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, normally posted on-line on Monday, I present an evidence and suggest a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).
This publish accommodates the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2025.
> For 2023 and 2024, for 2021 and 2022, for 2020. For 2019. For 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:
> July-December 2017 posts; January by means of 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 means of the tip of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by means of June 11, 2013.)
Verify Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the most recent alternative 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 Heart’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the most recent outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)
■ New on August 4, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Washington Put up reporter give up over patriotism request
See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s web site the place you may watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Per week later, Bedard’s article shall be posted right here.
■ July 28, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Connie Chung needs Fox Information anchors in ‘ankle displays’
(Washington Examiner publish)
Connie Chung is again, and he or she’s nonetheless mouthing off concerning the conservative media she hates, making her our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
What’s extra, she’s giving recommendation to CBS, the community that dumped her in 1995 after a controversial interview and just lately caved in to President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over a manipulated 60 Minutes interview of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Chung, who held a number of different media posts, went on CNN to tear the deal by Skydance Media to take over Paramount, the proprietor of CBS. She additionally hit media influencers and Fox Information as suppliers of pretend information.Of conservative media retailers, she mentioned, “I feel they need to be placing ankle bracelets, ankle displays on sure anchors at sure cable stations in prime time. These are the culprits.”
From Friday’s CNN Information Central:
Connie Chung: “I might say that they should combat the great combat, that they’ve to guard the legacy of CBS. They can not permit biased homeowners, as a result of actually, I don’t suppose CBS is essentially the perpetrator. What must be policed is social media, which haven’t any reality checkers, podcasters, and the like. Nobody is checking these info. And the issue is, that’s inaccurate info that’s being disseminated
“I feel they need to be put in ankle bracelets, ankle displays on sure anchors at sure cable stations in prime time. These are the culprits.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “An disagreeable blast from the previous. TV community stars like her of the Nineteen Eighties and ‘90s, who so sanctimoniously noticed themselves as paragons of advantage and info, are what created {the marketplace} for Fox Information and all the opposite new media retailers which so disturb her by not following the identical liberal line as CBS. But, many years later, she nonetheless doesn’t acknowledge that.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ July 21, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS reporter blames PTSD on MAGA crowd at Trump taking pictures
(Washington Examiner publish)
A CBS political reporter mentioned he suffered from post-traumatic stress dysfunction following his protection of the tried assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
However Scott MacFarlane didn’t blame shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, the noise of Crooks’s rifle going off eight occasions, or the near-death of Trump. He blamed the group of MAGA supporters, whom he envisioned “have been going to come back kill us.” He mentioned he felt the group would blame the media for the taking pictures and that “we’d be lifeless” if Trump didn’t survive.
For that, he simply gained as our Liberal Media Scream of the week. However he was challenged throughout an interview on The Chuck ToddCast when Todd provided up his personal weird response to the assassination try that killed Trump supporter Corey Comperatore.
Todd mentioned, “I share your concern. Just a bit factor. I used to be — actually the very first thing I used to be going to do after touchdown [in Milwaukee to cover the GOP convention] on Saturday was go to the Nats-Brewers recreation, and I mentioned, ‘I’m not going. I’m not going to be seen going. I’m not, I’m not doing that. This isn’t the second for this.’”
Todd went on to say he has lengthy feared Trump supporters.
From The Chuck ToddCast:
SCOTT MACFARLANE: For these of us there, it was such a horror since you noticed an rising America. And it wasn’t the taking pictures, Chuck. This was … I bought recognized with PTSD inside 48 hours. I bought placed on trauma depart, not as a result of, I feel, of the taking pictures, however as a result of, you can … you noticed it within the eyes, the response of the individuals. They have been coming for us. If he didn’t bounce up along with his fist, they have been going to come back kill us.
CHUCK TODD: I do know … Look, I share your concern. Just a bit factor. I used to be, actually, the very first thing I used to be going to do after touchdown on Saturday was go to the Nats-Brewers recreation, and I mentioned, “I’m not going. I’m not going to be seen going. I’m not, I’m not doing that. This isn’t the second for this.”
And I feel we … none of us knew what the response of that Milwaukee crowd was going to be to this. Proper? It changed into euphoria, proper? It changed into this messiah, type of messiah feeling. I feel that, , that this was divine intervention.
However I share that, that Saturday, and what you simply described, being on the bottom, was the very first thing I considered was my staff down there. I feel it was Vaughn Hillyard, if I’m not mistaken.
MACFARLANE: Dasha was there as nicely.
TODD: And Dasha Burns, proper? And, look, let’s be trustworthy. We’ve been fearing this for a few decade. That each one of this heightened rhetoric, that what all this crap on-line, what occurred on Jan. 6, these of us that skilled that as nicely, you’re like, we’re a tinderbox, proper? what? There’s a worry that this second is coming. And it’s fascinating that you simply … the truth that we dodged that. , you’re proper. I imply, it’s, it’s … I don’t know what would have occurred had the result been completely different.
MACFARLANE: We’re all … many people on press row, as we talked about this on our textual content chains for weeks after, have been fairly assured we’d be lifeless if he didn’t get again up. There was a subset, not everyone, there’s dozens of individuals within the crowd who began coming for us, saying, “You probably did this. That is your fault. You induced this. You killed him.”
They usually’re going to beat us with their arms. I imply, they have been going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had larger points than defending us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us, however that’s the factor. I can’t eradicate from my thoughts’s eye the look on their faces. They … that’s what America is true now. It’s not rational. It’s an irrational thought to suppose the media shot any individual from atop a constructing, however the lack of rationality is what connects Jan. 6 to this. It’s … how will we pull out of this as a rustic is the defining query of our time.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Sure, the near-assassination of President Donald Trump wasn’t the true ‘horror’ of the day. The actual ‘horror’ was in how, within the few seconds earlier than Trump triumphantly raised his fists, MacFarlane by some means sensed the group would ‘kill’ him and different reporters? Actually? If Trump supporters have been on the cusp of lethal violence, why are we simply listening to about it a yr later? And McFarlane actually bought recognized with PTSD? Everyone knows too many journalists are snowflakes, however you’d suppose MacFarlane would have the self-respect to maintain such an embarrassing admission, of his worry of fellow Individuals, to himself.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ July 14, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Katie Couric labels Trump’s MAGA ‘a s*** present’
(Washington Examiner publish)
The disdain the legacy media have for President Donald Trump has reached new ranges since Congress permitted his “massive, lovely invoice.”
Many liberal retailers have resorted to following Democratic speaking factors and inflated the destructive results, and others have made ridiculous claims that it’s going to kill hundreds of thousands.
After which there’s media darling Katie Couric, who simply brushed apart the entire Trump administration in a single profane and bitter characterization, successful this week’s function as our Liberal Media Scream.
In calling for extra media consideration to the administration, the one-time Immediately present host fretted over “this second in our historical past” after which hit “The s*** present that’s the Trump administration.”
In a joint video podcast with left-wing freelance journalist Liz Plank, Couric mentioned “social media creators … rely upon a variety of mainstream retailers” for fundamental info, in order that “underscores the significance of extra conventional media … particularly at this second in our historical past and what’s taking place in our nation and the s*** present that it’s the Trump administration.”
Couric, throughout a podcast cross-posted on Liz Plank’s Airplane Mode Substack podcast and the Subsequent Query with Katie Couric podcast on Substack and YouTube:
“I feel it simply, it underscores the significance of extra conventional media, and I feel we want all of it, to be trustworthy, particularly at this second in our historical past and what’s taking place in our nation and the s*** present that it’s the Trump administration.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Couric demonstrates how ingrained the disdain is for Trump administration insurance policies amongst the legacy media elite. It’s like muscle reminiscence to them. And her blurting out her disgust, for a president who earned essentially the most votes, in such an off-the-cuff method in a dialog with a like-minded liberal, reveals how she sees it as a commonly-accepted view amongst her friends.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ July 7, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos blames downpour deaths on Trump
(Washington Examiner publish)
The weekend noticed among the most embarrassing efforts by the liberal media to take President Donald Trump down, this time blaming him for the horrific flash flood deaths in Texas.
The early morning flooding that has to date claimed the lives of greater than 80, together with kids at a Christian women camp, hit with little warning after a downpour dumped some 11 inches of rain that ended up within the Guadalupe River on Friday.
Trump known as it a 100-year occasion on Sunday and is planning to satisfy with households this Friday.
Even because the seek for survivors continued, the media tried responsible Trump and employees cuts at numerous federal climate businesses. Main that effort was ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who mentioned on This Week, “There have been vital staffing shortfalls to the Nationwide Climate Service workplaces within the area.”
Most climate and state native officers have been fast to notice that the realm typically floods and that notices have been despatched out after midnight. Blame isn’t what most wished to solid, however the Washington media did anyway — one thing they didn’t do when Hurricane Helene crashed by means of the southwest final yr, killing 230.
