Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as per week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every decide, often posted on-line on Monday, I present a proof and suggest a “scream” score (scale of 1 to 5).
This submit comprises 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 way 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 way of the tip of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by way of June 11, 2013.)
Verify Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the newest alternative and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page will probably 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 newest outrageous, generally humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)
■ New on December 22, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Kasie Hunt calls to ‘impeach’ Trump and Bondi
See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s website the place you possibly can watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Per week later, Bedard’s article will probably be posted right here.
■ December 15, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: New TDS top: ‘Atlantic’s’ Frum warns Trump may block critics from voting
(Washington Examiner submit)
It’s onerous to think about that the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome can get any worse, however daily, there’s a new instance that there is no such thing as a finish to it.
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we’re that includes the Atlantic’s by no means Trumper David Frum, who mentioned that President Donald Trump would possibly arrest or detain folks to cease them from voting.
On MS Now, he went by way of an inventory of potentialities Trump may make use of, resembling utilizing troops to intimidate voters or detain them to verify their immigration standing. Citing Supreme Court docket precedent, he advised that voters may very well be detained at 3 p.m. on Election Day and held till the polls shut.
In fact, many Individuals vote early and have because the COVID-19 disaster, so his fearmongering about Election Day trickery is pointless. But it surely makes for good MS Now TV.
“That’s an attention-grabbing level that David makes,” cheered Ali Velshi, who was internet hosting Deadline: White Home on MS Now. “If soiled tips are all that’s left, you’re going to place all of your power into the soiled tips.”
From Friday afternoon’s Deadline: White Home on MS Now:
VELSHI: There proceed to be actual and big challenges towards free and truthful voting in 2026.
FRUM: Look, Donald Trump has made, and his household have made, $1 billion in his first yr as president. That’s the sort of habits that was once not just a bit bit unlawful in the US, however massively prison in the US. Now, the principles appear to be totally different, or at the very least they’re enforced otherwise. However the legislation may come again into impact in a distinct political alignment. And that must be a really scary chance for Donald Trump.
So he’ll do something. And we — I talked on my podcast this week with Michael Waldman of the Brennan Heart — he would possibly do, you already know, one of many issues that the Supreme Court docket has licensed is the transient detention of Americans to verify that they’re certainly Americans, transient detention. How transient is transient? Are you able to arrest them at 3:00 within the afternoon and maintain them until after the polls shut? Is that transient?
Can you set troops on the streets in marginal areas in an effort to intimidate individuals who perhaps have a member of their household who has a uncertain immigration standing, and don’t wish to danger any sort of encounter with the police? Are you able to, apart from gerrymandering, are you able to do different kinds of issues which might be on the margin of the legislation to form the citizens in such a method that it’s extra favorable? Now, within the face of the sort of huge public discontent that appears to be brewing within the nation, none of this can be sufficient, however when a unclean trick is the one trick you may have, the soiled trick turns into your whole repertoire.
VELSHI: Basil [Smikle], that is vital as a result of, and by the way in which, they’re in all probability directions, we will discuss this for the subsequent a number of months about, “OK, for those who assume you’re prone to being detained for a couple of hours,” as I’m a person of a sure coloration in New York, “higher vote early,” in order that I’ve obtained that probability. However that’s an attention-grabbing level that David makes. If soiled tips are all that’s left, you’re going to place all of your power into the soiled tips.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Time for Frum to placed on a tin foil hat. Might there be a greater show of Trump Derangement Syndrome?”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ December 8, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Connie Chung bares fangs at husband over Bari Weiss CBS modifications
(Washington Examiner submit)
Bari Weiss has barely been editor-in-chief of CBS Information for 2 months, and already her promise to carry a good hand to the notoriously biased community is dividing media royalty.
In a podcast final week, onetime CBS Information anchor Connie Chung clashed together with her husband and shock present host Maury Povich over the affect thus far on CBS.
Even earlier than the community has proven any noticeable modifications, Chung charged on the Pablo Torre Finds Out video podcast that the community beneath the brand new group of Weiss, Shari Redstone and David Ellison “has triggered the venerable CBS to really disassemble, to crash into crumbles.”
Povich countered briefly with, “Yeah, however she’s, you already know, we’ll see,” to which his spouse glared and mentioned, “It’s not a giant ‘we’ll see…’” And he or she wasn’t having it when he added that an interview with President Donald Trump, as Weiss appeared on, “was a good interview. It was OK.”
Whereas no chairs had been thrown, the conflict definitely was our decide for the Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From the Pablo Torre Finds Out video podcast, hosted by the previous ESPN contributor who now seems commonly on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, posted Thursday on YouTube:
PABLO TORRE: By the way in which, what’s it like to look at CBS proper now?
CONNIE CHUNG: We don’t. I imply, I can’t. The paradigm has utterly modified in information, and we’ve got a lot opinion that the reality doesn’t maintain worth anymore, and what we find yourself doing is making an attempt to — we as shoppers — looking for the reality. We are able to’t discover good old style information, and it distresses me so terribly.
CBS is an entire totally different realization that I had labored for. CBS has now been taken over, because of grasping homeowners: Shari Redstone, partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison’s son. And their greed has triggered the venerable CBS to really disassemble, to crash into crumbles, after which they’ve employed this — I don’t know what to name Bari Weiss.
MAURY POVICH: I don’t both.
CHUNG: She is, you already know, I, I simply don’t know.
POVICH: Yeah, however she’s — you already know, we’ll see.
CHUNG: It’s not a giant “we’ll see” as if she may presumably restore —
POVICH: Properly, she was there the opposite day when Trump goes on 60 Minutes. I assumed it was a good interview. It was OK.
….
CHUNG: After I labored at CBS, it was owned by William Paley, and he really — who made it some extent of permitting the information division to be autonomous and never have to fret in regards to the backside line. He had a president by the title of Frank Stanton, who went earlier than Congress time and time once more to defend the Fourth Property. Now we’ve got an entire dismantling of that sort of social accountability. That we’re watchdogs. We, reporters, are watchdogs of presidency. It’s our job to report info that isn’t fed to us.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “How boastful. Ellison and Weiss try to save lots of CBS Information from the mess left by Chung and her successors the place nearly nobody trusts or believes the elitist press corps. They usually’ve hardly carried out something but to the programming: It’s all the identical folks operating and anchoring the identical exhibits, so what’s she so upset about? She wants to comprehend and settle for that the left can now not management the entire information media.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ December 1, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Reid broadens her MAGA hate to Tea Occasion
(Washington Examiner submit)
Getting dumped by MSNBC after years of raging towards President Donald Trump and his Make America Nice Once more motion hasn’t calmed former host Pleasure Reid down any. In reality, she’s stepped up her typically insane assaults on conservatives as witnessed in a latest podcast, making her our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
It was on the extraordinarily liberal I’ve Had It podcast the place she claimed that Trump’s MAGA supporters are pushed by racism towards immigrants. She even went as far as to assert that the phrase “illegals” was equal to the N-word, ignoring efforts by Democrats, together with former President Invoice Clinton, to kick unlawful migrants out of America.
Then she took her hate of conservatives again a decade to assert that the Tea Occasion was pushed by racism when it was really primarily based on slicing authorities spending and debt. As the 2 white ladies hosts nodded like puppies, Reid claimed she had “knowledge” to show her nutty claims.
Racism is what “motivates” MAGA and the Tea Occasion, Reid charged as the 2 hosts, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, mentioned “proper.”
In response to Curtis Houck, the managing editor of Newsbusters, who captured Reid’s rant, she additionally insisted that “the bottom of MAGA is essentially racist” and the factor they’re most motivated by is a “hatred of non-white immigrants.”
Throughout the podcast, Reid wore a black T-shirt with white lettering asserting a collection of left-wing phrases: “F*** Trump,” “F*** ICE,” “Free Palestine,” “Free DC!” and “Unoccupy Chicago.”
Pleasure Reid on the I’ve Had It podcast hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie ‘Pumps’ Sullivan:
“[Vice President JD] Vance has an issue in that the bottom of MAGA is essentially racist. I do know folks don’t prefer it while you say it, however it’s the emergence from the Tea Occasion to MAGA. Tea Occasion, while you lastly did the precise knowledge, [Public Religion Research Institute] and others, the factor that almost all motivated them was race and hatred of non-white immigrants. What most motivates MAGA? Hatred of non-white immigrants. They’re obsessive about non-white immigrants and undocumented folks.
They use the time period illegals, which is simply the N-word for brown folks. If you wish to say the N-word and it’s about brown folks, you say ‘unlawful.’ I’m sorry I mentioned it once more. That’s me saying the N-word about, that’s what it’s, proper? And that’s what motivates them. To allow them to’t have the successor to MAGA be the man with the brown Hindu spouse. They’re additionally Christian nationalists. That ain’t gonna work. That’s why he’s throwing his spouse beneath the bus. Poor [second lady Usha Vance] — or she’s in on it, proper?”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “MS NOW dodged a bullet when MSNBC dropped Reid earlier than the newly named channel separated from NBC and inherited the MSNBC exhibits and hosts. Since her departure final February, Reid has commonly spewed racist rants and wild conspiracy theories, all pushed by her hatred of President Trump and disgust with all who assist him. Impugning concern over unlawful aliens, as the identical as vile anti-black racism, is par for the course for her.”
RATING: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ November 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Jonathan Karl hatches turkey lure for Kevin Hassett
(Washington Examiner submit)
If there’s one factor that the legacy media bigots can’t stand, it’s journalists who don’t assume like they do.
That confirmed within the first Trump administration when former press secretary Sean Spicer referred to as on conservative reporters within the White Home press room. And it has been at play within the second administration with the inclusion of conservative influencers within the White Home press combine.
Whereas the press has principally saved its complaints personal, it spilled out final week when podcaster Katie Couric and MS Now host Jen Psaki whined overtly in regards to the addition of conservative media to the White Home press corps.
