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CNN Politicizes Shooting After Fretting GOP 'Politicizing' Tibbetts
On Sunday afternoon, after word broke that a mass shooting had occurred at a Jacksonville, Florida, gaming tournament, it didn't long for CNN host Fredricka Whitfield to talk up the alleged need for more gun laws in Florida -- in fact, it took just a little over 50 minutes. And it feels like only yesterday that the same CNN host was fretting over Republicans "politicizing" the murder of Mollie…
August 26th, 2018 6:16 PM
CNN Commentator: Assume Trump Always Lying, 'Fact-Check Him Backwards'
In a segment titled “So many lies, So little time” on his Sunday show Reliable Sources, CNN's Brian Stelter complained about the hardship of fact-checking every one of President Trump's statements: “Should there be a bug in the corner of the screen that says, ‘Warning, the president's probably misleading you again’?” A panelist later offered another imaginative suggestion: to assume that…
August 26th, 2018 3:05 PM
NY Times Uses 'Bait Truck' in Chicago to Play Anti-Cop Race Card
New York Times reporter Emma Fitzsimmons wrote “Outrage Over a Sting in a Poor Chicago Neighborhood,” using the story of a “bait truck” that resulted in a few arrests to play the anti-law enforcement race card: "Even in a city rife with distrust of law enforcement, residents were shocked by the sting operation: A tractor-trailer filled with Nike sneakers parked in an impoverished neighborhood on…
August 26th, 2018 2:03 PM
Robert Reich: 'Don’t Impeach Trump, Annul His Presidency'
Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, Robert Reich, has become so crazed over the notion of the Trump presidency that he wants to go beyond impeachment by imagining there is such a thing in the Constitution as annulment. Reich claims that with annulment all of Trump's legislation, executive actions, and appointments would just disappear as if they had never existed in the first…
August 26th, 2018 1:48 PM
NYT Salutes John McCain, But 2008 Campaign Coverage Was Classless
Republican Sen. John McCain, a war hero who suffered five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison camp in Vietnam, and who became an independent, influential senator, has died at 81. The New York Times obituary was broadly admiring. But the Times hasn’t always treated Sen. McCain so respectfully. Look back to the 2008 campaign. Reporters suggestied McCain was…
August 26th, 2018 10:40 AM
CBS News Fixes Headline After Freakout on 'Protesting National Anthem'
CBS News decided to cover Ted Cruz's liberal opponent, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, answering a question about his position on well-paid professional football players kneeling during the national anthem. He gave the pat liberal answer: “I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights anytime, anywhere, any place.” Liberal Twitter erupted in anger when they…
August 25th, 2018 10:39 PM
Johnson Slams Fox for Covering Tibbetts; Racism a 'White People Prob'
On Saturday's AM Joy, during a discussion of President Donald Trump's recent tweet on South African efforts to expropriate more land from white farmers, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson managed to squeeze in a complaint about Fox News daring to cover the discovery of murder victim Mollie Tibbett's body on the same day as breaking news on Paul Manafort's legal problems. In fact, Fox News Channel…
August 25th, 2018 5:56 PM
CNN Plays the Race Card With Mollie Tibbetts Murder
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Here is the headline from NewsBusters' Brad Wilmouth. “CNN's Cuomo: Trump, Fox Concerned With Tibbetts Because She's White.” Aside from the astonishing, if typical, liberal line of obsessively playing the race card (as I pointed out a time or three on CNN the Democrats still have not gotten around to apologizing for their support of slavery - their original obsession…
August 25th, 2018 4:00 PM
NYDN's Phillips Trashes 'Icon' Brown for Trump Support
To Carron J. Phillips of The New York Daily News and many African-Americans, Jim Brown had always been an icon. One of the greatest pro football players of all time, Brown, now 82, was a voice for the culture as a civil rights activism with a legacy like none other. However, since he's voiced some support for President Trump and been an opponent of national anthem protests, he's less noteworthy,…
August 25th, 2018 4:00 PM
MSNBC Guest: Arming Teachers Will Lead to Black Pupils 'Getting Shot'
During Thursday morning's MSNBC Live, host Hallie Jackson and her panel engaged in a discussion about a New York Times report describing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s plans to allow schools to use Federal funds to buy guns for their teachers and it included quite a head-scratcher as the headline indicates.
August 25th, 2018 3:35 PM
CNN Frets GOP Using Mollie Tibbetts Murder as 'Political Propaganda'
On Saturday morning, the same CNN that is notorious for promoting anti-gun propaganda in the immediate aftermath of mass shootings had hosts who repeatedly worried that President Donald Trump and Republicans are inappropriately using the murder of Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal immigrant as "political propaganda."
August 25th, 2018 2:39 PM
‘First Reformed’ Film Prays for Redemption, Eco-Terrorism
The pastor in First Reformed may work in a church, but his true god isn’t the Lord above. It’s Al Gore. Writer/director Paul Schrader’s film, available now on Blu-ray and other home video outlets, shares the story of a broken man’s quest for redemption. What emerges is the usual array of global warming talking points, the kind Hollywood can’t help inserting into its product ad nauseam.
August 25th, 2018 1:30 PM
CNBC: 'No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election'
Despite the recent hype in the mainstream media about teens supposedly hacking state election systems, CNBC tossed cold water on that fake news with a reality check with a ProPublica article. It turns out the students were coached on what to do in look-alike sites that differed from the actual state election sites.
August 25th, 2018 1:19 PM
This Week in Media Bias History: A Little Creepier in Retrospect
Given what we now know about Matt Lauer and his creepy office with an automatic door lock, this August 21, 2000 Today interview with Al Gore looks weirder in retrospect. Lauer repeatedly obsessed over “the kiss” between the then-Vice President and his then-wife Tipper Gore at the 2000 Democratic National Convention: “This is the ‘The Kiss.’... You really planted one on Mrs. Gore.” Lauer was …
August 25th, 2018 12:15 PM