Education
CBS Hypes Stunt Lawsuit Against Florida's School Library Law
For Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News, guest host Nancy Cordes and Miami correspondent Cristian Benavides hyped a rather silly lawsuit that argued that the state’s law allowing for people to challenge books in school libraries on the grounds they are inappropriate for children violates the First Amendment. At the same time, Cordes hyped a scientifically dubious bill from California…
Snopes Defends Walz In One Of The Worst Fact-Checks Ever Written
Fact-checks should be, as the name suggests, about checking facts, but a Friday piece from Alex Kasprak at Snopes showed aspiring fact-checkers how not to do their jobs as he defended Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on the accusation he banned Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in the state.
The Chicago DNC Theme Was ‘Hope’ — What About Chicagoans?
President Joe Biden, at the Democratic National Convention, said, “Donald Trump and the Republican friends, they not only can’t think; they can’t read very well. Seriously, think about it. Look at their Project 2025.” OK, let’s take Biden up on his offer “seriously” to think about those who “can’t read very well.” The convention is in Chicago, the adopted hometown of former President Barack…
Cal Thomas: Back to (Chaotic) Schools Season
In normal years, which were not that long ago, students would look forward to returning to or entering college as freshmen. After violent anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstrations on some college campuses, many fear this semester might see a repeat of the prior ugliness. This is how bad it has gotten. Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are investigating after antisemitic and pro-…
NPR Shocked That GOP Mocked Walz Putting Tampons in Boys' Bathrooms
A report from National Public Radio’s digital news desk editor and writer Rachel Treisman, “Why Republicans are calling Walz 'Tampon Tim,'” summarized the Republican mockery of Minnesota governor and Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz for signing into law a requirement that public schools provide menstrual products to students in grades 4-12. In the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms.
After Shaming GOP on 'Border Czar,' PolitiFact Fails To Define 'Woman'
On Wednesday, PolitiFact beclowned itself as it claimed it is “mostly-false” for Republicans to say Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed “border czar.” However, that was not all. Also on Wednesday, PolitiFact tried to attack the party for…
Nets Cheer Biden in Nevada, Ignore Incendiary Rhetoric Toward Trump
On Wednesday, the flagship morning news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC made sure to tout President Biden’s Tuesday afternoon address in Las Vegas to the NAACP convention, but only played up sanguine soundbites calling for a lowering of the temperature of our civic discourse, not those saying Republicans want to “erase..history” and want to take away the “freedom” of black people.
Former CNN 'Reality Check' Pundit Wins House Democratic Primary
Former CNN “reality checker” John Avlon won the Democratic Primary in New York’s 1st Congressional District, defeating chemistry professor Nancy Goroff by 40 points.
Maher Attacks Ten Commandments As 'Dumb, Ancient Bronze Age List'
When it comes to HBO’s Bill Maher, you can sometimes take the liberalism out of the atheist, but you cannot take the atheism out of the liberal. Reacting to Louisiana passing a law that mandates the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms on Friday’s Real Time, Maher didn’t just attack the idea as a violation of the First Amendment, but claimed the Ten…
CNN Targets Trump-Allied Christian School in Attack on School Choice
On Friday morning, CNN News Central investigated the Arizona school system and how it has been impacted by school choice. Instead of reporting the undeniable flaws of the public school system, correspondent René Marsh tried her best to focus on the religious and Trump-affiliated groups which have caused an alleged “civil rights issue” by simply staying true to Biblical sexual…
Portentous PBS Plugs NBC Reporter's Book on Scary TX Anti-CRT Movement
Monday’s PBS News Hour handed over a news segment to an ostensible ratings rival, NBC News and its reporter/podcaster Mike Hixenbaugh, who has a new book out with the portentous title They Came for the Schools -- One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms. Hixenbaugh and his onscreen NBC reporting counterpart Antonia Hylton have…
For Juneteenth, PBS Spreads Fake News About GOP Education Policy
PBS’s Christiane Amanpour likes to say that journalists should be “truthful, not neutral,” but a common theme of Amanpour and Company is that her commitment to the truth only goes one way. For Wednesday’s Juneteenth show, Amanpour claimed that Donald Trump’s presidency and the Supreme Court represent “hurdles” to racial equality, while her guest, Equal Justice Initiative Executive…
Colbert Helps Bowman Sanitize His History Of Spouting Hamas Propaganda
Fire alarm puller, whacky conspiracy theorist, anti-Semite, and far-left Congressman Jamaal Bowman is facing a tough primary challenge, and in an attempt to turn his political fortunes around, he journeyed over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where the eponymous host helped sanitize his history of spouting Hamas propaganda while also attacking Republicans…
Regime Media FREAK OUT Over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public schools across the state. The corporate media’s reaction to this development is best described as a collective muted hysteria.
