Tell the Truth 2024

With the upcoming Iowa Caucuses as cover, CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe took it upon himself to scold Gov. Ron DeSantis’ use of the term “illegal immigrant” in a report with enough immigration advocacy to lead reasonable individuals to conclude that the report was better suited to Univision.

A basic tenet of any sort of media tradecraft, whether in print or on-screen, is that you should have some knowledge of the things of which you speak or write. Revolutionary concept, I know. When that doesn’t happen, we get what we saw tonight- an assortment of drive-bys beclowning themselves over the meaning of a quote used by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a callback to Ronald Reagan.

During tonight’s CNN GOP presidential primary debate, anchor Jake Tapper dropped a question that would have been in place at a Democrat debate- which was the question on what the candidates would do to cut carbon emissions. This question stuck out like a brick of fake seed oil-and-soy meat in the beef aisle of your local supermarket.

Charlamagne tha God joins Angela Rye on CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip for some verrrry reluctant cleanup in the wake of his recent, explosive Politico interview wherein he infamously said that “in 2024, it’s a race between the cowards, the crooks, and the couch”. 

The media panic over the unraveling of the 2020 Biden coalition and the disgust of each of its constituent member groups continues apace. NBC News has now taken notice of Biden’s declining support among the black community, and contrasted it with yesterday’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

If President Joe Biden was expecting his campaign speech at Mother Emanuel AME Church to garner positive reviews, he sure didn’t get any during the 7PM hour on MSNBC. Joy Reid and panelist Jason Johnson panned the speech as not enough, and a throwback to “90s, 80s politics.” The Lincoln Grift’s Tara Setmayer was reduced to almost literally repeating the Biden line asking not to be compared to…

When preparing to ask someone about a document that bears their name, such as a Supreme Court filing, before attempting to grill them on national TV over the aforementioned document, it is always a good idea to READ the document beforehand. But, alas, CBS’s Margaret Brennan did no such thing before attempting to grill Speaker Mike Johnson on the 2021 Texas amicus brief filed before the United…

Across the dial, Sunday political affairs shows took it upon themselves to attempt to make GOP members of Congress squirm in response to statements made by former President Donald Trump. This collective drive-by attempt failed miserably, hitting nothing but air.

Former DOJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur wrecked the thematic premise of today’s edition of ABC News This Week by telling George Stephanopoulos, much to his dismay, that the plain language of the 14th Amendment establishes Congress as the final enforcer of its insurrection disqualification clause.

During CNN’s GOP presidential forum wrap-up show, anchor Abby Phillip berated U.S. Rep. Chip Roy on negotiating border security with the White House, even as the southern border implodes and is overrun with 300,000 migrants per day. 

During an interview which will air in its entirety on CBS’s Face The Nation, CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent and Face The Nation moderator Margaret Brennan pressed Speaker Mike Johnson on the need to fund more immigration judges so as to address the backflow of asylum claims, as our southern border remains collapsed under the pressure of the ongoing migrant surge.

ABC World News Tonight closed out a report on the ongoing Republican presidential primary by echoing Biden campaign talking points on upcoming campaign stops, which are aimed at highlighting “the stakes” of the 2024 election.

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Clarence Thomas has been a target of the left for decades. But that targeting has intensified as of late, and is now exposed as part of a broader effort to intimidate the Supreme Court ahead of the 2024 Trump docket.

During a year-end wrapup segment on Face The Nation, CBS Senior Business and Technology Correspondent Jo-Ling Kent lamented that “the arguments and protections of free speech” prevent social media companies from engaging in further censorship and viewpoint suppression. Additionally, Kent took a shot at Elon Musk for his free speech reforms at X, formerly known as Twitter.