Libs Lob Softballs Backing Biden Rhetoric; Doocy, Wegmann Do Real Work
Ahead of President Biden’s Thursday night address set to call over 70 million people a national security threat because they vote Republican, Wednesday’s White House press briefing featured a robust defense by the press corps of such dangerous rhetoric while CBS’s Nancy Cordes and Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann pushed back. On a separate topic, Fox’s Peter Doocy hammered the…
Ruhle Lobs Softballs To Fetterman, Lauds His 'Entertaining' 'Trolling'
When The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle sat down for a taped interview with Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman it was expected to be a softball interview, but what aired on MSNBC on Wednesday night was somehow even softer than those expectations.
Missing Trump? NY Times Reports WashPost Will Lose Money in 2022
The Washington Post is struggling. Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson at The New York Times report they're on track to lose money this year and are discussing cutting back on newsroom staff. It turns out their gaudy anti-Trump model of proclaiming daily they keep Democracy from Dying in Darkness isn't cutting it in the Biden years:
NYT Goes Goopy Over Gorbachev, ‘Visionary…Who Lifted the Iron Curtain'
The New York Times continued to overpraise the Soviet Union’s last ruler, Mikhail Gorbachev, upon his death in Moscow at 91, with an 8,000-word front-page tribute from obituary writer Marilyn Berger. The print edition front-page banner headline read “Visionary Soviet Leader Who Lifted the Iron Curtain” over a photo of Russia’s last dictator. As NewsBusters’ Rich Noyes wrote: “It’s true that…
Morning Joe Cheers For Dems—'Momentum Shift, Turning Point, on a Roll'
The Morning Joe crew cheerleads for Biden and the Democrats, claiming that there is a "momentum shift and turning point" in their favor, and that Biden and the Dems are "on a roll" and have "the wind at their back" heading into the midterms.
NewsBusters Podcast: Reagan Gets No Credit for USSR's End, Only Gorby
When they announced the death of the last dictator of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the liberal media elite broke out the valentines, giving Gorbachev all the credit for tearing down the Iron Curtain of communism. Ronald Reagan dared Gorbachev to tear down the wall, and Gorbachev is painted as a “towering international hero” for just letting it happen. Media liberals can't give Reagan…
Labor Union Shortage Is to the Liberal Media's Chagrin
Monday is Labor Day. Will you celebrate unions? The media does. “Unions are cool again,” reports CBS News. They suggest unionization is booming. “Reporters” practically cheered when a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, became the first Starbucks to unionize. “A big symbolic win for labor,” The New York Times called it. Since then, more than 180 Starbucks voted to unionize, and 300 filed for union…
CBS’s Biden Fluff Streak Drags on, Touts GOP Giving ‘Biden an Opening’
Having turned itself into the unofficial extension of the Biden administration’s press office, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings joined its sister newscast in the CBS Evening News by promoting the President’s latest attempt to salvage his side’s midterm prospects. On the former show, it insisted Republicans have “given [him] an opening” to position the left as the side that supports law and order and…
Insane MSNBC Guest Declares GOP The Same As Nazis, Bolsheviks
Democratic strategist and USA Today contributor Kurt Bardella’s formula of political analysis is to blindly point to a list of history’s bad guys and declare that is who the GOP is imitating. On Wednesday’s MSNBC Reports it was Nazis and Bolsheviks that were said to be comparable to pro-life Republicans who don’t like the media.
Former CNN Moscow Chief Feels 'Intense Sadness' at Gorbachev's Demise
In the immediate wake of the world learning that former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev was finally acting like a good communist, CNN’s immediate reaction was to air glowing eulogies for a man who led one of the most evil empires in human history. In back-to-back hours on Tuesday, CNN showed “intense sadness” and took part in revisionist history claiming Gorbachev was the one responsible for…
Nets Dismiss Reagan to Build Up Gorbachev as Hero Who Ended Cold War
In order to build up the “acclaimed” Mikhail Gorbachev’s “monumental” role in ending the Cold War, the networks on Wednesday dismissed Ronald Reagan. On CBS Mornings, foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer huffed, “In the end, the East Germans tore down the wall for themselves, but Gorbachev didn't stop them.”
CNN's Jennings Goes One-on-Three on Dems' Commitment to Law and Order
CNN’s Scott Jennings had the unenviable task of going against three of his colleagues on Wednesday’s edition of New Day on just how real President Biden and the Democratic Party’s commitment to law and order really is and which party is better on the issue. Despite the imbalance, Jennings was able to show that Democratic sentiment on the issue seems to be based on the ideology.
Slate Shelters CNN's Fox Loathing Stelter: 'Axing Is a Very Bad Omen'
After CNN’s new ownership cancelled its media news show Reliable Sources and fired its host, the reliably liberal Brian Stelter, Slate magazine’s Justin Peters came to Stelter’s defense, while bashing his many conservative critics as “bad-faith” actors, in “A Reliable Source of Concern -- Why Brian Stelter’s axing is a very bad omen for CNN.” New CNN chief Chris Licht is moving toward a more…
Column: The Media Avoid Every Biden Policy Fiasco
If you never looked at a poll and watched only the network news to stay informed, you might think Joe Biden is a very successful and popular president. That’s not an accident. There’s a lot of well-designed embroidery and energetic omissions. They pretend Biden has never mismanaged anything or caused a single problem in America.