CNN Explained Duffy’s ATC Revamp Want Before Nighttime Briefing

Before the nighttime press briefing after the FAA ground stoppage crossed all American airspace on Friday, CNN analysts actually, perhaps unknowingly, predicted a major topic of the briefing by Secretary Sean Duffy and Secretary Markwayne Mullin. CNN’s aviation correspondent Pete Muntean first noted Duffy’s push for a revamped ATC system, before CNN Business anchor Richard Quest mentioned the…

Nicholas Spinnato

NBC Reporter's Claim About Trump ATC Funding Disproven by Own Network

Friday evening’s news coverage was dominated by the historic FAA ground stoppage of all nationwide flights amid communication issues, leading to speculation throughout the night until a press conference by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and DHS Secretary Maryanne Mullin in the 8 PM hour. 

The press conference had its moment, with Duffy pleading for Congress to fund a revamped Air…

Nicholas Spinnato

Whoopi Wants Democrats Quiet, Maddow Wants Them to ‘Have a Big Fight’

MS Now’s Rachel Maddow was all for Democratic Party infighting on Wednesday’s edition of ABC’s The View. She was offering a very different message from moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who had complained just one day earlier about Democrats airing their leadership disputes in public.

Emily Keegan

The View Thinks the Show Is ‘Harder to Do’ Than Special Forces Fitness

If there’s one thing you’ll learn from watching The View every day, it’s that the cast are detached from reality. During Friday’s episode, former conservative co-host Candace Cameron Bure returned to reminisce and promote her victory in latest season of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. But in hearing about some of the physically demanding activists Bure was put though,…

Nicholas Fondacaro

It's Real: NPR’s Code Switch Podcast on ‘Why Fascists Love ‘Fitness’’

The headline above is not exaggerated for effect; it’s how NPR’s “Code Switch” podcast introduced the episode: "Why fascists love “fitness." The online introduction to the October 16 episode read: “Right-wing ideology has crept into gyms across the country. Is this a new phenomenon, or is the very idea of "fitness" ripe for politicization? Is our idea of fitness inherently fascist? We find out…

Clay Waters

ICYMI: Big Changes Coming to CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ (Except the Host)

Status’s Oliver Darcy published a special edition of his newsletter Wednesday afternoon, revealing that CBS’s Face the Nation, hosted by Margaret Brennan, who’s become a meme on the right in the last two years, is losing both its senior executive producer and executive producer, but keeping Brennan. It honestly comes off like rearranging the deck chairs, as conservatives have come to…

Curtis Houck

CAIR Hour? Muslim PBS Anchor Coddles Abdul El-Sayed on Facing Hate

The PBS News Hour brought on Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday night for the DEI occasion of the first Muslim PBS anchor to interview the first Muslim elected to the Senate. Amna Nawaz was just as pliant a Democrat talking point-enabler here as she was to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Plus extra points for lamenting all the "Islamophobia."

Tim Graham

Kimmel Welcomes Jesse Welles To Sing 'The Nerd Reich'

Back on Tuesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed far-left protest singer Jesse Welles to close out the show by singing his new song “The Nerd Reich," and it was about as bad as you would think.

Alex Christy

The Ratchet Only Ever Tightens

Every three years, the committees that write America’s model building codes sit down and rewrite them. Every three years, the codes get longer. I have yet to find the cycle in which they took out more than they put in. Regulation works like a ratchet. Each click tightens. Nothing ever gets loosened up. Every individual requirement sounds reasonable on its own, e.g., thicker insulation, another…

Erick Erickson

Thanksgiving Branded ‘Day of Mourning’ by School District Lesson Plan

A school district-approved lesson plan recommended for second graders brands Thanksgiving a “day of mourning,” newly-exposed school guides for teachers reveal.

Craig Bannister

CNN's Cardona Says Voters Gave Trump The 'Middle Finger' Over Race

On Wednesday, Scott Colom was declared the winner of the Mississippi Senate race, becoming the state’s first black Senator since Reconstruction, adding to the blue tsunami, and becoming the first Democrat to win election to a Mississippi U.S. Senate seat since 1982. Thursday morning, as the left wing media celebrated, some claimed Colom overcame voter suppression, and others took it a step…

Steve Malzberg

CNN's Seawright: GOP Trying to 'Exterminate' Black Representation

Antjuan Seawright has become CNN’s high priest of hyperbole. On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, we caught the Democratic strategist branding Stephen Miller a “full-blooded racist extremist.” On Thursday’s edition of the show,  he reached for language that was even more inflammatory, accusing Republican congressional map-drawers of racially gerrymandering “for the purpose of exterminating and…

Mark Finkelstein

Comedy Shows Gloat Over Colom's 'Revenge' In Mississippi

NBC’s Jimmy Fallon had Thursday off, but for the remaining three late night comedy shows, Thursday presented an opportunity to continue gloating over the midterm election results as they touted Mississippi’s Scott Colom getting his “revenge” on Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Alex Christy

Rachel Maddow Comes Unglued About Trump Putting His Enemies In Prison

MS NOW star Rachel Maddow went on Jon Stewart's Daily Show to claim anti-Trump dissenters were going to be put in "mega-prisons" indefinitely without access to lawyers. Stewart – and everyone else who platforms Maddow – will not put any brakes on her wild-eyed political science fiction rants. 

Tim Graham