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Despite what the White House has argued, Sunday marked President Biden’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in his entire life and, sure enough, Monday morning’s broadcast network flagship news shows put a positive spin on the trip with Biden “project[ing] that he is on top of this” and “setting the tone” on a crisis while facing “critics from both sides” of the spectrum.

During NBC’s Sunday Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd joined host Willie Geist to discuss the past week which of course included the days-long Speaker election in which Kevin McCarthy emerged victorious. Todd used his appearance to make a prediction that is both filled with wishful thinking and a lack of nuance in his analysis. 

Reporters loved calling it ‘Bridgegate,’ summoning images of the grand Watergate scandal. But ‘Bridgegate’ is really a case study in how the liberal media thugs will use their clout to rough up politicians who might stand athwart their agenda.

All three broadcast morning newscasts devoted full stories on Monday to the first day of public viewing for the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. CBS’s Chris Livesay was the most antagonistic to Benedict’s legacy, regurgitating once again the “God’s Rottweiler” epithet, and tagging Benedict as an “arch-conservative” vs. the merely “more liberal” Pope Francis.

The passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was greeted with a familiar litany of liberal griping about the “strict,” “rigid” “hardline” Pope’s stance on ecclesiastical issues, with ABC, CBS and NBC all reminding viewers that as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he had been tagged “God’s Rottweiler” by critics. On NBC, reporter Anne Thompson described Cardinal Ratzinger as “cartoonish” before his…

On Friday, broadcast networks ABC and CBS completely ignored President Biden signing the massive $1.7 trillion spending bill for 2023. NBC covered the event in a 29-second news brief which included no mention that the bill had been flown to the President for him to sign while he was vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The PBS-branded "American icon" Ken Burns appeared on Wednesday’s Today on NBC to plug his latest book of photographs, Our America: A Photographic History. This 5.75-pound coffee-table book will set you back $75 ($65 at Amazon). At Amazon, you can find the PBS logo hawking several Ken Burns products -- pretty slick for "non-commercial" TV. 

On the top Wednesday morning news shows, the broadcast networks kept up their fiendish attempt to serve as a puppet for both the Biden administration and illegal immigrants as the border crisis waged on with the Supreme Court putting a hold on the end of Title 42 while they hear arguments on the role of states in keeping their borders secure versus an ideology hellbent on flooding the country…

TikTok is owned by a Chinese business beholden to China’s communist government and is understood to be a national security concern. But on Wednesday’s Today, NBC journalists were sad that the House had banned the app from the government-issued phones they handout to members of Congress and their staffers. The network was also concerned about bipartisan legislation that would ban the app in…

In a Tuesday morning report designed to tug at viewers’ heartstrings, NBC’s Today openly complained that people fleeing from communist countries had an easier path to getting asylum claims granted. They declared that the system was “arbitrary” when it came to which countries were greenlit for the easier path but, despite omitting the C-word, it was blatantly obvious what each country they…

ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday reached back to Saturday’s news to slam Republican Governor Greg Abbott for supposedly sending a group of migrants to Vice President Harris’s house on Christmas Eve, but over on CNN an activist explained that the much-criticized bus trips actually provide a “service to the migrants.”

Tomorrow is Christmas Day, one of the most joyous on the Christian calendar. But over the years, assorted Scrooges in the media use the holiday as an occasion to badmouth Christmas or Christianity itself, or to lamely use Christmas as a left-wing political talking point.

Continuing their tradition of having Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan on set to deliver a Christmas message to viewers, NBC’s Today co-hosts Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones talked with the archbishop of New York about Christmas being a light in the darkness for so many people and how people are never truly lonely because Jesus is in our hearts and soul.

The Big Three broadcast networks barely cared this morning that the Senate, including 18 Republicans, voted for a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill. ABC’s Good Morning America was the only broadcast network morning show to bother to air a full report, and that was a mere 93 seconds. NBC’s Today show offered just 24 seconds, lauding it as “a big breakthrough,” while CBS Mornings only devoted…