Politico Admits Candidate Favoritism by the Media

March 3rd, 2023 2:38 PM

We owe a great debt of gratitude to Michael Schaffer. The senior editor at Politico admitted out loud Friday what most of us already knew. Namely that the media plays favorites with the candidates they cover despite their laughable claims of neutrality. Schaffer's admission of blatant media coverage bias appeared in his piece "Washington’s Favorite Republican Is Making All the Right…

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MSNBC Labels DeSantis's Education Policies 'Fascism'

March 3rd, 2023 2:05 PM

MSNBC has officially run out of original thoughts. On Thursday’s Alex Wagner Tonight, the eponymous host and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb came together to agree with Critical Race Theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a fascist.

Reality Beckons in Ukraine

March 3rd, 2023 12:16 PM

An out-of-context video featuring Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted him claiming American sons and daughters will have to fight and die in Ukraine. Isolationists and pro-Russian propagandists all seized on the video to denounce American funding of Ukraine's war effort. Understanding Zelenskyy's statement in its context, he is right.

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Kimmel Attacks CPAC Attendees as 'Fascist' and 'Racist'

March 3rd, 2023 9:55 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reacted the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference with his usual hurling of insults as he labeled attendees as both “fascist” and “racist.”

Column: Congressional Hearings About Team Biden Die in Darkness

March 3rd, 2023 6:30 AM

The easiest layup in proving the “mainstream media” is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion and congratulation and live coverage of the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6, the network “newscasts” can’t locate a hearing now with two hands.

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Joy Reid: GOP Wants to 'Undo' 20th Century, Drag Shows Are Just 'Art'

March 2nd, 2023 11:21 PM

On Thursday night’s The ReidOut on MSNBC, host Joy Reid once again lashed out at Republicans for wanting to protect children from degenerate groomers who want to genitally mutilate children and inflict sexually explicit drag shows on them. The latest source of Reid’s rage came as Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed…

WaPo: 'Republicans Seize on Train Derailment to Go After Buttigieg'

March 2nd, 2023 10:06 PM

The Washington Post describes Republicans as "seizing" at the opportunity  to attack Pete Buttigieg for his failed response over the East Palesine, Ohio train derailment.

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Nets Skip AOC Ethics Complaint While Hyping Santos Allegations

March 2nd, 2023 9:00 PM

On Thursday, the Office of Congressional Ethics found a “substantial reason to believe” that New York Socialist Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) violated congressional ethics rules by accepting gifts in the form of tickets during her infamous appearance at…

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Whoopi Defends Tearing Down Lincoln Statue, Says Jim Crow ‘Reinstated'

March 2nd, 2023 6:11 PM

How against Republicans is ABC’s Whoopi Goldberg? Well, during Thursday’s edition of The View she defended radical leftists tearing down and defacing statues of President Abraham Lincoln, the Republican president who released the slaves from their Democratic masters. She also declared, without evidence, that Mississippi was “reinstating Jim Crow” and bringing back lynching.

By The Numbers: How Fervently Did NPR Avoid Covering Garland Hearing?

March 2nd, 2023 4:14 PM

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing of the new Congress with Attorney General Merrick Garland. It was a rock-em, sock-em grilling by Senate Republicans, but NPR fervently avoided a story on it. But they found time for a four-minute story on a man setting a Guinness World Record for Disneyland visits, and eight minutes on "how curry took over the world."

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Brent Bozell Slams Media at CPAC: No Longer Liberal, They're Marxist!

March 2nd, 2023 3:11 PM

During the first official day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Media Research Center (MRC) founder and President Brent Bozell tore into the dishonest and corrupt media for the way they cover (or don’t cover) the news. Bozell declared that they are no longer liberal, they are full blown Marxists. 

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Joe Scarborough Has Dismemberment Fantasy About GOP Senator Hawley

March 2nd, 2023 2:52 PM

On Morning Joe, ripping into Senator Josh Hawley [R-MO], Scarborough says this, commenting on a photo of Hawley raising his fist in support of the crowd at the Trump rally that preceded the January 6th riot:"The guy with the bird-bone hands. Doing the power-to-the-people signal. Raised fist of a bird. I'll tell you what: a brisk wind could break that arm—right off. He needs to be careful."…

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Hayes Podcast Guest Declares 4-Year Olds Can Choose Their Gender

March 2nd, 2023 2:13 PM

As Republican state legislatures across the country move to ban sex changes or “gender-affirming care” for minors, MSNBC All In host Chris Hayes decried the efforts by playing a clip from his podcast where Dr. Izzy Lowell claimed that children as young as four can choose their gender.

The Greatest Cover-Up in Human History

March 2nd, 2023 12:50 PM

First, it was supposedly a conspiracy theory. Then, it was banned. Finally, it was true. The so-called “lab leak” theory of the origins of COVID-19 -- the theory that COVID-19 originated in at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then was unintentionally loosed -- was always the most probable explanation for the outbreak of the deadly virus.