Kristen Welker
‘He Is on Top of This’; Nets Portray Biden as Statesman at the Border
Despite what the White House has argued, Sunday marked President Biden’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in his entire life and, sure enough, Monday morning’s broadcast network flagship news shows put a positive spin on the trip with Biden “project[ing] that he is on top of this” and “setting the tone” on a crisis while facing “critics from both…
Networks Hide $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Being Flown to St. Croix
On Friday, broadcast networks ABC and CBS completely ignored President Biden signing the massive $1.7 trillion spending bill for 2023. NBC covered the event in a 29-second news brief which included no mention that the bill had been flown to the President for him to sign while he was vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Column: 'Controversial' to Put Brakes on the Border?
The word "controversial" can be wielded very deliberately to define what liberal journalists don't like. This week, it was Title 42, the "controversial Trump-era border restriction."
NBC Gushes Over PBS 'Legend' Ken Burns and His New $75 Photo Book
The PBS-branded "American icon" Ken Burns appeared on Wednesday’s Today on NBC to plug his latest book of photographs, Our America: A Photographic History. This 5.75-pound coffee-table book will set you back $75 ($65 at Amazon). At Amazon, you can find the PBS logo hawking several Ken Burns products -- pretty slick for "non-commercial" TV.
Nets Play Biden Puppet on Border, Fret Illegals Must ‘Wait’ to Flood
On the top Wednesday morning news shows, the broadcast networks kept up their fiendish attempt to serve as a puppet for both the Biden administration and illegal immigrants as the border crisis waged on with the Supreme Court putting a hold on the end of Title 42 while they hear arguments on the role of states in keeping their borders secure versus an ideology hellbent on flooding the country…
NBC Is SAD the House Banned TikTok on Government Phones, Could Expand
TikTok is owned by a Chinese business beholden to China’s communist government and is understood to be a national security concern. But on Wednesday’s Today, NBC journalists were sad that the House had banned the app from the government-issued phones they handout to members of Congress and their staffers. The network was also concerned about bipartisan legislation that would ban the…
‘French Toast’; CBS, NBC Celebrate ‘Glitz and Glamor’ at Biden Dinner
On Friday morning following President Biden’s first state dinner the night prior, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today were load for bear to gush over the event starring French President Emmanuel Macron as filled with “glitz and glamor,” “lots of big names,” and even scandal-plagued Hunter Biden. Moments after touting her friend and former President Barack Obama’s campaign stop in…
No Thanks: NBC Fawns Over Hunter’s Daughter Receiving a WH Wedding
On Friday, NBC’s Today wasted away three minutes and 18 seconds (plus a tease) in its second hour gushing over Saturday’s White House wedding of Naomi Biden (whom the Free Beacon described as “the oldest legitimate daughter of amateur adult film star Hunter Biden”) and her fiancé Peter despite the fact that, as would later be detailed in the White House press briefing, one in which…
DISGUSTING! Nets Treat Biden’s ‘Democracy’ Smear of GOP as Fact
Ahead of an impending red tsunami, the broadcast networks continued their refusal to accept reality Thursday morning as they treated President Biden’s Wednesday night speech as fact that “democracy is on the ballot” if voters won’t back the Democratic Party and “American democracy is under attack” from dangerous conservatives and Republicans.
No One Believes You: Nets Insist Biden’s Fighting for Us on Gas Prices
For yet another day, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their Thursday morning news shows to fluff the White House up in their hapless attempt (which some argue is purposeful) to save their party’s midterm prospects and lower gas prices through a puny release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). ABC’s Good Morning America again played the starring role, offering praise…
NBC Devotes Entire Walker Interview to Scandal, Skimps on Warnock
NBC on Monday Demonstrated that the network morning shows are still intent on investigating everything when it comes to Herschel Walker, but offer a collective yawn when it comes to the controversies connected to far-left Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock.
Psaki Dismisses Hunter Biden Scandal: It's Not on the Front Pages!
On Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the newsworthiness of the FBI's announcement that they now have collected enough evidence to charge President Biden's crack delinquent crackhead son Hunter with tax and gun-related charges. Psaki claimed that she looked online at the front pages of local newspapers around the country and…
Bystander President: Nets Let Biden Escape Blame for Fentanyl Crisis
A devastating drug crisis is sweeping across the open southern border and wreaking havoc across the country. But while the network newscasts are covering the fentanyl epidemic, there has been almost no mention of culpability for Joe Biden, the man in charge of the immigration policy leading to the crisis. MRC analysts reviewed every fentanyl story on the network morning and evening newscasts…
KJP Rides Struggle Bus Through Basic Questions on the Border Crisis
Amid the left’s collective meltdown over Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) sending illegal immigrants to far-left, rich, white Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre struggled with questions from both her allies in the press corps and actual reporters about the move, including a Kamala Harris-like answer and a general attitude painting Martha’s Vineyard as…