2024 Presidential

Last week, we caught Joe Scarborough banging his desk in frustration as he inveighed against "billionaires" and wondered how the Democrats could possibly have missed the "layup" of beating the Republicans in November's election, given the disparity in income between those billionaires and working class Americans. Today, Scarborough made it clear that he has signed on to the project of…

Google is desperately fighting to stop the federal government from breaking its powerful search engine monopoly, which it has exploited to manipulate elections to benefit leftist candidates. 

What exactly is it that you do here? On Thursday, that was the question National Review staff writer Jeffrey Blehar wondered of the establishment liberal media given the range of excuses from ignorant to purposeful coverup of not having been more dogged in exposing the President’s failing cognitive state.

Washington Week with The Atlantic’s year-in-review episode Friday contained a fleeting reference to a bombshell Wall Street Journal story about how the White House and Democrats actively hid President Joe Biden’s descent into decrepitude, including several public stumbles, shaking hands with the air, and taking the “short stairs” up Air Force One.

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 the liberal media establishment is failing to step up as leaders of the #Resistance, singling out ABC News for its $15 million settlement earlier this month.

Now that the coast is (largely) clear, the liberal media and their Biden administration sources have increasingly come out of the woodwork to sound off on the President’s reportedly paper-thin mental fitness to have fully served the last four years. With 50 sources, Thursday’s Wall Street Journal item was devastating, but of no concern to ABC, CBS, and NBC on their flagship newscasts…

Thursday's front page at The New York Times featured a story headlined "Biden, Wearied and Stinging, Prepares to Exit." White House reporters Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs were blunt in the third paragraph about Biden's twilight. "Time is catching up with Mr. Biden....it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly cites the election results in Wisconsin to downplay the scope of Trump's win.  He doesn't mention that Trump flipped  the state after having lost it in 2020. Scarborough also buries the fact that the electorate shifted right in all 50 states, and in 89% of counties.

Joe Scarborough is frustrated by the Democrats having lost Ohio to the Republicans, despite low household income in Ohio, and yet voters supporting a Republican government "of, by, and for" billionaires.  If you just read the transcript, you might have thought it was Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, not Scarborough.

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the three co-hosts and two guests all expressed support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to supplant Gerry Connolly as the ranking minority member on the House Oversight Committee. Julian Castro hailed AOC's "fighting spirit." Michael Steele and Symone Sanders took some not-so-subtle shots at Nancy Pelosi for her support of Connolly. 

One question emerging from the presidential election exit polls is the disconnect between Black men and women and Hispanic men and women. Donald Trump received support from 21% of Black men and 7% of Black women, a disparity of 14 points. He got support from 54% of Hispanic men and 39% of Hispanic women, a disparity of 15 points. There was also a disparity in Trump’s support among white men…

Over at taxpayer-funded PBS, there was quite the bit of grousing over the level of intensity of the interview of President Elect Donald Trump that aired on NBC’s Meet the Press. As they complained about the lack of fact-checking, they demonstrated why both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS should be among the first targets of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE…

One can never expect MSNBC's Joy Reid to be the level-headed voice of reason, but even by her standards, her Wednesday edition of The ReidOut was off the charts crazy. According to Reid, Tennessee’s law, currently being challenged at the Supreme Court, that forbids so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors is part of a Nazi-like tradition of targeting transgender people.

As a taxpayer-funded TV network, PBS should not be favoring one side over the other. But MRC analysts studying the use of labels over 18 months on the PBS News Hour found they were 27 times more likely to identify an "extreme" on the right than they would on the left. There were 162 extreme-right labels and only six extreme-left descriptions.