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Last KJP Briefing Brings an Emotional Speech, Non-Answers, and a Shrug

January 15th, 2025 8:18 PM

Wednesday afternoon brought us the final Biden White House press briefing and, by her own count, the 306th featuring the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. It featured Jean-Pierre emotionally patting herself on the back, plenty of unanswered questions (mostly stemming from the monumental Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal), the final Jacqui Time, and even Jean-Pierre doing her own…

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The 18 Best Battles, Hardballs, Smackdowns From the Biden WH Briefings

January 15th, 2025 2:30 PM

With the final White House press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, we’re looking back at the best hardballs, tussles, and moments over the hundreds of Biden administration press briefings, primarily helmed by Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre. The story of the Biden White House press corps is far more complex than Fox News – led by Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich – asking challenging questions…

Good News & Bad News: Cain Gets 4pm Hour, But Maddow Back to 5 Nights

January 13th, 2025 6:01 PM

Monday was not only a week until Inauguration Day, but one filled with media news. In addition to Jennifer Rubin quitting The Washington Post, the other top headlines were MSNBC announcing their $20-million-plus woman (Rachel Maddow) would at least temporarily return to five days a week and, on a positive note, Fox News Channel announcing Will Cain will move from Fox & Friends…

PBS, NPR Blame Fox for Marines at Capitol Riot Where ‘Seven' (?) Died

January 6th, 2025 4:58 PM

PBS News Weekend blamed Fox News and “far right” websites for the Capitol Hill riot (or as both PBS and their NPR guests insisted, “insurrection”) on a news segment Sunday evening, the eve of the fourth anniversary of that terrible day in the nation’s capital. NPR's Lauren Hodges spoke of the rioters: “They had an eagerness to see some violence or participate in it.” Which makes it…

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KJP Ducks This Simple Question From Fox in First WH Briefing of 2025

January 3rd, 2025 7:24 PM

The Biden White House snuck in a press briefing Friday afternoon amid the House speaker vote hullabaloo and it had the predictable tone of senioritis with networks reaching deep into their bench for correspondents and producers willing to listen to Karine Jean-Pierre stammer and stumble her way through process questions about Biden’s final days in office, Biden blocking the sale of U.S. Steel…

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You’re Going to Miss This: 10 More WH Press Briefing Battles From 2024

December 31st, 2024 11:06 AM

As the Trace Adkins song goes, you’re going to miss this, you’re going to want this back. Deep down, that’s surely the way at least some feel about the bizarre, entertaining, meandering, only occasionally informative, and stammering White House press briefings in 2024 under Karine Jean-Pierre. With part one having covered 10 moments from January to May, this blog contains the second 10…

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Make Way for PART ONE of the Top WH Briefing Room Battles of 2024!

December 30th, 2024 10:34 AM

There’s no doubt at least some of you out there will miss the antics, hardballs, stumbles, and throwdowns that came to define Karine Jean-Pierre’s 2024 at the White House Briefing Room podium. With over 70 blogs from our press briefing tag to choose from and the topics ranging from the economy to foreign policy to Biden’s mental slippage, Jean-Pierre and the press corps made it difficult for…

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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

Big Three Ignore Billion Dollars Wasted on Discriminatory Ideology

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December 13th, 2024 5:05 PM

When a new report exposed that the federal government had wasted over $1 billion politicizing American education and indoctrinating children, NBC, CBS and ABC completely failed to mention it in their evening programming. 

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Jacqui Time Drops Hammer on WH’s Evasive Answers to Mysterious Drones

December 13th, 2024 11:42 AM

Thursday’s White House press briefing featured longtime Democratic national security flack John Kirby for what’ll likely be one of his final times at the podium and he had quite the task to insist the Biden administration rejects that a hostile foreign actor or UFOs are behind the drones harassing residents in New Jersey, New York, and now surrounding states, but they still have no clue who’s…

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Axios Calls Fox Viewers 'Right-Wing Grandpas'—But MSNBC Audience Older

December 9th, 2024 11:47 AM

Morning Joe devotes a segment to an Axios article, Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities. The notion is that depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media silos. One of the categories is "Right-wing grandpas,' a reference to Fox News viewers. What is not revealed is that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of…

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CNN Shocked by WashPost Story Hegseth Drank...on St. Patrick’s Day

December 5th, 2024 3:53 PM

On Thursday, CNN contributed to the liberal media smear campaign against Pete Hegseth by repeatedly passing along a truly insane Washington Post hit piece alleging President-Elect Trump’s secretary of defense pick “had a reputation as a heavy drinker” as per six anonymous former Fox News employees with one episode having come during — gasp! — a St. Patrick’s Day weekend segment!

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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Slams ‘Almost Criminal’ Liberal Media Smears

December 4th, 2024 2:55 PM

On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth’s mother Penelope stepped out from private life into the spotlight for a sit-down on Fox & Friends to lay waste to the “almost criminal” liberal media and specifically “discredit” The New York Times for leaking a 2018 e-mail she had written to her son amid his second divorce but quickly regretted. 

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FNC Blasts Biden’s Jab at the Press: ‘Flies in the Face of Reality’

November 29th, 2024 11:25 AM

President Biden took a swipe at the news media, complaining that most Americans “don’t see a lot of good news” when they turn on the television. A panelist on FNC’s Special Report shot back that Biden’s jab “flies in the face of reality,” saying the “American people are hearing good things [from the media] about Democrats,” but that favorable spin didn’t help the incumbent party…