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MSNBC’s Weekend Despair Over Media Rolling Over for ‘Tyrant’ Trump
There was an air of despair on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, as an anti-Trump panel expressed outrage about the President-elect’s various lawsuits against journalists and news organizations, but also despair that…
‘Should Have Pushed Harder’ on Biden Decline
Former CNN and Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza was feeling contrite. In a Friday video, he suggested "As a reporter I have a confession to make. I should have pushed harder, earlier for more…
NPR Touts Minnesota ‘Sequeerity’ Squad Protecting Trans Folks from Trumpers
Everyone knows National “Public” Radio hates half the public, the half that voted for Donald Trump. On Wednesday’s terribly named All Things Considered, an eight-minute story on NPR promoted “Sequeerity,” an LGBT security…
PBS Oozes Over Krugman’s NYT Retirement: ‘Resurrection’ of Biden’s ‘Reputation’
On Friday’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour introduced “the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, who's written his last column for The New York Times, after 25 years of sharp and often…
NOW We Learn We Had a ‘Diminished Biden in Charge’ for All Four Years
Finally. For Americans wondering when the media will finally admit President Joe Biden is, in the words of Fox’s Sean Hannity, “a cognitive mess,”, light dawns. On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal carried the headline: How…
CBS In Springfield, Ohio for ‘Victims’ of Trump’s Mass Deportation
Right on the heels of PolitiFact declaring President-elect Donald Trump’s line about immigrants eating dogs and cats as the “Lie of the Year,” CBS Saturday Morning profiled legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio,…
Justine Bateman Shames Hollywood Reporter for Fake News
Justine Bateman said we can collectively breathe again following Donald Trump’s re-election. Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years. — Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) November 8, 2024 What does…
CNN’s Friday Night Fusillade vs Musk Over Shutdown That Didn’t Happen
Soon after the House on Friday night voted to advance a massive spending package and avoid a government shutdown (at least until March), CNN’s hosts and anchors targeted Elon Musk as the instigator of the “chaos,” “panic”…
Elon Has Too Much Power, It’s ‘Oligarchy’
The PBS NewsHour Friday night pundit panel of Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks took on the shutdown showdown. Anchor Geoff Bennett quoting from a “news report” from The Washington Post that sounds a lot like a liberal…
Shameless Spending and Shutdowns with Paul Teller
How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal…