Crime

On last night’s CBS Evening News, a bias by omission twofer via Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane. In addition to airing citations of the well-debunked D.C. crime statistics MacFarlane omitted key details of an arrest in Northwest D.C., all in service of furthering narratives adversarial to the federal takeover of D.C. police.

New York Times reporters Jess Bidgood and Lisa Lerer went to great lengths to undermine President Trump’s possibly successful effort to use National Guard troops to cut crime in our nation’s capital in “Trump Wants to Fight Democrats on Crime. They’re Treading Cautiously." The 1,600-word piece in Tuesday’s edition assumed crime was a declining problem in big cities and that Trump was…

Friday’s PBS News Hour picked the most partisan voice imaginable to make its knee-jerk anti-Trump case against the president’s executive order to prevent crime in D.C.: Marc Elias, a partisan Democrat lawyer and MSNBC personality who worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, spreading conspiracy theories about Trump being in collusion with Russia. Co-host Geoff Bennett opened the…

President Trump’s use of emergency powers to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard to America’s disgracefully crime-ridden capital city was greeted with racially charged animus by the (for the moment) taxpayer-funded pundits on PBS’s Washington Week in Review on Friday evening. Show moderator and Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg brought up what he “a…

In the latest instance in an ongoing series, ABC News has once again treated the cooked crime data coming out of Washington, D.C. as though they were the Gospel truth. And in a new yet familiar twist, now accuse President Donald Trump of “baselessly” referring to the data as “phony”.

HBO’s Bill Maher can seem like the most reasonable of the bunch of the liberal late night comedians because he is willing to ridicule the excesses of the left, but in mocking DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine on Friday’s Real Time for being assaulted, he crossed a line that even the others have dared not cross.

President Trump's temporary takeover of law enforcement in DC caused an outburst of media protest, that somehow crime was at a "historic low" -- if you use bogus numbers. Plus to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NewsBusters, we remember some of the most outrageous examples of network nonsense with Geoffrey Dickens.

Some of the most hackish elements of the liberal media had pivoted to outright lying and denying that Washington, D.C. had a major crime and safety problem. That much was clear during Thursday’s Inside Politics on CNN as network correspondent Gabe Cohen attacked and scoffed at National Guard troops deployed to the district. He was joined by Axios contributor Margaret Talev who all but…

Morning Joe says that with his moves to bolster crime-fighting in DC with federal agents, a skillful President Trump has set a "trap" for Democrats. Oppose Trump's moves at their peril. Joe Scarborough says that Dems make a mistake by opposing Trump's moves by citing statistics purporting to show that crime is down in DC. He says the reality is that an overwhelming majority of DC residents,…

Former CNN host Jim Acosta hates conspiracy theories unless, of course, he happens to be the one peddling them. On his Tuesday Substack podcast, Acosta mused, without evidence, that the Trump Administration could send ICE to polling stations to intimidate Latinos into not voting.

Proving why defunding PBS was a great thing for America, on Wednesday, Firing Line host Margaret Hoover appeared on CNN’s The Lead and laughed after hearing conservative commentator Scott Jennings recount watching a man get murdered right in front of him in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station. Hoover went on to decry President Trump’s effort to crackdown on the out-of-control…

Politico senior editor Michael Schaffer suggests something is wrong with Democrat D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for not acting more confrontational. You can get a hint of that attitude from the title of his Wednesday article, "Donald Trump Took Over DC’s Police. Why Is the City’s Mayor So Zen?"

NBC’s Seth Meyers appeared torn on Wednesday’s Late Night between trying to argue that conservative talking points about crime in big cities are false and that, actually, it is red states that have a crime problem. To justify such a conclusion, Meyers appeared totally unaware that you can have a blue city inside of a red state.

Tuesday night on his show On Balance, NewsNation host Leland Vittert lambasted progressives and their media allies dismissing concerns about crime in Washington D.C. by invoking President Trump’s role in the events of January 6, 2021 as a way to shutdown debate, calling it a “playbook” hell bent on “hijack[ing]” debate to “something four years ago that has absolutely nothing to do…