Will Media Notice O’Rourke’s Strange Claim About His Mother?
Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has touted the fact that he is supported by his own mother. He has falsely claimed that she was a “lifelong Republican” before his candidacy. But as CNN points out, his mother has actually “voted in Democratic primaries in 15 of the last 17 primary elections she has participated” in, including Democratic presidential primaries “in 2000, 2008, 2012,…
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Citizenship Requirement Skirted in GOTV Effort on Hispanic Media
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In more than 30 states, the percentage of adult Latinos who are U.S. citizens and thus eligible to vote in the country’s mid-term congressional elections falls within the 40-55% range. In other words, any honest voter mobilization effort among the U.S. Hispanic population should be clear about the uniform U.S. citizenship requirement for voting in federal elections, and avoid making generalized…
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MSNBC Puzzled by ‘Beto Paradox’: ‘Energy’ Not Translating to Votes
On his 3:00 p.m. ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi eagerly touted the “real possibility” that Texas Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke “could win a shocking upset next Tuesday” against incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz. However, in the segment that followed, the host worried that all the “national attention” O’Rourke was receiving from the media wasn’t translating into…
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Remember ‘Lie of the Year?’ MSNBC Now Touts Obama on Health Care
Given that Barack Obama won the PolitiFact “lie of the year” for his famous untruth that “If you like your doctor, you can keep it,” it seems he wouldn’t be the person for journalists to tout on health care falsehoods. Apparently, MSNBC didn’t get the memo as host Ali Velshi on Monday eagerly hyped the President “calling out Republican lies.”
EYE ROLL: WH Journalists Battle Sanders, Blaming Trump for Violence
The White House held a rare press briefing on Monday and so many in the liberal media used the occasion to falsely assert to Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that they’re not blaming the President and/or his supporters for the mail bomber or the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter when they’ve been doing just that. Monday’s briefing featured many of the familiar faces who readers and viewers have…
Nets Barely Mentioned That Scalise Shooter Was a Loony Leftist
While the liberal media have been obsessed with blaming Donald Trump’s rhetoric for provoking the man who sent letter bombs to Democrats and CNN last week, they barely mentioned that the man who shot at Republicans on a baseball in 2017 was motivated by anti-GOP hatred.
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'I Jump Wherever I Damn Please!' Behar Snaps at McCain on 'View'
Monday on The View, co-host Joy Behar snapped at her fellow co-host Meghan McCain after she was called out for changing the topic twice to make a liberal point. The second time, Behar lost it, spouting, “I jump to wherever I damn please!” as the audience loudly applauded her for standing up to her right-leaning co-host.
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Pittsburgh Synagogue Member to Mitchell: ‘Stop Trying to Politicize'
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Lou Weiss, a congregant of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh that was attacked by a gunman over the weekend, lectured the liberal news anchor on “trying to politicize every aspect” of the tragedy by blaming President Trump for the violence. He told Mitchell that such efforts only lead to a “dead end.”
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CNN Panel Demands Consequences for ‘Right-Wing’ Media Causing Violence
It was quite the scene on Monday’s New Day as the panel of CNN analysts and hosts continued the liberal media drumbeat to try and (at least culturally) criminalize and ostracize conservative speech as the root of evil, demanding Fox News be punished and the President be condemned for his “racist dog whistles” against the caravan. All told, they deemed “right-wing terrorism” as responsible for the…
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Lieberman Pushes Back on CNN for Blaming Synagogue Shootings on Trump
All Monday morning, CNN spent their time blaming President Trump for the horrific synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh by an avowed anti-Semite over the weekend. CNN’s John Berman tried to get just about every guest on CNN’s three hour morning show New Day, to denounce Trump as inspiring a murderer, but former Democrat vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman wasn’t buying Berman’s spin.
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CBS Chides Trump's 'Presidential Tone,' Spun for Obama After Beheading
CBS This Morning journalists on Monday chided Donald Trump for his “tone” in reaction to Saturday’s mass murder of Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue. Despite the President condemning the acts as evil and ordering flags at half staff, co-host Norah O’Donnell and reporter Weijia Jiang repeatedly brought up Trump’s outside activities. This is in stark contrast tothe network spinning for Barack Obama…
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NBC Asks Washington About ‘Raising Children in Country We Live In'
During an interview with actress Kerry Washington on Monday’s Today show, co-host Craig Melvin asked the left-wing activist what it was like “raising children in the world that we live in now, in the country that we live in right now?” Predictably, Washington seized the chance to urge her fellow liberals to get out to vote in the midterm elections.
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MSNBC Presses Israeli Ambassador to Blame Trump for Synagogue Attack
On Sunday's MSNBC Live, during a discussion of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack, host Ayman Mohyeldin repeatedly tried to get Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer to criticize President Donald Trump for allegedly using "dog whistles" that might have encouraged more anti-Semitism. Dermer praised Trump, pointed out that anti-Semitism exists on both the far left and far right, and called out the…
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Reid Wrongly Claims GA Purges Voters After Not Voting in Two Elections
On Saturday's AM Joy on MSNBC, as host Joy Reid devoted a segment to claims of Georgia Republicans engaging in voter suppression against Democrats, she was the latest liberal media figure to wrongly claim voters are purged if they skip voting for just a few years.
