PBS airs excessive TDS, ‘hunger,’ ‘demise’

Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as every week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every decide, often posted on-line on Monday, I present an evidence and suggest a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).

This put up incorporates the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2023.

> For 2021 and 2022, for all of 2020. For all of 2019. For all of  2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:

> July-December 2017 posts; January by June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 by the top of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by June 11, 2013.)

Test Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the most recent selection and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page shall be up to date with Bedard’s newest instance of the worst bias of the week.

(For extra of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Analysis Middle’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the most recent outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)

 

■ New on February 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS airs excessive TDS, ‘hunger,’ ‘demise’

See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s website the place you possibly can watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Every week later, Bedard’s article shall be posted right here.

 

■ February 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Name on MSNBC for weekly Trump impeachment votes

(Washington Examiner put up)

Have you ever heard this one? Democrats need to impeach President Donald Trump.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a SiriusXM host demanding on left-leaning MSNBC that Democrats vote to question Trump weekly.

“I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week,” stated Inform Me The whole lot host John Fugelsang on MSNBC’s The eleventh Hour final Friday.

“Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural tackle,” he stated.

“I believe Democrats ought to begin having a special man come out each week and introduce new articles of impeachment, simply to encourage individuals and present them that we’re doing one thing and let the report present for historical past we’re combating towards this,” he added.

In his first time period, Trump was impeached twice, and Democrats thought that may finish his political profession. After all, it solely strengthened Trump, who gained workplace once more towards someone who voted for impeachment twice, former Vice President Kamala Harris.

From Friday’s The eleventh Hour With Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, selecting up as Fugelsang reacted to information CBS could make a monetary settlement with Trump to finish his lawsuit over deceptive enhancing of its 60 Minutes interview with Harris, which adopted an earlier monetary settlement from Fb over that platform eradicating him in 2021:

John Fugelsang: They’re bribes. I imply, these are bribes. You understand, Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural tackle for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has received an enormous merger developing. This can be a bribe. …

The Democrats are going to do what they did final time. They’re going to lick their wounds, slowly assemble, let Trump do some work for them, they usually’re going to be speaking loads about training and healthcare. I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week.

When the GOP was attempting to repeal Obamacare 70 instances, we laughed at them. However what they had been doing of their impoverished state was consolidating the bottom, fundraising, and getting their messaging throughout. It labored for them.

I believe Democrats ought to begin having a special man come out each week and introduce new articles of impeachment, simply to encourage individuals and present them that we’re doing one thing and let the report present for historical past we’re combating towards this.”

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our decide: “A lot for even pretending to permit President Trump to have an opportunity to provide voters what they voted for in electing him. MSNBC thinks it’s a authentic and credible place to contend Trump had earned impeachment lower than an hour previous midday on Inauguration Day — effectively earlier than he had signed a single government order. A lot for reflection and critical evaluation from the press corps. However it’s what Democrats and so many journalists love to do given this may be the third try and impeach him. Will they go zero-for-three?”

Ranking: 5 out of 5 screams.

 

■ January 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Vance colleges CBS and bishops on unlawful immigration

(Washington Examiner put up)

America is studying fairly rapidly that Vice President JD Vance isn’t any pushover simply cornered on robust points.

In our newest Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic Vance’s retort to Catholic bishops and CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan over complaints that the Trump administration is being imply in its effort to deport legal unlawful migrants.

Showing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded harm that the administration would enter colleges to seek out their targets. She cited complaints from the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops, which funds efforts to settle unlawful immigrants in America, as do different non secular teams.

Vance had clearly heard all of it earlier than and was fast to level out that defending America and Individuals, together with migrants right here legally, is President Donald Trump’s No. 1 job.

Brennan anxious that the administration’s coverage has “a chilling impact, arguably, to individuals to not ship their children to highschool.” Vance reversed her spin to make his level: “I desperately hope it has a chilling impact on unlawful immigrants coming into our nation.”

And when she cited considerations from the bishops, Vance stated, “As a working towards Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. I believe that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to truly look within the mirror somewhat bit and acknowledge that after they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they anxious about humanitarian considerations, or are they really anxious about their backside line?”

Clearly, it’s going to be a troublesome 4 years for liberals within the media, corresponding to Brennan, since Workforce Trump is prepared and prepared to parry the left media’s slant on main points.

From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about one other space that you simply campaigned on rather a lot, and there was a flurry of exercise on. And that has to do with immigration. The U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops this week condemned among the government orders signed by President Trump, particularly these permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter church buildings and to enter colleges. Do you personally help the thought of conducting a raid or enforcement motion in a church service, at a faculty?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Effectively, let me tackle this. After all, if in case you have an individual who’s convicted of a violent crime, whether or not they’re an unlawful immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you need to go and get that particular person to guard the general public security. That’s not distinctive to immigration. However let me simply tackle this explicit concern, Margaret, as a result of, as a working towards Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. And I believe that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to truly look within the mirror somewhat bit and acknowledge that after they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they anxious about humanitarian considerations, or are they really anxious about their backside line? We’re going to implement immigration regulation. We’re going to guard the American individuals.

Donald Trump promised to do this. And I imagine the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops, in the event that they’re anxious concerning the humanitarian prices of immigration enforcement, allow them to discuss concerning the kids who’ve been sex-trafficked due to the wide-open border of Joe Biden.

BRENNAN: So, you personally help them going into colleges and church buildings?

VANCE: Allow them to discuss individuals like Laken Riley, who had been brutally murdered. I help us doing regulation enforcement towards violent criminals, whether or not they’re unlawful immigrants or anyone else, in a manner that retains us protected. Let me ask this query, Margaret. Separate the immigration concern. In case you had a violent assassin in a faculty, in fact, I would like regulation enforcement —

BRENNAN: After all.

VANCE: — to go and get that particular person out.

BRENNAN: After all.

VANCE: So, then what’s the purpose of the query?

BRENNAN: You modified the regulation this week. That’s the purpose of the query: giving the authority to enter church buildings and go into colleges.

VANCE: Precisely. We empowered regulation enforcement to implement the regulation in every single place to guard Individuals.

BRENNAN: However that additionally has a knock-on impact, a chilling impact, arguably, to individuals to not ship their children to highschool.

VANCE: I desperately hope it has a chilling impact —

BRENNAN: Within the church buildings …

VANCE: — on unlawful immigrants coming into our nation.

BRENNAN: You assume the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals from regulation enforcement?

VANCE: I believe the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a great associate in commonsense immigration enforcement that the American individuals voted for. And I hope, once more, as a religious Catholic, that they’ll do higher.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our decide: “Brennan went into the interview considering she had the ethical excessive floor and details on her aspect, presuming it could be straightforward to indicate how badly misguided are so many Trump insurance policies. However she bumped into JD Vance, who delivered a grasp class in the right way to tackle and undermine the premises of the Washington press corps.”

Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.

 

■ January 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks as much as Biden to the top: ‘Did ship’

(Washington Examiner put up)

Our ultimate Biden-era Liberal Media Scream finds CBS Information kissing as much as President Joe Biden to the top, brushing apart all of the polls and its personal reporting to declare he was efficient.

“In some ways,” CBS chief White Home correspondent Nancy Cordes stated, “he did ship.”

The media have resisted reporting on Biden’s psychological and bodily failings over his 4 unpopular years in workplace. And even on his final weekend in workplace, retailers corresponding to CBS went out of their option to prop up a president who polls as considered one of America’s worst.

From CBS Information Sunday Morning:

NANCY CORDES: In some ways, he did ship. His administration oversaw the profitable rollout of the COVID vaccines. The inventory market steadily rose to report highs, whereas unemployment fell to a near-record low. Abroad, he expanded NATO, strengthened alliances in Asia with the objective of containing China, and cobbled collectively lasting help for Ukraine in its struggle towards Russia.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The responsibility of a president is to defend what’s greatest about America.

CORDES: He did so whereas racking up main legislative victories, together with large new investments in clear vitality and semiconductor manufacturing.

BIDEN: I imagine, to my core, there isn’t a single factor this nation can’t do after we put our thoughts to it.

CORDES: And he scored a win that eluded his predecessors: signing a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure invoice.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our decide: “Happening with the ship, CBS and Cordes are nonetheless attempting to persuade people who regardless of the rejection of his presidency and his insurance policies by the voters, Joe Biden actually was an excellent president who delivered laudable accomplishments. The media and Biden do share a minimum of one factor in frequent: Within the eyes of a lot of the general public, they’re each losers.”

Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.

 

■ January 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will ceaselessly be a ‘convicted felon’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream is already anticipating the approaching media hate that may greet President-elect Donald Trump when he enters workplace for a second time every week from immediately.

No shock, however biased liberal PBS “analyst” Jonathan Capehart isn’t simply readying his anti-Trump discuss for Inauguration Day. He’s already trying to pour on the hate in each Trump story.

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Capehart, who additionally hosts a poorly-rated MSNBC present, took enjoyment of predicting that after being sentenced final week in a much-mocked authorized case, Trump will ceaselessly be referred to as a “convicted felon,” and he needs each reporter to say that of their tales about Trump.

Cheered the talker, “What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing immediately, the place the choose stated, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, however you’re a convicted felon. And so for the remainder of his life, any story written about him should point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, undoubtedly by the second reference.”

From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:

GEOFF BENNETT: However after, you understand, being convicted of 34 felonies, there are individuals who have a look at this case, they usually say that Donald Trump walks away with a punishment that’s lower than what one would obtain for a dashing ticket.

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Look, this case, this hush cash case, was the case that everyone stated was the crappy case of the 4. Bear in mind, Donald Trump was indicted 4 instances, and this one was the least necessary, the shakiest.

And but it’s the one case the place Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case the place he was dropped at trial earlier than a jury of his friends in his hometown of New York Metropolis and was discovered responsible 34 instances. I believe that’s nice punishment.

What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing immediately, the place the choose stated, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, however you’re a convicted felon. And so, for the remainder of his life, any story written about him should point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, undoubtedly by the second reference.

And that’s becoming, that’s proper, that’s simply. Do I want the opposite three circumstances had gone to trial and that he had confronted accountability on these? Sure, however this can do.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our decide: “Discuss petty immaturity. Capehart’s response to the choose’s sentence on Trump bared how a lot of the press corps’ hostility to Trump was at all times fueled by private animosity as a lot as by disgust with conservative insurance policies. So a smug Capehart will get pleasure from a courtroom giving him the okay to use a derogatory label to the incoming president.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ January 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC the only #Joementia denier

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend because the media’s final denier that President Joe Biden has misplaced it. What’s crazier than the plain is that she claims that it’s incoming President-elect Donald Trump who suffers mind fog.

Showing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Sanders-Townsend’s protection of the president who dropped out of his reelection marketing campaign after his mind locked throughout a debate with Trump got here simply hours earlier than his weird cursing rant about immigrants following a White Home ceremony.

“The query on the desk is, ‘Is the president all they manner there?’ And the reply is unequivocally sure,” Sanders-Townsend stated on the present. The MSNBC host, in actual fact, charged it’s Trump whose psychological capacities must be questioned. Biden “can a minimum of put a sentence collectively,” however “the president-elect is the one I’m involved about.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press:

SYMONE SANDERS TOWNSEND: Effectively, I used to be very stunned that while you requested the query about psychological acuity he didn’t extra forcefully push again. The query on the desk is, “Is the president all the best way there?” And the reply is unequivocally sure. Now, individuals can say that you simply really feel as if President Biden is likely to be somewhat too previous to do the job, however he’s doing the job. And his psychological acuity is there. So, I believe that there’s a conflation of two issues right here: his psychological capability and serving one other 4 years as previous as he’s. However these are two separate issues in my view. And, look, these people who have recognized Joe Biden their complete political lives, I do know Joe Biden is like, “Are you able to all simply please defend me somewhat extra?”

MARC SHORT: I believe it harm Democrats. It harm Democrats in November to attempt to inform the American individuals one thing they may see with their very own eyes wasn’t true.

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: But it surely’s not true that the president doesn’t have the psychological acuity.

SHORT: After all it’s, Symone. The American individuals noticed that for themselves within the debate—

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: What are you saying? He can a minimum of put a sentence collectively. The president-elect is the one I’m involved about as a result of I just lately talked to the president.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our decide: “Sanders is a final holdout, a real silly believer. Nearly all of her colleagues, even those that pretended for years that Biden was positive, began to acknowledge, as quickly as Biden was not the Democratic candidate for reelection, that he’s not all there. However not Sanders. She’s nonetheless within the tank and embarrassing herself, particularly when suggesting it’s Trump who has the psychological shortcomings.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ December 30, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: Eleventh-hour CBS admission of ‘simple’ Biden mind fog

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CBS admitting, with simply three weeks to go in President Joe Biden’s administration, that he and his aides have been mendacity about his cognitive decline and that the media helped cowl it up.

And having recognized about it for months or longer, now, the media are promising to name out well being issues after they see them, a not-so-subtle warning to President-elect Donald Trump.

“We must always have way more forcefully questioned whether or not he was match for workplace for one more 4 years,” CBS correspondent Jan Crawford stated on Face the Nation.

From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, with Main Garrett serving because the fill-in host:

MAJOR GARRETT: One of many different issues we additionally do within the year-end correspondents’ desk is dig into what was undercovered or underreported. Jan?

JAN CRAWFORD: Um, undercovered or underreported. That may be, to me, Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline that grew to become simple within the televised debate.

GARRETT: On the presidential debate with Donald Trump.

CRAWFORD: Unquestioned. And, you understand, it’s beginning to emerge now that his advisers type of managed his limitations. It’s been reported within the Wall Avenue Journal, for 4 years. And but he insisted that he may nonetheless run for president. We must always have way more forcefully questioned whether or not he was match for workplace for one more 4 years, which may have led to a major for the Democrats. It may have modified the scope of the whole election. But nonetheless, extremely, we learn within the Washington Put up that his advisers are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race. You understand, that he thinks he may have overwhelmed Trump. And I believe that’s both delusional, or they’re gaslighting.

ROBERT COSTA: President Biden has stated repeatedly he was sick through the debate, June 27 in Atlanta, and he’s at all times been positive and he leaves positive. That’s his place, the place of lots of his high aides as effectively, although there may be that reporting.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our decide: “Too dangerous that as an on-air reporter for CBS, Crawford couldn’t have carried out one thing to get CBS to provide airtime to the latest Wall Avenue Journal story documenting Biden’s a few years of cognitive inabilities. But Costa, in parroting the White Home speaking factors, demonstrated his personal complicity, like just about all the Washington press corps, in advancing the White Home’s large lie.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ December 23: Liberal Media Scream: CBS’s Margaret Brennan offended at ‘unelected’ Musk

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a community critic of President-elect Donald Trump taking offense at ally Elon Musk’s lobbying Congress on behalf of the Republican.

CBS’s Margaret Brennan, host of Face the Nation, hit Musk as an “unelected” influencer, which, in fact, she is, too.

Brennan known as Musk’s position within the funds talks final week “complicated” on Sunday.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) stated, “It feels as if Elon Musk is our prime minister.” To which Brennan interjected, “Unelected.” Gonzales agreed he’s unelected however identified how “he has a voice, and I believe a whole lot of, a big a part of that voice is a mirrored image of the voice of the individuals.”

The alternate on Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: I need to ask you concerning the dynamic right here as a result of it’s complicated, frankly. I imply, Elon Musk is tweeting towards bipartisan offers negotiated and led by the speaker of the Home. What position precisely is he enjoying right here?

REP. TONY GONZALES (R-TX): It’s type of fascinating. We’ve a president. We’ve a vp. We’ve a speaker. It appears like — as if Elon Musk is our prime minister. And I spoke with Elon a few instances this week. I believe lots of us-

BRENNAN: Unelected.

GONZALES: Unelected, however, I imply, he has a voice. And I believe a whole lot of, a big a part of that voice is a mirrored image of the voice of the individuals. As soon as once more, a 1,500-page invoice, how does that go the odor check? It’s completely unsuitable. It’s what’s unsuitable with this place. So, now we have to get again to common order.

The opposite a part of it, too, is whereas Home Republicans had been combating over this spending invoice, guess what Senate Democrats had been doing? They had been making certain that President Biden received his 235th liberal choose over the end line. That’s why it’s so necessary that Home Republicans keep united, keep laser-focused on delivering on a President Trump agenda subsequent 12 months.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our decide: “Guess who else is unelected however has plenty of affect over public coverage? Excessive-powered rich media figures like Margaret Brennan who repeatedly preach on TV. One large distinction between Brennan and so many others within the press corps who’re upset with Musk’s energy? He’s in style, and they don’t seem to be.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ December 16: Liberal Media Scream: After all MSNBC defends Stephanopoulos lies

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the lowly rated MSNBC defending the lie informed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that resulted within the media large this weekend forking over $16 million to President-elect Donald Trump as punishment.

As an alternative of backing Trump or avoiding the matter, corresponding to Stephanopoulos did himself throughout his Sunday internet hosting of This Week, the hosts of MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday decried ABC’s cost. Additionally they dismissed the lie informed throughout a March interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that Trump was discovered responsible for rape.

“The media now’s kind of falling into that ‘oh, we need to play good’ mode,” Michael Steele stated.

Symone Sanders stated, “This feels prefer it has a very chilling impact” on media protection of Trump.

Trump immediately stated he’s concentrating on different media that lied about him through the marketing campaign and his first administration.

From MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning:

MICHAEL STEELE: I’ve been, on this program and elsewhere, complaining, as a result of it’s a grievance, about how the authorized system itself has been so simply manipulated. The media now’s kind of falling into that “Oh, we need to play good.” What’s your evaluation of how this impacts the best way the nation governs itself when each the judicial and the media house appear so prepared to blow previous the plain issues with this incoming administration?

SYMONE SANDERS: This feels prefer it has a very chilling impact, like, shout out to the requirements division, okay, requirements is at all times ensuring that we hold the bar excessive and substantive and correct. However what George Stephanopoulos stated in that interview, I imply, it appears to carry up with what the choose stated after the actual fact and now these information group, and himself, George Stephanopoulos himself, is paying 1,000,000 {dollars} of his personal cash to the legal professionals, and ABC, $15 million {dollars}, it’s insane….

The parsing of this, the choose stated that George Stephanopoulos was proper basically. However Donald Trump sued anyway for defamation. And ABC made the calculated choice that, you understand what, we’re simply going to pay. George Stephanopoulos additionally has to pay. He’s on the hook for 1,000,000 {dollars} of his personal cash. And that leaves the remainder of us with what? We need to be correct, proper? We’ve a requirements division. We’re all endeavoring to maintain the bar excessive and substantive and never interact in interviews and dialog the place individuals simply lie about conspiracy theories they usually themselves aren’t correct. However this appears fairly focused and I don’t assume George Stephanopoulos was unsuitable. I’m sorry.

Now you all received nothing to say as a result of none of you need a lawsuit. See, that is the chilling impact! My mother is about to textual content me: shut up, as a result of what are you doing?

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our decide: “Stephanopoulos was caught red-handed making a defamatory assertion, repeatedly, about President-elect Trump and ABC was involved sufficient about their legal responsibility to settle. But the MSNBC hosts have realized nothing, with Steele worrying concerning the media being too good to Trump and Sanders, extremely, doubling down on the false allegation. As an alternative of worrying about ‘chilling results,’ perhaps journalists ought to contemplate not smearing Trump, or anybody, with false characterizations.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ December 9: Liberal Media Scream: PBS TDS blames Trump for Hunter Biden’s pardon

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options tax-dollar-supported PBS behind the most recent Trump Derangement Syndrome declare that the incoming president prompted President Joe Biden to flip-flop and pardon his son Hunter Biden of felony prices.

Sounding extra like a practiced Democratic Occasion spokesman than a journalist, commentator Jonathan Capehart stated on PBS NewsHour that Joe Biden had no selection however to pardon his son as a result of President-elect Donald Trump wished to throw the e book at Hunter Biden, who has been caught up in gun and tax circumstances.

He additionally appeared accountable Vice President Kamala Harris for the pardon, suggesting that her loss cleared the best way for Trump to focus on the youthful Biden.

Winging it as typical with none proof, the Washington Put up columnist and PBS common stated: “I’m virtually sure, 99% sure, that President Biden hoped that Vice President Harris would win and that this may not be a difficulty.”

The president’s pardon has been condemned by many Democrats, and it threatens to break what’s left of Biden’s presidential legacy. A handful of defenders, nevertheless, are making excuses for Biden’s pardon.

Capehart, a contributor to PBS in addition to the host of a weekend present on MSNBC and an opinion author for the Washington Put up, on Friday’s PBS NewsHour:

HOST GEOFF BENNETT: Jonathan, in your view, was it justified, and what’s the lasting impression?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Effectively, one, sure, it was justified. When the president stated that he wouldn’t pardon his son, wouldn’t grant clemency, the details on the bottom had been fully totally different. It’s the center of a presidential marketing campaign. He was the candidate for president, didn’t need to be considered as interfering. He’s not the candidate. His vp is the presidential nominee.

I’m virtually sure, 99% sure, that President Biden hoped that Vice President Harris would win and that this may not be a difficulty. However when the one that gained the race gained the race by vowing, by a marketing campaign of retribution, revenge, naming the Biden household generally and Hunter Biden, particularly, as somebody or teams of individuals, he wished to go after if he gained election, in fact, the president seems to be on the details, says I can’t enable that to occur to my son.

And I perceive the criticisms and the brickbats that the president is taking. However for some Democrats to be complaining about how “you’ve ruined norms” and “you’ve given him an avenue,” have they not been being attentive to who Donald Trump is both through the marketing campaign or throughout his 4 years as president the primary go-round?

And these are the identical individuals who could be yelling at Biden had he not carried out one thing after which President Trump took motion towards Hunter Biden: “Why didn’t you save your son? Why didn’t you assist your son while you had the chance to take action while you had been president?” He’s carried out it.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our decide: “The very definition of rationalizing situational ethics and additional proof, if any had been wanted, that Capehart is extra a Democratic Occasion partisan than any type of neutral analyst. If a Democrat or liberal does it, Capehart will defend it.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ December 2: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough again to attacking Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough again to attacking President-elect Donald Trump, exhibiting he realized “nothing” from his journey to Mar-a-Lago to interrupt bread with the incoming president.

Siding with those that criticized his journey to Florida with spouse and co-host Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough got here out Monday along with his weapons blazing at two Trump high employees picks, Kash Patel for FBI director and Pete Hegseth for protection secretary.

“There are two picks proper now that, for those who discuss to individuals in Washington, D.C., they are going to, this morning, inform you two of probably the most harmful picks they’ve seen,” Scarborough stated.

Scarborough and Brzezinski traveled to Florida two weeks in the past to “mend fences” with Trump after years of bashing the previous president. As soon as they introduced their journey, nevertheless, their media pals pummelled the duo, and Scarborough’s monologue on Monday confirmed whose aspect he was on.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe:

We hear what individuals discuss flooding the zone and a whole lot of data coming at you all of sudden and never with the ability to kind by issues. There are two picks proper now that for those who discuss to individuals in Washington, D.C., they are going to, this morning, inform you two of probably the most harmful picks they’ve seen. No. 1, Pete Hegseth. Just because he’s unqualified to run probably the most difficult and strongest paperwork not solely in America however on this planet.

And No. 2 now, Kash Patel. Kash Patel, in fact, is an individual who infamously stated he was going to jail reporters and journalists and information individuals who didn’t go together with the 2020 election conspiracy concept. And we’re going to be speaking in somewhat bit to Elaina Plott Calabro, who wrote a narrative about six months in the past on Kash Patel. Let me simply learn you just a bit bit from that:

“When Patel was put in as chief of employees to the performing secretary of protection, simply after the 2020 election, Mark Milley, who, in fact, was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, suggested him to not break the regulation. Quote: ‘Life seems to be actually s***ty from behind bars,’ Milley reportedly informed Patel. When Trump entertained naming Patel for deputy director of the FBI, Lawyer Normal Invoice Barr, once more, one other Trump loyalist, confronted the White Home chief of employees and stated, quote: ‘Over my useless physique.’

“When within the ultimate weeks of the administration, Trump deliberate to call Patel deputy director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, the top of the CIA, threatened to resign. Trump relented solely after an intervention from Vice President Mike Pence. She goes on to ask: Who is that this man, and why did so many high officers worry him?”

We are going to undergo it. It’s actually not as a result of he’s an knowledgeable in any of those fields. It’s not even as a result of he’s an ideologue. It’s as a result of he appears, in keeping with this piece and all the things we’ve seen, singularly targeted on exacting revenge on individuals who didn’t carry by on Donald Trump’s threats of retribution.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our decide: “A lot for Joe Scarborough’s journey to Mar-a-Lago to construct a brand new relationship with the incoming president after years of vicious assaults on him. If Scarborough is simply going to proceed to channel the deep state’s refusal to simply accept the best of Trump to employees his administration by attempting to impugn these picks, he’s realized nothing about why so many have such contempt for the legacy media.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ November 25: Liberal Media Scream: Axios founder rants ‘Elon Musk is bulls**it’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the co-founder of Axios ranting about billionaire Elon Musk and his feedback on X about being a part of the information media.

“Being a reporter’s arduous,” stated Jim VandeHei. “Elon Musk sits on Twitter daily, or X immediately, saying, like, ‘we’re the media, you’re the media.’ My message to Elon Musk is: Bulls**t. You’re not the media. You having a blue test mark, a Twitter deal with, and 300 phrases of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter.”

VandeHei’s feedback got here after he accepted the Nationwide Press Membership’s Fourth Property Award. Musk has been on X from Mar-a-Lago zinging the media as he prepares to go the Trump-created Division of Authorities Effectivity.

The billionaire’s feedback irked many within the media, particularly since he owns X, and VandeHei confirmed that he’s a type of miffed with Musk.

The feedback had been proven on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, which dubbed them “very highly effective.”

Jim Vandehei on the Fourth Property Award Gala held Thursday on the Nationwide Press Membership, as performed Monday on Morning Joe:

JIM VANDEHEI: I hate this rattling debate about, oh, “we don’t want the media.” It’s not true … There’s one thing about freedom, capitalism, the animal spirits of democracy, however on the core of that’s perhaps transparency, perhaps a free press, perhaps the flexibility to do your job with out worrying to go to jail, perhaps the flexibility to sit down in a struggle zone and inform individuals what is definitely occurring in order that they’re not simply distortion, issues.

It issues profoundly. It’s why, it’s not like we simply love getting up at 3:00, 4:00 within the morning, doing this each single day, we do it as a result of we adore it. We do it as a result of it issues. The work that we do issues. The whole lot we do is underneath fireplace.

Elon Musk sits on Twitter daily, or X immediately, saying like, “We’re the media, you’re the media.” My message to Elon Musk is: Bulls**t. You’re not the media. You having – [applause] you having a blue test mark, a Twitter deal with, and 300 phrases of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter any greater than me your head and seeing that you’ve got a mind and telling you will have an superior set of instruments makes me a rattling neurosurgeon.

Proper? Like what we do, what journalists do, what you probably did in Mississippi, what Al Jazeera does within the Center East, you don’t proclaim your self to be a reporter. Like, that’s nonsense. Like being a reporter’s arduous. Actually arduous. It’s a must to care. It’s a must to do the arduous work. It’s a must to rise up each single day and say I need to get to the closest approximation of the reality with none worry, with none favoritism. You don’t do this by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do this by having an opinion. You do it by doing the arduous work.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. Come on, sluggish clap, all people. To begin with, I received to say, extraordinary content material. It wanted to be stated. It continues to should be stated when all the rubbish that’s flying round on social media, mendacity about reporters, mendacity concerning the arduous work they do, mendacity concerning the arduous work editors do, mendacity about all the things up and down about not solely their different set of details however different set of details about what individuals such as you do. And I really like the way you related reporters in Mississippi within the Nineteen Sixties to reporters combating for his or her life to get the story out within the Center East immediately. Jim, it was very highly effective.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Actually good.

SCARBOROUGH: Very highly effective.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our decide: “Conceitedness mixed with obliviousness. Within the face of report low belief within the media, as an alternative of some introspection about why the media have misplaced the general public’s belief, VandeHei determined to as an alternative lash out on the competitors, a platform which wouldn’t have such relevance if the legacy media weren’t so discredited. It’s as if Ford responded to exploding Pintos by denouncing the gasoline mileage claims made by GM.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ November 18: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Raddatz reveals why it’s time to boycott networks

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one instance of the media lunacy that has adopted the sweeping electoral and in style vote for President-elect Donald Trump regardless of years of warnings and smears from the resistance media.

Whereas most within the Democratic Occasion are licking their wounds and attempting to determine how they did so poorly towards Trump and why they picked the worst candidate round in Vice President Kamala Harris, many liberal TV anchors are nonetheless affected by “Trump derangement syndrome.”

Sunday confirmed all of them nonetheless at work. On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley opened with a rant towards Trump’s Cupboard picks. And he was preceded by the frenzied Sunday public affairs reveals attempting to persuade the nation that the president-elect was unfit for responsibility.

On Monday, two of these with the worst case of TDS, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, all however admitted their preelection anti-Trump hype on their MSNBC present Morning Joe was a lie after they revealed that they traveled to Mar-a-Lago final week to interrupt bread with Trump.

The worst instance of the ranting rage on community TV got here from ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who opened Sunday’s This Week with a cost that Trump’s picks had been “retribution” for individuals who have wronged him. “The retribution begins,” she declared.

From the highest of Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

MARTHA RADDATZ: The retribution begins.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT: We’re going to wash out the corrupt, damaged, and failing bureaucracies.

RADDATZ: The president-elect sparking alarm with controversial Cupboard nominees, together with a firebrand Fox TV host to guide the Division of Protection.

PETE HEGSETH, DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE: I’m straight up simply saying, we should always not have girls in fight roles.

RADDATZ: Famous vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for well being and human companies secretary.

TRUMP: He needs to make individuals wholesome. It’s pushed him fairly wild over the past variety of years.

RADDATZ: And ardent Trump loyalist, now former congressman, Matt Gaetz, to run the Justice Division.

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER (R-ND): He’s received a very steep hill to climb to get plenty of votes, together with mine.

RADDATZ: Democratic Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin responds to the nominations. Plus, former CDC Director Richard Besser, former prosecutor Preet Bharara, and evaluation from our powerhouse roundtable. Plus:

JOE DEL BOSQUE, CALIFORNIA FARMER: We pay among the highest wages for farm employees within the nation proper right here in California, they usually gained’t come out.

RADDATZ: We traveled to California farmland to see what Trump’s large deportation plans may imply for farmers and the nation’s meals provide. Texas Republican Tony Gonzales joins us for response.

ANNOUNCER: From ABC Information, it’s This Week. Right here now, Martha Raddatz.

RADDATZ: Good morning, and welcome to This Week. Donald Trump is losing no time naming the crew he needs round him in a second time period. In rapid-fire trend, he introduced a collection of nominees this week to fill the White Home and lead key Cupboard departments. Lots of them had been proper by Trump’s aspect final night time to attend a UFC battle at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. Amongst them, controversial picks just like the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who will lead a brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity, an amorphous position aimed toward slashing federal spending.

Whereas that transfer raised a whole lot of intrigue, different picks have raised eyebrows to say the least, and a few, outright opposition.

Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our decide: “Lower than two weeks after the MAGA agenda gained an electoral mandate and confirmed how the legacy media have misplaced their affect, Raddatz continues to be dwelling in a preelection world. As an alternative of explaining to her viewers what the attraction of Trump’s picks might be, or presenting a balanced take with matching reward and criticism for them, she didn’t even attempt to disguise her disdain for them. And Disney wonders why they’re dropping viewers.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ November 12: Liberal Media Scream: How dare Trump make calls for on Senate, CNN whines

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN struggling to seek out new methods to assault President-elect Donald Trump.

This time, it’s Trump’s stress on the Senate to OK his Cupboard picks, that are coming quick and livid, with out the traditional affirmation steps.

At CNN, they stated it’s simply Trump “once more bucking norms.”

From Sunday’s CNN:

ALAYNA TREENE: [President-elect Donald Trump] stated, quote: “Republican senators searching for the coveted management place in america Senate should conform to recess appointments within the Senate, with out which, we will be unable to get individuals confirmed in a well timed method.”

