ABC Doubles Down On Decrying 'Alarming' And "Harrowing' ICE Operations

One night after hyping “disturbing images” out of Florida during a Border Patrol operation, ABC’s World News Tonight was at it again on Friday. This time, anchor David Muir and correspondent Pierre Thomas labeled the videos “alarming” and “harrowing” despite each of the three examples having a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Alex Christy
December 6th, 2025 2:00 PM

The Media and The Midterms: How Much Will Their Tilt Matter?

The holiday season is passing quickly, which means we're weeks away from the new year, when the bell rings to welcome in the midterm campaign season...and the incessant media lobbying seeks to sway the country into putting Democrats back in control of Congress.

Jeffrey Lord
December 6th, 2025 1:30 PM

Former Anchor Connie Chung Freaks Out Over CBS's New Management

There is something about the podcast world that encourages former network journalists to let the mask slip and reveal that they really were the liberal activists critics alleged they were all along. Former CBS anchor Connie Chung was the latest example, as she joined former ESPN and current Morning Joe talking head Pablo Torre on his Pablo Torre Finds Out Thursday show to…

Alex Christy
December 6th, 2025 12:12 PM

Capehart Falsely Claims There Is No Evidence For Drug Boat Strikes

MS Now host Jonathan Capehart joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the fallout from the September 2 second strike on a drug boat. Showing a lack of understanding of how such operations work and counterexamples, Capehart demanded to know why the administration did not arrest the surviving crew members and falsely claimed there is no evidence that the boats are carrying drugs.

Alex Christy
December 6th, 2025 9:53 AM
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Morning Joe's Promotes Taliban Argument On Drone Strikes—'Cowardly'

Asked to comment on the controversy surrounding the September 2nd drone strike on drug smugglers, MS NOW's Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde said: "I'll be honest, in Afghanistan, the Taliban saw drone strikes as cowardly-- that American forces weren't willing to come fight them face to face on the ground."

Mark Finkelstein
December 6th, 2025 8:10 AM

WashPost Makes a Maryland Mountain Out of a Rainbow Crosswalk Molehill

This has to be the least deserving front-page Washington Post article of 2025. It's so remarkably insignificant. The "big" story on Tuesday from Salisbury, Maryland was headlined "Removal of Pride crosswalks in Md. city sparks a backlash." But the headline inside on A-6 is pure LGBT paranoia: "Rainbow removal undermines LGBT safety, advocates say." 

Tim Graham
December 5th, 2025 10:47 PM

CBS Shows IVF Screening Company that Denies Eugenics Characterization

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings showcased a genetic screening company that allows parents to select which embryo they would like to in-vitro fertilize. Co-host Tony Dokoupil interviewed founder and CEO of Nucleus Genomics Kian Sadeghi, who denied comparisons to the eugenics movement.

Isaac White
December 5th, 2025 7:07 PM

Inflation Lower than Expected, New BEA Report Reveals

Hopes that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates when it meets next week were bolstered Friday when the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released a key inflation measure that came in better than analysts had expected.

Craig Bannister
December 5th, 2025 4:47 PM

Leading With Deception: Nets Spend 28% of Somali Coverage on Fraud

This week, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC have dedicated a stunning 22 minutes and 21 seconds to President Trump’s comments repeatedly ripping the Somali community in Minnesota as “garbage” and having “ripped off that state,” but only about 28 percent (or 27.7 percent) mentioned Trump’s remarks were in relation to a years-long welfare fraud scheme in Democrat-run Minnesota…

Curtis Houck
December 5th, 2025 4:46 PM

OOPS: Jake Tapper Claims Black Pipe Bomb Suspect Is a ‘White Man’

Will he write a book about getting this one wrong too? CNN host made a fool out himself again Thursday evening. He kicked off The Lead by falsely claiming that the suspect arrested for planning pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican National Committees national offices ahead of January 6, was a “white man,” when he was, in fact, black. He also refused to correct the…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 5th, 2025 4:25 PM

CNN Host Hypes Democrat's Resume, Hides Sen. Cotton's Military Service

During Thursday's edition of CNN's The Arena, host Kasie Hunt led her show with congressmen and senators seeing a video of a second strike on a drug boat. Hunt boosted the resume of Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who's served in Congress for four years more than Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) Hunt did not recite his service in Congress or in the military. Why boost a Republican's gravitas…

Steve Malzberg
December 5th, 2025 3:42 PM

NPR Touts ‘Skeptical Judge’ Who Could Nullify Trump’s Defunding Order

The judge who presided over Thursday’s hearing regarding a National Public Radio (NPR) lawsuit against the Trump administration is skeptical of President Trump's executive order ending funding for public media – and could strike it down without a trial, NPR reported Friday.

Craig Bannister
December 5th, 2025 3:38 PM

CNN Sports Reporter Compares ICE Operations To Russia and Qatar

CNN sports correspondent Don Riddell may have been reporting from snow-covered D.C. on Friday’s The Situation Room, but his hot take about the upcoming World Cup could have thawed the wintry weather. According to Riddell, Trump’s America—specifically, ICE operations—is comparable to human rights abuses in the two previous World Cup hosts of Russia and Qatar.

Alex Christy
December 5th, 2025 2:52 PM

The View Blames Men for Mammogram Pain, Not Disclosing Cheating Journo

During Friday’s show, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View seemed as though they were on the war path against men. In multiple segments, they blamed men for everything from painful mammograms to floozy journalist Olivia Nuzzi cheating on her fiancé to President Bill Clinton supposedly not getting impeached (which wasn’t true). They even lashed out at California Governor Gavin Newsom…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 5th, 2025 2:34 PM