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‘Just Let it Rip’: CNN's Still Trying to Force‑Feed Kamala to Us

August 3rd, 2025 6:30 AM

CNN tried rebranding former Vice President Kamala Harris about as smoothly as your friend trying to set you up with a girl who’s got a “great personality.” On Friday afternoon’s broadcast of Inside Politics, the commentary bordered on full-on myth-making. Chief domestic affairs correspondent Phil Mattingly was upbeat that Harris could finally be herself, while lamenting was just under…

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MSNBC's Jansing Lets Michael Mann Complain About Trump Deregulation

August 3rd, 2025 5:56 AM

On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC host Chris Jansing provided a forum to liberal environmental activist Michael Mann to complain about the latest deregulation moves by the Donald Trump administration. She was also so eager to link earthquakes to global warming by hyping recent studies that even Professor Mann cautioned her against buying into it.

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Olbermann Literally Pretends To Be Obama, Calls for Totalitarianism

August 2nd, 2025 8:47 PM

On July 24, 2025, Keith Olbermann demanded on his podcast, Countdown, that Barack Obama deliver a national address. He then proceeded to read this speech which he had written as Obama, which called for a government coup and that a $500 billion lawsuit be brought against President Trump. All while literally pretending to be Obama and voicing these lines as if he were the former…

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MSNBC Melts Down After CPB Shut Down Announcement

August 2nd, 2025 2:00 PM

On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.

Legacy Media Journos Enter Final Stage of Colbert Grief

August 2nd, 2025 1:30 PM

That was fast. The Legacy Media circled the wagons to tell us “The Late Show’s” cancellation was, in no particular order:

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'Not a Nothing Burger': Maher Tries To Cling to Mueller Report

August 2nd, 2025 11:40 AM

HBO’s Bill Maher returned to Real Time after more than a month off on Friday and, against the backdrop of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claiming that assessments that Vladimir Putin preferred Donald Trump to win in 2016 were false and politicized, tried desperately to cling to the Mueller Probe, insisting there was something there.

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'Why Have People Not Risen Up?': Brooks Praises Harris on Colbert Show

August 2nd, 2025 9:48 AM

New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of Friday’s PBS News Hour’s weekly news recap, David Brooks, praised former Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent interview with Stephen Colbert and agreed with her that “civic capitulation” to President Trump is “a real thing.” Meanwhile, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart explained he quit his job at The Washington…

NPR’s Morning Edition Does Democrats’ Positive Rebranding for Them

August 2nd, 2025 6:53 AM

On NPR’s Morning Edition Thursday, host Steve Inskeep, alongside reporter Stephen Fowler, discussed what the future of the Democratic Party would look like following an interview with Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. It should come as no surprise that Inskeep, who hosted the softball interview, was all in on the idea that Democrats need to rebrand before the…

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Fox News Highlights Illegal Who Killed Teens After Not Being Deported

August 2nd, 2025 5:26 AM

Earlier in the week, Fox News gave coverage to a classic example of why illegal aliens with criminal records should be deported instead of being protected by sanctuary jurisdictions.

MSNBC on DOJ Investigation Into George Mason Missing Key Facts

August 1st, 2025 2:39 PM

Author and commentator Paul Waldman wrote an article for MSNBC on Wednesday describing a recent Department of Justice investigation into George Mason University's DEI practices. He described the investigation as an “attack” and "politicization of justice.” Waldman’s hypocrisy and omission of key facts of the issue portrayed a false crusade of injustice by President Trump’s DOJ.

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ABC, CBS, NBC Hit the Mute Button on Declassification of Durham Annex

August 1st, 2025 1:28 PM

On Thursday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made headlines by declassifying the appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the Russia Collusion Hoax, a document loaded with bombshells. But contrary to their years of pushing the hoax, the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, tapped the mute button on their remotes and pretended like it wasn’t something that…

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90 Percent of Jon Stewart's Podcast Guests Have Been Liberals

August 1st, 2025 1:11 PM

We here at the Media Research Center have been counting the guests that appear on the late night comedy programs since September 2022, and The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is not a fan. On Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show Thursday podcast, Stewart went on an expletive-laden rant against Fox News for citing those studies, so we did the only natural thing we could think of in…

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POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

August 1st, 2025 10:00 AM

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Colbert Invites Harris To Say 'I Told You So' About 'Barbarian' Trump

August 1st, 2025 9:41 AM

The last time CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to The Late Show, the two had a grand old time drinking beers and looking forward to her presidency. On Thursday, the mood was very different. Harris is now a failed presidential candidate, and Colbert is an outgoing host, but for the next ten months, he is still the host of Late Night DNC, and therefore…