FLASHBACK: Nets Mentioned Trump’s Low Polls Almost 2X as Much as Biden
This week saw Joe Biden’s cratering poll numbers fall even lower. On Wednesday, four polls came out and the results are bleak. Reuters: 36 percent. Politico: 38 percent. Rasmussen: 39 percent. Economist/YouGuv: 40 percent. Unsurprisingly, the networks skipped coverage of the latest terrible news for the President.
Stein: Kansas Is Tricking Women 'Into Voting Away Their Own Rights'
For the second weekend in a row, Politico’s Sam Stein guest hosted MSNBC’s Velshi. On this Saturday, Stein accused pro-lifers in Kansas of “essentially trick their citizens into voting away their own rights” on an upcoming ballot measure on August 2.
CNN Hypes Newsom 'Trolling' Texas, Supreme Court on Guns
CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates guest hosted Friday’s edition of Don Lemon Tonight where she and her guests hyped California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “trolling” of the Supreme Court and Texas on the issue of gun control.
MSNBC On Possible Bannon Jail: He'll Get Captive Audience He Wanted!
On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, MSNBC analyst Neil Katyal, Obama's former Acting Solicitor General, gloated at the prospect of Steve Bannon being sentenced to prison: "He'll finally get the one thing Steve Bannon has always wanted: a captive audience. It just happens to be in jail."
NewsBusters Podcast: What You CAN'T Say on Social Media
Big Tech can be easily triggered into shutting down “hateful conduct” on their websites. A new study by Free Speech America exposes how social-media giants banish posts or videos that are deemed as harmful to “marginalized” groups.
Evening Nets Minimize Zeldin Assassination Attempt: 'Sharp' Keychain
After minimal coverage Friday morning of the violent assassination attempt of New York Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin as he campaigned for governor, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News downplayed the attack with the latter calling the weapon just a keychain. And NBC Nightly News ignored the attack altogether to focus on lost luggage at airports.
NYT Front:‘Delay Is the New Denial’ GOP Tactic Blocking Climate Action
The New York Times stopped attacking centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin long enough to recalibrate usual attacks on Republicans. Reporters Lisa Friedman and Jonathan Weisman front-page story Thursday coined a new pro-Democratic phrase in its…
Colbert & Chris Hayes Love New 'Standard' for Hearings: 100% One-Sided
On CBS, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert went live on Thursday, so Colbert could do a live review of the hearings -- like a Talking Dead aftershow -- and express his fascination with the show. He spent 17 minutes monologuing about it with a pile of hearings clips, and then aired another three segments (adding up to 14 minutes) with leftist MSNBC host Chris…
Fredo Launches 'The Chris Cuomo Project' 'My Goal Here is Fairness'
We finally got an answer to the question of whether or not Chris “Fredo” Cuomo would be making a return to television. On Thursday, the fired CNN host launched a new podcast called The Chris Cuomo Project, a “collaborative enterprise” where he can be more “real” and “authentic” without having stories “massaged to stay on message, no one is telling me to stay on a story even if I think it’s…
Making the Killers Pay for What They've Done
WASHINGTON – Have you been following the massacres in America? It would be difficult to miss them. By the time I finish this column, and you have read it, maybe another 20 Americans will have succumbed to mass murder. There is, in a country composed of a mix of practical people and idealists, the urgent felt need to do something to end the killing. We are today stuck on the idea of gathering…
Rough Day? Jean-Pierre Flubs Basic Questions on Biden’s COVID Bout
Thursday wasn’t supposed to feature a White House press briefing, but President Biden’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis meant Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was thrown before the press corps and, like most stays, she stepped on plenty of rakes. Over the course of the briefing, she failed to answer and scoffed at basic questions about how the President contracted the virus, whether she herself…
CBS, MSNBC BURY Attempted Stabbing of GOP Rep
Apparently some political violence just isn’t that interesting, at least to the journalists at CBS and MSNBC. On Thursday night, a man with a blade rushed the stage as Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin was speaking in Rochester, New York. The assailant attempted to stab the Republican gubernatorial candidate before being wrestled to the ground.
PBS, Planned Parenthood Team Up To Spread Lies About Pro-Life Laws
On Thursday night, PBS Amanpour and Company guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Planes Emily Wales to blame pro-lifers for their own falsehoods about various states’ new pro-life laws.
CNN Uses Biden Getting COVID to Trash Trump, Demand Nationwide Masking
With President Biden’s announcement on Thursday that he had tested positive for COVID-19, CNN saw a chance to both reinstill fear and hysteria in the hearts and minds of viewers over the virus as well as throw punches at former President Trump for how his own diagnosis transpired in October 2020. Among the craziest takes, one CNN medical contributor invoked the pandemic alongside the…
