Double Standards

Atlantic Journo Mocks Crime Crackdown Months After Being Theft Victim
One of the hyperbolic Resist movement’s favorite reporters going back to her days with The Washington Post, Ashley Parker — who joined Laurene Powell Jobs’s The Atlantic in December — wrote a piece Friday huffing and puffing about the presence of the National Guard in Washington D.C. as part of President Trump’s efforts to address crime in the nation’s capital. Parker leveled…

CNN Analyst Calls Tennis Star as American (She's a Japanese Citizen)
Pro Tip for CNN contributor Cari Champion: If you're going to criticize people who "don't really understand tennis," avoid making a glaring mistake of your own about the sport! Appearing on Monday's CNN This Morning, former ESPN host Champion was discussing the ongoing U.S. Open and commenting on how, in her opinion, women players get treated more harshly when it comes to bad behavior…

ABC, CBS, NBC Boast About China’s Military Parade Flexing Against U.S.
The liberal media of today was still that same media that bashed America’s troops and supported our enemies during Vietnam. There was an updated version of that mentality visible during the Tuesday morning newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC when all three of them hyped China’s military parade marking the end of WWII; when, just a few months ago, they all condemned the U.S.’s military parade…

Softest Interview Ever? Swisher Asks Newsom What His Favorite Meme Is
There are softball interviews, there are T-ball interviews, and then there’s whatever New York Magazine and Vox Media's Pivot podcast host Kara Swisher did on Friday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom when she asked him what his favorite meme is.

Cornish Doesn't Mention ‘Kill Donald Trump’ on MN Shooter's Guns
CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish says the Minneapolis school shooter had "anti-Semitic, anti-black, and anti-religious messages painted" on the side of his weapons, but she fails to mention that he had also written on a gun, "Kill Donald Trump."

‘DON’T SAY TRANS’: Nets Avoid Any Mention of MN Shooter or His Motives
In what appears to be a perverse “don’t say transgender challenge”, the legacy newscasts went out of their way to mention that the coward who entered into the Annunciation Catholic Church and opened fire on an ongoing Mass was in fact a transgender individual. The networks were equally circumspect about divulging the shooter’s motives.

THUNDER-LID: Abby Phillip Keeps ‘Maryland Dad’ Off NewsNight Table
In an interesting editorial choice, CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip elected to keep credibly-accused human trafficker, wifebeater and MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García off the table and away from any meaningful panel discussion. Phillip instead elected to do a brief blurb on Abrego García to close the show.

Phillip Blasts Jennings for Ignoring ‘Guard Rails,’ Playing ‘Games’
Appearing Tuesday on her friend and fellow progressive Kara Swisher’s podcast, CNN Newsnight host Abby Phillip — aka Mrs. CNN Thunderdome — knocked CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings and past panelist Jillian Michaels as examples of people who disrespect her “guard rails” and are “playing...games” with the show.

PBS's Double Standards: Hateful Loomer vs. Gaza’s ‘Mister Rogers'
The PBS News Hour on Wednesday unwittingly showed off ideological double standards in three separate segments: a hostile profile of controversial Republican activist Laura Loomer, a gushfest with controversial pro-Palestinian activist and kid-vid host “Ms. Rachel,” and a celebration of a kinder, gentler form of racial segregation in an arts community in Maine for “Black and brown…

Legacy Evening News Insists on Regurgitating Cooked DC Crime Stats
After a couple of news cycles, it is clear that the legacy media’s Current Thing to be outraged over is the federalization of Washington D.C.’s Metro Police Department. In support of this narrative, they insist on omitting the fact that those crime data are very likely to be cooked.

Jake Steps on a Rake: CNN’s Tapper SCHOOLED By Abbott on Texas Law
On Monday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper once again utterly embarrassed himself on the Texas redistricting issue. While he falsely claimed previously that Republicans were “the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering” and singled out Texas, this time he tried to go toe-to-toe with Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R). Tapper showed off a profound ignorance of the…

Awful NYT COVID Reporter Blames Conservative Disinfo for CDC Shooting
Error-prone science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, infamous for her alarmist and faulty COVID-era reporting, made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with a story on a gunman’s assault on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta that killed a policeman, “C.D.C. Shooting Followed Years of Demonization -- Staff Feels Betrayed as Fears Come True.” She…

Cornish Suggests Trump Plan To Clean Up DC A Racist Dog Whistle
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish, speaking of President Trump's plan to clean up DC, says: "Talking about juveniles, people are one beat away from saying superpredators. It just feels familiar."

Fox News Sunday: Hochul Flees from Mamdani Despite Common Ground
A Fox News Sunday interview on redistricting turned uncomfortable for New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Faced with the possibility of common ground with socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, Hochul accused his interview of “whitewashing” the differences between them.