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The Beginning of the End
Sometime just over 2,000 years ago, contrary to the song, it was not a silent night. In Bethlehem, a young woman gave birth to a baby in a stable. The story went exactly as one would tell a story if one did not want the story taken seriously. The first witnesses were shepherds, men so unreliable that their testimony was inadmissible in court. Key eyewitnesses were women, also seen as…
Morning Joe: Don't Applaud Pro-Vax Trump—It's Just An Election Ploy
Morning Joe was in no mood today to give Donald Trump credit for his vigorous advocacy of the COVID vaccine during an interview with Candace Owens. Nope: it was just a nefarious ploy, with an eye to 2024, to win back the suburbs.
'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season Finale Hails 1st Impeachment 'Hero'
Alexander Vindman, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who figured prominently in the Trump-Ukraine scandal, was a featured guest in the Season 11 finale of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm that aired on Sunday night. Vindman was hailed by Democrats and other Trump deranged Americans as a brave hero for his testimony against Trump in the first impeachment.
After Portland Riots, NYTimes Finds FBI Surveillance a Bad Thing Again
Portland, Oregon has endured rioting, vandalism, and assaults in its downtown area for months on end. So, after uncovering evidence that federal agents tried to track and punish such activity, the New York Times came down hard -- not on the rioters, but the FBI itself, on Thursday’s front page, co-written by Seattle bureau chief Mike Baker.
Researchers Call For ‘Racial Justice’ In Algorithms
Researchers suggest that algorithms should “consider race more explicitly.”
Diversity Grinch: PBS Hits Movies Pushing 'White Fantasy of Christmas'
How can the PBS NewsHour play Grinch at Christmas time? Complain about the lack of diversity in Christmas movies. At dinnertime on Christmas eve, they posted an “Arts” article headlined "How Asian Americans in holiday movies can challenge ‘the white fantasy of Christmas’." There was zero mention of the 2019 rom-com Last Christmas, with half-Asian heartthrob Henry Golding. …
Nikole Hannah-Jones: I Don't Think Parents Should Decide What's Taught
During a special episode of Meet the Press on Sunday titled “Schools, America, and Race”, 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones said, “I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught.”
CNN Tries to Bust 'Media Misconceptions' Like Harmful Political Bias
On the last so-called “Reliable Sources” of 2021, CNN media apologist Brian Stelter set out to bust some of the “misconceptions” the public had about the media. The misconceptions that needed to be battled included the idea that they have “malicious intent” when they publish fake news and that the media’s political biases were being actively offset internally, resulting in balanced…
ABC's 'This Week' Panel Attacks Manchin 'He Represents Plutocrats'
It’s now been a week since Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on Fox News Sunday and tanked President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, drawing audible sighs from the mostly liberal panel on ABC’s This Week. A week later and they still have not gotten over it. They spent the latter half of the so-called “Powerhouse Roundtable” railing against Manchin for not going along with their…
WORST OF 2021: The Media Heroes Award
Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Media Heroes Award.
CNN Cries 'Fake News' to Accurately Say Biden Has More Covid Deaths
China is responsible for every American Covid death. But if you’re going to try to parse out blame to a particular president, at least get the simple math right. On Christmas Eve, CNN Newsroom fill-in host Boris Sanchez had some trouble doing that as he definitively claimed it was “fake news” to accurately say that more Americans have been killed by Covid under President Biden than…
Iranian Regime’s Purported Twitter Threatens Violence Against Israel
A Twitter account purported to be affiliated with the Iranian regime threatened to blow up Israel’s Dimona facility. The account is ostensibly run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and has over 12,000 followers.
Media Outraged Over Parent Who Told Biden 'Let's Go Brandon'
Katie Pavlich at Townhall reports that during a "Santa Tracker" event with the Bidens on Christmas Eve, a parent ended his conversation with by saying, "Let's Go Brandon." Biden then said it back, like he didn't know what it means. Reporters expressed anger. This isn't a classy Christmas move at all, but reporters sounded like Biden voters.
MSNBC Guest: 'My Favorite Thing Is Hating on Christmas'
On Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show, she scoffed at the idea that there's a War on Christmas. A bit later Guardian columnist Michael Harriot says: "I'm always having the woke Christmas. So, you know, I'm always hating on Christmas, and telling everybody that Kwaanza is a better holiday than Christmas. So that's my favorite thing to do, just hating on Christmas." A meme is then displayed, reading: "…