Double Standards
Phillip Blasts Jennings for Ignoring ‘Guard Rails,’ Playing ‘Games’
Appearing Tuesday on her friend and fellow progressive Kara Swisher’s podcast, CNN Newsnight host Abby Phillip — aka Mrs. CNN Thunderdome — knocked CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings and past panelist Jillian Michaels as examples of people who disrespect her “guard rails” and are “playing...games” with the show.
PBS's Double Standards: Hateful Loomer vs. Gaza’s ‘Mister Rogers'
The PBS News Hour on Wednesday unwittingly showed off ideological double standards in three separate segments: a hostile profile of controversial Republican activist Laura Loomer, a gushfest with controversial pro-Palestinian activist and kid-vid host “Ms. Rachel,” and a celebration of a kinder, gentler form of racial segregation in an arts community in Maine for “Black and brown…
Legacy Evening News Insists on Regurgitating Cooked DC Crime Stats
After a couple of news cycles, it is clear that the legacy media’s Current Thing to be outraged over is the federalization of Washington D.C.’s Metro Police Department. In support of this narrative, they insist on omitting the fact that those crime data are very likely to be cooked.
Jake Steps on a Rake: CNN’s Tapper SCHOOLED By Abbott on Texas Law
On Monday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper once again utterly embarrassed himself on the Texas redistricting issue. While he falsely claimed previously that Republicans were “the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering” and singled out Texas, this time he tried to go toe-to-toe with Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R). Tapper showed off a profound ignorance of the…
Awful NYT COVID Reporter Blames Conservative Disinfo for CDC Shooting
Error-prone science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, infamous for her alarmist and faulty COVID-era reporting, made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with a story on a gunman’s assault on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta that killed a policeman, “C.D.C. Shooting Followed Years of Demonization -- Staff Feels Betrayed as Fears Come True.” She…
Cornish Suggests Trump Plan To Clean Up DC A Racist Dog Whistle
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish, speaking of President Trump's plan to clean up DC, says: "Talking about juveniles, people are one beat away from saying superpredators. It just feels familiar."
Fox News Sunday: Hochul Flees from Mamdani Despite Common Ground
A Fox News Sunday interview on redistricting turned uncomfortable for New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Faced with the possibility of common ground with socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, Hochul accused his interview of “whitewashing” the differences between them.
IT’S (D)IFFERENT: Welker Lets Pritzker Pontificate on TX Redistricting
The standard in what passes for elite legacy media doing their jobs is so eroded that we’ve almost allowed ourselves to cheer when they do something as rudimentary as ask a Democrat politician a question that might seem just a teensy bit uncomfortable. But, as we can learn from the latest episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, merely asking a question is not enough.
MSNBC Analyst Frets Prosecutor Investigating Letitia James Is Biased!
On MSNBC's The Weekend, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg accuses Ed Martin, recently appointed by AG Pam Bondi to investigate possible financial fraud by Adam Schiff and Letitia James of "bias." She ignores the blatant bias of Schiff, who was the lead prosecutor in the first House impeachment of Trump, and of James, who ran for office on a pledge of going after Trump.
THUNDERDOME: Jennings, Singleton CLOWN Libs Defending TX Fleebaggers
What the Texas redistricting fight has exposed is that there’s a huge (D)ifference in how liberals in the media react to partisan gerrymandering. The panel liberals on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip had a very hard time defending Texas Democrats’ flight to gerrymandered blue states.
Years After BLM, Antifa, COVID, Masks Are Bad Now That ICE Uses Them
Years after the Black Lives Matter protests and attendant vandalism, looting and burning, the PBS news division is suddenly worried that masks….help people get away with crimes! Why the sudden interest? Well, it’s a way to indirectly fault ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for criminals impersonating agents. Sunday’s NewsHour Weekend segment carried the online headline “Rise…
OMISSION: Legacy Media Neglect Mexico's ‘Anti-Gentrification’ Protests
Mexico City has been the site of several “anti-gentrification” marches, protesting the presence of Americans and (to a lesser extent) Europeans relocating there after the pandemic. And yet there is nary a peep about this on the legacy media.
The View Stokes GOP Divisions Over Epstein, Decry Criticism of Dems
The liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View had a field day the week of July 14 as they tried to divide Republicans with the Jeffrey Epstein documents snafu. Smelling blood in the water, they kicked off nearly every episode that week talking about Epstein. Meanwhile, at the same time, they cut out a chunk of time to decry liberals who dared to criticize the Democratic Party’s messaging…
Dana Bash Tries to Press Tom Homan on Alligator Alcatraz, Gets COOKED
A hostile interview on CNN’s State of the Union with the Trump Administration’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, ended with host Dana Bash getting roasted for the obvious double standard of coverage in comparison to facilities during the border overrun that occurred during the Biden presidency. Reasonable individuals may conclude, as did Homan, that things were (D)ifferent back then.
