
media allowing them traction on their services elected Trump. And Big Tech had defined its election role as preventing
history from repeating itself. Everything else is a haze of excuses and meaningless buzzwords like "disinformation",
not to mention newfound standards that just arrived last week. The bottom line is that there's a coordinated campaign
to suppress material damaging to Biden before the election. And, unlike the media, social media is a Big Tech
cartel. Facebook, whose Democrat spokesman made a point of expressing his disgust with the story and announcing that it
was being throttled, controls 80% of social media. Google, which controls 80% of search, buries the original Post story
under media "explainers" dismissing it. There's a coordinated political program here [...]
Conservatives
erupt in anger after Savannah Guthrie grills Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds' — while ABC host 'forgets to ask Biden
about his son Hunter's emails. Conservatives have erupted in anger after NBC's Savannah Guthrie grilled Donald
Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds' while ABC's George Stephanopoulos was accused of forgetting to ask Joe Biden about
his son Hunter's emails. Trump and Biden both held their town halls Thursday evening, with viewers forced to choose
between the clashing timetables after the president scheduled his to go head to head with his competitor. On NBC, Trump
was asked about coronavirus, QAnon, his own diagnosis and his taxes by Guthrie while, on ABC, Biden spoke LGBTQ rights, court
packing and the 1994 crime bill with Stephanopoulos. But Republicans voiced outrage about the president's campaign
event, accusing Guthrie of turning the town hall into a 'debate' and arguing that he faced a much tougher round of
questioning than his rival.
Dueling
town halls: Experts grade President Trump and Joe Biden. President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe
Biden's dueling town halls on Thursday night [10/15/2020] offered each of the candidates a chance to showcase their strengths
and sway undecided voters. But despite airing in the same time slot, the competing events weren't evenly matched.
The Post's panel of election experts — two for each town hall — generally found that the questions
posed to Trump were tougher, with NBC host Savannah Guthrie acting as an adversary and fact-checker to the president.
Biden, meanwhile, was mostly lobbed softballs as ABC host George Stephanopoulos stayed largely hands-off.
Biden
Muddles Through Gentle, Hunter-Free Town Hall. Joe Biden came into Thursday night's town hall, which was
originally supposed to be a debate, stung by new allegations of influence-peddling involving his son Hunter. The
question on everyone's mind going in was whether he would be allowed to answer any question harder than chocolate or tapioca?
[...] What didn't come up was Hunter Biden. What didn't come up was credible claims from the New York Post, the oldest
daily newspaper in America, showing that the former vice president met with a Ukrainian businessman connected to his
son. The biggest story in America right now was just ignored. That tells us pretty much everything.
Behind the social-media blackout of Biden family corruption.
Hunter Biden is now the subject of multiple stories involving serious corruption. Whether he committed any crimes is a
question for prosecutors and the courts. Whether he was paid handsomely for his family's political clout is a question
for voters. You wouldn't know that from ABC's pathetic town hall with his father Joe Biden on Thursday night
[10/25/2020]. They spoke with him for 90 minutes and didn't ask a single question about the shocking emails published
by the New York Post. That's either journalistic malpractice or public-relations work. After all, the
emails raise profound questions that the candidate needs to answer. They appear to show his son, Hunter, repeatedly
using his last name to fill his pockets. Hunter's family is his only asset. How else did someone with no special
skills manage to collect such huge payments from foreign companies with deep interests in US policy? He has no
knowledge of Ukraine or China, no experience in energy or banking, and a crack pipe full of personal problems. So, how
exactly did he get rich?
The
New Yorker's Hunter Biden Whitewash Looks Awful In Retrospect. [Scroll down] For the next 15 months,
Joe Biden would repeatedly deny that he spoke about business with his son as more revelations surrounding the questionable
arrangement would surface over the course of the campaign. "I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with
anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period," Biden said in August last year. On Wednesday
[10/14/2020] however, the bombshell story from the New York Post would show that was not true. According to emails
obtained by the paper, Hunter Biden had in fact introduced a top advisor for Burisma to Joe Biden. While the Biden
campaign initially denied any such meeting took place, Politico later reported Wednesday night that the campaign "would not
rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of interaction," with his son's Ukrainian business associate.
Why
the media are suddenly chattering about Joe Biden's cabinet. The media are obsessed with polls, and
WashPost/Fox/NBC and other surveys are giving Biden a lead of 10 to 16 points. A bunch of other surveys show the former
vice president ahead, by much closer margins, in the crucial battleground states, sometimes just outside the margin of
error. But I've always regarded the Cabinet speculation game as a tell for who most media people believe will be sworn
in the following January. Most journalists have clearly convinced themselves, based on polls and a gut feeling that the
country must be as sick of President Trump as they are, that Biden will be the one staffing the government. Sure, it's
a parlor game, and ultimately harmless. But like stock futures, it reflects a mindset as to where the political market
is heading.
'Republicans
Pounce' On Democrats' 'Hypothetical' Plan To Destroy Judicial Branch. "Republicans pounce" is a favorite
framing used by corporate media to spin newsworthy topics they are forced to cover at Democrats' expense. Instead of
reporting the news, the news becomes the fact that Republicans or "conservative media" are reacting to said news. Such
is the case with the consequential news that Joe Biden said he would not share his stance on court packing until after he was
elected, an announcement that sounds more like a hostage situation than a campaign promise. The Washington Post
reported the former vice president's shocking and unprecedented statement with a masterfully spun tweet Thursday, writing,
"Republicans continue attacking Biden, Harris over hypothetical 'court-packing' question."
7
Quick Takeaways On The 2020 Vice Presidential Debate. [#5] Biased Questions: One of the problems with the
media being so uniformly in support of the Democratic Party and its goals is that nearly all the questions posed in debates
are loaded with false assumptions. The first question to Pence, for instance, was that the U.S. death toll was worse
than "almost" any other "wealthy" country on earth. The U.S. case fatality rate of 2.8 percent is below Italy, United
Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, France, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany, something that the media rarely
mention. When Page asked Harris about whether she'd take a vaccine, she neglected to mention that Harris had made
anti-vaccination remarks weeks ago. [...] "Do you believe that climate change poses an existential threat?" was the general
tenor of the questions. She highlighted that "President Trump" blames China for the coronavirus, as if it's in dispute
that the coronavirus came from and was mishandled by China. Instead of asking Harris for her support of abortion
through all nine months of pregnancy, and for suing nuns to force them to pay for abortions, Page went with a far friendlier
"Would you want your home state to enact no restrictions on access to abortion?" Page didn't ask Harris about supporting
a bail-out fund for rioters. Most egregiously, a question about the peaceful transfer of power was posed as if this was
a concern for Trump, even though it is the Resistance who, by definition, have fought the 2016 election's legitimacy for
nearly four years now.
Why
are networks afraid to let voters ask Joe Biden some tough questions? TV networks are airing free infomercials
to help Joe Biden, then pretend, absurdly, that they are being even-handed. ABC, CNN and NBC call them "town halls."
NBC this week even tried to fraudulently pass off blatant Biden backers as neutral, uncommitted voters. "We are
surrounded by dozens of undecided voters," NBC's Lester Holt claimed. Yet what followed was a nonstop volley of
softballs and loaded, anti-Trump questions: Was Biden surprised President Trump got COVID? How will Biden lead the
nation when faced with "bullies" like Trump? Not asked were questions like: Does Biden embrace Democrats' threat
to pack the Supreme Court if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed? And why hasn't he blasted Antifa or Black Lives Matter
violence? Nor did anyone ask about his waffling on fracking or the Green New Deal. Or grill him on the millions
his family earned from foreign sources while he was in office.
Slow Joe's So-So Show. Trump knew
going in that moderator Chris Wallace would step on pretty much all of his answers and bail Joe Biden out whenever he
could. And because of that obvious expectation, Trump would harass Biden and flummox Wallace for the full 90
minutes. It didn't matter whether Trump looked obnoxious in doing it — he was one against two, and he'd have
to hold his own the best he could. Those expectations were met, and Wallace held his thumb on the scale every bit as
much as Trump's supporters figured he would. That was one factor that allowed Biden to survive the first debate.
But he couldn't win it. Joe Biden can't win a debate. Not anymore.
Chris
Wallace is a miserable debate moderator. Chris Wallace was always going to be a terrible choice as a moderator
for any of the three presidential debates, let alone the first one, but good God, did he fulfill that destiny with flying
colors. We knew it back in July when Wallace attempted to fact-check President Trump on the accurate claim that former
Vice President Joe Biden was on the record committing to defunding police departments. Biden is, in fact, on record
committing to that, and yet, Wallace pretended we hadn't heard it with our own ears. The Fox News anchor was supposed
to show up and moderate a debate, with it having expressly been stated that he wouldn't operate as a fact-checker, and yet,
that's all he did for at least the first hour of the debate.
Chris
Wallace gives disgraceful one-sided debate performance; viewers increasingly blame Fox News. For someone who
said beforehand that he was not going to make the debate about himself, Fox News moderator Chris Wallace found himself right
in the middle of the fray throughout the night, often siding against President Donald Trump. To be fair, the first
presidential debate was a train wreck, with the president proving yet again that, first and foremost, he is a brawler, an
outsider taking on the political establishment so firmly entrenched in Washington, D.C. From the perspective of the
Trump campaign, their candidate "turned in the greatest debate performance in presidential history" against "weak" Democratic
nominee Joe Biden, but Trump was quick to go after Wallace after the debate. Taking to Twitter, Trump shared a meme
suggesting it was a two-on-one contest.
The
debate: Trump was great, Chris Wallace was a dreadful disgrace. Chris Wallace's overt defense of Joe
Biden throughout the debate on Tuesday night was so obvious, so blatant, he should be proscribed from ever "moderating" a
debate again. Wallace's performance was as Biden's protector, his advocate, and that is undeniable. He stepped in
at every moment Biden seemed lost: court-packing, lack of support of law enforcement, and Hunter's criminality. The
debate was so poorly managed. The questions were designed to aid Biden, to coddle him. No wonder Trump felt
duty-bound to interrupt. Trump was debating both Wallace and Biden and only one of them is sentient. Wallace's
intent was clear — sabotage Trump. Wallace succeeded only in looking like the stooge he is. [...] Wallace
even brought up the Charlottesville charge but did not admit it was a manufactured lie without giving Trump the time to deny
the lie. Wallace completely ignored and tried to derail Trump's bringing up Hunter Biden's criminal corruption.
Why was that not a viable subject for discussion?
Media
Gunning For Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies. "Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with
misleading data" about COVID-19, Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Robert Redfield told a colleague Friday
[9/25/2020], according to a Monday report by NBC News political reporter Monica Alba. Within hours, numerous outlets
ideologically allied with NBC amplified the coverage. Here are some screenshots of the Google News results for the
story just a short while later, but is Redfield's assertion correct? The Federalist spoke to numerous epidemiologists
to find out.
CNN now has Amy Coney Barrett to resent and condescend
to. CNN headline writers can sneer like nobody's business. Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme
Court gave that network and its progressive allies another opportunity kindle the fires of resentment and condescension while
pretending to neutrality. Somebody asked for an opinion roundup, so the "Baracksters" put the ball in play by damning
with faint praise: "Amy Coney Barrett a perfect choice for half of America" set the tone they were striving for. [...]
Insinuation has a more exalted place in the CNN style guide than logic does, because (as the New York Times has been
demonstrating even longer than CNN) insinuation can advance preferred narratives. CNN would rather you didn't ask if
the late Justice Ginsburg was perfect for (only) half of America, why her go-to move on the Court was writing dissenting
opinions, or why Supreme Court nominations became so contentious in the first place (best to call Roe v. Wade
[and] its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, "settled law" and not look too closely at them).
This is activism, not journalism:
Update
on Cleveland Media attempt to gain access to Gibson's Bakery store clerk Facebook records. Oberlin College and
its allies continue to fight to overturn the Gibson's Bakery verdict, and to wage war on the Gibson family by unsealing
confidential Facebook records of non-party Allyn D. Gibson. The Facebook records technically are not being litigated by
the College anymore — the College lost that issue in the trial court and did not appeal. Rather[,] it's
certain Cleveland Media entities, includinge a news station where the College's lead trial attorney was a consultant, who are
fighting to unseal the records.
NBC
Warns 'Committed Conservative' Barrett 'Instantly Controversial'. On Saturday evening [9/26/2020], shortly
after President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, NBC Nightly News let the ideological
labels fly as the nominee was repeatedly identified as a "conservative" who was popular with the "religious right" and
"instantly controversial." By contrast, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was never given any left-wing political label in
the report. [...] In the report that followed, correspondent Hallie Jackson emphasized: "From President Trump, a move
to cement a more conservative Supreme Court for a generation."
The Editor says...
Where is the verb in that last sentence? That's not English, it's Headline-ese.
Jill
campaigns for husband Joe before an itty bitty crowd. Sleepy Joe has taken a lot of days off this month.
The AP disingenuously calls it a "low-key campaign style" but admits it concerns some Democrats. Biden made 12 visits
outside of Delaware since August 12 and President Trump made 24 visits to 17 states. The NY Times
dishonestly claims that Slow Joe's inability to put sentences together is a "stutter." Neither Joe nor Kamala Harris
are answering many reporters' questions and when they do, the questions are softball.
Seems Like Old Times: Getty Images Publishes Photo
of Joe Biden... With a Halo. Deb Heine tells me she was looking for a single Getty image — just
one — which showed Biden looking sleepy or out of it, but strangely enough — despite him looking like
that all the time — she couldn't find such an image in Getty. But she did find this Obama-esqe halo picture.
And then she found that a lot of DC photographers decided to try for the Halo effect: [Numerous examples.]
Keywords: astroturf, audience plant, bias, softball.
Democratic
voters toss Joe Biden softballs during CNN town hall. Joe Biden was tossed softball questions from mostly all
Democratic voters at a 75-minute CNN town hall on Thursday night [9/17/2020] in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, two
nights after President Trump was hammered by uncommitted voters in Philadelphia. The septuagenarian candidate was asked
such questions as how he would keep American workplaces safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, whether he'd benefited from white
privilege, and how he would bring the nation together, with little follow up from moderator Anderson Cooper. With only
12 days until the first presidential debate, Biden attempted to dodge any questions that were remotely difficult and was
confronted with only three people who voted for Trump in 2016 — appearing to mock one of them for that vote.
Biden, 'The Great and
Powerful'. Media bias is not new. In addition to the Russian collusion hoax and the phone-call
impeachment farce, who can forget the marquee media toadies of JournoList and the release of John Podesta's email
trove? Or the moderator Donna Brazile's primary debate questions, leaked through CNN, or Candy Crowley's hijacking of a
debate as moderator-turned-real-time-hack "fact-checker"? Nothing then is new to the media's fusion and collusion with
the "progressive party." Yet never in American history have mainstream journalists not merely promoted a candidate but
actively fused with his political candidacy to the point of warping, fabricating, and Trotskyizing the news and indeed
history itself.
The
'Prissy Prostitutes Of The Press' Are Promoting Racism, Rebellion And Revolution. Recently, I saw a network
reporter interview the attorney for Jacob Blake and neither one mentioned anything negative about Blake who is recuperating
in the hospital after being shot seven times. The video shows him resisting arrest; there was a knife in his vehicle;
he had been charged with entering the home of a teenager and sexually molesting her but none of that was mentioned.
Don't you think a real reporter would have thought the public should hear that part of the story? But no, the motive
was to accuse police with shooting a young black man who, according to friends and family, was destined to receive the Nobel
Prize. Such reporting does not reveal the truth; it simply tells the story that leftists want the public to
hear — then have them retaliate and join the mob for "justice."
Video montage
shows how media take it easy on Biden. A new video montage from The Washington Free Beacon shows how easy the
questions Joe Biden receives from the media truly are. Free Beacon senior writer and "video guy" David Rutz put
together a sampling of the rather simplistic line of questioning the Democratic candidate has received in recent weeks.
"Really, your strength is in traveling around the country and connecting with people... you can't do any of that right
now. Mr. Vice President, does that worry you?" CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin is seen asking Biden at the beginning of
the interview. The video featured multiple journalists who asked softball questions at last week's rare Biden press
conference.
'You're
Not Allowed To Film': The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland. You can assert that, yes, you can
film; you can point out that they themselves are filming incessantly; you can push their hands away from covering your phone;
you can have your phone record them stealing your phone — all of these things have happened to me — and
none will have any impact [...] I wondered, the first time I attended the protests at the federal building back in July, who
all these young people with PRESS emblazoned on their jackets or helmets were. I asked one such guy who he worked
for. "Independent Press Corps," he told me. As it turned out, dozens of other young PRESS people happened to work
for the same outfit, which I at first assumed was a fancy way of saying "I want to report stuff and stream it on my
Instagram." This turned out to be naive. The IPC is an organized group in league with the activists, and it is
usually their footage you see streamed online and recycled on the news: mostly innocent protestors being harassed and beaten
by police.
The
left's awkward lionization of Jacob Blake. When we first learned that Kenosha resident Jacob Blake was offering
his first interviews and sending out video messages from the hospital after being shot by the police in Kenosha, I noted a
somewhat fawning tone to the media coverage he was getting. This left me wondering about the other people involved in
his story, particularly the alleged victims of his past criminal behavior. [...] Judging by the thousands of combined
retweets and likes that message received, I didn't seem to be the only one raising these nagging questions. None of
these issues slowed down the rest of our major media outlets, however.
By
Hailing Jacob Blake As A Hero, Democrats Have Marginalized His Alleged Rape And Abuse Victim. Kamala Harris is
the latest high-profile Democrat to meet with and pay homage to Jacob Blake and his family. After speaking with them
for an hour, Harris gushed to reporters that Blake Sr., known for ranting about "Jews" and "crackers" on social media, and
Blake Jr., accused of drunkenly abusing a woman over the course of several years before finally breaking into her house and
raping her, are "incredible." Blake family attorney Benjamin Crump, a man for whom the term "ambulance chaser" was
invented, issued a press release after the visit, providing more details about the kumbaya session. [...] Now would be a good
time to remind ourselves why Blake Jr. finds himself in a position where he must "work through his pain."
MSNBC host
didn't bother to ask Nancy Pelosi about salon controversy during one-on-one interview. An MSNBC host didn't
bother to ask about the controversy surrounding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to a San Franciso hair salon —
in violation of state and local ordinances amid the coronavirus pandemic — when the Democratic leader joined the
liberal network on Sunday [9/6/2020]. Maria Teresa Kumar filled in for Joy Reid on MSNBC's "AM Joy" when she gave
Pelosi a pass "with a softball interview exclusively focused on attacking President Trump," according to Media Research Center
analyst Kristine Marsh. "Amazingly, Kumar gave the Democrat leader a 14-minute interview and not ONE question about
Pelosi hypocritically violating her own city's coronavirus guidelines to visit a salon and get her hair done indoors at the
end of August, maskless," Marsh wrote.
The Editor says...
The interview was probably pre-arranged on the condition that any mention of the salon scandal was off-limits.
Pre-Election
Dirty Tricks: Ignore, Refute, or Pivot? It sounds unlikely but the most appalling instance of
journalistic malpractice last week was not when The Atlantic published anonymous allegations that President Trump
disparaged American troops behind closed doors — it was Joe Biden's so-called press conference following another
shaky, rambling, and dishonest speech disguised as a "campaign event." Rather than jump at the chance to grill the
Democratic nominee for president after weeks of his refusing to take questions with no objection from the press, reporters
delicately pitched one softball after another to the frail candidate. Biden opened the event with a direct reference to
The Atlantic article. "If what is written in The Atlantic is true, it's disgusting," Biden fumed.
"It affirms what most of us believe to be true, that Donald Trump is not fit to do the job of president, to be the commander
in chief." The gaggle in attendance eagerly took his cue. The first "question" [...] went to a scribe from none
other than The Atlantic, who prompted Biden to opine about the "president's soul and the life he leads." Follow-up
teasers opened the door for Biden to rant about QAnon, face coverings, Attorney General William Barr, and mail-in voting.
GOP's
House Campaign Arm: CNN's Jake Tapper 'Meddling' in 'Swing House Races'. The National Republican
Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Sunday night raised concerns that CNN anchor Jake Tapper may be "meddling" in House races
beyond the 17th congressional district in Pennsylvania. Responding to a report from Breitbart News on how Jake Tapper
attempted to convince rising GOP star candidate Sean Parnell to run in a district other than the 17th, the NRCC raised
questions about Tapper's actions in this case and wondered if he has engaged in activity like this in other districts with
other candidates as well.
Reporters
Don't Give Biden Questions in Advance? You Be the Judge. [Joe] Biden spoke in Wilmington, Delaware on
Friday [9/4/2020] to rebut the very good news contained in the August jobs report. He also used the opportunity to
express his outrage and disappointment over 2018 remarks attributed to President Trump by highly dubious reporting in The
Atlantic. When Trump answers reporters' questions, he calls on individual reporters himself. But not so for
Biden or his campaign. Here you can see the candidate turning to his handler to start calling from a predetermined list
of reporters, saying, "I guess ... are you calling on people? I don't have a list." Joe! You're not
supposed to admit to following a list! This led to Biden's first question, in which an Atlantic reporter read a
pathetically soft question from his cell phone: "When you hear these remarks" attributed to Trump by The
Atlantic's editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, "what does it tell you about President Trump's soul?" Biden then cast his eyes
to the lectern, briefly studying. After using the word, "deplorable" twice in his answer, Biden looked down at the
lectern a second time. At 22:37, one can clearly see him turn up the corner of a page of notes as he studies them
before continuing his answer.
President
Trump Shreds Reporters For Asking Biden Softball Questions During Delaware Event, "Those Questions Were Meant For a
Child". President Trump on Friday lambasted liberal reporters for treating Joe Biden with kid gloves on Friday
[9/4/2020]. 77-year-old Joe Biden emerged from his basement Friday and shuffled over to a campaign event in Wilmington,
Delaware. The so-called 'reporters' or as we here at TGP like to call them 'stenographers' asked Joe Biden a series of
softball questions. The first question to Joe Biden came from Atlantic writer Isaac Dovere who asked Biden to respond
to the junk hit piece on Trump (from 2018) written by The Atlantic.
Reporters
blasted for 'shamefully embarrassing' softball questions at rare Biden press conference. Reporters who were
able to ask questions at Joe Biden's press conference Friday [9/4/2020] were torn apart by critics for failing to properly grill the
Democratic presidential candidate. [...] The less-than-rigorous lines of questioning left critics enraged. "The media
are simply the PR wing for the Biden campaign at this point," Ben Shapiro reacted. Conservative commentator Stephen
Miller singled out Lee for criticism, tweeting "Watch this question and how it's framed. She essentially gives Biden
the answer in her question. She's making a statement and asking Biden to basically just reply to her."
RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway wrote, "A text from a friend watching the press conference: 'Who are
asking Biden these questions?? It's like watching someone make sure a 3 year old wins CandyLand.'"
Double
Standard: Nets Tout Biden's Kenosha Visit After Slamming Trump's Tour. After President Trump visited the
riot-torn city of Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday [9/1/2020], the liberal media were outraged because state and local leaders
(who they failed to label as Democrats) had asked him not to come. And before Trump's arrival, the networks treated him
like a hurricane, saying the residents were "bracing" for landfall. That was in stark contrast to how they praised the
Thursday visit from their presidential nominee, Joe Biden, despite the fact the Democratic governor asked him not to come
also. The opposition to Trump's visit was almost consistently the first thing the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and
NBC brought up in their Tuesday reports. "Despite local officials telling him to postpone his trip, President Trump in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, today, touring a building destroyed in protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Met by
supporters and protesters, he pushed his law and order message," whined correspondent Alex Perez on ABC's World News Tonight.
Presidential
Debates Commission Picks a Former BIDEN Intern to Moderate Trump-Biden Presidential Debate!. The Commission on
Presidential Debates announced its three moderators for this year's planned debates. [...] Chris Wallace from FOX
News — a major Trump hater, Kristen Welker from NBC, another far left Trump-hater and Steve Scully from C-SPAN
will moderate this year's debates. Wallace is a complete anti-Trumper. The far left FOX News host ruined FOX News
Sunday and made it unwatchable. Wallace attacked President Trump in December saying, "I believe that President Trump is
engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history." Kristen Welker from NBC is a member
of the White House Press Corps, a horribly hostile Trump-hating group that thought it was funny to ridicule the president's
White House Spokeswoman on her looks at their annual dinner while she sat on the stage. And Steve Scully has an
interesting resume. He was a former intern for Joe Biden!
Campaign
Surrogate: Todd Echoes Biden Claim Trump 'Rooting for Violence'. In an appearance on NBC's Sunday
Today, political director Chuck Todd made the allegation that President Trump seemed as though he was "rooting" for the
violence tearing apart the country. But what went unmentioned was the fact he was making the very same argument that
Democratic nominee Joe Biden had made just three days earlier. Unbeknownst to Todd, he essentially echoed Biden's
deputy campaign manager, who appeared on Fox News Sunday claiming Trump was "incit[ing] violence."
A Tyranny Perpetual
and Universal? [Scroll down] The [Washington] Post has always been a liberal rag. But it was
never so brazenly anti-American, so shamelessly dishonest, so unreservedly dedicated to racial grievance-mongering. It
used to be able to call a riot a riot and not resort to ridiculous euphemisms like "mostly peaceful" to describe rampant
street violence. Above all, the Post used to care about its home town. It doesn't anymore. The
District of Columbia, into which I must occasionally (and reluctantly) venture, is a shell of what it was just months
ago. For the span of several weeks, there was a riot roughly every night. Businesses everywhere are now
closed — and not just from COVID-19. Windows everywhere are boarded up. Graffiti, much of if
revolutionary, covers seemingly every square inch of vertical space. The streets are deserted. To the extent that
you see anyone, chances are above 50 percent it's a vagrant. At the few restaurants that remain open, thanks to outdoor
seating, diners are as likely as not to be accosted by bullhorn-wielding anarchists. The town has a post-apocalyptic
feel. The newspaper founded in Washington in 1877 speaks of all this out of three sides of its mouth: none of it is
happening; all the protests are peaceful and justified; it's good that America is finally getting the thrashing she deserves.
For
the Establishment Media, NASCAR Garage Rope Was a Crisis but Repeatedly 'Executing' Trump Is Just Fine. If
someone had hung a noose in the garage of NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, that would have been a racist outrage. Granted,
there wasn't a hate crime involved, and it didn't take long for everyone to suss out that the "noose" (actually just a knot
on a garage pull-rope) had been there since the previous autumn, meaning it wasn't put there to target Wallace, who is
black. However, the stench of the scandal-that-wasn't still remains — and any time the societal aspect of
stock car racing is brought up, talk of the Bubba Wallace "noose" isn't far behind.
Wikipedia Is Badly Biased.
Examples have become embarrassingly easy to find. The Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known
scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or
the Hillary Clinton email server scandal — or, of course, the developing "Obamagate" story in which Obama was
personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump. A fair article about a major political figure certainly must include
the bad with the good. The only scandals that I could find that were mentioned were a few that the left finds at
least a little scandalous, such as Snowden's revelations about NSA activities under Obama. In short, the article is
almost a total whitewash.
CNN
Reveals Their Excuse to Censor the RNC as Their Self-Awareness Hits Zero. If you thought the media might relax
a bit during the Republican National Convention and not show themselves to be total hacks, you thought wrong. But let's
be serious, no one actually expected anything less. CNN laid out the groundwork this morning for how they will censor
the RNC and keep their chosen narratives on track. The plan was unsurprisingly stated by Brian Stelter on his low-rated
Sunday show. In his comments, he promised that CNN would cut in with "fact-checks" to counter things being said by
Republicans. [...] The lack of self-awareness here is fairly breathtaking. CNN spews misinformation all the time, but
past their own behavior, is the assertion here that the DNC contained no misinformation that needed to be countered? I
ask because CNN did not cut into the Democrat event with "fact-checks" no matter how egregious the lies told go. [...] Yet,
now that the American people might actually get a real counter narrative from the RNC, CNN wants change the rules.
CNN
panels' thrilled so few "white men" were at the DNC Wednesday. A CNN panel last night was thrilled that so few
"white men" appeared during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night [8/19/2020]. The following is an
example of vicious racism and sexism now promoted by the left. Talking head Ana Navarro was pleased to see so few white
speakers during Wednesday's broadcast of the DNC. "Actually, today with David [Axelrod] and John [Berman] is the first
time I see a white man like in eight hours. You know? Other than Joe Biden last night and that's okay. They
have had 240 years of representation. They're going to be okay. Last night was about telling people who have felt
unseen, we see you. You are here. You are part of this table. And I thought it was inclusive," she said.
PROPAGANDA
MSNBC Airs 119 out of 120 Minutes of Pure DNC Feed. MSNBC and CNN turned their broadcasts into DNC TV again on
Tuesday, airing, with no commentary, the Democratic National Convention feed. One wondered why the journalists and
hosts were even there as they had nothing to do. From 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern, MSNBC aired 119 minutes
and 39 seconds of the Democratic speeches, videos and even the roll call. (Out of a possible total of 120 minutes.)
The scant 21 seconds not controlled by the DNC came when the song "Celebration" played as Joe and Jill Biden awkwardly stood in front
of the camera. Rachel Maddow briefly broke in and then apologized for doing so: "We're actually not interrupting.
We're going right back to it. We were just having a moment. Sorry! Right back. Sorry!" On Monday night,
MSNBC aired 118 minutes and 24 [seconds] out of 120 total.
CNN
Host John Berman 'Clamoring' for Michelle Obama 'VOTE' Necklace. There wasn't much good to say about the
opening night of the Democrat convention. It was panned even by liberal voices and a Never Trumper as, respectively, "a
long YouTube ad you'd skip," "cheesy videos," and a "sad telethon." So, like much of the liberal media's DNC coverage,
CNN's New Day was reduced to focusing on what they saw as a lonely point of light [sorry, H.W.]: Michelle Obama's speech.
Study:
150 TIMES More Negative News on Trump than Biden. As the pandemic grinds on, the Big Three broadcast evening
newscasts are among the highest rated programs on television today — and that means millions of viewers are
witnessing the most biased presidential campaign coverage in modern media history. I've been studying the news media
and elections for more than 35 years. Trust me — there's never been anything like it. A new MRC
analysis of all evening news coverage of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in June and July found
these networks chose to aim most of their attention and nearly all of their negative coverage on Trump, so Biden escaped any
scrutiny of his left-wing policy positions, past job performance or character. From June 1 through July 31, the ABC,
CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 512 minutes of airtime on the President, or nine times more than the 58 minutes
allotted to Biden.
Donald
Trump Mocks 'Zero Drive' Reporters Covering Joe Biden. President Donald Trump ridiculed corporate media
reporters on Saturday for allowing former Vice President Joe Biden to hold events without taking any questions. "Very
strange. Sleepy Joe never takes questions," Trump wrote on Twitter. The president shared a video of reporters
politely exiting a Biden event with his running mate, Kamala Harris, after a press handler tells them to leave: [Video clip]
31
Minutes of Softballs for Kamala: No COVID, No Tara Reade in First Interview. To call the first interview
with Kamala Harris as a vice presidential candidate a softball would be an insult to softball interviews. MSNBC on
Friday aired, uninterrupted, new contributor Errin Haines talking to Harris for 31 minutes solid. This is the same
networks that aired just three percent of Donald Trump's campaign kickoff speech. Haines ignored dealing with COVID as
an issue. She censored any mention of the Democrat previously saying she thought Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of
sexual assault, should be heard. Instead, Haines gushed, "I'm just wondering about your thoughts about how this moment
intersects with your own historic candidacy." In another question, the journalist lauded, "If you become the first female
vice president in the history of this country, what specifically can we expect you to fight for the women of this country?"
MSNBC
Interviews Kamala Harris for 31 Minutes. Never Asks About Andrew Cuomo, Tara Reade. To call the first
interview with Kamala Harris as a vice presidential candidate a softball would be an insult to softball interviews.
MSNBC on Friday aired, uninterrupted, new contributor Errin Haines talking to Harris for 31 minutes solid. This is
the same [network] that aired just three percent of Donald Trump's campaign kickoff speech. Haines ignored dealing with
COVID as an issue. She censored any mention of the Democrat previously saying she thought Tara Reade, who accused Joe
Biden of sexual assault, should be heard. Instead, Haines gushed, "I'm just wondering about your thoughts about how
this moment intersects with your own historic candidacy."
Antifa
Propagandists: WashPost Praises Violent Portland Rioters' 'Stamina' [and] 'Creativity'. Antifa
sympathizers in the media whitewashed the left-wing group's violence yet again this past weekend, gifting them with a glossy
photo essay in The Washington Post. Reporter Marissa J. Lang tried to soften the radical activists' image by
featuring a family of four, a veteran and "moms" flaunting their ridiculous riot gear along with self-righteous quotes they
gave to the paper. It's hard not to gag when Lang lovingly described how Portland's left-wing "protests" are what
"Portland does best" and are "as natural as the salmon swimming in the Willamette River." Sounding like Antifa's publicist,
she touted the demonstrations have "yielded real results" (such as defunding the police and forcing out federal agents.)
The Post reporter of course downplayed the violent methods as just "vandalism" of course, before cheering on their "stamina
and creativity:" [...]
CBS
Dreams About 'Unconventional' First Lady Jill Biden, the Teacher and Prankster. Letting her brush aside the
allegations of unwanted touching against her husband and questions of "where is Hunter," CBS correspondent Rita Braver
conducted a gooey puff piece for CBS Sunday Morning featuring Dr. Jill Biden (Ph.D.). Between excited fawning
over the idea of continuing to teach and playing pranks around the White House, it was obvious that Braver desperately wanted
Biden to be her "unconventional" first lady. Braver, whose husband (Robert Barnett) would probably be working with Joe
Biden on his debate prep, began her doting feature with a clip of Biden blocking a heckler from getting to her husband and
proclaiming "Jill Biden has always stood up for her family." In that vein, Braver helped Jill protect the media's
presidential candidate by weakly bring up the allegations of inappropriate and unwanted touching against Joe.
The
Media's Coverage of Sturgis Rally Seems Different Than Recent Large Gatherings. About a quarter-million
motorcycle riders are expected to descend upon the town of Sturgis, South Dakota, taking part in the 10-day annual rally that
kicked off on Friday. The rally is not a left-wing protest, so the media is criticizing attendees for not wearing
facemasks and participating in a large gathering amid the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The mainstream media and even
medical officials have decided that the best way to avoid contracting the Wuhan coronavirus is to participate in left-wing
protests. Crossing back and forth over the border between Mexico and the United States is seemingly another harmless
exercise. But when a large gathering doesn't fit into the media's list of liberal-approved activities, the press
castigates participants for venturing outside during the pandemic.
PBS
Adores Democratic Wives and Hates GOP Wives. Fifty years after the Public Broadcasting Service launched, we're
still seeing our taxpayer subsidies transform into Democratic donations during election years. On Aug. 4, "PBS
NewsHour" hatched a love-in with Dr. Jill Biden. Anchor Judy Woodruff hit every Joe Biden campaign talking point
with partisan perfection. She began by reminding viewers of the Biden family losses, saying: "He had lost his
first wife and another child. You were coming out of your own marriage. You describe how daunting it was.
How did you do it?" Then she recalled how Joe Biden's son Beau Biden died of brain cancer five years ago. The
interview ended on a light note about how, in March, Jill protected her candidate from two hecklers who jumped onstage at a
Los Angeles event. Woodruff joked, "So, my question is, has the Secret Service deputized you?" The closest thing to a
difficult question was still a softball. [...]
MSNBC
Fight: Melvin Asks Democrat Trump Supporter 'Are You a Paid Campaign Surrogate?'. For the past several
years, MSNBC has hailed any anti-Trump Republican as the voice of reason and as a champion of decency. However,
fireworks ensued on MSNBC Live on Wednesday [7/29/2020] when host Craig Melvin interviewed pro-Trump Democrat state
Rep Vernon Jones of Georgia, wondering if Jones was being paid for his efforts. Asking black Trump backers if they're
paid is becoming an MSNBC habit. The interview got off to a contentious start with Melvin clearly perplexed how anyone
who considers himself a Democrat could support Trump. He and Jones battled over Trump's record on Russia and the
pre-pandemic economy. Throughout Melvin repeated claims indistinguishable from those of the DNC press office.
Chris
Wallace's idea of an unbiased question: Won't millions pay the price because White House, GOP can't get act
together? During an interview Sunday with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Fox News host Chris Wallace sought
to blame solely the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for the lack of an additional coronavirus relief
belief. "House Democrats passed their relief bill back in May, fully two months ago, but here we are the last week in
July and the White House and Senate Republicans still can't agree on just a GOP package," he said to Mnuchin on Fox News'
"Fox News Sunday." [7/26/2020] "Meanwhile, a federal ban on evictions ran out yesterday, federal unemployment
benefits run out on Friday and the last checks have already gone out, and the Payroll Protection Program program for
businesses is running out early next month."
CNN
Fanboys Fawn Over Obama Propping Up Biden Campaign. On Wednesday's [7/22/2020] CNN Newsroom, host John King
brought on former Obama administration senior advisor-turned-CNN host David Axelrod to celebrate President Obama's attempt to
boost Joe Biden's campaign. The Democratic hacks praised Obama's involvement and Axelrod blasted President Trump in
comparison to his former boss. King began the segment by praising a staged Biden campaign stunt of Biden and Obama
sitting down to talk about how much they detest President Trump, calling it "an important video." He then brought on Axelrod
to hype up his former bosses: [Video clip]
Why
Is Radio Free Europe Campaigning For Joe Biden? The U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFERL) was formed to fight communism and to spread the message of liberty and freedom into totalitarian-controlled
populations behind the Iron Curtain and beyond. Even with the installation of a new head of government broadcasting,
conservative Michael Pack, it seems the agency is still just a campaign arm of the DNC and the Soros machine. Just
another example of the infiltration of American government by 'progressive' activists.
Four
More Examples of Media Bias. When [President] Trump claimed in an interview on Fox News on Sunday [7/19/2020]
that "Biden wants to defund the police," host Chris Wallace admonished, "Sir, he does not." Trump cited the charter that Joe
Biden had signed with Bernie Sanders, but he should have mentioned Biden's response in a July 8th interview when journalist
Ady Barkan wanted to know: "The leaders of Black Lives Matter ... believe that the solution is to reduce the number of
interactions that civilians have with the police. We can reduce the responsibilities assigned to the police and
redirect some of the funding for police into social services, mental health counseling, and affordable housing. ... Are you
open to that kind of reform?" Biden responded: "Yes, I proposed that kind of reform." Again, Ady Barkan asked,
"Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?" Biden emphatically answered, "Yes, absolutely."
How
to Spank the Establishment Media. It's astounding how the establishment media allows known Democrat liars to
continue spewing out their vicious falsehoods without challenge. Our legacy media has concluded, perhaps correctly,
that Americans just aren't concerned about serial lying, even by contenders for high office. July 5 on NBC's "Meet
the Press," former Obama official Susan Rice said this: "The president went to Mount Rushmore and then stood at the
White House yesterday on our independence weekend and decided that he was going to stake his legacy and his campaign on
preserving Confederate monuments and the relics of slavery." One wonders how Rice would know that the president had
"decided" such a thing, for nowhere in his July 3 address at Mt. Rushmore nor in his July 4 address, did
President Trump use the word "Confederate," and when he spoke of "slavery," it was in the context of its evil. But did
moderator Andrea Mitchell ask Rice why she was making such an accusation? Of course not; what do you think "Meet the
Press" is, a news program?
Lower
than dirt? Jon Turley clears up who is worse, NBC News' Chuck Todd or CNN's Jim Acosta. Legal scholar
Jonathan Turley slammed NBC News' Chuck Todd for airing a "false narrative" in the misleading quote of White House press
secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The George Washington University law professor called out the "Meet the Press" host who
"knowingly played a false gotcha clip" in a move that he deemed worse than the one by CNN's Jim Acosta, who came under heavy
fire for tweeting an out-of-context quote from McEnany.
No One Batted
an Eyelash at These CNN Banners. [Numerous examples.]
The Editor says...
Whoever composes the lower-third banners on the Chyron (or Vidifont, if they still have one) writes a show within a show. Many viewers
have the sound turned down (or they're across the restaurant or airport terminal) and depend on the character generator to tell the story
in lieu of the reporter. Once in a while, the text says one thing, but the pictures tell a completely different story.
Incidentally, in my TV experience, news people hated it when engineers pointed out misspelled words, because engineers aren't supposed to notice.
The
L.A. Times Proclaims the Anthem Is Racist, Their Suggested Replacement Will Have you Laughing Out Loud. Here's
a quick hitter for you before bed, but be warned. It may cost you some sleep because you'll be too busy laughing out
loud after reading this. Enter The Los Angeles Times. You see, they've decided that the Star Spangled Banner is
racist (insert squeaky Tucker Carlson inflection here) and that it's time to seek a replacement. While this isn't a new
suggestion, as crazed destruction of American history has become a left-wing sport at this point, the Times takes it a bit
further with perhaps the dumbest replacement suggestion yet.
Andrew Cuomo
Is Not a COVID Hero. The media have decided to play along with New York governor Andrew Cuomo's bizarre effort
to reinvent himself as the hero of the fight against COVID-19. Cuomo's motivation is transparent enough, and we are duly
impressed at the chutzpah required to even attempt such a thing. But there is no excuse for anyone else enabling him.
Nets
Cover-Up Biden Quoting Mao, CBS Campaigns for Him Instead. If President Trump were to quote one of the world's
deadliest dictators in a positive way, the liberal media would have a Chernobyl-level meltdown. In fact, they tried to
claim his campaign's use of a bald eagle was a nod to Nazi Germany. But when Democratic presidential candidate Joe
Biden quoted Mao Tse-tung during a Monday evening campaign event, his allies at ABC, CBS, and NBC covered it up. Instead
of reporting on Biden's controversial comment, Tuesday's [7/14/2020] CBS Evening News took to campaigning for him.
It's
just nuts to praise New York's 'success' against coronavirus. If only the rest of the country could handle
COVID as well as New York: That's the lament of progressive commentators as COVID cases spike in the Sun Belt and the
South. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin hailed New York City the other day after it reported no deaths for the
first time during the pandemic. This is what competent government can accomplish, she gushed. Former Obama aide
Valerie Jarrett tweeted, "Short term sacrifice saves lives!!!" [...] This is all perverse given that New York is only now
emerging from one of the worst COVID debacles on the planet.
Media
Bias: CNN national political reporter's 'analysis' piece contains opinion. CNN National Political
Reporter Maeve Reston in an analysis piece published last Saturday claimed that President Trump during his July 3rd speech at
Mount Rushmore attempted "to play on the fears" of individuals "who view the rise of Black Lives Matter as a threat to the
historical dominance of White people." Reston's piece neglected to mention that President Trump in his speech extolled the
ideal of racial equality, an ideal which is, by definition, itself a threat to the "dominance of White people." "We believe
in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed," Trump
declared during the address. "Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy
image of God." Reston's claim that the president sought to exploit the fears of a minority "who view the rise of Black Lives
Matter as a threat to the historical dominance of White people" thus breaks the boundaries of straight news reporting and
constitutes an unacknowledged interpretation lacking plausible substantiation in the referenced text.
How
Selective Reporting Hides The Truth About Race And Crime. On Saturday [7/4/2020], a man drove his car onto a
Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured
another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. Reports noted that police "don't believe
impairment was a factor." Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but there's one thing you won't learn from
their coverage: The driver was black and his victims were white. NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming
incidents by "right-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters." They quote a researcher about how these
right-wingers were "trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters, to stop their movement." The driver was a
Seattle local named Dawit Kelete. But you'll find scant mention of the driver's ethnicity in mainstream media
coverage. You might have more easily learned that Kelete was black by going to the Australia Broadcasting
Corporation. The American national media also doesn't note that Kelete's two victims were white. You can find
that out over at the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
Biden
refuses to take questions during lackluster hometown stop, 'objective' journos happy to comply. Former Vice
President Joe Biden emerged from his basement to make a public stop in Pennsylvania but still managed to avoid answering
questions from reporters. The presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee has continued to get a pass from the liberal media
while he avoided holding a news conference for nearly three months, selectively speaking from his basement. But,
following last week's encounter with the media, Biden brushed off questions again on Thursday as he made a visit to his
childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Twitter
Covering Up For Antifa — Suspends Account Exposing Terror Training Tactics Videos. Antifa is posting
videos online on how you can smash windshields, cut seatbelts and drag people from their vehicles. This antifa member
says its necessary when Americans don't stop and wait during their street protests. There is NOTHING about this group
that is civil or lawful. [Video clip]
What
you wouldn't know from reading the news: There's a soaring economic recovery roaring in. [Scroll
down] Look at that amazing doom and gloom — lots of "yes but," lots of bad news for suburban
women — from slow wage growth to not being able to get a babysitter. Big doom-and-gloom forecasts from a
government agency that's gotten it wrong every time. Lots of loaded language — "deep hole," "struggles,"
"stalls," "falling apart," "won't recover." Oh, and a snipe at the stock market and a little plug for green energy,
which is supposed to make us slaver for a Joe Biden presidency. The actual news is buried in that bland, contextless,
vanilla fifth headline in the New York Times, "U.S. Added Nearly 5 Million Jobs in June," signaling a powerful economic
recovery underway. Seriously, five million jobs? When was the last time you saw figures like that? Typical
jobs additions in a good month have figures around 100,000 or 300,000.
Biden
Faces No Questions About Michael Flynn Probe During His First Press Conference In Three Months. Former Vice
President Joe Biden held his first press conference with reporters in nearly three months, but faced no questions about
recent revelations about his interest in Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period in early 2017. Last
week, attorneys for Flynn disclosed notes taken in early January 2017 that suggested that Biden brought up an obscure law
called the Logan Act that the FBI cited to continue an investigation against Flynn. [...] In an interview last month, Biden
downplayed his role in any investigation of Flynn. "I was aware that they asked for an investigation, but that's all I
know about it," Biden told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in a May 12 interview. He has not been directly asked
about the Strzok notes.
NBC
& ABC Hawk Biden Campaign Propaganda Disguised as Children's Book. Apparently Joe Biden called up NBC's 3rd
Hour Today show and ABC's Good Morning America to tell the broadcasts to let his wife, Jill Biden, appear for
softball interviews and sell campaign propaganda disguised as a children's book. On Tuesday [6/30/2020], the two
morning shows obviously agreed, conducting embarrassing segments with the former Second Lady designed to manipulate
viewers — and their children — into supporting her husband in the 2020 election. On NBC, co-host
Craig Melvin was delighted to be able to do his part in supporting the Biden campaign: "And welcome back, it has been a
busy few months for former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden. [...]"
ABC
Clinton Lackey Refuses to Call-Out Pelosi's Crazy Conspiracy Theories. If President Trump had said the things
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been saying over the past week without evidence, the liberal media would be questioning his
sanity and fitness for office. But since she currently leads their party, she's above reproach. Sunday's
[6/28/2020] This Week was no exception as ABC chief anchor and resident Clinton lackey, George Stephanopoulos refused
two critically press the Speaker on her claim that the Republican Party had killed George Floyd, and that the President was a
Russian agent.
CNN's
Brianna Keilar opines on Trump's focus amid coronavirus pandemic. CNN host Brianna Keilar during a recent
television segment sharply criticized President Trump over the issue of the coronavirus pandemic. "More than 122,000
Americans have died in the last few months. This is more than every war since the start of the Korean War
combined. And the president barely mentions them or their families, he doesn't even acknowledge the collective loss of
the nation. Instead he turns the pandemic into a racist punchline for his rally goers to cheer," Keilar said. [...]
Keilar's opinionated assertion about the president's focus falls outside of the realm of neutral reporting.
MSNBC
Wants Dems to Steal Control of Senate With D.C. Statehood. On her 12:00 p.m. ET hour show on Thursday
[6/25/2020], MSNBC Andrea Mitchell desperately attempted to make the case for Washington D.C. statehood in order to help her
friends in the Democratic Party gain two additional U.S. senators and possibly a permanent advantage in the congressional
chamber. Lefty historian Jon Meacham then joined her in advocating the radical agenda and tossing aside the
Constitution. "The House is going to vote tomorrow on whether Washington, D.C. should become the 51st state....This, as
murals supporting statehood are popping up all over the city," Mitchell gushed as she introduced her propaganda piece.
The Editor says...
Murals don't just "pop up" out of nowhere. If murals are "popping up all over the city," it's because of a
coordinated government propaganda campaign, of which this "news" report is a part.
'Of
Course I'm Not Objective': Chris Cuomo Lauds Big Brother Andrew. It is rare when a cable news host comes right
out and says "I'm not objective." And on CNN on Wednesday night [6/24/2020], host Chris Cuomo seemed to acknowledge the many
ethical dilemmas arising from his repeated interviews with his big brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as he appeared to
offer a final, praiseworthy send-off to his elder sibling. After yet another intra-family interview, in which the
younger Cuomo offered some blunt questions about the state's nursing home deaths scandal — but offered little
aggressive follow-up to the older Cuomo's dismissals — the CNN host nodded at the "unusual" circumstances of
journalist questioning his own politician brother.
Where Are We Heading?
[Scroll down] We all remember that Rolling Stone cover of the Boston Bomber in 2013 that portrayed terrorist Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev much in the same way as previous magazine covers of rocks stars like Bob Dylan or Jim Morrison. Then there was
the 2018 TV series called Waco, which retold the story of cult leader David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and their standoff
with law enforcement, which was a psychological power struggle asserted ultimately through physical force. The show
pretends to be nuanced, offering alternative points of view that give insight into the extremist cult. However, it
leans heavily in favor of highlighting the Branch Davidians as rebels looking to find belonging outside an empire, while
portraying law enforcement as brutes save one exception.
Look No Further Than Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer to
Understand Why Conservatives Hate the Media. I was interviewing my comedian friend Kevin Downey Jr. for my
latest Kruiser Kabana podcast and — as conservatives are wont to do — we got around to discussing the
thorough awfulness of the mainstream media. We are all aware that examples of said awfulness abound but the two that
were freshest in my mind were the MSM treatment of the two worst governors in America: Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen
Whitmer. Throughout almost all of March, April, and May we bombarded with stories about Cuomo's brilliant handling of
the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in New York. All featured a "this is how real leadership looks" theme and added
the perfunctory Orange Man Bad whining. The only truth in the early days of the pandemic was that no one really new
what the truth was. That didn't keep the media from lauding every move Cuomo made even though he was winging it just
like everyone else was at the time.
White
House says CNN refuses to give them airtime to refute scandalous claims detailed on Bolton's book. More and
more, CNN seems to be doing away with any pretense that it's an actual news outlet when it comes to covering President Donald
Trump. Casual viewers may be excused if they believe the network dedicates 24/7 coverage to destroying the Trump
presidency, as it is all bad news all the time when it comes to the nations' 45th president. After giving disgruntled
former national security adviser John Bolton's new book red carpet treatment, a book that features enough scandalous
allegations against Trump to ensure brisk sales — one such claim being that he asked China to help him with the
2020 election — CNN apparently had little interest in offering the administration an opportunity to refute the
claims. That's according to a spokesman who spoke the Washington Free
Chuck
Todd Wonders If Media, Corporations Can Keep the Racial Activism Going. On Friday's [6/12/2020] MSNBC
Live, host Chuck Todd worried out loud with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine and the 1619
Project fame, about what needs to be done to make sure the wave of Black Lives Matter activism does not simply fade
away. They discussed whether corporations were truly sincere in their social-justice messaging, and whether the media
would continue their "bottom up" activism that could be seen at places like the Times. [Video clip] Later in
the segment after Jones expressed concern that organizations like the NFL donating $250 million to various causes is not
enough to address structural problems and that people's attention will eventually wane, Todd eagerly concurred: [...]
Biden
Adviser Gets ZERO Questions About His Controversies On 'View'. Joe Biden's senior adviser Symone Sanders
appeared on The View Wednesday [6/10/2020] and didn't have to answer any questions that would put the Democrat
presidential nominee in a negative light. The hosts didn't ask her about Biden's latest racist gaffe or his sexual
assault allegation. Instead, The View hosts invited her to attack President Trump for using the Democrats'
"defund the police" against them, and answer non-specific questions on how Biden will enact "change" and reach the
progressive wing of his party. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, sounding like she herself worked for the Biden campaign,
announced Sanders like this: "Americans are out in the streets in force demanding change, and right now we are joined
by a woman who plans to make sure that change happens."
Study:
99.3 percent of Broadcast Networks' Protest Coverage Ignores Mob's Murder Victims. Broadcast networks ABC, CBS,
and NBC have been consistent cheerleaders for the nationwide protests against police brutality, offering nearly 12 hours
of coverage (710 minutes) over the past seven days on just their flagship morning and evening news shows. But
despite dedicating all of those hours of airtime to the protests and riots, these networks have barely breathed a word about
those who have died in the resulting violence. MRC analysts examined all three broadcast networks' major morning and
evening newscasts between May 28 and June 3, and found that the total airtime spent on those who died during the
past week of riots accounted to just four and a half minutes, or less than one percent of the total protest-related coverage.
Kayleigh
McEnany shreds Jim Acosta after he criticizes police. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany suggested
CNN's Jim Acosta should respect police officers rather than concoct stories about them since they are "protecting you as you
come into this building each and every day." The tense exchange began with Acosta falsely accusing the President of having
"gassed and pummeled protesters" as he engaged in a walk Monday to St. John's Episcopal Church. [...] Acosta has been
brutally beaten by McEnany on multiple occasions as he does his best to preen for his left-leaning audience at CNN. Things
never work out in his favor.
McEnany
pounds Acosta with facts on what really went down at Lafayette Square, he still can't comprehend. White House
press secretary Kayleigh McEnany fact-checked CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta this Wednesday after he spewed a
blatant lie at her. The lie was the fallacious and already debunked claim that the Trump administration had "gassed and
pummeled protesters" prior to President Donald Trump's "powerful" walk to St. John's Church earlier this week. To
make matters worse, he spewed the lie while referencing deceased civil rights hero and legend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trump
is right about the huge potential for ballot fraud in Michigan's election. To hear the mainstream media tell
it, President Trump is somehow paranoid at Michigan's latest gambit to mail absentee voting applications to all registered
voters in the state. Here's the selectively distorted reporting from the Detroit News: [...] They ran it with a
photograph of Trump with a photoshopped color manipulation that exaggerated the color of his skin as well as his blue tie to
colors not consistent with the lighting in the room. [...]
The Doctrine of Media
Untruth. [Scroll down] Do we remember that for a while "Bob" Mueller was Washington's hallowed
prosecutor, investigator, or inquisitor par excellence? No wonder he had assembled a "dream team" of "all stars"
who, as "hunter-killer" squads of legal eagles, would tear apart Trump's supposedly doddering third-stringers and send Trump
either to jail or into ignominious exile. So, the more that legal eagle narrative saturated the liberal media
landscape, the more we knew the opposite was true. Mueller himself had a spotty history. He was both physically
and cognitively unable to run an effective two-year high-intensity investigation. He was the un-Durham — as
leaky and hodge-podge as the latter's probe is quiet and professional. Mueller likely outsourced his tasks to an
incestuous group of partisan and progressive lawyers, many of them incompetent, with conflicts of interest and blinded by partisanship.
'View'
Gives Schumer Nearly Half the Show to Attack Trump, GOP on Coronavirus, Election. The hosts of ABC's The
View gave Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer free rein on their Thursday [5/21/2020] show to spin for Democrats on
coronavirus relief, Obamagate and the 2020 presidential election. Schumer was on for nearly half the show, excluding
commercials and was only given two semi-challenging questions, both from co-host Meghan McCain. You could tell this was
going to be a cakewalk for Schumer just by how Whoopi introduced him: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is fighting
battles on a lot of different fronts right now in this crazy crisis, and he's giving us an update on what the Senate and the
White House need to do next. Please welcome our friend, Senator Chuck Schumer," she stated.
A
tidy takedown of Media Matters and its propaganda about hydroxycholoroquine. For most thinking Americans, it is
unnecessary to bother to fact check the propaganda group Media Matters. If they have heard of Media Matters at all,
they typically understand it's a smear group funded by donors with political and corporate interests whose names are kept
secret. (The last big Media Matters donor whose name was publicly revealed years ago was that of liberal billionaire activist
George Soros.) The problem is, too many news organizations and even journalism groups such as Poynter use Media
Matters and their affiliates as if they are legitimate news sources. They are either unforgviably ignorant of Media
Matters' slants, or choose to keep readers in the dark because they agree with the slant. One major interest Media
Matters and its affiliates have served over the years is that of the pharmaceutical industry.
WaPo's
new mantra is Just Don't Report. As the walls close in on Obama's use of the FBI to spy on political opponents,
the Washington Post has a simple solution for a press that aided and abetted him: If something looks bad "just don't
report that it does." The full quote by columnist Greg Sargent is, "There is a legitimately difficult editorial challenge in
figuring out how to scrutinize a mostly conventional politician who is running against a bottomlessly corrupt and dishonest
opponent like Trump, as Brian Beutler has noted, without placing a similarly sized question mark over both of them.
"There's just no doubt that this happened in 2016, as has been widely documented. "This is plainly on its way to
happening again. But it doesn't have to. One way to avoid this: If something doesn't actually 'boost' or
'lend fodder' to a big claim that Trump is making, just don't report that it does. "It's simple, but it's a start."
Just don't report.
Our Nevermind Media.
Media observers are today noticing how strange it is for reporters to juxtapose panic about Florida, where the virus has done
relatively little damage, with robust defense of New York, the coronavirus death capital of the Western world. This
week, after Politico Florida correspondent Marc Caputo noted that the long-predicted mass outbreak of coronavirus in
his state still hasn't happened, with three full months having passed since the first dire warnings about spring breakers
partying on the beaches, Daily Beast Washington correspondent and CNN analyst Jackie Kucinich threw the yellow flag.
[...] The media loves to run with "blood on his hands" stories about nefarious Republicans, but you'll have a hard time
finding even a quiet, pro-forma apology (much less an admission of bloody hands) from the media for their massive bungling of
the early stages of the coronavirus story.
Lockdown Logic. When politicians begin
slinging around words like "expert" and "science," any sensible citizen becomes a skeptic. Being elected to public
office does not qualify anyone to lecture the public on scientific matters, but this is never pointed out to cable TV viewers
tuning in for the daily lectures from Governor Science (D-N.Y.). Andrew Cuomo has a bachelor's degree from Fordham and a law
degree from the University of Albany, and if he has any specialized knowledge about infectious diseases, it's only because he
has presided over the worst COVID-19 pandemic in the world. On a per-capita basis, nowhere has this virus been more deadly
than in New York, yet no one in the media blames this public-health catastrophe on the governor — quite the contrary.
'Obamagate'
Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's The Biggest Political Scandal Of Our Time. A string of recently released
documents have confirmed that the entire Russia-Trump investigation, which eventually entrapped Flynn and forced
then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself, was an unprecedented abuse of power that amounted to organized effort
by the Obama administration to nullify the results of the 2016 presidential election. It was in effect an attempted
coup. If you haven't picked that up from the news media, it's not your fault. Instead of grappling with the
implications of newly released details about what Obama officials were doing to undermine the incoming Trump administration
during the transition, the mainstream media have fixated on Trump's use of the term "Obamagate," dismissing it as a
conspiracy theory.
Joe
Biden Reads Prepared Answers to Questions in MSNBC Interview. Joe Biden appeared to be reading prepared answers
during his 'interview' on MSNBC. Al Sharpton tossed Biden a softball Saturday evening when discussing the economic
impact the Coronavirus shutdown has had on minority communities. Biden immediately responded with prepared answers,
reading from a Teleprompter during a supposed live "interview." Nothing to see here... it's just a coincidence that the
answers on Biden's Teleprompter match up perfectly with Al Sharpton's questions!
A
Tale of Two Governors and Two State Re-openings. One state is Georgia, the other is Colorado. Georgia has
10.6 million people, Colorado a little more than half that number. [...] Both states slowly reopened their shuttered
economies last week. [...] Both approaches are comparable and reasonable. No businesses are being forced to reopen and
customers can choose to stay home and not patronize any of the reopened establishments. Which many people will likely
do. Media reaction was anything but comparable or reasonable.
Mockingbird
Propagandist Chris Wallace Lies During Birx Interview. [Scroll down] Chris Wallace is a political
operative. A placed ideologue within media advancing an agenda in an effort to do as much harm as possible. This
is not an accident; and yes this harm is specific, purposeful and with intent. The evolved Fabian-Socialists, the
professional left which includes most mainstream media now, are dangerous in disposition due to the rabidity of their
partisanship. If they were not, they wouldn't be consistently lying. It really is that simple.
