Wesley Lowery
PBS: Black Memphis Cops Showed ‘Anti-Black Racism’ in Deadly Beating
January 29th, 2023 11:05 PM
Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter who covers police issues and race, appeared on PBS’s news roundup Washington Week Friday to talk about the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police after a traffic stop in Memphis, and both he and the emotional show host Yamiche Alcindor insisted anti-black racism was so widespread in America that it…
GQ Hypes 2024 Run, Laments Opposition To AOC In Fawning Profile
September 7th, 2022 2:49 PM
The difference in how the media treats conservatives it considers to be extreme and progressives was on full display in GQ on Wednesday as Wesley Lowery penned a feature on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that came in at over 6,800 words while Cruz Valdez pitched in with a glamorous photoshoot.
Inconvenient Fact About Mass Killings
May 20th, 2022 7:29 PM
After the mass murder of 10 in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket committed by a man who posted a racist manifesto, Wesley Lowery, a CBS reporter, said: “Let's be clear, the stuff Tucker (Carlson) and Laura Ingraham say every night, it could be written by white supremacists very often. There's a section of this manifesto where the shooter starts talking about, 'People will always say diversity…
NewsBusters Podcast: Disinformation and Mass Shooting Blame Games
May 16th, 2022 10:07 PM
Bill Maher attacked the notion that the federal government would run an effort against "disinformation" broadly defined. When a racist teen shot up a Buffalo supermarket, disinformation broke out as liberal outlets raced to connect it somehow to Tucker Carlson and Fox News.
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Stelter Guest: Tucker, Ingraham & Shapiro Parrot White Supremacists
May 15th, 2022 4:28 PM
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, Brian Stelter brought on leftist journalist Wesley Lowery to discuss what they describe as extremist content online and in media that inspired the shooter in Saturday’s mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store. Lowery proceeded to accuse Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, and Jewish conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro of parroting…
UPDATE: NYT Decides It Hates Free Speech, Apologizes for Cotton Op-Ed
June 4th, 2020 5:05 PM
By now, the liberal media and allies in elected office and academia have made clear as day that they don’t actually believe in the First Amendment or a free press. The latest proof? The New York Times opinion section daring to publish a column…
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CNN Smears Gun Owners, Trashes ‘Diversionary’ Speech by Racist Trump
August 5th, 2019 11:51 AM
On Monday morning, CNN Newsroom made sure everyone recognized its hatred for President Donald Trump, his supporters, the Second Amendment, and anyone looking to unify the country in the wake of the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings. If you weren’t on board with those terms or approved of the President’s Monday morning speech, there was no place for you aboard Team Jeffrey Zucker.
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Lemon Literally Applauds Dem Who Lectured GOPer Over Racism
February 28th, 2019 10:51 AM
On Wednesday's CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon literally clapped his hands to cheer on Democratic Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence for telling off Republican Congressman Mark Meadows over race in response to him inviting former Donald Trump employee Lynne Patton as evidence that he does not treat his employees in a racist manner. The CNN host then had the congresswoman on the show to further complain…
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WaPo Reporter: Trump Out to ‘Silence’ Minorities With 'Bully Pulpit'
May 27th, 2018 3:09 PM
NBC wasn’t the only network news outlet to spout liberal hyperbole about national anthem supporters and President Trump’s motives. During Sunday’s This Week, Washington Post national correspondent Wesley Lowery joined ABC’s “powerhouse” roundtable where he claimed as fact that Trump’s goal in harping on the NFL protestors was “silence” minorities who were protesting police brutality. Of course,…
Post Reporter Compares Violent D.C. Rioters to Boston Tea Party
January 20th, 2017 3:48 PM
Friday morning through early afternoon, anti-Trump and anarchist rioters calling themselves #DisruptJ20 took to the streets of Washington D.C. to protest Trump’s inauguration. Their protest took several forms, from blocking entrances and freeways, to violence in the forms of vandalism, destruction and throwing concrete at police officers. While many in the media expressed dismay at the violence,…
DOJ Says Governor 'Escalated' Ferguson by Calling in the Guard
November 22nd, 2014 11:24 PM
On Monday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat, ordered the National Guard into Ferguson, Missouri and declared a state of emergency in anticipation of a grand jury's decision about whether to criminally charge police officer Darren Wilson in the August death of Michael Brown. If only Nixon had called in the Guard, as virtually every governor of all political persuations did in response to…
Dylan Byers Defends Politico For 'Diversity' That Barely Exists, and I
August 20th, 2014 11:08 AM
Just to be clear, the racial makeup of a news organization should be irrelevant to its ability to cover current events. The answers to who, what, where, when, why, and how are colorblind. The practice of assigning reporters to stories based on the ethnicities or races of stories' subjects is offensive, and should be seen as insulting.
But the fact is that news organizations and so-called…
Andrea Mitchell Wonders If WashPost Reporter Was ‘Detained For Repor
August 14th, 2014 4:12 PM
In the wake of Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown’s shooting death following a confrontation with local police, two reporters, one with the Washington Post and another with the Huffington Post, were arrested by officials for failing to follow police orders as the town continues to deal with ongoing violence and looting.
Following the arrest of Wesley Lowery, an African American reporter…
MSNBC’s Scarborough Rips Detained Reporters As Petulant Attention Se
August 14th, 2014 3:45 PM
Token quasi-conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was in full-blown contrarian mode this morning as he offered his perspective on two reporters in Ferguson, Missouri, who were briefly arrested and then shortly thereafter released. The former Florida congressman ripped the reporters in question for failing to listen to the cop’s repeated orders to exit a McDonald’s as they attempted to cordon…
