Jim Axelrod
Column: CBS Hates Talk Radio -- And Its Fans
October 19th, 2022 5:59 AM
Liberals like to think that conservatives are very closed-minded and can’t handle listening to an opposing opinion. But whenever "mainstream" journalists start discussing talk radio and how it’s “bad for America,” you can surmise that they often can’t handle the other side.
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Vile CBS Smears Rush Limbaugh & Talk Radio as 'Bad for America'
October 16th, 2022 6:30 PM
Conservatives should be gratified to know that nearly two years since the late-great Rush Limbaugh’s tragic passing, he is still getting under the leftist media’s skin. On CBS Sunday Morning, senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod brought on pseudo-historian and talk radio hater Brian Rosenwald to smear the greatest radio host of all time, Rush Limbaugh, as well as the conservative…
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CBS Seethes Over ‘Bigot’ Rush, But Gushed Over 'Progressive' Porn King
February 18th, 2021 11:00 AM
CBS This Morning’s co-hosts on Thursday joined the classless chorus of attacks trashing Rush Limbaugh in death. The journalists used words like “divisive, “racist” and “bigot” for the radio icon. CBS This Morning is the same show that, just a few weeks ago, praised porn king Larry Flynt for being a nuanced progressive figure, rather than a sleezy exploiter of women.
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CBS Hails ‘Compelling’ Trevor Noah Rant Justifying Looting
July 13th, 2020 5:06 PM
Left-wing Daily Show host Trevor Noah was treated to a fawning puff piece on CBS Sunday Morning in which correspondent Jim Axelrod gushed over a YouTube rant from the supposed comedian that justified looting and rioting during Black Lives Matter protests. Rather than be asked to explain his controversial comments, Noah’s radicalism was hailed as “compelling.”
Nightly News Skips Dow at 27,000, Other Nets Spare Just Seconds
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July 12th, 2019 2:59 PM
Wall Street experienced another record-setting day July 11, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 27,000 for the first time ever. But you would know little about that new record if you were watching the three broadcast evening news shows that night. And nothing at all if you watched NBC Nightly News.
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Nets Celebrate Ross Perot: 'Joined Clinton on the Attack' Against Bush
July 9th, 2019 8:56 PM
The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seemed to be in such a rush to praise Perot for his performance ’92 that they forgot to mention his age until the very last moments of their reports (as the transcripts below show). In fact, they focused so much on celebrating the effect he had on the election that only one of them (CBS Evening News) cared to mention how he died. But that too seemed like…
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ABC Skips Criminal Justice Bill Signing; Hypes Corker Attacking Rush
December 21st, 2018 8:27 PM
On Friday, some Americans might have missed news that President Donald Trump signed into the law the bipartisan, landmark First Step Act. If you were watching ABC’s World News Tonight, you might have been one such person as the newscast ignored this example of a positive legislative breakthrough, instead choosing to insinuate Rush Limbaugh is to blame for an impending government shutdown.
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Here We Go Again: CBS, NBC Push Another Bogus Mass Shooting Statistic
November 8th, 2018 9:03 PM
So, just like macabre clockwork. With Thursday’s mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, there were routine calls for more gun control from the liberal media machine. During their evening broadcasts, CBS and NBC tried to scare the wits out of their viewers by dubiously claiming that there had been 307 mass shooting this year alone, or almost one a day. But that…
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CBS, NBC Celebrate Win for Democrat Accused of Anti-Semitism
November 7th, 2018 9:48 PM
In the midst of their midterm results coverage on Wednesday, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News touted the diversity of the Democratic Party’s field of winners. But in the process, they celebrated the election of Congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The problem? She’s been accused of anti-Semitism because of her anti-Israel stance.
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ABC, NBC Suggest NFL Kneeling Wasn’t Unpopular Until Trump Spoke Out
June 2nd, 2018 12:44 PM
When it came to reporting the policy change that evening, ABC and NBC appeared put off by the development. They both seemed to suggest that players kneeling wasn’t unpopular with fans until President Trump spoke out and pushed the inaccurate claim the players weren’t consulted. And neither spoke with players supportive of the decision.
Jobs Growth ‘Explodes:’ ABC, NBC Give It Just 39 Seconds Combined
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March 12th, 2018 4:27 PM
February job gains came in at a whopping 313,000 new jobs, so much that NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt acknowledged it “blows away economists’ expectations.” The Wall Street Journal said expectations were at only 205,000. Unemployment also remained at the 17-year-low of 4.1 percent. But only one of the big three networks gave the good news any serious attention.
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CBS Champions Sen. Flake, Claims He Was Victim of GOP ‘Mutiny’
October 25th, 2017 11:55 PM
During Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, the network ran back-to-back reports lionizing Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake for announcing his retirement while he denounced his party’s president. In a block of time lasting four minutes and 28 seconds, CBS bemoaned how Flake’s Republican colleagues didn’t join him in ripping President Trump and covering-up just how vastly unpopular Flake was in his…
Media Bull: 31 Dow Records Since Inauguration; All 3 Nets Censor 80%
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August 2nd, 2017 1:52 PM
The stock markets rose dramatically since President Donald Trump was elected. Just since his inauguration, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more than 10 percent and set 31 new closing record highs. The 30th record was set on July 31, 2017, when the Dow closed at 21,891, prompting speculations about the prospect of Dow 22,000. But none of the three broadcast news programs said anything…
ABC, NBC Downplay Trump Connection to Jobs Report
Business
March 14th, 2017 8:50 AM
While financial news networks, companies and economists linked optimism over President Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies to the strong jobs report, only one of three broadcast networks — CBS — made that connection.
On March 10, The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced 235,000 new jobs were added in February — the first month entirely under the new president’s watch. The report shot past…
