Double Standards

Jennifer Szalai, the nonfiction book critic for the New York Times, uncorked a nasty review of Sen. John Fetterman’s new memoir (D-PA) Unfettered in Wednesday’s edition (the review was written before Fetterman’s hospitalization after a fall). A petulant take-down which surely has nothing to do with Fetterman's willingness to buck his Democratic Party at times, right?

After treating Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to a gush fest last week where they tried to recruit her to the Democrats, executive producer Brian Teta and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin expressed relief on Tuesday’s edition of their Behind the Table podcast that Greene was not bad mouthing them after the fact like other guests they’ve apparently had. The two eventually took…

PBS’s newest Frontline documentary, “The Rise of Germany's New Right” concerns the rise of the AfD in Germany (Alternative for Germany) party and it’s supposed links to Nazism and Putin's Russia. Germany’s migrant problem surged after 2015, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the borders to people fleeing the Syrian war. Over three million refugees and asylum seekers have…

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos tried to push Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with regard to ending the ongoing government shutdown. Instead, he was treated to an uncomfortable history lesson.

Throughout the first week of November, ABC News’s The View used their Behind the Table podcast to vent about all the criticism they were receiving about their staunch stance of rejecting conservative guests who would give the co-hosts a hard time. The View started receiving flak after co-host Joy Behar declared that conservatives were “afraid of us,” and has dismissed all…

New York Times “misinformation and disinformation” reporter Steven Lee Myers teamed with reporter Stuart Thompson to go after “biased,” “right-wing” Artificial Intelligence chatbots in “Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars.” Yes, after years of downplaying liberal bias in Google and Wikipedia, the paper has finally found some online search bias to sink…

The legacy newscasts were all over the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, labeling his prosecution as part of an alleged “political retribution” campaign  by President Donald Trump. These outlets were nowhere to be seen, though, as the Eastern District of Virginia dropped a multiple-warhead filing that decimated those narratives.

Just in time for Halloween, the New York Times ran an epic 12-part editorial online, full of multi-media bits and against an ominous black background, “Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question. -- Are We Losing Our Democracy?” If we are, the Times certainly didn’t show it in…

On CNN This Morning, CNN contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro interrupts conservative Bradley Devlin to correct his pronunciation of Kamala. "KA-ma-la," she says, not Ka-MA-la, as he pronounced it. But in the same segment, Garcia-Navarro [and host Audie Cornish], mispronounce the Usha Vance's first name as Ush-a. It's correctly pronounced OO-shah.

As political scandals go, Arctic Frost makes Watergate look like relative child’s play. During the Biden Administration, the FBI may have investigated Republican elected officials and conservative organizations- doing so, in many cases, with invasive and secret subpoenas. The breadth and scope of this scandal is staggering. And yet, the legacy broadcast news continues to suppress this story,…

With The Great East Wing Calamity Cycle apparently behind us (zero seconds on ABC, CBS, NBC’s 10/27 nightly newscasts), one would think that the legacy networks would move off of their Democrat-coded shutdown coverage and relay increasing pressure in favor of the clean Continuing Resolution languishing before the Senate. Alas, this was not the case.

The legacy media’s ongoing coverage of the current government shutdown continues to maintain a Democrat frame, to the point of ridiculousness. Case in point, Kristen Welker’s interview of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on NBC’s Meet the Depressed.

CNN’s Jake Tapper had on the seven-time Mr.Olympia and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss partisan gerrymandering, among other topics, and got an earful when he tried to justify California’s gerrymandering referendum known as Prop 50. Tapper got a near-total recitation of Democrat partisan gerrymandering efforts in a way not normally seen on cable TV.

If this exchange between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and CBS’s Margaret Brennan is any indication, it would seem that some partisan gerrymandering is more acceptable than others. Ditto for the acceptability of talk of “rigged elections.”