In the era of Donald Trump, journalists will earnestly tell each other that their jobs begin with fact-checking Trump's lies. They must do "fact-checking in real time." But they do nothing like that when they interview Democrats. The Sunday show hosts suck up to Democrats and let them drop rhetorical bombs.
Managing editor Curtis Houck and news analyst Jorge Bonilla (our Sunday watchdog) join the discussion.
On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, ranty Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) exploited the mass shooting at Brown University to claim it was Trump's fault, that he's engaging in a “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.” He's all about making mass shootings more possible? Could anyone fact check that? CNN's Dana Bash didn't. She just said "That's a pretty big statement," allowing Murphy to double down on it. Then we address the mass shooting at the Hanukkah celebration on the beach in Australia.
Then there's the weirdness of CBS's Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan asking tough questions of a Nobel Peace Prize winner who's fighting the dictator of Venezuela, who's stolen several elections he lost. Didn't these leftists say they were guardians of democracy? But this winner aligns right now with Trump, so CBS grilled Maria Corina Machado like she was a MAGA regular.
They elected a new conservative leader in Chile, Jose Antonio Kast, but our media tagged him as "far right." His opponent was a Communist, but somehow not extreme.
On NBC, Meet the Press host Kristen Welker asked a decent question of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), but failed to follow up on an indecent answer. She asked him how he proclaims his faith is a bridge, but he denounces Trumpism as a "plague on the American conscience." Warnock didn't take on the contradiction, but simply gave the stock leftist answer that the Republicans are redistributing all the wealth upward. That's why they call a tax cut for everyone.
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