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Commies in Love: NYT Under Fire After More Evidence of Ties to China
This week, the reliably pro-communist New York Times found itself in more hot water after it published a Sunday column from an official with a Chinese Communist Party outfit without proper disclosure as well as failing to note that said author appeared last year with longtime columnist and pro-China defender Thomas Friedman at an event for a think tank tied to Chinese state-run media…

Credible? Biased NewsGuard OKs 7 Non-Autocratic State Media Outlets
Does biased NewsGuard automatically favor state-affiliated media? The liberal online “credibility” arbiter gave seven traditionally non-autocratic state-affiliated media outlets around the world an average score of 98.6/100.

Montana AG Launches Investigation into Communist Chinese-Linked TikTok
Montana’s attorney general has announced an investigation into Communist Chinese-linked social media app TikTok, including an examination of TikTok’s censorship.

You Awake Now, Joe? WH Press Hammer Biden as Russia Invades Ukraine
Addressing the world some 15 hours after Russian began a full invasion of Ukraine, President Biden faced a White House press corps on Thursday afternoon that, after he ducked their questions on Tuesday, chose to do its job and call out the likelihood the latest round of economic sanctions would do all but nothing to deter Putin, the likely economic pain Americans will feel, and what has he…

AP RIPS NBC for Deal with Communist China: ‘Olympics Were a Disaster’
Even the liberal Associated Press observed that NBC’s multi-billion dollar Olympics bet on pro-communist China just went up in flames. The Associated Press (AP) called the Olympics a “disaster” for NBC, especially after it secured a $7.75 billion deal for exclusive rights to cover the Games through 2032.

Editor’s Pick: Examiner on NBC’s Disastrously Low Olympics Ratings
On Tuesday, Washington Examiner’s Social Media Reporter Heather Hamilton reported on NBC’s disastrous drop in viewership during the recently-concluded Winter Olympics: “After more than two weeks of coverage, the 2022 Winter Olympics competition in Beijing is complete, leaving behind dismal TV ratings.”

NBC's Keir Simmons: 'Putin Not Frightened' By Biden's Sanction Threat
On Morning Joe, NBC international correspondent Keir Simmons, says that Putin is "not frightened" by Biden's threat of imposing "severe sanctions" should Russia invade Ukraine.

NewsBusters Podcast: The Politics of the Olympics and Oscars
The Olympics are an athletic event, but they're political when the host country is an abusive dictatorship. NBC failed to see the ideological clash as they championed U.S.-born Ashley Gu competing for communist China and also striking advertising deals with luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Tiffany. Geoffrey Dickens discusses his recent blogs on China and Olympic coverage.

NBA Appeases Chinese Overlords by Cutting Enes Kanter Freedom
With the sudden dismissal of China basher Enes Kanter Freedom, the NBA has likely regained the seal of approval from its dictatorial communist masters. The pathetic league is now fully cleansed of anyone who would dare criticize its appalling silence over the human rights atrocities of its Chinese business partner. The Boston Celtics traded their backup center to Houston Thursday, and the…
Hypocritical Businesses Bow to China
Companies tell us they support justice. “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” says former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in a Nike ad. “Speak for the people who may not be able to be heard,” says the NBA. “Corporate PR hogwash,” says journalist Melissa Chen in my new video. “Hogwash,” she says, because the NBA clearly does not want its employees to criticize…

Snuff Out the Torch
In 1936, Adolf Hitler presided over the Summer Olympics. It was a coming-out party for the Nazis. They put their best foot forward to show their recovery after World War I. They intended to wow the crowd with Nazi grandeur. The international press and much of the world ate it up. Two years later, Germany annexed Austria. World War II began less than a year later. Now, in 2022, the…

Column: Beijing Olympics Cause Burps of Moral Equivalence
Anyone under 30 today has no idea what it was like to live in America during the Cold War, and that includes the reflexive tendency of liberals and leftists to insist repeatedly that we really shouldn’t lecture the authoritarians in the Soviet Union or China for gross abuses of human rights, because the United States isn’t much different.

'Profits Above All': Tapper Blasts Hollywood's Kowtow to China Censors
“Profits above all else” was the fact that rang true on Tuesday’s edition of The Lead on CNN as anchor Jake Tapper and Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel called out liberal Hollywood for capitulating to the censors in communist China to get their blood money.

Comrade! Bloomberg News Praises Communist Chinese Venture Capitalists
Friends of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) around the world, unite! Liberal outlet Bloomberg News recently praised local CCP officials for becoming great “venture capitalists,” especially through funding electric vehicle startups like Tesla rival Nio.