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FLASHBACK: Democratic Supreme Court Nominees Never Liberal Enough
Whomever President Joe Biden selects to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer expect the liberal media to ACTUALLY worry the selection isn’t progressive enough. The following examples of liberal journalists worrying about Supreme Court nominees not being left enough are from the Media Research Center’s archive.
FLASHBACK: The Worst Promoters of the Russia Collusion Hoax
Will we see members of the leftist media that most vociferously PUSHED the Russia collusion hoax, attack the Clinton camp with the same volume? Don’t bet on it. The following is a look at some of the most over-the-top instances of liberal journos attempting to bring down former President Trump with disproven claims of an election collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
NBC News Head: We’re ‘Nonpartisan,’ His Employees Didn’t Get the Memo
NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, on January 19, spat out the laughable line that his news network is “ferociously defending the idea that it’s possible to....be objective and nonpartisan.” Well his employees didn’t get the memo. Here is just some of the worst bias from NBC/MSNBC hosts and pundits since the NBC News president made that ludicrous statement.
NBC Actually Covers Uyghur Genocide, But Breezes Over Forced Abortions
After NBC News’s morning and evening shows spent only 12 minutes, 22 seconds (in a year) on China’s horrific genocide of the Uyghurs, NBC actually managed to equal that coverage of the Uyghurs in just one night and morning of their Beijing Olympics coverage. However, there were other moments in the coverage that sounded like they were cribbed from a Chi-Com’s propaganda booklet.
Journalists, It’s Official: Tanking Biden Now Less Popular Than Trump
It’s official. Joe Biden is more unpopular than Donald Trump. As of February 1, 2022, Biden’s Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of all the polls showed him at 41.4 percent approval and 54.7 percent disapproval. At this point in his presidency, exactly four years ago, Trump’s RCP average stood at 41.5 percent approval and 54.5 percent disapproval.
COMPROMISED: Nets Spend Only 13 Minutes (In a Year) On Uyghur Genocide
MRC analysts looked at China policy stories on the broadcast evening and morning news programs for an entire year (January 31, 2021-January 31, 2022) and discovered the nets devoted a paltry 13 minutes, 38seconds to the ongoing genocide.
Meet Brian Williams’ Replacement: The Worst of Stephanie Ruhle
On Thursday it was officially announced that MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle will take over the timeslot previously occupied by “Lying” Brian Williams. The following is just a sampling of the Worst of Stephanie Ruhle’s work at MSNBC via the MRC’s archives.
STUDY: PolitiFact's Much More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check Him
PolitiFact begs for donations by proclaiming "Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy." But this "independent fact-checker" routinely betrays a tilt by coming out more aggressively to “correct” attacks on Democrats. In Biden's first year, MRC analysts found Biden was fact-checked 40 times, while Biden critics were checked on 230 occasions.…
LAUGHABLE! The Eight-Least Covered Kamala Harris Blunders
The following is a look at how the broadcast evening news shows (ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News) have covered or, more accurately, BURIED Harris’s most embarrassing moments in the past year.
STUDY: How the Networks Buried One Year of Biden’s Disasters, Failures
As of January 20th, 2022, Joe Biden will have completed his first year as president. He will do so deeply unpopular, cratering to the mid 30s in two recent polls. Over the last year, the three network evening newscasts have done their best to hide policy disasters, such as Afghanistan and the border. They have ignored controversies involving Hunter Biden, as well as extremist nominees from the…
STUDY: NBC, CBS Bury Phrase 'Islamic Extremist' After Synagogue Attack
From Saturday night through Monday morning, the networks extensively covered Malik Faisal Akram taking hostages at a Texas synagogue. They mostly avoided phrases like “Islamic extremist,” though they covered details around his demand that Aafia Siddiqui be released from prison. Referred to as “Lady al Qaeda,” he's serving a long sentence for attempting to murder U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.…
Priorities: CNN Spends Almost 3x More on January 6 Than Inflation News
On Wednesday afternoon, the House Select Committee on January 6 requested cooperation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Naturally, CNN returned January 6 to its prime position as, from 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Eastern, the Jeff Zucker-led network spent 97 minutes obsessing over what it (and other developments) meant for the probe. In contrast to the 97 minutes and 19 seconds on…
Journalists EXPLOIT January 6 to Push Dems ‘Voting Rights’ Agenda
The following are just some of the most atrocious examples of the leftist media exploiting the Capitol Hill riot anniversary in just the last few weeks.
Fox Bests CNN, MSNBC on January 6 Anniversary (And It Wasn't Close)
CNN and MSNBC spent over 1,600 minutes Thursday obsessing over the first anniversary of the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, but it failed to translate into any success in the ratings department. Thanks to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research, the Fox News Channel cruised to an easy victory in both total viewers with 1.6 million and 245,000 in the 25-54 demographic.