The put up goes on to explain different issues. However I need to clarify why that is so necessary. Primarily, Donald Trump is looking for the shattering of norms. Now what this implies, a recess appointment, I do know this feels like we’re getting within the weeds a bit with the Hill lingo. However recesses are usually prevented in Congress. Usually, after they really go on break, they do one thing known as a professional forma session. A part of that’s as a result of for those who go to a recess, you really need to have a vote within the Home and the Senate, and Democrats, on this case, giving Republicans management of the Senate come subsequent 12 months, would be capable of filibuster.

However basically, to get all the way down to it, to actually boil all the way down to what this may imply, is that Donald Trump is looking for a manner and use whoever the following Senate chief — Republican chief — is to try to keep away from the affirmation course of for his high Cupboard officers. And I remind you, a whole lot of instances when totally different presidential candidates or individuals need to make these hires and to nominate totally different individuals to those totally different Cupboard roles, a key factor that’s at all times on the high of their minds is whether or not or not this particular person can get confirmed within the Senate, if they’ve a controversial background, if they’re extra conservative, on this case, in the event that they had been Democrats, they’d be perhaps too liberal. However actually, the Senate is type of the final line of protection of who the president may put into workplace with him.

And so this may be an enormous change. And I may even argue that basically this course of that Congress has now about avoiding recess appointments of their entirety began again with George W. Bush and has continued since then underneath the totally different presidents with Obama and Trump and now Biden. And so, this once more could be an enormous break from the norms that we at present have. Fred.

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: And once more, bucking norms.

Jorge Bonilla, a information analyst at NewsBusters, defined our weekly decide: “The Biden administration shattered many norms, whether or not it was the weaponization of state and federal governments towards President-elect Donald Trump, the suppression of President Joe Biden’s bodily and psychological decline, or the federal government’s cooking of all types of information. Any considered one of these incidents occurring underneath a Trump administration would’ve garnered wall-to-wall ‘shattered norms’ protection. Quite the opposite, the Biden parade of horribles drew nary a peep. Now, the media go nuts about norms the second a just-reelected Trump talks about staffing his administration through recess appointments.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ November 4: Liberal Media Scream: Gaslighting Politico calls Obama, Harris, and Biden ‘centrists’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the declare by Politico that Democratic leaders thought of probably the most liberal in historical past are “centrists.”

In gaslighting voters, the outlet’s White Home correspondent Eugene Daniels stated President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, and Vice President Kamala Harris aren’t liberals. Ditto for the Democratic Occasion and the social gathering’s “base” of black voters, he added.

“What it reminds us is that the Democratic Occasion continues to be a extra centrist social gathering, proper? If you have a look at Obama, who, regardless of what individuals thought, type of operated as a centrist, Biden, centrist, Kamala Harris, a centrist,” Daniels stated on PBS.

Daniels from Friday’s Washington Week with the Atlantic:

“What it reminds us is that the Democratic Occasion continues to be a extra centrist social gathering, proper? If you have a look at Obama, who, regardless of what individuals thought, type of operated as a centrist, Biden, centrist, Kamala Harris, a centrist. The bottom of the Democratic Occasion continues to be black voters. They’re nonetheless extra centrist and extra pragmatic versus ideological. And so the takeover of the Democratic Occasion, because the Republican Occasion has came upon, it hasn’t occurred on the Democratic Occasion, the identical with the Left.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “The social gathering of letting highschool boys play on ladies sports activities groups and operating an open border is ‘centrist’? Daniels must deliver somewhat extra skepticism to his journalism. Simply because a politician spins themselves as ‘centrist’ doesn’t make them one. Kamala Harris has an extended report of far-left coverage views that haven’t disappeared simply because she just isn’t touting them on this 12 months’s marketing campaign.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ October 28: Liberal Media Scream: CBS’s Brennan frets Cheney’s security if Trump wins

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the Face the Nation host elevating considerations {that a} Trump election will result in violence towards former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney for endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in her yearlong marketing campaign to cease former President Donald Trump’s comeback.

Although it’s Trump who has been the goal of two assassination makes an attempt, CBS’s Margaret Brennan requested Cheney on her present on Sunday, “Given how outspoken you will have been, are you involved about your private safety if Donald Trump wins this election, as he effectively could do?”

Fed the softball pitch, Cheney hit it arduous: “Trump has ushered violence into our politics in a manner that we haven’t seen earlier than.”

It was simply the most recent instance of the anti-Trump bias community TV has wallowed on this election 12 months. Earlier on Monday, the Media Analysis Middle, which helps with this weekly characteristic, issued a report that confirmed a historic stage of bias by CBS, ABC, and NBC.

From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: Given how outspoken you will have been, are you involved about your private safety if Donald Trump wins this election, as he effectively could do?

LIZ CHENEY: Look, initially, I’m very assured that Vice President Harris goes to win this election. It’s what we’re seeing all throughout the nation, the type of completely unprecedented coalition that’s coming collectively to help her, you understand, we’re going to run by the tape, and no one is overconfident right here, however I do imagine she’s going to be the following president of america.

And I believe that Donald Trump has ushered violence into our politics in a manner that we haven’t seen earlier than. And any violence is unacceptable. Actually, the assassination try on the previous president was fully unacceptable and clearly ought to by no means have occurred. However when you will have a scenario the place, you understand, Donald Trump means that individuals who disagree with him must be put earlier than navy tribunals, that the previous chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers must be hanged for treason, and his operating mate doubles down on it, that tells you that you simply’re coping with a person who doesn’t have any conscience, and the individuals who labored most intently with him know that. So, I’m assured that he’s going to be defeated subsequent week.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “The fact of political violence on this 12 months’s marketing campaign got here from the Left and opponents of Trump, not from him. Brennan appeared to have her personal political agenda to attempt to generate a solution which might display another excuse to vote for Harris: {that a} Trump win would bodily endanger his critics. However not even Cheney, a Trump-hater, would go that far to presume Trump’s supporters are a bunch of violent fanatics who should be feared.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ October 21: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Swamp’ journalists admit cluelessness on Trump and MAGA

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options three of Washington’s outstanding political correspondents lastly admitting simply how clueless they’re about former President Donald Trump, whom a minimum of half the nation sees as one of many best politicians to grasp — and like.

We characteristic the puzzlement of Washington Put up journalists Max Boot and Jonathan Capehart and the Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich as they mull Trump’s comeback.

“How can now we have tens of hundreds of thousands of our fellow residents assume it’s OK to elect this delusional maniac as president of america? I, you understand, I simply don’t get it,” Boot informed Capehart, who whined, “It’s baffling to me as effectively.”

Mark Leibovich on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday:

“I believe the bigger stain on our historical past that we’re dwelling by proper now’s Trump clearly and what he has stood for and what he has gotten away with.”

“The concept Donald Trump has operated inside a permission construction of considered one of our two main events to some extent the place there may be only a consequence-free atmosphere for him to function in is among the most appalling, I believe, takeaways from this period. Clearly, one which portends very, very ominously in case he wins as a result of there’s not going to be a test and steadiness from his personal social gathering. They’ll function from a platform the place he can do no matter he needs. However, basically, I imply, these are individuals who I believe will, hopefully, you understand, reside underneath a really, very damning verdict of historical past.”

Max Boot throughout Friday’s “First Look” present for Washington Put up Reside

“To me, what’s dismaying just isn’t that Trump is denying actuality, that he’s depicting the rioters and insurrectionists of Jan. 6 as individuals engaged in a day of affection. It’s not that Trump is denying the outcomes of the 2020 election, as is his operating mate, J.D. Vance. All of that we’ve come to anticipate by now.

“What’s dismaying to me, Jonathan, is that regardless of all of this, Trump could be very near profitable the presidency once more. It’s mainly a coin-flip election. We don’t know the way it’s going to go, however merely the truth that it’s as shut as it’s proper now’s, to me, a horrible commentary on America and a really dismaying, very dismaying augury of our future, that so many Individuals appear to be so OK with this. I imply, how is that this? How can now we have tens of hundreds of thousands of our fellow residents assume it’s OK to elect this delusional maniac as president of america? I, you understand, I simply don’t get it.”

Jonathan Capehart: “Yeah, it’s baffling to me as effectively.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “What’s ‘dismaying,’ ‘appalling,’ and a ‘horrible commentary’ on the state of American journalism is that two veteran journalists with main media establishments have such disdain for half of their fellow residents. It additionally portends a harmful response from the media if Trump does certainly win. As an alternative of dispassionately reporting on how and why he gained, they’ll be condemning as a ‘stain’ on the nation those that voted for him.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ October 14: Liberal Media Scream: Vance and Johnson hit media TDS nitpickers

(Washington Examiner put up)

As former President Donald Trump picks up steam towards challenger Vice President Kamala Harris, the media are throwing all the things on the wall in hopes that one thing will keep on with the Teflon Republican.

Happily for Trump, there may be operating mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) knocking away all the costs, much like what San Francisco offensive deal with Trent Williams does to passes from opposing quarterbacks.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options two Sunday present hosts affected by Trump Derangement Syndrome, ABC’s Martha Raddatz of This Week and NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker.

Whereas Harris and operating mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) have prevented the Sunday reveals, Vance and Johnson are regulars who like swatting away prices from moderators. On Sunday, they’d their fingers full.

Raddatz was obsessive about urgent Vance on Trump, questioning his statements, together with claims that unlawful immigrants had taken over condo buildings in Aurora, Colorado. When she stated it was only a “handful” of buildings, Vance signaled that he had sufficient.

“You appear to be extra targeted with nitpicking all the things that Donald Trump has stated slightly than acknowledging that condo complexes in america of America are being taken over by violent gangs,” he stated.

Welker hit Trump for not revealing his well being experiences, even demanding his ldl cholesterol report. That had Johnson suggesting that the general public has larger issues to contemplate.

ABC’s This Week:

J.D. VANCE: And, in fact, President Trump was really in Aurora, Colorado, speaking to individuals on the bottom, and what we’re listening to, in fact, Martha, is that individuals are terrified by what has occurred with a few of these Venezuelan gangs.

MARTHA RADDATZ: Sen. Vance, I’m going to cease you as a result of I do know precisely what occurred. I’m going to cease you. The incidents had been restricted to a handful of condo complexes, and the mayor stated our devoted cops have acted on these considerations. A handful of issues.

VANCE: Solely — Martha, do you hear your self? Solely a handful of condo complexes in America had been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the issue, and never Kamala Harris’s open border?

Individuals are so fed up with what’s happening, they usually have each proper to be, and I actually discover this alternate, Martha, kind of fascinating since you appear to be extra targeted with nitpicking all the things that Donald Trump has stated slightly than acknowledging that condo complexes in america of America are being taken over by violent gangs. I fear a lot extra about that downside than anything right here. We’ve received to get American communities in a protected house once more.

NBC’s Meet the Press:

KRISTEN WELKER: Ought to he launch the outcomes of the cognitive check that he stated …

MIKE JOHNSON: It’s pointless. He’s on show each minute.

WELKER: So that you concede he didn’t launch his medical information? You don’t need to know issues like his ldl cholesterol stage, whether or not he’s coping with any concern that we could not find out about, if he’s going to be commander in chief? And he additionally stated he would launch cognitive checks, which he aced.

JOHNSON: Kristen, hearken to your query.

WELKER: Ought to he launch that?

JOHNSON: The American individuals — Kristen, the American individuals don’t care concerning the ldl cholesterol stage of Donald Trump. They care about the price of dwelling and the actual fact they can’t pay for groceries as a result of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s insurance policies have put them in that scenario.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “A beautiful show of why the press corps are held in such low regard. Journalists do certainly ‘nitpick’ Trump whereas lacking the large image of the border downside Trump is elevating, which is a high concern of most Individuals. After which they obsess over one thing that few care about that has nothing to do with the insurance policies proposed by both presidential candidate.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ October 7: Liberal Media Scream: Andrea Mitchell whines males and enterprise supporting Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the escalation of media whining and excuse-making for the issues Vice President Kamala Harris is encountering in her wobbly bid to change into president.

We characteristic MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, who anxious on Meet the Press about black and white males and companies favoring former President Donald Trump, although she expressed no comparable considerations about girls favoring Harris within the gender hole.

In a single section, she suggested Harris to do extra interviews to win over extra males, although the vp’s latest media blitz has introduced largely destructive critiques. And she or he stated Harris must push again on companies’ view of her as a light-weight.

“I believe there’s misogynation in all of this, black and white males, large downside. But in addition, the enterprise world, they don’t assume she is critical,” Mitchell stated.

Mitchell’s feedback got here throughout a dialogue on NBC’s Meet the Press about how Harris must do extra media interviews to let individuals find out about her financial insurance policies:

“They’ve received to double down on doing extra interviews and critical interviews as a result of what I’m listening to from Democratic and Republican businesspeople and a whole lot of males — and she or he’s received such an enormous downside with males. I believe there’s an undercount of the Trump vote. I believe there’s misogynation in all of this, black and white males, large downside. But in addition, the enterprise world, they don’t assume she is critical. They don’t assume she’s a heavyweight. And a whole lot of that is gender, however she’s received to be extra particular about her financial plans.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “After all, Andrea Mitchell attributes the worst of motives, misogyny, for why males favor Trump over Harris however expresses no concern for why girls again Harris over Trump. Identical to a partisan Democrat would see the world. Which is what the NBC Information journalist is.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams

 

■ September 30: Liberal Media Scream: Latinos like Trump as a result of they ‘need to be white’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a key MSNBC Latina visitor who smeared her fellow Latinos with a racist anti-Trump rant on Sunday.

On The Sunday Present with Jonathan Capehart, NPR’s Maria Hinojosa ripped Latinos for abandoning the Democratic Occasion.

Reacting to a brand new NBC Information/Telemundo ballot that discovered Vice President Kamala Harris dropping help from Hispanic voters, Hinojosa stated, “Latinos need to be white. They need to be with the cool children.” The 63-year-old Hispanic journalist apparently isn’t up with what’s cool on social media.

From The Sunday Present With Jonathan Capehart on Sunday:

JONATHAN CAPEHART: So she has a 14-point lead, but it surely has been shrinking after every consecutive presidential election from 2016. Why is that? Why is the Democratic share of the Latino vote shrinking?

MARIA HINOJOSA: And what I stated to you after we requested the query was, Latinos need to be white. They need to be with the cool children. They need to be — I’m asking Latinos on a regular basis, they usually simply say, ‘Effectively … he’s such a great businessman.’ It’s, like, no, he’s not. He had bankruptcies. However they don’t need to be recognized with all of these different immigrants that Donald Trump speaks so badly of, together with me, as a Mexican immigrant. So that they’re, like, ‘We’d slightly, let’s be with him.’

However these numbers? They may price Kamala Harris the election. The whole lot that I’ve been saying that Latinos may push her excessive, these are the numbers that would additionally take her down.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “Hinojosa displays the very worst of identification politics. Vote just for liberal Democrats — or you’re a race traitor. The actual fact a stable majority of Hispanics help Kamala Harris isn’t ok for Hinojosa. Each Latino who dares stray from the social gathering line should be shunned as a result of such betrayal may price the Democrat the election.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams

 

■ September 23: Liberal Media Scream: PBS says Harris a ‘pleased warrior’ able to ‘slap’ Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent PBS effort to painting Vice President Kamala Harris as a joyful and pleased warrior taking over evil in difficult former President Donald Trump for the presidency.

On PBS NewsHour, MSNBC and Washington Put up lefty pundit Jonathan Capehart declared Harris as part of the “tradition” prepared to battle Trump.

“She’s a part of what’s driving this tradition that I believe you stated will slap Donald Trump within the face. It’s slapping him within the face now,” Capehart stated, including, “She, in her complete profession, has been the pleased warrior about serving to individuals and leaving apart the negativity. It simply occurs to hit on the proper particular person on the proper time.”

From Friday’s PBS NewsHour, selecting up after anchor Geoff Bennett cited David Brooks’s column, “How a Cultural Shift Favors Harris.”

GEOFF BENNETT: Jonathan, that phrase pleasure, Kamala Harris, Vice President Harris, when she sat down with the three reporters from the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists immediately [actually on Tuesday], considered one of them requested her about how she views assaults on her joyful warrior strategy. And she or he defended it. And she or he stated individuals will attempt to typically use your greatest asset towards you. What do you make of that and this notion that she’s benefitting from a cultural wave?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: I don’t assume she’s benefitting from a cultural — sure, she is, and I learn your column, David. It’s not a lot that she’s using — she’s — like see this wave coming and she or he’s using. No, she is a part of the tradition. And that’s why I believe when she grew to become the highest of the ticket, everybody marveled at how rapidly the sunshine swap flipped. That may — and it occurred so organically in a really dramatic trend.

That, to me, says you possibly can’t manufacture that. And she or he was ready to do this as a result of she is the tradition. She is a part of the tradition. She’s a part of what’s driving this tradition that I believe you stated will slap Donald Trump within the face. It’s slapping him within the face now, which is why I believe he’s so discombobulated.

He doesn’t know the right way to take care of her. I believe it’s why the polls are — the momentum is transferring in her course. And to your level about pleased warrior, and David is true, that is the best way the vp has at all times been, which kind of reinforces what you’re saying. It’s not that she has met up with the tradition. She, in her complete profession, has been the pleased warrior about serving to individuals and leaving apart the negativity.

It simply occurs to hit on the proper particular person, on the proper time.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “What a joke. Harris ‘is the tradition’ and has been the embodiment of ‘the pleased warrior about serving to individuals’ for her ‘complete profession’? She alters her tradition and accent with each crowd she addresses. It should be good to be a liberal Democrat, the place supposed journalists not solely endorse the glowingly upbeat imagery you need however have fun it with none essential considering over whether or not it’s phony after which advertise as a real compelling life story.”

Ranking: 5 out of FIVE screams

 

■ September 15: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ September 9: Liberal Media Scream: Workforce Harris calls US ‘extremely backwards’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a key Workforce Harris supporter decrying America as “extremely backwards” for electing solely males as president.

Trump traitor Alyssa Farah Griffin, the “conservative” on The View, was discussing the talk between her ex-boss, former President Donald Trump, and Vice President Kamala Harris on CNN’s State of the Union when she blasted America.

“We’re extremely backwards as a rustic that we’ve by no means had a feminine president,” she stated.

The remark clashed with one of many key themes of the Harris marketing campaign: criticizing Trump for claiming that America is in a shambles and spinning backward underneath the management of Harris and President Joe Biden.

From Sunday’s State of the Union:

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And the fact is, you shouldn’t underestimate Donald Trump. He has now carried out extra presidential race — debates, I ought to say — than anybody in historical past, and he’s someone who got here up on tv. He’s a communicator. He’s someone who’s used to chatting with a mass viewers. If he can keep targeted and he stays to the core points: economic system, border, it’s a great night time for him. However we’ve additionally seen the world during which he shouts out the Proud Boys, or he talks about Hannibal Lecter, or he will get into title calling. That would go towards him. To Kamala Harris, she must look presidential. We’re extremely backwards as a rustic that we’ve by no means had a feminine president. So, for lots of people seeing someone up there who’s a lady who is likely to be our first feminine president, she wants to appear commanding. She can’t get too within the weeds on coverage. She wants to speak about it however can’t get sidetracked. Massive image. How will you demonstrably make individuals’s lives higher? How will you flip the economic system round? If she will do this and never get rattled by Donald Trump, it’ll be a great night time for her.

Jorge Bonilla, a information analyst with the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “One can very simply think about Griffin uttering this similar nonsensical sizzling tackle ABC’s The View, with nice care in order to not get yelled at by Sunny Hostin and earlier than no matter box-wine-fueled nonsense sputtered by Ana Navarro. Given when a significant social gathering first nominated a lady to the highest of the poll, Griffin is looking America ‘backwards’ for committing the sin of electing Donald Trump to the presidency — a presidency that she served. This Trump-deranged nonsense is what passes for ‘evaluation’ at CNN.”

Ranking: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ September 2: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ August 26: Liberal Media Scream: ‘CNN’ has change into fun line

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options talker Invoice Maher mocking CNN and its hosts for viewing the lefty cable community as politically centrist, citing endless “gushing” over Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential nomination acceptance speech the night time earlier than.

“I watched from 8:09 to eight:23. There was simply gushing about how nice a speech it was,” the discuss present host and comic informed CNN host Kaitlan Collins. He stated it wasn’t for quarter-hour till “Lonely Scott” Jennings, one of many few conservatives paid by CNN, received a phrase in.

“It was like 5-to-1. It at all times seems to be like 5-to-1,” Maher stated of how CNN stacks liberals towards conservatives.

Collins, who every week in the past confronted laughter from Stephen Colbert’s viewers when he known as CNN honest, tried to defend the community, however Maher wasn’t listening to it. “It’s, type of, like, the identical as The View. It’s like, it’s virtually higher to have no one there like MSNBC,” he dissed.

From Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO on Friday:

BILL MAHER: You made press since you had been on Stephen Colbert’s present, and he stated one thing such as you guys at CNN simply report the information straight, and the gang burst into laughter.

That tells you numerous, doesn’t it? How do you guys assume you’re doing in that enviornment of, like, it is a terribly divided nation. We’re not solely politicized, lots of people hate the opposite aspect. And CNN, in my opinion, must be the place the place either side can watch. How do you assume you’re doing with that?

COLLINS: CNN is the place the place either side can watch. And I believe, you understand, my present is proof of that. We’ve lawmakers on from each events.

MAHER: I’m speaking concerning the individuals on CNN, and I do know what the conservative aspect of America thinks, and I don’t blame them. I watched Kamala’s speech final night time. It ended at 8:09, or, I assume, 11:09 within the East. It wasn’t till 11:23 ‘until the one conservative man, what’s his title?

COLLINS: Scott Jennings.

MAHER: ‘Lonely Scott,’ I name him.

COLLINS: David City was there too.

MAHER: Wait a second. Wait a second. I watched from 8:09 to eight:23. There was simply gushing about how nice a speech it was — and I believe she did positive. I didn’t assume it was nearly as good as they had been making it out to be, but when I’m a conservative in America, and I’m watching CNN, only for the straight middle-of-the-road, that’s what I hear for quarter-hour is “it’s nice” after which Lonely Scott. If you see — it does seem like tokenism. It’s, type of, like, the identical as The View, it’s like, it’s virtually higher to have no one there like MSNBC.

COLLINS: I believe it was a Democratic conference. They turned to Democrats, individuals like David Axelrod, who ran profitable presidential Democratic campaigns first, for his or her evaluation of this, and I don’t assume which you could say that CNN is something however honest.

I imply, have a look at, we lined President Biden’s exit from the race very intently, the stress on him to get out, and I really feel like I may converse with authority on this — I’m from Alabama. I’m from a really crimson state. I’ve very conservative household, a whole lot of them are Trump voters. They watch my present each night time, and I believe they know that they’ll belief me, that we name bulls*** on each aspect, not simply no matter leaning our viewers could also be, and I believe that’s one thing that folks need extra of is to listen to from that.

I believe Scott’s voice is basically necessary, however I believe different voices are necessary to listen to from, and everybody who was talking final night time, it’s not like they had been all Democrats. I imply, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Abby Philip, all my superb colleagues giving evaluation.

MAHER: They arrive throughout that manner. They got here throughout that manner in a second like that. It was like 5-to-1. It at all times seems to be like 5-to-1.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “It’s arduous to imagine Kaitlan Collins is basically that clueless concerning the ingrained left-wing, anti-conservative agenda of CNN. {That a} historically left-of-center comic acknowledges that actuality, to say nothing of an viewers in Manhattan laughing at calling CNN goal, ought to give Collins pause. The truth that it doesn’t reveals simply how ideologically blind are Collins and her CNN colleagues are. To them, nothing is extra necessary than preserving Donald Trump out of the White Home.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams

 

■ August 19: Liberal Media Scream: Media now correcting MAGA, not simply Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the media’s newest line of assault on former President Donald Trump, MAGA, and anyone who voices help for the GOP presidential nominee.

It comes from the weekend public affairs present hosts who apparently really feel compelled to have the final phrase when that includes Trump or a Trump supporter. One offensive decide got here from Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan, who can be co-moderating the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate.

She gratuitously hit Trump after he known as Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan for worth controls “communist.” Brennan promised: “We’ll inform you why that’s unsuitable.” However after a break, she by no means informed her viewers what was false or unsuitable concerning the Trump quote and even prompted any visitor to appropriate Trump.

Then there was Martha Raddatz, internet hosting ABC’s This Week. Not solely did she open the present with a cheer for Harris, however in reporting proven later, she featured a black lady who stated she was leaning towards voting for Trump. “Trump’s rhetoric has clearly had an impact on her in an astonishing manner,” stated Raddatz, whose fact-checking about race didn’t sit effectively with the black lady. “There was no convincing her in any other case,” she stated.

From the highest of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m Margaret Brennan in Washington, and this week on Face the Nation, Democrats head to their conference in Chicago as inflation cools and the political back-and-forth over financial insurance policies intensifies. With the presidential contest lineup set to be formally locked on this week, either side flip their consideration to concern No. 1 on the minds of the voters: the economic system and inflation.

KAMALA HARRIS: I’ll go after the dangerous actors, and I’ll work to go the first-ever federal ban on price-gauging [sic] on meals.

DONALD TRUMP: Lots of people are very devastated by what’s occurred with inflation and all the different issues. However they are saying it’s a very powerful topic. I’m unsure it’s. However they are saying it’s a very powerful — inflation is a very powerful, however that’s a part of economic system.

BRENNAN: The previous president’s prescription is twofold.

TRUMP: Vote Trump and your incomes will soar.

BRENNAN: And a brand new line of false assault on Vice President Harris.

TRUMP: Kamala went full communist. You heard that? She went full communist. She needs to destroy our nation after inflicting catastrophic inflation.

BRENNAN: We’ll inform you why that’s unsuitable and the way the voters see the candidates’ dealing with of the economic system in our new CBS Information ballot.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “Welcome to the world of multinational media enjoying speech police, deciding whose rhetoric is so over the road that their delicate viewers should be warned that it’s ‘false’ and/or ‘unsuitable’ with none subsequent justification provided for the hassle to discredit the candidate. I await her equal vigilance with Kamala Harris or Tim Walz claims about how the ‘fascist’ Trump will ‘finish democracy,’ ‘destroy NATO’ or ‘lower’ Social Safety.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams

 

■ August 12: Liberal Media Scream: PBS anchor falsely claims ‘no proof’ of Walz’s stolen valor

(Washington Examiner put up)

Think about if a Republican navy hero, say, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), lied concerning the excessive factors of his profession within the U.S. Marine Corps whereas operating for vp.

The media could be each phrase he spoke on his profession and displaying his misstatements and lies on the entrance pages of each newspaper.

However with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic vice presidential decide, the media have determined to look previous his lengthy checklist of pretend claims about serving in “struggle” and Afghanistan whereas within the Nationwide Guard.

What’s extra, some even declare that there is no such thing as a proof of his fabrications.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options PBS New Hour anchor Amna Nawaz within the no-evidence camp. On Friday, for instance, she stated Vance has “no proof” of his claims towards Walz regardless of nonstop postings by newbie fact-checkers on social media.

She stated, “That is so harking back to that swiftboating assault on John Kerry again in 2004,” noting that former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign supervisor, Chris LaCivita, was behind the swiftboat assaults. She requested, “Why run with these assaults when there’s no proof for what they’re saying proper now?”

Visitor Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, countered, “There’s no query Tim Walz has padded and inflated his resume.” To which Nawaz demanded: “In what manner particularly?”

From Friday’s PBS Information Hour, during which Johnson was joined by Jonathan Capehart, affiliate editor of the Washington Put up:

AMNA NAWAZ: Whereas we’ve seen Mr. Trump proceed with private assaults and type of veering manner off message, we’ve additionally seen from Sen. Vance focusing now on Tim Walz’s navy profession. This can be a new line of assault we’ve seen open up from Republicans. We all know Mr. Walz served within the Military Nationwide Guard for twenty-four years earlier than retiring. And we’ve heard Vance assault him on this manner now and again.

SEN. J.D. VANCE: I did it honorably, and I’m very happy with my service. When Tim Walz was requested by his nation to go to Iraq, you understand what he did? He dropped out of the Military and allowed his unit to go with out him.

AMNA NAWAZ: Eliana, that is so harking back to that swiftboating assault on John Kerry again in 2004. We all know the identical man is behind it. He’s operating the Trump marketing campaign now, Chris LaCivita. Why run with these assaults when there’s no proof for what they’re saying proper now?

ELIANA JOHNSON: Effectively, I do assume there’s some proof for what they’re saying, however let’s have a look at it in two components. One is the problem on the deserves, the place I believe there’s no query Tim Walz has padded and inflated his resume. And the second is his navy resume.

NAWAZ: In what manner particularly?

JOHNSON: Effectively, J.D. Vance talked about that the timing of his retirement is suspect, and I believe it could take somewhat bit longer to speak concerning the timeline of that. However the —

NAWAZ: He’s alleging that he retired as a result of his unit was being deployed.

JOHNSON: Proper. He knew that they had been going to be known as up. He had gotten a warning that they had been going to be known as up, and he stated in a press launch for his marketing campaign, if known as up, I’ve an obligation to serve. He didn’t do this.

It’s clear he has — he’s inflated this, and he’s made it part of his biography. By the best way, this has been a difficulty in each single considered one of Walz’s campaigns. However, individually, I believe there’s a query of how vital is that this going to be down the street? You talked about the swiftboat veterans. These assaults had been efficient, however they had been levied towards the presidential nominee of the Democratic Occasion, John Kerry, again in 2004 —

NAWAZ: They had been additionally discredited.

JOHNSON: — which is, which is totally different.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “Nawaz illustrates what’s so unsuitable with the fashionable media in how they reflexively take sides on the very second they assume they’re performing as robust journalists getting on the fact. As an alternative of pursuing these within the Harris-Walz camp to find out the reality about Walz’s navy report, she presumes the Republicans are within the unsuitable and so their supposedly false claims should be discredited. It proves which aspect of the political divide she sits.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams

 

■ August 5: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Rachel Scott doubles down on Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options ABC’s Rachel Scott, contemporary from zinging former President Donald Trump at a black media conference, whacking him once more whereas discussing marketing campaign debates on the community’s Sunday public affairs present, This Week.

Taking part in a panel dialogue, Scott praised Vice President Kamala Harris’s “nuance” on her mixed-race heritage. “It has been actually notable for us reporters who’ve picked up on the nuance about how she has responded to a few of these assaults questioning her racial identification,” she stated.

Scott was criticized by Trump when she opened a Q&A on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference by questioning his previous feedback on black individuals and why they need to help him. An irked Trump shot again, “I believe it’s a really nasty query.”

On This Week, she channeled a Harris marketing campaign speaking level as she fancied a Harris-Trump debate: “And picture that on the talk stage the place you will have a prosecutor probably going through off towards somebody who has simply been convicted.”

From Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: I used to be struck, Rachel, within the vp’s response to what occurred at your interview. She appeared to concentrate on what Jonathan Martin is speaking about. Don’t make this again about her after he offers these feedback.

RACHEL SCOTT: And it has been actually notable for us reporters who’ve picked up on the nuance about how she has responded to a few of these assaults questioning her racial identification. She just isn’t going there, and Democrats say, “Look, she is aware of who she is.” She identifies as a black and Asian lady. Why does she need to go on the market and reply in that kind of manner? What she is doing is placing it again on Donald Trump and Republicans, saying they’re dividing, after which pivoting again to the problems.

….

SUSAN PAGE, USA TODAY: I moderated the final debate she did in 2020, the vice presidential debate. She is an efficient debater. She is assured. She makes use of somewhat humor. She made Mike Pence be quiet, which is one thing I struggled to do, and she or he got here throughout as a prosecutor, and that may be a good message for her.

STEPHANOPOULOS: That appears to be her candy spot.

