Double Standards

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…

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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."

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.

The standard in what passes for elite legacy media doing their jobs is so eroded that we’ve almost allowed ourselves to cheer when they do something as rudimentary as ask a Democrat politician a question that might seem just a teensy bit uncomfortable. But, as we can learn from the latest episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, merely asking a question is not enough.

On MSNBC's The Weekend, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg accuses Ed Martin, recently appointed by AG Pam Bondi to investigate possible financial fraud by Adam Schiff and Letitia James of "bias." She ignores the blatant bias of Schiff, who was the lead prosecutor in the first House impeachment of Trump, and of James, who ran for office on a pledge of going after Trump.