MEDIA YAWN: Ginsburg Called for Election Year Confirmations
The network morning shows on Monday rightly honored the historic legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paying tribute to her life. However, amidst the tributes, they seemed curiously uninterested in an interview she gave in 2016. Asked about Merrick Garland, the liberal justice asserted, “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”
CNN’S RANK HYPOCRISY: Okay for Dems to Flip on SCOTUS Picks, Not GOP
On Monday’s New Day, CNN anchor John Berman repeatedly accused Republicans of "hypocrisy" when it came to filling the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during an election year: “... is it hypocritical of Republicans to do this? The answer is, yeah!” However, the partisan host conveniently ignored the blatant hypocrisy of Democrats.
Mrs. Stephanopoulos: George And I Cried for 45 Minutes Over RBG News
On the Disney-syndicated talk show Live with Kelly and Ryan on Monday, Ali Wentworth (Mrs. George Stephanopoulos) appeared to great praise -- "one of the funniest people we know," said co-host Ryan Seacrest. What followed was a tale of the entire Stephanopoulos family weeping in the car for 45 minutes when George told his family that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.
RBG Fans at CNN Still Want You to Believe Debunked Blasey Ford
On CNN's New Day, Irin Carmon, an arch-feminist and CNN contributor and author of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg fan book "Notorious RBG," says that if Republicans had a sense of shame and hypocrisy: "We certainly would not have a Justice Brett Kavanaugh, after Christine Blasey Ford testified."
FRANTIC: CBS Demands Dems Force GOPers to Look 'Into Their Souls'
The hosts of CBS This Morning on Monday adopted a frantic tone, demanding to know just how Democrats would stop Donald Trump from putting a conservative woman on the Supreme Court. Talking to Senator Amy Klobuchar, co-host Anthony Mason pressed, “What are Democrats prepared to do to fight back?”
Stephanopoulos Badgers H.R. McMaster to Bash Trump Before Election
Good Morning America co-anchor George Stephanopoulos grew increasingly frustrated Monday morning by his guest, a former national security adviser to President Trump, refusing to take the bait and bash the president. At one point, the ABC anchor even lectured it was his guest’s “duty to speak out” and warn Americans before the election.
Poll: Americans See Skepticism of Media's Interests as 'Healthy'
During a 12-month period when the news covered everything from impeachment to an upcoming presidential election and from a global pandemic to protests across America on racial issues, a survey concluded that the most significant factor in how a person perceives the “mainstream media” is that individual’s political affiliation. One of the most important elements in this determination is support…
NBC: Dems ‘Within Their Rights’ to Pack SCOTUS After ‘Stolen’ Seats
On Monday, NBC’s Today show brought on former Obama administration hack Neal Katyal (who was neutrally labeled an “NBC News legal analyst”) to argue that Republicans were trying to “break the Supreme Court” by nominating a replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He even claimed Democrats would be “well within their rights” to pack the high court after the GOP had “cheated and stolen”…
Trump Brings Peace to Mideast, PETTY Networks Won’t Let Him Have a Win
MRC analysts looked at 33 days of ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News programs from August 13 (when Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they were establishing full diplomatic relations) to September 15 (the joint signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords between Israel-UAE-Bahrain at the White House) and found just brief hiccups of coverage surrounding the…
TILT: The Deseret News’s Political Bias in 2020 Congressional Race
One of the closest congressional contests in 2020 is the race for Utah’s 4th district, pitting freshman Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams against former NFL player and businessman Burgess Owens. The district's newspaper, The Deseret News, has created a favorable environment for the Democratic candidate and his message, even as it repeatedly hammers the Republican on an array of personal controversies…
CNN: Fox, Breitbart, Daily Caller Are 'Political Tools,' Unlike MSM
One of the silliest things that liberal journalists can pretend to oppose is media outlets that tilt toward aiding an ideology and aiding their favorite candidates. But CNN's Reliable Sources is a silly show. On Sunday, Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, one of Stelter's Trump-trashing regulars, insisted the "mainstream press" is at a "disadvantage" because they operate fairly and politely…
Moore: GOP Wants Court to 'Keep Their Feet on the Necks of Women'
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's MSNBC Live with Alex Witt, liberal film maker Michael Moore condemned Republicans for pushing to quickly fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
CNN's Brennan Fearmongers about the Big Ten Playing Football
On Thursday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host John King conspired with sports analyst Christine Brennan to politicize and fearmonger about the Big Ten announcing that it is playing football this fall. Brennan, resembling a Democratic operative more than a sports journalist, accused President Trump of pushing the Big Ten presidents into “steering their student athletes right into the teeth of…
NBC 'Historian' Tells Leftists How to Sell 'Court Packing' Scheme
On Saturday's AM Joy show on MSNBC, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss sounded more like a partisan Democratic activist than an allegedly neutral analyst as he fretted that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had "stolen" a Supreme Court seat from President Barack Obama, and that President Donald Trump might steal the Ruth Bader Ginsburg seat, as the NBC News analyst also…
