Abortion
No Surprise: ABC’s Debate Moderators Were Only There to Attack Trump
The debate tone was set with the first question. Debate co-moderator David Muir, ABC’s news managing editor, asked Vice President Kamala Harris: “I want to begin tonight with the issue voters repeatedly say is their No. 1 issue ... When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”
MSNBC Tries Scolding Young People Unpersuaded By Harris, Taylor Swift
When Jimmy Kimmel eventually retires, maybe MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle could take his place. On Friday, Ruhle was not happy with young Republicans who are unpersuaded by Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris because they care more about economic issues than social one because she could not “remember the last time I heard Kamala Harris talk about anything like that.” Meanwhile, RiskReversal…
'Do You Feel Heard': Phillip Tries To Get Jackson To Attack Colleagues
CNN NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip interviewed liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday and repeatedly tried to get her to attack her colleagues, first as sexists and second for undermining public confidence in the Court by overturning “precedent,” by which she just meant Roe v. Wade.
NB Podcast: LA Times’s Gushy Profile of ABC’s Davis Gave Away the Game
Sitting in on Friday for host and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I dove into an absurd Los Angeles Times profile celebrating ABC’s debate co-moderator Linsey Davis for, along with co-moderator David Muir, interjecting for so-called fact-checks of Donald Trump.
Column: 'Fact Checking' Is Often Spin Spoiling, Especially on Abortion
The debate debacle hosted by ABC underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to “fact checkers.” Object to them, and the Left decrees it’s because you’re hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist argumentation that’s poorly disguised as nonpartisan and devoid of opinion.
NY Times Touts ABC Debate's Calm 'Factual Guardrails' Against Trump
New York Times’ media reporter Michael Grynbaum made Wednesday’s paper with the smugly confident post-presidential debate “Media Memo,” “ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump.” He wrote: "Using calm and authoritative tones, Mr. Muir and Ms. Davis offered a model for real-time fact-checking that has been absent from many recent presidential debates."
PBS: Trump Denouncing Walz On Abortion Is 'Extraordinarily Stupid'
During Tuesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump called out Tim Walz’s extremely radical and, frankly, diabolical abortion stance as governor of Minnesota, but for PBS’s Christiane Amanpour, the fact that Trump even brought it up made him “very, very extreme,” while her panel labeled it "extraordinarily stupid."
PBS Fails at Debate Fact-Checking, Adores Taylor Swift Dem Endorsement
PBS’s coverage of Tuesday night’s Trump-Harris debate included live fact-checking from its partner PolitiFact, which has racked up a liberally slanted record. But when Harris falsely claimed Trump had promised a “bloodbath,” no one at PBS or PolitiFact corrected her. PBS has made the same fake claim on numerous occasions. Then it was on to abortion, when Donald Trump claimed “radical”…
Rep. Waltz Schools CNN When They Attempt to Fact-Check Him, Again
GOP Rep. Michael Waltz joined CNN News Central host Brianna Keilar on Wednesday to recap the previous night’s presidential debate, and during the abortion part of the discussion, he was forced to fact-check someone on CNN who was attempting to fact-check him for the second time in the campaign.
Kimmel Tries To Use Harris Debate Performance To Mock Pro-Lifers
Do you know how many eggs a woman has? If not, ABC’s Jimmy “non-sequitur” Kimmel believes you are not allowed to be pro-life because on Wednesday’s show, Kimmel and his liberal audience guffawed at self-described pro-lifers not being able to answer questions about female anatomy that they certainly would not be able to answer themselves.
What 'Angels'! NBC Touts Abortionist Who'll Kill a Baby at 35 Weeks
On the night of the debate – when late-term abortions would again be dismissed as a phony issue – NBC Nightly News ran a promotional piece about late-term abortionist Warren Hern, who has been a radical pro-abortion crank for 50 years.
Morning Joe Goes Gaga Over Harris Spreading Fake News About Pro-Lifers
MSNBC’s Morning Joe is the kind of “news” program that laments that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are supposedly portrayed as two equal candidates when, according to them, the latter is a lying liar who lies all the time and the former is just a normal candidate. However, for their Wednesday post-debate analysis, the assembled cast cheered Harris spreading fake news about pro-lifers…
'Holy ****, She Crushed That': Comedians Hail Harris After Debate
Three of the five regular late night comedy programs were able to react to Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and all agreed that Harris was the big winner as they attacked Trump for spreading falsehoods while covering for the falsehoods told by Harris and the ABC moderators.
PBS Hails Gen Z Voting Trends Toward the Left: Climate, LGBTQ, Racism
PBS News Weekend again hosted Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, a decidedly left-wing polling firm, to talk about voting patterns among “Generation Z.” But there were no ideological labels for Deckman on tax-funded PBS on Sunday, even as she forwarded optimistic views of the youth (Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012) flocking to Democratic policies…