'Undercover
Huber' Educates Chris Wallace (D) After His Reductionist Version of Gen. Flynn's Case. After the DOJ
unsealed documents on Wednesday night which proved that Gen. Michael Flynn had been set up by top FBI officials in
January 2017, Fox News' Wallace, who long ago abandoned any pretense of objectivity as far as President Trump is concerned,
offered his take on the story.
Saint Andrew of Albany.
Every day, cable-news channels provide live coverage of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's briefings about his state's
response to the coronavirus pandemic. What has happened in New York is not merely the worst COVID-19 outbreak in
America, but possibly the worst in the entire world. Such are the biases of our news media, however, that no one ever
suggests Cuomo is responsible for the deadly toll of this disease in his state. Instead, the Democratic governor is
treated with deference by the press corps, which instead — and rather illogically — focuses the blame
on President Trump. Watching Cuomo's press briefings is to behold the work of a master in the rhetorical arts of
pretended expertise and straw-man arguments against imaginary antagonists who, in opposing the governor's orders, are
irresponsible and unscientific.
Remember
the government shutdowns? Funny how we don't see those same sob stories about lost paychecks now.
Whenever the threat of a government shutdown looms, Democrats and their media allies give us daily doses of how devastating
such a thing will be on 'non-essential' government workers. Then they go into overdrive when a shutdown actually
occurs: Wall-to-wall sob stories giving examples of government workers supposedly harmed even though, everyone knows,
those employees will soon be paid. They essentially have a paid vacation. Now, after weeks of the intentional
destruction of the private sector with tens of millions of jobs lost, with businesses and families being devasted and having
no idea how they will feed their families and themselves, there are few of those same sob stories, despite real hardship, and
here is what we get instead: If a Republican governor wants to open a state's businesses, we get attack pieces saying
he wants people to die.
CBS
Anchor Tells Stacey Abrams She's 'Extremely Qualified' to Be Vice President. CBS This Morning anchor and
Barack Obama donor Gayle King gushed over Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams on Tuesday morning, saying the former state
legislator and failed gubernatorial candidate is "extremely qualified" to be vice president of the United States.
Abrams is openly lobbying to serve as Joe Biden's running mate come November, despite never being elected to any office
beyond the state legislature. As she touted her voting rights work and "competence and skills and willingness to
serve," King cut in to praise her as ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. "That's a great nuts and bolts
answer because everybody knows you're extremely qualified," King said.
On
4 Fronts, How China Quietly Infiltrates American Life. While many mainstream American media outlets allow
themselves to be platforms for Chinese government propaganda, some work directly for the People's Republic of China.
Many of these publications have been working overtime as the Chinese government attempts to distract attention from its early
handling of the COVID-19 outbreak and continues to mislead the world about what's happening in China. Peter Hasson, a
reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation, laid out what exactly Phoenix TV is and how it's connected to the communist
government of China. Hasson found that, according to the outlet's 2018 interim report, China Wise International
Limited, a subsidiary of a bank run by the Chinese government, owns a minority stake in Phoenix TV. Although Phoenix TV
is not directly run by the Chinese government, it effectively is controlled by the government.
Suppose
Trump Had Acted Earlier Against the Wuhan Virus. Petulant propagandists, disguised as journalists, have a new
talking point. [...] Their new narrative is that Trump could have and should have acted sooner and if he had, all would be
normal in the world. This is the latest chapter in the book of Orange Man Bad, previous chapters including the Ukraine
phone call, Russian collusion, Mueller, Stormy, Avenatti, Omarosa, and Manafort, just to name a few. Say what you want
about the Fake News media, but they are persistent and determined, even if they remain "an enemy of the people" as
characterized by Trump. Too bad their energies are always directed against Trump, rather than subjects given only a
brief glance, such as Benghazi, Hillary Clinton's emails, the Steele/Brennan dossier, and real election interference.
The New York Times, briefly distracted by rewriting their tweets describing Joe Biden being credibly accused of sexual
assault, took up the role of drum major in the media's Get Trump jihad.
It's
Good to Be a Democrat. Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, has been credibility accused of
sexual assault by a former staffer named Tara Reade. Don't search her name on CNN's website. As of this writing
they have not done a single report about her and her story. They don't care. Moreover, they don't want their
audience to know. But audiences do know. Thanks to the Internet, the old liberal tactic of ignoring stories they
don't like can't work anymore.
Don't forget
Joe Biden. [Scroll down] But news media should not lose sight of the fact that, with Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders out of the race, Biden is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. And as a major
party nominee who has a good shot of becoming the next occupier of the White House, he deserves the sort of scrutiny that
comes with it. Unfortunately, Biden has too often been treated with kid gloves, being granted softball interviews that
don't challenge his statements and mainly seemed designed to goad him into attacking Trump's performance. NBC's Chuck
Todd asked Biden whether Trump has "blood on his hands," which to Biden's credit, he said was "too harsh" an
assessment. CNN's Brooke Baldwin has asked Biden if Trump has been "intentionally" misleading. She then fawned,
"Your strength, really, your strength is in traveling around the country and connecting with people, right? [...]"
Steady,
devout Mike Pence leads coronavirus fight past the haters. We've always known that the vice president is a
religious man. I mean, how could we forget? Since the day he was picked as VP in 2016, the media has never missed
an opportunity to mock him for being an evangelical, born-again Christian. You might be thinking, but wait —
isn't making fun of people for their religious beliefs politically incorrect? For the most part, yes. But there
is one major exception. Religious intolerance is a big no-no in 2020, unless said religion has anything to do with
Christianity. In which case, mocking isn't just acceptable — it is encouraged. For instance, a few
months before the #MeToo movement took center stage, the mainstream media got a real kick out of Mike Pence's rule that he
never dines with a woman alone without his wife present. The headlines from the mainstream media displayed complete
revulsion for Pence, the archaic sexist weirdo. "Mike Pence doesn't eat alone with women. That speaks volumes"
(The Guardian) "Vice President Pence's 'never dine alone with a woman' rule isn't honorable. It's probably
illegal." (Vox)
The
mainstream media's silly pillow fight with Mike Lindell and God. Michael Lindell has lefties in the fake-news
media screaming into their pillows. It happened after the My Pillow founder appeared at President Donald Trump's daily
Wuhan flu press conference last Monday. Lindell was there to deliver some very good news announcing that his factories
would be shifting to make Personal Protection Equipment to help America's first responders fighting the COVID-19[.]
Lindell, and the President, getting into trouble when the openly Christen Lindell called on God to protect America and give
the President strength.
Nominate Biden,
blame Bernie. Over at Jeff Bezos's Tax Write Off, Washington Post reporters Sean Sullivan, Michael Scherer, and
David Weigel filed, "Bernie Sanders now adamant he's staying in the presidential race. Many Dems fear a reprise of
their 2016 defeat." The gist is Biden will lose and it is all Bernie's fault. The argument is Bernie cost Hillary the
2016 election and by staying in the race, he will cost Biden in 2020. Philippe Reines, a lackey of Hillary, said in
Paragraph 4, "It's the equivalent of a World War II kamikaze pilot. They have no better option than to plow into USS
Biden." Paragraph 17 said, "Although Sanders personally is not waging a scorched-earth campaign against Biden, some of
his most visible supporters continue to rail against the former vice president's policy ideas and question his cognitive
abilities — a trend that worries party leaders." Way down in Paragraphs 27, 28, and 29, readers
discover what the real problem is. Ideas. It is not that Bernie is a kamikaze pilot. It is that Bernie
is a communist taking over the party.
Trump
Official Says US was Dealt a Bad Hand by China, CNN Host Abruptly Ends Segment. On Thursday [3/26/2020], White
House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro appeared on CNN. Hosting the show was Brianna Keilar. [...] Keilar did not even
try to be subtle. This exchange belongs in a textbook about media bias. When a "journalist" refuses to
even listen to an opinion they disagree with, it can no longer be called journalism. She declared her guest's comment
to be "just a waste of time" and "just ridiculous." Keilar deserves to be fired. Instead, CNN will probably give her
a raise and a bonus.
Oh, So this
is why Joe Biden has been hiding. [Scroll down] Joe Biden is not a good public speaker. He does
much better one-on-one, especially with the softball questions that the media provides for him. He only goes on
friendly shows anyway, so there is no expectation of holding him accountable for any ideas or plans. Biden was a guest
on The View Tuesday morning [3/24/2020]. He appears to be at home as he does the interview. Don't expect
any pushback from any of the co-hosts of The View — they will all be voting for him in November, rest assured
of that. I am sure Biden will regularly appear on the show and it will always be a lovefest. He's their guy.
Paid
CNN Employee Endorses Joe Biden On-Air. Former 2020 Democratic hopeful Andrew Yang had been a paid CNN
commentator for only a few weeks before deciding that their Democratic primary coverage of the first Mini-Super Tuesday was
the right time for him to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden live on-air. Yang was teed up by host Anderson
Cooper, who noted that Yang had spent a lot of time writing stuff down. "I believe that Joe Biden will be the
Democratic nominee. And I've always said I'm going to support whoever the nominee is. So, I hereby am endorsing
Joe Biden to be not just the nominee for the Democratic Party, but the next president of the United States," Yang immediately
responded.
The
doctor is in. Jill Biden has a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Delaware, and she never lets
the American people forget it. Mrs. Biden, wife of former Vice President Joe Biden, insists on being referred to
as "Dr." Biden. Her Twitter handle is @DrBiden. The press has largely acquiesced: Even though it has
persistent trouble referring to actual pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson as "Dr." Ben Carson, it is rare indeed to ever see
a reference to Jill Biden without "Dr." preceding her name.
ABC
reporter to be 'reassigned' after undercover sting catches him revealing how ABC spikes stories, covers Trump
unfairly. A veteran correspondent was suspended by ABC News after a Project Veritas video caught him on camera
criticizing the media and calling himself a "socialist." The network's senior correspondent David Wright was suspended late
Tuesday following the release of the latest footage from Project Veritas which showed him accusing ABC News of not reporting
some newsworthy stories and for ignoring some of President Trump's accomplishments.
Project
Veritas: ABC Reporter Says Networks' Interest In Trump Is Outrage, Investigation And Backstabbing.
Project Veritas released another undercover video this morning, this one featuring ABC reporter David Wright. Wright is
seen discussing the state of the news business at an informal gathering for media professionals held in a bar. During
the discussion, Wright admits to being a socialist and not just a Democratic Socialist like Bernie Sanders. According
to a recent study of journalists based on their Twitter interactions, that makes him just like most journalists. In
keeping with his socialist views, Wright criticized ABC News as having become a just another profit center for its
owner. "Like now, you can't watch Good Morning America without there being a Disney princess or a Marvel Avenger
appearing. It's all self-promotional," he said.
ABC
News reporter suspended and barred from political coverage after Project Veritas sting. ABC News suspended one
of its veteran correspondents after he was secretly recorded discussing the downsides of the network. David Wright, 56,
who has reported for ABC's signature news programs, including World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and
Nightline, was suspended late Tuesday night [2/25/2020], the Washington Post reported. The suspension
came the day before Project Veritas, a conservative muckraking organization known for secretly recording targets in the
media, released a video of Wright identifying as a "socialist" and trashing network executives.
ABC
News Suspends Reporter On Eve Of Project Veritas Exposure. ABC News has suspended a reporter involved in an
upcoming Project Veritas video the evening before the project is set to be released. Project Veritas, a conservative
watchdog group, plans to release a video Wednesday exposing bias at ABC News, founder James O'Keefe tweeted. Veteran
reporter David Wright was suspended Tuesday evening [2/25/2020] ahead of the project's release, according to a person with
direct knowledge of the situation. ABC News did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller.
The Editor says...
There are many others. He's just the one who got caught.
O'Keefe
Strikes Again! 'Socialist' ABC Reporter Admits Bosses Spike News Important to Voters, 'Don't Give Trump Credit'.
Project Veritas released a new undercover video on Wednesday of 'Socialist' ABC reporter David Wright admitting his bosses spike
stories important to voters. David Wright is on camera admitting he is an overt Socialist who thinks there's "too many
billionaires." Wright was suspended on Tuesday night before Project Veritas dropped the video of him admitting his
network doesn't cover President Trump fairly.
Chris
Matthews facing calls to resign for comparing Sanders Nevada victory to Nazi invasion of France. MSNBC host
Chris Matthews is facing backlash online for equating Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's win in the 2020 Nevada Democratic
caucuses to the Nazi regime's takeover of France. During a conversation with MSNBC anchor Brian Williams Saturday
night, the Hardball host likened the democratic socialist's decisive victory in Nevada to the Nazi's victory over France in
World War II.
MSNBC
Matthews to Establishment Democrats: Vote for Trump. Well, he did well here in 2016 — and now
he won it outright. In 2016, Hillary Clinton took the Nevada Caucus relatively early. In 2020, Sanders did the
same, but it was a landslide win. [...] Over at MSNBC, a network that has received the ire of the Sanders campaign due to
their overt bias against Bernie, one host appears to be making the case for Donald Trump. Granted, this was more
directed toward the Democratic Party establishment and the rest of the anti-Sanders wing. But Chris Matthews, who has
railed against Bernie's candidacy, even suggesting an electoral slaughter, all but told this group of voters to vote for
Trump. He virtually said it on live television. To be blunt, Matthews said that the Democratic Party
establishment would be better off with four more years of Trump than a Sanders administration and the revolutionary baggage
that comes with it.
Fox Has Been "More Fair": Why Bernie's Team Has Had It With
MSNBC. Faiz Shakir had seen enough. As summer turned to fall, and the 2020 Democratic presidential race
entered the stretch run before the first caucuses and primaries, Shakir, who manages Bernie Sanders's campaign, approached
MSNBC president Phil Griffin to discuss his concerns with the network's treatment of the Vermont senator's second White House
bid. "We watched a ton of terrible coverage occurring and we thought we'd at least try to address it," he
recalled. For months, the campaign bristled at slights from MSNBC's stable of hosts and commentators. Jason
Johnson, an MSNBC contributor, predicted in January 2019 that Sanders would drop out by August, and network analyst Mimi
Rocah said in July that Sanders made her "skin crawl." On-screen graphics have omitted Sanders and misrepresented his
poll numbers, a trend that inspired a sendup from the Onion.
Humiliating
Video Montage of Slobbering Media Love Affair with Michael Avenatti. Why was Avenatti so popular?
Avenatti was representing porn star Stormy Daniels as she famously pursued legal action against Donald Trump over an affair
and subsequent hush-money and cover-up scandals. But in truth, his clients were really #TheResistance at large, and
there are no bigger fans of that movement to be found on cable and network news. And the montage, of course, proves
that. [Video clip]
Sen.
Graham Slams CBS Host: 'Media's So In The Tank' on Biden Scandal in Ukraine. On Sunday's Face the
Nation, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told CBS host Margaret Brennan the media's "so in the tank" on the Biden
scandal in Ukraine. It came right on the edge of a commercial break, when Brennan felt compelled to add the usual
in-the-tank disclaimer that "nothing" has been "substantiated" on Biden corruption. Graham made the obvious point:
the media make zero or near-zero effort to substantate the Biden scandal, and then say tsk-tsk that it's unproven.
The Editor says...
This is an example of a common but subtle technique in media bias: Whenever a conservative guest starts making valid
and embarrassing points, and builds up some momentum in the conversation, suddenly it's time for a commercial break.
And in almost every case, at the conclusion of the commercial break, the subject has changed, the previous points are
forgotten, and the Democrat-friendly host moves on to another topic, or a different guest. Yes, commercial breaks pay
for the production of the show, but on a live interview program, there is only one reason a commercial break can't be postponed
for 15 seconds to let someone finish his or her explanation, and that reason is that the guest is making Democrats look bad.
Things
I have learned from genuine, honest journalists and other Democrats. As I have gotten older, I have been
enlightened about so many things from honest, genuine, conscience-driven journalists and other Democrats. Of course, to
accept what I have learned, I had to check my common sense at the door. I learned in 2008 that McCain was a despicable
racist who would be a terrible President. Later, I learned how beloved, smart and honest he was as long as he was
trashing Trump. He was deeply respected when he died and had been in high demand by genuine journalists who only care
about the truth.
How
the House lost the witness battle along with impeachment. NBC host Chuck Todd recently asked guests on his
show if supporters of President Trump just want to be lied to. It is a question that many in the media would never ask
about Democrats, even in the face of overtly false claims.
Apparently,
members of the media actually believe it is their job to make the impeachment case for the Democrats. [Video clip]
MSNBC
Hosts Furious That Senators Not as Committed to Impeachment as They Are. If you've watched any of the impeachment trial
on TV this week, you know that it's been an incredibly boring affair. In spite of this, the hosts at MSNBC, who are deeply
emotionally and professionally invested in the outcome, are annoyed that members of the Senate aren't sitting on the edge of their
seats. [...] What does it say about this impeachment effort, that members of the media are angry with senators for not being as
invested in it as they are?
'Objective'
Liberal Media Fall All Over Themselves to Praise Schiff. Liberal media folks are fond of claiming they're not
biased. CNN's Chris Cillizza said, "Let me say for the billionth time: reporters don't root for a side. Period."
Yet we see their bias daily, despite their protestations. [...] Grabien put together a great supercuts video, with some of
Cillizza's colleagues at CNN, as well as folks from MSNBC and elsewhere. Let's watch them fall in love, with House Intel
Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), who as one of the House impeachment managers, was pushing the case for the Democrats.
[Video clip]
George
Stephanopoulos Caught on Camera Telling ABC Studio to Cut-Off Trump Defense Attorney. A good reminder of what
we can expect when President Trump's defense team has their first opportunity in five months to defend him. During a
broadcast segment on ABC news reporters in the Capitol were interviewing President Trump defense attorney Jay Sekulow.
Back in the ABC studio, Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos did not want to see ABC broadcasting statements from the
defense and he is caught on camera using hand signals to tell the producers to cut-off the broadcast. Stephanopoulos
realized he was caught: [Video clip]
Republican
Sen. Martha McSally Calls CNN Reporter Manu Raju 'A Liberal Hack'. Republican Arizona Sen. Martha
McSally ripped into CNN Capitol Hill reporter Manu Raju on Thursday [1/16/2020], calling him a "liberal hack" after he asked a
question about President Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial. "Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican facing a difficult
election race, lashed out when I asked if she would consider new evidence as part of the Senate trial," Raju, a University of
Wisconsin graduate tweeted Thursday.
ABC
Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Seems Sad That Iranians Protest Against Regime. On Monday, ABC's chief
global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz issued a report on the current protests against the Iranian despotic regime on
Monday, and while doing so, colored her language to indicate that after the U.S. killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the
country was united, but now that protesters against the government have expressed their outrage, the country's "unity" has
been "shattered."
The
Obama Administration's Guerrilla War. In the modern era, it is difficult to come up with an administration that
has spent as much energy trying to sabotage its successor in office. Obama administration officials have worked
tirelessly to embed themselves into media outlets as supposedly objective voices. After President Donald Trump oversaw
the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and as missiles fell from the night sky into Iraq from Iran, those voices
took to the airwaves to push the Obama line against Trump. In the American media, with help from former Obama staffers,
Trump was the bad guy and Iran was the good guy. Iran deescalated tensions. Trump made things worse. On
CNN, Jim Sciutto of the Obama administration sat as an objective news anchor. CNN also now has Valerie Jarrett's
daughter, Laura, in an anchor chair, too. They tossed a co-anchor for their early morning news show to make room for
the daughter of one of Barack Obama's most ardent defenders. But we are supposed to pretend there is no bias.
Photographer
Mark Peterson Shows Patriots Can't Trust The Lying Press. I must admit I was surprised that the Main Stream
Media responded to the emergent internet's ability to debunk its propaganda (Duke Lacrosse, UVA Rape Hoax, Covington
Catholic) by becoming even more flagrantly partisan (besides, of course, calling for internet censorship). Aren't markets
supposed to clear? But the result is that the myth of journalism as an impartial profession, which was receiving pious
lip-service as recently as fifteen years ago, is now believed by no-one under 35. A practical consequence for me:
I've stopped accepting interviews with the MSM except by email — which is why I have on record Andrew Lawler's malice
and mendacity in The Secret Token, his book on Virginia Dare. But Jared Taylor's experience, cross-posted here,
suggests you can't even let the swine take photographs.
Top
10 Most Bizarre Viral Hoaxes of 2019. The year 2019 saw its fair share of viral hoaxes and the spread of false
information — just as the previous year had seen. Take a look at some of the most bizarre hoaxes to have
surfaced in 2019, capturing the attention of millions and further sowing division among Americans.
Todd
Bashes Christians in MTP Rant Against Misinformation, Trump. On Sunday [12/29/2019], NBC News political
director Chuck Todd dedicated the final Meet the Press of 2019 to insisting President Trump had brought about a
"post-truth society." The same network that pushed the totally-bunk Steele dossier for years and tried to sink Justice Brett
Kavanagh's nomination with the ridiculous allegations from Julie Swetnick, wanted to lecture the public about falling for and
spreading lies and misinformation. In the process, Todd lashed out at Christians for believing in "fairy tales."
The
Left's "ABC" ("Anything But Christianity") Syndrome. Ever since the genesis of the so-called Left —
a broad coalition of social, political, and cultural movements and organizations whose aim has been to establish socialism
across the Western world — the most obvious trait of leftists in general has been their distaste for Judeo-Christian
mores and culture. Leftists may disagree on a range of issues, but they are generally united in their hostility to
Christianity, as well as their accommodation of nearly every other type of religion, from the philosophy religions of the
East to the various shamanic and animistic traditions of the world's aboriginal peoples.
NBC
News Smears Trump's Conservative Judges as 'Anti-LGBTQ'. "A third of Trump's court nominees have anti-LGBTQ
history, report finds." That was the headline at NBC News on Monday evening [12/23/2019], though the "report" in
question was produced by a liberal LGBTQ advocacy group, Lambda Legal.
Seattle
Times updates style guide to capitalize 'Black'; keeps 'white' lowercase. The Seattle Times has issued a new
style guideline instructing staff to capitalize the word "Black" when referring to a culture, ethnicity or group of people,
the newspaper announced Thursday evening [12/19/2019]. The word "white," however, will remain lowercase when referring
to people with "light-colored skin, especially those of European descent," the newspaper said.
Lara Logan:
Some journalists sound more like 'political operatives' in their impeachment coverage. Former "60 Minutes"
correspondent Lara Logan said Friday [12/20/2019] that she was not surprised by the media's reaction to the impeachment vote
against President Trump. Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Steve Doocy, Pete Hegseth, and Katie Pavlich, Logan
said what she was surprised about is that "as a profession, journalists are not more concerned about appearing to be
political activists and political operatives."
This CNN Reporter Can't
Stop Fawning Over the Dems She Covers. Maeve Reston, CNN's national political reporter on the 2020 beat, has
performed journalism on many of the leading candidates seeking the Democratic nomination. An analysis of her campaign
coverage suggests Reston's approach to reporting on Democrats closely resembles the coverage President Donald Trump believes
he ought to be receiving in light of his historically successful presidency. Reston, who previously covered "the role
of fashion in politics" for the Los Angeles Times, was writing glowing profiles of Sen. Kamala Harris (D.,
Calif.) long before the senator announced her (now defunct) primary campaign.
Obama
signals a possible run for Michelle. Under the headline, "Time for Women to Run the World," the New York Daily
News reported on a speech delivered by Barack Obama at a "private event in Singapore." Who doesn't think his selected quotes
weren't meant to go public? Never mind the collectivism, the lack of actual policy proposals and the authoritarian feel
to the idea that a certain group ought to "run the world," listen to the arrogant globalism that is illustrative of the
radical Leftist mindset of today. The whole notion of individualism, free will, and even the tolerance for other
lifestyles and points of view that liberals used to extol is void in this "dog whistle" of a statement.
The Editor says...
This is one of the first published articles that will eventually — if Michelle is elected to any office
at all — be collected under the heading of "Media Bias in Michelle Obama's Favor."
Rep.
Ilhan Omar defended Nation of Islam-influenced group behind kosher market attack in Jersey City. The New
York Times called them "sidewalk ministers" who practice "tough love." The paper quoted Heidi Beirich of the Southern
Poverty Law Center who described them as victims of racism and claimed that they were non-violent. The Washington
Post, in its own puff piece on the Black Hebrew Israelites, also falsely described them as non-violent, and concluded
that, "Israelite street preaching in parts of D.C., Philadelphia and New York is commonplace, a familiar if odd accent to
city life." The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of bullets as two members of the racist black
nationalist hate group opened fire in the JC Supermarket.
After
impeachment announcement, another round of Nancy Pelosi hero-worship from the press. We are seeing another
round of Pelosi hero-worship this week from our firefighting news media following her announcement that she had asked the
"chairman to proceed with the articles of impeachment" against President Trump. "The president has engaged in abuse of
power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections," the speaker maintained during a
news conference. Members of the press wasted no time printing up stories marveling at her iron will and determination.
Washington
Post blasted over column urging journalists to 'reach the undecided' on impeachment. The Washington Post is
taking heat over a column urging journalists to "reach the undecided" in the country who have yet to be swayed on the topic
of impeachment. In a piece titled, "Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here's how
journalists can reach the undecided," Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan argued Thursday [12/5/2019] that "not much
has changed" during the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump in recent weeks despite all the media attention it has
received. "So, is the media coverage pointless? Are journalists merely shouting into the void?" Sullivan asked.
She later cited Columbia University journalism professor Bill Grueskin, who suggested that journalists have a "movie-trailer
approach" to impeachment coverage.
The
most nauseating MSM Deep-State puff-piece interview you'll ever read. In an interview with Daily Beast
contributor Molly Jong-Fast, the "lovely" Lisa Page insists she's not even close to being a criminal. Jong-Fast
agrees. How dare the poor, abused woman be put through this "MAGA meat grinder" for merely exercising her First
Amendment right to hate the president? Page couldn't have chosen a better shoulder to cry on than Jong-Fast's.
The daughter of sex-obsessed author Erica Jong and granddaughter of communist writer Howard Fast, she offers Page a safe
space to break her silence — away from "orange man bad," away from invisible MAGA hat-wearing D.C. residents, and
away from the DOJ officials who betrayed her. Page is no criminal, writes Jong-Fast; her private texts were "hijacked
by Trump to fuel his deep state conspiracy." Jong-Fast feels Page's pain. She should. The pair share the
same entitlement elitist sentiments.
'The
Hill' calls Adam Schiff a 'rock star' and astonished readers help with creative edits. The Hill published a
veritable puff piece on House Intelligence Committer Chairman Adam Schiff on Saturday in which it described him as a
"progressive rock star." "But it is precisely Shiff's sober demeanor and steady hand guiding the two-month impeachment
investigation — including two weeks of televised public hearings — that have made him a national
political figure, a household name and unlikely progressive rock star," the piece reads. It drew immediate criticism,
not to mention a notable Twitter ratio, because the notion of Schiff being any sort of star — save for perhaps a
"death star" designed to destroy things — just didn't sit well with some in the public.
CNN's
pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson: Trump defenders 'Should Be Laughed at, Ridiculed, and Scorned'. When
you consider the vast number of people forced to watch CNN as they waited at their gates for delayed airline flights on the
busiest travel day of the year, one marked by weather delays in most of the country, this call for harsh derision could
affect a lot of Thanksgiving dinners today. Ridicule and scorn do not fit well with the theme of giving thanks for the
blessings we receive as Americans, but then again, CNN, in the ratings tank and discredited for its repeated fake news
incidents, has less to be thankful for than most Americans, enjoying higher incomes and lower taxes.
As
Drudge Report falters amid anti-Trump shift, rivals on right gain ground. The Drudge Report has stoked alarm on
the right for appearing to pivot on its support for President Trump, increasingly linking to stories that are critical of the
administration and to media websites that are accused of having an anti-Trump bias such as CNN, The New York Times and The
Washington Post. The same cannot be said of Whatfinger, the largest of the Drudge rivals, which favors links to
conservative news and opinion websites such as Fox News, Breitbart, Daily Signal, Daily Wire, Western Journal and WorldNet Daily.
Michael
Bloomberg's media company announces it will no longer investigate him, or any other Democratic candidates. With
Michael Bloomberg now running for president, the news service that bears his name has said it will not 'investigate' him or
any of his Democratic rivals but will continue investigative coverage of President Donald Trump's administration.
Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait announced the new guidelines for presidential campaign coverage in a note to the
$22.5 billion news organization's 2,700 journalists and analysts on Sunday [11/24/2019], shortly after the former
New York City mayor announced his candidacy.
MSNBC
and Washington Post dutifully ignore black protesters who confronted Elizabeth Warren. Sen. Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts was confronted Thursday [11/21/2019] in Atlanta by a mostly black crowd of pro-school choice
demonstrators who oppose her anti-charter and anti-voucher platform on schools. The tenor, volume, and unrelenting
nature of the demonstration got to the point where Warren stepped back from her podium and called on Rep. Ayanna
Pressley of Massachusetts to deal with the protesters. "What do we do with this?" the senator asked the black
congresswoman of the activists, who were being shouted down at the time by Warren's mostly white supporters. [...]
Unsurprisingly, neither the Washington Post nor MSNBC, both of which have dedicated an enormous amount of time and energy to
promoting Warren's 2020 Democratic primary campaign, have made any effort to cover the incident, despite its inherent
newsworthiness.
CNN's
Smerconish Wants Hearsay Evidence Diplomats as Time Person of the Year. On CNN Saturday [11/23/2019], host Michael
Smerconish recommended that a bunch of gossipers be named as Time magazine's "Person of the Year." The gossipers
he had in mind were the diplomats who appeared at the House Impeachment Inquiry and testified based on second and third hand
hearsay. Hearsay, of course, is what gossip is, namely relaying information that they heard from somebody else and,
often, the person they heard it from also heard it from someone else as well. So for the momentous act of removing a
legally elected president of the United States from office based on hearsay, or gossip, Smerconish actually wants to honor
such an act with being named Time Person of the Year. Historically, it's not meant as an honor, but as a marker
of the most historic, newsworthy person or people. They gave it to Ayatollah Khomeini, and to Hitler. These
hearsay diplomats did not "captivate" the nation, they were barely noticed.
Bloomberg
Orders Its Reporters To Be Biased, In Case They Forget To Do It Voluntarily. Bloomberg — the news
service, not the candidate — made headlines this week when its editor in chief told reporters they were not
allowed to investigate Michael Bloomberg, or any other Democrat running for president this year. That ban doesn't,
however, extend to President Donald Trump. Wait. Isn't that what journalists at Bloomberg (and every other
mainstream news outlet) were going to do anyway? To be sure, when he joined the presidential race, Bloomberg put his
massive eponymous news organization in a bind. How could Bloomberg News credibly cover the candidacy of the guy signing
their paychecks?
Bloomberg News Pledges
Not To Investigate Democratic Presidential Candidates. Bloomberg News won't conduct investigative reporting on
any of the Democratic presidential candidates, the outlet's editor-in-chief announced Sunday [11/24/2019]. The
announcement followed Michael Bloomberg's official campaign launch Sunday. "We will continue our tradition of not
investigating Mike (and his family and his foundation) and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic
primaries," editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote in a note to staffers.
The press used to mock Ronald Reagan mercilessly for less than this:
What
is Wrong with Grandpa Joe? Biden Jumbles Words, Rambles About Russia, Vladimir Putin During Dem Debate.
The fifth Democrat debate kicked off Wednesday evening in Atlanta and is being co-hosted by MSNBC and the Washington Post.
10 Communist Democrat candidates will face off as they compete for who can offer illegal aliens the most free stuff.
Grandpa Joe Biden was off to a rough start as he stumbled through a few talking points. Biden jumbled his words and
rambled about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kamala
Harris' Campaign In Free Fall, ABC Blames 'America'. As Sen. Kamala Harris' (D-CA) campaign for her
party's presidential nomination continues to implode, some in the media are looking for answers. ABC News shot first,
asking if Harris "proof that America isn't ready for a woman of color as president?" The article began with quotes from
Harris making the argument herself. She had previously spoken about her "electability" several times, and in May she
went ahead and wondered whether "America was ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United State of
America." She made the claim on "The View." This statement set her up with the tired and ready-made excuse in case
she lost the primary: It's because America is racist and misogynist.
Nets
Follow Pelosi Marching Orders: 'Bribery' Mentioned 43 Times. Following Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
Thursday morning [11/14/2019] press conference in which she accused President Trump of "bribery," the broadcast networks
spent the next 24 hours featuring the term 43 times in evening and morning show coverage. All of it designed to
boost the impeachment crusade against Trump. After Thursday's evening newscasts dutifully assaulted viewers with the
"bribery" buzzword a whopping 19 times [...], Friday's morning shows kept up the onslaught with another 18 mentions [...].
Media
criticizes Elise Stefanik during hearing after praising Warren's 'Nevertheless, she persisted' moment. The
fiery exchange between Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., at
Friday's impeachment hearing bore some resemblance to the memorable back-and-forth between Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
D-Mass. and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that birthed Warren's "Nevertheless, she persisted" mantra.
However, the way the media has treated both of those moments appears drastically different.
Washington
Post Only Fact Checks Republicans After First Day Of Impeachment Hearings. The Washington Post fact checked
various statements made during the first day of public impeachment hearings Wednesday [11/13/2019], but the roundup failed to
look into any comments Democrats made. The WaPo Fact Checker article was a roundup of only Republican Congress members,
and the publication declined to include any statements from Democrats. The analysis, published Thursday, is titled
"Fact-checking the opening day of the Trump impeachment hearings" and did not specify whether it was only intended for Republicans.
Sunday
Talks: NSA Robert O'Brien vs Margaret Brennan. National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien continues to
impress today [11/10/2019] as he appears on Face the Nation for an interview with the ever-emotional and overly-dramatic
resistance dingbat Margaret Brennan. In 2016 and 2017 President Trump said NATO was obsolete and the moonbats went
bananas; NATO is the only thing saving the planet Brennan claimed. Fast forward to 2019. Trump meets with a
NATO nation leader (Erdogan) and the moonbats go bananas; NATO is a horrible construct, Erdogan bad. Yes, liberal
apoplexy is contagious in groups.
Cleveland
Media Seek Access To Gibson's Bakery Store Clerk's Sealed Facebook Records in Oberlin College Case, But Why?
The court already ruled against Oberlin College's attempt to unseal the records of a Gibson family member who wasn't a party
and didn't testify. So why are Cleveland media outlets trying to rescue Oberlin College's post-trial public relations effort?
Chuck
Todd's Softball: Are Republicans 'Sabotaging' the Impeachment? Call NBC's Sunday morning show Meet the
Press doesn't really meet what you see any more. Chuck Todd interviewing Democrats sounds more like an episode of
Meet the Helper. Todd's interview with liberal Rep. Jim Himes was all about helping Himes discuss how the
Democrats need to break through and impeach the president. For example, he discussed how Democrats are dropping the
phrase "quid pro quo," and asked "Do you feel as if that word doesn't penetrate the seriousness that happened?" When Todd
asked Himes about the Republicans, he helpfully suggested the Republicans might be "sabotaging the process" by having a
different narrative that makes the process "hard to follow for the public." Todd isn't about to make anything difficult for
the Democrats.
'Go
Ahead And Interrupt Me Again' — GOP Senator Fires Back At CNN's Jake Tapper. Republican Wisconsin
Sen. Ron Johnson appeared to lose patience with CNN anchor Jake Tapper during a brief exchange on the House Democrats'
continued push for impeachment. Johnson made an appearance on Sunday morning's episode of "State of the Union," and the
conversation quickly turned to the most recent testimony about President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Who
on earth watches The View and why? Though The View has been on television since 1997 and its numerous
hosts have come and gone, it is a mystery as to who watches it. In its formative years, it may have been watchable,
even occasionally newsworthy; Barbra Walters was an actual journalist. Now, from the clips that are picked up and aired
by other news outlets, it has clearly devolved into a slugfest — vicious, leftist women attack their guests if
remotely conservative. There is zero respect for any guest with a politically incorrect opinion. They slobbered
over Chelsea Clinton as if she were the Queen of England and attacked Donald Trump Jr. as if he were a serial killer on the
loose. [...] [T]he women on that panel are as uninformed as they are vicious. There is nothing worse than the pomposity
of the unlearned. They feel entitled to verbally assault any guest, no matter how gracious that guest may be, if they
hold even slightly conservative views.
Why
Does The Media Prop Up Failed Democratic Candidates Like Stacey Abrams? Stacey Abrams, the failed Democratic
gubernatorial candidate from Georgia, told a University of Iowa audience she would be happy to run as a vice presidential
candidate. Abrams ended the rumors she was asked to run with Joe Biden if he was the nominee, but, according to the
Daily Iowan, Abrams said she would be happy to be the running mate of DNC's nominee, whoever the candidate is. "When I
got the question [from reporters] I was, myself, contemplating my next steps... I'm not in the primary, but you can run as
second in the general election, and I am happy to do so with the nominee. That is my answer," Abrams said
Childish
Beto Supporters Think He Got 'Punitive' Media Coverage. When Beto O'Rourke's presidential bid came to a
merciful end last week, it was a surprise to only O'Rourke and his fragile, delusional supporters. [...] Given that his was a
nonsensical, emotion-driven campaign from the beginning, it shouldn't shock anyone that Beto's fans are wildly missing the
mark now that the finger-pointing has begun: [...] Rarely has an almost substance-free candidate experienced so much media
hype upon entering a presidential contest. The MSM didn't even gush that much when Barack Obama threw his hat into the
ring for 2008 because they were all still too busy pretending that Hillary Clinton was going to be the nominee.
Mainstream and social media breathlessly covered every move of Beto's for the first couple of weeks. His biggest
fundraising haul came during this glowing coverage phase — he brought in almost $10 million in less than
three weeks. His next two quarters combined brought in almost a million and a half less than that.
Ben
Sasse Responds to Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan. Elizabeth Warren has released her plan to pay for
"Medicare for All" and it's a cluster of terrible assumptions and veiled tax hikes on the working class. The idea that
payroll tax hikes, repealing the Trump tax cuts, unregulated immigration, and slamming businesses with new taxes wouldn't
hugely damage the middle class is laughable on its face. Because Warren is the chosen one though, the media rushed to
hang on her every word and proclaim that she had silenced her critics.
Media-Democrat
Tantrum [is] a Fear Response. Media bias comes in many forms, but one of the most effective forms is in their
ability to frame stories. There is an entire cottage industry in "Republicans pounce" stories to frame even terrible
Democrat news as somehow harmful to Republicans. But to frame this story the way the media want to frame it, they
needed help. This is why we now have dueling investigations, one a complete façade and the other deadly
serious. There is no secret in how these will be covered by the media. The fraud impeachment circus will be
treated with full gravity and seriousness, while what might be the most important investigation in U.S. history will be
treated as political payback.
So
now Peggy Noonan is offering tips to the Democrats? There's a fine line between analyzing news and nakedly
offering advice to one side and now Peggy Noonan has crossed it. Far from being one of her interesting and sometimes
very very good touchy-feely analyses — I've been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on much despite her
record of hating President Trump — her latest on the impeachment sham is all about helping the Democrats get it
done. She's not even pretending to be the objective observer of American politics and its voters.
CNN
Fantasizes About Mike Pence Getting Caught up in Impeachment, 'President Pelosi'. As House Democrats seek to
progress their efforts Thursday to impeach President Donald Trump, CNN is speculating whether one unintended consequence
could see Vice President Mike Pence also sidelined, leaving the way clear for Nancy Pelosi to take the reins of office.
The fantasy outcome is contained in an opinion piece by Paul Callan, a contributor and CNN legal analyst. He speculates
Trump and Pence could possibly both be drawn into the Ukraine inquiry, leaving the way clear under constitutional law for
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to ascend the White House steps as Commander-in-Chief.
Anti-Trump
Collusion by Media. According to a June 11, 2017, FBI write-up: ["]The purpose of the meeting, as it
was explained to SSA [supervisory special agent, redacted] was to obtain documents from the AP reporters that were related to their
investigative reports on Paul Manafort.["] No such documents were included in the documents released to us. During
the meeting, the AP reporters provided the FBI information about a storage locker of Manafort (the Mueller special counsel operation
raided the locker on May 26, 2017): ["]The AP reporters advised that they had located a storage facility in Virginia
that belonged to Manafort... The code to the lock on the locker is 40944859. The reporters were aware of the Unit number and
address, but they declined to share that information.["] The reporters shared the information that "payments for the
locker were made from the DM Partners account that received money from the [Ukraine] Party of Regions." The notes suggest the
AP pushed for criminal prosecution of Manafort[.]
Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020.
Why is it fine for Warren to menace the rich — but not for Bernie Sanders? With some polls placing her ahead
of the former vice president Joe Biden, the Massachusetts senator is suddenly basking in praise from mainstream newspapers as
well as 'progressives' like Emily Tisch Sussman, a 'Democratic strategist' who appears regularly on MSNBC. Led by its
star hosts, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, MSNBC functions as the mouthpiece of an official Democratic party still
dominated by the Clintons and Barack Obama. 'If you are still supporting Sanders as opposed to Warren,' said Sussman
recently, 'it's kind of showing your sexism.' Besides being a courageous feminist, Sussman happens to be the daughter
of two billionaires. She seems unafraid of Warren's plan to increase taxes on the super-rich. Warren ticks all
the boxes marked 'progressive' that used to belong mostly to Sanders.
Opposed
to Transparency: Nets Smear 'Rogue Republican' Sit-In as 'Sideshow'. In an attempt to force House
Democrats to hold public hearings for their impeachment investigation, Republican members staged a sit-in in the hearing room
and delayed the process for five hours. But the "journalists" in the liberal media were appalled by the idea of
transparency for Democrats. ABC, CBS, and NBC attacked and smeared the GOP lawmakers during their Wednesday evening
newscasts. CBS Evening News was the most furious. Critically failing anchor Norah O'Donnell kicked off the
opening tease in a panic, declaring "chaos at the Capitol! Rogue Republicans crash the impeachment inquiry delaying a
top defense official's testimony. Democrats call in the sergeant at arms to break up the protest." After the
teases, O'Donnell began by informing viewers their first segment would be about the "dramatic sideshow" put on Republicans.
"As if on cue, following President Trump's orders yesterday for Republicans to get tougher on impeachment, a group of Republicans
barged into a closed-door hearing today," she chided.
Trump's
Labeling of 'Fake News' Was an Understatement. Journalism isn't just dead — it's decomposed.
When Chris Wallace — in all Deep State unctuousness — asked Mick Mulvaney on Fox News Sunday
[10/20/2019] to comment on a "well-connected Republican" who allegedly told Wallace there was a 20 percent chance the GOP
would vote to remove the president from office, he not only was aiding in that decomposition, he was picking up a shovel and
helping dig its grave. Wallace didn't identify who this "well-connected Republican" is or what he actually said in context,
just the tidbit the host wanted to tell us. What Wallace was doing was engaging in propaganda, creating a smear based on the
flimsiest hearsay. But, as we all know, he's not alone. This was only one of a myriad of cases and far from the worst.
CNN's
Jeffrey Toobin Regrets Coverage of Clinton Email Scandal: 'I Should Have Been Talking About Other Issues'. CNN
chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin voiced regret on Monday [10/21/2019] for how he covered the Hillary Clinton email scandal
during her failed 2016 presidential run, saying in hindsight that he "should have been talking about other issues."
Toobin made the comments while responding to Friday's news on the Justice Department finally concluding their investigation
into the Clinton email matter and found no "systemic" effort from the former secretary of state to flout laws protecting
classified information.
Project
Veritas: Zucker Coached Tapper to Badger Kellyanne Conway. A short clip released by Project Veritas
Wednesday [10/16/2019] reveals how CNN president Jeff Zucker directed one of its top news personalities to relentlessly grill
a Trump official during an interview. Media Coordinator Christian Sierra divulged on tape that Zucker actually went
into the control room while anchor Jake Tapper was interviewing White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and told the executive
producer to skip commercials and extend the seven minute interview to 25 minutes just to "[...] nail her."
No
More Pretense: Journalists, Dems Use Identical Talking Points on Impeachment. Television journalists
these days sound so similar to Democrats on impeachment that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. Weeks before
the impeachment inquiry was even announced, talking heads were passing off Democratic talking points as objective information
about the President's alleged wrongdoing. What follows is a compilation video of some of the liberal media's greatest
minds spouting DNC talking points. These journalists have not had their words taken out of context while attempting to
summarize the Democrats' position. Whether or not they they were intentionally regurgitating the words of Democrats,
they did so without attributing their words to anyone. [Video clip]
O'Keefe Strikes Again!
Undercover
Video Shows CNN Production Supervisor Wishing For Trump's Death, 'Hopefully He Dies Soon. O'Keefe also caught
CNN Field Production Supervisor Gerald Sisnette wishing for President Trump's death. "This is a story that's not gonna
go away," Mr. Sisnette said. "Oh the Ukraine thing? Or just Trump in general?" the CNN whistleblower
asked. "Trump in general. The only way this will go away is when he [Trump] dies. Hopefully soon," Gerald
Sisnette said.
The
Washington Post is becoming Elizabeth Warren's love-struck stalker. Again, the Washington Post has been
anything but subtle in its love for Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Last week, the D.C.-based newspaper
went into crisis management mode to downplay legitimate questions about the senator's claim that she was fired in the 1970s
for being "visibly pregnant." It has become only more obvious since then. The Washington Post tweeted this week
in promotion of a profile on Warren, "'You knew, just by talking to her, she was going to be successful.' She faced sexism,
shed a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston. This is where Liz Warren became Elizabeth Warren."
CNN
Cements Its Bias Reputation at Tuesday's Debate. If there is one thing that Tuesday night's Democratic debate
showed us — as if we didn't know it in the first place — it's just to what degree the media is in the
tank for the Democrats. They're not only in the tank — they built it, filled it with water up to the brim,
and would turn up the temperature to boil Donald Trump alive if they could. And maybe they can. You knew this
from the outset when CNN's lead moderator Anderson Cooper, along with his compatriots, one from the New York Times,
opened the festivities with a round of leading impeachment questions, giving each candidate in turn a chance to outdo each
other in bashing Trump.
China's
Ultimate Goal Is To Control American Culture, And Companies Should Resist It. If ESPN thought shutting down
on-air discussion about China and Hong Kong would please its Chinese master and protect the commercial interests of itself
and its corporate parent Disney, it's dead wrong. What China wants is not simply to police a few words on social media
or on air. It wants to control American culture, period. [...] Chinese leaders closely studied America's ascent to a
global superpower, and they believe America's cultural influence is a key ingredient to the country's success. China
wants to emulate America's success, albeit with Chinese characteristics. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao said, "The
great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will definitely be accompanied by the thriving of Chinese culture."
Mike
Pompeo Wonders If PBS Host Is 'Working For The DNC' After She Defends Biden. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday
[10/10/2019] that PBS host Judy Woodruff and other media outlets are defending former Vice President Joe Biden "like you're working for
the DNC [Democratic National Committee]." In discussing the ongoing impeachment inquiry that surrounds President Donald Trump on
"PBS Newshour," Woodruff and Pompeo touched on the allegations that Joe Biden had a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, because the then-vice
president did not want his son, Hunter Biden, investigated for corruption.
Chuck
Todd Mocks '40 Percent of the Country' That Ignores 'Reality'. As NewsBusters has previously reported, Meet
the Press host Chuck Todd had a combative exchange with Republican Senator Ron Johnson Sunday; where the supposedly
"objective" NBC News political director put his liberal bias on full display. Shortly after wrapping up the interview
with Johnson, Todd rapidly transformed into a lapdog when interviewing former CIA Director John Brennan. Todd
encouraged Brennan into advancing the narrative that America has lost its "stability" as a democracy and worried about the
40 percent of Americans who are ignoring "reality."
Chuck
Todd and the Demise of True Journalism. Chuck Todd received plaudits from his media peers for lambasting
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's investigation of the FBI as "Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff" during a hostile
10-minute "Meet the Press" interview on Sunday [10/6/2019]. [...] But far from being a laudable moment of press
accountability, the "Meet the Press" interview was a disappointing turn for Todd and the show, once one of the media's
flagship brands. Indeed, the full interview illustrated how the media are increasingly obsessed with performative
demonstrations of their political views, and less concerned with simply being informative.
GOP
Senator RIPS Into Chuck Todd's 'Very Biased' Open, Fight Ensues. Why would Republican appear on the
"mainstream" Sunday shows? You could wonder after Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) was disgusted by moderator Chuck Todd's
"very biased opening" segment on Meet the Press [10/6/2019], and Todd openly fought with him and wouldn't let him
finish a point as Johnson tried to tell him what he should ask John Brennan later in the show. Brennan received gooey
sympathy. Todd moaned and groaned and then said "I have no idea why Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff is popping up
on here. I have no idea why we're going here." When Johnson said this is why people hate the media, "This is not
about the media! Senator Johnson, please!!" As in "please stop criticizing the heroic press."
Zero
members of Trump administration appear on Sunday talk shows. The Trump administration was noticeably absent on
Sunday's cable news lineup, with not a single member making an appearance on CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS or NBC. [...] President Trump
is in the midst of an impeachment storm over allegations that he pressured Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe
Biden and his son, Hunter. The Sunday shows are widely viewed as a space for political actors to speak directly to the
public and relay their perspectives on pressing political issues.
Bee
Gives Softball Interview to Omar, Fantasizes About Joining 'The Squad'. During Wednesday's [10/2/2019] Full
Frontal, TBS host Samantha Bee conducted what was not surprisingly softball interview with Congresswoman and so-called
"Squad" member Ilhan Omar (D-MN), which included Bee fantasizing about joining "the Squad." As she walked with Omar on
Capitol Hill prior to conducting the interview, a visibly starstruck Bee was caught by surprise by an unexpected appearance
from Omar's fellow "Squad" member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Bee repeatedly chanted "OMG" as Ocasio-Cortez's entry
was slowed down for dramatic effect. After hugging Ocasio-Cortez, Bee declared that she was "officially part of the Squad"
and switched out a group photo in Omar's office with a photoshopped picture featuring her posing with them.
CNN Counts Down The
Number Of House Democrats Who Support Impeaching Trump With 'Impeachment Clock'. CNN is anticipating
impeachment proceedings to begin against President Donald Trump with an "impeachment countdown clock." The
network has a graphic behind the anchors that is adding up the number of House Democrats who support impeachment.
'President
Isn't Telling the Truth': Nicolle Wallace Cuts Away from Press Conference. Wow! The MSNBC host of
Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace, declared President Trump to be a liar on Wednesday (how original) and
used that as an excuse to cut away from the televised press conference almost 24 hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
declared the House's formal attempt to impeach the President. Perhaps Trump's truth telling about Joe and Hunter Biden
was too much for her to tolerate. In any event, it was a stunning act of anti-journalism.
MSNBC
cuts from Trump speech: 'We hate to do this, really, but the president isn't telling the truth'. MSNBC cut from
President Trump's press conference on Wednesday, claiming the president was repeating lies about his political rival Joe
Biden as a "deflection" from the impeachment inquiry. "We hate to do this, really, but the president isn't telling the
truth," MSNBC host Nicole Wallace said as the network cut from Trump's speech. "These allegations against Joe Biden and
Hunter Biden that he's repeating have been investigated by the Ukrainians. ... The Wall Street Journal included in their
report on Friday that the Ukrainians view this issue as having been investigated and adjudicated," Wallace said.
Trump's press conference followed Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) Tuesday announcement that the House would launch a formal
impeachment inquiry into Trump. "What's amazing is that what Trump appears to be trying to do is to turn his own
impeachment into a big deflection," Wallace said.
The Editor says...
When did any television network fact-check Barack H. Obama's speeches in
real time? When did any television network cut off an Obama speech (or press conference) because the Talking Heads decided he was lying?
Why
is most of the media circling the wagons to protect Hunter Biden? A foreign natural gas company brings a top US
politician's son onto its board, even though he has no relevant expertise, for $50,000 a month. The politician travels
to that country and demands the removal of a prosecutor who's investigating the company. That prosecutor then gets
axed, and the investigation shut down. Imagine the son was Eric Trump, and the politician Donald Trump. Would the
media be dismissing it as nothing worth looking at, a "debunked" issue?
Media
Corruption On Perfect Display In One Washington Post Paragraph. Every single assertion of this paragraph isn't just
wrong, but the opposite of right. In each sentence, Trump is being blamed for things his political opponents have done.
Cleveland
agrees to pay RNC flag burner $50,000. An attorney for a protester arrested during the 2016 Republican National
Convention says Cleveland will pay his client $50,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit. Attorney Subodh Chandra
says Richard Newburger in July 2016 joined fellow protesters preparing to burn an American flag when Newburger and others
were assaulted by police and sprayed with fire retardant.
The Editor says...
The headline above is deliberately misleading, in my opinion. "RNC flag burner" implies that the person
burning the flag was associated with the Republican National Convention, when in reality he was an outside agitator.
NBC:
Network's Double Standards Surface Yet Again. [Scroll down] If now-Attorney General Bill Barr, who works
for the hated-by-the-media President Trump, once endorsed a book that demands due process for those on a college campus
accused of sexual assault — that is horrific. It is a slap in the face to "survivors and the challenges they
face.["] But if seven illegals have shown up in the sanctuary county of Montgomery County, Maryland and sexually
assaulted seven different victims, one who was eleven-years old? No big deal at NBC, it's simply not worth
reporting. There is curiously no concern for the "survivors and the challenges they face." In fact,
there is just no reporting on the acts themselves, much less the survivors of the assaults.
CNN's
Chris Cuomo: Christians 'Surrendered Character for the Courts'. During a conversation on the Trump
administration's impact on the judicial branch Tuesday night, two CNN prime time hosts expressed disappointment about the
administration's progress in transforming the judiciary and slammed Christian conservatives for supporting President Trump in
spite of his personal moral failings. At one point, he spewed, "They surrendered character for the courts. That's
what they did." [...] After complaining about the high number of "older white men" nominated by President Trump, Cuomo had to
correct himself: "not older men, they're younger men, which means they're going to be there for a long time."
The Editor says...
Mr. Cuomo went on to imply his disappointment that abortion-on-demand will be threatened because the Christians
"surrendered character for the courts." One of us does not understand what "character" means.
Media United
in Abortion Support. The American public is evenly divided on the issue of abortion, but the nation's newsrooms
are nearly unanimous in their support for abortion on demand, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
The spread of pro-life legislation in red states and the proliferation of late-term abortion laws in New York, Vermont, and
Illinois in 2018 and 2019 have prompted numerous editorials supporting the agenda of abortionists. According to a
Washington Free Beacon review of dozens of articles written by local and national editorial boards — which
represent the official opinion of a newspaper — the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia was the only paper to
endorse a bill restricting abortion when a human heartbeat is detectable.
Debate
Moderator Jorge Ramos Says in Spanish 'This is Our Country Too'. In the opening of the third Democratic debate
in Houston, Texas, moderator Jorge Ramos spoke part of his opening statement in Spanish before finishing with "This is our
country, too." The extremely racially-charged rhetoric from Ramos preceded several race-based questions regarding the
status of illegal aliens in the country, where numerous false assertions were made. Ramos falsely claimed that
President Trump referred to all immigrants as "rapists," and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro
(D-Texas) falsely claimed that President Trump inspired the El Paso shooter, even though the shooter admitted in his
own manifesto that his views "predate Trump and his campaign for president."
The
Divine Right of the Democratic Party. Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times has a dream, a dream in
which about half of the American people are deprived of an effective means of political representation, a dream of one-party
government in which the Democrats are the only game in town — "Dare We Dream of the End of the GOP?" her column is
headlined — which also is a dream of visiting vengeance upon those who dared to vote for their own interests as
they understood them and thereby schemed "to stop the New America from governing."
Washington
Post Writer Has No Idea Why, After All Of His Columns And Hard Work, Trump Is Still In Office. [Washington Post
columnist Max] Boot's comments sound like an article out of the Babylon Bee, but sadly, they've come from a regular
newspaper. This deluded man, who once or twice a week writes a column denigrating the President believes that his
opinion is so important, it can remove a president from office.
Criticism from the Left:
A Joe
Biden presidency would be a climate catastrophe. Biden is trudging through the campaign, constantly screwing up
and lying about his record, winning almost entirely thanks to the Pundit Brain-induced learned helplessness that has been
carefully instilled into the Democratic base over the years. Biden may yet win the primary, of course, and sheer
backlash to President Trump could easily boost him into the White House. But it is simply beyond question that he is
one of the worst candidates in the field — unequipped especially to deal with climate change, the biggest threat
by far facing the American people.
The Editor says...
The article above is a great example of media bias. There is no extraordinary climate change underway. There certainly
is no "climate emergency." There are many actual threats "facing the American people," and the weather is not one of them.
Make another selection: Sharia Law replacing the Constitution, homeless bums defecating in the streets, North Korean missiles,
greater than $22 trillion national debt, wholesale voting fraud, unchecked illegal immigration, dumbed-down schools, black lives
matter but all others don't, or drag queens reading children's stories at the public library. Each of these is a far greater
threat to America than the weather.
CNN
to Host LGBTQ Democratic Presidential Town Hall. CNN and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation have partnered to
host the next Democratic presidential town hall, focused on LGBTQ issues. CNN host Don Lemon made the announcement
after the seven hour-long Democratic presidential climate town hall on Wednesday [9/4/2019]. "CNN is partnering with
the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for our next series of presidential town halls on issues that are important to the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community," Lemon told viewers.
In
praise of Melania Trump, the first lady treated terribly by the media. There is a good reason Melania, 49,
might be "aloof" with the media, and that is because the attacks on her are more vicious, personal and unrelenting than any
first lady has endured. Whatever you think of her husband, you can't say she has behaved with anything but dignity in
her role, despite ugly provocations, which include attacks on her young son, Barron.
CNN
steers softball interview carefully to give violent Antifa a new voice. Leave it to CNN to give voice to violent
Antifa thugs in the wake of Saturday's clash with right-wing protesters. [...] CNN reporter Sara Sidner interviewed two masked
members of the left-wing mob, who identified themselves as members of the Youth Liberation Front. The riot helmet one of
them is wearing features the communist hammer and sickle, which speaks volumes on the ideology they speak of. The
reporter sets the tone by noting that Antifa is "standing up against these far right groups," before tip-toeing around just
how violent the group is.
Ilhan
Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel. To the extent that I
care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I
agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump's tweeted demands and that blocking
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel handed them a short-term propaganda victory. But that's not the most
important part of the story. The most important element of the story is the fact that two American congresswomen
shunned a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to go on an independent trip to Israel sponsored by vicious
anti-Semites. Another important element of the story is that, as of today, the mainstream media have whitewashed Omar
and Tlaib's vile associations.
Missing!
Evening Newscasts Hide the (D) in Epstein-Linked Democrats. It's a trend that NewsBusters has documented
before, as scandal-tarnished Democrats are often detached from their political party, while Republicans in similar
circumstances are properly identified. In this case, both Mitchell and Richardson have unequivocally denied the
allegations, which were contained in a previously-sealed civil lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Guiffre against Epstein
associate Ghislaine Maxwell. But that didn't stop the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from mentioning them both by
name in five different broadcasts since the news broke on Friday — they just didn't mention that they were both
Democrats.
Jeffrey Epstein
Fallout Shows How Little Trust Americans Have in Media and Government. [Scroll down] From assuring us the
Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election to reporting every unproven
allegation of rape against Brett Kavanaugh, Politico and its brethren have fueled this crisis of confidence.
Pro-life high schoolers wearing Make America Great Again hats were "mocking" and "laughing at" a Native American elder, the
media told us. Hillary Clinton will win the presidency. The stock market will tank after Trump is elected.
Donald Trump won't serve a full term. White supremacy is on the rise and poses a greater threat to national security
that Islamic extremism because Trump and Republicans are using special "code words" to fan the flames of racism. There
is no national emergency at the southern border. The Trump Administration is the first to lock migrant children "in
cages." That is only a partial list of falsehoods, flat-out lies and legitimate conspiracies that the untrustworthy
folks who populate our once respected institutions have told us in the past three years.
CNN
Gave Glowing Interview to Illegal Alien Evading ICE, Who Killed Father of 5 Last Week. Earlier this year, CNN
irresponsibly gave positive coverage to an illegal immigrant hiding from ICE in a liberal sanctuary church in Colorado.
One week ago, that same immigrant killed a father of five in a car accident, while driving recklessly without a license.
As usual when these things happen, the only thing you hear from the media is crickets. According to Denver's local ABC
station, on August 2, Miguel Ramirez Valiente, from El Salvador "went off the side of the road on Hwy 83,
over-corrected into the opposite lane and hit Sean Buchanan," killing the father of five, who was meeting his wife that
morning at their new house they had just bought.
'After
a long day and night': Andrea Mitchell defends Biden over 'poor kids' comment. MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell
came to the defense of 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden on Friday morning. The former vice president was facing
backlash for a mistake he made the day before in Iowa. Mitchell appeared on Today Friday morning [8/9/2019] and chalked
up Biden's latest mistake as coming "after a long day and night."
How
to Write the Perfect Passive Description of Chappaquiddick. Are you writing an article about Chappaquiddick,
the 1969 "incident" where Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond after drinking at a party, swam out while
28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne was still stuck inside, gave up trying to rescue her as she eventually died of suffocation,
didn't tell the authorities who likely could have saved her life until the next morning, worried first and foremost about the
harm to his political career, tried to fake an alibi, never spent a day in jail, and went on to serve 40 more years in the
Senate? Well, yuck. That sounds a lot like manslaughter that should have sent the scion to prison and put an end
to his unearned political career. We can't have that, so here are some examples of how to passively frame this atrocity
in the friendliest possible terms.
AP wants
voters to punish Trump. Shocked to see Mueller reveal himself as a hapless ineffective prosecutor, "reporter"
Lisa Mascaro of the Associated Press sat down and wrote an analysis, which is one-sided and aimed at shaping public opinion.
Rachel
Maddow Told Viewers Yesterday Was A 'Remarkable Day' For Democrats; Then Reports A New Lie. There is a reason
why MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's ratings have cratered so dramatically recently. [...] Although she did acknowledge that
Mueller "definitely seemed older than his 74 years" and appeared to be "less on top of matters," Maddow went on to portray
Mueller's nearly universally panned performance as "landmark" and "historic."
Democrats woke and
broke. Fox News reported, "The Republican National Committee raised more than twice as much as the Democratic
National Committee in June — $20.7 million compared to the DNC's $8.5 million, according to Federal Election
Commission filings, Politico reported." The story also said, "The RNC currently has $43.5 million, more than double
the cash on hand as the DNC's $9.3 million." More than double? It is nearly five times as much cash on hand.
The
Washington Post keeps shilling for Antifa. [M]ost people would agree that a group of masked thugs that goes
around, en masse, beating people with whom it disagrees about politics is fascist or, at a minimum, has fascist
tendencies. No reasonable person would accept that it is antifascist. One of Antifa's recent high-profile victims
was Andy Ngo. He's a gay, center-right journalist who has filmed Antifa's behavior. Does the Washington Post
believe that Ngo is a fascist? If not, it should stop calling Antifa "antifascist."
From
'Squad' to Climate Change, 'CBS Evening News' Doubles Down on Liberal Shilling. After Monday's [7/15/2019]
debut of the CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell established that it would be an unquestionable home for liberal
bias, night two cemented that as O'Donnell and her team provided more liberal bias, whether it be the President's "racist
tweets," letting a Democratic donor interview "The Squad," or blaming an upcoming heat wave to climate change.
O'Donnell teased their coverage from the Kennedy Space Center on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's launch before stating
that "we're going to begin with that breaking news here on Earth" about the House "resolution to condemn" Trump's "racist
tweets" even though it wasn't a full-blown censure.
'View'
Hosts Obsess over Race, Trump with 2020 Dem Kamala Harris. Friday [7/12/2019] on The View, Senator
Kamala Harris (D-CA) was on the show to discuss her 2020 presidential run. Meghan McCain was the only host to ask
Harris about her stance on decriminalizing illegal immigration, while the other hosts focused heavily on race-related
questions. It began when co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered how Harris was going to help black people get "back in
balance" after President Trump had supposedly dismantled everything presidents before him had done for minorities:
Washington
Post celebrates Fourth of July: 'Fireworks are actually kind of terrible'. The Washington Post ran a
story challenging Americans' use of fireworks to celebrate Independence Day just days before the national holiday. The
Monday [7/1/2019] piece, headlined "Fireworks are America's favorite face exploding, dog torturing, bird murdering way to
celebrate its birthday," is part of a series questioning "the supposed joys of summer." The article begins cheerfully
describing the centuries-old American tradition before quickly pivoting to why fireworks are obnoxious, dangerous, and mean:
[...]
Elizabeth
Warren embraced by debate moderators. NBC and MSNBC embraced Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the
first debate of Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday night, treating her like the star of the show. The debate
led off with Warren, who had a huge popularity advantage from the start. Warren — who Trump dubbed
"Pocahontas" because of her phony claim of Native American heritage — was the only Democrat on stage who had
mustered double digits in recent polling. Moderators let her dominate the early part of the debate, when most people
were likely watching.
Media
Buried Biden's Love of Segregationists to Protect Obama. Joe Biden spent eight years as vice president, and
thanks to our useless, partisan, deceitful, fake news media, we are only now learning about Biden's abiding love for Democrat
segregationists. [...] Look at everything our fake news media chose not to tell us in 2008 when Biden was running for vice
president — and don't forget we are talking about the same fake news media that sent legions of fake journalists
to Alaska to find out which library books Biden's rival, then-Gov. Sarah Palin, checked out. Only now are we
learning that in 1975 Biden said his party needed a "liberal George Wallace," that he believed segregation was a good thing
as a "matter of black pride," and that he voted to restore the American citizenship of confederate president Jefferson
Davis. Did you know that as recently as 1988, Biden praised a Democrat segregationist as a "man of character and
courage?" All of this is coming to light now for only one reason: the media were not interested in 2008 because
in 2008 the media were only interested in protecting Barack Obama.
Media
Scramble to Protect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Holocaust Lie. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is
lying about how she compared our migrant detention camps on the Southern border to the Holocaust, and to the surprise of no
one, fake news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post are covering for her with their own lies. CNN is even
trying to explain how Auschwitz wasn't all that bad. On Monday [6/17/2019], Ocasio-Crazy, probably from that luxury
apartment of hers, filmed a video that compared American migrant camps to "concentration camps."
Does
anyone doubt that Trump is the Rocky of American politics? President Trump's rally on Tuesday [6/18/2019] to officially
launch his 2020 campaign for re-election was a tour-de-force. The twenty thousand people in the arena, along with the thousands
of people outside watching on jumbo screens were all on the same page: He has been a great President these past two and a half
years and they want more of the same.
The Editor says...
Reuters posted a deliberately misleading series of crowd
photos, making it look like there were maybe two or thee hundred people present, and almost that many press photographers. When
Trump speaks about fake news, this is what he's talking about.
NBC
Pushes Liberal Dream to Abolish Electoral College. As NBC Nightly News continued its monotonous drumbeat
on Thursday to elevate liberal policy positions ahead of the Democratic debate they were holding, the network gave the
megaphone to South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg in order to push for abolishing the Electoral College.
Correspondent Harry Smith let Buttigieg freely suggest the country had to "strengthen American democracy" because we were
supposedly in an era of deteriorating voting rights. In reality, his "Big Idea" would damage the framework our founders
put in place to protect the people from tyranny.
The media's shameful
PR campaign for Elizabeth Warren. In recent weeks, Elizabeth Warren has emerged as the mainstream media's
favorite candidate — for now, at least. Warren's polling has largely been stagnant over the course of the
race for the Democratic nomination, but you wouldn't know it from the fawning coverage — coverage that just so
happens to consistently echo the Warren campaign's exact talking points. The New York Times asks 'Elizabeth
Warren is running an ideas-first campaign. Will it work?' The Washington Post writes, 'Warren's nonstop
ideas reshape the Democratic presidential race — and give her new momentum.' Apparently, the 'self-admitted
policy wonk who has put her meaty policy prescriptions front and center in the campaign' is also approaching 'a breakout with
black voters,' and 'she is very good on the stump.' Should the mainstream press be quite so adoring of a political
candidate? What's concerning is that these articles — written by supposedly objective journalists —
are stuffed to the brim with barely concealed Warren campaign talking points.
CNN
slammed for hyperbolic chyron, declares Biden to 'eviscerate' Trump in Iowa speech. CNN is arguably a heavily
partisan network whose contributors, anchors and pundits have no qualms about openly displaying their pro-Democrat, anti-Republican
bias. Take for instance the glaringly biased chyron that appeared on CNN early Tuesday morning [6/11/2019] after 2020
contender former Vice President Joe Biden released a transcript of what he intended to say during an event in Iowa later
that afternoon: [Screen shot]
Impeachment
Fever: Democrats whip themselves into a frenzy. [Scroll down] Meanwhile, over at the Democrats' top
propaganda arm, MSNBC, we have guests complaining that it's impossible to get onto the network unless they promise to talk
about impeachment. No other topic is to be broached. And for those who do, "no TV for you." CNN is beating
the drum hard for impeachment, too, giving lots of airtime to professors and more professors calling for it.
Left-wing
media bias galore on impeachment, abortion and immigration. Mueller Time came and went. Now it's
Impeachment Time, at least according to the "neutral" media. Of course, now-former Special Counsel Robert Mueller never
said President Trump should be impeached. But that didn't stop journalists, who used every rhetorical trick in the book
to push that narrative against the president. Both MSNBC host Chris Hayes and CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger
dissected Mueller's Wednesday news conference about his report, relying on either "reading between the lines" or "If you read
between the lines."
Fox News
Stumping for 2020 Hillary Clinton? It wasn't CNN or MSNBC that resurrected Hillary Clinton in a perky picture
over a story indicating that Obama's former Secretary of State may be running for 2020 election, it was — FOX
NEWS. When's the last time anyone saw a front page picture of Clinton being presented as perky? Today
[5/26/2019], on Fox News is when.
MSNBC's
Nicolle Wallace to Beto O'Rourke: What Can We Do to Better Cover Your Candidacy? While interviewing
Democratic presidential candidate Robert O'Rourke, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace let their mask of impartiality slip as she asked
him how the network can better serve him. "Play media critic, what can we do better, those of us trying to cover your
candidacies, from very far away from where the first votes will be cast in Iowa and New Hampshire," Wallace asked, getting a
chuckle out of the failed senate candidate.
Douglas
Brinkley Fawns Over 'Master' and 'Historic Speaker' Nancy Pelosi. On Thursday afternoon's [5/23/2019] airing of
CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin had on CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University.
The liberal media have been obsessively covering the recent jabs between President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Brinkley, rather than remaining an objective historian, couldn't help but drool over Pelosi as a partisan mouthpiece and
naturally Baldwin had no problem with it.
MSNBC
Host Pushes Democrats to Begin Impeachment Hearings. MSNBC's Kasie Hunt gunned for Democrats to begin
impeachment proceedings, offering them a playbook on how to do so. "How badly do you want it? Impeachment could
be Dems' only path to key information," the accompanying MSNBC video's headline coaxed.
The
Booming Jobs Market Mystifies the Press, When They Notice It At All. If there's not dancing in the streets,
it's because the mainstream press refuses to cover the economy. Or if they do, they fixate on the negative. This
bias isn't new, by the way. In the early 1990s, coverage of the economy suddenly turned overwhelmingly positive in
1993. That, of course, was the year control of the White House shifted from Republican to Democratic hands. Throughout
President Obama's eight years, reporters tried desperately to put a happy face on a gloomy and historically anemic economic recovery.
The
Media at Their Lowest. On any number of subjects, building a wall between Mexico and the United States being a
current topic of the day, there are literally dozens of video recordings of Democrats contradicting themselves from the
position they took even a decade ago. Joe Biden once pounded the pulpit demanding that we build a wall. With Joe
Biden as the Democratic frontrunner for U.S. president, you've seen that contradiction reported all over the national
mainstream media, haven't you? Contrast that with anything and everything Donald Trump says. The media are quick
to pull any quote, any tweet out of context or bend it out of shape to promote the narrative that the president is an
unhinged liar.
Who's
the Victim When a Somali Muslim Police Officer Shoots an Innocent White Woman? The NYT Thinks It Knows. It's the
New York Times, of course, so we know this is not really a question at all, and that it can only be hypocrisy that explains why
Noor, a black Muslim immigrant from Somalia, is being punished for killing a white woman while white and Hispanic officers have escaped
similar consequences for killing black men. And, lest you still entertain the notion that this could be an unbiased news story,
consider that it was written by John Eligon, whose bio informs us he is "a national correspondent covering race," and that he "documents
the nuances of America's struggle with race issues, from the protest movement over police violence to the changing face of the nation's
cities and suburbs."
Mainstream
Media Let Bernie Sanders Distort His Version of Socialism. Mainstream media have let Democratic presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders claim that his version of democratic socialism is modeled after a softer, gentler strain of European
socialism (though even that claim is dubious, given that many northern European countries actually have freer or similarly
free markets than the United States), newspaper archives dug up by journalist Maxim Lott show that Sanders praised
corrupt socialist third-world regimes in Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua.
MSNBC's
Brian Williams Pushes Conspiracy Theory. Wednesday [5/1/2019] during MSNBC's live coverage of Attorney General
William Barr testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, anchor Brian Williams broke in to disagree with committee
chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) opening statement.
The Editor says...
I doubt if MSNBC announcers engage in minute-by-minute gainsaying when Democrats speak, but this is speculation
on my part, because I never watch MSNBC.
Why
Is Fox News Using Left-Wing Talking Points to Take Cheap Shots at Homeschoolers? This happens every few
years — someone trots out a collection of child abuse horror stories and blames the abuse on the fact that parents
were permitted to keep their own children in their own homes without government surveillance. We expect this kind of
rhetoric from left-wing/MSM outlets — it's been going on for decades — but I was surprised to see the
tired line of attack coming from Fox News.
CNN's
5-Hour Town Hall Event Is Another Ratings Catastrophe. CNN has been putting on town hall events for a while
now. For example, there was Jake Tapper's disastrous Let's Boo a Rape Victim anti-Second Amendment town hall
last year. This year, though, CNN has put on a series of town halls to benefit Democrat presidential candidates.
These events are basically an hour of softball questions where CNN anchors go so far as to tell the studio audience to
applaud for the Democrat.
Joy
Behar Gets Emotional Over Biden: Remember When People Didn't Look at America 'in Horror?'. Joy Behar
might as well have been wearing a Make America Great Again hat on Thursday's [4/25/2019] The View, as she passionately
hailed Joe Biden's "patriotic" 2020 presidential video announcement. Not to support President Trump of course, but
because of her wistful longing to get America "back" to when "we were the good guys." The View co-host couldn't stop
gushing at Biden's video announcement, in which he claimed he would be the one to bring America back to its Constitutional
ideals, unlike Trump who was taking us away from them.
Why
the Media Dumped Beto for Mayor Pete. The Buttigieg boom has also benefited from the stumbles of our previous
political shooting star, Beto O'Rourke. Was it only weeks ago that the press began swooning for O'Rourke like a drunken
conventioneer, writing about him with the same frequency it does for Buttigieg today? The things that once seemed so
appealing about O'Rourke to the press — the generalities, the platitudes, the offhanded charisma, the rolled-up
sleeves — seem off-putting now. The clearest sign of the press corps' O'Rourke infatuation was its routine
reference to him by his first name in its stories — something it has moved on to doing with Buttigieg. Such
shameful and transparent familiarity.
Adam Schiff:
The Media's Pin-Up Doll. There are times that even The Onion — the popular satirical
newspaper — can't compete with the outlandish coverage produced by allegedly legitimate news publications.
Newsweek magazine's front-cover swoon over Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) this week is one such example.
The interview portrays Schiff as a warrior-martyr, fighting the evil Trump regime for the good of the country. He
blasts Attorney General Bill Barr; regurgitates long-disproven allegations of Trump-Russia collusion; and again insists many
of his Republican colleagues have private misgivings about President Trump but refuse to air those grievances in public for
fear of retribution.
Fox
News' trio of libs, Smith, Wallace and Rivera, rush to bury the mere thought of Trump's sanctuary city plan.
Certain Fox News media personalities seem suddenly scared witless by the prospect of the president sending all the overflow
border migrants to sanctuary cities. On Friday, President Trump confirmed that he is considering a move to have
migrants who arrive at the border to be bussed only to sanctuary cities. It's a beautifully Karmic idea, but of course,
his political opponents are stumbling all over themselves proclaiming that it can't happen, that it's presidentially
inappropriate, that it's illegal, and on and on. The news brought out the best in Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace, who
couldn't wait to slam the proposal six ways to Sunday. Smith immediately insisted that he had heard "immigration
officials stated that doing so would be illegal."
Trump
is Popping in the Polls. Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear —
President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the
White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders — Biden, Sanders, and
Warren are septuagenarians. Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached,
a Russian agent, and so on. Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig. Nobody likes him.
At least that's what CNN says. If this was truly the case, Trump should be polling in the low 30s at best, with most of the
country giving him and his administration a thumbs down on performance and results. Yet reality is far different.
Washington
Post springs to the defense of serial groper Joe Biden. Joe Biden is in a lot of trouble, as editor Lifson
points out today. Biden apparently kissed a woman without her permission, which is a serious offense in #MeToo
land. There are also several photos of Biden with his arms around women, kissing them, kneading their shoulders —
shouldn't he be arrested or something? But never fear, Uncle Joe. The Washington Post is riding to your rescue.
AP
offers correction after reporting Beto O'Rourke spoke 'in his native Spanish'. The Associated Press faced
backlash on social media Monday [4/1/2019] after writing that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke spoke "in his
native Spanish" at a rally in El Paso, Texas. Although O'Rourke speaks Spanish, he a fourth-generation Irish-American
whose full name is Robert Francis O'Rouke. The AP report originally wrote: "O'Rourke also spoke at length in his
native Spanish, eliciting loud and sustained cheers."
CNN
Promotes and Celebrates Man Who Stopped ICE from Arresting Two Illegal Immigrants. A leftover from the weekend
involves New Day Saturday, which somehow manages to have even lower ratings than it's weekday counterpart. CNN's Victor
Blackwell and Christi Paul have a history of ridiculous immigration stories and unfairly attacking ICE. Just last year
the dynamic duo defended a man that was deported back to Mexico. What they didn't mention was that he was wanted for
murder. That might seem like an important detail to normal people but this is CNN we are talking about.
NBC
News' Lester Holt 'went easy' on James Comey during interview on Mueller report, critic says. NBC Nightly News
anchor Lester Holt "went easy" on former FBI Director James Comey during their Wednesday interview about Special Counsel
Robert Mueller's report about Russian meddling, according to a media critic. [...] The interview that aired did not include
any questions from Holt on the controversial anti-Trump dossier that helped spark the entire Russia investigation as well as
the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that allowed the surveillance of Trump campaign official
Carter Page. Holt also seemingly avoided Comey's admitted orchestrated leaking of memos of his conversations with
President Trump to the media.
The
Not So Soft Bigotry of Liberal Media's Racism. The liberal media were quick to pounce on the recent killings in
Christchurch, New Zealand — loudly and frequently. This was to be expected as New Zealand is largely a white
western culture, and therefore afforded "most favored status" among mostly white, mostly liberal, western media. The
murders that occurred during the same period in Nigeria, although greater in number, were largely ignored because (1) the
victims were black, and (2) worse, Christian blacks, and (3) worse still, African Christian blacks,
so who cares?
Should
we really have DACA kids ruling over us in Congress? Want a gander at some one-sided reporting? Take a
look at what the normally centrist Roll Call has cranked out, openly advocating for congressional positions for DACA kids,
who, along with other foreign nationals, are prohibited by law from assuming positions of governance in the federal
government. Legal foreigners in Congress are required by law to be taking steps, at least, toward U.S. citizenship.
DACA kids, who are here illegally but have the special privileges of DACA that other illegal aliens don't have, are not.
Matthews
Bashes How House GOPers Dress, Longs for When There Were Fewer News Sources. After being away for two weeks
that included a vacation to New Zealand, MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews was in rare form on day two of his return,
questioning the dress habits of Republican men on the House Oversight Committee for not being as formally dressed as he'd
like and wearing scowls. Then later in the show, Matthews and liberal celebrity loon Rob Reiner complained about the lack
of control news outlets have over the American people compared to the 1970s when there were only three network news outlets.
There
Was Never Media Bias Before Fox News? CNN and MSNBC were all aglow after Jane Mayer wrote a snide article in
The New Yorker magazine titled "The Making of the Fox News White House." The thesis was that Fox News and
President Trump are very tightly aligned, starting with the fact that Fox News executive Bill Shine revolved from Fox into
running the White House communications operation. [...] Mayer professed alarm on Morning Joe that this is "the closest
we've ever had to state news in this country. We've really never had a whole national network like this... it's
incredibly close with this White House." She said this with a straight face. Forget the journalists covering up
FDR's disability, or JFK's debauchery. Never mind the "news" people who insisted that Bill Clinton would never sexually
harass or rape a woman. [...] Mayer is proclaiming a dangerous level of media collusion on MSNBC, the network of Chris "Thrill
Up My Leg" Matthews, the man who proclaimed in 2009 that his job was to support Obama: "I want to do everything I can to
make this thing work, this new presidency work."
Jane
Mayer and the Liberal State Media Attack Trump, Fox, Hannity. There is not the slightest sense of irony that in
fact Mayer herself, not to mention the New Yorker, the magazine for which she writes, are members in good standing of
the Liberal State Media. Which is to say she belongs to the world of liberal cable and broadcast networks, print
outlets, all manner of Internet sites and, of course, Hollywood which individually not to mention collectively function as a
self-selected version of Pravda ("Truth"), the once-official newspaper of the Soviet Union's Communist Party.
The members of the Liberal State Media have one self-selected job, and one job only: they are in the Liberal Narrative
business, relentlessly pushing into the media whatever is the liberal agenda of the day.
The
Difference Between Newsweek's Reporting Of Smollett Hoax Vs. Conservative Activist Attacked On Video.
Newsweek's initial coverage of the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax and the alleged assault that took place Tuesday on UC
Berkeley's campus drew skepticism Friday from many, though Newsweek defends its reporting as appropriately "cautious." [...]
The way the article is written appears to confirm that the attack happened. The detail of the attackers screaming
"praise to President Donald Trump," however, was left as uncorroborated. Now, the Chicago Police Department believes
the entire attack was self-orchestrated by Smollett, and he has been charged with submitting a false report.
CNN
Actually Tries To Defend El Chapo From Senator Ted Cruz's Plan To Use Drug Lord's Money To Build The Wall. CNN
is a disgusting mess. Just when you think they can't possibly go any lower they manage to do just that. This time
it was the news network's passive aggressive pushback against Senator Ted Cruz's brilliant idea to utilize the billions
convicted drug kingpin El Chapo amassed to help pay for the southern border wall. El Chapo has contributed to countless
murders, drug deaths, human trafficking, and on and on and on yet CNN would take his side over President Trump's desire to
better protect U.S. citizens from animals like El Chapo.
Brit
Hume Takes On NBC Reporter And Obama Adviser Over Kamala Harris Coverage. Fox News Senior Political Analyst
Brit Hume took issue with the way several reporters covered the Kamala Harris campaign — and defended himself when
NBC's Kasie Hunt and former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes fired back. It all began with a Saturday tweet from CBS political
reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns, who posted a video of Harris trying on a rainbow-colored sequined jacket — apparently
at the behest of CNN national political reporter Maeve Reston.
Female
'Journalists' Go Clothes Shopping With 2020 Dem Hopeful Kamala Harris. Female 'journalists' went shopping in
South Carolina on Lady Street with 2020 Democrat darling Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Saturday and even helped her pick
out a sequin jacket to buy. CNN reporter Maeve Reston posted a video of Kamala Harris trying on the sequin jacket and
bragged that fellow NBC reporter Ali Vitali named it the "Mardi Gras Jacket."
Democracy
also dies in a boutique with Kamala Harris. Sen. Kamala Harris, who's running for president, has quite a
back-up crew for her photo ops as she campaigns in South Carolina. The girls on the bus not only covered the news, they
joined in the fun. A video posted by CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns shows her press buddy CNN
correspondent Maeve Reston picking out a new jacket for Harris, the star of the show, to try on in front of a mirror in a
South Carolina boutique. Squeals and giggles followed. As Harris staged a shopping trip with the cameras on, the
whole chick moment, politicians and press united, was captured by Reston's buddy on Twitter. The women's vote is now
assured!
CNN:
Clothes Shoppers for the Rich and Famous. In 2016, Hillary was the candidate of the liberal press. Who
will be the anointed candidate next year? Kamala Harris is a good bet. She features Hillary's leftist politics
along with a "minority" look, probably a requirement in the next Democratic nominee. She is also considerably better
looking than Hillary. So the press loves Kamala Harris. Can reporters take the affair too far? This
morning, Harris went clothes shopping in Columbia, South Carolina — an early primary state. Reporters helped
her try on clothes. Seriously.
CBS
Attempts Rehabilitation of Virginia Governor Northam. Everything you need to know about this propaganda is
obvious in the first few seconds of the interview with Gayle King: "I know this has been a very difficult week for you
and the state of Virginia, so where would you like to begin..." Obviously there has been a great deal of planning and
careful construct for this interview. CBS is openly attempting to rehabilitate Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
It becomes more obvious as you listen to Northam speak that: (a) he's an idiot; and, (b) whoever put him
into office is not willing to lose their investment.
DC Paper Pairs
Photo of Sen. Lindsey Graham With Headline Touting Most Eligible LGBT Singles. The Washington Blade put a
photo of South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on the cover of this week's edition, along with a cover article
titled "Meet D.C.'s Most Eligible LGBT Singles." The article, published online on Wednesday, listed 20 eligible singles of
varying genders and orientations who had been nominated by readers. Graham was not mentioned in the piece at all,
although President Donald Trump rated two mentions from the highlighted singles — one of whom told interested
readers that Trump-voters need not apply.
CBS's
Outrageous Cover Up on Behalf of Socialist Ocasio-Cortez. CBS News showed part of a cross examination by
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on campaign finance laws. They cut off the rebuttal. The radical Socialist is trying to
make her capitalist colleagues and all lobbyists into criminals with superficial questioning in her usual arrogant manner.
The news outlet cut off the ending of the testimony. The dishonesty would be unbelievable but this is the U.S media today.
Who Is 'Far-Right'? Because liberal journalists consider any
policy endorsed by Democrats to be mainstream, by definition, then by the same standard, any opposition to the Democrat agenda is inherently wrong and,
as a corollary to this principle, any policy advocated by Republicans (e.g., actually enforcing U.S. immigration laws) is not mainstream. Once
you understand how this works, you see why the utmost radicalism on the Left is entirely acceptable to the anti-Trump media. Consider, for example,
the left-wing mobs who call themselves "Antifa." One of their D.C.-based leaders, Joseph Alcoff (a/k/a "Chepe") was recently arrested on 17
charges "in connection to the Antifa mob attack against two Marines in November." If any liberal journalist has branded Alcoff a "far-left
extremist," I missed it.
Washington
Post rushes to rescue Virginia Democrat from her late-term abortion debacle. If there's a Democrat in trouble,
you can be sure there's a newsroom nearby, ready to clean up the mess. Take, for example, the energy that the
Washington Post has dedicated this week to rehabilitating the image of Virginia Del. Kathy Tran. Tran became a
viral sensation for all the wrong reasons after she unveiled a bill allowing for late-term abortions up to birth, even in
cases where the mother is dilating.
Washington Post's
National Political Correspondent Calls Trump Supporters 'Rubes'. A spokesperson at the Washington Post told The
Daily Caller News foundation the following when asked about Weigel's remarks: "We do not think our reporters should be
using derogatory terms to characterize anyone," and that the "matter is being handled internally," the spokesman said.
Weigel's comments are just the latest example of the veteran reporter's history of injecting naked left-wing bias into his
work. In 2010, Weigel was forced to resign from his first job at WaPo after The Daily Caller disclosed private emails
from him to other reporters on the infamous "Journolist" listserv signaling strong animus towards conservatives.
Networks
Give Roughly 15 Times More Coverage to Women's March Than March for Life. Despite what was a much delayed but
important avalanche of headlines about the group's anti-Semitism, the 2019 Women's March took place Saturday and it still
received nearly 15 times the broadcast network newscast coverage of the 47th annual March for Life that was held Friday
[1/18/2019]. Between Wednesday morning and Saturday evening, the Women's March fetched 14 minutes and
26 seconds of coverage on the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening newscasts. This stood in stark contrast to
just 58 seconds for the March for Life.
All
Three Networks Ignore 'March For Life,' Cover Pro-Abortion 'Women's March' Instead. On its 46th anniversary,
all three major networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS) ignored the March for Life in Washington, D.C., the largest pro-life event in
the nation, opting instead to cover the feminist Women's March rally. According to LifeNews, despite an estimated
100,000 people being in attendance at the pro-life march along with President Trump's address to the crowd via video, the
left-wing machines could not so much as "give a passing mention to the March for Life" during the Friday morning [1/18/2019]
shows.
CNN's
John King criticized for question about Karen Pence's Secret Service protection. CNN anchor John King was criticized
after raising a question on Friday about second lady Karen Pence and her Secret Service protection. King was leading his "Inside
Politics" panel discussion about the second lady's teaching gig at a Virginia school that does not permit gay men and lesbians to be
teachers, and Vice President Pence's recent comments that criticism of Christianity is offensive, when the host raised eyebrows.
We the Press.
Frank Bruni, formerly the New York Times's White House reporter and now a columnist for the paper, has a long, long op-ed
that is unintentionally revealing. It is headlined, "Will the Media Be Trump's Accomplice Again in 2020?" As though the
press were pro-Trump in 2016! "We have a second chance. Let's not blow it." A second chance to help a Democrat
beat Donald Trump. Bruni's piece displays a remarkable lack of self-knowledge. Republicans should be happy to note
that he still has no idea why Trump won in 2016: he thinks Hillary was a fine candidate, and it was the press's fault for
not being sufficiently anti-Trump.
Stupid
New York Times tricks. An obituary the New York Times recently published illustrates how averse that journal is
to giving credit to Donald Trump for anything good, while maintaining a claim on journalistic integrity.
Cream
puff journalism: CBS's 60 Minutes 'interviews' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In an example of journalism used
to conceal, rather than expose, truth, CBS's 60 Minutes can stand up and take a bow for its mother of all puff pieces on New
York's newly elected socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Cream puff journalism at its finest. [Indeed],
it was a campaign ad. Or call it a belated campaign contribution, because it was anything but hard-hitting.
Media
get their dream House: Press celebrates Democrats' 'triumphant' return to power. The media finally got
the fun House they wanted — run entirely by Democrats. And their arrival made journalists nearly scream in
PC glee. They've been fighting President Donald Trump all alone for two years. The arrival of Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and liberal media darlings like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set off a veritable House party in the press. They now
have powerful allies who will do what they want — attack Trump. It was "a triumphant return to power" for
new House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, "a new era" and "an earthquake in Trump world." CNN even called it "girl power"
and pretended she was reaching out in a "non-partisan" way to "women of all parties." The network actually took her out
to her native Baltimore to get ice cream from her favorite ice cream shop.
Where
Was The Media Outrage When 18 Migrants Died In Custody Under The Obama Administration? Over Christmas, there
was another tragedy at the border. An eight-year-old migrant boy died while in the custody of the Border Patrol.
It's horrible. It's not something that anyone wants in these situations, but U.S. immigration authorities didn't murder
the child, which is heavily insinuated if not suggested by members of the liberal media. We have some folks going off
half-cocked saying we have full-blown concentration camps under the Trump presidency when it comes to border enforcement.
It's straight up insanity. [...] Once again, we have to take liberal media by the hand to show that much of what Trump is doing
at the border is what the Obama administration did. The Obama administration shot tear gas at migrants at the border,
they separated children from adults at the border, and guess what; migrants died under the custody of U.S. immigration officials.
CNN's
Brooke Baldwin embarrasses herself with Ruth Bader Ginsburg idolatry. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being beatified by
the media establishment of the United States, and it is getting nauseating. With Justice Ginsburg ailing and liberals
fearing that the Supreme Court may soon feature a robust conservative majority, the American Left is aghast at the prospect
of a return to following the Constitution as written. Having achieved many of its social change goals through judicial
fiat, the loss of a progressive majority able to impose its preferences on the public is downright frightening to
leftists. One response is to enshrine Justice Ginsburg as some kind of holy person, someone whose decisions must be
honored as sacred. The idea of the Senate confirming a justice who might disagree with Ginsburg must become anathema.
The Worst of MSNBC in 2018.
Nicolle Wallace hoped she wouldn't jinx Andrew Gillum in Florida and wondered how an NBC reporter resisted wringing Sarah
Huckabee Sanders' neck at the podium. Steve Schmidt declared Russian election interference and potential collusion with
Trump to be perhaps the "greatest crime in American history" and found plenty of things to be vile and disgusting.
Malcolm Nance said the Russians had successfully brainwashed the American public into welcoming an invasion, which Brian
Williams said was some "scary stuff." Donny Deutsch said Brett Kavanaugh would never reach the Supreme Court.
Lawrence O'Donnell called the U.S. Senate an "unfixable crime against democracy" because it confirmed Kavanaugh.
Fox News'
Shepard Smith Offers Full-Throated Defense of Hillary Clinton. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith scoffed at
comparisons between the FBI's treatment of Hillary Clinton with their treatment of former Trump National Security Adviser,
Michael Flynn. And he did so by disparaging the reporting of one of the network's most respected investigative
journalists, Catherine Herridge.
Chuck
Todd, Lord of the Flies? So, according to the not inimitable Chuck Todd, those of us who voted for Trump are
"gullible." That we are stupid goes without saying. Trump "tricked Hillary into responding to non-issues while
stupid voters took care of the rest on election day." Todd went on to say "I knew the gaslighting was out there.... but
I think there was part of me in my head that assumed people were discerning it out, knew the BS from the non-BS." This
from the allegedly "articulate" Chuck Todd. Clearly he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He did not major
in journalism or even English — that is obvious. He majored in political science, and never graduated.
How he ended up as a news anchor on NBC is a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." He is just another leftist
ideologue posing as a journalist; like George Stephanopoulos, Chris Matthews, Tom Brokow, et. al. Ninety-five percent
of those who pretend to deliver news to the American people are left-wing activists who consider it their honor and duty to tell
the rest of us how to think. As Todd so freely opined at the "Recode Decode" podcast this week, they somehow failed to
educate us illiterate morons who voted for Trump.
Like
Drug Addicts, Reporters Demean Themselves For Just One More Trump Story. But, it's not enough. It's not
getting them the high they want. The high they crave. The traffic, the clicks, the views, the response... none of
it is the same. There's gotta be a stronger dose somewhere. So, when it comes time to cover the funeral of the
former president, they seek out something stronger. Trump is sitting by the Obamas and the Clintons! He's not
reciting the Creed! He is doing this or not doing that! And in the process, the funeral is no longer about
George H.W. Bush. It is about Trump. It's wrong. They know it's wrong. They can't help
themselves, though. They are addicts.
Return
to civility means surrender to the Democrats and media. President Bush was a gentleman, a war hero, and
courteous and civil to his political opponents. But his opponents, Dems and the media, were not civil to him, nor were
they civil in their opposition to Bush's policies and nominees. The media must have forgotten the vicious attacks upon
Bush's nominee, Justice Clarence Thomas, led by those paragons of virtue and civility, Senator Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden,
which attacks were worse, if possible, than the attacks by Kennedy and Biden upon Judge Robert Bork. The media have
forgotten the vicious false attacks upon Justice Kavanaugh two months ago, which surpassed the attacks on Thomas and
Bork. Civility is a one-way street in favor of the Democrats. In 1992, the Dems nominated a lying, draft-dodging
sexual predator, assisted by his corrupt wife, and proceeded to call President Bush a wimp. The Dems called President
Bush's son, George W. Bush, stupid, evil, Hitler, a loser, etc.
An activist pretending to be a journalist:
Jorge
Ramos: US Has Responsibility to 'Absorb' Caravan Migrants. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said on Monday
[11/26/2018] that America has a responsibility to "easily absorb" the caravan migrants and claimed it can do so "without
significant economic consequences." "It's not an invasion. The U.S. can easily absorb these refugees without
significant economic consequences. Many countries in the world help the 65 M people who are displaced," Ramos
claimed in an Instagram post. "And the most powerful nation in history also has responsibilities. We simply
have to do our share."
Elites
Value Mellifluous Illegality over Crass Lawfulness. Obama defies the Constitution but sounds 'presidential.'
Trump follows it but sounds like a loudmouth from Queens.
Media
Begin Full Propaganda Push to Create Victim Narrative around Migrants. With the reality of hundreds of central
American migrants attempting to overwhelm the U.S. southern border by force; and after weeks of denying the migration horde
were a threat to U.S. immigration and national sovereignty; the media narrative engineers need to quickly respond with
manufactured victim optics. With a migration force consisting of 95% military-aged males, the media photo journalists,
aka. 'optical narrative engineers', desperately seek out pictures of the few women and children to accompany their print propaganda.
The
Escalating Assault on Citizen Journalism. This past week, the progressive establishment attempted to silence
two more independents. In the first case, Twitter and Facebook conspired to deny the audacious 25-year-old journalist
Laura Loomer her rapidly growing audience. In the second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller lowered the boom on Jerome
Corsi, a 72-year-old Harvard Ph.D. An all too typical headline this week from ABC News — "Conspiracy theorist
becomes key figure as Mueller builds case" — delegitimizes Corsi even before the article begins. Corsi is
not a journalist; he is a "conspiracy theorist." The media are not opposed to conspiracy theorizing in general —
Michael Moore did win an Oscar — but rather to theorizing that has the potential to harm the progressive establishment.
Saint
Michelle Cashes in, Big Time. Michelle Obama has a new memoir out called "Becoming." Add two words:
"Very Wealthy." The Obamas struck a $65 million book deal for his-and-hers memoirs, and next to it is their $50 million
production deal with Netflix. They are set to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. One outlet has
called them a "billion-dollar brand." None of their media sycophants find this the tiniest bit controversial. They
are the royal family. They cannot possibly be compensated enough. (President Trump's wealth? Wealth generated
by a lifetime of work in the private sector? Unacceptable.) Mrs. Obama's interviews — entirely with
women, and mostly black women — are servile in every "objective news" venue and even worse during TV promotional
pit stops. Ellen DeGeneres aired a sappy tribute video stuffed with adoration and proclaimed that Obama is "a human
being that we all look up to." She said, "you inspire all of us. So, we put together a little something for you
to just show you how amazing you are."
Ellen
Puts Together Liberal Media Montage to Hail Michelle Obama's 'Amazing Impact'. During her fawning one-hour show devoted
to promoting Michelle Obama's new memoir on Thursday [11/15/2018], daytime host and Democratic activist Ellen DeGeneres put together a
montage of liberal journalists showering the former First Lady with adoring coverage throughout Barack Obama's administration.
DeGeneres told Mrs. Obama that the purpose of the sycophantic video was to celebrate her "amazing impact."
Former
Senior Ohio Lawmaker Arrested for Murder of His Estranged Wife, Media Plays 'Guess the Political Party'. A
former senior Ohio lawmaker who had served as assistant minority whip in the Ohio legislature was arrested this past weekend
for the murder of his estranged wife. He had previously served nine months in state prison for assaulting her in 2014
while a common pleas judge in Cuyahoga County — a position he had been appointed to by then-Gov. Ted
Strickland (D). But would you ever know that Lance Mason was a Democrat? Not if you relied on the media reporting.
How
the AP covers your dubious election dispute pretty much depends on whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.
The language we use to cover news events says a great deal about our editorial judgment. And the Associated Press'
handling of the long-shot recount efforts in Georgia and New Mexico says its judgment needs serious reconsideration. In
the Peach State, Democratic House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams is hoping against hope that her recount efforts will upend
the results of the state's gubernatorial election, taking away Republican Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp's victory. On
Friday [11/16/2018], the AP covered Abrams' campaign to overturn the election results with a headline that reads: "Abrams
prepares push for new Georgia Gov. vote." In New Mexico, Republican state Rep. Yvette Herrell is hoping against hope
that her efforts to impound ballots will upend the results of the race in the state's 2nd Congressional District, taking away
Democrat Xochitl Torres Small's narrow victory. Here's how the AP characterized Herrell's attempts to overturn the results
of the House race: "Republican Refusing to Concede US House Race, Questions Vote."
Media
continue to play the race card even after the election. The media and other Democrats seem to think that they
are entitled to win every race where they have a minority candidate. Otherwise, the voters are racists. The
following AP story and Washington Post opinion piece are clear examples of how the media continue to play the race
card. President Trump referred to failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum as a thief because he improperly
took gifts, and somehow that is racist? And Trump calls losing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
incompetent, and somehow that is racist? Trump has called white politicians from both parties much worse than thieves
and incompetent, so it is truly pathetic that the media and Democrats play the race card.
NBC
Already Pushing Dem Losers as 2020 Contenders. Only hours after the midterm elections, on Wednesday morning
[11/7/2018], NBC's Today show was already looking to the 2020 presidential campaign, eager to discuss which Democrats
were "getting serious about taking on President Trump." In addition to some of the usual names, the report also touted
Democrats who went down to defeat on Tuesday as "future stars" of the party. Declaring that "the countdown does start
today" for the 2020 presidential election, White House Correspondent Kristen Welker wondered: "The question now, who is
getting serious about taking on President Trump?"
Our "Unbiased"
Media at Work. I wish we had had more time to cover the Senate campaign of John James in Michigan, in his
uphill battle against incumbent battleaxe Debbie Stabenow. James, a military veteran, has run a spirited campaign,
though I don't think he has received much support from the national GOP. In any case, below is the voicemail of a
newspaper reporter who called James's campaign office to ask for an interview, but who apparently didn't disconnect properly,
and went on to show how "objective" and "unbiased" she is.
Michigan
Reporter Calls Senate Candidate John James Voicemail, Accidentally Didn't Hang Up. As much as this is hilarious
to hear, there is also a serious aspect. Republican candidate John James is in a close race in Michigan with incumbent
Senator Debbie Stabenow. A reporter named Brenda Battel from the Huron Daily Tribune calls Michigan Senate Candidate
John James to schedule an interview. She leaves a voicemail with the details of her request, then accidentally didn't
hang up the phone correctly; so the recording continues to pick up her comments.
Reporter
Fired After [Being] Caught on Tape Disparaging GOP Michigan Senate Candidate John James. Huron Daily Tribune reporter,
Brenda Battel was caught on tape disparaging GOP Senate candidate John James when she called his campaign looking for an
interview and thought she hung up the phone after leaving a voicemail. Brenda Battel was fired from the Huron Daily
Tribune Monday night [11/5/2018] after her Editor heard the voicemail.
Tribune
fires staff writer. The Huron Daily Tribune has issued a statement Monday evening after the newsroom management
heard a voicemail left by one of its staff writers to Republican U.S. Sen. Candidate John James. In the voicemail,
Brenda Battel requests an interview with James, who is running against Incumbent Debbie Stabenow. Battel then
unsuccessfully disconnects the phone, and is heard saying inappropriate comments about the candidate and the race.
CNN's Existential
War With Trump. It may be unwise or monotonous for President Trump to harp on CNN as a purveyor of "fake news."
And the constant refrain "enemy of the people" should not be used of a media outlet, even one as prejudicial as CNN.
Yet Trump's obsessions with CNN are largely reactive, not preemptive. After just 100 days in office, before his
own agendas could even be enacted, the liberal Shorenstein Center at Harvard reported that 93 percent of CNN's coverage
of the Trump Administration was already negative. Just one in every 13 CNN stories proved positive. That
radically asymmetrical pattern (shared by NBC/MSNBC) had never been seen before in the history of comparable media
analytics. No one at CNN sought to explain the imbalance, leaving the impression that the news organization had
more or less joined the progressive opposition.
'Fact
Checkers' at Snopes Attempt to Bail Out Stacey Abrams from Armed Black Panthers Story. The so-called "fact
checkers" at Snopes have reached out to Breitbart News in an openly partisan attempt to wash away the story of armed members
of the New Black Panther Party campaigning for the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, Stacey Abrams. Over the
weekend, Breitbart News — among other media outlets — published explosive photographs of armed Black
Panthers campaigning for Abrams, holding up her campaign sign while also holding up various guns. In the story,
Breitbart News included a quote from the campaign of her GOP opponent, Brian Kemp, calling on her to denounce the radicals
campaigning for her.
ABC
Anchor: 'Trump Is So Unpopular,' 'Why Is This Not a Blowout?' With just two days to go until the polls closed
on the midterm elections, Republicans were working hard to get out their base and liberal media were working hard to get out
the Democratic Party's base. During the Sunday [11/4/2018] edition of ABC's Good Morning America, they touted
President Trump's job approval rating slipping to 40 percent. Despite that good news to them, co-anchor Dan Harris was
seemingly dismayed as he turned to Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos, asking: "why is this not a blowout?"
Stephanopoulos gave Harris a couple of reasons for why Republicans were still in the game this close to Election Day.
First, was that "the economy is doing very, very well". Although, Stephanopoulos downplayed the U.S.'s 3.7 percent
unemployment rate, suggesting it was the lowest rate in years rather than decades. He also failed to note the
3.1 percent bump to wages.
Is It 'Hate Speech' to Tell
the Truth? CNN has spent the past few days insinuating that the gunman who murdered 11 people at a Pittsburgh
synagogue was incited to this act by President Trump. Republicans are not allowed to object to CNN's one-sided coverage,
however, because Florida madman Cesar Sayoc also hated CNN, and therefore anyone who criticizes the network is deemed a
potential threat to public safety. Between the Pittsburgh shooter and the Florida bomber, basically anything said
in favor of Republicans (or against Democrats) is now considered "hate speech" in the eyes of liberals.
This is especially the case when it comes to immigration.
What's
the point of citizenship anymore? Turn on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or any of the other alphabet mainstream
networks on any given day, and you'll start to wonder what the point is of being a legal citizen in the U.S. anymore.
Mainstream media have been clamoring for open borders ever since Trump entered the White House. Now places like San
Francisco want to give illegal aliens the right to vote in our elections. What's the point of citizenship if your vote
is canceled out by the vote of an illegal alien? And that's only part of the bigger immigration picture we're facing in
our nation right now.
When
Media Foist False Narratives to Sow Social Discord, They Indeed Are the Enemy of the People. A maniacal dirtbag
murdered eleven Jews in Pittsburgh. In time, perhaps after a decade or two of ACLU appeals, he will be electrocuted, injected,
hanged, or hopefully all three. The dirtbag hated Jews, and he likewise hated President Trump. President Trump responded
to the news immediately with profoundly sensitive and healing words aimed at condemning anti-Semitism and at comforting and consoling
the Jewish community. [...] And then came the sowers of social discord to destroy the moment. The Left Media would not allow the
President that moment to heal and unify. Instantly, they brought in one Left-Democrat anti-Trump "analyst" after another to blame
Mr. Trump for the attack. They never blamed President Jimmy Carter's anti-Jewish rhetoric for the 1977 Brith Sholom Kneseth
Israel synagogue shooting in St. Louis. Nor Bill Clinton for the 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shootings of yeshiva students that
included the murder of Ari Halberstam. Nor Clinton's rhetoric for the 1999 Granada Hills Jewish Community Center shooting in
Los Angeles. Nor Obama for the deadly 2009 Holocaust Museum shooting in Washington, D.C. Nor Obama for the 2014 Overland
Park Jewish Community Center shootings in Kansas City that murdered three. But this time — with the same social dynamics
as the others — they tried blaming the President. By sowing social discord with outright absolute falsehoods at a time that
called for healing, the Left Media indeed were acting as enemy of the people.
A Tale
Of Two Acts Of Political Violence — And Proof Of Media Bias. There have been two major acts of
political violence over the past year and half. One by an ardent supporter of President Trump. The other by an
ardent supporter of Bernie Sanders. How the press covered these two stories tells you all you need to know about media bias.
Steve
Scalise Calls Out CNN's Don Lemon for Denying Left-Wing Political Violence. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)
called out CNN's Don Lemon Tuesday [10/30/2018] as the anchor downplayed left-wing political violence. Steve Scalise
simply posted the "eyes" emoji and linked to a story from National Review about Don Lemon saying he doesn't "see
Democrats" killing people over politics.
Media
Calls The Shooting Up Of A Republican HQ "Vandalism". I want to be clear going into this article that any
destruction or violence visited upon anyone or any place is wrong. What's also wrong is dismissing the shooting up of a
GOP headquarters, as if someone just spraypainted dirty words in the night and ran. The Volusia County's Republican
Party headquarters in Florida was shot at sometime in the night between Sunday and Monday morning. Luckily, no one was
in the building due to it happening so late at night. Unlucky is the fact that no one was around to see who pocked
the walls and ceilings with bullets.
A Stark Raving
Mad Conspiracy So Vast. In the editorial offices of the New York Times, the Washington Post,
NBC and CNN, nearly every story must somehow be shoehorned into a political framework; every metaphor and simile must
include a slighting reference to the president or "Trump's America." Thus, on the front page of the digital edition
of the Times as I write, the lead story about the bombs includes this teaser: "Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama,
Mr. Soros, and CNN are all favorite targets of conservatives, with some of the attacks led by President Trump."
AP Changes Headline
After Liberals Complain About Describing Illegal Caravan As 'Army Of Migrants'. The Associated Press on Sunday
changed a headline after a backlash from liberals furious at the AP for describing a caravan of illegal immigrants heading
towards the United States as an "army of migrants." "A ragged, growing army of migrants resumes march toward US," read
the original headline on the AP story. The AP later changed the headline to replace the word "army" with "caravan."
Though the AP has used the word "army" to refer to large groups of people besides migrants — including nurses and
political activists — many on the political left criticized the wire service for its original headline.
The Editor says...
When conservatives complain about media bias, nothing changes. When liberals complain, headlines change overnight.
CBS Prime-Time Shows Honor Hillary.
Hillary Clinton isn't president, but Hollywood is offering the biggest consolation prize it has: working her into TV plots
where she can be toasted as wise and wonderful. Within the first two weeks of the fall season, CBS has done this twice.
Liberalism: An Intrinsically
Uncivil Ideology. [Scroll down] Notice that the same media burbling over the Hillary-Holder call for a suspension of civility
until liberals claw back to power tut-tutted Kanye West's remarks on Thursday [10/11/2018] in the Oval Office. [...] It was all too much for
them. MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, whose maturity level is roughly that of an elementary school student, declared Kanye West's presence
in the Oval Office a degradation, though surely his high-spirited if rough remarks soiled that august office less than the pastimes of
one of her favorite presidents, Bill Clinton. The media's meltdown over Kanye's trip to the Oval Office reflects nothing more than
its horrified realization that Trump is eating the left's lunch, poaching more and more voters from once-monopolized lib constituencies.
Apparently Kanye West is supposed to check with the central office of the Left's Ministry of Truth before opening his mouth. Anything
less is "surreal," according to the media.
Herschel
Walker calls for CNN to fire Don Lemon over 'racist' Kanye West criticism. Football legend-turned-activist
Herschel Walker is calling for CNN to fire Don Lemon after the "CNN Tonight" host laughed when rapper Kanye West was referred
to as "the token negro of the Trump administration" during a segment that aired Tuesday night [10/9/2018]. The
segment — which has been slammed as "racist" — began with Lemon asking if President Donald Trump is
simply "using Kanye as a prop to win over black voters before the midterms." CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers
responded with a jab at West. "Anti-intellectualism simply isn't cool," Sellers said. "Kanye West is what happens
when Negros don't read."
Don
Lemon mocks 'minstrel' Kanye West. Not satisfied with presiding over a panel that called Kanye West an illiterate "token
Negro," CNN host Don Lemon went on a rant Thursday [10/11/2018] in which he said the rap star was a mentally unbalanced "minstrel" being
exploited by whites. In a segment Thursday on his network's "The Situation Room" show, Mr. Lemon also said that every black
person watching Mr. West's White House appearance earlier in the day was "cringing."
The Editor says...
It's nice of Don Lemon to speak on behalf of "every black person," but isn't he supposed to check with Jesse Jackson first?
Confirmation
bias: Brett Kavanaugh and the major media's worst moment. We are now at the unsuccessful conclusion of a
four-week-long effort by certain media organizations to prove Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a violent sexual
predator and a lying alcoholic. The reckless and grossly irresponsible scramble by the New Yorker, NBC News, the New
York Times, and others to make Kavanaugh into a monster produced some of the worst journalism of the Trump era to
date — and that's a pretty high bar. There were plenty of minor fouls, including when the Times assigned a
news story on Kavanaugh to a magazine opinion writer who openly opposed his nomination. Others were much greater,
including when NBC published an anonymously written letter alleging (with zero corroboration) that Kavanaugh was observed by
an anonymous woman in 1998 to have pushed another anonymous woman.
NBC
Excited by Michelle Obama's Get Out the Vote Push for Democrats. On Thursday [10/11/2018], before conducting an
exclusive live interview with former First Lady Michelle Obama, Today show host Savannah Guthrie enthusiastically
reported on Mrs. Obama's "work inspiring others" being "far from over" as she launched a get out the vote effort to help
Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. After touting Obama as "a champion for the American people" during her time
in the White House, Guthrie gushed that the former First Lady was "still having viral moments outside of it." As examples,
the anchor highlighted Mrs. Obama "officiating a wedding in Chicago" as well as her and the former president "taking on
the title of producers, signing a deal with Netflix."
NBC's
Ken Dilanian: North Dakota, New York Having Same Number of Senate Votes 'Has to Change'. Ken Dilanian, a
reporter for NBC News, tweeted on Monday [10/8/2018] that the idea of North Dakota and New York having the same amount of
senators "has to change" because of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. "It may not
happen in our lifetimes, but the idea that North Dakota and New York get the same representation in the Senate has to
change," Dilanian tweeted, linking to a Washington Post article about the confirmation of Kavanaugh.
Media Mangles Its Duty
to Question Ford. A reasonable, objective, establishment media would have spent far more time than it has in
delving into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's background and credibility, and her veracity under oath — especially
if they think it relevant to endlessly parse Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbook, jokey memos about Beach Week, and
collegiate throwing of ice from a barroom glass. Granted, there is an important line, not to be crossed, between
rational examination of relevant information and, on the other hand, blaming or bullying the putative victim. Yet the
examination must be done. The accused cannot be automatically assumed to be guilty. This isn't just a
legal principle, but a moral one. A false allegation, even if it never reached a court of law, can ruin reputations and
even lives. Yet most of the media has acted as if the only one whose veracity and character are legitimate grounds for
investigation is the one accused of heinous acts.
NBC
station fires reporter for wearing MAGA hat while covering Trump rally. A television reporter in southern Minnesota might
need a new hat saying "Make Me Employed Again." James Bunner, a multimedia journalist for NBC affiliate KTTC-TV in Austin, was fired
Friday [10/5/2018], reportedly for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat while covering President Trump's rally in Rochester on
Thursday. As the rally got underway, images of Bunner wearing the bright red hat began appearing on Twitter.
Is
there even a single decent Democrat in Congress? Now we know for sure. There is not a single decent person among the
Democrats in Congress. Because not one Democrat has had the fortitude to stand up and admit that what they are doing to Judge
Brett Kavanaugh is obscene and grossly indecent, we must admit that there is not one of them with the moral sense to know that destroying
a man for politics is wrong. It's not only wrong, but depraved. Not one Democrat member of the Senate, not one in the House.
Those on the Judiciary Committee are particularly venal. Not one among the 95% of the leftist media has come to Kavanaugh's defense.
Instead, they too are on a mission to ruin his life and keep him off the Supreme Court. They do not report the many inconsistencies
in Christine Blasey Ford's vague account of her alleged encounter that effectively render it a lie. NBC never even mentioned Rachel
Mitchell's report because it so seriously undermines Ford's narrative. It is doubtful there ever was such an incident.
'Kill
Kavanaugh' Tops Twitter Search and Hashtag Suggestions. Typing "kill" into Twitter's search function currently
returns a shocking result at the top of its search suggestions: "#KillKavanaugh." It's also currently the third
autocompleted suggestion in searches for "ki" and the fourth suggestion in searches for "k" as of this writing. That's
right — by typing a single letter into search, Twitter is suggesting that its users might be interested in a
hashtag about the murder of a federal judge and SCOTUS nominee.
Chris
Cillizza: Cory Booker's Groping Incident Is Totally Different, You Guys. CNN's Chris Cillizza is worth
reading because he often presents, albeit sometimes unintentionally, the unspoken assumptions of the mainstream left,
including most journalists. Today's Cillizza column is like a master's class in unacknowledged bias. Before we
get to Chris, you may have heard that Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault. The incident allegedly
happened back when Kavanaugh was in high school. You may not have heard that Senator Cory Booker also groped a woman when
he was about the same age. How do we know? Because Booker wrote about the incident himself for the Stanford Daily.
Mutliple
[sic] Outlets Passed On Second Kavanaugh Accusation, So Why Did The New Yorker Run It? This, to me, is an
amazing revelation. [...] The three major outlets declined to do anything on the story. In a follow-up tweet, Yashar
Ali notes that Deborah Ramirez, Brett Kavanaugh's second accuser, apparently would not talk to the Washington Post or the New
York Times. But, she would talk to... the New Yorker? That's a pretty weird call.
Pop
culture blackout: Melania Trump missing from magazine covers, TV appearances. Few first ladies have been
more prepared for their close-ups than Melania Trump. Yet the former model has not graced the cover of Vogue, Glamour
or Cosmopolitan during her husband's first 20 months in office. Neither has she yukked it up with Stephen Colbert,
Jimmy Kimmel or other late-night TV hosts. That's a huge missed opportunity for the Trump White House, says Lauren A.
Wright, lecturer in politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Others insist Mrs. Trump's low pop culture
profile smacks of media bias that extends to other women in the Republican administration.
CNN
Gives Virtually No Air Time to Pro-Kavanaugh Evidence. Last night [9/18/2018], two of Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh's high school classmates, each named by accuser Christine Blasey Ford as witnesses to the 1982 assault she
alleges Kavanaugh committed, issued public statements flatly denying that they saw anything even resembling Ford's
story. Yet today, CNN viewers have barely heard a peep about these denials, even as the Kavanaugh story dominates their
on-air coverage. From 4:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern, CNN spent 3 hours and 23 minutes talking
about the Kavanaugh controversy, but only about eight minutes of that were devoted to passing along these confirmations of
Kavanaugh's denial. Former classmate Mark Judge, who was named by Ford as being in the room during the alleged assault,
communicated his denial to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday: "I have no memory of this alleged incident....
I do not recall the party described in Dr. Ford's letter. More to the point, I never saw Brett act in the manner
Dr. Ford describes."
Why
aren't there ever any dire predictions for Democrats ahead of elections? We get continuous warnings that
Republicans are going to get trounced in the midterms this fall, not because of Republican policies, but because people just
don't like President Trump. We were told that Republicans would get trounced in 2016 because people just didn't like
Trump and he would drag the party down. On Monday [9/17/2018], there was an article by the Associated Press that pushed
that Democrat narrative.
Media
convict Brett Kavanaugh and GOP on grounds of being white males. The media want you to believe the deck is
stacked against Christine Blasey Ford and that the Senate Judiciary Committee should break its back accommodating her
lawyer's every wish to get her to testify next week — but the media have already stacked the deck against the
accused, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee who Ford has accused of attempting to drunkenly
rape her when they were teenagers, is the one coming into next week with two strikes against him: He's white and a
man. The national discourse, still largely controlled by the national media, is now entirely dictated and dependent
on who has the "privilege" and who can claim victimhood.
Washington
Post Chronicles Hardships of Iowa's Immigrants in Wake of Mollie Tibbetts' Murder. In the wake of 20-year-old
college student Mollie Tibbetts' alleged murder by an illegal alien, the Washington Post profiled the small community
of Brooklyn, Iowa, which has been shaken by the crime, focusing primarily on the hardships of the town's immigrants.
CNN'S
Love Letter for 'RBG'. If CNN really wanted to brand itself as a "Facts First" news channel, why did it promise
to air a gushy documentary about fiercely feminist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Labor Day weekend? In
case you didn't know, this film is actually a production by "CNN Films," founded in 2012 to offer "distinguished,
thought-provoking documentary programming to audiences on CNN's platforms around the world." CNN's film "RBG" first
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where the media fawned all over it, and her. Entertainment Weekly
oozed: "Forget movie stars. The hottest celebrity at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend was Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg." Ginsburg's apparently iconic line is "All I ask of my brethren is that they take their
feet off our necks." That's an interesting line for the abortion-on-demand feminists.
