Double Standards

Mika Chokes Up Praising Caroline Kennedy's Trashing Of RFK Jr.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski chokes up in praising Caroline Kennedy for her "painful" decision to put out a video trashing her cousin RFK Jr. and his nomination as head of HHS. Among other things, Caroline calls RFK a "predator" and accuses him of being responsible for the death of relatives by allegedly enticing them into drug abuse.

Trump Pardons Only! Bash Doesn't Like Graham Raising Biden Pardons
On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash repeatedly tries to cut off Lindsey Graham when he mentions Biden's pardon of the killer of two FBI agents and of many of his family members, and Kamala Harris having raised bail money for people arrested for post-George Floyd crimes. Bash only wants to talk about Trump's pardons of J6 participants.

CHUTZPAH: Biden Flack Remakes Her Boss AWOL Austin in Trashing Hegseth
On MSNBC's The Weekend, Biden's deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, Sabrina Singh makes repeated mention of the job requiring 24/7 availability--an unsubtle allusion to allegations about Hegseth's drinking history. Hegseth has pledged not to drink if confirmed. What about her boss, AWOL Austin?

The Huge Upside to ‘SNL’s Extreme Bias
We didn’t expect “Saturday Night Live” to actually speak truth to power, did we?

PBS Holds Festival of Excuse-Making for Biden's Preemptive Pardons
On Monday, PBS News Hour’s White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez called up the liberal media’s campaign-period name-calling of re-elected President Trump as “the convicted felon,” while skating over Biden’s preemptive family pardons. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz launched the festival of excuse-making on outgoing President Biden’s behalf: "President Trump's second term officially kick-starts…

PBS Biden Fans Warn of ‘Rising Tech Oligarchy' at Trump Inauguration
During Monday afternoon’s coverage of President Trump’s second inauguration, the co-anchors of the coverage, PBS News Hour hosts Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, were disturbed on ex-President Biden’s behalf by the prominent seating of corporate tech chieftains, and repeated Biden’s hypocritical warning about a rising Trumpian “oligarchy."

McCarthy Repeatedly SCHOOLS NBC Inaugural Crew on Double Standards
NBC News ran into a buzzsaw on Monday afternoon by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as he repeatedly shredded the assembled liberal journalists over their obsession with January 6 pardons, the Trump prosecutions, the Biden crime family, the Panama Canal, and even the Hunter Biden laptop.

PBS: No Problem With Biden Pardon Abuse, Trump Wrong on 14th Amendment
PBS News’s coverage of Donald Trump’s second inauguration featured PBS News Hour co-anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz and included Laura Barron-Lopez, stationed at the White House. Barron-Lopez, as always, was a reliable defender of the Democratic president, adopting a pro-Democratic double standard on the last-minute pre-emptive family pardons issued by Joe Biden, an…

The Media And The Fires: If Bass and Newsom Were Republicans
Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, as usual, hit the nail right on the head the other day.

Symone Scolds Michael Cohen For Asking Biden For Hunter-like Pardon
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders, a former Kamala Harris spokesperson, admonishes Michael Cohen for saying he has asked President Biden for a pardon, and thinks he's entitled to the same pardon Biden gave Hunter. Ironically, the show had spent much of its time condemning what it saw as the special treatment Trump got in being discharged with no punishment in the case…

Erickson Lambasts Lefty Media as ‘Concubines’ Over Wildfires Coverage
On Friday morning in his Substack, our friend Erick Erickson wrote that the national media’s Trump-focused and Democratic-defensive coverage of the California wildfires has led him to believe “[i]t’s time to let the press hit rock bottom” and even had him “starting to wish ill on the American press” even though “[t]he country needs it” and the powerful deserve to be held to account.

CNN Mocks Gaetz For Hard Partying Into 30s—Hunter, Ted Kennedy, Hello?
In a segment regarding the decision of the House Ethics Committee to release its report on Matt Gaetz, CNN This Morning mocks Gaetz for admitting that he partied hard into his 30s, but is now a different person. The panel laughingly suggests that kind of behavior would only be understandable in a person's 20s. This ignores Democrat scandal figures like Hunter Biden and Ted Kennedy.…

The Proliferation of Democrats’ Buts
Democrats are slowly, but surely, building a permission structure for progressive activists to kill those they determine are bad. From the rise of antisemitism to, now, the murder of an insurance CEO, few Democrats seem capable of condemning violence without adding a “but.” To their credit, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania have condemned both without buts.…

Scarborough Exploits Penny Acquittal To Suggest Trump Fairly Convicted
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough somehow exploited the acquittal of Daniel Perry in his trial in NYC to suggest that Trump was fairly convicted by a jury there. Said Scarborough: "A jury of his peers found him not guilty. A lot of people that were also screaming when a jury of peers found Donald Trump guilty, of course. They [the jurors] were dismissed as hacks. Well, in the same…