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Something unexpected happened on Wednesday. PolitiFact gave Joe Biden his first "Pants On Fire" rating as president....twenty-two months into plenty of transparent lies, starting with the Republicans are "Jim Crow 2.0" on election laws. This was the sentence they flagged as a lie: "On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks."…

Federal Communications Commission commissioner Brendan Carr said that the U.S. government should ban TikTok, according to Axios.

TIME hid key facts and twisted others in a story that scare-mongered about former President Donald Trump’s potential return to Twitter.

In the aftermath of the assault on Paul Pelosi and against all evidence, the Monday edition of CNN Tonight confidently proclaimed that political violence is a “uniquely right-wing problem right now.” Steve Scalise, Lee Zeldin, and Brett Kavanaugh, and the victims of the riots of 2020 were all unavailable for comment.

A new MRC study of midterm election coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts finds Republicans are being walloped with 87% negative coverage while the networks' agenda for these stories — GOP candidate controversies, abortion rights and the danger of “election deniers” — perfectly match the topmost items in Democrats’ campaign playbook.

On Morning Joe, at the end of the first half-hour spent exclusively on discussing the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, and blaming it on Trumpism, Mika Brzezinski vows, "we're going to be spending the entire show trying to take a deep dive into this."

Morning Joe defends "MSNBC Republican" Elise Jordan, who once called Donald Trump a "classic scumbag," over attacks from the left over her conducting a focus group with black Philadelphia voters concerned about crime, and Trump supporters in the Pittsburgh area.

On New Day, CNN polling maven Harry Enten, analyzing the relationship between a president's approval rating and the results of his party in midterm House elections, says that Biden "looks like the losers." 

The New York Times front page on Friday sounded a familiar refrain on the perils of conservative “disinformation” in “Exploding Online, Disinformation Is Now a Fixture of U.S. Politics.” But beyond the latest tiresome rehash that reporters Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel made of what former President Trump is now spouting on his social media platform, the piece also relied on the…

George Clooney displayed an extreme lack of awareness in talking politics with Chris Wallace. “So I look at where we are in this sort of coarsening of our discourse, and I find it to be worrying,” Clooney said, referring to conservatives. He can't find any coarseness from Hollywood or late-night hate-night TV.

On Morning Joe, a consensus among Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, and Elise Jordan that crime is the key issue in the 2022 midterms. But Fordham professor Christina Greer claims that "we know that the fears of crime are latent sub-texts that have a racialized history in this country. And so, walking voters through the perception of crime and where there actually is crime."

On his MSNBC show, Mehdi Hasan teest up notorious antisemite, Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, to falsely accuse Donald, Trump of making an antisemitic post, and to wring her hands of the rise of antisemitism in America. 

The subject of “Christian nationalism” has again appeared in our political life, establishing residence in the Republican Party. It is nothing new, though, having taken many forms in the past, including Moral Rearmament, Prohibition, Christian Reconstructionism, Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition. In each incarnation, people have been told that something approaching Heaven on Earth…

Even as Democrats boast about their big spending “achievements,” MSNBC The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle lamented on Monday that voters will not blame Republicans for high spending considering news that the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service nearly $1200 a night.