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Not Good Enough: CBS Moves the Goalpost for Trump’s Texas Visit
August 31st, 2017 11:38 AM
The journalists on CBS This Morning continued to look for an angle to attack Donald Trump on his response to Hurricane Harvey. The same network that was, just days ago, wondering if the President would be disruptive by visiting flooded areas is now criticizing him for not visiting flooded areas. On Thursday, Major Garrett derided, “Mr. Trump was criticized for not mentioning those killed in the …
Fake News! Media Skip Hoaxer Exposing Reckless Anti-Trump Tweeters
August 31st, 2017 6:38 AM
For all the liberal-media agonizing over accusations of "fake news," there’s been almost no one picking up on The Guardian’s report from Britain that popular Trump critics on Twitter ended up spreading the anti-Trump claims of a hoaxer. Louise Mensch, who until recently ran the Murdoch-owned site Heat Street, and Claude Taylor, a former Clinton White House aide with the Twitter handle “…
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Press Misreports Feinstein's Trump-Hopeful Comments, Crowd's Reaction
August 30th, 2017 11:48 PM
In an interview in front of a predominantly liberal audience Wednesday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California Senator Dianne Feinstein, 84, who has held that office for 25 years and has announced no current plan to retire, said of President Donald Trump: "This man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn and to change.…
New Republic Writer: Conservative Media Masters of ‘Sheer Propaganda’
August 30th, 2017 8:54 PM
Many years ago, Rush Limbaugh started calling the MSM “state-run media.” Sarah Jones indicated on Wednesday that Rush’s description might better fit righty outlets whose agendas dovetail with President Trump’s. Jones also suggested that conservatives are taking the mainstream media for a ride: “It has become an article of faith on the right that non-right media is malicious propaganda, even as…
NPR Targets Trump, Cruz Over Hurricane Harvey Recovery Funding
August 30th, 2017 8:10 PM
Tuesday's All Things Considered on NPR aired two segments that took shots at President Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Both reports featured talking heads from liberal organizations, but didn't explicitly mention their ideological stance. By contast, the segments clearly identified specific individual and groups as "conservative."
The NY Times Botched Direct Quotes At Least Five Times in August Alone
August 30th, 2017 6:18 PM
As Tim Graham at NewsBusters noted in an August 24 post about the reckless smear of Sarah Palin in the New York Times after unhinged leftist James T. Hodgkinson shot and nearly killed Congressman Steve Scalise in June, the paper's latest ad campaign insists that "The truth is hard to know," that "The truth is hard to find," and that "The truth is now more important than ever."
CNN Media Analyst Hits Ratings Win by Liberal, 'Cellar-Dwelling' MSNBC
August 30th, 2017 5:06 PM
For several years, CNN and fellow liberal channel MSNBC have battled to see which of these “news” networks will rise above the basement in ratings. While this long-running tug-of-war has gone on, the Fox News Channel has maintained its dominance in ratings.
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MSNBC Slimes: ‘Trump Talks Taxes as Gulf Death Toll Climbs’
August 30th, 2017 3:51 PM
Without an actual journalist even saying a word, MSNBC on Wednesday slimed Donald Trump as uncaring. Apparently, it’s inappropriate for the President to have the federal government do more than one thing at a time. During Trump’s speech on plans for simplifying and cutting taxes, MSNBC ran this nasty graphic: “Trump Calls for Simplifying Tax Code as Texas Floods.”
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Morning Joe: ‘Something Wrong With’ Trump, Not ‘Human and Empathetic'
August 30th, 2017 1:19 PM
On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe wasted no time trashing President Trump’s visit to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly suggested there was “something wrong with” Trump as pundits ganged up to accuse the President of not showing sufficient empathy toward victims of the disaster.
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Reid: 'Disturbing' that Trump Has No Compassion for 'Human Misery'
August 30th, 2017 10:44 AM
MSNBC AM Joy Host Joy Reid appeared on Tuesday’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where she bashed President Trump’s response to Hurricane Harvey. Playing the armchair psychologist, Reid said Trump lacked the ability to empathize or “understand” the depth of the “misery” the citizens of Houston, Texas are experiencing right now.
NYT Uses Hurricane to Gin Up Sympathy for Scared Illegals on Page One
August 30th, 2017 10:39 AM
The front page of Wednesday’s New York Times was properly dominated by the damage Hurricane Harvey is wreaking in Texas. But reporters Simon Romero and Miriam Jordan took advantage of the tragedy to press the paper’s amnesty agenda in “An Uneasy Time for Immigrants, And Then the Rain Began to Fall.” Hinting headline aside, the Border Patrol was not conducting routine enforcement in shelters. But…
Why People Hate the Media: Politico Throws Fit Over Melania’s Shoes
August 29th, 2017 9:46 PM
On Tuesday, Politico and writer Annie Karni provided the latest installment of why people hate the media as she published a story entitled “Melania's stiletto sideshow,” symbolizing the media’s hissy fit when First Lady Melania Trump wore stilettos upon leaving Washington for the hurricane-ravaged Texas.
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O’Donnell: GOPers Oppose Disaster Funding Since That's Who They Are
August 29th, 2017 4:41 PM
Avowed socialist and liberal MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell insinuated on Monday’s The Last Word that Republicans are heartless on hurricane recovery funding due to simply who they are as people as exhibited by opposing Hurricane Sandy funding bill. With help from ex-Al Gore flack Ron Klain, the duo promoted their prediction that President Trump will fail in responding to Hurricane Harvey and…
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Kathy Griffin: ‘I’m No Longer Sorry’ For Trump Severed Head Photo
August 29th, 2017 3:51 PM
Disgraced comedian Kathy Griffin is trying to make a comeback, after she posed holding the bloody, severed head of our president in a magazine spread, earned her criticism from both the left and right back in May. A few days later Griffin offered a teary apology, that was part remorse, part pity-party and she was quickly shuffled out of the media spotlight. Now Griffin is hoping to capitalize on…