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On Wednesday, bombshell news broke that former President Joe Biden’s FBI had obtained phone records on current FBI Director Kash Patel and former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens. That led to the FBI firing 10 employees. So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to these developments in the lawfare case waged against President Donald Trump…

The following is a look back (via the MRC’s archives) at how the media trashed Trump’s State of the Union speeches as “psychotically incoherent” tirades, full of lies, and even “dog poop”:

The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month. 

Conservative sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at these winter games might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from the reporters covering them.

When a grand jury on January 29 indicted former CNN host Don Lemon for allegedly participating in the disruption of a Minneapolis-area church service, the corporate media responded with unanimous outrage. But for all of their handwringing, not a single journalist on any of the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have acknowledged even once that Lemon’s arrest was, in fact, the…

ABC and CBS refuse to report on the historic murder rate drop. NBC just airs 8 seconds. 

Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing…

Kathy Griffin has a bizarre idea of who is a "professional Nazi." Ditto for Robert De Niro.

Can you imagine anyone trying to argue the media weren't deficient on the issue of Biden's cognitive decline?

2025 was a year when the agents of ICE became villainized under Trump, with talk of "concentration camps" and the like. 

WORST OF 2025: The Trashing Trump Award 

For the men of the late night comedy talk shows, the second half of 2025 was not good. In July, Stephen Colbert announced his show will be cancelled next year, and in September, Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for peddling conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s political ideology. As a result, many guests would often gush over them and portray them as free speech martyrs, and when…

The world of liberal late night comedy got even more liberal in 2025 with the inauguration of a new Republican president. According to a new Media Research Center study, the late night hosts told 12,011 of their 13,097 political jokes about conservatives, which comes out to 92 percent, up from 82 percent last year.