NewsBusters Podcast: Media Give Liz Cheney a Participation Trophy
Rep. Liz Cheney was clobbered by 37 points in her Wyoming Republican primary, but the media broke out their praises as she compared herself to Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. They asked her if she would run for president in 2024, ignoring all proof that she drove her political car off a cliff. Scott Whitlock joins the show to assess the contrast between today's Glorious Liz and yesterday's Odious…
CBS Falsely Equates Abortion Bans with High Maternal Mortality Rates
On Wednesday night’s CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O’Donnell and correspondent Elise Preston decided to tie pro-life laws in Republican states with higher maternal mortality rates despite providing no evidence or explanation for how the two are tied together.
New York Post RIPS Norah O'Donnell for Incorrect Tweet on Trump Raid
Anonymous sources can cut both ways. After CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell sloppily tweeted an inaccurate claim that Trump was lying about the FBI taking his passports in the Mar-a-Lago raid, unnamed critics inside CBS pounced in a Tuesday New York Post story. The Post Editorial Board really let O'Donnell have it.
NBC Lobbies Cheney: Just Say It's Better for Dems to Keep Congress!
NBC on Wednesday repeatedly lobbied Liz Cheney to run for president after she lost her renomination bid for Congress. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie also repeated the media-created comparison that Cheney is Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars and Trump is Darth Vader.
To Avoid New GOP Laws, MSNBC Promotes Homeschooling
Wednesday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC had what initially appeared to be a promising segment about the rise of black families who have decided to homeschool their children. However, that promise evaporated when it was portrayed as a useful way to get around new Republican laws that seek to combat far-left racial theories and politicized versions of history.
CNN Admits: Liz Cheney's Base Is 'Democrats and the Beltway Media!'
Given Liz Cheney's overwhelming defeat in yesterday's Wyoming Republican congressional primary, it would clearly be a very uphill slog to win a national GOP presidential primary, should that be her goal for 2024. On today's New Day, CNN cast Cheney as having two legs to her base of support: Democrats, and the Beltway media!
Franken Warns Of 'Existential Threats' Including Cruz Being 'A D***'
Former Democratic senator and Saturday Night Live cast member Al Franken guest hosted ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday and it went about as well as anyone could predict. During his opening monologue, Franken rattled off a list of supposed threats to democracy including “just how big a dick Ted Cruz is” while later he turned the show into a Democratic commercial during an interview with Rep…
Media Love Her Now, But Hated ‘Toxic’ ‘Daughter of Dracula’ Then
Liz Cheney on Tuesday night badly lost her renomination bid in Congress, getting trounced by BLANK points. Journalists have been eagerly cheering Cheney 2.0 as the GOP’s Joan of Arc, willing to be burned at the political stake for principles. But a simple look into history shows that journalistic love for a Republican is entirely dependent on how useful that person is to liberal press.
Column: Dumb Question -- Is the Pro-Biden Spin Getting Out?
Anyone who reads or watches the badly named “mainstream media” knows it carries all the echoes of a Democratic Party messaging service. It’s so efficient that it goads itself into providing happy news for Joe Biden.
Overwrought on CNN: Giuliani's Goal Is 'To Die A Free Man'
Two of Rudy Giuliani's former aides turned on him with a vengeance on CNN's New Day on Tuesdayt morning. First up, former Rudy spox Ken Frydman. Commenting on Rudy being made a prosecution target in Fulton County, Georgia, Frydman said that Rudy's strategy is to "delay, delay, delay," and that: "At this point in his life, Rudy's goal is to die a free man."
Nets Ignore Former Dem Congressman Under Federal Indictment
On Tuesday Fox News reported that former California Democrat Congressman Terrance John Cox was indicted by a federal grand jury on numerous financial crimes including wire fraud, and money laundering. Despite even the New York Times reporting this news, all three evening news broadcast networks ignored the story.
Nets Bury School Board Proposing White Teachers Get Laid Off First
On Tuesday, it was reported that the Minneapolis teachers union and the school board reached a tentative agreement that if layoffs are needed, white teachers will be laid off before non-white teachers regardless of seniority. Since racism to fight alleged racism is apparently fine with the three leftist broadcast networks, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News & NBC Nightly News all…
MSNBC: Inflation Reduction Act is 'Marketing Genius' for Democrats
The pen ink wasn’t even dry on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law before MSNBC started hyping the legislation and praising the Democrats’ “marketing branding genius.” Moments after Biden signed the bill into law, on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House frequent MSNBC guest Maria Teresa Kumar gushed over how smart her party was for the name they chose for the…
NBC Now: Trump Is Darth Vader! NBC in 2011: Dick Cheney Is Vader!
NBC journalists need to decide who Darth Vader is in their tortured political analogies. On Tuesday’s Today, Hallie Jackson said to an on-screen colleague, “[Let me] raise you a Star Wars analogy.” Talking about the probable loss of Liz Cheney in Wyoming’s congressional primary, she connected, “I'm told by one source that Cheney's staffers are really big fans of a recent editorial that…
