Vanity Fair Overanalyzes if South Park Is Sufficiently Anti-Trump
David Canfield, Vanity Fair's Hollywood Correspondent, is fixated on determining the political stance of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, especially regarding their views on Donald Trump. Despite South Park’s reputation for controversial satire, Canfield is unable to pin them down as decisively anti-Trump, which triggers his insecurity. South Park’s equal-opportunity satire…
PBS Attacks 'Corrosion of Democracy' As Texas Redistricts
New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering.
Media Freakout Over ‘Horror’ of Dictator Trump and His MAGA Supporters
The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from journalists and celebrities from the past month.
MSNBC Compares Trump to ‘Soviet Crackdown’ On Free Speech
On Thursday, MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber compared President Trump’s lawsuits about false narratives to a “Soviet crackdown.”
NewsBusters Podcast: Gutfeld Laughs With Fallon, World Keeps Turning
The Left was furious that Fox late-night host Greg Gutfeld was going to appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. But the interview was non-political as they laughed about an old bar-hopping memory. After the Colbert cancellation, does it signal that Fallon wants a broader audience? Plus Nick Fondacaro recounts some of this week's lowlights.
NY Times Blames Right for Sydney Sweeney Denim Venom Spewed by NPR
The New York Times on Friday arrogantly proclaimed that the controversy over all-American model Sydney Sweeney’s supposedly eugenics-related “good genes” advertisement for American Eagle jeans was ginned up by right-wing media: “Right-Wing Squawks Led To American Eagle Ad Fuss.” The online headline deck: “How the Right Shaped the Debate Over the Sydney Sweeney Ads -- Right-wing…
Kristi Noem Calls Out South Park for Being 'Lazy' and 'Petty'
The button-pushing comedy series South Park recently took aim at the Trump administration to kick off their newest season. Well known for its “nothing is off limits” satirical comedy, some conservatives were raising eyebrows at the show’s latest episodes featuring the Trump administration, including Wednesday’s episode which took swings at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
New Paramount Boss: CBS Will Not ‘Inject Politics Into Everything’
Thursday marked the day one of Skydance Media’s takeover of Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, with David Ellison at the helm and his billionaire father Larry as its largest shareholder. Along with facing media reporters on Thursday, David Ellison spoke Friday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and doubled down on his promise to ensure CBS News lives “in the truth business…
Ezra Klein Lets Hamas Sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil Justify October 7
On Tuesday, the New York Times released an opinion podcast with host Ezra Klein. The guest of the podcast was released ICE detainee and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil. The Trump administration had been attempting to deport Khalil based on claims of being a Hamas sympathizer. The accusations were seemingly proved when Klein allowed Khalil to justify October 7th and downplay anti-…
CNN Says the GOP Is ‘Rigging’ Elections and ‘Essentially Cheat’ to Win
If you tuned into CNN’s Inside Politics on August 7th, you might have thought you were watching a live feed from a DNC strategy session. The segment, aimed at critiquing Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas, quickly turned into yet another case study in media hypocrisy and a stunning example of the left's performative outrage, with one commentator suggesting Republicans…
NYT Warns of Campus Reform's 'Conservative Attack on Higher Education'
Tuesday’s front-page New York Times headline sounded concerning: “Voice on Right Pioneers Siege On Campuses.” A multi-pronged “siege” of college campuses? The online headline unpacked the point, but kept the hostile tone: “A Tiny Conservative News Outlet Pioneered the Attack on Higher Education -- Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on college…
TV News Wash Ups: Conservative Voices Existing in Media Is 'Dangerous'
There’s nothing like a couple of washed up, former TV liberal pontificators bloviating about how conservative voices shouldn’t be allowed on TV news. That was one of the major topics disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon and former Washington Post columnist/MSNBC talking head Perry Bacon Jr. discussed on the former’s podcast on Thursday. According to them, having conservative voices…
Oliver Dismisses Broadening Appeal: 'Comedy Can’t Be For Everyone'
With CBS cancelling The Late Show, plenty of people, including former Tonight Show host Jay Leno, have suggested that the industry has become too partisan. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, HBO’s Last Week Tonight host John Oliver claimed he would not be taking advice from Leno and suggested such criticism would lead to…
An Allegedly Civilized World Genuflects to Hamas
As the governments of the U.K., Canada and France announce their intent to recognize a Palestinian state, I recall the words of C.S. Lewis, so aptly quoted by President Ronald Reagan in his famous “evil empire” speech: “The greatest evil is not done now ... in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is ... not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we…
