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Anyone still confused why Republicans defunded PBS needs to look no further than a Thursday Amanpour & Company segment featuring host Christiane Amanpour and women, gender, and sexuality/African and American studies Prof. Imani Perry. Both would accuse President Trump of waging a war on knowledge as he seeks to reform the Smithsonian Institution, while Perry ironically spread…

The New York Times has an inglorious tradition of glorifying communists, and the latest installment in this regrettable ritual came on Wednesday from Seoul bureau chief Choe Sang-Hun. Choe penned an uncritical profile of former North Korean soldier-turned South Korean resident Ahn Hak-sop, who has the dual life goal of removing American troops from the country and returning…

It is bad enough that the Chinese Communist Party is staging a massive military parade on Wednesday to rewrite history and portray itself as one of the main victors of World War II as it seeks to build up its image as a global leader, but making things worse was Associated Press China reporter Ken Moritsugu’s mostly uncritical Tuesday article that helped spread the Party line.

White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs uncorked “news analysis” in Friday’s edition. He conjured up racially charged attacks on “people of color” in Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian Institution’s excessive focus on the dark parts of America’s history, including slavery: “In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo.”

Presidential historian and frequent MSNBC and CNN talking head Douglas Brinkley joined former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric on her Thursday on her YouTube channel. According to Brinkley, President Trump’s Smithsonian Institute plans are some sort of Russian or Chinese-inspired attempt to rewrite history and bring back the era of “segregation of some kind.” Meanwhile, Couric unwittingly…

Don’t question tax-funded museum wokery: The last segment of Wednesday’s PBS News Hour presented leftist historian Peniel Joseph to jump on a social media post by President Trump claiming the Smithsonian Institution had gone overboard dwelling on American slavery. PBS is the latest network rankled by Trump’s insistence that the Smithsonian museums emphasize America’s greatness and not…

CNN’s Laura Coates welcomed Prof. Michael Eric Dyson to her Tuesday show to react to a Truth Social post from President Trump lamenting current content at Smithsonian museums. According to Dyson, Trump’s desired changes put him in the same category of leader as Benito Mussolini.

The central strategy of media bias is defining your terms. The most obnoxious strategy of liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory. They pretend Democrats are nothing like this. The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.

New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker joined Wednesday’s Chris Jansing Reports and unleashed, even by MSNBC’s standards, one of the most ridiculous reductio ad Putinum claims ever uttered on the network as he claimed the Russian dictator would “feel very comfortable” in Donald Trump’s America.

On Tuesday, the Trump Administration launched a review of select Smithsonian museums to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.” The eponymous host of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 was not happy about the move and claimed the move was insulting…

NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his lamentations on President Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night. As Meyers tells it, Congressional Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, are “collaborating” with Trump to “turn America into a military-style autocracy” and would’ve ratted out the original Tea Party to the British in 1773.

It was biased enough for CNN to air a live Broadway performance of George Clooney's Broadway play which glorifies 1950s CBS left-wing hack Edward R. Murrow attacking anti-communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy as an anti-Trump #Resistance ploy. That extended to the pre-play and post-play coverage. After it was over, Anderson Cooper brought on 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley for a promotional…

Thirty years ago, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck packed with explosives next to Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. After the immediate shock of the bombing passed, liberal journalists began assigning blame to ordinary conservatives, hoping to blur the facts and discredit the competition.

Over there on this very site, NewsBusters’ own Alex Christy had a sharp-eyed focus on a curious moment on a recent episode of Stephen Colbert’s late night CBS show.