2024 Presidential
Don Lemon and Kathy Griffin Go Full Election Denier
In June 2023, recently fired CNN host Don Lemon claimed, “I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots, insurrectionists and election deniers, and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth.” If Lemon really believes that, he should deplatform…
Acosta Displays Amazing Hypocrisy On Election Conspiracy Theories
Even by his own standards, former CNN anchor turned Substack podcaster Jim Acosta displayed a stunning amount of hypocrisy on Tuesday when it comes to conspiracy theories about the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. On 2020, Acosta let former CNN colleague Michael Fanone go on a profanity-laden rant against Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans while he labeled actress Rosie O’Donnell…
NBC Only Legacy Newscast to Report on KJP Book and Party Switch
The legacy media generally love to report on perceived palace intrigue and betrayal, unless the intrigue happens within a Democrat White House. Then, it’s all quiet on the Leftern Front. NBC’s reporting on the new book by former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is the exception.
Chutzpah! MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart Questions Trump's 'Mental Acuity'
On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend that he co-hosts, Jonathan Capehart expresses concerns about Trump's "mental acuity" and "mental impairment." George Conway of the disgraced Lincoln Project mocks Trump with a faux-sympathetic voice.
‘STAGGERING’ HYPOCRISY: Stephanopoulos Whines About Trump Crypto
With President Donald Trump back in The White House, the legacy media have rekindled their interest in stories on presidential corruption- refreshed after ignoring the cornucopia of corrupt acts attributable to the past occupant of The White House. The latest instance: ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos.
LOL: Liberal MSNBC Sports Guy Denies Harvard Is 'Hotbed of Liberalism'
Morning Joe regular Pablo Torre, a Harvard alum who comments on sports and politics, denies that Harvard is a "hotbed of liberalism." His one bit of evidence in support of his claim is that the basic economics course at Harvard USED to be taught by an economic adviser to President Reagan. Torre ignores studies like the 2022 one revealing that "more than 80 percent of Harvard faculty…
ORIGINAL SINNERS: Thompson ‘Doesn’t Blame’ Frustration with the Media
Axios’ Alex Thompson joined Fox News Sunday for an interview on his recently published Original Sin, co-written with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Of all the revelations during his interview, the most damning being that he felt “ostracized” by many in the legacy media.
Speaker Johnson SCHOOLS Jake Tapper on Media Coverage of Corruption
The onslaught of media stories about the Trump family’s stake in cryptocurrency betrays a strange new interest in coverage of the perception of corruption. As Speaker Mike Johnson reminded CNN’s Jake Tapper, things were (D)ifferent back then.
PBS Host: Critics of Pro-Biden Media Don't Grasp 'How Reporting Works'
On Friday's Washington Week with The Atlantic, host Jeffrey Goldberg hosted his pal Jake Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson on their book Original Sin. The most shameless denial came when Goldberg suggested the media didn't cover up Biden's decline, while he completely omitted his show's infamous episode when he said President Biden was "mentally, quite acute." Mark…
Rogan, Rodgers Cite MRC Study Finding 96% Negative Coverage for Musk
On the most recent episode of the world’s most popular podcast, a moment made possible by the Media Research Center: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers discuss the negative coverage drawn by the DOGEfather, Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
LEGACY STENOGRAPHY: Media Uncritically Report Biden’s 2014 PSA Test
It appears that the legacy media have learned nothing from the release of the Hur tapes, and the release of Tapper/Thompson’s “Original Sin”. Faced with former President Biden’s devastating cancer diagnosis, and with the choice between investigative journalism or stenography, the media continue to choose the latter.
TAPPER CONCEDES, Says Conservative Media ‘Was All Over’ Biden Decline
It’s Publication Day for the much-ballyhooed Original Sin, authored by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, and with it, the requisite media tour. And what sounded like an honest admission by Tapper on CBS Evening News Plus is really a searing indictment of the media’s conduct throughout the Biden years.
FLASHBACK: Univision Credulously Spun 2024 Biden White House Physical
When it comes to media outlets shamelessly and credulously shilling for the Biden White House, Univision was consistently at or near the top of the list. Let’s take a look back at how they spun the announced results of the final White House physical examination of President Joe Biden.
STELTER: Cancer Diagnosis Should ‘Pause’ Scrutiny of Biden’s Decline
As news was breaking of former President Joe Biden’s advanced cancer diagnosis, there immediately emerged efforts to turn the diagnosis into a vehicle with which to suppress scrutiny of the former president based on the respective releases of the Hur tapes and the Tapper/Thompson book Original Sin. Chief among those doing so on CNN, Brian Stelter and former Obama guru David Axelrod.…
