UGH: On Memorial Day, NYT Print Edition Commemorates … George Floyd?

May 27th, 2025 1:19 PM

The brazen anti-Americanism replete within The New York Times has become so in-your-face you can smell it like someone with a halitosis condition yawning within a few centimeters of your nose at a bus stop. How the trash newspaper tried to give new meaning to the idea of Memorial Day in its print edition is no exception.

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Morning Joe Regular: Trump Thinks His 'Intellect' Will Deter Putin

May 26th, 2025 5:28 PM

On Monday's Morning Joe, reacting to the recent round of Russian attacks on Ukraine, and on Trump's critical comments about Putin, Weiss said: "I think the most generous interpretation we can make is that Donald Trump genuinely believes that the force of his own personality, and I suppose his charisma and his intellect, could bend Putin to his will." Weiss went on to say that Putin's…

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Speaker Johnson SCHOOLS Jake Tapper on Media Coverage of Corruption

May 25th, 2025 1:04 PM

The onslaught of media stories about the Trump family’s stake in cryptocurrency betrays a strange new interest in coverage of the perception of corruption. As Speaker Mike Johnson reminded CNN’s Jake Tapper, things were (D)ifferent back then.

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MSNBC Analyst Admits Media Are Liberal, It's 'Nuts' Not to Realize It

May 24th, 2025 6:32 PM

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann made a rare admission that Hollywood and the "mainstream media" are "largely left of center" as he countered his colleague Anand Giridharadas claiming that Democrats have not been active enough in the "cultural process" to counter President Donald Trump.

CBS's Scott Pelley Rages In Favor of DEI at College Commencement

May 24th, 2025 4:00 PM

There’s nothing like giving a college commencement address to stir the pot. At Wake Forest, CBS's Scott Pelley raged about DEI: "Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity' is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends. There is nothing new in this....Ignorance works for power."

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MSNBC Portrays Trump As An Insult To Memorial Day

May 24th, 2025 1:53 PM

With the solemn annual observance of Memorial Day just a few days away, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi welcomed columnist and SiriusXM’s Dean Obeidallah to his Saturday show to politicize the honoring of the nation’s war dead by claiming President Trump stands for the opposite of everything those men and women died for.

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Amid Battle With Trump, ABC Acts Like Harvard Is Nation's Only College

May 24th, 2025 12:09 PM

On Friday, ABC’s Selina Wang reported for World News Tonight the latest developments between the Trump Administration and Harvard. The latest battle is over Trump’s move to ban the school from enrolling foreign students, but based on Wang’s reports, someone might assume that Harvard is the only university in the country. At the same time, on NBC Nightly News, Andrea…

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PBS Attacks GOP For Deficits While Attacking Spending Cuts

May 24th, 2025 10:03 AM

The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to have it both ways on Friday. The three men attacked the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill for its negative effects on the deficit, but also its spending cuts, meaning PBS either wants to raise most people's taxes, but is too…

Bias By Omission: Polls Moving Toward America in the 'Right Direction'

May 23rd, 2025 3:58 PM

The national media use polls the way they deploy all kinds of facts -- with a liberal bias. So they may not notice polls that offer some good news. Take the Real Clear Politics average of polls on whether the country's going in the right or wrong direction. The numbers are more positive than anyone watching the networks would expect. It could be defined as voters stiff-arming the relentless…

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Lemire Chuckles at Trump Admin Claim Harvard Coordinated With CCP

May 23rd, 2025 1:58 PM

On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire chuckles as he mentions the claim by the Trump administration, in explaining its decision to revoke Harvard's right to enroll foreign students, that Harvard is "coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." Lemire needs to read the letter to Harvard from the House Select Committee on the CCP, which describes: Harvard’s repeated training of members of the…

PolitiFact Declines To Give Schumer a False Label For False DOGE Claim

May 23rd, 2025 12:04 PM

If you argue that fact-checking websites like PolitiFact should not be the final arbiter of what is true because they fact-check Republicans way more than Democrats, the response you are likely to get is because they deserve it. However, a Thursday article on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer undermines that point because the article makes it clear that Schumer was wrong to blame the…

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'Say Good Bye To Grandma': Kimmel, Daily Show Continue Attacks On BBB

May 23rd, 2025 10:00 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Ronny Chieng continued their dishonest attacks on the GOP’s spending bill, dubbed The Big Beautiful Bill, on their Thursday shows, calling it “mostly ass,” “cartoonishly mean,” and insisting people should “say goodbye to grandma.”

Column: 'Truth Teller' Bruce Springsteen Slimes Trump as Treasonous

May 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM

When Donald Trump is president, it’s considered dangerously authoritarian if he accuses someone of treason – and it’s considered heroic “truth-telling” when you accuse Trump of being a treasonous authoritarian.  The latest exhibit is leftist rock star/first-rate tax evader Bruce Springsteen. On stage in England, Springsteen claimed America "is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent,…

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House Passage of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Draws Mixed Legacy Coverage

May 23rd, 2025 12:43 AM

The United States House of Representatives passed its “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, which seeks to renew the tax cuts first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a significant plank of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. But coverage on the legacy media newscasts was mixed, at best.