PolitiFact Kneecaps Media Blaming Trump for Ohio Train Disaster

Business
February 24th, 2023 3:15 PM

PolitiFact admitted that former President Donald Trump’s deregulation of an Obama-era rule didn’t have any impact on the Ohio train disaster, despite the media blather to the contrary.

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Pete to the Rescue! ABC, NBC Tout Buttigieg as Train Derailment Hero

February 21st, 2023 4:11 PM

The East Palestine, Ohio train derailment entered a new phase this week as the liberal media blamed Donald Trump for the toxic dump of hazardous chemicals into the air and water supply and painted the semi-present Biden administration and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as heroes for this working class town who’ll crack down on the train operator, Norfolk Southern, for any mishandling…

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Colbert, Sanders Suggest Capitalism Is to Blame For East Palestine

February 21st, 2023 9:57 AM

CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert admitted on Monday that he doesn’t know if deregulation and capitalism are to blame for the East Palestine train derailment, but that did not stop him from encouraging Sen. Bernie Sanders to use the situation to hype his book It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.

NYT Turn: Only 'Feverish' Right Doubts EPA Response to Toxic Chemicals

February 19th, 2023 6:47 AM

Stuart Thompson, who patrols the “online information flows” beat for the New York Times, hit out at “right-wing” outlets for not trusting the Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio earlier this month that spewed the carcinogen vinyl chloride and resulted in evacuations for miles around. Thompson dismissed concerns, at least those by…

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TOXIC: Big Three Nets Ignore Biden Admin Denying Disaster Aid to Ohio

Business
February 17th, 2023 5:49 PM

The Big Three networks ignored news that the Biden administration denied disaster assistance to Ohio’s pro-Trump Columbiana County following the toxic train derailment in East Palestine.

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TOXIC: Networks Run Cover for ESG Giants Tied to Ohio Train Disaster

Business
February 16th, 2023 1:41 PM

ABC’s, CBS’s and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environmental, social, governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident. 

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Channeling Buttigieg, Meyers Blames Trump, GOP For Train Derailment

February 16th, 2023 10:16 AM

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers has a theory on Wednesday as to why the train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, derailed: Donald Trump. This theory was basically a retelling of the talking points being spouted off by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

NewsBusters Podcast: Ohio Toxic Train Story Trailed Off Into Silence

February 15th, 2023 9:19 PM

A study by NewsBusters found that after an original burst of coverage, ABC, CBS and NBC stopped covering the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals near Youngstown, Ohio around February 8, once the EPA and railroad officials said it was safe. In the last 24 hours, the networks have returned the story.

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Networks Abandoned Ohio Train Disaster Despite Continued Fallout

February 14th, 2023 11:58 AM

The data of network coverage from the East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment tells the story of an incurious media who were too eager to declare the issue resolved.

PolitiFact Refuses To Give Vance's True Claim About Ryan A True Rating

October 5th, 2022 1:08 PM

Ohio GOP Senate nominee J.D. Vance has a new ad attacking Democrat Tim Ryan for proclaiming “I don’t answer to any political party” while, in Vance’s words, “Tim votes with Biden, Pelosi 100 percent.” This would appear to be a straightforward fact-check for PolitiFact’s Amy Sherman, but instead of simply labeling Vance’s ad “true” or “mostly true,” Sherman somehow managed to only give it a…

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Children’s Hospital Promotes ‘Puberty Blockers,’ ‘Cross-Sex Hormones'

Culture
September 19th, 2022 12:15 PM

If you’d like to suppress the normal functions of your child's body or medically delay natural gender differentiations, head on over to Ohio. Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio reportedly opened a “Gender Affirming Center” to shift the focus from actual children’s health to progressive child abuse, Libs of TikTok pointed out. 

PolitiFact Helper: Tim Ryan 'Mostly True,' J.D. Vance 'Mostly False'

September 18th, 2022 7:03 AM

On Saturday, PolitiFact's Twitter account hinted at how they're tilting their "fact-checking" in the Ohio Senate race. Tim Ryan is overwhelmingly True, and J.D. Vance is typically False. 

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Mayer Declares GOP Legislators Passing Laws Is 'Torching Democracy'

August 12th, 2022 11:27 AM

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer is an unserious person pretending to be the opposite. She proved that on Thursday’s edition of PBS’s Amanpour and Company where she declared that legislators legislating is tantamount to “torching democracy.”

Corporate Media Have ‘Gosnelled’ The Ohio Child Rape Story

Latino
July 31st, 2022 3:48 PM

Corporate media were transfixed on the horrendous Ohio child rape story when it cleanly furthered a narrative in support of abortion on demand. However, the messier broader story does not cleanly advance an abortion agenda and has therefore been largely hidden from the public- not unlike the prosecution of notorious Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell.