Europe

Video

Go Figure: Nets Treat ‘Explosive,’ ‘Staggering’ Atlantic Story as Fact

September 4th, 2020 2:58 PM

On Friday morning, the “big three” broadcast network newscasts treated the anonymously sourced Atlantic piece claiming President Trump called fallen U.S. soldiers “losers” and “suckers” as fact, huffing about how “explosive,” “staggering,” and “stinging” the allegations were that have put the President on “…

Video
Amanpour Prods Granholm, Former AOC Guru to Push 'Medicare for All'

Brad Wilmouth
August 12th, 2020 8:24 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour gave an unchallenged forum to two Democratic guests to push for a universal health care program in the U.S. She even suggested that a national health plan similar to that of the United Kingdom would be beneficial during the pandemic in spite of the COVID-19 death rate being substantially higher in…

Video
They Need Help: MSNBC Freaks Over 'NO LIMITS' to Trump's Madness

Mark Finkelstein
August 8th, 2020 2:30 PM
Trump Derangement Syndrome is no joking matter. The Trump-hating guests on today's AM Joy on MSNBC quite literally appeared to have lost their marbles. The deranged collective view of Sarah Kendzior, Elie Mystal, and Tara Dowdell can be summed up as follows: President Trump is a sadistic psychopath who intentionally inflicted COVID on blue states, thereby committing crimes against…

Video
CNN Ignores High COVID Countries to Make U.S. Look Worst

Brad Wilmouth
May 28th, 2020 8:14 PM
As the official coronavirus death toll reached 100,000 on Wednesday, CNN hosts Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon both cherry-picked data to misleadingly suggest that the pandemic has hit the United States harder than any other country as the two used charts contrasting the U.S. only to countries that have had death rates on the low side.

Video
Joy Reid Claims Trump Promised to 'Get Rid of These Brown Immigrants'

Brad Wilmouth
May 25th, 2020 10:55 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy, during a discussion of what presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should offer to black voters in exchange for their support, race-obsessed MSNBC host Joy Reid twice claimed that President Donald Trump promised white Americans that he would take actions against "brown immigrants." She also suggested that Italy has done a better job of handling the…

Video
PBS Cues Guest to Slam 'Infantile' Conservative View of Freedom

Brad Wilmouth
May 23rd, 2020 2:21 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the show gave an unchallenged forum to liberal MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas -- who also hosts a show on Vice TV -- to promote a universal health care system and more regulations on businesses as he also derided the conservative "obsession" with "freedom" as being "paranoid," "infantile" and "childlike."

Video
Amanpour Mocks Trump's 'America First' as 'First' in Corona-Deaths

Brad Wilmouth
May 21st, 2020 10:14 AM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour's hyperbole button was on as she essentially mocked President Donald Trump's "America First" policy by touting misleading claims that America is "first" in coronavirus infections and deaths, and also highlighted quotes calling the U.S. a "collapsing republic" and likening it to a "Third World dictatorship."

Video
MSNBC's Schmidt Slams Fox News Hosts as 'Spectacularly Nuts'

Brad Wilmouth
May 20th, 2020 5:20 PM
On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC contributor and disgruntled former Republican Steve Schmidt was full of hyperbole as he decried Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro as "spectacularly nuts," and incorrectly claimed that one is more likely to die of coronavirus in the U.S. than in any other country.

Video
Morning Joe's 4% Solution to Trash President Trump

Mark Finkelstein
May 18th, 2020 9:34 AM
Sherlock Holmes notoriously used a 7% solution of cocaine, ostensibly to stimulate his mind. Morning Joe used a somewhat smaller dose, a 4% solution, to trash President Trump today regarding the coronavirus. No fewer than seven times in the opening segment, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mentioned that whereas the US has about 4% of the world's population, it has 29% of the world's…

Video
NY Times Scribe Gets Admonished by His Own Paper for Too Much Opinion

Brad Wilmouth
May 14th, 2020 12:22 PM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil insisted Centers for Disease Control boss James Redfield should just resign. Even the Times issued a statement saying that was too much opinion.

Video
Flashback: VE Day -- What Unconditional Victory Looked Like
Culture

Matt Philbin
May 7th, 2020 4:30 PM
These are dispiriting days, marked by confusion, fear and very real heartbreak, compounded by misinformation and severe partisanship. People are weary of cowering at home as their livelihoods evaporate, sick of panic and doomsaying and being told their liberty can be forfeited for an emergency that will go on indefinitely if allowed to. So maybe VE Day on May 8 should mean a little more to us…

Video
Amanpour Tries to Have EU Official Bash Trump Over Disinfectants Line

Brad Wilmouth
May 5th, 2020 10:22 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour tried to prod her guest -- the European Commission's president, Doctor Ursula von der Leyen -- to bash President Donald Trump over his confused suggestion that doctors might treat coronavirus patients with disinfectants. Doctor Leyen, who was appearing on the show to discuss a fundraising effort to help fight…

Today’s Americans and Yesteryear’s Americans

Walter E. Williams
April 29th, 2020 10:57 PM
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written two articles relevant to today's society. Last October he published, "Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants," and he recently wrote, "Is America a Roaring Giant or Crying Baby?"…

Video
MSNBC's Reid Wrongly Claims Europe Handling Pandemic Better Than US

Brad Wilmouth
April 28th, 2020 12:56 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy show on MSNBC, as she spoke with several medical doctors about the coronavirus pandemic, host Joy Reid claimed that countries with universal health care are handling the crisis better than the U.S., and even asserted that America's "former allies" in Europe are, "quite frankly, having better outcomes than we are." Reid made this claim in spite of the fact that per capita deaths…