Apparently,
Corrupt Democrats Are Not 'News'. On Aug. 8, Republican congressman Chris Collins of the Buffalo, New York,
suburbs was indicted for insider trading and lying to the FBI. ABC, CBS and NBC played this story to the hilt, with
18 minutes and 24 seconds of coverage in just the first 24 hours, according to the Media Research Center.
[...] On Aug. 21, prosecutors indicted California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter on charges of wire fraud and campaign
finance violations. The morning and evening newscasts on ABC and CBS spent a total of 4 minutes and 44 seconds
covering the story in the first 36 hours.
96
Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets. Is Google manipulating its
algorithm to prioritize left-leaning news outlets in their coverage of President Trump? It sure looks that way based on
recent search results for news on the president. Conservatives and Trump supporters have for the last several years
questioned whether Google was deprioritizing conservative news sites, hiding them from users who utilize their search
engine. Google has maintained that all outlets are treated fairly, but nevertheless, conservative sites have reported
reduced search traffic and, in the case of Google-owned YouTube, content creators have been banned and demonetized.
Google's high-profile firing of conservative James Damore, purportedly over his conservative political views, only reinforces
the idea that Google is picking winners and losers.
Who
Watches the Media Watchdogs? Who was it that told America Al Gore won the 2000 election? Who told us the
Fort Hood shooter wasn't an Islamist terrorist? Who told us a meek and mild Michael Brown was shot with his hands up,
begging to surrender? Who told us CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood front in the U.S., is a "civil rights organization"?
Who is still telling us that after 9-11, there was a violent "backlash" against Muslims in America? Who told us climate
change is settled science? Who ducked the story about abortionist Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia slaughterhouse?
Who told us all the troubles in the Middle East are caused by Israel? Who told us that Robert Mueller's list of indictments
proves Trump colluded with Russia? Who told us it was Trump who initiated the "policy" of family separation at the southern
border? Who ran a fake magazine cover to show Trump looming over a crying Honduran toddler?
Flashback:
When the Media Didn't Care About a President's Criminal Friends. It's always big news when a former associate
of a President goes on trial, right? Well actually no. When Bill Clinton's Whitewater business partners Jim and
Susan McDougal and the former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were tried (and convicted) for conspiracy and fraud charges
the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news programs devoted (on average) just 36 seconds per night (March 3, 1996 -
May 29, 1996) to the trial. This despite the fact that the then-sitting President offered video testimony during the court
proceedings. In contrast, the trial of Donald Trump's one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort — for charges in a tax
fraud case that had nothing to do with President Trump or alleged Russian collusion — averaged 2 minutes and
18 seconds per night (July 31 - August 21) on those same evening programs. This was at a rate almost
4x higher than network coverage of the 1996 trial.
NBC
News Spins Fantasy Yarn To Try To Save Bill Nelson From Himself. Florida Senator Bill Nelson is in a tough
fight for reelection against incumbent governor Rick Scott. A few days ago, for reasons that aren't all that clear,
Nelson claimed that the Godless Russkies had penetrated the Florida election system and were plundering about unimpeded.
The implication was clearly that they were going to steal the election in favor of the well known Russian stooge opposing him.
A
Compilation of DNC Media Collusion & Complicity. When articles pushing the Russia-Trump narrative are presented
in sequential fashion, the media's complicity practically leaps out. What you may have suspected suddenly becomes
transparent. With knowledge and hindsight, older articles provide new clarity and unexpected insights. A
compelling story emerges when viewed as a timeline. A story quite quite different than originally intended.
The
left's enforcers: CNN sues to reveal names and addresses of Manafort jurors. Less than a week after
making a stink about freedom of the press, President Trump, and "enemies of the people," CNN and apparently other news
outlets have decided to get into the harassment business, given that reporting news is just not good enough for them. [...] So
now they've gotten into the jury-tampering business. They're more interested in who the jury is than the trial itself.
REPORT:
CNN Intentionally Intimidates Paul Manafort Jury. [Paul] Manafort, who worked for a short time as President
Trump's campaign chairman during the 2016 presidential election, has been charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with
various financial crimes, none of which have anything to do with Trump or the campaign. Manafort's fate now sits with
the jury, and after two days of deliberations, anti-Trump media outlets like CNN are becoming concerned Manafort could be
acquitted, which would be a major blow to Mueller's credibility and his ability to remove Trump from office — an
outcome the establishment media are desperate to orchestrate. And so, on Thursday [8/18/2018], CNN, along with six
other far-left media outlets (the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico, the New York Times, NBC, and the
AP) sued for the release of the names and home addresses of all of the Manafort jurors, a move that is both disturbing and
almost unprecedented.
End
the Double Standards in Reporting Political Violence. Let's take a short walk down memory lane. Not long
ago, on January 2, 2016, a small group of armed protesters seized an unoccupied federal building in the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is located in a relatively isolated area in eastern Oregon, and the occupied building
itself was far from any populated area. [...] The occupation was the news story for days. It spawned countless
think pieces lamenting the rise of violence on the right — including a debate about whether the protesters were
"domestic terrorists." [...] But how many of you know about a very different Oregon standoff, one that ended just weeks
ago? How many of you are aware that protesters used threats of violence in the heart of a great American city to
besiege a federal building for more than a month and that local law enforcement allegedly refused to intervene to protect
federal employees from the mob?
CNN:
Antifa's Violence Against 'Bigots' Is 'Right'. Chris Cuomo announced Monday night that CNN will not condemn but
instead justify political violence against anyone it defines as "bigots" — which, according to the network's
editorial tone over the past two years, signals open season on all Trump supporters for violent activists like Antifa and the
Black Bloc. To legitimize political violence, Cuomo said, "All punches are not equal morally... Drawing a moral
equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it, because they both resort to violence emboldens hate,
legitimized hateful belief and elevates what should be stamped out."
Newspaper
Industry Seeks Character Assassination of President As Antifa Wants to Kill Him. Without ever blinking a
jaundiced eye, 100 newspapers will follow the Boston Globe's directive on Thursday [8/16/2018] with a collective hit job on
President Donald Trump. At press time, not a single newspaper had stepped forward to state that this is proof positive
that there is no such thing as an objective free press; that what the Boston Globe is calling for is nothing less than a
coordinated hate attack.
Acosta
Tries, Fails to Get Immigration Expert to Condemn Trump Policies. Friday afternoon [8/10/2018] grandstanding
reporter Jim Acosta filled in as host of Wolf Blitzer's eponymously named CNN show. And mid-program, Acosta desperately
tried to get one of his guests to bash President Trump as a hypocrite for his stance on chain migration, and the Justice
Department for accidentally deporting two asylum seekers. Instead, his conservative guest schooled the partisan
reporter about hyping a "non-story."
Rage
When Trump Targets Media, Crickets When De Blasio Targets Media. If you listen to President Donald Trump's
critics, you'd think freedom of the press in this country is under siege. Trump has labeled "fake news" media as "the
enemy of the people," a phrase that seems fitting for a totalitarian, not an American president. But is it really
unique for an American politician to attack and delegitimize the media? That's the assumption driving the media's
largely self-serving narrative about Trump's threat to press freedom. But New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reminded
us this week when he slammed Fox News that Trump isn't the only politician attacking the media, and that liberals have no
problem with attacks on the press — so long as the attacks are aimed at the right outlets.
CNN thinks
too many Latinos like President Trump. Ronald Brownstein of CNN is in a panic. "Democrats have hit an
unexpected speed bump in their drive to regain control of Congress: unsettling signs that the party may not generate as much
turnout or support among Latino voters this fall as it expected," he wrote. Despite an endless stream of negative
stories on CNN and elsewhere about President Trump, a growing number of Hispanic voters support him. And the
wall. Democrats are worried that they won't be able to scare people into voting against President Trump's candidates
this fall.
Stop
saying "protesters" when you're talking about a mob. Yesterday [8/6/2018] we all saw the news of what happened
when Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk attempted to have breakfast at a restaurant in Philadelphia. At the time I didn't
feel particularly inspired to write anything about it because it just all seemed so predictable at this point. But I
noticed one headline from the Independent in Britain this morning which caught my attention because it contained such an
obvious, glaring error in the headline. "Candace Owens chased out of restaurant by left-wing protesters." Why are
we sticking with this idea that any group of people who decide to gang up on someone they disagree with are "protesters?"
How to Read the News
Like a Pro. First the headline, which reads: "Once oil wealthy, Venezuela's largest state struggles to
keep the lights on." That headline gives the impression that Venezuela has run out of oil, but nothing could be further
from the truth. The country still possesses the world's largest oil reserves, so there's plenty of oil wealth.
It's still right there in the ground. It hasn't gone anywhere. The problem is that Bolivarian socialism has
ruined the country's extraction industry, but you wouldn't know that from anything in the entire story.
The
media whips up hatred among classes, races, religions, and exactly two sexes.
• The media constantly publish stories showing that white people are racist. In the past 48 hours alone, the
New York Times has published stories showing that white people are racist in hotels and at public swimming pools. [...] Nearly every day, the
media write an article that reads, "White people are racist in [kind of place or circumstance]." This repeated emphasis whips up
racial resentment and encourages violence against white people.
• Not a day goes by without some gleeful account of how the non-white population of America is increasing, eagerly looking forward
to the day when whites are in the minority. This "in your face, white people!" mentality stirs up understandable resentment among white Americans.
• We are constantly told by the media to hate the rich, that if they have a lot of money, they must not have earned it legitimately,
that "their" money should be "our" money. The resentment built up by this kind of storyline encourages lawmakers to enact theft by higher taxation.
• Women are constantly told that most men are rapists or harassers who don't respect them. Women are encouraged to turn against
men and see rape in every dorm room and every janitor closet.
• We are repeatedly told that the police are racist.
The
American Left's Selective Outrage. Repeatedly pointing out the American left's obvious dishonesty, hypocrisy
and selective outrage seems pointless. And yet, I feel compelled to do so. For example: Fake news media
created a 24/7 media firestorm over Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels before he became
president. Due to recordings by Trump's lawyer, CNN has excitedly gone 24/7 in making the case that Trump is unfit to
serve because of his private life before he was elected. Hypocritically, CNN told us that Bill Clinton's private life
was none of our business while he was president.
The
10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades. [#7] Walter Cronkite: Cronkite was a much beloved network
anchor who began the politicalization of America's news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet
Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam
War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese
military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage
was done.
New
York Times Targets Kavanaugh's Wife. I wouldn't have thought my opinion of the New York Times could get any
lower, but it just did. NTK Network reports that the Times, as well as the Associated Press, has requested emails sent
or received by Ashley Kavanaugh in her capacity as town manager of Chevy Chase, Maryland: [...] They won't find anything, of
course. But this is what I want to know: When Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg, Sonia Sotamayor and Elena Kagan were
appointed to the Court, did the Times, or the Associated Press, try to investigate documents sent or received by their family
members?
The Top 50 Liberal
Media Bias Examples. [#6] Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas Vs. Elana Kagan: In 1987 and in 1991 when
Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas were respectively nominated to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, both men were
utterly destroyed by the press. In the case of Bork they were successful in preventing his nomination, not so in the
case of Thomas. It was so bad for Robert Bork that a verb was made of his name. After the press and Democrats
succeeded in ruining his career and reputation the term "Borked" gained cache. On the other hand, when Elana Kagan was
nominated by Obama to serve on the highest court in the land, the media went out of its way to ignore key factors in her
career in order to facilitate her ascension to the court. Just for one for instance, when running as McCain's VP, Sarah
Palin the media reported that she engaged in "book banning" when she was mayor of Wasilla. But Elana Kagan actually
ruled that book banning was OK and the media ignored the story during her confirmation hearings. Liberal media
bias 101.
Media
Bias Part... Well, Who's Even Counting Anymore? [Scroll down] Seriously, they have to know this
reporting (and other examples like it) is, at best, deliberately misleading and, at worst, unadulterated lying. What
seems more and more evident with each passing day to more and more Americans is that they do know they are being dishonest,
but they just don't care. That's worrying — and, in a sane world, this story would be getting much more
attention, and the media would get raked over the coals for it, further undermining whatever scant legitimacy they still
possess anywhere other than elite, insular enclaves on the coasts and on university campuses. Instead, because we have a
media that is constantly stepping on rakes, own-goaling itself into risible irrelevancy — on Helsinki, on Judge Kavanaugh,
on so many other things — this story will regrettably be lost to the flood of ever more ridiculous fake news.
More
Media Propaganda: AP Waits Until 24th Paragraph to Admit Illegal Alien's Deportation Process Started Under
Obama. Letty Stegall was deported earlier this year. Her family says they will not support President
Donald Trump. Letty, an illegal alien, had a US Social Security card. Letty Stegall popped up on the radar after
she was arrested on a DUI charge. That was in 2012 when Obama was president.
Congressman
Jason Lewis Tells the Truth about Black Violence. The journalistic hounds at CNN have a new target, a
politician whose sin is so egregious — so unthinkable — that it can hardly be spoken aloud: the
recently elected congressman from Minnesota disagrees with CNN orthodoxy on race. And now, with enthusiasm we have not
seen since hordes of reporters descended on Rick Perry's boyhood hunting grounds where they found a 30-year-old racial
expletive written under a rock, CNN has set out to punish Congressman Jason Lewis. [...] Lewis made the fatal error of
questioning whether welfare dependence is good for black people. Per usual CNN standards, none of the genius CNN
talking heads are willing to actually talk with Lewis, other than call him names and say he is a bad person and hope
no one notices the difference.
MSNBC's
Joe Scarborough Bashes Trump Supporters. A recent poll shows grassroots Republicans approve of Presient Donald
Trump's performance in Helsinki, despite the best efforts of liberal Democrats and media pundits to trash the president for
absolutely everything he did/does and said/says. The Axios/SurveyMonkey poll asked,"Do you approve or disapprove of the
way Trump handled his press conference with Putin?" Seventy-nine percent of Republicans approved. "Who [...] are these
people?" an incredulous Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," asked on Friday's show. He and his ilk are
stunned that President Trump would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the United States, when Trump's recent meeting
in Helsinki was "called treasonous" by the elites.
Maxine
Waters warns supporters of possible 'armed protests' against her. Rep. Maxine Waters warned supporters on
Wednesday [7/18/2018] of potential "armed protests" against her after an extremist group called for ongoing demonstrations outside her
office in Los Angeles. In a lengthy statement issued late Wednesday, Waters, D-Calif., said she'd been notified about forthcoming
protests by the Oath Keepers, which she described as "an anti-government militia" that's staged armed protests in cities across the
country. She warned her supporters against being "baited" into counter-demonstrations or confrontations with the organization,
which she said has a track record of "violent and provocative behavior."
The Editor says...
ABC News is happy to pass along demonstrable lies, as long as they come from an elected Democrat.
Anyone who spends five minutes examining who the Oath Keepers are and what they stand for will see that the Oath Keepers are
not an anti-government organization. Nor is there any evidence (known to me) that the Oath Keepers have ever engaged in
"violent and provocative behavior." If anyone in this story has a "track record" of encouraging violence, it is
Representative Maxine Waters.
Another Day,
Another Case Study on Media Bias. Glancing at the New York Times and CNN websites yesterday, you may have
learned that the Internal Revenue Service changed a rule in a way that would benefit big conservative corporations.
"NRA and some other nonprofits will no longer need to identify their donors to the IRS," reported CNN for example. You
only have to get two paragraphs in before scratching your head: ["][...] But the ruling also applies to groups like
the NAACP, labor unions and volunteer fire departments.["] Huh? Why the headline focus on the NRA, then?
The headline could have just as easily read "NAACP and some other nonprofits" or "Planned Parenthood and some other nonprofits."
There's no justification given in the article for the focus on the NRA in particular when we're talking about a rule that affects
literally every 501(c)(4).
Obama's Meddling
in Foreign Elections: Six Examples. While the media obsess over an alleged Russian conspiracy to collude
with Donald Trump to affect America's 2016 presidential election, what about Obama's interference in the elections of other
countries? Most Americans have no idea that President Obama meddled in elections all over the world. And
apparently, the media decided there's no reason for Americans to know about this illegal activity. [...] The media is
hysterical about a flimsy conspiracy theory that Russia colluded with Trump to steal the 2016 election but was mostly silent
about Obama's efforts to control the outcome of elections in at least six countries during his tenure.
CNN:
Too Many Catholics on the Supreme Court. [Of the Supreme Court justices,] 6 are Catholic, 3 are Jewish.
That might not be proportional to the population, but likely is a result of both religions having a studious culture that
tends to pore over details and the philosophies behind laws.
NY
Times Drools Over Possible Democratic Midterm Wins, Targets Individual Republicans Daily. In case you had any
doubts, the New York Times really, really wants Democrats to take control of the House and Senate in November. [...] When the
paper isn't hinting that individual Republicans should be run out of Democratic areas, they're celebrating any sign of
Democratic strength, no matter how indirect and presumptous. A story on Sunday ironically rejoiced at the win of a
white woman instead of a minority Cuban-American in the Democratic primary for a district that includes the Cuban exile
community "Little Havana" interpreting the win broadly to mean conservative anti-Communism is weaking its hold.
The
real meaning of Democrats' Supreme Court panic. Democrats are in a state of sheer panic. They're
panicking because last week, Justice Anthony Kennedy — a reliable vote in favor of certain leftist priorities
including abortion and same-sex marriage — announced that he will step down from the Supreme Court, leaving
President Trump a second selection. This apparently will lead to the end of a free America. According to Jeffrey
Toobin of CNN, the remade Supreme Court will spell doom: "Abortion illegal; doctors prosecuted; gay people barred from
restaurants, hotels, stores; African-Americans out of elite schools; gun control banned in 50 states; the end of regulatory
state." None of this is true, of course. It simply demonstrates the wild overreach to which the left has subjected
the judicial branch to date.
Chris
Matthews Urges Communist Revolution to Stop Supreme Court. So the Chris Matthews [plan] is for the Democrats to
declare a Communist revolution, call in the Russians for help, start executing their own people for being insufficiently
left-wing, go down to defeat, flee the country while kidnapping a bunch of children and stealing all the gold? Actually
I think that is their plan.
The Zombie Media.
In their ongoing comedy of chaotic outrage, the left has even managed to wreck its own storyline by adding a growing litany
of distracting or incompatible side plots. If Trump were mentally unstable to the point of blowing up the world, as CNN
and others have claimed, why would the Russians promote him as their stooge? Stormy Daniels, too, is a far less
believable creature than Anita Hill — and returning to the sex scandal ploy at this point is just going from
beating one dead horse to beating two. "Trump demanded an extra scoop of ice cream for himself!" "Trump is responsible
for making an innocent Hispanic child cry!" The random flailing is more like a grand mal seizure than an exercise
in journalism. It is almost as if some leftist billionaire (God only knows which one) had offered a gigantic prize to any
"journalist" who can bring the president and the populist movement down.
Democrats
are in a crisis and the media won't talk about it. The Democratic Party is in an ongoing crisis, but most of
the national media aren't interested. They'd rather talk about the new "rock star," Democratic Socialist Alexandria
Ocasio-Coretz, and ignore that the party is up in flames. Both Republican and Democratic voters are turning out in
record numbers for their primary elections this year, according to analysis published this week by the Hill. Democrats
have a slight advantage by about a million votes, but that's only in primaries.
Hungarian
Minister Chides 'Unbalanced, One-sided' BBC Anchor for Pro-EU, Pro-Migration Rant. Hungarian foreign minister
Péter Szijjártó had to chide BBC anchor Emily Maitlis for "unbalanced, one-sided" journalism after she lost
her temper and launched into a rant about the EU standing for "tolerance, diversity, and human rights". Speaking to
Szijjártó on the publicly-funded broadcaster's flagship BBC Newsnight programme, Maitlis took umbrage with the
Hungarian statesman's claim that "the current migration policy of the European Union can be very easily translated as an
invitation" to illegal migrants.
The Editor says...
I'm with Mr. Szijjártó on this one. That BBC woman is obnoxious, presumptuous and eristic.
NBC
"Reporter" Admits To Working With Democrat Party To "Inflict" Damage On President Trump. The media are so
excited thinking the manufactured crisis at the border (which is actually nothing more than the Trump administration
following laws passed decades earlier) will halt the remarkable pro-Trump momentum heading into the 2018 Midterms, they are
openly admitting to the link between themselves and the Democrat Party. There is no difference. The two are one
and the same and it's all about open borders, hating all things related to pro-American values, decimating the Middle Class,
and giving the nation away completely to the far left elites.
The
Media Misrepresents Pope Francis On The Border Crisis. From the way the media has reported it, you might think
that Pope Francis has condemned the Trump administration — and only the Trump administration — for the
crisis at the border. "Pope Francis Rebukes Trump Administration Over Family Separations," headlined Politico.
"Pope Francis Condemns Trump's Family Separation Policy," shouted Vox. The same headlines were virtually parroted one
way or another by HuffPo and WaPo. Of course, none of these outlets uttered so much as a peep when the Roman Pontiff
compared eugenics abortion to Nazi crimes or affirmed the Church's doctrine of marriage being between a man and a woman this
week. They trot out the Pope only when it suits their purpose and then discard him the moment he takes them to task for
their sins.
Oops!
NBC 'journalist' inadvertently exposes he's a partisan hack, quickly tries to walk it back. "It is our job in
the press, and it's also the job of Democrats, to not let the president have it both ways on this issue," [NBC reporter John]
Heilemann said while discussing President Trump's enforcement of a policy which separates families who entered the United
States illegally. "You can't inflict this kind of policy on Americans, and not pay a political price," the
national-affairs analyst for NBC News and MSNBC said. "We have a great chance to inflict one on him and his party in
November," Heilemann continued, but quickly backtracked.
Judge
strikes down Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship to vote. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson sided with
voters Monday [6/18/2018] that Kansas cannot require people who register to vote to provide documents such as a birth
certificate, U.S. passport or naturalization papers.
The Editor says...
Typical Associated Press bias: The judge "sided with voters." Really? The judge ruled in favor of those who wish to cast a ballot
with no questions asked, but this is not a ruling in favor of the voters who are legally entitled to a vote in an election that is not diluted by
ineligible ballots.
The Spying That Dare
Not Speak Its Name. The media's pooh-poohing coverage of Spygate grows more laughable by the day.
Turn on CNN at almost any hour and you will see its farcical re-education camp in session — this or that host
yelling louder and louder that no one "spied" on the Trump campaign. As stupid as this coverage is, it is
still worth dissecting, if only for its propagandistic shadings, telling omissions, and inadvertent revelations.
It is as if the media has an emergency manual at the ready in the event that a story starts hurting the
Democrats, a manual which enjoins reporters to run away from it as fast as they can. But if that's not possible,
if they have to shelter in place, they are instructed to minimize the story and urge the public to avert its gaze
from it.
Google Labeled GOP
Lawmaker a 'Bigot'. Google labeled Republican North Carolina state Sen. Trudy Wade as a "bigot" in its
"knowledge panel" for the pro-Trump lawmaker. According to Vice News Friday, searching for Wade on Google would show
users an image of the state senator with "BIGOT" in bright red letters displayed at the bottom. [...] Wade is currently in a
tough reelection battle. It's likely not helpful for her campaign to have the image as one of the first things voters
would see if they Google her.
Leftist
Big Media Wear Their Anti-Israel Bias Proudly. In one story pretending to focus on the relocation, the
anti-Trump network [CNN] not only denounced the fact that two Evangelical leaders — Pastor John Hagee and Pastor
Robert Jeffress — were on hand, but described both Christian leaders as "controversial" while dredging up years
old comments by both men. Hagee and Jeffress said the remarks were taken out of context, not reflective of their true
beliefs, and were not "newsworthy." Next, because both "controversial" Pastors strongly supported the election of Donald
Trump and the relocation of the embassy, CNN worked hard to paint the President guilty by association for knowing these
Christian leaders and having prayed with them in the past. Really? That was one of CNN's major takeaways from
this historic accomplishment?
Press hypocrisy of
the day. Obama wiretapped President Donald Trump. The press does not care. Obama planted a spy in
President Trump's campaign. The press does not care. But President Trump's Twitter account isn't secure.
That's a five alarm fire.
What
Changed? The Same Media Who Excuse Bob Mueller Abused Ken Starr. Today's journalists routinely assert
that it is "extreme," "dangerous," and possibly even criminal for the White House — or anyone else, for that
matter — to criticize an investigation into the President. But twenty years ago, Independent Counsel Ken
Starr was savaged by the same liberal media during his investigation of then-President Bill Clinton. At that time,
Starr was harangued as a "partisan" and "inept prosecutor," and a "peeping Tom." On Monday evening [5/21/2018], MSNBC host
Chris Matthews shared his take on the Trump administration's attitude towards Mueller while hosting Hardball: "President
Trump is indicating today that he's willing to go to extreme new lengths to discredit the Russia probe." "It seems
extremely dangerous that you have investigators investigating the investigation," intoned a deeply concerned Don Lemon. The
CNN Tonight host continued, "You have a President who appears to be, by anyone's standards, trying to manipulate the process."
As
Evidence Piles Up, The Media Ignore The 'Other' Trump-Russia Scandal. There have been two major ongoing
investigations involving President Trump. One is looking into whether Trump colluded with Russia. It's borne no
fruit. The other involves abuse of power at the highest levels of government to hurt Trump and is producing damning
evidence by the bushel. Guess which one the press is ignoring?
What's
Wrong With Those Texans? That's the question the Associated Press asks, following the school shootings in Santa
Fe: "School shooting may not bring change to gun-loving Texas." [...] What's interesting is that the AP never hints at
what "gun restrictions" the State of Texas ought to adopt. Indeed, it becomes obvious that the AP reporter, speaking
for liberals and the mainstream of the Democratic Party, doesn't much care: any restrictions will do.
NBC
cancels 'extremely liberal' drama 'Rise' amid backlash for mocking Christianity with far-left talking points.
NBC has canceled "Rise" after critics accused the show of being anti-Christian and going out of its way to squeeze in liberal
talking points. The Media Research Center, which has tracked the "extremely liberal high school drama" for bias against
Christians, posted an article celebrating its demise. "Rise," which starred Rosie Perez and Josh Radnor, was about a drama
teacher who polarizes the town with his passion for musicals — specifically the provocative "Spring Awakening."
Israel too Jewish? Top
US mag thinks so. Day after day I make it a point never to read The New Yorker, a magazine that used to
publish writers like J.D. Salinger. It topped the field in fiction and literary journalism until... until David Remnick
took over as editor, turning it into tabloid smut whose main business is to resist Donald Trump. Reading The New Yorker
was like being in a place where good people relaxed and reasoned together. That was before. These days only radical
leftists need apply for positions as writers or readers and this reader finally had enough. I said so when the abuse against
Trump began to feel like abuse against me. Smear tactics do that — everybody gets splattered with mud.
NBC
Paints America as the Villain Thwarting Caravan Progress. With the caravan of migrants now sitting at an entry
point on the U.S.-Mexico border outside California, the liberal major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were sure to
make it a big part of their Monday evening broadcasts. And while ABC and CBS both bemoaned how the people were stuck as
they waited to attempt to get into the country, the report on NBC Nightly News cast America in a negative light as
they portrayed us as a moral conundrum.
Comey,
Mueller and the poisonous tree. It is a strange and curious America that fêtes a former FBI director who
was fired from his job after exceeding his authority in ways that two presidential campaigns condemned, and who then leaked
confidential memos about a president he clearly despises. But that is the circus our media, politics and legal system
has become. Indeed, on one channel, James Comey is one step from jail and, on another channel, he is the spear that
will bring down the presidency. On one network the Russia collusion theory is done and, on another network, it's just
a matter of time before Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, flips on the president.
'Creepy'
Chick-fil-A slammed by 'New Yorker' writer from Brooklyn. Look out, world. New Yorkers have discovered
that their city has four Chick-fil-A restaurants — including the world's largest. Word got out last week in
a New Yorker magazine article titled "Chick-fil-A's creepy infiltration of New York City." The author is Dan Piepenbring,
described as being from Brooklyn.
Chick-fil-A's
Creepy Infiltration of New York City. New York has taken to Chick-fil-A. One of the Manhattan locations
estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more
storefronts in the city. And yet the brand's arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its
pervasive Christian traditionalism. Its headquarters, in Atlanta, is adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus
washing a disciple's feet. Its stores close on Sundays. Its C.E.O., Dan Cathy, has been accused of bigotry for
using the company's charitable wing to fund anti-gay causes, including groups that oppose same-sex marriage.
The Editor says...
To a New Yorker, I guess that sounds like an indictment. To anyone else, it sounds like a promotional brochure.
Chickens scare
New Yorker. Chick-fil-A scares Dan Piepenbring, a freelance writer in Brooklyn. He believes the
Atlanta-based chain of chicken sandwich shops is one long nightmare for the City that Never Sleeps.
Who's
more bigoted and intolerant: Chick-fil-A or the New Yorker writer who attacked it? I was honestly
astounded the New Yorker actually printed Dan Piepenbring's bigoted and downright ignorant attack piece Friday titled
"Chick-Fil-A's Creepy Infiltration of New York City." If we want to have a good-natured debate on Chick-fil-A versus
Wendy's based solely on personal preference, I'm all for that. That's capitalism at its finest. But Piepenbring's
piece objected to the supposed "infiltration" of Chick-fil-A on the basis of its owners' religious beliefs. Consider
the overt bigotry of this headline statement: [...]
The Media's War On
Freedom Of The Press. In '08, the New York Times published an op-ed by Obama, but rejected McCain's response.
It just published an editorial titled, "Watch Out, Ted Cruz. Beto is Coming" which appears to have no purpose other than to help
Beto O'Rourke raise money from New York Times readers. [...] "In one instance, The Enquirer bought but did not publish a story
about an alleged extramarital relationship years earlier with the presidential candidate," the Times sniffs. It's not
unprecedented for a paper to have damaging material about a politician without publishing it. Just ask the Los Angeles Times
about the vault they're keeping Obama's Khalidi tape in. Or ask the Washington Post about its embargo of the photo of
Obama posing with Nation of Islam hate group leader Louis Farrakhan at a CBC event.
American Journalists Are Hysterical
Knuckleheads. [Scroll down] Or take the reporting on the EPA's expected rollback of Obama's fuel-economy mandate. The mandate
required automakers to hit targets of 54.5 miles per gallon — an absurd number based on zero science (the decimal point was a snarky joke)
which automakers could duck by jumping through a bunch of largely cosmetic "green" hoops that cost them money but made the administration look
good. It was scientific, political and environmental hogwash that hurt American business. Here's how CBS reported it. "The Trump
administration is set to roll back one of President Barack Obama's signature policies on the environment." "It's expected to ignite a
firestorm of criticism." And then, despicably, they picked up a series of likely coordinated and unfounded attacks on EPA Chief Scott
Pruitt's ethics — travel expenses that are in keeping with those of previous directors, an apartment he rented from an energy guy who had
no business in front of the EPA, and so on — clearly designed to take the man down.
A tale of two Michael
Browns. Both were big men. Both black. Both teenagers. Both enjoyed all the opportunities our
nation offers. Michael D. Brown chose the thug life. It's the easy way out. Michael Brown of Houston
chose hard work, which paid off in an opportunity to work even harder for an even bigger payoff. [...] Which decision did
the press and the Marxists turn into a national cause?
Shocker:
Networks Covered 'March For Our Lives' 13x More Than 'March For Life'. No surprise here: major news networks
covered the pro-gun control, left-wing March for Our Lives 13 times more than the pro-life March for Life. According to
LifeNews, "the broadcast networks covered the March for Our Lives 13 times more than the pro-life march, the night of each
event." Perhaps most shocking is the fact that networks dedicated more time to the March for Our Lives than they did to
the Women's March — approximately 14 times more. That being said, the Women's March still received
significantly more coverage than the March for Life.
At the Strib, the
hatefest continues. I think of [Samuel] Johnson's gibe whenever the Star Tribune publishes a column by Katherine Kersten.
Kathy makes an argument solidly grounded in fact and analysis. Within a day or two, the editorial pages are weighed down with the groans
and shrieks of outraged Twin Cities leftists. They invariably make me wonder, with enemies like this, does Kathy need friends?
The Star Tribune, however, is something else. The Star Tribune hosts the shrieks.
CNN:
Changes to Census Are 'Designed to Drive Down Participation and Benefit Republicans Politically'. Since the
announcement from the Commerce Department that the 2020 Census questionnaire will include a question asking participants
whether or not they are citizens, the hosts and guests of CNN's New Day have been working overtime to try and convince
Americans that this proposal is racist.
America's
Lost Antidote to Political Correctness. One year ago this month on Jimmy Kimmel Live, conservative
comedian and Trump-supporter Tim Allen warned: "You gotta be real careful around here [in Hollywood]. You get beat
up if you don't believe what everybody else believes." Two months later, ABC abruptly pulled the plug on Allen's hit
conservative-leaning family comedy Last Man Standing (2011-2017), citing "business and scheduling" conflicts.
Fans didn't buy it and immediately took to social media to boycott the network. What made this particular cancelation
so insulting was the fact that at the time it happened, LMS was the second highest rated show for its time slot, with
8.1 million viewers.
CNN
Defames Geller to Embarrass John Bolton. Is there no limit to how low CNN will sink? CNN's Don Lemon
hosted a panel Thursday night featuring leftist turncoat Peter Beinart and "conservative" commentator Ben Ferguson, to
discuss incoming National Security Adviser John Bolton's supposed "anti-Muslim ties."
BET
boots journalist from Michelle Obama conference. The BET Network booted a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
from its conference for publishing a Q&A with Michelle Obama, sparking a social media storm. The network had invited
the Washington Post's Robin Givhan to its syntactically questionable "Leading Women Defined" conference in Bal Harbour, Fla.,
but then demanded she leave after she published her article, claiming that Obama's talk had been conducted in a "sacred
space." [...] When BET brass saw the story, they kicked Givhan out and canceled a panel she was due to moderate. But
while claiming Michelle's talk was private, BET didn't play by its own rules: The network posted sections of the
interview on its website, while Valerie Jarrett, who conducted the chat, teased on social media that fans should "tune in
to BET" to hear all that Obama really said.
Sooooo
Sincere: Christian-Basher Joy Behar Apologizes for Horrid Anti-Christian Remarks. Joy Behar, the ladies
of The View and Democrat leaders believe faith in Christ is a "mental illness." On Tuesday [3/13/2018] Joy Behar
apologized to Christians for her awful attacks.
Joy
Behar apologizes for comment comparing religion to mental illness. Joy Behar used Tuesday's [3/13/2018] episode
of The View to apologize for a month-old comment conflating some Christians' belief that Jesus talks to them with mental
illness. The controversy began in mid-February, when the hosts reacted to a scene on CBS' Big Brother: Celebrity
Editionin which former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman called Vice President Mike Pence "extreme" and said he
"thinks Jesus tells him to say things." At the time, Behar remarked, "It's one thing to talk to Jesus. It's another
thing when Jesus talks to you. That's called mental illness."
Pressure
grows for 'The View' star Joy Behar to apologize over anti-Christian comments, but ABC is silent. ABC News has
maintained a stony silence amid increased pressure for its star Joy Behar to apologize on-air to the "millions of Christians"
who watch "The View," leaving Disney boss Bob Iger to fend for himself when an angry shareholder asked him about the brouhaha
at a recent shareholder meeting. On Feb. 13, Behar criticized Vice President Pence's faith by saying that hearing from
Jesus is actually called "mental illness." The resulting public outrage led scores of angry viewers to call or write ABC News
demanding an apology. It wasn't until late last week that Iger, CEO of ABC parent Disney, finally revealed when questioned
by a concerned shareholder that Behar had privately called the vice president to apologize.
Judges
on "Top Chef" Finale Wear Lapel Pins Supporting Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz. People often derive their
worldview and news information from television celebrities. That is why celebrities have a unique opportunity to use
their platform to impact millions of Americans. Perhaps "Top Chef" judges Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Graham Elliot
and Jonathan Waxman understood that when they proudly wore Planned Parenthood pins on the cooking show for 3.02 million
viewers to see. Each of the judges is a high profile, celebrity chef with restaurants in major cities, best-selling
cookbooks or regular appearances on TV.
ABC
News star Joy Behar: Hanging with Farrakhan [is] 'baggage'; talking to Jesus [is] 'mental illness'. Apparently,
ABC News star Joy Behar thinks it's okay to talk to anti-Semitic figures, but not to Jesus. Behar and former Obama aide
Valerie Jarrett sparked outrage on Friday [3/9/2018] on "The View" when they defended Women's March co-founder Tamika Mallory,
who has been criticized for her ties to bigoted anti-Jewish Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Behar is no stranger to
controversy, as she has been under fire for saying that Vice President Mike Pence suffers from "mental illness" because he believes
in communicating with Jesus.
Washington
Post Writer Advocates for Outright Socialism. For generations, we've heard that socialist policies have failed
only because nations haven't properly implemented them. Even after a long track record of collectivism falling apart
over and over again — with examples happening right before our eyes — the left refuses to see that the
system many of them hold so dear is inherently flawed. It sure doesn't stop them from advocating for it time and again.
Just this week in the Washington Post, writer Elizabeth Bruenig opines that "It's time to give socialism a try." You may have
expected a statement like this from The Onion or UK's Daily Mash, but alas, this is a legitimate, serious consideration of state
economic ownership.
Public-Sector Unions Deserve
To Be Destroyed. In many states, public-sector unions don't have collective bargaining rights. Yet, as I
write this, every school in all 55 counties of one of those states, West Virginia, where the average teachers' salary is a
bit higher than the average worker's (not counting all the excellent benefits they receive) are now closed due to an illegal
teacher's strike. Most of those average workers in West Virginia have no choice when it comes to their children's educations.
Yet nearly every story about this situation focuses on the plight of poor teachers rather than powerless parents. On one hand,
we hear that teachers unions are vital to the economy because teachers would make far less in the private sector. In the next
breath, we hear them argue that teachers are substantially underpaid compared to what others earn in the private sector.
Is
Joy Behar sure that hearing God's voice means you're crazy? Co-host [of The View and self-described "faithful ... Catholic"
Sunny Hostin expressed negative feelings about Pence because, Hostin said, when the vice president was governor of Indiana, he was a "hated
figure" who tended to put a "religious veneer" on things. No one knows whether Mr. Pence ever claimed to speak in tongues,
but that didn't stop Hostin from pontificating, "I don't know that I want my vice president, you know, speaking in tongues and having Jesus
speak to him." Although Hillary Clinton regularly "communed" with Eleanor Roosevelt, the female panel agreed that having a leader who
thinks he hears Jesus's voice is a problem. Apparently, that consensus didn't go far enough; Joy Behar had to take things a step farther
when she offered up a psychiatric diagnosis based on Pence hearing Jesus's voice, which Behar said is synonymous with "mental illness."
The View co-host told the other ladies, "It's one thing to talk to Jesus. It's another thing when Jesus talks to you. That's called
mental illness if I'm correct, hearing voices."
Madness,
Christianity, and the Left. [W]hat was once considered mad is now deemed sane, while people once considered sane are
now the ones attacked as being mad as hatters and as vicious haters. For some time, it has been in vogue among the left to
consider Christianity itself an insane belief system. Certainly, such seems to be the case for some of the talking heads on
ABC's The View. According to Joy Behar, one of the most dangerously insane people in the United States is the vice
president of the United States, Mike Pence. Let's be frank: a well known spokeswoman has so thoroughly absorbed the
left's definition of insanity that she believes she can trash without consequence a good man whose core beliefs are based on
beliefs held by Judaism and Christianity for over four thousand years. Of course, she would never dream of trashing the
Muslim mayor of London in a similar manner.
For
the Left, It's Always 'Open Season' on Attacking Christians. It all started when "The View" played a clip from
"Celebrity Big Brother," in which former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said the vice president "thinks Jesus
tells him to say things." Sunny Hostin expressed concern about Pence's religious fervor and said she doesn't want her
vice president "speaking in tongues." "It's one thing to talk to Jesus. It's another thing when Jesus talks to
you," Joy Behar said, adding that hearing voices is a "mental illness." Jeffress wondered on "America's Newsroom" what
would have happened to Behar if she had mocked a devout Muslim.
MRC
Supporters Make 25,000 Phone Calls Demanding ABC Apologize for Attacking Pence, Christians. As of Monday
morning [2/19/2018], the Media Research Center and its grassroots members made over 25,000 calls to ABC lambasting the
network, demanding a full apology for anti-Christian comments made by The View on February 13 that suggested Vice President
Mike Pence's "dangerous" Christian faith was a "mental illness."
The
snookered press at Pyeongchang. When Kim Jong-un dispatched his crack propaganda team to Pyeongchang (and not
P.F. Chang, the Chinese restaurant chain, as reported by NBC News) to cover the Winter Olympics, he couldn't have imagined
that the American media in town would have been so easy to con. It was so easy, in fact, that a girl could do it, and
she did. "If 'diplomatic dance' were an event at the Winter Olympics," CNN reported with gasps of breathless wonder,
"Kim Jong-un's younger sister would be favored to win the gold." "Without a word, and only flashing smiles," observed
The New York Times, "Kim Jong-un's sister outflanked Vice President Mike Pence in diplomacy."
CNN
Analyst, MSNBC Hosts Denounce American Exceptionalism Due to a Lack of Gun Control. On Wednesday [2/14/2018],
it didn't take long for the liberal media to move from learning about what happened at the deadly school shooting in Florida
and the victims to lobbying for gun control.
The
true threat to our freedom and democracy is a compliant media. James Comey illegally leaks government documents to a
professor who releases it to the media. Much later, Comey says the professor was his attorney. Dianne Feinstein leaks
testimony about the Russian investigation to the media. She later blames a cold for her malfeasance. Adam Schiff
repeatedly goes to the media and claims there is evidence of a Russian collusion with Trump even though there is no actual
evidence. The media gladly repeats what Schiff says, acting as if it is factual. Anonymous sources have repeatedly
leaked material from private conversations at the White House and the media gladly takes the leaks and treats them as factual.
Information is repeatedly leaked from the "secret" Mueller investigation and it shows up in newspapers and on cable and network
news. But now, we are told that Democrats and the FBI say how dangerous it would be to the FBI and how it would undermine
the justice system if a memo from Republicans were released to the public.
Obamagate Confirmed. The media's
response to the release of the Nunes memo surpasses the level of Pravda covering a Soviet show trial. No sooner
had the memo appeared than journalists immediately began throwing sand into their audience's eyes. The story, according
to the media, is not that Obama's Justice Department/FBI snookered FISA court judges and used Hillary's purchased Steele
dossier to spy on Trumpworld. No, the scandal is that the evil Republicans exposed this outrage, and that Trump, the
ultimate target of this espionage, has the gall to defend himself. How dare a defendant in our kangaroo trial defend
himself with the truth — that's the upshot of all the media's bleating. All you can do is laugh at the
intensity of the gibbering propaganda and misdirection, which is nothing more than the rage of a ruling class nabbed in an
audacious act of political espionage.
From
Publishing the Pentagon Papers to Suppressing the Nunes Memo. If the release of government secrets hurts Republicans
or some cherished conservative cause, journalists support it. If the release hurts Democrats or some cherished liberal cause,
they oppose it. Daniel Ellsberg, good. Devin Nunes, bad. But unlike Ellsberg, Nunes has broken no laws.
No matter; the media will treat him as a traitor while exonerating real ones.
This
all but screams conspiracy. Left wingers in Congress and the media are in full blown panic mode and right this
minute are stomping their feet over the removal of Andrew McCabe from his position at the FBI. Both Carl Bernstein and Chris
Matthews are characterizing it as a "Saturday Night Massacre." That signals their game plan for the coming disaster they are
soon to have on their hands. Nancy Pelosi is close to being aphasic. Jake Tapper has abandoned all his journalistic
cred in favor of editorializing: [...]
Does
the Washington Post understand the 'rule of law'? The Washington Post editorialized that Republicans are trying
to undermine the rule of law because they dare question the FBI and Justice Department on their motives and methodology used
to justify spying on a political opponent. Evidence now clearly shows the Justice Department did everything they could
to elect Hillary and destroy Trump, abusing the FISA Court to weaponize the nation's intelligence and law enforcement apparatus.
The
Lucrative Business of Fending Off Migrants. Pitou remembers someone yelling, "Go, go!" Three hundred young men,
including him, began sprinting toward the fence. The first barrier was short. The second was three times
taller. Pitou was exhausted by the time he got to the top. The barbed wire tore through his clothes, and his
skin. Next thing he remembers, he was lying on the ground, police surrounding him. And the Red Cross. They
pulled him into an ambulance. Outside, he could hear his friends screaming in celebration: They had reached
Europe. Last August, Pitou successfully crossed the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of
Ceuta. The 6-meter barrier, covered in barbed wire and video cameras, is the last obstacle for thousands of African
migrants like him trying to reach Europe each year. But where some see a challenge, others see a business opportunity.
The Editor says...
The article above serves as an example of a "news" story that reeks with bias: Muslim invaders portrayed as migrants;
Opportunists portrayed as peaceful victims; The wall as a weapon; Trespassing as a virtue; Capitalists as greedy villains.
And that's just in the small excerpt above!
NPR
host refers to protest as 'the so-called March for Life'. A National Public Radio host on Friday referred to
the largest abortion opposition protest taking place as "the so-called March for Life." "America's biggest anti-abortion
rally, the so-called March for Life, will take place today in Washington, D.C., and Donald Trump is set to become the first
sitting president to address the annual event," said Rachel Martin, the host of "Morning Edition" on the nonprofit radio
network. The clip was first flagged by the Washington Free Beacon. Martin then interviewed Kristin Hawkins, the
president of Students for Life of America, an anti-abortion organization with more than 1,100 members nationwide.
'Lost'
Cronkite broadcast reveals 180-degree war flip. [Scroll down] American estimates showed that of the
84,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas involved in the entire [Tet] offensive, a staggering total of
58,000, or 72.5 percent, had been killed by South Vietnamese, American and other allied forces. "There is no question
that the Communists suffered one of the greatest military defeats in history at Tet," said Gen. Patrick Brady, the most
decorated living U.S. military figure, a Vietnam war hero and author of "Dead Men Flying." "The North was about to
quit — Cronkite helped change that." "In his pseudo-documentary on Vietnam, Ken Burns repeats Cronkite's
apocalyptic version of Tet despite the fact that it was surely one of the greatest military victories in the history of
warfare," said Brady.
Poor Hillary
Clinton. Until 2016, none had thought to make it an issue of gender, largely because one gender had been
shared by all comers. But in 2016, that was changed by the serious entry of Hillary Clinton, who managed to lose to
Donald Trump against all odds. Afterward, she blamed her female sex for the loss, after first blaming FBI Director
James Comey. [...] Recent history is rife with examples of people whose very rough treatment (by Hillary's allies) make
her tribulations seem tame. In 2012, Mitt Romney, a Dudley Do-Right if ever there was one, was slammed by the press
and the Democrats as a sadist (for transporting his dog on the roof of his car); as a bully (for cutting the hair of a
classmate in prep school); as a murderer (for causing the wife of a worker to expire from cancer); as dismissive of females (for
using the phrase "binders of women" to refer to resumes given to him by people as possible candidates for government jobs).
Stephen
Miller seeks revenge after 'extraordinarily biased' CNN interview. White House policy adviser Stephen Miller
took his criticism of CNN to a different network Monday night, blasting the outlet for leaking a transcript of his
conversation with anchor Jake Tapper after he was booted off the air during a combative interview. "CNN has been
extraordinarily biased, extraordinarily unfair to the president, and is not giving their viewers honest information," Miller,
who famously sparred with the network's White House correspondent Jim Acosta over President Trump's immigration agenda, told
Fox News' Tucker Carlson. Miller's appearance on a friendlier network came a day after Tapper kicked him off his program
for his "obsequious" behavior, accusing the former GOP staffer of riffing about CNN's coverage just to impress the president.
NBC
retracts 'stunningly unprofessional' tweet declaring Oprah Winfrey 'our' next president. NBC apparently forgot
it has a news division on Sunday night when it campaigned for Oprah Winfrey to run for president, but on Monday [1/8/2018],
the network blamed a third party for an errant tweet backing the TV talk show queen's supposed 2020 ambitions. "Nothing
but respect for OUR future president," the verified NBC account tweeted on Sunday night during its Golden Globes telecast,
complete with an image of Winfrey, after host Seth Meyers joked about his desire for the talk show icon to run for office.
Early Monday, NBC appeared to back off the apparent Oprah endorsement, and blamed it on a "third party."
NBC
endorses Oprah for president, Donald Trump Jr. fumes. Trump Jr. wasn't the only one.
Outrage
grows over CNN's pot-infused New Year's segment. Outrage continues to mount two days after CNN put the "J" in
journalism with a marijuana-themed New Year's Eve segment that some are already using as an excuse to smoke the Hippie
Lettuce in states where it's not currently legal. During the liberal cable news network's year-end broadcast from Times
Square, reporter Randi Kaye did several, um, "hits" from Denver, where marijuana is legal. At various points, she held
a joint, lit a bong, marveled over a special gas mask used by stoners and wondered where she was. Kaye didn't partake
herself while on the air, but the bit was enough to appall some viewers and confuse people who might be locked up for doing
the same thing.
What's
next, CNN? Celebrating the ball drop from a brothel? CNN does not understand why viewers across the fruited
plain are disgusted with the cavalcade of depravity displayed during the network's New Year's Eve broadcast. The "Most
Trusted Name in News" hauled out a bunch of middle-aged journalists (who have trouble holding their liquor) to flirt on live
television, cavort with drag queens, and deliver sexually-charged banter. [...] "CNN is trying to trademark the debauchery as
its brand for New Year's Eve coverage," Media Research Center President Brent Bozell told Fox News. Anderson Cooper,
who spent much of the broadcast giggling like a school girl at a Justin Bieber concert, defended the network's programming decision.
Media
Sides with Iran! "Has the Left Ever Been More Morally Bankrupt?". The mainstream media is siding with
Iran in opposition to President Trump, if they say anything at all. The MSM is protecting the terror nation of Iran as
best they can. [...] Iran has blocked Instagram/messaging out of the country, threatened protesters, and murdered ten that we
know of, as the protests continue after three days and nights during which throngs have taken to the streets, torn down
Khamenei posters and chanted, "Death to the dictator, death to Russia", while promising a fight to the death.
This isn't journalism, it's left-wing activism.
Don
Lemon Sweetly Smooches Boyfriend Live on CNN on New Year's. [Scroll down] Lemon wasn't the only member of
the CNN family making a splash on New Year's. Reporter Randi Kaye held a lit joint while reporting on marijuana-themed
festivities in Colorado (where pot is very much legal). Although she was never seen taking a puff herself, Kaye held the
joint at a "puff, pass and paint" party in Denver.
The Iran Echo
Chamber Smears Politico Magazine. Nothing has been more tedious over the last year than the constant reminders
that good journalism is "now more important than ever." The implication, of course, is that solid, groundbreaking reporting
was not as essential so long as a liberal Democrat was in power. I've long assumed that the factotums mouthing such
clichés lack the self-awareness to understand the true import of their words. But maybe I've been wrong.
Recent days brought evidence that, no, liberals really mean it: the only meaningful investigative work is that which
reflects poorly on Republicans.
Mainstream
media heralds book depicting Santa Claus as a gay black man. Mrs. Claus is now a mister in a new
gay-themed Christmas storybook for children that has CNN and the rest of the Mainstream Media all aflutter. "Santa's
Husband" tells the story of a black Kris Kringle and his white husband living in holy matrimony at the North Pole. I
don't mean to curdle your egg nog, but the storybook was written for children as young as four-years-old.
On
CNN, GOP Senator Calls Out 'Negative' Media Bias Against Tax Cut Plan. On Tuesday's [12/19/2017] New Day
on CNN, as Senator John Kennedy appeared as a guest to discuss the Republican tax cut plan, the Louisiana Republican implicated
the "negative" media coverage of the proposal after host Chris Cuomo brought up a CNN poll finding that most Americans oppose
the plan. At 7:24 a.m. ET, Cuomo set up the segment: "Republicans in the House are set to vote on
the final version of their tax plan today. The Senate is expected to get the bill to the President's desk by tomorrow.
Our new CNN poll shows 55 percent of you oppose this bill. What is that going to mean to Senators?"
Collins:
Media coverage of my tax vote 'unbelievably sexist'. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Tuesday complained
that the coverage of her role in the GOP tax plan has been "unbelievably sexist," Politico reported Tuesday [12/19/2017].
Collins, who has been a key vote in the bill's passage, said the coverage has been "extremely discouraging." "I believe
that the coverage has been unbelievably sexist, and I cannot believe that the press would have treated another senator with
20 years of experience as they have treated me," she told reporters. "They've ignored everything that I've gotten and
written story after story about how I'm duped. How am I duped when all your amendments get accepted?" Critics of the
tax bill had hoped that Collins would vote against it, given that she opposed legislation earlier this year to repeal ObamaCare.
5
times New York Times writer Charles Blow belittled black Trump supporters. New York Times columnist Charles
Blow has a long history of criticizing Republicans, but he has been particularly hostile toward other blacks who have
supported President Trump and those who work in his administration. Here are 5 times Blow belittled and lashed out at
Trump supporters who are black: [...]
Who
Says The GOP Tax Cuts Are Unpopular? Poll after poll shows that few support the Republican tax-cut plan.
But when pollsters bother to ask about specifics in the bill, support skyrockets. Guess which results make the headlines?
Cheers
Can Be Heard on CNN as Dem Jones Takes the Lead in Alabama. In the early part of the 10:00 p.m. Eastern
hour, and before the Alabama Senate race was called for Democrat Doug Jones, cheers could be heard on CNN's live broadcast as
Wolf Blitzer announced Jones had taken the lead. At roughly 10:19 p.m. Eastern, Hale Country [sic] finally turned in
their votes. "Look at this! Wow, look at this," exclaimed Blitzer. "All of a sudden, Doug Jones is taking the lead."
"Hale County just came in, which puts him back in the lead," explained Inside Politics host John King as they stood in front
of the map. And as they spoke an audible whoop from off-camera could be heard.
Chuck
Todd's Roy Moore Hypocrisy: NBC's Haven of Homophobes, Accused Sex Abusers, and Enablers. NBC is
currently in full Kill Roy Moore and Donald Trump mode. It was fascinating watching those moments from Sunday's
[12/10/2017] Meet the Press as host Chuck Todd and his one-sided panel piously blasted away at Republican Senate
candidate Roy Moore and his supporters. Ann Althouse put it best, describing the whole charade as "cheesy emoting in
the Theater of Sanctimony." What struck me even more was the hypocrisy, because Todd's own employer, NBC, has become
a haven for homophobes, accused sex abusers, and their enablers.
Chris
Matthews bashes 'crazy' Christians with 'mythical' beliefs about Jerusalem. MSNBC host Chris Matthews said
"crazy" evangelical Christians in the South are uninformed about President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel because they have "mythical beliefs" about the ancient city. "Don't think this isn't related to
Alabama next week," Mr. Matthews said Wednesday on "Morning Joe," referring to the Alabama Senate race. "It is
related, because it's the Christian evangelicals down there with their crazy ideas about Israel, which is, I don't know,
mythical. They don't understand the situation over there and how tricky it is ethnically and tribally. They don't
care, because it's a religious belief. Trump's playing to that this week. You watch him."
GOP-led
House passes bill making it easier for gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines. Republicans
rammed a bill through the House on Wednesday [12/6/2017] that would make it easier for gun owners to legally carry concealed
weapons across state lines, the first significant action on guns in Congress since mass shootings in Nevada and Texas killed
more than 80 people. The House approved the bill, 231-198, largely along party lines. The measure would allow gun
owners with a state-issued concealed-carry permit to carry a handgun in any state that allows concealed weapons. It now
goes to the Senate.
The Editor says...
Notice that when Democrats have control of the House, a bill can "sail through" or "pass easily," but when
Republicans are in the majority, the bills are "rammed" through.
MSNBC
Spins Pro-Abortion Alabama Democrat as 'Conservative'. MSNBC journalists on Tuesday rushed to the defense of
the Democrat in Alabama's Senate race, spinning Doug Jones as "moderate" and "conservative." This despite his firm support
for abortion and some gun control policies.
Incorrigibly biased, but still on the staff:
ABC
News President: Brian Ross Will No Longer Cover Stories Related To Trump. It's one thing to suspend a
reporter for making an incredibly damaging error of basic fact on air. But to remove him from covering a particular
subject altogether? That's the sort of thing you might do if you'd concluded he's incapable of covering that topic
fairly. If it's an innocent mistake borne of carelessness, there's no need to declare certain topics off-limits.
You do that only when you think the reporter's view of that topic will necessarily compromise his judgment.
The
Mainstream Media Doesn't Deserve Our Respect or Our Trust. You mainstream media hacks want trust and
respect? Maybe you shouldn't Tweet out instructions to contact Senators to defeat the tax bill like the New York
Times just did. Maybe you should stop covering for the off-camera leering and grabbing and pinching of the talking
heads who excoriate Trump for misogyny. Maybe you should stop hiring journalists who are ex-Obama flunkies. Maybe
you shouldn't email offers of assistance to Democrat campaigns. Maybe you should stop lying to us.
Jimmy
Kimmel Sends Redneck 'Republican' Prankster to AL Church to Taunt Moore Voters. Earlier this week, ABC's late
night host turned activist sent one of his pranksters to Alabama to mock churchgoers and voters there who support senatorial
candidate Roy Moore.
The
New York Times Lobbies for the Democratic Party. I'm not easily shocked these days, but what the New York Times
did today was stunning. It lobbied against the Republican tax bill via Twitter.
NYT
Opinion Page Encourages Readers to Call Senators to Defeat Tax Bill. On Wednesday [11/29/2017], The New York Times
editorial board and Twitter account arguably crossed a line into becoming a grassroots advocacy group, encouraging and providing both
readers and Twitter followers with phone numbers to call select Republican Senators in order to defeat the Republican tax plan.
This decision reeks of hypocrisy, considering the newspaper's fervent opposition to the Citizens United case, which my colleague Clay
Waters has written about here and here. Newspaper editorial boards state their support or opposition for legislation or policies
on a daily basis, but launching a campaign to call U.S. Senators? That's a far different matter.
Anti-Trump
MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks rural Americans are 'core threat' to democracy. MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks that
rural Americans are "the core threat to our democracy" and pointed to a series of tweets by liberal author Jared Yates Sexton
that claimed Trump supporters "do not believe in the Constitution or any founding principles unless they're advantageous" as
proof of her far-left theory. [...] Reid, who tweets so often that it's amazing she finds time to do anything else, has a
feed that is essentially the anti-Trump talking points of the far left on a daily basis.
Joe
Scarborough Gives Impassioned Defense of John Conyers: 'I Would Call That an Icon!' MSNBC's Joe Scarborough
launched into an impassioned defense of Rep. John Conyers, arguing on Morning Joe that despite the sexual
harassment allegations, the congressman is still an American icon. Scarborough was responding to Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi's train-wreck interview on Sunday's Meet the Press, in which she stumbled over a number of questions on
Conyers's fate in Congress, and called the civil rights leader "an icon in our country." The Morning Joe co-host
noted that Conyers might have dementia, stating "he's clearly not capable of being a United States congressman."
WaPo
Reporter Goes Rogue, Gives Strategy Briefing to Secret Dem Donor Conference. Washington Post reporter
Janell Ross gave a presentation at a secretive California gathering where Democratic politicians, liberal activists, and
their biggest donors plotted the future of the progressive movement without notifying her superiors that she would be
attending, according to a Post spokesman. The Democracy Alliance went to great lengths to keep the identities of
its members and guests confidential at its fall investment conference last week at the La Costa Resort, but the Washington
Free Beacon obtained a detailed conference agenda that lists both events and featured guests. Among them was Ross,
a national reporter who closely covered the 2016 presidential campaign for the Washington Post and has since continued
to cover the Trump administration.
Democrat
News Network: CNN Fails To Report These 24 Democrat Sex Scandals. As sexual misconduct allegations continue to rock liberal
Hollywood, the mainstream media establishment, and politicians of both political parties, at least the Democrats can count on CNN to
eschew reporting about dozens of sexual allegations on members of their party. To be fair, it is worth noting that CNN has reported on
a couple of the big Democrat sex scandals currently receiving major media attention on other news networks, specifically the scandals involving
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).
