PolitiFact's 'Nonpartisan' Trump Count: One 'Mostly True,' 52 'Lies'!

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan posted an article on Thursday touting Facebook's fact-checkers -- and how Trump voters don't trust them. It provided more unintentional hilarity from PolitiFact, claiming they're very nonpartisan in their work. But in September and October, PolitiFact ruled Donald Trump was "Mostly True" just once, but claimed he was "Mostly False" or worse in 52 "fact checks."

Tim Graham
November 2nd, 2020 12:08 PM

Dem Hacks at CBS Hope for 1932-Style Blowout: ‘Fear,’ ‘Panic!’

CBS This Morning hosts on Monday brought on liberal historian and media pundit Doris Kearns Goodwin to discuss what she and other journalists deeply hope for: That election day on Tuesday will be like 1932 and the landslide Democratic win of that year.

Scott Whitlock
November 2nd, 2020 10:47 AM

Major Reason Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Endorsed Trump? The Economy

The election is tomorrow, and President Donald Trump just notched an unprecedented endorsement from an historically liberal newspaper for his handling of the economy in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Vazquez
November 2nd, 2020 10:41 AM
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Scarborough Brags: We'll Censor Trump If He Declares Victory!

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough announces that his crew will be hosting election night coverage on NBC's "Peacock" streaming site, and brags that if President Trump declares victory, "we can assure you if Trump declares victory we’ll say, don’t take the feed. It’s not going to happen." 

Mark Finkelstein
November 2nd, 2020 8:31 AM

AP 'Explains' How France 'Incites' Islamic Terrorism

On Thursday, an Islamist killed three people, nearly decapitating one at the Basilica of Notre Dame in Nice, France, while yelling "Allahu Akbar!" Two weeks ago, a teacher was nearly beheaded after he showed controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in his class. The Associated Press decided this was a time to ask why France was causing this!  Their original "AP Explains" article…

Tim Graham
November 2nd, 2020 6:55 AM

Colbert Show: ‘You’d Have to Be a F***king Idiot' to Vote for Trump

Election Day is just two days away so what better time for a last-minute plea from a late-night show host’s animated political cartoon show to get out the vote for Joe Biden? On November 1, Stephen Colbert’s Our Cartoon President aired on Showtime and did just that.

Karen Townsend
November 1st, 2020 11:37 PM

NASTY: SNL Fake News Anchor Claims Trump's a Mass COVID Murderer

On the last Saturday Night Live before Election Day, they weren't going to stop going hyperbolically overboard in attacking President Trump. Fake News anchor Colin Jost used a guesstimate from Stanford economists that Trump rallies have led to 700 deaths. Is this a fact? No. As…

Tim Graham
November 1st, 2020 10:30 PM
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Not Political? ESPN Delivers Biased 6-Part Political Series

In the week leading up to the elections, ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro earned a big Pinocchio. He keeps saying his organization is not political, but his nose keeps growing longer and longer. "We are not a political organization," Pitaro has said in the past, but the network website currently features a six-part series on -- you guessed it -- politics.

Jay Maxson
November 1st, 2020 6:20 PM

Chris Cuomo Claims SCOTUS is Repeating Russian Propaganda

CNN's Chris Cuomo approached peak ridiculousness on his Friday show where he accused the Supreme Court of reciting Russian propaganda, but it was Cuomo who showed is ignorance of the Court's recent rulings.

Alex Christy
November 1st, 2020 5:00 PM

CBS Claims No Enthusiasm from Trump Backers, Gets SCHOOLED By RNC Boss

Even though ABC spent part of their Sunday marveling at chants of “we love you” at Trump rallies, CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan thought she was confronting Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel with accusations that President Trump’s supporters weren’t enthusiastic about him. Not only was Brennan schooled by McDaniel, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’…

Nicholas Fondacaro
November 1st, 2020 2:16 PM

ABC Shocked By Trump’s Energy to Campaign, ‘We Love You’ Rally Chants

With just two days to go until Election Day, ABC chief White House correspondent Jon Karl literally marveled at President Trump’s energy to hold 14 rallies in just three days, especially since the President had recently fought off coronavirus. In his election update during Sunday’s This Week, Karl also seemed shocked by the chants of “we love you” from Trump supporters that broke out…

Nicholas Fondacaro
November 1st, 2020 10:51 AM

Vanity Fair Loves the Idea of a 'News-Cycle Slowdown' Under Sleepy Joe

Vanity Fair media reporter Joe Pompeo speculated on Friday how the lives of reporters would improve if Donald Trump lost. “For political reporters burned out on Trumpian chaos, is a news-cycle slowdown coming? A Biden presidency would likely be quieter—no predawn Twitter rants, “enemy of the people” attacks, or endless scandal—and also less leaky.”

Tim Graham
October 31st, 2020 11:19 PM

On NBC, GOPers Compared to Plantation Owners Suppressing Black Voters

Finishing off the week before Election Day, NBC on Friday evening stoked racial fears and invoked violence against African Americans from the distant past as the NBC Nightly News likened Republican leaders to plantation owners who stopped blacks from voting in the 1870s.

Brad Wilmouth
October 31st, 2020 6:45 PM
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MSNBC Uncritically Slobbers Over China's Corona Case Numbers

Saying he "loves" having her on the show, and calling her a "national treasure," Jonathan Capehart, guest-hosting AM Joy on MSNBC, slobbers over "pandemic expert" Laurie Garrett, who claims that the US yesterday had more coronavirus cases in one day than there have been in all China since the beginning of the pandemic. In doing so, she uncritically accepts statistics from the…

Mark Finkelstein
October 31st, 2020 5:08 PM