Column: Cory Booker's Blab-a-Thon Underlines 'Fact Checker' TILT

April 9th, 2025 6:11 AM

On April 7, Facebook pulled the plug on the censorship of “independent fact checkers,” replacing it with a “Community Notes” approach, like Elon Musk’s X uses. No one was more upset than the censorious left-wing “fact” police. But PolitiFact's treatment of Sen. Cory Booker's "historic" 25-hour speech on the Senate floor proves they're often in the tank for Democrats.

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Colbert Helps Booker Compare Himself To The Civil Rights Movement

April 8th, 2025 9:59 AM

Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.

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ABC’s The View Fawns Over Cory Booker in Slow-Pitch Softball Interview

April 7th, 2025 9:53 PM

ABC’s The View hosted Senator Cory Booker (D- NJ) Monday morning, following his record-breaking 25-hour yap-fest on the Senate floor the previous week. The panel had very little specific to ask Booker, though, and spent most of their time praising him to the sky, and applauding as he trotted out a few stock Democratic talking points.

 

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PBS Gushes Over Booker's 'Inspiring' and 'Upbeat' Speech

April 5th, 2025 9:36 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour could hardly contain their excitement over Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech denouncing all things Donald Trump. Host Amna Nawaz claimed it “inspired” people, a point echoed by Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, who labeled it “inspiring.” Meanwhile, New York Times columnist David Brooks praised Booker for…

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Comedy Shows Shower Booker With Praise After Speech

April 3rd, 2025 10:55 AM

Thus far, it has been a gloomy 2025 for the late night comedy shows as they have attacked Democrats from the left for not doing anything to stop Republicans, but on Wednesday, a trio of them claimed to have reason for optimism as they reacted to Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour talk. Some suggested he get an award, while others claimed he spoke for all of America, while others tried their hand at…

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Networks Get Weak Knees Over Dem Senator Cory Booker’s Fake Filibuster

April 2nd, 2025 4:59 PM

Between Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were head over heels for Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) 25-hour-long, “marathon” act of chicanery “speaking in a protest” against Trump and “shin[ning] a spotlight on” his “rapid fire and controversial actions” through “the little bit of power and influence” they have in Washington. At one point, one anchor…

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Whoopi Claims 'Media Wasn't Covering' Booker, Haines Praises 'Results'

April 2nd, 2025 3:51 PM

To complete the liberal media’s latest flip-flop on supporting the filibuster, the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View spent part of Wednesday’s episode gushing about New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s 24-hour, so-called “filibusters” (he wasn’t blocking legislation). Moderator Whoopi Goldberg went so far as to ridiculously and falsely assert that “no one” in the media covered…

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Maddow Worships Booker For Capturing America's 'Moral Imagination'

April 2nd, 2025 12:22 PM

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker may have broken the record for the longest speech in Senate history on Tuesday, but it didn’t accomplish anything practical. Nevertheless, he joined The Rachel Maddow Show to take a victory lap while Maddow essentially worshipped the ground he walked on as she declared he “captured the moral imagination of this nation.”

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Charlamagne Fawns Over Booker's Talk-a-Thon, Crockett's Abbott 'Roast'

April 2nd, 2025 10:00 AM

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God joined Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Tuesday for one of his irregular scheduled “In My Opinion” segments. Recently, Charlamagne’s opinions have focused on the woeful state of the Democratic Party, but Charlamagne found reason for optimism on Tuesday as he applauded the stunt work of Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and his own uncensored N-…

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Colbert Casts Doubt On SCOTUS, Insist Trump Verdict Is Above Criticism

June 11th, 2024 10:43 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert rolled out the welcome mat for New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker for a three segment interview on Monday’s installment of The Late Show. In segment one, the duo would portray former President Trump’s guilty verdict as beyond critics, while in segments two and three, they wildly speculated about the Supreme Court overturning Brown v. Board of Education…

Editor’s Pick: WashTimes Shows Funding Bill Filled With LGBTQ Earmarks

March 25th, 2024 10:56 AM

In a story published Saturday online and appearing on the front page of Monday’s print edition, The Washington Times’s Valerie Richardson detailed a sampling of the far-left earmarks inside Friday’s spending package to keep the government open that would assist groups in helping underage children become transgender, fund drag shows, and hospitals that conduct abortions.

Sticks, Stones, and Worse Amid Threats of Political Violence

June 16th, 2022 11:32 AM

Most people are familiar with the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The incendiary rhetoric that has engulfed our political system has demonstrated that especially violent words can cause hurt, even death, to others. The most recent example is a California man who showed up last week at the Maryland home of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Police…

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Excited CBS Swoons Like Teens at Boy Band Concert Over Jackson Vote

April 8th, 2022 12:20 PM

Reaching to new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation vote, Friday’s CBS Mornings debased itself with cartoonish fluff and hero worship over Jackson and the “emotional,” “exciting,” and “proud” moment that so many had “people...watch[ing]” that the country’s “collectively...beaming with...pride” for her.

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The View: Did 'Insane' GOP Prove How Racist They Are With Jackson Qs?

March 29th, 2022 2:51 PM

For Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC brought on Democratic Senator Cory Booker (NJ) for the cackling coven to heap doting praise on and tee him up to attack Republicans for the questions they dared to ask during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson last week. Of course, there was no mention of the White House’s…