CBS Gives Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna a Reality Check on Biden

On Friday, CBS Mornings hosted Biden campaign surrogate Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California. However, Khanna at least acknowledging President Biden’s gaffes and pleas for Democrats to stick with Joe fell on deaf ears at the table.

Sarah Butler
July 15th, 2024 5:42 AM

Former Philly Top Cop: ‘Media Personalities Need To Tone It Down’

During a segment that was mostly about the various security failures that facilitated the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey made a point insufficiently expressed on the media: that if there is any rhetorical cooling to happen, it must also happen among “media personalities.”

Jorge Bonilla
July 14th, 2024 8:46 PM

WashPost Refuses to Be Shamed When Democracy Could Die in a Shooting

The Washington Post shamelessly jumped right into the “no evidence” game on Sunday when Republicans complained that all of the Left’s routinely extreme demonization of Donald Trump could inspire violence. You know why: The Post has aggressively fanned the authoritarian fascist flames. "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was all about Trump.

Tim Graham
July 14th, 2024 5:31 PM

CBS’s Nancy Cordes Echoes Team Biden’s Relief At Campaign Focus Shift

CBS’s coverage of the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump has been awful throughout, but Chief White Correspondent Nancy Cordes may have just plumbed a new low.

Jorge Bonilla
July 14th, 2024 4:26 PM

Inciting Violence? NYT Dismisses Biden ‘Bullseye,’ Smeared Palin's Map

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening reminded some news watchers of what President Joe Biden said to Democratic donors six days ago, as reported by the New York Times: “During a video call with top donors on Monday, Mr. Biden told them: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” One may scoff at the idea that a…

Clay Waters
July 14th, 2024 2:19 PM
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CNN's Kasie Hunt Silences Talk of Possible 'Inside Job' On Trump

On CNN, host Kasie Hunt acknowledges, in a discussion of the assassination attempt on President Trump, a "massive failure by the Secret Service." Later, in a discussion of disinformation in social media, when a panelist mentions people floating the notion of an "inside job," Hunt shuts him down, saying, "we don't want to get into that."

Mark Finkelstein
July 14th, 2024 1:05 PM

GASLIGHT: ABC’s Raddatz Blames Trump Shooting on ‘Bloodbath Hoax’

In the immediate aftermath of an attempted assassination of the former President of the United States and certain 2024 Republican nominee, some in the press are abandoning calls to “lower the temperature” of the post-shooting rhetoric, and have begun to blame Trump for getting himself shot.

Jorge Bonilla
July 14th, 2024 12:50 PM

The 2024 GOP Convention Is Still Happening. Here’s What to Expect

 A review of coverage of past GOP conventions shows the establishment press consistently malign Republicans as an extremist, racist, sexist, mean-spirited mob that must be defeated at all costs.

Rich Noyes
July 14th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS, Obama Advisor Talk Up 'Retaliatory Violence,' Cite January 6 Riot

It didn't take long after Donald Trump was shot for someone to cite January 6. It happened at about 9:16 on CBS, as anchor Margaret Brennan was talking to Samantha Vinograd, a former Obama official at the Department of Homeland Security (who became a CNN contributor before joining CBS).

Tim Graham
July 14th, 2024 5:44 AM

CBS Lectures Scalise on Rhetoric, Whines GOP Is ‘Angry’ Trump Was Shot

On Saturday following the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, CBS was out of control in demanding Republicans be the ones to lower the proverbial temperature and alter their rhetoric to soothe our collective body politic. Of course, as our Alex Christy wrote about earlier, they even expressed concern about the well-being of…themselves.

Curtis Houck
July 14th, 2024 1:56 AM

New ‘Tone’? NBC Frets GOP Is ‘Seizing on’ Trump Assassination Attempt

Giving credit where credit is due, NBC (and simulcast on MSNBC) wasn’t anywhere near the dumpster fire on Saturday night that CBS was in covering the assassination attempt against former President Trump that left at least one Trump rally attendee dead and others injured. That said, there were still a few humdingers, such as pathetic use of the GOP drinking game/bingo word “seizing” and more…

Curtis Houck
July 14th, 2024 12:47 AM

GOPer Blames 'Extreme' Anti-Trump Rhetoric, Blitzer Says ‘Both Sides’

Unfortunately, the liberal media seemed unable to reflect on how things got to the point where former President Trump was nearly assassinated. In the hours following the attempt on Trump’s life on Saturday, CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings condemned the anti-Trump, doomsaying election rhetoric parroted by the likes of his network, the rest of the liberal media, and Democrats for…

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 13th, 2024 11:19 PM

LESTER HOLT: ‘We Don’t Know’ What (Trump’s Shooter’s) Motivation Was’

night we heard, from NBC’s Lester Holt, the kind of papering over of a shocking act normally reserved for the initial outset of an Islamist terror attack: a declaration of ignorance over the motive that could’ve possibly possessed the individual to do such a thing, to wit: attempt to murder former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Jorge Bonilla
July 13th, 2024 11:13 PM

Brennan Mourns Trump Didn't Lower 'The Temperature' After Getting Shot

CBS’s host of Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan, joined the network’s breaking coverage of Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Trump at his Pennsylvania rally, where she was dismayed that a statement from campaign advisor Chris LaCivita might “escalate” Trump’s “us versus the system” rhetoric and that a statement from Trump himself didn’t lower “the temperature” even…

Alex Christy
July 13th, 2024 10:01 PM