Conservative Leaders Call on Media to Apologize to the Covington Kids

January 29th, 2019 12:40 PM

RESTON, VA: On Tuesday, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell and 34 conservative leaders issued an open letter to the news media calling on them to apologize to the students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky for their vicious media coverage against the students following their attendance at the 2019 March for Life.

The Media Lose Big in Confrontation between Covington Kids, Protesters

January 28th, 2019 10:45 AM
It’s almost cliché in pro-life circles that on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade for coming close to 50 years, hundreds of thousands of people march for life, and almost no one in the media can see them. Like Pro-Life Ninjas, they move in and out of the nation’s capitol undetected … until a teenager with a “Make America Great Again” hat was faced with a reality of political life today, the…
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Fox's Watters Underlines Media Bias on Minors: Parkland vs. Covington

January 27th, 2019 3:28 PM
During Saturday’s edition of Watters’ World, Fox News host Jesse Watters brought up a blaring double standard when it comes to the media’s treatment of children: “Remember the Parkland shooter situation where everybody was going after the students and people immediately said you cannot go after students, you cannot say anything about students, they’re minors?”

NYT's Hysterical Rosenthal Blames MAGA Kids for Black Israelites' Rant

January 26th, 2019 7:55 PM
The New York Times’ former editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal weighed in on the Lincoln Memorial controversy on Facebook January 22. Keep in mind that Rosenthal served nine years as Editorial Page editor and became an op-ed columnist for the Times in 2016. And yet with all that experience, he is incapable of objectively interpreting video evidence right before his eyes, piling on his hateful…

BuzzFeed, Covington and the Media’s Self-Inflicted Wounds

January 26th, 2019 4:00 PM
It was remarkable to behold. In the space of a handful of weekend hours, the liberal media shot itself in its proverbial foot.  Not once - but twice. The first time was a report from BuzzFeed. The internet news outlet had run with the story that ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was telling investigators that President Trump had directed him to lie to Congress about the Trump Organization’s plans to…
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Concha Unloads on NYT Writer Looking to ‘Expose Christian Schools’

January 24th, 2019 11:43 PM
In a disgusting Thursday afternoon tweet, New York Times reporter Dan Levin solicited information from people on Twitter looking to “expose Christian schools”, as if they were some kind of a scourge. The Hill media reporter, Joe Concha unloaded on Levin for going into it with a “nefarious agenda” during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.
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Rye: MAGA Hat 'as Maddening...and Triggering...as a KKK Hood'

January 24th, 2019 10:15 PM
During Tuesday’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo engaged in a discussion about the Covington kids with CNN Political Commentators Angela Rye and Andre Bauer. It did not take long for the debate to veer off course from its original topic; most of the discussion actually revolved around Make America Great Again hats, which Rye described as “just as maddening and frustrating and…

Time Slams NBC's Guthrie for Letting Covington Teen ‘Defend Himself'

January 24th, 2019 8:52 PM
The continuing fallout from last Friday's encounter between students from the Covington Catholic High School and Native American activist Nathan Phillips led to NBC's Today co-host Savannah Guthrie verbally attacking Nicholas Sandmann in what was supposed to be an interview, asking the Kentucky teen if he should apologize for his actions at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Despite Guthrie…

NBC News Op-Ed Slams Covington Kids: MAGA Hats 'Spoke Hate'

January 24th, 2019 3:44 PM
NBC News’s Think opinion website was plastered with hateful op-eds against the right Thursday targetting everyone from the Covington kids to Karen Pence. The Guardian’s Noah Berlatsky revealed the media's end game in his op-ed for the site,   mainly that the truth of what occurred doesn't really matter--this was all about the Make America Great Again hat students were wearing.
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Guthrie Lobs Softballs to Phillips: Should Sandmann Have ‘Apologized’?

January 24th, 2019 12:23 PM
After grilling Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann on Wednesday, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie treated Native American activist Nathan Phillips to a softball sit-down on Thursday’s Today show. She began by asking Phillips how he was feeling and then fretted whether her hostile interview with Sandmann was “enough” for him and if the teenager “should have apologized” for their…

NYT Easy on Black Israelites: Less Scary Than 'White Guy in MAGA Hat'

January 24th, 2019 9:16 AM
In his New York Times profile “Hebrew Israelites See Divine Intervention in Lincoln Memorial Confrontation,” reporter John Eligon downplayed the obvious offensiveness of the racist and homophobic Black Hebrew Israelites cult, while even shelling out some praise. The group is in the spotlight thanks to their verbal assaults on the Kentucky Catholic school teens, captured on video as part of the…
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MRC’s Bozell: ‘Very Bad People’ in Media Are Attacking Covington Kids

January 24th, 2019 12:16 AM
In a Wednesday appearance on Fox News @ Night, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell blasted the “very bad people” in the liberal media whose false reporting have put the lives of the Covington Kids in danger.
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Nets Move On from Covington Kids in Time to Avoid Covering Libel Suits

January 23rd, 2019 10:18 PM
After Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann shared his side of the story with a very hostile and bullying NBC News on Wednesday, the coverage of the confrontation by the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) inexplicably evaporated from their evening newscasts. The timing was suspect, especially considering that Sandmann’s family lawyer issued an ultimatum to the vicious…

The Covington Rorschach Test

January 23rd, 2019 4:53 PM
Sometimes, a three-point celebration is just a three-point celebration. Sometimes, a pep rally is just a pep rally. Sometimes, a smile is just a smile. And sometimes, a hat is just a hat. Only among the most deranged partisans could a universal sports ritual, a common high school activity, a typical teen face and patriotic headgear be construed as evil symbols of patriarchal oppression. These,…