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Boos and Hisses for the Kansas City Kicker!
On May 11, Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker gave the commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas. Within 48 hours, the media elites were ablaze with outrage. There's a "growing uproar," warned NBC's Hoda Kotb.
A Catholic speaker talked about Catholic issues to Catholic graduates. But the Butker critics...Read more
Hillary Clinton's Conspiracy Privilege
It's hard to watch the incessant gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Donald Trump trial in Manhattan without feeling like you're traveling in a time warp back to 2016. We're back reliving the "Access Hollywood" tape and talk of how Trump would have never been elected except porn star Stormy Daniels accepted a six-figure check to keep quiet.
The ...Read more
CNN Deploys a 'Fact-Checker' for Trump, But Not For Biden!
On May 8, President Joe Biden took the very unusual step of submitting to an interviewer who was an actual journalist (not like Howard Stern or Drew Barrymore). It wouldn't be long before he started mangling his record -- and Donald Trump's.
CNN reporter Erin Burnett began with how Trump's promises of new jobs in Wisconsin didn't come true: "...Read more
PolitiFact Shames Talk of 'Outside Agitators' in College Protests!
You can tell when the PolitiFact website is going to negotiate around the facts. On May 7, their top headline on the home page asked: "Are 'outside agitators' co-opting campus protests?"
This isn't quite the right question. The media have presented these events as "student" protests, so if half the participants aren't college students, how ...Read more
The Public Doesn't Trust the 'Democracy-Saving' Media!
The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy?
The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14% of their sample expressed "a great deal of confidence in ...Read more
White House Correspondents Host a Biden Rally!
It was remarkable breaking news, occurring live on CNN. The White House Correspondents' Association hosted a dinner, and a Biden for President rally broke out.
It's only natural that CNN loves live coverage of the White House correspondents' dinner, where the anti-Trump media celebrate themselves for how essential they are to preserving ...Read more
Leftist Reporters Pretend They're Not Partisan News Squashers!
Eight years ago, the leftist media took great offense to being dismissed by Donald Trump as "fake news," but they never seemed to grasp this is exactly how they painted the conservative media, as truth-defying propaganda outlets.
When the Trump trial turned to the National Enquirer, we could find national unity that the Enquirer defines "fake ...Read more
Anti-Censorship Group Canceled by Pro-Hamas Authors!
The leftist "free expression" group PEN America collided with a brick wall of radicals who don't like anyone who expresses a sympathetic view of Israel after the Hamas slaughter of Oct. 7. Their literary awards ceremony had to be canceled due to a substantial withdrawal of authors striking a "pro-Palestinian" pose.
If you disagree with that ...Read more
Do Celebrities Have Deeper Liberal Thoughts?
When Laura Ingraham wrote her book "Shut Up and Sing" in 2003, the Left didn't read the book as much as overreact to the title. The title implied something important. While celebrities gain a "platform" they feel compelled to use, do their opinions reflect any expertise? Or is fame more important than logic?
Celebrities often lead with emotion ...Read more
Innskeep Lamely Swats at Suspended Dissident!
National Public Radio senior editor Uri Berliner has been suspended for his unauthorized critique of the insular liberal bias of his network. NPR star and "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep took to his Substack blog to slam Berliner's article as "filled with errors and omissions."
"His colleagues have had a rich dialogue about his mistakes," ...Read more
'Public' Radio Isn't Dedicated to the Masses!
Is National Public Radio fair and balanced? Do they care what you think?
NPR has a "public editor" to monitor listener complaints and concerns, but as we all know, the majority of their listeners are going to complain they're not "progressive" enough. In 2021, Public Editor Kelly McBride appeared on Brian Stelter's CNN podcast to praise NPR's ...Read more
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