Column: NPR at 50 Years -- Still a Liberal Sandbox
National Public Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week in a classic way: asking their fans for money. A fundraising email gushes “From covering the Vietnam War in 1971 to the COVID-19 vaccination effort today, and everything in between, NPR has delivered fact-based news and trustworthy analysis to millions.” If you’re a conservative, you see NPR as a sandbox for liberals, and…
The Smell of Pork Spending Sizzling in Congress Unappetizing to Nets
As Congress prepared to slink into their smoke-filled backrooms to craft the next federal budget, President Biden made it clear that his old-timey ways meant that the era of wasteful earmarks and pork-barrel spending was back. And despite Democrats and some Republicans packing on millions of dollars of taxpayer money in spending for their pet projects in their home districts, the flagship…
MSNBC’s Reid, Steele: Stefanik Is Feces Inside Trump’s ‘Gold Toilet’
MSNBC’s The ReidOut has had quite the week, going from hating trans Republicans on Tuesday to being pro-al-Qaeda on Wednesday to Thursday’s declaration of being a pro-toilet humor show. This new development came thanks to host Joy Reid and former RNC Chairman Michael Steele joking that Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was human feces who was treating Donald Trump’s “gold toilet” at the RNC…
MSNBC: Don't Know How Florida Bill Will Suppress The Vote, But It Will
MSNBC correspondent Sam Brock admitted on Thursday's Hallie Jackson Reports that critics of Florida's new election law do not know how it will suppress the vote, but are certain it will. Meanwhile, in Texas, fellow correspondent Jane Timm described that state's new election law as "chilling" for adding "felony penalties for various parts of the election process."
ABC/CBS Blind to Biden Administration’s ‘Shell Game’ With Migrant Kids
As the Biden administration released new images Thursday from inside a Border Patrol facility to show how they were allegedly getting a hand on the border crisis, Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar called them out for playing a “shell game” with migrant kids by just shuffling them around. Of course, Fox News, and surprisingly NBC Nightly News highlighted the administration’s attempted…
America's Race Toward Two Cultures
I spent late Saturday afternoon in what has become, for me, a rite of spring. I watched the Kentucky Derby. I am no afficionado of horse racing and will not betray my ignorance of the sport's desiderata in this column. At most, I watch three horse races a year. After the Kentucky Derby, I watch the remainder of the races hoping to round off the Triple Crown. The Derby is a spectacle, from the…
White-Savior Movies, Bad; White-Savior Politicians, Good
I recently came across the term "white-savior movies." According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often clueless Black person and, as one Black critic puts it, "swoops in" to turn his or her life around.
Workers Pay for Privileged Students
Americans took out $1.7 trillion in government loans for college tuition. Now, some don't want to pay it back. President Joe Biden says they shouldn't have to. He wants to cancel at least $10,000 and maybe $50,000 of every student's debt. "They're in real trouble," says Biden in my latest video, "having to make choices between paying their student loan and paying the rent." Poor students!
CBS Host Rejects Reality That Welfare Checks Hurt Hiring
Despite his own broadcast having just aired a report detailing how excessive unemployment checks being doled out by the Biden administration were leading to serious employee shortages across the country and threatening the post-pandemic economic recovery, co-host Anthony Mason still refused to accept the reality that big government was causing a big problem.
Huh? CBS Wants ‘Independent Oversight Board’ for Cancel Culture?
We can see where this is going. CBS on Thursday just said out loud what the next step in censorship might be. Talking to comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil suggested a Facebook-style “oversight board” to make case-by-case decisions on cancel culture. Dokoupil offered this insane suggestion: “Do we need an independent oversight board like Facebook set up to like handle…
Due Process Is the Opposite of Social Justice
It has been two weeks since the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd. The world has moved on. Politicians breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the verdict; the media quickly moved on to its next manipulated data point in favor of the proposition that American police are systemically racist.
Media HACKS: Look at Biden Lecture GOP...After We Asked Him To!
During a White House press conference Wednesday afternoon, President Biden was treated to softballs from his boosters in the press corps who urged him to diagnose problems in the Republican Party and wondered how he could ever possibly work with the GOP. Later that evening and into Thursday morning, NBC and CBS eagerly seized on Biden’s lecturing as proof of a “Republican civil war.”
Scarborough Pushing Liz Cheney for President: MSM Plan to Split GOP?
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, whom many on the right suspect of having abandoned his conservative roots and gone over to the liberal side, speaks well of Liz Cheney, saying: "people like me . . . look at somebody like Liz Cheney and say, okay: well, there’s somebody that believes in small government, there’s somebody that believes in traditional foreign policy. Yeah! Sounds okay to me!" Is…
