Column: Texas Murder Is Pushed Away to Trash 'Right-Wing Provocateurs'
Senseless murder at a high-school track meet can be expected to make national news, but if the murderer is black and the victim is white, the story is destined to disappear quickly from the spotlight. On April 2, 2025, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony in Frisco, Texas. The story vanished after the shock wore off.
NewsBusters Podcast: Questioning California Vote Counting Is Baseless?
The liberal broadcast and cable news networks have attacked the widespread skepticism about the slow-moving reversal in the Los Angeles mayoral election results as Trump and the Republicans spreading “baseless conspiracy theories.” California's unique way of taking a month to count votes was touted as careful, not manipulative.
Snopes Denounces GOP on Talarico But Not Pro-Abort Conspiracy Theories
The self-styled fact-checkers at Snopes had an interesting Friday. On one hand, Rae Deng claimed there is insufficient evidence to label a left-wing conspiracy theory about a proposed bill in North Carolina making murdering women legal if they seek an abortion false. On the other hand, Jack Izzo was adamant that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is the victim of a “chronically…
Maher Describes Texas Senate Race As 'Attila The Hun' Vs. 'Nice Guy'
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, HBO’s Bill Maher sought to frame the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico as “Attila the Hun” versus “a nice guy.” At the same time, after former GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pointed out that Talarico has said some whacky things in the past, MS NOW host Katy Tur stepped in to defend Talarico by claiming “he’s taken that…
PBS Claims 'Biden's Health Has Been Litigated In Public Exhaustively'
PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart teamed up to try to absolve the media from their past errors on Friday by making the curious claim that “Joe Biden's health has been litigated in public exhaustively.” For his part, Capehart went so far as to try to shift the presidential health concerns to President Trump for simply having three semi-annual…
PolitiFact Defends Talarico From Vegan Charge, Ignores Six Sexes Claim
PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six…
OMISSION ROUNDUP: Nets HIDE TX Antisemite, Violent Anti-ICE Mob in NJ
As is always the case with the Elitist Media evening news, what doesn’t make it to air at least as important, and sometimes more so, than what gets shown to viewers. A couple of recent stories further prove this to be true.
Velshi: Voters Could Stop U.S. Elections Becoming Like Iran and Russia
During MS NOW’s Texas Senate Primary election coverage, the new helm of the spin-off network’s election big board, Ali Velshi said American elections could turn into elections in Russia and Iran with meaningless ballots. He then stated he felt a groundswell movement, as seen with anti-DOGE and Minneapolis’s protests, would rise to vote in the upcoming midterms to stop it.
MS NOW: Talarico 'Can Out-Bible' GOP, Race Will Be 'Good Versus Evil'
After Tuesday’s GOP Senate Primary in Texas, MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera welcomed former Bush and McCain advisor Mark McKinnon to her show the following day to react. McKinnon twice stated that the matchup is more than Republican Ken Paxton versus Democrat James Talarico but that it is “good versus evil.”
NPR Sounds Like a Platform for Illegal Immigrants in Austin, Texas
We've demonstrated how PBS and reporters like Minnesota-based Fred de Sam Lazaro sound like lobbyists for illegal immigrants. The same thing is happening at National “Public” Radio. A story from Austin, Texas focused on cranky leftists who want local officials to resist ICE harder.
‘CBS Mornings’ Sucks Up to, Strategizes With Lefty James Talarico
Hours after an Oliver Darcy underling screeched Sunday about CBS News’s social media platforms as having gone full MAGA for covering unsavory stories such as a Jewish Insider investigation into the radical social media history of New York City’s first lady, Monday’s CBS Mornings showed the liberal media are unsurprisingly not living in reality as the newscast welcomed far-left Texas…
Upside Down: NY Times Lauds Lefty Talarico vs. 'Heretical' Right Wing
Monday’s New York Times brought more “strange new respect” for Christianity, in a 1,600-word story by Lisa Lerer, national political reporter, and Elisabeth Dias, national religion correspondent, pumping up yet another Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, where the Democrats haven’t won a stateside office since 1994. This time there’s a religious angle, and the paper…
‘Cross-Partisan’; ABC/CBS Tout Talarico Using ‘Unity’ to Win Moderates
On Wednesday, ABC and CBS were nauseatingly in awe on their flagship newscasts of far-left Texas State Representative James Talarico — who believes, among other things, God was non-binary and that Mary would support abortion — as possessing “cross-partisan appeal” in a campaign “emphasizing unity” to pull in “moderates” to deliver Texas the first statewide Democrat win since 1994.