Psaki, the previous Biden White Home spokeswoman, complained on Subsequent Query with Katie Couric that the brand new media is made up of “sycophants … who will not be asking about information that the American folks cares about.”
And Couric responded, “They’ve invited loads of reporters from very right-wing media shops.”
Really, the Trump press workplace has broadened the political range of the press corps overlaying the president, so it’s greater than the liberal Washington shops. The workplace didn’t take away liberal media slots, however opened up the pool of reporters allowed into the White Home.
And of notice, Trump, who is taken into account essentially the most accessible president ever, sometimes calls on liberal reporters in his prolonged meet-and-greets.
From the Subsequent Query with Katie Couric video podcast on Wednesday for Substack and YouTube:
JEN PSAKI: And what they’ve carried out is that they have actually, and I learn the press briefing rather a lot as a result of we do some factor on our present about it generally, an increasing number of of the questions in there are by sycophants, are by people who find themselves not asking about information that the American folks cares about, however they’re asking about, I imply, actually a query has began greater than as soon as, why is Trump in such fine condition, proper?
Or they’re, you already know, placing out conspiracy theories. There are individuals who, and they’re getting loads of the questions. There are among the people who find themselves within the press swimming pools — which means reporters who’re there to cowl MBS being on the White Home, or to cowl Zelensky being on the White Home, or to ask these questions that Mary Bruce thankfully requested yesterday, there are fewer of them. And that’s, you don’t know that and see that except you’ve lived there, however that’s an enormous, big drawback as a result of it’s changing into extra of a Kremlin-esque press corps.
KATIE COURIC: Proper. They usually’ve invited loads of reporters from very right-wing media shops, and also you’re proper, they often say, I neglect there was one instance, like, “Did you ever imagine that you’d be the peacemaker?” I imply, simply, so–
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “What chutzpah. After presiding over press briefings dominated by Biden-friendly reporters whereas not often taking a query from a journalist robust on Biden, Psaki is now upset when Trump and his press secretary get some pleasant questions whereas additionally taking loads from ‘conventional’ shops very hostile to Trump. In reality, this reply from Psaki got here within the context of her responding to how President Trump had criticized a query from ABC’s Mary Bruce – proof in itself that Trump nonetheless will get aggressive questions from the left-wing media.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ November 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Couric and Psaki condemn pressroom political range
(Washington Examiner submit)
It was a basic media “gotcha” second. On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, host Jonathan Karl was going to indicate that President Donald Trump is a liar on prices and costs.
He hit his visitor, Kevin Hassett, the director of the Nationwide Financial Council, with the much-reported-on Walmart Thanksgiving worth checklist, which confirmed a inexpensive dinner menu with fewer objects than final yr.
Trump has touted the lower cost, however Karl mentioned, “Does he know that’s not true?”
Growth, proper? No. Hassett had his personal checklist exhibiting the costs are down on different objects, resembling fuel and houses, and he fired again that it’s unrealistic to anticipate Trump to “repair the opening that [former President] Joe Biden dug instantly.”
Our alternative for the weekly Liberal Media Scream from Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
JONATHAN KARL: So, the president claims that Thanksgiving prices are down 25%. I imply, does he know that’s not true?
KEVIN HASSETT: Properly, for those who have a look at Walmart and the few locations that put out their costs, Thanksgiving costs–
KARL: Wait, wait a minute, I obtained to cease you as a result of the Walmart comparability’s like not a factor — I imply, Walmart had a Thanksgiving package deal final yr. They’ve obtained a Thanksgiving package deal this yr. The one this yr comprises a lot lower than what the one final yr it took. In order that’s why the worth is much less.
Look, we obtained a chart right here. Final yr, with 21 complete merchandise. This yr, it’s 15. Complete variety of objects in these merchandise was … 29, now it’s 22. There’s extra generic model stuff. So, I imply, Thanksgiving — for those who’re going to the shop to purchase groceries for Thanksgiving, it’s going to be costlier this yr.
HASSETT: You already know, I actually don’t perceive the place you’re going within the sense that Joe Biden gave us 20% inflation–
KARL: He’s not president. Donald Trump’s president.
HASSETT: No, and also you’re– you need us to repair the opening that Joe Biden dug instantly.
KARL: No, I’m simply saying, why does the president inform–
HASSETT: I imply, the costs went up a lot beneath Joe Biden, and inflation is method down. Inflation is about half what it was in December. That is one thing that’s being mounted quick, and actual incomes are up after dropping about [$]3,000 beneath Joe Biden. And so, certain, you might discover a couple of issues the place the worth is increased, however there’s an entire bunch of stuff the place the worth is decrease, like gasoline, like mortgage charges.
KARL: When are we going to get the Republican plan to–
HASSETT: You perceive that mortgage charges have gone method down, and it’s less expensive to purchase a house now than it was when President Trump took workplace?
KARL: As a result of rates of interest have come down, proper.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Discuss lacking the forest for the bushes. Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal package deal this yr is cheaper than the one final yr, and the inflation fee for meals is method down from the Biden years, however Karl selected to sandbag his visitor, with an clearly pre-planned hit, so as to as soon as once more exhibit his well-earned anti-Trump bona fides.”
Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ November 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Joe Scarborough spins shutdown cave-in as win
(Washington Examiner submit)
Since Joe Scarborough has constructed his MSNBC present round bashing Republicans and President Donald Trump, how else may he spin the Sunday cave-in by Senate Democrats on the federal government shutdown as something apart from a liberal victory?
And never simply any win. On his Monday present, he in contrast the transfer by Senate Democrats to retreats of George Washington and the British towards Adolf Hitler.
A brief retreat, he argued, is a part of the lengthy recreation of beating Trump. “It additionally occurred when George Washington retreated from Lengthy Island in 1776. That retreat helped us finally win the Revolutionary Conflict. And let’s make you are feeling higher. My God, there have been motion pictures made about Dunkirk. I imply, one of many nice retreats within the historical past of recent warfare allowed the British to reside to combat one other day,” he mentioned on his morning present on Monday.
What’s extra, Scarborough mentioned it proves that solely Democrats care in regards to the needy, regardless that the Sunday procedural vote was an acceptance of what the Republicans have been providing for over 40 days of their bid to finish the federal government shutdown.
“Why did these Democrats do what they did? That is very simple to elucidate. Properly, as a result of Democrats, in contrast to loads of Republicans, really care in regards to the hungry. They simply do,” he mentioned.
“Democrats reside to combat one other day with the political winds lastly, for the primary time in a yr and a half, at their backs,” he mentioned in a twisted and unrealistic argument that simply made his rant the weekly alternative for our Liberal Media Scream.
Joe Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
If I had been at a city corridor assembly, and I did a whole bunch and a whole bunch of city corridor conferences, and if I had been a Democrat, this might be simple. I might go in tonight, go, ‘Let me inform you what occurred. We fought Donald Trump. We fought him like hell. We fought the Republicans. We fought them like hell. And all we needed to do, not assist liberals, not assist Democrats. We needed to assist folks in their very own residence districts. We needed to assist them with meals help. We needed to assist them paying their healthcare payments. However they had been obsessive about giving tax cuts to billionaires, to multinational firms, to tech monopolies.’ I imply, rattling, even this final week, we had been nonetheless discovering out that they had been extending tax cuts to crypto tycoons. They had been extending new tax cuts, by the way in which they had been decoding the legislation, to tycoons in overseas actual property, overseas actual property tycoons.
And on the identical time they had been doing that, they had been preventing like hell to cease folks in purple state America from getting a little bit little bit of a serving to hand on their healthcare prices, that are exploding by way of the roof. And to get some meals help so their youngsters may eat.
So, we’ve framed this debate, and whereas we framed this debate in a method that places us in a strong place as we transfer ahead over the subsequent yr, guess what else we did? We had historic wins in Virginia. We had historic wins in New Jersey. We had a historic win in California, and Donald Trump’s approval rankings are decrease now than they’ve ever been, in line with CNN — in line with 4 out of 5 polls final week, his approval rankings in the case of the financial system are within the 30s.
So, sure, generally you declare victory, generally you win. After which I might give a few historic analogies as a result of, in any case, who at a city corridor assembly doesn’t like historic analogies? I might discuss how generally Katty Kay’s strategic retreats really result in eventual victory. And I can inform you that occurred for us as Republicans after the federal government shutdown ended. But it surely additionally occurred, I imply, to not rub salt within the wound, however it additionally occurred when George Washington retreated from Lengthy Island in 1776. That retreat helped us finally win the Revolutionary Conflict. And let’s make you are feeling higher. My god, there have been motion pictures made about Dunkirk. I imply, one of many nice retreats within the historical past of recent warfare allowed the British to reside to combat one other day.
Why did these Democrats do what they did? That is very simple to elucidate. Properly, as a result of Democrats, in contrast to loads of Republicans, really care in regards to the hungry. They simply do. Are Republicans going to be rewarded as a result of they don’t give a rattling about serving to the hungry in their very own districts? I say no as a result of Democrats care in regards to the hungry, as a result of Democrats perceive if this continues, households will be unable to be collectively over Thanksgiving, over the vacations. And for a lot of, that’s the one time they get to see their youngsters, they get to see their grandchildren.
They perceive the chaos was constructing and that disasters may very well be taking place. That’s fairly simple. And in addition, I’m sorry, it’s simply true whether or not you prefer it or not, Democrats reside to combat one other day with the political winds lastly, for the primary time in a yr and a half, at their backs. The polls have all shifted, and they’re going to keep that method when the subsequent debate comes up on giving working Individuals a little bit little bit of assist, having the ability to afford their healthcare.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Scarborough proved his driving motivation each morning is to spin the information to place Republicans and President Trump within the worst mild and supply an uplifting narrative for liberals to tout. In fact, Scarborough didn’t clarify how he can say Democrats are those who really care about those that want federal meals help when solely eight of 47 Democratic senators voted to supply that funding, by voting to finish the shutdown, whereas 52 of 53 Republican Senators have persistently voted to maintain the federal government open and thus by no means endanger the meals assist.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ November 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Norah O’Donnell simply can’t give Trump any credit score
(Washington Examiner submit)
It was a easy query from President Donald Trump to CBS 60 Minutes interviewer Norah O’Donnell. Don’t you are feeling safer in Washington, D.C., the place crime plummeted after the Nationwide Guard was referred to as in to assist clear up crime-filled neighborhoods?
