Mark Leibovich
Before Tapper, Washington Week Host Mocked Warnings from Phillips, Hur
Washington Week with The Atlantic host (and Atlantic editor) Jeffrey Goldberg devoted a full episode of his latest show, normally a political panel, solely to interviewing journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Tapper also brought up a couple of…
PBS Host: Critics of Pro-Biden Media Don't Grasp 'How Reporting Works'
On Friday's Washington Week with The Atlantic, host Jeffrey Goldberg hosted his pal Jake Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson on their book Original Sin. The most shameless denial came when Goldberg suggested the media didn't cover up Biden's decline, while he completely omitted his show's infamous episode when he said President Biden was "mentally, quite acute." Mark…
FLASHBACK: Biden’s Media Lapdogs HATED the ‘Gratuitous’ Hur Report
In February 2024, when Special Counsel Robert Hur published his report about then-President Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, the White House’s media lapdogs were utterly incensed by Hur’s characterization of Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Borrowing language directly from Democrats’ own talking points, corporate journalists maligned Hur for his “gratuitous”…
PBS's Washington Week Won't Own Up to Previous Praise of Biden Acuity
Washington Week with The Atlantic’s year-in-review episode Friday contained a fleeting reference to a bombshell Wall Street Journal story about how the White House and Democrats actively hid President Joe Biden’s descent into decrepitude, including several public stumbles, shaking hands with the air, and taking the “short stairs” up Air Force One.
PBS Panel Hails DNC ‘Centrist Republican Energy,’ Phony Dem ‘Freedom'
The panelists on the post-Democratic convention edition of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic’s Friday night political roundtable offered an assortment of bias, lauding the Harris campaign the night after her acceptance speech, while also praising Michelle Obama as “the most admired woman on Earth” and maybe the whole solar system and spouting about the Democratic embrace of “…
PBS 'Washington Week' Memory-Holes '23 Praise of Biden’s Mental Acuity
The latest Friday edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, airing on taxpayer-funded PBS, passed around anecdotes of the various levels of panic from Democratic politicians and strategists, after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. But one exchange…
STUDY: 'Washington Week' Media Roundtable on PBS Hates Republicans
Last August, The Atlantic magazine took over the long-running Friday night journalists' roundtable Washington Week. Since then, a Media Research Center study reveals a dramatic tilt to the Left. Republicans were analyzed more than twice as much as Democrats and the commentary was 90 percent negative. Republicans were branded as "extreme" 11 times, and Democrats never were. …
PBS Roundtable's Laugh Line on Biden: ‘Mentally, He’s Quite Acute’
The awkwardly named Washington Week with The Atlantic, a weekly political roundtable of journalists which appears on tax-supported PBS, defended President Biden from scurrilous Republican questions about his age and fitness in last Friday’s edition. While the panel did address the important matter of the gerontocracy currently running the country, several of the panelists seemed to…
Column: Shooting the Starting Pistol at Ron DeSantis
New York Times opinion writer Frank Bruni wrote a piece describing DeSantis as an “optical illusion,” that “geyser of gibberish” Elon Musk seems fond of him. “Magnates like Musk typically cling to the moment’s shiniest toys, and DeSantis, fresh off his re-election, is a curiously gleaming action figure.” Bruni’s spitting nails at the idea that Musk could find him “sensible and…
Scarborough Suggests DeSantis Attacking The Media Proves He Is Sexist
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and the rest of the Morning Joe cast clearly feels threatened by the possibility of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launching a 2024 presidential campaign because Scarborough is already suggesting his attacks on the media are sexist.
Move over Abe! ABC's Karl Compares Liz Cheney to Teddy Roosevelt
Days after recently ousted anti-Trump Congresswoman Liz Cheney laughably compared herself to former Republican President Abraham Lincoln, ABC’s This Week co-moderator Jonathan Karl took it a step further and compared Cheney to former President Theodore Roosevelt. The ahistorical idol worship didn’t end there, USA Today bureau chief Susan Page suggested Cheney could have the…
Hypocritical NYT Mocks 'GOP's Delicate Dance of Absurdity' on Biden
New York Times political profile writer Mark Leibovich brought his trademark snark to Friday’s “Washington Memo,” trolling Republican senators supposedly refusing to acknowledge Joe Biden as the next president of the United States: “President-Elect Who? The G.O.P.’s Delicate Dance of Absurdity.” What the paper ignored, under its standard anti-GOP snark: How Democrats refused to accept…
Loathsome NY Times: Governors’ Kidnapping Attempts ‘Egged on' by Trump
The New York Times stoked Democratic fears of Trump-inspired political violence in Friday’s “Fears of Political Violence Rise as Trump’s Language Heats Up.” The paper shamelessly linked President Trump to acts of “right-wing” violence all over the country: "The arrest of more than a dozen right-wing extremists who are accused of targeting the governors of Michigan and Virginia is only…
Column: The Real Collusion Scandal of the 2016 Campaign
Four years ago at this time, Wikileaks tried to turn the Democrat convention with internal Democratic National Committee emails that showed they blatantly favored Hillary Clinton over Sanders. But the media downplayed the juiciest tidbits for conservatives: emails that showed how shamelessly reporters and Democrats work hand in hand to shape the "news."
