Inciting Violence? NYT Dismisses Biden ‘Bullseye,’ Smeared Palin's Map

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening reminded some news watchers of what President Joe Biden said to Democratic donors six days ago, as reported by the New York Times: “During a video call with top donors on Monday, Mr. Biden told them: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” One may scoff at the idea that a…

Clay Waters
July 14th, 2024 2:19 PM
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CNN's Kasie Hunt Silences Talk of Possible 'Inside Job' On Trump

On CNN, host Kasie Hunt acknowledges, in a discussion of the assassination attempt on President Trump, a "massive failure by the Secret Service." Later, in a discussion of disinformation in social media, when a panelist mentions people floating the notion of an "inside job," Hunt shuts him down, saying, "we don't want to get into that."

Mark Finkelstein
July 14th, 2024 1:05 PM

GASLIGHT: ABC’s Raddatz Blames Trump Shooting on ‘Bloodbath Hoax’

In the immediate aftermath of an attempted assassination of the former President of the United States and certain 2024 Republican nominee, some in the press are abandoning calls to “lower the temperature” of the post-shooting rhetoric, and have begun to blame Trump for getting himself shot.

Jorge Bonilla
July 14th, 2024 12:50 PM

The 2024 GOP Convention Is Still Happening. Here’s What to Expect

 A review of coverage of past GOP conventions shows the establishment press consistently malign Republicans as an extremist, racist, sexist, mean-spirited mob that must be defeated at all costs.

Rich Noyes
July 14th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS, Obama Advisor Talk Up 'Retaliatory Violence,' Cite January 6 Riot

It didn't take long after Donald Trump was shot for someone to cite January 6. It happened at about 9:16 on CBS, as anchor Margaret Brennan was talking to Samantha Vinograd, a former Obama official at the Department of Homeland Security (who became a CNN contributor before joining CBS).

Tim Graham
July 14th, 2024 5:44 AM

CBS Lectures Scalise on Rhetoric, Whines GOP Is ‘Angry’ Trump Was Shot

On Saturday following the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, CBS was out of control in demanding Republicans be the ones to lower the proverbial temperature and alter their rhetoric to soothe our collective body politic. Of course, as our Alex Christy wrote about earlier, they even expressed concern about the well-being of…themselves.

Curtis Houck
July 14th, 2024 1:56 AM

New ‘Tone’? NBC Frets GOP Is ‘Seizing on’ Trump Assassination Attempt

Giving credit where credit is due, NBC (and simulcast on MSNBC) wasn’t anywhere near the dumpster fire on Saturday night that CBS was in covering the assassination attempt against former President Trump that left at least one Trump rally attendee dead and others injured. That said, there were still a few humdingers, such as pathetic use of the GOP drinking game/bingo word “seizing” and more…

Curtis Houck
July 14th, 2024 12:47 AM

GOPer Blames 'Extreme' Anti-Trump Rhetoric, Blitzer Says ‘Both Sides’

Unfortunately, the liberal media seemed unable to reflect on how things got to the point where former President Trump was nearly assassinated. In the hours following the attempt on Trump’s life on Saturday, CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings condemned the anti-Trump, doomsaying election rhetoric parroted by the likes of his network, the rest of the liberal media, and Democrats for…

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 13th, 2024 11:19 PM

LESTER HOLT: ‘We Don’t Know’ What (Trump’s Shooter’s) Motivation Was’

night we heard, from NBC’s Lester Holt, the kind of papering over of a shocking act normally reserved for the initial outset of an Islamist terror attack: a declaration of ignorance over the motive that could’ve possibly possessed the individual to do such a thing, to wit: attempt to murder former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Jorge Bonilla
July 13th, 2024 11:13 PM

Brennan Mourns Trump Didn't Lower 'The Temperature' After Getting Shot

CBS’s host of Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan, joined the network’s breaking coverage of Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Trump at his Pennsylvania rally, where she was dismayed that a statement from campaign advisor Chris LaCivita might “escalate” Trump’s “us versus the system” rhetoric and that a statement from Trump himself didn’t lower “the temperature” even…

Alex Christy
July 13th, 2024 10:01 PM

MSNBC Cries Both Sides, Calm Down After Trump Almost Gets Assassinated

Not long after former President Trump was almost assassinated on stage at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart brought never-Trumper Max Boot on as a guest for The Saturday Show and duo proceeded to talk about how political violence was a problem on both sides of the aisle and wanted people to calm down before speaking about it.

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 13th, 2024 8:54 PM

CNN After Apparent Assassination Attempt: Trump ‘Falls’ at Rally

Despite everyone with functioning brains witnessing that an apparent assassination attempt just occurred on former President Donald Trump’s life on video, CNN instead ran a headline making it seem like he tripped. Yes, you read that right.

Joseph Vazquez
July 13th, 2024 7:30 PM

The Media Have Turned On Biden (For Now)

They want Joe to go. The left-leaning “mainstream” media could not be making their views on Joe Biden clearer. 

Jeffrey Lord
July 13th, 2024 4:00 PM

Worried For Democracy, PBS And PolitiFact Unveil Election Partnership

PolitiFact, one of the fact-checking outlets with the ability to censor your Facebook posts, and PBS, the news channel subsidized by your tax dollars, announced in a joint statement on Friday on their respective websites that they are teaming up for the remainder of the 2024 election cycle, formalizing their June 27 Debate segment.

Alex Christy
July 13th, 2024 2:15 PM