However as an alternative of answering sure or no, she bobbed and weaved to keep away from giving Trump any credit score for making town safer, one thing the district’s liberal mayor has repeatedly carried out.
Trump pressed her: “You see a distinction?” She demurred: “I believe I’ve been working too onerous. I haven’t been out and about that a lot.” Trump parried again: “Oh, that’s not a good reply. You see the distinction.” She deflected once more: “I get in my automobile and go to work, and I am going residence.”
The alternate between Trump and O’Donnell throughout a portion of their 74-minute interview that was not aired on 60 Minutes, however posted on-line by CBS Information on their 60 Minutes Extra time web page:
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We’re cleansing up our cities. You already know, I campaigned on crime, however I’ve carried out a significantly better job on crime than I assumed. You already know, the crime numbers are method down, regardless that we’ve got much more folks in our nation that basically shouldn’t be right here. And lots of of them are stone-cold onerous criminals. After I have a look at D.C. now, you possibly can stroll down the center of the road. You possibly can have your daughter, who’s 10 years outdated, meet you on the park. She’s gonna be OK.
O’DONNELL: In sure elements of D.C.
TRUMP: She woulda been murdered. Properly, I — in nearly—
O’DONNELL: I reside in D.C.
TRUMP: Properly, you inform me—
O’DONNELL: Sure elements of D.C.
TRUMP: How massive a distinction is D.C. now in comparison with what it was a yr in the past? Proper? I imply, you need to be trustworthy with me. Individuals stroll — folks within the White Home, they stroll as much as me, younger women I’ve by no means seen. “Sir, thanks very a lot.” I do know, they don’t even have to inform me what they’re thanking me for. However after I ask why? He mentioned — she — one lady mentioned, “I’d get into Uber and I felt harmful even in an Uber.” They’d assault the automobile, OK. It wasn’t even protected then. “Sir, I now stroll to work daily, and I stroll. I’m so protected, there’s nothing going to occur — 100% protected.” And you already know that too, Norah.
O’DONNELL: I wanna ask you in regards to the—
TRUMP: You reside right here. You already know that, too.
O’DONNELL: I wanna ask you about Amer—
TRUMP: Do you see a distinction?
O’DONNELL: –American cities—
TRUMP: You see a distinction?
O’DONNELL: –in Washington, D.C.?
TRUMP: Sure.
O’DONNELL: I believe I’ve been working too onerous. I haven’t been out and about that a lot.
TRUMP: Oh, that’s not a good reply. You see the distinction.
O’DONNELL: I get in my automobile and go to work, and I am going residence.
TRUMP: That’s good. You don’t have to make use of that one. Don’t fear. Don’t fear. I gained’t embarrass her.
O’DONNELL: I’ve been working too onerous.
TRUMP: It’s like you already know what the distinction is? Like, day and evening.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “This interview went rather a lot higher for the picture of CBS Information than did the one 5 years in the past with the antagonistic and aggressively misinformed Lesley Stahl, however O’Donnell couldn’t let herself be seen agreeing with Trump, not to mention saying something that may very well be construed as optimistic towards any Trump achievement. That will be a cardinal sin within the eyes of her colleagues. In that method, CBS Information hasn’t but modified beneath its new administration.”
Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ October 27, 2025: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ October 20, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Queen of kooks: Kathy Griffin confirms her TDS and doubts Trump’s election
(Washington Examiner submit)
Left-wing influencer Kathy Griffin has carried out the not possible. She has topped her loopy 2017 submit of decapitating President Donald Trump and given in totally to Trump Derangement Syndrome.
As our Liberal Media Scream of the week, Griffin used her YouTube channel, Speak Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin, to vent about Trump and Elon Musk, claiming that the 2024 election was rigged.
Her goal was to speak up Saturday’s “No Kings” protests by liberal Trump critics, however she went a lot additional in calling Musk and Trump Nazis and wrongly claiming that Trump’s win within the seven battleground states was unprecedented and will need to have been purchased.
“I don’t assume he gained in a free and truthful election. You heard me. I’m popping out and saying it myself. I don’t care if meaning I look loopy,” mentioned Griffin.
And as if that wasn’t nutty sufficient, she stood agency on her decapitation submit. “That’s referred to as punching up,” she mentioned.
Griffin, on her Speak Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin video podcast, posted on YouTube on Wednesday, Oct. 15:
“Individuals are calling this protest the No King’s Day as a result of Trump thinks he’s a fucking king. And you already know, he’s not, he’s barely a president. In reality, guess what? I’m gonna say one thing that’s gonna get me in hassle. I don’t assume he gained in a free and truthful election. You heard me. I’m popping out and saying it myself. I don’t care if meaning I look loopy as a result of Elon Musk, who’s this different Nazi man operating round city who owns X, and lots of people assume he’s a genius, however he’s not, he’s like a pretend genius.
“Anyway, he’s a — however he’s knowledgeable Nazi in my humble opinion, and he’s good buddies with Trump, and at one level, I don’t know for those who keep in mind, however he was giving out million-dollar checks to folks if they’d vote for Trump. That’s unlawful. It’s unconstitutional and unlawful, in order that was taking place, and the truth that Trump gained all seven swing states, which has by no means occurred within the historical past of the U.S., makes all of it very suspicious to me. So there I mentioned it.
“All proper, now for some enjoyable popular culture. I went to an award present over the weekend, and it’s the primary time that I’ve walked a purple carpet since my controversial Kathy Griffin/Donald Trump decapitated head photograph, which you’ll Google very simply. And by the way in which, it was a Halloween masks. I’m not really making an attempt to kill anyone. I do make enjoyable of individuals, although, particularly the president. That’s referred to as punching up.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “More true phrases have not often been mentioned: ‘I don’t care if meaning I look loopy.’ Sure, not solely does this make Griffin look loopy, it proves she is loopy for pondering she’ll achieve any relevance — and get herself again into well mannered society after her disgusting Trump decapitated head picture — by advancing baseless election conspiracies which soothe the minds of Trump haters. And, by the way in which, Trump is hardly the primary president to win all of the swing states. Reagan gained all however one state in 1984.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ October 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s dour Dana Bash rains on Trump triumph parade
(Washington Examiner submit)
CNN is so addled by its Trump derangement syndrome that its lead hosts couldn’t give the president a break for a day after he made historical past in bringing the Israel-Hamas struggle to an finish.
Think about CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash’s knife-twist on Sunday whereas her panel mentioned Trump and his hope for the primary lasting peace within the Center East in many years.
As he traveled to Israel to have fun the discharge of hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023, Bash turned the dialogue to the “break up display” of peace in Gaza with immigration protests and clashes with police and troops again residence.
Tapping one other TDS sufferer, Maureen Dowd of the New York Instances, Bash rained on Trump’s success parade by quoting Dowd’s argument towards giving the president the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of some liberals are violently protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, which a majority of voters favor. For that, she wins our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From Sunday morning’s CNN State of the Union:
Host Dana Bash: I do wish to sort of carry it again to the US as we discuss what’s taking place abroad and sort of the break up display, and Maureen Dowd highlighted simply that, the break up display.
She mentioned: ‘You possibly can’t get,’ and that is in regards to the Nobel Prize, ‘you possibly can’t get a medal for selling democracy while you attempt to overthrow the democracy you had been operating. … Trump appears oblivious to the paradox of imposing peace overseas and disrupting it badly at residence, of soothing violence abroad and inflaming it right here.’
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Dowd and Bash are the quintessential skunks on the backyard social gathering, with Bash the more severe offender for deciding, barely 18 hours earlier than the Israeli hostages had been launched unleashing pleasure throughout Israel, it was clever to make use of among the restricted time on her present to rain on President Trump. She simply couldn’t let him have his day of triumph.”
Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ October 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS calls ‘cruelty’ Vought’s ‘erogenous zone’
(Washington Examiner submit)
In discussing the White Home price range chief’s plans for enormous federal employee cuts throughout the federal government shutdown, a contributor to the Friday present Washington Week with the Atlantic turned a joking remark from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) about Russ Vought right into a crude putdown.
Host Jeffrey Goldberg performed Lee telling Fox Information’s Laura Ingraham, “Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this second, making ready this second, since puberty. Russ Vought has a plan, and that plan goes to reach empowering, additional empowering Trump. That is going to be the Democrats’ worst nightmare.”
When he turned to the Atlantic’s Ashley Parker for evaluation, she ripped Vought’s objectives within the authorities shutdown and mentioned “cruelty” is the purpose, and that “is squarely in his erogenous zone.”
From Friday’s Washington Week with the Atlantic on PBS:
Jeffrey Goldberg: Ashley, who’s Russ Vought? What does he need?
Ashley Parker: I imply, he desires, as I discussed at first, kind of the deconstruction of the executive state of the federal paperwork.
Goldberg: What are the ideological roots of this?
Parker: He’s — I imply, he’s extremely conservative. He labored in Trump’s first admin. So, there are some folks, together with Stephen Miller, however there will not be really a ton of people that labored within the first Trump administration after which got here again for a second tour of obligation, however Russ Vought is considered one of them. And he got here again, just like the president himself, kind of stronger, bolder, extra empowered, extra inventive along with his interpretations of legal guidelines and what’s acceptable than ever. And he used his —
Goldberg: Russ Vought, sooner and furiouser.
Parker: Sure.
Goldberg: Sure.
Parker: And he used these years out of energy to principally create this doc that you simply talked about referred to as Mission 2025, that — it’s a dense, dense coverage doc. That’s kind of his wheelhouse, his precise coverage. And it tells kind of all of the methods you possibly can, initially, simply completely reduce the federal government, tear away at it, tear it down, and use it to push by way of deeply conservative priorities.
And I additionally, primarily based on my reporting, agree with Sen. Lee that that is squarely in his erogenous zone. And that when he mentioned what he desires to do, I imply, to make use of a phrase that was popularized by considered one of our colleagues on the Atlantic, cruelty is the purpose. Now, that was in reference to Donald Trump.
However Russ Vought additionally, he mentioned, “I wish to terrorize the federal bureaucrats.” So, a few of these selections, the fork-in-the-road e-mail of do you have to select to principally resign or danger shedding your job, I imply, the way in which this stuff had been structured had been deeply humiliating and devastating and financially devastating to a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals, and that was an intentional alternative by folks like Russ Vought.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Parker encapsulates the Washington media institution, which sees anybody who tries to scale back the scale and function of presidency as pushed by some kind of vicious delight within the distress of others. It might probably’t simply be a easy coverage disagreement. Conservatives have to be discredited for having a nefarious agenda.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 29, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Poor Comey, goal of ‘ruthless’ Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
It wasn’t even a yr in the past that liberal media had been cheering the slew of politically pushed prosecutions and courtroom instances focusing on President Donald Trump and his associates earlier than he returned to the White Home for his second time period.
However now that the tables have turned, most notably with final week’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly mendacity to Congress in a get-Trump case, the identical media have declared these sorts of prosecutions the peak of ruthlessness.
Trump foe and New Yorker Editor David Remnick, for instance, charged on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that Trump is in political payback mode and utilizing prosecutions for revenge.
“The primary time period was full of impulses, and the second time period is environment friendly, ruthless, and it’s taking place daily. This motion towards authoritarianism may be very distinct and must be taken significantly,” he charged, making him our featured Liberal Media Scream.
David Remnick on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
DAVID REMNICK: I believe we should always take the president at his phrase. It was once in 2016 and Trump 1.0, I suppose, that it was thought of the peak of knowledge that the press takes Trump actually and the folks take him significantly, after which vice versa. I believe it’s attainable to do each on the identical time. The president is telling us that he has an enemies checklist that he’s going to behave on. He’s advised us who’s on the enemies checklist: John Bolton, Letitia James, Fani Willis must be on her guard, and lots of extra, whether or not they’re within the press or civic society.
I believe it is a actual emergency, and it ought to be taken significantly, and know that he’s going to behave on it. It’s not simply blather out on the White Home garden. That’s the distinction between the primary time period and the second time period. The primary time period was full of impulses, and the second time period is environment friendly, ruthless, and it’s taking place daily. This motion towards authoritarianism may be very distinct and must be taken significantly. This isn’t only a regular, you already know, we talked a few price range battle. That’s regular politics. That is one thing extraordinary.
Jorge Bonilla, a information analyst with the Media Analysis Heart’s NewsBusters, defined our decide: “This Obama sycophant as soon as mentioned that ‘the way forward for the Earth’ was contingent on the impeachment of Donald Trump. Now that the present is on the opposite foot, that is ‘extraordinary.’ If it weren’t for double requirements within the media, there’d be none in any respect.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 22, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Kirk memorial divisive, Trump vs. widow
(Washington Examiner submit)
President Donald Trump is President Donald Trump, and lots of within the liberal media nonetheless can’t settle for that. That was clear yesterday on the Arizona memorial for Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated this month, allegedly by a hate-filled leftist.
After Kirk’s widow, Erika, forgave her husband’s killer, Trump, himself the goal of two assassination makes an attempt and years of political assaults, mentioned he admired Kirk’s capacity to forgive, however it’s one thing he may by no means do. It’s simply not in his blood.
“He didn’t hate his opponents. He needed the perfect for them,” Trump mentioned of Kirk. Then he added, “I hate my opponents.”
For some at CNN and MSNBC, that was the large takeaway of the hourslong occasion as they looked for a strategy to painting it as divisive. “He has by no means made a pretense of being a pacesetter for all Individuals, as most of his predecessors have — even when they didn’t observe by way of,” mentioned a CNN evaluation.
On MSNBC, following the memorial, White Home correspondent Vaughn Hillyard additionally highlighted the totally different views and mentioned, “I believe what was beautiful in regards to the rigidity that exists right here in 2025 was to take heed to Erika Kirk, a giant supporter of the president, be adopted 15 to twenty minutes later by the president of the US. Clearly, someone who she loves, however come out and immediately say, ‘I disagree with Charlie Kirk. I disagree with you, Erika,’ and say, ‘I hate my opponents.’”
He added, “And I believe that claims rather a lot about the place we’re and the questions on the place we go shifting ahead. The Erika Kirk route or the Donald Trump route.”
Vaughn Hillyard on MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime:
VAUGHN HILLYARD: I believe what, actually, I’ll take away from tonight is watching the load of a girl, a mom, lose her husband. Most individuals can not say they’ve skilled shedding a partner at this younger of an age, and I don’t know who we’re to recommend how someone ought to reply in actual time. One week after her husband’s passing, she went in entrance of a crowd of 40 to 50,000 folks, folks watching everywhere in the world. And he or she delivered remarks during which she forgave the murderer that shot her husband and killed him.
Co-host Elise Jordan: I assumed it was simply exceptional.
HILLYARD: A exceptional second as a result of in so some ways, the place America stands in 2025 is: How can we reply going ahead? And the lady that simply misplaced her husband stood there in entrance of the world and mentioned, ‘I forgive.’ And since her Christian religion teaches her to like your enemy and never hate your enemy, and to like those who persecute you. And I believe what was beautiful in regards to the rigidity that exists right here in 2025 was to take heed to Erika Kirk, a giant supporter of the president, be adopted 15-20 minutes later by the president of the US. Clearly, someone who she loves, however come out and immediately say, ‘I disagree with Charlie Kirk. I disagree with you, Erika,’ and say, ‘I hate my opponents.’ And I believe that claims rather a lot about the place we’re and the questions on the place we go shifting ahead. The Erika Kirk route or the Donald Trump route.
Jorge Bonilla, a information analyst with the Media Analysis Heart’s NewsBusters, defined our decide: “Within the quick aftermath of the highly effective Charlie Kirk memorial, Trump-deranged MSNBC confirmed that they couldn’t go away nicely sufficient alone. What started as a complimentary response was Trump-deranged brainworms for MSNBC consumption. Erika Kirk’s testimony of forgiveness in the direction of her husband’s assassin stands as a potent instance of Christ-like habits in a most troublesome time. Forgive them for they know not what they do, certainly. However Hillyard couldn’t go away nicely sufficient alone, and he needed to fabricate this oppositional friction the place none exists between the Kirks and Trump. It’s nearly as in the event that they didn’t watch the memorial, and its many underlying messages centering round grace.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 15, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Martha Raddatz went 0-3 swinging for Trump hate
(Washington Examiner submit)
Within the fallout of the assassination of youthful Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk, there was the liberal media’s refusal to just accept its function in dividing the nation, because it as an alternative tries guilty President Donald Trump for the Left’s political violence.
Martha Raddatz led the way in which whereas internet hosting ABC’s This Week on Sunday. She had one factor prime of thoughts: get a number of of the three elected officers she had on as company to denounce Trump for blaming the assassination of Charlie Kirk on “the unconventional Left.”
First up, Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) was requested, “What’s your response to that? Is that one thing you assume he ought to be doing?” Subsequent was Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO), who was quizzed with, “Is that the message you imagine he ought to be placing out?” And at last, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) was pressed, “Is that the best factor to do? Or what do you want he was saying?”
Raddatz struck out, going 0-3, and is our decide for the weekly Liberal Media Scream.
Three questions from Martha Raddatz on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
To Cox:
“You instantly talked about Democrats who had been focused. President Trump mentioned nothing in regards to the political violence towards Democrats. In reality, he blamed ‘the unconventional Left.’ What’s your response to that? Is that one thing you assume he ought to be doing?”
To Polis:
“You heard Gov. Cox. He didn’t, clearly didn’t wish to criticize President Trump right now, and Charlie Kirk was a great pal of President Trump and his household, however he has pointed the finger at what he calls ‘the unconventional Left.’ Is that the message you imagine he ought to be placing out?”
To Curtis:
“Lots of people, definitely loads of Republicans, lots of people are listening to President Trump, and also you’ve heard me discuss it earlier within the present. However a number of Republican lawmakers, distinguished conservatives, together with President Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, in addition to President Trump, have blamed this on ‘the unconventional Left.’ Is that the best factor to do? Or what do you want he was saying?”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Martha Raddatz definitely appears to have had an agenda on Sunday: Get a number of of her company to denounce President Trump for daring guilty ‘the unconventional Left’ for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. However isn’t {that a} affordable supposition? Possibly a greater space for her to have explored together with her company would have been why hasn’t there been extra deal with that menace than the phrases utilized by a president who had simply misplaced a pal to political violence?”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 8, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Clintonista Stephanopoulos determined to sentence Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
For TV information liberals, one-upping rivals whereas venting their anti-Trump bias appears a requirement, particularly for the large photographs who host the weekly public affairs exhibits.
Think about former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos, who on Sunday was internet hosting ABC’s This Week for the primary time since Aug. 3. Outdone on the Trump Derangement Syndrome spouted by the opposite hosts for weeks, notably CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley’s common editorial assaults on President Donald Trump, Stephanopoulos placed on his critical face and listed all that was dangerous in regards to the president’s week.
It was, he mentioned, “per week of challenges,” and he cited a number of examples which have, within the findings of a number of pollsters, helped revive Trump’s approval rankings.
