Nets Giddy Over Trump Facing ‘Sea of Opponents’ During SOTU

Previewing President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday morning, the broadcast networks were giddy with anticipation at the prospect of the Republican chief executive facing a “sea of opponents” in the new Democratic House majority. Anchors and correspondents were particularly eager to watch Speaker Nancy Pelosi “over his shoulder,” reacting negatively to the speech “in real time.”
Kyle Drennen
February 5th, 2019 1:03 PM

‘Fake News’ Fact-Checkers Are Done With Facebook

Facebook once decided that partnering with a liberal fact-checker would help stop the spread of supposed “fake news.” On February 1, fact-checking site Snopes announced that it was no longer interested in working with Facebook and was pulling out of its partnership with the social media company.  
Corinne Weaver
February 5th, 2019 12:14 PM

Morning Joe Discovers Separation of Powers it Ignored Under Obama

The cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe are not keen on the idea of President Trump using emergency powers to build a wall on the border. It is nice that they are standing up for Constitutional notions of checks and balances and separation of powers, because that has not always been the case with the MSNBC morning show.
Alex Christy
February 5th, 2019 11:17 AM

ABC Touts Dems Inviting 'Immigrants' to SOTU, Skips WH Guests

ABC couldn’t stop gushing over the Democrats and their invited guests to tonight's State of the Union address, on Tuesday’s Good Morning America. Congressional correspondent Mary Bruce even ludicrously called failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a “rising star,” hoping that she might run again in the Senate. Bruce also touted Democrats inviting illegal aliens and activists to the address…
Kristine Marsh
February 5th, 2019 10:50 AM

CNN's Berman to Ex-Trump Aide: 'You Are Hardly an Impartial Reporter'

On CNN's New Day, co-host John Berman, before permitting former Trump aide Marc Short to report on his conversation with President Trump regarding the State of the Union, tells him: "you are hardly an impartial reporter here." That's not what he said to former Trump aide Cliff Sims an hour later....perhaps because he just ripped the Trumps in a new tell-all book. 
Mark Finkelstein
February 5th, 2019 10:09 AM

Media Start In On Which Patriots Will Snub Trump

During his Super Bowl Sunday CBS interview with Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan, President Donald Trump demonstrated how he'd favorably addressed some major issues raised by the NFL's social justice warriors. Yet the Super Bowl had barely ended when media began looking for Patriots' players willing to snub the president by skipping the team's likely White House reception.
Jay Maxson
February 5th, 2019 10:00 AM

FLASHBACK: Media Adored Obama’s State of the Union Speeches

If tonight’s coverage is anything like President Donald’s Trump’s first State of the Union Address look for the media to trash the speech and vilify the President. Of course there was a time the media threw verbal bouquets after the SOTU speech – when Barack Obama was delivering them. The following are the most absurd media reactions to Obama-era State of the Union speeches, as culled from the…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 5th, 2019 8:50 AM

CNN Hosts Whine About Bullied 6th Grader Named Trump Invited to SOTU

As part of First Lady Melania Trump’s Be Best anti-bullying campaign, she invited Wilmington, Delaware 6th grader Joshua Trump to be one of the guests at Tuesday’s State of the Union. By now you probably figured out that while he shared no relation with the President, Joshua was bullied because they share the same last name. But that gesture rubbed CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon the wrong…
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 4th, 2019 11:43 PM

Old Media Push Russian Nostalgia for 'Soviet Ideals'

When people who grew up in communist dictatorships have any nostalgia for the "good old days," American media outlets play it up. MSN's news page recirculated a Christian Science Monitor article headlined "Russians embrace Soviet ideals – by not paying their gas bills." Were "Soviet ideals" ever a reality? Was there ever perfect communism?
Tim Graham
February 4th, 2019 10:58 PM

CNN's Harlow Frets Climate Changes, Tosses Softballs to Jay Inslee

On Monday's New Day show, as Washington Democratic Governor and possible presidential candidate Jay Inslee appeared as a guest, fill-in co-host Poppy Harlow fretted over the public's lack of interest in the issue of climate change as she mostly gave him a friendly forum to promote his views without pressing back on him from the right.
Brad Wilmouth
February 4th, 2019 10:15 PM

ABC Hides Sexual Assault Allegations Against Northam’s Replacement

As the blackface/KKK scandal consumed Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, the party was calling for him to resign and to let “rising star” Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor, take over. But the young Democrat had his own problem in the form of a new sexual assault allegation. Despite the Monday accusations being seen by some as serious and credible, that evening’s ABC World News…

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 4th, 2019 9:09 PM

Falling Down: ABC’s Scam Story 4X as Long as Blockbuster Jobs Report

January was a “blockbuster” month for job gains, in spite of the government shutdown. The 304,000 jobs added was nearly twice as many as the 172,000 forecasters anticipated. Only it didn’t appear that way on the broadcast evening news shows.
Julia A. Seymour
February 4th, 2019 5:09 PM

Ruth Marcus: WashPost Super Bowl Ad Was Not Ad for Washington Post

Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor Ruth Marcus applauded her paper’s decision to spend money on an expensive Super Bowl ad. She even claimed that the commercial wasn’t actually meant to promote the Post, despite the logo being shown at the end of Sunday night’s pricey spot.
Kyle Drennen
February 4th, 2019 5:09 PM

NYT's Super Bowl Whine: Not Enough Kaepernick, 'Systemic Oppression'

New York Times' Ken Belson couldn’t confine himself to reporting on the Super Bowl itself, feeling obligated to tell readers how the spectacle failed by not embracing the social justice agenda of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick: "The presence of the civil rights leaders did not seem to win over supporters of the player, Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who in…
Clay Waters
February 4th, 2019 5:08 PM