Priebus: People Want A Bigger Middle Finger in 2024 Than in 2016
Today’s “powerhouse panel” on ABC This Week inadvertently showed the widening gulf between what is top-of-mind for the Acela Media versus what is on the minds of the actual American electorate. In particular, this exchange between host Jon Karl and former RNC chair Reince Priebus on the general election suitability of Donald Trump.
Fox News Touts Gun Owner Who Scared Off Five Robbers in San Francisco
On Friday's Fox & Friends, the show again showed viewers an example of how important it is for Americans to own guns to deter crime as the hosts discussed surveillance video of a 73 year-old man in San Francisco who used a handgun to scare five smash and grab robbers out of the store where he worked.
Fired New York Times Editor James Bennet: The Times 'Lost Its Way'
In the day, it was a news-grabbing story. NewsBusters’ own Curtis Houck headlined the story when it happened in 2020.
Comedy Cowards: Late Night, ‘SNL’ (Mostly) Ignore Antisemitism Spike
Give “Saturday Night Live’s” disastrous Ivy League presidents sketch a little credit. The show indirectly acknowledged the anti-Jewish sentiment flooding the country following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles
Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Marcus Attacks GOP For 'Shameful Misuse of the Impeachment Power'
In a surprising development, PBS NewsHour’s Friday weekly news recap featured almost a debate between New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus on House Republicans formally approving an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with the former wondering what the big deal is and the latter labeling it a “shameful misuse of the…
FLASHBACK: Cheering Obama’s ‘Historic’ Embrace of Castro Dictatorship
Nine years ago this week, President Barack Obama chose to establish formal relations with the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Instead of worrying that Obama was handing a much-needed and undeserved lifeline to the decades-long Castro dictatorship, the liberal media applauded the “historic” decision.
MSNBC: Impeachment Probe Vote Is a Distraction Biden’s Booming Economy
The crack sleuths on MSNBC were on the case Thursday afternoon and got to the bottom of the impeachment probe of President Joe Biden. No, they didn’t take the accusations of corruption seriously and they didn’t care to dig into the Biden family’s tangled web of shell companies getting payments from foreign entities. But what they did purport to discover was the motive of House Republicans in…
TV Says You’re Wrong, Joe Biden’s Economy Is Really Wonderful
As polls show Joe Biden’s re-election is in peril because of the public’s negative opinion of how he’s handled the economy, TV viewers woke up Friday morning to a round of happy talk telling them that, despite what they might think, the economy is really quite spectacular.
The Bold & the Beautiful…& the Pro-Hamas: This Week at WH Briefings
With President Biden out and about to start the week, White House press briefings didn’t kick off this week until Wednesday and continued on Thursday, leaving plenty of space for questions from the left bashing Israel, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson and Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann stumping Biden flacks Karine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby, and, of course, Doocy Time on Hunter…
Swalwell: Impeaching Joe Biden and Investigating Hunter Is Another J6
As part of the ongoing Acela Media effort to enable Hunter Biden’s new media strategy, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner was joined by Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), where he was given free rein to smear conservatives and impugn the motives of those who investigate the Biden family corruption.
Apples and Bananas: The Necessity of Differentiating Facts and Opinion
In response to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour, whose show is simulcast in the United States on PBS, wrote, “Now, more than ever, we need to commit to real reporting across a real nation, a real world in which journalism and democracy are in mortal peril, including by foreign powers like Russia paying to churn out and place false news, and hacking into…
BIDEN CRISIS COMMS: CNN, Axios ‘Analyze’ Hunter’s Wild Presser
After Hunter Biden’s wild press conference in lieu of appearing to testify before the House committees investigating the Biden family’s foreign business dealings ahead of yesterday’s vote on an impeachment inquiry, it appears that the communications strategy is lacking consensus. And on CNN NewsNight with Abby Philip, an opportunity to shape that post-presser consensus narrative.
MSNBC's Katy Tur Questions the Climate Summit...From the Left
On her eponymous MSNBC show, Katy Tur on Wednesday afternoon welcomed frequent guest and climate alarmist Michael Mann to call for the elimination of fossil fuel use as she devoted a segment to whether the recent COP 28 environmental summit had accomplished enough.
