PBS Claim of GOP ‘Demonizing’ Dem Women Popped by Brooks in Two Words

August 21st, 2024 10:12 AM

Although he appears as the ostensible voice from the right on the PBS News Hour’s Friday evening political discussion, New York Times columnist David Brooks is no one’s idea of a hard-core conservative. He said “I love Joe Biden” before criticizing Biden’s angry speech on Night One of the Democratic National Convention, after previously stating “I do think Donald Trump is…

TIME Glorifies Kamala as Media Rallies

August 17th, 2024 4:00 PM

Ya gotta love it. Long after the 2024 campaign enters the dustbin of history, the Time magazine cover story on Kamala Harris will shine through as a perfect example of just how the liberal “mainstream” media rallies when one of their own is newly front and center.

Inciting Violence? NYT Dismisses Biden ‘Bullseye,’ Smeared Palin's Map

July 14th, 2024 2:19 PM

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening reminded some news watchers of what President Joe Biden said to Democratic donors six days ago, as reported by the New York Times: “During a video call with top donors on Monday, Mr. Biden told them: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” One may scoff at the idea that a…

FLASHBACK: 36 Years of Media Derision & Scorn for GOP Veeps

July 7th, 2024 10:10 AM

Expect the media elite to greet Donald Trump’s new running mate with derision and scorn, because that’s what has faced (nearly) all Republican VP candidates since the Media Research Center began tracking political coverage in the 1980s.

Couric: Obama Owes Me a 'Big-Ass Bouquet' for Palin Attack Interview

September 30th, 2023 7:20 AM

Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reported on Friday that former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric boasted about how she helped Barack Obama get elected in 2008 with her infamous attack interview on Republican Gov. Sarah Palin. "You're welcome, by the way," Couric told the audience, sparking laughter and applause.  "I always thought that Barack Obama should have sent me a big…

Mother’s Day Flashback: How the Media Use Moms to Push Liberal Agenda

May 13th, 2023 9:00 AM

For years liberal reporters and celebrities have exploited moms and Mother’s Day in order to score rhetorical points and seek a rhetorical edge in pushing various causes. Republicans are trashed as terrible mothers, while Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama are heralded as super-moms.

After Attempt on Kavanaugh, NYT Won’t Give Schumer the Palin Treatment

June 11th, 2022 5:42 PM

The New York Times buried the horrible news of a confessed would-be assassin prowling outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, intending to murder him for his opinions on gun control and abortion. If the Times truly treated both political parties the same, it would have criticized Sen. Chuck Schumer’s 2020 threat to Republican-appointed justices Neil Gorsuch and…

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Scarborough Embraces Clinton's Big-Government Agenda: 'Hillary in '24'

February 18th, 2022 12:53 PM

On Friday's Morning Joe, self-described "small-government conservative" Joe Scarborough embraced Hillary Clinton's big-government agenda, saying, "Hillary's right." He even seemed to endorse the two-time loser running for president again: "Tan, rested and ready. Hillary in ’24....And I tell you, yesterday she laid it all out there a lot more clearly than Democrats have been able to do…

Editor’s Pick: Hot Air on Palin v. NYT Jury Being Tainted By Judge

February 17th, 2022 10:57 AM

On Wednesday, Hot Air Senior Editor Allahpundit reported: “Every lawyer I know on Twitter was stupefied at Judge Jed Rakoff’s decision a few days ago to toss Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against the New York Times....What the Twitter lawyers were shocked by was Rakoff’s timing.” He explained that “the jury wasn’t sequestered,” before citing NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik pointing…

NewsBusters Podcast: The Media on Palin Smears and Durham Fears

February 16th, 2022 9:05 PM

The media cheered a judge and jury dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times over their smears claiming she incited a mass shooting in Arizona. The media feared that John Durham's probe of the origins of the Trump-Russia obsession would ruin their narrative.

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Kimmel Mocks Fox Viewers' 'Soft, Oatmeal-like Brains' on Durham Story

February 16th, 2022 11:52 AM

Unlike other late night talk show hosts, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel actually covered the latest news from Special Counsel John Durham on his Tuesday show, but he only did so to mock those who actually care about the allegations.

Politico Editor: Palin Trial Reveals NYT Publisher Is a Moral Coward

February 11th, 2022 10:16 AM

In the midst of all his fury hurled at Sarah Palin by Politico founding editor John F. Harris in his column on Monday, he made quite an interesting revelation. Namely that thanks to the discovery process made by Palin in her lawsuit against the New York Times, we now have documentation about the utter moral cowardice of the publisher of that periodical, A.G. Sulzberger.

Column: Palin Shames The New York Times In Court

January 26th, 2022 5:06 AM

In 1964, the Supreme Court issued a “landmark” decision in New York Times vs. Sullivan, which established the very high bar of requiring the smeared plaintiff to prove there was “actual malice” on the part of the media outlet.Now The Times is exploiting that standard again in the feisty First Amendment test brought by Sarah Palin.

NY Times Frets About Freedom of the Press as Palin's Libel Suit Looms

January 25th, 2022 5:46 PM

A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. The Times is worried that the press’s free ride in the judicial system may be ending, as demonstrated in Jeremy Peters’ “Sarah…