SCOTT: And picture that on the talk stage the place you will have a prosecutor probably going through off towards somebody who has simply been convicted, proper? And that’s the kind of picture that, in fact, Democrats are hoping that they’ll even have on the talk stage. However sure, and considering again to her taking over President Biden after they had been operating towards one another within the Democratic major, Democrats see her as somebody who can thrive doubtlessly on the talk stage. The query is, does it really occur?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “Scott appears near-giddy over Harris, performing extra as a Kamala Whisperer than as any type of impartial journalist. She could sofa her ‘reporting’ by citing ‘what Democrats are hoping,’ but it surely’s clear she’s hoping for a similar factor: eagerly anticipating ‘the prosecutor versus the felon’ debate adopted by a Harris election victory.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ July 29: Liberal Media Scream: CNN spins Biden as martyr for stopping Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent spin from CNN that President Joe Biden’s choice to drop out of his reelection race ensures the top of President Donald Trump too.

Fareed Zakaria provided this Sunday on his “My Take” commentary:

“The ultimate legacy of Biden is that he has returned the presidency to an workplace of sanity, decency, and dignity, ushering out the harmful demagoguery and anti-democratic rhetoric and habits that preceded him. However for that legacy to endure, and for Biden’s time period to not merely be a second in time, he wanted to make sure that america really closes the chapter on Donald Trump.”

Perspective didn’t matter. In actual fact, Biden’s “pals” pushed him out due to his poor polling, and whereas Vice President Kamala Harris has seen a soar in curiosity in her, she is main Trump in solely two of eight nationwide polls taken after Biden’s July 21 announcement, and people leads are of 1% and a couple of%.

Zakaria on Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN:

“The ultimate legacy of Biden is that he has returned the presidency to an workplace of sanity, decency, and dignity, ushering out the harmful demagoguery and anti-democratic rhetoric and habits that preceded him. However for that legacy to endure, and for Biden’s time period to not merely be a second in time, he wanted to make sure that america really closes the chapter on Donald Trump.

“And to assist make this extra seemingly, he made the painful choice to not run for the presidency, which may even earn him a particular place within the historical past books. Joe Biden has felt that he has been underestimated all his life. Judging by his tenure within the White Home, he’s proper.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “A lot for jaded journalists holding to account these in energy. Relating to preserving Trump from returning to the White Home, a lot of the media eagerly purchase into advancing the social gathering line on how Biden made a ‘painful choice’ to place the nation forward of himself when, in actual fact, a skeptical journalist would understand it was nothing greater than Biden making use of grandiose spin, which Zakaria ate up, to cowl for an impending humiliating defeat.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 22: Liberal Media Scream: NBC insider says Biden as ‘nice’ as Washington

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the race amongst Washington journalists to erase their protection of President Joe Biden as a senile loser and lift him to sainthood standing.

The most effective instance got here from a former Newsweek reporter and NBC Information contributor who not solely in contrast Biden to former President George Washington but in addition to the Roman statesman Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, thought of the determine of advantage for leaving his place of energy to return to farming.

“I additionally was considering of Joe Biden’s legacy,” Jonathan Alter stated. “He shall be remembered as an excellent president. He shall be talked about in the identical sentence as George Washington. Why? As a result of selflessly leaving energy, and the circumstances of him clinging to it within the final three weeks shall be forgotten, the fundamental choice to go away energy, which began with Cincinnatus in 439 B.C.,” he added.

From Monday’s Morning Information NOW on the NBC Information NOW streaming channel:

CO-ANCHOR JOE FRYER: You’re keen on historical past a lot. What was going by your thoughts yesterday when this choice got here down? How do you rank this within the twenty first century so far as necessary tales?

JONATHAN ALTER: Extraordinarily necessary, extraordinarily uncommon in American politics. The final time it occurred was in 1968 when incumbent President Lyndon Johnson stepped away.

I additionally was considering of Joe Biden’s legacy. He shall be remembered as an excellent president. He shall be talked about in the identical sentence as George Washington. Why? As a result of selflessly leaving energy, and the circumstances of him clinging to it within the final three weeks shall be forgotten, the fundamental choice to go away energy, which began with Cincinnatus in 439 B.C.

After which George Washington picks up from Cincinnatus. Town, in fact, is called for this. Why Cincinnatus? Why is he nonetheless so well-known? As a result of this selfless act — of leaving energy, which in human historical past is a particularly uncommon factor to do — elevates you. And together with a report of real achievement, it can put Joe Biden in very, superb stead when it comes to historical past.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What’s subsequent? Evaluating Biden to Jesus? Solely a matter of time, I believe, a minimum of on this planet of MSNBC and NBC Information. Apparently, Alter is so enthralled with Biden that he can’t see a distinction between the broadly admired George Washington, who rejected the general public groundswell urging him to change into the king, and the unpopular Biden who solely stepped away when confronted with the close to certainty of an embarrassing defeat bringing down him and far of his social gathering.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 15: Liberal Media Scream: Anger over blood-splattered ‘battle, battle, battle’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the instantly iconic pictures of a blood-splattered former President Donald Trump urging supporters to “battle, battle, battle” to revive him to the White Home and the media’s queasiness with and misinterpretation of his message.

For the president and his supporters, the message was clear: Stand as much as the assaults and construct a unified base to win. However to many within the media, they noticed it as a disturbing, offended message of revenge.

At CNN, for instance, Jamie Gangel took offense to Trump, who survived the assassination try by millimeters. “I believe what we’re listening to from individuals is that’s not the message that we need to be sending proper now. We need to tamp it down,” she stated.

That is what Gangel stated on CNN Saturday night time, about 4 hours after the taking pictures:

“I do need to say there was one factor that, after I watched the tape, I discovered odd due to all the heated rhetoric. And that’s that after he was hit, former President Trump received up and stated, ‘Battle, battle, battle.’ I believe what we’re listening to from individuals is that’s not the message that we need to be sending proper now. We need to tamp it down.”

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “I’m sorry, not, that Trump didn’t show the right decorum to fulfill Gangel a minute after getting shot and barely escaping alive in an assassination try. That Gangel’s first intuition was to assault the phrases of the sufferer reveals the distorted worldview of CNN, the place Trump and MAGA are the threats to democracy which should be suppressed.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 8: Liberal Media Scream: Welker pushes Meet the Press even additional left

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent demonstration that NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, within the anchor seat for lower than a 12 months, has pushed the present additional left than Chuck Todd left it.

This Sunday, it was Welker utilizing her trademark apply of beating her level into the bottom in demanding one other Republican to “settle for the election outcomes,” which she clearly believes will present President Joe Biden reelected.

Her goal was Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on former President Donald Trump’s quick checklist of operating mates.

“Are you able to say unequivocally, unequivocally right here and now, that you’ll settle for the outcomes of the 2024 election it doesn’t matter what they’re?” she requested, ignoring warnings from the FBI about election hanky panky and among the issues discovered within the 2020 poll casting.

When Vance stated he’s hoping for a clear election, Welker stated he was signaling that the election gained’t be honest. He fired again that it’s the media’s blindness to issues that’s the risk to the election consequence, not a candidate’s hope for problem-free elections.

“What I believe really undermines individuals’s confidence within the electoral system is when the media is incurious about apparent examples of issues in our electoral system,” Vance stated.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

KRISTEN WELKER: Effectively, right here we’re a couple of week earlier than the Republican conference. Earlier than I allow you to go, are you able to say unequivocally, unequivocally right here and now, that you’ll settle for the outcomes of the 2024 election it doesn’t matter what they’re?

SEN. J.D. VANCE [R-OH]: As long as it’s a free and honest election, Kristen, in fact we are going to. We are going to use constitutional processes to problem points if we expect there are points. But when it’s a free and honest election, we are going to do what the Structure requires. We are going to respect the outcomes. And I anticipate these outcomes are going to be to reelect Donald Trump.

WELKER: It was a free and honest election in 2020. Donald Trump took his considerations to courtroom. He misplaced in courtroom. However he nonetheless has not conceded. Do you perceive that while you refuse to commit unequivocally, that feeds into individuals’s considerations, skepticism concerning the nation’s electoral course of?

VANCE: Effectively, Kristen, I don’t agree with that really. I believe that feeding into individuals’s considerations about our electoral course of is that one-half of America’s political section, they gained’t help laws that makes it more durable for unlawful aliens to vote. They gained’t help common voter ID in our elections although you need to current ID to do virtually something on this nation. I believe taking individuals’s considerations critically about election fraud is the best way to bolster safety and confidence in our elections.

WELKER: Sure, senator, it’s already towards the regulation for noncitizens to vote. However simply on that very level, while you, when others refuse to say, “Sure, we are going to settle for the election outcomes,” do you perceive how that undermines individuals’s confidence within the electoral system?

VANCE: However, Kristen, what I simply stated is I don’t agree with that. What I believe really undermines individuals’s confidence within the electoral system is when the media is incurious about apparent examples of issues in our electoral system. I believe we’ve received nice elections, however a whole lot of issues might be higher in sure states. I need to work to make that occur so the American individuals have higher confidence of their elections. That’s what I’ll hold doing.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Welker has managed to make Meet the Press extra of a car for the agenda of liberals than it was underneath Chuck Todd. Each week, it appears, she acts as a thought police operative, demanding Republican friends pay fealty to the Democratic media social gathering line on how elections can’t be questioned, attempting to undermine their very legitimacy as elected officers. In Vance’s case, she distorted his reply to look the other of what it was so she may lecture him about his improper considering.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 1: Liberal Media Scream: NBC’s Welker lies about ‘lies,’ can’t stand truthful Republicans

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options President Joe Biden’s media cheerleading squad looking for some option to divert the general public’s consideration away from the truth that the president was out of it throughout final week’s debate with former President Donald Trump.

The highest tactic of the liberal press was to say that Trump informed extra “lies” than the comatose president. And when Republicans pushed again, the media simply ignored and pressed on.

Working example was NBC’s Kristen Welker, the Meet the Press anchor. Certainly one of her featured friends was Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), who’s on Trump’s quick checklist of operating mate candidates. Not solely did she press him on whether or not he was a liar, she informed lies about debate statements Trump made which were fact-checked as truthful.

“As somebody who’s on Donald Trump’s quick checklist to be his vice presidential nominee, do you assume he ought to cease saying issues that aren’t true?” She then recited his supposed lies: “Simply to say a number of: He stated that Democrats need to kill infants after beginning. That’s not true. He once more lied about widespread fraud. Not true. He lied about his feedback after Charlottesville. Ought to he be truthful with the American individuals if he needs to guide this nation? Particularly given what you simply stated that you simply by no means lie. That’s your customary, governor.”

However Democrats actually do help permitting abortion up till beginning and even demise to newborns. That was clearly acknowledged by former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, himself a pediatric neurologist. And liberal reporters love misquoting Trump’s “good individuals on either side” remark concerning the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, but it surely has been debunked, and he was not referring to Nazis as one of many “each” sides.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

GOV. DOUG BURGUM: 4 years in the past, after we ended up with the present ticket on the Democrat aspect, that was this grand satan’s discount of “all people drop out, we’re going with these two.” Then, the largest lie that has been foisted on the American public was seen on Thursday night time. Individuals can’t un-see what they noticed. What they noticed was, we’ve been informed by the White Home, two weeks in the past, the White Home was attacking journalists, together with your folks, saying that no, you possibly can’t say these tales about that Joe Biden isn’t able to serving proper now. After which, all of America noticed it. And you understand who else noticed it? Our adversaries noticed it. Putin noticed it. Xi noticed it. The ayatollah noticed it. I imply, the nation — we hold speaking about elections. We’re at a higher nationwide safety threat immediately than we had been on Thursday as a result of the commander in chief confirmed that he’s not able to serving.

KRISTEN WELKER: Effectively, there’s not proof of that, however governor, let me simply ask you concerning the debate and somewhat bit extra of what we noticed. By one depend, Donald Trump made greater than 30 false claims throughout that debate. I need to play one thing you informed my colleague Chuck Todd on this broadcast final 12 months. Have a look.

CHUCK TODD: You ever lied in politics?

BURGUM: No.

TODD: That you understand of? You don’t imagine you’ve ever lied?

BURGUM: No.

TODD: You are feeling such as you’ve at all times informed the reality as you understood it?

BURGUM: Completely. That’s how I used to be raised and the way I’ve gone ahead.

WELKER: As somebody who’s on Donald Trump’s quick checklist to be his vice presidential nominee, do you assume he ought to cease saying issues that aren’t true?

BURGUM: I believe the entire manufactured factor this morning of, that Donald Trump has stated one thing that he hasn’t stated earlier than, I imply, all the things that he stated on Thursday night time he’s been saying earlier than. I imply, so this isn’t, this isn’t information.

WELKER: This isn’t manufactured. However this isn’t manufactured, governor. I imply, simply to say a number of: He stated that Democrats need to kill infants after beginning. That’s not true. He once more lied about widespread fraud. Not true. He lied about his feedback after Charlottesville. Ought to he be truthful with the American individuals if he needs to guide this nation? Particularly given what you simply stated that you simply by no means lie. That’s your customary, governor.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Welker is so certain of herself, so smugly superior that she will rattle off an inventory of supposed lies from Donald Trump with none self-awareness that she is passing on distortions of what Trump stated whereas she calls for Gov. Burgum criticize Trump for not being truthful. After which, when Burgum makes a superbly cheap statement, she corrects him with the ‘there’s not proof of that’ bromide. Pot, meet kettle.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 24: Liberal Media Scream: CNN proves anti-Trump bias days earlier than debate

(Washington Examiner put up)

And similar to that, CNN confirmed its anti-Trump bias on Monday, simply three days earlier than internet hosting the primary debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, proving Republicans appropriate in complaining that the talk could be an ambush.

It got here early Monday morning when anchor Kasie Hunt was internet hosting Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. On the time, Secrets and techniques was contemplating the week’s decisions for the Liberal Media Scream characteristic with Brent Baker of the Media Analysis Middle.

Tales concerning the sturdy anti-Trump bias of co-debate moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper began to look over the weekend, so it wasn’t surprising that Leavitt would criticize them. Readers could recall that CNN and Trump have an antagonistic relationship, highlighted when CNN host Jim Acosta tussled with Trump throughout a press convention 5 years in the past.

When Leavitt hit CNN’s bias, Hunt, who usually consists of Republicans on her present, wouldn’t hear of it, shut off her visitor’s microphone, and kicked Trump’s spokeswoman off the air. The 2 traded tweets afterward, however the harm was carried out and led to a piling on by these upset with Hunt’s liberal bias, together with Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) spouse, who famous that Hunt known as the story about an assault on the senator considered one of her “favourite tales.”

So, for her actions, Hunt wins our Liberal Media Scream of the week with a ranking of 5 out of 5 screams.

From Monday’s CNN This Morning:

KAROLINE LEAVITT: Effectively, President Trump is effectively ready forward of Thursday’s debates. Not like Joe Biden, he doesn’t have to cover away and have his advisers inform him what to say. President Trump is aware of what he needs to say, and he’s going to relay his imaginative and prescient to the American individuals to make this nation sturdy, protected, safe, and rich once more. He’s been doing that throughout this nice nation, to all corners of this nation.

That’s why he was in Detroit, Michigan, final week. He was in Philadelphia for an enormous rally on Saturday night time, and that’s why President Trump is knowingly going right into a hostile atmosphere on this very community, on CNN, with debate moderators who’ve made their opinions about him very well-known over the previous eight years of their biased protection of him. So President Trump is prepared to deliver his message to each nook of this nation, to voters, to make sure that he wins this election in November. He seems to be ahead to doing that, and I do know the American public seems to be ahead to listening to from him.

KASIE HUNT: So, I’ll simply say my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have acquitted themselves as skilled as they’ve lined campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I’ll additionally say that for those who discuss to analysts at debates earlier, that for those who’re attacking the moderators, you’re often dropping. So, I actually need to concentrate on what these two males are going to do and say after they stand on the stage. Now, now we have somewhat little bit of what Donald Trump, your boss, has stated in attempting to set expectations for this debate. I need to play a few of a collection of his feedback, after which we’ll discuss it. Watch.

DONALD TRUMP CLIPS: Possibly I’m higher off dropping the talk. I’ll be sure he says I lose the talk on function. Possibly I’ll do one thing like that. … I assume he’s gonna be someone that shall be a worthy debater. … Ought to I be robust and nasty and simply say you’re the worst president in historical past, or ought to I be good and calm and let him converse?

HUNT: So he’s mainly saying there, effectively, will I let Joe Biden win? It does appear as if many Republicans have set the bar very low when it comes to arguing that Joe Biden is mainly senile. Now, you will have individuals like Doug Burgum popping out and saying, effectively, President Biden’s very achieved, attempting to set expectations in a special place. What do you anticipate from Joe Biden?

LEAVITT: Effectively, initially, it takes somebody 5 minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper has persistently, ceaselessly likened President Trump to Adolf Hitler —

HUNT: Ma’am, I’m going to cease this interview for those who proceed to assault my colleagues. I want to discuss Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you’re employed for. In case you are right here to talk on his behalf, I’m prepared to have this dialog.

LEAVITT: I’m stating details that your colleagues have acknowledged prior to now. Now, as for this debate, the expectations for, the expectations for —

HUNT: Now, I’m sorry, guys. We’re going to return again out to the panel. Karoline, thanks very a lot on your time. You’re welcome to return again at any level. She is welcome to return again and discuss Donald Trump, and Donald Trump can have equal time to Joe Biden after they each be part of us … later this week in Atlanta for this debate. Our because of Karoline.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Not a great signal for Donald Trump and his supporters forward of CNN’s debate. If Hunt’s aggressiveness is any information, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash gained’t be reluctant to make use of their energy to kill the rostrum microphones to silence the candidate who says issues they’ve an extended report of denouncing and condemning. Trump could effectively remorse agreeing to permit CNN to host a debate.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 17: Liberal Media Scream: ‘What the f***?’: Celebrities baffled voters like Trump for sounding ‘regular’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options world-class comics expressing shock that the general public connects with former President Donald Trump as a result of he sounds regular and even humorous.

“What the f***?” yelped Charlamagne tha God, showing on Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher’s “Extra time” with liberal talker Ana Navarro.

The trio had been speaking about Trump and answering questions when Maher stated, “Is Trump harmful as a result of he’s humorous?”

When Maher stated the actual fact is that folks reply to Trump’s commoner manner of speaking, the black comedian stated, “Republicans are extra honest about their lies than Democrats are about their fact. Like while you hearken to Donald Trump discuss, you hearken to Marjorie Taylor Greene, that’s what Waffle Home feels like at three within the morning. And sadly, individuals relate to that.”

From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher’s “Extra time” present posted on YouTube after the common program aired on HBO, selecting up as Maher posed questions from viewers:

BILL MAHER: Charlamagne, that is for you. “Is Trump harmful as a result of he’s humorous?”

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD [CTG]: What the f***? No, Trump is harmful as a result of at one level he was president of america of America and he’s operating to be president of america of America once more. If he wasn’t, you understand, operating to be in that place, he’d be probably the most hilarious particular person on the planet.

ANA NAVARRO: However, I imply, do you, do you really — you’re a comic — do you really discover him humorous as a result of individuals are laughing at him?

MAHER: Sure, unintentionally?

CTG: Sure.

MAHER: He’s a scream? Oh, he’s so humorous, however he doesn’t comprehend it. No, actually. I imply, there are individuals like that. He has no—

NAVARRO: Once I, after I hearken to him, when he’s speaking in these rallies concerning the sharks and the batteries, I’m ready for the lads in white jackets to indicate up.

CTG: But it surely’s solely as a result of he’s operating for president. If he wasn’t operating for president, you’d be like, “This stand-up is superb.”

MAHER: However he sounds — and I’ve heard you discuss this topic earlier than — he feels like extra of a standard particular person.

CTG: Sure.

MAHER: And that you simply, I do know you stated that the Republicans have an enormous benefit as a result of they impart higher.

CTG: Yeah, Republicans are extra honest about their lies than Democrats are about their fact. Like while you hearken to Donald Trump discuss, you hearken to Marjorie Taylor Greene, that’s what Waffle Home feels like at three within the morning. And sadly, individuals relate to that.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Charlamagne tha God seemingly displays a lot of the bafflement of these on the Left as to why common, not-so-political individuals could be attracted by the messages delivered by Trump and different Republicans. So, aghast on the phenomenon, he should attribute it to how Trump and conservatives are higher talkers and liars, not that their coverage views higher tackle the issues going through the nation.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 10: Liberal Media Scream: ‘The View’ says black individuals not allowed to go away the Democratic plantation

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options The View partaking in racial politics and suggesting that minority viewers ought to keep of their Democratic lane.

On the present, Sunny Hostin was discussing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) giving his help to former President Donald Trump. He’s considered one of Trump’s potential picks for a operating mate.

Hostin, whose roots are Puerto Rican, accused Donalds of pandering to Trump, although a number of polls present black voters just like the ex-president, particularly males, and are transferring to the Republican Occasion after a long time of pandering by the Democratic Occasion.

She stated that such black voters are ultra-rare. “These black males that he was talking with, I’d like to see them. It might be like unicorns,” Hostin stated on Friday’s present.

From Friday’s The View, a present produced by ABC Information:

JOY BEHAR: Florida congressman Byron Donalds hit a brand new low when he informed a room filled with black Republicans that he misses the quote, unquote, good previous days. Watch.

BYRON DONALDS, on June 4: Throughout Jim Crow, the black household was collectively. Throughout Jim Crow, extra black individuals weren’t simply conservative — black individuals have at all times been conservative-minded — however extra black individuals voted conservatively. After which, H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson, and you then go down that street, and now we’re the place we’re.

….

SARA HAINES: What’s scary is while you hear the audio, there are lots of people going, uh-huh, uh-huh. So it appears like a category must be taught to everybody in that room as a result of segregation left you with no selection. Like, you weren’t selecting the household. They had been actually making you go to totally different locations. They didn’t enable for — so, speaking a couple of black particular person selecting to be with your loved ones after which wanting on the higher social scheme and the injustice of that, he should not know what it’s? I imply, that looks like a far leap to not perceive Jim Crow, segregation, and the separation of the race. I don’t perceive.

ANA NAVARRO: If he doesn’t know, disgrace on him, as a result of there may be nothing worse, I believe, than when individuals obtain sure standing and sure rights and don’t recognize, take as a right, the struggles, the deaths, the fights, the marches, all the things it took to have the ability to give Byron Donalds the chance he has now as a result of, underneath Jim Crow, he couldn’t vote. He wouldn’t have been in Congress. He couldn’t have married his spouse. He’s married to a stunning lady named Erika, who’s white. Interracial marriage was unlawful in Florida till 1969. He may haven’t gone to Florida State College — for over 100 years, black college students weren’t admitted to that college. Over 250 blacks had been lynched in Florida underneath Jim Crow.

For him to be waxing nostalgic about that period that elicits a lot ache — that was such a darkish interval within the historical past of america — is offensive. And for him to be doing it as a black man, as an individual of colour, is much more offensive. What actually drives me loopy, although, is that it’s, like, each three months, a Republican says one thing extra silly about black historical past and slavery, proper? I imply, final 12 months, we had Ron DeSantis saying — defending that there have been good issues about slavery, expertise that had been realized that might be put to good use. Then we had Nikki Haley, who couldn’t admit that slavery was the trigger for the Civil Conflict.

JOY BEHAR: So, my query to you, Sunny: Is it stupidity, like she says, or is it one thing else?

HAINES: I believe it’s pandering. I don’t assume it’s stupidity.

BEHAR: To whom?

HOSTIN: It’s pandering to Donald Trump. I believed it was fascinating that the framing was a room of black Republicans. The place are they? The place are they? As a result of for those who have a look at the stats, 77% of — 81%, I’m sorry, of black males are a part of the Democratic Occasion. Black voters persistently align with the Democratic Occasion. Ninety, over 95% of black girls are a part of the Democratic Occasion. So these black males that he was talking with, I’d like to see them. It might be like unicorns.

And so, I believe that the unhappy factor is, you understand, I agree with you, Ana, is that this got here from the mouth of a black man, proper? And so, for those who’re pandering your self and your neighborhood and your historical past to a person like Donald Trump, who’s a disgraced, one-term, twice impeached, convicted felon, we get to say now, is much more despicable on this nation.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What a disgusting show of left-wing elitism. To assume that, within the title of calling out racism, you assume it’s your home as white individuals to lecture a black man about his views of the standing of the black household and the way it has fared over the a long time. Liberals simply can’t enable anybody to deviate from the authorized liberal perspective and, in the event that they do, they should be ‘shamed’ and corrected in order that they get in line.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 3: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos anti-Trump spin, condescendingly Clintonesque

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the mannequin of the media’s bias within the authorized circumstances towards former President Donald Trump — ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

The previous Clinton White Home communications boss opened his Sunday present, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, with a lecture towards Trump after which introduced on Trump lawyer Will Scharf to face left-wing speaking factors.

Scharf didn’t take it and challenged the Democratic talker, particularly when Stephanopoulos tried to silence him for making factors he didn’t like.

The actions by Stephanopoulos had been harking back to the best way he used to attempt to shut down reporters through the 1992 presidential marketing campaign when quite a few Clinton scandals had been raised, a apply he and different aides continued whereas within the White Home when going through troublesome tales, particularly the Travelgate affair.

From Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, and welcome to This Week. In 1774, John Adams stated consultant authorities and trial by jury are the guts and lungs of liberty. 200 and fifty years later, the guts and lungs of liberty are going through what could be the final stress check. Twelve nameless jurors rendered their verdict on Thursday, discovering Donald Trump responsible on all counts. It’s the third time within the final two years that jurors have rendered verdicts towards Trump.

Jurors have but to contemplate prices towards Trump for much more critical crimes: blocking the peaceable switch of energy, concealing categorized paperwork, encouraging the submitting of false electors. However for now, the New York jurors have already offered their fellow residents with a selection: Can we need to be represented, to be led, for the primary time in historical past by a convicted felon? That reply will are available November….

STEPHANOPOULOS: The ethics panel for the state of New York stated the choose was not required to recuse….  

STEPHANOPOULOS: If look of impropriety is the usual for recusal, then why shouldn’t Justice Thomas and Justice Alito need to recuse from the circumstances earlier than the Supreme Court docket?….

WILL SCHARF: The weaponization of our authorized system, the politicization of prosecution, these are all issues that President Trump completely has to touch upon. I believe the truth that he labored underneath a gag order for so long as he did was manifestly unjust. So, sure, completely, President Trump must be carrying his message to the American individuals. And I don’t see how anybody can actually poke holes at that.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You talked concerning the weaponization of the authorized system. After all, it was former President Trump who threw out the 2016 marketing campaign, led chants of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton. However what do you anticipate from the sentencing course of?

SCHARF: Effectively, however maintain on a second, George, President Trump could have stated that, however after he entered workplace, he actually didn’t weaponize the Division of Justice to pursue his political opponents the best way that we’ve seen … within the final couple years.

Bear in mind, this case in New York, it was known as the zombie case. It sat and sat and sat. It may have been introduced at any level after 2020. After which all of the sudden, when President Trump introduced his marketing campaign for president, it was dusted off, rushed in entrance of a grand jury, after which rushed into courtroom. You need to discuss concerning the politicization of the authorized system, I imply, that is Exhibit A. It’s completely unprecedented in American historical past. It’s not the best way that our campaigns are speculated to be run. We contest elections on the poll field, not within the courts, on this nation.

STEPHANOPOULOS: That’s true. However, in fact, we’ve by no means had a former president or presidential candidate going through the type of prices that the president confronted due to his personal actions. And, in fact, the lawyer basic in Manhattan has nothing to do with the Division of Justice. Lastly, what do you anticipate from the sentencing course of?

SCHARF: I vehemently disagree that the district lawyer in New York was not politically motivated right here, and I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren’t up their necks on this prosecution. I believe the truth that the Biden marketing campaign —

STEPHANOPOULOS: There’s no proof right here of that. Sir, there’s no — there’s not — I’m not going to allow you to proceed to say that. There’s simply zero proof of that.

SCHARF: Effectively, how about the truth that Matthew Colangelo was standing over Alvin Bragg’s shoulder when he introduced this verdict? I imply, Colangelo was the No. 3 official within the Biden Division of Justice who all of the sudden disappears and reveals up as an assistant district lawyer, proper as Trump’s case in New York begins to proceed. You need to discuss political —

STEPHANOPOULOS: After the choice was made there —

SCHARF: You need to discuss political coordination, George, it’s proper there in entrance of you.

STEPHANOPOULOS: This has nothing to do — this has nothing to do — no, it’s not. This has nothing to do with President Biden. Do you need to reply the query concerning the sentencing course of or not?

SCHARF: I fully disagree that this has nothing to do with President Biden. With respect to sentencing, as I stated earlier than, we’re going to vigorously problem this case on attraction. I don’t assume President Trump goes to finish up being topic to any sentence by any means. And we stay up for getting this case into the following courtroom and taking this once more all the best way as much as the U.S. Supreme Court docket if essential to vindicate President Trump’s rights.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Thanks on your time this morning.

SCHARF: Admire it, George.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “A Sunday sermon adopted by aggressive left-wing speaking factors aimed toward not permitting legitimacy for views which don’t comport with ‘the details’ because the very liberal and really partisan Stephanopoulos sees them. We’re in for 5 extra months of this from the media and left-wing activists in it like Stephanopoulos: aggressive disdain for anybody making some extent on behalf of Trump, imbued with condescending sneering about how there’s ‘no proof’ for that time when there’s loads of proof for it.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 27: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC common cites Clarence Thomas’s white spouse in racist rant

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent instance of the Left’s hysteria over conservative judges on the Supreme Court docket.

MSNBC common talker Elie Mystal stated that Affiliate Justice Clarence Thomas not solely wished votes from black individuals to depend lower than white votes in elections, however he cited Thomas’s spouse of 37 years, Virginia Thomas, who’s white, as proof.

“Yeah, the by line between the Alito flag story, the Clarence Thomas coup story, and their wives, and what we noticed immediately from the Supreme Court docket on this gerrymandering choice, the by line is that they don’t need black individuals’s votes to depend equally,” Mystal stated on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC Thursday.

“I imply, he ain’t married to Ginni Thomas for nothing, all proper — like, that’s what the person thinks,” the black pundit stated.

He was discussing a 6-3 Supreme Court docket choice final week to maintain a South Carolina congressional map {that a} decrease courtroom had dominated included a racially drawn gerrymander. The courtroom stated the challengers had not confirmed their case. The choice was written by Affiliate Justice Samuel Alito, who has drawn fireplace for his spouse’s flying of their American flag within the “misery” sign.

From Thursday’s All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC:

CHRIS HAYES: I need to begin on what we received from the courtroom immediately and the actual fact it was an Alito-authored choice. It was an Alito-authored choice from the Trump majority, 6-3 majority, liberals in dissent, holding up a Republican gerrymander.

ELIE MYSTAL: Yeah, the by line between the Alito flag story, the Clarence Thomas coup story, and their wives and what we noticed immediately from the Supreme Court docket on this gerrymandering choice, the by line between all of that’s that they don’t need black individuals’s votes to depend equally.

HAYES: Do you assume that’s true of Clarence Thomas?

MYSTAL: I do know that it’s true of Clarence Thomas, all proper. Their concept and Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence immediately, wrote straight up that he doesn’t assume the 14th Modification and the equal safety clause of that modification can be utilized to guard the voting rights of black individuals.

HAYES: Sure.

MYSTAL: I imply, he ain’t married to Ginni Thomas for nothing, all proper — like, that’s what the person thinks. He wrote it immediately. The by line — perceive this, Chris, when these individuals like Alito and Thomas help the revolt, proper, what are they actually saying? They’re saying that Trump gained — misplaced the election however gained the white vote, which is true, he did, he gained the white vote by loads, white individuals ought to in all probability do one thing about that, however he gained the white vote by loads. And what Alito and Thomas are saying is that it’s that white vote that Trump gained is that’s the one votes that matter.

That we should always do what the white voters need and after they write these selections like they did within the gerrymandering case, what they’re straight up saying is that black voters might be diluted, can have their voting rights taken away, just because black voters occur to vote Democrat.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How insidious an angle to have towards an American establishment when your ideological rivalry is that it’s Trump and MAGA who’re destroying democracy. No, you’re doing that with such a disreputable, race-based assault on the courtroom since you don’t agree with a ruling, compounded by an affordable shot on the first conservative African American on the Supreme Court docket as a self-hater as a result of the race of his spouse doesn’t match his. Can’t go a lot decrease.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 20: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ Could 13: Liberal Media Scream: Networks shamefully use Reagan to defend Biden

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options all three community Sunday public affairs reveals going to bat for President Joe Biden’s betrayal of Israel for largely political causes by suggesting he was simply following a sample set by former President Ronald Reagan.

