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What About the Abandoned? CBS Rips Biden Admin Spinning Afghan Crisis

August 30th, 2021 9:09 PM

With the final military planes off the tarmac and out of Afghan airspace, the Biden administration was desperate to try to paint their deadly disaster as some sort of success. Each of the press secretaries and top officials at the White House, State Department, and Pentagon parroted the same talking point that it was the largest airlift in U.S. history. But CBS News popped their bubble Monday…

NewsBusters Podcast: Imagine Media Covering Trump with Today's News

August 30th, 2021 8:24 PM

As the American war effort in Afghanistan ended, the news environment for President Biden is bad right now, but it could be a lot worse. Imagine how the press would react if all this happened after President Trump had won a second term. Every crying war widow and dissenting colonel would be magnified intensely.

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No Doocy, No Problem: WH Journos Step Up, Hammer Psaki on Afghanistan

August 30th, 2021 6:39 PM

Hours before the U.S. military announced the official end of the war in Afghanistan, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took heavy fire on Monday afternoon from a litany of establishment liberal media outlets, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich, and usual cast member Philip Wegmann over the administration’s handling of the withdrawal, what to say to those being left behind, and whether America is now…

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Media Hide Fallen Marine's Family Blaming Biden

August 30th, 2021 5:31 PM

The media only wants to promote gold star families who blame Republican presidents.  Imagine if the following quote was about Donald Trump: “Twenty years and 6 months old, getting ready to go home from freaking Jordan to be home with his wife to watch the birth of his son, and that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.”

But it wasn’t. It was about President…

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Engel on Afghanistan Debacle: ‘Worst Capitulation of Western Values’

August 30th, 2021 5:20 PM

At the conclusion of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reflected on the impact of the Biden administration’s “chaotic withdrawal” from Afghanistan. He warned that “the next Osama bin Laden” may be emboldened by the disastrous surrender and that it represented “the worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes.”

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CBS, NBC Censor 250 Americans Abandoned By Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle

August 30th, 2021 4:18 PM

On the eve of the final withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, only ABC’s Good Morning America specifically mentioned that Joe Biden’s disaster will abandon at least 250 Americans in the country. CBS This Morning, for example, vaguely mentioned “some” would be left behind. 

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Stelter: Shouldn’t Press Cover Climate Change More Than Afghanistan?

August 30th, 2021 12:43 PM

On Sunday, desperate to deflect media criticism of President Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan failures, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter suggested other topics like climate change really needed to take priority in the press. His panel of liberal pundits predictably agreed and argued that coverage of the foreign policy debacle was overblown.

Back to What Kind of School?

August 30th, 2021 12:39 PM

When I was in public school, a TV ad asked: “It’s 10 o’clock Do you know where your children are?” Here’s a better question for today: Do you know what your children are being taught and exposed to in their schools?” This summer’s controversy over the teaching of critical race theory and whether to wear masks is only part of the problem. When kids claim to be a different sex than what they…

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CBS Hypes Conspiracy Theory: Conservatives Got Asner’s Show Cancelled

August 30th, 2021 12:30 PM

In a tribute to mark the passing of liberal actor Ed Asner, CBS This Morning on Monday revived a kooky conspiracy theory that liberal CBS cancelled his ‘80s TV show Lou Grant to appease Reagan-era conservatives. 

Nets Ignore ‘Terrified’ University Students Abandoned in Afghanistan

August 30th, 2021 11:37 AM

Today, the big three networks chose not to report on another heartbreaking story out of the New York Times, Sunday, about university students trapped in Afghanistan, abandoned by the U.S., as the August 31 deadline nears. 

NY Times Reporter: Christian Pols Don't Care If People Die of COVID

August 30th, 2021 6:51 AM

A new euphemism has been coined to describe the palpable panic that reporters have toward conservative Republicans, especially the Christians. They are merely being “imaginative contrarians.” New York Times banking reporter Emily Flitter recently displayed on Twitter her fear of Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi, wanting to ask him "hey, do you truly not care that your constituents are…

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SHAME: Vile MSNBC Lets Guest Compare Pro-Lifers to 'Suicide Bombers'

August 29th, 2021 6:30 PM

On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC again showed its hostility to pro-lifers when host Al Sharpton allowed a guest to ridiculously liken opponents of abortion to "suicide bombers" who want to "mess up somebody else's life."

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CNN, NBC Press Biden Admin Officials on Giving Taliban a 'Kill List'

August 29th, 2021 3:22 PM

Late last week, Politico put out a disturbing report that the Biden administration – desperate to play nice with murderous terrorists – handed over what a Pentagon official called a “kill list” of American and Afghan allies’ names to the Taliban. Obviously, Americans were outraged and CNN anchor Jake Tapper and NBC political director Chuck Todd grilled National Security advisor Jake Sullivan…

WashPost Reporter Hails Psaki For Melting Peter Doocy's Snowballs

August 29th, 2021 11:44 AM

You can tell just how perfectly The Washington Post fits into the White House publicity apparatus when it posts articles proclaiming that they have Fox News reporter Peter Doocy exactly where they want him. He is a "useful foil," reports Philip Bump, and he's easily foiled.