TARIFFDOME: Scott Jennings Stands Tall for American Snacks
A very interesting exchange on last night’s CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip (AKA The Thunderdome) proved that a worthy argument can be undermined by an ineffective spokesperson. In this case, a point on the everyday effects of tariffs on imported goods that ended with Scott Jennings standing tall in defense of American snack foods.
Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP
A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress — also known as the nation’s report card. The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation’s children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. AEI characterizes the most recent results as a “five-alarm fire.” I call it…
POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?
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Tomlinson: Luigi Mangione Has 'Shown Men How to Attract Women'
CBS’s outgoing host of After Midnight, Taylor Tomlinson, continued to display her infatuation with alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson assassin and terrorist Luigi Mangione on Wednesday’s show. After a monologue discussing the latest trends in men’s fashion, Tomlinson put up a photoshopped image of Mangione, claiming, “I'm just glad that the internet has shown men how to …
Column: Caterwauling Over a Kennedy Center Coup
Our media elites love to tout themselves as “independent” and “fact-based.” But on almost any story on Donald Trump, they can’t help but put those words in the shredder. Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has spurred the usual wild-eyed talk of "authoritarianism" from a pop star.
CBS’s Kelly O Brought The Lone Voice of Calm Reasoning on Tariffs
Tonight’s evening news coverage of the reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump bordered on hysterical, to the tune of a combined 25 minutes and 34 seconds. Of those, only about a minute and a half was devoted to explaining things in a manner the public could understand.
MSNBC’s Alarmist, Evidence-Free Claim, ‘This Is Not A Normal Moment’
On Thursday’s episode of MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports, former Romney campaign consultant Stuart Stevens was not content to simply criticize specific things about the Trump administration that he happened to disagree with. Rather, he ran off with wild accusations, calling the administration criminal with zero evidence and offering an alarmist view that “this is not a normal moment.” For her…
Gutfeld Destroys Scarborough for a Pathetic Change of Heart on Biden
In his Tuesday monologue for his eponymous show, Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld took a blowtorch to MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough as a “bozo” and “grifter” with “dime slot hillbilly eyes” and “more full of [EXPLETIVE] than a cage full of chimps mainlining Metamucil” for recently claiming Joe Biden’s June 2024 debate performance was “shockingly bad” despite having…
Chief Fact-Checker Laments Decline In Influence On Fact-Checking Day
Most people probably do not know who Angie Drobnic Holan is, but they should. Holan is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, and on April 2, or International Fact-Checking Day, she wrote an op-ed bemoaning the setbacks the industry has taken in 2025 from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Trump Administration.
PBS Cries Over USAID Absence After Quake: China Filling the 'Vacuum'!
The PBS News Hour on Monday ran two stories grounded in liberal alarmism against the Trump administration’s quest to cut wasteful spending and fraud in the federal government, including at USAID -- the United States Agency for International Development that provides foreign aid and economic development worldwide. The online headline showed how public television has suddenly discovered…
Look Who’s (Not) Talking on PBS's 'Washington Week' -- Conservatives
Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the host of Washington Week with The Atlantic, tax-funded PBS’s weekly political roundtable show, recently made news himself when he revealed he had been privy to a national security text thread from the Trump White House discussing war plans. Goldberg took full advantage of the Trump team’s misstep, wielding the March 28 episode as…
Comedy Shows Shower Booker With Praise After Speech
Thus far, it has been a gloomy 2025 for the late night comedy shows as they have attacked Democrats from the left for not doing anything to stop Republicans, but on Wednesday, a trio of them claimed to have reason for optimism as they reacted to Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour talk. Some suggested he get an award, while others claimed he spoke for all of America, while others tried their hand at…
'Signalgate' Racks up Seven Times More Coverage than Yemen Airstrikes
Last week, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly 100 minutes covering leaked messages from a private Signal chat for Trump administration officials, in just the first 96 hours after the messages were published. But those same networks spent only 13 minutes covering the actual military operation that was discussed in those leaked messages.
