Morning Joe Skips Dem’s ‘Shut Up’ to Collins, CNN Laughs It Off
In a debate for a Maine Senate seat, Democrat Troy Jackson told 73-year-old Republican Susan Collins to “shut up.” Morning Joe devoted precisely zero seconds in its three hours to the incident. The Maine race only came up to report that Jackson is outraising Collins. Things were better at CNN This Morning. At least they discussed the incident, though relegating it to the show’s last segment.…
MS NOW Presses Montana Dem to Drop Out to Help Liberal Independent Win
On Thursday's State of Play show on MS NOW, host Peter Alexander devoted an entire segment to lobbying Montana Democratic Senate nominee Alani Bankhead to drop out to help liberal independent Seth Bodnar defeat Republican nominee Kurt Alme.
MS NOW Portrays Midterms As Democracy Supporters Versus Fascists
MS NOW’s Ali Velshi welcomed Indivisible co-founder and co-executive director Ezra Levin to Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour to preview Saturday’s No Kings rallies and spread some conspiracy theories ahead of November’s midterm elections, which Levin argued is not between Democrats and Republicans, but democracy supporters and fascists.
Scarborough Hypes 'Absolutely Dreadful' 'Really Bad News' for Trump
Whether or not you believe in “karma is a bish,” or “tempting the fates,” it’s undeniable that Joe Scarborough went on an unseemly riff on Thursday’s Morning Joe, gloating over what he saw as various woes facing Trump and the Republicans at the midterms. The screencap shows him holding up one of the headlines he described as “bad news” for Trump. Joe stopped just short of rubbing his hands in…
King: GOP Warning Of 'Misery, Poverty, and Death' Is 'Desperation'
CNN chief national correspondent John King stopped by his old show, Inside Politics, on Friday to discuss his insight on the state of the midterms. As King tells it, Republicans warning about “misery, poverty, and death” should Democrats win is proof of “desperation.” The fact that Democrats are running on the same premise about Republicans was not something he was interested in.
PolitiFact Defends Ossoff From Accusations Of Abortion Radicalism
PolitiFact’s Maria Briceño rode to Sen. Jon Ossoff’s defense on Friday to try to blunt accusations from Rep. Mike Collins that Ossoff is a pro-abortion radical. According to Briceño, it is false to say Ossoff “backs abortion ‘up until and past birth’” despite Ossoff’s own voting record and legislation indicating otherwise.
'Don't Go Numb': Kimmel Urges Audience To Vote Democrat
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took a more direct approach to his efforts to get Democrats elected on Thursday by urging his audience to not “go numb” and to make sure they vote.
FAKE NEWS: The Media Make Up a Pre-Midterm ‘Record Gas Price’ Category
With the midterm election fast approaching, the Elitist Media evening news are innovating ever more ways to put their thumbs on the scale for Democrats. This includes making up new DOOM when the existing DOOM isn’t bad or scary enough. And now this entails crafting new “records” out of whole cloth.
New York Times Gushes Over Hillary Clinton’s ‘Next Act’ as Podcaster
Wednesday’s New York Times Business section was blessed with “Hillary Clinton Starts Podcast On Election as Midterms Near.” The former First Lady, former U.S. Senator, and failed Democratic presidential nominee is forming a new podcast series for Vox Media with surly liberal tech journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher. The online headline came off more excited: “Hillary Clinton Steps to the…
Nets Brag ‘Trump’s Policies’ Are ‘Squeezing’ Americans, But Boost Dem
On Thursday, the steady torrent of negativity surrounding Republicans continued on the flagship morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC, emphasizing Wednesday’s inflation report of prices increasing 3.7 percent spells doom for President Trump and the GOP, “squeezing American families” because of “Trump’s policies” and “handing” Democrats “a campaign talking point.”
Cornish Defends Talarico's Past Comments: All Sermons ‘Sound Crazy’
After Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s gushy town hall on CNN, Thursday’s CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish tried to minimize the focus on Talarico’s previous comments, especially when he said “God is non-binary.” Cornish first defended Talarico’s comments by complaining about advertisements using his past comments, as she said many “random sentences” from sermons she has…
IN-KIND: The CNN Talarico Town Hall Was a Glorified Infomercial
CNN advertised its Jubilee-branded town hall with Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico as an opportunity to engage and ask tough questions. To be sure, there were compelling questions from the audience. But Talarico was given such a wide berth with no resistance or fact-checking that one wonders what the going rate for CNN prime time is given that he just ran what amounted to an…
After Kristen Welker’s Softball, Tom Llamas Absolutely COOKS El-Sayed
As you know by now, Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Mohammed El-Sayed was the beneficiary of the softest of softball interviews by NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Corporate precedent didn’t hold up, though, when Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas came up to The Great Lakes State for a midterm special.
SPECIAL REPORT: The Tale of Two Inflation Rates Just Got WORSE
The stark difference in media treatment a worse average inflation rate under Biden received vs. the Armageddon-level coverage a retrospectively tamer inflation situation under Trump got was first exposed via an analysis conducted by MRC Business and CNSNews.
