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HYPERVENTILATING JOURNOS: Democracy Under Attack By Putin and GOP!
According to the likes of NBC’s Chuck Todd and Yamiche Alcindor, President Joe Biden “missed” an “easy” opportunity in his State of the Union Address to connect “the fight for democracy and freedom abroad” in Europe. Their colleague, MSNBC host Tiffany Cross blurted: “I look at what’s happening in Ukraine, and I see….democracy can be a fragile thing, and it feels a bit fragile in America right…

Soros-Funded Econ Group: ‘Economy Is Recovering Fast,’ Omits Inflation
Two of the top economists at the George Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute (EPI) claimed in an op-ed for CNN Business that U.S. families have become “better off” thanks to government stimulus money. They also wrote that America is experiencing a “strong recovery” — except they made zero mention of record high gas prices and completely downplayed concerns over inflation.

FLASHBACK: Journos Trashed ‘Token’ Tim Scott’s Response to Biden SOTU
If tonight’s speech is a dud, expect the liberal journos to spend most of their time attacking the GOP response and Republicans in general, like they did when they disgustingly attacked Republican Senator Tim Scott in 2021.

Nets Fretted Over ‘Staunch Conservative’ Picks, Skimp on Lib Labels
Joe Biden on February 25 nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the vacancy of Justice Stephen Breyer. When it comes to ideological labels for Supreme Court nominees, the networks have one rule: Republican nominees are “staunch,” worrisome conservatives. Democratic picks are rarely labeled as extreme liberals.

FLASHBACK: Democratic Supreme Court Nominees Never Liberal Enough
Whomever President Joe Biden selects to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer expect the liberal media to ACTUALLY worry the selection isn’t progressive enough. The following examples of liberal journalists worrying about Supreme Court nominees not being left enough are from the Media Research Center’s archive.

FLASHBACK: The Worst Promoters of the Russia Collusion Hoax
Will we see members of the leftist media that most vociferously PUSHED the Russia collusion hoax, attack the Clinton camp with the same volume? Don’t bet on it. The following is a look at some of the most over-the-top instances of liberal journos attempting to bring down former President Trump with disproven claims of an election collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NBC News Head: We’re ‘Nonpartisan,’ His Employees Didn’t Get the Memo
NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, on January 19, spat out the laughable line that his news network is “ferociously defending the idea that it’s possible to....be objective and nonpartisan.” Well his employees didn’t get the memo. Here is just some of the worst bias from NBC/MSNBC hosts and pundits since the NBC News president made that ludicrous statement.

NBC Actually Covers Uyghur Genocide, But Breezes Over Forced Abortions
After NBC News’s morning and evening shows spent only 12 minutes, 22 seconds (in a year) on China’s horrific genocide of the Uyghurs, NBC actually managed to equal that coverage of the Uyghurs in just one night and morning of their Beijing Olympics coverage. However, there were other moments in the coverage that sounded like they were cribbed from a Chi-Com’s propaganda booklet.

Journalists, It’s Official: Tanking Biden Now Less Popular Than Trump
It’s official. Joe Biden is more unpopular than Donald Trump. As of February 1, 2022, Biden’s Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of all the polls showed him at 41.4 percent approval and 54.7 percent disapproval. At this point in his presidency, exactly four years ago, Trump’s RCP average stood at 41.5 percent approval and 54.5 percent disapproval.

COMPROMISED: Nets Spend Only 13 Minutes (In a Year) On Uyghur Genocide
MRC analysts looked at China policy stories on the broadcast evening and morning news programs for an entire year (January 31, 2021-January 31, 2022) and discovered the nets devoted a paltry 13 minutes, 38seconds to the ongoing genocide.

Meet Brian Williams’ Replacement: The Worst of Stephanie Ruhle
On Thursday it was officially announced that MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle will take over the timeslot previously occupied by “Lying” Brian Williams. The following is just a sampling of the Worst of Stephanie Ruhle’s work at MSNBC via the MRC’s archives.

STUDY: PolitiFact's Much More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check Him
PolitiFact begs for donations by proclaiming "Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy." But this "independent fact-checker" routinely betrays a tilt by coming out more aggressively to “correct” attacks on Democrats. In Biden's first year, MRC analysts found Biden was fact-checked 40 times, while Biden critics were checked on 230 occasions.…
LAUGHABLE! The Eight-Least Covered Kamala Harris Blunders
The following is a look at how the broadcast evening news shows (ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News) have covered or, more accurately, BURIED Harris’s most embarrassing moments in the past year.

STUDY: How the Networks Buried One Year of Biden’s Disasters, Failures
As of January 20th, 2022, Joe Biden will have completed his first year as president. He will do so deeply unpopular, cratering to the mid 30s in two recent polls. Over the last year, the three network evening newscasts have done their best to hide policy disasters, such as Afghanistan and the border. They have ignored controversies involving Hunter Biden, as well as extremist nominees from the…