Ed Morrissey at Hot Air passed along some encouraging news today from the ratings, under the heading “Implosion: MSNBC Still Cratering With New Line-Up — And CNN’s Not Far Behind.” Somehow, vigilantly anti-Trump programming isn’t a ratings dynamo in the second term. Activists on the Left think the…
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PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Label Johnson ‘False’ On SNAP Reforms
On Sunday, Speaker Mike Johnson gave CBS’s Margaret Brennan what many considered to be a much-needed education on the House’s Big Beautiful Bill’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reforms. However, on Thursday, PolitiFact’s Loreben Tuquero asserted that it was Johnson who was the “false” one, although she had to…
On Morning Joe, Liberal MSNBC Sports Guy Denies Harvard Is ‘Hotbed of Liberalism’
On today’s Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor regular Pablo Torre, a Harvard alum who comments on sports and politics, denied that Harvard is “merely a hotbed of liberalism.” Torre’s one bit of evidence in support of his claim was that the basic economics course at Harvard used to be…
Column: CBS Is Tortured by Trump, Put Their Rage Into ’60 Minutes’
CBS News thinks the crown jewel of its news division is 60 Minutes, the alleged gold standard of investigative journalism on television. But when it comes to politics, their coverage isn’t just slanted. It’s more like a wrecked bus laying on its side, wheels spinning in the air….
MSNBC Sees Red: Harvard Crackdown Dubbed ‘Apparatchik’
On Tuesday night, Chris Hayes found himself more closely resembling a conspiracy theorist than a journalist during his show, All In with Chris Hayes. Hayes, leaving out critical context around the federal decision to stop government funding from Harvard University, compared Trump to a communist Apparatchik, that is, someone who was blindly…
When the Corporate Media Diagnosed Trump with Everything from Alzheimer’s to Heart Disease
Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper suggested that the media’s previous refusal to entertain questions about former President Biden’s cognitive or physical health was a result of routine journalistic “politeness.” That’s been the story among the corporate media for some time: that journalists just “missed” the signs that Biden…
MSNBC Says Ill 4-Year-Old Is Being Deported By Trump? Here’s The Facts
On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s All In ran a story about an ill 4-year-old named Sofia, who was supposedly being heartlessly forced out of the country by the Trump administration without recourse. The suffering of this child was deeply saddening, but the story omitted extremely key information. MSNBC was…
It’s Back! Censorship Beginning with an ‘R’ Instead of a ‘D’ This Time
“The Kids Online Safety Act is back” read multiple headlines as a “bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced” the bill May 14 with a subtle change in hopes that the legislation — which thankfully flatlined in the U.S. House after it passed 91-3 in the U.S. Senate — will…
PolitiFact Flags Trump as ‘FALSE’ for Wanting More Info on Foreign Students at Harvard
PolitiFact threw another “False” flag on their mountain of 1,095 Donald Trump “fact checks” on Wednesday. The dispute was whether Harvard gave the Department of Homeland Security the information they requested on their foreign students. They cited a recent press gaggle with the president: “Part of the problem…
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES: CNN Cries the World is Set for Climate Doom … in Five Years
CNN is whipping out an exhausted climate doom mongering tactic: It’s the end of the world, but we won’t see it for a number of years! Yeah, because Americans haven’t heard that one before right? CNN climate and weather senior reporter Andrew Freedman harped on the idea that…