Even Leftists Can Be Right About Opinionated 'Fact Checkers'

January 19th, 2020 9:01 PM
Conservatives are not going to agree with a lot of points in The New Republic -- and it's more liberal than it used to be in the last century. But there's some common ground when it comes to the media's "fact-checking" operations. There is a lot of opinion smeared all over the "facts."

NYT: Trump ‘Conspiracy Theory’ on Pelosi, Impeachment 'Disinformation'

January 19th, 2020 7:59 PM
The New York Times’ double standard on ideas it considers “conspiracy theories” was ably demonstrated in Sunday’s New York Times by reporters Annie Karni and Jeremy Peters: “How a Pelosi Conspiracy Theory Spread, From Twitter to Fox to Trump.” That headline hit the paper’s two main enemies: Fox News and President Trump.

NY Times Front: Women, Stripped of Rights, Still Won’t Vote For Women

January 19th, 2020 3:25 PM
On the front page of Saturday’s New York Times, reporter Lisa Lerer wondered why so many women were reluctant to vote for a woman (i.e. Elizabeth Warren) to run for president in “Taking Feminism to Heart, if Not to the Caucuses – Beating Trump Matters More Than Electing a Woman, to Some.” As is often the case, unfettered abortion rights was a priority: "Ms. Schlenker has seen how the current…
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Joy Reid Brings on 'Body-Language Expert' to Say Bernie's 'Lying'

January 18th, 2020 11:27 PM
Joy Reid's "body-language expert" Janine Driver says she believes Bernie Sanders was "lying" when he denied telling Elizabeth Warren that a woman couldn't beat President Trump. 
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Morning Joe Trashes ‘Lifeless’ Dem Debate: ‘Nobody Looked Good'

January 15th, 2020 12:10 PM
On Wednesday, the crew of MSNBC’s Morning Joe all agreed that Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was a “dull” and “lifeless” event in which “nobody looked good.” According to co-host Joe Scarborough, the only thing the debate accomplished was to show the 2020 contenders “are still not ready for prime time.”

NY Times Compares Textbooks, Confesses to Bernie-Style Bias

January 14th, 2020 1:25 PM
Big news on the...textbook front? The front page of Monday’s New York Times was dominated by the results of education reporter Dana Goldstein’s examination of differences between history textbooks approved for California students, and those given to students in Texas: “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories.”  This paragraph was unintentionally revealing of the paper’s Bernie Sanders-…
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Did Scarborough Call Warren a Liar on 'Bernie Said a Woman Can't Win'?

January 14th, 2020 10:22 AM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough expresses great skepticism on Elizabeth Warren's claim that Bernie Sanders told her that a woman couldn't beat President Trump.
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TV’s Trump News: Three-Fourths Impeachment and 93% Negative

January 13th, 2020 8:10 AM
In the first 100 days since House Democrats began their impeachment push, ABC, CBS and NBC have aggressively aided the effort. An MRC analysis finds the Big Three evening newscasts battered the President with 93% negative coverage and promoted impeachment at the expense of nearly all other Trump news. At the same time, the broadcast networks donated at least 124 hours of wall-to-wall live…
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Larry David Claims Bernie Sanders Will Be ‘Great For the Country’

January 10th, 2020 4:25 PM
On Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David – who portrays the socialist senator on Saturday Night Live – were both booked on NBC’s Today show. Taking advantage of the situation, the broadcast arranged a brief comedy skit between their two guests in which David proclaimed that Sanders becoming president would “be great for the country,…
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Colbert to Sanders: 'We Have Become Inured to Lies' With Trump

January 10th, 2020 2:30 PM
The media meltdown over Iranian terrorist Soleimani’s death continues to spiral into an abyss of delusion. Not unlike his colleagues in the liberal press, CBS host Stephen Colbert spent a portion of his interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday’s The Late Show excoriating President Trump for his executive decision to annihilate Soleimani.
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NBC Worries Sanders ‘Too Far Left to Win A General Election’

January 10th, 2020 11:45 AM
During an exclusive interview with Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday’s Today show, co-host Savannah Guthrie actually worried that the self-avowed socialist was “too far left to win a general election.” While she never actually pressed him on the specifics of some of his radical policy proposals, the NBC anchor did channel Democratic Party fears over…
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The Media Don't Treat Bernie Sanders With Enough Respect?

January 4th, 2020 5:59 PM
In his newsletter, CNN's Brian Stelter touted how Mike Allen of Axios was slamming the media. For what? "The media rarely treats Sanders, 78, with the seriousness warranted by his sustained popularity and fundraising."

NY Times Editor Finds Media's Problem: ‘What About Centrist Bias?’

December 25th, 2019 9:01 PM
New York Times’ former Washington bureau chief-turned-columnist David Leonhardt has found the problem with the press -- they’re just too middle of the road: “What About Centrist Bias?” The subject line to Monday’s e-mail newsletter questioned the existence of “Liberal bias?” The online headline made it clearer: “How ‘Centrist Bias’ Hurts Sanders and Warren -- The media has a bigger problem than…

Is It 1979 Again?

December 17th, 2019 10:27 PM
“Blowout” was how one UK newspaper described the decisive victory of Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party in last week's election. How decisive was it? Not only did conservatives win an 80-seat majority in Parliament, a constituency in Blythe Valley in Northeast England elected a conservative member for the first time since its creation 40 years ago. Pundits leading up to the election were…