Jon Stewart: 'The Problem With White People,' All Like Klansmen
The week after releasing a more or less decent critique of the media’s “bulls***” and “jail-gasm” antics with the Mueller report in his The Problem With show, Jon Stewart squandered the goodwill. With the next episode dedicated to “The Problem With White People,” Stewart and radical leftist guests (all of whom were white) engaged in a type of self-flagellation to score virtue points…
CNN Lets Race-Baiter Guest Accuse GOP of 'Race-Baiting' on Jackson
On Friday's New Day show, CNN's Brianna Keilar hosted another segment stacked with criticism of Republicans over their treatment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, liberal nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Frequent guest Sophia Nelson -- who has a history of making incendiary attacks on black conservatives -- hypocritically accused Republicans of "race-baiting" in their questioning.…
NYT: 'Pain and Disgust’ For GOP 'Appeals to Racism' in KBJ Hearings
The hearings into Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court are over, but reporters at the New York Times are still seething about her supposedly racist treatment at the hands of Republicans. They found some other voices that were angry as well for “How Black Women Saw Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing.” Reporters Patricia Mazzei, Tariro…
New York Times Systemic Racism Used To Attack Jackson Critics
As NewsBusters colleague Clay Waters has noted this week, The New York Times has spent front page space playing the race card, showcasing the paper’s systemic racism. Well of course it has. As the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson proceeds, there is The Times instinctively reacting to what has been a decidedly civilized hearing with what can only be…
Capehart, Brooks: Republicans Put Jackson 'Through Hell' To Get on Fox
Columnists Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday for their weekly panel discussion to recap Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Together, the duo would accuse Republicans of putting her through hell so that they could get on Fox.
PBS Runs Puff Piece on Cori Bush's 'Activism,' Radical Agenda
On Thursday, your tax dollars paid for PBS NewsHour to run a puff piece on radical Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush for the 57th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches. During the profile, Bush would be compared to previous civil rights activists and praised for her support for the Black Lives Matter movement and perpetual eviction moratoriums.
CNN Sees 'Racism,' 'Q-Anon,' 2024 Ambitions in Questioning of Jackson
On Thursday’s New Day on CNN, host Brianna Keilar and chief national affairs analyst Kasie Hunt recapped the GOP’s performance at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings with accusations of racism, 2024 ambitions, and QAnon conspiracy theorizing.
NYT Ties GOPer Who ‘Spoke Offensively About Asians’ to Hate Crimes
The New York Times “On Politics” newsletter dealt with the latest racist atrocity committed by a Republican: “Republican in Ohio Senate Primary Spoke Offensively About Asians.” The subhead: “Mike Gibbons, a leading contender to succeed Senator Rob Portman, made the comments in a 2013 podcast on doing business in China.” The Times huffed: "The leading Republican candidate in…
CBS Claims Ukrainian Refugees Benefit From Race
As ordinary Ukrainians flee the country in order to escape from the Russian invaders, CBS Saturday Morning declared that, unlike other refugees, they benefit from their race.
Cowardly NYTimes Again Evades Black-on-Asian Hate Crimes, Blames Trump
The New York Times again avoided the issue of black-on-Asian hate crimes while supposedly covering the story of anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City: “Asian Americans Grapple With Tide of Attacks: ‘We Need Our Safety Back.’” Instead, Donald Trump was blamed. Reporters Jeffery Mays, Dana Rubinstein and Grace Ashford deflected from the obvious racial angle to the killings in their…
Racist Joy: We Only Care About Ukraine Because They're White
On Monday night's The ReidOut on MSNBC, host Joy Reid used the last segment of her prime-time show to exploit the war in Ukraine in order to play racial politics. Reid claimed that the reason the United States and the rest of the world care so much about Russia's invasion of Ukraine is because their population is "white and largely Christian"
Holt Badgers Barr on 'Systemic Racism' After Former AG Rejects BLM
As part of his book tour, former Attorney General Bill Barr joined NBC’s Lester Holt for an exclusive sit-down interview that was aired on Friday’s NBC Nightly News and the Saturday edition of Today. During the interview, Holt unsuccessfully attempted to get Barr to agree with him that systemic bias and racism exist in American policing.
ABC's 'The Wonder Years' Paints 'Concerned White Parents' as Racists
ABC’s The Wonder Years reboot has been surprisingly fair for a Hollywood show, and thus enjoyable to watch. Until it wasn’t. Wednesday’s episode, “Black Teacher,” took on the sensitive topic of race and racism and did a good job of it until the very end when they took a dig at “concerned white parents” who fight to make sure what their children are learning is “fair and balanced.” And…
Race-Baiting NYTimes LIES About Zimmerman's 911 Call: ‘He Looks Black'
The shooting death of black teen Trayvon Martin during a sidewalk confrontation with George Zimmerman in Orlando 10 years ago stoked the new civil rights movement – or so claims a column and video for the opinion section of the Times marking the anniversary: “Trayvon Martin Is Still Making America Confront Its Original Sin.” The presence of Al Sharpton is not the most offensive part…
