Illinois

POMPOUS: Dickerson Whines Over Trump Invoking the Insurrection Act
It is that time again, wherein CBS’s John Dickerson coughs up another pompous editorial from behind the anchor desk on CBS Evening News Plus. This one particularly pompous and lacking self-awareness, but perhaps mindful that there are only so many of these left before Bari Weiss fully takes over as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.

MSNBC Hosts Let Guest Smear ICE Agents as Trump's Lawless 'Gestapo'
On Saturday's The Weekend, MSNBC enabled the throwing around of more Nazi references as one guest excoriated ICE as "Trump's Gestapo," and another called it Trump's own "national police" that has no accountability.

MSNBC's Hinojosa Invokes Nazis, 9/11 Against ICE, Accuses of Murder
On Saturday's The Weekend show, MSNBC contributor Maria Hinojosa rolled out a series of inflammatory remarks against ICE agents and the leftist protests and interference in their enforcement actions. It began by comparing ICE to to the horror of being in New York City during the 9/11 attacks. Then it devolved into a Nazi comparison by claiming that Illegal alien children in hiding are…

Velshi Cues Crockett: ICE Are 'Slave Patrols' with 'Criminal Acts'
On his eponymous Sunday morning show, MSNBC's Ali Velshi let Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) compare ICE agents to slave patrols and claim they are committing crimes, and Velshi fretted that President Donald Trump is creating a police force that is "lacking accountability," and agreed with Crockett's assertions that the way to fight crime is with poverty programs and focusing on guns.…

NPR Host Lets Big Pritzker Slam Trump's 'Racist Ends' with Nazi Smears
On Wednesday’s Morning Edition (hours before Charlie Kirk’s assassination), co-host Steve Inskeep conducted a puffball interview with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, allowing the Democrat to trash Trump as a horrible racist breaking all the laws.

Legacy Newscasts Fret Over SCOTUS Ruling Allowing ICE Crackdown
In what has become a predictable and boring exercise, the legacy news media freak out over a Supreme Court action that puts a stop to activist obstruction of President Trump’s agenda. This time, on immigration, with the added bonus of a freakout over the president’s "Chipocalypse Now” meme.

ABC, NBC Use Sunday Night Shows to Whine Trump Wants ‘War’ on Chicago
On the Sunday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, the liberal networks were grossly giddy in touting partisan protests against President Trump and joining them in opposing Trump’s desire to crackdown on crime in Chicago, hoping the city remains quiet.

MSNBC Lets Chicago Dem Call for Obstructing ICE 'Goons' and 'Cowards'
On Sunday's The Weekend: Primetime, the MSNBC hosts did not give pushback after an Illinois Democrat congressional candidate decried ICE agents as "goons" and "cowards" and called on Chicago residents to obstruct them while they are trying to arrest illegal aliens.

CBS’s Ed O’Keefe Enables J.B. Pritzker’s Election Denialist Conspiracy
During an interview broadcast on CBS’s Face the Nation, Senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe sat by as Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker uttered the wildest conspiracy theories about rigged and possibly cancelled elections in the United States. Unfortunately, he does so with no pushback.

Colbert Lets Pritzker Dodge Question on Illinois Gerrymandering
CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s invitation to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to appear on Tuesday’s The Late Show preceded the fleeing of Texas Democrats to that state in the wake of the state legislature’s redistricting efforts, but the developments were impossible for Colbert to ignore. Even Colbert, however, recognized the irony of complaining about gerrymandering to the governor of Illinois,…

The Chicago DNC Theme Was ‘Hope’ — What About Chicagoans?
President Joe Biden, at the Democratic National Convention, said, “Donald Trump and the Republican friends, they not only can’t think; they can’t read very well. Seriously, think about it. Look at their Project 2025.” OK, let’s take Biden up on his offer “seriously” to think about those who “can’t read very well.” The convention is in Chicago, the adopted hometown of former President Barack…
Guess Which Radical Soros-Funded DA Could Let DNC Rioters Walk
With hordes of anti-Israel protesters descending on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week, attention has turned to the jurisdiction’s top prosecutor, a Soros-funded extremist.
Cook County District Attorney (DA) Kim Foxx is one of the most prolific of the 126 Soros prosecutors MRC documented in its August 12 Special Report. Foxx has built a career protecting the left’s…

MSNBC Blames TN Gun Laws for Shooting -- But Gunman Came from Illinois
On this past weekend's The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart teamed up with anti-gun activist Dr. Jonathan Metzl to spread misinformation about the effects of gun laws as the two discussed his book on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine school shootings.

Tapper Docs Include 14 Party Labels For Sanford, 0 For Blagojevich
CNN’s new documentary series, United States of Scandal, hosted by Jake Tapper, debuted on Sunday with two episodes. One detailed the extramarital affair of former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and the other involved former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the Senate seat that would be vacated by Barack Obama. However, only Sanford got the party…