Media
Defended Bill Clinton From Sexual Assault Allegations Just Last Year. Members of the media are finally acknowledging Bill
Clinton's alleged sex crimes, but they can't get too much credit given their 2016 habit of playing defense for the former president.
MSNBC's Chris Hayes tweeted on Friday [11/17/2017] that Democrats and the center-left need to have a "reckoning" with the allegations, and
CNN anchor Jake Tapper admitted last Monday that Clinton's accusers were never given the same respect as accusers today.
Roy Moore Gets the
Herman Cain Treatment. It was déjà vu all over again as the Washington Post, who has endorsed his opponent
in the Alabama Senate race, brought forth 40-year-old sexual molestation accusations against Judge Roy Moore. From Clarence Thomas, to the
Duke lacrosse team, to the University of Virginia rape case, to Herman Cain, we have heard such charges before and the rush to judgment that
follows. Moore's accusers issue the boilerplate caveat that if the charges are true, he should exit the public stage immediately in shame
and certainly that is true. Then they quickly throw him under the guilty-as-charged bus that just ran over his presumption of innocence.
It matters not that Judge Roy Moore has been in Alabama politics for decades and his accusers were silent — silent until he threatened the
establishment by being a credible candidate for the U.S. Senate, having dispatched the establishment candidate, Luther Strange, in the Alabama
primary. Had Moore lost the primary, it is doubtful these accusations would have surfaced.
Brokaw
Frets to McCain: Trump 'Turned the Country Against' Media. In an interview with Arizona Senator John
McCain for Thursday's NBC Today, Senior Correspondent Tom Brokaw invited the Republican lawmaker to attack President
Trump and painted the liberal media as the victim: "In the course of your political career, especially as a
presidential candidate — as I learned first hand — you had some mixed relations with the press.
The President has no use for the press, he has turned the country against us, in many ways." McCain was quick to agree
with Brokaw's whining: "Yeah, I think the role of the press is more important than ever before. I hate the press,
okay? But the fact is, without a free press in this country, a pillar of democracy is destroyed."
Brokaw
Slams Brazile for 'Beyond Counter-Productive' Clinton Exposure. The portion of former interim Democratic
National Committee Chair Donna Brazile's book exposing ethically questionable behavior by the Clinton campaign surprisingly
got a lot of play on the network Sunday morning shows. But during NBC's Meet the Press, former anchor Tom Brokaw was
not pleased with Brazile for shedding light on how the Clinton campaign bought the DNC and added it to their campaign
arsenal. And towards the end of the program, he criticized her for doing so.
The Editor says...
Since I never watch NBC and haven't seen a picture of Mr. Brokaw lately, I was surprised to see that he now
looks like George Burns minus the cigar.
A curious assault
on diversity of opinion. A cabal of journalists is concerned that not every reporter and opinion writer is
consumed by the Russian inquiry. Politico this week noted that Michael Goodwin, a conservative columnist for this
newspaper, called for the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller, while the conservative editorial page of the Wall Street
Journal took a similar stance, as did some conservative hosts on Fox News. In the New York Times, Jim Rutenberg wrote a
column that observed this fact as well. The Washington Post and The Week then picked up the theme. All implied
that something nefarious must be going on, since all these publications were pushing a similar line.
Disgusting
Behavior: ABC Panel Shouts Down Truth of Dossier Collusion. Fox and Friends' co-host Brian
Kilmeade walked into a lion's den during his book tour on Sunday [10/29/2017] when he appeared ABC's This Week as a
part of a panel that was stacked against him. A fairly large segment of their roundtable discussion was about the
infamous Trump dossier that was put together by a British spy, Russian agents, and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee. Everything got extremely heated when the liberal panel began to shout Kilmeade down and
ludicrously claim there was no connection between Clinton/Democrats and the Russians via the dossier. When Clinton
lackey George Stephanopoulos first brought up the dossier for this panel to discuss, he called on Clinton campaign staffer
Karen Kinney to set up their talking points.
NBC
Omits Clinton, Includes Clarence Thomas in Sex Harassment Story. On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, on display was
the latest example of liberal journalists conspicuously ignoring accusations of sexual assault against President Bill Clinton even
while going all the way back 26 years to include sexual harassment charges against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. NBC
correspondent and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle filed a three-minute full report about the issue of sexual harassment of women in the
workplace in light of recent accusations against film maker Harvey Weinstein and other high-profile perpetrators.
Scandals
Expose Empty Barrel NeverTrumpers. [Scroll down] I almost hesitate to mock Jennifer Rubin because, let's
be honest, being Jennifer Rubin every day must be punishment enough. She calls herself the "conservative blogger" at
the Washington Post, but there is nothing conservative about her. Rubin's recent posts cheer milquetoast
Republicans such as John Kasich and Susan Collins, lament how she didn't appreciate Clinton and Obama when they were in
office, blast the "travel ban" and the NRA, compare Trump to Harvey Weinstein, and insist we need to hear more from Sally
Yates. If she's a conservative, I'm Jordan Spieth.
Journalists
claim Kimmel is America's 'conscience,' NRA is 'terrorist,' and other awful media mistakes. CNN's Bill Carter
wrote an especially ridiculous piece under the headline: "How Jimmy Kimmel became America's conscience." Carter's
piece read like a press release from Kimmel's publicist: "Kimmel simply sounds like a regular guy making reasonable
points — because he is a regular guy." Maybe he seems like a regular guy, but he's not. Kimmel earns
$10 million a year and has a net worth of about $35 million, according to Celebritynetworth.com. Everybody
reading who's a millionaire, raise your hands. And with all the sudden pretense that Kimmel is such a moral leader, it
might be good to recall the Jimmy Kimmel origin story. Kimmel built his career with jokes about genocide and promoting
R. Kelly, who's accused of sex with minors. And then there's Kimmel's time on "The Man Show," where he urged young
women to get on a trampoline and jump around to please the audience.
Terrorist Murderer Loses U.S. Citizenship &
Deported-Press Whitewashes Her History. After years of legal wrangling and a change in U.S. Presidents,
70-year-old Chicago Palestinian murderer Rasmea Odeh officially lost her citizenship and was deported from the United States
last week for concealing her murder/conviction of two Israeli college students. Of course, if you follow the media
reports you wouldn't know that Odea murdered two kids, For example, the Chicago Sun-Times buried the lede in their story.
Megyn
[Kelly] Responds To Saudi Arabia Letting Women Drive — By Criticizing America. In response to the
news that Saudi Arabia is now allowing women to drive, NBC's Megyn Kelly criticized the United States for having "such a long
way to go" on women's rights. After announcing that the Muslim country is now allowing women to drive, Kelly almost
immediately turned to criticizing perceived gender inequality in the United States. [Video clip]
Goodbye, FS1.
FS1's
Sharpe: Racist U.S. Flag Is Just 'A Piece of Cloth... Nobody Fights For'. After engaging in character
assassination against Green Bay Packers fans who chose not to protest during Thursday's National Anthem, FS1's Undisputed
co-host Shannon Sharpe did the same with the American flag, declaring it to be merely a racist "piece of cloth" that "nobody
fights for." "The flag, you see, to a lot of people, symbols, patriotism but what does that symbol actually mean?
What does — what does — okay — you keep telling me that the flag means so much and it's
opportunity and freedom and liberty. Okay. Can you honestly say that everybody in America has freedom and
liberties and opportunity," Sharpe wondered to co-host Skip Bayless.
Whose side is he on?
NBC's
Holt Sympathizes With Rogue Iran Regime Against Trump Rhetoric. In his first speech to the United Nations on
Tuesday [9/19/2017], President Trump put the rogue regimes of Iran and North Korea [on notice] by calling on the world to
stand up to their threatening ways. But NBC Nightly News took acceptation to Trump's targeting of Iran and
defended them in an interview Anchor Lester Holt had with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. "And minutes before
President Trump ripped Iran in that nuclear deal in his speech today, I sat down with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani who
pointed out U.N. watchdog in charge of policing Iran's nuclear activities has thus far found Iran in compliance," Holt touted
as he led into the interview.
LGBTQ Activist
Commits Suicide by Cop - Who Does the Media Blame? Even when an incident is recorded, fully displaying the
innocence of police officers, the left jumps to claim that police have somehow mishandled a sad situation. Such is the
story that is playing out in Atlanta, as police are once again forced to defend themselves from their leftwing attackers.
Jedediah
Bila Leaves "The View" — Over Hillary Interview? If the "View" crew couldn't handle two challenging
questions to their idol without freaking out, it ain't Bila who's living in a world where there's only one worldview.
U2
cancels St. Louis concert after protests lead to dozens of arrests. After violent protests erupted in
St. Louis Friday night, U2 has announced they've canceled a Saturday night performance in the city. The St. Louis
Metropolitan Police Department said 32 people were arrested when protesters took to the streets after a white former
police officer, Jason Stockley, was acquitted earlier that day in the 2011 fatal shooting of Lamar Smith, a black man.
The Editor says...
The only time the news media refer to someone as "a black man" is when he is a victim, not a suspect. Showing
only one side of a coin, when everybody knows there's a nice side and an ugly side, is overt bias.
Associated
Press Says: Don't Cut Taxes! The Associated Press is one of many "news" outlets that has gone into overt
opposition, now that we have a Republican rather than a Democrat in the White House. Today's AP "Top News" feature is
headlined: Doubts arise on whether corporate tax cut would boost growth. The passive voice is generally a
giveaway. Where, exactly, are doubts "arising"?
NBC
Reporter Wanted to Throw Up After Trump Won. "The room goes wavy. My stomach churns. I can feel the
bile in the back of my throat." That reaction to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election didn't come from Hillary Clinton's
new memoir, it came from the pages of NBC correspondent and MSNBC anchor Katy Tur's book about covering the campaign.
The Editor says...
If you're so personally affected by a story that it makes you physically ill, you shouldn't be reporting it.
CBS's
Rose Goes to Battle With Bannon. On Sunday [9/10/2017], CBS News ran two high-profile interviews with two very
influential political movers and shakers, the Jane Pauley interview with Hillary Clinton during Sunday Morning and
Charlie Rose's interview with Steve Bannon on 60 Minutes. And the two interviews couldn't be any[ ]more
different. Pauley's was mournful as she tried to connect with Clinton over her loss to Trump, while in the other, Rose
was eager to fight and became combative as he lectured Bannon. On nearly every topic the two discussed, Rose lectured
and berated Bannon about America and his worldview.
Mueller
finds alarming signs, and sleazy people, in collusion probe. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
into possible collusion between the Donald Trump presidential campaign and agents of the Russian government has been
remarkably discreet, as it should be. But other sources have leaked three names — Michael D. Cohen, Felix
Sater and Eric Schneiderman — that indicate that Mueller's team is probing very deeply. If there's a smoking
gun to be found, Mueller is getting closer to it.
Opposing viewpoint:
Anatomy of a
sleazy editorial. Remarkably discreet? Then how does the newspaper know who is being probed if Mueller is
being discreet? Federal prosecutors do leak damaging information to friendly newspapers and cable outlets. Jim
Comey testified under oath to Congress that he used a third party to leak a memo to the New York Times. Mark
Felt — passed over by Nixon as FBI director — was Deep Throat in Watergate. It would take a
stretch of the imagination to believe that another former FBI official would eschew such tactics in trying to shake
information from reluctant witnesses. How does the editorial board know "other sources" — implied as not
connected with Mueller — leaked?
WashPo:
DACA Illegals Needed Because Blacks, Latinos Can't Do the Jobs. Reporter Tracy Jan headlined her article "The
Truth" as she argued that lower-skilled Americans cannot do the jobs filled by DACA illegals. [...] To decorate her claim,
she quoted Douglas Holtz-Eakin. [...] A few details about Holtz-Eakin. His American Action Forum was created by GOP
donor Fred Malek. In turn, Malek gets his wealth from extensive investments in hotels, which gain greatly from a large
scale supply of immigrant workers and immigrant customers.
Vanity
Fair Picks Liberals For 2017 Best-Dressed List; SNUBS Melania Trump. Vanity Fair, which previously
featured Melania Trump on one of its covers, snubbed the First Lady of the United States in its 2017 best-dressed
list — while featuring numerous liberals, including both Obamas. The list, comprised of over
40 people, is broken into eight-sections: [...]
Networks
Hide Senator Bob Menendez's [D-NJ] Corruption Trial. Federal prosecutors are currently trying to put away
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges, but in the world of the mainstream media, the trial isn't even going
on. If found guilty, Menendez's replacement could increase GOP control in the upper chamber of the legislature.
However, despite the high stakes, broadcast news networks have barely even mentioned the senator's name this year, let alone
the trial.
Trump
gives new meaning to the Friday night news dump, enraging his critics. President Trump, in the space of four
hours, made official a ban on transgender people serving in the military, pardoned a controversial sheriff accused of racial
profiling and parted ways with polarizing aide and conservative media darling Sebastian Gorka. The announcements were
made in the evening hours as the nation focused on Hurricane Harvey, which threatened catastrophic damage to areas along the
Gulf Coast, giving new meaning to the Friday night news dump strategy that has long been a staple for Washington politicians
looking to bury controversial decisions.
The Editor says...
The Washington Post, and the news media in general, as I recall, never complained
when Barack H. Obama did the same thing.
CNN:
Everyone Who Voted For Trump Is A 'White Supremacist By Default'. CNN used the voices of a few professors and
activists to assert anyone who voted for President Donald Trump is a white supremacist in a news report Wednesday, and to
blame these "ordinary" people for the violence in Charlottesville. Trump voters helped advance white supremacy by
giving them room to operate, CNN reported based on the assertions of others in a piece headlined, "'White Supremacists by
default': How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible."
Provocateur Journalism.
When a news organization reports an impending weather event based on forecasts from the National Weather Service, or warns of potential
seismic activity anticipated by the U.S. Geological Survey, or alerts the public concerning an infectious-disease outbreak being tracked
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no one questions the news organization's motives, because the underlying information
is factual and derived from a reliable, nonpartisan, and authoritative source. CNN presents itself as a news organization, yet today [8/17/2017]
it posted a dubious story titled "Here are all the active hate groups where you live," based entirely on data from the Southern Poverty Law
Center. The SPLC is not the equivalent of the National Weather Service, the USGS, or CDC, to put it mildly. It is risible for
CNN to recite SPLC data uncritically, with no additional validation, as a credible list of "domestic hate groups," let alone to describe
SPLC's data as "widely accepted."
Remember
When Obama Praised Violent Leftist Rioters? The MSM had no problem with the Ferguson, Occupy or Baltimore riots
nor did they have a problem with former president Obama's support of the violent leftist agitators. Yet, nothing
President Trump says will satisfy the left. If he doesn't name the white supremacists and dares mention the violent
leftists, the left goes wild. After he then condemns the white supremacists, the left says it's too late.
Who's
Side Are They On? Nets Tout North Korea's Anti-U.S. 'Defiance'. In a remarkable display of group think on
Thursday, all three network morning shows touted North Korea hurling personal insults against President Trump as an act of
"defiance" and promoted forced demonstrations in Pyongyang as a "display of unity" from the oppressed people in the
authoritarian regime.
This is activism, not journalism.
AP
Gives 'Tips' for Deciding If Your Kid Is Transgender. The Associated Press is giving tips for parents on how to
decide whether their child is transgender, including allowing little boys and girls to "call the shots in terms of their
gender." The article, "Wondering if your child is transgender? Here are some tips," accompanied another AP story
Monday that gave a glowing review of a San Francisco summer camp for transgender four-year-olds. The AP spoke to
"gender experts," who tell parents to allow their sons and daughters to "do a weekend as a different gender."
Stephen
Miller is right: Lazarus' immigration poem is not US law. There's been some argument over who came out
ahead in the picturesque set-to between White House staffer Stephen Miller and CNN reporter Jim Acosta over the White House
support of the immigration bill sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue. On one point at least it seems to me
that Miller had the best of it when he charged that Acosta was being "ahistorical." Acosta kept reading and reciting the
Emma Lazarus poem written before the Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886 but not inscribed at its base until 1903:
"Give us your tired, your poor," etc. His plain implication was that the United States had an open immigration policy
back in the years before World War I.
The
"Poor Illegal" Media Narrative and Why It's Not Working. It is not compassionate to Americans or immigrants to
allow illegal aliens to ignore our laws. The corruption rampant in Los Angeles County and throughout other major urban
areas follows from the arbitrary disregard for our nation's legal sovereignty and cultural integrity. The liberal,
marginalized national media still wants to push an illegal alien sob story narrative at all costs. Look over the list
below of the latest sob stories the national readership endured over the past week (and month): [...]
CBS sob story:
After
nearly 20 years in U.S., Ohio mother of 4 deported following traffic violation. A mother of four living in Ohio
was deported to Mexico after a traffic stop revealed she entered the country illegally from Mexico nearly 20 years ago.
Beatriz Morelos Casillas, 37, was arrested for driving without a license near Cleveland, Ohio, on July 24. Tuesday
[8/1/2017], she was deported to Nuevo Laredo, one of the most dangerous places in Mexico and where the State Department issued
a travel warning in December 2016 due to violent crime.
The Editor says...
After 20 years or 20 minutes, it's still illegal to sneak into this country. And no, I don't feel sorry for her situation in
Nuevo Laredo: If it were up to me, she would have been relocated to Campeche. And no, I don't feel sorry for her anchor baby kids,
who will probably end up on welfare, if they aren't already.
NBC sob story:
Grandmother
Deported for Voter Fraud Leaves U.S. in Tears. Her story is one that stretches over three presidential administrations:
those of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. It's a story that sheds light on potential gaps in federal law,
the limits of the judicial system and the agonizing consequences of what one woman calls a horrible mistake.
The Editor says...
When one commits a crime — in this case, the crime of entering this country unlawfully — the name of the current U.S. President is immaterial.
ABC
News Says Hillary Lost So She Shouldn't Be Investigated. The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to
Attorney General Jeff Sessions this past week asking for an investigation of a number of Democrats including Hillary
Clinton. ABC News says Hillary lost the election and, therefore, should not be investigated. That must be a new
legal guideline. If they lose, they get away with whatever they might have done wrong? This is like saying a bank
robber spent all the loot so there's no point investigating or prosecuting.
First
AP Story on Arrested Dem IT Staffer Makes Schultz Look Like the Victim. Just before noon, the Associated Press
ended almost 18 hours of silence on the arrest of IT staffer Imran Awan yesterday [7/25/2017] as he was attempting to leave
the country. The report spun the news in the most favorable way it could for beleaguered Democrats, making Congresswoman
Debbie Wasserman Schultz look like the victim as it headlined her spokesman's claim that she fired Awan Tuesday after learning
of his arrest. The fact is that Schultz has been involved in obstructing investigations into Awan's activities for months.
USA
Today's Impeachment-Push Poll. Reporters Susan Page and Emma Kinery proclaimed a dark omen in the results,
which is why the newspaper asked the poll question. They said, "Just six months after his inauguration, Americans
already are split down the middle, 42%-42%, over whether President Trump should be removed from office, a new USA
TODAY/iMediaEthics Poll finds." What's the impeachable offense? If a national poll were to emerge with a 42-42 tie
over the belief that the moon is made of Swiss cheese, would the subsequent analysis focus on the concentration of moon
matter or the irrationality of 42% of the American people? It doesn't matter that the prospect for impeachment is zero
with Republicans in control of Congress.
Newsweek
Dabbles in 'President Hillary' Fan Fiction. It isn't unusual for supporters of a losing presidential candidate
to engage in "if only" fantasies about what would happen if their favored candidate got into office, and dream about how all
the country's problems would be solved if only the election had gone differently. It's more unusual for a supposedly
respectable news outlet to engage in such fan fiction. Yet that is precisely what an article in Newsweek did
Wednesday, in an article called, "Hillary Clinton Is President in an Alternate Universe, Where America is Great Again."
A
tale of two first ladies and troubling media bias. Last night, Michelle Obama was the honored guest of the
annual ESPY awards. Naturally, the media collective was head over heels with praise and admiration.
Why
the American press thought it heard high-pitched animal sounds coming out of Warsaw. Thanks to Charles Fain
Lehman, writing in the Washington Free Beacon, we learn that The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart said President Trump's
speech in Poland was full of "white-nationalist dog whistles." [...] Mr. Capehart, Mr. Zeleny and many dozens of
other talented writers and talkers for U.S. newspapers, magazines and TV networks have declared war on American
exceptionalism in favor of they know not what. But they are the vanguard of a socialist, collectivist, internationalist
movement that will take America to the same grave to which all previous great powers in world history have been dragged.
The
Washington Post Offers Up A Textbook Case Of Garbage, Biased Journalism. One might be shocked back into a coma
to learn James Hodgkinson was not an angry conservative, but instead was an angry Bernie Sanders supporting, Occupy Wall
Street guy who favored watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, hated Donald Trump and who shot up a Republican congressional
baseball practice, shooting Republicans, including Republican Representative Steve Scalise. If the story
were only about Romanik and didn't mention Hodginkson, it would be a run-of-the-mill profile about some local AM shock-jock
and a pretty good one at that. It is interesting to see the kind of influence local talk shows have just like local
newspapers and local television news. But what editor at the Washington Post allowed Holley to link Hodgkinson to a
right-wing radio talk show host without even confirming he ever listened to the show?
It's
True: Liberals Hate Western Civilization. President Trump's superb speech in Poland has been praised by
most observers, including Paul [Mirengoff]. On the Left, however, Trump's speech has been criticized for its principal
virtue, the president's spirited defense of Western civilization. Here are some of the many such instances.
U.S.
Labor Market Roars Back, Adding 222,000 Jobs in June.
• 222,000 jobs were added last
month. Wall Street economists had expected employment gains of 175,000.
• The unemployment rate
was 4.4 percent. May's jobless rate was 4.3 percent.
• The average hourly wage grew by
2.5 percent from a year earlier.
• The labor-force participation rate inched up to 62.8 percent,
from 62.7 percent.
The Editor says...
Under Trump, unexpectedly good news comes out on the first Friday of every month. Under Obama, the unemployment numbers
were always unexpectedly bad.
Joe
Scarborough Calls President Trump 'Greatest Liar That's Ever Sat In The White House'. MSNBC "Morning Joe"
co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski bashed President Donald Trump Wednesday, calling him worse than former President
Richard Nixon and the "greatest liar that's ever sat in the white house." Scarborough played a clip of Brian Karem,
executive editor of The Sentinel Newspapers, at Tuesday's [6/27/2017] White House briefing challenging Deputy Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, saying her criticism of the media was inflaming the American people. Sanders responded at the briefing
by citing a debunked Washington Post story stating reporters were not being thorough enough in their critiques of the president.
The Editor says...
Mr. Scarborough should spend some time reading my partial catalog of Obama's lies.
MSNBC
Anchor: Planned Parenthood 'A Critical Tool For Helping Saving Lives'. MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi spent
several minutes Tuesday heralding Planned Parenthood as "a critical tool for helping saving lives" and said "I'm not an
advocate" before having Planned Parenthood's Director of Constituency Communications come on to defend the organization.
CNN's
doing yeoman's work for Planned Parenthood here. "News" story or ad for Planned Parenthood?
Chuck
Todd on MTP does not ask Bernie Sanders about FBI investigation of wife for $10 mill bank fraud. Chuck Todd
occupies a singular position in broadcast journalism: host of the oldest program in the history of American
television. Yesterday [6/25/2017], he did something that must have Tim Russert, Lawrence Spivak and Martha Rountree
spinning in their graves. He hosted Bernie Sanders, arguably the leader of the American electoral left, and did not ask
him about the FBI investigation of his wife for a suspected $10 million bank fraud, nor about reports that he and his wife
are lawyering up.
MSNBC
Host Fudges Facts On Planned Parenthood. MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle incorrectly stated Friday that Planned
Parenthood has had "huge increases" in the number of essential women's health services they provide. Florida
Rep. Francis Rooney was arguing for defunding Planned Parenthood on "Velshi & Ruhle," and stated that Planned Parenthood
has decreased its non-abortion activities, which is consistent with Planned Parenthood's own statistics. Ruhle
challenged his claim, rebutting, "I don't know where you read that but I don't believe that's true based on our reporting and
what we cover."
These
Completely Nonpartisan Journalists Do Not Look Happy. It is kind of fun that wealthy Democrats blew something north of
$30 million to lose this election. Probably closer to or greater than $40 million. 95% of Democrat Job "Pajama
Boy" Ossoff's funding came from outta state; mostly New York and California. I am just pondering the irony now that people in
the throes of faux outrage about "Russian meddling" in American elections... spent millions of dollars and sent volunteers down to
meddle in an election in a district none of them live in. Is that irony? Or is it just hypocrisy?
Democrats
are incapable of learning from Georgia Special Election loss. As I often do on election nights when Democratic
disappointment is likely to be highest, I watched MSNBC. First I watched Rachel Maddow, then Lawrence O'Donnell. The
MSNBC coverage was nothing short of delusional. The "a loss is really a win" approach was pervasive. Hope sprang
eternal. Maddow in particular continued to spin Trump Russia conspiracy theories. O'Donnell went on and on about
how the Republican healthcare bill would be the doom of Republicans. A phrase used frequently on O'Donnell's show was
that this was an "ominous win" for Republicans because the margin was lower than when Tom Price won — ignoring
that the Republican outperformed Trump's win.
James
T. Hodgkinson: Just Another Well-Intentioned Progressive. Have you followed the drift of the Mainstream
Media (MSM) as to what provoked James T. Hodgkinson to attempt the massacre of the Republican baseball team as it practiced
in Alexandria, Virginia last week? Not the Democratic team, not the Washington Nationals team, but the Republican
team. Well, it was not necessarily Hodgkinson's politics we are told. After all, his politics were pretty much
mainstream progressive. According to the MSM, it was "a Volatile Home Life in Illinois." That is the way the New
York Times put it on the newspaper's front page Sunday [6/18/2017]. Strong drink was alluded to. Anger and violence
were also mentioned as features in Hodgkinson's rural Illinois home. [...] Yet as I say the MSM is soft-pedaling this lunatic's
politics, and I can see why. There was nothing particularly unusual about them.
Reason
#855 Why Secretary Tillerson Rightly Has No Respect for State Dept. Correspondents. Today during the
State Department briefing a typical media correspondent showcases their condescending arrogance. Watch this exchange
between Spokesperson Heather Nauert and a reporter. [Video clip]
Self-inflicted
stupidity. CBS News anchor Scott Pelley — make that former CBS News anchor Scott Pelley —
is the face of sanctimonious liberalism. The attempted assassination of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and his GOP
colleagues on the baseball field in Alexandria last week somehow prompted Pelley's comment on the day after: "It's time
to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress, yesterday, was foreseeable, predictable and, to some degree,
self-inflicted". Pelley of course answered the question that approximately no one was asking in the affirmative.
Joy
Reid and Scott Pelley Blame Steve Scalise For Getting Shot. Have you no shame, Joy Ann Reid? In an
appalling example of the left's pathological hatred of anything and anyone conservative, the MSNBC host said, not in so many
words, that Rep. Steve Scalise kind of had it coming when a Bernie Sanders volunteer tried to assassinate him and his
GOP colleagues as they practiced for thee annual baseball game between Democrats and Republicans in Congress. As Fox
News reported her beneath contempt and all human decency remarked: As Rep. Steve Scalise lay in his hospital bed
recovering after he was shot by a maniac gunman who was hunting congressional Republicans, an MSNBC host asked whether the
House Majority Whip's life-threatening injuries meant Americans had to "ignore" his political positions. Joy Ann Reid
on Saturday cited Scalise's positions on ObamaCare and gay marriage as among the concerning "moral" issues she felt couldn't
be overlooked despite his critical injury at the hands of a left-leaning lunatic who opened fire at a GOP baseball practice
on June 14.
Progressive
Media Personalities Agree: Those Republicans Deserved To Get Shot. A shooter opened fire on Congressional
Republicans practicing for the annual Congressional baseball game at a baseball park in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday
morning, injuring lawmakers, staff, and law enforcement. It is unclear at this time whether the shooter was killed or
is currently in police custody. In the wake of the shooting, lots of people on the Internet lost their minds.
Several progressives even went out of their way to suggest the victims deserved to get shot because they have the wrong views
on gun control, or Obamacare, or Donald Trump. Here are some of the most insane reactions to the Congressional baseball
shoooting so far. [...]
Scott
Pelley: D.C. Attack on Congressmen Was 'to Some Degree Self-Inflicted'. Thursday evening [6/15/2017],
CBS's Scott Pelley, who officially ended his tenure as the network's Evening News anchor the following evening, told
viewers that "It's time to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress Wednesday was foreseeable, predictable and,
to some degree, self-inflicted." It's clear from Pelley's subsequent commentary that his answers to all three elements
are "Yes." It's equally clear from the examples he supplied as support that he sees (or wants viewers to see) the
problem as predominantly about the conduct of those on the right.
CNN
Cuts Feed After Senator Objects to Clinton Foundation Atty Joining 'Independent' Counsel. Democrats have long
accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia, though no evidence has emerged. There is also speculation that
Special Counsel Mueller will probe allegations of obstruction of justice against President Donald Trump. Earlier this
week, reports emerged that Mueller had hired attorneys for his investigative team who had donated to Hillary Clinton in the
past, and one in particular who had represented the Clinton Foundation in its effort to block Freedom of Information Act
requests for e-mails on Clinton's private server.
Trump Is Beating the
Media at Its Own Game. Donald Trump has blown up that absurd arrangement and is beating the media at its own
game. He labels reporters in the same way that they label him. He upends their dishonest framing of debates by
treating them as what they are, liberal partisans. His exchange last week with April Ryan, a correspondent for the
American Urban Radio Network, captured that perfectly. She asked him a loaded question not as a neutral reporter but as
a water-carrier for the Congressional Black Caucus. So he treated her that way.
Zakaria
Halts Law Professor: My Audience Is Too Dumb To Understand You. "We're on television and this might be
getting too technical," said CNN's Fareed Zakaria while interrupting a law professor's explanation of relevant statutes
pertaining to obstruction of justice. On Sunday's [6/11/2017] GPS, Zakaria invited two law professors —
Elizabeth Foley of Florida International University and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School — to discuss
possibilities of pursuing President Donald Trump with charges of obstruction of justice. Foley was interrupted by
Zakaria as she rejected Tribe's assertion of federal statutes pertaining to obstruction of investigations and proceeding
(18 U.S. Code § 1503 and 18 U.S. Code § 1510) being applicable to Trump's conduct.
Legacy
Media Uses Reality Winner Arrest To Sow Division. The arrest of NSA contractor Reality Winner caused mass
confusion in the wake of The Intercept's publication of a leaked NSA document allegedly submitted by Winner. The
Intercept's report on the document seems to spend entire pages qualifying claims of Russian phishing attempts. Shortly
after Winner's arrest, she was labeled a Bernie Sanders supporter. This has served as a talking point for the legacy
media and establishment interests to sow divisions where new signs of collaboration had grown among anti-establishment
elements from opposing sides of the political spectrum. If such attempts to fracture collaboration are successful, it
would no doubt further the interests of legacy media and the establishment it protects.
Broadcasting's
brazen Trump-bashers. The Meet the Press panel of June 4 consisted of conservative Hugh Hewitt
confronted by the three anti-Trump zealots: the #NeverTrump conservative Michael Gerson and leftists Heather McGee and
Stephanie Cutter. Three against one — plus, of course, leftist Chuck Todd. NBC's idea of "balance."
The tape of the program — supported by the transcript — makes it evident that Hewitt had a difficult time
speaking. Cutter in particular did her utmost to stifle Hewitt — but that's what the left does: strive to
suppress those holding different views. The transcript indicates that Cutter had no patience with Hewitt's references to
the Constitution, preferring to spout ad hominem comment to silence the conservative.
Media
Runs Wild With Unsourced Claim About Trump And Weather. Many reporters are still reeling over Trump's decision
to pull the U.S. out of the Paris accord, which the Obama administration joined in 2016 with the goal of keeping future
global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. When Trump announced his decision Thursday, he said it was about economics, not
the environment. Trump said Paris was poorly negotiated and would hurt American workers. Reporters began pelting
administration officials with questions of whether or not Trump actually believes humans are driving catastrophic
warming. Most officials dodged the questions, except U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Media
Bias In Action: NY Times Makes Obama The Victim Of His Incompetence. President Obama went on to use
executive power in an unprecedented fashion. He didn't just do it, Obama bragged about it. "If Congress won't act,
I will" and "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone" were familiar refrains the president used to announce he was
going to use executive power to get his way. One of the ways President Obama tried to get around the separation of
powers had to do with his signature legislation, The Affordable Care Act. The law allowed for payments to be made
directly to insurers to cover out-of-pocket costs and deductibles for low-income consumers. Congress did not
appropriate the funds. The Obama administration decided to make the payments anyway.
The Doctor
Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000. Money has always made a big difference in the medical world: fancier rooms at
hospitals, better food and access to the latest treatments and technology. Concierge practices, where patients pay
several thousand dollars a year so they can quickly reach their primary care doctor, with guaranteed same-day appointments,
have been around for decades. But these aren't the concierge doctors you've heard about — and that's
intentional. Dr. Shlain's Private Medical group does not advertise and has virtually no presence on the web, and
new patients come strictly by word of mouth. But with annual fees that range from $40,000 to $80,000 per family (more
than 10 times what conventional concierge practices charge), the suite of services goes far beyond 24-hour access or a
Nespresso machine in the waiting room.
The Editor says...
The article immediately above is apparently an attempt to get the reader to be alarmed and outraged upon learning that wealthy
people get treated better and have more comfortable lives than those with limited resources. This isn't news.
It's in the newspaper, but it isn't news.
TX
Republican Roughed Up By Hispanic Dems — Slate Headline: 'Texas Representative Sparks Capitol Fracas'. I assume that Texas state
representatives Ramon Romero Jr. and Cesar Blanco can't be deported, but perhaps the leadership of the Texas legislature can do something about them [...]
Huffington
Post with a particularly gross hit on Mike Pence. An estimated 90,000 Christians died for their faith last
year, and an additional 500 to 600 million were blocked from practicing their religion, according to the Center for Studies
on New Religions. In 2015, the same Italy-based organization put the Christian death toll at 105,000. Christianity
is the most persecuted religion in the world, and things are particularly brutal in areas where radical terrorist groups,
including the Islamic State, have a foothold. Yet, because hatred for the Trump administration has turned some writers
into imbeciles, the Huffington Post decided this week to cast aspersions on Vice President Mike Pence's factually accurate
reference to Christianity's tragic honorific.
NBC,
CBS Justify Leftist Students Shouting Down 'Controversial' DeVos. After Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was
rudely shouted down by left-wing students during a commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday, NBC's
Today and CBS This Morning actually attempted to justify the disrespectful behavior.
Historians
Still Ruining Obama's Mythical Memoir. Like Pavlov's dogs, the liberal media salivated over the arrival of
former President Barack Obama to receive the Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. The
mythic figure returned to accept the honor in the middle of a two-hour live special on MSNBC, loaded with the usual Chris
Matthews slobbering over his "American eloquence." The words "mythic figure" truly apply, as another liberal historian
has now underscored just how much "fake news" Obama manufactured on his way to the highest office in the land and the
lucrative beyond.
Lesley
Stahl Frets That Courts Aren't Doing Enough to Thwart Republicans. Practically as soon as "controversial" Court of Appeals Judge
Alex Kozinski was introduced on Sunday's 60 Minutes by reporter Lesley Stahl, you could see her pitch coming.
Scarborough
Pats Palin on the Back for Speaking in 'Complete Sentences' During Tapper Interview. During today's [4/21/2017] broadcast
of MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough offered up some high praise to former Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah
Palin over the way she handled her interview with CNN's Jake Tapper yesterday. What was he commending her for? Well, he seemed
to be extremely impressed that she was able to speak somewhat articulately. Highlighting right away that he wasn't trying to be
"snide," Scarborough expressed amazement that "she spoke in complete sentences." "Over the past five, six, seven years every time
she got on TV," he explained, "she rambled to such a degree — it was word salad."
Republican
wins. NYT declares victory for Democrats. From the Washington Examiner: "Republican Kansas State
Treasurer Ron Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson and Libertarian Chris Rockhold Tuesday night [4/11/2017] to keep the state's
4th congressional district in GOP hands." Republican Estes 52.5%, Democrat Thompson 45.7%. A 6.8-point win.
Ho-hum. But Nate Cohn of the New York Times — who gave Hillary an 85% chance of winning on Election
Day — sees this as a victory for the Democratic Party.
CNN's
Story Contradicting Devin Nunes on Susan Rice Is Based Entirely on Anonymous Sources. [Scroll down] House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes [...] has been criticized for the way he handled and presented this information — not without reason — as
he rushed to the press with it before handing it over to the rest of the intelligence committee. As a result, Nunes has recused himself from
the intel committee's Trump-Russia probe, but he's still looking into Rice's unmasking and the questionable conduct of the intelligence committee more
generally. However, Democrats on the committee have now seen the information that Nunes has, and no one denies that Rice is behind the
unmasking. CNN responded to the Rice revelation in a way that was frankly discrediting for a respectable news organization. They refused
to cover it, except to have their reporters overtly discredit it and even called it "false" in chryons.
Susan
Rice Doesn't Deny Unmasking Trump Associates. This morning, Susan Rice turned to the friendly confines of MSNBC
to respond to explosive allegations about her role in the Obama spy/leak scandal. Host Andrea Mitchell did all she
could to make Rice feel at home. She asked no tough questions, failed to follow up on evasive answers, and sometimes
jumped in to reinforce claims made by Rice. [...] Amazingly, Rice got through a 16-minute interview without ever confirming
or denying that she unmasked associates of President Trump.
The 10 Questions
Andrea Mitchell Didn't Ask Susan Rice. Here are a few thoughts about Andrea Mitchell's interview with Susan
Rice — and the key questions that were left unasked. Rice opened the interview by saying, "The allegation is
that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. That's absolutely false."
On the contrary, the allegation is absolutely true — and demonstrating its truth is as easy as unmasking an American
citizen in an NSA intercept.
Obamagate's
Truth Is Stranger Than Orwell's Fiction. Susan Rice's shaky, dry-mouthed performance on MSNBC Tuesday looked
like a scene out of Orwell's fiction too. Ministry of Truth official Andrea Mitchell hesitantly asked her questions
about the scandal, making sure not to tax her too much or ask her any awkward follow-up questions. The interview lasted
over ten minutes, but Mitchell couldn't find time to ask her about the bald lie she told on PBS in March (that she knew "nothing"
of unmasking the Trump team). Nor was Big Brother to be brought up under any circumstances. So even as Rice
droned on about the importance of unsparing national security briefings, Mitchell steered clear of any mention of the
beneficiary of that briefing — President Obama.
This is activism, not journalism:
CNN
Works Hard To Help Illegal Aliens With 5 Phone Apps. [Scroll down] CNN went on to provide those 5 apps,
which do things like allow illegals to let others know that immigration raids are happening. Which is fantastic, since
the vast majority of people ICE goes after are illegals with criminal convictions on their record. Rape, robbery,
assault, DUI, identity theft, coming back in after being deported (a federal felony), burglary, arson, and child
molestation. Much like Democrats, these are the people illegals are attempting to shelter.
CNN
Complains About the Deportation of Drunk Driving DREAMer. If there was one thing that our politically divided
country could agree on, it was the seriousness of drunk driving. But during Monday's [3/27/2017] edition of The
Lead, that common understanding took a back seat for CNN as they bemoaned that a so-called "DREAMer" was deported.
"Last August [Jorge] Matadamas was charged with drunk driving and evading arrest. While in jail, he lost his DACA
status," reported Polo Sandoval, "[A] program which gave him a chance to live and work in the U.S. After seven months in
detention, he was deported." CNN's report came after Attorney General Jeff Sessions threatened to pull federal law
enforcement funds to cities that hindered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Media
Bias Goes Far Beyond Language. As the history of visual propaganda reminds us, images can be as powerful as
words in promoting ideology. And since the clichés are true — every picture tells a story and a
picture is worth a thousand words — perhaps conservative men and women in the public eye should start demanding
final approval of the images the mainstream media use of them. Or at least insist on using their own photographers.
Politico
Absolves Gorelick for Instituting the Wall. The first twenty paragraphs in the Politico piece deal with
the "vitriol" from Democrats who are shocked at Gorelick for consorting with the Trumps. Only in the twenty-first
paragraph does the reader learn that Gorelick has "long been a bête noir of the right." Writes Karni dismissively,
"Rush Limbaugh for years has falsely blamed her for instituting a 'wall' between law enforcement and intelligence agencies when
she served in the Justice Department, making it easier for the lead 9/11 hijacker to enter the country." Falsely? The
"wall" is just one of many grievous offenses against the Republic for which Gorelick stands accused — including, as even
Karni admits, a $26 million payday from Fannie Mae — but there is nothing false about her involvement with it.
Why
is the Democratic National Committee "Embattled"? This is a surprising news story, only because it comes from
the uber-Democratic Party news operation, NBC: [...] Conservatives are hard on the Republican Party — we often
denounce our party's leaders as inept, or worse. But in fact, the Republican Party is riding a wave of historic
success. It is the Democrats who are sliding downhill toward oblivion, if present trends continue. Has any major
political party in any country ever had such an unsympathetic set of leaders as Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and
Hillary Clinton? Not that I know of.
Flashback:
Media Mourned When ObamaCare Was in Trouble. While the liberal media has portrayed the tabling of the ObamaCare
replacement bill as a "hugely embarrassing" political failure for President Donald Trump, there is one thing they aren't
doing — calling it a missed opportunity to rescue Americans who have been hurt or burdened by ObamaCare.
However there was a time, back in 2010, when liberal reporters were saying something entirely different. After
Republican Scott Brown took over "Ted Kennedy's seat" and was poised to cast the deciding vote that would kill ObamaCare,
the liberal media feared for the fate of President Barack Obama's signature piece of legislation.
Look Who Else
Called Slaves "Immigrants". The liberal mainstream media was waiting to pounce on anything that recently-confirmed
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said, and that's precisely what they did this week after Carson referred to
slaves as "immigrants" in a speech. Interestingly enough, however, former President Barack Obama said the same thing... but,
of course, the outrage didn't follow.
Stopping CNN spies.
CNN just published the results of an outright espionage operation against the Trump White House, by pointing a
vibration-sensitive camera at the window of the Oval Office. This is an espionage technique, and it is obviously a
major violation of national security laws. CNN is gambling that any arrested "journalists" (spies) can be turned into
martyrs against the Trump White House. One obvious move is to have the perps arrested (which has to be done at some
point). But a much better strategy is to turn the CNN stunt against them.
Hypocrisy:
7X More Coverage for Sessions Debacle than Holder Contempt. If you ever doubted that the media see the news
through a partisan prism, consider this: in less than two days, ABC, CBS and NBC devoted nearly 7 times as much coverage to
Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian Ambassador in his role as a U.S. Senator than they did when then-Attorney General Eric
Holder was held in contempt of Congress in June 2012.
Have
You Noticed Media Pushing a National Narrative of Anti-Semitism Today? Here's Why. Many people are
noticing a rather familiar, albeit oddly timed, leftist "anti-Semitism" narrative being pushed into the media broadcasts over
the past 36 hours. Yes, it seems to have come out of nowhere. [...] However, the actual motive of the professional
corporate media to push this meme has nothing to do with President Trump or republicans — it's an internal
maneuver and transparently Clintonian. Team Clinton, meaning the professionally political elements of the Democrat
machinery, are pushing the anti-Semitism storylines because the party is in the final stages of framing their argument to
ensure their preferred DNC head, Tom Perez, wins as party chair.
Andrea
Mitchell Praises Lefty Protests, After Being Frightened by Tea Party. At the top of her 12 p.m. ET hour
MSNBC show on Tuesday [2/21/2017], anchor Andrea Mitchell enthusiastically touted liberal protesters showing up to congressional
town hall meetings: "Republican Congress members getting an earful back home as they prepare to rollout their plan to repeal
ObamaCare." However, back in 2010, Mitchell was frightened by such "angry" displays by Tea Party demonstrators attending public
meetings with Democratic lawmakers.
Oddly enough, media silent about
Muslim bakeries that all refused to bake cake for gay couple. Stephen Crowder (a Conservative humorist and commentator) went to
multiple bakeries in Dearborn Michigan and could find a single Muslim bakery that would bake him a wedding cake celebrating gay marriage.
[...] But this post is not about how Muslims are big fat bigots and homophobes for not wanting to bake a cake for a gay couple. We support
the Muslim bakers' rights to refuse service just as much as we support the Christians. As a matter of fact, I'll take it a step further
than Crowder does in his video and say that we believe any private establishment should have the liberty to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
[...] No, this is a story about media bias. You see, when the media baited a Christian pizzeria owner into saying that she probably wouldn't
cater a gay wedding, the media went ballistic!
MSNBC
Repeatedly Pushes Elizabeth Warren To Call Mitch McConnell 'Sexist'. MSNBC's Kasie Hunt twice tried to get
Sen. Elizabeth Warren to call Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's behavior "sexist" during a Wednesday interview on
Capitol Hill. The Massachusetts Democrat noted that after McConnell prevented her from reading a letter penned by
Coretta Scott King, "[she] went outside the Senate chamber, and [she] read the whole speech.
Opinion
Activism On News Page: GOP Hurries To Slash Oil And Gas Rules. [Here is another reason] that the
Credentialed Media has lost trust, as the NY Times publishes what is essentially an activist opinion piece by Eric Lipton on
page A1 of the Sunday NY edition. This might as well have been written by the office of Nancy Pelosi[.] [...] If that
was a press release from the Democratic National Committee, would you know the difference? Interestingly, Lipton never
actually names the group till literally the next to last paragraph.
Useful Idiots No More. The media is forever
demanding that Christians take a "serious look" at their religion's lack of modern enlightenment, then declare any criticism
of the Koran "Islamophobia." "A Sinister Perception of Islam Now Steers the White House," blared a Thursday [2/2/2017]
headline on the front page of the New York Times. Could anyone imagine it running an equivalent headline about
Obama's White House and Christianity — "A Sinister Perception of Catholicism Now Steers the White House"? Later,
the paper changed "sinister perception" to "dark view of Islam."
The
Anti-Trump Media's Attack on Monica Crowley. My friend Monica Crowley was the subject of a major hit job by CNN
a few weeks back. She is a serious scholar, but she was portrayed as a serial plagiarist who never had an original idea
in her head. The emotional toll of the uproar caused her to withdraw from her appointment by President Trump to be the
senior director of communications at the National Security Council. It is the country's loss. Over the last two
decades, Monica has been one of the most effective commentators on the national scene regarding the geopolitical challenges
confronting the United States, and in particular the phenomenon of jihadist terror catalyzed by sharia-supremacist
ideology — radical Islam.
NBC's
Holt Lectures Viewers on the Meaning of the Statue of Liberty. With the debate over the legality of President
Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban still raging Monday evening [1/30/2017], NBC broadcasted their Nightly News program
"from the shadow of the Statue of Liberty" accompanied by a lecture from anchor Lester Holt. [...] But neither ABC nor CBS
treated it as a time to seemingly pontificate about the morality of the issue, let alone march out to the Statue of Liberty
and use it as a prop.
Nets
Cheer Left-Wing Protesters & Politicians 'Defying' Trump on Immigration. All three network morning shows on
Thursday hailed left-wing protesters and Democratic mayors across the country denouncing President Trump's executive orders
on immigration and border security. Co-host Matt Lauer led off NBC's Today by proclaiming: "Breaking
overnight... Protests across the country after President Trump orders a Mexican border wall to be built immediately."
Clips played of demonstrators chanting: "Donald Trump has got to go!"
ABC's
Muir Left Speechless After Trump Brings Up March for Life. Wednesday night was a major first for Donald Trump
as ABC aired his very first interview as the President of the United States. The interview questions ranged from
immigration policy to what carpet he chose for the Oval Office (Ronald Reagan's), but things got awkward for interviewer
David Muir when he tried to stick Trump with questions about the Women's March on Saturday, "Let me just ask you while
we're standing outside, could you hear the voices from the Women's March here in Washington."
After
school Satan clubs coming to public elementary schools. An organization that calls itself the Satanic Temple
has been very active in promoting its overlord. It conducted a Black Mass and agitated, but failed, to build a 7-ft
tall statue of Satan next to a 10 Commandments monument in Oklahoma City; actually erected the statue in Detroit; and wants
prayer in school to the Devil. Now, in the name of religious parity, the Satanic Temple is bringing After School Satan
Clubs to America's public elementary schools. Another reason to home school your children.
The
White House Press Corps Fawned Over Obama At His Final Press Conference. The White House press corps showered
President Barack Obama with adoring questions during his final press conference Wednesday, following a brief address in which
he talked about the importance of a "skeptical" press. "In LGBT rights, we've seen a lot of achievements over the past
eight years," one reporter begins in a montage put together by Grabien to highlight the questions. After crediting
Obama with a list of accomplishments, he asks: "Where do you think LGBT rights will rank in terms of your accomplishments
or your legacy?"
The
Washington Post Takes Anti-Trump Bias To A New Level. [Scroll down] The story is about a Washington
Post/ABC News poll that asks, among other things, whether Trump should sell his business to avoid any possible conflicts of
interest while president. Trump has taken steps to avoid these conflicts, although not to the satisfaction of some in
the media — many of whom probably wouldn't be satisfied no matter what Trump did. What did the poll
find? It found that most (52%) think the steps Trump has taken are enough to "separate Trump's business interests from
his obligations as president." On the other hand, only 42% said that Trump should sell his business.
With
CNN Credibility in Tatters Anderson Cooper Attempts To Defend Propaganda. In addition to the Trump transition
team and NBC Reporting, Fox News is now also reporting the original claims by CNN were entirely manufactured, "fake news" by
four CNN agenda driven reporters: Jake Tapper, Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez and Carl Bernstein[.] Nothing reported as fact
by the CNN constructionists actually took place. Against, the back drop of CNN's destroyed credibility, pundit Anderson
Cooper attempts to obfuscate and push back against the collapse during a contentious interview with Kellyanne Conway: [...]
Amusing, inasmuch as cable channels don't use "airwaves."
MSNBC
Host to Planned Parenthood: 'These Airwaves Are Your Airwaves'. Americans know the liberal media are
untrustworthy. But there's something especially repulsive when they don't even pretend to uphold journalistic
integrity. On Sunday [1/8/2017], MSNBC host Joy Reid invited Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on her show,
AM Joy. But rather than conducting an interview, Reid turned her show into a Planned Parenthood lovefest, from
insinuating that defunding Planned Parenthood would make women die to promising Richards that "these airwaves are your airwaves."
Hours
Before Trump's Press Conference CNN And BuzzFeed Hit 'Fake News' Bottom. Just as we saw last Friday, with the
completely fact and evidence-free dog and pony show put on by the Intelligence Community and their media allies, late Tuesday
afternoon, the Establishment Empire struck again, this time with an unprecedented double down. No doubt working in
tandem (and with Donald Trump's many establishment enemies on both the left and right), CNN and BuzzFeed did something so
sleazy and dishonest that, just a few years ago, even to a media cynic like me, it would have seemed impossible. With a
breathless breaking news report, left-wing CNN went first. To no one's surprise, the once-respected Jake Tapper took
the lead. Undoubtedly CNN's overall goal was to offer up the imprimatur of "journalism" so that a batch of leaked and
completely unsubstantiated anti-Trump documents could be dumped on the American public the night before the President-elect's
very first press conference.
Vicious
Hate Crime In Chicago Whitewashed By Press. Note that the AP makes no reference to the races of the people
involved, and says it is too soon to tell whether the assault was racially motivated.
Chicago
torture video highlights media double standard on hate. The four suspects are facing felony charges including
hate crimes and kidnapping. But Chicago Police initially downplayed reports Wednesday night that the attack was
racially motivated. "At this point we don't have anything concrete to point us in that direction," Police Supt.
Eddie Johnson told reporters. A video of the suspects attempting to scalp a man while shouting "F*** white people"
isn't concrete evidence? And while the police were trying their best to tone down the racial motivations of the
attackers, the Mainstream Media was trying to whitewash their skin color. It took the Washington Post nine paragraphs
to get around to the skin color of the attackers.
CNN's
Camerota Frets 'Right-Wing Websites' Making Chicago Beating 'Political'. As Thursday's CNN New Day
covered the horrendous story of a white special needs man being tortured by four black teens in Chicago while they made
anti-white and anti-Donald Trump taunts and live streamed the assault on Facebook, CNN co-host Alisyn Camerota fretted that
"right-wing websites" like Breitbart, The Blaze, and Townhall are going too far in making the story "political."
At 6:31 a.m. ET, after a full report on the horrific attack, Camerota plugged an upcoming segment on right-wing reaction
to the video as she worried: "I mean, look, not only is this hideous, it's being also now somehow parlayed into a political
statement. There are some right-wing websites that believe that this is political. So we're going to have a debate
about what is behind this coming up."
Zero
Self-Awareness: Chuck Todd Whacks Trump's 'Concierge Media Friends'. On NBC's Meet the Press on
Sunday [1/1/2017], Chuck Todd devoted a whole hour to analyzing Trump vs. the Press, but he worked energetically to avoid the
notion the media lost trust because it's seen as part of the Democratic National Machine. There were no questions about
whether they failed in being too soft on Hillary Clinton, because they never think they've been too soft on Democrats.
Midnight
meltdown as tipsy Trump-hater Don Lemon has mic cut off by CNN. CNN anchor Don Lemon has copped the honor of
the first on-air Trump-hater meltdown of 2017, year one of the Trump presidency. Sour Lemon's behavior was so
disgraceful and out of place during a celebration of the New Year that the network brass cut his audio feed just after
midnight when he began speak of "awful" 2016.
CNN Uses
Germany Attack To Bash The Right. CNN's online coverage of Monday's deadly terror attack on a German Christmas
market focused on the attack's potential to stoke far-right anger, rather than the threats of Islamic radicalism. The
attack in Berlin killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more, but on CNN's website, the network's top story warned
about "the fallout of fear" and said that "attacks fuel [the] far right's assault on democracy."
ABC
Highlights Electoral College Disruptors, Shocked by Clinton Defections. As the Electoral College wrapped up its
proceedings across the country Monday, it was abundantly clear that President-Elect Donald Trump had exceeded the 270 votes
needed to win and that the efforts of his liberal opponents were sundered. On ABC's World News Tonight that
evening reporter Cecilia Vega highlighted the efforts of those who set out disrupt the process. "It did not come
without some fiery moments today," hyped Anchor David Muir leading into the report. "A chaotic scene in Wisconsin
today," reported Vega, "Protesters shouting down electors as they cast their votes for Donald Trump." "Everyone one of
you, you're pathetic! You don't deserve to be in America," a woman shouted as she was being escorted out by police.
"This is my America! My America," she continued.
CNN's
Robert Baer: We Should Have Another Election. Well, that didn't take long. The morning after the
Washington Post's Friday evening [12/9/2016] story that a "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump
win White House," a "deeply disturbed" Bob Baer, appearing on CNN Newsroom, when questioned as to whether "we should
have another election," said that if it's true, "I don't see any other way than to vote again."
WashPost
Religion Columnist Attacks Evangelicals for 'Dangerous' Lack of Trust in the Mainstream Media. The escalation
against conservatives continued on Thursday with an online Washington Post column by Sarah Pulliam Bailey that sought
to connect the distrust in the mainstream media on the right to the rise of fake news and "dangerous" consequences like the
false story that's become known as Pizzagate. "Listen, I was raised in an evangelical home. I know the media is
supposed to be the butt of many jokes and the source of many of our problems. For many conservatives, the phrase "fake
news" is now being used to describe "liberal bias," but fake news has real consequences," Bailey emphasized near the
beginning of her post. Perhaps most frustrating but not surprising for this newspaper was that Bailey made no attempt
to differentiate between conservatives not willing to trust the liberal media and those who have embraced everything they see
and hear from sites that have no semblance of facts or substance (ex. Stories about Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump).
CNN
Gleefully Mocks Dr. Ben Carson — Exhibit Stunning Level of Ridicule Against Black Cabinet Nominee.
During a presented Don Lemon discussion panel Monday night [12/5/2016], the severity of ridicule against Dr. Ben Carson was
jaw-dropping and unprofessional in the extreme. Removing all pretense of substantive discussion, Don Lemon, Marc Lamont Hill
and Peter Beinart began openly mocking the nomination of Dr. Carson for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The scope and severity of the exhibited ridicule was so over the top, fellow CNN panelist Brian Stelter was both visibly trying to
hide his glee and simultaneously uncomfortable joining in amid the laughter and mockery.
Nets
Give Jill Stein Recount Effort 12 Times Coverage of Her Entire Campaign. When Jill Stein was the Green Party's
candidate for U.S. president, the networks only gave her 36 seconds of coverage. However, as soon as she launched a
campaign to contest the presidential election and demand a recount of ballots in several key states, the evening news shows
on ABC, CBS and NBC managed to find 7 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage for her in just four days. That's
more than 12 times as much coverage as in the entire campaign.
Left
Targets Giuliani for Fighting Terrorism too Energetically. In a move that invites parody if not outright
ridicule, the left-oriented Politico blog this week went after former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for fighting
Iran-sponsored terrorism too aggressively. Well, duh! In a week that saw "Fake News" become the number one topic
of debate among mainstream journalists, Politico decided to double down on stupidity and serve up a prime example of
fake news. The Washington post dutifully echoed the false accusations to give the lie a cloak of respectability not
bestowed by Politico.
Journalists
Hail Castro's Achievements, 'George Washington,' 'Folk Hero to Most of Us'. Fidel Castro, who died late Friday
night, was a tyrant who oppressed Cubans and brought misery to many for several decades and while much of the breaking news
coverage emphasized that reality, journalists on ABC, CNN and MSNBC — matching how too much of the media
approached Castro for decades — couldn't resist crediting him for supposed great advancements in education,
literacy and health care. On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell insisted in a stock bio that Castro "gave his people better health
care and education." Appearing live by phone, she soon trumpted how Castro "will be revered" for "education and social
services and medical care to all of his people."
CBS,
NBC Spend Three Times More Airtime on Neo-Nazi Conference Than Four Years of March for Life. A disturbing trend
has emerged since the presidential election as the liberal media have been promoting neo-Nazis and white nationalists in
hopes to (admirably) discredit them and falsely insinuate that they were far-right conservatives who propelled Donald Trump
to the White House. Well, this trend manifested itself with five minutes and 17 seconds Tuesday morning on CBS and NBC
that attempted to label the neo-Nazi conference as one featuring "conservative extremist[s]" and added up to three times more
coverage than they've had on the March for the Life in the past four years (at one minute and 40 seconds).
The Exhausted Epithets of the
Left. Barack Obama's signature phrase, "the audacity of hope," came from a black nationalist, Jeremiah Wright.
Obama stocked his administration with black nationalists, delivered speeches to openly separatist black colleges and associations,
rolled out the red carpet for Al Sharpton, encouraged the reverse racism of "Black Lives Matter," and rationalized the behavior of
athletes who protested the American flag. None of this qualified as "ethnonationalism" in the eyes of the media. They
reserve that smear for conservatives who oppose hyphenated Americanism.
CNN
Disappointed Because The Stock Market is Rising. Liberal ideologues who hate America continue their frustrated
teeth gnashing.
Hypocrisy
Watch: Networks Pound Bannon, But Ignore Democrat Ellison's Radicalism. Since Sunday evening, ABC, CBS
and NBC (along with a host of other establishment media outlets) have been engaged in a feeding frenzy over Donald Trump's
appointment of Steve Bannon, with reporters relentlessly employing phrases such as "white nationalist," "white supremacist,"
"extremist," "racist" and "anti-Semitic" to solidify the image of Bannon as a dangerous pick for a top White House
position. But since Friday, those same networks have been blind to the controversies surrounding the top candidate for
Democratic National Committee Chairman, Rep. Keith Ellison. Ellison has been accused of ties to the radical Nation
of Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, and once suggested the 9/11 terrorist attacks were akin to the infamous Reichstag fire used
to propel Hitler's Nazi party into absolute power in 1933 Germany.