Even the reporter on the scene in Texas, Mireya Villarreal, didn’t take the Trump-hating bait from Stephanopoulos, a one-time prime aide to former President Invoice Clinton and his spouse, Hillary.
From ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: We’re additionally studying there have been vital staffing shortfalls to the Nationwide Climate Service workplaces within the area.
MIREYA VILLARREAL, IN KERRVILLE, TEXAS: As of proper now, the native county officers didn’t need to handle that simply but. What they’re telling us is that they anticipated between 4 and 6 inches of rain. That’s what climate consultants informed them. The Nationwide Climate Service as nicely. Additionally they knew, in distant areas, they could get anyplace from 8 to 10 inches, however this quantity of rain in such a brief period of time, it was very tough to navigate. And when the Division of Homeland Safety secretary was right here simply yesterday, she acknowledged this was a difficulty. She was going to take these issues to the White Home as nicely and attempt to see if there was something they might do to revamp the system. She says the president is dedicated to it.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Liberal Democratic activists develop an assault line towards the Trump administration, and Stephanopoulos dutifully jumps to repeat it. On this case, in essentially the most distasteful method, making an attempt to attain political factors on the very second dozens of oldsters have been desperately looking for their lacking kids. However with Stephanopoulos, it’s politics forward of info as his rivalry has been undermined by, amongst others, the union representing the NWS meteorologists.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ June 30, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS embraces socialist Mamdani, calls GOP criticism ‘hateful’
(Washington Examiner publish)
PBS is doubling down on its leftist bias that has drawn President Donald Trump’s help for defunding the taxpayer-supported service, this time embracing New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani whereas ripping GOP criticism of the self-declared socialist as “disgusting” and “hateful.”
Whereas some liberal politicians are disowning Mamdani for his excessive positions, the help by Public Broadcasting Service’s Information Hour is that this week’s featured Liberal Media Scream as a result of it flies within the face of a promise to supply “clever, balanced” reporting.
On Friday, Information Hour didn’t function the candidate’s left-wing guarantees to defund police and supply freebies to residents, however as a substitute condemned the conservative response to him.
Mentioned featured liberal commentator Jonathan Capehart, “I’ll begin with the Republican response. It’s shameful, it’s hateful, it’s disgusting.”
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
NEWS HOUR HOST AMNA NAWAZ: I bought to ask you each, too, about Tuesday evening’s occasions in New York Metropolis, the Democratic mayoral main contest all the nation was being attentive to when Zohran Mamdani, who was a little-known state assemblyman, went on to beat the previous New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s 33 years outdated, he’s a self-described Democratic socialist, and his win, we must always level out, has actually fueled a hateful response from some on the Proper. There’s a serious MAGA voice named Charlie Kirk, who posted this: ‘24 years in the past a bunch of Muslims killed 2,753 individuals on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on tempo to run New York Metropolis.’”
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles really known as for Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, as a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be denaturalized and deported. Jonathan, what does Mamdani’s win inform us about Democrats and their message, if something, and what does the response inform us about Republicans and theirs?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Effectively, the response, I’ll begin with the Republican response. It’s shameful, it’s hateful, it’s disgusting. It additionally tells me that Republicans are deathly afraid of their prospects within the 2026 midterm elections. Particularly in the event that they’re going after a man who simply merely gained the first in a municipal election. The opposite factor of us want to know, the status of New York Metropolis is of a liberal bastion, and it’s a metropolis the place there’s a six-to-one Democratic registration benefit over Republicans. And but this metropolis, that has a status of being a liberal bastion, elected Rudy Giuliani twice and Mike Bloomberg thrice, the primary time as a Republican, the subsequent two occasions as an impartial. And so, what I take from Mamdani’s win, above all else, is that he went on the market and requested New Yorkers for his or her votes. He didn’t do a Rose Backyard technique. He requested individuals for his or her votes, and he gave them one thing to vote for, and that’s the factor Democrats ought to emulate. Ask individuals for his or her votes.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “In pleading for donations within the wake of the trouble to finish taxpayer funding of PBS, the Information Hour web site ludicrously claims ‘your present helps America’s #1 most trusted information supply in offering clever, balanced and in-depth reporting.’ This protection of Mamdani is simply the most recent proof of the hollowness of that promise, a pledge PBS has by no means made any real effort to supply. The place’s the stability in ignoring the elephant within the room of Mamdani’s extremist views whereas treating conservative response to him as a very powerful occasion that have to be condemned?”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ June 23, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Feckless Margaret Brennan thinks she’s secretary of state
(Washington Examiner publish)
If the Sunday efficiency of CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan have been in a Looney Tunes cartoon, Bugs Bunny would have mocked, “da nerve!”
As an alternative, and a lot better, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brushed apart her grade college “sure it’s, no it’s not” debate over navy intelligence and perception that she is aware of extra about it than President Donald Trump’s prime nationwide safety adviser.
“You don’t know what you’re speaking about,” Rubio mentioned in an look to debate Trump’s choice to assault Iran’s nuclear weapons amenities over the weekend.
After Brennan continued to say she is aware of extra about whether or not Iran deliberate to make nuclear weapons or not, Rubio gave his finest “da nerve” look and informed her, “That’s not how intelligence is learn. That’s not how intelligence is used. Right here’s what the entire world is aware of. Overlook about intelligence, what the IAEA is aware of. They’re enriching uranium nicely past something you want for a civil nuclear program.”
From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me observe up on a phrase you simply used — weaponization ambitions. Are you saying that the US didn’t see intelligence that the supreme chief had ordered weaponization?
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: That’s irrelevant. I see that query being requested within the media on a regular basis. That’s an irrelevant query. They’ve every thing they should construct a weapon.
BRENNAN: No, however that’s the key level in U.S. intelligence assessments. that.
RUBIO: No, it’s not.
BRENNAN: Sure, it was.
RUBIO: No, it’s not.
BRENNAN: That the political choice had not been made.
RUBIO: No, I do know — nicely, I do know that higher than that. And I do know that that’s not the case.
BRENNAN: However I’m asking you whether or not the order was given.
RUBIO: You don’t know what you’re speaking about. And the individuals who say that — it doesn’t matter if the order was given. They’ve every thing they should construct nuclear weapons. Why would you bury — why would you bury issues in a mountain 300 ft below the bottom?
BRENNAN: Proper.
RUBIO: Why would you bury six … why have they got 60% enriched uranium? You don’t want 60% enriched uranium. The one nations on the earth which have uranium at 60% are nations which have nuclear weapons, as a result of they’ll rapidly make it 90. They’ve all the weather. They’ve … why are they … why have they got an area program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They’re making an attempt to construct an ICBM, to allow them to sooner or later put a warhead on it.
BRENNAN: No, however that’s a query … that’s a query … that’s a query of intent. And , within the intelligence evaluation, that it was that Iran wished to be a threshold state and use this leverage.
RUBIO: How have you learnt what the intelligence evaluation says? How have you learnt what the intelligence evaluation says?
BRENNAN: I’m speaking concerning the public March evaluation. And that’s why I used to be asking you if one thing extra from March, if an order was given.
RUBIO: Effectively, that — however that’s additionally an inaccurate illustration of it. That’s an inaccurate illustration of it. That’s not how intelligence is learn. That’s not how intelligence is used. Right here’s what the entire world is aware of. Overlook about intelligence, what the IAEA is aware of. They’re enriching uranium nicely past something you want for a civil nuclear program.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Refreshing to see a visitor tackle the liberal premises forwarded as info by legacy media hosts. This wasn’t the primary time this yr that Brennan has been schooled by a Trump administration official. Perhaps she ought to think about being extra of a dispassionate interviewer and fewer of an advocate for the left-wing spin of the day.”
Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ June 16, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS sees Trump ‘suspending elections’
(Washington Examiner publish)
It’s exhausting to think about that PBS might get any extra anti-Trump, however after Home Republicans voted to endorse President Donald Trump’s bid to defund public broadcasting, all of its “Trump derangement syndrome” sirens have gone off.
For our weekly Liberal Media Scream, we function its most excessive declare from lefty Information Hour commentator Jonathan Capehart that the president is on an influence seize that can have him “suspending elections.”
On Friday’s PBS Information Hour, Capehart advised that Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard to California to guard federal buildings towards anti-ICE demonstrators, in addition to “rumors” of a pardon for the police officer convicted of the homicide of George Floyd, is a part of a plan to “create the circumstances that may permit the president to invoke the Rebellion Act.”
Tying the Military birthday parade Saturday with the deployment of troops to Los Angeles, Capehart mentioned, “We’re at a turning level, I feel, this weekend with what now we have seen within the run-up to tomorrow’s parade, with what’s taking place in Los Angeles. Extra individuals’s hair ought to be on fireplace, not simply due to the Nationwide Guard troops in Los Angeles with out the — working with or permission from the governor, which is by regulation what ought to have been executed, however the calling up of Marines, U.S. navy, on American streets.”
