PBS Surprise:CBS’s O’Keefe Slaps Down NPR Hysteria on Alito Flag Issue

During a segment entitled “Alito Under Fire,” the latest episode of PBS’s Friday political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic aired some less-collegial-than-usual exchanges between CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe and Mara Liasson of National Public Radio, concerning the flag controversies the media is wrapping around conservative Justice Samuel Alito, with Democrats…

Clay Waters
May 28th, 2024 1:31 PM

The Free-Market Populism of Javier Milei

Javier Milei is a rock star. The president of Argentina was, in fact, in a Rolling Stones cover band as a teen. But now he plays stadiums — like Buenos Aires’ 8,400-capacity Luna Park — as a political phenomenon, a charismatic cross between Donald Trump and Milton Friedman. Except that Milei, a former economics professor himself, is more free-market than Friedman, in theory at least.

Daniel McCarthy
May 28th, 2024 12:41 PM

Watch: Pres. Biden Appears to Sleep Through Lloyd Austin’s Memorial Day Speech

Pres. Joe Biden appeared to sleep throughout a Memorial Day speech by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday, further stoking fears of his declining mental capacity.
Craig Bannister
May 28th, 2024 12:07 PM

60 Minutes Wonders If Abbott's Border Fight Is About Secession

CBS’s Cecilia Vega recently traveled to Texas to interview Gov. Greg Abbott for a 60 Minutes profile on the state’s fight with the federal government over border enforcement. Vega immediately reached for the most hysterical explanation she could think of, asking Abbott if the dispute was about secession.

Alex Christy
May 28th, 2024 10:48 AM
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CNN's Bash Covers For Biden On Kamala's Cracks Against Him On Race

On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash defends Joe Biden over critical remarks on his record on race that Kamala Harris made against him. Bash brushes off the remarks as having been made by Karris when she and Biden were running against each other for the Democrat presidential nomination. But as her guest Sen. Tim Scott points out, the truth of Harris's accusations can be confirmed. 

Mark Finkelstein
May 28th, 2024 10:01 AM

In One Segment, PBS Makes Alito an Insurrectionist and Trump Hitler

Before it compared Trump to Hitler, Thursday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour made the Justice Alito flag controversy an all-encompassing scandal. First the network’s Supreme Court expert Marcia Coyle discussed the Supreme Court’s decision to allow a Republican-drawn congressional district in South Carolina to stand, but segued into the controversy over two flags being flown over two of…

Clay Waters
May 28th, 2024 9:51 AM

Trump’s Bronx Rally And The Wrath of Spurned Media Gatekeepers

Much of the media analysis of former President Donald Trump’s visit to the South Bronx centers around whether it was electorally savvy or good campaign strategy. Little has been said about the outbreak of bigotry vomited over the airwaves subsequent to the rally.

Jorge Bonilla
May 26th, 2024 9:33 PM

Memorial Day Message from China

The front page of yesterday’s Friday’s Wall Street Journal had a picture of a large public TV screen in Beijing showing a satellite image of Taiwan off the coast of mainland China and how the Chinese military is conducting “maneuvers” encircling Taiwan.
Charles A. Kohlhaas
May 26th, 2024 7:45 PM

CBS’s ‘Face The Nation’ Honors The Fallen

CBS’s Sunday affairs show Face the Nation opened its Memorial Day weekend broadcast the right way- by taking a moment to put things in perspective, and honoring our Nation’s fallen, before entering into its normal routine. 

Jorge Bonilla
May 26th, 2024 5:02 PM
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MSNBC: Darn Voters Don't Understand How Dangerous Trump Is!

The panel of MSNBC's The Weekend expresses its great frustration over voters not being sufficiently scared by Trump's rhetoric, and thus not stampeded into supporting Biden. The panel describes voters as being "numbed," not paying attention, and needing to be shaken by the shoulders and told to "snap out of it!"

Mark Finkelstein
May 26th, 2024 4:00 PM

FLASHBACK: When CNN Censored Obama’s 2008 Memorial Day Idiocy

How far would a liberal network go to protect their favorite candidate? Sixteen years ago, CNN deliberately censored a blunder by likely Democratic nominee Barack Obama, when in a Memorial Day speech before veterans, he stupidly said of America’s “fallen heroes” that “I see many of them in the audience here today.”

Rich Noyes
May 26th, 2024 10:06 AM

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Inflation Is High But the Economy Is Great

According to a new Harris-Guardian poll, more than half of Americans think that we are currently experiencing a recession, but on Thursday, MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle could not seem to believe why people would believe that.

Sarah Butler
May 25th, 2024 8:46 PM

Trump's Main Opponent: The Media

Yes, it’s President Joe Biden’s name on the 2024 ballot as former President Trump’s opponent.

Jeffrey Lord
May 25th, 2024 4:00 PM

WashPost Reveals It Passed On Alito-Upside Down Flag Story In 2021

The conservative reaction to the freakout over Justice Samuel Alito’s flags has been to argue that this is a phony scandal ginned up by liberals and journalists (but we repeat ourselves) to delegitimize the Supreme Court. A Saturday report from the Washington Post appears to confirm those beliefs, as Justin Jouvenal and Ann Marimow reported that the Post passed on the story…

Alex Christy
May 25th, 2024 2:00 PM