POMPOSITY OVERLOAD: Here Are the Big Moments From Pelley’s NYT Sitdown
Apparently, the bravest, most important man in America, fired CBS journalist Scott Pelley, sat down for an interview with New York Times podcast host Lulu Garcia-Navarro that aired Sunday (and taped Friday). It was a tour de force in rancorous arrogance and legendary levels of main character syndrome as he denied believing his semi-public berating of 60 Minutes boss Nick…
PBS Dismisses Woke-Police Atrocity by Focusing on 'Far Right' Protests
Double standards for death at the hands of public first responders? On Thursday’s PBS News Hour, co-anchor Amna Nawaz reported a reversal of a 2019 racially charged homicide conviction: "Elijah McClain's final words, "I can't breathe," foreshadowed those of George Floyd a year later and helped fuel public anger over police tactics across the nation." But a more recent "I can't breathe…
Tarlov Claims Maine Voters 'May Have Different Opinion' of Platner
With Maine's U.S. Senate Primary slated for next Tuesday, the liberal, elite media are doing all they can to limit the damage caused by the drip, drip, drip of revelations against Democrat Graham Platner, who was accused by three women in a Thursday New York Times story of volatile and “toxic” relationships that were unsettling and at times emotionally wrenching. On Friday's…
CNN Can't Find a Single Maine Democrat Who Won't Vote for Platner
CNN's biased man-in-the-street interviews strike again. It was more of the same on Saturday's CNN This Morning: Weekend. Reporter Danny Freeman hit the streets in Maine ahead of Tuesday's primary. There are over 386,000 registered Democrats in Maine. But Freeman couldn't find a single one who said they would refuse to vote for scandal-plagued candidate Graham Platner.
Dems Whistle Past Platner Graveyard, CNN's Cornish Pushes Mills Option
Democrats are in full damage-control mode over Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, even as fresh New York Times allegations of unsettling behavior toward women continue to swirl. Meanwhile, CNN This Morning host Cornish is pushing an alternative to the politically wounded Platner: Governor Janet Mills, still on the Democratic primary ballot.
ABC and NBC Frame Bolton Classified Docs Guilty Plea as ‘Retribution’
On Thursday night, both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News framed the news of former National Security Advisor John Bolton's guilty plea on charges related to mishandling classified documents as an example of successful legal retribution against President Trump’s perceived enemies. NBC even failed to mention how the investigation into Bolton began under the Biden…
PolitiFact Rates Iowa GOP Senate Candidate 'False' For True Ad
PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough was at it again with more Senate campaign cherry-picking shenanigans on Friday. This time McCullough focused on Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson’s recent ad that accused Democrat Josh Turek of supporting sex changes for minors. McCullough called it “false,” but his actual article suggested it was not quite that simple.
The CBS-Scott Pelley Turmoil Continues
A while back in this space - April 4th to be exact - the headline here was this, "Do 'Major Shakeups' Mean CBS News Is in Free Fall?"
Maher Associates Platner's Nazi Tattoo With Conservatives
Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher brought out the best and worst of the eponymous host. On one hand, Maher reacted to Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ever-growing list of scandals by claiming he would have thought a Nazi tattoo was a conservative thing and that in the past, sex scandals have only been disqualifying for Democrats. However, in the Overtime…
Capehart Says Trump And Republicans Are Why Platner Shouldn't Drop Out
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the abuse allegations made by Lyndsey Fifield against far-left Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Capehart eventually said no because it is unfair to hold anyone running for office to any moral standard because Donald Trump is currently the president.…
On CNN Panetta Says You Can't Trust Iranian Leaders Or Trump
No matter how one may feel about President Trump and the war with Iran, an objective observer should easily be able to distinguish between the good and evil involved in the conflict, and someone, who, by their current or former position, should be aware of our recent history, should recognize the differences between this relatively short-lived conflict and previous longer wars that the U.S.…
A Day Late: ABC Finally Covers Platner’s ‘Firestorm of Controversy’
Friday’s CBS Mornings was the first major broadcast network flagship newscast to mention the allegations laid out by ex-girlfriends of Maine Democrat senatorial candidate Graham Platner with nothing on ABC or NBC, and all three networks skipping it Thursday night. By Friday night, however, ABC’s World News Tonight covered the disturbing claims and the CBS Evening News…
PBS Pleased 'Deeply Conservative' MT Town Pushed Back vs Cruel ICE
Thursday’s PBS News Hour kept up its desperate rear-guard action fight against the Trump Administration’s tactics in deporting illegal immigrants, and were emotional and delighted to find a change of heart in a “deeply conservative” Montana town that didn’t turn out to be full of hate-filled rubes after all. The online headline: “ICE arrest in a rural Montana town prompts a…
Sunny Hostin Is ‘Embarrassed’ By America, Calls it ‘Failed Experiment’
With America’s 250th birthday coming up next month, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin went on an anti-American rant during Friday’s episode of The View. Hostin, who once said she felt more comfortable in Ghana than America, proclaimed she was “embarrassed” by many things about the country that gave her the privilege to be a multimillionaire TV co-host. She even asserted that…
