MSNBC Chyron Misquotes Conway as Saying Trump 'Commended' Nazis

On Sunday's Up with David Gura show on MSNBC, during a panel discussion lambasting White House officials like Kellyanne Conway for pushing "lies" and "propaganda" in their press appearances, the show made an on-screen misspelling that seems unlikely to have been an innocent typo as the chyron misquoted Conway as saying President Donald Trump "commended" neo-Nazis.
Brad Wilmouth
April 28th, 2019 5:44 PM

NYT's Krugman: It’s the GOP (Not Liberals Like Me) Who Hate Heartland

Perhaps sore about the unflattering attention he received from his previous month’s column, suggesting that white rural Americans were beyond help, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has a follow up arguing that it’s actually conservatives who hate the heartland, arguing that "disparaging views about middle America are widespread among right-wing intellectuals and, more discreetly, right-wing…
Clay Waters
April 28th, 2019 4:54 PM

Stelter Blames ‘Right-Wing Message Boards’ for Synagogue Shooting

What makes tragic shootings like the one at Chabad of Poway on Saturday even worse was how predictable the liberal media were when it came to politicizing it. During Sunday’s so-called Reliable Sources on CNN, host Brian Stelter teased his coverage of the attack by wondering if it was “another case of a killer radicalized on right-wing message boards”. Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 28th, 2019 3:32 PM

ABC’s Dowd Claims Trump's Rhetoric Gave ‘Permission’ to Chabad Shooter

Despite President Trump’s strong condemnation of the recent synagogue shooting at the Chabad of Poway and anti-Semitism as a whole at a rally Saturday night, ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd blamed Trump for the shooting during Sunday’s This Week on ABC. Dowd went so far as to claim Trump’s rhetoric gave the shooter “permission” to act.
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 28th, 2019 11:42 AM

22 Years on, NY Times Still Worried by Prisons Filling as Crime Falls

The New York Times is still mocked in media bias circles for a notorious headline from 1997 lamenting tougher sentencing guidelines. The article's now-notorious headline: "Crime Rates are Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling.” But the paper's hand-wringing liberal confusion over the apparent paradox has a straightforward explanation: Crime was down at least partially because more criminals were…
Clay Waters
April 28th, 2019 11:41 AM

Tapper Snaps at Conway: Your Criticism of MSM 'Beneath You'

No fewer than eight times on his State of the Union CNN show today, Jake Tapper asked Kellyanne Conway whether President Trump's response to Charlottesville was, as he has said, perfect. When Tapper wouldn't drop his hair-splitting over "perfect," Conway eventually had enough, and took a shot at the liberal media: "it looks like you, and others, looking at 2020, are worried that this guy can't be…
Mark Finkelstein
April 28th, 2019 10:33 AM

NY Times Publishes Anti-Semitic Cartoon, Doesn’t Apologize

On Thursday, The New York Times international edition ran a political cartoon that was supposed to show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leading a blind President Trump around. But the cartoon was filled with anti-Semitic symbolism. Worse yet, when they finally responded to the outcry on Saturday, the Editor’s Note the paper put out noted the offensive nature of the image but didn’t…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 28th, 2019 10:06 AM

WHCA Head: My Crying Son Asked Is Trump 'Going to Put Me in Prison?'

The White House Correspondents Dinner was again a hostile zone for President Trump, underlining it's no mystery why the president skips it. White House Correspondents Association president Olivier Knox of Sirius XM Radio first paid tribute to the group's lawyer, who filed a brief against CNN screamer Jim Acosta being denied  his press pass for a few days. "No president should get to pick and…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2019 8:49 AM

'Noble Work to Preserve Democracy' -- Historian Panders to Reporters

The White House Correspondents Association somehow thinks it has improved its annual dinner by removing the pompous liberal comedian and replacing that with a pompous liberal historian. On Saturday night, historian Ron Chernow kissed every ring in the room by insisting the assembled scribes to "the noble work of preserving democracy." Is that what they call 200-plus interviews for crooked Michael…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2019 7:30 AM

NY Times: Unchecked Hate Toward Omar 'Has American Muslims Shuddering'

New York Times reporter John Eligon filed an aggrieved defense (disguised as a news story) of Rep. Ilhan Omar from Kansas City, who’s been widely accused of anti-Semitism: “American Muslims View Omar’s Controversies, and the Fallout, With Unease.” The online headline was even more slanted: “Unchecked ‘Hate’ Toward Rep. Ilhan Omar Has American Muslims Shuddering.” Eligon previously went soft on…
Clay Waters
April 28th, 2019 6:33 AM

Sharpton Wrongly Hints Trump Made Up General Lee Angle As Cover

As MSNBC host Al Sharpton appeared as a guest on MSNBC Live with Alex Witt on Saturday afternoon to discuss President Donald Trump's recent defense of his Charlottesville comments from 2017, Sharpton and fill-in host Phillip Mena both hinted that President Trump only recently made up the issue of demonstrators having legitimate concerns about statues of General Robert E. Lee even though video…
Brad Wilmouth
April 27th, 2019 9:47 PM

Did Mika Brzezinski's Dad Collude with the Russians?

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough have a dramatic double standard when it comes to campaign advisers visiting with Russians before they move into the White House. Former Soviet diplomat Anatoly Dobrynin had some stories about meeting with Mika's father, Zbignew Brzezinski, before Jimmy Carter was elected president. 
Jeffrey Lord
April 27th, 2019 9:28 PM

Sports Media Politicize Trump's Sports Celebrations

It's official. The national champion Baylor University women's basketball team has accepted an invitation to visit the White House, and the media simply couldn't report the story without politicizing, politicizing, politicizing.
Jay Maxson
April 27th, 2019 8:00 PM

Bill Maher: Mueller's 'By the Book' Approach 'Let the Bad Guys Win'

During the final portion of his satirical segment “New Rules,” Real Time host Bill Maher tore into Special Counsel Robert Mueller for not recommending an indictment against President Trump and slammed his investigation as “one feckless punt after another.” As Maher rolled out his final “new rule,” a chyron with the phrase “Bob Cost Us” appeared at the bottom of the screen; a play on the names of…
Ryan Foley
April 27th, 2019 6:57 PM