“Historians would say, ‘Why is it OK for Reagan to do it and never President Biden?’” NBC’s Kristen Welker stated in a key instance of the hassle.

At concern was Biden’s flip-flop to carry again weaponry Israel must push its effort to rid Hamas from Gaza after the terrorists shocked the world with brutal assaults on Israeli girls, kids, and troops final October. Biden’s transfer got here in response to campus protests by pro-Hamas protesters.

The community discuss reveals famous that Reagan additionally performed hardball with Israel however usually for extra diplomatic causes than home politics. What’s extra, as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) famous, no one ever questioned whether or not Reagan had Israel’s again in going through down Arab enemies.

From the Could 12 ABC, NBC, and CBS Sunday morning interview reveals:

— ABC’s This Week host Martha Raddatz to Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX): You repeatedly invoke former President Ronald Reagan. You heard Sen. Coons deliver up the actual fact he paused weapons to Israel as effectively. You continuously ask your self, ‘What would Ronald Reagan do?’ That’s what Ronald Reagan did.

— NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): President Biden just isn’t the primary president to make use of arms shipments to attempt to affect Israeli coverage. As you understand, former President Ronald Reagan, on a number of events, withheld weapons to impression Israel’s navy actions. Did President Reagan present that utilizing U.S. navy assist as leverage can really be an efficient option to rein in and impression Israel’s coverage?…

GRAHAM: The Republican Occasion is with Israel, with out apology.

WELKER: Effectively, historians would say, ‘Why is it OK for Reagan to do it and never President Biden?‘

— CBS’s Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): You understand that previous presidents have withheld navy assist to Israel to pressure adjustments in habits. President Reagan did that. President Bush did that. Why do you will have an issue with President Biden doing it?

COTTON: Ronald Reagan’s choice to pause the supply of fighter jets within the Eighties was completely totally different from what’s occurred right here. Israel is combating a struggle of survival towards a terrorist group that dedicated the worst atrocity towards Jews since World Conflict II. Within the Eighties, an Israeli ambassador had been focused for assassination. Ronald Reagan knew the pause of fighter jets wouldn’t intrude with Israel’s combating as a result of they’d loads of fighters. He didn’t pause munitions. Joe Biden just isn’t sending munitions in the course of a taking pictures struggle that’s a struggle of survival. And have a look at the broader context. Israel knew that Ronald Reagan had its again within the area. He sank half of Iran’s navy. Joe Biden has persistently given Iran tons of of billions of {dollars} of sanctions aid that precisely funded teams like Hamas.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The sudden respect for the insurance policies of Ronald Reagan from members of the Washington press corps, who’re usually disdainful towards him, is outstanding. It makes one assume all of them received a speaking factors memo from Biden marketing campaign allies and are repeating them to problem their Republican friends.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 6: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Karl cries wolf with DEFCON 1 Trump warning

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one other breathless election warning from one other ABC Information Trump critic, Jonathan Karl.

Every week after This Week host George Stephanopoulos virtually seized up over the potential of former President Donald Trump returning to energy, as many citizens need, fill-in Karl spun the election as a very powerful ever on Sunday.

“No extra crying wolf. That is it,” he stated.

With six months earlier than the election, let’s hope the New York Metropolis Fireplace Division begins parking an ambulance at ABC Information headquarters in case one of many information readers passes out in warning America whom to vote for.

Karl, on the high on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

“Good morning. Welcome to This Week. For so long as I’ve lined politics, politicians have stated, ‘This shall be a very powerful election of our lifetimes.’ They stated that regardless of how excessive or low the stakes really had been. Election Day 2024 is strictly six months from immediately, and this time, the divisions in our nation are so huge and the selection so stark there’s little doubt this actually is a very powerful election of our time. No extra crying wolf. That is it.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The election is six months away, and the highest anchors for ABC Information are already constructing themselves right into a lather of shock, lecturing their viewers on who they higher not vote for — or else. One wonders how uncontrolled they are going to change into because the election grows nearer, particularly if polls proceed to indicate Donald Trump within the lead. They’re passing DEFCON 2. As soon as they hit DEFCON 1, what’s subsequent?”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 29: Liberal Media Scream: May you cry extra, George Stephanopoulos?

(Washington Examiner put up)

For years, George Stephanopoulos ran block and worse for former President Invoice Clinton. First, it was Gennifer Flowers, after which Travelgate and Whitewater. A number of different scandals adopted.

His boss received away with most and didn’t face the music till he was lastly impeached for mendacity concerning the Monica Lewinsky intercourse scandal.

However on Sunday, in an editorial to guide off his ABC Sunday discuss present, the previous Clinton spokesman ripped into former President Donald Trump, who’s going through a number of courtroom circumstances for what some authorized analysts see as political assaults. That each transfer Trump makes is hit by the media or added to his authorized troubles isn’t sufficient for Stephanopoulos.

As an alternative, and the rationale he’s our characteristic for this week’s Liberal Media Scream, he needs Trump handled otherwise, claiming that the previous president has pushed the nation to the brink of civil struggle regardless of now being the candidate most individuals need to win in November, in keeping with CNN.

“It’s all too straightforward to fall into reflective habits, to deal with this as a standard marketing campaign the place either side embrace the rule of regulation, the place either side are devoted to a debate based mostly on details and the peaceable switch of energy,” he lectured on Sunday.

“However that’s not what’s occurring this election 12 months. These bedrock tenets of our democracy are being examined in a manner we haven’t seen for the reason that Civil Conflict. It’s a check for the candidates, for these of us within the media, and for all of us as residents,” he added.

From Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

Good morning, and welcome to This Week. Till now, no American president had ever confronted a legal trial. No American president had ever confronted a federal indictment for retaining and concealing categorized paperwork. No American president had ever confronted a federal indictment or a state indictment for attempting to overturn an election or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two different states for a similar crime. No American president ever confronted tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in judgments for enterprise fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse. Till now, no American presidential race had been extra outlined on what’s occurring in courtrooms than what’s occurring on the marketing campaign path — till now.

The size of the abnormality is so staggering that it will probably really change into numbing. It’s all too straightforward to fall into reflective habits, to deal with this as a standard marketing campaign the place either side embrace the rule of regulation, the place either side are devoted to a debate based mostly on details and the peaceable switch of energy.

However that’s not what’s occurring this election 12 months. These bedrock tenets of our democracy are being examined in a manner we haven’t seen for the reason that Civil Conflict. It’s a check for the candidates, for these of us within the media, and for all of us as residents.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Talking of checks, George Stephanopoulos has failed the journalism check. He appears fairly happy with it and sure speaks for all too many within the information media who assume they’ve the ethical superiority to declare Trump voters not solely misguided however responsible of placing the fundamental tenets of the nation in danger. So, Stephanopoulos, a high Clinton spokesman within the Nineties who suppressed from voters details about his candidate’s misdeeds, will save us all through the use of these left-wing political instincts to determine which candidate voters must be allowed to choose.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 22: Liberal Media Scream: Historian Meacham says ‘patriotism’ calls for Biden win

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream is a uncommon five-screamer that includes a liberal journalist turned “historian” and biographer claiming that voter patriotism calls for reelecting President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump.

Jon Meacham, the previous high editor of Newsweek, stated on HBO’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher, “Patriotism is allegiance to an concept. It’s not simply an allegiance to your personal form. That’s nationalism. Trump is a nationalist. President Biden is a patriot.”

Speaking extra like an East Coast elitist than a Tennessee native, the liberal analyst added with seriousness, “I’m fortunate in that I don’t have explicit coverage passions, explicit points.”

And he included a condescending little jab at his house state. “I would like the constitutional order to proceed to unfold, and President Biden is dedicated to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I’d say to my Republican pals — and I reside in Tennessee, in order that’s redundant — that it’s, in actual fact, an ethical query.”

Right here is Meacham, on Actual Time with Invoice Maher, reacting to the information that former Lawyer Normal William Barr (a Trump critic) will vote for his former boss:

JON MEACHAM: What Barr is doing, and what so many — I typically consider them because the Peter Millar Republicans, proper, these are Republicans who will not be full MAGA individuals, they’re males’s grill sorts who don’t need Democrats selecting judges or setting tax charges.

They talked themselves into this twice. In ’16 and in ’20. After which got here December and January of 2020 and 2021, and, at that time, I imagine, and I say this with care, that it’s change into evident, to me, anyway, that there’s a patriotic responsibility to help President Biden towards Donald Trump for that reason: Patriotism is allegiance to an concept. It’s not simply an allegiance to your personal form. That’s nationalism. Trump is a nationalist. President Biden is a patriot, and I’m fortunate in that I don’t have explicit coverage passions, explicit points. I would like the constitutional order to proceed to unfold, and President Biden is dedicated to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I’d say to my Republican pals — and I reside in Tennessee, in order that’s redundant — that it’s, in actual fact, an ethical query….

To me, the fascinating factor concerning the Republican Occasion is in case you are, in actual fact, going to place partisanship as your central organizing precept, if reflexive partisanship is a very powerful factor — I’d argue that you should return and browse George Washington’s farewell tackle. You have to learn the founders that in any other case, you understand, they love.

You understand, they love the founders after they can transfer it round to agree with them. It’s very clear that if social gathering spirit grew to become the organizing precept, that, that was going to be deadly to the Structure, and it’s very fascinating when Barr stated it’s “suicide.” The concept President Biden is main us to nationwide suicide. I’m unsure what he’s speaking about, however Lincoln used that picture in his first main speech within the 1830s. He stated if we ever fall, it’s not going to be from a international foe: It’s going to be from somebody internally rising up and mastering these passions. And people passions about partisanship, that’s what’s ruining us.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “May Meacham be any extra condescending and elitist? A lot for the pretense of being a journalist and never a partisan activist. His take: I’ve determined which candidate is dangerous for America, so for those who vote for that one, you aren’t solely not a patriot, however you’ll deliver concerning the destruction of the nation. And he wonders why his neighbors in Tennessee don’t recognize him for denouncing them as on ‘the unsuitable aspect’ of ‘an ethical query.’ I guess they’ve much more respect for his views than he does for theirs.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 15: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ April 8: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Reid needs jail, not airport, named for Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream revealed once more simply how straightforward it’s to make cable TV hosts affected by “Trump Derangement Syndrome” go nuts.

With Congress on Easter break, there wasn’t a lot Capitol Hill information final week. So when a report was posted a couple of GOP proposal to rename Dulles Worldwide Airport after former President Donald Trump, MSBNC turned all its weapons on the thought.

On the ReidOut, host Pleasure Reid stated it was dangerous sufficient that the “worst” airport in America is called after Eisenhower-era Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. “Let’s make it worse” by naming it for Trump, she stated.

As an alternative, she instructed that Trump’s title be placed on a Miami jail, a reference to the authorized circumstances he faces, one in Florida.

She and her friends, together with Ali Velshi and Fordham College professor Christina Greer, piled on. Greer even bashed Washington’s nationwide airport being renamed after former President Ronald Reagan. Reid stated, “Yeah, I simply name it ‘DCA.’”

From Friday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC:

JOY REID: Let’s discuss somewhat about this concept of renaming Dulles. Now, Dulles just isn’t the most effective airport — it is likely to be the worst airport in America. The Republicans are like, “Let’s title it after Donald Trump.” I really like the truth that it’s named after one of the crucial diabolical secretaries of state who destroyed Iran and a bunch of Central America.

ALI VELSHI: However let’s make that worse.

REID: Let’s make it worse. Additionally, the Democrats have stated, “As an alternative, let’s title a jail after Trump.” Ideas? Ideas? Ideas? Title a jail in Miami?

VELSHI: That could be a implausible concept.

…

REID: I believe it is a nice alternative for the nerds on the desk simply to speak about Allen Dulles and likewise his brother — it was John Foster Dulles, I believe, and Allen Dulles, and each of them had been concerned in destroying Guatemala and Iran.

VELSHI: Yeah.

REID: So I really feel like that’s necessary, and that’s given me the chance, so, thanks, Republicans.

CHRISTINA GREER: Effectively, I imply, we’ve — they’ve already renamed Nationwide, Reagan, which I refuse to name it.

REID: Yeah, I simply name it “DCA.“

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “Glad one thing about Trump made them chortle, a quick break from the standard full hour of irrational anger at any point out of something Trump. Naturally, Reid couldn’t disguise how her contempt for Republicans goes manner past simply Trump. It’s a disdain so deep she’s nonetheless mad about Ronald Reagan getting an airport named for him and the international coverage of a president who left workplace greater than 60 years in the past.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 1: Liberal Media Scream: Prime editor joins CNN host in ripping MAGA with their ‘fact’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream is a uncommon however deserved five-screamer during which the editor of the Cleveland Plain Vendor joins with a CNN host to sentence former President Donald Trump and his MAGA followers.

Showing on CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt, editor Chris Quinn defined why he wrote a weekend letter to readers concerning the paper’s anti-Trump protection.

He stated, “These are people who watch Fox Information or Newsmax they usually imagine it as a result of they — it seems credible. Then they arrive to our platforms and see the other they usually’re conflicted as a result of they like us. They learn us for the sports activities protection or the native information, or what have you ever.”

Quinn added, “This was for them. I needed to, I owed them some kind of an evidence. And the rationale it was so tough is I don’t need to demean them. I don’t need to criticize them. However I can’t stray from the reality. The reality is that this man is a monster. He’s the worst president in historical past and many individuals perceive that. Those that get their information from not credible sources imagine what they’re listening to.”

Hunt stated, “You stated — one other piece of this to your level of what the reality is, you stated, ‘Belief your eyes. Trump, on Jan. 6, launched probably the most critical risk to our system of presidency for the reason that Civil Conflict. You understand that. You noticed it.’ And simply earlier than that you simply write, ‘This isn’t subjective. All of us noticed it. Loads of leaders immediately attempt to persuade the lots we didn’t see what we noticed however our eyes don’t deceive us.’”

“And I believe that that is the piece of it that will get me as a result of I used to be there on that day and I appeared out the window and I noticed these individuals attempting to assault the Capitol. After which, now, half of those political leaders try to say no, really, that factor that you simply noticed with your personal eyes didn’t occur.”

From immediately’s CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt:

KASIE HUNT: Methods to cowl former President Donald Trump is — fairly actually — one of many hardest, thorniest questions going through us as journalists. It’s one thing that I take into consideration fairly actually each single day after I get up to hitch all of you. And it’s very true within the wake of Jan. 6, which affected me each personally and professionally along with, in fact, having huge implications for our democracy. That is why this all stood out to me.

The Cleveland Plain Vendor determined they wished to handle this with their readers head-on over the weekend. The editor, Chris Quinn, writes this: “The north star right here is fact. We inform the reality, even when it offends among the individuals who pay us for data. The reality is that Donald Trump undermined religion in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an revolt supposed to overthrow our authorities and hold himself in energy. No president in our historical past has carried out worse.”

And becoming a member of me now’s Chris Quinn. He’s the editor of the Plain Vendor and Cleveland.com. Chris, thanks a lot for being right here. It’s an honor to have you ever.

CHRIS QUINN: Good morning.

HUNT: So I liked the way you approached this since you began together with your readers — with the individuals who write to you about this. Lots of them, in fact, are supporters of Donald Trump. And also you write a few of them are extra considerate than others, shall I say.

However that is one thing that I’ve wrestled with as a result of there are such a lot of individuals within the nation who help Donald Trump and lots of of them have causes for doing that that need to do with the circumstances that they face. We don’t need to lose empathy for these individuals. We don’t need to not converse to these individuals. To be, you understand, advocates and useful when it comes to offering these individuals with data.

However you sat down and also you grappled with this query, and also you tried to elucidate why you’re doing what you’re doing in the best way that you simply’re doing it. Are you able to clarify somewhat bit extra of that to all of us proper now?

QUINN: Yeah. This was a really difficult piece to jot down. It really took me virtually six months to get my ideas collectively. I get two sorts of correspondence from Trump supporters and one just isn’t good. It’s very condescending and sneering. And I type of chalk that as much as individuals who had felt omitted of society. Donald Trump gave them a membership to take part in. And there’s nothing I can say or do to assist them perceive what we’re doing.

However the different half write me with nice courtesy and implore me for an evidence. They are saying, “You’re dismissing a big section of the nation while you say that Donald Trump is the monster you describe him as and I don’t see him that manner. What do you say to me?”

These are people who watch Fox Information or Newsmax they usually imagine it as a result of they — it seems credible. Then they arrive to our platforms and see the other they usually’re conflicted as a result of they like us. They learn us for the sports activities protection or the native information, or what have you ever.

So this was for them. I needed to, I owed them some kind of an evidence. And the rationale it was so tough is I don’t need to demean them. I don’t need to criticize them. However I can’t stray from the reality. The reality is that this man is a monster. He’s the worst president in historical past and many individuals perceive that. Those that get their information from not credible sources imagine what they’re listening to.

HUNT: Yeah. I’ll simply say I believe that the decline in our native media is a disaster for a lot of, many causes, however not least is that you simply, as an area paper, have a stage of belief with individuals in your communities that’s merely not attainable to ascertain if you end up a nationwide information group. And I believe that basically comes by on this piece that you simply wrote.

And also you stated — one other piece of this to your level of what the reality is, you stated, “Belief your eyes. Trump, on Jan. 6, launched probably the most critical risk to our system of presidency for the reason that Civil Conflict. You understand that. You noticed it.” And simply earlier than that you simply write, “This isn’t subjective. All of us noticed it. Loads of leaders immediately attempt to persuade the lots we didn’t see what we noticed however our eyes don’t deceive us.”

And I believe that that is the piece of it that will get me as a result of I used to be there on that day and I appeared out the window and I noticed these individuals attempting to assault the Capitol. After which, now, half of those political leaders try to say no, really, that factor that you simply noticed with your personal eyes didn’t occur. Was it that that basically was the factor that underscored this probably the most to you as effectively?

QUINN: Yeah. And look, it’s heartbreaking what you’re seeing immediately. I come from a state the place we’ve had senators like George Voinovich and John Glenn — individuals who would by no means have stood by throughout these latest years and allowed what’s occurred to occur.

And immediately, now we have J.D. Vance and we would have Bernie Moreno, whose declare to fame is that they need to be puppets for Donald Trump. And it’s not what we must be about.

And that’s why I referenced that New Yorker piece in what I wrote as a result of the New Yorker had a e book evaluation that appeared again and stated the rationale Hitler got here to the fore wasn’t as a result of a bunch of individuals went and voted to have a fascist chief. It was as a result of the individuals in authorities, in attempting to get energy for themselves, appeased him and that allowed him to rise.

That’s what now we have happening. All people is aware of what the reality is. The individuals in Congress had been there. They had been underneath risk from it. However for expedience, they’re denying it occurred.

HUNT: Do you assume that these individuals who need to allow Donald Trump, as you say, what’s the — their stage of culpability right here? I imply, clearly, you discuss Trump, himself, and his, the actions that he takes and his position in attempting to hold on to energy. However these enablers, I imply, what duty do they bear?

QUINN: I believe they’ve full duty. I believe journalists who veer from the reality are going to finish up having full duty.

Look, we’re a regional newsroom and we’re doing effectively. We’re really one of many native newsrooms that’s type of figured it out and we’re thriving and we’re not in any hazard of going away. However now we have our restricted affect.

And so, we’re doing what we will. We’re, you understand, we ask ourselves what’s the best factor to do right here? The fitting factor to do is to name this out, to not say there’s two sides to Donald Trump. There aren’t two sides to Donald Trump. Anyone who has been watching and attempting to discern what the reality is right here is aware of that this man tried to destroy our complete system of presidency and can accomplish that once more. Anyone has to say it.

I want individuals like Dave Joyce, a congressman from Ohio who’s a great man, would get up and simply denounce it. As a result of for those who began to have a number of individuals of excellent conscience do this, perhaps we may cease this wave, which is scary past perception.

HUNT: Effectively, I’m very grateful that you simply took the time to hitch us immediately, Chris, and I do commend studying this column. I’ll once more say that is one thing I take into consideration actually each single day as a result of we do need to be a useful resource, a spot for individuals who need to help Donald Trump or who really feel dissatisfied with the system in their very own lives. I simply needed to ensure that these ears are persevering with to be open to us is a problem that I grapple with daily. And I actually appreciated studying this.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Together with his smug ethical superiority, Quinn encapsulates all the things that’s unsuitable with trendy journalism. He’s determined what ‘the reality’ is and his readers higher get on board. No marvel fewer and fewer are shopping for native newspapers. They’ve change into simply as insulting to their readers because the nationwide media have been for many years. Incredulous that anybody may see Trump as a greater president than Biden.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 25: Liberal Media Scream: Condescending ‘Actually?’ to Rubio’s want to be Trump VP

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream reveals simply how deep the disrespect for former President Donald Trump goes within the press, particularly with those that have created a worthwhile aspect gig writing and speaking about him.

In only one phrase, ABC’s Jonathan Karl heaved up a sanctimonious putdown of Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) when the subject of the seemingly 2024 GOP presidential nominee’s decide for operating mate was raised.

Rubio has stated he could be honored to get the nod, as have a couple of dozen different main Republicans. What’s extra, Rubio would seemingly assist Trump add to his coalition to create a doubtlessly profitable ticket.

However all Karl needed to say was, “Actually?”

It didn’t finish there. As Rubio defined the issues President Joe Biden dumped on America, Karl couldn’t assist however complain, “You’re not suggesting that’s all occurring due to Biden?” Rubio affirmed, “Completely I’m.”

Right here’s the alternate on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

JON KARL: There was some reporting this week that you’re probably into account to be Donald Trump’s operating mate. I don’t put a whole lot of inventory on this reporting proper now. We’re early. However you stated it could be “an honor” to be provided a spot on his ticket. Actually?

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, I believe anybody who is obtainable the chance to serve this nation as vp must be honored by the chance to do it in case you are in public service. I’m within the Senate as a result of I need to serve the nation. Being vp is a vital option to serve the nation. However I’ve additionally been clear. I’ve by no means talked to Donald Trump. I’ve by no means talked to anyone on his crew or household or inside circle about vp. That’s a choice he’s going to make. He has loads of actually good individuals to choose from.

KARL: I imply, the rationale why I requested is, I imply, look what occurred to the final man. I imply, a mob stormed the Capitol, actually calling to hold Mike Pence, and Trump defended these chants of “cling Mike Pence.”

RUBIO: I’ll inform you this, that when Donald Trump was president of america, this nation was safer. It was extra affluent. We had relations, for instance, in part of the world that I care about known as the Western Hemisphere that had been very sturdy. We had a whole lot of good issues carried out there. I believe the nation and the world was a greater place when he was president, and I’d like to see him return to the White Home compared to the man who’s there now, Joe Biden, who’s been a catastrophe economically.

Have a look at the world. Each single day, we get up to a brand new disaster, to a brand new battle. The whole lot has gone on fireplace for the reason that time Joe Biden took over. Afghanistan’s gone down. Ukraine has been invaded. Now the Philippines and the Chinese language are on the verge of one thing dangerous occurring each single day. To not point out the threats to Taiwan. And now we have this blowup in Haiti happening in our very personal hemisphere. We get up each single day, terrorist assaults, 9 million individuals throughout the border. That’s what issues to me.

KARL: However, I imply, you’re not suggesting that’s all occurring due to Biden?

RUBIO: Completely I’m. Completely I’m suggesting it’s occurring due to Biden. He’s president and his weak point and his —

KARL: It’s due to Biden that Russia invaded Ukraine?

RUBIO: Completely.

KARL: It’s due to Biden that Haiti?

RUBIO: Completely. I imply Putin is sitting there, saying these guys can’t even stand as much as the Taliban they usually need to fly individuals hanging off the wings of those airplanes. Now’s the time to go.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How boastful and condescending for a broadcast community TV host to scoff at a U.S. senator for saying he’d be ‘honored’ to function the vice presidential candidate of his social gathering. After which, to behave astonished over a typical Republican speaking level about President Biden’s international coverage failures reveals Karl is little greater than a liberal political operative within the guise of a journalist who’s incredulous that anybody may see Trump as a greater president than Biden.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 18: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Massacre’ is what media are doing to Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream focuses on the media and President Joe Biden’s distortion of former President Donald Trump’s warning of an financial “massacre” if he’s not returned to the White Home to cease China’s dumping of autos within the U.S. underneath Biden.

The media, and now the Biden marketing campaign, pulled the phrase out of an extended Trump rationalization at an Ohio political rally of auto gross sales to make it sound like he was calling for a civil struggle if he’s not elected.

It’s similar to what the media did after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and spelled out how they’d deal with a President Trump if given an opportunity.

Main that pretend rant over the weekend was ABC and a visitor on This Week, New York journal’s Susan Glasser, previously with the liberal-left Washington Put up and Politico.

With none signal of embarrassment for distorting Trump’s phrases, Glasser ranted on about how threatening Trump is.

In workplace, Trump did assail reporters for his or her “pretend information” and overwhelming bias but in addition was probably the most accessible and talkative president throughout his one time period. He adopted an Obama-Biden administration that was condemned by journalists for avoiding reporters and utilizing expertise to go across the media.

Susan Glasser on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

“Donald Trump, it appears to me, it’s very arduous eight years into this. We nonetheless battle with the right way to cowl him as journalists, however in a manner, the unhinged, rambling rants that you simply see from the previous president of america are baked in, and I believe, in a manner, we’re all desensitized and inured to the extraordinary, outstanding and really at instances un-American and threatening issues that the previous president is saying.

“I’m not saying it’s straightforward to grasp the right way to cowl it, however I believe now we have to cowl it when the previous president, who’s already incited violence amongst his followers, says that there’s going to be a massacre after the election if he doesn’t win. He’s telling us what he’s going to do. …

I’m sorry. I simply need to say one thing. Like Donald Trump is attacking, in a broad-brush sense, the fundamental pillars of American democracy. Interval. Full cease. If that’s not information to you. It’s not about tariffs. That’s not the rationale why hundreds of thousands of Individuals are supporting Donald Trump. Let’s be actual about that.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Sure, after eight years of fixed hyperventilating by journalists, over supposed outrageous feedback from Donald Trump, many have change into ‘inured,’ but it surely’s not journalists. It’s the general public to the media’s unending scare-mongering about Trump bringing an finish to ‘the fundamental pillars of American democracy.’ Glasser’s reply: Double down and get extra journalists to be much more aggressive in denouncing Trump. Good luck with that, convincing anybody who has already tuned out such vitriol.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 11: Liberal Media Scream: Hollywood freaks over Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

Hollywood’s awards season has lastly ended and in completely regular election-year trend: Tinseltown freaking out over former President Donald Trump’s attainable return to the White Home.

Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel received a retort from Trump after he blasted the previous president and his Republican allies. Kimmel responded, “Effectively, thanks, President Trump. Thanks for watching. I’m stunned you’re nonetheless — isn’t it previous your jail time?”

However his shruggable efficiency was far outdone by the offended venting of actor Robert De Niro, who stepped up his assaults on Trump.

On Friday, De Niro happy Invoice Maher’s viewers by blasting Trump. “Vote for Trump and also you’ll get the nightmare. Vote for Biden and it is going to be again to normalcy,” he started.

To laughter and applause from Maher’s Los Angeles studio viewers, De Niro marveled at how anybody may help Trump. He known as the poll-leading former president “a complete monster” who will set up a “dictatorship.” Extra insults adopted: “sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist,” in addition to an “fool” and “clown.”

From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:

ROBERT DE NIRO: The underside line is: It’s Biden vs. Trump. We need to reside in a world that we need to reside in and luxuriate in dwelling in or reside in a nightmare? Vote for Trump and also you’ll get the nightmare. Vote for Biden and it is going to be again to normalcy. …

The man is a complete monster, and anyone, I don’t perceive it. I assume they get behind the type of logic: They need to f*** with individuals, screw them as a result of they’re sad about one thing. He’s such a imply, nasty, hateful particular person. I’d by no means play him as an actor as a result of I can’t see any good in him — nothing, nothing in any respect, nothing redeemable in him. Whoever the individuals are who need to vote for him, they usually seem like clever individuals round there, for some cause, it will probably’t be, it can’t be. If he wins the election, you gained’t be on the present anymore. He’ll come on the lookout for me. They’ll be issues that occurred that none of us can think about. That’s what occurs in that type of a dictatorship — which is what he says. Let’s imagine him. Take him at his phrase.

He’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. He’s a harmful particular person … the individuals who one way or the other assume he’s going to be the reply to their prayers, no matter these are.

BILL MAHER: Do you know him as fellow New Yorkers?

DE NIRO: By no means wished to know him.

MAHER: By no means wished to, it’s essential to have crossed —

DE NIRO: He was an fool. He was a clown. He was a clown in New York.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Rants like this from pretentious Hollywood celebrities in all probability drive extra to vote for Trump than dissuade anybody from supporting him. What number of care concerning the all-too-predictable left-wing political opinions of lefties in Hollywood who at all times denounce the Republican candidate and advocate for the Democratic one? Not anybody who’s drawn to Trump.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 4: Liberal Media Scream: Media position is reeducating you on greatness of Bidenomics

(Washington Examiner put up)

President Joe Biden has apparently realized that pitching “Bidenomics” is a loser politically, however his White Home forgot to inform its media echo chamber.

In keeping with an Points & Insights report, Biden has “ditched” the time period, with the report noting Biden and his White Home used the time period 59 instances final July. By final month, it received a point out simply 10 instances.

That is smart since most polls present that the general public considered the time period negatively as a result of they really feel that the economic system is poor and that costs are unjustifiably excessive.

However the well-paid Washington media thinks the general public is silly and must be reeducated on simply how nice Bidenomics is for them.

For instance, this week’s Liberal Media Scream options longtime editor and columnist Margaret Sullivan telling fellow anti-Trumper Christiane Amanpour that it’s as much as them to ensure individuals perceive the implications of their wrong-headedness.

“You understand,” Sullivan stated on Amanpour’s present, “individuals assume that the economic system just isn’t doing effectively. You understand, do our public service mission, which is to ensure, as certain as we will, that now we have an knowledgeable voters. Whose fault is that? Effectively, it’s partly the fault of the media. And I believe that that must be rectified.”

From Saturday’s The Amanpour Hour on CNN

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: The horse race and an age-old dilemma. Why the obsession over Biden’s age misses the purpose.

MARGARET SULLIVAN, GUARDIAN: I ponder whether individuals are as conscious of Trump’s authoritarian plans as they’re of Biden’s age.

AMANPOUR: My subsequent visitor says sufficient is sufficient with the media’s hyperbolic herd mentality protection of Biden’s age and competency. Critic, columnist, and tutorial Margaret Sullivan urges us to get actual concerning the points as a result of this election is about way more than, quote, “chasing clicks.”

SULLIVAN: I believe that the leaders of main American information organizations ought to have entrance and heart of their minds, and be speaking to their staffs, that that is a particularly consequential election and we must be doing our public service position that it’s not a lot about chasing the most recent clicks and the most recent horse race protection however slightly to ensure that we’re getting the stakes of the race throughout to individuals.

You understand, individuals assume that the economic system just isn’t doing effectively. You understand, do our public service mission, which is to ensure, as certain as we will, that now we have an knowledgeable voters. Whose fault is that? Effectively, it’s partly the fault of the media. And I believe that that must be rectified.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What Margaret Sullivan advocates is strictly why the media have misplaced all credibility and belief for many Individuals. She’s determined Trump is just too harmful to be president, so journalists ought to throw away all requirements of journalism by brazenly becoming a member of Workforce Biden to persuade voters of Biden’s virtues whereas downplaying his negatives. After which journalists marvel why they’re seen in such low esteem when they’re little greater than Democratic Occasion operatives.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 26: Liberal Media Scream: Trump Derangement Syndrome flies off the charts

(Washington Examiner put up)

The media have been on a rantfest currently, warning that former President Donald Trump will finish democracy and execute his enemies.

