Column: 'Fact Checking' Is Often Spin Spoiling, Especially on Abortion

September 13th, 2024 6:00 AM

The debate debacle hosted by ABC underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to “fact checkers.” Object to them, and the Left decrees it’s because you’re hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist argumentation that’s poorly disguised as nonpartisan and devoid of opinion.

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UNREAL: NBC News Is Now Firefighting Illegal Aliens Voting

September 12th, 2024 10:55 PM

The Peacock Network presented as a news report an item demonizing those who caution against illegal aliens voting, while simultaneously admitting that illegal aliens vote. This report is another instance of the Regime Media holding off on reporting something inconvenient until it can be made into a Trump-adverse story. 

NY Times Touts ABC Debate's Calm 'Factual Guardrails' Against Trump

September 12th, 2024 10:35 PM

New York Times’ media reporter Michael Grynbaum made Wednesday’s paper with the smugly confident post-presidential debate “Media Memo,” “ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump.” He wrote: "Using calm and authoritative tones, Mr. Muir and Ms. Davis offered a model for real-time fact-checking that has been absent from many recent presidential debates."

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'Shut Up JD!' Whoopi RAGES at Vance Over Taylor Swift Criticism

September 12th, 2024 5:00 PM

ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg had an absolute meltdown on Thursday’s edition of The View, when she flipped out on Ohio Senator and GOP vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. His crime? He dared to state the fact the billionaires like singer Taylor Swift were not noticeably harmed by the current poor economic conditions and high inflation because they can still easily afford necessities…

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PBS: Trump Denouncing Walz On Abortion Is 'Extraordinarily Stupid'

September 12th, 2024 3:35 PM

During Tuesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump called out Tim Walz’s extremely radical and, frankly, diabolical abortion stance as governor of Minnesota, but for PBS’s Christiane Amanpour, the fact that Trump even brought it up made him “very, very extreme,” while her panel labeled it "extraordinarily stupid."

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FRUM: 'Probably Stupid' Electoral College Gives Trump Chance To Win

September 12th, 2024 3:30 PM

On CNN This Morning, a frustrated David Frum says the Constitution's creation of an Electoral College was "probably stupid," and gives Trump a chance to win, as he did in 2016, despite losing the popular vote.

PBS Fails at Debate Fact-Checking, Adores Taylor Swift Dem Endorsement

September 12th, 2024 2:16 PM

PBS’s coverage of Tuesday night’s Trump-Harris debate included live fact-checking from its partner PolitiFact, which has racked up a liberally slanted record. But when Harris falsely claimed Trump had promised a “bloodbath,” no one at PBS or PolitiFact corrected her. PBS has made the same fake claim on numerous occasions. Then it was on to abortion, when Donald Trump claimed “radical”…

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Rep. Waltz Schools CNN When They Attempt To Fact-Check Him, Again

September 12th, 2024 11:30 AM

GOP Rep. Michael Waltz joined CNN News Central host Brianna Keilar on Wednesday to recap the previous night’s presidential debate, and during the abortion part of the discussion, he was forced to fact-check someone on CNN who was attempting to fact-check him for the second time in the campaign.

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‘Does Truth Matter?‘ CBS All But Backs Harris After Debate, Swift Post

September 12th, 2024 11:28 AM

With Kamala Harris donor and Obama family friend Gayle King the lead host, CBS Mornings is always going to have a heaping of instances in which they come off as unofficial state-run TV for the left. But Wednesday’s show reacting to the second 2024 presidential debate went over the edge as King repeatedly showed her excitement over Taylor Swift endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris…

The Cipher and Her Praetorian Guard

September 12th, 2024 10:28 AM

In the lead-up to this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the polls showed a dead heat, both nationally and in seven swing states. The 2024 race is, by all measures, the closest presidential race we have seen in our lifetimes. But the usual presidential math applies The person upon whom the race becomes a referendum loses.

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NBC News Is Still Fangirling Over Swift Endorsement of Kamala Harris

September 12th, 2024 12:43 AM

It appears that NBC News has definitely settled on a post-debate angle. Having not been an active participant in the clinic on awful moderation put on by ABC, the Peacock Network is going with full-blown Swiftamania.

NewsBusters Podcast: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Debate

September 11th, 2024 11:57 PM

Wow! ABC's presidential debate was remarkably skewed. Trump drew specific hardball questions. Harris drew vague, open-ended softballs. Trump was "fact checked" six times. Harris never was. When you think the point of being a professional journalist is to Destroy Trump, of course you're going to be proud of this debate moderation.

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NBC, CBS Prove JD Vance’s Point, Firefight Ohio ‘Dogs and Cats’ Story

September 11th, 2024 11:55 PM

During his post-debate spin room interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Ohio Senator and GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance made the point that the Regime Media had zero interest in what was going on in Ohio until cat memes began popping up on social media. It took less than 24 hours for Vance to be proven right, with NBC and CBS rushing to firefight the stories coming out of Springfield,…

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Morning Joe Goes Gaga Over Harris Spreading Fake News About Pro-Lifers

September 11th, 2024 3:25 PM

MSNBC’s Morning Joe is the kind of “news” program that laments that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are supposedly portrayed as two equal candidates when, according to them, the latter is a lying liar who lies all the time and the former is just a normal candidate. However, for their Wednesday post-debate analysis, the assembled cast cheered Harris spreading fake news about pro-lifers…