Oliver Darcy Praises John Oliver’s Research, Ignores Defamation Suit

Olivers abound on Sunday when former CNN media beat writer Oliver Darcy took to his media-industry newsletter to puff up late night comedian John Oliver. Darcy praised the effort and research Oliver and his team of producers at Last Week Tonight put into each episode. But one massive recent development for Oliver was the unaddressed gorilla in the room: the defamation suit against him…

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 7th, 2025 2:19 PM

STUDY: CNN, MSNBC Refer to Illegal Alien as ‘Maryland Man’ 120 Times

If you got all of your news from CNN and MSNBC, you’d have a higher than 50/50 chance of believing the Trump administration had accidentally arrested and deported a naturalized American citizen living in Maryland, and for no particular reason.

Bill D'Agostino
April 7th, 2025 12:30 PM
Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 4-7-25

'Best Biden Ever' Scarborough Boasts 'I Told You So' On Tariffs!

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says he has 10 minutes of clips from recent months proving I told you so; that he warned Republicans to be careful with the economy. Scarborough also attacks Bill Ackman, the Wall Street billionaire and long-time Democrat donor, who came to support Trump, but now says Trump should implement a 90-day freeze on the tariffs. Scarborough claims Ackman shifted to…

Mark Finkelstein
April 7th, 2025 12:24 PM

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Geoffrey Dickens
April 7th, 2025 12:17 PM

Nets HYPED Anti-Trump Rallies on Saturday, Dismissed Pro-Life March

Saturday’s leftist “Hands Off” protests against President Trump and Elon Musk were eagerly promoted on the network news programs – although they didn’t want to tag them as leftist. It’s quite a contrast to how these same networks barely acknowledged or skipped the annual “March for Life” protest on January 24.

Tim Graham
April 7th, 2025 10:34 AM

Politico Reporter: 'Why Trump May Get Away With His Tariff Trauma'

Despite widespread media negativity regarding President Donald Trump's tariffs, Nahal Toosi, a Politico correspondent, suggested they might succeed. Her surprising stance diverged from the typical anti-tariff narrative, exploring cautious global reactions. Many countries are opting for diplomacy over aggressive countermeasures, hoping to secure advantageous deals. Toosi highlights the…

P.J. Gladnick
April 7th, 2025 9:23 AM

CNN Crowd WHOOPS for Leftist Comedian Dumped by White House Reporters

One obvious way you can tell that CNN is "comfort food" for Trump haters -- to borrow a phrase from Brian Stelter -- is all the clapping and yelling when Amber Ruffin starts trash-talking Trump on CNN's Saturday "comedy" panel show Have I Got News For You.

Tim Graham
April 6th, 2025 10:54 PM

NYT: Trump's 'Invasion' Talk 'the Hate That Inspired' El Paso Killer

Sunday’s New York Times was loaded with hostile anti-administration stories, including “As El Paso Gunman Faces Sentencing, the Hate That Inspired Him Rises Again." Reporters Edgar Sandoval and Reyes Mata III, tried to hang the 2019 massacre at a Walmart in El Paso on President Trump right from the online subhead: “The lawyer of the white supremacist who slaughtered 23 people in 2019…

Clay Waters
April 6th, 2025 7:51 PM

With Books to Sell, Tapper Asks Walz Whether Biden Reup Was a Mistake

As predictable as the sun rising in the East: the media’s silence in the face of President Joe Biden’s evident cognitive decline is met with a deluge of books, by some of those same media types, chronicling that decline in detail. 

Jorge Bonilla
April 6th, 2025 5:49 PM

‘WHAT I LIKE IS DATA’: Secy. Bessent SCHOOLS NBC’s Welker on Tariffs

As media-consuming stories go, Signalgate went out with nary a whimper- barely lasting a week. In its place, the media now caterwaul over the reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discovered during his sit-down with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Depressed.

Jorge Bonilla
April 6th, 2025 4:23 PM
Jake Tapper Brooke Rollinson CNN State of the Union 4-6-25

Trump Ag Secretary Laughs! Jake Tapper Insists: 'I'm Not On The Left'

On State of the Union, when Secretary of Agriculture tells host Jake Tapper that "everyone on your side, the left" is freaking out over the Trump tariffs, Tapper insists, "I'm not on the left." Oh really?

Mark Finkelstein
April 6th, 2025 4:06 PM

Secy. Lutnick SHUTS DOWN Margaret Brennan’s ‘Penguin Tariffs’ Question

As the media continue to convulse over the fallout of President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs, there have emerged several goofy narratives. Chief among them, that the proof evident of the haphazard nature of President Trump’s tariffs is the reciprocal levy upon the largely uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, south of Australia. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick shut…

Jorge Bonilla
April 6th, 2025 2:48 PM

NPR's 'Kit' for Teen Online Extremism: Don't Tell Jokes, Read Kendi

National Public Radio took a second bite out of a rancid liberal apple of a story from June 2022, part of its homegrown series “Life Kit -- Tools To Help You Get It Together," with an update spurred by a new TV series: “'Adolescence' is a parental nightmare. Here's what to tell kids about online extremism.” What did NPR tell the kids? Don’t make jokes, and heed the advice of discredited race-…

Clay Waters
April 6th, 2025 2:15 PM

Hands Off! New York Times Hails Leftist Protests...But Uses NO Labels

The New York Times seemed invigorated in its coverage of nationwide "Hands Off" anti-Trump protests on Saturday. The funniest part? The story by a trio of Times reporters had zero ideological labels -- no "liberal," "left-wing," "progressive," "socialist," you name it. 

Tim Graham
April 5th, 2025 10:22 PM