“That may be a line that, to me, anyway, is one that ought to by no means have been crossed. And the president placing out this order and placing out this order that isn’t particular to Los Angeles, isn’t particular to any metropolis. It’s so broad. The language is so broad that it’s type of like you can simply tuck it into like a large L.L. Bean tote bag, and also you simply pull out: The place do I have to ship troops?”
Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
I feel they’re creating the political battle as a result of, , I interviewed Minnesota State Legal professional Normal Keith Ellison within the run-up to the anniversary, the fifth anniversary of the homicide of George Floyd.
And he introduced up on his personal the rumor that the president was going to pardon Derek Chauvin. And the legal professional common mentioned that the president would possibly try this as a distraction to bigger targets. And one of many bigger targets that the legal professional common talked about that has at all times been at the back of my thoughts is to create the circumstances that may permit the president to invoke the Rebellion Act.
And as soon as the president invokes the Rebellion Act, all kinds of powers are handed to the president, , suspending elections, and different issues when you open that field, and notably you open that field with this president and the administration and the yes-people he has round him, there’s no going again. That’s among the many explanation why I’m so involved about what we’re about to see tomorrow.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Tinfoil hat time. And PBS supporters act befuddled as to why conservatives see PBS as the house of left-wing loopy discuss, main the Home final week to approve President Trump’s rescission bundle to finish taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR. Capehart’s wild hypothesis passes for knowledgeable evaluation on PBS’s prime ‘information’ program.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ June 9, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Pompous Pelley warns America ‘is doomed’
(Washington Examiner publish)
Simply after we thought CBS’s Scott Pelley couldn’t get any extra pompous, he proved us improper — once more.
This time it was in decrying America below President Donald Trump, declaring that solely journalism can save the nation, and warning that “In case you fall silent, the nation is doomed.”
Seeing parallels between Sen. Eugene McCarthy within the Nineteen Fifties and Trump as we speak, whereas talking after CNN confirmed George Clooney’s play about legendary newsman Edward R. Morrow, Pelley mentioned, “You can not have democracy with out journalism. It may possibly’t be executed.”
Pelley has used his 60 Minutes perch to air his liberal bias and editorialize towards Trump. Murrow performed an outsize function in ending McCarthy’s profession.
From CNN’s particular protection Saturday evening, Good Evening, and Good Luck Stay: Fact and Energy, after the reside airing from Broadway of the stage play, Good Evening, and Good Luck:
ANDERSON COOPER: Do you continue to consider in journalism? Do you continue to consider within the function of journalists?
SCOTT PELLEY: It’s the solely factor that’s going to save lots of the nation. You can not have democracy with out journalism. It may possibly’t be executed. The individuals at residence want dependable, constant info to be able to make selections about their lives and their futures, and the nation’s future. So, there isn’t any system of democracy with out journalism. We’ve got to determine preserve journalism free, impartial, correct, and liable for what it’s doing.
However journalism is the one career that’s protected by the Structure of the US. And there’s a motive for that. James Madison believed that freedom of speech was the appropriate that assured all the opposite rights within the Invoice of Rights. And so it’s as we speak.
COOPER: What’s your message to individuals about, who’ve simply watched this, and are nervous?
PELLEY: It’s going to take braveness, because it typically has, to get by means of this era of American historical past. Our forebears have been known as by their occasions to have braveness to maneuver the nation ahead. And so it’s with us as we speak. An important factor is to have the braveness to talk, to not let worry permeate the nation so that everybody out of the blue turns into silent. If in case you have the braveness to talk, we’re saved. In case you fall silent, the nation is doomed.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “May Pelley be any extra pompous? If he, CBS Information, and the remainder of the legacy media had ever lived as much as his promise of offering ‘impartial, correct and accountable’ information, they wouldn’t be held in such disdain by a lot of the general public who see them as left-wing political gamers. And that’s a actuality he confirmed by advocating everybody get in line and be part of him in having the ‘braveness’ to oppose the insurance policies of the person who earned essentially the most votes within the final election.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ June 2, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos tries to prime Pelley along with his Trump hate
(Washington Examiner publish)
Have you ever observed how the liberal Sunday information present hosts have been tripping over themselves to search out some, any angle to assault President Donald Trump and his staff?
The newest to affix the parade is George Stephanopoulos, the ABC massive shot and former Invoice Clinton spinner-in-chief, who on Sunday tried to one-up the latest string of anti-Trump editorials from Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes.
On ABC’s This Week, Stephanopoulos opened with this: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. The dimensions is staggering. President Trump and his household are making a whole lot of hundreds of thousands, doubtlessly billions of {dollars}, as Trump and his administration take official actions that profit contributors and traders.”
The assault was par for the course for the Clinton household defender, who was unfazed that the Clinton Basis profited from overseas governments when Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state or that the Biden household enterprise cashed in on Joe Biden’s vice presidency and presidency.
And it adopted a sample of attacking Trump at any value, a harmful observe that just lately prompted ABC and Stephanopoulos to subject an apology and pay a Trump-related basis $15 million to scuttle a defamation lawsuit.
For his hypocrisy, Stephanopoulos’s rant is our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
Stephanopoulos on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, with the quoted textual content displayed on display:
“Good morning and welcome to This Week. The dimensions is staggering. President Trump and his household are making a whole lot of hundreds of thousands, doubtlessly billions of {dollars}, as Trump and his administration take official actions that profit contributors and traders. Simply this week, we realized of pardons to tax cheats, together with a person whose pardon was granted weeks after his mom attended a million-dollar-a-head fundraiser with the president. The Trump Media and Know-how Group raised practically $2.5 billion from 50 institutional traders whose identities haven’t been disclosed. The SEC dropped its lawsuit towards the cryptocurrency agency Binance days after Binance started itemizing the cryptocurrency launched by World Liberty Monetary, the crypto agency began by Trump’s household.
“This unprecedented money-making by a sitting president and his household summarized by critics just like the Atlantic’s David Frum. ‘Nothing like this has been tried and even imagined within the historical past of the American presidency,’ he writes. ‘Throw away the historical past books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the previous. There isn’t any analogy with any earlier motion by any previous president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White Home. That is American corruption on the size of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.’”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: You’d suppose somebody like Stephanopoulos, who compelled Disney/ABC to pay $15 million to Trump’s future presidential museum for a false assertion impugning President Trump, could be extra reluctant to show such rank hypocrisy in turning into so overwrought about fees of corruption towards Trump. Particularly when he confirmed no comparable concern over how the Biden household profited off of profitable secretive offers fueled by President Biden’s excessive workplaces.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ Might 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Trump ‘dictator’ to bow earlier than
(Washington Examiner publish)
As if MSNBC can’t get any extra ridiculous, a daily visitor proved it might when previewing President Donald Trump‘s solemn Memorial Day occasions by calling him a dictator whom all should bow earlier than.
In feedback condemning greater than half of the voters who help Trump, Dean Obeidallah, host of The Dean Obeidallah Present on SiriusXM, informed the MSNBC viewers, “This actually is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One which we consider in is freedom, the US of America with due course of, and their imaginative and prescient, which is an autocracy, and that actually — what we’re coping with, or simpler than that, a dictatorship. They need Trump because the dictator of the US, and all of us should bow right down to him.”
Obeidallah’s rant gained this week’s Mainstream Media Scream, nevertheless it was an in depth name, with hard-left CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley and his liberal colleague, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, in full Trump derangement syndrome.
Pelley made headlines for his over-the-top Trump hate graduation at Wake Forest, and Brennan for her uneducated assault on the Home Republican “massive, lovely invoice.”
Dean Obeidallah, in the course of the midday hour on Saturday of Velshi on MSNBC:
I feel the truth that it’s Memorial Day weekend offers us a second to pause. Individuals made the final word sacrifice. They did it for one thing that you simply talked about in your — in your monologue there. And that phrase is “freedom.”
And I’m writing an article proper now. I used to be wanting again on the very first speech within the modern-day Memorial Day, which was Rep. James Garfield earlier than he was president, 1868 Arlington, to Joe Biden’s. I checked out all completely different presidential speeches and the one phrase that got here up in all these speeches: “freedom.”
And that’s what individuals — that’s what makes us Individuals. And Donald Trump goes after every thing, freedom of speech, in methods we’ve by no means seen. I imply, a choose simply dominated on Friday defending the regulation corporations, saying you’re going after dissent, going after universities. I had professor Steven Levitsky on my present, co-author of How Democracies Die, saying each autocrat goes after universities as a result of they’re impartial facilities of dissent. Individuals suppose he’s going after media retailers. He’s going after Democrats. They’re arresting judges. The mayor of Newark, they dropped the fees. That they had no case. Then a Democratic member of Congress, they opened up investigations into ActBlue as a result of it’s a platform to assist Democrats increase cash. Now, an investigation into Media Issues, Angelo Carusone’s, the FTC is starting an investigation. It is a reenvisioning of what America is about.