The
Washington Post Thinks Reporting On A Study That Shows Illegals Take Jobs Is Racist. In order to not be considered a
racist by The Washington Post you should probably avoid reporting on a study by a federal economist that reveals illegal immigrants
take jobs. This is made clear in the article "'Can you name one white nationalist article at Breitbart?' Challenge accepted!,"
published Tuesday afternoon [11/15/2016] on the Post's The Fix blog. The article was a response to a Breitbart editor who
defended the publication from attacks that it supports racism Monday night by asking CNN's Don Lemon if he can name one white
nationalist article on the site. Breitbart has been under attack for allegedly being a white nationalist publication ever
since the site's former executive chairman Steve Bannon was named President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist on Sunday.
Democratic
Propaganda Disguised as Election Analysis. Julie Bosman and Monica Davey in a N.Y. Times article, "Republicans
Expand Control in a Deeply Divided Nation," use understatement and a rhetoric of "thoughtful analysis" to make their case
that Republican victories are negative events even though the people have spoken. By publishing this article, the N.Y.
Times once again becomes an instrument of partisan politics under the guise of high-minded journalism. The authors have
mastered the art of writing to project a sense that the reader is getting an overview of where we've been, where we are, and
where we're going. But in fact, the article is filled with bias against the Republicans. Distortions abound.
ABC's
Stephanopoulos: Trump Civil Suit Conviction Could Be 'Impeachable'. ABC's George Stephanopoulos raised
the prospect of the impeachment of President-Elect Trump on Thursday's [11/10/2016] Good Morning America, as the
morning show spotlighted the multiple civil lawsuits against the billionaire. The former Clinton administration
communications director underlined that "if he takes the risk of going to trial and he's convicted, that could be seen as an
impeachable offense." ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams corrected Stephanopoulos's faulty take: "You can't impeach someone
for stuff that they did before they became president."
Slate Goes Ape.
My wife pointed out the front page of today's Slate. (Slate, if you are not familiar with it, is a left-wing on-line
magazine.) You can enlarge this image and then just ponder it. There are numerous delights to be discovered, from
"Donald Trump's Victory Proves That America Hates Women" to "Trump Won the Election By Promising a Resurgent White Supremacy."
Sure he did! One question: doesn't a complete lack of self-knowledge sometimes come back to bite you?
'Meltdown
of the night' Bitter news anchor bemoans Trump's election success. As Donald Trump triumphed in the race to the
White House a television news anchor has bemoaned his incredible success. As various major US news networks prepared to
confirm the Republican's victory over Hillary Clinton, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow gave a bitter response while live on
air. The sombre host told MSNBC viewers, as Mr Trump edged towards victory: "You're awake by the way.
"You're not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell. [...]"
Trump
Wins — Time to End the Republican Civil War. [Scroll down] But if you were watching Fox News
(not the more Trump-friendly and vastly more interesting Fox Business) as the returns were coming in, the commentators
(except for the eminently sensible Tucker Carlson) made you think what we were witnessing was the final ascendance of Eugene
V. Debs after six attempts and America was about to turn communist — or something. I'm not going to name
names. It's pointless and contrary to what I am trying to do. But I thought half those commentators were about to
cry. Some of them actually were. And this is a conservative network.
Leftist
Protester Going Nuts On CNN Over Hillary Loss Was a CNN Cameraman? Is CNN using their own crew members as fake
protesters? Earlier today, we posted a video of a Hillary supporter having a total meltdown on CNN last night. In
a slightly longer version of the clip you can watch below, CNN's Don Lemon remarks at the end of the video that he knows the
man and that he's a CNN cameraman.
Dain
Bramage: Idiot Hillary Supporter Has A MELTDOWN On CNN. This meltdown, what is said, and WHO is saying it
explains a lot of what's wrong with our country right now. Respectfully, sir, your school owes the taxpayer a refund
and an apology. They've obviously failed you. The field reporter went to an anti-Trump rally in Chicago and
stopped someone in the crowd for his comments. And then things got weird. [...] The newscaster back at the newsroom
recognized this 'passerby'. As a cameraman. One who had traveled to Rwanda with the newscaster.
Dewey defeats Truman!
Newsweek
recalls 125,000 copies of its souvenir Madam President issue. Everyone from pollsters to pundits got the result
of the US presidential election wrong. But few can have made it in such an expensive manner. Newsweek and a
partner that prints up special commemorative issues has been forced into an embarrassing recall, after it sent out 125,000
copies of its Madam President issue designed to celebrate Hillary Clinton's win.
ABC's
Martha Raddatz Chokes Up While Discussing Implications of Trump Presidency. ABC News' Martha Raddatz began to
choke up during the network's 2016 Election Night coverage when discussing the ramifications a President Donald Trump might
have on the military. Raddatz, one of the 2016 debate moderators, sounded shaky from the get-go. "Donald Trump, I
questioned what he would do about Syria and his understanding of military policy and civilian/military divide, I don't know
that he really has a plan for what he's going to do there," she said.
CNN: A Blue
Spot in 'This Sea of Red Makes You Feel a Little Better'. CNN's John King said that a state leaning blue toward
Hillary Clinton in a "sea of red" had to make you feel better while looking at a map of the incoming results of the
presidential election Tuesday night [11/8/2016]. After discussing with Wolf Blitzer how Virginia was moving toward
Clinton, King zoomed out and took a look at all the states that had either gone or were leaning to Donald Trump, describing
the map as a "sea of red."
Stunned
Chris Matthews: Loser Hillary Won the Debates, Had 'Best Ad Campaign'. A stunned Chris Matthews struggled
to comprehend Hillary Clinton's loss and the victory of Donald Trump on election night. On MSNBC, Matthews sputtered,
"[Clinton] won every debate by all standards. Every debate.... She had the best ad campaign, the best ground game."
He whined, "This is a shot against meritocracy, I think. Because she merited everything and the normal way you standardize
these things, she did what you're supposed to do to win and Trump came in around the corner."
The Editor says...
Oh, yes, "she did what you're supposed to do," except for the secrecy, the cloud of corruption, the imperious condescension, the
$200,000 speeches about nothing, lying about her obviously poor health, and 30 years of accumulated scandals, any one of which
should have sent her to trial. What an immense relief it is to know that we won't have to listen to that ghastly voice of hers
for the next four years. Nor does anyone have to listen to people like Chris Matthews, constantly campaigning for the Democrats
while pretending to be "journalists."
WikiLeaks:
John Harwood Asked Podesta What He Should Ask Jeb During Interview. John Harwood, a journalist for CNBC and The
New York Times, asked Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta what he should ask then-Republican presidential candidate Jeb
Bush in an interview, according to a new email released by WikiLeaks on Sunday [11/6/2016]. The email from September 21,
2015 had the subject line, "what should I ask Jeb..."
The Truth About
the Late Tom Hayden — Whitewashed by the MSM. The worst claim in the [New York] Times'
obituary is that Hayden was a "peace activist" who "opposed violent protests but backed militant demonstrations." He could be
called a peace activist only if one views someone who supported a Communist victory in Vietnam as a proponent of "peace."
"Amerca's
Morning News" All in for Hillary. I was listening to the radio when America's Morning News came on with some
election "news". It was essentially a campaign ad for Hillary Clinton disguised as "news". It dwelt on the made up
"scandal" of Trump accusers that have been mostly debunked. Not a single word about the multiple Hillary scandals from
exposing U.S. classified information, pay for play as Secretary of State, transferring half a million dollars to the campaign
of the wife of the FBI individual who was supposed to be investigating Hillary, and on and on. I have never seen the
full force of the organized media so completely all in for one candidate before.
Dishonest
media 101: 'Your bias is showing'. [Scroll down] Unfortunately, when I was working on the copy desk
putting out the Sunday paper last week, I was so shocked by a story that I changed my plans for this column. The story,
which passed muster at the Associated Press and no doubt made its way into hundreds of newspapers and probably thousands of
websites, was a report on a Trump rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Oct. 13. It was so astoundingly biased that I
had to extensively edit the story to remove the reporter's personal opinions before running it on the following day's front
page. The story was headlined, "Trump challenges legitimacy of election." That was one of the few accurate statements
in the report. It was all downhill from there. I'll provide a few examples to demonstrate how the reporter inserted
personal opinions into a news story, and how easy it was for me as editor to correct them.
This
is Abortion Advocacy, Not Journalism. I was kinda thrown off guard this morning. I got on the Facebook page of a local
newspaper this morning. It's a great place to find recommendations on gutter clearings, etc. in our area. And along with the
posts on golf carts for sale and BOLOs for pick up trucks speeding on backroads, there was this. [...]
Trump
has a point with media criticism. Add it all up, and one presidential candidate's negative news of the day was
somehow covered more than 23 times more than another candidate's negative news of the day. It's understood what has
always sold in this business: sizzle always trumps steak, sex always triumphs over substance. If you told me the
coverage was 2-1 or even a 3-1 ratio of Trump to Clinton, you wouldn't be reading this column right now. But a story
winning the lead over another is one thing. Devouring it to the point of almost total omission via a more than 23:1 ratio
is quite another: "NBC Nightly News" with Lester Holt devoted zero seconds to the Democrat and Wikileaks on Thursday night
[10/13/2016].
How
the Washington Post killed Bernie Sanders' candidacy. The Bernie Sanders candidacy didn't die a natural
death — it was murdered. And the murder weapon has the fingerprints of the Washington Post all over
it. That's the contention of the much-respected progressive writer Thomas Frank (author of the beloved-by-the-left book
"What's the Matter With Kansas?") in an evisceration of the media's role in taking down Sanders that will be the cover story
of the November issue of Harper's.
Washington
Post Reporter Spiked Info About Podesta Conflict Of Interest. A Washington Post reporter gave former White
House Senior Counselor John Podesta advance reassurance she was withholding information about his ethically compromising
financial links to a Democratic mega-donor. "I just wanted to make sure John Podesta had a heads up that his name
will be in a story concerning the White House's ethics policy, which could run on Monday," WaPo White House Bureau Chief Juliet
Eilperin told then-Obama White House Assistant Press Secretary Frank Benenati in a March 21, 2015, email.
Nearly
20 Mins on Trump's 'Miss Piggy' Remark, Silence on Clinton Chief of Staff Immunity. Once again, ABC, CBS and
NBC have ignored a major news story that could be embarrassing to Hillary Clinton and have national implications, while
promoting a negative (and trivial) Trump story initially pushed by the Clinton campaign. On September 23, news broke
that during the now-infamous investigation into Clinton's emails, the FBI granted Clinton's former chief of staff Cheryl
Mills immunity. House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz called Mills's immunity "beyond explanation," adding that "the
FBI was handing out immunity agreements like candy." Yet, neither ABC, CBS nor NBC ever even mentioned this story once.
Trump
Now Calls Debate 'Rigged' Due To Antagonistic Moderator. In the wake of extensive criticism of presidential
debate moderator Lester Holt for aggressively confronting Republican candidate Donald Trump and lobbing softballs at Democrat
Hillary Clinton, Trump is changing his verdict of how the debate was conducted. "And then I had to put up with the
anchor and fight the anchor all the time on everything I said. What a rigged deal," Trump told a New Hampshire crowd
Thursday [9/29/2016].
The Low Point of a Low
Night. Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News and the moderator in last night's presidential debate, is
hearing it from conservative critics about his performance. He pressed Donald Trump on his tax returns and his long
record of birtherism, and he jumped in, Candy Crowley-like, when Trump claimed that he hadn't supported the Iraq War.
He didn't ask Hillary Clinton, correspondingly, questions about her e-mails, the "basket of deplorables," or the rumors about
her ill health. For me, Holt's lowest moment came at the end. "One of you will not win this election," he
said. "So my final question to you tonight, are you willing to accept the outcome as the will of the voters?"
Trump
Is Better Positioned for the Next Two Debates than the Pundits Dare Realize. [Scroll down] Lester Holt
was profoundly one-sided. He interrupted Trump constantly (41 times), rarely Hillary (7 times). He tried a few Candy
Crowley moments, as when he interjected his views on the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk. That is Hillary's job, if she wishes
to interject along those lines, not the moderator's. He asked Trump five hard follow-up questions; he asked Hillary ...
not one. However, whereas moderators like Crowley cowed Romney and McCain into submission, because those genteel
nominees were oh-so-polite and well mannered, Trump was not cowed.
Corrupt
Lester Holt shows why Americans are sick of media. If trust and confidence in the media have fallen to the
lowest in history, as recently reported, Holt, in his total abandonment of any semblance of objectivity, has lowered both
even more. This bootlicking cog, beholden to his pro-Hillary media masters, didn't bring up Benghazi, the email
scandals, the Clinton Foundation slush fund, Huma Abedin's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, or Clinton's connections to the
biggest female oppressors on the planet. With no pushback at all, Holt allowed Hillary to reference an irrelevant
1996 beauty pageant winner as an example of Trump's so-called misogyny.
CBS
Spotlights Debate Watch Party with No Trump Supporters. The Tuesday evening [9/27/2016] following the first
2016 presidential debate, CBS Evening News was eager to share the opinions of people at debate watch parties from all across
the country, including Los Angles, Philadelphia, and Dallas. Of the three watch parties they covered, CBS chose to lead
with Los Angles where the makeup of the room was highly biased. "This group of Latino debate watchers gathered early,"
reported CBS's John Blackstone, "None here support Donald Trump, but Ana Reyes came looking for more reasons why Hillary
Clinton deserved her vote."
Hillary
Clinton's Lyin' Eyes. [Scroll down] Eight years ago, John McCain's health was much discussed by the media
with regard to his age and history of melanoma. Was he too old? Could his cancer return? Only four years
older when he was seeking the nomination than Mrs. Clinton is now, one thought the grim reaper was sitting atop his
shoulder. Yet those questioning Mrs. Clinton's health are conspiracy kooks, part of the "vast right wing conspiracy",
card-carrying members of "The Deplorables", called "healthers" as the new "birthers". Mrs. Clinton is not running
for Chappaqua town council, but for commander in chief of the United States. Her health is a legitimate concern.
The
media loves Hillary — and it could cost her the election. [Scroll down] Holt's bias was
obvious, but the impact was not inevitable. It mattered largely because, shockingly, Donald Trump was shocked that Holt
was in the tank for Clinton. How could Trump not see that coming? And if he did, why wasn't he better
prepared? Holt never pressed Clinton with any substantive follow-ups, while Trump repeatedly was asked to defend or
explain what he had just said or said in the past.
MSNBC
wins big at Media Research Center's Dishonors Awards night. [For example,] When her guest, Latino conservative Alfonso Aguilar,
praised House Speaker Paul Ryan as a "hard worker" on October 26, the MSNBC schoolmarm took exception. "I want us to be super
careful when we use the language 'hard worker,' because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall,
because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like. So, I feel you that he's a hard worker, I do, but in the context of
relative privilege."
Trump
won the debate. Don't believe the "Intellectual Yet Idiot" class. [Scroll down] They stacked the
deck against Trump with Lester Holt's one-sided questions and interventions. The Holt-Clinton team was glib, articulate,
and self-congratulatory. However, they lost. The Intellectual Yet Idiot class that dominates our news media fell
all over themselves critiquing Trump and praising Holt and Clinton. In doing so, they repeated the mistake they have
made about every debate since August 2015.
If
Lester Holt Really Wanted to Be Fair and Balanced... NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, at Monday
night's [9/26/2016] debate, repeatedly cross-examined and fact-checked GOP nominee Donald Trump. However, for Hillary
Clinton there was not one single challenge to anything she said. And there wasn't a hard-hitting question to the
Democratic nominee on any of her controversies whether it be Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation or the e-mails. If Holt
had correctly done his job as moderator he could've asked a tough question of Trump and then pivoted to ask an equally
challenging question to Clinton. The debate might have gone completely different if he had.
Here's
A List Of The Top 10 Issues Hillary Was NOT Asked About At Monday's Debate. Moderator Lester Holt is getting
mixed reviews for his performance at Monday's presidential debate. While some are praising Holt as having been
even-handed, critics have noted that the questions he asked — or didn't ask — seemed to favor former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Specifically, Holt pressed Donald Trump on a number of tough issues including his
unreleased tax returns. However, Holt failed to hold Hillary Clinton to account for any of the significant issues
surrounding her scandal-plagued campaign, including the Clinton foundation's pay-to-play accusations and her cozy
relationship with Wall Street investment banks.
Eric
Bolling calls out Lester Holt for blatant Hillary Clinton debate bias. Fox News' Eric Bolling took to Twitter
to react during Monday night's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Lester
Holt spins debate for Hillary 6 huge ways, plays 'Gotcha' with Trump. Journalists got their wish.
Presidential debate moderator Lester Holt hoisted Hillary Clinton's campaign high in the air like Atlas. Holt
repeatedly called out Trump, as both the Clinton campaign and the liberal media had begged him to do. Holt reminded
viewers he's liberal — from pushing the birther issue to harassing Trump about his tax returns to a wildly biased
question about Clinton as "the first woman nominated by a party" not having "the look." Clinton skated by with a 15-second
response on her emails while Trump was asked repeated follow-up questions while Hillary was not. There was no
"deplorables" question and Holt promoted the birther meme without noting its origin in the Clinton camp.
Lester
"Candy" Holt Moderates a Completely Useless Debate. Nobody Won. America Lost. If you were tuning in
to help you decide which candidate had the best plans for your future, Lester "Candy" Holt was absolutely no help at
all. Who has the better plan for the economy? For Terrorism? For National Security? For
anything? You sure did not learn that last night. Holt tossed out lofty topics but allowed the discussion, and
even led the discussion, to Hillary's talking points. He tried to fact check Trump — but never Hillary.
Rudy
Giuliani: 'Lester Holt Should Be Ashamed Of Himself'. When asked by The Daily Caller Monday night if Holt
treated Donald Trump fairly, the former mayor of New York said he acted "extremely unfairly." "Particular in his
interference with regard to the unconstitutionality of a case called Terry v. Ohio," Giuliani told this reporter.
"I forgive Hillary Clinton for not understanding that stop-and-frisk was not held unconstitutional — only
unconstitutional as applied by Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly." "I happen to disagree with that," he said. "I was
out of office 12 years when it was held unconstitutional. It was never held unconstitutional when I was mayor."
'Was
Lester Holt auditioning for Hillary's press secretary?' NBC moderator is criticized for Clinton bias. Lester
Holt has been lambasted on social media with accusations he favored Hillary Clinton following Monday night's presidential
debates. Some allegations against the NBC moderator included that he frequently interrupted Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump and went easy on Clinton. Even Trump himself implied that he was disappointed the topics of
Clinton's foundation, emails and Benghazi scandal were never raised.
Five
Times Lester Holt Shilled for Hillary Clinton at First Debate. Again and again, Holt asked Trump tough
questions that were straight from the Clinton campaign's talking points, and which were obvious set-ups for Clinton to attack
(and for fact-checkers to pounce on whatever Trump asserted in his own defense). Here are the five worst examples.
Lester
Holt Lost the Debate. There were concerns that Lester Holt would be this debate's Candy Crowley. He was a
good deal worse. Every question was shaped to frame a left-wing agenda. Holt hurled numerous attacks at
Trump. He only passingly offered Hillary a chance to address her emails when Trump had already brought it up.
The debate was structurally biased and Holt biased it. He repeatedly argued with Trump about the facts.
Provably
biased: Lester Holt tries to throw debate. Lester Holt was widely praised as a fair journalist to
moderate the first presidential debate in the general election, but the debate did not turn out to be fairly moderated.
Holt went after Donald Trump four times on tough "gotcha"-type questions, while only bringing up Hillary Clinton's emails
when asking her to respond to Trump. All four questions led to Clinton smashing Trump on an issue she has been using on
the trail against him.
Media
Bashing of Lauer Has Desired Effect as Lester Holt Lets His Bias Fly. The first part of the debate was actually
all right for Holt, but the wheels flew off when they got to how each candidate would handle healing the racial divide in the
U.S. Holt went for the birther issue with Trump, which isn't off the table but has very little relevance to what faces our
next president. Had Hillary brought it up it would have been fine. For Holt to interject it during what was
supposed to be a substantive discussion on race relations made it seem as if he were being fed questions directly from
Clinton HQ. Holt then hit Trump with a question about him saying that Hillary didn't have a presidential "look," which
obviously just served as a platform for Hillary to call Trump a sexist.
Lester
Holt shows he doesn't know the meaning of impartial. For the first half or so, Holt gave simple, broad,
open-ended questions and let the candidates go at it. He didn't venture into live fact-checking, didn't much quarrel
with the nominees, didn't ask persnickety questions. [...] But in the last half of the show, Holt started going after
Trump. He got into an unfortunate bickering match with the Republican nominee over the latter's (apparently offhand)
support for the Iraq War in a 2002 Howard Stern interview. It was perfectly reasonable to bring up the point, but the
exchange became tiresome on both sides, with the two men talking past each other.
Giuliani:
I wouldn't debate again after Holt's 'interference'. Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani floated the prospect
of Trump not participating in further general election debates, after what he believes was inappropriate meddling Monday by
moderator Lester Holt. "If I were Donald Trump, I wouldn't participate in another debate unless I was promised the
journalist would act like a journalist, and not an ignorant fact check," Giuliani said late Monday night in the post-debate
spin room, according to video provided by Bloomberg. "My advice would be the moderator would have to promise they'd be
a moderator."
In debate, Clinton gets no follow-up
questions, Trump gets 6. Republican Donald Trump was kept on the defensive at the first presidential debate, in
several instances having to debate the highly anticipated event's moderator as well as his Democratic opponent. Trump
was challenged on his answers Monday night at Hofstra University in New York at least six times by NBC's Lester Holt,
according to the Washington Examiner's count. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile was no follow-up questions for the
90-minute debate.
Trump
Takes On Holt And Hillary. Donald Trump's main opponent in the first presidential debate wasn't Hillary
Clinton. It was NBC anchor Lester Holt. Hillary, with forced smiles as brittle as china and an eerie fake laugh,
continued her primary debate strategy of repeating canned talking points while waiting for the moderator to knock off her
opponent. Hillary wasn't there to debate, but to once again seem like the only possible option. Holt's job was
to make her seem like the only possible option by targeting Trump.
Debate:
Trump did well, despite a big obstacle. Trump did well overall despite the clear bias in the questions asked
and not asked by Lester Holt, and a missed opportunity to attack Hillary on the email scandal and Benghazi. [...] Holt kept
interrupting Trump during his answers, but he did not interrupt Hillary. Holt should have asked Hillary if her campaign
started the birther issue in 2008. But most importantly, Holt did not ask Hillary about the Bubba Foundation that has
received billions of dollars from countries, individuals, and businesses that had business with the Hillary State Department.
Holt did not ask about how she amassed $300 million during the last 15 years, and why anyone would pay up to
$500K per speech to her "husband" Bubba while she was secretary of state, not to mention her own speech fees after she left
office. Holt did not ask Hillary about the pay for play, nor did he ask her about Benghazi, specifically why she
lied about the attack's cause.
"Mostly
true" when Bernie said it, "mostly false" when Trump did. The Social Justice Warriors at PolitiFact are at it
again, lying like sacks of fertilizer inside the barn.
Dallas
Paper Offers Discount In Scramble To End Hillary Endorsement Fallout. The Dallas Morning News is offering
massively discounted subscriptions to its readers in an effort to withstand the fallout caused by its editorial board's
endorsement of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The endorsement has generated a lot of reader pushback in the form
of angry comments, phone calls and vows to unsubscribe from the paper, which hasn't endorsed a Democrat in 75 years.
Editor Joe Wilson has acknowledged it came with a price of dropped subscriptions, but no one from the paper has revealed
how many readers actually unsubscribed.
The Editor says...
It is difficult enough to keep a newspaper afloat in the 21st century, without stuff like this.
After
Charlotte shooting, press downplays a key fact: The officer's race downplays a key fact: The officer's race. The riot in
Charlotte, and the fatal shooting of Keith Scott that sparked the violence, was the lead story in yesterday's New York Times. But a crucial
fact was buried. Not until the 30th paragraph were readers told that "Brentley Vinson, the officer who the police say shot Mr. Scott, is
black, as is the police chief." The Washington Post took a similar approach with its lead story, waiting until the 31st paragraph to report
that "authorities said the officer who shot Scott is black."
Nets
Omit IRS Head Admitting to Targeting Tea Party Groups at Hearing. At a contentious impeachment hearing
conducted by the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday [9/21/2016], IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted that his agency targeted
Tea Party groups looking to obtain tax-exempt status. "They were totally improper criteria used to select organizations,
applying for c-4 designation for further review," testified Koskinen before the committee, "Those organizations predominantly were
conservative organizations." This stunning abuse of power went unreported by the "Big Three" networks Wednesday evening and
Thursday morning. The only reference to Koskinen being in a hearing that day was made by NBC that evening, but the report had
nothing to do with a possible impeachment or his testimony. During her report on NBC Nightly News, reporter Katy Tur used a
clip of the commissioner, talking about how tax-exempt organizations can spend their funds, to take a swipe at Donald Trump and his
foundation for alleged self-dealing.
CNN
Media Panel: Clinton vs. Trump Is Apples vs. 'Rancid Meat'. On his Sunday show Reliable
Sources, [9/4/2016] host Brain Stelter brought out a panel made up a proverbial who's who of Donald Trump opponents to
whine about how the media was being "unfair" to Hillary Clinton and going easy on Trump.
Dr.
Drew loses his CNN show a week after questioning Hillary's health. Dr. Drew Pinsky raised a lot of eyebrows a week ago when he said he was
gravely concerned over Hillary Clinton's health in an interview on KABC-AM radio. The interview went viral, and was taken down by the station (but
a transcript lives on, courtesy of the Free Beacon). So the message had to be delivered in way tht [sic] would chill everyone who might think about
revealing inconvenient truths.
Hillary's Corruption
Is Overwhelming. After over two decades in the heart of America's spotlight, Hillary Clinton is still an unknown
quantity for most Americans. That's thanks to one factor and one factor only: the love and worship of the mainstream
media. Over the weekend, no less than six terrible stories broke that would have crippled anyone else's campaign.
Media
that ripped Bush on Katrina ignores Obama on Louisiana flooding. President George W. Bush was torn to shreds in 2005
by mainstream media commentators for his initial response to Hurricane Katrina — yet President Obama's detached
response to the recent Louisiana floods has been met with resounding silence from those same outlets. "George Bush
doesn't care about black people" was the shocking charge by singer Kanye West about President Bush's response to
Katrina. West's was a particularly blunt assessment, but echoed a growing narrative pushed by mainstream media outlets
that Bush's response was out of touch, inept and most of all, he didn't care about people on the ground.
Chris
Matthews: Get 'excited' about Clinton campaign, or 'don't vote'. MSNBC's Chris Matthews has a striking
message for disaffected Democrats: Get "excited" about Hillary Clinton's campaign and the possibility of the party
controlling Washington, or "don't vote." The "Hardball" host offered the advice on air Tuesday night, while griping about
some Democrats' pessimistic attitude toward the election.
Chris
Matthews Fails to Identify Disgraced Pennsylvania AG as a Democrat. Imagine that a Republican state attorney
general had been forced to resign after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. Now imagine how the
story would have been played on MSNBC. Fair to assume that the word "Republican" would have featured in the story's first
sentence? But in a stand-alone segment on today's Hardball on the forced resignation of Kathleen Kane, the Pennsylvania
AG who was convicted on nine charges, host Chris Matthews failed to ever mention, and the screen graphics never revealed,
that Kane is a Democrat. Kane had illegally leaked secret grand jury documents to harm a rival prosecutor, then lied
about it under oath.
WaPo
Writer Discovered on Payroll of Pro-Iran 'Echo Chamber' Architect. A Washington Post writer who recently
claimed that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was "American diplomacy at its finest" failed to disclose that he has been
on the payroll of an organization that emerged as a chief architect of the White House's self-described campaign to build a
pro-Iran "echo chamber," according to information obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Allen S. Weiner, a
Stanford law professor and contributor to the Post's opinions section, co-authored a piece arguing in favor of the
Obama administration's decision to pay Iran $400 million in hard currency in what many described as a "ransom payment" for
the release of several U.S. hostages. Weiner and the Post failed to disclose that the writer has long been on the
payroll of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization recently exposed as a key cog in a White House-orchestrated campaign to build
what it called a pro-Iran "echo chamber."
Sharyl
Attkisson Discusses DC Journalist Bureau Chief Urging Colleagues to Take Down Trump. Sharyl Attkisson was
interviewed on NewsMax TV with Steve Malzberg and discussed an event she attended where a well known DC Journalist Bureau
Chief urged all of the reporters in attendance to earnestly work at taking down candidate Donald Trump. When you
consider the event being discussed, and further add the known hatred from a very specific Washington Bureau Chief, it stands
to reason Attkisson is discussing Carl Bernstein. Bernstein previously said that all reporters have a professional
journalistic responsibility to destroy the candidacy of Donald Trump. Bernstein, if you didn't know, is a full-throated
supporter of Hillary Clinton.
VIDEO: Here's ten minutes of CNN
cutting people's mics when they dare criticize Hillary. Note to pundits, journalists, witnesses, and
commentators who would dare speak the truth about Hillary Clinton. You are not welcome on CNN. They have no interest
in hearing the facts of Mrs. Clinton's life. They don't fit the obviously-biased narrative they're building, and
[they won't] let you sit there and use their airwaves to inform people. The once and future Queen must be protected at
all costs. Speak ill of her and CNN's gestapo will shout you down and cut you off with extreme prejudice — regardless
of the accuracy of your comments.
A
Good Joke About Political Murder. [Scroll down] Not only did Trump not say what the media has accused him
of saying, but the media has no problem when Democrats openly called and call for the assassination of Republican presidents
and presidential candidates. During Trump's candidacy a fine roster of media folks covering the gamut from the New York
Times to VICE to the Nightly Show have joked about killing Trump or about his assassination. Anyone objecting to that
sort of good clean progressive fun would have been a humorless spoilsport. Trump's remark however is being denounced in
the press as everything from a threat to sedition. What did Trump actually say? When you go to the tape, it turns
out that he said nothing.
CBS
Admits: Host Gayle King Attended Gushing Obama Birthday Party. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King
isn't just a Democratic donor, she also attended Barack Obama's 55th birthday party this past weekend. The woman who
regularly covers political stories, including the 2016 presidential election, was outed by her co-host Charlie Rose as a
guest. After reporter Dana Jacobson highlighted a New York Times story on the secrecy of the Obama White House
bash, Rose blurted, "Did you tweet anything [at the party]?" King replied, "Oh, no. They ask you not to tweet.
I'm not tweeting a thing." She bragged, "It was a very nice tribute to him [Obama]. The last time in the White House
and I can say a good time was had by all." An excited Rose wondered, "And you danced with the President?" Remember,
these people call themselves neutral, unbiased journalists.
New
York Times Blames Donald Trump for Biased Media Coverage. [Scroll down] In 2008 — to pick an
arbitrary starting point — journalists swooned over the prospect of Barack Obama as the first black president, and
coordinated to discuss attacks on Obama's critics. In one particularly noxious episode, a photographer working for the
Atlantic photoshopped a cover image she had shot to cast McCain as a bloodthirsty monster. In 2012, journalists plotted
together to make Mitt Romney the target of Benghazi coverage, rather than Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton —
and CNN's Candy Crowley infamously threw the second presidential debate to Obama. They played along with spurious attacks on
Romney's record, such as his supposed responsibility for the death of a worker's wife and the alleged mysteries in his tax returns.
GOP Goes
Full Democrat. [Scroll down] Media support for the Democrat candidate, no matter who that is, should be a
foregone conclusion. The alphabet networks, cable news shows and major newspapers are nothing more than campaign arms
of the DNC. The most recent example is Khizr Khan receiving 50 times more coverage than Benghazi mother Pat Smith on the
three major networks, ABC, CBS, NBC. When George W Bush was running for president, Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan were constantly
on the news, protesting the Iraq war and excoriating George W Bush. Then in 2008 with a new Democrat president,
the war protests went into silent mode receiving no media coverage, having already served their purpose.
NBC
Urges Hillary's VP to Trash Trump; CBS Urges Trump's VP to Trash Trump. Two networks. Two vice presidential candidates. Same
questions. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie on Friday [8/5/2016] interviewed Mike Pence and urged the Republican to trash Donald Trump. On
CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell talked to Tim Kaine and urged the Democrat to trash... Trump. She did not demand that Kaine bash Hillary
Clinton. Instead she asked if Trump was "sane" and "competent." On NBC, Guthrie lectured, "Paul Ryan himself said that Donald Trump has been
on a 'strange run' for the last few days. You're down in every national poll, some by double digits, in every recent battleground poll.
CBS
Touts 'Feminist-in-Chief' Obama, Laments Dislike of Hillary Clinton. The journalists at CBS This Morning
on Thursday [8/4/2016] hailed Barack Obama as the "feminist-in-chief" and praised his new essay in Glamour magazine on
"women and politics." Naturally, Democratic donor and co-host Gayle King expanded the discussion to a complaint about
people disliking Hillary Clinton. Talking to editor-in-chief Cindi Leive and insisted, "In Glamour magazine,
you've been talking a lot about politics. I want to switch to Hillary Clinton and about likability. Because don't
you find it interesting that this is still an issue for her today?" Leive scolded, "They [the public] can accept voting for
somebody they think is competent but not necessarily like likable. They are tougher on women."
MSNBC:
Pat Smith's Speech Was 'Offensive' But Khizr Khan's Was 'Memorable'. Both the Republican and Democratic
conventions gave speaking slots to grieving parents of a son killed in combat, but — according to MSNBC's Steve
Benen — Khizr Khan's DNC speech was "memorable," while Pat Smith's RNC speech was "offensive." Smith, whose
son, Sean, was killed in Benghazi, slammed Hillary for allegedly lying to her about the cause of her son's death.
On
CNN, Pat Smith Blasts 'Dirt' Treatment From Media Over RNC Speech. On Monday's [8/1/2016] CNN Newsroom,
Patricia Smith hammered the media over their clear double standard between the often-negative way they treated her anti-Hillary
Clinton speech at the Republican National Convention versus their hyping of Khizr Khan's anti-Donald Trump speech at the Democratic
National Convention: "I was treated like dirt. I don't think the Khan family was treated that way. But I was
treated like dirt. I was called a liar." Anchor Brooke Baldwin pressed Smith to condemn Trump's counter-attack on
Khan and his wife. Baldwin led into her interview of the Benghazi mother by noting that Trump "isn't the only candidate
facing backlash here. Hillary Clinton being criticized again by one of the most vocal parents... of the slain Americans
in Benghazi."
Double
Standard: Khizr Khan Receives 5 More Coverage Than Pat Smith on ABC, CBS, NBC. Two weeks ago at the
Republican National Convention (RNC) a grieving mother blasted Hillary Clinton for the debacle of the 2012 Benghazi
attack. Last Thursday [7/28/2016], at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), grieving parents gave a speech criticizing Donald
Trump for his statements against Muslims. While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS,
NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic
Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla's DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network
coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.
Glenn
Greenwald: The Media's Coverage of Donald Trump Is 'Kind of Hysterical'. In a recent conversation with
Slate, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald agrees that a possible Donald Trump presidency "poses ... extreme dangers" to the
U.S., but the journalist also argues that the mass media is not only creating a dangerous, unblinking consensus against Trump
but also failing to reach his voters.
Charlie
Rose Asks Eric Holder About 'Danger' of 'Not Smart' Trump. Acting more like a doorman than a journalist during
PBS coverage of the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose invited
former Attorney General Eric Holder to blast Donald Trump: "You also said that Donald Trump, you questioned his gray
matter. You mean he's not smart enough to be president?" Holder replied: "Yeah, I wonder. You know, I
sometimes think that he hides behind a certain bravado to hide a lack of substance that he has.... he seems to me to be a very
shallow man." Rather challenge the nasty personal attack or lecture Holder to tone down the rhetoric, Rose urged him to
continue: "And because you don't see any intellectual interest, you don't see anything other than a businessman?"
CNN's
David Gregory: 'I've Run Out of Words to Express My Shock' Over Trump. Following a long, rambling presser in
which GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump encouraged a foreign nation to interfere in the election, CNN's David Gregory
admitted that he had "run out of words to express my shock" about Trump. He observed "how completely beyond the pale
Donald Trump is as a potential leader of the free world and commander-in-chief of our country. This is beyond the pale."
NBC
Spin: Resignation of DNC Chair 'Best Thing for Democratic Unity'. In a desperate attempt to downplay
chaos in the Democratic Party following leaked Democratic National Committee e-mails and the resignation of chairwoman Debbie
Wasserman Shultz, on Monday's [7/25/2016] NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck actually tried to spin the
controversy as a positive: "Look, the only piece of good news out of this for Democrats, Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders's
campaign manager, told me yesterday the best thing for Democratic unity is her resignation and that actually could calm the
waters today."
Of
Course: MSNBC Connects Munich Terror Attack Talk to GOP Convention. MSNBC on Friday [7/22/2016] used the
unfolding shooting spree in Munich to bash the Republican Party and connect the GOP convention to it. Regarding terror,
Daily Beast editor Christopher Dickey talked to Brian Williams and lectured, "What we're looking at now in Europe and, to
some extent, at the Republican convention and in the discourse in the United States, is a lot of talk about war as if we're
talking about a massive operation." Dickey insisted that the terror threat not be overstated: "Yet we're often
talking as if we're going to go to war with a billion Muslims. And I think we need to be very, very careful about
that. You are very careful. NBC is very careful."
75
Percent Positive Response to Donald Trump Speech — So CNN Trashes Its Own Poll. Donald Trump won the
Republican nomination for president in Cleveland during a momentous week in political history. On Thursday night
[7/21/2016], Trump gave a one-hour-and-fifteen-minute speech accepting the Republican nomination. The speech was so
overwhelmingly well-received among the crowd that the media did not know what to do to tear it apart.
Trump's Biggest Enemy is the
Media. Although it's a given that the mainstream media is biased against conservative Republicans, the recent
Wikileaks 20,000 DNC email dump disclosed that the MSM has colluded with Hillary Clinton in her attacks on her opponent
Bernie Sanders. Poor Bernie didn't have a chance against the combined Clinton/MSM machine. The emails contained
off the record correspondence with reporters at the Washington Post, Politico, and the Wall Street Journal, among
others. They also show how the DNC conspired with media anchors and newspapers to torpedo Bernie Sanders. One
devastating email discussed using Sanders religion or atheism as a potential talking point for the campaign. Hey
Bernie, the Green Party wants you to run on their ticket. It would be nice to go out fighting. We certainly
didn't need any proof that the mainstream media is in the pocket of the Democrat Party since we know that over 80 % of
journalists are self-admitted liberals.
Another
Clinton Email Scandal Erupts As Dem Convention Opens. Talk about a bad a start to a political convention.
The release of almost 20,000 emails hacked out of Democratic National Committee servers has forced the head of the DNC to
resign, sparked protests from Bernie Sanders supporters, and showed the media in cahoots with Democrats.
Leaked
Emails: Politico's Ken Vogel Filed Story with DNC Before His Own Editors. A release of Democratic National
Committee emails from WikiLeaks shows Politico reporter Ken Vogel sent a pre-publication negative copy of a story April 30
to the DNC's deputy communications director, so he and other staffers at the DNC along with Hillary Clinton campaign could
coordinate a response. "Vogel gave me his story ahead of time/before it goes to his editors as long as I didn't share
it. Let me know if you see anything that's missing and I'll push back," wrote Mark Paustenbach in an email to his boss,
Luis Miranda, who before taking over communications for the DNC worked for President Barak Obama's White House outreach to
Latinos, as well as other campaigns, including the Democratic 2000 recount operation in Florida.
The GOP convention exposes the reality
of media bias. CNN alone spent nearly 45 minutes talking about Mrs. Trump's alleged plagiarism
Tuesday morning [7/19/2016], as if this was a matter of major national importance. Why? The most obvious
explanation is that the TV networks are run by Democrats who consider it their professional duty to provide negative
coverage of Republicans. After a protester from the far-left group Code Pink attempted to stage a disruption
Monday inside the Quicken Loans Arena, ABC News reporter Terry Moran claimed this incident was symbolic of what
"a dark night" the convention had been. "Donald Trump has been a candidate whose approach has divided many people,
drawn protesters," Moran said, terming the lone protester's act an illustration of "the kind of unsettled emotions that
Donald Trump has sparked in many people around the country." Of course, kooks from Code Pink — founded in 2002
by radical leftists Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin — have staged disruptive protests in all kinds of settings, but
Terry Moran blamed their bizarre antics on Trump. Meanwhile, on NBC, Tom Brokaw was accusing Republicans of
communicating "a pretty divisive message." According to Brokaw, the GOP convention made "no attempt to really
pull the country together."
L.A.
Times Suggests Military Coup Against President Trump. Jamie Kirchick, writing in the Los Angeles Times, asks readers to imagine a
military coup against a future President Donald Trump — and argues why one would be necessary. Kirchick cites the example of the
recent failed coup in Turkey as a source of inspiration.
Los Angeles Times runs
op-ed promoting military coup against Donald Trump. Normally military coups are instigated by the right, but a senior fellow with the left-wing
Foreign Policy Institute is arguing that an overthrow of the U.S. government might be necessary if Republican nominee Donald Trump is elected president.
What's more, the op-ed by James Kirchick ran Tuesday [7/19/2016] in a major U.S. newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. "Trump is not only patently unfit to be
president, but a danger to America and the world," Mr. Kirchick wrote in the op-ed. "If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S."
"Voters must stop him before the military has to," he concluded.
The Editor says...
If I had written an op-ed article to incite a military coup against the president and posted it on this web site, something bad would have happened to me
by now. But the L.A. Times — with at least ten times the number of daily readers as akdart.com — acts as if there's
nothing wrong with this sort of inflammatory rhetoric.
Uproar!
Melania Trump Caught Borrowing Cliches From Michelle Obama Speech. In other words, the mainstream press has thankfully found
a meaty topic in which to bite, since the other speeches on Monday [7/18/2016] were all about boring stuff like how Hillary Clinton lied to
the mother of one of the men killed in Benghazi, or the stories of parents who lost their children to illegal immigrants, or Milwaukee Sheriff
David Clarke's stirring — and hugely crowd-pleasing — defense of the nation's police after eight were gunned down in
targeted attacks within two weeks.
Who Gets Absolute Moral
Authority? Among the sainted moms of the Black Lives Matter movement who will speak on Hillary Clinton's behalf
are Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton;
Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis; Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown; Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya
Pendleton; and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland. Each of these cases lumped under supposedly unjustified gun
violence and systemic racism is complicated and distinct. For starters, Bland hanged herself when her friends and
family wouldn't bail her out of jail after she had kicked a police officer. Two of the "children" involved in police
shootings (Brown and Hamilton) had assaulted cops during their fatal encounters. [...] Because these women endorse
race-baiting, gun-grabbing narratives and left-wing candidates, no one working in the mainstream media will ever challenge
their parental prerogative to participate in politics on behalf of their loved ones.
Sad!
How The Media Empowered Trump Haters To Be Meaner Than Hillary Haters! The media creation of Trump as essentially a bigoted, unhinged,
uneducated, unfit-for-office monster is beginning to stick and this is the week Trump can (and must) attempt to change that narrative. Yet I've
begun to notice that the Trump haters ranging from liberal Hillary Lovers to #NeverTrump constitutional conservatives, and even many casual political
observers in between, despise Trump so much that I fear they are beyond persuasion.
Smug
Chuck Todd: Benghazi Is 'Cheap Unity' for Lowest Common Denominator' Crowd. A smug Chuck Todd on Monday
dismissed Benghazi at the Republican Convention as nothing more than "cheap unity" for the "lowest common denominator"
crowd. Chris Matthews railed that the GOP speakers were presenting "third world rhetoric." Todd insulted, "Benghazi...
does serve Trump in another way positively, politically, which is a way to unify this crowd quickly. It's a way to get
cheap unity."
Indiana
Thug Wearing "Black Lives Matter" T-Shirt Opens Fire on Police Officers House. He was wearing an "FTP" (F***
The Police), Black Lives Matter T-Shirt, he opens fire on a police officers house and squad car, yet the politically correct
Indianapolis media are struggling with a motive.
Sonia
Sotomayor Cites Ta-Nehisi Coates in a Supreme Court Dissent. Race is everything for the "wise Latina." The media have
widely praised Sonia Sotomayor's dissent in Utah v. Strieff. Even though she is derided as one of the worst writers on the
bench, even by her ideological comrades, headlines describe the dissent as "stinging" (New York Daily News), "ringing"
(Atlantic), "fierce" (Washington Post), "fiery" (CNN), "epic" (Nation), "blistering" (NPR), "biting" (Christian
Science Monitor), and "scathing" (NBC). In particular, they praise the dissent for bravely taking on racial injustice in
America. Slate called it an "atomic bomb of a dissent slamming racial profiling and mass imprisonment." Mother
Jones lauded the "court's only Latina justice" for putting "her life experience to practice" and "excoriating her colleagues for
misunderstanding the police harassment to which people of color are regularly subjected." The Atlantic wrote that "few institutions
in American life have grappled with race and racism like the U.S. Supreme Court, for better or worse, but rarely does it speak about it
with this level of detail." It went on to suggest that the dissent may be a "veiled nod to the Black Lives Matter movement."
The nod is barely veiled.
Why
Isn't The Media Condemning All the People Supporting the Dallas Shooter? [Scroll down] I saw many postings (several with
hundreds of "likes" and "retweets") from black people who have been infuriatingly supportive of the man who wanted to kill "white people" and
end up assassinating several completely innocent police officers. I'm not talking about the usual conspiracy nuts who insist that
Johnson wasn't really the shooter. That isn't that unusual in cases like this. What I saw was flat out praise for Johnson's
actions. Perhaps even worse than that, there were numerous blacks who were being viciously attacked for having the gall the criticize
those who would publicly support/justify such a heinous crime against humanity. To my knowledge (and I have searched hard to find it),
not one major "black leader" has had the guts to call out this outrageous reaction. [...] This is a whole new level of insanity and delusion.
This shows that there is a culture, at least within the massive online black community, where, even if it is not nearly the majority view,
it is more than acceptable to think is it somehow justifiable to kill whites/police out of revenge for events which we still don't yet even
fully understand.
MSNBC
Spins: Black Lives Matter Has Never Been 'Anti-Police'. MSNBC anchor Brian Williams has been hosting the
live reaction to the horrible shooting in Dallas. On Friday [7/8/2016], the journalist brought on a guest to claim that Black
Lives Matter protesters have never been "anti-police." Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP and Williams also hinted that more gun
control was needed in the wake of the killing. Speaking of bringing people together, Ifill claimed, "That's what the Black
Lives Matter protests have been about. That's what the policing protests have been about, they have never been anti-police."
CBS
Dismisses 'Innocent' Meeting Between AG Lynch and Bill Clinton. While credit goes to Thursday's CBS This
Morning for leading the broadcast with the controversy swirling around Bill Clinton having a 30-minute private meeting
with Attorney General Loretta Lynch amid the FBI investigation to Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal, the hosts of the morning
show proceeded to dismiss the suspicious incident as an "innocent" encounter. Turning to Bloomberg Politics editor John
Heilemann, co-host Charlie Rose downplayed: "...the former President and a meeting with Loretta Lynch which seems on the face
of it, simply to be an innocent meeting of two politician saying hello. But — "Heilemann replied:
"Yes. Just not just smart, right? Not a smart thing to do. You know? The case she is still being
investigated by the FBI. The Justice Department has jurisdiction over that case."
ABC
Swoons Over Abortion Activists After SCOTUS Ruling; 'It's a Party Right Here!' ABC was the last of the "big
three" networks to break in Monday morning [6/27/2016] with the Supreme Court's ruling striking down a pro-life Texas law,
but they didn't hold back their approval as the assembled cast of smiling correspondents hailed the "fairly sweeping decision" and
expressed glee at the "party right here" by abortion activists "lining up since 4:00 am. to witness this moment."
MSNBC
lets Wendy Davis take abortion victory lap. MSNBC's coverage of the Supreme Court striking down Texas' recent
abortion law Monday included a triumphant victory lap by failed gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, whose 11-hour filibuster
against the regulations in 2013 earned her high praise from the cable news network. The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 this
week that Texas' recently enacted abortion law, HB2, unconstitutionally limited a woman's access to abortion under
Roe v. Wade.
BET
Awards: Clinton Rally, Then a Sermon Against Abusive 'Invention Called Whiteness'. Just as you would
expect, the 2016 BET (Black Entertainment Television) Awards were full of Black Lives Matter references and reminders to
register to vote and then get out the vote for Hillary Clinton. After the opening of the award ceremony featured
Beyoncé and her back-up dancers marching into the auditorium to a Martin Luther King, Jr. speech, actor and producer
Terence J went on to say, "Your vote is your voice," and reminded everyone to register and "vote smart" as he introduced
the show hosts, ABC's Blackish stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross.
The
one question reporters failed to ask any of the Democrats about their sit-in protest. The media orgy over the Democrats' temper tantrum
in the House of Representatives has been well documented over the past 24 hours. But with all the fawning tributes and comparisons to civil
rights era protests on the 1960s, one fundamental, logical question seems to have escaped the minds of the hive-mentality media gaggle covering the
Pelosi-run publicity stunt. Let's first point out the so-called "common sense gun safety legislation" these Democrats claim was the impetus behind
their fund-raising escapade disguised as a protest. The crux of their agenda had to do with legislation designed to prevent individuals on the
terrorist watch list from buying weapons. This would deny the right to bear arms to up to a million people because someone in a government office
in Washington put their name on a list. A fundamental, constitutionally protected right would be denied without due process. It's pretty
serious stuff, right? So, how did the media address the protesters?
CBS
Hypes 'Risk' For Homosexual College Student To Come Out In Alabama. On Friday's [6/24/2016] CBS Evening
News, Steve Hartman hinted that the Bible Belt — and specifically, Alabama — was a dangerous place
for homosexuals. Hartman pointed out that "a lot of people came out after [the] Orlando" terrorist attack, but touted
how "few took as big a risk as Jesse Johnson. Jesse's family lives in Jemison, Alabama, in the heart of the Bible
Belt. Fly a flag here, and it better have just red, white, and blue." The correspondent included a soundbite from
Johnson's mother, who expressed her deep concern: "I worry for his safety because of that. I mean, this is Alabama."
NBC producer
calls would-be Trump assassin 'good guy with a gun'. In an effort to make a smug attack on the conservative
position that the best way to fight a bad guy with a gun is a good guy, an NBC producer tweeted that the failed assassin who
tried to murder Donald Trump could be considered a "good guy with a gun." Matt Mowrer, an associate producer for NBC
Universal since 2014, tweeted late Tuesday night [6/21/2016] that anyone who kills the Republican nominee is considered
deserves the same praise as someone who tries to stop a mass killing.
A
Year After Honoring a Man in a Dress for Courage, ESPN Honors a Man in a Boy's Body. ESPN just announced its
decision to give this year's Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Zaevion Dobson. This is another way of saying that ESPN
honors a hero instead of itself in issuing the honor next month. The network too often depicted heroism through the
award as the act of embracing the ideological precepts popular with Disney executives. [...] The people honoring other people
often seek to honor themselves by attaching themselves to the popularity of others. But in celebrating a man in a boy's
body the Worldwide Leader in Sports spotlights their recent buffoonery of celebrating a man in a woman's dress. There's
nothing praiseworthy in praising someone for the purpose of winning praise.
CNN, DHS &
SPLC's Blame Righty hit job. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on "right-wing"
terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN's hands last week during the farcical White House summit on Don't Say Islamic Extremism.
What
America's Freedom-Hating, Hoplophobic, Lying Financial Columnists Will Try and Tell You. You always know what
to expect when someone claiming to be an authority on one topic decides to delve into another topic that has zero to do with
his alleged expertise, and then begins his screed with an insult to a large portion of the American population. This is
what popped up on my news feed this morning when I pulled up my Facebook account — shared by a friend from high
school, who made it a habit of late to share idiotic anti-gun opinions and warn those reading her timeline that dissent will
not be tolerated and opposing opinions deleted.
This
Week Proves, Again, that Progressivism is a Cult. The most absurd thing about the progressive's 'Stop the Hate'
pleas are that nobody, and I mean nobody, does hate better than progressives. We are talking Sith-level hate.
When they say 'love is love,' they mean 'get to the back of the bus, you bigot.' When they say 'tolerance' they mean 'safe
space for me, but not for thee.' CNN's Anderson Cooper, an open homosexual, thinks your tears for 49 dead people aren't
real if you've never tweeted about gay pride, and he will tell you so on the air.
In
a Mass Shooting, Wait and Die? Or Fight Back? Regarding the Orlando shooting, notice how quickly the
media pivoted from the culpability of a sexually repressed Muslim Afghan registered Democrat mass murderer to an assault on
firearms? Forget Islam and jihad and the Obama administration's resolute determination to fundamentally change the
nature of the United States by importing as many Muslims from alien, anti-Christian and anti-Western cultures as
possible. The real problem, in their view, is gun violence.
This
is Why Trump's Journo-Bashing Scores Points. Watch here as the three CBS This Morning anchors nod together in
self-satisfied disgust at the failure to advance gun control. As if there wasn't a conservative in their audience or
another opinion in the land. [Video clip] How smug, and ultimately, how dumb. To be so sure of one's
opinions that nobody could possibly disagree, and to be so blithely unaware that, as "mainstream" journalists, they have a
responsibility to be nonpartisan. And then in another segment, surely, they'll profess to be astounded and outraged
that Donald Trump is drawing excitement and applause by bashing the press.
After
correcting for bias, Clinton's national lead in CBS News poll evaporates. CBS News is now pushing the
pro-Hillary Clinton polls in rapid fashion. Late on Wednesday, this media outlet released the results of a national
poll claiming to show that Clinton holds a 6% advantage over Donald Trump in the direct head-to-head matchup. [... But] this
CBS News poll appears to be biased in favor of the Democrats by the same margin that Clinton purportedly holds over Trump,
meaning that if the bias is removed, so is Clinton's lead, and we have a statistical tie.
Anderson
Cooper's Orlando Ranting Is Bad For America. Based on information we have as of now, [Omar] Mateen was a longtime
supporter of terrorism, having cheered 9/11 — on 9/11! — according to his high school classmates who witnessed
his response. [...] He was a registered Democrat and son of an anti-American politician. Despite all that, the media and others
on the Left decided to cover this terrorist attack by going after people who support self-government and its Second Amendment; people
who pray to God in times of tragedy; people who believe the definition of marriage is the union of one man and one woman; people who
accept the biological reality and implications of distinct sexes; people who are Republican; people who are traditional Christians;
and so on and so forth. The media followed up by cheerleading this incivility.
The
entire front page of the Boston Globe pushes a gun ban. Please note that the Orlando shooter did not — repeat,
did not — use an AR-15 in his Islam-inspired terrorist attack. The weapon he used was a Sig Sauer MCX, not even close
to being an AR-15. The fact that the media has chosen the AR-15 as the poster gun for banning "assault" weapons is typical of
our dumb as a stone media when it comes to firearms. But you might note the manipulative, emotional appeal from gun
control hysterics. Since they are unable to use factual arguments, they appeal to the heart and hope people don't catch
on that what they are proposing won't stop a single terrorist or nutcase from commiting mass murder.
The
Media Meme: Blame GOP for Orlando While Turning Sole Focus to Gun Control. The media and political exploitation we've
witnessed as a country over the past five is one word: Disgusting. It's a shake-your-head moment in looking at the definitive
narrative to emerge out of Orlando this week. We're a blame-ourselves culture regardless of who or what is actually responsible for
horrific things, with Republicans usually the first to get a finger (index and/or middle) directed its way after every mass shooting that
occurs all too often in this country. Members of a Charleston black church are massacred by a lunatic? It's a Republican problem
because a Confederate flag was on his property. A Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado is attacked and three people —
including a police officer — are killed? It's Carly Fiorina's fault. 49 innocents are slaughtered at an Orlando
nightclub? The New York Times blames... the GOP.
The Editor says...
"49 innocents?" The clients in a meat market gay bar at 2:00 a.m. are not innocent.
CBS
Insinuates Christians 'Promote the Kind of Violence' in Orlando. During their Tuesday night broadcast of
Evening News CBS directed the blame for the Orlando terrorist attack towards American Christians, even though it was
carried out by a pledged member of the Islamic State. To ease into the Christian bashing host Scott Pelley stated,
"There has been so much progress for the LGBT Community, but we are now reminded that fear is still a constant
reality." As the center piece of her report CBS's Mireya Villarreal brought on Lorri Jean the CEO of the LGBT Center in
Los Angeles. In the report Villarreal showed Jean letting loose on her political opponents: [...]
Regressive
media applaud the San Jose violence. The far-left media are excusing the behavior of San Jose rioters, instead
blaming the violence on Trump and rally attendees. Some journalists have gone so far as to encourage the attacks.
In the wake of the outrage over the violent protesters' behavior, online leftist publications churned out a flurry of
articles that stank of damage control. But unlike of the apologia they exhibited during the Baltimore and Ferguson
riots, the authors of these pieces went a step farther than merely excusing the mob attacks in San Jose. They endorsed them.
The
Mexican Flag: An All-American Symbol? Violent mobs who have attacked Donald Trump supporters at one rally
after another wave Mexican flags while burning American flags. The vast majority of Americans will disapprove, to say
the least, so the Associated Press felt called upon to assure us that Mexican flags are really OK: "Mexican flag, seen at
Trump protests, has long history in US." [...] The AP wants us to think that Mexico has legitimate grievances against the
U.S., although how that is relevant remains unspoken.
After
[One] Complaint, Pennsylvania High School Ends Tradition of Graduation Prayer. There will be no invocation or
benediction at this year's Pottsgrove High School graduation, a change after years of tradition. As reported in the
Pottsgrove Mercury, the decision to stop the prayers was made last year. According to reporter Evan Brandt, the change
apparently is the result of one student's decision to invoke Jesus Christ in his comments at last year's graduation.
The school received an anonymous complaint.
The Editor says...
The school board apparently has no backbone if it surrenders after one anonymous complaint.
News
anchor booed at graduation ceremony for anti-Trump remarks, speaking Spanish. A commencement ceremony turned
unruly over the weekend when the keynote speaker, Mar'a Elena Salinas, one of the most prominent journalists in
Spanish-language news in the U.S., underscored the achievement of the Latinos among the graduates and made some remarks in
Spanish. Non-Latino graduates and their guests at California State University, Fullerton's College of Communications
booed the Univision anchor and yelled at her to leave the stage, according to a student who was at the ceremony.
Charlotte
Observer: Girls must overcome 'discomfort' at seeing male genitals in locker room. A shocking editorial
in the Charlotte Observer counseled young girls to get over the "discomfort" they feel at the sight of male genitalia when
transgender facilities are allowed in North Carolina. The newspaper assumes the law will eventually be repealed or
declared illegal. While that may or may not happen any time soon, it is the justification for this position used by the
Observer that reveals the true nature of this battle of the bathroom.
Fox
News is now completely devoted to Donald Trump. The political and media world seemed shocked this week when
Megyn Kelly sat down for a warm interview with Donald Trump. She tossed him velvety soft questions like, "When did you
realize you could be president?", sought to discover whether anyone had ever "hurt [him] emotionally," and peppered him with
hard-hitting queries on his favorite book and movie. Kelly can of course do any kind of interview she likes, but it's
as good a marker as any that Fox News is now thoroughly behind Donald Trump's candidacy for the White House.
Activism masquerading as journalism:
Here's
Who's Controlling the Bathroom Debate. The bathroom wars raging in North Carolina, set off by House Bill 2
passed by the N.C. General Assembly, have attained international attention, partly from a febrile cadre of gay activists, but
largely due to the Charlotte Observer that covers the city where the donnybrook began — and N.C.'s capital city
daily, the Raleigh News & Observer. Without these papers, both owned by the McClatchy chain, the bathroom gender issue
would have come and gone in a few days. [...] For two straight weeks, the Raleigh paper published from four to seven pieces a
day on the subject — news articles, editorials, guest opinion, editorial cartoons, letters to the editor, and
blurbs in their political happenings column. The theme that emerges is to exhort readers to approve of transgender
lifestyles and special rights.
When
Hillary Needs It Most, 'The Daily Show' Vets Bernie's Policies. With Hillary Clinton still unable to finish off
Bernie Sanders, many in the liberal media are trying to drag her over the finish line. The night of the Indiana
primary, which was a Sanders victory, CNN wanted to know when he would get out of the way and stop hurting Clinton. In
a similar way, The Daily Show decided that Thursday night [5/5/2016] was the right time to actually analyze Sander's
proposals and tell the truth about them.