Stephanopoulos has been on the shedding aspect of his fights with Trump for some time. Recall that in December, he and ABC Information had been ordered to apologize and pay $15 million in a Trump defamation lawsuit settlement.
For his one-sided, off-base rant, Stephanopoulos wins our weekly Liberal Media Scream.
Stephanopoulos on the prime of ABC’s This Week on Sunday:
“On Friday, President Trump rebranded the Division of Protection the ‘Division of Conflict.’ Saturday, he introduced the division’s first goal, an American metropolis. The President’s phrases: ‘I like the odor of deportations within the morning. Chicago about to search out out why it’s referred to as the Division of Conflict.’ A refrain of criticism adopted, together with this from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D): ‘The President of the US is threatening to go to struggle with an American metropolis. This isn’t a joke. This isn’t regular.’
“And this chilling menace from President Trump comes after per week of challenges: Friday’s weak jobs report, on Capitol Hill a bipartisan grilling for [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], and a requirement for transparency from Jeffrey Epstein’s victims; China’s show of diplomatic talent and army drive and Russia’s rebuff of one other Trump deadline on the struggle in Ukraine.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Stephanopoulos pops up each month or so to host This Week (he final hosted on Aug. 3) and appears bent every time on re-proving his anti-Trump bonafides. He did it once more Sunday, framing within the worst attainable mild Trump’s efforts to save lots of lives in Chicago after which continuing to color a world closing in on Trump — all in per week when Trump’s approval obtained an up bounce.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 1, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC reporter fired for Trump hate doubles down
(Washington Examiner submit)
A prime political reporter dumped by ABC Information for spewing hate towards President Donald Trump and deputy White Home chief of employees Stephen Miller on X is doubling down on his rant.
As an alternative of shushing after the embarrassing episode, Terry Moran stepped up his assault on Trump, telling a podcaster final week that Trump “is the person that we had been warned about by the founders, that democracies fall when a person who can captivate the populace desires to train the facility that’s there within the authorities.”
What makes Moran our Liberal Media Scream of the week isn’t simply his continued hate towards Trump however his embrace of the Founding Fathers, whom the liberal media have lately attacked as racist slave-holders undeserving of memorializing.
Moran was dumped in June when he went after Miller on X. “He eats his hate,” Moran wrote of the president’s chief coverage aide. “Trump is a world-class hater. … That’s his religious nourishment.”
Moran on In Good Religion With Philip DeFranco:
“What we’re seeing is, no query, what different nations have seen rather a lot, what our Founding Fathers predicted would occur, that an amazing strongman would, would, all proper, not nice within the good sense, however nice within the energy sense, proper?
“Trump is essentially the most dominant determine of our age around the globe. Don’t underestimate him. He’s a world historic determine, and he’s the person that we had been warned about by the Founders, that democracies fall when a person who can captivate the populace desires to train the facility that’s there within the authorities, and that’s what we’re watching.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Legacy media figures hold reaching again in historical past to search out totally different historic figures to make use of to sentence President Trump. The go-to has been Hitler, however now Moran is ridiculously invoking the Founding Fathers, a sudden respect for the supposed foresight of the founders, whom liberals usually condemn as immoral figures for condoning slavery, however now discover so clever.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ August 25, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Velshi: MAGA is worse than Pearl Harbor, Civil Conflict
(Washington Examiner submit)
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we’ve got a unprecedented Trump Derangement Syndrome rant that doesn’t simply declare President Donald Trump a “strongman,” however extra evil than Japan’s assault on America and extra harmful than the Civil Conflict.
It comes from weekend MSNBC host Ali Velshi, who on Sunday spat out a seven-minute-plus speech denouncing Trump and Republicans for the “collapse of democracy.” He claimed Trump has enacted a “police state” in cities whereas Republican “election safety” efforts are actually the “basic playbook of the strongman.”
It was basic TDS after which he doused his hearth with gasoline, charging, “America’s democracy has withstood civil struggle, depressions, assaults by overseas enemies on its soil, however it has by no means confronted an assault on this scale: an inner demolition carried out not by outsiders and even by well-armed rebels, however by the holder of the best workplace within the land.”
Parts of Velshi from Sunday:
It’s Sunday, August the twenty fourth. I’m Ali Velshi, and we start this hour with a actuality verify, an important one. The collapse of democracy is an odd, nearly surreal factor. It may be summary and onerous to acknowledge within the second. At first, it simply looks like politics. It’s messy, it’s noisy, it’s irritating, and generally a bit faraway from one’s day-to-day life. However then the guardrails that we’ve taken with no consideration start to topple one after one other…
At greatest, every assault could appear to be an outlier till the day you get up and notice the system itself has develop into unrecognizable. Properly, that’s the place we’re proper now. It’s not the place we’re headed. It’s the place we’re. The tragedy of what’s unfolding and the hazard of what’s forward will probably be compounded if Americans en masse, all of us, don’t acknowledge this second for what it’s. Understandably, except it touches you immediately, it’s simple generally to overlook what’s being taken away…
This isn’t about public security. It’s about flexing energy, educating dissenters and political opponents a lesson, normalizing the usage of troops towards Individuals. Within the nation’s capital, a whole bunch of federal troops now patrol the streets alongside [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and [Drug Enforcement Administration] and FBI brokers, ticketing residents for minor offenses like damaged taillights. Federal troops policing petty crime on America’s important avenue. Take into consideration that. Crime could also be statistically down, however intimidation is method up. The police state is right here, and that’s the entire level. D.C. eating places and bars report enterprise down by one-third. What Trump is doing is designed to bleed blue cities dry economically…
What Republicans label election safety is the basic playbook of the strongman: tilt the taking part in subject towards your self and lock your self into energy. It doesn’t cease in Washington, D.C. Throughout the nation, Republican managed legislatures are dismantling the final avenues of direct democracy: Citizen poll initiatives…
The message is evident: Even when voters go one thing that Republicans don’t like, Republicans in energy will simply rewrite the principles. This isn’t democracy. That’s one thing referred to as aggressive authoritarianism. Elections in title. One-party rule in apply.
And right here lies the tragedy. Final energy on this nation nonetheless belongs to the folks. However each time we settle for or tolerate yet one more purple line being crossed, we normalize the subsequent. Every violation bigger than the final makes what got here earlier than really feel nearly regular.
America’s democracy has withstood civil struggle, depressions, assaults by overseas enemies on its soil, however it has by no means confronted an assault on this scale. An inner demolition carried out not by outsiders and even by well-armed rebels, however by the holder of the best workplace within the land.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Ali Velshi is auditioning to win the function because the [Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)] of the left-wing legacy media: The man who most excites the anti-Trump world because the chief conveyor of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ August 18, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN says Obama, Clinton, and Bush smarter than Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
CNN reached a brand new low in its anti-Trump bias, declaring that Russian President Vladimir Putin ate President Donald Trump’s lunch on Friday as a result of Trump doesn’t have the “mind” of former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Common commentator Bakari Sellers on Sunday’s State of the Union missed that the political trio oversaw a number of wars, whereas Trump, in his second time period, has ended a half-dozen wars and is immediately internet hosting a world summit on the White Home to finish the Russia-Ukraine struggle.
Sellers was targeted on Trump’s assembly in Alaska with Putin, an icebreaker on a number of fronts after former President Joe Biden let U.S.-Russian relations attain a Chilly Conflict low.
“Donald Trump can not carry out on the world stage as a result of he merely doesn’t have the mind to match up with these world leaders. He’s not Barack Obama, he’s not Hillary Clinton. He’s not even George Bush in the case of having the ability to maneuver in these environments,” mentioned Sellers.
From CNN’s Sunday morning State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper:
BAKARI SELLERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I believe Vladimir Putin is a thug. I believe he’s a struggle prison. And I believe he made Donald Trump look small. I imply, I perceive the trivialities of the place — I desire a deal, like each different American desires a deal, or you have to be praying for that deal.
Nonetheless, like I’ve mentioned earlier than many occasions, Donald Trump can not carry out on the world stage as a result of he merely doesn’t have the mind to match up with these world leaders. He’s not Barack Obama, he’s not Hillary Clinton. He’s not even George Bush in the case of having the ability to maneuver in these environments. And so what you noticed was Vladimir Putin come and get what he needed. I imply, the winner of that is Vladimir Putin. I don’t know why we’re making an attempt to cover the ball.
BRAD TODD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: That’s what occurred when he took Crimea. Obama gave him precisely what he needed when he let Vladimir Putin have Crimea with out a lot as a shot or an objection.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “How vacuous are you able to be? When [former Sen.] Mitt Romney referred to as Putin ‘the most important political menace going through America,’ which has confirmed true, Obama ridiculed Romney: ‘The Nineteen Eighties are actually calling to ask for his or her overseas coverage again, as a result of the Chilly Conflict’s been over for 20 years.’ And as Todd identified, Obama didn’t do something to counter Putin’s invasion of Crimea. But Obama is intellectually superior to Trump as a result of Trump isn’t standing up sufficient to Putin? To say nothing of George W. Bush declaring he obtained ‘a way’ of Putin’s ‘soul’ and located him ‘reliable’ or Hillary Clinton providing Putin a ‘reset’ button.”
Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ August 11: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ August 4, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Washington Publish reporter stop over patriotism request
(Washington Examiner submit)
The beneficiant buyout provide from Washington Publish proprietor Jeff Bezos has been too onerous for quite a few prime reporters and editors to show down.
However for one columnist, leaving was coming it doesn’t matter what. The rationale: Bezos needed “optimistic issues taking place on this nation” to be lined “unapologetically patriotic.”
For left-wing author Jonathan Capehart, additionally a contributor to PBS and MSNBC, that was an excessive amount of to ask. “There was simply not going to be any room for a voice like mine,” he mentioned on the NewsHour.
