NewsBusters Podcast: Downplaying the Cocaine Keystone Kops
The Secret Service concluded on Thursday that they couldn’t locate a suspect for this baggy of illegal white powder -- it was cocaine, an illegal drug. This is a story of incompetence, that needs some accountability. But ABC and NPR couldn't bother to care, and PBS did a bland 20 seconds.
CNN Bashes GOP for Cutting Trans Surgeries from Military Spending Bill
CNN This Morning bashed Republicans for a military spending bill that excluded payments for abortion, diversity promotion, and transgender care to military personnel on Friday. Its reporters exaggerated the past bipartisanism of the bill, claimed Republicans were throwing a fit and using the military as a political pawn, and seemingly compared the cut benefits to rolling back racial…
Scarborough Slams GOP Efforts to Withdraw Military from Culture War
On Friday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough defended the Biden administration’s liberal takeover of the US military by attacking the efforts of House Republicans to amend a military spending bill to remove so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, abortion funding, and funding for transgender treatments in the military.
Scarborough framed the effort as an attempt by…
Another NY Times Columnist Nudges Dems to Get Real About Biden Scandal
Veterans of the New York Times opinion section are stepping out from the leftist media pack and suggesting that Democrats should be a little more honest about the flaws of Joe and Hunter Biden. First, Maureen Dowd harped on Hunter’s four-year-old daughter being dismissed as no Biden. Now, columnist Frank Bruni is lamenting how Democrats can’t tolerate criticism of the Bidens. To avoid any…
CNN Pushes Kirby for Promise Biden Will Protect DoD’s Gender Surgeries
On Friday morning’s CNN News Central, anchor Kate Bolduan hosted National Security Council spokesman John Kirby to discuss the situation in Ukraine, as well as the recently Republican-amended National Defense Authorization Act. The latter of these two subjects was apparently so important to CNN that Bolduan brought it up first and spent a good portion of their time on the subject pushing Kirby…
MSNBC Mourns Americans Didn't Listen To Carter's Sweater Speech
MSNBC’s Chris Jansing welcomed author David Lipsky to her Friday show to promote his new book The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial and amid the usual lamentations about “deniers,” the duo appeared to blame the current state of the environment on Americans for not taking well to Jimmy Carter’s infamous 1977 sweater speech.
Teamwork: NBC Cheers Biden Trashing GOPer in Softball From CNN Fangirl
The liberal media were in lockstep Thursday reacting to President Biden’s trip to the Balkans this week, playing up the laudatory successes of NATO but downplaying/ignoring his gaffes and working in concert to frame Republicans as extreme. Thanks to a softball from Biden fangirl Arlette Saenz of CNN and a pat on the back hours later from chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander on NBC…
The View Claims Republicans ‘Planted’ the Cocaine in the White House
Those stealthy Republican ninjas were at it again! Earlier this year, the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View claimed Republicans were “behind” the classified documents found in President Biden’s Delaware garage. Now, on Friday, they were claimed Republicans infiltrated the White House and “planted” cocaine in the West Wing in order to “advance the Hunter Biden narrative.” At least that’s what…
PBS Notices COVID Learning Loss, Doesn’t Notice Cause: Teachers Unions
The media may occasionally observe the massive learning loss caused by shuttered schools during the COVID pandemic, an unnecessary and actively harmful measure encouraged by left-wing teachers unions, which protested reopening schools, sometimes with disgusting anti-back-to-school protests, even after it was obvious that children were the group least affected by COVID. But there was no mention…
LOL: Morning Joe Hails 'Sharp as a Tack' President Biden!
Who you gonna believe: Joe Scarborough or your lyin' eyes? The opening segment of Morning Joe was devoted to the panel making the collective claim that, the evidence notwithstanding, Joe Biden is not just "sharp," but in the words of Eugene Robinson, "sharp as a tack."
Blitzer Lobs Softballs to Austin on Pentagon's Abortion Policy
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer recently sat down for a pre-recorded interview with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Vilnius, Lithuania for Thursday's The Situation Room. Sandwiched between all of the developments at the NATO summit and the war in Ukraine, Blitzer lobbed some abortion-related softballs Austin’s way as Sen. Tommy Tuberville continues to place a hold on military promotions in protest of…
Column: Pretending the Media 'Works Almost Entirely' for the Right
In the Trump era -- and in the media, it's still the Trump era -- there is no need to strain a mental muscle to prove journalists have a liberal bias. We find it everywhere. But there are still leftists who channel the spirit of Eric “What Liberal Media?” Alterman and claim our media culture has been "shaped and defined by the political right, and it works almost entirely to their advantage…
MSNBC's Weissmann: Secret Service Cocaine Probe Looks Incompetent
How bad did the United States Secret Service bungle their investigation into the bag of cocaine left in the West Wing? All you need to know is that even disgraced FBI bureaucrat and Russiagate hoaxer Andrew Weissmann is critical. During a Thursday night appearance on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Weissmann told host Stephanie Ruhle that “this is really just not a sufficient investigation.”
CNN Finds It ‘Insane’ the GOP Wants the FBI to Be Fair and Impartial
In yet another display of loyalty to its liberal taskmasters, CNN’s Thursday morning reporting on the House Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Wray consisted of CNN This Morning anchors Phil Mattingly and Pamela Brown complaining about how the “Republican leaders destroy the credibility” of the FBI by “attacking someone like Chris Wray” in their hearing.
