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MSNBC Crickets As Nadler Flip-Flops On Providing Arms For Israel
On MSNBC's The Weekend, none of the trio of co-hosts challenge Dem Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, who expresses support for Biden's plan to cut off certain military supplies to Israel if it goes into Rafah. That represents a 180-degree flip-flop from Nadler's position in 2019, when Donald Trump was president, when Nadler said : "Democrats who have expressed support for leveraging aid to…
PBS Wrecks Texas for Abbott's Pardon: 'White Right-Wing Conservatives'
The PBS NewsHour on Friday questioned Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of “convicted killer Daniel Perry” as a sop to the white right. Host Geoff Bennett loaded his lead to tar Abbott’s decision right from the start. "Abbott had faced pressure to issue the pardon from white right-wing conservatives, including then FOX News host Tucker Carlson."
The CNN Presidential Debate: A Trump Trap?
So the inevitable quadrennial debate announcement gets made. There will be two presidential debates, and Donald Trump let Joe Biden set the rules. This time around CNN will host the first, and ABC the second.
PolitiFact Spins For Democrats On Late-Term Abortion
There are three things certain in life: death, taxes, and self-styled fact-checkers defending Democrats on late-term abortion. The latest example came on Friday from D.L. Davis who gave Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson a “false” label for claiming “Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”
The War on Jerry Seinfeld, Explained
Some stars float on a bed of pure adulation.
ABC, Once Again, Helps The Left Smear Alito
After not-so cleverly trying and failing to get Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from important Supreme Court cases related to January 6, the left and the media have moved on to try to not-so cleverly get Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself based on a photo of an upside-down flag outside his home that was said to show support for the rioters. On Saturday’s Good Morning America…
PBS 'News' Bias: Upside-Down Alito Flag Bigger Than Kavanaugh Assassin
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, the Week in Review segment dove into the New York Times “scoop” that the flag flew upside down for a few days in January 2021 outside the home of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito. This was Big News? Two years ago, when a man showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house intending to assassinate him, the NewsHour didn’t find…
MSNBC Spews Fake News About Butker Speech To Warn About GOP 'Misogyny'
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner continued the media tradition of spreading fake news about what exactly Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker told a Catholic college during a recent commencement address. Wagner falsely reported that Butker told the women graduates “their rightful place was in service to men” as her guest, law Prof. Leah Lithman, urged viewers to vote against GOP “misogyny.”
Media Platforms Warned of Fines on Slovak PM Shooting 'Disinformation'
The European Commission has warned Big Tech platforms they can face fines for failing to tackle disinformation following the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. The warnings come as the EU ramps up its efforts to combat 'fake news,' leveraging wide-ranging investigatory powers afforded by the new Digital Services Act.
NewsBusters Podcast: Lawrence O'Donnell's Cheesy Trump Trial Diaries
Part of the endless Trump trial coverage on MSNBC was The Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell reading what sounded like bad diary entries on courtroom happenings. Porn star Stormy Daniels dressed loosely in black, which "suggested the modesty of a nun." How bizarre.
PBS Takes Pro-Hamas Line on Israel: 'Mass Expulsion' of Palestinians
Wednesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour forwarded pro-Hamas historical talking points to paint Palestinians as endless victims of yet another war they launched against Israel, matching up with the network’s consistently slanted coverage of the current Israel-Hamas war. It’s been 76 years since Arab countries attacked the fledgling state of Israel en masse in 1948 to strangle the…
Genocide, Alito, & Scheffler: Best & Worst of This Week’s WH Briefings
This week marked a rare occasion in which President Biden remained at the White House all five weekdays and thus allowed for five press briefings from the ever-inept press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre (and John Kirby only serving as a crutch on Friday). The questions were, not surprisingly, all over the place given the lunacy of the week, ranging from accusing Jews of genocide to harassment…
Evidence? Joe Scarborough Accuses Justice Alito of Leaking Dobbs Draft
On Morning Joe, in the course of a segment devoted to criticizing Justice Samuel Alito for permitting an upside-down American flag to be flown at his house, Joe Scarborough accuses Alito of having leaked the draft Dobbs opinion, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
We ‘Need to Fix’ It: Behar Decries the Constitution as ‘Un-American’
Joy Behar, the same co-host of ABC’s The View who thought the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the military alliance that defeated Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, was back with more of her wisdom during Friday’s show. According to her, two elements of the U.S. Constitution – both present since the founding – were “un-American.”
