Campaigns & Elections
NewsBusters Podcast: Media Brush Redistricting Errors Under the Rug
On this edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I breakdown a new NewsBusters study of the media’s silence about how Census Bureau errors largely hurt red state representation. We also look at Snopes playing word games with misleading “fact checks” about lies against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and more on Brian Stelter leaving CNN.
CNN Whines Nadler vs. Maloney: Shouldn't 'Have Even Happened,' 'Nuts'
As part of the Democratic Party primaries in New York Tuesday night, one of the “liberal lions of Manhattan politics,” Representative Carolyn Maloney lost to fellow lion Representative Jerry Nadler after their districts were consolidated and rearranged via a court order. But on that day’s Don Lemon Tonight, the “journalists” of CNN were less than enthused about two big-named Democrats…
Nets Cheer Dems Having ‘Road Map’ to Win Midterms With Abortion
The “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC tried on Wednesday morning to resurrect the Democratic Party’s midterm election prospects, using the results of a special election for a Hudson Valley seat in dark blue New York to insist their side has the “momentum” and a “road map” to put up “a fiercer fight” against Republicans by foisting abortion on voters as their top issue.
Bozell: ‘Cracks Are There’ in Media's Wall of Protection of Biden
According to Brent Bozell, “the cracks are definitely there” in the media’s desperate, crumbling wall of protection of Joe Biden. The Media Research Center President appeared on the Fox Business Network's Varney and Co. late Tuesday morning to discuss examples of 2022 midterm Democrats running from the policies of the President.
WashPost Is Mad DeSantis Arrested Murderers, Sex Perps for Voter Fraud
In an editorial for Tuesday’s print edition, The Washington Post screeched over an announcement last week from Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) that, as per a release from his office, 20 people were arrested for having “[broken] Florida’s elections laws” despite having been banned from voting for having been convicted of either murder or sex crimes. The Post’s argument? Such a…
LAME: NYT Adores Beto While DeSantis Echoes ‘Conspiracy Theories'
The New York Times skipped around the map to cover three state governor’s races, showing clear bias against a potential Republican presidential contender, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Trumpite Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Meanwhile, the Times fawned over a liberal Texas long-shot Beto O’Rourke once again. In “DeSantis, Thinking of 2024 Election, Reaches Out…
CNN's Avlon Decries Flood of GOP 'Hyperpartisan Cowards and Cranks'
On Wednesday's New Day show, CNN's John Avlon delivered another of his "Realty Check" segments which are often more about promoting liberal spin to attack conservatives than to be factually accurate. The liberal CNN analyst derided the GOP as a party that mostly nominates "hyperpartisan cowards and cranks."
CCP-Tied TikTok Launches Elections Center in Lead-Up to Midterms
Foreign interference in U.S. elections? Chinese Communist Party-linked TikTok launched an in-app Elections Center in the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.
CNN Admits: Liz Cheney's Base Is 'Democrats and the Beltway Media!'
Given Liz Cheney's overwhelming defeat in yesterday's Wyoming Republican congressional primary, it would clearly be a very uphill slog to win a national GOP presidential primary, should that be her goal for 2024. On today's New Day, CNN cast Cheney as having two legs to her base of support: Democrats, and the Beltway media!
NYT FREAKS: TikTok Not Doing Enough to Censor ‘Election’ Misinfo
The New York Times is having another meltdown over so-called “election misinformation” on social media and trying to pressure Big Tech companies to up their already over-bloated censorship operations.
NYTimes Lets Dems Push Abortion Rights in Campaign Ads, Feminist Press
The New York Times is trying its hardest to make abortion a winning “freedom” issue for the Democrats in November. The latest push came on Monday’s front page, “Why Abortion Has Become a Centerpiece of Democratic TV Ads in 2022,” and in a front-page Business Section story that plugged fiercely pro-abortion feminist news outlets in “After Roe v. Wade Reversal, Readers Flock to…
Secondhand Censorship: Big Tech Kept Info from People 195M Times Q1-Q2
Big Tech sent a stark message to conservatives during the second quarter of this year that it will continue to fiercely protect President Joe Biden and censor viewpoints that differ from the left’s narrative on major political issues.
CNN Tries to Suggest That Republican Party May Be No More
Wednesday Night’s CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight, anchored by stand-in host Laura Coates welcomed two known Republicans and left Coates grasping for a little more hope for the downfall of the party. Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan (R-GA) and self-proclaimed conservative CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp joined Coates as she tried to wrap her head around the idea that GOP is still alive…
Nets Trumpet ‘Sweeping,’ ‘Landmark Victory’ for Dems in Spending Bill
Happy days are here again was the mantra Monday for the broadcast network morning news shows following the Senate’s passage of the massive spending boondoggle, deeming it a “landmark,” “sweeping,” and “hard-fought win” for President Biden as Democrats hope to win the midterm elections. This was despite the fact that, tucked inside their exuberant segments, not only was President Biden barely…