For PBS, which misplaced taxpayer assist within the One Massive Lovely Invoice Act as a result of perceived anti-Trump bias, that was an amazing determination by Capehart. Stated NewsHour co-host Amna Nawaz, “Jonathan Capehart, we’re so glad your voice is heard proper right here at our desk.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
AMNA NAWAZ: Jonathan, earlier than we go, of us can have observed that we launched you barely otherwise tonight than we often do. We must always level out, after almost 20 years on the Washington Publish, you lately made the choice to depart. I simply needed to present you an opportunity to talk on to our viewers to inform them why.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Properly, the path of the opinion part modified. Jeff Bezos, the proprietor of the Washington Publish, as is his proper, determined that he needed the part to deal with the dual pillars of private liberties and free markets. And it grew to become clear, as time went alongside, and particularly when he selected a brand new chief for the part, that there was simply not going to be any room for a voice like mine, particularly after we had been advised that we must be unapologetically patriotic in speaking in regards to the optimistic issues taking place within the nation.
How are you going to speak in regards to the optimistic issues taking place within the nation when the remainder of the home is engulfed in flames and the inspiration is flooding? I needed to go some place the place my voice could be heard.
NAWAZ: Jonathan Capehart, we’re so glad your voice is heard proper right here at our desk.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Fairly an admission {that a} main PBS political analyst was so offended in regards to the state of the nation ‘engulfed in flames’ beneath President Trump that he’s against expressing patriotism. However he suits proper in on PBS and MSNBC and acknowledges that’s ‘the place my voice could be heard.’”
Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ July 28, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Connie Chung desires Fox Information anchors in ‘ankle screens’
(Washington Examiner submit)
Connie Chung is again, and he or she’s nonetheless mouthing off in regards to 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 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 shops, she mentioned, “I believe they need to be placing ankle bracelets, ankle screens 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 nice combat, that they’ve to guard the legacy of CBS. They can not enable biased homeowners, as a result of actually, I don’t assume CBS is essentially the offender. What must be policed is social media, which haven’t any truth checkers, podcasters, and the like. Nobody is checking these information. And the issue is, that’s inaccurate info that’s being disseminated
“I believe they need to be put in ankle bracelets, ankle screens on sure anchors at sure cable stations in prime time. These are the culprits.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 information, are what created {the marketplace} for Fox Information and all the opposite new media shops 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 submit)
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 “had 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 useless” 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 obtained recognized with PTSD inside 48 hours. I obtained placed on trauma go away, not as a result of, I believe, of the taking pictures, however as a result of, you might … you noticed it within the eyes, the response of the folks. They had been coming for us. If he didn’t soar up along with his fist, they had 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 believe we … none of us knew what the response of that Milwaukee crowd was going to be to this. Proper? It was euphoria, proper? It was this messiah, kind of messiah feeling. I believe that, you already know, 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 group down there. I believe 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? You already know what? There’s a concern that this second is coming. And it’s attention-grabbing that you simply … the truth that we dodged that. You already know, you’re proper. I imply, it’s, it’s … I don’t know what would have occurred had the end result been totally different.
MACFARLANE: We’re all … many people on press row, as we talked about this on our textual content chains for weeks after, had been fairly assured we’d be useless 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 triggered this. You killed him.”
They usually’re going to beat us with their arms. I imply, they had been going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had greater points than defending us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us, however that’s the factor. I can’t get rid of from my thoughts’s eye the look on their faces. They … that’s what America is correct now. It’s not rational. It’s an irrational thought to assume the media shot someone from atop a constructing, however the lack of rationality is what connects Jan. 6 to this. It’s … how can 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 vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Sure, the near-assassination of President Donald Trump wasn’t the actual ‘horror’ of the day. The true ‘horror’ was in how, within the few seconds earlier than Trump triumphantly raised his fists, MacFarlane one way or the other sensed the group would ‘kill’ him and different reporters? Actually? If Trump supporters had been on the cusp of lethal violence, why are we simply listening to about it a yr later? And McFarlane actually obtained recognized with PTSD? Everyone knows too many journalists are snowflakes, however you’d assume MacFarlane would have the self-respect to maintain such an embarrassing admission, of his concern 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 submit)
The disdain the legacy media have for President Donald Trump has reached new ranges since Congress permitted his “massive, lovely invoice.”
Many liberal shops have resorted to following Democratic speaking factors and inflated the adverse 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 characteristic as our Liberal Media Scream.
In calling for extra media consideration to the administration, the one-time At present 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 on loads of mainstream shops” 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 believe it simply, it underscores the significance of extra conventional media, and I believe 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 vice chairman 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, exhibits 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 submit)
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 thus far claimed the lives of greater than 80, together with youngsters at a Christian ladies camp, hit with little warning after a downpour dumped some 11 inches of rain that ended up within the Guadalupe River on Friday.
Trump referred to as it a 100-year occasion on Sunday and is planning to fulfill with households this Friday.
Even because the seek for survivors continued, the media tried guilty 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 important staffing shortfalls to the Nationwide Climate Service places of work within the area.”
Most climate and state native officers have been fast to notice that the world typically floods and that notices had been despatched out after midnight. Blame isn’t what most needed to forged, however the Washington media did anyway — one thing they didn’t do when Hurricane Helene crashed by way 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 important staffing shortfalls to the Nationwide Climate Service places of work within the area.
MIREYA VILLARREAL, IN KERRVILLE, TEXAS: As of proper now, the native county officers didn’t wish 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 advised them. The Nationwide Climate Service as nicely. Additionally they knew, in distant places, they may get wherever from 8 to 10 inches, however this quantity of rain in such a brief period of time, it was very troublesome 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 try to see if there was something they may do to revamp the system. She says the president is dedicated to it.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 had been desperately looking for their lacking youngsters. However with Stephanopoulos, it’s politics forward of information 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 submit)
PBS is doubling down on its leftist bias that has drawn President Donald Trump’s assist 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 assist 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 characteristic the candidate’s left-wing guarantees to defund police and supply freebies to residents, however as an alternative condemned the conservative response to him.
Stated 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 obtained to ask you each, too, about Tuesday evening’s occasions in New York Metropolis, the Democratic mayoral major contest the complete nation was taking note of 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 should 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 folks on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on tempo to run New York Metropolis.’”
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles really referred to 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: Properly, 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 repute 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 repute 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 unbiased. 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 folks for his or her votes, and he gave them one thing to vote for, and that’s the factor Democrats ought to emulate. Ask folks for his or her votes.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 newest 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 crucial 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 submit)
If the Sunday efficiency of CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan had been in a Looney Tunes cartoon, Bugs Bunny would have mocked, “da nerve!”
As an alternative, and significantly better, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brushed apart her grade faculty “sure it’s, no it’s not” debate over army 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 determination 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 greatest “da nerve” look and advised 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 all the pieces they should construct a weapon.
BRENNAN: No, however that’s the key level in U.S. intelligence assessments. You already know that.
RUBIO: No, it’s not.
BRENNAN: Sure, it was.
RUBIO: No, it’s not.
BRENNAN: That the political determination had not been made.
RUBIO: No, I do know — nicely, I do know that higher than you already know 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 all the pieces they should construct nuclear weapons. Why would you bury — why would you bury issues in a mountain 300 ft beneath 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 planet which have uranium at 60% are nations which have nuclear weapons, as a result of they will shortly 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 someday put a warhead on it.
BRENNAN: No, however that’s a query … that’s a query … that’s a query of intent. And you already know, within the intelligence evaluation, that it was that Iran needed 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 in regards to the public March evaluation. And that’s why I used to be asking you if you already know one thing extra from March, if an order was given.
RUBIO: Properly, 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 vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Refreshing to see a visitor tackle the liberal premises forwarded as information by legacy media hosts. This wasn’t the primary time this yr that Brennan has been schooled by a Trump administration official. Possibly 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 submit)
It’s onerous to think about that PBS may 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 characteristic its most excessive declare from lefty Information Hour commentator Jonathan Capehart that the president is on an influence seize that may 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 enable the president to invoke the Rebel Act.”
Tying the Military birthday parade Saturday with the deployment of troops to Los Angeles, Capehart mentioned, “We’re at a turning level, I believe, this weekend with what we’ve got seen within the run-up to tomorrow’s parade, with what’s taking place in Los Angeles. Extra folks’s hair ought to be on hearth, not simply due to the Nationwide Guard troops in Los Angeles with out the — working with or permission from the governor, which is by legislation what ought to have been carried out, however the calling up of Marines, U.S. army, on American streets.”
“That could 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 kind of like you might simply tuck it into like an enormous L.L. Bean tote bag, and also you simply pull out: The place do I must ship troops?”
Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
I believe they’re creating the political battle as a result of, you already know, I interviewed Minnesota State Lawyer Basic 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 lawyer normal mentioned that the president would possibly do this as a distraction to bigger objectives. And one of many bigger objectives that the lawyer normal talked about that has at all times been at the back of my thoughts is to create the circumstances that may enable the president to invoke the Rebel Act.
And as soon as the president invokes the Rebel Act, all kinds of powers are handed to the president, you already know, suspending elections, and different issues when you open that field, and significantly 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 the explanation why I’m so involved about what we’re about to see tomorrow.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 speak, main the Home final week to approve President Trump’s rescission package deal 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 submit)
Simply after we thought CBS’s Scott Pelley couldn’t get any extra pompous, he proved us mistaken — once more.
This time it was in decrying America beneath President Donald Trump, declaring that solely journalism can save the nation, and warning that “In the event you fall silent, the nation is doomed.”
Seeing parallels between Sen. Eugene McCarthy within the Fifties and Trump immediately, whereas talking after CNN confirmed George Clooney’s play about legendary newsman Edward R. Morrow, Pelley mentioned, “You can’t have democracy with out journalism. It might probably’t be carried out.”
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 Night time, and Good Luck Stay: Fact and Energy, after the reside airing from Broadway of the stage play, Good Night time, and Good Luck:
ANDERSON COOPER: Do you continue to imagine in journalism? Do you continue to imagine within the function of journalists?