And I feel you summed it up so nicely. This actually is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One which we consider in is freedom. The US of America with due course of, and their imaginative and prescient, which is an autocracy, and that actually — what we’re coping with, or simpler than that, a dictatorship. They need Trump because the dictator of the US, and all of us should bow right down to him.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “There’s no vacation weekend break on MSNBC from the anti-Trump hostility, not even for a solemn event which Obeidallah used as a hook to launch his rant towards Trump as anti-freedom of speech. Fairly ironic given the help by so many on MSNBC for canceling and silencing conservative voices who dared query woke edicts.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ Might 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Katie Couric calls information objectivity ‘quaint’
(Washington Examiner publish)
She was as soon as the queen of TV information, and because the co-host of NBC’s Immediately present and anchor of CBS Night Information, Katie Couric struggled with fundamental information objectivity.
And now we all know why: She doesn’t consider there’s such a factor. “I feel there’s no such factor as true objectivity,” she mentioned on her “Subsequent Query” podcast final week.
What’s extra, the 68-year-old newswoman apparently thinks it’s simply one thing outdated individuals “75 and up” mutter about whereas watching night information.
That, and her slam on conservatives for calling out bias in liberal media “fact-checking,” make Couric our Liberal Media Scream of the Week.
Couric, to her visitors, the three brothers who created the liberal MeidasTouch podcast, on Thursday’s version of her “Subsequent Query with Katie Couric” podcast posted to YouTube:
“I’m curious, as a result of I’ve struggled with this as somebody who you grew up watching, I’m certain, and began in very conventional mainstream media. Now, mentioning the info and what’s actually taking place is routinely interpreted as being biased, proper?“
“And, and naturally, I feel there’s no such factor as true objectivity, however having mentioned that, , I actually wrestle with that. And many individuals say, ‘Hear, the foundations have modified.’ It’s OK to say you help trans individuals. It’s OK that you simply say I’m 100% for reproductive rights, , all these items that actually, personally, I maintain pricey, however professionally, I’ve by no means actually, I’ve been educated to not share that.“
“So I’m curious if you happen to suppose type of old school, semi-objective — figuring out that pure objectivity is unattainable — that sort of journalism nonetheless has a spot within the tradition, or is it merely, , the 75 and up people who find themselves watching the community night newscasts?”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Couric demonstrated why legacy media figures have refused to handle their apparent and overwhelming hostility to conservatives for many years and President Trump in recent times: They’re condescending elitists who presume their liberal view of the world replicate ‘the info’ and so, anybody who questions that presentation of ‘the info,’ are knowingly making a baseless cost of bias and thus will be dismissed as ignorant cranks.”
Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ Might 12, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC prays Pope Leo XIV will ‘counter’ Trump
(Washington Examiner publish)
Reporters have hardly ever been followers of religion in politics, and infrequently decry the Republican Get together’s cozy relationship with spiritual Individuals, comparable to evangelical Christians.
However give them a pope prepared to criticize President Donald Trump, nicely, that’s a unique story. Now that Pope Leo XIV has changed Trump critic Pope Francis, there’s an eagerness to search out out if the Chicago native will even problem Trump on key issues, together with immigration.
ABC Information anchor Martha Raddatz, our decide for the Liberal Media Scream of the week, led that prayer group final week.
Raddatz used her internet hosting duties in Rome for This Week as a platform to ask her visitors how Leo will problem the president.
“Will he be a counterbalance for what’s taking place in American politics proper now in President Trump?” she requested the archbishop of Chicago.
Later, she informed Father James Martin, an ABC Information papal contributor, that “Pope Francis not directly rebuked President Trump’s insurance policies, particularly on immigration” and Leo, “earlier than he was pope, he retweeted some issues about immigration and saying, , retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, issues like that. Do you suppose that shall be an extremely sturdy message for him?”
Raddatz additionally requested ABC Information reporter Terry Moran, “Do you suppose he’ll serve, in some methods, as a counter to President Trump [on immigration policies]?”
Moran took the bait, saying Leo “shall be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which in some ways, many Catholics consider should not in line with among the president’s insurance policies.”
From ABC’s This Week on Sunday:
MARTHA RADDATZ, TO CARDINAL BLASE CUPICH, ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO: Pope Francis cared a lot concerning the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as nicely. In some methods, will he be a counterbalance for what’s taking place in American politics proper now in President Trump?
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RADDATZ, TO FATHER JAMES MARTIN: Pope Francis not directly rebuked President Trump’s insurance policies, particularly on immigration. And Pope Leo, earlier than he was pope, he retweeted some issues about immigration and saying, , retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, issues like that. Do you suppose that shall be an extremely sturdy message for him? I imply, he has been, he does have the “odor of sheep,” as you say?
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RADDATZ: And Terry [Moran] and Liz [Nagy], do you suppose he’ll serve, in some methods, as a counter to President Trump on these insurance policies?TERRY MORAN: Reluctantly, proper? They’re the 2 most well-known Individuals on the earth proper now. And arguably, Pope Leo is likely to be much more well-known than President Trump, and whether or not the pope needs it or not, as a result of I feel he needs to evangelise the Gospel and do the great work of the church. They’ve completely different approaches naturally in some methods, and I feel that’s going to come back out.
He shall be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which, in some ways, many Catholics consider should not in line with among the president’s insurance policies. That can occur. I don’t suppose he’s going to go search for a combat, however it would occur.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Raddatz couldn’t resist injecting her American politics into papal protection, making an attempt to remodel the brand new pope right into a pressure for resistance to President Trump. She was so obsessed together with her agenda that she prodded three visitors, at completely different factors within the present, to endorse her premise, lastly getting some guarded settlement from the third, a fellow ABC Information journalist.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ Might 5, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Pompous’ media on public TV’s dole rip Trump cuts
(Washington Examiner publish)
There may be nothing extra self-serving than media figures on public TV’s payroll ripping President Donald Trump’s name to finish taxpayer funding of Nationwide Public Radio and tv’s Public Broadcasting System.
However that’s precisely what occurred over the weekend, making it our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
First there was NPR President Katherine Maher telling Face the Nation that it’s Trump’s fault if protection comes off too liberal. “NPR individuals report straight down the road,” she mentioned. “We’ve been making requests of the Trump administration to have their officers on air. We want to see extra individuals settle for these invites. It’s exhausting for us to have the ability to say we will communicate for everybody when of us gained’t be part of us.”
Documentary filmmaker and PBS producer Ken Burns bought his punches in whereas showing Friday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. “I feel PBS is a part of the pursuit of happiness machine,” he mentioned, including, “That is who we’re. It places the ‘us’ within the U.S.”
And depart it to PBS Information Hour common Jonathan Capehart to show true Trump’s complaints about bias on the community when he mentioned, “There is just one career that’s protected within the Structure, and it’s the free press. It’s the press.”
Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
I feel what the president is doing, it’s a elementary assault on our Structure, on the muse of this nation. Individuals want to know and bear in mind, there is just one career that’s protected within the Structure, and it’s the free press. It’s the press.
And why? As a result of the founders understood that the survival of a democracy will depend on an knowledgeable citizenry. And the citizenry can solely be told by a press that may report and do — report on affairs of the republic free and unfettered.
And whether or not they’re, come from the left or from the appropriate, the federal government shouldn’t intervene with that reporting. And so, when you will have a president of the US who’s making it his mission to assault the free press, we must always all be involved, whether or not we’re at PBS or whether or not we’re at MSNBC, as a result of he’s centered on us too.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “May Capehart be any extra pompous? He and others, who declare PBS and NPR are impartial information suppliers serving a grandiose noble objective the nation can’t survive with out, are dissembling. Anybody who watches or listens to PBS and/or NPR is aware of their far-left skew and that Capehart and so on. are simply upset Trump has dared to strive to remove their taxpayer subsidies.”
Score: FIVE out of 5 screams.
■ April 28: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ April 21, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Chris Matthews returns extra unhinged than ever
(Washington Examiner publish)
As if we want extra Trump-hating media, an outdated favourite of the Liberal Media Scream staff has returned to the Trump derangement syndrome stage so as to add his voice to these difficult President Donald Trump.
After about 5 years on the sidelines, former Hardball host Chris Matthews is reviving his present on Substack.
He proved that he’s misplaced a step or two in his debut Monday and through a promotion on Jim Acosta’s Substack final Friday.
Weeks after others tried to painting Trump as America’s homegrown Adolf Hitler, Matthews rolled out the drained analogy once more, this time suggesting that the president will spherical up his critics and ship them to dying camps.
“I bought a nasty one for you,” he informed Acosta. “What did Hitler do within the Holocaust? He took individuals from Germany to different nations the place there was no German regulation. There was not even a pretense of German regulation. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, they usually killed them.”
Then, on his channel on Monday, Matthews opened with one other Hitler reference. He mentioned, “I need to ask you about one thing I mentioned final week: that the truth that Trump is prepared to say Americans ought to be allowed to be despatched abroad for punishment does one thing that rhymes very a lot with what occurred within the Holocaust. That Germany was capable of take individuals in France, Jewish individuals, and deport them to the east, and even the phrase deport was comparable. So why would Trump personally say I’m going to take common Americans and deport them? It appears like he needs to be seen as an autocrat.”
