Labeling

The New York Times took advantage of the Republican kerfuffle around the days of voting it took to install House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, to wedge in as many scary “far-right” style labels and frantic messaging as it could throughout several days of intense coverage. Carl Hulse and Emily Cochrane reported “What the Far-Right Republicans Want: To Remake…

After three days of a gridlocked House Republican conference unable to unite behind a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News continued their partisan labeling of the twenty Republicans who refuse to back the current frontrunner during their evening newscasts. Both CBS & NBC once again referred to the twenty…

On the Tuesday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour interviewed former moderate Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who served three terms in office but didn’t seek reelection in 2020. Amanpour led off with the fight for Speaker of the House and with unsympathetic labeling of the “hard-line” opponents of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

During Tuesday evening's broadcast of NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Garrett Haake took to the airwaves to gloat over the divisions in the House Republican conference between members who support Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House and members who oppose his bid. As of late Tuesday night, the House of Representatives adjourned for the day after going through…

There was some good old-school New York Times labeling bias on Wednesday’s front page, on California Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s fight to become House Speaker when the Republican Party takes over control of Congress next month: “McCarthy Fights to Clear Path to Speaker’s Seat.” The front-page text box set the hostile labeling tone: “Trump’s Lobbying Has Not Moved Critics on the Far Right.” …

Before the “Red Wave” was downgraded to a red trickle on Election Night, the New York Times handed out some snowflake-friendly tips to its overwhelmingly liberal readership on coping with election. “5 ways to soothe election stress" included the suggestion “Plunge your face into a bowl with ice water…” The ice baths turned out unnecessary for Democrats, unless they lived in Florida…

New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak made Monday’s front page under the online headline “As New Term Starts, Supreme Court Poised to Resume Rightward Push.” It’s a constant theme for Liptak, closely connected to his parallel obsession, the court’s loss of public legitimacy, which somehow occurred after the left stopped having everything its own way with the addition of…

New York Times Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei is still resenting the success of “hard-right” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, petulance on display in her coverage of the results of the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Florida, in which former Democratic governor, Rep. Charlie Crist, prevailed over more liberal opponent Nikki Fried. Crist, who was quite the liberal Republican himself…

The marching, the protests, the shrill screaming outside the U.S. Supreme Court, and the assassination nation attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh are not being done by those who are pro-abortion because according to The View’s Sara Haines on Monday’s show, “nobody’s pro-abortion” and “everyone is pro-life.”

On the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, national political reporter Alexander Burns warned that newly triggered abortion restrictions (i.e., "the rollback of women's rights") threatened to push young talent out of conservative red states in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, as those smart, talented pro-choicers head for abortion-welcoming…

The New York Times did some more 2022 campaigning for the Democratic Party on Saturday’s front-page, above-the-fold story by Elizabeth Dias, the paper’s “faith and politics” reporter: “On Far Right, Devout Efforts To Get Elected.” The online headline deck really brought the reporter's revulsion home to the paper’s skittish liberal readership: “The Far-Right Christian Quest for Power…

ABC’s Good Morning America decided on Wednesday to follow their leftists comrades in spewing fear-mongering rhetoric as part of their coverage on the leaked Supreme Court opinion on abortion, expresses sadness that there’s “abortion deserts” in more parts of the country that are preventing the murder of children and suggesting pro-lifers will seek to ban in vitro fertilization (IVF)…

Following day one of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearings, the liberal bias and hero worship were nauseatingly abundant on Tuesday morning as ABC, CBS, and NBC swooned over “what a moment” it was for America with “history on the horizon” for the first Black woman nominee. All the while, she was never labeled a liberal or progressive (as was the case on…

On Friday’s edition of The View, co-host Joy Behar seemed to lash out at NewsBusters and other critics for calling them out on Thursday for the bigotry they showed towards Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett, suggesting they were not a real “black man” or “a woman,” respectively, by use of air quotes. And she seemed to cry sexism by saying the “baloney attacks” were…