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PBS Brings Tar and Feathers for William F. Buckley
In the earlier decades of the Public Broadcasting Service, conservatives could feel that they had some fraction of a platform on William F. Buckley Jr.'s "Firing Line." That PBS presence no doubt spurred the makers of the "American Masters" series to offer a two-hour program titled "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley." In the opening credits, they ...Read more
PBS 'News' Hounds OK With Biden's Inflammatory Rhetoric! While Criticizing Trump's!
They call themselves the "PBS NewsHour," but if you watch them routinely, you might call them the "PBS Opposition Research Hour." They often sound like a Democrat consulting firm as they analyze Donald Trump as a dangerously extreme figure. Then they can turn around and proclaim that President Joe Biden is very bipartisan in negotiating "...Read more
Journalists Boast They're Not for Democrats, They're for 'True Facts'
National Public Radio may be funded by taxpayer dollars, but its audience is firmly on the Left. It's literally New York Times Radio, as "The Daily" podcast from the Times airs on almost 300 NPR stations every weekday. Inside this airless liberal silo, they can grow very arrogant about how they save democracy.
On April Fools' Day, host ...Read more
Jon Stewart, the Tribeca Trickster of Real Estate
On March 25, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart uncorked a typical not-so-funny sermon about how Donald Trump overvaluing real estate properties was not a "victimless crime." Trump has been found liable for fraud despite no banker or financier ever claiming Trump victimized them.
Then the New York Post reported talk show host Tim Pool tweeted that ...Read more
Hyperbolic MSNBC's Ronna McDaniel Debacle
The word broke on March 26 that NBC News was reversing its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as a political commentator. MSNBC hosts across the schedule broke out into frenzied denunciations of whichever executive who thought that McDaniel should be paid to speak anywhere on this hypnotically/robotically anti-Trump ...Read more
Media Go AWOL on Holding the Bidens Accountable!
For the first two years of Joe Biden's presidency, the partisan Democrats of our "legacy media" treated the Pelosi-Picked Panel on Jan. 6 as a dominant story, worthy of hundreds of hours of television coverage, both live coverage of the hearings and breathless cycles of previews and reviews. Once Republicans took over the House, would we have ...Read more
CNN Rips Elon Musk, Sinking Into the 'Right-Wing Fever Swamps'
Everything CNN does now underlines how Chris Licht's doomed attempts to calm it down are almost completely forgotten. On Sept. 18, Oliver Darcy's "Reliable Sources" newsletter was topped by the headline "Elon's Reality Escape." Because CNN defines what "reality" is, and "reality" has a virulent leftist bias. That bias makes you "reliable."
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Liberal Media Wants to Keep a Lid on Robert Hur!
"Both sides furious" was one reporter's summary when special counsel Robert Hur testified in a congressional hearing to explain his decision not to prosecute President Joe Biden for willfully retaining classified documents, not just from his vice-presidential years but from his Senate career.
The network TV stories that night were the closest ...Read more
Liberal Media Scowl at the Conservative 'Mandate!'
The Heritage Foundation has been issuing its doorstop-length "Mandate for Leadership" books since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. But this is the first one that has inflamed The New York Times into painting it as a manual for autocracy.
On the March 8 edition of PBS's "Washington Week With The Atlantic," moderator Jeffrey "Obama Is Awesome" ...Read more
AP 'Fact Focus' Elastically Redefines Terms to Defend Biden!
Reading the "fact-checkers" in the press sometimes triggers memories of the comic book hero Plastic Man, who could contort into all sorts of shapes. Take the Associated Press, and immigration reporter Elliot Spagat in San Diego.
The headline was "Fact Focus: Claims Biden administration is secretly flying migrants into the country are unfounded....Read more
Democracy-Denying Democrats are Losers in Court!
The pro-Biden media perpetually pat themselves on the back. They are a gift to the people, the essence of democracy, as in, "We inform the voters and then we expect the voters to make smart choices" (the ones we recommend). But when journalists lose, they have a disturbing tendency to argue democracy lost.
On March 4, the Supreme Court ...Read more
Soft-Soaping the 'Uncommitted' Voters Who Back Hamas
Republicans could be pleased to see the left-wing media underlining how President Joe Biden was embarrassed in Michigan by a rebellious campaign to vote "uncommitted" in the Michigan primary, protesting Biden's support for Israel in its war against Hamas terrorists. But one can't be pleased with how these activists are classified.
You can tell ...Read more
Joy Reid's Tacky TikTok Talk!
In case you just can't get enough of Joy Reid for an hour each weeknight on MSNBC, you can catch her sharing her wild and loose opinions on TikTok. Recently, she pounced on remarks by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) supporting the Alabama court decision that frozen embryos are children, because "we need more kids."
Our fertility rate in America ...Read more
It's Time the Legacy Media Paid Attention to Ben Schreckinger and Investigates the President's Brother, James Biden!
Politico is a member in good standing of the "establishment media." Its journalists rotate in and out, to and from other pro-Biden outlets. But when Politico has a reporter who delves into the Biden family influence-peddling business, you can expect that work to be ignored routinely.
Ben Schreckinger authored a book in the fall of 2021 titled "...Read more
Radicals at National Public Radio Must Be Deprogrammed!
One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow, championing "social change" is what makes you a "bona fide news organization." Anyone who resists that siren song isn't a professional, but a propagandist. One-sided coverage is great -- if you've picked the right side.
On Feb. 19, National Public Radio displayed this fiction ...Read more
The Liberal Media Bubble Is Thick on How to Cover Campaign 2024!
Whenever you set up a liberal journalist or panel of liberal journalists to address "the role of the media in the 2024 election," it's going to reflect the questions inside their bubble, so it's mostly about Donald Trump. How does he get away with so much? How does he gain advantage from 91 felony indictments? Can we cover his speeches live? Do ...Read more
PolitiFact Celebrates Checking Trump 1,000 Times
Never call PolitiFact an "independent fact-checker." They are every bit as liberal and biased as their fans in the liberal media. Recently, they announced they had published their 1,000th "fact-check" of Donald Trump.
"American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump's disregard for factual accuracy," they proclaimed....Read more
Biden Must Be Hidden From an Apathetic Press!
The overlong Super Bowl pregame festivities will once again unfold without an interview with President Joe Biden. Pundits are asking: Why would Biden forgo this massive audience as he runs for reelection? It's not like CBS would pound him with hardballs. Scott Pelley is about as tough as a Biden granddaughter. Gayle King vacationed with the ...Read more
It's Bigoted to Locate America's 'Jihad Capital'!
The Wall Street Journal opinion section drew a pile of angry tweets when it ran an article by Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute. They fixated on the headline and didn't seem to read the article below.
The headline was "Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital: Imams and politicians in the ...Read more
Democrats Seriously Hate Third-Party 'Spoilers'!
Gail Collins is a partisan Democrat columnist for The New York Times. How partisan? From 2007 through Election Day 2020, she wrote 58 columns that included the story that Mitt Romney put his Irish setter on the roof of his car in a luggage crate on a family vacation trip to Canada. She's so partisan that when Barack Obama won the presidency in ...Read more