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Top Stories:
- 2025: The View Chatted Politics with 128 Lib Guests, 2 Conservatives*
- 2025: Late night takes hard left turn — with 7K Trump jokes, and gags targeting conservatives up 92%
- FAMILY FEUD: '60 Minutes' Leftists Wage Internal War on Bari Weiss Applying Brakes
- The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year
Overwhelming Liberal Guest Dominance: In 2025, ABC's The View featured a staggering 128 liberal guests—including Democratic politicians like Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Chuck Schumer—compared to just 2 conservatives, highlighting a blatant partisan imbalance out of 348 total guests.
Controversial Conservative Appearances and Rejections: The show's only conservative guests, Cheryl Hines and Marjorie Taylor Greene, faced hostility, with hosts like Joy Behar dismissing potential right-leaning invitees as not meeting a "certain caliber" or fearing pushback, while evidence shows ignored requests from conservatives like Vivek Ramaswamy and rejected bookings.
Platform for Democratic Promotion: The View served as a promotional echo chamber for liberals, allowing figures like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to hawk books and GLAAD's Sarah Kate Ellis to present awards, with a mid-year 75% drop in liberal guests following a NewsBusters study exposing the bias.
- 2025: Late night takes hard left turn — with 7K Trump jokes, and gags targeting conservatives up 92%
Escalating Anti-Conservative Bias in Jokes: In 2025, late-night shows directed 92% of political jokes at conservatives and Trump—a 10% increase from the prior year—with over 7,000 jokes targeting Trump alone (up from 5,980), turning comedy into a one-sided assault on the right.
Extreme Guest Imbalance as Echo Chamber: Liberal guests outnumbered conservatives nearly 100-to-1 (197 to 2 across major shows like Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, and The Daily Show), reinforcing an elitist media bubble that excludes dissenting voices and fuels partisan division.
Radical Hosts Leading the Charge: Jimmy Kimmel stood out as the most partisan, with 97% of his political jokes mocking the right (including vicious personal attacks on Trump's cabinet), while shows actively campaigned for left-wing figures like NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, abandoning any pretense of neutral entertainment.
Internal Leftist Rebellion at CBS: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi leaked a fiery internal memo accusing Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of making a "political" decision to spike a critical segment on El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison—where the Trump administration deported illegal migrants—claiming it was fully vetted and factually sound, exposing deep divisions among CBS leftists over anti-Trump reporting.
Hypocrisy in Journalistic Standards: Alfonsi decried Weiss's requirement for a Trump administration response as handing them a "kill switch" for inconvenient stories, turning journalists into "stenographers for the state"—yet the post highlights 60 Minutes' history of one-sided hit pieces (like on Ron DeSantis) and soft profiles (like David Hogg), while boasting no interference when it suits their narrative.
Setback for Anti-Trump Crusade: The feud, discussed openly on CBS Mornings and amplified by a deleted teaser, marks an embarrassing brake on 60 Minutes' aggressive anti-Trump efforts, with Weiss's intervention preventing what was framed as an exposé on a "torture prison," revealing how even internal "brakes" disrupt the network's partisan momentum.
Liberal media figures exploit tragedy to blame victims: Just hours after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, former MS Now contributor Matthew Dowd suggested on air that Kirk's own "hateful words" and "divisive" rhetoric likely provoked the attack, even floating the idea that the shooter could have been a supporter "celebrating,” a vile insinuation that led to Dowd's firing and exemplifies how left-leaning pundits rush to smear conservatives rather than condemn violence.
Mainstream hosts politicize assassinations without backlash: First runner-up Jimmy Kimmel accused "MAGA" supporters of desperately trying to distance themselves from Kirk's killer and scoring "political points," ignoring facts while framing conservatives as the real villains in the tragedy, highlighting the unchecked bias where late-night "comedians" freely demonize one side without professional consequences.
Left-wing commentators openly disdain America's founding documents: Runners-up like Elie Mystal, The Nation justice correspondent, (calling the U.S. Constitution "a piece of crap" compared to South Africa's post-apartheid version) and Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, (equating the potential cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show to the "dismantling of our democracy and Constitution") reveal a deep-seated contempt among liberal elites for America's core principles, treating them as obsolete or threats when they conflict with progressive agendas.
