NY Times Retcons Star Wars Spinoff Into Anti-Trump Resistance Tale
Fighting Trumpian fascism in the Star Wars universe! That was the angle taken by James Poniewozik, chief TV critic for the New York Times, to mark the second and final season of the Star Wars streaming spinoff Andor, on the front page of Thursday’s Arts section. The online headline: “‘Andor’ Shows How a Resistance Is Built, One Brick at a Time -- In the best of the Disney+ “…
When Popes Demonstrate They're Savvy About the Secular Press
The recent passing of his Holiness Pope Francis and the looming election of a successor has, already, launched a media frenzy.
Ode to Joe: MSNBC Remembers Pope Francis By Gushing Over Biden
Anchoring from the Vatican for her Friday show ahead of Pope Francis’s Saturday funeral, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was not just content to portray Francis as a pope of the people; she had to mix in former President Joe Biden as well by praising his “empathy” and love of Amtrak. The fact that Francis would rebuke Biden for his abortion beliefs, to her, just made their relationship even better.
Megyn Kelly Torches Clooney, LuPone Over ‘Journalism’ Taunt
Megyn Kelly counter-punches with the best of ’em. The former Fox News superstar is now a media darling of her own creation. “The Megyn Kelly Show,” heard on SiriusXM and podcasting platforms across the globe, lets her weigh in on the latest headlines and often makes news, too. One bonus? She has a massive platform from which to fight back against progressive smears.
ABC Hypes Arrest Of ICE-Defying Judge As 'Major Escalation' From Trump
ABC chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas reacted to the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday’s World News Tonight by framing it as a “major escalation” from the Trump administration and “extremely rare.”
Brooks Hails Arrested Judge's 'Heroic' 'Civil Disobedience'
A week after calling for a “civic uprising,” New York Times columnist and PBS nominal conservative David Brooks found his first heroine in arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who is alleged to have used her courtroom to help an illegal immigrant, who was in front of her for domestic abuse, escape arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Friday’s PBS News Hour,…
Bill Kristol, Comedian? Imagines Trump Already Plotting 2028 Coup
In his Bulwark column, Bill Kristol, writing as if he were President Trump, suggests that Trump is planning for 2028 a coup to remain in power past the end of his current term. "Trump" judges several senior aides through the prism of their ability to be useful to him in that effort.
NewsBusters Podcast: Self-Adoring Diva Michelle Obama Draws More Gush
Eight years after she left the White House, the liberals on TV are still fawning all over Michelle Obama. Gayle King and Whoopi Goldberg led the parade defending Queen Michelle's self-absorbed decision to skip Jimmy Carter's funeral and Donald Trump's inauguration because it wasn't "the right thing for me." She's free to do that, but she's not free to demand we all shut up about it.
WHOA: Lefty FactCheck.org Actually Defends Trump’s First Term Economy
It must be a cold day in hell apparently. Leftist fact-checker FactCheck.org actually took time to defend President Donald Trump’s first term economy from deceptive falsehoods circulating online.
NPR: Abrego Garcia Was 'Living Quietly in Maryland' With Wife and Kids
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the infamous “Maryland Man” of media renown (who is actually an illegal immigrant and accused MS-13 gang member from El Salvador with no legal right to be in the country) was the subject of yet another story on National Public Radio. The text version of the radio report by Eric Westervelt and Joel Rose for NPR's All Things Considered on Wednesday added…
CBS Bemoans Trump Crackdown on Disparate Impact, Another DEI Wasteland
Thursday’s CBS Evening News Plus dove head-first into another meltdown about the Trump administration’s push to remove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and other race-hustling removed root and branch from the federal government. This time, fill-in host Maurice DuBois brought out the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to melt down about a new executive order to undo disparate…
WHO Admitted to Censorship Collusion During Pandemic, But There’s MORE
An official at the World Health Organization (WHO) brazenly admitted to being behind worldwide censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s not his most disturbing confession.
The View’s Conservatives Want to Save Blue States from Their Policies
The so-called “conservatives” of ABC’s The View haven’t been about promoting conservativism for a long time; instead preferring to make their personal ideologies all about hating President Trump and trying to get Democratic politicians elected. On Friday’s episode, they closed out the week by inviting liberal columnist Ezra Klein (there to promote his new book) on to commiserate about…
Pompous CBS Seems to Use Pope’s Passing to Make Subtle Jab at Trump
Reporting live Thursday from the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral mass for Pope Francis, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson ended the show with a veiled hit on President Trump as a contrast to Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders as the former (using the catch-all phrase “American politics”) embraces “flash and hubris” while the other show humility and love.