Now What?

No decent person can support George Floyd's mistreatment, or the mistreatment of anyone else, at the hands of police officers with the sworn duty to uphold the law. The Minneapolis authorities moved quickly, and Derek Chauvin was fired from the Minneapolis police department, placed under arrest and charged with second-degree murder and other charges. The three officers who were with him were…

Walter E. Williams
June 18th, 2020 3:47 PM

Tom Cotton Says Twitter Tried to Censor Him, Calls for ‘No Quarter’

Twitter censorship may have met its match — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Cotton wrote the now-infamous New York Times opinion piece headlined, “Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops,” calling to restore order amidst the George Floyd riots on June 3. Cotton later tweeted the phrase: “No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters.” He asserted in a Fox News opinion piece that he was…

Alexander Hall
June 18th, 2020 3:33 PM

Chick-Fil-A CEO Claims ‘White Christians’ Need to ‘Repent’ of Racism

Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy has surveyed the damage done by Black Lives Matter-inspired riots over the past couple weeks and has surmised that the solution to the violence is white Christians repenting of their racism.

Gabriel Hays
June 18th, 2020 3:09 PM

ABC Cheers Supreme Court's 'Body Blow' to Trump On DACA

ABC News broke in Thursday morning with an enthusiastic report hailing the Supreme Court for striking down the Trump administration’s bid to end the DACA program. Coming on the heels of the court’s pro-LGBT ruling earlier this week, the ABC journalists reveled in Chief Justice John Roberts “siding with the liberals” again but also giving a “body blow” to President Trump.

Kristine Marsh
June 18th, 2020 2:35 PM

Morning Joe: Trump Would 'Execute' Journalists, Committed 'Treason'

MSNBC’s Morning Joe was certainly on a roll Thursday morning. While discussing the latest revelations hidden within former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s tell-all book that was leaked yesterday afternoon, co-host Joe Scarborough went on a rant saying that President Trump wanted to kill journalists.

Adam Burnett
June 18th, 2020 2:32 PM

Facebook Removes Alleged Violence on Right But Leaves Leftist Violence

Facebook claims that it aims “to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook.” But it seems that it only takes aim at some, not all, of the offline harm on its site.

Corinne Weaver
June 18th, 2020 2:01 PM
John Bolton Bombshells

Nets Hype ‘Bolton Bombshells’: Trump Wanted China to Buy U.S. Soybeans

On Thursday, all three network morning shows seized on excerpts from former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s new book trashing President Trump. The NBC, ABC, and CBS broadcasts repeatedly hailed supposed “bombshells” and “explosive” revelations in the nasty tell-all, including Trump’s allegedly treasonous attempt to get China to buy American agricultural products.

 

Kyle Drennen
June 18th, 2020 1:41 PM

HACKS: CBS’s King Turns to ‘Perfect Person’ Schiff to Talk Bolton Book

Who better than far-left Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff to talk about John Bolton’s new tell-all book on the Trump administration? That, apparently, was the thinking of Gayle King on Thursday when she described the liberal Congressman as the “perfect person” to discuss the new allegations. The questions were about what you would expect from King, a Democratic donor. She…

Scott Whitlock
June 18th, 2020 11:47 AM

STUDY: TV Paused Its Pandemic Panic to Push Protests

From early March to late May, the coronavirus pandemic eclipsed all other news stories, consuming nearly all of the airtime on the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC) evening newscasts. But those same networks put the virus story on the back burner for two weeks while they diverted nearly all of their coverage to nationwide protests against police brutality.

Rich Noyes
June 18th, 2020 9:00 AM

VIDEO: Media Hypocrites Love Protests, Declare Trump Rally ‘Dangerous'

The news media are up in arms about President Trump’s planned rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, arguing it would be “extremely dangerous” to hold a large gathering in the midst of a pandemic. However, some of us are old enough to remember when the same outlets were celebrating the Black Lives Matter protests, arguing that they were necessary and worth the risk.

Bill D'Agostino
June 18th, 2020 8:55 AM

Bolton Book Prompts CBS to Push Schiff for New Impeachment Charges

While ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News joined CBS Evening News in gushing about John Bolton’s new anti-Trump book, The Room Where It Happened on Wednesday, CBS congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes took it a step further, pressing House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D) on whether or not Democrats would pursue new impeachment charges…

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 17th, 2020 11:05 PM

Dana Bash: Talking About America's Heritage Is a Racist Dog Whistle!

On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, Dana Bash expanded the definition of racism to include talking about the nation's heritage, claiming that phrase to be a well-known dog whistle.

Alex Christy
June 17th, 2020 9:59 PM

WashPost Exposes Its Own Cartoonist Lying About Friend in Blackface

The intensity of feelings about race inside newsrooms is leading to surprising revelations. On Wednesday afternoon, The Washington Post reported that its own staunchly liberal political cartoonist Tom Toles allowed a woman to wear blackface at his 2018 Halloween party – mocking Megyn Kelly’s comments about children’s Halloween costumes – and then lied to people who were upset,…

Tim Graham
June 17th, 2020 9:41 PM

Ignoring a Black Conservative: ABC, NBC Skip Sen. Scott’s Reform Bill

After previously boasting about Democratic Party pandering (kneeling while wearing marks of the slave trade) and decrying President Trump’s executive order on police reforms, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News completely ignored the Senate GOP’s Justice Act, a package of police reforms authored by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). And while the CBS Evening News

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 17th, 2020 8:47 PM