Free-Market Group Starts Campaign to Shame NBC's Climate Debate Denial
January 22nd, 2019 6:31 AM
On Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) launched a campaign taking issue with NBC's Meet the Press for proclaiming they would not host a debate on climate change or "give time to climate deniers." CEI bought a full-page ad in this morning's Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and made a 30-second video spot, which NBC refused to air.
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Chuck Todd Irritated Dubious Buzzfeed Used to ‘Tar All Media’
January 20th, 2019 4:21 PM
In an outburst on Twitter on Saturday, NBC moderator Chuck Todd lashed out at “those trying to tar all media” with the dubious Buzzfeed story by suggesting they “aren’t interested in improving journalism but protecting themselves.” That irritation carried over to Sunday’s Meet the Press where he ended the show by decrying those people once again, despite “all media” pouncing on the now-debunked…
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Cancerous and ‘Criminal’ Trump Only Wants a Wall to Appeal to Racists
January 18th, 2019 8:50 AM
These last few weeks have seen liberal journalists blame Donald Trump for the shutdown, attack his presidency as racist and even compare him to cancer. Check here to see the worst of the worst media and celebrity meltdowns.
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Chuck Todd Giddy Over Dems ‘Embracing’ Liberal Label
January 14th, 2019 5:32 PM
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd eagerly touted the latest Gallup poll showing 51% of Democrats and 26% of Americans overall identifying themselves as “liberal.” He excitedly told viewers that “Democrats are embracing the label” and that it was “no longer a dirty word” in politics.
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Todd Urges Trump Impeachment: ‘How Much More Do You Need to Know?'
January 14th, 2019 3:06 PM
In a softball interview with Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine on Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd wondered if a report in the New York Times about the FBI investigating President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia in 2017 meant it was time for congressional Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings.
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Media Let Dems Off the Hook: ‘No Incentive’ to Compromise
January 10th, 2019 2:17 PM
Since the government shutdown began in late December, the media have made sure to repeatedly lay the blame solely on President Trump and Republicans in Congress. Not only did the press refuse to place any responsibility for the budget impasse on congressional Democrats, but reporters actually touted the notion that liberal lawmakers had “no incentive” to compromise.
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Stacking the Deck: NBC ‘Frames the Crisis’ Against President Trump
January 9th, 2019 9:11 PM
The evening after dueling addresses from President Trump and Democratic congressional leaders, NBC Nightly News’ Wednesday coverage of the government shutdown was distinctly stacked against the President. Anchor Lester Holt announced as much as he stood outside the Capitol and declared: “We have come here to frame the crisis rocking America. Not the one the President speaks of at the southern…
What’s The Point of a Carbon Tax Rebate?
January 9th, 2019 2:36 PM
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish government is proposing rebates to a carbon tax it recently imposed to households that comply with what it considers “low-carbon lifestyles.” The rebate, according to Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, might be in the form of a check, an increase in welfare benefits or a tax credit for people who live the way the government thinks they should.
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No Surprise Here! Nets Blast Speech, Refuse to Chide Dems
January 8th, 2019 11:00 PM
In perhaps the least surprising thing to happen thus far in 2019, President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address was not well received by the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC (and particularly the first and third ones). Anchors, hosts, and correspondents panned it as inaccurate, full of fear-mongering, and then offered little to no criticism of the Democratic response by Speaker Nancy…
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NBC Laughs About New Dem 'Coming in Real Hot' for Trump Impeachment
January 6th, 2019 10:38 AM
Radical progressive Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) made headlines late last week when video surfaced showing her enthusiastically proclaiming “we’re going to impeach the motherf***er!” And after pushing out a tweet seemingly to question the validity of what was caught on camera, NBC News anchors and reporters laughed about it during Sunday Today.
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Chuck Todd: Trump’s ‘Ego is Too Much in the Way’ of Ending Shutdown
January 4th, 2019 11:50 AM
Appearing on NBC’s Today show Friday morning, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd lamented that President Trump’s “ego” was standing in the way of a deal being reached to end the government shutdown. Even after acknowledging that Democrats didn’t “have any political incentive to somehow compromise with the President,” Todd never referred to the egos of Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer being a problem.
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Chuck Todd Bans 'Climate Deniers' from Climate Change Special
December 30th, 2018 10:38 AM
Introducing a Meet the Press special edition on climate change, Chuck Todd quite literally announced that dissent would not be permitted. Here was Todd: "just as important as what we are going to do this hour is what we're not going to do. We're not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The Earth is getting hotter, and human activity is a major cause. Period. We're not going to…
Chuck Todd: Media Bias? We Fixed It! There's Less Bias Than the '50s!
December 29th, 2018 10:42 PM
In an interview with National Review, Chuck Todd began with his usual patter about liberal bias being the cultural divide between large urban areas and broad rural expanses, whether it's patriotism or religion or guns. But then...it got weird. He tried to say the cultural gap has been closed....by the press? And that bias is much less than it was in the Fifties and Sixties!
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Chuck Todd's Hype Machine: 'What If the President IS the Crisis?'
December 24th, 2018 12:29 PM
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has proclaimed he thinks NBC and MSNBC are very centered on Facts, unlike Fox News. But his opening to his show on Sunday sounded like a dramatic editorial, underlining all of Trump’s problems with Republican leaders and conservative radio and TV hosts, throwing together the shutdown, the resignation of the defense secretary, and the stock market decline into one…