MSNBC Should Have Read The Email Before Fretting About Info Leaks

The panel of MSNBC's The Weekend frets that classified information will be leaked as a result of federal employees responding to an email from the Trump administration requiring them to list five things they did in the last week.  The panelists apparently had not read the email in question which specifically instructs them, in bold letters, "Do Not Send any classified information."…

Mark Finkelstein
February 23rd, 2025 5:25 PM

CBS Sunday Morning Tries to Make ‘Constitutional Crisis’ a Thing

CBS Senior Political Correspondent Robert Costs is doing his level best to preserve the media’s hysterical denunciations of a “constitutional crisis” where there is none. This contrasts with a very recent past constitutional crisis that the media bit their collective tongues on.

Jorge Bonilla
February 23rd, 2025 2:53 PM

MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart Cues Up Leftist to Call Deportations 'Racist'

On Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on Friday morning, the MSNBC host and Telemundo anchor did his part to undermine President Donald Trump's deportation efforts by having on a leftist activist who got to make unchallenged claims that the Trump administration was being "racist" in its deportation policies.

Brad Wilmouth
February 23rd, 2025 2:30 PM

BREAKING: Joy Reid Show CANCELED (Again), Alex Wagner Show Is Over

The nightly freakout is over. After almost five years, Joy Reid's second MSNBC show The Reidout has been canceled. New MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler is making moves, and it's also expected that Alex Wagner's show will not return after Rachel Maddow returning to her timeslot for the first 100 days of Trump.

Tim Graham
February 23rd, 2025 7:44 AM

NY Times Laments Focus on Murdered Bibas Kids Endangers the Ceasefire

Jerusalem Bureau Chief Patrick Kingsley displayed the crazed priorities at the New York Times in a Saturday front-page “news analysis” (editorial) on the Bibas children kidnapped and murdered by Hamas. Kingsley could only fret about what Israel’s (wholly justified) rage might do to harm the anti-Israel international community’s precious “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas,…

Clay Waters
February 23rd, 2025 6:22 AM

NPR Story Stars Dumped USAID Staffers Trashing 'Evil' Trump Actions

WAMU-FM, the NPR station airing news all day in D.C., has openly sided with the federal bureaucracy and against the Trump team's effort to reform government. On Friday morning, their aired a story for four and a half minutes during Morning Edition that was devoted only to frustrated staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development.  The "evil" Trump side wasn't allowed to…

Tim Graham
February 22nd, 2025 11:00 PM
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John Brennan: 'Absurd' To Say Fired Joint Chiefs Head Had Woke Agenda

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, former CIA Director and current MSNBC analyst John Brennan claimed it was "absurd" to suggest that President Trump fired C.J. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because of his woke agenda. In fact, there is copious evidence of Brown having pushed a DEI agenda.

Mark Finkelstein
February 22nd, 2025 10:01 PM

CNN's Sidner Underlines Ex-NFL Punter Who Compares Trump to Hitler

On Friday morning, CNN host Sara Sidner rewarded an anti-Trump protester who was arrested in California by giving him a forum to compare President Trump to Adolf Hitler. It's former NFL punter Chris Kluwe.

Brad Wilmouth
February 22nd, 2025 4:54 PM

The Media's Musk Hostility Has a Historical Echo

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."

Jeffrey Lord
February 22nd, 2025 4:00 PM

PolitiFact Rates Musk Pants-on-Fire For Biden 'Importation Scam' Claim

PolitiFact writers Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman teamed up on Friday to give Elon Musk a “pants-on-fire” rating for his claim that former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy was “a giant voter importation scam.” To reach such a conclusion, the duo engaged in plenty of hyperliteralism and bad faith arguments.

Alex Christy
February 22nd, 2025 2:00 PM

Clooney’s Truth-Telling Play Arrives at Terrible Time

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.

Christian Toto
February 22nd, 2025 1:30 PM

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

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.”

Alex Christy
February 22nd, 2025 11:45 AM

AP Sues WH Over Gulf of America Name, Alleging Free Speech Violation

On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small,…

Curtis Houck
February 22nd, 2025 10:34 AM

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

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…

Alex Christy
February 22nd, 2025 9:57 AM