Kabul Karen: Joy Reid’s Three Nights of Spin for Biden on Afghanistan
All week, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid has shilled for the Biden administration amidst the embarrassing and deadly collapse of Afghanistan that’s trapped thousands of Americans and Afghan allies. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Reid’s spin ranged from arguing this was what the American people wanted to blaming Donald Trump for the calamity to denouncing Afghans and the U.S.…
ABC Grills Biden on Misleading Americans on Afghan Withdrawal Chaos
President Biden’s Afghanistan disaster was so eclipsing that it was forcing the media to actually do some real journalism for a change. And during an exclusive interview with Biden on Wednesday, ABC’s normally partisan chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos grilled him on how he had misled the American people on how smoothly the withdrawal would go and how fast the Afghan military and political…
DESPERATE NY Times Tries to Smear Larry Elder, Save Floundering Newsom
New York Times reporters Shawn Hubler and Jill Cowan covered the upcoming gubernatorial recall vote in California, a race which polls suggest is a dead heat, and tried to help sitting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom by smearing the idea of the recall and his leading conservative opponent, black conservative talk show host Larry Elder. Newsom is suffering a backlash fueled by his harmful…
NBC Profiles U.S. Afghanistan Vets Taking Over Where Biden Failed
Amid the Biden administration’s catastrophic abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban, on Wednesday, NBC’s Today show profiled U.S. military veterans trying to make up for White House failures by taking it upon themselves to rescue Afhgan allies still trapped in the country. The brave soldiers talked about being racked by feelings of guilt in the wake of the President’s disastrous…
Latino Media SILENT as 54% of California Latinos SUPPORT Newsom Recall
Hispanics in California are the only racial group in favor of recalling (54%) Democrat governor Gavin Newsom, per the most recent Emerson/Nexstar poll. But this new data may come as a shock to viewers of the nation´s Spanish-speaking media, which has gone silent on the recall after initially boosting Newsom and pushing his campaign talking points.
WATCH as Even Gayle King Mocks Biden Happy Talk: Trust the Taliban?
The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is so bad that, day after day, some prominent mainstream journalists are having trouble parroting the White House’s talking points. Yesterday, Chuck Todd hammered Joe Biden for losing his “competency” card. On Wednesday, reliably liberal Gayle King grilled Biden’s U.N ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on the ridiculousness of trusting the Taliban.
Cuomo, Lemon Fantasize About Beating up Maskless Guy on the Subway
CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo was known for being the network’s faux tough guy; threatening to throw Trump supporters down flights of stairs and glorifying Antifa violence. But on Tuesday, Don Lemon tried his hand at the tough guy routine by suggesting he would “throw hands” with a maskless guy on the New York City subway.
CBS Skips Own Reporter Grilling WH on Saving Americans in Afghanistan
If a news outlet got a Republican administration to hint they didn’t plan to ensure every American got out of a collapsed country run by terrorists safely, it would be the headline of the day. But that wasn’t the case for CBS Evening News on Tuesday after White House correspondent Weijia Jiang grilled national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the issue;…
CNN Historian: Afghan Airport Disaster to Become a 'Symbol of Hope'?
Plenty have people have compared the current situation in Kabul to Saigon in 1975, but on Tuesday, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley became probably the first to suggest that may not be all bad. For Brinkley, the fact that people are scrambling to get onboard or hanging off the exteriors of C-17s might, one day, lead to them being seen as symbols of hope.
McMaster Blows Up CBS’s ‘False Narrative’ About Afghanistan
Appearing on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, retired general and former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster not only blasted President Biden’s disastrous decision to recklessly surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban but completely blew up the broadcast network’s “false narrative” that the Afghan people wanted the U.S. out.
Even Chuck Todd Worries: Biden Lost His 'Competency' Card
What happens to Joe Biden if he loses even Democratic stalwarts like Chuck Todd? The liberal Meet the Press host will assuredly switch back to propping up the President. But, for Tuesday at least, he said the quiet part loud and admitted that Biden has lost his so-called “competency” card.a
NBC's Engel Blasts Biden: 100 Times Worse than Saigon
In all my many years of blogging MSM outbursts against Republican presidents, I've never seen anyone angrier Richard Engel about Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. Well, there was Keith Olbermann. But for present purposes, let's leave aside the clinically disturbed. In a piece with which Morning Joe opened today's show, Engel absolutely unleashed on the Biden administration. Rolling heartbreaking…
The Save Biden Project: CBS Helps ‘Defiant’ Prez ‘Explain' Debacle
Less than 24 hours after the networks savaged Joe Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan, CBS on Tuesday switched into spin mode, touting the “defiant” President and ignoring ominous polling for the Democrat. CBS This Morning reporter Ed O’Keefe mostly repeated talking points from Biden’s blame-everyone-else speech on Monday: “President Biden defiantly defended his position defiantly to pull…
Late Night Cowards Blame Trump for Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe
While the networks abandoned President Biden yesterday after his botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the late-night shows still had his back. Liberal hacks Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert used their supposed comedy shows to defend Biden by blaming the debacle on President Trump instead.