No Respect: PBS Piles on Cheney's 'Polarizing...Controversial' Legacy

November 5th, 2025 10:17 PM

PBS News Hour’s coverage Tuesday of the death of former Republican vice president Dick Cheney wasn't particularly generous for an obituary, bookended with belittling jabs at Cheney from both anchor and reporter. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: “….and we examine the life of the highly…

NPR Nudges Jonah Goldberg: Trump Is Cheney's 'Frankenstein Monster'

November 4th, 2025 8:21 PM

As part of their breaking-news coverage of Dick Cheney's death, NPR's Morning Edition turned to Jonah Goldberg. Anchor Steve Inskeep had to make it about Trump. Goldberg said Cheney must have felt that Trump was "a little bit like a Frankenstein's monster," running roughshod over his arguments for an energetic executive branch and a muscular military.

FLASHBACK: Media Hated Dick Cheney, Called Him a War Criminal

November 4th, 2025 5:50 PM

The following are just some of the worst attacks on the late Dick Cheney via the MRC’s archives.

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Meyers Mourns Our 'Stupid System' Ended Trump's Legal Troubles

November 8th, 2024 10:00 AM

NBC’s Seth Meyers mourned on Thursday’s edition of Late Night that our “stupid system” has enabled Donald Trump to escape his legal difficulties and that there are those in the Democratic Party who think the reason why he won is because they are too far left.

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Regime Media Sunday Shows Continue to LIE, Push Debunked Cheney Hoax

November 3rd, 2024 3:55 PM

The Washington Post's owner Jeff Bezos was absolutely right when he said that Americans don’t trust the news media. One of many reasons why the public no longer trust the Regime Media is because of their insistence in repeating Democrat-friendly narratives that spring forth from online…

NY Times Mangles Trump's Cheney 'Chicken Hawk' Gibe to Imply VIOLENCE

November 3rd, 2024 6:32 AM

It’s an intriguing parallel: Father and daughter Republican political figures Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, insulted as warmongers and chicken hawks by different political parties, twenty years apart. But the coverage in the New York Times couldn’t have been more different. When Donald Trump attacked Republican turned Kamala Harris supporter Liz Cheney as a “radical warhawk,” he was…

Jeff Bezos Has a Point on Media Trust, and Liz Cheney Lie Proves It

November 2nd, 2024 4:00 PM

Jeff Bezos wrote "Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose." On Friday, the media fought reality in claiming Donald Trump threatened Liz Cheney with death.

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Interviewing Walz, Stewart Mocks The Idea Democrats May Be Radical

October 22nd, 2024 10:15 AM

Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz’s Monday tour of friendly interviews concluded on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, where he and host Jon Stewart gathered to plot strategy, gush over Kamala Harris’s vision for the country, assure the far-left that Dick and Liz Cheney won’t actually affect their governing philosophy, and allow one guy in the audience to shout, “We love you, Tim.”

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STRANGE NEW FAKE RESPECT: Regime Media Now Embrace the Cheneys

October 4th, 2024 1:29 PM

The Regime Media have developed a Strange New Respect for conservative Republicans of a certain inclination, now that they can be used as rungs on a ladder that leads to Republicans voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. The most prominent of these, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, was prominently featured on the network evening newscasts.

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Nets Hype 'Huge' Harris Endorsements, Ridicule or Ignore Trump's

September 7th, 2024 2:00 PM

On Friday, former Vice President Dick Cheney and daughter and former Rep. Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris while the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Donald Trump. For ABC, NBC, and CBS's Saturday morning shows, the former was a “huge” deal while the latter was portrayed as ironic given Trump’s legal controversies or simply ignored.

FLASHBACK: 36 Years of Media Derision & Scorn for GOP Veeps

July 7th, 2024 10:10 AM

Expect the media elite to greet Donald Trump’s new running mate with derision and scorn, because that’s what has faced (nearly) all Republican VP candidates since the Media Research Center began tracking political coverage in the 1980s.

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Daily Show Faux-Debates 'America's Greatest War Criminals'

December 1st, 2023 9:55 AM

Comedy Central’s tempt host of The Daily Show, Michelle Wolf welcomed correspondents Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta for a “debate” on who is “America’s greatest war criminal” after the death of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. As Chieng and Kosta fake fought over Kissinger and former Vice President Dick Cheney, Wolf offered up President Andrew Jackson.

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‘80s Showtime Comedy Bashes Conservatives as ‘Bigots United'

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June 6th, 2021 11:48 PM

Republicans are bigots who like killing baby ducks at NRA events, framing people for assassination attempts and do not worry about reality. So says the unwatchable Showtime "comedy" Black Monday, set in the late 1980s.

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FAKE: CNN Edits Dick Cheney, Blames Him for GOP 'Purging' Colin Powell

May 14th, 2021 5:45 PM

CNN's New Day often features analyst John Avlon delivering a commentary they call "Reality Check." But reality took a beating on Thursday's edition, as he accused Republicans of "purging" moderates ever since Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964.