Mr. Smith Goes To Washington: The Sequel? Jake Tapper is taking ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith’s flirtation with a presidential run seriously enough to have had him on Sunday’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union. Smith repeatedly described himself as a centrist and moderate who eschews the extremes….
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PBS Promotes Elie Mystal’s Rage: Immigration Laws Are Deeply Racist
One easy way to prove that PBS and NPR are like taxpayer-funded MSNBC is their promotion of radical ranter Elie Mystal of The Nation magazine. On Amanpour & Co. on Friday, Hari Sreenivasan tossed softballs at Mystal for 17 minutes over his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular…
New York Magazine Frames John Fetterman Going Maverick as Due to Health Issues
Remember all the praise that the media heaped on John McCain and other Republicans who veered away from some of the conservative policies of their party? They were hailed as “mavericks.” Notice how no such label is ever applied by the media for Democrats who stray from the…
‘Luigi The Musical’ Praises United Healthcare CEO’s Killer As ‘Folk Hero’
Murdering a father in cold blood not only gets you rewarded with nearly $1 million fundraised by a fan base of shrieking 20-year-old women, but you’ll also get your own musical! San Francisco’s leftist theatre types are performing a “comedy” that lionizes Luigi Mangione as a “folk hero” for shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO…
NY Times: ‘Chilling Parallels’ Between Third Reich and Trump’s Second Term
David Segal, a feature writer for the New York Times, interviewed German-born novelist Daniel Kehlmann, who “sees chilling parallels between what happened [under Hitler] and what has unfolded since Trump’s second inauguration.” The “Republican president = Hitler” smear has been a tired and offensive liberal trope since the…
‘Malaise!’ MSNBC Star Nicolle Wallace Tries to Pin The Jimmy Carter Card On Trump
Jimmy Carter might be gone. But thanks to the efforts of MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, “malaise”—the word most associated with Carter’s failed presidency—lives on. But now, of course, slapped on President Trump. Wallace did her best to recycle the m-word on Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, which…
The New York Times War On Democracy
Journalists aren’t supposed to make things up. Unless, of course, you’re the New York Times Editorial Board. The other day the “Paper of Record” ran an editorial titled: There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab This jewel of distortion says, among other things, this, bold print…
CNN’s Cooper Claims Black Trump Voters Were Influenced by Online ‘Misinformation’
On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN showed a pre-recorded report highlighting liberal contributor Van Jones speaking with three black voters who switched from voting Democrat to voting for Donald Trump. But, toward the end of the segment, as host Cooper spoke live with Jones about the piece, the…
Ex-NPR Anchor Says Trump Opposes PBS/NPR Because He Can’t Stand ‘Independence’
On Friday’s episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump’s executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. They couldn’t actually delve into the evidence of Harvard hating Jews or the incessant…
NewsBusters Podcast: PBS & NPR Get DEFUNDED Via Trump Executive Order
It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored…