The Media's Musk Hostility Has a Historical Echo

February 22nd, 2025 4:00 PM

The President of the United States looked his chief budget cutter in the eye, saying, "You’re a victim of sabotage by the press. They’re trying to bring you down because of what you’ve helped us accomplish."

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Clooney’s Truth-Telling Play Arrives at Terrible Time

February 22nd, 2025 1:30 PM

George Clooney cemented his auteur status with 2005’s Good Night, and Good Luck. The drama recalled journalist Edward R. Murrow’s clash with Sen. Joseph McCarthy during what later became known as the Blacklist era.

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ABC Goes Soft On Mangione Fans, Paints Trial As 'Cultural Flashpoint'

February 22nd, 2025 11:45 AM

ABC’s Trevor Ault went soft on those who showed up to support alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione on Friday’s edition of World News Tonight. Instead of reacting in horror that such an alleged cold-blooded killer has such support, Ault portrayed his upcoming trial as a “cultural flashpoint.”

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Brooks: People Will Die Because Trump Admin Wants To 'Break Things'

February 22nd, 2025 9:57 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks is theoretically supposed to be PBS News Hour’s conservative half of its weekly Friday news recap with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, he constantly fails to live up to this arrangement, and this Friday was no exception, as he alleged that people all over the world will die because the Trump administration simply…

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Stein, Todd Lament Media's 'Collective Weakness' Defending AP, Rip Fox

February 21st, 2025 6:51 PM

Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf…

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Anti-DOGE NBC Celebrates Return of Angry Liberals at GOP Townhalls

February 21st, 2025 3:49 PM

With the networks having already established over the last few weeks a totally-not-coordinated stream of sympathetic laid off federal workers to attack the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump, NBC’s Today added another wrinkle Friday by cheering liberal rabble rousers shouting at House Republicans during constituent townhalls.

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The View’s Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines CLASH Over Effectiveness of DEI

February 21st, 2025 3:00 PM

It’s not often that the liberal ladies of The View actually have divergent views, but when those happen, they don’t know how to deal with it. During Friday’s show, staunchly racist Sunny Hostin lashed out at white men and was on so on the defensive about racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that she couldn’t recognize that pretend independent co-host Sara Haines was…

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Reid, Ex-NFL Punter Attack MAGA's 'Nazi Playbook' On 'Trans People'

February 21st, 2025 11:40 AM

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe went on a wild anti-Trump tirade at a city council meeting on Tuesday that led to him being arrested. On Thursday, he went on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to beat his chest about what a great guy he is for it and accuse anyone who disagrees with him, especially on transgender issues, of being a Nazi.

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Lewinsky To Colbert: Dem President Could Still Dodge a MeToo Scandal

February 21st, 2025 10:25 AM

When Monica Lewinsky traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday to promote her new podcast, she briefly popped the show’s liberal bubble by lamenting to the eponymous host that if what she went through in 1998 were to happen with some future Democratic president, she isn’t convinced the reaction would be any different.

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NBC's 'Law & Order' Plot: 'Zealots' Want Ten Commandments in Schools

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February 21st, 2025 8:38 AM

NBC's Law & Order took a swipe at religious believers in this week's episode, titled "In God We Trust."

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EVEN Chris Cillizza (Remember Him?) Thinks Dems Are Dumb to Fight DOGE

February 20th, 2025 6:20 PM

Having been laid off in December 2022 from CNN, Chris Cillizza has been free to appear elsewhere, join Substack, and…come to his senses? That seems to have been the case more recently with one example having come Wednesday night on NewsNation as he admitted he was exasperated at Democrats being willing to die on the hill of saving the federal bureaucracy from Elon Musk.

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CNN Warns That Only Recognizing Two Sexes May Lead To 'Discrimination'

February 20th, 2025 3:43 PM

During Donald Trump’s first term, CNN made a big deal about how an apple is an apple, and even if you call it a banana, it is still an apple. However, on Thursday, the cast of CNN News Central echoed the Washington Post and claimed there are more than two sexes, with health reporter Jacqueline Howard going so far as to say an HHS order affirming the sexual binary could lead…

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Behar Thinks It’s Un-American for Trump to Not Be in Prison Right Now

February 20th, 2025 2:51 PM

As of the Thursday edition of ABC’s The View, purported “comedian” Joy Behar was still having issues coming to terms with the result of the 2024 presidential election. So much so, that she resorted to retreating to their happy place: imaging President Trump in prison. And the fact that he wasn’t resulted in Behar suggesting it was “unfair” and un-American. Meanwhile, fake Republican…

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CBS Airs Possibly the Dumbest Segment Defending DEI as Popular

February 20th, 2025 2:27 PM

CBS News must have decided they haven’t suffered enough self-inflicted wounds of partisan quackery as Thursday’s CBS Mornings Plus defended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as not only necessary, but widely popular and doesn’t at all conflict with concerns about “merit,” and actually exists to benefit white women and military veterans.