NY Times Reporter Panics Over Trump’s ‘Anti-Democratic Streak’

June 5th, 2020 6:40 PM

New York Times political reporter Matt Flegenheimer filed a panicky “Political Memo” for Wednesday’s edition: “Trump’s Bible Photo Op Further Divides Debate On State of Democracy.” It’s another brick in the edifice the paper is trying to construct portraying Trump as a danger to American democracy.

Video

Mitchell Takes Trump Out of Context on Floyd, Job Numbers

June 5th, 2020 4:57 PM

Friday saw unexpectedly great jobs numbers that caused the unemployment rate to go down. It also saw President Trump give a news conference where he said George Floyd would be proud of what is going on across the country. These two things led many in the media, including MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, to take Trump out of context and accuse him of saying that Floyd would be proud of Friday's job…

Video

Cuomo: Calls for 'Peaceful' Protests are 'Dog Whistle' for 'Be Quiet'

June 5th, 2020 1:57 PM

CNN host Chris Cuomo spent his closing argument Wednesday night dismissing the calls for peaceful protests and an end to the rioting and looting plaguing America’s cities. According to Cuomo, anyone calling for “peaceful” protests was using a “dog whistle,” proclaiming that what they really want is for black people to “be quiet.”

Genre Gone: WashPost Says Cancel Cop Shows

Culture
June 5th, 2020 11:42 AM

Listen up, Hollywood! The Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg has a terrific idea for you: she wants you to “immediately halt production on cop shows and movies and rethink the stories [you tell] about policing in America.”

Video

Katy Tur Asks If White Americans 'Might be Scared' of Black Americans

June 5th, 2020 11:04 AM

MSNBC Live host Katy Tur could have used Thursday's show to try to see if there was a way that the current protests across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd could bring the country together. Instead, however, she teamed up with Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson to wonder if white Americans are unwittingly racist by being scared of black Americans, simply…

Ali Velshi
Video

MSNBC's Ali Velshi Says Scolding About Looting Is 'Nonsensical'

June 5th, 2020 6:39 AM

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC weekend host Ali Velshi again rationalized the actions of rioters as he got up on a soap box and preached about "institutional, socioeconomic injustice and racism" against the black population being the motivation for riots in Minneapolis and other cities. His commentary elicited an "amen" from liberal host MSNBC host Joy Behar.

The Controlled Burn Rages Out of Control

June 5th, 2020 12:04 AM

In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That's bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a police officer to place his knee on the neck of a prone suspect struggling to breathe for…

An Unusual Conversation

June 4th, 2020 11:55 PM

Which of the following would you consider the most unusual and least likely to occur? 1) President Trump calls Speaker Nancy Pelosi to invite her to lunch. 2) Rioters and looters agree to pay for the damage they caused to businesses and individuals. 3) Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh appears on "The Breakfast Club," a nationally syndicated radio program that features discussions on…

Video

Coach Tony Dungy: Drew Brees ‘Can’t be Afraid’ to Give His Opinion

Culture
June 4th, 2020 4:01 PM

Well, Drew Brees has apologized for having his own opinions. It was to be expected. But at least one prominent African-American sports figure doesn’t want the Saints QB cast into the outer darkness.

New York Times Again Lets Leftist Twitter Edit Its Front Page

June 4th, 2020 1:06 PM

The New York Times appears to have once again caved to the radical left on Twitter and changed a perfectly accurate headline deemed sufficiently anti-Trump. This was the original banner headline on the front page of Tuesday’s first edition: “As Chaos Spreads, Trump Vows To ‘End It Now.’” After left-wing outcry, including from former Obama staffers and media favorites Jon Lovett (“Just…

#Woke CBS News Says Protests ‘Underscore Worsening Racial Wealth Gaps’

Business
June 4th, 2020 12:09 PM

The news media are trying to rationalize violent riots. CBS News published a piece headlined, “Protests underscore worsening racial wealth gaps: ‘Justifiable anger.’” Authors Aimee Picchi and Irina Ivanova exploited the murder of George Floyd to suggest that the “nationwide protests” have also drawn “attention to the stark socioeconomic differences between black and white Americans.”

Video

CNN Anchor Touts 'Beautiful Scene' of 'Necessary' Police Protests

June 4th, 2020 9:15 AM

CNN's "Facts First" motto isn't being applied to the wave of protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody. CNN personalities feel compelled to support the protests, even tout them as "beautiful" and "necessary" for "real change." That happened with CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin.

Video

CNN Cites One Tweet as Reason to Doubt Antifa Involvement in Riots

June 3rd, 2020 11:39 PM

While some have tried to pretend that Antifa is not that bad-- after all, it's short for anti-fascist," so how bad can they really be?-- others have asserted without any evidence that it's actually white supremacists posing as Antifa that is responsible for the violence across the country. On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto claimed to have found the evidence…

NYTimes Hits Rush & Co. on Floyd: ‘Conservative Media Outrage Machine'

June 3rd, 2020 9:39 PM

Sunday’s New York Times tried to put “law and order conservatives,” not liberal riot supporters, on the defensive in the violent aftermath of the unjust death under police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis: “Floyd Case Presents Ideological Challenge for Law-and-Order Conservatives.” The text box: “Even Limbaugh and Pirro can’t defend an officer’s actions.”