From Jim Acosta’s video present Friday for Substack:
JIM ACOSTA: One factor that each taxi driver will discuss as of late is Donald Trump. And I’ve to ask you some newsy questions earlier than we spend all the time collectively reminiscing.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I bought a nasty one for you.
ACOSTA: Okay, nicely, good, I’m simply questioning, I imply—”
MATTHEWS: What did Hitler do? What did Hitler do within the Holocaust? He took individuals from Germany to different nations.
ACOSTA: Yeah.
MATTHEWS: The place there was no German regulation. There was not even a pretense of German regulation. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, they usually killed them.
ACOSTA: And so while you see what’s taking place proper now with this Salvadoran gulag, I imply, this CECOT gulag, he’s principally taking a web page out of that playbook, you suppose?
MATTHEWS: Effectively, it will get them in another country.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Simply while you thought it was protected to go to Substack, they offer reveals to Jim Acosta and Chris Matthews. As if there weren’t sufficient Trump-hating journalists with a platform. On this case, Matthews has taken TDS to a complete new stage. There are rational arguments one might cite for arguing with sending unlawful alien criminals to a overseas jail, however to equate that coverage with a mass-murdering dictator who carried out genocide towards a complete faith is inane.”
Score: FIVE out of 5 screams.
■ April 14, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Media eat their very own and rip Invoice Maher for eating with Trump
(Washington Examiner publish)
It’s exhausting to consider that our weekly Liberal Media Scream has been documenting the Washington press corps’ Trump Derangement Syndrome for about 9 years and that we will discover some new hypocrisy each single Monday to focus on.
However because of the eagle eye of our accomplice Brent Baker, the vp of the Media Analysis Heart, now we have one of many first examples of the liberal media making an attempt to maintain wandering members of the tribe in line.
It occurred Friday evening after HBO discuss present host and political comedian Invoice Maher described his latest dinner within the White Home with President Donald Trump. Maher mentioned it was a profitable effort to interrupt bread as a substitute of simply hurling insults at one another.
However some within the media weren’t joyful that the 2 met.
Washington Put up columnist Josh Rogin, on Maher’s present, accused his host of falling into Trump’s “lure.” He scolded, “For him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you have been a prop in that PR stunt.”
From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:
JOSH ROGIN, WASHINGTON POST: Counterpoint? , Invoice, I feel you’re proper in saying that individuals make an excessive amount of of this. OK, it’s not the Yalta Summit, you’re not Churchill, Child Rock isn’t Stalin, Trump, certain as s***, isn’t FDR, OK? So sure, I consider an excessive amount of has been made about this, however I feel you’ve fallen into the lure. I feel I characterize 99% of the web once I say this, is that you’ve performed the sport of proximity is precept, and what persons are nervous about — it’s not your motivation, we consider you, we love you, everyone loves Invoice, proper?
So, I’m not questioning your motivation, I’m questioning Trump’s, OK? And if we will say that you simply went there in good religion, however possibly, simply possibly he wasn’t there in good religion. I imply, you bought him on the Iran deal, and he took it in — I imply, give me a break, OK? So, the concept right here is that your motivation is sound, however what’s the impression? And I feel lots of people on the market, followers of yours, individuals who love you, people who find themselves followers of you, like me, been followers of yours my entire life.
BILL MAHER: You don’t should patronize me, dude —
ROGIN: OK. Honest sufficient.
MAHER: I don’t know you, I by no means met you, not everyone has to love it.
ROGIN: I’m simply saying that this comes from a spot of affection. All I’m saying —
MAHER: That’s what we mentioned, there are individuals who didn’t need it to occur in any respect, you sound like one among them. It’s OK.
ROGIN: No, no.
MAHER: Did you hear what I mentioned?
ROGIN: Yeah.
MAHER: What’s the various to not speaking? Simply sitting at your lunch desk and don’t discuss to anyone?
ROGIN: I’ve talked to him, I’ve interviewed Trump. Piers has interviewed Trump.
MAHER: This was not an interview. This was not an interview.
ROGIN: I agree with the precept of engagement. I’m simply saying from his perspective, it’s important to perceive, that individuals who on the market know, all Individuals know, that for him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you have been a prop in that PR stunt.
MAHER: The truth that you started your little rant with the web — that tells me every thing. You’re taking your cues from the web. Good luck! The web is a cesspool that simply needs to combat.
ROGIN: I help what you’re making an attempt to do. I’m simply saying the expectation that Donald Trump goes to be modified by one thing —
MAHER: I mentioned within the piece I didn’t suppose that was going to occur. I really like the individuals on both facet who ignore the elements they don’t like. I simply did it. It wasn’t prefer it was three weeks in the past. Watch it once more, possibly you’ll discover one thing new in it.
ROGIN: It’s not a judgment, nevertheless it’s just a little little bit of a judgment.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Josh Rogin displayed the reflexive angle widespread within the Washington press corps that anybody who does something which could ‘normalize’ President Donald Trump have to be discredited. Invoice Maher did an incredible job, nonetheless, of discrediting Rogin’s weak arguments.”
Score: FOUR out of 5 screams.
■ April 7, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN cheers X-rated comedian dumped by press corps
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream places the highlight on CNN and its internet hosting of a left-wing comedian so biased and X-rated that she was dumped from performing on the annual White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation dinner.
CNN’s new present, Have I Received Information For You, put the highlight on one among its “captains,” Amber Ruffin, who reiterated the hatred of President Donald Trump that bought her kicked out of the dinner.
After her firing got here up on the present, Ruffin added to her explanation why she hates the president and his staff, claiming that they’re “disappearing individuals to a jail in El Salvador.”
She mentioned, “I misplaced the gig as a result of I used to be out right here speaking s***.”
From Saturday’s airing of Have I Received Information For You on CNN:
HOST ROY WOOD JR: Amber offended the White Home, in addition to members of the White Home Correspondents Affiliation. Amber, following the custom of Craig from Friday, was fired on her break day as she was uninvited from the White Home Correspondents dinner when she mentioned that she meant to make enjoyable of the present administration. Amber, do you suppose you misplaced the gig since you mentioned too early what you have been going to do about moving into on Republicans?
AMBER RUFFIN: I imply, oh, my god, I might f***ing discuss for the subsequent three hours. However what I select to say is it’s like I misplaced the gig as a result of I used to be out right here speaking s***, and I feel it’s an excellent factor that I misplaced the gig as a result of I used to be going to indicate up there and act all the best way out. Additionally, like, additionally, it’s not anybody’s fault as a result of once I was employed, we have been like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everyone. And I used to be like, beh. Then they began f***ing disappearing individuals to a jail in El Salvador. They rolled again f***ing civil rights. So I used to be like, if I make this equal, then I’m additionally a bit of s***. I can’t f***ing try this.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Ruffin demonstrated why she is completely inappropriate to supply comedic commentary concerning the political scene. She’s crammed with vitriol and hate towards the person who the nation selected as its president. However she discovered her viewers on CNN the place she was cheered and applauded for her crude invective. A tragic commentary on the state of CNN.”
Score: FIVE out of 5 screams
■ March 31, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Trump has made Bob Woodward deranged
(Washington Examiner publish)
President Donald Trump has executed it. In simply two brief months, he has not solely turned the liberal Washington Put up right into a TDS cesspool however made its most celebrated reporter practically certifiable.
How else can we clarify Bob Woodward’s newest unhinged rant towards Trump through which he claims that the billionaire businessman has a objective of ruining the economic system?
“Effectively, his finish objective is it seems like he needs to destroy the economic system,” mentioned the 82-year-old reporter and creator on a Washington Put up podcast.
For that, he wins this week’s Liberal Media Scream with 5 out of 5 screams.
From the Put up Reviews podcast interview, recorded at Woodward’s residence by Washington Put up “nationwide politics/democracy reporter” Colby Itkowitz, which was posted Friday evening on YouTube:
BOB WOODWARD: All these government orders. I imply, he’s, stood his floor and mentioned that is what I’m going to do. I’m shrinking. He and Elon Musk, the richest man on the earth, his sidekick, are reducing the federal government, and have a look at what we’re seeing. I imply, in some instances it’s executed, as individuals have mentioned with the chain noticed, and we all know from our private lives or companies that when it’s important to reduce, that’s a extremely difficult enterprise, and you’ll want to very fastidiously spell out what you’re gonna do and do it very slowly and be very sure that the impression is that they’re not secondary occasions that you simply set off with — and have a look at what’s happening now. I feel it’s probably the most harmful occasions this nation has ever confronted.
COLBY ITKOWITZ: What do you suppose Trump’s finish objective is in all of this within the sledge-hammering the federal government tariff, placing tariffs on our allies like Canada, like what’s the, what’s his massive finish objective as president?
