2026: The Media Struggles with Socialism and 'Progressive Credentials'

There they go again. Over there at Fox News is this telling headline.

Jeffrey Lord

Bash Paints Texas Senate Race As 'Ethical Issues' vs. 'Christian'

CNN anchor Dana Bash joined HBO host Bill Maher on Friday’s edition of Real Time to analyze the state of the midterms. At one point, Bash portrayed the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico as one between someone who has “ethical issues” and one who is a “Christian” who “wears his faith on his sleeve.”

Alex Christy

Capehart Denounces Efforts To Tie DSA Senate Candidate To The DSA

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly news recap segment with The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks. During the part of the discussion about DSA candidate Angie Nixon winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, Capehart insisted that you can’t actually claim Nixon is a DSA candidate and therefore tie her to the DSA’s recent…

Alex Christy

Pop Star Ariana Grande Protests Trump Using Song in 'Anti-Trans Post'

HuffPost reports that pop princess Ariana Grande is objecting again to the Trump team using her music. Grande "had a blunt message for the president after Donald Trump’s team used her music in an anti-trans post."

Tim Graham

O’Donnell’s ‘Favorite New Book’ Dreams of Future ‘National Divorce'

On Wednesday night, MS NOW’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell continued the network's promotion of the novel The Breakup, a futuristic book set 20 years into the future after a civil war and “national divorce.” O’Donnell called the book his “favorite new book” as he told fellow MS NOW host Jen Psaki details of the novel, including former Transportation Secretary Pete…

Nicholas Spinnato

CBS Frets Over Deportations to Africa, Changes at Pentagon Newspaper

On Friday, CBS once again proved it had not taken a ‘MAGA’ turn under new ownership with two unique stories to hit the Trump administration on CBS Evening News.

Nicholas Spinnato

CNN's Garcia-Navarro: Trump-Melania Marriage 'Very Transactional'

On Friday’s CNN This Morning, contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, formerly of NPR, offered a very confident assessment of the first couple’s private life, suggesting that everyone knows it's "very transactional." Who made her the Melania expert? 

Mark Finkelstein

Ken Paxton, Daughter Wear XX-XY Shirts to WNBA Game Without Incident

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his daughter Mattie wore matching XX-XY shirts in support of protecting women’s sports to a WNBA game Thursday – but, unlike other ticketholders who have done the same, they weren’t accosted by anyone connected to the pro-transgender athlete league.

Craig Bannister

NY Times Loses Defamation Case, Jury Awards $9 Million in Damages

The streak is over. For the first time in more than 50 years, The New York Times has lost a defamation suit. In a 2023 report by Times sports writer Billy Witz, the newspaper claimed Kai Spears, then an 18-year-old freshman basketball player for the University of Alabama, was falsely linked to the scene of a fatal shooting.

Tim Graham

Amanpour On The Aftermath Of Spain's Migrant Crisis: 'Very Tricky One'

Some things in politics truly are complicated and require some nuance, but others are actually rather simple. For instance, when the population of a town nearly doubles overnight because of a mass swarm of illegal immigrants, the only rationale response is to send them back. However, PBS/CNN host Christiane Amanpour declared on her Thursday The Ex Files podcast that the aftermath of…

Alex Christy

Grow Up! More Leaks to Darcy Hit ’60 Minutes’ Ahead of Premiere

Status’s Oliver Darcy uncorked more tiresome, whiny laments Thursday night about the state of CBS’s 60 Minutes ahead of season 59’s September 13 premiere – helmed by new boss Nick Bilton – with one anonymous staffer telling him the state of preparations as so far behind it’s become a “five-alarm fire.”

Curtis Houck

On Fox, Hugh Hewitt Explodes At Democrat For Repeating Ossoff 'Lies'

Ever since Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff took a gratuitous shot at White House aide Natalie Harp during a campaign rally in Atlanta last weekend, implying that the relationship she has with President Trump is more than just business, the left wing media has been having a field day with the story. This led to some tense moments Thursday on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier.…

Steve Malzberg

DHS Vows to Arrest, Remove Convicted Illegal If He's Released in Va.

An illegal alien convicted of sexually assaulting nine girls in the halls of a Fairfax, Virginia high school received a reduced sentence is set to be released on September 3 and returned to the very school where he committed his crimes, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has other plans for him.

Craig Bannister

Apple, Google Push Media that Haven’t Backed a Republican in 36 Years

Between 1988 and 2024, the top five outlets promoted by Apple News and Google News that endorse candidates issued 31 presidential endorsements, and 100% went to Democrats. A Media Research Center (MRC) study analyzed the historical endorsement records of the platforms' default feeds and found that not a single top-promoted outlet has backed a Republican candidate in the last ten elections.

Catherine Mortensen