Andrea
Mitchell Stumps for Trump: 'Facts No Longer Matter, Tweets Matter'. Now that Ted Cruz and John Kasich have both
dropped out of the Republican presidential race and Bernie Sanders is playing out the string, the mainstream media narrative
around the Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton general election matchup is beginning to gel. On MSNBC's Andrea
Mitchell Reports Wednesday afternoon [5/4/2016], host Andrea Mitchell made it clear that not only will she promote
Trump's candidacy against Hillary Clinton, she will do so in defiance of the facts.
These are the same people who denounce bullying — when other people do it.
CBS's
Rose Holds Up Daily News GOP Obituary During Interview With RNC Chair. During an interview with Republican
National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday's [5/4/2016] CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose gleefully
held up a copy of the [New York] Daily News and read the mock obituary on the cover of the left-wing tabloid:
"...it says, 'Republican Party 1854-2016; Dearly beloved, we're gathered here today to mourn the GOP. A once great political
party killed by epidemic of Trump.'" Just in case Priebus couldn't see the nasty front-page illustration, fellow co-host
Gayle King described it in detail: "No, and there's an elephant, Reince, in a coffin, just to make the picture really clear
for you." The hosts laughed as Priebus dismissed the publication: "Well, it's only fitting of the Daily News."
Dear
Mainstream Media, Don't You Dare Whitewash Anti-Trump Violence. Just imagine for a moment the shrieking outrage
if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car outside a Hillary Clinton rally. Imagine the fury at the sight of a bloody
man wearing a Hillary shirt.
NBC
Reporter Giddy With Excitement Aboard Cruise to Cuba: 'A Pinch-Me Moment'. In an exclusive for NBC's
Today on Monday [5/2/2016], correspondent Kerry Sanders could not contain his pure joy at being aboard the first
cruise ship bound for Cuba since the Obama administration resumed diplomatic relations with the communist nation. In
his report, Sanders proclaimed: "This morning, history is being made as this cruise ship becomes the first in more than
a half century to sail from Miami to Havana.... American passengers about to step on to Cuban soil, a country that most
U.S. citizens have been forbidden to visit since 1963."
ESPN
Fires Curt Schilling — What About Liberal Offenders? About Schilling's firing, the Disney-owned
sports cable network said: "ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was
unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated." Last summer ESPN suspended Schilling for retweeting
a meme likening Muslim extremists to Nazis. Last month, he no doubt angered management for saying that Hillary Clinton
should be "buried under a jail somewhere" for her email scandal. So Schilling, to ESPN, is a serial offender.
And as a private company, it can terminate an employee for perceived offenses. OK, so Schilling has to go. But
what are the rules?
Trump
supporters, police attacked by illegal immigrants and their advocates. Thugs advocating the mass lawless
invasion of the United States attempted to shut down a rally of those who demand the law be enforced. That is the true
nature of what happened last night in Costa Mesa, California, in Orange County. But a quick scan of media headlines
about the event makes it clear that the media is doing its best to obscure the nature of the aggression, and portray the
incident as the inevitable outcome of Trump's vicious message of intolerance.
I'm done with
Fox News. When Fox News debuted in 1996, it was a breath of fresh air, seemingly unadulterated by the leftist
bias that had long characterized the three mainstream networks and CNN. But that initial commitment to balance has gone
by the wayside, sacrificed on the altar of Donald Trump. Fox News, as Mark Levin has observed, has become a Trump
super-PAC instead of a news organization.
CNN
previews the unbelievable pro-Hillary bias it will be pushing. The presidential race that is shaping up will be
a landmark for American media, exceeding even the pro-Obama bias of 2008 and 2012 — something that would have
seemed impossible at the time of those races. But that was before Donald Trump and Ted Cruz became the likely
alternatives for the GOP nomination. Each man, in his own way, is anathema to the progressives in the media, while
Hillary Clinton evokes nothing but warm protectiveness, especially from female neoprogs. In a remarkable display of a
complete lack of self-awareness, Carol Costello of CNN shamelessly prodded a pro-Sanders guest three times to say
that Sanders should now "cool it" and stop attacking Hillary Clinton.
ABC
Grilled Cruz in Town Hall, Skips Benghazi and E-Mails for Clinton. While ABC journalists grilled Ted Cruz on
Monday with a Good Morning America town hall, they offered softballs to Hillary Clinton on Thursday [4/21/2016].
George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts showcased questions from the left and included queries about hot sauce and
Saturday Night Live. At no time was there a question on Benghazi or the Democrat's secret e-mail server and the
scandal around it. The tone started early as Robin Roberts teased the special program: "Clinton flying high,
fresh off that huge victory in New York. In another tease, Roberts promised that the candidate would "answer her toughest
critics. She didn't. Instead, ABC allowed a Clinton super delegate/Democratic congressman to ask a question.
Cross-Dressing
WashPost Reporter Attacks 'Conservative Loudmouth' Schilling on 'Transphobia'. Justin Moyer contended that
ESPN's firing of former baseball pitcher Curt Schilling "seemed destined" in a Thursday article for the Washington Post,
which detailed the supposed "radicalization" of the former Phillies player turned "conservative loudmouth. Moyer
spotlighted how "Schilling went fangs out" after Tweeting out a controversial image that "many deemed transphobic.
However, the reporter didn't disclose his possible stake in this issue, as he moonlights as a cross-dressing musician in a
rock band.
'Fox
& Friends' orchestrates a round of applause for Donald Trump. In the contest among media types for the most
obsequious treatment of Donald Trump, the idiotic Fox News morning program "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday [4/19/2016] put forth a
very competitive entry. As it often does, the "Fox & Friends" hosting trio did a long interview with Trump via
telephone. A key talking point was a Politico scoop by Ken Vogel and Ben Schreckinger about the campaign's
reorganization, which is based on a reconstruction of a Trump campaign meeting on Saturday.
Chuck
Todd Tells Ted Cruz Planned Parenthood Scandal 'Made Up'. During an MSNBC town hall event with Republican
presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Thursday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd dismissed the Texas Senator's condemnation
of Planned Parenthood by insisting that scandal surrounding the abortion provider was "made up." Cruz observed:
"You know, a few months ago, we had this series of videos that were horrifying. I will say virtually none of the network
news would show the videos on air. These videos showed Planned Parenthood officials essentially admitting to what appeared
to be a pattern of federal felonies."
Donald
Trump's Rigged Media. The media — not just the liberal media, but some "conservative" media, too —
have been the gale-force wind beneath Trump's wings. On the nightly news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC, Trump has far outpaced anyone
other GOP candidate for attention. From last July through April 6, he's drawn 1,228 minutes of airtime, or 56 percent
of the total coverage of the Republican primary race. The other 16 candidates have split the remaining 44 percent.
Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump and headlines the Boston Globe will never show you. The cat is out of the bag. The
mainstream media in America no longer even pretends to hide their bias and disdain against Republicans. Exhibit A
was Sunday's [4/10/2016] edition of the Boston Globe dedicated to headlines about what America might look like under a President Donald
Trump. [...] How could a major newspaper so ferociously engage in slashing and burning a Republican candidate? Are we living in
the land of the free, or a Banana Republic?
Newspaper
Owned by Donald Trump's Son-in-Law Endorses Donald Trump. Two of Donald Trump's adult children may not be able
to vote for him in the upcoming New York primary, but his son-in-law's newspaper is doing its best to help the cause, publishing
an endorsement of the Republican candidate. "Donald Trump is the father-in-law of the Observer's publisher," began an
editorial by the New York Observer published Tuesday [4/12/2016].
Legacy
Media Urge Illegal Aliens to Sign Their Kids Up for Medi-Cal Welfare Program. Because California is running a
massive surplus and the federal government is a financial powerhouse.
Joe
and Mika All But Openly Campaign for Trump. It's official, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski finally stopped
pretending they don't support their buddy Donald Trump and are now opening campaigning for him. Following Trump
stunning two digit trouncing in Wisconsin co-host Brzezinski whined Wednesday [4/6/2016], "I think the establishment and the
Stop Trump forces are shooting themselves in the foot because they're so blindly focused their hatred on Trump to the point
where they can't see that what they're going to get is Cruz."
The Unfair Media Bias.
The willful blindness of the Western media and intellectual elites to Palestinian incitement and their hyper-focus on any
incident they can use to portray Israel in a negative light were on abundant display last week when footage emerged of an
Israel Defense Forces soldier shooting a wounded and disarmed Palestinian terrorist. Since then, The New York Times and
The Washington Post have run no fewer than 16 stories about the incident. [...] Meanwhile, these same news outlets
consistently fail to speak out against the massive and ongoing denial of human rights, suppression of basic freedoms and
daily torture meted out to any Palestinian dissident by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
The
Associated Press is Now Openly Pushing Democratic Talking Points. [Scroll down] This is an excellent example of
Betteridge's Law by the way, which states that whenever a headline has a yes-or-no question, the answer is always "no." The only
reason for these sorts of headlines is because the editor wants to imply something that cannot be backed up by a straight reading
of the facts.
Cokie
Roberts: Doesn't FBI Have Better Things To Do Than Investigate Hillary? MSNBC might have to build a deeper tank
... so Cokie Roberts can dive into it for Hillary. On today's Morning Joe, Roberts of NPR complained about the resources
the FBI is devoting to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's misuse of email. Carped Cokie: "Don't they have other
problems? There's no crime in the country they should be worrying about?" Roberts' timing could hardly have been
worse. Just moments before, Joe Scarborough pointed out that last week it was revealed that 22 of the emails on Hillary's
server "were so sensitive that the State Department said releasing them would cause grave danger to the United States national
security." Not worth investiging, Cokie? Really? [Video clip]
Hillary's
Really Bad Week No One Heard About because Guess Who. Hillary Clinton had a gaffe-filled, staggeringly bad week
last week. It started with her politicizing Nancy Reagan's funeral and ending with more explosive allegations that her
informal adviser Sidney Blumenthal had directly cut and pasted classified intelligence into an unsecured personal e-mail
account. But you wouldn't know it from media campaign coverage, which has been far more occupied with the GOP primary
and the escalation of violent incidents at rallies.
Drudge
Report: Only Good Trump News Is Fit To Print. Drudge's ongoing pro-Trump bias has been noted in some quarters.
Back in December, for example, the Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky wrote, "What (Drudge readers) have been getting for the last six
months is a steady stream of pro-Trump agitprop." As much as Drudge has blown kisses at Trump, the candidate has been singing
Drudge's praises. "What's better than Drudge? He's a fantastic guy. What he's built is unbelievably respected,"
Trump said after a Drudge reader poll showed him winning a GOP debate — which every Drudge poll has shown. But
now as Trump gets closer to sealing the Republican nomination, some conservatives are starting to publicly attack Drudge's biased
approach to the GOP nomination, not just because he backs Trump but also because he often promotes vicious attacks against Trump's
more reliably conservative rivals.
The Editor says...
The article above is about Drudge, not Trump, but it brings up a related topic: For someone who has
apparently enjoyed a lifetime of exposure to a number of influential people, Mr. Trump's vocabulary is
remarkably narrow. He is apparently unable to endorse an idea or an individual in any of his speeches without resorting to
pedestrian adjectives such as incredible, unbelievable, and fantastic. Mr. Trump, in my opinion literally
is incredible, meaning that his claims are not credible — impossible to believe, in other words — beginning
with his claim that he is a Republican. He is also literally unbelievable, for example, when he lays out his outlandish
plans to build an insurmountable wall along the Mexican border.
By
15-to-1 Margin, Networks Blame Trump, Not Lefties, for Campaign Violence. MRC analysts Mike Ciandella, Scott Whitlock and
Kyle Drennen examined ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening show coverage from Saturday morning [3/12/2016] through Monday morning —
a whopping 45 segments totalling nearly 85 minutes of airtime. They found that reporters specifically criticized the Trump
campaign for its handling of the issue 46 times, vs. just three times when blame was placed on the left-wing protesters.
From
Confirmation to Cancellation, CNN Irresponsible With Botched Rubio 'Exclusive'. CNN is at war with another
Republican candidate. First it was Ted Cruz immediately following the Iowa Caucus after some incomplete on-air reporting
regarding the state of Ben Carson's campaign. And on the eve of voting in four states, it's the Rubio campaign that is
up in arms over another CNN report that can be deemed not only incomplete, but grossly irresponsible.
Rubio
vs. CNN: The Little Marco Who Cried Liar. Generally, when a Republican calls a CNN reporter a liar, you gotta
take the side of the Republican. CNN doesn't just lie, CNN is a network chock-full of left-wing propagandists deeply devoted
to electing Democrats, expanding the scope of the federal government, and forcing Christians to participate in same sex
marriages. CNN is much worse than MSNBC. The problem here is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)'s track record.
The Week In Stupid. [Scroll down]
Ultimately the media is to blame for the wide acceptance of these stupidities. People only know what they are told. In 2012
they turned a good and decent man into someone who burned money while his employees' wives died; tortured his dog and had elevators
in his home for his cars. Think what you will of his politics and polices, and they had their shortcomings, but they made Mitt
Romney into a caricature of a human being. It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last. But this time, the media
lost our confidence.
Washington
Post Stealth-Edits Reagan Obituary, Covertly Removes Tasteless Lead Without Note. According to Gallup, trust in
media by the general public was at 74 percent following Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post blowing the
lid off Watergate and bringing a sitting president down in the process. It's now at 40 percent and dropping. We
see the examples why every day. Forget the partisan blogs and social media... they are what they are. But the
Washington Post must and always be held to the highest standard. They say the cover-up is worse than the crime.
Nobody is saying Lois Romano or the Washington Post committed a crime here. It was just an obituary even Romano or the
paper or both acknowledge was in poor taste if the changes after the fact are any indication. And to just modify,
eliminate without notification to readers in any capacity is not only sneaky, but stupid given the original
copy is already very much out there. Don't trust the media? You're not alone.
How the
Columbia Journalism School smeared Exxon. When the Columbia Journalism School set up a project in 2014 to
generate articles on energy and the environment, was its real agenda to exploit ExxonMobil's reputation as a climate-change
villain? The fellowship project culminated last fall in an LA Times series that accused the world's largest oil company
of downplaying the risks of climate change. InsideClimateNews, an aggressive online site known for its doomsday
environmentalism, posted a nearly identical article, tapping Columbia's research. The stories paint a dark picture of the
oil-industry icon, charging it with a cover-up that echoes the tobacco industry's denial of health problems from cigarettes.
Leaked
Voicemails Show MSNBC Hosts Cozying Up To Donald Trump. Leaked Donald Trump voicemails reveal MSNBC hosts Tamron Hall, Mika
Brzezinski, and Joe Scarborough cozying up to the New York real estate developer. The voicemails, which were released Friday [3/4/2016],
were sent to Gawker by someone saying they hacked Trump. A source in the TV industry told The Daily Caller the voices seemed authentic,
adding, "I'd bet money."
Report:
Fox News 'finished with Rubio'. Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio's rough week got worse on Wednesday [3/2/2016]
with a New York Magazine report that the head of Fox News has decided to stop giving the Florida senator prominent, favorable
coverage. "We're finished with Rubio," Roger Ailes told one of the network's hosts recently, according to three unnamed
sources. "We can't do the Rubio thing anymore."
The Editor says...
Why were you doing "the Rubio thing" in the first place? What happened to the Fox slogan, "We report, you decide"?
WB-Affiliated
Magazine Produces Hit Job on Dr. Ben Carson. [Scroll down] So even though the case was thin, Crime Watch Daily
ran with the story. It aired earlier this month, but it remained under the radar — until now. The show that featured this
disgusting hit piece against a successful figure in medicine premiered just this year and is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
Now, if Crime Watch Daily — as the show is named — did something similar to this about Barack Obama, which,
of course, they would never do, cries of racism would fill the air. If they had done a similar, unsubstantiated story about Hillary
Clinton, talking about her emails or her many other questionable activities, they'd be accused of engaging in a "witch hunt." I
don't really care what they do at this point, but never again will I give them another dime for a movie ticket or a DVD/Blu-ray/Digital
release of any of their movies or TV shows as a result of this.
The
mass murders that dare not speak their name. Pity the late Cedric Ford. If he had understood the way the
media worked, he might not have gone on the horrific shooting spree in central Kansas on Thursday [2/25/2016] that cost three people
their lives and fourteen people their health. But alas, once the major media understood the demographics of the case, they
lost interest in Ford quicker than you could say "Muhammad and Malvo." Ford simply did not fit the narrative. "Who
commits mass shootings?" read the headline of an all too typical piece on CNN.com some months ago. CNN's answer: the
"young, white and male." At 38, Ford was relatively young, and he was certainly male, but he was not white. Ford, in
fact, represents the most recent manifestation of a widely underreported phenomenon — the black mass murderer. As in
virtually every other case, Ford's blackness was not an incidental detail. It was at the heart of why he did what he did.
'Not
a Man on That Stage I Wouldn't Gladly Knee in the Groin,' Tweets Liberal Columnist. During the Feb. 25 [Republican] debate, lefty
Daily Beast and New York Times Magazine contributor, Ana Marie Cox, unleashed a livestream firestorm against the GOP candidates, which
culminated in her labeling the entire GOP a "terrorist group."
Republicans
Aren't Fighting Hillary, They're Fighting the Hillary-Loving Media. [Scroll down] Hillary has nothing
going for her other than her last name. Well, that and the media. Because even though an occasional joke about Hillary
will slip through the media machine, the vast majority of the time, the media prop Hillary up. That same Saturday Night Live
routine mocking Hillary had characters talk about how she was the most qualified presidential candidate in history and how much they
loved her foreign policy. Triumph spent more time insulting Bernie Sanders than Hillary. The media have spilled gallons
of ink over the question of whether insulting Hillary's shrill screeching is sexist or not; they've played defense for Hillary on
matters of race; they've covered for her completely on her email scandal.
Giddy
Andrea Mitchell Wonders If Scalia Debate Could Help Democrats Regain Senate in November. As the debate over who should replace late
conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia continued into Monday [2/15/2016], NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell took to
NBC Nightly News to tout claims that the discussion could hurt Republicans and lead to Democratic Senatorial candidates winning elections
in November to help their party retake control.
The Editor says...
Of course, the exact opposite is true: If the Republicans don't fight Obama's nominees wholeheartedly, at least until after the election, they're in political trouble.
Wash
Post Scalia Headline: 'Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals'. What was the most important thing for readers of Washington Post to see
on the front-page of the paper Sunday morning? A headline focusing directly on the death of Antonin Scalia? No. In bold, large font, the Post
declared, "Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals." Apparently, someone at the paper thought better of this for the online version. It declared,
"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dies at 79." The actual article itself included some nice tributes to Scalia. In contrast, even the liberal
New York Times managed a respectful headline: "Justice Scalia, Who Led Court's Conservative Renaissance, Dies At 79."
Ten Thousand Demand Chris
Matthews' Suspension, MSNBC Silent. A MoveOn.org petition demanding that MSNBC suspend "Hardball" host Chris Matthews has garnered just under
10,000 signatures, even as the network has refused to address what Huffington Post called a "clear conflict of interest." The petition began in
response to outrage over Matthews' "constant shilling for Hillary Clinton." The number of petition signees has almost tripled in size since The
Daily Caller reported that Hillary Clinton's biggest donors are bankrolling the congressional campaign of Matthews' wife, Kathleen.
'One
Long Cheap Shot' — WashPost Lines Up Canadians to Bash Ted Cruz as Extreme. While The Washington Post would only go to Kenya looking
for gushing over Barack Obama, they turn to Canada to make fun of Ted Cruz.
To
maintain credibility, CNN must apologize publicly to Ted Cruz. In case you have not yet figured it out yet, CNN
gave the distinct impression that Dr. Ben Carson was suspending his campaign on the night of the Iowa caucus. The report was
used by the Ted Cruz campaign, who disseminated the information to precinct captains. This information was also used by anyone
who happened to check the news with their mobile phone during the Iowa Caucus. It is absurd to consider that media types like
Michael Smerconish, Business Insider, Buzzfeed and others were fooled by overly ambitious Ted Cruz precinct captains who were cherry
picking information from a CNN report, as alleged by CNN correspondent Chris Moody.
'Today
Show' Sandbags Palin, Doesn't Ask Hillary About Email Scandal. Although the classified information scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's
home-brewed email server blew sky-high Friday afternoon, NBC News, the left-wing outlet that attempted to rescue Clinton from this inexcusable behavior
last year, jumped back into the tank Monday morning. During a 4-minute appearance on "The Today Show," the former Secretary of State was not asked
a single question about the disturbing new revelations. Naturally, although she is running for nothing, this very same "Today Show" sandbagged
Sarah Palin with a personal question about her children.
NPR Erases
Israel From Map Of Middle East. Blatant anti-Israel bias like this is why NPR is referred to as 'National
Palestine Radio' in my 'hood.
CNN's
Begala, Bash Downplay Clinton Sex Scandals; 'Nobody Wants to Talk About' That. After NBC's Democratic
co-moderator Andrea Mitchell wanted to know from Bernie Sanders in Sunday's debate about whether or not he regretted bringing
up Bill Clinton's sex scandals, the post-debate analysis on CNN saw panelists Dana Bash and Paul Begala (a former Clinton
aide) less than pleased with the issue and did their best to downplay its significance in the 2016 race.
Couric
Presses Ryan on Gun Control: 'What Did You Think When the President Cried?'. In an interview with House Speaker
Paul Ryan on Thursday, Yahoo! News anchor Katie Couric grilled the Republican leader on gun control: "Let's talk about
President Obama's executive action on guns. What did you think when the President cried? ... Were you affected by it?"
Ryan pushed back: "I didn't really think about his crying. ... I was affected by it, but I thought we should have had the
same kind of reaction when James Foley was beheaded, when San Bernardino and Paris occurred."
Narcissistic
Newsweek Senior Writer Compares Cruz Supporters to Nazis; No Suspension Coming. Is it ego or just plain stupidity? [...] Today's [1/6/2016] latest
example comes courtesy of Newsweek senior writer Alexander Nazaryan. His crime? Tweeting out an old image of people marching with Nazi flags and sporting
swastikas to illustrate what he calls "Ted Cruz's ground game." In other words, if you support Cruz, you advocate the genocide of Jews with fascism being your
particular political flavor.
Angry
ABC Railed at Obama Birther 'Nonsense,' Blase on Cruz Birtherism. In 2011 and 2012, the journalists at Good
Morning America railed against birther claims relating to Barack Obama, assailing the conspiracy theory as "bizarre" and
"nonsense." Yet, the same program lacked outrage on Thursday as Donald Trump promotes a form of birtherism against Ted Cruz.
An ABC graphic mildly explained, "Trump Goes After Ted Cruz: Questions GOP Rival's Citizenship." Reporter Tom Llamas simply claimed
that Trump is "raising questions about Cruz's birthplace, Canada." He added that the businessman is "suggesting Cruz go to court
to prove he can run for president."
ABC's
Llamas to Cruz: 'How Can You Be a President' If You 'Hate' Democrats, 'Culture of Washington'. While interviewing Republican presidential
candidate Ted Cruz for the Wednesday edition of ABC's World News Tonight, Republican campaign correspondent Tom Llamas demanded Cruz explain how
he could "be a president and hate the Democrats and hate the culture of Washington so much and be effective." Before Llamas's question to Cruz, he
remarked in his report that "some Republicans worry Cruz is too polarizing, too unwilling to compromise with Congress to win in a general election."
Cruz responded to the liberal-learning question by flatly denying that he's ever said he hates Democrats and instead: "It's Hillary Clinton who
describes her, quote, enemies, as Republicans, as half of the country she considers her enemies. I don't hate the Democrats."
Despicable
New York Daily News Headline Screams: GOP Is the 'Party of Pro-Death'. In November and December, the New
York Daily News characterized the NRA and its CEO Wayne LaPierre as a jihadists and terrorists. Now it has set its
sights on Republican Party presidential candidates and leaders who are defending the plain, Supreme Court-upheld wording of
the Constitution's Second Amendment and Congress's power to make laws over lawless presidential actions.
The Editor says...
It is remarkable that the Abortion Party has the audacity to refer pejoratively to others as pro-death.
Obama's
pass from the press. Sometime in the spring of 2007, something strange happened to the Iraqi coverage in the
national media — it disappeared. Or rather, as soon as the news ceased to be bad, the media lost interest in
covering it. It was not till July, when Michael O'Hanlon reported back from the front that the surge had been working, that
the world started to realize what happened. To them, the fact that George W. Bush had succeeded in something was what
the press couldn't bear to believe. Something of the sort is happening now in reverse regarding the current Middle East
crises, which make Iraq in 2006 seem calm in comparison. This time the press, which can no longer deny that the world has
been going to hell since Barack Obama started unleashing his peacemaking powers, is doing its best to insulate him completely
from any possible blame for it all.
WCBS
News: Now Nakedly Purveying Radical Leftist Propaganda. WCBS News in New York offers us a classic example of a
manipulative and dishonest media. Our "free press" is biased and is nudging us in one direction — leftward.
Here are two disturbing examples though there are many in any given day.
NBC's
Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review. With New Year's
Eve upon us, NBC's Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news,
politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts video
scandal, Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server, the Clinton Foundation scandal, and Benghazi to name just a few. Speaking
with Rolling Stone's Joe Levy, co-hosts Natalie Morales and Dylan Dreyer started with the year in news by not mentioning the
scandal concerning Levy's publication and the University of Virginia but instead first talked about Bill Cosby and what's transpired
concerning the sexual misconduct allegations made against him in the past year.
Biased
Media Give Obama An Early Christmas Present. Our IBD/TIPP polls showed that the public has little faith in
Obama either domestically or internationally. Just 46% now approve of the job he's doing overall, and a mere 28% approve his
handling of ISIS. So what's the press writing about as the year comes to a close? How he's "broken the second-term
curse"! His incredible faith! How he "roughed it" in Alaska with Bear Grylls and was in a Web video with Jerry Seinfeld!
The New York Times ran through a "series of accomplishments" and how Obama's "success in the past 12 months, both overseas and at
home, defied expectations." The story couldn't have been more glowing if it were written by the White House press office.
A
new low: Cartoon mocks Cruz's kids, media call it a 'gift'. In daily journalism, there are inevitably mistakes,
misjudgments and missteps. And then there is portraying a politician's children as animals. Why the Washington Post
thought such a cartoon about Ted Cruz was fit to print is beyond me. I'm equally puzzled by the media's muted reaction.
'We're
done': CNN cuts off conservative guest's microphone. CNN's Don Lemon abruptly ended an interview Tuesday
afternoon [12/22/2015] after one of his conservative guests refused to stop talking about former President Bill Clinton's many sex
scandals. The moment occurred after the CNN host failed repeatedly to get conservative columnist Kurt Schlichter to comment
on GOP front-runner Donald Trump cracking bathroom jokes about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. "Why did he
have to go there?" Lemon asked Schlichter and Trump supporter Tara Grant. "Don, it's going to take a lot more for me to
get upset at a woman who enabled a guy who turned the Oval Office into a frat house and his intern into a humidor," Schlichter
responded, "I just don't care. I so don't care."
Pathetic
Don Lemon Cuts Off Interview With Kurt Schlichter Cuz He Can't Handle The Truth. Not only is this clip
hilarious, but it's also rather outrageous because all that military veteran and outspoken conservative Kurt Schlichter did
is call Hillary an enabler of a sexual harassment, and Don Lemon couldn't deal with it. [Video clip]
6
Times the Mainstream DC Media Ridiculed Children of Republicans. One of the biggest lies told by our corrupt
and rotting DC Media is the one that states that the children of politicians are off-limits. Unwritten or unspoken, there is
no such rule. There is, of course, a strictly-enforced DC media rule about the children of Democrat politicians being off-limits.
The children of Republican politicians, however, have always been fair game — and I'm not talking about in the left-wing fever
swamps, but in mainstream outlets such as the Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Salon.
Washington
Post depicts Ted Cruz's children as monkeys. And won't apologize for it. That Tweet has since been deleted, of
course: and now the Washington Post has yanked the editorial cartoon in question. Sans apology: because while Fred
Hiatt is willing to admit that he didn't do his job, he's apparently not willing to admit that a Republican deserves an apology.
And then there's how CNN put all of this: [...]
Ted
Cruz Strikes Back at Washington Post Cartoonist for Mocking his Daughters. The Washington Post has officially
yanked the cartoon down, un-publishing it late Tuesday evening [12/22/2015] after this Breitbart News story.
WaPo removes cartoon showing Cruz daughters as
monkeys. The Washington Post removed the cartoon late Tuesday evening, and issued an apology explaining that they did
not review Telnaes' work prior to publishing. "It's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of
it," Post editor Fred Hiatt said in a statement.
Washington
Post pulls cartoon depicting Cruz's daughters as monkeys. The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon
Tuesday night that portrayed the daughters of Ted Cruz — ages 7 and 4 — as monkeys. The cartoon by
Ann Telnaes showed the two girls as dancing like small simians before Mr. Cruz, who is Hispanic, dressed as an organ-grinder.
Washington
Post stoops to a new low going after Ted Cruz. Imagine for a moment that the Washington Post had published a
cartoon depicting Sasha and Malia Obama as monkeys, arguing that because the Obama daughters had campaigned for their father,
they were fair game. I realize that such a scenario is unthinkable, that such a project would never pass review. [...] The
plain fact is that whoever was on duty and reviewed the cartoon was part of the WaPo's newsroom culture, which hates Ted Cruz
and conservatives in general. We have seen in the past a similar instance of egregious prejudice at the WaPo's newsroom,
when in 1993 a front page story casually characterized evangelicals as "largely poor, uneducated and easily led." (Note:
evangelicals have above average levels of education.)
Planned
Parenthood Admits Sending Aborted Babies to Landfills; AP Plays Defense. The callousness towards human life at
Planned Parenthood is such that it believes that the remains of preborn babies killed during abortions are just like any
other "medical waste," and that sending them to landfills — or, perhaps even incinerators — is
therefore "humane." That's what one must conclude from reading an Associated Press report Friday evening which strived
mightily to play defense for the beleaguered group. The wire service's headline only described State Attorney General
Mike DeWine as an "official."
See
How NPR Hacks Up Testy Interview with Ted Cruz. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is a big fan of President Obama,
and when he interviews him, he helpfully sets him up. In a recent interview on race relations, Inskeep added little prompts instead of
questions. That's not what Ted Cruz received on Wednesday's [12/10/2015] show. Inskeep was blunt when discussing the new Trump
idea of banning Muslims from entering America: [Transcript omitted for brevity] NPR posted the full transcript online.
What that demonstrated was that NPR and Inskeep routinely sliced out (for time and surely, for political convenience) Cruz whacking away
at Democrats.
Planned
Parenthood was 'right wing terror,' but with Islam suddenly 'motives don't matter'. Last month, when a Colorado
Christian entered a Planned Parenthood clinic and fatally shot three people, the mainstream media rushed to make the
connection to "right-wing domestic terrorism," even though police hadn't made any connection and the evidence was thin.
When two California Muslims shot up a government office several days later, massacring 14, national journalists refused to
call it Islamic terrorism even though evidence of the shooters' motive was overwhelming. Two mass shootings, two
completely different standards of coverage.
The sky turned blue, the grass turned green, and ...
The
media turn partisan after San Bernardino massacre. New York's Daily News used to play it pretty straight — a
flashy tabloid, to be sure, but one that kept its opinions on the editorial page. Yesterday's taunting cover, aimed at
blaming the Republicans in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre, shows how far it's moved left. And it kickstarted
yet another round of media finger-pointing in the wake of tragedy, just as we saw last week after the killings at a Planned
Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Media
Rushes to Call Colorado Shooter 'Right-Wing Activist.'. The gulf between facts and conjecture over Colorado
shooter Robert Lewis Dear is growing increasingly large by the second. Words like "pro-life activist," "terrorist,"
and "right-winger" are being used, and all of them are based on supposition and conjecture.
'60
Minutes' pushing Ethel Rosenberg pardon — don't buy it. Obama's presidency isn't over until the end
of next year, yet rumors already are swirling about who he might pardon. One name in particular keeps surfacing: Ethel
Rosenberg, a dedicated communist and convicted espionage conspirator. Willing to die for the Soviet cause along with her
husband, Julius, in 1953, she is now receiving belated honors by misguided individuals and organizations that are more
comfortable with claims based on emotional propaganda than actual historical evidence.
Media
That Claimed Bush Chilled Speech Strangely Quiet Now. Last week CNN suspended a reporter name Elise Labott for editorializing on a
vote by the US House of Representatives. [...] That a CNN reporter would be a lackwit incapable of understanding an issue is not news. That,
seemingly, is part of the screening criteria used by their CNN's human resources department in hiring. That a CNN reporter would be a left
wing hack devoted to using their position to advance a personal agenda is, likewise, not newsworthy. Who can forget when the ironically
named Candy Crowley threw her more than ample weight into the 2012 presidential debate she was moderating on behalf of Barack Obama.
What makes Labott unusual is that now we have a smoking gun that proves she slanted her news coverage of Hillary Clinton during her January
2013 Benghazi testimony. Well, slanted is not the right word. She sent her work to Hillary's press guru, Philippe Reines, for
approval before releasing it.
Paul
campaign slams CNN, says emails show reporter 'colluding' with Clinton aide. Rand Paul's presidential campaign
slammed CNN on Wednesday [11/25/2015] after emails were released that the campaign claimed showed a reporter "colluding" with
a Hillary Clinton aide to "attack" the Kentucky senator. The CNN global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, already has
been suspended over a separate incident — a tweet last week criticizing a House bill limiting Syrian refugees.
But her communications with then-Clinton State Department official Philippe Reines turned up Tuesday [11/24/2015] in a
batch of emails obtained and published by Gawker.
Chicago: Media Fans the
Flames. Evidently, the [excrement] isn't hitting the fan hard enough, so certain media outlets have started
to — get this — lie to advance their agenda. Here's CNN: [Video clip] Yes, that
was CNN saying that Chicago Police shot this guy for "jaywalking." No mention of the burglary to auto calls, nothing about
the PCP influenced behavior, not even a mention of the knife. Just shot for jaywalking.
CNN "Journalist" Caught Red-Handed Doing Media
Favors for Hillary. Hillary wanted some self-serving quotes publicized, and CNN's "journalist" — the
same one who just got suspended for her liberal angst about concerns about Syrian refugees — duly complied.
She also hit Rand Paul for not attending all the hearings — just as she was seemingly asked.
Emails:
CNN Reporter Coordinated With Hillary Aide To Smear Rand Paul During 2013 Benghazi Hearing. A CNN reporter who
was recently suspended for two weeks for violating the network's editorial guidelines showed up in a new trove of State Department
emails released on Tuesday [11/24/2015] in which she appears to have coordinated social media posts with a top Hillary Clinton
State Department aide during the former secretary of state's Jan. 23, 2013 Senate testimony about the Benghazi attacks.
Colbert's 'Late Show' has become
propaganda for Democrats. A survey by the Hollywood Reporter found that conservative viewers are turning off Colbert in
droves. Nearly twice as many Republicans are watching Kimmel as Colbert, who has turned "Late Show" into a sort of wannabe MSNBC
program. The pattern is familiar: When a Democrat is the guest, Colbert is Barbara Walters. When a Republican is on,
he turns into Tim Russert.
The
AP Lies About Trump and Muslims, and the Media Mob Follows. [Scroll down] Now consider. This is the
Associated Press we're talking about here, and the AP can blatantly misreport what Trump actually said, and it goes
everywhere. Note that at the very beginning of the AP report, the misrepresentation of what Trump said is fed to Jeb
Bush — who promptly does as expected and condemns Trump for saying something Trump never said. Even Ted Cruz
swallowed the bait, as Rush noted. The AP's false story is fed out to all the television networks, cable and broadcast,
to radio, to newspapers, blogs and the world of Twitter. Thus the lie becomes the Big Lie.
ABC's
Gibson Defends Clinton, Declares There's Nothing to Benghazi or Her E-Mails. Demonstrating there's no space between liberal politicians
and major media figures — once they feel free in retirement to express their true views which guided their news judgments during their
careers — long-time ABC News correspondent and anchor Charlie Gibson on Wednesday afternoon [11/18/2015] dismissed the relevance of Hillary
Clinton's e-mails or Benghazi: "I don't think there's anything to Benghazi and I don't think there's anything to the e-mails."
Carson
Says Press Deliberately Trying to Damage Candidacy. During a pre-recorded interview with Fox News' Howard Kurtz
that aired on Sunday's MediaBuzz, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson sharply criticized the press for trying
to damage his candidacy with erroneous stories about his personal biography. When pressed by Kurtz to explain why the media
would want to damage his campaign, Carson explained "when you deliberately lie and you put that out as a story, or you do shabby
investigations, and you say we've investigated and we can't find anything, I mean, is that an acceptable standard?"
Dickerson
Meets Privately with Democratic Candidates Before Debate. According to Politico's Hadas Gold and Annie Karni, Saturday night's
Democratic presidential moderator John Dickerson of CBS News met privately with each of the three campaigns for separate, private meetings to
preview the debate and tried to innocently be billed as "informational in nature." The pair spun the revelation as merely CBS "tak[ing]
advantage of the smaller pool by doing some intense research" with Dickerson sitting down with representatives from the Hillary Clinton, Martin
O'Malley, and Bernie Sanders campaigns "to discuss the major issues at play in the race."
Sorry,
Media, You Won't Destroy Ben Carson. Let's begin with two propositions: There is a difference between an
admirable man and a perfect man, and there is a difference between "vetting" and viciousness. The collective goal of the
liberal media is now clear — to take one of America's most admired and brilliant men and somehow transform him
into a dishonest, stupid extremist. The vetting of Ben Carson has become vicious, and to what end? An admirable
man has been exposed as imperfect.
No,
Ben Carson Didn't Lie About West Point. It's Another Media Hit Job. Now, some on the right are saying that Carson
should be held to a higher standard here than other candidates because he's running as an "outsider." But this is a basic
case of misinterpreting facts, not an outright lie. Carson served in ROTC. Prominent people wanted him to go to West
Point. He wouldn't have had to pay. He didn't apply because he didn't want to go. Those facts are not in
dispute. It's the specific wording over which media have decided to crucify him.
The Ben Carson Flaps.
For example, in a video that someone dug up, Dr. Carson said to an audience that his "theory" about the Pyramids is that they
were used as storage facilities. He was smiling as he said this, so it is not clear whether he was using this theory just to
illustrate some point. But, in any case, he was not claiming this as a fact. More important, the Pyramids are not an
issue in today's American political campaign, except as a "gotcha" gimmick. Yet the media have paid far more attention to
Ben Carson's speculation about what the Pyramids were built for, thousands of years ago, than to outright lies that Hillary
Clinton told about tragic American deaths in Benghazi, within days after she knew the truth, as her own e-mails now reveal.
Video
Proof: CNN's Attack On Ben Carson's Biography Is Racially-Motivated. CNN's recent and troubling history of
anti-black bias is well documented. The left-wing network has been sued for racial bias, is infamous for ginning up
violence in predominantly black neighborhoods, and has faced scrutiny by the National Association of Black Journalists for its
treatment of black staffers. It is no surprise, then, to discover that CNN is currently on a racially-motivated rampage to
undermine Ben Carson's biography, and by extension, his presidential ambitions.
GOP
Senator Calls Out Andrea Mitchell's 'Liberal Media Bias'; She Proves Him Right. In an interview with Republican
Montana Senator Steve Daines on Wednesday [11/4/2015] about his endorsement of Marco Rubio for president, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell
continued pushing attacks on Rubio's Senate attendance: "One argument, though, is that he has not been in the Senate very
much.... That since announcing his candidacy has missed 42% of his votes." Daines hit back: "Yeah, well, I think
that's an example of a liberal media bias. Let's take a look at President Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, they
were all senators who also ran for president. They missed hundreds of votes. So I think there's a double standard here."
The Three (Clinton) Stooges and
CNBC. Reading over the transcript, I was again impressed by Ted Cruz's intelligence. Not only did he brilliantly turn
the tables on the stooges, but he understands what is lost on the obtuse Jeb and on John Kasich: if you want to win over someone
else's supporters (Paul's and Huckabee's, in Cruz's case), you don't attack their candidate, you praise him. Reading the transcript
also makes clear exactly how nasty and combative Quintanilla and Harwood were. If Hillary's staff were writing the questions, they
could hardly have done a better job.
Thank You, CNBC. Here's
the Republican dilemma: The RNC may succeed in quieting down its candidates and extracting some concessions from the networks, which
do not wish to lose out on the premium advertising and large viewing audience a GOP presidential debate brings. But whatever
happens, Democratic presidential contenders are unlikely ever to have to stand on a stage even half as tough as what their Republican
counterparts endure. The great irony here is that it was precisely CNBC's bias that made for such a good evening for Republicans.
Charlie
Rose Sticks Up for Hillary in Interview With Rubio. "You called Hillary Clinton a liar, senator," said Rose.
"You called Hillary Clinton a liar." "Well," Rubio responded, "I said Hillary Clinton lied about Benghazi. There's no
doubt about that, Charlie. [...]"
A
debate that will live in infamy. [Scroll down slowly] The sneak attack had been effectively countered,
and from that point forward, most of the candidates joined forces against the slippery sloppy questions. The entire nation
rose up to ask, "Could those moderators possibly have not known how foolish they were? And what does that say about the
mainstream media?" Watch the tape, or read the transcript of the debate online. You owe it to yourself to see the
blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion by insulting the standard-bearers of the Republican Party. There is no
reasonable, responsible Democrat anywhere who could defend the behavior of the three intemperate moderators.
The Gang That Couldn't Bias
Straight. Usually liberal journalists are far better at hiding their biases than CNBC's inept and sneering moderators
at last night's debate. Questions asked in an insulting tone, interruptions of candidates in mid-sentence, injections of personal
opinion, and shouting down candidates attempting to defend themselves. CNBC began the evening full of bravado, showcasing its
"star" panelists and then allowing them to deliver vapid commentary on the debate for 15 minutes before the debate started.
It ended almost trying to pretend the debate never happened.
In (Partial) Defense
of CNBC. Sweeping his arm across the stage, at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, he said, "This is not a
cage match. And, you look at the questions: 'Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?' 'Ben Carson, can you do math?'
'John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?' 'Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?' 'Jeb Bush, why have your numbers
fallen?' How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?" He got a big round of applause, which Carlos
Quintanilla, one of the moderators for CNBC, tried to interrupt, asking, "Do we get credit...," before Cruz interrupted him again.
"The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every fawning question from the media was 'Which of you is more handsome and why?'"
Cruz said.
The Editor says...
The writer in The New Yorker, after quoting Ted Cruz, went on to defend the left-wing propagandists masquerading as
"moderators." The Ted Cruz quote was the best part of the article. Expect more article like the one above in the
next week or so, because the biased left-wing news media can't afford to let these latest challenges go unanswered.
NYT
Calls Jill Biden a Doctor 3 Times More Often than Ben Carson. The New York Times referred to Jill Biden as a
'doctor' three times more than Ben Carson, according to the Weekly Standard. Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden's
wife, has a doctorate in education. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was the first neurosurgeon to successfully
separate conjoined twins.
What
Ted Cruz Did in Wednesday's Debate Was So Much More Than an Applause Line. In one moment, Senator Ted Cruz managed
to do what no other candidate for the Republican nomination for president has done to this point: unite Republicans.
He did so by pushing back against the ridiculously biased questions presented by CNBC moderators.
RNC
Chair Bashes CNBC: 'It Was One Gotcha Question, One Personal Low Blow After The Other'. "I think it was one
gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other," Reince Priebus told the press gathered in the spin room. "It's
almost like they tried to design a Rubik's cube for every question."
CNBC
Anchor Booed for Question Aimed at Carson. Wednesday at the CNBC Republican presidential debate, when moderator
Carl Quintanilla questioned Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson over a company for which he gave paid speeches,
the audience disapproved by loudly booing the anchor.
Cruz
Rips Press At CNBC Debate: "This Debate Illustrates Why We Can Not Trust The Media". At the Republican debate
hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado Wednesday night [10/28/2015], presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the moderators,
particularly John Harwood of The New York Times, and the media for their treatment and characterization of himself and his
competitors. "The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media," Cruz at
Wednesday's [10/28/2015] Republican debate. "Everyone home tonight knows that the moderators have no intention of voting
in a Republican primary."
Cruz
Burns CNBC Moderators: This is Why Americans Don't Trust the Media. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted
Cruz (R., TX) took the media to task on Wednesday [10/28/2015] for asking Republicans tougher questions than they ask
Democrats. Cruz said that the questions asked by CNBC's moderators on Wednesday demonstrated why Americans do not
trust the media. He ticked through a list of questions asked by the moderators of the CNBC debate.
Republican
debate veers out of control as Ted Cruz blasts moderators for bias. The CNBC moderators temporarily lost control of
Wednesday's testy Republican primary debate after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz blasted them for what he described as loaded questions designed
to provoke infighting among Republicans. "The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the
American people don't trust the media," Mr. Cruz said instead of answering a question about the debt limit. "This is not a
cage match."
Rubio:
Mainstream media is the Democrats' 'ultimate super PAC'. Sen. Marco Rubio ripped into the mainstream media
during the third GOP debate, calling them the "ultimate super PAC." "The Democrats have the ultimate super PAC.
[T]hey're called the mainstream media," Rubio said before ripping them for praising Clinton's performance in front of the
House Select Committee on Benghazi last Thursday.
RNC
chairman blasts CNBC for 'deeply unfortunate' debate questioning. [Scroll down] Numerous analysts spoke similarly in
the hour after the debate, with Charles Krauthammer of Fox News saying "the panel was a bunch of flaming liberals" and Ron Fournier of
National Journal tweeting that "Biggest loser of this debate isn't JEB. It's MSM. We've earned this bashing." During
the debate Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and businessman Donald Trump all said,
in one or other fashion, that the questions were loaded with liberal assumptions and/or outright contempt for Republican voters.
Ed
Meese: RNC Leaders Who Allowed CNBC to Moderate Debate Should Be Condemned. With conservative leaders sharply
criticizing CNBC's manner of moderating Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate — which featured multiple
questions framed as personal attacks on the candidates — former Attorney General Ed Meese said the leaders of the
Republican National Committee who allowed CNBC to moderate the debate should be condemned. "After 15 minutes it was
clear that this was not a debate, but a verbal shooting gallery set up by CNBC, with the targets the Republican candidates and
the shooters their biased antagonists from the press," said Meese.
Outrageous
media bias yields good night for most GOP candidates. The winners tonight were the candidates who most
effectively trounced the blatantly biased CNBC moderators. Heading that list are Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. [...] I knew the
MSM had overreached very early on when my wife, a non-Republican who can't stand Donald Trump, said of John Harwood's suggestion
that Trump is running a "comic book" campaign: "What kind of a question is that?"
Watch
Out for Shenanigans! CNBC Debate Moderator's Most Biased Moments. The RNC may regret its approval of John
Harwood as lead moderator for Wednesday night's GOP presidential debate on CNBC if past history is any guide. The CNBC anchor
and New York Times columnist admitted he and a producer helped make Rick Perry's infamous "oops" moment even worse.
Charlie
Rose to Socialist Bernie Sanders: Your Ideas Are 'Not Radical'. PBS host Charlie Rose on Monday night embraced
many of Bernie Sanders's positions and announced that the socialist's positions are "not radical." At first, the journalist
suggested the Democratic candidate not use the label when campaigning: "I'm the first person trying to argue you away from
the idea that you're a socialist."
MSM Deploys Mediscare Against Carson.
Mediscare is, of course, deployed by the Democrat-MSM complex in every election cycle to terrify seniors with the claim that Republicans want
to deprive them of health care. It was famously used against Paul Ryan, who proposed a premium support plan to help control Medicare
spending. This heresy resulted in a TV ad showing a Ryan-lookalike throwing an old lady off a cliff. It is now being deployed
against Carson pursuant to his proposal to gradually transition U.S. health care away from government-run programs to a system in which
every American would have a Health Savings Account (HSA) supplemented by catastrophic coverage.
MSNBC
And Al Sharpton Cut Off Guest Who Says Hillary Proven A Liar At Benghazi Hearing. Completely Orwellian disregard of the truth.
[Video clip]
Frontiers
of political correctness: banning the word 'too'. Move over, Melissa Harris-Perry — it is getting
crowded on the lunatic PC bench. Joining "hard worker" (racist!) on the PC banned word list is "too" (sexist!). That's
right: an adjective and adverb positing that something is more excessive in some quality than desirable is now verboten, as far as
the Huffington Post is concerned. The editors there gave considerable space to Cameron Schaeffer, who identifies herself
as a freshman at the University of Vermont, where her head has obviously been filled with victimology nonsense.
Political Correctness
Taken to the Extreme: "Hard Worker" Now Offensive. With presidential candidates including Donald Trump leading a pushback against
overreaching political correctness, here's a video that will surely add some fuel to the fire. As you will see, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry
was apparently triggered by the phrase "hard worker" and went into a diatribe explaining why that term is offensive. It sounds as if she's
somehow trying to connect the term "hard worker" to slavery. [Video clip]
Melissa
Harris-Perry Scolds Guest to Be 'Super Careful' About Saying 'Hard Worker' Because Of Slavery. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry derailed a
conversation about potential Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) Saturday [10/24/2015] to admonish a guest for calling him a "hard worker,"
arguing it demeaned slaves and working mothers "in the context of relative privilege."
Melissa
Harris-Perry Needs a Trip to Hard Work U. MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry is the cable TV pioneer who broke the
tastelessness barrier for feminists by wearing tampons as earrings on air in 2013. This week, she made ignominious history
again — as the race-baiting fool in an ivory tower bubble who believes the words "hard worker" are a slur against
black slaves and moms who don't have health care.
MSNBC Admits Anti-Israel Graphics Were
'Wrong'. MSNBC has admitted that highly controversial graphics aired on the network that depicted Israel as stealing land
from the Palestinians were "factually wrong" and that the broadcast would be corrected on Monday [10/19/2015], according to a network
spokesperson. The cable news network has been fighting off criticism after it aired the graphics and analysis, including a map
linked to conspiracy groups branded as anti-Semitic, that portrayed Israel as existing on territory expropriated from Palestine.
The graphics garnered criticism from pro-Israel advocates and has now prompted the network to acknowledge that the graphics were highly
misleading.
The Media's Shameful, Shameless
Bias against Israel. On Sunday, October 11, the Los Angeles Times ran the headline "6 Palestinian Teens Die Amid Mideast
Unrest." It was, technically, true. But it left out a few key details.
Reporting
from Jerusalem: The astonishing bias of NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin. NBC News foreign correspondent and Palestinian-American Ayman
Mohyeldin reported from Jerusalem this week as a Palestinian man dressed in camouflage raced past his camera wielding a knife. [...] The
incident ended with the man being shot dead by Israeli police at the Damascus Gate. Mohyeldin went live to report on the incident
minutes after it happened and stayed live for roughly an hour on MSNBC. But Mohyeldin, failed to give viewers the full picture of
what he had just witnessed. He failed to tell viewers for over an hour that the suspect was a Palestinian and that he was dressed
in a camouflage uniform similar to the ones Israeli soldiers wear. Mohyeldin never referred to the attempted terrorist attack as
anything other than a man being shot by Israeli officials.
Biased
coverage of Israeli-Palestinian 'violence': When terror becomes 'tensions'. If you are seeking an example of bias in the media's
coverage of what journalists are calling the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian "violence," consider the case of Ahmad Manasra. In an
angry speech on Wednesday night [10/14/2015], Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, appealed for calm but accused Israeli security
forces of killing Palestinian boys "in cold blood," singling out the 13-year-old Manasra as one of the Palestinian youths Israel had "executed."
[...] There are at least two major problems with Abbas' charge: First, Ahmad Manasra was not "executed" or even shot by Israelis.
Can
the New York Times Discuss Whether Mohammed's Flying Horse Really Visited the Temple Mount? So the New York
Times lapsed into what has been called Temple Trutherism by trying to deny the existence of the Jewish temples on the Temple
Mount. [...] But let's have some equal time here. The Temple Mount is holy to Jews because of the Temples. So the New
York Times chose to discuss whether the Temples really existed. It's holy to Muslims because Mohammed supposedly flew there
on a flying horse (with a woman's head). Can we get a discussion of whether that really happened? Or does the New York
Times only find it acceptable to mock Judaism, not Islam?
USA
Today Offers Advice On How To Make Bernie Sanders And Socialism Less Scary. Did you know that the "S" word,
Socialism, is scary to Americans? Which makes Democratic Party presidential candidate scary! Somehow, this whole
article is in the news section of USA Today, rather than the opinion section.
CNN
Ignores Planned Parenthood at Dem Debate Even When Hillary Brings It Up. CNN spent more than 10 minutes
pressing GOP candidates about Planned Parenthood during the previous debate — but moderators couldn't bear to
mention the abortion giant once during Tuesday's Democratic primary debate. Not even after Hillary Clinton brought up
the topic.
CNN's
very odd near-exclusion of its black and Latino debate moderators. For all the talk about inequality and
inclusion from the Democratic presidential candidates, for all the major national news this year about the ways that American
life remains shaped by race, for all the reporting that's been done on the rapidly changing demographics of the United
States, the network airing the first Democratic presidential primary debate Tuesday [10/13/2015] thought it wise to allow an experienced
Latino reporter to ask a small series of questions about immigration, and a black reporter to introduce a single inquiry from Facebook
about Black Lives Matter. And that's all we heard from them until nearly two hours into the debate.
ABC's Quantico
Uses Timothy McVeigh to Smear American Veterans. As I've said before, the second most far-left outfit in the history of
broadcasting right now behind NBC is the American Broadcasting Company — ABC. Their new espionage drama Quantico
has been shown to support far-left causes from the very first episode, from taking cheap-shots at Mormons, to making Planned Parenthood
an innocent victim of conservative terrorists.
When is a Hillary scandal not a Hillary
scandal? CNN's Ashleigh Banfield spoke to Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman about the upcoming Democratic primary debate
yesterday [10/9/2015]. They considered the unthinkable possibility that Bernie Sanders will bring up Hillary's email scandal, which
Banfield quickly suggested isn't really a scandal.
Texas
executes inmate for killing man in $8 robbery. No late appeals were filed for Juan Martin Garcia, who was
lethally injected [10/6/2015] for the September 1998 killing and robbery of Hugo Solano in Houston.
The Editor says...
The Associated Press once again shows its bias, starting with the headline in this story. The execution was about the
murder of an innocent man. It was not about the eight dollars that changed hands.
LA
Times Labels Black Oregon Shooter As White Supremacist! The Los Angeles Times has labeled the Oregon
shooter as having "white supremacist leanings" even though the shooter was black. The shooter identified as "mixed
race" and reportedly had a black mother.
Once
Again, DeRay McKesson Falsely Assumes Shooter Is White. Less than a month after Black Lives Matter activist
DeRay McKesson got egg on his face for falsely implying the Roanake shooter was a white man, he apparently is at it again.
In a series of tweets and retweets, McKesson laid out the case that there was a racial element to the policing and media coverage
of the Oregon shooter.
CNN Photoshops Oregon Jihadist
Shooter to "Fundamentally Transform" Him into a Caucasian Male. Remember the Trayvon Martin case? You know, the
dude involved in burglary, PCP-like drug cocktails, and/or drug dealing who assaulted George Zimmerman and got capped for his trouble?
Remember how the media claimed there was a new race called "White Hispanics", a term invented "by The New York Times to describe Zimmerman,
apparently in some kind of push for a white vs. Black narrative"? Good times. Well, the media is at it again, this time
photoshopping the Black Jihadist Oregon shooter [...] to make him appear white.
The
Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer — A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted. On the left is the selfie
Christopher Mercer uploaded to his social media. On the right is how CNN presented the same selfie in broadcast stories about him. Why did CNN
need to change the complexion (color) of their broadcast? Why is no one showing pictures of mom, Laurel Margaret Harper[?]
The Baby Butchers and Their Media
Butchers. The propagandists of Planned Parenthood don't want you to remember that earlier this summer the group
apologized for the "tone" of one of its top officials, Deborah Nucatola, who casually hawked unborn baby parts to undercover
journalists from the Center for Medical Progress as she swilled wine and chomped on a salad. Not long after confessing
that the "tone" of their butchers might cause offense, another top Planned Parenthood trafficker, Mary Gatter, joked about
scoring a luxury car after haggling over $75 baby-organ price tags. [...] Ten lengthy, damning videos later, the billion-dollar
abortion giant is in full-blown whitewash mode — and its bloodstained accomplices in the liberal media are out in
force with their paint rollers.
Embattled
Washington Post Fact Checker Admits Pinocchio Ratings 'Are Subjective'. In a stunning confession Tuesday
[9/29/2015], Glenn Kessler, editor of the embattled Washington Post's fact check column, admitted that the Post's fact-check
findings "are subjective." Kessler was responding to the litany of complaints surrounding his partisan attack againt
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. Although the Post's fact check column verified Fiorina's claim that she had
once been a secretary, Kessler (who openly taunts Republicans) still awarded her three Pinocchios. Kessler's lengthy
rationalization is essentially a confession that finally proves what many of us have been saying for years: that Kessler
and the Post have been abusing the imprimatur of fact-checking as a partisan weapon to push a left-leaning agenda.
Editing
flap: TV 'edits' 5-hour Planned Parenthood hearing to 1 minute. Network and cable TV news are coming under fire
for repeatedly smearing as "heavily edited" the controversial secretly taped Planned Parenthood videos of officers discussing
the sale of aborted fetus parts. After Tuesday's [9/29/2015] five-hour House hearing on the issue with witness Cecile
Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, the media is being slammed for doing exactly what the producer of the videos
did — and worse — editing hours of tape for a watchable news segment.
MSNBC
Got a Big Surprise While Pushing the Abortion Agenda. MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts got a big surprise on Tuesday
[9/29/2015] when he tried to use the mother of a stillborn child to attack a pro-life organization's effort to defund Planned
Parenthood. Roberts talked to Lexi Oliver Fretz about her deceased son Walter. An image of the stillborn Walter was
used in a video by the Center for Medical Progress in one of its videos. Roberts attacked, "How do you feel about Walter's
picture used to discredit Planned Parenthood?" Fretz explained that she was surprised to see her son used to illustrate a
grisly description in the video, but added, "My husband and I are actually extremely pro-life."
Washington
Post Fact Checker Still Targeting Republicans By Nearly 2-to-1. The Washington Post's fact-checking rampage
against Republicans and right-of-center claims marches on. In late March, after Breitbart News reported that, for the first
three months of 2015, the WaPo fact-check column targeted Republicans twice as often as Democrats, the column's editor,
Glenn Kessler, assured Breitbart News readers that, "You need to look at the whole year to be fair." Well, with just
13 weeks left in the year, the likelihood that anything approaching an equal scrutiny of claims by Democrats and
Republicans appears impossible.
Ben
Carson Zooms to Top of Media's Kill List. The enemedia is patting itself on the back, congratulating itself
with headlines that declare, "Ben Carson Walks Back Anti-Muslim Comments With More Anti-Muslim Comments," when in fact the
subheadline is, "I stand by the comments." This is the sharia-compliant media at its deadliest. Islamic supremacists and
their running dogs in the media have unilaterally adhered to the blasphemy laws under the sharia (Islamic law). Anyone who
violates these laws (which mandate that one must not criticize Islam or Muhammad) will be destroyed. In Muslim countries, you
are executed for blasphemy. In the West, for the same "blasphemy" your character and good name are assassinated.
Ted
Cruz: The Biggest Elephant in the Room. To the Republicans in Washington who have habitually let down the American
people, who is public enemy number one — the Ayatollah Khomeini, Vladimir Putin, President Obama? No, Ted Cruz.
To the liberal media that apparently believes in a socialist utopia, who threatens to spoil their self-destructive fantasy?
ISIS, Russia, Iran? No, Ted Cruz. In the wake of the CNN debate, is there any wonder now why moderator Jake Tapper
avoided and interrupted Ted Cruz all night?
Media
Smears Trump, Ignores Fact That Hillary Clinton Started Birther Movement. When asked by a reporter if Obama was
a Muslim in 2008, she replied, "There's nothing to base that on ... as far as I know." The media is nothing but a bunch of
left-wing liars. And what's wrong with being misidentified as a Muslim? It's [much] better than being identified
accurately as someone who spent 20 years in a racist church, which is Obama's true (and very troubling) religious history.
'Fact-Checker'
Challenge. Because Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina dared Wednesday night [9/16/2015] to be a woman who
attacked the mainstream media's holy temple of abortion, the lying fact-checkers came out in force before the CNN debate was
even over to punish her for sharing with the world the horrors of the infamous Planned Parenthood videos released over the
summer. As an example, the prominent fact checkers at the left-wing Washington Post, Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee
Lee, attacked Fiorina with this word salad of misinformation: [...]