WOODWARD: Effectively, his finish objective is it seems like he needs to destroy the economic system and that may be a very harmful enterprise. I imply, he states the motive could be very optimistic, however have a look at what persons are going by means of — having very destructive impression.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “It’s one factor to contend that President Trump’s tariff insurance policies are misguided and can hurt the economic system, however to cost that ‘he needs to destroy the economic system’ is an angle which displays a very nefarious view of Trump. Does Woodward actually suppose Trump is so terrible that he has got down to deliberately ‘destroy’ the economic system? That’s what he mentioned and it matches along with his very far-left perspective that decreasing the scale of presidency makes this ‘probably the most harmful occasions this nation has ever confronted.’”
Score: FIVE out of 5 screams.
■ March 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an ‘extortionist’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream supplies the most recent fodder for conservatives calling for an finish to taxpayer help of public TV due to its anti-Proper bias and disdain for President Donald Trump.
In focus is the nightly PBS Information Hour program that commonly options visitors crucial of Trump.
For our instance, it wasn’t the liberal on the present rapping Trump however the resident centrist, New York Occasions columnist David Brooks, who known as the president an “extortionist” and “bully” for utilizing his powers to get nations, firms, and other people to do what he needs.
“Individuals name Trump a transactional politician, however he’s an extortionist. That’s really a distinction. There’s — a transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you till you give me what I need,” mentioned Brooks.
At subject was an earlier transfer by the White Home to withdraw the safety clearance of the Paul Weiss authorized agency, which is near Democrats. The agency agreed to do $40 million price of professional bono work for causes favored by the White Home to win again the clearance.
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
HOST AMNA NAWAZ: We noticed President Trump going after establishments, together with Large Legislation, proper, together with universities, as you talked about, the place many of those guys went to highschool. And this week, we noticed two massive establishments take steps to adjust to the calls for of the Trump administration. We noticed Paul Weiss conform to a settlement, basically, that claims they’re going to supply $40 million in professional bono authorized providers. Columbia College agreed to an inventory of calls for so that they don’t lose a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in funding. Jonathan, what does this second, these steps from these establishments say to you?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: It says to me that our democracy is teetering. And I’ll deal with Perkins — I’m sorry — on Paul Weiss and the authorized sphere. We’ve got seen a whole capitulation by the legislative department, the Republican majority, to what the president needs to do within the government. And all our hopes for the upkeep of our democracy now rests with the judiciary.
And within the olden days, earlier than Trump, you’ll depend on these white shoe regulation corporations like Paul Weiss to supply professional bono assist to of us who’re suing for redress, who need the courts to step in when Congress or the president goes overboard. When a Paul Weiss decides to tug again, when different massive regulation corporations like that determine to tug again, what does that imply when it comes to the judiciary’s capability to cease a president like Trump? And that’s what’s so regarding to me about this piece of the capitulation.
NAWAZ: David?
DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, individuals name Trump a transactional politician, however he’s an extortionist. That’s really a distinction. A transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you till you give me what I need. And in order that’s what we’re seeing right here. Now, I put myself within the footwear of, say, the president of Columbia, the pinnacle of Paul Weiss. And I feel, nicely, if I compromise with Trump, I’m hurting my establishment. But when I lose $400 million, I’m additionally hurting my establishment. These are actual decisions that individuals should make. And I perceive that.
Within the case of Columbia [University], I personally suppose the Trump requests or calls for, no matter it’s, are sort of affordable, and Columbia ought to have executed all these items 5 or 10 years in the past. They actually did get ideologically uncontrolled. And in the event that they’re publicly funded, partially publicly funded, then you definitely’ve bought an issue. They usually created this drawback. So I perceive why. I bought to save lots of my college. I bought to save lots of $400 million.
Alternatively, caving into an extortionist hardly ever pays off as a result of he’ll say, ‘Oh, I take that. Right here’s my subsequent demand, right here’s my subsequent demand.’ And if you happen to have a look at the historical past of Zelensky, Macron, individuals — all of the individuals who’ve tried to cozy as much as the extortionists, all of them find yourself shedding ultimately.
And so I feel it’s time for the colleges as a physique — and we noticed this with the Princeton president — to say no extra offers. We’re standing up as a result of there shall be a time — and, once more, I don’t suppose that is fairly the time to type of beat down the Trump administration. There shall be a time the place everyone has to carry collectively and rise up and say, no, no extra offers.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “An ideal reflection of how ‘variety’ on PBS is all about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and race, not political ideology. PBS’s panel of Capehart and Brooks, touted as providing perspective from the left and proper, doesn’t (Brooks agrees with the liberal Capehart 61% of the time per a Media Analysis Heart evaluation). Certainly, they commonly discover commonality to denouncing President Trump. A lot for PBS viewers listening to a lot of something that challenges their liberal world view and disgust for all issues Trump.”
Score: FOUR out of 5 screams
■ March 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: NBC urges harsher Trump hate by Democrats
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream includes a Sunday NBC panel mocking Democrats for failing to be harsher and quicker in blasting President Donald Trump and his relationship with Tesla founder Elon Musk.
On Meet the Press, there was a collective scream on the liberal occasion for dropping the ball in attacking Trump, which the panel clearly felt was so as when the president displayed Teslas on the White Home.
“Surprising,” they agreed, that Democrats didn’t work up a fast advert blasting Group Trump for basically doing what former President Joe Biden did when he featured American-made autos on the South Garden throughout a White Home occasion.
“One other missed alternative,” mentioned MSNBC senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels, who’s president of the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
HOST KRISTEN WELKER: One of many placing moments of this week was the second the place President Trump principally had a automobile present on the White Home. Teslas on show with Elon Musk. It comes as, after all, Tesla’s gross sales have been dropping. Elon Musk’s approval scores, a lot decrease than President Trump’s, by the best way. The optics of this, Anna, is it sophisticated for the White Home?
ANNA PALMER, Punchbowl Information: Effectively, it’s superb that they’re doubling down on Elon Musk, as a result of, to Cornell’s level, that is the opening for Democrats. They’re already beginning to run adverts that includes Elon Musk because the boogeyman. This offers them the B-roll and the visuals that you’ll want to say that the White Home is, , sort of mixing enterprise with the work of the federal government.
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POLLSTER CORNELL BELCHER: And the concept that what Biden did on the White Home is just like Trump principally being a salesman and hawking the Teslas on the entrance garden of the White Home is totally completely different. The advert writes itself.
MSNBC’s EUGENE DANIELS: However Democrats aren’t doing it. Instantly, the subsequent day, there ought to’ve been simply, that advert, simply displaying it time and again.
WELKER: You’re saying one other missed alternative for Democrats. Surprising!
DANIELS: One other missed alternative to get on the identical —
BELCHER, DANIELS: Surprising that the Democrats are unhealthy on messaging!
DANIELS: However I imply, , like, while you discuss to them behind the scenes, they clarify the Elon of all of it in a a lot better method than they do after they go on tv. They don’t discuss him as an oligarch behind the scenes, proper? They discuss him as somebody who’s, of their eyes, doing this, doing DOGE as a result of he needs to assist his companies on the finish of the day, proper? They discuss that battle of curiosity. That’s one thing that the American individuals really perceive, however they, once more, proceed to overlook a chance to really try this.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “A lot for pretending there’s any separation between the Washington press corps and Democratic Get together pursuits. Are you able to think about journalists ever advising Republicans or Trump supporters on extra successfully undermine a Democrat? After all not.”
Score: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ March 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Sunny Hostin tells Democrats combat or ‘individuals will die’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the return of one among America’s lefty pundits struggling most from Trump Derangement Syndrome, The View’s Sunny Hostin.
Reacting to Rep. Al Inexperienced’s (D-TX) censure by Congress for his outbursts throughout President Donald Trump’s joint session handle Tuesday, the hostile Hostin mentioned the Democrats within the chamber ought to have joined him in rudely protesting Trump and stormed out in help.
Whereas nearly each different Democrat within the media is asking for a extra level-headed strategy to Trump, she went within the different route, claiming and not using a shred of proof that Trump’s insurance policies will kill individuals.
Consequently, we give her outburst a uncommon five-scream trophy.
The View on Friday:
JOY BEHAR: Ten Democrats voted to censure Inexperienced.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Would you like an inventory of the ten?
BEHAR: Do you need to hear their names?
HOSTIN: Sure, I do.
BEHAR: Why go after them too? Go after the Republicans.
HOSTIN: As a result of they don’t know combat and be a part of an opposition occasion. Consultant Inexperienced gave them the instance. The Democrats should not assembly the second. It is rather clear that Medicaid is on the desk. It is rather clear that Social Safety is on the desk. It is rather clear that individuals will die. The infant boomers, the civil rights era, they knew what they needed to do! They have been prepared to combat and die for his or her rights. This era of Congress, they aren’t assembly the second. That is an existential disaster!
BEHAR: And likewise, I’d level out a few of them are from essentially the most liberal states like New York, Hawaii, California.
