PEOPLE Pours Another Bottle of Syrup on Buck-Raking Michelle Obama
Just five weeks after their latest puffball cover story on Joe and Jill Biden, People magazine offers a cover story on Michelle Obama. The excuse for another six-page spread of sugar is a new “young readers edition” of her 2018 memoir Becoming.
ABC Fears Border ‘Issue’ Will Distract from Biden's COVID Bill Victory
As President Biden set to make a victory tour through states with Senate races coming up to promote the passage of his pork-filled COVID relief bill, ABC’s Good Morning America shared their fear that the child migrant “issue” on the southern border would distract people. At the same time on Sunday, the network covered up how the bill had a trio of business tax hikes rounding out at roughly $60…
CNN Finally Acknowledges Theory COVID Outbreak Linked to Lab in China
On Tuesday's New Day show, CNN finally admitted that the Donald Trump administration might have been on to something in claiming that the COVID-19 virus likely originated in a lab in China rather than at a wet market.
CBS Falsely Claims 'Epidemic' of Violence Against Asian Americans
On Friday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Anthony Mason brought on chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett to swoon over Joe Biden's COVID speech. Mason highlighted that Biden introduced the topic of violence against Asian Americans, and Garrett honored Biden for inserting that topic himself and wildly asserted that there is an “epidemic, and that is not an exaggeration." Yes, it is.
Will the Media Revisit Cuomo Smearing His First Accuser?
If the media has enough of a conscience to revisit what they did wrong in covering (or ignoring) sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo, they could start with Eric Lach of The New Yorker, who asked: "Who Ordered The Smear Campaign Against Cuomo's First Accuser?"
David Hogg's Pillow Company Looks to Be DOA a Month After Media Hype
Whatever happened after all the media hype about gun-control activist David Hogg starting a pillow company? We haven't heard a peep in more than a month, since several outlets sounded the trumpets of hope....and ka-ching.
MSNBC Compares Biden to FDR and LBJ After Massive COVID Bill Passes
MSNBC's Friday night edition of The 11th Hour marked the passing of President Biden's COVID package by hailing it as a "Rooseveltian" and "Johnsonian" achievement. Which, from the perspective of historian Michael Beschloss, was not just a good thing on a practical level, but necessary on a larger level because if Biden fails, then democracy itself is danger of falling to conspiracy theorists…
Tucker Bucks the 'Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry'
It’s just too rich. One Taylor Lorenz, a tech reporter for The New York Times, gets criticized by Fox’s Tucker Carlson. And The New York Times - not to mention reporter Lorenz - freaks out.
Say What? WashPost, USA Today Claim Biden Is 'Impervious' to Comedy
Remember the excuses peddled by comedians during the Obama years? This bright, handsome president is so smart, and thoughtful, there’s just nothing to poke fun at. We’ve tried oh, so hard, but it’s impossible. It was all a lie, an attempt by satirists to explain away their dereliction of comic duty. And it’s happening again. Biden, they claim, is "impervious to impressionists."
CNN Pushes Dem Attack on Gun Rights as 'Common Sense'
On Thursday evening, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Wolf Blitzer were both in the tank for Democrats in helping them push more gun control, with Cuomo lauding the plans as "common sense" and Blitzer declaring that "it only makes sense."
CNN Is All Aglow at Biden's 'Mirror Image of the Reagan Revolution'
On Friday's CNN Newsroom host Jim Sciutto and senior political analyst David Gergen hailed President Biden's supposed FDR-esque Thursday night address for breaking with the Reaganesque distrust of government solutions to problems.
Some Final Thoughts on Reparations
How would reparations be funded? Conservative writer Michael Medved estimates that only 5% of whites in America "bear any authentic sort of generational guilt for the exploitation of slave labor." Why should anyone but Democrats pay? Scholar Dinesh D'Souza notes that all but a "handful" of slave owners were Democrats. The Ku Klux Klan, at its height of power and popularity, was known by the…
NPR Enables Ilhan Omar Pose as Guardian of Human Rights in the Mideast
NPR has celebrated Rep. Ilhan Omar -- and disparaged conservative media for criticizing her. On Thursday's Morning Edition, anchor Steve Inskeep was touting her new bill imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for ordering the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi (who was coordinating his writing with the government of Qatar).
Oh Please: NYT Shows Chauvinism for NYC, Demands COVID Deserters Pay
Documenting the grim anniversary of the coronavirus-spurred lockdowns with an Opinion series entitled “The Week Our Reality Broke,” The New York Times's usual liberal obsessions of inequality were livened up by a disturbing diatribe that proposed a resettlement tax on New Yorkers who escaped the failing Democratic city during the pandemic.
