Politico Uses Unnamed Sources to Slime GOP Midterm Convention
According to Politico Playbook on Wednesday, things are really, really bad for the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. To support their claim of disaster for that convention, the Politico team of Adam Wren, Dasha Burns, Will Steakin, and Megan Messerly cited — wait for it —conveniently unnamed sources to back up their premise of doom and gloom.
ABC, CBS Skip President Trump Bestowing Top Honor on 9/11 Hero
Ahead of the Republican midterm convention, President Trump held a moving event at the White House Ellipse to honor those murdered nearly 25 years ago on September 11, 2001. As part of that, he awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to 9/11 hero Welles Crowther, the man known as “the man in the red bandana.” But none of that mattered to ABC and CBS as their flagship morning and…
ABC Asleep: Wednesday’s ‘GMA’ Skips GOP Midterm Convention
On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America saw no interest in telling readers about this week’s Republican midterms convention, the first of its kind ushered in by President Trump seeking to put the spotlight on both his and the broader Republican record as voters head to the polls this fall.
The View: Vote Democratic in Midterms or Everyone Will ‘Literally’ Die
Tuesday was episode one of Season 30 for ABC’s The View, and the purported “bona fide news program” came in scorching during their first Hot Topics segment; demanding everyone get out and vote against President Trump in the midterms “because our lives literally depend on this.” While they were claiming everyone would “literally” die without Democratic Party intervention, they also were calling…
Morning Joe Clamors for Trump Era to Go to ‘Ash Heap of History’
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW program promoted a new book by The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell that planned for an end to the Trump era, as Longwell clamored for an end of the Trump movement and hoped it would go to the ‘Ash Heap of History.”
OMISSION: Elitist Media BLIND to ‘AIPAC Monkey’ and Gay Double Murder
A couple of eye-popping stories have found themselves off the Elitist Media evening news and Sunday shows, for obvious reasons as you’ll see below. The most obvious reason of all is that these stories don’t support any leftist narrative. If they did, coverage would be far (D)ifferent.
PBS Campaigns For Democrats: 'It Is About Affordability'
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart essentially openly campaigned on Friday on behalf of Democrats by offering up visions of a more affordable America should Democrats win in November.
Hayes, Glaude Baselessly Speculate About Violent Voter Suppression
Princeton Prof. Eddie Glaude Jr. joined MS NOW host Chris Hayes on Thursday’s edition of All In for another segment of election fear-mongering as the duo tried to analogize the Trump administration with the violent Mississippi Plan of the 1870s.
CLOWN: Hayes Makes Musk’s $100M Spending a Scandal, Shrugs Off Soros
On Monday’s All In, host Chris Hayes just went on a hypocrisy-lined tear against X owner Elon Musk for spending big in the midterms, while completely downplaying the enormous spending already unleashed by leftist billionaire George Soros. Hayes decried Musk’s “unfathomable amounts of money” to “elect Republicans this cycle,” browbeating him for not giving that money to charity or some other…
PBS Whines GOP Weaponizing 'Anti-Islamic Rhetoric' Against El-Sayed
After discussing the Republican Party’s strained relationship with President Trump and next week’s GOP midterm convention, nicknamed by some as Trump-a-palooza, the PBS News Hour “Politics Monday” talk turned to the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and controversial Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, and co-anchor Amna Nawaz fiercely defended El-Sayed against “anti-Islamic rhetoric.”
NewsBusters Podcast: Midterms Means Fact-Checkers Go Easy on Leftists
Filling in for Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I first dove into the results of Graham's new study about Politifact's ongoing double standard when fact-checking conservatives vs. liberals. Spoiler alert: They only really try when they can make the right look bad.
CNN Leans on New Jersey Governor to Downplay Suspicious Voter Rolls
During Wednesday’s OutFront, CNN host Erin Burnett was irked that the Trump administration had agents with the Department of Homeland Security examining voter rolls and removing noncitizens. While framing it as President Trump willing letting Americans be exposed to terrorism and sex trafficking, Burnett brought on Democratic New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who recently announced her state…
MSNOW Avoids Talarico’s ‘Dismantling’ ‘Oppressive’ Capitalism Comments
On Tuesday, an old video of Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico revealed the Senate candidate once called for the “dismantling” of capitalism, which he also called “oppressive.” But any mention of Talarico’s capitalism comments was avoided by all MS NOW hosts, as the only brief mention from a guest minimized comments that called the video a “big opposition research dump."
The 'Public' Broadcasters Go Soft on Hasan Piker
The networks have largely ignored radical leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. ABC and NBC haven’t found him, while CBS broke the mold with two stories.The PBS News Hour hasn’t mentioned Piker, but it came up on Washington Week. NPR's reporting was weak.
