PolitiFact Celebrates Birthday By Hyping Devotion To Left-Wing Causes

August 22nd, 2023 12:40 PM

PolitiFact celebrated its 16th birthday on Tuesday and while some may mark the occasion by remembering about that one time they defended President Obama by citing an arms control treaty that went defunct in 1936, author Katie Sanders celebrated by highlighting the website’s devotion to left-wing causes.

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CNN Promotes Lefty Protesters Distorting DeSantis Over Black History

August 19th, 2023 10:43 PM

On Thursday's CNN This Morning, correspondent Carlos Suarez filed a report promoting misleading claims by left-wing activists protesting against Governor Ron DeSantis's policies on teaching black history in Florida.

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MSNBC Labels Anti-Semitic Democrat a Republican to Smear DeSantis

August 17th, 2023 12:35 PM

Protesting emeritus Prof. Marvin Dunn joined Thursday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC to discuss his opposition to Florida’s new history standards on slavery. During his rantings, Dunn argued that one of the experts who wrote the standards is an anti-Semite who once thanked God for slavery. There was just one problem: that woman opposes the standards and is an elected Democrat.…

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MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan Pushes Apartheid Smear Against Israel

August 17th, 2023 8:07 AM

On Sunday evening, MSNBC weekend host Mehdi Hasan pushed to portray Israel as an "apartheid state" and complained about American Democrat leaders for supporting the Jewish nation as he spoke with J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami, who frequently criticizes Israel from the far left.

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CNN Declares The Goal Of CRT Bans Is To Make Children Dumber

August 16th, 2023 10:36 AM

The Wednesday edition of CNN This Morning reacted to the news that Arkansas will not be offering AP African American Studies for graduation credits by tying the move to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s campaign against Critical Race Theory and everyone from the former Democrat, supposed fact checker, and Republican deputy chief of staff all agreed: Republicans want children to be dumber…

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Capehart Baffled Trump Leading In Iowa, Based on a Sample of Three!

August 13th, 2023 8:19 PM

On his MSNBC show on Saturday, Capehart wondered out loud how Donald Trump could be leading by 24 points among Iowa Republicans. After all, the show had just rolled clips of three people at the Iowa state fair saying they want to move on to someone else!

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Capehart Mourns GOP Voters Being Fed a 'Anti-Biden Family Diet'

August 12th, 2023 10:03 AM

Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.

NPR Host, NYT Reporter Go Label-CRAZY on 'Far Right,' 'Hard Right' GOP

August 10th, 2023 6:53 AM

Terry Gross, host of the National Public Radio talk show Fresh Air, conducted two separate interviews on succeeding days with Annie Karni, a former White House correspondent for the New York Times who is now congressional correspondent for the paper, a discussion dominated by fears of the “far-right” Congress. The loaded ideological labeling that emanated from both…

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Spiking Football: CNN Lengthily Celebrates Ohio Amendment Vote Results

August 9th, 2023 11:38 PM

After the results of Tuesday night’s vote on Ohio’s ballot measure to raise the required percentage for constitutional amendments, framed as a referendum for an upcoming abortion amendment, Wednesday morning’s CNN This Morning featured five segments that totaled over 22 minutes of celebration of the proposal being turned down.

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PBS/NPR Polling Push: The World Is Melting, Republicans to Blame

August 8th, 2023 10:07 AM

Two publicly funded media outlets, National Public Radio and the PBS NewsHour, sponsored a Marist poll to find out how Republicans feel about an issue the press has decided is urgent -- “climate change.” To their horror, it found Republicans would rather preserve living standards for humans rather than throw their money at somehow stopping the temperature from rising. NPR’s…

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CNN Decries GOP Criticizing Kamala While White House Promotes Her Work

August 7th, 2023 9:51 PM

On CNN This Morning this Monday, anchor Victor Blackwell lamented that “Republicans are zeroing in on” Vice President Kamala Harris as part of their 2024 framing, noting that “a vote for President Biden is a vote for Vice President Harris” because of Biden’s age. 

PBS's Balanced Trump Indictment Talk? GOP: ‘Traitor…Belongs in Jail'

August 7th, 2023 10:44 AM

Amanpour & Co’s idea of a balanced segment on the news of Donald Trump’s third indictment for “conspiring to defraud” the United States for contesting his loss in 2020? Hosting a sitting liberal Democrat, Rep. Joe Neguse, and the ex-Republican (in all senses) Rep. Joe Walsh, who ran against Trump in the 2020 primary and remains fiercely opposed. Amanpour’s Tuesday evening…

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MSNBC Host: 'Let's Hasten' That 'Dead' GOP 'Rotting in the Field!'

August 6th, 2023 4:10 PM

On her MSNBC show, Katie Phang says, "so, let's hasten that," in response to Rick Wilson describing the Republican party under Trump as "dead and rotting in the field."

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Brooks: GOP Position On Oil Drilling 'Is a Way to Offend The Elites'

August 5th, 2023 9:52 AM

PBS NewsHour’s weekly recap with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart began with a discussion on, of all things, Republican attitudes towards climate change. During the discussion, Brooks, the supposedly conservative half of the duo, reduced oil drilling to a simple way of Republicans to offend elite…