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Reid Attacks Trump For Praising William McKinley, Lauds Racist Wilson
MSNBC’s Joy Reid likes to fashion herself as a good race and gender conscious progressive, which is why it was weird when she declared on Monday’s edition of The ReidOut that it was natural that Donald Trump said he admires President William McKinley because the 1890s were a time that was “only great for men like Donald Trump.” At the same time, Reid had nice things to say about…
Daily Show Claims Electoral College Exists to Protect Slavery
Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb traveled over to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Wednesday to promote his new PBS documentary on the Electoral College. As Donald Trump may win the election despite losing the popular vote, Cobb and weekly host Michael Kosta probably felt it was important to delegitimize such a possible outcome.
Column: Rachel Maddow Smears J.D. Vance as a Fascist Speech-Squasher
On the cusp of the vice-presidential debate, Maddow naturally sought to connect Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) to a series of antisemitic and fascist revolutionaries who wanted the universities destroyed in the 1930s and 1940s because they spread “communistic” ideas.
FAKED: CBS, NPR, NYT Spread Walz Was in China During Tiananmen Protest
Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon showed three national news outlets easily repeated Gov. Tim Walz claiming he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests broke out in Beijing. Minnesota Public Radio discovered Walz was not in China at that time, and that Walz's staff could not provide evidence otherwise.
Bash, Psaki Agree GOP 'Voter Suppression' Like Post-1872 Race Massacre
The ratings competition between CNN and MSNBC took a back seat on Monday as CNN’s Dana Bash traveled over to Inside with Jen Psaki to promote her new book on the 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election and allege that the imagined voter suppression of today is on par with the real voter suppression of back then when such tactics included literal race massacres.
'Reagan' Movie Gets 97% Audience Approval, But Liberal Critics HATE It
FoxNews.com notes the new movie Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid, is strongly liked by audiences with a 97 percent audience score on the site Rotten Tomatoes. But the critics are liberals, and among them, it only had a 26 percent score. Critics were much fonder of the Obama biopic Southside With You in 2016, with a 91 percent positive score.
FLASHBACK: Media Blamed Talk Radio, GOP for Oklahoma City Bombing
After energetic talk over the weekend that no one should blame President Biden or the Democrats (or the media) for inspiring violence against President Trump and his supporters, we need to remind you of the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, where the liberal media decided to accuse conservative talk radio for the explosion.
Column: Beware When Leftist Journalists Use Founders to Attack Trump
When the elected Democrat D.A. of Manhattan and his 12 (likely Democrat) Manhattan jurors convicted Donald Trump on artificially inflated felony counts of business accounting, you could count on leftist journalists to try to make it the Most Historic Event Ever. We’re not even sure it won’t all be reversed on appeal!
NY Times Again Waxes Nostalgic for Communism: ‘Not Everything Was Bad'
A Sunday New York Times story by Berlin-based reporter Christopher Schuetze was the latest example of the paper’s repellent habit of condoning certain aspects of Communist tyrannies in Russia and Eastern Europe. for the authoritarian Communist past, “‘Not Everything Was Bad’: Saluting the Mercedes of Eastern Europe and a Communist Past.” Schuetze visited a May Day event in the former…
Utterly Woke NPR Puts Trigger Warning on Declaration of Independence
The hopeless wokeness of tax-funded National Public Radio has been confirmed by NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner, who started shockwaves with his Free Press essay “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust” providing chapter and verse of how NPR had become fully in the hands of the left. One example of anti-American wokeness is the “editor’s note” NPR staff felt…
Netflix to Air Documentary on Dan Rather, the 'True American Hero'
Dan Rather tweeted "I am humbled and honored to share some exciting news. A lot of very talented people have produced a documentary about this reporter’s life." A puff piece movie honoring Rather with actors wasn't enough. Now there's a gushy Rather "nonfiction" film.
FLASHBACK: Media Slammed Clinton’s ’99 Trial as a ‘Stalinist’ ‘Coup’
25 years ago, the U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton at his impeachment trial. At the time, journalists sneered that the trial of was a pointless waste of the Senate’s valuable time, while viewers heard it was an attempted “coup,” something “Stalinist” that evoked memories of Nazi Germany. Republicans were like KKK “night riders,” motivated by racism in their vendetta against a…
FLASHBACK: Slobbering Coverage of the Kennedys’ 2008 Obama Endorsement
Sixteen years ago, so-called reporters giddily celebrated the confluence of the ultra-liberal Kennedy family (a.k.a., “Camelot”) and the hard-left Obama campaign.
FLASHBACK: The Media’s Skewed Coverage of Past New Hampshire Primaries
Since 2008, the NewsBusters archives shows the intensive political coverage surrounding the New Hampshire primary has been a chance for journalists to take gratuitous potshots at conservative candidates, while liberals (often referred to as “moderates”) are treated to rock-star treatment.