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Willam F. Buckley Jr famously quipped, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University. By that same logic, those first 2,000 names have to be better being governed by a group of Hollywood celebrities.

Joseph Simonson at the Washington Free Beacon reported the Associated Press stylebook czars are telling their reporters to avoid "the T word" of terrorism in their reporting, because the subject is "intense" and terms should be "more precise." That's not the way they handled genders "assigned at birth" that can "turn out to be inaccurate."

The weeks-long Hamas propaganda campaign on the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC dragged on Tuesday with a slew of misfires (pun intended) that included, along with two of the three failing to mention new U.S. findings about that October 17 hospital fire, the touting of dubious Gaza death tolls (despite admitting they emanate from Hamas), cheering the U.N. trashing Israel, and par-for-the-…

On Tuesday night, the U.S. intelligence community doubled down on its initial findings that an errant rocket from an Islamic group inside Gaza was what landed in the vicinity of a Gazan hospital on October 17 as well as the fact that the death toll was far lower than what Hamas claimed. Unsurprisingly, it received scant attention on the network evening newscasts as the CBS Evening News and NBC…

One of the worst people you know just made a great point. During the Monday night handoff between the NewsNation eponymous shows of Chris Cuomo and Dan Abrams, the duo ripped into the liberal media outlets that breathlessly parroted casualty numbers provided by Hamas when reporting on the blast at a Gaza hospital. Cuomo added that he had never seen a terrorist organization get the kind of good…

Following interviews on Monday and last Thursday on Fox News, CNN’s The Lead followed suit Monday with Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the founder of the Islamic terror group Hamas and who not only rebuked the group, but spent a decade undercover for Israeli intelligence. Given his harrowing background, he held nothing back in ripping Hamas as “strict” “fanatics” hellbent on “annihilat[ing]…

In 1990, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush was considering the American response. He was torn: On the one hand, he saw the necessity of pushing Saddam out of the oil-rich state, maintaining the impression of American strength in the region. On the other hand, he wanted to avoid conflict altogether. Three weeks after the invasion, Bush had still not made a decision…

Some on the right might have thought Hell froze over the last couple of weeks when they found themselves largely agreeing with the majority of the cast of ABC’s The View on something: Israel was the victim of a terrible terrorist attack and Hamas needed to be stamped out. Those same people might have thought pigs were flying on Tuesday as co-host Joy Behar slammed Democratic Congresswoman…

The Tuesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC couldn't find any time for a GOP soundbite on Israel and Biden. But the CBS Evening News felt the need to offer the apparently unmissable opinions of former president Barack Obama. There were no Obama critics, either. 

Morning Joe mocks Republican Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, as "Dumb-Moves Comer." This, despite the show having rolled a clip of Comer denouncing as a "dumb move" the decision of eight Republican Congressmen to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, and block his replacement by Steve Scalise.

Since the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians, House Democratic members of the “Squad” have drawn harsh criticism from even members of their own party for their rabidly anti-Israel posturing. But rather than shining a spotlight on the controversy, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) instead dutifully sheltered them from public scrutiny; in fact, since the attack, they have not…

Monday marked the first White House press briefing in 11 days, so the press corps had plenty to say about the Middle East crisis triggered by Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks in Israel. While some tried to‘both sides’ the situation, Fox’s Grady Trimble and Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann battled National Security Council figurehead John Kirby and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over…

Last week, when Michael Kosta guest hosted Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, the program blamed everybody except Hamas for the outbreak of war. On Monday, new temp host Desus Nice welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the program and asked her about seemingly everything going on in politics at the moment except for her incendiary accusations at Israel is committing war crimes by defending…

The PBS NewsHour Monday night pundits lamented the "so-called establishment" of the GOP being "undermined" by right-wingers, going back to Newt Gingrich in 1994. NPR reporter Tamara Keith said most House Republicans want to "burn it all down" and refuse to compromise.