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Weekend Edition Saturday is a "news" program, but anchorman Scott Simon can uncork an occasional liberal commentary called "Simon Says." On the Saturday before the Super Bowl, Simon ripped pro football as a violent game, chiding the NFL for basically abusing its labor force after Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest on the field.

On Katie Phang's MSNBC show, Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to Donald Trump turned Trump antagonist, says the real national security threat to the US is not Chinese balloons, but classified documents in the possession of Trump, whom Cohen calls a "sociopath."

The PBS NewsHour, hypersensitive to threats to “gun safety” measures (their words), sounded unpleasantly surprised on Thursday evening’s edition by a federal appeals court ruling allowing people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns, based on the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision in June 2022. It’s part of a PBS pattern emphasizing what its journalists benignly…

Despite approval ratings that show him to be way underwater, Mika Brzezinski claims that President Biden is "extremely well-liked," adding, "they kind of like Joe Biden! They kind of like him!"

Disney’s brand took hit after hit last year, and 2023 is off to a similar start.

Suddenly and without any evidence, the Saturday edition of CNN This Morning Weekend suggested that if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were to become president, he might target companies who produce ads with interracial couples in the same way he went after Disney.

MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour Stephanie Ruhle was not happy that Fox News reacted to President Biden’s State of the Union by calling him a liar and to help her in her quest against this narrative, she welcomed professional Fox News watcher Juliet Jeske to claim Fox viewers are in a “cult” who need “deprogramming”

Eight years ago this week, the highest-rated news anchor in America — NBC’s Brian Williams — was taken off the air for the wild exaggerations and outright falsehoods he’d been telling for at least a decade.

Beyonce set a record for having the most Grammy Awards last Sunday, but people looking for racism everywhere were upset that she was "shut out" of the major categories like Album of the Year. It was ironic that one angry rantfest was a National Public Radio show called Pop Culture Happy Hour. They were mad that "very white" artists kept beating her.

With Executive Editor Tim Graham off celebrating his birthday, Deputy Managing Editor Nick Fondacaro and I returned to hold down the fort and, even leaving aside the State of the Union, the world was our oyster with content. Of course, The View was a major topic with their cockamamie and erroneous claims that conservatives such as Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) want to ban the teaching…

We’ve heard it all before. In fact, a recording of last year’s State of the Union could have been replayed, saving President Biden a trip to Capitol Hill. Numbers can be selectively used to hide reality and advance one’s political agenda. Both parties do this, but Democrats and their media allies do it better. It’s important to go beyond the claims of success. For example, at the time of Biden…

Chris Licht’s CNN tenure has been nothing short of a disappointment. Having promised to tone down the laser focus on only a few stories a day, partisan sensationalism, and snark that dominated Jeffrey Zucker’s reign of terror, Licht implied wholesale changes were in order. Not only has he failed thus far, but the inmates remain in charge of the asylum (despite layoffs and the ushering out of…

On Thursday's CNN This Morning, co-host Don Lemon picked up on the story of a group of high school girls in Philadelphia circulating a racist video mocking Black History Month, and exploited it to pontificate against Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis's education policies.

President Biden nearly busted another presidential norm on Friday by causing drama with the traditional pre-Super Bowl interview with the game’s broadcaster as, this year, it was Fox. He might have taken the advice of ABC’s The View as the cackling coven vehemently opposed him opening himself up to accountability, even accusing anchors Bret Baier and Shannon Bream – respected…