PolitiFact Rushes To Biden's Defense On The Chinese Spy Balloon

August 23rd, 2023 11:30 AM

As Republicans prepare for their first primary debate, PolitiFact’s Amy Sherman came running to the defense of President Biden and his China policy on Tuesday, rating former Vice President Mike Pence “mostly false” for claiming Biden sent Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to “kowtow” before Beijing after the spy balloon incident.

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TV’s Distorted GOP Primary Race: Three-Fourths Trump, 90% Negative

August 21st, 2023 8:01 AM

A new Media Research Center study finds the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 74% of their GOP campaign coverage on Donald Trump, with the remaining candidates forced to split the remaining airtime. Most TV coverage of Trump (90%) was negative, but the media also bashed his nearest challenger Ron DeSantis (78% negative).

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Capehart Baffled Trump Leading In Iowa, Based on a Sample of Three!

August 13th, 2023 8:19 PM

On his MSNBC show on Saturday, Capehart wondered out loud how Donald Trump could be leading by 24 points among Iowa Republicans. After all, the show had just rolled clips of three people at the Iowa state fair saying they want to move on to someone else!

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CNN Denies Democrats Protested Recent Republican-Won Elections

August 4th, 2023 8:28 PM

Friday morning’s coverage of former President Trump’s most recent indictment for the election charges included a segment on CNN News Central where anchor Kate Bolduan discussed former Vice President Mike Pence’s [R-IN] involvement and opinions on the case with his former chief of staff, Marc Short. During this interview, Bolduan asked Short about recent growing distrust in the…

Ukraine, Inner Cities, and Character Attacks

July 21st, 2023 9:12 AM

This weekend, Tucker Carlson interviewed a bevy of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa. Despite the fact that polls show that nearly zero Americans consider the war in Ukraine to be a top voting priority, Carlson spent a disproportionate share of his time grilling the candidates over their position on Ukraine.

‘Stagnating’; Nets Cheer ‘Signs of Trouble’ for ‘Struggling’ DeSantis

July 17th, 2023 4:02 PM

On Sunday night and Monday morning, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC linked arms in an attempt to mortally wound Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) presidential campaign, painting him as a dead-man walking and the primary over. In doing so, the liberal media can shift to trashing Donald Trump and doing what they did in 2020: helm another successful Joe Biden campaign.

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NYT Propagandist Smears Tucker Carlson, 'Jesus Is Out, Putin Is In'

July 16th, 2023 2:48 PM

The New York Times wrote yet another hit piece against former Fox News host and conservative media superstar Tucker Carlson for his performance moderating a Q&A session for the 2024 Republican presidential candidates at the Family Leadership conference in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday. The article smearing Carlson was written by Jonathan Weisman in which he falsely accused him of…

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Would It Kill Morning Joe To Let A Republican Comment On GOP Race?

July 9th, 2023 6:15 AM

Morning Joe offers an all-liberal panel of Jen Palmieri, Eugene Jackson, and Jonathan Lemire to comment on the Republican presidential primary.  Would it kill the show to have on a Republican to comment on the Republican race?

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Ruhle Rewrites History, Attacks 'Misinformation' On Hillary's Server

June 13th, 2023 10:25 AM

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle used Monday’s edition of The 11th Hour to deliver a solemn monologue “for fact’s sake” to attempt to discredit the “misinformation” being spread by Republicans that seeks to compare President Trump’s classified documents indictment to classified documents-related scandals that did not result in indictments. However, Ruhle left out several bits of information…

Column: CNN's Mostly False Take on Biden's Stance on Abortion

June 9th, 2023 5:46 AM

As CNN looks for a new leader, former CNN host Brian Stelter proposed this as the most important question: “What should an anchor do when a guest says something untrue?” The public could turn this question around: “What should a politician do when a CNN host says something untrue?”

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CNN's Bash Argues With Pence About Trans Surgeries for Children

June 7th, 2023 11:11 PM

Hours after former Vice President Mike Pence officially announced his candidacy for president, he joined CNN’s Dana Bash for a town hall event where he was asked questions on a variety of topics by both Bash and a live studio audience. Among the issues asked was whether Pence would let parents get their children sex change surgeries in the name of parental rights. 

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MSNBC's Phang Angry Other Networks Giving Airtime to GOP Candidates!

May 28th, 2023 3:47 PM

On her MSNBC show on Sunday, Katie Phang denounces Fox News and CNN for scheduling townhalls with Donald Trump and Mike Pence. She goes further, suggesting that no Republican presidential candidates should be given airtime.  As she plaintively put it to a former Dem congresswoman: "What does it tell you that there are media outlets that are providing platforms for potential GOP primary…

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How Much Does PolitiFact Favor Kamala Harris Over Mike Pence? Bigly

May 22nd, 2023 6:43 AM

PolitiFact has a bad left-wing tilt. Since becoming vice president, Kamala Harris has only six "fact checks," and four of them were rated "Mostly True." In that time frame, former Vice President Mike Pence also has six checks, and none of them were "True" or "Mostly True." It only gets worse the more you look into it.

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Kimmel Attacks Student For Worrying About Dems Redefining 'Woman'

April 13th, 2023 2:30 PM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took time out of his Wednesday monologue to attack a college student who attended a recent Mike Pence speech at the University of Alabama for daring to be fearful that Democrats are redefining what it means to be a woman. For Kimmel, the concern highlights why university should “have another look at the minimum GPA required” for admission.