Iran
nuclear deal survives: Democrats block disapproval vote. The hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran survived the
U.S. Senate on Thursday [9/10/2015], as Democrats overcame ferocious Republican opposition and delivered President Barack
Obama a major victory on his top foreign policy priority.
The Editor says...
Sounds like we're getting mixed signals from the Associated Press: Did the Democrats block the vote, or did they overcome ferocious Republican opposition?
Shep
Smith Rails Against Anti-Gay 'Haters' During Kim Davis Presser. During Fox News' live coverage of Kentucky
clerk Kim Davis' release from prison, anchor Shepard Smith suddenly spoke over the press conference to chastise Davis and
those who supported her decision to refuse to issue gay marriage licenses.
Chuck
Todd Admits Iran Deal Vote More 'About Avoiding Defeat' for Obama. On Wednesday, September 2, all three network
newscasts cheered Obama securing a 34th vote for the Iran deal which included Chuck Todd's colleague, NBC Nightly News
anchor Lester Holt, who proclaimed the vote a "major win for the Obama administration" for a deal that "now appears unstoppable."
In addition, the networks repeatedly dismissed the overwhelming majority of Congress who opposed the Iran deal and refused to provide
soundbites of those who planned to vote against the controversial agreement.
Media
shifts on violent rhetoric for Black Lives Matter. Some newsrooms are pushing back hard on the notion that the
recent spike in police officer deaths is tied somehow to the anti-cop rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement. That's
a sharp contrast from the press' more recent habit of tying Tea Party rhetoric to similarly deadly acts. The Black Lives
Matters movement, which was born out of concerns over police brutality in African-American communities, has come under fire
recently for some of its members' charged rhetoric.
Ignoring Science, 97% of Stories Hype BPA
as Health Threat. Fear of chemicals and "toxins" is rampant among the so-called "environmental" left. Unfortunately, that
phobia infects national media coverage as well. For more than a decade, the left has been on the attack against BPA, a chemical that is
commonly found in plastics and other products. Anti-chemical groups such as the Breast Cancer Fund and some scientists have crusaded
against BPA (known formally as bisphenol A), connecting it to cancer and reproductive problems and claiming that it is "a threat to human
health," despite government agencies that have declared it "harmless" even in baby bottles. Much of the national media have bought in
spreading fear of the chemical in ordinary canned goods, on cash register receipts, in dental sealants and more. In just the past two
years, the three broadcast networks and top five national newspapers have continued to report on the "hidden danger" of BPA, labeling it
"carcinogenic" and "toxic" often with small or flawed reports from activists.
Suddenly
Media Worried Over Reporting Race-Based Motive of Killer of White Reporters. During the reporting of the
murders in a black church in Charleston, the assumed racist motive of the shooter, white man Dylann Roof, was immediately the
talk of the media. But now, after an African American murdered two white former co-workers and then released a 23-page,
race-tinged manifesto, some in the media are suddenly squeamish about reporting the race-based motives of the killer.
Megyn
Kelly defends Mexican supremacist Jorge Ramos. Megyn Kelly once again bashed Donald Trump while defending
Mexican supremacist Jorge Ramos, despite not waiting until being called on. Last night Megyn Kelly had leftist and CNN reject
Howie Kurtz to react to Trump basically deporting Jorge Ramos from his press conference in Iowa. So as is typical of Megyn
Kelly, she took Ramos' side, saying: [Video clip]
The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias
Examples. Let's face it, liberal media bias has been around since there have been liberals to do the "reporting"
of the news. But this fact should surprise no one. After all, the news media has always been filled with bias
of one type or another. In fact, there was a time when American customers of the news knew exactly which newspapers sported
which point of view. It was taken for granted that one newspaper supported one side and another newspaper a different side.
An activist masquerading as a journalist:
Activist
anchor Jorge Ramos uses influence to push immigration agenda. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who has long been
as much an activist as a newsman, managed to find himself at the center of an immigration story yet again this week as he
went head-to-head with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, getting tossed from a press conference after repeatedly and
insistently trying to ask questions.
Jorge
Ramos Is an Immigration Activist Posing as a Reporter. Jorge Ramos may be the award-winning celebrity anchor of
Univision's premier news broadcast, but "the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic News" long ago revealed himself to be less a
journalist than another perpetually indignant immigration activist. His devolution into outright heckler was only a matter of
time. It would be difficult to overstate Ramos's immigration radicalism. When Central American children were pouring over the
border last summer, Ramos announced as a solution, "First, we treat children like children, as if they were our own." When,
in their 2012 interview, Newt Gingrich told Ramos, "I'm not going to let you define what 'immigration reform' is," Ramos replied,
"It's very simple: to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants." And when, last November, President Obama
lawlessly granted amnesty to some 5 million of those immigrants, Ramos touted the measure as "a triumph for the Latino community."
Jorge
Ramos Has a Long History of Activist 'Reporting'. Ramos has been called the "Walter Cronkite of Latino
America," but he has a history of behaving more like an activist with a cable-news platform than a reporter. Ramos
constantly identifies with his Latino and immigrant audience, using words like "us" and "our" when reporting on any
immigration-related issue. He seems to see himself as the gatekeeper of Latino American opinion —
and to think that qualifies him to be a political kingmaker.
Indy
Star Orchestrates Secret Campaign To Promote LGBT Special Protections. Breitbart News has exclusively obtained
an email sent by the President and Publisher of the Indianapolis Star. It invites "community leaders" to help plan and
coordinate an aggressive, highly orchestrated campaign to "persuade" the Indiana state legislature to adopt sweeping special
protections for Indiana's gay, lesbian and transgender communities. The email, sent personally by Karen Ferguson Fuson,
President and Publisher of the Star, was sent early this morning to an undisclosed list of business and media elites, together
with gay rights activists. It pulls no punches in its scope or its goals.
Biased
Media vs. Behavioral Standards. We all know that the mainstream media are biased. But they appear
to have totally come out of the closet lately, exposing their true identity as leftist operatives. It was infuriating
watching a CNN interviewer hammering Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson. This despicable jerk kept
trying to twist Dr. Carson's words to mean that Dr. Carson wants to bomb refugees with drones. [...] Also infuriating
and evil is the MSM hiding the sick scandal happening at Planned Parenthood. In the latest video released exposing
Planned Parenthood's black-market baby body parts business, one of PP's clients joked about shipping whole heads of aborted
babies to research labs. I was stunned by the lack of media coverage and national outrage. Have we grown numb?
Cruz
Accuses Megyn Kelly of Asking 'Mainstream Media Liberal' Question. Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly of asking "the question every mainstream media liberal journalist
wants to ask" and "the question Barack Obama wants to focus on" on Tuesday's [8/25/2015] "Kelly File" on the Fox News Channel.
Mainstream
Scream: Carter revisionism begins, called 'too nice' to beat Reagan. The mainstream media's revisionism of
former President Jimmy Carter's doomed presidency has begun amid reports he is battling brain cancer. Leading the charge
last week was MSNBC's Joy Reid, a national correspondent who was host of the "Reid Report" from February 2014 to February 2015.
House
Intelligence Committee Democrats Play Political Games on Iran Deal. The Hill ran a story today
[8/14/2015], "Spy panel Dems rally to support Iran deal," which gives the impression that all of the House Intelligence
Committee's Democratic members signed a letter supporting the nuclear agreement with Iran. The article did not mention that
a third of the committee's Democratic members did not sign the letter or the absurdity of the letter's claims. I therefore
believe a more accurate title for The Hill article would be "One-third of House Intel Committee Democrats Refuse to Sign
Letter Supporting Iran Agreement."
Cover-Up:
Major Newspapers Keep Hillary's E-Mails Off the Front Page. Four of the country's largest newspapers on Wednesday
[8/12/2015] kept the latest developments in Hillary Clinton's growing E-mail scandal off the front page (one kept it out of the paper
completely). The revelation that the Democratic candidate had top secret information on her server was relegated to the bottom
of page A13 in the New York Times. The Washington Post managed to place the news that Clinton will finally
turn over her server on A2. The Los Angeles Times hid the story on A9. All of these newspapers, however, did better
than USA Today, which completely skipped Clinton's scandal in the print edition.
Press
Downplays, Hides EPA's Responsibility for Western River Contamination. On Wednesday [8/5/2015],
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency committed an act which would have likely become instant national news
if a private entity had done the same thing. On Friday, John Merline at Investors' Business Daily
succinctly noted that the EPA "dumped a million gallons of mine waste into Animas River in Colorado, turning it
into what looked like Tang, forcing the sheriff's office to close the river to recreational users." Oh, and
it "also failed to warn officials in downstream New Mexico about the spill." Yet here we are four days later,
and the story has gotten very little visibility outside of center-right blogs and outlets. That's largely
explained by how the wire services have handled the story.
US
carbon pollution from power plants hits 27-year low. Carbon dioxide — from
the burning of coal, oil and gas — is the chief greenhouse gas responsible for man-made
global warming.
Bias alert:
The Associated Press is wrong about one aspect of this story, in the first sentence: The primary
greenhouse gas is water vapor, which no law or politician can counteract.
Red
Flags Of Corruption Over Huntington Park. In a page-one headline, the Los Angeles Times hailed the
appointment of illegal immigrants to two Huntington Park, Calif., civic commissions as a milestone that "charts a
bold path for immigrants." It was booster journalism at its worst, gushing about illegals gaining participatory
"rights" in U.S. public life that had supposedly been unjustly denied them. It also stood in stark contrast
with the multiple local press reports — KPCC, KTLA, CBS-LA and more — which reported the event
as primarily cause for angry protests.
GMA:
No Time for Planned Parenthood Vote; 18 Minutes to Boy Band. ABC's Good Morning
America, a two hour-long program, on Tuesday [8/4/2015] completely ignored the Senate's vote on
Planned Parenthood, yet devoted 18 minutes of air time to boy band One Direction. Only CBS This
Morning bothered with the Republican effort to defund the abortion group, allowing a meager
25 seconds. Even in that scant amount of time, co-host Norah O'Donnell managed to spin
the undercover footage of the organization in a friendly way.
CNN
Asks Activist Behind Planned Parenthood Videos if He's a 'Violent Extremist'. In an
interview with the Center for Medicial Progress' David Daleiden, CNN's New Day host Alisyn Camerota
asked the activist behind the undercover Planned Parenthood videos to respond to criticism he was a
"violent extremist." "Your critics — critics of your organization I should
say — say that you're not journalists as you purport to be on your website, but rather
you're violent extremists," Camerota said to Daleiden.
The Editor says...
The abortion "doctors" are tearing babies apart and selling the pieces, and the guy who goes undercover to document
this practice is accused of being a "violent extremist." That's a textbook case of liberal media bias.
New
Hillary Emails: Media, Congress Fed Her Questions. A great deal of the communication
contained in the latest batch of Clinton emails released to the public consists of sycophantic
throne-sniffers at the State Department and White House competing with each other to see who can
compliment Her Regal Majesty the most. But now we've got examples of people actively helping her
stage public appearances — including, to no one's surprise, the media. Mediaite
reports that one of the new emails shows a source within NBC News leaking Hillary questions in advance
of a Meet the Press appearance: [...]
Only
CBS Highlights 'Tough, New Questions' for Planned Parenthood. On Friday, CBS This
Morning actually highlighted the "tough, new questions" Planned Parenthood is facing, showcasing
the "latest and most graphic video." ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today,
despite a combined running time of six hours, ignored the story. This Morning Co-anchor
Norah O'Donnell, in addition to showing footage, alerted, "Planned Parenthood is facing tough new
questions this morning. A fourth undercover video is out, showing a doctor at the women's health
provider talking about selling fetal body parts."
NBC
Hosts Thrilled Network Hired Obama's Chef as Analyst. On Wednesday [7/29/2015], the
hosts of NBC's Today cheered the network's decision to hire former White House chef —
and husband of left-wing MSNBC host AlexWagner — Sam Kass. Co-host Savannah Guthrie
gushed: "...we've got an exciting announcement. You guys remember Sam Kass, of course he's
the former assistant White House chef, executive director of the First Lady's Let's Move campaign, and
nutrition advisor to the President.... He is becoming an NBC News senior food analyst."
'Respectable'
Journalism is Slipping: Atlantic Writer Thinks Religious Believers Belong in Straitjackets. Jeffrey
Tayler is a respected journalist — an author of multiple books, a contributing editor at The Atlantic,
and a frequent commentator on NPR's venerable All Things Considered. Review his Atlantic author
page, and you'll see a collection of sober-minded, interesting articles — written from a leftist perspective,
to be sure, but many of them are certainly worth reading. I haven't caught his NPR commentary, but I expect they
would be worth hearing. I enjoy thoughtful liberal commentary, and The Atlantic is still often a destination
site for the best the Left has to offer. But that's Mr. Tayler as Dr. Jekyll. Mr. Hyde emerges over at
Salon, [...]
Cahoots:
Email
Reveals Hillary Clinton Was Fed Questions Before Meet the Press Appearance. One of the
private Hillary Clinton emails released Friday [7/31/2015] reveals that an NBC source was leaking possible
questions to the then-Secretary of State's staff ahead of an appearance on Meet the Press. In
an July 2009 email with the subject line "heads up," Clinton staffer Lissa Muscatine wrote, "You probably
already know this, but I just heard from a friend who is wired at Meet the Press that David Gregory will
ask you about David Maziar, the Newsweek journalist arrested in Iran."
Nets
Spend 30 Minutes on Lion; Censor Abortion Videos. The broadcast news shows covered Cecil the lion
more in one day than they spent on the Planned Parenthood videos in two weeks — and that discrepancy
only continues to grow. In two days, ABC, NBC and CBS have spent 30 minutes, 1 second on Cecil, a
famed African lion shot by an American dentist. But anchors couldn't spare nearly as much time for the videos
exposing Planned Parenthood's harvesting of aborted baby parts. Since the release of the Center for Medical
Progress' first video two weeks ago, the networks have spent only 11 minutes, 13 seconds on the story.
World
Explodes over Dead Lion, Ignores Planned Parenthood. On Tuesday [7/28/2015], the world lost its collective
mind — whatever is left of it, anyway — when media discovered the identity of the killer of a Zimbabwean
named Cecil. Cecil is a lion. Cecil, a lion, was by most accounts "one of Africa's most famous lions." Cecil,
incredibly, was famous for being a lion, not for curing cancer, although you wouldn't know that by the media coverage.
The man who shot Cecil, a lion, to death is Dr. Walter Palmer, a big game hunter who allegedly paid $55,000 for a big game
permit. He hired a guide, who lured Cecil, a lion, out from a protected area, where Cecil, a lion, then met his end.
CNN's
Camerota Downplays Baby Organ Harvesting Outrage; Suggests Price Fixing. On Tuesday's
[7/28/2015] New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota made no mention of the outrage over Planned
Parenthood varying its abortion techniques in order to preserve unborn babies' organs for medical
research, as was revealed in two undercover videos. Instead, Camerota zeroed in on "these
representatives from Planned Parenthood negotiating" over prices for these organs. She even
touted how the "exchange of fetal tissue... obviously, does a lot of good. There's a lot of
research — cures for diseases that come from it." [Video clip]
Panic
in Pittsburgh: Media Struggling to Ignore Black Mob Violence. [Scroll down] The
local TV news crews pieced together some of the action from April: Hundreds of "college kids"
arriving on "school buses" to a "huge party" featuring large fights and gunfire at police. And of
course lots of mayhem and property destruction. Twenty neighboring police departments were
called in to help quell this non-event. And oh yeah, that has been happening for a long time at
this mall. But the fact that this was a black party for black students organized by black people
and students came from black fraternities and sororities — not a word.
Chris
Matthews: Obama Has Had 'Immaculate' Presidency With No Corruption Allegations.
[Scroll down] Matthews continued, "He's been immaculate in the presidency. Nobody has accused
him of any corruption. His kids are perfect. His wife is perfect. He's done everything that these
right-wing white conservatives say we're supposed to be in this country. He's done everything right. [...]"
The Media Love Affair
with McCain. [S]ince when did the media get concerned about the noble cause of fighting
communism in Vietnam? Our media, led by CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite, who was then
an influential media figure, protested the Vietnam War and prompted the U.S. withdrawal and communist
takeover. His FBI file demonstrated Cronkite's contacts with Soviet officials and how he was used
as a dupe by the communists. More than 58,000 Americans sacrificed and died to save that country
from communism. The liberal media never supported the war against communism in Vietnam. Yet
they are now browbeating Trump over avoiding the war through deferments. Our media are full of
hypocrites. They don't admire McCain for fighting in Vietnam. They admire him because he is
a "maverick" who frequently takes the liberal line, such as on "comprehensive immigration reform."
Leftist propaganda is everywhere:
Every
Day, A New Way to Hate. In channel surfing my way to the British Open, I lit for a
moment on the usually sane ESPN show, "Mike and Mike." Co-host Mike Greenberg was off that morning
so 28 year-old sub Ryan Ruocco sat in with regular Mike Golic, a former NFL defensive tackle.
Flaunting his liberal chops for the suits upstairs, Ruocco gushed about the Arthur Ashe Award. Of
course, he did not call the winner "Bruce Jenner." He refused to even say "Jenner." It was
always "Caitlyn Jenner," over and over. Those who dared say "Bruce" Ruocco surely would have
lumped — in his words — with "the critics who hate." Bingo! There
it was. Our progressive friends had discovered the glory of transgenderism about fifteen minutes
ago, and they were already prepared to brand critics of any sort as "haters," the collective term for
the non-elect in their perverse neo-puritan presbytery.
Andrea
Mitchell Tries to Portray Abdulazeez as a Gun Nut. Desperately looking for a way to
avoid pegging the Chattanooga murderer Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez as anything but a terrorist,
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asked a childhood friend of the killer what he liked to do in "small town
Tennessee": [...] Abdulzaeez apparently owned some guns, but it is unknown whether he bought them
after his return from the Middle East last year. For a terrorist, guns are a tool of the trade and
not a means of self defense or anything to take pleasure from on a hunt. For Mitchell to try and
equate terrorism with the gun culture instead of trying to get to the bottom of the shooter's
radicalization is horrible journalism.
Walloping
Walker: The Media's Worst Attacks on the Wisconsin Governor. Scott Walker's official entry into the 2016 presidential
race has already been met with questions about his sophistication and readiness to be president by the liberal media. The day
of Walker's announcement The New York Times' Patrick Healy portrayed the GOP governor as someone who isn't ready for the world
stage: "Two words these [Walker] voters do not use about him? 'Smart' and 'sophisticated.'"
AP:
It's Not Selling Aborted Unborn Baby Parts, It's the 'Disposition of Fetal Remains'.
We've long known that the Associated Press is loathe to refer to unborn children as unborn children,
preferring the clinical term "fetus." But in covering a shocking new story about how Planned
Parenthood sells fetal tissue from aborted babies for profit, the AP bent over backwards to use
clinical euphemisms to soften the blow of the ghoulish practice.
More
about Planned Parenthood.
Dogfight:
WashPost Google-Mocks All the GOP Candidates, No Democrats. Jeff Guo of The Washington
Post began his article correctly: "Stop. This will be the most horrifying and pointless thing you
read today." One new technique on Google now is called "DeepDream," to enhance and visualize all the
strange associations that artificial-intelligence programs are making. MRC's Dan Gainor pointed out
that the Post proved it's a Democratic rag by taking this strange "stoner" imaging tool and applied it
to all the Republican presidential candidates and posted it — and not a single Democrat was
included for balance in silliness. So Bobby Jindal looks like a dog — and so does
Chris Christie's 18-year-old daughter Sarah.
Shameless
NBC Uses Murder by Illegal Immigrant to Bash GOP. Monday's [7/6/2015] network evening
newscasts offered continuing coverage on the July 1 murder of a San Francisco woman allegedly at the
hands of an illegal immigrant, but it was NBC Nightly News that shamelessly used the occasion to
blast "the new Todd Akin" in Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for having "seized upon" the
story to promote his stance on illegal immigration as the GOP is "desperate to win Latino voters."
AP:
Mass Unemployment, Lower Wages Is 'New Normal'. The AP's subtle point here is we are
supposed to accept Obama's failed economy as the 'new normal.' There's nothing that can be done
about it. And certainly none of this is Obama's fault.
MSNBC's
O'Donnell: 'Essential Truth That We're All Socialists Now'. Last night [7/6/2015],
Lawrence O'Donnell gushed over Bernie Sanders' authenticity and the consistently large crowds he has
acquired in his speeches across the country. The July 6 edition of The Last Word
featured a panel discussion which emphasized that the Vermont senator's socialism isn't that far outside
the mainstream. O'Donnell asked former Vermont governor Howard Dean if Sanders has "managed to
educate Vermonters to the essential truth that we're all socialists now?" He prefaced that question by
noting the tendency of Democrats to "run away" from calling themselves liberal. The MSNBC personality
then cheered the fact that Sanders openly embraces socialism and "the fact that he is a socialist."
Shock:
Arizona Paper Decries Border Fence as Too High for Mexicans to Safely Jump. A
mainstream Arizona newspaper is decrying the small section of the Arizona-Mexico border that has a
14-foot-high primary fence because it is too high for illegal immigrants to safely cross. The
article, "Border Fence Jumpers Breaking Bones," includes the claim that sections of the border with
a 14-foot-high fence are "as tall as a two or three-story house" and tells the stories of several
women who broke bones and were treated extensively to healthcare and surgeries at the expense of
U.S. taxpayers. The writer never mentions any lives directly lost as a result of there not
being a border fence in most sections, such as when Mexican nationals crossed into the U.S. and
murdered father and husband Robert Rosas, a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Collusion
Between Hillary and Media. The elite media types have been in bed with the elite national
Democratic party types for so long that one hardly bothers to note it any longer. Still, it is a
little jarring when the Hillary Clinton e-mails reveal this kind of panting sycophancy
We
Must Stop the Media From Silencing Your Voice on Marriage. If there's one thing the
Supreme Court accomplished last Friday (besides unleashing cultural chaos on America), it was ending
the liberal media's charade. Whatever scrap of journalistic impartiality existed flew out the
courtroom window Friday when the press decided five justices not only invented a right to same-sex
marriage but to censorship, too. [...] After years of trying to drive out debate, the liberal media
are using the cloak of the court to do it. Desperate to take away the voice of Christians at the
public table, the left is already on the march to undermine the very freedom that gives breath to the
speech it now enjoys.
AP
Photo Lines Pistol Up with Senator, 2016 Candidate Ted Cruz's Brain. Of course, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a
Republican. That puts him in proximity with guns and gun posters, as seen in [a] picture from Associated Press
photog Charlie Neibergall, more often than Democrats. Still, imagine a similar situation — a U.S.
Senator campaigning for President — and instead of a pro-2nd Amendment event, it's a pro-gun control
event. Imagine this Senator is standing in front of a giant poster of a pistol — one meant to
demonize the weapon rather than promote it.
Published
Wire Photo Has Gun Graphic Pointing at Ted Cruz's Head. The Associated Press currently
has a photo for sale at its APimages.com site showing a graphic of a gun pointing at Ted Cruz's
head. It has been there since early Saturday evening [6/20/2015]. It would appear that
Charlie Neibergall, the person who snapped this photograph, had to patiently wait for the "right"
moment to take the photo in question.
Update:
Photos
of gun pointed at Cruz disappear from AP photo bank. Controversial photographs from
the Associated Press showing the image of a large gun pointing at the head of 2016 presidential
candidate Sen. Ted Cruz have disappeared from AP's photo bank. APImages.com "no longer yields a
handful of photos from photojournalist Charlie Neibergall wherein the barrel of a gun on a poster
points to the U.S. senator and presidential candidate's head," Breitbart reported Monday [6/22/2015].
The images had drawn outrage from conservatives who said the photo was an example of media bias.
Rush
Limbaugh Blasts Media for Trying to Destroy Ben Carson While Fawning over Clintons. On Wednesday [6/17/2015], conservative icon and talk radio
host Rush Limbaugh blasted the mainstream press for trying to destroy and dismiss Dr. Ben Carson even though nobody in the mainstream can claim to come close
to having any of the Carson's accomplishments. "Dr. Benjamin Carson is one of the finest, most accomplished human beings on this planet who has done more
for people than most people in politics will ever do," Limbaugh declared on his radio show. "And he's done it personally, not with other people's money."
MSNBC's
Dyson Implies Rachel Dolezal Is More Black Than Clarence Thomas. On Monday's
[6/15/2015] The Ed Show, Michael Eric Dyson, MSNBC Political Analyst and frequent guest host
on the "Lean Forward" network, used the ongoing controversy surrounding Rachel Dolezal claiming to
be African American to smear Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
More
about Rachel Dolezal.
Marco
Rubio, average American. Marco Rubio bought a bunch of stuff he probably couldn't
afford. Welcome to America. So The New York Times has pulled together another hit
piece — this one insinuating that Rubio, who the newspaper evidently believes is the GOP
front-runner, is both a reckless spendthrift and a financial failure. The story confuses offshore
fishing boats with "luxury speedboats" and pickup trucks with SUVs to render a distasteful account of
Rubio's financial life. But what we really learned is that though Rubio is not great with money,
the senator from Florida has relatively modest desires, considering his fame.
Media
Bias Jumps the Shark With Marco Rubio 'Luxury Speedboat' Story. Just how desperate is
the mainstream press to cast Sen. Marco Rubio as someone who can't handle his money? Desperate
enough, apparently, to describe a family fishing boat as a "luxury speedboat," which the New York
Times did this week in its front page hit piece about Rubio's alleged "history of financial struggles."
That same Times story also portrayed a home Rubio bought — after getting an $800,000 advance on a
book — as some sort of mansion in Florida, when it is, in fact, just one home crammed into a
cul-de-sac next to many other similarly sized, middle-class dwellings.
Associated
Press Pens The Most Dishonest Anti-Cop Conspiracy Theory You Are Likely To Ever Read.
I'll be quite frank: I have very little respect for the Associated Press and the quality of their
reporting, which tends to range from mediocre to abysmal in terms of factual accuracy, and which seems
to be far more interested in publishing propaganda in recent years than reflecting reality. Their
latest attempt to generate controversy, "Witnesses: Semi-automatic gunfire dominated biker shootout," is
perhaps the most dishonest and incompetent bit of reporting I've ever had the misfortune to read.
The premise for the article is to promote the recent biker-generated conspiracy theory that Waco law
enforcement officers did almost all the shooting at the May 18 shootout at a Waco restaurant called
Twin Peaks.
An
NBC Affiliate Manufactures a Story to Attack Conservatives. "Months before the conference, my family
booked a hotel room at the same resort as ALEC," reported Brendan Keefe of WXIA TV, also known as 11 Alive.
It's the NBC affiliate in Atlanta. "We found the fabled back room where the laws are made," he told their
audience. It was sweeps week and NBC had a scoop. What he failed to mention is that the event held by the
right-leaning American Legislative Exchange Council was open to the press, he did not register for the event,
he registered at the hotel under an assumed name, and the hotel was not a resort, just a hotel in Savannah.
More particularly, it was the Hyatt in Savannah.
Times
Hit Piece Ignores Scott Walker's Success. The article is more sophisticated than the
awkward and error-filled attempted hit on Walker by Gail Collins from the Times editorial
page, who blamed Walker for layoffs that took place before he had been elected. And it avoids the
kind of over-the-top claims that require corrections. But the piece nonetheless makes clear that its
authors believe Walker's views are far out of the mainstream and that he owes his success to wealthy
conservatives eager to exploit a simpleton as the vessel for their ideological goals.
Media
warn Marco Rubio is dangerously middle-class and not wealthy. The [New York] Times
revealed recently that Rubio incurred four traffic tickets over 17 years, not exactly disqualifying
events. Other reports had Rubio and his wife Jeannette spending money to upgrade their Miami home's
air conditioning and buy a new refrigerator. You may remember back in 2007 another freshman
senator named Barack Obama suddenly paid off nearly four dozen overdue tickets just before launching
his bid to move his family and mother-in-law into the rent-free White House. No, of course you don't
remember that because the media skipped over such inconvenient legal blemishes in its enthusiastic coverage
of the "reform" Chicagoan.
Even
lefty MSM laughing at NY Times story on Rubio 'luxury speedboat'. Not exactly a cigarette boat.
In fact, exactly the kind of boat you see fishermen using all over Florida, more or less the Ford Focus or Toyota Camry
of fishing craft. The obvious comparison is to John Kerry's yacht, the one he docked in Rhode Island to avoid
Massachusetts taxes.
Media:
Never Mind Hillary's Scandals, Let's Talk About Marco Rubio's Wife's Driving Habits. Remember how the media
left Barack Obama completely unvetted, ignoring even the most damaging stories from his past, while a squirming mass of
reporters fought over every scrap of trash in the dumpster behind Sarah Palin's house? It's happening again.
For some reason, the New York Times decided to devote two reporters to the urgent task of reviewing Senator and
presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio's driving record over the past 18 years. And they still couldn't
make much of a story about it, so they decided to add his wife's record to the story.
Surprise!
NYT's Embarrassing Rubio Hit Piece Came From Democratic Super PAC. A reporter at the
Washington Free Beacon discovered that The New York Times' embarrassing story attacking Republican
presidential candidate Marco Rubio for traffic violations was almost certainly planted by a
Democratic super PAC. [...] Missing from the headline is the important context that the candidate
himself only had four violations to his name, over the span of two decades.
New
York Times ignored 15 unpaid tickets of Obama in 2007. You can't get much more
hypocritical than the New York Times, which acted as a megaphone for the oppo research
efforts of American Bridge, the pro-Hillary operation founded by David Brock. The "scandal"
amounted to four traffic tickets for Marco Rubio over 18 years, puffed up by including his
wife's driving record into a headline of 17 violations for the couple. The problem is that the Times
studiously ignored the scofflaw behavior of Barack Obama, who ignored 15 outstanding parking tickets
until his run for the presidency forced him to clean up his record.
Pummeling
Perry: The Media's Worst Attacks on the Former Texas Governor. If his 2012 presidential run is any
indicator, Rick Perry's jump into the 2016 presidential race will bring a flurry of the liberal media's favorite
pejoratives for Republicans. Racist? Anti-science? Religious bigot? Gun nut? Heartless
cutter of programs for the poor? You name it, the former Texas governor was called it by his haters in the
leftist press.
MSM
Journalist Wants Republican Presidential Candidates to 'Unleash Their Lizard Brains' in Upcoming
Debates. Three mainstream media journalists are showing their bias against the large
field of Republican Presidential candidates. In a recent podcast, they discussed the 2016
campaign. When asked by MSNBC's Alex Wagner what she thought of the Republican candidates who will
be invited to participate in the upcoming Fox News debates, Annie Lowrey, who writes for New York
Magazine, let loose: "Even in terms of getting a better bread and circus type ludicrous
production, which as a journalist is all that I care about, I just want chaos, anarchy, racist
comments, sexist comments, I want, I want the worst of these people, I want them to, like, unleash
their lizard brains."
No
Time for Hillary Scandals — Because Every Reporter Everywhere Is Covering the Dennis
Hastert Indictment. [Scroll down] Yet one cannot help but observe: Three authors
are given a byline for this scoop, and six others are credited with "contributing" to the report.
That's nine Washington Post authors hard at work getting the (legally non-actionable) background
to the indictment of a retired congressman. And it's not just the Post. ABC News needed
six authors to report the same story. The New York Times needed five. Politico
needed four. Would that so much media manpower were devoted to covering current scandal-laden
politicians — like, oh, for instance, Hillary Clinton.
CNBC's
Harwood Hits Rubio for Looking 'Like a Schoolboy' Compared to Hillary. CNBC
Washington correspondent Richard Harwood and the co-hosts of CNBC's Squawk Box briefly
discussed during Friday's [5/29/2015] show the age difference between Hillary Clinton and Republican
presidential candidate Marco Rubio that included Harwood knocking Rubio for "look[ing] like a
schoolboy" compared to Clinton.
NY
Post: Stephanopoulos gets $105M from ABC. When it emerged that George Stephanopoulos
had failed to disclose $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation to either the network or
viewers while repeatedly covering the organization, ABC News declared that it would stand by its "chief
news anchor." The New York Post's Emily Smith explains that they have one hundred and five million
reasons to ignore their own declared standards and practices. ABC renewed Stephanopoulos' contract
last year for more than double what NBC paid Brian Williams ... and it's working out just as well.
The Real
Stephanopoulos Scandal. No, it's not his blatant partisanship, his ties to the
increasingly thuggish Clinton Machine, or even his complete lack of journalistic ethics. It's that
ABC should never have hired him in the first place. Back in the Stone Age, before reporters
became "journalists" and before "journalists" became politically motivated Fifth Columnists masquerading
as members of the Fourth Estate, there was a cardinal rule: a reporter could leave a newspaper and accept
a job as a public-relations flack, but under no circumstances could he or she then return to reporting.
Ever. In other words, once having forfeited any pretense of objectivity, and having accepted payment
for advocating a particular point of view, that guy's career in real journalism was finished.
Why is everybody so surprised
about George? Back in 1996, ABC president Roone Arledge hired deeply partisan Democrat
hack, George Stephanopoulos, to be the network's political analyst and contributor. ABC promised
that he would not cover news but would only provide commentary as a seasoned and professional pundit.
After I laughed uproariously at the news, I knew that all major network news programs would be biased against
Republicans. I knew this way before Bernard Goldberg wrote his book Bias in 2001 because of
what happened in 1992 on the Larry King show.
Stephanopoulos's
Long History of Mixing Journalism and Politics. Was Stephanopoulos's conflict simply a
minor oversight? A matter of, "I should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a
conflict"? Or was this a long-standing pattern of a political operative pretending to be a
journalist finally reaching the light of day?
Stephanopoulos's
Long, Long Record of Loyal Service to the Clintons. If George Stephanopoulos had
simply donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation while also serving as one of its favorite media
panelists, the controversy over his conflicts of interest would be much less. Stephanopoulos would
be guilty of a clear error, but he also would have had a lot of media company. What makes his
scandal different is that he himself chose to interrogate Peter Schweizer, the author of Clinton
Cash, the new exposé on the Clinton Foundation. If you watch the interview, it's pretty
obvious that Stephanopoulos is playing prosecuting attorney against Schweizer while also declining to ask
key questions, for instance, about Hugh Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother and his highly questionable
dealings involving the foundation.
What
Amtrak Spends Its Money On. Before the bodies had been pulled out of the wreckage, Democrats were
preaching the poor-mouth about Amtrak funding, often dishonestly. (Seriously, how is it that a Washington
Post writer and his Washington Post editors don't understand how federal spending works?) Smoking ruins of
train cars in Philadelphia, and the usual ghouls start up with the usual thing: "Oh, if those mean
Republicans had only let us spend money on the trains, this wouldn't have happened!"
Stephanopoulos'
$75,000 Gift To Clintons Underlines Media Corruption. In another sign the left's grip
on the news is bigger than anyone knew, ABC News' George Stephanopoulos hid a $75,000 gift to the
Clinton Foundation even as he reported news about corruption allegations. While skeptically
interrogating author Peter Schweizer about "Clinton Cash," his book exposing the Clinton Foundation
last April 26, the anchor for ABC News conveniently left out the highly relevant fact that he
himself had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
Also posted
under Media bias in Hillary Clinton's favor.
Clinton —
30 Days, 8 Press Questions; Fiorina — 8 Days, 322 Press Questions. Tuesday [5/12/2015]
will mark exactly 30 days since Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her official presidential bid for
the White House, yet she still hasn't done a formal sit down interview with national media, setting
a record for the longest running presidential candidate without doing so following a campaign
launch, as first reported by Breitbart News. Unlike Clinton, GOP presidential candidate
Carly Fiorina has been on what CNN coined a "media blitz" introducing herself to voters.
The
Halperin-Cruz teaching moment. There is more to this story than a simple case of media
gotcha. It's one thing to ask a candidate what newspapers she reads, or whether he can identify the
president of Mexico. It's quite another to set out to show that the candidate isn't who he says he
is because he doesn't meet your subjective standard for determining who's who and what's what.
Actually, as should be obvious to anyone who has watched the clip, this was no interview. It was
an interrogation. Journalists conduct interviews to obtain information. That's not what
Halperin did here. He was on the attack, quizzing Cruz about his Cuban-ness to make the 2016
Republican presidential hopeful look like a phony.
Mark
Halperin's Real Bias Is Partisan, Not Racist. Imagine it's 2007 and a prominent journalist is interviewing
then-Senator Barack Obama. "Senator, people are really interested in you and your identity. I just wanted to
ask you as a historical matter, when you filled out your application to Columbia, to Harvard Law School, did you list
yourself as an African American?" Imagine he pressed further. Do you have a favorite traditional black food?
Who's your favorite African-American performer? It's a safe bet that journalist would be lucky to have a job today as
a greeter at Wal-Mart.
Ted Cruz's finest moment.
The United States owes Bloomberg columnist Mark Halperin a debt of gratitude. For a rare and
fleeting moment, Americans of all political persuasions, religious affiliations, and ethnic
backgrounds were united in revulsion over the spectacle of his attempt to interview Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-TX). [...] Halperin's apology for his contemptible actions was even worse. After more than
24 hours of controversy and condemnation, Halperin issued a mealy-mouthed mea culpa in PDF
format. In the "apology" in which he asked forgiveness only from those who might have been
offended, a rudimentary blame-shifting tactic, Halperin insisted that a number of factors were
responsible for this kerfuffle. Everything, in fact, but his intent.
The
Real Takeaways From the Cruz-Halperin Interview. Liberal media honcho Mark Halperin
really showed his "colors" as he tried to de-Hispanify Sen. Ted Cruz in an interview for Bloomberg
Politics over the weekend. If you like arrogant, condescending, rude, insolent and patronizing
Beltway journalism, you may appreciate Halperin's performance. If you are a person of ordinary
sensibilities, however, and not so intoxicated with the leftist worldview that you are incapable of
dispassionately assessing the segment, you will have a different reaction.
Authenticity
challenge: Ted Cruz asked to prove he's 'Cuban' — controversy ensues, apology issued.
Analysts and journalists are still puzzling over the recent interview between Bloomberg News
managing editor Mark Halperin and Sen. Ted Cruz. The Texas Republican and Cuban-American was
subjected to a string of inquiries about his taste in Cuban food and music, his ability to speak
Spanish and other matters that had no real place in the political discourse. There was a
price to pay however.
Sing
Us a Song Boy: Mark Halperin's Racist Interview with Ted Cruz. As most of you know
Cruz is Hispanic, specifically Cuban; the media believe the Hispanic vote is crucial to winning the
White House; the media loathe Sen. Ted Cruz, and Halperin is a member-in-good-standing among the
elite media. What better way, then, for Halperin to shine among his colleagues than to racially
disqualify Cruz; to make him toxic to Hispanic voters.
White
man asks the son of Cuban immigrants if he is Cuban enough. Mary Katharine Ham, in one
of the very best single questions ever asked, proved herself to be very forward-thinking when she
asked "What is the point of you, Mark Halperin?" To this day, no one can answer this
question, but we all find ourselves asking it once again.
Mark
Halperin's Terrible Ted Cruz Interview Unites Left and Right in Mockery. Mark
Halperin's truly cringe-worthy interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may have aired April 30 on
Bloomberg TV, but somehow we the media missed it until a San Jose Mercury-News columnist tore it
apart over the weekend. Since then, much of the media — left and right —
has united in deriding Halperin. First, the interview itself: The seven-minute interview
largely focused on Cruz's appeal to Latino voters, with some truly strange questions like "Your last
name is Cruz and you're from Texas. Just based on that, should you have appeal to Hispanic
voters?" and "I wanted to give you the opportunity to welcome your colleague Senator Sanders to
the race and I'd like you to do it, if you would, en Español."
Conservatives
go to Twitter to Shame Mark Halperin's Cuban Inquisition. Yesterday [5/9/2015] many
conservatives were incensed at the idiotic race inquisition that news media hack Mark Halperin put
Ted Cruz through in order to prove his Cuban bona fides. Today they took it nationwide by trending
"Halperin Quotes" to mock and shame Halperin by composing other racist questions he might ask of other
candidates.
Mark
Halperin interviews Ted Cruz, expects Ricky Ricardo. I was born and raised in Puerto
Rico, and, if I had $5 for every liberal idiot who looks at me and says "You don't look Puerto
Rican", etc., because I don't fit the Liberal template of what a Lateeeno/Lateeena should be like,
this blog wouldn't need to carry ads. Frankly, by now I expect to consistently encounter
discrimination and bigotry from Liberals. It's in their mindset — identity
politics is their lifeblood.
Latino
Columnist 'Nauseated' by Racist' Halperin Queries Testing Cuban Heritage of Ted Cruz.
Bloomberg TV host Mark Halperin drew a serious rhetorical beating from Washington Post-syndicated
columnist Ruben Navarrette over his prove-you're-a-Cuban line of questioning to Ted Cruz on his program
With All Due Respect. (The "respect" seemed to be missing, or as phony-sounding as it can be
during an argument.) The interview came on April 30, but the columnist just picked up the
argument. Would a liberal Latino get this line of questioning?
Clinton
Political Director Tasks Univision with Hounding Bush, Rubio. Brazen cheerleading was
the order of the day on Univision this week, as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
travelled to Las Vegas to announce her support of U.S. citizenship for millions of unauthorized
immigrants in the country, in addition to the expansion of the Obama administration's current
policies of amnesty and non-enforcement of federal immigration law.
MSNBC
Pundit Suggests Ben Carson an Affirmative-Action Case Who Drank the GOP's 'Kool-Aid'.
According to MSNBC pundit Michelle Bernard — best known at NewsBusters perhaps because of
her insistence that there is a "war on black boys" in America — savaged newly-announced
GOP presidential aspirant Dr. Ben Carson tonight by alleging his success is all owed to "affirmative
action." She also suggested that he's a disgrace to his enslaved ancestors and to the black
community in Baltimore, where he's lived throughout his career as an acclaimed neurosurgeon.
Carly
Fiorina Nails Katie Couric on Double Standards, Hillary Defense. Newly minted Republican
presidential candidate Carly Fiorina went toe-to-toe with liberal journalist Katie Couric on Monday
[5/4/2015], sparring for 45 minutes on abortion, Hillary Clinton and qualifications for President.
I
support free speech, but... After Pamela Geller's free speech event in Texas and the
terror attack that followed, it has been stunning to hear one journalist after another ask Ms.
Geller why she held the event, question the wisdom or need for such an event, and go so far as
to insinuate that she was somehow to blame for the violence.
How
long will her media allow Hillary Clinton to avoid questions? Clinton's skating
smoothly so far because despite little gripes here and there, media members have largely gone along
with the Clinton campaign's determination to protect the party's most likely presidential nominee
from awkward questions, gaffes and hypocrisy charges. Planners do this by plopping her in front
of hand-picked sympathizers to ask them questions that allow her to utter the day's themed policy
platitudes, as cameras snap and roll.
Are
Unions Getting MSNBC Airtime by Donating to Sharpton's Nonprofit? Since Politics
Nation debuted on MSNBC on August 29, 2011, Al Sharpton's nonprofit National Action Network has
collected more than $2.38 million in contributions from unions, according to Department of Labor
records. Meanwhile, Sharpton has often used his show to promote pro-labor viewpoints, also inviting
union leadership on as guests.
Anti-Christian
bias at CBS? Conservatives blast 'Face the Nation'. Last week, Family Research Council
President Tony Perkins was invited to be on CBS News' "Face the Nation." What was supposed to be a
cordial conversation about the Supreme Court and same-sex marriage turned out to be a professional ambush.
NY
Times Blamed Reagan/Bush for LA Riots, But No Blame in Baltimore. Is President Obama
responsible for the Baltimore riots? If you take a look at how The New York Times portrayed
the reaction to the Los Angeles riots of 1992, apparently so. [...] Today, as the events in Baltimore
unfold — now with formal charges including murder brought against six Baltimore cops —
there is one striking aspect that is not present as it was in Los Angeles. That would be blaming the
President of the United States. Yes, that's right. As Los Angeles burned, the media was quick to
finger the real culprit as then-incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush. Not to mention
his predecessor, Ronald Reagan — then four years gone from the White House.
Feminist
Media Hail Satanists for Deeming Abortion a 'Religious Belief'. The pro-abortion media
crowd is embracing new ally in their fight: Satanists. "Mary" from Missouri is hoping to bypass her
state's 72-hour abortion waiting period by citing "sincerely held religious beliefs" — as a
Satanist. The Friendly Atheist blog broke the story of how the Satanic Temple plans to aid a woman
it calls Mary who believes in its "tenets." The media followed suit, from a Think Progress editor
expressing "love," to a Salon editor concluding, "[R]eligious exemption laws are maybe cool when
Satanists use them to get abortions."
Our
fawning press and Hillary Clinton's Iowa magical mystery tour. Republicans critiquing
this comedy should not get too cocky. A recent Rasmussen poll, taken in the wake of the email
scandal, showed that 57% of Americans likely to vote think Hillary will be our next president.
That kind of certainty can become self-fulfilling, causing people to withhold donations and stay home on
voting day. Republicans have to work much harder than they may think to turn this around.
Clinton "Déjà
vu" Scandals. During the Democrat presidential primary debates of 1992, then California
Attorney General Jerry Brown accused then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton of being involved in a shady
real estate business known as the Whitewater Development Corporation. While Clinton was able to
sidestep the issue that evening, the tip was given to the press and they began to take a look into the
situation. As evidence of crooked deals and illegal land-flipping grew more and more obvious, the
liberal-leaning press got less and less curious, especially after Bill Clinton won the 1992 election and
began to settle into office.
Face
the Nation' Should Face-Up to Its Apalling and Unfair Question. Over the weekend, the
Family Research Council's Tony Perkins appeared on CBS's Face the Nation. [...] Thankfully,
CBS News didn't actually bow to pressure and cancel Perkins's appearence on Face the Nation —
but to have him show up then ask him to defend the very legtimacy of his right to speak is appalling.
CNN's
Brooke Baldwin Blames Military Veterans For Baltimore Riots. While conducting an
interview with Democratic Maryland Representative Elijiah Cummings, CNN host Brooke Baldwin
questioned whether the violence in Baltimore had something to do with the amount of military
veterans in the police department.
The
Movement To Keep Dubya Silent Continues. Bloomberg News is ideologically an extension
of CNN propaganda and their latest exploit is a case study in remarkable bias.
Professor
And CNN Commentator: 'We Should BE STRATEGIC In How We Riot'. Marc Lamont Hill, a
Morehouse College professor and regular CNN commentator, embraced radical violence in the streets
during an interview Monday [4/27/2015] on CNN. "There shouldn't be calm tonight," Hill told CNN host Don
Lemon as riots raged in the streets of Baltimore. "Black people are dying in the streets. We've
been dying in the streets for months, years, decades, centuries. I think there can be resistance to
oppression."
Joe
Scarborough Rips Liberal Media 'Bowing Down' on Clinton Cash. A fiery Joe Scarborough
on Tuesday [4/28/2015] denounced the media's double standard when it comes to investigating the scandal
engulfing the Clinton Foundation's financial dealings. An angry Scarborough erupted "The Clintons
have made $150 million over the past decade because of contacts they made during public service!"
He described the typical journalist reaction as "Let's bow down before Bill and Hillary, because if we
ask the same questions of them that we ask of every other politician, then [...] We have crossed a line!"
George
Stephanopoulos makes the case why he should be fired from his ABC News job. George
Stephanopoulos got aggressive yesterday [4/26/2015] in challenging author Peter Schweizer on his
book Clinton Cash. But in relying on the principal talking point proffered by the Clinton
campaign, he indicted himself on charges of bias. Ramesh Ponnuru and Scott Johnson both
picked up on the irony.
Stephanopoulos
Aggressively Questions Peter Schweizer Over 'Clinton Cash'. On Sunday's [4/26/2015]
This Week, ABC's George Stephanopoulos interviewed Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton
Cash, and repeatedly badgered his guest about the accuracy of his book and chose to focus on
Democratic attacks against the author. [...] Stephanopoulos never appeared interested in the actual
substance of Schweizer's book, which alleges the Clinton Foundation took in millions of dollars in
donations in exchange for potential influence with the U.S. government and instead acted as a
Clinton defender.
NBC
Champions Children's Gender Confusion. On April 21 and 22, NBC ran a two-part series revolving around
"transgender" children that featured its correspondent Kate Snow interviewing Pediatrician Michelle Forcier,
associate professor of pediatrics at Brown University Alpert. Forcier was honored by "The Center for Sexual
Pleasure and Health" as its "Hump Day Hero," and who advocates early puberty interventions of kids who think they
should be the opposite sex.
Media
jump on reporter's ties to Sarah Palin, ignore a convicted felon's ties to Hillary Clinton. Establishment media are intensely
interested in Peter Schweizer's brief stint as an advisor to Sarah Palin after an advance tease from his forthcoming book suggested a fresh
scandal in the long career of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. But they are showing a nearly total disinterest in an
even more prominent newsmaker's connection to Clinton herself. After Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs executive currently
serving a two-year prison sentence for insider trading, lost his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday [4/20/2015], the press didn't
find it worth mentioning that the convicted felon is a longtime Clinton associate and donor.
CNN
and The Obama Agenda — A collaborative goal to work policy objectives through the media.
[Scroll down] These would seem like disconnected coincidences if we didn't know, with direct sourcing, that
CNN and the White House work in concert with each other both ideologically and specifically with a collaborative
goal to work policy objectives through the media. Most conservatives immediately respond with thoughts of
CNN's Candy Crowley supporting Obama during the CNN hosted 2012 presidential debate. Or you might reference
CNN's Fareed Zakaria who is also a key Obama foreign policy advisor.
Our
fawning press and Hillary Clinton's Iowa magical mystery tour. [E]verywhere Hillary
Clinton goes, now that her campaign is launched, an entire gaggle of reporters tags along. These
folks are there for a story. Hillary is giving them nothing — no policy pronouncements,
no big speeches, no off-the-cuff responses to shouted inquiries about pesky emails or foreign donations.
As a result, the press corps is sending along whatever news scraps they can pluck from the road trip, including: [...]
Clinton
Embroiled in Scandal Again, Newsweek Frets Over 'Enemies' Discrediting Her. [Scroll
down] The worst reading of this is that the media is hopelessly biased in favor of Democrats,
and to some latent degree actually buys into Hillary Clinton's famous assertion that there's a "vast
right-wing conspiracy" out to get her. The most favorable interpretation of this is that the
media is incapable of covering substantive facts in a straightforward manner, and always defaults to
petty horse race coverage of the presidential race. And there's always a possibility that
it's a little bit of both.
WashPost
Reporter Claims: 'The Media Isn't Biased in Favor of Hillary'. Washington Post
political reporter Chris Cillizza recently lectured Rand Paul not to play media critic. Now he's
decided conservative media critics as a whole have no argument in an article provocatively headlined
"No, the media isn't biased in favor of Hillary Clinton." There is no evidence for that charge, he
wrote, even as he acknowledged the embarrassing video of journalists chasing after the Scooby van.
NBC
Reporter to Rick Perry: Are you smart enough for the White House? It's becoming apparent that the public
would be better served if presidential candidates were interviewed not by reporters but by an algorithm that randomly
generates pearls of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom. [...] The latest example of the phenomenon in which liberal
clichés serve as a guiding philosophy comes to us courtesy of NBC News reporter Kasie Hunt.
The
Sham Candidacy of Hillary Clinton — and What It Means for the Republic. [T]he only reason an HRC
candidacy is even plausible is the influence of the legacy media, which has simply declared, by fiat, her suitability and
her inevitability. You may recall that the MSM did the same thing in the run-up to 2008, until their dreamboat, Obama,
came along and gave the aging Baby Boomers, who had dreamed of exactly this moment since 1968, a reason to push the female
candidate to the back of the bus in order to celebrate the only kind of "diversity" they advocate, which is racial.
Compare
and contrast: Same TV reporter approaches Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio. The following contrasting
videos should be enough to chill the bones of every Democrat sensibly worried about how good a candidate Hillary
Clinton will be. Dan Calabrese, of Herman Cain's CainTV.com website brings us the two videos of the same
TMZ reporter walking up to both candidates at an airport as they arrive.
Media Now Itself Leading Outrage Mobs Against Individual
Citizens. A random woman in Dallas expressed xer opinion that women did not have the
hormonal stability to be president. Which prompted a local Dallas news outfit to go after her,
similar to how we saw news stations go after Memories Pizza. We live in a period of fear,
darkness, cruelty, and stupidity. Andrew Stiles of the Free Beacon calls this a new low for
journalism. This latest stupidity from angry, truculent left-wing morons with cameras has
pretty much broken his spirit.
Video: The
dumbest news segment ever. [Scroll down] There are two explanations for this
segment being broadcast, which aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. One: There was absolutely
nothing of interest happening in Dallas-Fort Worth yesterday. (Possible, but unlikely.) Two:
Someone in CBS Dallas wants to paint all opposition to Hillary Clinton as kooky, bigoted, and possibly
evidence that religion makes people both of those. My hunch is that Option Two looks pretty
likely here. And my further hunch is that we'll see more of this ludicrous media focus on even
the smallest nuggets of anti-Hillary kookiness to exploit as a way to marginalize her opposition over
the next several months.
Questions
No Mainstream Media Hack Will Ever Ask Hillary. There are plenty of questions that
real journalists would ask Hillary, except she will never — ever — expose
herself to a real journalist. She will stay hidden and talk only to the select coterie of Democrat
transcriptionists who have distinguished themselves via sycophancy above and beyond the call of
duty. So we need to detonate the narrative by asking the tough questions ourselves.
It's sad that it has come to this, but the Clintons destroy everything they put their grubby hands
on, and the old idea of journalism is just one more casualty in their quest for power. Half
the mainstream media has worked for the Clintons, or is married to someone who did, and the other
half would happily do so.
WaPo:
It's Difficult to Sell Hillary as a Normal Person Because She's Just SO Awesome. At
first, [Chris] Cillizza gives the impression that he might be lampooning Team Clinton's approach.
The average American knows that it is difficult to sell Her Madameship as normal because she's a wealthy
snob who looks down on everyone and has a sense of entitlement that would make a British royal from the
17th Ccntury [sic] blush. This, however, is what is going on in the largely vacant space that is
the mind of the mainstream media.
Behold
the World's Lowest Bar! I've spent much of my life observing and writing about media
bias, so you'd think nothing could surprise me at this point. But the fawning, deferential
coverage of Hillary Clinton really is amazing.
Mediasplaining. Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president this week and
ran smack dab into the wall separating both Americas, via satellite on the "Today Show." While
being interrogated by TV host Savannah Guthrie, whose second husband is Democratic political operative
Michael Feldman, Paul objected to a leading question that could have been written by the Democratic
National Committee. [...] The journalism awards undoubtedly will flow to Guthrie for that interview,
but a candidate gets only one shot to launch a campaign. To his great credit, Paul did not play
the media's game.
Media
Fabricated Evidence to Smear GOP Three Times In One Day. As right-of-center New Media
grows stronger (and it is much stronger today than it was even in 2012), because the mainstream
media is in reality a propaganda outlet to empower central government and boost those who share that
goal, everyday this same mainstream media becomes more desperate and ugly. That's why the media
told serial-lies around Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, and religious freedom laws. And that's why on
Friday [4/10/2015], the media was caught on three occasions fabricating evidence to smear the GOP.
'Hitler
Made a Difference': The Liberal Gang Rape of Journalism. Rolling Stone magazine
perpetrated a hoax against the University of Virginia, doing "journalism" about an alleged gang rape
that evidently never happened. The source of the dramatic tale Rolling Stone published last
November, "A Rape on Campus," was a UVA student named Jackie who has been proven to be a liar. [...]
What better way to exploit the political "gender gap" than to claim that college girls are being
raped en masse, and then to suggest that the solution to this problem could be summarized in two
words: "VOTE DEMOCRAT!"
More
about the Rolling Stone.
Meet
The Press Panel Eagerly Hits GOP Over Religious Freedom Laws. On Sunday's [4/5/2015]
Meet the Press, an all liberal panel repeatedly took shots at the Republican Party over its
support for religious freedom laws with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report going so far
as to suggest that on the issue on the issue of gay marriage "if we took everybody over the age of
50, and just moved them out of this country, this wouldn't be an issue at all."
The Editor says...
Ms. Walter speaks like a true revolutionary: Get rid of everybody over 50, and then we
can make progress! Where do you suppose she would like to
move 100 million people?
See, the thing about people over age 50 is that eventually everybody passes 50, so there's a steady supply.
If Ms. Walter is looking for practical solutions, it would be far easier to deport
the 71,165 couples
in same-sex marriages. But of course she isn't speaking about concrete plans, she's engaging in
an emotional outburst with no basis in reality, like
so many liberals do.
NYTimes
Hypocrisy: It Denounces Corporate Speech in Citizens United, Cheers When Against Indiana. When the issue
was the Citizens United ruling and the resulting ability of corporations to directly spend money on political advertising,
well the Times worried about the supposed corrupting influence of the practice and the drowning out of the common man's
voice, which is not amplified by hordes of corporate cash. But fast-forward to this week and it's a far different story.
Mika:
Governor Mike Pence Must Be A Bigot, Because He 'Sounds Like' And 'Looks Like' One.
Host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Mika Brzezinski said it was fair to call Indiana Gov. Mike Pence a
bigot, because he "looks like" and "sounds like" one after his support for the Indiana Religious
Freedom Restoration Act. "These are firmly held beliefs that people have had for thousands
years," argued her co-host Joe Scarborough. "And you can call it bigotry if you want to. ..."
Nets
Devote 3x More Time to Indiana Law Than Hillary E-Mail Server Wipe. The stunning
revelation that Hillary Clinton wiped her personal e-mail server clean is the kind of political
cover-up that should have sent the networks into overdrive, except they had an even more important
agenda to advance: smearing an entire state and its Republican governor as anti-gay bigots.
From the morning of March 27 through March 30 evening the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks spent only
10 minutes and 15 seconds to the admission by Clinton's own attorney that her State Department e-mails
were wiped from the server that had been subpoenaed by Congress, but they devoted a whopping 35 minutes and
1 seconds [sic] to coverage of the Indiana religious freedom law.
NBC's
Ann Curry Compares Conservatives in U.S. to Skeptical Iranian Leaders Ahead of Deadline. While
reporting on Monday's [3/30/2015] NBC Nightly News with the latest from the Iranian side of the
international talks in Switzerland over their nuclear program, Ann Curry smeared U.S. conservatives by
likening them to radical hardliners in Iran's Islamic regime.
For
Hillary Clinton, Excellence In Servility From The Lapdog Media. At an "Excellence In
Journalism" gala, Hillary Clinton drew a standing ovation from the media's supposedly tough watchdogs.
Before that, they failed to ask tough questions at a presser. Just when does the lapdogging stop?
Harry
Reid, partisan brawler, gets pattycake treatment from the press. Harry Reid has just
pulled off a triple coup. He got to make his own retirement announcement without having it leak
in advance. He essentially got to anoint his successor. And despite years as a bare-knuckled
partisan warrior who makes incendiary comments about the other side, he's gotten a pretty nice media
sendoff. Usually when a 75-year-old lawmaker gets knocked out of the majority and then suffers a
terrible accident, there's all kinds of media speculation about whether he'll hang it up. But who
ever thought the Nevada Democrat would relinquish power voluntarily?
Americans
Support Nuclear Deal With Iran? Presumably, hardly any of those telephoned by the
pollsters realized that the objective of the agreement, assuming that Iran abides by it —
a laughable assumption — is to extend the time it will take Iran to build a bomb to one
year. Even assuming that objective could be achieved, which most experts do not believe, it would be
a small payoff for ending sanctions, which will entrench the mullahs' regime and increase the resources they
can devote to nuclear enrichment and ICBM development, which will not be addressed in the prospective deal.
Indianapolis
Star Front Page Scolds Religious Freedom Law. The Tuesday [3/31/2015] print edition of
the Indianapolis Star will devote its entire front page to Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration
Act (RFRA) — not a news article but an editorial attacking the measure.
Editing
Teddyworld: Some facts didn't make 'Institute' cut. When Ted Kennedy wrote his initial
account of Chappaquiddick for the Edgartown police in 1969, after he scrawled the words "Mary Jo" in
the first sentence he left a blank space — because he had no idea what his vi