NYT Hails Obama's Best-of-2018 List: ‘Out of Office but Still in Step'

Clay Waters
December 31st, 2018 10:40 PM
While the front page of Monday’s Arts section of the New York Times showed a crop of the paper’s political reporters mocking Trump supporters as uncultured yahoos and praised a hostile SNL skit about Brett Kavanaugh, the inside pages featured a “news” story by Christina Caron with the exact opposite angle: Praising a former Democratic president’s cultured tastes: “Out of Office but Still in Step…
 

This Week in Media Bias History: Admiring Obama’s ‘Chiseled Pecs’

Scott Whitlock
December 31st, 2018 10:30 AM
What better Christmas present for Washington Post readers could there be? On December 25, 2008, Post writer Eli Saslow gushed over Barack Obama as a “paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness.” Saslow narrated creepily, “The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week.” Get a room, liberal journalists. 
 
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Boo Hoo: CNN Still Bashing Trump for Iraq Visit, Not Meeting Iraqi PM

Curtis Houck
December 27th, 2018 4:01 PM

Thursday’s Inside Politics led off with more kvetching about every aspect of President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to U.S. troops in Germany and Iraq, including how he didn’t meet with the Iraqi Prime Minister. Conveniently, they downplayed the positive symbolism of having a president visit troops and footnoted the similarities between Trump and Barack Obama in not meeting face-to-face with…

 
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CBS, NBC Slam Trump’s Visit to Troops in Iraq: Took Him Long Enough

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 26th, 2018 8:57 PM
In a stunning example of the liberal media’s hypocrisy, they showed off their ballet skills on Wednesday when they collectively pivoted from bashing President Trump for not spending Christmas with U.S. troops to bashing him for not visiting them sooner after he made a surprise trip to Al Asad Airbase in Iraq. During their evening news broadcasts, both CBS and NBC brought up criticism of the…
 
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Behold the 10 Nuttiest Chris Matthews Utterances from an Unhinged 2018

Curtis Houck
December 25th, 2018 11:15 AM

It’s that time of the year as seemingly every news organization offers reflections on the top stories of 2018. But no year-in-review compilation would be sufficient for a site like this one without a post dedicated to the buffoonery offered to the masses by MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews. Following previous wrap-ups at the end of 2016 and 2017, 2018 offered dozens of possible nominees…

 

Tough on Criminal Justice Reform

Cal Thomas
December 21st, 2018 3:00 PM
Republicans and conservatives dating back at least to Richard Nixon have used the slogan "tough on crime" and its corollary "lock 'em up and throw away the key" as electoral red meat. The problem is what to do when inmates are released with few skills, fewer job prospects and a bleak future that leads some to commit new crimes that land them in prison again at taxpayers' expense.
 

Trump Rejects Quotas for School Discipline, NYT Sees ‘Attack on Obama'

Clay Waters
December 18th, 2018 2:42 PM
The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times focused on the Trump administration “planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools.” Reporters Erica Green and Katie Benner don’t seem to approve of the move, though they make a…
 
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All in for Democrats? Scarborough Praises ‘the Obama Recovery’

Mark Finkelstein
December 18th, 2018 8:24 AM
It's one thing for Joe Scarborough to criticize President Trump regarding various controversies. But when Scarborough brazenly boasts about the "Obama recovery," and thanks President Obama for it, you know that the former Republican has gone all-in with the Democrats. Playing off the recent drop on Wall Street, Morning Joe opened today by mocking Trump for his positive comments on the market back…
 
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MSNBC Uses Obama-Era Video to Claim Trump Denies Water to Illegals

Brad Wilmouth
December 16th, 2018 11:27 PM
Following the lead of MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell from Friday night, host Joy Reid on both Saturday and Sunday cited video dating back to the Barack Obama era as evidence that, under President Donald Trump, the U.S. Border Patrol destroys water supplies left in the desert for illegal immigrants, thus putting them at greater risk of dehydration.
 
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MSNBC Lets Dem Guest Claim Trump Admin 'Murdered' Immigrant Kids

Brad Wilmouth
December 15th, 2018 9:17 AM
On Friday's The Last Word show, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell gave California Democratic Rep. Norma Torres an unchallenged forum to claim that the Trump administration has "murdered" illegal immigrant children as the two discussed the recent death of a seven-year-old girl after she was transported across the desert illegally by her father. Additionally, O'Donnell accused the administration of…
 
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Fox Show’s Black Nurse to White Patient: 'How Alt-Right Are You?'

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Karen Townsend
December 9th, 2018 11:50 PM
The topic of white nationalists was handled in a heavy-handed way during the December 9 episode of Fox’s Rel. Rel (Lil Rel Howery), an African-American man, is a charge nurse in a Chicago hospital. In “Hate & Hip Hop,” his patient turns out to be a racist who fainted during a white nationalist protest rally. The white patient isn’t impressed when Rel calls him a blood brother, as they both…
 

Atlantic’s Jemele Hill: Sometimes I Wish the Obamas Wouldn’t ‘Go High’

Randy Hall
December 7th, 2018 4:35 PM
Just when it seemed that the reaction to the death of former President George H. W. Bush was dying down, former ESPN anchor and far-left writer Jemele Hill of The Atlantic did her best to use the situation to inflame any racist sentiments held by black Americans. The article from Hill asserted that the Obamas “were gracious to the Trumps” because they “had to be” since “black people have no…
 

NYT: Trump Doesn’t Read A Word, Pro-Trump Books for Conspiracy Section

Clay Waters
December 2nd, 2018 3:53 PM
Saturday’s New York Times featured unhidden, extraneous hostility toward the president’s reading habits, in a snarky story more fitting to Sunday Styles or the opinion section then the news section. In “Books Trump Can Praise Without Reading a Word,” Katie Rogers quickly termed pro-Trump books from the likes of Jeanine Pirro and Gregg Jarrett to be “conspiracy theory.”  It marks a 180 degree tilt…
 
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Huntsman Calls Out 'View,' Media for Unfair Reporting on Trump, Russia

Kristine Marsh
November 30th, 2018 1:02 PM
Friday the Hot Topics table got heated on The View, as Republican co-host Meghan McCain found a partner in Abby Huntsman in combating their liberal co-hosts’ arguments on Trump's dealings with Russia.