Simply contemplate what Bob Costas stated over the weekend. “It’s a must to be within the throes of some kind of poisonous delusion in a poisonous cult to imagine that Donald Trump has ever been, in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically match to be president of america,” he stated.

However that’s nothing in comparison with our Liberal Media Scream concentrate on Tom Schaller, the creator of White Rural Rage: The Risk to American Democracy, who went additional to assault the half of the nation that has supported Trump through the years.

White rural voters, he informed MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski, “are probably the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay geodemographic group within the nation. … They’re probably the most conspiracist group: QAnon help and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birthism.” And that’s simply the beginning of his 5 scream rant.

From Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: As we barrel towards a probable rematch of the 2020 election, one candidate continues to have a maintain over white rural voters. But it surely’s not Joe Biden, seen right here as a boy on the best aspect of your display, who went to public faculty, is the son of a used automotive salesman, and was born to a middle-class household in Scranton, Pennsylvania. As an alternative, it’s Trump, right here on the left aspect, a personal school-educated son of a New York Metropolis actual property tycoon who grew to become a millionaire at 8 years previous and didn’t need to serve as a result of he claimed he had bone spurs in his little toes. So, why is it that Trump appeals a lot to a gaggle he couldn’t be extra totally different from?

Becoming a member of us now, professor of political science on the College of Maryland, Baltimore County, Tom Schaller, and journalist and opinion author Paul Waldman. Their new e book out tomorrow is entitled, White Rural Rage: The Risk to American Democracy. Tom, I’ll begin with you. Why are white rural voters a risk to democracy at this level? You’ll assume, as we identified, Joe Biden’s background and Donald Trump’s, that the other could be true.

TOM SCHALLER: “We lay out the fourfold interconnected risk that white rural voters pose to the nation. To begin with, we present 30 polls and nationwide research that display this. So we offer the receipts in Chapter 6. They’re probably the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay geodemographic group within the nation.

“Second, they’re probably the most conspiracist group: QAnon help and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birthism. Third, anti-democratic sentiments. They don’t imagine in an impartial press — free speech. They’re probably to say the president ought to be capable of act unilaterally with out checks from Congress or the courts or the paperwork. They’re additionally probably the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalists. And fourth, they’re probably to excuse or justify violence as acceptable different to peaceable public discourse…

“I believe that is the disconnect, proper? They’d slightly channel their rage. I believe what a whole lot of white rural Individuals have determined is that their financial fortunes are determined by globalization and albeit, late-stage capitalism, which is consuming up all of the mother and pop shops and taking away the extractive industries, in coal and farming and so forth, so they could as effectively vote on their tradition points, they could as effectively vote on God, weapons, and faith as a result of they really feel like neither social gathering goes to ship any materials profit.

“They’re not going to reverse the closure of rural pharmacies and rural hospitals and rural healthcare services, that are disappearing not due to communism and never due to socialism however due to capitalism, proper? Rural pharmacies and hospitals are closing as a result of they’re not moneymakers, and except they’re a part of a regional chain, they’re disappearing. So Trump is available in and says, let’s simply hate on cities, let’s simply hate on minorities, let’s hate on immigrants, and a minimum of they’ll ship on that. And they also’re not even voting of their materials curiosity anymore, and that’s inflicting an extra decay and decline of rural communities.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “So, if a category of voters prefers a candidate you don’t like, it couldn’t be that they simply have a differing opinion with which you’ll be able to respectfully disagree. No, it’s essential to impugn and demean them to discredit their irrational desire for the candidate you condescendingly have determined just isn’t of their greatest curiosity. And since this makes MSNBC viewers really feel superior, you get a welcoming platform on the left-wing cable channel’s morning present.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 19: Liberal Media Scream: Colbert says Trump ‘going to jail’ higher than intercourse

(Washington Examiner put up)

Bear in mind when late-night comedy reveals had been humorous as an alternative of being populated by left-wing lecturers?

Working example in our weekly Liberal Media Scream is Late Present host Stephen Colbert. Together with many individuals final week, he watched the televised testimony of Fulton County, Georgia, District Lawyer Fani Willis and her rationalization of her affair with an lawyer she put in control of the election case towards former President Donald Trump.

“How good was this intercourse? Ok to threat democracy over?” he requested in his monologue.

Colbert then added, “You understand what feels actually good? Donald Trump going to jail. That — that, my pals — is what they name an actual pleased ending.”

From Thursday’s Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS:    

STEPHEN COLBERT: Now, I don’t know who’s telling the reality right here but, however I’ll say exchanging enterprise playing cards isn’t precisely a meet cute. The film’s not known as When Harry Networked with Sally. Now, at one level, Willis had had sufficient and actually laid into opposing counsel.

FANI WILLIS: You’re confused; you assume I’m on trial. These individuals are on trial for attempting to steal an election in 2020. I’m not on trial, regardless of how arduous you attempt to put me on trial.

COLBERT: Rattling straight. Yeah. That’s proper. That’s proper. Right here’s the factor. Sure, it’s true Donald Trump and his associates are on trial on this, one of the crucial necessary circumstances within the historical past of our republic. So, and, I’ve simply received one follow-up query right here: Provided that in case you are faraway from the prosecution, it may delay this trial till after the election: How good was the intercourse? Ok to threat democracy over? As a result of I’ve by no means had intercourse that good. You understand what feels actually good? Donald Trump going to jail. That — that, my pals — is what they name the actual pleased ending.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Liberals like to complain that Donald Trump has damaged many norms, however outstanding leisure media figures like Colbert have destroyed late-night TV. It was a comedy refuge from hard-edged politics, however Colbert is utilizing his present to advance left-wing speaking factors and push his hate of Trump and conservatives within the guise of comedy. It’s not humorous, and a legend like Johnny Carson, whose political jokes had been light-hearted and chided either side, is rolling over in his grave.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 12: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC host laughably says press towards Biden

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream has LOL written throughout it.

Think about any cable information present host claiming that the media has a destructive bias towards President Joe Biden. LOL, proper?

That’s what occurred on Sunday’s Meet the Press when MSNBC host Jen Psaki stated the media confirmed its bias when it merely repeated what the practically 400-page report from particular counsel Robert Hur stated concerning the president’s foggy thoughts.

Psaki, who was Biden’s first White Home press secretary, complained that the media must be attacking former President Donald Trump, not her former boss.

“In case you’re sitting within the White Home and on the marketing campaign proper now, you’re completely banging your head towards the wall on the manner that the Thursday report has been lined, given all the issues” Trump has stated and carried out, she stated.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

JEN PSAKI: In case you’re sitting within the White Home and on the marketing campaign proper now, you’re completely banging your head towards the wall on the manner that the Thursday report has been lined, given all the issues which have occurred this week, together with, and I do know you requested Chris Christie about this, the truth that Donald Trump yesterday instructed that Vladimir Putin ought to have free rein in attacking NATO allies, and what will we see is wall-to-wall protection of whether or not a man who’s 4 years older than his opponent is just too previous to be president.

KRISTEN WELKER: And we’re going to get to NATO. Go forward.

BRENDAN BUCK, former spokesman to ex-speaker Paul Ryan: A part of that job, to deliver that to the entrance is, it’s the president’s job to deliver that out and assault his opponent. I imply, the president just isn’t taking the chance on Tremendous Bowl Sunday. He’s not taking, actually, any alternatives. And we hear, repeatedly —

PSAKI: To begin with, that’s not true. It’s not being lined. He has traveled simply as a lot as Donald Trump, as Barack Obama. It’s arduous to interrupt by the cloud of Donald Trump on this media atmosphere. That’s true.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “A media hostile to a liberal trigger or Democratic politician is such a novelty that liberal political operatives like Jen Psaki simply can’t realize it. After three-plus years of sycophantic protection of Joe Biden, he will get a number of days of destructive protection, and she or he lashes out on the media for daring to briefly act as actual journalists. Welcome to the world endured daily for many years by conservatives and Republicans.”  

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 5: Liberal Media Scream: Kristen Welker likes to lecture Republicans, too

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a have a look at new Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker’s remedy of Republican leaders. And shock — not — she continues to be simply as biased as former host Chuck Todd.

First, she lectured Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the border invoice launched by the Senate on Sunday. “You are actually the speaker of the Home. Do you not have a duty to your voters, to the individuals who put you in workplace, to handle what you will have known as a disaster and disaster? Isn’t one thing higher than nothing?” she stated.

Then, she handed alongside the Democratic speaking level that after three years of aggressively enacting open border insurance policies, “Joe Biden stated he would shut down the border.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

KRISTEN WELKER: You’ve got been calling for legislative change to truly take care of this downside. You are actually the speaker of the Home. Do you not have a duty to your voters, to the individuals who put you in workplace, to handle what you will have known as a disaster and disaster? Isn’t one thing higher than nothing?

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: Kristen, we did that. We did that 9 months in the past. And since we handed our measure within the Home to unravel this downside, and the rationale we needed to do it’s as a result of we noticed that President Biden was not fulfilling his obligation underneath the regulation. That’s why it’s such a failure of management, however we did our half. And by the best way, since then, within the 9 months since that invoice sat on [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer’s desk, accumulating mud, 1.8 million illegals have been allowed into this nation, welcomed into the nation, despatched across the nation into each neighborhood — communities close to everybody listening and watching this morning. And that may be a disaster, and the American individuals comprehend it, and that’s a part of the rationale that Joe Biden has the bottom approval ranking of any president going through reelection.

WELKER: Even former President Trump, although, known as for legislative change on this concern. You’ve got one of many slimmest majorities within the Home in historical past. Don’t you need to compromise to get one thing carried out? What you handed within the Home can’t go within the Senate, Mr. Speaker. You understand that.

JOHNSON: We’re prepared to work. We’re prepared to work with the Senate. I’m not disclosing that, and I’ve been very constant for the hundred days that I’ve had the gavel. We’re prepared to work, however they need to be critical about it. In case you solely do a number of of these elements, you aren’t going to unravel the issue, and Kristen, that’s not a Republican speaking level. That’s what the sheriffs on the border, the Border Patrol brokers, the deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol, a 33-year veteran of the company, informed us. He stated that it’s as if we’re administering an open fireplace hydrant. He stated, “I don’t want extra buckets,” just like the president has proposed. I have to cease the circulation, and we all know how to do this, however Joe Biden is unwilling to do it.

WELKER: Let me ask you about your choice, and by the best way, Joe Biden stated he would shut down the border. He’s calling for extra funding. He’s calling so that you can go this laws.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “An ideal instance of a so-called journalist serving as an advocate for Washington’s media-political institution, demanding a recalcitrant conservative get in line and undertake the authorized narrative.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 29, 2024: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ January 22, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: Washington Put up’s Rubin needs Trump ‘fascists’ reeducated

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options in style Washington Put up columnist Jennifer Rubin doubling down on her By no means Trump marketing campaign.

Showing on the MSNBC weekend present Velshi precisely a 12 months from Inauguration Day, the onetime conservative opinion author stated that the lots showing at former President Donald Trump’s rallies “are a part of a fascist cult.”

And, she added, “they’re impervious to any type of information, any type of data. However what you need to do, for those who care about democracy, is mobilize the individuals who already know that he’s a hazard and reaffirm and reeducate the people who find themselves maybe type of flirting within the center — they’re comfortable Republicans, they’re by no means Republicans — concerning the hazard of going again to Trump.”

Rubin on MSNBC’s Velshi on Saturday:

“Why it’s maybe necessary to go to considered one of these rallies is to grasp why he does have supporters. These individuals are a part of a fascist cult. And let’s be trustworthy, there are a whole lot of them. However a whole lot of them doesn’t imply that they’re behaving logically or rationally. On the contrary, we’ve seen in different fascist regimes that hundreds of thousands of individuals, typically even a majority of the nation, turns into intoxicated with an authoritarian determine, and these individuals are totally irrational. In case you converse to a few of them, they are going to spit again these bizarro conspiracy theories. They really imagine in all the mumbo-jumbo that he tells them.

“So I believe it could be a wake-up name about what these individuals are about, and, no, we’re not going to persuade people who find themselves a part of the cult to change. As you say, they’re impervious to any type of information, any type of data. However what you need to do, for those who care about democracy, is mobilize the individuals who already know that he’s a hazard and reaffirm and reeducate the people who find themselves maybe type of flirting within the center — they’re comfortable Republicans, they’re by no means Republicans — concerning the hazard of going again to Trump. And I believe that’s the job between now and November, and that’s the problem for the Biden administration.”

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How condescending of Rubin to be so comfy denigrating supporters of a presidential candidate she despises with one of the crucial vile insults. Simply because she hates Trump doesn’t make these going to his rallies, the very embodiment of democracy in motion, ‘fascists.’ No matter occurred to liberals desirous to broaden participation within the democratic course of?”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 15, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Mika all in to assist Biden’s reelection

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, fawning over first woman Jill Biden in an indication of the place the cable community stands earlier than the 2024 presidential major season begins.

With straightforward questions quizzing Biden about her favourite emoji to dismissing chants of “Let’s go Brandon” that also comply with the president, Brzezinski placed on an ready protection of the Biden White Home.

Among the many questions posed to the primary woman was this: “The division on this nation, the cruelty of MAGA Republicans towards your loved ones. Does any a part of you now and again assume, ugh, perhaps we bow out?”

The questions had been a part of Brzezinski’s Know Your Worth “motion.” Our companions on the Media Analysis Middle highlighted these from final Thursday’s present and immediately’s occasion on the White Home:

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: You’ve been married to President Joe Biden for 46 years. There have been Senate races, three presidential campaigns, eight years of your husband serving as vp. Unthinkable private loss and problem, and now democracy is on the poll. What do you assume while you hear individuals say, “Effectively, I simply can’t vote for Joe Biden this election?” What’s it that they might not find out about him at this level, particularly when the choice appears to need to change this nation so radically?

BRZEZINSKI: Doubtlessly one other 4 years within the White Home. With all the things you do right here, does yet one more one provide you with any pause considering of, like, the private well being and well-being for each of you? The division on this nation, the cruelty of MAGA Republicans towards your loved ones. Does any a part of you now and again assume, ugh, perhaps we bow out?

BRZEZINSKI: How have you ever been coping personally with the onslaught of accusations towards your husband and your loved ones, together with and particularly Hunter, the main focus of a Home Oversight Committee listening to holding, holding him in contempt, obsessing over him, exhibiting footage of him throughout susceptible moments in his battle with habit on the ground of the Home. This could crush any household.

BRZEZINSKI: What do you assume while you hear Trump Republicans calling it “Biden crime household” or one congresswoman, “The Biden crime household offered out America,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, “He’s a liar, he’s mentally incompetent,” and let’s not even discuss what “Let’s go Brandon” means. However you will have U.S. senators holding indicators that say that.

….
BRZEZINSKI: Your favourite emoji?

JILL BIDEN: Oh, my gosh. The turquoise coronary heart.

BRZEZINSKI: Turquoise coronary heart?

BIDEN: Yeah.

BRZEZINSKI: I don’t have the turquoise coronary heart on my telephone. What does that imply?

BIDEN: It’s just like the seashore. It’s calm.

BRZEZINSKI: Oh, I like that.

BIDEN: Coloration of the ocean.

BRZEZINSKI: Do I sort out turquoise coronary heart? Consolation meals?

BIDEN: Oh, french fries.

BRZEZINSKI: Umm. Yeah, yeah.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Mika Brzezinski is all in on the reelection of Joe Biden. First woman Jill Biden picked effectively in deciding on Brzezinski to interview her, assured she wouldn’t be challenged as they each may commiserate with how terrible Trump is and the way imply Republicans are to her household, topped by letting her tout the turquoise coronary heart emoji. How informative.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 8, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos judges Trump an insurrectionist, unqualified for 2024

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream is a five-screamer that includes an ABC host and former Clinton handler performing as choose, jury, and executioner of former President Donald Trump and his effort to stay on the 2024 major ballots and let voters, not partisan state officers, determine his destiny.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, on his Sunday present This Week, was quizzing his panel concerning the campaigns in some states to declare Trump ineligible for election as a result of an official determined that the previous president triggered a 14th Modification ban on insurrectionists.

On his present, which occurred the day after the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, considered one of his panelists instructed the Supreme Court docket will determine Trump is responsible however that it is going to be as much as Congress and never the states to erase the GOP front-runner’s title from the ballots.

“In case you say he engaged in revolt,” Stephanopoulos stated, “I don’t see how one can escape the plain which means of the 14th Modification and say he’s certified to run for workplace.”

Panelist Donna Brazile, an influential liberal and former performing Democratic Occasion chairwoman, informed her host, “I completely agree with you, George.”

From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Sarah, what’s your guess on what the courtroom does right here?

SARAH ISGUR, SENIOR EDITOR OF THE DISPATCH: I believe you’ll have the Supreme Court docket maintain that he’s not disqualified from being on the poll. They’ll overturn the Colorado Supreme Court docket.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The query is, how will they do it although?

ISGUR: Right. I believe they’ll say that, in actual fact, the 14th Modification makes clear it’s as much as Congress. If Congress can requalify somebody by a two-thirds vote, there’s no timeline on that. Which signifies that, you understand, as one of many amicus briefs has identified, it’s actually speculated to be post-elections about holding workplace, not operating for workplace. And so I believe they’ll say it’s actually Congress’s job. The states can’t make up their very own customary. Is it past an inexpensive doubt? Is it extra seemingly than not? Et cetera. What’s fascinating to me shall be whether or not or not the Supreme Court docket goes out of their manner with a view to get these three, Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson votes, in saying, “Sure, it was an revolt, and sure, he engaged in it, but it surely’s as much as Congress.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: I don’t see how they’ll do this, Donna Brazile. In case you say he engaged in revolt, was the query I requested Nancy Pelosi, I don’t see how one can escape the plain which means of the 14th Modification and say he’s certified to run for workplace.

DONNA BRAZILE: I completely agree with you, George.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “One other instance of how Stephanopoulos stays a Democratic partisan first, a journalist a distant second. No true journalist would weigh in with a definitive conclusion on what the Supreme Court docket ought to do weeks earlier than a ruling on such a contentious concern which divides Individuals. Stephanopoulos has clearly put himself within the camp with those that need to deny the general public’s means to vote for whomever they like. A lot for saving democracy from Trump while you need to subvert the method.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ December 25, 2023 and January 1, 2024: No Liberal Media Screams these weeks.

 

■ December 18, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: Scaremonger Scarborough: Trump will ‘execute’ foes, crush ‘American experiment’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough’s newest anti-Trump ranting.

The host, whose earlier declare that former President Donald Trump will “execute” foes ought to he be reelected gained the Media Analysis Middle’s “Worst Quote of the Yr,” stated on Monday that Trump would destroy America’s democracy, too.

“A 12 months from now, it might be over, the American experiment at an finish one 12 months from now,” Scarborough stated in feedback we graded a uncommon 5 out of 5 “liberal media screams.”

His feedback are clearly what the most recent Rasmussen Experiences survey was tapping into when it discovered that extra voters than ever imagine the left bias within the media has reached a brand new excessive. The feedback additionally increase a query about what scaremongering liberal media figures shall be saying in 11 months if Trump is on the verge of beating President Joe Biden.

Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe in a dialogue with Politico’s Jonathan Lemire:

“One 12 months from now, it might be over. American democracy might be over. Donald Trump, one 12 months from now, may win. He’s informed us what he’s going to do. Once I say American democracy goes to be over, I haven’t stated this. Donald Trump is the man who stated it. He’s the one speaking about executing generals that aren’t loyal sufficient to him, a man that’s speaking about terminating the Structure if it will get in the best way of his energy. He’s the man that’s speaking about taking off information networks he disagrees with. He’s the one speaking about prosecuting and placing in jail individuals who disagree with him. He’s the one saying that.

“So, a 12 months from now, it might be over, the American experiment at an finish one 12 months from now. So, let me ask you, with that being the case and with Joe Biden’s ballot numbers getting worse, why is the White Home going round singing, ‘Don’t fear, be pleased’? As a result of that’s mainly what they’re saying. Why does Joe Biden nonetheless have all of his marketing campaign individuals contained in the White Home? When are they going to exit and begin engaged on the marketing campaign — not of his lifetime, of our lifetime? When are they going to start out performing like American democracy is on the road and cease telling all people to not fear?”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, defined our weekly decide: “Saying day after day after day the identical excessive ‘the sky is falling’ warning to attempt to scare his viewers about Trump ending democracy is doing nothing however making Scarborough look each bit as unhinged as he needs individuals to see Trump. It could be catnip for MSNBC viewers, however Scarborough has change into a parody of somebody caught inside a Trump Derangement Syndrome whirlwind unable to make cogent criticisms.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ December 11: Liberal Media Scream: PBS runs interference for Biden over Hunter scandals

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the efforts of Public TV and a Washington Put up columnist to deflect the most recent legal indictment of first son Hunter Biden away from President Joe Biden.

Following the tax prices filed by the Justice Division towards Hunter Biden, the PBS NewsHour was keen to inform viewers on Friday that it noticed no connection to the president.

Anchor Geoff Bennett began with the “context” that Hunter Biden “doesn’t work within the White Home for his father in the best way that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did. And the indictment doesn’t in any manner implicate President Joe Biden.”

PBS visitor Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Put up additionally ran block for Biden. “For Republicans to attempt to make a connection between Hunter Biden and attempting to say that, ‘Effectively, for those who’re going to go after Trump, effectively, why shouldn’t we go after Biden?’ these are two fully totally different circumstances,” he lectured.

From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:

GEOFF BENNETT: So, let’s begin with the most recent authorized bother going through Hunter Biden, with the necessary context that Hunter Biden’s a personal citizen. He’s not searching for, nor has he ever held, public workplace. He doesn’t work within the White Home for his father in the best way that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did. And the indictment doesn’t in any manner implicate President Joe Biden.

And but this can actually add to the issues, the political issues, going through this White Home, as Home Republicans, Jonathan, zero in on Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings as a part of their very own investigations.

JONATHAN CAPEHART: As a part of their very own investigations which were happening for years now, they usually’ve been utilizing the president’s son, the president’s troubled son, to attempt to sully the president. And up to now, they’ve give you nothing, although, subsequent week, apparently, they’re going to be voting on, you understand, to authorize an impeachment inquiry, attempting to make connections that aren’t there.

Look, while you learn the indictment, while you hear concerning the indictment, it’s dangerous. I imply, it’s not good. It’s not good in any respect. However we’re speaking about somebody, as you — I’m glad you place that correct context there. He’s an grownup. He has not held workplace. He’s not sought workplace. He’s not working for his father.

The one factor is, is that he — his father is president of america. He’s being held accountable. And I take — I agree with [Hunter Biden’s lawyer] Abbe Lowell that, if his final title weren’t Biden, he in all probability wouldn’t even have these prices. They’d have labored it out.

However he’s going through the implications, and he’s going by the authorized avenues which are afforded to him. And for Republicans to attempt to make a connection between Hunter Biden and attempting to say that, ‘Effectively, for those who’re going to go after Trump, effectively, why shouldn’t we go after Biden?’ these are two fully totally different circumstances.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “You possibly can virtually really feel by the display how uncomfortable the PBS crew was to even cowl this story, however they realized they needed to a minimum of point out it, in order that they poured on the caveats so their viewers wouldn’t be burdened with any data that may harm their notion of President Biden. It’s the precise reverse tack they take with Donald Trump, the place any allegations round him are amplified and mentioned advert nauseam.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ December 4: Liberal Media Scream: Media eagerly crew with Liz Cheney to undermine Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the outstanding teaming of the media with conservative Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney to cease former President Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.

Repeating her success in profitable Democrats to her trigger after the Jan. 6 riots and in her No. 2 position on the Home Jan. 6 panel, the media have eagerly opened its greatest reveals for her to speak about her new e book and marketing campaign towards Trump.

The media have helped to advertise her e book and offered high platforms, notably on CBS Sunday Morning, the place she warned that “one of many issues we see immediately is kind of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in america.”

In interviewing her about Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, John Dickerson provided the right set-up query: “If an individual is a member of Congress they usually have sworn an oath to defend the Structure, can they defend the Structure and likewise endorse Donald Trump?”

Cheney replied: “You possibly can’t be for Donald Trump and for the Structure. It’s a must to select.”

The media’s concentrate on the e book has helped it into the No. 1 spot on Amazon on Monday, a day earlier than it’s launched.

From Sunday’s CBS Information Sunday Morning:

JOHN DICKERSON: After dropping her 2022 Republican major, Cheney traded the U.S. Capitol dome for the Thomas Jefferson-designed rotunda on the College of Virginia, the place she has been lecturing on politics and writing a brand new e book, Oath and Honor.

Let me ask you about that oath. If an individual is a member of Congress they usually have sworn an oath to defend the Structure, can they defend the Structure and likewise endorse Donald Trump?

LIZ CHENEY: No. It’s inconsistent.

DICKERSON: So, they’re breaking with their oath by saying they want him to be the following president?

CHENEY: In my opinion, you understand, essentially, there’s a option to be made. You possibly can’t each be for Donald Trump and for the Structure. It’s a must to select.

DICKERSON: It’s lots of people who’re selecting Donald Trump.

CHENEY: Yeah, it’s.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Often, to earn such a laudatory CBS Information section on your e book, it should be revealed by CBS-owned Simon & Schuster. However Dickerson and CBS are so enthralled along with her quest to destroy Trump and anybody Trump-adjacent that regardless of having Little, Brown and Firm as her writer, they went into full promotion mode, cuing up her speaking factors with no pushback.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ November 27: Liberal Media Scream: Put up reporter says ‘sources’ fret public’s lack of credit score for Biden ‘successes’

(Washington Examiner put up)

For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, now we have the most recent instance of a journalist contained in the Beltway involved that President Joe Biden simply isn’t getting the credit score he deserves for “Bidenomics,” the Center East disaster, or just about anything.

Regardless of two years of polling that reveals the general public doesn’t purchase the White Home spin that their life is best underneath the Democratic administration, the Washington Put up’s Leigh Ann Caldwell on Sunday’s Meet the Press cited “my sources” complaining that Biden is getting handled just like the no-respect funnyman Rodney Dangerfield.

“My sources are saying President Biden doesn’t get a whole lot of credit score, not solely on this, however on a complete host of issues,” she stated in addressing the hostage releases over the weekend.

However perhaps there’s hope, she added, that Biden will get the credit score she says he deserves if his crew simply sells it higher. “They’ve a whole lot of work to do to as soon as once more, like I stated, attempt to get credit score for the successes that he’s had over the previous two years which he retains on getting blamed for all the things dangerous that’s occurred.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press:

KRISTEN WELKER: Leigh Ann, I need to begin with you. This can be a large check for President Biden. And clearly now, the stress’s on to launch the Individuals. How is that this enjoying for him politically, do you assume?

LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: Effectively, clearly it’ll be nice if Individuals are launched with these hostages. However my sources are saying that President Biden additionally doesn’t get a whole lot of credit score for his successes, not solely on this, however on a complete host of issues. In order that does concern Democrats on Capitol Hill….

Yeah, Bidenomics has actually been, change into a destructive phrase, particularly amongst Democrats, as a result of it’s not working. I used to be texting with some Democratic members of Congress final night time simply attempting to get a learn over the vacation weekend, what they’re listening to at house and what individuals are saying, and these members stated that it’s simply not wanting good for President Biden politically on the market, that he would in all probability lose some swing states if the election had been held immediately. So that they have a whole lot of work to do to as soon as once more, like I stated, attempt to get credit score for the successes that he’s had over the previous two years which he retains on getting blamed for all the things dangerous that’s occurred.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Caldwell maintained Democrats ‘have a whole lot of work to do to as soon as once more, like I stated, attempt to get credit score for the successes’ President Biden has ‘had over the previous two years,’ however she’s clearly simply as invested as any liberal Democrat in advancing that narrative to assist Biden. And in that curiosity, she displays a lot of the press corps which need to affect the end result, as confirmed by how complaints that Biden isn’t getting the credit score he supposedly deserves have change into a typical media theme.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ November 20: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Jonathan Karl says he wrote e book to warn voters away from Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic the most recent instance of the legacy media going from self-appointed instantaneous fact-checkers on former President Donald Trump to out-and-out enemies.

The selection is ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who admitted that he wrote his newest e book on Trump to warn America about him.

Requested on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS why Trump is main the Republican nomination contest, Karl stated that “superficially” there’s “a way” that issues had been higher through the Trump presidency. And, he added of his just-released Bored with Profitable: Donald Trump and the Finish of the Grand Previous Occasion, “that’s why I wrote this e book.”

He defined that “if individuals are going to enter this subsequent election interested by that, additionally they should be considering, not nearly what Trump was, however what he’s now and what he’s proposing and planning on doing, what a second Trump administration would seem like. And I don’t assume individuals have come to phrases with that in any respect.”

Karl on Thursday’s The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS:

“I believe a part of what’s occurred is individuals look again. There’s anxiousness within the nation. Individuals have financial anxiousness. There’s discontent with Joe Biden and I believe there’s some superficially a way like ‘Look, if we may solely return to 4 years in the past, the world was comparatively at peace, inflation was low, all the things was —’ I believe there may be a few of that and that’s why I wrote this e book as a result of if individuals are going to enter this subsequent election interested by that, additionally they should be considering, not nearly what Trump was, however what he’s now and what he’s proposing and planning on doing, what a second Trump administration would seem like. And I don’t assume individuals have come to phrases with that in any respect.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Karl’s quest is the very definition of improper political advocacy by a journalist. His job is to report the information in an neutral method, not soar into the fray when a candidate he hates will get in style, and write a e book to persuade voters they’re making a foul selection. How may any Trump supporter, or any Republican, ever belief his reporting after they know he has a private curiosity in directing the end result?”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ November 13: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Hunt says no room for ‘pleased and sunny’ in GOP

(Washington Examiner put up)

For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic the most recent CNN absurdity, a blanket declaration that there is no such thing as a place for happiness within the Republican Occasion.

The declare got here immediately from CNN’s Kasie Hunt, who was giving her early morning evaluation on the choice by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, becoming a member of former Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines.

“There’s simply no urge for food within the Republican base proper now for somebody who’s pleased and sunny,” she stated, citing her election night time sources.

After all, many pollsters would recommend that there’s simply no urge for food within the Republican base for anyone apart from former President Donald Trump, and GOP voters appear to be fairly pleased with that.

Hunt, CNN’s chief nationwide affairs analyst, on Monday’s CNN This Morning:

“The noteworthy factor to me about this — I imply, look, I believe it was fairly clear that Tim Scott’s marketing campaign by no means took off the best way, frankly, lots of people in Washington thought that it’d. He had, you understand, all of the elements to be actually profitable within the conventional Republican Occasion. He had a whole lot of backing. Actually, he wasn’t public about it, however a whole lot of the individuals who have been working towards Donald Trump for extra conventional candidates like Mitt Romney had been engaged on his operation attempting to determine how they may make that occur.

“However after I talked to sources, and I did a whole lot of this on election night time final week, they hold saying to me that there’s simply no urge for food within the Republican base proper now for somebody who’s pleased and sunny. They’re offended. The bottom is offended. And that’s an enormous a part of why Donald Trump has had such a sturdy lead on this race as a result of he campaigns in a a lot totally different manner. Tim Scott tried to be the type of ‘Morning in America’ Republican candidate, and it’s simply not what individuals are into. So, you understand, it does make sense. He noticed the writing on the wall, particularly concerning the fourth debate, and right here we’re.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Not one of the GOP presidential candidates are coming near Trump, so why the actual argument Tim Scott failed as a result of he’s a ‘pleased warrior’ and the voters is motivated by anger? Trump followers would contend his rallies are peppered with humorous strains and upbeat messaging concerning the foundation for his motion, Make America Nice Once more, which in itself is a cheerful and aspirational quest for a return to the most effective of America.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ November 6: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Zakaria says Biden higher on border than Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

For this week’s Liberal Media Scream we characteristic the zaniest pro-White Home spin but on the historic border disaster brought on by President Joe Biden’s insurance policies.

Whereas large metropolis “sanctuary” mayors are crying uncle as a result of the president’s insurance policies are dumping in hundreds of unlawful immigrants with out offering any cash or assist with housing, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria one way or the other thinks that the White Home is dealing with the disaster effectively.

Biden is “really not doing a foul job,” he stated on Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher. For proof, he cited the deportation of unlawful immigrants, ignoring the large crowds of migrants waved into the U.S. daily and the excessive variety of those that slip in undetected.

Zakaria on Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:

“Biden’s really not doing a foul job, they’ve deported extra individuals — for those who assume that’s proper and I do since you need a system of legal guidelines, proper? They’ve deported extra individuals underneath the Biden administration than Trump did. They’ve been more durable line. The issue for Biden is, and it is a downside for Democrats, you possibly can’t take credit score for it as a result of you then’re going to outrage, the progressive wing goes to go nuts. And so, even the issues he does, it’s like stealth enforcement. You possibly can’t discuss it.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Discuss lacking the forest for the timber. The one cause the Biden administration deported anybody was due to the Trump-imposed Title 42 to take care of COVID, which stayed in place for greater than two years of his administration till he ended it in Could. Within the fiscal 12 months that ended September 30, 2.4 million individuals crossed the southern border, the very best quantity since information began being saved in 1960, and that was the third straight report 12 months, all underneath Biden.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ October 30: Liberal Media Scream: Speaker Johnson takes examine him to KKK and mass shooter

(Washington Examiner put up)

We may see this coming from miles away.

For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic the predictably unhappy response of the press to the unanimous Republican vote to substantiate soft-spoken Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) because the 56th Home speaker final week.

Outlet after outlet tried to painting the Bible-toting Johnson as out of contact with America, as an alternative evaluating him to a KKK chief. It’s stunning liberal media retailers didn’t establish him along with his center title, James Michael Johnson, like mass killers.

Even on CNN, analyst Gloria Borger conceded that the media was attempting too arduous to demonize the little-known lawmaker. It’s “arduous to demonize” him, she stated, explaining, “He’s not the satan incarnate.”

However Invoice Maher and his crew didn’t get the memo.

First, on his Friday present, Scott Galloway, a professor at New York College’s Stern Faculty of Enterprise, stated to viewers applause, “The rationale this man is speaker is none of us have the time to learn his resume and understand he’s David Duke-lite.”

Maher pushed again on that characterization, however he provided his personal invective, calling Johnson “a non secular nut” earlier than elevating final week’s mass shooter of 18 in Maine: “Apparently he heard voices, and I believed, ‘Is he that totally different than Mike Johnson?’”

From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO and Max:

SCOTT GALLOWAY: The entire level right here is that we separate church and state, that we imagine within the peaceable switch of energy, and the rationale this man is speaker is none of us have the time to learn his resume and understand he’s David Duke-lite.

BILL MAHER: Effectively, we do now. I don’t know if he’s David Duke-lite — I learn immediately he has an adopted black son. I don’t assume David Duke would do this, however he’s a non secular nut.
….

MAHER: If you’re this a lot of a non secular fanatic, there is no such thing as a room for actual democracy. That’s not what you imagine in. He stated it immediately: Look within the Bible — that’s my worldview. I used to be studying about this horrible taking pictures in Maine. We don’t know a lot concerning the man but, however apparently he heard voices, and I believed, ‘Is he that totally different than Mike Johnson?’ I imply, diploma, sure, but it surely’s thinner than you assume.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What hypocrisy. You possibly can’t decry how Donald Trump and MAGA have lowered discourse in America and undermined respect for democracy after which smear the incoming speaker of the Home as no totally different than a racist Klan chief or a mass assassin. The comparisons are ridiculous and must be beneath anybody who considers themselves a critical political analyst.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ October 23: Liberal Media Scream: Morning Joe warns of Trump retaliation simply wanting firing squads

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC host Joe Scarborough speculating on a second Trump White Home, ranting that it is going to be one retaliation after one other for slights he’s felt over the previous eight years, beginning with the media and courts.

On his present this morning, Scarborough in contrast Trump to hard-line Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “He’s worn out the judiciary, he’s worn out the free press,” Scarborough charged.

There was no point out, in fact, of how Trump made historical past as president along with his appointments to federal courts, together with three of the present U.S. Supreme Court docket justices, or that he was among the many most accessible presidents in latest reminiscence regardless of his verbal hits on the press.

However a minimum of he provided that Trump gained’t line up his enemies and shoot them.

Scarborough’s ruminations got here throughout an interview with the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, who simply wrote an article titled “Netanyahu’s Assault on Democracy Left Israel Unprepared.”

Joe Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

“I at all times inform individuals, if you wish to see what Donald Trump goes to do if he will get reelected, don’t take into consideration him lining up individuals towards the wall and having them shot.”

“Simply see what [Viktor] Orban has carried out in Hungary the place he’s bragged about having intolerant democracy, and he’s worn out the judiciary, he’s worn out the free press. And Anne [Applebaum], I suppose, that’s in all probability what Donald Trump will search for as a blueprint if he will get elected once more.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Left-wing paranoia completely encapsulated by Joe Scarborough. Irrespective of how dangerous you assume a second Trump presidency could be for the nation, the concept that simply because he makes derogatory remarks about judges, prosecutors, and journalists means he needs to ‘wipe out’ the judiciary and free press, is ridiculous. And even when he had been so inclined, the U.S. political system would by no means enable it, leaving Scarborough’s warning as little greater than baseless scaremongering.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ October 16: Liberal Media Scream: CBS anchor scoffs, ‘Indictment’ of Biden?

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the hypocrisy and bewildering ignorance of the media’s protection of the categorized paperwork circumstances each President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face.

On the hypocrisy entrance, contemplate all of the hours of TV protection Trump acquired for his dealing with of paperwork in comparison with Biden. Additionally, contemplate how a lot time the networks gave the extraordinary two days of questions Biden confronted final weekend from the prosecutor: simply 48 seconds.

Then watch as CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan seems astonished that Biden’s case and prices are much like Trump’s and {that a} Home Republican chairman would even recommend that they need to be dealt with the identical manner.

“Indictment?” she interjected when her visitor, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence, stated, “President Biden wants the identical consequence that they pursue with President Trump.”

From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: You had been speaking about categorized paperwork mishandled by the present president, and also you stated that when it got here to Biden and Trump, they’re each equally egregious with equal classification points. This previous week, President Biden was interviewed by particular counsel Robert Hur. Will there be authorized penalties? Will your committee do something to behave on this? I imply, what precisely do you imply equally egregious?

REP. MIKE TURNER: Effectively, while you have a look at the paperwork, each the classification stage and the subject material, either side, Trump and Biden’s paperwork, if they’d been launched within the public or gotten into the fingers of nefarious events, could be damaging to america nationwide safety. Once I have a look at these paperwork, there are paperwork on either side, equally egregious, that may have destructive penalties to our means, strategies, methods, and our allies. Now, on this occasion, I believe President Biden wants the identical consequence that they pursue with President Trump. The actions are the identical. And on this occasion, for those who discover—

BRENNAN: Indictment?

TURNER: You’re getting leak after leak after leak on the Trump paperwork. You’re listening to nothing on the Biden paperwork. So that you’re persevering with to see the inequality that comes out of the Justice Division as there’s silence on the opposite aspect with respect to Biden’s. And by the best way, he was a serial categorized doc hoarder. I reviewed paperwork that had been from on a regular basis that he’s been in authorities. This actually is a really critical breach by President Biden.

BRENNAN: Simply to be clear right here, although, are you saying that President Biden had high secret and TS/SCI classification stage paperwork in his private house?

TURNER: That’s public already, Margaret, so I’m not confirming one thing that folks don’t already know. That’s appropriate.

BRENNAN: OK. So I believe you’re saying that he must be indicted while you say handled the identical?

TURNER: I believe they should be handled precisely the identical. Now, they’re persevering with their investigation with President Biden. I don’t assume if President Biden in the long run has been discovered to violate the regulation, and I imagine from what I’ve seen that he has, that he must be handled any otherwise than Donald Trump. Why would he? Simply because he’s president or as a result of he’s a Democrat? And that’s how the Division of Justice has been performing. They should be handled the identical.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Brennan’s naivete about President Biden’s potential very critical misdeeds and seeming shock {that a} veteran congressman would recommend he deserves to get handled simply as harshly as former President Trump, displays the bigger disinterest in Biden’s habits by the Trump-obsessed press corps. Certainly, particular counsel Robert Hur interviewed Biden over two days final week, but the ABC, CBS, and NBC night newscasts provided a measly 48 seconds of protection in whole.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ October 9: Liberal Media Scream: CBS touts waitress jobs as signal Bidenomics works

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the clear effort by the media to prop up Bidenomics at a time when most individuals imagine prices and bills underneath President Joe Biden are manner too excessive.

CBS led the best way over the weekend when Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan stated {that a} jobs report exhibiting restaurant jobs up was proof Biden’s claims are proper.

She cited it to counter claims from 2024 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) that the economic system just isn’t doing sufficient for individuals.

“That appears to undercut your argument that the economic system’s damaged,” Brennan stated.

Scott slapped down that logic. He stated, “Effectively, all you need to do is discuss to the common American household and ask them what they really feel — how they really feel about Bidenomics. The reply could be very easy. We’ve misplaced over $5,000 of spending energy since January of 2021. We must always at all times have fun the creation of jobs, however we should always always remember that we went 52 consecutive paychecks — 52 consecutive paychecks — with a lack of spending energy.”

From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: On Friday, we spoke with Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott from his house state of South Carolina. Our dialog started on the economic system and the surprisingly strong September jobs report.

BRENNAN TO SEN. TIM SCOTT: Friday’s jobs numbers shattered expectations. It confirmed some financial momentum. In actual fact, restaurant hospitality hiring is again to pre-pandemic ranges. That appears to undercut your argument that the economic system’s damaged.

SCOTT: Effectively, all you need to do is discuss to the common American household and ask them what they really feel — how they really feel about Bidenomics. The reply could be very easy. We’ve misplaced over $5,000 of spending energy since January of 2021. We must always at all times have fun the creation of jobs, however we should always always remember that we went 52 consecutive paychecks — 52 consecutive paychecks — with a lack of spending energy.

BRENNAN: And also you blame political management, not the Federal Reserve?

SCOTT: Effectively, if you consider the truth that over the past, I assume, 12 months and a half, we’ve seen 16% inflation since Joe Biden’s taken workplace, which led to 11 consecutive fee will increase, that downward stress on our economic system actually created cracks and fissures all through the economic system. That was brought on by Joe Biden’s lack of management and understanding of the right way to create jobs in America.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Brennan put Democratic speaking level spin forward of actuality in getting so excited a couple of jobs report largely constructed on positive aspects in part-time employment and authorities jobs. Her precedence was to undermine Scott’s very persuasive argument that Bidenomics is a catastrophe, one thing acknowledged by the overwhelming majority of individuals outdoors of the media elite.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ October 2: Liberal Media Scream: MAGA simply racists, says MSNBC common

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the continued smearing of MAGA by MSNBC, this time together with the broken-record declare that supporters of former President Donald Trump are racists.

Ignoring Trump’s help amongst black individuals, his friendships with notable African Individuals, and his appointments of black individuals to high jobs throughout his administration, MSNBC let authorized correspondent Elie Mystal rant that Trump is operating for president once more “on white grievance” and including that “with out racism, Trump is simply dumber Chris Christie, all proper?”

From Sunday night time’s The Mehdi Hasan Present on MSNBC:

MEHDI HASAN: If you watch Donald Trump speaking about “dampening the forest ground,” and you then have a look at polls that present him neck and neck with Biden or perhaps within the lead by 10 factors or 5 factors over Biden, do you place your head in your hair in your fingers?

ELIE MYSTAL: Look, Mehdi, not likely. There’s a latest ballot, a examine out of the College of Chicago that stated the largest indicator of whether or not or not you help Trump is whether or not or not you imagine racism has been defeated, proper? Whether or not or not you imagine systemic racism doesn’t exist, whether or not or not you imagine that what white individuals face extra racism than individuals of colour. Trump’s operating on white grievance. It’s how he’s at all times been. It’s what he’s at all times carried out. And I really feel like decreasing it to racism at all times makes sure sorts of Democrats squeamish. We wish there to be an even bigger reply. We need to imagine perhaps Republicans really assume it’s best to “dampen the forests.” We need to imagine there’s a cause. There’s nothing there there. All it’s is white grievance. With out racism, Trump is simply dumber Chris Christie, all proper? And so, that’s the reason he’s the place he’s as a result of he performs into the racism of his followers.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How handy it should be to be so comfy dismissing the political selection of a big portion of the general public by tarring all of them as a bunch of racists. Saves time on having to truly tackle what failures of your aspect the highest candidate on the opposite aspect is fulfilling. However keep in your bubble, Mr. Mystal, and you could very effectively be stunned when these polls, exhibiting Trump beating Biden, come true.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ September 25: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ September 18: Liberal Media Scream: Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker debuts as Chuck Todd clone

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the debut of Kristen Welker as host of NBC’s Meet the Press. However apart from a brand new face, there was no change from the lefty bias of the declining present’s MC.

To assist Welker’s first episode, former President Donald Trump agreed to look. In return, he confronted the standard liberal fact-checking interruptions, particularly when answering questions on abortion.

A number of instances, Welker tried to quiet Trump’s cost that Democrats favor abortion proper as much as beginning. “Democrats aren’t saying that. Democrats will not be saying that,” she stated.

Her efficiency gained failing grades from conservatives, who weren’t anticipating an enormous shift from the bias of former host Chuck Todd.

Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway was first out with an evaluation headlined, “NBC’s Kristen Welker Lied Repeatedly About Democrats’ Excessive Abortion Place.” “Kristen Welker openly and repeatedly lied in a weird, conspiracy-laden debate with former President Donald Trump on Sunday,” she wrote, including, “Welker interrupted her personal pre-taped debate with the president to insert her personal ‘truth checks’ that had been false or weren’t aware of precise claims Trump made.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

DONALD TRUMP: Roe v. Wade. For 52 years, individuals, together with Democrats, wished it to return to states in order that states may make it proper. Roe v. Wade, I did one thing that no one thought was attainable, and Roe v. Wade was terminated and put again to the states. Now, individuals, pro-lifers, have the best to barter for the primary time. They’d no rights in any respect as a result of the unconventional individuals on this are actually the Democrats that say after 5 months, six months, seven months, eight months, and even after beginning, you’re allowed to terminate the newborn.

KRISTEN WELKER: Democrats aren’t saying that. Democrats will not be saying that. Does it trouble you, although, that girls say their lives are being put in danger? Do you are feeling you bear any duty as a result of, as you say, you’re accountable for having Roe v. Wade overturned?

TRUMP: What’s going to occur? It’s a difficulty that’s been happening for a very long time. It’s a really polarizing concern. Due to what’s been carried out and due to the actual fact we introduced it again to the states, we’ll have individuals come collectively on this concern. They’re gonna decide the time as a result of no one needs to see 5, six, seven, eight, 9 months. No one needs to see abortions when you will have a child within the womb. I stated with Hillary Clinton after we had the talk, I made an announcement: Rip the newborn out of the womb within the ninth month, you are allowed to do this, and also you should not be allowed to do this.

WELKER: Once more, nobody is arguing for that, that is not part of anybody’s platform, Mr. President.

TRUMP: The Democrats are in a position to kill the newborn after beginning, and no one needs that.

WELKER: Democrats don’t need that, both.

Kevin Tober, information analyst for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Kristen Welker both by no means learn the 2020 Democratic platform or she’s purposefully attempting to gaslight her viewers within the guise of a ‘truth test’ of Trump. The present platform of the Democratic Occasion poses no limits on abortions. As an alternative of pointing this truth out, Welker determined to scold Trump for telling the reality, which apparently is not allowed on NBC. If that is what we will anticipate from Welker as the brand new moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd would possibly as effectively have stayed on because the moderator. Totally different anchor, similar liberal media bias.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ September 11: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd places self among the many greats

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the departure of considered one of our favourite representatives of bias, Chuck Todd, the outgoing host of NBC’s Meet the Press.

Signing off from his day by day and Sunday reveals, Todd stated he hoped he helped educate viewers on the problems of the day and that he would now flip extra to nuance and bridging divides.

As he seems to be to his future because the community’s political analyst, he stated he would comply with the paths of two of the community’s previous greats, David Brinkley and Tim Russert.

“I’ll proceed, in fact, to be an enormous a part of NBC’s political protection as a result of, as Tom Brokaw stated to me, ‘Look, some networks do some issues effectively, however no one does politics like NBC.’ And he was referring again all the best way to David Brinkley. And that’s kind of the custom I’ve at all times stated, from Brinkley to Russert, and that’s the stuff I need to keep on,” Todd stated.

His ultimate feedback on each reveals are on this clip:

Todd, on the finish of Friday’s day by day Meet the Press NOW on the NBC Information NOW streaming channel:

“On my first day on the job on Meet the Press, I used to be handed an viewers survey of Sunday present viewers. The No. 1 cause why of us determined to tune into any Sunday present, the No. 1 cause: to get educated. It wasn’t to seek out out if their aspect was profitable or dropping. They only wished to know.”

“It’s that training piece I’m hanging my hat on for the remainder of my skilled life as a result of one factor all of us lament currently is the lack of know-how and nuance in our politics. That’s a vacuum I hope to proceed to fill, whether or not in a standard information platform or different venues —documentaries, docudramas, and even too-close-to-the-truth fiction.”

“I’ll proceed to be an enormous a part of NBC Information political protection as a result of nobody on this enterprise covers politics in addition to NBC. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you down the street.”

Todd, wrapping up Meet the Press on NBC on Sunday morning:

“So, for practically a decade, I’ve had the honour of serving to to elucidate America to Washington and Washington to America, as Kristen [Welker] simply quoted me about. And it’s that training piece that I’m hanging my hat on for the remainder of my skilled life. One factor we are going to lament — all of us lament currently — is the lack of know-how and nuance in our politics and citizenship. That’s a vacuum I hope to proceed to fill, whether or not in our continued information protection right here at NBC or through different venues, like docuseries and docudramas, targeted on bridging our divides, piercing these political bubbles. And I’ll proceed, in fact, to be an enormous a part of NBC’s political protection as a result of, as Tom Brokaw stated to me, ‘Look, some networks do some issues effectively, however no one does politics like NBC.’ And he was referring again all the best way to David Brinkley. And that’s kind of the custom I’ve at all times stated, from Brinkley to Russert, and that’s the stuff I need to keep on.”

“In order that’s all for immediately. Thanks for watching and for thus a few years of loyalty to me and to this present. I’m pleased to say my colleague, Kristen Welker, goes to be right here subsequent week as a result of it doesn’t matter who sits on this chair. If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Todd, pretentious to the top. In all his years internet hosting Meet the Press, he by no means confirmed a lot curiosity in bringing ‘nuance’ to his liberal agenda or ‘bridging’ divides or ‘piercing … political bubbles,’ to say nothing of by no means matching the journalism of David Brinkley or Tim Russert. I watched David Brinkley and Tim Russert. Chuck Todd isn’t any David Brinkley or Tim Russert.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ September 4: Liberal Media Scream: Biden’s protection ‘more durable than he deserves’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the basic angle of the Washington press corps towards Democratic presidents that initially received us working with the Media Analysis Middle to focus on out-of-touch newsies.

It’s the grievance that the press is just too robust when, in actual fact, they’ve barely scratched the floor of what some critics imagine to be a corrupt presidential operation courting again to President Joe Biden’s days as vp underneath former President Barack Obama.

NBC’s Meet the Press featured Franklin Foer, an Atlantic author who simply launched a bestselling e book on the president titled The Final Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White Home and the Wrestle for America’s Future.

Foer informed moderator Chuck Todd that “Trump prompted the media to change into so emotional, to get so engaged in protecting all of the excessive drama.”

And with Biden, he stated, there was a “need on the a part of the press to reassert its requirements of objectivity.”

However, he added, Biden has continued to complain about his press, similar to each different president. “He has been lined in all probability more durable than he deserves,” Foer stated.

That line prompted our associate Brent Baker, the Media Analysis Middle’s vp of analysis and publications, to grade it 5 out of 5 screams.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

CHUCK TODD: You write: “Biden thought of his poor approval ranking a failure of the media, which somebody uncared for to notice all of the methods during which his administration was superior to Trump’s. It was additionally a failure of his personal White Home to successfully talk. He complained that there weren’t sufficient surrogates on tv defending him.” I’m shocked to seek out out {that a} White Home believes they’ve a communications downside, not a substance downside.

FRANKLIN FOER: Proper. So I believe that Biden has — in fact, each president who suffers an upside-down approval ranking goes to moan concerning the media, and I believe that there’s some fact to it in his case the place Trump prompted the media to change into so emotional, to get so engaged in protecting all the excessive drama. And I believe, with the Biden administration, there’s been this need on the a part of the press to reassert its requirements of objectivity. So I believe, on sure measures, he’s in all probability proper. He has been lined in all probability more durable than he deserves. But it surely additionally —

TODD: There’s no curve? He’s not being graded on a curve?

FOER: No.

TODD: No.

Baker explains our weekly decide: “To channel what President Biden would say, ‘not a joke.’ Foer was seemingly fairly critical. But it surely’s a daft evaluation to anybody however probably the most enthused Biden sycophants or Democratic partisans. To contend that Biden is the topic of media ‘objectivity’ and has acquired ‘more durable’ protection than he ‘deserves,’ doesn’t go the chortle check.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 28: Liberal Media Scream: Dour Dana bashes Ramaswamy over KKK reference

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN anchor Dana Bash repeatedly beating GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s comparability of liberal “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) to “a contemporary grand wizard of the KKK.”

Over greater than 5 minutes, the anchor harangued Ramaswamy, who stated he made the comparability to spark a debate over the lawmaker’s suggestion that candidates of colour must be in lockstep with liberals.

After 4 minutes of her bashing, an exasperated Ramaswamy stated: “Dana, I believe you’re doing, with due respect, what many within the media do, selecting on some fringe remark within the context of a broader context that I used to be providing in a speech, avoiding the meat of the problem.”

Right here’s a sampling from CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday:

DANA BASH: You took concern with feedback from Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). She reportedly stated, quote, “we don’t want any extra brown faces that don’t need to be a brown voice.” About that, you stated, “These are the phrases of the fashionable grand wizards of the fashionable KKK.” You understand, I’m certain, the KKK was accountable for greater than a century’s price of horrific lynchings, rapes, murders of black individuals. How in any manner are the views you’re speaking about akin to the views and atrocities dedicated by the KKK?”

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: What I stated is: The grand wizards of the KKK could be happy with what they might hear her say, as a result of there’s nothing extra racist than saying that your pores and skin colour predicts one thing concerning the content material of your viewpoints or your concepts.

BASH: No, you didn’t simply say that. You didn’t simply say that they might be proud. You stated, “These are the phrases of the fashionable grand wizards of the fashionable KKK.”

RAMASWAMY: It’s the similar spirit. You’re proper about that, Dana. I believe it’s the similar spirit to say that I can have a look at you and, based mostly on simply your pores and skin colour, that I do know one thing concerning the content material of your character, that I do know one thing concerning the content material of the viewpoints you’re allowed to precise.

….

BASH: However can you will have an intellectually trustworthy dialog while you accuse her of being a grand wizard of the KKK? Can you will have that intellectually trustworthy dialogue with that type of rhetoric?

….

BASH: If you wish to have an mental query, do you assume that perhaps evaluating her to the grand wizard and the notion of what she stated to being a contemporary chief of the KKK was perhaps a step too far, otherwise you stand by what you stated?

….

BASH: What I did was clarify to our viewers that you simply had been requested a query and also you took it to some extent the place you known as a sitting member of Congress who’s black, who was having discussions about race, calling her the fashionable grand wizard of the KKK. And I’m simply unsure how that’s open and trustworthy dialogue.        

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Bash’s fixed harping was not good tv. Ramaswamy defined his level and she or he ought to have moved on. However she so vehemently disagreed with him that she wouldn’t let go. In doing so, she helped show Ramaswamy’s level concerning the elite who gained’t countenance any opposite views on race relations, not even from the goal of a racist assault.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 21: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ August 14: Liberal Media Scream: Media rage at MAGA ‘different actuality’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent instance of the sputtering anger Washington journalists have on the help former President Donald Trump has from his MAGA hundreds of thousands.

Showing Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Susan Glasser, Washington reporter for the New Yorker and a veteran of the Washington Put up and Politico, coughed up a phrase salad to the storyline {that a} rising checklist of indictments is sweet for Trump whereas the constructing legal concentrate on first son Hunter Biden is dangerous for President Joe Biden.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

Susan Glasser: “A part of that is the unbelievable distortion discipline the place we’re all one way or the other dwelling in Donald Trump’s alternate actuality, proper? We’re speaking about, ‘Effectively, it’s an excellent profit to him,’ in keeping with, you understand, the large story within the New York Occasions immediately that he’s been indicted criminally, what, 3 times — and it seems to be like a fourth developing this week — as a result of we’re dwelling on this warped distortion discipline of a Republican major during which Donald Trump is stampeding? It’s a minority of a minority within the nation, and so then, you will have one thing like these collection of abortion rights referenda within the wake of the Roe v. Wade choice.

“And also you understand that on this nation, even in deep-red states, there are stable majorities that don’t assume, you understand, Donald Trump must be the president once more, who defeated him within the in style vote in 2016 and in 2020, who help, by really report numbers, abortion rights, and but we reside on this world the place it’s one way or the other good that Donald Trump is a legal defendant however one way or the other dangerous electorally for the president that his son is being investigated for one thing, that so far as we all know, doesn’t immediately concern Joe Biden.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What an unbelievable lack of inquisitiveness for a journalist. Glasser resides in her personal ‘alternate actuality,’ one inhabited by just about all of her Washington press corps colleagues who’re enraged by all the things Trump however have placed on blinders in relation to President Joe Biden. They don’t need to give legitimacy to something which may hurt Biden’s reelection fortunes.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 7: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Behar would exile Trump to Saudi Arabia

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the women of The View leaping to a complete new stage of “Trump derangement syndrome” following the third legal indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Led by Trump Hater in Chief Pleasure Behar, they talked up a plea deal that prosecutor Jack Smith may provide that sends the previous president away for good — however not jail. As an alternative, and resulting from considerations that the Secret Service may not enable a former president to reside in a jail cell if he’s convicted, Behar instructed exile in Saudi Arabia.

“Wouldn’t that be good?” she stated to some viewers laughter. “I don’t even care if he goes to jail. I don’t have it in my coronary heart to punish the man. I simply need him to go away and cease ruining my nation.”

From Thursday’s The View on ABC:

JOY BEHAR: “Effectively, what about making a deal? What about, Sunny, if he makes a take care of [special counsel Jack] Smith?”

SUNNY HOSTIN: “With out jail time?”

BEHAR: “With out jail, and he says, “I’m going away and transferring to Saudi Arabia”?

Wouldn’t that be good? Simply go away. We don’t — I don’t even care if he goes to jail. I don’t have it in my coronary heart to punish the man. I simply need him to go away and cease ruining my nation.”

HOSTIN: “I believe there are particular prosecutors that may provide him a plea settlement with out time if he would conform to by no means run for public workplace once more wherever.”

BEHAR: “And go away. I don’t need to even see him within the Enquirer.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Presumably, The View doesn’t air in Saudi Arabia, so this concept might need some attraction to Trump — and many people — who wouldn’t thoughts by no means once more listening to Pleasure Behar’s voice, however I’d suggest flipping this and exiling the whole crew of The View to Saudi Arabia so none of us have to listen to their discombobulated day by day rantings.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 31: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd nonetheless attempting to downplay Hunter Biden scandals

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a Sunday community public affairs present host that President Joe Biden and his cronies are actually going to overlook when he lastly leaves his perch.

It’s NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, in fact, enjoying “D” on the Hunter Biden scandals exploding within the information immediately.

On his Sunday present and whereas interviewing yet one more Democratic politician, he sounded virtually apologetic for having to handle the primary son who’s going through tax and gun prices and has been linked to bribery allegations alongside along with his father.

Stated Todd to his visitor, Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Biden’s house state of Delaware, “Republicans are gonna accuse” the president of misdeeds, “they’re going to make the accusation, whether or not they have the proof or not,” as a result of they “have an data ecosystem that helps amplify it.”

Todd just lately introduced that he was leaving his present in September to change into the community’s “lengthy kind” political analyst.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

CHUCK TODD: Let me begin with the Hunter Biden scenario and I perceive that, you understand, you imagine that is all being emphasised resulting from politics, the Republican — the Home Republicans are doing. Let me ask you this, do you assume it could behoove the president for him to return out and say, “Hey, I had no enterprise dealings with my son. My son’s points are my son’s points”? Do you assume he must say that extra immediately as a result of there’s lots of people that imagine one thing else occurred right here?

SEN. CHRIS COONS: Let’s be clear about that time, Chuck. There’s been a five-year investigation. 5 years by a Trump-appointed U.S. lawyer. This investigation began through the Trump administration they usually’ve come ahead with not one shred of proof tying President Biden to any of this. I’m inspired that, in sharp distinction to President Trump, you’ve simply detailed his mountain of authorized issues the place President Trump is combating, and pushing again and obstructing, Hunter Biden’s come ahead, taken duty, paid his late taxes. As you simply mentioned with Chuck Rosenberg, I believe the hiccup within the Delaware District Courthouse will get ironed out fairly rapidly and I don’t assume President Biden must say something greater than he has.

TODD: Home Republicans are gonna accuse him. They’re going to make the accusation —

COONS: They’re going [to] accuse him of all types of stuff.

TODD: — whether or not they have the proof or not.

COONS: Right.

TODD: The query — they usually could have an data ecosystem that helps amplify it to some extent the place you don’t assume he wants to simply — “Hey, regardless of what you hear, simply so you understand, I don’t do enterprise with my son or my brother”?

COONS: I believe he’s been completely clear.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “If solely Chuck Todd had proven such reluctance to advertise accusations towards President Trump about ‘Russian collusion’ made by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and others, which turned out to be baseless, after they had been on his program. We’d be in a complete totally different political-media atmosphere. However no, Todd is barely upset by publicity for revelations which will harm the Democratic president, not the Republican one. And he wonders why so many see him as extra of a liberal political operative than any type of respectable journalist.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 24: Liberal Media Scream: CBS pushes for Hunter Biden media cover-up

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent instance of how the networks are protecting up the escalating Hunter Biden intercourse, gun, medication, and taxes scandal.

Not solely have most unconsidered the scandal going all the best way again to dissing experiences on the primary son’s laptop computer filled with soiled deeds, however now some within the media are urging the GOP to “transfer on.”

Exhibit A is CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who this weekend stated the plea deal Hunter Biden has lower must be the set off for Republicans to finish their investigation into the president’s son.

Her visitor, former federal prosecutor and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, dismissed her query. “No, I wouldn’t, Margaret, and right here’s why. The conduct right here by the U.S. lawyer in Delaware and by the Justice Division simply can’t be justified,” he stated.

She additionally rolled out the usual Democratic speaking level to make her case: “You understand that the U.S. lawyer in Delaware was appointed by former President Trump.” It’s typical for senators to recommend prosecutors of their state and U.S. Lawyer David Weiss was endorsed by Delaware’s two Democratic senators on the time.

From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

MARGARET BRENNAN: There are such a lot of authorized points on this marketing campaign, and I need to ask you about one involving the president’s son Hunter Biden who’s going to look in courtroom this week to plead responsible to 2 misdemeanor tax prices and can enter into an settlement that would avert conviction on a gun-related cost. The deal has infuriated many congressional Republicans, who had been holding their very own hearings, and I’m wondering after this plea occurs for those who would advise your social gathering to maneuver on?

CHRIS CHRISTIE: No, I wouldn’t, Margaret, and right here’s why. The conduct right here by the U.S. lawyer in Delaware and by the Justice Division simply can’t be justified. It doesn’t take 5 years, Margaret. As you talked about, I used to be the U.S. lawyer within the fifth-largest workplace within the nation for seven years through the Bush administration. It doesn’t take 5 years to analyze two misdemeanor tax counts and to dismiss a gun cost, and we have to know what they had been investigating and why these are the costs they concluded to. This isn’t simply any particular person. That is the son of the president of america. And whereas justice must be equal, it must be equal, and it doesn’t seem to me that that is the best way to do it. And I’d say one factor on the gun cost. I imply, it is a case the place Democrats yell and scream for extra new gun legal guidelines within the nation, and but you hear no Democrat yelling about the truth that Hunter Biden deliberately lied on his gun allow utility, mishandled the gun after he acquired it with a false allow utility, and faces completely no penalty. Guess what? The man who sponsored that regulation was his father, Sen. Joe Biden, and that cost carries a 10-year sentence, Margaret. We have to clarify — they should clarify to the general public why that was carried out.

So no, I do not assume it’s time to maneuver on.

BRENNAN: And you understand that the U.S. lawyer in Delaware was appointed by former President Trump.

CHRISTIE: Incompetent, Margaret. It doesn’t matter, Margaret. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re appointed by a Republican or a Democrat, in case your work seems to be incompetent and inexplicable, you should clarify it so we will have faith in our justice system, and I don’t care whether or not Mr. Weiss is a Republican or a Democrat. He owes the American individuals an evidence.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “It takes a whole lot of chutzpah for Brennan to recommend Republicans ‘transfer on’ from a subject the published information networks and far of the remainder of the information media have carried out all they’ll to keep away from of their quest to guard President Biden. Quite a few revelations about Hunter and his dad have gone unreported, or get one story on one night time, after which nothing extra. What sort of ‘journalist’ pushes for cover-up and suppression over urgent for extra protection three days after two IRS whistleblowers detailed federal efforts to learn Hunter and never pursue leads which may harm the president?”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 17: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ July 10: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Zakaria tells Biden, ‘You’ve got been an excellent president’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a uncommon one-on-one interview of President Joe Biden and a touch of what it takes to get a sit-down with him.

Within the case of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, the payback got here in a phrase of reward: “You’ve got been an excellent president.”

The road was a part of an extended setup on his Sunday present to a query about some Democrats calling for Biden to step apart.

From Fareed Zakaria GPS:

Zakaria to Biden: “You’ve got usually stated when individuals ask you about your age, simply watch me. And I believe lots of people do watch you and are impressed, they usually assume you have been an excellent president. You’ve got introduced the economic system again. You’ve got restored relations with the world. However many of those individuals do say, and these are hardened supporters of yours, the following factor he ought to do is step apart and let one other era of Democrats take the baton.”

Kevin Tober, a information analyst & employees author on the Media Analysis Middle’s NewsBusters, explains our weekly decide: “Zakaria displayed a masterclass in skilled gaslighting Sunday when he informed Biden that ‘lots of people’ watch him and are ‘impressed.’ In actuality, even many Democrats have expressed their concern about Biden’s age and cognitive decline. Kissing Biden’s ring just isn’t ‘details first’ regardless of what CNN needs you to assume.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 3: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ June 26: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC historian declares GOP hopefuls insurrectionists

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the most recent instance of the standard liberal media’s view that every one Republicans are deplorable and, thus, dismissible.

MSNBC “historian” Jon Meacham, an creator and former Newsweek Washington bureau chief, wrote off the massive and traditionally various assortment of Republican presidential candidates as insurrectionists and seditionists as a result of all have been supportive at instances of former President Donald Trump.

“We’ve a fairly clear selection on this political season. We will select a constitutionalist, a celebration that has been fairly trustworthy to the Structure, which is the social gathering of the incumbent president, or we will favor a celebration that has been shockingly however persistently supportive of an insurrectionist or a seditionist,” he stated on Friday’s Morning Joe present.

“It’s not easy, however it’s easy. That’s the selection earlier than the nation,” stated Meacham, who punctuated his evaluation with declarations of “proper?!”

From Friday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

JOE SCARBOROUGH: We had been speaking concerning the Supreme Court docket, the Supreme Court docket who, once more, uncontrolled, operating roughshod over the desire of the overwhelming majority of Individuals. And now, now we have this president, once more, unprecedented, however right here we’re transferring in the direction of, I imagine, I believe, probably the most critical prices and the one which I believe historians are going to be grappling with lengthy after we’re all gone. That could be a president charged with conspiracy to commit sedition towards america of America.

JON MEACHAM: You’re proper, historians shall be wrestling with it as all of us do on a regular basis. I believe residents need to wrestle with it now, proper? That is, it’s so central, and I simply actually imagine that now we have a fairly clear selection on this political season. We will select a constitutionalist, a celebration that has been fairly trustworthy to the Structure, which is the social gathering of the incumbent president, or we will favor a celebration that has been shockingly however persistently supportive of an insurrectionist or a seditionist.

That’s not a sentence we might have stated about Eisenhower and Stevenson, proper? That was not one thing that lots of people grew up with. But it surely’s fairly very important. And but that is the query: Is any coverage so necessary that you’d need to favor somebody that you simply assume is a car for that coverage, even when they don’t and have self-evidently tried to trash the Structure of america? And we may go on, however that’s actually type of it. You understand, it’s fairly primary. Would you like a constitutionalist or an insurrectionist?

Then we get into the, ‘However, however, however, taxes and judges.’ If we don’t have a Structure, taxes and judges aren’t going to matter in any respect. That’s the place we’re, remarkably, proper now. Once more, we may go on, however I believe it’s a basic query. Individuals usually say, you understand, it’s easy. It’s not easy, however it’s easy. That’s the selection earlier than the nation.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Meacham, in all his haughty glory, sees it as his position to declare each candidate in a single social gathering illegitimate presidential contenders as a result of most of them chorus from denouncing the one candidate he actually hates. But Meacham and Scarborough marvel why conservatives don’t heed their recommendation after they present such disdain for the alternatives made by those that don’t share their left-wing worldview.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 19: Liberal Media Scream: CNN begs ‘older’ white individuals to step apart, give values up

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options considered one of CNN’s liberal large photographs decrying “older” white individuals in Southern states for attempting to keep up values and traditions as an alternative of giving as much as the “new demography.”

Ron Brownstein, a CNN political analyst and Atlantic editor, argued it’s longtime residents who’re attempting to impose their values in states corresponding to Texas, not the opposite manner round.

The dialogue got here Monday when CNN This Morning devoted a section to how these in crimson states are “imposing” their values on the remainder of the nation.

Not thought of by the panel: how these in crimson states see themselves as merely pushing again on the imposition of left-wing LGBT Delight values that CNN euphemistically described as “inclusion.”

From CNN This Morning:

RON BROWNSTEIN: The try and type of impose the values, and to pressure corporations to toe the road of the values of 1 section of society, actually places them in a tough place and, in the end, they need to determine whether or not they’re going to embrace this altering, inclusive America, or whether or not they’re going to again down within the face of this type of stress.

CO-HOST ERICA HILL: That is going to really feel like a rhetorical query, however I imply it very critically, as from each a political and a enterprise standpoint, as you’re this, proper, inclusion is sweet for enterprise. How and the place is exclusion good for enterprise or for politics while you’re narrowing your pool?

BROWNSTEIN: Effectively, look, it’s very totally different between the crimson states and the blue and purple states. Within the crimson states, you will have Republican coalitions which are operating state authorities with an electoral coalition that’s essentially rooted within the components of the state that aren’t altering, which are mainly nonurban, older white voters. And they’re utilizing that to impose the values of that coalition on altering locations earlier than the brand new demography perhaps adjustments the political steadiness in a spot like Texas. So that you see half the nation transferring on this course. And these boycotts are type of the enterprise flank of that very same effort that in some ways is making an attempt to reverse what has been six a long time of nationalizing extra rights and creating frequent rights which are out there in each state.

I imply, we’re transferring again towards a pre-Nineteen Sixties world the place your primary civil liberties depended way more in your ZIP code. And I believe, look, that in some locations, just like the interval earlier than the Civil Conflict, no establishment was equally credible on either side of the sectional divide. And these corporations, a lot as they need to keep out of it, in the end need to determine: Are they going to embrace the altering America, or are they going to embrace this effort to, in impact, “Make America Nice Once more” by going again to older guidelines and older values?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “In being so involved about conservatives ‘imposing’ their values on blue America, Brownstein is oblivious to how red-state America sees itself simply pushing again towards the Left’s values being pushed on them. However to Brownstein and CNN, the liberal blue America world is all that issues.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 12: Liberal Media Scream: New host Charles Barkley calls CNN ‘the Titanic’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one thing we don’t hear usually — a CNN host who admits the cable community is in deep trouble.

On this case, it’s an incoming host and former NBA nice Charles Barkley who’s teaming up with CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King for a CNN prime-time present.

The present was mapped out by fired CNN chief Chris Licht, who stated on the time that the present would start within the fall.

Barkley is seemingly a bit involved about what he’s stepping into. Speaking hockey with NHL Corridor of Famer Wayne Gretzky, Barkley stated, “Apparently, with this new discuss present, I’m leaping on the Titanic.”

From the Saturday night time NHL on TNT pregame Face Off present:

WAYNE GRETZKY: You don’t have to go take that information job. You possibly can come on our present. You understand extra about hockey than we do. You don’t need to journey out of Atlanta.

CHARLES BARKLEY: Apparently, with this new discuss present, I’m leaping on the Titanic. So it’s not — all people retains saying “abort,” “abort,” “abort!” So, you understand what, I’m wanting ahead to it. Gayle is superior.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The reality stumbles out spontaneously within the oddest of locations. Barkley didn’t see that remark coming from Gretzky, so he blurted out the very first thing he thought, which is the reality concerning the decline of CNN, earlier than recovering with the extra acceptable public stance of wanting ahead to the present. One suspects he’s having some second ideas about agreeing to hitch CNN programming.”

Ranking for telling the reality: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ June 5: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd says he’s a ‘actual political journalist’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream turns the highlight to NBC’s Chuck Todd, who portrayed himself as a journalistic martyr in asserting that he’ll step down as host of Meet the Press later this 12 months.

“Being an actual political journalist isn’t about constructing a model. It is about reporting what’s occurring and explaining why it’s occurring and letting the general public take in the details,” he bragged Sunday.

“I take the assaults from partisans as compliments, and I take the compliments from partisans with a grain of salt,” stated Todd, a favourite goal of the Secrets and techniques’ weekly Liberal Media Scream.

NBC stated that Kristen Welker, NBC Information’s co-chief White Home correspondent, will succeed him in what’s a well-worn path to internet hosting Sunday public affairs reveals.

Todd, on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

“I’ll be trustworthy, although. I depart feeling involved about this second in historical past however reassured by the requirements we have set right here. We didn’t tolerate propagandists, and this community and program by no means will. But it surely does not imply sticking your head within the sand both. In case you ignore actuality, you’ll miss the large story. Being an actual political journalist isn’t about constructing a model. It is about reporting what’s occurring and explaining why it’s occurring and letting the general public take in the details. In case you do that job searching for reputation, you’re doing this job incorrectly.

“I take the assaults from partisans as compliments, and I take the compliments from partisans with a grain of salt. The objective of this and each Meet the Press episode is to do all the following in a single informative hour: Make you mad, make you assume, shake your head in disapproval, and nod your head in approval. In case you do all of that in a single hour of this present, we’ve carried out our jobs. So, once more, this isn’t goodbye. However know this: Irrespective of who sits on this chair, if it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press.”

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Smug till the top. No acknowledgment from Todd that he simply is likely to be biased in favor of the Left and towards conservatives. As an alternative, he performed the martyr card, portraying himself because the goal of misguided criticism which solely proves his integrity.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

Could 29: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

Could 22: Liberal Media Scream: NBC’s Chuck Todd says solely tax cheats oppose extra IRS brokers

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream reveals precisely the distinction between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals.

Think about wanting 87,000 extra Inner Income Service brokers. Effectively, that’s not solely what NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd stated, however he sneered at those that don’t need them as seemingly tax cheats.

On his Sunday present, he took on the GOP plan to roll again the Biden administration’s request and stated, “I’ve by no means understood the resistance of additional IRA brokers — except you knowingly cheat in your taxes.” His visitor, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), replied, “That’s salacious and you understand that.”

Donalds stated that “when you will have that many extra brokers, it’s to not go after the wealthy. It’s to go after the center class.” Todd stood by his view that the trustworthy don’t have anything to worry from extra enforcement. “So for those who’re paying what you’re speculated to pay, then it’s best to don’t have anything to worry,” he stated.

The alternate on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

CHUCK TODD: However there’s yet another factor Home Republicans are asking for, which is they need fewer IRS brokers. They need fewer makes an attempt to attempt to correctly get tax receipts into the federal authorities’s coffers. I’ve by no means understood the resistance of additional IRS brokers — except you knowingly cheat in your taxes.

REP. BYRON DONALDS: To begin with, that’s salacious and you understand that. Most Individuals, by far, pay their taxes, they usually do it honorably. What Home Republicans, and albeit the Republican Occasion, is anxious about is having IRS brokers go after middle-class households and small enterprise house owners. When you will have that many extra brokers, it’s to not go after the wealthy. It’s to go after the center class. That’s what it is for.

TODD: So for those who’re paying what you’re speculated to pay, then it’s best to don’t have anything to worry.

DONALDS: You would make the belief that IRS audits are up, that they’re placing out extra liens on the American individuals. That’s not true. That information just isn’t there. All Joe Biden is attempting to do is use each attainable nickel out of each sofa from each American to pay for his radical spending. Why would we do this?

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How ridiculous. Extra individuals in any job that includes monitoring the actions of others means a minimum of a few of these of their purview will get harassed. In spite of everything, the extra employees has to justify their existence. By Todd’s logic, minority communities don’t have anything to worry from dozens extra cops on patrol since solely criminals have any cause to ‘worry’ extra cops. However that’s not the view of Black Lives Matter activists. But, Todd and the media would by no means tackle that premise.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

Could 15: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ Could 8: Liberal Media Scream: Even when Trump loses, Washington Put up editor sees America’s ‘dissolution’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream demonstrates that anti-Trumpers have jumped off the deep finish eight months earlier than the primary major and caucus vote is solid within the 2024 race.

We characteristic Washington Put up columnist and editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who has lengthy criticized former President Donald Trump, as soon as dubbing him a “Frankenstein monster.”

In his newest expression of “Trump derangement syndrome,” he talked about Trump operating once more and the way it will break the nation. However on this case, Trump doesn’t win however loses and claims fraud.

The consequence: America ends. “At that time, I believe we face a really critical chance of dissolution of america and secession,” the neoconservative By no means Trumper stated on the First Look podcast hosted by the Washington Put up’s Jonathan Capehart.

It even appeared an excessive amount of for the host, who known as Kagan’s take “a fairly apocalyptic view, and I’m laughing to maintain from crying.”

From Friday’s First Look on Washington Put up Reside:

ROBERT KAGAN: In case you look forward a 12 months, I believe it’s very arduous. I actually don’t assume most Individuals — even attentive Individuals — have actually targeted on the truth that a 12 months from now, Donald Trump goes to be the strongest particular person within the nation in some respects. Actually, he’s going to dominate the Republican Occasion. At that time, he shall be accumulating votes, which on this nation is the final word certification of legitimacy. And so I believe he’s going to be in an extremely highly effective place.

He’s going to make it clear to his supporters that if he loses, it will probably solely be on account of fraud. And subsequently, I believe the whole Republican Occasion goes to, if Trump loses, say that the election was fraudulent. And at that time, I believe we face a really critical chance of dissolution of america and secession. I do know that that sounds excessive, however secession has been fairly frequent, what was a quite common exercise or a minimum of, you understand, within the first hundred years of our republic, and our nation hasn’t modified that a lot. So, I believe that’s what we’re within the 2024 situation proper now.

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Danielle [Allen], do you share? I imply, that’s a fairly apocalyptic view, and I’m laughing to maintain from crying, Bob, however—

KAGAN: For the very first thing within the morning.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The last word in ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ scaremongering. It’s not ok for former President Donald Trump to lose. Per Kagan, even when Trump loses, we’ll get an apocalyptic consequence. So, the one manner for the U.S. to outlive as a nation is for Trump to not even run. For somebody who sees Trump as a destroyer of democracy, Kagan isn’t very assured within the power of our democratic establishments.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 1: Liberal Media Scream: Todd cues up Mayorkas to tout Biden as ‘extremely sharp’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream reveals how the Washington political/media machine works in relation to a matter either side simply don’t need to tackle absolutely, corresponding to experiences President Joe Biden doesn’t have the psychological capability or stamina to run for reelection or serve out a second time period.

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd cued up Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to champion Biden as absolutely match for reelection. Todd: “Is he up for a second time period?” Mayorkas: “100%. Extremely sharp, extremely probing, unbelievable command of the small print, probing on the small print.”

Todd’s follow-up: “You’ve got full confidence he can serve a second time period?” Mayorkas repeated his 100% line, after which Todd wrapped up the section with out ever difficult the upbeat assurances from Mayorkas.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

CHUCK TODD: You’re in Cupboard conferences. There’s a whole lot of questions on President Biden and his means to serve in a second time period. You see him up shut, face-to-face. What say you? Is he up, is he up for a second time period?

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS: Oh, Chuck, 100%. Extremely sharp, extremely probing, unbelievable command of the small print, probing on the small print, asking robust questions. Completely. I’m extremely proud to serve in his administration. I’m extremely happy with the work that now we have carried out throughout the board —

TODD: You’ve got full confidence he can serve a second time period?

MAYORKAS: 100%.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “It’s the obtuse main the blind. Everybody is aware of Joe Biden is as ‘extremely sensible’ because the border is safe, as Mayorkas has repeatedly assured. All however a number of Biden sycophants know neither is true, but Todd let Mayorkas get away with the chortle line.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 24: Liberal Media Scream: Authorities-funded PBS has Biden scandal, gaffe-free

(Washington Examiner put up)

If ever there was an instance that Twitter had it proper when the social media large slapped “government-funded” and “state-affiliated” on PBS and NPR, contemplate our Mainstream Media Scream instance this week that includes politically delusional contributors David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart.

Think about a conservative calling President Joe Biden a powerful speaker who’s gaffe- and scandal-free, ignoring his refusal to fulfill with the media, his weekly mistaken mumbles, and the investigations into the household funds or the historic disaster on the border.

Effectively, roll the tape from the Friday PBS NewsHour. There you will notice Brooks cheering Biden’s reelection plans and saying that the president “gave a powerful State of the Union,” and including that “there hasn’t been any apparent gaffes, large scandals or something like that.”

From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:

GEOFF BENNETT, ANCHOR: President Biden’s allies say the truth that he’s going through solely token major opposition from creator Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. actually is a present of power for him.

DAVID BROOKS: Oh, for certain. I imply, there’s — within the polling, there’s nonetheless a whole lot of Democrats who assume he shouldn’t run, however that’s largely an age concern, not an ideology concern. However the midterm election kind of silenced all that. And he’s been wanting sturdy. He gave a powerful State of the Union. There hasn’t been any apparent gaffes, large scandals or something like that.

And so there’s nothing — or, even ideologically, I’d say, over the 2 years up to now, two and a bit, that he’s fairly effectively massaged the center-left fights that occur within the Democratic Occasion by doing issues that some individuals, the centrists like, and a few issues that folks on the Left like.

And so there’s no pure house for an opposition candidate, and everybody’s united by Donald Trump. And so, you understand, I believe what’s fascinating about him, he’s been sounding fairly candidate-y for six months now. He’s been speaking like, ‘I actually need to go after Trump.’ And he’s been doing it.

You understand, I believe what has to concern the White Home somewhat is that they’ve had enhancing inflation, a whole lot of good home coverage achievements, Republicans have staked out some fairly excessive floor on a whole lot of points. And for those who have a look at the polls, it’s nonetheless fairly shut. His approvals are nonetheless in 46s.

And it might be that we’re simply in a particularly partisan, divided nation, a particularly cynical nation, the place, on the nationwide stage, no one — and that is world — no nationwide chief will get in style anymore. No nationwide chief will get to 55, as a result of there’s a lot cynicism throughout the Western world.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How surreal to go to the world of PBS Information, the place Joe Biden is ‘sturdy,’ has had ‘a whole lot of good home coverage achievements’ and hasn’t had any ‘apparent gaffes’ or scandals. Biden is a ‘gaffe’ machine! As for scandals, hi there Hunter Biden and Chinese language cash going to the Biden household, to say nothing of the continued scandal of the out-of-control border. Simply because PBS ignores Biden’s confusion and malfeasance doesn’t imply he’s good at his job. However to PBS, that is evaluation from the ‘conservative’ home analyst. No marvel conservative taxpayers are so aggravated about having to fund PBS.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 17: Liberal Media Scream: ABC pundit says Republicans are the bossy ones

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options an ABC Information pundit ripping Republicans for pushing individuals round.

Jane Coaston, as soon as with the New York Occasions, cited abortion in claiming Republicans are America’s busybodies, ignoring how the Democrats are engaged in a wide-ranging effort to pressure the nation to simply accept electrical automobiles, gasoline stoves, and kiddie transgender operations.

“I believe a very powerful political precedence for any political social gathering is to not be the individuals telling individuals what to do,” she stated.

Fortunately, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was sitting subsequent to her on ABC’s This Week. He countered, “Democrats are going to have a tough time making that case while you have a look at public training and what their place is, which is, us and the academics’ unions know what to inform your kids and the place they need to go to highschool and the way they need to be taught.”

From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

JANE COASTON: I believe a very powerful political precedence for any political social gathering is to not be the individuals telling individuals what to do. For the final 5 years, we’ve heard from Republicans, particularly even throughout COVID, about how freedom was going to reign and that they had been simply going to let individuals make selections for themselves. They need to be the cool mother of politics. Effectively, that period has ended.

And I believe that there’s a selected sort of libertarianism that could be very in style in America. Not like the Libertarian Occasion. However there’s a selected sort of, don’t inform me what to do, let me make my selections. Let me make my selections for my household, that could be very politically worthwhile. And I believe that if Democrats are in a position to say that we’re the social gathering that claims you can also make these selections, you can also make selections for your loved ones, your loved ones could make selections for themselves, I believe that that shall be politically worthwhile. And I believe that for Republicans, it’s going to be difficult to attempt to sound concurrently like cool mother and the Ethical Majority that so many people grew up with.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: Effectively, the Democratic Occasion is all for that on abortion, however they’re towards it in relation to public training. Relating to public training, individuals shouldn’t be capable of make their very own selections, you should not be capable of have the flexibility to have your youngster go to parochial faculty for those who can’t afford it, or to go to a constitution faculty in the event that they’re not out there in your city. Or to have the ability to determine what your kids ought to be capable of study sexuality and at what age they need to be taught that. So the Democrats are going to have a tough time making that case while you have a look at public training and what their place is, which is us and the academics’ unions know what to inform your kids and the place they need to go to highschool and the way they need to be taught.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What a complete lack of self-awareness. In case you actually assume ‘a very powerful political precedence for any political social gathering is to not be the individuals telling individuals what to do,’ how will you be a Democrat, as Coaston clearly is, since telling individuals what to do is the basic ardour of recent Democrats on all the things from the type of automotive you possibly can drive to the kind of range you possibly can put in your kitchen? Because the well-known line goes, the place Democrats might be substituted for liberals, liberals don’t care what you do so long as it’s necessary.’”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 10: Liberal Media Scream: Liberals can’t deal with the reality

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the information business’s knee-jerk response to the expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats from the legislature for violating ground guidelines in aggressively demanding gun management.

MSNBC political pundit Jon Meacham will get our highlight for his rambling tie-in of abortion, gender, weapons, and, in fact, former President Donald Trump to the ouster of state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson final week.

“This stuff are related,” Meacham stated in dismissing Republicans and blaming Trump within the newest instance of the media’s Trump derangement syndrome. “It’s a reminder that what Trump has represented, which is that this showmanship, this, ‘We’re going to personal the libs,’ is definitely of huge real-world consequence, proper? His actuality present, which is about his consideration and his fundraising and his ego and his narcissism, has an impression on how individuals reside and the way the susceptible reside.”

Our curator, Media Analysis Middle’s Vice President Brent Baker, gave a uncommon 5 out of 5 “scream” ranking and stated the meandering efficiency confirmed that liberals can’t deal with the reality.

“The Republicans in command of the Tennessee legislature had been following the very guidelines of the state structure in expelling the 2 Democrats, the type of orderly course of Meacham advocated however can’t settle for when it reminds him of Trump-like wrath,” Baker stated in his evaluation.

Meacham on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

I can’t assist, simply due to the place I’m sitting in Nashville, to deliver this up as effectively. You understand, 14 days in the past, the youngsters, the academics, the adults who had been murdered on the Covenant Faculty had been preparing for varsity at this hour. And I deliver it up as a result of there are — there’s the problem of reproductive well being, there’s the problem of a wildly and, if I could, weirdly expansive view of the Second Modification, there’s an anti-democratic, lowercase “D” motion as a result of now we have a supermajority right here. As a result of Republicans can expel two members, they did.

And this stuff are related. It’s a reminder — and picture a world the place we haven’t even talked about the indictment of a former president and the potential indictments coming — it’s a reminder that what Trump has represented, which is that this showmanship, this, “We’re going to personal the libs,” is definitely of huge real-world consequence, proper? His actuality present, which is about his consideration and his fundraising and his ego and his narcissism, has an impression on how individuals reside and the way the susceptible reside. And people who find themselves susceptible who don’t even know they’re susceptible as a result of they’re 9 years previous they usually’re going to highschool. And so, the best wing — and, Joe, you alluded to it, you grew up round this, you had been elected — the best wing must be a completely functioning a part of a two-party constitutional system. And so they can imagine what they need to imagine about copy and about weapons, and that’s all what they’re speculated to do. Then you definately take it to the individuals. And while you take it to the individuals, you then obey the consequence as a result of that’s what we do. That’s what separates us from chaos.

Take into consideration what the Proper is doing right here. They’re doing two issues: They’re pushing, arguably, too far on these necessary points, after which in the event that they get a consequence they don’t like, they storm a capital, or they throw individuals out of a legislature. Appears to me you possibly can have the primary, however you possibly can’t have the second, and for those who insist on having each, then you aren’t a part of this dialog, and we want a dialog that has individuals of excellent religion, whether or not you agree with them or not. These are tough points, proper? I imply, the definition of life and the Roe system. This isn’t straightforward.

There are individuals of huge goodwill, huge goodwill, who differ from plenty of of us that we’re speaking to and about. However you are taking it to the system, you are taking it to the Structure, and if there’s a choice, you respect it, and if the choice goes the opposite manner, you’re employed inside channels. You don’t throw individuals out of legislative our bodies.

Baker explains our weekly decide: “A basic instance of Trump derangement syndrome, although this time in a droll and low-key method, but nonetheless an occasion of how liberals within the media see all the things by a Trump prism. The Republicans in command of the Tennessee legislature had been following the very guidelines of the state structure in expelling the 2 Democrats, the type of orderly course of Meacham advocated however can’t settle for when it reminds him of Trump-like wrath.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 3: Liberal Media Scream: 60 Minutes’ hate checklist towards Marjorie Taylor Greene

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the acid 60 Minutes interview of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by Lesley Stahl.

In it, the Georgia Republican pushed again arduous towards Stahl’s trolling interview that included a hater’s checklist of nasty feedback thrown on the lawmaker ever since she first ran for the North Georgia Home seat.

For her reporting mission, Stahl went on social media to “search for” among the feedback. She learn them to Greene, who shrugged, “Appears to be like like the common troll in my Twitter feed, so I don’t actually care.”

There was no point out within the televised story of the instances Greene has been swatted in a number of circumstances the place she was anxious about turning into a so-called “demise by police” sufferer.

Stahl additionally couldn’t resist the usual liberal media mantra on the need of elevating taxes.

On the debt ceiling, Stahl requested, “Would you be prepared to vote for compromise? In different phrases, increase some taxes?” Greene replied: “I don’t assume now we have a income downside in Washington. We’ve a spending downside.” Stahl sneered, “That’s glib. That’s glib.”

From Sunday’s 60 Minutes on CBS:

LESLEY STAHL: We appeared up some phrases which were stated about you.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: OK.

STAHL: “Loopy,” “Q-clown,” “Looney Tune,” “unhinged,” “moron.” Fairly ugly stuff.

GREENE: Appears to be like like the common troll in my Twitter feed, so I don’t actually care.

STAHL: You’re used to it?

GREENE: I don’t let name-calling trouble me or offend me. I simply don’t.

…..

STAHL: Would you be prepared to vote for compromise? In different phrases, increase some taxes?

GREENE: I don’t assume now we have a income downside in Washington. We’ve a spending downside.

STAHL: You understand one thing? That’s glib. That’s glib. That, what does that imply? The 2 sides have to return collectively and hammer it out.

GREENE: Lower spending.

STAHL: Each side.

GREENE: Each side want to chop spending.

STAHL: The place do you need to lower it?

GREENE: COVID bailout cash and a whole lot of inexperienced vitality spending.

STAHL: However are you prepared to allow us to go into default?

GREENE: No. I’ve at all times stated I wouldn’t do this.

STAHL: So, would you compromise?

GREENE: It relies upon.

STAHL: On taxes? You gained’t.

GREENE: No, I’m not elevating taxes.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The 60 Minutes story was unremarkable in some ways as Stahl painted, as you’d anticipate from the institution media, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a loopy far-right extremist. However Stahl confirmed how she and CBS Information contemplate the congresswoman before everything to be an obstacle to their constant demand that taxes should be raised. In that respect, to CBS she’s simply as terrible as any conservative who prefers reducing spending to elevating taxes.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 27: Liberal Media Scream: Jon Stewart says America all discuss on ending discrimination

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options liberal activist Jon Stewart claiming that efforts in America to embrace the variety, fairness, and inclusion motion are simply an inch deep, a “salve” to make individuals really feel good.

On CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, the previous host of the Each day Present on Comedy Central lumped essential race concept in with DEI and stated that regardless of all of the hand-wringing by many to alter society’s views on discrimination, it’s largely simply discuss.

He pointed to the Nationwide Soccer League for instance. The NFL has the so-called Rooney Rule, which requests that groups interview minorities when a high job comes open, nothing extra.

“So right here’s what we’re going to do,” Stewart stated. “We’re going to have to speak to at least one black man. ‘Are we good? I believe we’re good.’”

Jon Stewart on Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN:

By the best way, all these variety initiatives and CRT and all these different issues are solely there as a result of we refuse to truly repair the actual downside. The range and fairness initiatives are a salve. They’re to pacify and mollify as a result of we gained’t really do the actual factor. We gained’t really dismantle the vestiges of all of the systemic racism and all of the systemic classism and all of the systemic gender points. We gained’t really dismantle that.

However what we are going to do is you possibly can have an workplace within the constructing. And each few months, we’re going to have to sit down and hearken to you discuss for, like, an hour. “And so we’re good, proper?” Like, it’s a rustic that gained’t face — I’ll clarify it like, OK, the NFL, proper? You understand the Rooney Rule? The Rooney Rule within the NFL is as a result of there are so few African American coaches, you need to a minimum of interview, like, considered one of them. In order that’s the rule now, as an alternative of it’s the factor you place in place as an alternative of wanting on the proprietor’s field, and realizing, oh, proper, that’s simply the legacy of the financial segregation that’s been in our nation since its founding.

So we’re by no means going to take care of that. So right here’s what we’re going to do. A variety and fairness initiative, we’re going to have to speak to at least one black man. “Are we good? I believe we’re good.” However that’s what I’m, what I’m attempting to say is we don’t — the factor that they’re pointing at is the factor that’s in place as a result of we gained’t do the precise factor.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “To conservatives, DEI is undermining the American perfect of equal alternative and changing it with compelled equal outcomes that exacerbate racial tensions. Stewart put himself clearly on the Left, contending DEI doesn’t go far sufficient however complaining it’s ‘in place as a result of we gained’t do the precise factor.’ But he by no means explains what that ‘precise factor’ would entail.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 20: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Reid coddles reporter fired for hostility to DeSantis

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream turns to the case of an Axios reporter who was fired for describing as “propaganda” a information launch dished out by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

As an alternative of backing Axios in her interview with the reporter, MSNBC’s liberal host Pleasure Reid blamed DeSantis and gave the reporter an opportunity to blast Axios and declare that the seemingly Republican presidential candidate bullied Axios into motion.

Reid stated, “There’s a bullying side and a whole lot of trolling” of those that work for DeSantis.

The Tampa-based journalist Ben Montgomery stated on Reid’s present, “I really feel like what Axios did to me has a chilling impact on the whole information media.”

Right here’s what occurred, in keeping with the New York Put up:

“Journalist Ben Montgomery was fired from the information outlet [Axios] after a staffer within the state Division of Schooling tweeted out a screenshot of him telling the division’s press workplace over e mail, ‘That is propaganda, not a press launch’ in reply to a launch that highlighted the GOP governor internet hosting a roundtable on ‘Exposing the Variety Fairness and Inclusion Rip-off in Increased Schooling.’”

Oh, and naturally, he is considering of cashing in with a e book.

From the March 16 episode of The ReidOut on MSNBC:

BEN MONTGOMERY: So now we have the Florida Division of Schooling, that’s type of engaged in, in my opinion, campaigning for DeSantis for 2024 presidential marketing campaign. So what they’re doing is weaponizing these emails that we typically ship and attempting to make us seem like lefty activists when actually we’re simply inquisitive about them serving the individuals and being true public service and doing the correct of labor that the taxpayers are paying them for.

JOY REID: There’s a bullying side and a whole lot of trolling. They do a whole lot of Twitter trolling. They tried to bully my expensive pal and colleague Andrea Mitchell for asking a query not even to DeSantis, to the vp, Kamala Harris. Did you expertise, earlier than this, any type of bullying habits from the DeSantis camp?

BEN MONTGOMERY: Look, I largely write about fluffy type of issues. I cowl the information, in fact. I’ve been an investigative reporter for a very long time however not with this administration. By and enormous I’ve not had the chance to actually do any type of depth, in-depth reporting on a DeSantis administration. I’m not an individual that they need to be afraid of, I don’t assume.

I’m not writing about them daily. I’m not digging deep, in different phrases. So yeah, however this was propaganda and it was a waste of my time. That’s in the end what I used to be saying to them. It’s losing my time and it’s carried out in a transparent vein of propaganda. That is objectionably propaganda.

And I learn the entire thing as a result of I give them the advantage of the doubt as a result of they work for the individuals of Florida. And I need to do proper by my readers. And so when this wastes my time and it’s simply propaganda, I really feel like I’ve a proper to say so. And I really feel like what Axios did to me has a chilling impact on the whole information media. It’s a really unhappy factor.

REID: Oh, it 100% does! It does present that bullying works. And that sends a message to each different journalist. You place up a kind of enjoyable tweet after this all occurred saying that you simply made a quiche. What are your subsequent plans?

MONTGOMERY: I used to be speaking to my agent immediately about whether or not there was a e book on this, and perhaps there may be. Possibly it’s time that someone isn’t afraid to face as much as DeSantis, write a real biography of him. So I is likely to be the man to do this. We’ll see.

REID: Yeah, good luck, he has his navy information, individuals have tons and plenty of questions. Possibly you possibly can pull it off. Ben Montgomery, thanks man. Actually recognize you being right here, and better of luck in no matter you do subsequent.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Montgomery’s angle betrayed as true what the DeSantis employees noticed; he’s, regardless of his denial, a ‘lefty activist,’ only one {that a} media outlet, in a rarity, held accountable. Reid, in fact, noticed all of it by the prism of her hatred for all issues DeSantis and thus handled him because the sufferer as an alternative of because the one who violated the belief of his readers.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 13: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC needs baseball out of Florida over DeSantis

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a new name from an MSNBC anchor for baseball to drag spring coaching out of Florida over among the latest social coverage strikes by seemingly 2024 presidential candidate and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Anchor Lindsey Reiser in contrast Florida underneath DeSantis to the times of Jim Crow as she featured Washington Put up sports activities author Kevin Blackistone, who had simply revealed a column urging Main League Baseball to reply to “Ron DeSantis’s tradition wars.”

She stated: “You outlined Main League Baseball’s transfer out of Florida for spring coaching in yesteryear — late ‘40s, a state with among the harshest Jim Crow legal guidelines because the league was introducing black gamers to the league.”

He responded that MLB has already proven a hand, transferring the 2021 All-Star Sport out of Georgia over voting reform legal guidelines that turned out to be a nonfactor in final 12 months’s elections that noticed report numbers of individuals on the polls.

Baseball, he stated, “ought to categorical if it has some uncomfortableness with the issues which are happening within the DeSantis marketing campaign, in the best way that he’s run the state of Florida, and in among the different laws that has been handed there that they need to converse out.”

From MSNBC Experiences within the 10 a.m. ET hour, on Friday:

LINDSEY REISER: Again in DeSantis’s house state, his fellow Republicans are fairly busy this week with lawmakers introducing three new payments that may broaden on laws that critics name the “Don’t Say Homosexual Regulation,” one other that may ban abortion after six weeks of being pregnant, and a proposal to require bloggers who write about Florida politics to register with the state. This all comes simply over a month after Gov. DeSantis’s choice to dam AP African American Research from Florida colleges, however as Florida sees all types of controversy over these proposals, it’s additionally in the course of a spring custom with 15 Main League Baseball groups at present holding spring coaching and the league and gamers going through rising calls to talk out towards these payments.

Becoming a member of me proper now, ESPN panelist and sports activities commentary author for the Washington Put up, Kevin Blackistone. He’s out with a brand new piece known as “Baseball can not ignore Ron DeSantis’s tradition wars.” Kevin, thanks for being with us. I need to discuss to you concerning the piece. You outlined Main League Baseball’s transfer out of Florida for spring coaching in yesteryear — late ‘40s, a state with among the harshest Jim Crow legal guidelines because the league was introducing black gamers to the league. In 1947, once more, Jackie Robinson becoming a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, his crew transferring spring coaching to Havana, Cuba. That very same 12 months, the Cleveland Indians, the New York Giants moved spring coaching to Tucson.

KEVIN BLACKISTONE: So baseball reacted, proper, they usually began to depart from, or sure groups did, from Florida. And that basically started the custom of the Cactus League in Arizona. So that’s the by line to what’s going on now. And baseball has within the very latest previous, proper, in 2021, they moved the All-Star Sport out of the state of Georgia in protest to among the election legal guidelines that lots of people within the state of Georgia felt had been burdensome on black voters particularly and different individuals of colour and individuals who had been marginalized in that state.

So I simply assume that, you understand, baseball has spoken out on these points earlier than, and I believe it ought to categorical if it has some uncomfortableness with the issues which are happening within the DeSantis marketing campaign, in the best way that he’s run the state of Florida, and in among the different laws that has been handed there that they need to converse out.

You understand, we talked about — and I do know this community has — concerning the evaluation of books for youth within the public colleges within the state of Florida and a few of people who haven’t but been allowed again on the cabinets. A kind of books occurs to be a e book about Jackie Robinson, so take into consideration the irony of that. Additionally they briefly suspended the distribution of books about Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron, two of the nice black stars of baseball.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What an extremely insidious historic precedent to quote, the Democratic Occasion’s century of imposing segregation, as a rationale now for punishing the individuals of Florida over a disagreement with insurance policies pushed by the Republican DeSantis. Nothing DeSantis has ever advocated comes near the type of racist, inhumane insurance policies Florida enforced within the Nineteen Forties.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 6: Liberal Media Scream: Whoopi cheers erasing historical past she’s ‘not in tune with’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a feud on the Left about “woke” historical past rewriting between Invoice Maher and Whoopi Goldberg.

The preliminary focus is Maher’s protection on CNN of former President Abraham Lincoln, who ended slavery, and an obvious reference to the Washington, D.C., Emancipation Memorial that featured what many imagine is a grateful former slave at his toes.

“Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial determine amongst liberals. We favored him. Now they take his title off colleges and tear down his statues. Actually, Lincoln is not ok for you?” stated Maher on CNN.

Enter Goldberg, a critic of the statue, who slammed the woke motion, claiming she and different black individuals have at all times been “woke” to undercurrents of racism.

“And this concept of woke, I will say it once more: Most of y’all had been asleep,” she stated on The View, drawing a glance from co-host Pleasure Behar.

From ABC’s The View on Thursday:

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Maher additionally had some criticism for the opposite aspect of the aisle, claiming the Left misplaced the definition of the time period “woke.” Huh? OK. Have a look.

BILL MAHER: Democrats typically can take it too far. You understand, I’d categorize liberal as totally different than woke. Woke, which began out as a great factor, alert to injustice — who might be towards that? But it surely grew to become kind of a watch roll as a result of they love variety besides of concepts. Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial determine amongst liberals. We favored him. Now they take his title off colleges and tear down his statues. Actually, Lincoln isn’t ok for you?

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Effectively, that statue was not ok. As a result of it confirmed a slave down at Lincoln’s toes. And if we’re tearing down statues which are actually not in tune with the place we’re as a nation, or a minimum of the place we had been a few months in the past, yeah, you bought to take it down. That’s why they eliminated stuff. That’s why individuals are transferring stuff round. And this concept of woke, I’m going to say it once more: Most of y’all had been asleep.

JOY BEHAR: Who’re you chatting with?

GOLDBERG: I’m speaking to all these of us that use that phrase “woke” on a regular basis. Y’all had been asleep. We had been by no means asleep. We needed to keep awake watching you. So, you wakened and also you thought, “Oh, my God, there’s plenty of girls operating amok doing issues they’re not speculated to be doing and drag queens in every single place and oh, my God, individuals of colour!”

You understand, you at all times discuss concerning the snowflakes — look within the mirror. Y’all can’t appear to deal with something. You possibly can’t appear to deal with competitors from Democrats to Republicans. You possibly can’t appear to deal with the discussions of why individuals really feel the best way they do. Your concept is to do away with all the things. So, cease calling us snowflakes.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “One wonders if Goldberg shall be so happy when the calls come to take down statues of Martin Luther King and take away his title from roads and colleges. In spite of everything, like her argument with Lincoln, ‘he’s actually not in tune with the place we’re as a nation’ since, by 2023 requirements, he was homophobic and transphobic.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 27: Liberal Media Scream: Hollywood says banning filming plastic bottles will save the world

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream goes somewhat off beat to focus on a brand new Hollywood declare that film studios and actors are saving the world and the atmosphere with an honor system to ban plastic bottles “on digicam.”

It got here from Fran Drescher, the president of the Display screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists and the star of The Nanny, successful sitcom within the Nineties, as she addressed the SAG Awards present final night time.

To a smattering of applause, Drescher stated that Hollywood’s effort to cease exhibiting plastic on digicam was the business’s largest effort “to avoid wasting the planet since World Conflict II.”

Drescher, through the SAG Awards carried reside Sunday night time on Netflix’s channel on YouTube, stated:

“I’m very proud to say that SAG-AFTRA and MPAA has solid Inexperienced Council, the largest joint effort of stars and studios to avoid wasting the planet since World Conflict II. Mission No. 1: an honor system to eradicate single-use plastic on digicam, behind the scenes, and leverage star energy to problem audiences all over the world to do the identical. You might discover this 12 months in your tables, they’re all glass bottles.”

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Nothing higher encapsulates out-of-touch Hollywood celebrities than the hubris displayed by Drescher to explain actors not utilizing single-use plastic on digicam as key to the best effort ‘to avoid wasting the planet since World Conflict II.’ That’s ludicrous, and even her personal union members realized that, therefore the very minimal applause within the room. Many viewers watching at house had been seemingly laughing at her absurdity. Maybe she must be somewhat extra involved about her members demanding on-set trailers and personal jets.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 20: Liberal Media Scream: The View hits ‘Ron DeSaster,’ would ‘ban the alphabet’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the hosts of ABC’s The View and their escalating screeching about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and his efforts to have public faculty classes conform with state regulation and what Sunshine State mother and father need.

As an alternative of a level-headed dialogue about his efforts, the hosts attacked DeSantis as a right-wing social warrior who liberal Republican and never-Trumper Ana Navarro dubbed “Ron DeSaster.” The name-calling included unhinged prices that the governor is so anti-education that he would “ban the alphabet.”

The ranting adopted strikes by DeSantis to query a brand new School Board Superior Placement class on black historical past. He and another governors are involved the liberal class plan teaches essential race concept and different classes banned within the state.

“I believe he’s going to ban the alphabet. Holy hell,” stated Navarro.

From ABC’s The View on Thursday, Feb. 16:

ANA NAVARRO: What that is all about getting on Fox Information. What that is all about is fanning the flames of grievance, of white grievance. What that is all about is manufacturing tradition wars that don’t exist in order that he can come out like William Wallace, the man in Braveheart — “Freedom!” Pay attention, I reside in Florida. I reside underneath Gov. Ron DeSaster!

SUNNY HOSTIN: You bought to maneuver, Ana.

NAVARRO: On daily basis, I get up and marvel what he’s going to be. What’s the flavour du jour immediately? What’s he going to be towards immediately? He’s towards AP He’s towards DEI — variety, fairness, and inclusion. He’s towards [environmental, social, and governance] this week. He’s towards electrical stoves.

HOSTIN: Don’t say homosexual.

NAVARRO: He’s towards LGBTQ. I believe he’s going to ban the alphabet. Holy hell.

JOY BEHAR: These individuals, these fascists on the market like DeSantis, they assume that we’re simply going to sit down again and allow them to do no matter they need. No, we’re not. We’ve seen this film earlier than. OK? These of us who lived within the ’60s and ’70s, we noticed this film. There have been many, many fascist ways coming down the pike from Nixon and the remainder of these fascists; that’s what they’re. And we protested and we protested, and we ended a struggle that was unlawful. And we did stuff. And it’s occurring once more. That’s the excellent news.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The unhinged response to Ron DeSantis says one thing about who the left is most afraid of operating for president. The celebs of The View can’t have an trustworthy dialogue about his insurance policies and concepts, in order that they rant and rave and name him a ‘fascist’ and make different ridiculous accusations. It could entertain liberal viewers, but it surely must be embarrassing to ABC Information, which produces the day by day gabfest.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 13: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos calls for GOP examine Trump household

(Washington Examiner put up)

Armed solely with a Washington Put up story about Saudi hyperlinks to Kushner and Trump, Stephanopoulos requested Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the panel, “Will you be investigating that as effectively?”

Comer known as for strict ethics disclosure legal guidelines, which Democrats have resisted, however that wasn’t ok for the media star and former Clinton White Home aide. “To be clear,” he stated, “you imagine that this could apply to Kushner and Trump in addition to the Bidens at this level?”

The alternate on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you extra about your oversight duties. You made it clear you’ll be Hunter Biden and his monetary entanglements with international nations together with China. I need to put up a front-page story from the Washington Put up this morning detailing Jared Kushner’s ties to the Saudis. “After serving to the prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner profit from Saudi funds.” A $2 billion funding in Kushner’s funds from the Saudis. We all know the president, former President Trump, has additionally acquired funds associated to the Saudi golf tour. Sen. Ron Wyden says these entanglements deserve investigation. Will you be investigating that as effectively?

REP. JAMES COMER: I believe all the things’s on the desk. Look, we’re investigating Joe Biden. We all know that Joe Biden stated through the presidential marketing campaign that he had no information of his son’s enterprise pursuits. He wasn’t concerned. He didn’t profit from them. We’ve proof that may recommend in any other case, and that is very regarding. …

The Democrats complained about Kushner’s international dealings. Republicans are actually complaining about the whole Biden household’s international enterprise dealings. We have to know what’s allowable and what isn’t allowable. We have to have strict ethics legal guidelines, and we have to considerably enhance the disclosure legal guidelines in America. So I believe this investigation goes to be crucial to repair an issue earlier than it will get out of hand.

STEPHANOPOULOS: However to be clear, you imagine that this could apply to Kushner and Trump in addition to the Bidens at this level?

COMER: I imagine that after we discuss passing laws to set a line as to the place you might be with relations of high-ranking authorities officers with respect to doing enterprise with adversaries abroad, then it could apply to everybody. We have to repair this earlier than it will get worse within the subsequent administration.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “If solely the Washington press corps had been as keen through the years to leap on tales about Hunter and Joe Biden getting cash out of China as they’ve persistently been to advertise each new allegation towards anybody in Donald Trump’s orbit. It’s virtually as if Stephanopoulos is attempting to deflect from Joe Biden, to use his personal model of ‘both-siderism’ to undermine the impression of Congressman Comer’s upcoming hearings on the Bidens.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 6: Liberal Media Scream: Reporters beg for Biden to get ‘credit score’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream reveals how determined some within the media are for President Joe Biden to get “credit score” for his efforts at a time when polls present that 62% don’t imagine the Democrat has achieved a lot.

The highest cheerleader is NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell who stated on Meet the Press that the president isn’t getting the thanks he deserves.

“He’s not getting credit score for the economic system, and must be,” she informed host Chuck Todd.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

ANDREA MITCHELL: And he’s not getting credit score for the economic system, and must be. Have a look at it, you understand, I believe the hazard of recession is receding. It’s not altogether gone. We see an enormous jobs market. It’s an issue for Jay Powell [chairman of the Federal Reserve] as a result of now they do need to hold tightening. However, you understand, wage development is moderating.

CHUCK TODD: I inform you, individuals don’t–

MITCHELL: Layoffs are solely in a number of sectors, they’re not common.

TODD: There isn’t any doubt–

AMY WALTER: Manufacturing is constructing.

TODD: –however individuals nonetheless really feel like this economic system’s simply not–

MITCHELL: That’s proper, as a result of inflation’s steady.

TODD: It nonetheless feels wobbly.

CORNELL BELCHER: Mid-summer, mid-summer – let’s, let’s test in on that.

TODD: That’s honest.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How good it should be to be a Democratic president so you will have main members of the Washington press corps spinning speaking factors in your favor, days earlier than your large speech, about the way you ‘must be’ getting extra credit score. Mitchell’s contentions about Biden’s report are higher fitted to somebody from the White Home press workplace than somebody who is meant to be a dispassionate journalist.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 30: Liberal Media Scream: Hammer time: Speaker McCarthy kilos media bias and double requirements

(Washington Examiner put up)

Final week, for instance, when a reporter didn’t like McCarthy’s reply to a query, the speaker stated: “Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You requested me a query. Once I reply it, it is the reply to your query. You aren’t getting to find out whether or not I reply your query or not, OK?”

Then, on Face the Nation, he bristled when host Margaret Brennan criticized his appointment of “election deniers” to committee posts. Noting that she didn’t complain when Democratic deniers of former President Donald Trump’s election received good committee seats, he stated, “If you wish to maintain Republicans to that equation, why don’t you additionally maintain Democrats?”

From Sunday’s interview on CBS’s Face the Nation:

Margaret Brennan: I need to ask you about among the make-up of your caucus.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy: Sure.

Brennan: In keeping with CBS information, 70% of the Home GOP members denied the outcomes of the 2020 election. You place lots of them on very key committees: Intelligence, Homeland Safety, Oversight. Why are you elevating people who find themselves denying actuality like that?

McCarthy: Effectively, for those who look to the Democrats, their rating member [Jamie] Raskin had the identical factor, denied Trump or Bush was in there. Bennie Thompson —

Brennan: Did you see these numbers we simply put up there? Seventy %!

McCarthy: Did you even be honest and equal the place you checked out Raskin did the identical factor, Bennie Thompson, whose a rating member and was a chair? These people had been chair of the Democratic Occasion.

Brennan: I’m asking you, as chief of Kevin McCarthy’s Home, why you made these decisions? These had been your decisions.

McCarthy: Yeah, they’re my decisions, however they’re the convention decisions. However I’m additionally asking you while you look to see simply Republicans — Democrats have carried out the identical factor. So perhaps it’s not denying. Possibly it’s the one alternative they need to have a query about what went on through the election. So if you wish to maintain Republicans to that equation, why don’t you additionally maintain Democrats? Why don’t you maintain Jamie Raskin? Why don’t you maintain Bennie Thompson? When Democrats had appointed them to be chair, I by no means as soon as heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that query after they had been in energy, within the majority. Once they questioned —

Brennan: You’re speaking about issues going again to 2000, which was a time, I didn’t have this present again then, which is why I’m asking you now about your management.

McCarthy: No, no! They had been in energy final Congress. So why —

Brennan: You’re speaking about questions from the 2000 election.

McCarthy: You’re asking me about questions that occurred to a different Congress.

Brennan: About these decisions you simply made, simply made. That is your Congress.

McCarthy: These are members who simply received elected by their constituents, and we put them into committees. And I’m proud to do it.

Brent Baker, the vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “It’s at all times refreshing to see a politician push again towards a liberal media storyline the journalist presumes is past questioning, particularly when the journalist is somebody so oblivious as Brennan is to her bias.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS).

 

■ January 23: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid says DeSantis likes solely ‘pleased slaves’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the most recent cable TV assault on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s struggle on woke insurance policies in what’s prone to change into an everyday media sample as the highest Republican rival of former President Donald Trump steps nearer to a 2024 bid.

The assault got here from MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid, enraged that DeSantis scuttled a pilot AP black course in state colleges. But it surely’s not that easy, regardless of her spin.

In keeping with the DeSantis administration, the brand new course provided by School Board violates Florida’s new anti-“woke” regulation as a result of it’s favorable to essential race concept.

“As submitted, the course is a car for a political agenda and leaves massive, ambiguous gaps that may be crammed with further ideological materials, which we is not going to enable,” stated Bryan Griffin, the governor’s press secretary. “As Governor DeSantis has acknowledged, our lecture rooms shall be a spot for training, not indoctrination.”

Reid, nevertheless, smeared DeSantis as a racist for his administration’s actions. “I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite [former Tallahassee Mayor] Andrew Gillum, I believe the racists would possibly assume he’s racist.”

She added that DeSantis needs solely pleased historical past taught in colleges, “the historical past of slavery as pleased slaves, good slave masters.”

Plus, watch as she twists the opposite AP historical past courses taught in Florida as she bashes the “book-banning wannabe president.”

From Thursday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC:

Pleasure Reid: The [Stop Woke Act] is aimed toward eradicating the instructing of historical past, gender identification, and sexual orientation in favor of curriculum that facilities and lionizes individuals who seem like Ron DeSantis. Simply check out what AP programs are deemed educationally precious within the state of Florida per the book-banning wannabe president. European historical past, in fact. Together with programs on the historical past and language of Italy, the place DeSantis’s household hails from, Germany, and Japan, which occurred to be the Axis nations the U.S. fought throughout World Conflict II. Now, whether or not Ron would contemplate fascist Italy to have been a foul man in that struggle, effectively, that’s up for debate. …

So, what DeSantis is basically saying is that the one precious Superior Placement class for a Florida scholar are courses which are about Europe or the opposite Axis nations. That’s it. African-American research just isn’t deemed precious, and it’s not that he’s saying you possibly can’t train black historical past, however right here’s the proof. It’s the way you train black historical past that he’s received an issue with.

DeSantis, when he was a highschool historical past trainer — that is the quote from considered one of his former college students. He was a highschool historical past trainer at a personal faculty in Georgia. ‘Mr. DeSantis was imply to me and hostile towards me,’ stated Miss Pompey, who graduated in 2003. ‘Not aggressively however passively as a result of I used to be black.’ She recalled DeSantis instructing, that is the necessary half, Civil Conflict historical past in a manner that sounded to her like an try and justify slavery. So, after I add that to the actual fact he’s going after the Nationwide Hockey League as a result of they dare to recruit nonblack individuals, basically saying you could recruit white individuals and proceed to maintain a really white league white, however you could not attempt to recruit minorities. You understand, I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite Andrew Gillum, I believe the racists would possibly assume he’s racist. …

It’s the Daughters of the American Revolution, the pro-Accomplice teams who insisted that we will solely train the historical past of slavery as pleased slaves, good slave masters. In case you’re doing that, I promise you an AP class that taught that, that slavery was good, as a result of it appeared a minimum of per his former college students, Dr. [Steve] Gallon [member of the Miami-Dale school board] that he wished to show historical past of slavery as kind of gallant slave house owners who had been form to their pleased slaves.

He’s cool with that. And if the AP course stated that, he’d be positive with it. I additionally assume that you simply’ve seen the revelation of what that is actually about. A man named Stanley Kurtz claims he learn the story, that he learn the curriculum, and he stated, ‘The bigger hazard right here is that these programs, in the event that they’re authorized, will see the school board devise AP programs in girls’s research, gender research, transgender research, Latino research, environmental research, a full panoply of polarized research which have Balkanized and politicized increased training.’ Dr. Gallon, in your view, is that this an try and shut down the instructing of not simply black historical past however any historical past however the Hallmark card of white and European historical past?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Reid’s vitriol reveals DeSantis should be succeeding in making inroads to undercut establishments, such because the training institution, as autos for liberal indoctrination of scholars. So, DeSantis should be discredited with over-the-top invective earlier than he positive aspects any traction in a presidential race. However Reid’s hatred towards him will solely elevate the admiration for him amongst conservatives and lots of impartial voters.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 16, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: In Chuck Todd’s ‘details,’ Sen. Ron Johnson sees bias

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream raises an fascinating query in immediately’s partisan Washington. Why do Republicans discuss to liberal journalists in the event that they know that they will be insulted?

That was the case Sunday on Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WY) appeared, figuring out he was holding the quick finish of the stick it doesn’t matter what he stated. Johnson even stated so: “That is fairly apparent to anyone watching this, is you don’t invite me on to interview me. You invite me on to argue with me.”

The host, in fact, was having none of it. In between his favourite authority openings of “Look” and “So,” he received the final insult in when he stated, “You possibly can return in your partisan cable cocoon and discuss media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your identification.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press:

CHUCK TODD: I’ll take it at your phrase that you simply’re ethically bothered by Hunter Biden. I’m curious, although. You appear to have a sample.

SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): Are you not? Are you not?

TODD: I’m a journalist. I’ve to deal in details. I deal in details, so senator, my query to you is, I’ve skepticism of each events. I sit right here with skepticism of lots of people’s work.

JOHNSON: So do I.

TODD: And I’m curious, are you — had been you in any respect involved — your Senate Democrats need to examine Jared Kushner’s mortgage from the Qatari authorities when he was working within the authorities, negotiating many issues within the Center East? Are you not involved about that? I say that as a result of it appears to me for those who’re involved about what Hunter Biden did, you have to be equally outraged about what Jared Kushner did.

JOHNSON: I’m involved about getting the reality. I don’t goal people —

TODD: You don’t? You’re concentrating on Hunter Biden a number of instances on this present, senator. You’re concentrating on a person.

JOHNSON: Chuck, you understand, a part of the issue, and that is fairly apparent to anyone watching that is, you don’t invite me on to interview me. You invite me on to argue with me. I’m simply attempting to put out the details that actually Sen. Grassley and I uncovered. They had been suppressed. They had been censored. They interfered within the 2020 election. Conservatives perceive that. Sadly, liberals within the media don’t. And that’s a part of the explanations our politics are infected is we do not need an unbiased media. We don’t. It’s unlucky. I’m all for a free press, and it must be extra unbiased.

TODD: Senator, look — go to partisan — Senator, look, we’re attempting to do points right here and details. Look, you possibly can return in your partisan cable cocoon and discuss media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your identification.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Chuck Todd, in all his obnoxious glory. Kudos to Sen. Ron Johnson for taking over Todd’s apparent bias and hostility to the considerations of conservatives, even when he’s apparent to his personal ‘cocoon.’ Pot meet kettle.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 9, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: James Comer nails Chuck Todd’s biased views

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream is the primary proof that there’s a new sheriff on the town, a Home GOP majority that’s desirous to level out the biased and sometimes hypocritical views within the media.

In our highlight is Rep. James Comer (R-KY), incoming chairman of the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform, invited on to Chuck Todd’s NBC Sunday present, Meet the Press. He confronted the usually biased questions and views of the host, corresponding to when Todd instructed the GOP could be holding votes on laws it is aware of President Joe Biden gained’t signal, as if Democrats by no means held “present” votes.

Todd additionally sneered at Comer’s investigation agenda, suggesting it was simply political theater.

However as an alternative of taking it, the lawmaker pushed proper again, calling out the biased media.

When Todd dismissed Republican plans to carry votes on time period limits and a balanced funds as “present votes,” Comer countered, “Quite a lot of instances, as you understand, Chuck, you need to take payments by quite a few periods of Congress earlier than they lastly change into regulation.”

And when Todd hit GOP plans to probe the Biden administration as “extra partisan than skilled,” Comer stated, “I believe the one people who see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats.” And for good measure, he added, “Are you kidding me!”

Two of the exchanges from Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

CHUCK TODD: I‘m curious, these two belongings you point out, these are present votes. They’re not going to go. They haven’t any likelihood of passing. A few of them would possibly should be constitutional amendments, and you know the way arduous that course of is. What’s the purpose of passing a invoice that mainly, you get to place a press launch out on, but it surely doesn’t get enacted?

REP. JAMES COMER: Quite a lot of instances, as you understand, Chuck, you need to take payments by quite a few periods of Congress earlier than they lastly change into regulation.

TODD: Let me ask you this. You’re going to do a whole lot of oversight. You’re going to have a whole lot of subpoenas. Many individuals have a look at what you’re doing, they usually see that it seems to be extra partisan than skilled. Inform me the way you’re going to attempt to departisanize an investigation? Or do you anticipate it to be partisan?

COMER: Effectively, with all due respect, Chuck, I disagree with that. I believe the one people who see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats. Look, on the similar second that the Democrats on the Methods and Means Committee launched Donald Trump’s taxes, they then moments later circled and stated, “Comer’s investigation of the Biden household affect peddling is a revenge listening to.” I imply, are you kidding me?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Comer is off to an excellent begin, recognizing the information media are his enemy simply as a lot as Democrats. It was refreshing to listen to an elevated Republican chief tackle Todd for his a number of hypocrisies, all of the sudden involved, now that Republicans are in cost within the Home, concerning the partisanship of an investigation and the futility of votes on two conservative agenda gadgets that may embarrass Democrats. As if Democrats have by no means had ‘present votes,’ to place Republicans in a foul gentle, which most journalists discovered admirable.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS.)

 

■ January 2, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls GOP the social gathering of il Duce

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC doing its greatest to change into the community of the crackpot Left, speaking itself into irrelevance for almost everybody else.

Not happy with its report of attacking Republicans and conservatives as MAGA crazies, the cable channel rolled out a bunch and visitor who dismissed the social gathering as fascists. And never simply easy fascists corresponding to World Conflict II-era Italian chief Benito Mussolini.

How about “neo-fascist,” “proto-fascist,” and “semi-fascist?” Now that’s received to harm.

The name-calling got here Saturday when Mehdi Hasan hosted Yale College philosophy professor Jason Stanley on Velshi on MSNBC.

Stanley, who authored a e book titled How Fascism Works, warned, “I believe ‘semi-fascism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘neo-fascism,’ these are correct descriptions. We have to drop discuss of populism, drop these deceptive descriptions that disguise what we’re really going through.”

From Saturday’s Velshi:

MEHDI HASAN: Jason, the GOP is again in energy once more, a minimum of within the Home of Representatives, which implies there shall be a good bit of normalizing of them once more by the media. In your view, is it honest to explain the fashionable GOP as ‘neo-fascist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or, to cite Joe Biden on the MAGA motion, ‘semi-fascist?’

JASON STANLEY, Yale College: There’s actually throughout the trendy GOP, because the scapegoating of LGBT residents demonstrates, a fascist motion rising. We — and, to speak about this as some type of European factor is a confusion since fascism is Jim Crow with a international accent. So now we have a local, now we have a number of native far-right extremist actions: Christian Nationalism, we’ve received, kind of, heritage of Jim Crow. We’ve received an anti-democratic enterprise institution. And it is a construction, a grouping, that’s going to deliver individuals to vote for an authoritarian social gathering. And that’s what now we have, that’s what the fashionable GOP is more and more wanting like — as Ruth [NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat] stated, an anti-democratic social gathering. I believe ‘semi-fascism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘neo-fascism,’ these are correct descriptions. We have to drop discuss of populism, drop these deceptive descriptions that disguise what we’re really going through.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Fairly the multiple-choice, a variety which says extra concerning the slim considering of MSNBC hosts and friends attempting to discredit Republicans than it does about something to worry from Republicans. Hasan dreads ‘normalizing’ Republicans as a result of it’s loads simpler to demonize them than to tackle and critically tackle views with which you disagree.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

> Liberal Media Screams for 2021 and 2022

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> For July by December 2016.

> For January by June 2016.

> For July to December 2015.