An Actual Psaki Show? CNN, MSNBC Jockeying to Poach WH Press Secretary
According to Puck News’s Dylan Byers on Wednesday, a real Psaki Show could soon become a reality as CNN and MSNBC have been jockeying to hire the current White House press secretary as a full-time host (and not as a commentator, like she did from 2017 to 2020 at CNN). Byers — formerly of NBCNews.com and the CNN Media team — wrote that, “earlier this month,” Psaki had respective lunch meetings…
Nets Fretted Over ‘Staunch Conservative’ Picks, Skimp on Lib Labels
Joe Biden on February 25 nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the vacancy of Justice Stephen Breyer. When it comes to ideological labels for Supreme Court nominees, the networks have one rule: Republican nominees are “staunch,” worrisome conservatives. Democratic picks are rarely labeled as extreme liberals.
Editor’s Pick: Fox on Nikole Hannah-Jones Crying Racism Over Ukraine
On Monday, Fox News Associate Editor Brandon Gillespie reported: “New York Times Magazine reporter and founder of the controversial 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones was sharply mocked by critics over the weekend for falsely claiming that Europe was ‘not a continent.’” It was part of an effort by Hannah-Jones to argue that concern over the invasion of Ukraine was fueled by racism.
On MSNBC: Kavanaugh, Barrett Had 'Abysmal, Embarrassing' Resumes
On The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC, Fordham law professor Christina Greer uncorked a Pants On Fire claim that the resumes of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were "abysmal and embarrassing" compared to the long, long list of qualifications of Biden's nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
ABC, CBS Distort History to Mark Trayvon Martin's Death in 2012
As ABC and CBS ran reports commemorating the 10th anniversary of black Florida teen Trayvon Martin being shot to death by George Zimmerman, both networks misinformed their viewers, and ABC even imitated the same smear that NBC News was forced to apologize for 10 years ago.
BLM-Loving NYTimes Finds Vax Mandate Protests 'Dangerous,' 'Violent'
After its smear-filled coverage of the Canadian truckers’ protest over anti-vaccine mandates, now shuttered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s authoritarian government, the New York Times is stoking fears of similar protests in the United States and New Zealand. “A Truck Caravan With Far-Right Links Heads to Washington, D.C." The American truckers certainly didn’t get the soft Black Lives…
ABC's Jon Karl: Biden's Polls Are 'Truly Grim', Lowest of Presidency
After the release of yet another ABC/WaPo poll showing President Joe Biden’s approval ratings sinking to an all time low of thirty-seven percent, ABC’s This Week was forced to talk about them once again.
NPR Guides Triggered Liberals: How to Cope with 'Stressful News Cycle'
The cartoon of a National Public Radio listener is a Very Sensitive Liberal who is easily "triggered." So it's not surprising their "Life Kit" blog-and-podcast project would decide their audience needed a coping guide for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
LOL: NBC's Mitchell Says 'We're Not Democrats, We're Journalists'
During a rowdy and contentious panel segment on Sunday’s Meet the Press, panelist and NBC chief Washington correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell made the hilarious claim that she’s a journalist and not a Democrat.
No Joke: CBC Reports Some Ottawa Residents Hear 'Phantom Honking'
CBC reports with a straight face that some Ottawa residents are suffering PTSD due to truck honking that they don't even hear, aka "phantom honking."
MSNBC Regular: Trump Was 'Installed' To Weaken Alliances Against Putin
On Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show, regular guest Sarah Kendzior floated the bizarre conspiracy theory that "Trump was installed as the President of the United States in order to weaken the alliances that were preventing Putin from achieving his goals, alliances like NATO."
Stephanopoulos Obsesses Over Trump While Putin Attacks Ukraine
On Sunday’s episode of This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos used his interview with Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton to continue to obsess over Donald Trump.
Yahoo Boosts White House Flack Calling Trump, Putin 'Nauseating Pigs'
On Thursday, Dylan Stableford at Yahoo News thought it was newsworthy to elevate a very Trumpesque tweet from a White House spokesman directed at Trump and Putin. It's deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates, who joined the Biden campaign in April 2019 as Director of Rapid Response (not Rabid Response).
New CNN Boss Wants 'Hard News,' Not 'Red-Hot Liberal Opining'
In an interesting “scoop” published Saturday, Axios reported that CBS’s EVP of Special Programming Chris Licht, who was tapped to replace ousted CNN boss Jeff Zucker to lead the third-place cable network, wants to get back to CNN being a straight news outlet and cut back on the liberal screeds that dominate prime time and their newscasts in general.