HOSTIN: They need to be ashamed of themselves! They need to have all walked out with him!
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “ABC Information ought to be embarrassed by the day by day left-wing drivel on The View. Even many Democrats have been ashamed by Inexperienced’s antics, which went far past what any Republican has ever executed throughout a presidential speech to Congress. A lot for contending it’s Trump who has lessened decorum. Hostin is advocating extra coarseness in politics. And ABC Information is sanctioning it.”
Score: FIVE out of 5 screams.
■ March 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS twists Trump press pool variety as ‘sinister’
(Washington Examiner publish)
Right here’s one more reason for all of the PBS and NPR critics to name for federal tax greenback defunding. As an alternative of cheering the enlargement of media allowed into the White Home press pool, PBS declared it a “sinister” transfer to censor the press.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the outlet’s twisted view of White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s choice to take cost of selecting who’s within the day by day pool that covers White Home occasions for the remainder of the press when there isn’t sufficient room for all, such because the near-daily back-and-forths President Donald Trump hosts within the Oval Workplace.
She made the choice as a result of she believed that the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation was being too selective by favoring legacy media and barring new-age social media and conservative retailers.
The outdated guard protested, although, in its first week of operation, the brand new pool remained heavy with legacy media. One exception was the Related Press, which Trump’s staff omitted as a result of the information service gained’t acknowledge the president’s government order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, as the federal government has.
In our instance, PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz known as the White Home transfer an assault on the press, prompting contributor and Washington Put up columnist Jonathan Capehart to chirp that “we’re in additional sinister territory” with Trump and the media.
After all neither talked up former President Joe Biden’s transfer to remove the press passes of over 400 primarily conservative retailers or former President Barack Obama’s seizing of cellphone data from AP or others in his dragnet for leakers.
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
AMNA NAWAZ: His continued assaults on the press, blocking the AP’s entry from some White Home protection as nicely. You noticed him take management of the White Home, take management of the press pool that covers the president full time, makes certain everybody else is aware of what’s taking place with the president. Peter Baker, after all, longtime Russia correspondent, mentioned it reminded him of the Kremlin press pool takeover. And I simply need to get your takes on the place that type of assault on the press stands and whether or not we’re in far more sinister territory now.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do suppose we’re in additional sinister territory since you’ve bought to take a look at what’s taking place with AP, in gentle of his lawsuits towards CBS, towards ABC, threats, threatening the licenses of different broadcast entities. That is all a part of a sample of roughing up anybody he views as not both insufficiently loyal or individuals who have wronged him. And he seems on the press as an entity that has wronged him.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Think about that. President Trump sees ‘the press as an entity that has wronged him.’ And he’s combating again, which actually upsets the legacy media even though nothing he has executed has blocked the general public from full entry. It’s hardly ‘sinister’ simply because the White Home is permitting a extra ideological numerous group of retailers to get entry as a substitute of only a few privileged and entitled journalists.”
Score: Three out of 5 screams.
■ February 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Mike Johnson cuts off CBS bedwetting
(Washington Examiner publish)
It took over two years for the Nixon-era Watergate scandal to carry on the constitutional disaster that led a president to resign. However listening to CBS describe President Donald Trump’s first month of strikes the community doesn’t like reveals this era’s Watergate has already arrived.
Much more than the Hollywood whining of Jane Fonda and others at Sunday’s Display screen Actors Guild Awards, Jane Pauley’s CBS Information Sunday Morning jumped head first into decrying Trump’s strikes promised throughout a yr on the marketing campaign path to empty the swamp as a constitutional disaster.
“Greater than a half-century in the past,” mentioned CBS’s Robert Costa, “because the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Division and the courts” that the media declared a “constitutional disaster.”
Now, he added, “that time period, constitutional disaster, is again.”
However amid the name-calling and historic hyperventilating within the present’s major story, Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) provided a way of calm and perspective.
“I’ve been requested so many occasions, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not,” he mentioned, making the CBS report our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From CBS Information Sunday Morning:
JANE PAULEY: With judges throughout the nation pushing again towards among the Trump administration’s flurry of government orders, there are those that ask: What would occur if the White Home defies the courts and easily strikes forward with its plans? We’ve requested our Robert Costa to make some inquiries.
ROGER MUDD, CBS ANCHOR, NOV. 4, 1973: Regardless of his powers as chief government, his future is absolutely within the arms of the opposite two branches of presidency: the courts and the Congress.
ROBERT COSTA: Greater than a half-century in the past, because the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Division and the courts.DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: In breathtaking succession tonight, the next historic occasions occurred. The president of the US demanded that the legal professional common fireplace Particular Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The legal professional common refused and resigned.
COSTA: The tensions introduced a sure phrase to the fore of the American dialog.
JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: The nation within the midst of what stands out as the most critical constitutional disaster in its historical past.
COSTA: Now that time period, ‘constitutional disaster,’ is again.
JULIAN CASTRO, former Home Democrat from Texas: We’re headed towards a constitutional disaster.
U.S. SENATOR ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): We’re quick barreling towards a constitutional disaster.
COSTA: Many Democrats are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s use of government energy.
U.S. REP. SEAN CASTEN (D-ILL): The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they’re unlawful.
COSTA: And a few worry that Trump, who has shattered norms and who labored relentlessly to attempt to overturn the 2020 election, can’t be counted on to observe the courts.
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I’ve been requested so many occasions, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not.
COSTA: Most Republicans are shrugging off discuss of a disaster. The truth is, many are cheering as Trump overhauls the Justice Division and FBI, works with Elon Musk to fireplace 1000’s of federal workers and indicators piles of government orders.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “ it’s a media-fueled effort to create a scandal when the journalist in query regurgitates Watergate. It’s what Costa and the Washington press corps see as their halcyon days of glory. And if the supposed scandal matches a present liberal Democratic speaking level, a lot the higher, regardless of the shortage of any actual substance to the fearmongering.”
Score: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ February 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Scott Pelley, now TV’s prime Trump hater
(Washington Examiner publish)
He has a variety of competitors within the media, however few have as massive a stage as 60 Minutes elder Scott Pelley. As he continues to step up his assaults on President Donald Trump and the brand new administration, Pelley is elbowing apart all others to emerge as Trump’s loudest TV critic.
By no means a fan of Trump, Pelley has taken his 60 Minutes perch at CBS to supply crucial monologues of the president. Individuals took discover even earlier than Trump returned to the White Home when Pelley ripped Trump’s Cupboard picks, saying, “Some nominees seem to haven’t any compelling {qualifications} apart from loyalty to Trump.”
Nonetheless, apart from gnawing down his studying glasses, Pelley had no impression. All of Trump’s picks to get a Senate ground vote gained.
Then, on Sunday’s present, he opened with one other hit on Trump, saying the president was in “defiance of the Structure” along with his agenda. Once more, there was no impression since a day later, a federal choose expressed skepticism about any hurt the president’s Division of Authorities Effectivity threatened.
Every week, Secrets and techniques groups with the Media Analysis Heart to decide on the loudest liberal media scream, and Pelley gained once more this week. What’s extra, Media Analysis Heart Vice President Brent Baker gave Pelley’s rant a rating of 5 out of 5 screams. That may be a uncommon prime rating, however one we anticipate to see extra of because the liberal media turns up the warmth on Trump because it loses its affect on him and his White Home.
From the lead story on Sunday’s 60 Minutes:
SCOTT PELLEY: It’s too quickly to inform how critical President Trump is in defiance of the Structure. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some — a proper assured by the 14th Modification. And he has closed businesses and frozen spending that Congress mandated by regulation. Decrease courts are holding up most of the president’s priorities, however nothing has risen to the Supreme Courtroom, the place these battles over presidential energy might rewrite historical past. Presidents typically push limits — FDR’s New Deal, for instance — and voters on this final election wished change. However the scope and pace of Trump’s attain for energy could also be unprecedented. One instance is a 63-year-old company created by Congress, codified in regulation and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days.
KRISTINA DRYE: Individuals are actually scared. I feel that , 12 days in the past, individuals knew the place their subsequent paycheck was coming from. They knew how they have been going to pay for his or her youngsters’ daycare, their medical payments. After which, all gone in a single day.
PELLEY: “All gone, in a single day,” for Kristina Drye and Adam Dubard — fired this month within the chaotic shutdown of overseas help distributed by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, USAID. Greater than 8,000 USAID workers have been despatched residence by the administration.
ADAM DUBARD: They’re not on the lookout for competency. They’re not on the lookout for — if you happen to’re good at your job. They’re on the lookout for pure loyalty assessments, and if you happen to don’t give it, you can be punished…
…
PELLEY: The world’s richest man had reduce off help to the world’s poorest households. Musk spent practically $250 million to get Trump and different Republicans elected. He collects billions in taxpayer {dollars} for his SpaceX rockets.
ANDREW NATSIOS, FORMER USAID ADMINISTRATOR: I feel we’re making a system that violates the separation of powers and the checks and balances which can be meant within the Structure.
