NB Podcast

Nick Fondacaro and Kevin Tober joined me to discuss the live coverage of Biden's State of the Union address. CNN's Van Jones gushed "Uncle Joe is back," but other pundits like Chuck Todd felt the speech didn't hit right, and it won't "age well."

From Ukraine to the Supreme Court, Democrat-promoting reporters like George Stephanopoulos and Andrea Mitchell are pushing the Biden line and then protesting the idea that anyone would call them Democrats. They’re still pushing Trump as the center of the foreign-policy universe and insisting Biden’s SCOTUS pick should be confirmed immediately without anyone talking about the left wing...

As Russia brutally invades Ukraine, columnist Gabriella Hoffman explains how extreme Western climate policies are giving Vladimir Putin more power in global politics. Plus a note about the global rarity of gun-rights guarantees.

It's more than a little odd when the same media that won't say the Pledge of Allegiance suddenly demand everyone needs to be good patriotic Americans and support President Biden as Russia invades Ukraine and underlines Biden's failure and weakness on the world stage. They hounded House Republicans for mocking Biden walking away, refusing to answer questions from the press.

The Left thinks their most effective messengers are comedians. But John Oliver's latest rant against Ted Cruz, complete with profane poetry borrowing a page from Dr. Seuss, shows comedians are better at angrily emoting than they are at enlightening. John Oliver is also a blazing hypocrite.

Hillary Clinton didn't take the conservative media attacks lying down after the John Durham filing, tweeting out a "good debunking" of their "nonsense" from Bess Levin in Vanity Fair. That magazine is an anti-Trump hothouse in dire need of debunking. Levin has written up florid fantasies about punishing Donald Trump and wild suggestions that Trump's "beaten a few homeless people to…

The media cheered a judge and jury dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times over their smears claiming she incited a mass shooting in Arizona. The media feared that John Durham's probe of the origins of the Trump-Russia obsession would ruin their narrative.

Over the weekend, a "bombshell" was released by special counsel John Durham, revealing the Clinton campaign was spying on Donald Trump (even into his White House years). The networks and major papers avoided touching this news like Durham was a leper.

The Olympics are an athletic event, but they're political when the host country is an abusive dictatorship. NBC failed to see the ideological clash as they championed U.S.-born Ashley Gu competing for communist China and also striking advertising deals with luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Tiffany. Geoffrey Dickens discusses his recent blogs on China and Olympic coverage.

The liberal media have been truly hostile to Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates with a convoy in Ottawa. They've called it an "insurrection" and touted locals saying they're being held "hostage" by protests. They suggested they were populated by Nazis, Q-Anon, and Confederate flag-wavers. and stole food from the homeless. A real hatchet job.

In the angry aftermath of Jeff Zucker's dismissal, Brian Stelter is offended that anyone thinks CNN is more opinion than news. "They're not watching CNN. They're watching complaints about CNN on other channels that don't know what they're talking about." Stelter was so angry he swore in the middle of his podcast: "this bullshit on Fox about CNN failing in the ratings, and that’s why Zucker was…

Get out the hankies. After the Jeff Zucker ouster at CNN, Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy reported that "mostly the anger -- among reporters, producers and managers who were close to Zucker -- is directed at WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar and AT&T CEO John Stankey. We keep hearing variations of this phrase: 'Jason took down the best boss I ever had.'"

There’s breaking news at two network news divisions. CNN boss Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned over failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a fellow CNN executive. Whoopi Goldberg was suspended by ABC News for two weeks for mangling the racial animus behind the Holocaust.

The pro-Biden media claim to be for “free speech” while they play up left-wing protests demonizing Spotify for airing Joe Rogan’s podcast. CNN is claiming that there’s too much division and conflict in society – just as Biden nominates a black woman for the Supreme Court...apparently everyone should sing Kumbaya and vote Yes.