Double Standards

As sure as water being wet and the sun rising in the East, one can count on CBS’s John Dickerson to deliver overly pompous hot takes on his “Reporter’s Notebook”, his editorial segment on CBS Evening News Plus. This time, he delivers with phony concern trolling over an apparent Trump reversal on immigration.

Monday’s CBS Mornings had senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta who was live on the scene of the Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv. Debora pivoted quickly from the carnage in Israel to clutch her pearls about Iran death tolls and how Israel was killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists.

As NewsBusters has documented for years, ABC’s The View has a serious problem with incendiary rhetoric designed to inflame political tensions, incite violence, and generally disregard the lives of conservatives. So, their toxic hypocrisy was fairly potent during Monday’s episode when the cast were demanding the rhetoric be toned down following the assassination of Democratic state…

Leftist professor Maura Finkelstein, conservative professor Amy Wax, and the New York Times’ double standard on academic freedom: In the last two years the paper has run four major articles, two on Finkelstein’s controversy and ultimate firing, and two on Wax’s controversy and ultimate suspension. While these articles contain some nuanced arguments, the headlines and subheads make…

Even by his own standards, former CNN anchor turned Substack podcaster Jim Acosta displayed a stunning amount of hypocrisy on Tuesday when it comes to conspiracy theories about the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. On 2020, Acosta let former CNN colleague Michael Fanone go on a profanity-laden rant against Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans while he labeled actress Rosie O’Donnell…

Since when don’t judges blocking deportations go immediately to the top of A-block on legacy network newscasts? It turns out that there is not as much interest in covering a blocked deportation when it isn’t immediately useful as Resistance Porn. Case in point: the planned deportations of the family of the accused Boulder fire bombing jihadist. 

There is nothing Elite Acela media hate more than getting checked by a conservative after trying to sneak in a bad-faith question premised on a bad-faith frame. Such is the case of CNN’s Abby Phillip, who had an absolute meltdown after getting called out by Scott Jennings and Brad Todd for suggesting that Education Secretary Linda McMahon tried to both-sides the Holocaust in a Congressional…

If an insurrection dropped in a tony San Diego neighborhood and no legacy media covered it, did it really happen? With the exception of NBC Nightly News, this seems to be the working assumption among the legacy media evening newscasts.

With President Donald Trump back in The White House, the legacy media have rekindled their interest in stories on presidential corruption- refreshed after ignoring the cornucopia of corrupt acts attributable to the past occupant of The White House. The latest instance: ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos.

The time: 1960. Longtime journalist Theodore H. White releases his ground breaking book The Making of the President 1960. 

On Tuesday night’s installment of The Source with Kaitlan Collins, conspiracy theories were in no short supply regarding the recent actions of President Trump to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, saying they were politically motivated to “protect” donors and supporters of the President. The discussion centered on the Chrisleys, who were convicted of bank fraud and tax…

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki went on a 10 minute rant on Tuesday night's episode of The Briefing about President Donald Trump’s pardons where she used biased buzzwords like “abuse of power” to describe Trump’s most recent pardons.

As its own future comes under threat by the Trump administration, National Public Radio unwittingly showed just what kind of job losses NPR has sympathy for -- DEI woke-work, not manufacturing jobs (i.e., many Trump voters) that actually involve making things. “Corporate America's retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs” is an expanded “digital…

President Trump issued a series of eyebrow raising pardons this week; drawing the ire of the liberal media which quickly showed their hypocrisy for pardons claimed to be “not ethical.” The Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View kicked off Wednesday’s episode by clutching their pearls over Trump’s pardons of well-connected people, despite the fact they praised President Biden’s sweeping…