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Monday on CBS Mornings, co-host and Democratic Party donor Gayle King closed the show with a nauseatingly soft interview with President Biden’s sister Valerie Biden Owens on how her new autobiography “[gave] us a lot of insight to your brother” and  “illuminat[ed]...who he is.” Two of the six minutes touched on her nephew Hunter Biden’s life of corruption and legal problems, but King…

A stroll through the latest New York Times Sunday Book reviews reveals a shocking contrast of treatment between a democratically elected American president, Republican Ronald Reagan, and peripatetic Communist Che Guevara, who murdered and imprisoned thousands and supervised firing squads and founded forced labor camps in Cuba and elsewhere. Which figure do you figure received a more…

The New York Times entered the 21^st century carrying the same old bad habits, as Ashley Rindsberg documents in The Gray Lady Winked. In the first part of our review we summarized his findings on the paper’s shameful coverage of the rise of Nazism and Communism and its suppression of news of the ongoing Holocaust. In the second part: More hostility toward Jews,…

If you thought you could easily be anonymous on social media, think again. 

As Russia wages unilateral war on Ukraine, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is rightly seen by most everyone as a malign force, including the New York Times. But the Times hasn’t always aligned against history’s dictators and strongmen. While one of the Times’ most common charges against former President Donald Trump was his alleged soft spot for authoritarian leaders…

We all know the comic book industry is really pulling out all the woke stops these days in their overhyped and poorly written products. How bad was it when they announced that climate change would be a literal villain in an upcoming Superman comic? Still that’s not as bad as the latest graphic novel written by one of Hollywood’s looniest lefties. 

New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters really can’t stand Fox News. In his new anti-Trump book Insurgency, the entire network is lambasted for feeding Trump’s fevered ego. Besides that, the liberal prude splutters, the morning show Fox & Friends is “three hours of sex and red meat….” When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh reacted to Christine Blasey…

Insurgency, the latest in the endless line of anti-Trump tomes, is by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters, a conservative-beat reporter who regularly wages war on conservative media “propaganda.” The book’s full title, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party And Got Everything They Ever Wanted, makes Peters’ message clear: The GOP gained Donald Trump and lost…

Monday’s front-page New York Times story, “Politics Fuels Surge in Calls For Book Bans,” did liberal Democrats a favor, posing them in their flattering former costumes of fierce free-speech advocates. Meanwhile, today’s actual left-wing is a hive of free-speech squelchers and book banners, including the Times’ own reporters, who have an unseemly and anti-journalistic…

Look, down in the sewer! It's a rat! It's a turd! No, it's woke Superman sales! The decline of woke comic book sales is a hopeful omen that the progressive utopia will not be achieved. According to nerd culture outlet BoundingIntoComics.com, DC Comics’ recent attempts to turn beloved character Superman into a progressive pansy who’s too ashamed to fight for truth, justice and the American way…

As the establishment media solemnly marked January 6 with all of the rehearsed Democrat talking points about democracy hanging by a thread, one man best represents the liberal media’s relentless political marketing. It’s radical Rep. Jamie Raskin, who has a new book that came out two days before the anniversary called Unthinkable, conflating the Capitol riot with the suicide of his…

Facebook faced a firestorm of controversy after it punished a children's book publication company, Heroes Of Liberty. It has since reversed the ban, but prominent critics have questions. Facebook hasn’t been transparent about its approach to free speech, including that of mere children's books about American icons.

The leftists at the New York Times Book Review aren't as shameless as The Washington Post in using their "Notable Books" of the year list to promote books by their own staff. That doesn't mean there wasn't a dramatic tilt to the left.

The New York Times Book Review sometimes softly interviews celebrities for its "By The Book" feature, allowing them to boast of their love of the published word. For this Sunday, the celebrity was Bette Midler, and the gushy headline was "Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists." Not only does she insist she has always loved to read, she aggressively volunteers…