PELLEY: Republican Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID, spoke to us in Washington, partly as a result of he isn’t listening to public appeals to motive from fellow Republicans.
PELLEY TO NATSIOS: How do you view this second in historical past?
NATSIOS: I don’t need to be too pessimistic. But it surely does seem we could also be headed in direction of some type of a constitutional disaster. I don’t, I hope that doesn’t occur. I pray it doesn’t occur. But it surely’s actually regarding to me what’s happening on this metropolis proper now.
PELLEY: Is the constitutional order breaking down?
NATSIOS: We’ll see in the event that they refuse to implement a court docket order by the Supreme Courtroom. If it will get to the Supreme Courtroom and the Supreme Courtroom guidelines towards the administration on one thing they usually refuse to implement it, then we could have a constitutional disaster.
PELLEY: What occurs then?
NATSIOS: Effectively, I don’t know.
PELLEY: Nobody is aware of.
NATSIOS: Nobody is aware of.
Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow, defined our decide: “One other hit to no matter remnants are left of 60 Minutes as some type of dispassionate information journal which affords a good and balanced have a look at sophisticated points. Pelley not solely matched the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the left, he doubled down on it, presuming absolutely the worst motives behind President Trump whereas taking low cost ideological photographs at Elon Musk. That is Exhibit A in why federal spending has by no means been reduce because the finish of World Warfare II: The media go to struggle to discredit anybody who takes on the spending behemoth.”
Score: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ February 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS airs excessive TDS, ‘hunger,’ ‘dying’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream includes a PBS freak panel of left-wing journalists spewing essentially the most excessive anti-Trump evaluation of the cost-cutting by the White Home and effectivity company headed by Elon Musk.
Whereas discussing the destiny of USAID, which President Donald Trump’s staff closed and shifted spending authority to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a reporter for Nationwide Public Radio warned to others nodding sure that the impression shall be “poverty and elevated hunger.”
Then an Atlantic reporter, previously with the Washington Put up, mentioned on the tax-subsidized PBS present Washington Week with The Atlantic that reducing by Trump and Musk of the federal world help slush fund would result in “cruelty and dying.”
The language utilized by the reporters are simply two examples of the kind of Trump Derangement Syndrome assaults on Musk and the president’s efforts to root out waste and fraud in authorities packages.
From the February 7 version of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS:
ASTHMA KHALID, NPR: There’s one thing I feel very unusual at this second of seeing the world’s richest man actually type of take a hatchet that can basically take people who find themselves already within the depths of poverty and, , enhance hunger charges, or enhance starvation charges, which is probably going what is going to occur if USAID is completely reduce off.”…
ANNE APPLEBAUM, THE ATLANTIC: It’s a take a look at case for can businesses simply be abolished with out Congress having any say, nevertheless it’s additionally a take a look at case of cruelty. , are Individuals prepared to just accept a excessive stage of cruelty and dying simply, , on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Your taxpayer {dollars} at work: A journalist for taxpayer-funded Nationwide Public Radio and one other journalist – each on taxpayer-funded PBS – relay the speaking factors, of their most excessive type, of the federal government worker union making an attempt to discredit any discount in federal spending. As an alternative of a rational evaluation of efforts to trim spending, the 2 show they’re within the tank for the deep state, presuming hunger and dying will consequence. They usually surprise why so many don’t see them as critical sources of info.”
Score: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ February 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Name on MSNBC for weekly Trump impeachment votes
(Washington Examiner publish)
Have you ever heard this one? Democrats need to impeach President Donald Trump.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream includes 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,” mentioned 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 handle,” he mentioned.
“I feel Democrats ought to begin having a unique 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 file 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 any individual 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. , Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural handle for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has bought a giant merger arising. It is 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 quite a bit about training and healthcare. I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week.
When the GOP was making an attempt to repeal Obamacare 70 occasions, we laughed at them. However what they have been doing of their impoverished state was consolidating the bottom, fundraising, and getting their messaging throughout. It labored for them.
I feel Democrats ought to begin having a unique 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 file 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 Heart, defined our decide: “A lot for even pretending to permit President Trump to have an opportunity to present voters what they voted for in electing him. MSNBC thinks it’s a official and credible place to contend Trump had earned impeachment lower than an hour previous midday on Inauguration Day — nicely 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 to impeach him. Will they go zero-for-three?”
Score: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ January 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Vance colleges CBS and bishops on unlawful immigration
(Washington Examiner publish)
America is studying fairly rapidly that Vice President JD Vance isn’t any pushover simply cornered on powerful points.
In our newest Liberal Media Scream, we function 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 prison unlawful migrants.
Showing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded harm that the administration would enter colleges to search 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 spiritual 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 nervous that the administration’s coverage has “a chilling impact, arguably, to individuals to not ship their youngsters 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 issues from the bishops, Vance mentioned, “As a training Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. I feel that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror just a little bit and acknowledge that after they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they nervous about humanitarian issues, or are they really nervous about their backside line?”
Clearly, it’s going to be a troublesome 4 years for liberals within the media, comparable to Brennan, since Group 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 quite a bit, 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 concept of conducting a raid or enforcement motion in a church service, at a college?
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Effectively, let me handle this. After all, 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, it’s important to go and get that particular person to guard the general public security. That’s not distinctive to immigration. However let me simply handle this specific subject, Margaret, as a result of, as a training Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. And I feel that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror just a little bit and acknowledge that after they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they nervous about humanitarian issues, or are they really nervous 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 consider the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops, in the event that they’re nervous 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 have been brutally murdered. I help us doing regulation enforcement towards violent criminals, whether or not they’re unlawful immigrants or anyone else, in a method that retains us protected. Let me ask this query, Margaret. Separate the immigration subject. In case you had a violent assassin in a college, after all, I need 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 all places to guard Individuals.
BRENNAN: However that additionally has a knock-on impact, a chilling impact, arguably, to individuals to not ship their youngsters 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 suppose the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals from regulation enforcement?
VANCE: I feel the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been an excellent accomplice 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 Heart, defined our decide: “Brennan went into the interview pondering she had the ethical excessive floor and info on her facet, presuming it will be simple to indicate how badly misguided are so many Trump insurance policies. However she bumped into JD Vance, who delivered a grasp class in tackle and undermine the premises of the Washington press corps.”
Score: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ January 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks as much as Biden to the tip: ‘Did ship’
(Washington Examiner publish)
Our closing Biden-era Liberal Media Scream finds CBS Information kissing as much as President Joe Biden to the tip, 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 mentioned, “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 comparable to CBS went out of their solution to prop up a president who polls as one among 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 file 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 finest about America.
CORDES: He did so whereas racking up main legislative victories, together with large new investments in clear power and semiconductor manufacturing.
BIDEN: I consider, 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 Heart, defined our decide: “Taking place with the ship, CBS and Cordes are nonetheless making an attempt to persuade those who regardless of the rejection of his presidency and his insurance policies by the voters, Joe Biden actually was an incredible president who delivered laudable accomplishments. The media and Biden do share no less than one factor in widespread: Within the eyes of a lot of the general public, they’re each losers.”
Score: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ January 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will eternally be a ‘convicted felon’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is already anticipating the approaching media hate that can greet President-elect Donald Trump when he enters workplace for a second time every week from as we speak.
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 eternally be often known 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 as we speak, the place the choose mentioned, 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 must point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, positively by the second reference.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
GEOFF BENNETT: However after, , 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 mentioned was the crappy case of the 4. Bear in mind, Donald Trump was indicted 4 occasions, and this one was the least essential, the shakiest.
And but it’s the one case the place Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case the place he was delivered to trial earlier than a jury of his friends in his hometown of New York Metropolis and was discovered responsible 34 occasions. I feel that’s nice punishment.
What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing as we speak, the place the choose mentioned, 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 must point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, positively by the second reference.
And that’s becoming, that’s proper, that’s simply. Do I want the opposite three instances had gone to trial and that he had confronted accountability on these? Sure, however this may do.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Speak about 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 court docket giving him the okay to use a derogatory label to the incoming president.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.
■ January 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC the only #Joementia denier
(Washington Examiner publish)
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 apparent 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 method there?’ And the reply is unequivocally sure,” Sanders-Townsend mentioned on the present. The MSNBC host, actually, charged it’s Trump whose psychological capacities ought to be questioned. Biden “can no less than 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 just a little too outdated to do the job, however he’s doing the job. And his psychological acuity is there. So, I feel that there’s a conflation of two issues right here: his psychological capability and serving one other 4 years as outdated as he’s. However these are two separate issues in my view. And, look, these those who have identified Joe Biden their whole political lives, I do know Joe Biden is like, “Are you able to all simply please defend me just a little extra?”
MARC SHORT: I feel it harm Democrats. It harm Democrats in November to attempt to inform the American individuals one thing they might 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 no less than 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 Heart, 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 high quality, began to acknowledge, as quickly as Biden was now 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.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
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