SCOTT PELLEY: It’s the solely factor that’s going to save lots of the nation. You can’t have democracy with out journalism. It might probably’t be carried out. The folks at residence want dependable, constant info so as to make selections about their lives and their futures, and the nation’s future. So, there is no such thing as a system of democracy with out journalism. We’ve to determine how you can hold journalism free, unbiased, correct, and answerable for what it’s doing.
However journalism is the one occupation that’s protected by the Structure of the US. And there’s a purpose for that. James Madison believed that freedom of speech was the best that assured all the opposite rights within the Invoice of Rights. And so it’s immediately.
COOPER: What’s your message to folks about, who’ve simply watched this, and are frightened?
PELLEY: It’s going to take braveness, because it typically has, to get by way of this era of American historical past. Our forebears had been referred to as by their occasions to have braveness to maneuver the nation ahead. And so it’s with us immediately. A very powerful factor is to have the braveness to talk, to not let concern permeate the nation so that everybody abruptly turns into silent. You probably have the braveness to talk, we’re saved. In the event you fall silent, the nation is doomed.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Might 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 ‘unbiased, 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 submit)
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 group?
The most recent 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 bunch of hundreds of thousands, probably billions of {dollars}, as Trump and his administration take official actions that profit contributors and buyers.”
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 price, a harmful apply that lately prompted ABC and Stephanopoulos to challenge 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 bunch of hundreds of thousands, probably billions of {dollars}, as Trump and his administration take official actions that profit contributors and buyers. Simply this week, we discovered 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 Expertise Group raised almost $2.5 billion from 50 institutional buyers 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 a 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 vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: You’d assume 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 changing into so overwrought about expenses of corruption towards Trump. Particularly when he confirmed no related concern over how the Biden household profited off of profitable secretive offers fueled by President Biden’s excessive places of work.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ Might 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Trump ‘dictator’ to bow earlier than
(Washington Examiner submit)
As if MSNBC can’t get any extra ridiculous, an everyday visitor proved it may 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 assist Trump, Dean Obeidallah, host of The Dean Obeidallah Present on SiriusXM, advised the MSNBC viewers, “This actually is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One which we imagine in is freedom, the US of America with due course of, and their imaginative and prescient, which is an autocracy, and that basically — 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, however 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 believe 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 trying 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 totally different presidential speeches and the one phrase that got here up in all these speeches: “freedom.”
And that’s what folks — that’s what makes us Individuals. And Donald Trump goes after all the pieces, freedom of speech, in methods we’ve by no means seen. I imply, a choose simply dominated on Friday defending the legislation 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 unbiased facilities of dissent. Individuals assume he’s going after media shops. He’s going after Democrats. They’re arresting judges. The mayor of Newark, they dropped the fees. They’d 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 elevate 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 believe you summed it up so nicely. This actually is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One which we imagine in is freedom. America of America with due course of, and their imaginative and prescient, which is an autocracy, and that basically — 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 vice chairman 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 assist 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 submit)
She was as soon as the queen of TV information, and because the co-host of NBC’s At present present and anchor of CBS Night Information, Katie Couric struggled with fundamental information objectivity.
And now we all know why: She doesn’t imagine there’s such a factor. “I believe 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 folks “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 company, 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, stating the information and what’s actually taking place is mechanically interpreted as being biased, proper?“
“And, and naturally, I believe there’s no such factor as true objectivity, however having mentioned that, you already know, I actually battle with that. And many individuals say, ‘Pay attention, the principles have modified.’ It’s OK to say you assist trans folks. It’s OK that you simply say I’m 100% for reproductive rights, you already know, all this stuff 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 for those who assume kind of old style, semi-objective — figuring out that pure objectivity is not possible — that sort of journalism nonetheless has a spot within the tradition, or is it merely, you already know, the 75 and up people who find themselves watching the community night newscasts?”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 lately: They’re condescending elitists who presume their liberal view of the world mirror ‘the information’ and so, anybody who questions that presentation of ‘the information,’ 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 submit)
Reporters have not often been followers of religion in politics, and sometimes decry the Republican Occasion’s cozy relationship with spiritual Individuals, resembling evangelical Christians.
However give them a pope prepared to criticize President Donald Trump, nicely, that’s a distinct story. Now that Pope Leo XIV has changed Trump critic Pope Francis, there’s an eagerness to search out out if the Chicago native can 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 company 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 advised 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, you already know, retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, issues like that. Do you assume that will probably be an extremely sturdy message for him?”
Raddatz additionally requested ABC Information reporter Terry Moran, “Do you assume he’ll serve, in some methods, as a counter to President Trump [on immigration policies]?”
Moran took the bait, saying Leo “will probably be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which in some ways, many Catholics imagine will not be in step 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 in regards to 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, you already know, retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, issues like that. Do you assume that will probably 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 assume 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 planet proper now. And arguably, Pope Leo is perhaps much more well-known than President Trump, and whether or not the pope desires it or not, as a result of I believe he desires to evangelise the Gospel and do the nice work of the church. They’ve totally different approaches naturally in some methods, and I believe that’s going to come back out.
He will probably be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which, in some ways, many Catholics imagine will not be in step with among the president’s insurance policies. That may occur. I don’t assume he’s going to go search for a combat, however it would occur.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 rework the brand new pope right into a drive for resistance to President Trump. She was so obsessed together with her agenda that she prodded three company, at totally 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 submit)
There’s 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 folks report straight down the road,” she mentioned. “We’ve been making requests of the Trump administration to have their officers on air. We wish to see extra folks settle for these invites. It’s onerous for us to have the ability to say we will converse for everybody when of us gained’t be part of us.”
Documentary filmmaker and PBS producer Ken Burns obtained his punches in whereas showing Friday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. “I believe 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 go away 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 occupation 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 believe what the president is doing, it’s a elementary assault on our Structure, on the inspiration of this nation. Individuals want to know and keep in mind, there is just one occupation 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 relies 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 best, the federal government mustn’t intrude with that reporting. And so, when you may have a president of the US who’s making it his mission to assault the free press, we should 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 targeted on us too.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Might Capehart be any extra pompous? He and others, who declare PBS and NPR are impartial information suppliers serving a grandiose noble goal the nation can not 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 attempt 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 submit)
As if we want extra Trump-hating media, an outdated favourite of the Liberal Media Scream group 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 obtained a nasty one for you,” he advised Acosta. “What did Hitler do within the Holocaust? He took folks from Germany to different nations the place there was no German legislation. There was not even a pretense of German legislation. 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 wish 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 folks in France, Jewish folks, and deport them to the east, and even the phrase deport was related. So why would Trump personally say I’m going to take common Americans and deport them? It appears like he desires 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 the complete time collectively reminiscing.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I obtained 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 folks from Germany to different nations.
ACOSTA: Yeah.
MATTHEWS: The place there was no German legislation. There was not even a pretense of German legislation. 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 assume?
MATTHEWS: Properly, it will get them overseas.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 exhibits 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 an entire new stage. There are rational arguments one may cite for arguing with sending unlawful alien criminals to a overseas jail, however to equate that coverage with a mass-murdering dictator who applied genocide towards an entire 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 submit)
It’s onerous to imagine 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 spotlight.
However because of the eagle eye of our companion Brent Baker, the vice chairman of the Media Analysis Heart, we’ve got 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 speak 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 an alternative of simply hurling insults at one another.
However some within the media weren’t completely satisfied that the 2 met.
Washington Publish 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 had been a prop in that PR stunt.”
From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:
JOSH ROGIN, WASHINGTON POST: Counterpoint? You already know, Invoice, I believe you’re proper in saying that folks make an excessive amount of of this. OK, it’s not the Yalta Summit, you’re not Churchill, Child Rock shouldn’t be Stalin, Trump, certain as s***, isn’t FDR, OK? So sure, I imagine an excessive amount of has been made about this, however I believe you’ve fallen into the lure. I believe I characterize 99% of the web after I say this, is that you’ve performed the sport of proximity is precept, and what individuals are frightened about — it’s not your motivation, we imagine 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 perhaps, simply perhaps 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 affect? And I believe 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. Truthful 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 considered one of 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 speak 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, you need 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 had been a prop in that PR stunt.
MAHER: The truth that you started your little rant with the web — that tells me all the pieces. You’re taking your cues from the web. Good luck! The web is a cesspool that simply desires to combat.
ROGIN: I assist 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 assume that was going to occur. I like the folks on both aspect 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, perhaps you’ll discover one thing new in it.
ROGIN: It’s not a judgment, however it’s a little bit little bit of a judgment.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Josh Rogin displayed the reflexive perspective frequent within the Washington press corps that anybody who does something which could ‘normalize’ President Donald Trump have to be discredited. Invoice Maher did an amazing 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 submit)
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 Acquired Information For You, put the highlight on considered one of its “captains,” Amber Ruffin, who reiterated the hatred of President Donald Trump that obtained her kicked out of the dinner.
After her firing got here up on the present, Ruffin added to her the explanation why she hates the president and his group, claiming that they’re “disappearing folks 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 Acquired 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 time without work 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 assume you misplaced the gig since you mentioned too early what you had been going to do about entering into on Republicans?
AMBER RUFFIN: I imply, oh, my god, I may f***ing speak 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 believe it’s a great factor that I misplaced the gig as a result of I used to be going to indicate up there and act all the way in which out. Additionally, like, additionally, it’s not anybody’s fault as a result of after I was employed, we had been like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everyone. And I used to be like, beh. Then they began f***ing disappearing folks 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 do this.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Ruffin demonstrated why she is completely inappropriate to supply comedic commentary in regards to the political scene. She’s full of 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 submit)
President Donald Trump has carried out it. In simply two brief months, he has not solely turned the liberal Washington Publish right into a TDS cesspool however made its most celebrated reporter almost certifiable.
How else can we clarify Bob Woodward’s newest unhinged rant towards Trump during which he claims that the billionaire businessman has a purpose of ruining the financial system?
