PolitiFact Pounces on Ramaswamy for Ad on Ohio Covid Cancellations

Ohio’s gubernatorial campaign has kicked into gear, and so has PolitiFact with its weird partisan takes. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was tagged as “Mostly False” for an ad against his Democrat opponent that said that in 2020, “Amy Acton called off Ohio’s election at the last minute.” She did as Ohio's health director. That's true. But Gov. Mike DeWine claimed it was his call, so it's…

Tim Graham
May 14th, 2026 1:58 PM

ABC, NBC Ignore Massive White House Moves on Fighting Medicare Fraud

Flanked by members of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, Vice President JD Vance announced a series of moves Wednesday by the Trump administration to defer $1.3 billion in Medicare reimbursements to California for its refusal to tackle welfare fraud, demanding states prove they’re committed to addressing fraud, and a six-month moratorium on new hospices and home…

Curtis Houck
May 14th, 2026 1:13 PM

Stewart And Rhodes Try To Blame America For Middle East's Problems

Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart welcomed MS NOW talking head and former Obama deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes to the show on Wednesday to discuss their problems with American foreign policy. To Stewart and Rhodes, just about everything from the general mess that is the Middle East to Europe’s refugee crisis to ICE’s operations in Minnesota is the…

Alex Christy
May 14th, 2026 12:51 PM
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Ro Khanna's Economic Plan for America: Central Planning A La China!

It was a classic Morning Joe setup on Thursday: tee up a far-left Democrat to blast China’s unfair trade practices--then watch him pivot straight into a sweeping central-planning agenda for America.

Mark Finkelstein
May 14th, 2026 12:31 PM

Sneering 'Washington Week' Mocks Kash Patel With Bourbon Bash

President Trump wasn’t the only administration figure who came in for extraneous mockery on PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic. Trump’s FBI director Kash Patel turn in the (bourbon] barrel came complete with a prop, making for a jarring image for the generally more conventional-looking broadcast. Atlantic editor-in-chief and show moderator Jeffrey Goldberg kept the hits…

Clay Waters
May 14th, 2026 11:54 AM

Vance: States Must Prove They’re Fighting Fraud or Lose Billions

The 50 states get “many, many billions of dollars” from the federal government to fight Medicaid fraud and – if they can’t show they’re effectively and aggressively fighting fraud – they’ll lose those payments, Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday.

Craig Bannister
May 14th, 2026 11:53 AM

Daily Show Hurls More Racial Slurs At Clarence Thomas

Not that long ago, on April 30, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson responded to the Supreme Court’s recent VRA decision by calling Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom.” On Wednesday, it was radio host Charlamagne Tha God’s turn, as he showed up for the show’s “In My Opinion” segment, where he responded to a clip of Democratic Sen. Chris Coons by declaring…

Alex Christy
May 14th, 2026 9:45 AM

ABC/CBS/NBC Spend Zero Seconds on DOJ Probe Into Soros-Backed DA

The broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening and morning news programs have ignored the DOJ investigation into George Soros-backed DA in Virginia. 

Geoffrey Dickens
May 14th, 2026 9:28 AM

AB-Xi News Devotes Summit Special Coverage to ChiCom Propaganda

ABC News, the most Trump-deranged of the Elitist Media’s broadcast network news divisions, utterly disgraced themselves during their coverage of President Trump’s arrival to his summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Much of the focus of the coverage was devoted to casting President Trump, and by extension the United States, as a supplicant bowing and scraping before the Great Leader…

Jorge Bonilla
May 14th, 2026 2:24 AM

CBS's Tony Dokoupil Points Out The Obvious: China's Also in the Suck

The CBS Evening News had to cut its East Coast broadcast short after a cameraman suffered a health mishap, towards the end where anchor Tony Dokoupil runs either a “Good Stuff” feel-good segment or an editorial. West Coast viewers got to see the editorial, and it absolutely cooked.

Jorge Bonilla
May 14th, 2026 12:32 AM

Jake Tapper Sets Up Clyburn to Unload Jim Crow Metaphors on Top Court

On Sunday, CNN’s State of the Union  featured a discussion with Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina concerning The Supreme Courts latest decision against using race in redistricting. The conversation quickly turned to comparisons between the Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act and Jim Crow-era policies.

Sarah Butler
May 13th, 2026 10:44 PM

Case for Capitalism: Why Free Markets Work and Socialism Doesn’t

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change.  They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, “Capitalism ... is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system.” Give me a break. Yes, capitalism is often ugly. It brings out greed in some, exacerbates wealth differences,…

John Stossel
May 13th, 2026 7:31 PM

Trump Answer to Question on Iran Talks and Economy Gets Badly Filtered

On Tuesday The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation in April had risen 3.8% from  last year, the highest level since May of 2023, and as President Trump took questions from the press before leaving the White House  headed to China, he was asked about his negotiations with Iran, and if  Americans paying higher prices was a motivating factor to make a deal. We are at war, so his…

Steve Malzberg
May 13th, 2026 5:07 PM

MS NOW: We Still Have Not Gotten Out of the Confederacy

On Monday night’s The 11th Hour on MS NOW, the progressive network decried redistricting in Tennessee on the grounds of its impact to the Civil Rights Movement because Memphis is the location of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Tennessee Lookout editor-in-chief Holly McCall implied that her state was a racist state and said, “We still have not gotten out…

Nicholas Spinnato
May 13th, 2026 4:33 PM