NB Podcast

Ron DeSantis is Public Enemy #1 on the left-wing TV networks, as he stands falsely accused of ending the teaching of slavery. On The Reidout, MSNBC guest host Jason Johnson said DeSantis can't successfully run for president from Florida, which is seen as the state of "crystal meth and alligators." Someone confusing actual Florida with an episode of Miami Vice? 

Are "embattled" anchor Don Lemon's days at CNN numbered? The New York Post reported top executives were meeting to discuss his future after rude remarks about Nikki Haley being past her "prime." Then they reported Lemon has "zero defenders" left at CNN.

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announced her presidential campaign with a video defending America and attacking the Left. Some think are founding principles are bad, they say the promise of freedom is just made up.” Over images of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and an MSNBC video segment about the "1619 Project," Haley objected to the notion that America hasn't overcome systemic racism…

A study by NewsBusters found that after an original burst of coverage, ABC, CBS and NBC stopped covering the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals near Youngstown, Ohio around February 8, once the EPA and railroad officials said it was safe. In the last 24 hours, the networks have returned the story.

Journalists at CNN and NPR expressed happiness that President Biden spurned any Super Bowl interview with Fox News. Days before those "failed negotiations," Biden received a warm and open-ended interview with the liberals at PBS NewsHour. It washis first interview with a journalist since before the midterm elections. 

With Executive Editor Tim Graham off celebrating his birthday, Deputy Managing Editor Nick Fondacaro and I returned to hold down the fort and, even leaving aside the State of the Union, the world was our oyster with content. Of course, The View was a major topic with their cockamamie and erroneous claims that conservatives such as Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) want to ban the teaching…

Network anchors claimed President Biden's State of the Union speech was an appeal to unity, which may have been true in small snippets. But as a whole, Biden was a trash-talking partisan, uncorking lies about Republicans phasing out Social Security and so on. Curtis Houck joins the show to explore just how boosterish the networks stars were in the speech's aftermath.

As the House Republicans prepare for their first oversight hearing on Joe Biden and his dissolute lobbyist son Hunter, MRC's Geoff Dickens reports that ABC, CBS, and NBC are still energetically avoiding scandalous new developments in the Joe-and-Hunter story.

As the House voted to remove far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the bluest media (like 'Morning Joe') said they would stand proudly with Omar and against GOP "hypocrisy." Benjamin Weingarten wrote a book on Omar and explains the whole scene.

The media are not trusted. They're not popular. Now, they're not very profitable. The anti-Trump business model is failing, and CNN's ratings are cratering. Last week, they had the worst ratings in nine years, drawing under 450,000 viewers in prime time, while Fox News had over 2 million. 

Tom Jones, a liberal analyst at the Poynter Institute, praised CBS's Margaret Brennan and NBC's Chuck Todd for aggressively taking on (respectively) Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan. But McCarthy and Jordan gave as good as they got, exposing the Sunday hosts as the Democrats that they are.

After two mass shootings in California, ABC's The View crew is back in gun-hating mode, and Joy Behar said America needs to "grow up" about guns. “There’s like a mental illness going on in the country that has to be stopped immediately.”

Conservative Twitter buzzed about Speaker McCarthy letting a PBS reporter have it about Adam Schiff, and the "independent fact checkers" like Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post and CNN's Daniel Dale are demonstrating again that they tilt their targeting at Republicans.

Friday's annual March for Life drew some assorted news stories (not from ABC). MRCTV's Tierin-Rose Mandelburg joins the show to discuss her video from the protest scene, and how pro-abortion people struggled with her questions. Also: NBC's Chuck Todd mangles facts in his memory of the Monica Lewinsky affair 25 years ago.