“Properly, his finish purpose is it seems to be like he desires to destroy the financial system,” mentioned the 82-year-old reporter and writer on a Washington Publish podcast.
For that, he wins this week’s Liberal Media Scream with 5 out of 5 screams.
From the Publish Reviews podcast interview, recorded at Woodward’s residence by Washington Publish “nationwide politics/democracy reporter” Colby Itkowitz, which was posted Friday evening on YouTube:
BOB WOODWARD: All these govt 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 planet, his sidekick, are slicing the federal government, and have a look at what we’re seeing. I imply, in some instances it’s carried out, as folks have mentioned with the chain noticed, and we all know from our private lives or companies that when you need to minimize, that’s a extremely difficult endeavor, and it is advisable to very rigorously spell out what you’re gonna do and do it very slowly and be very sure that the affect is that they’re not secondary occasions that you simply set off with — and have a look at what’s occurring now. I believe it’s one of the crucial harmful occasions this nation has ever confronted.
COLBY ITKOWITZ: What do you assume Trump’s finish purpose 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 purpose as president?
WOODWARD: Properly, his finish purpose is it seems to be like he desires to destroy the financial system and that could be a very harmful endeavor. I imply, he states the motive may be very optimistic, however have a look at what individuals are going by way of — having very adverse affect.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 financial system, however to cost that ‘he desires to destroy the financial system’ is an perspective which displays a very nefarious view of Trump. Does Woodward actually assume Trump is so terrible that he has got down to deliberately ‘destroy’ the financial system? That’s what he mentioned and it suits along with his very far-left perspective that decreasing the scale of presidency makes this ‘one of the crucial 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 submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream gives the newest fodder for conservatives calling for an finish to taxpayer assist 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 company vital of Trump.
For our instance, it wasn’t the liberal on the present rapping Trump however the resident centrist, New York Instances columnist David Brooks, who referred to as the president an “extortionist” and “bully” for utilizing his powers to get nations, firms, and folks to do what he desires.
“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 would like,” mentioned Brooks.
At challenge 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 Massive Regulation, 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 comply with a settlement, primarily, that claims they’re going to supply $40 million in professional bono authorized companies. Columbia College agreed to an inventory of calls for in order that they don’t lose a whole bunch 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 seen an entire capitulation by the legislative department, the Republican majority, to what the president desires to do within the govt. 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 legislation 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 legislation corporations like that resolve to tug again, what does that imply when it comes to the judiciary’s capacity 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, folks 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 would like. 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 top of Paul Weiss. And I believe, 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 selections that folks should make. And I perceive that.
Within the case of Columbia [University], I personally assume the Trump requests or calls for, no matter it’s, are sort of affordable, and Columbia ought to have carried out 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, you then’ve obtained an issue. They usually created this drawback. So I perceive why. I obtained to save lots of my college. I obtained to save lots of $400 million.
Then again, caving into an extortionist not often 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 for those who have a look at the historical past of Zelensky, Macron, folks — all of the individuals who’ve tried to cozy as much as the extortionists, all of them find yourself shedding ultimately.
And so I believe 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 will probably be a time — and, once more, I don’t assume that is fairly the time to kind of beat down the Trump administration. There will probably be a time the place everyone has to carry collectively and arise and say, no, no extra offers.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “An ideal reflection of how ‘range’ 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 submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream incorporates a Sunday NBC panel mocking Democrats for failing to be harsher and sooner 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 social gathering for dropping the ball in attacking Trump, which the panel clearly felt was so as when the president displayed Teslas on the White Home.
“Stunning,” they agreed, that Democrats didn’t work up a fast advert blasting Group Trump for primarily doing what former President Joe Biden did when he featured American-made automobiles 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 rankings, a lot decrease than President Trump’s, by the way in which. The optics of this, Anna, is it difficult for the White Home?
ANNA PALMER, Punchbowl Information: Properly, 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 it is advisable to say that the White Home is, you already know, 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 totally 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 exhibiting it again and again.
WELKER: You’re saying one other missed alternative for Democrats. Stunning!
DANIELS: One other missed alternative to get on the identical —
BELCHER, DANIELS: Stunning that the Democrats are dangerous on messaging!
DANIELS: However I imply, you already know, like, while you speak to them behind the scenes, they clarify the Elon of all of it in a significantly better method than they do once 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 desires to assist his companies on the finish of the day, proper? They discuss that battle of curiosity. That’s one thing that the American folks really perceive, however they, once more, proceed to overlook a possibility to really do this.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 Occasion pursuits. Are you able to think about journalists ever advising Republicans or Trump supporters on how you can extra successfully undermine a Democrat? In fact not.”
Score: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ March 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Sunny Hostin tells Democrats combat or ‘folks will die’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the return of considered one of 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 assist.
Whereas nearly each different Democrat within the media is asking for a extra level-headed method to Trump, she went within the different path, claiming with out a shred of proof that Trump’s insurance policies will kill folks.
In consequence, 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 wish 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 how you can combat and be a part of an opposition social gathering. Consultant Inexperienced gave them the instance. The Democrats will not be assembly the second. It is vitally clear that Medicaid is on the desk. It is vitally clear that Social Safety is on the desk. It is vitally clear that folks will die. The newborn boomers, the civil rights era, they knew what they needed to do! They had been prepared to combat and die for his or her rights. This era of Congress, they don’t seem to be assembly the second. That is an existential disaster!
BEHAR: And in addition, 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 vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “ABC Information ought to be embarrassed by the every day left-wing drivel on The View. Even many Democrats had been ashamed by Inexperienced’s antics, which went far past what any Republican has ever carried out 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 range as ‘sinister’
(Washington Examiner submit)
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 growth 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 determination to take cost of selecting who’s within the every 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 shops.
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 group omitted as a result of the information service gained’t acknowledge the president’s govt 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 referred to as the White Home transfer an assault on the press, prompting contributor and Washington Publish columnist Jonathan Capehart to chirp that “we’re in additional sinister territory” with Trump and the media.
In fact neither talked up former President Joe Biden’s transfer to remove the press passes of over 400 primarily conservative shops or former President Barack Obama’s seizing of telephone information 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 wish to get your takes on the place that kind of assault on the press stands and whether or not we’re in way more sinister territory now.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do assume we’re in additional sinister territory since you’ve obtained to have a look at what’s taking place with AP, in mild 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 to be on the press as an entity that has wronged him.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 preventing again, which actually upsets the legacy media even supposing nothing he has carried out has blocked the general public from full entry. It’s hardly ‘sinister’ simply because the White Home is permitting a extra ideological various group of shops to get entry as an alternative 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 submit)
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 exhibits this era’s Watergate has already arrived.
Much more than the Hollywood whining of Jane Fonda and others at Sunday’s Display 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 important 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 govt 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 govt, 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 lawyer normal hearth Particular Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The lawyer normal 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 could be 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 govt 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 concern 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 speak of a disaster. In reality, many are cheering as Trump overhauls the Justice Division and FBI, works with Elon Musk to fireside hundreds of federal staff and indicators piles of govt orders.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “You already know 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 submit)
He has loads 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 vital 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 affect. 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 affect 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 could 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 legislation. Decrease courts are holding up lots of the president’s priorities, however nothing has risen to the Supreme Court docket, the place these battles over presidential energy may rewrite historical past. Presidents typically push limits — FDR’s New Deal, for instance — and voters on this final election needed change. However the scope and velocity of Trump’s attain for energy could also be unprecedented. One instance is a 63-year-old company created by Congress, codified in legislation and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days.
KRISTINA DRYE: Individuals are actually scared. I believe that you already know, 12 days in the past, folks knew the place their subsequent paycheck was coming from. They knew how they had 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 assist distributed by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, USAID. Greater than 8,000 USAID staff had been despatched residence by the administration.
ADAM DUBARD: They’re not in search of competency. They’re not in search of — for those who’re good at your job. They’re in search of pure loyalty exams, and for those who don’t give it, you’ll be punished…
…
PELLEY: The world’s richest man had minimize off help to the world’s poorest households. Musk spent almost $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 believe we’re making a system that violates the separation of powers and the checks and balances which might be meant within the Structure.
PELLEY: Republican Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID, spoke to us in Washington, partly as a result of he’s not listening to public appeals to purpose from fellow Republicans.
PELLEY TO NATSIOS: How do you view this second in historical past?
NATSIOS: I don’t wish to be too pessimistic. But it surely does seem we could also be headed in the direction of some kind of a constitutional disaster. I don’t, I hope that doesn’t occur. I pray it doesn’t occur. But it surely’s definitely regarding to me what’s occurring 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 courtroom order by the Supreme Court docket. If it will get to the Supreme Court docket and the Supreme Court docket guidelines towards the administration on one thing they usually refuse to implement it, then we can have a constitutional disaster.
PELLEY: What occurs then?
NATSIOS: Properly, 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 kind of dispassionate information journal which provides a good and balanced have a look at difficult 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 minimize because the finish of World Conflict 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 submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream incorporates 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 group closed and shifted spending authority to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a reporter for Nationwide Public Radio warned to others nodding sure that the affect will probably be “poverty and elevated hunger.”
Then an Atlantic reporter, previously with the Washington Publish, mentioned on the tax-subsidized PBS present Washington Week with The Atlantic that slicing by Trump and Musk of the federal world assist 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 believe very unusual at this second of seeing the world’s richest man actually kind of take a hatchet that may primarily take people who find themselves already within the depths of poverty and, you already know, enhance hunger charges, or enhance starvation charges, which is probably going what is going to occur if USAID is fully minimize off.”…
ANNE APPLEBAUM, THE ATLANTIC: It’s a check case for can businesses simply be abolished with out Congress having any say, however it’s additionally a check case of cruelty. You already know, are Individuals prepared to just accept a excessive stage of cruelty and dying simply, you already know, on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 information.”
Score: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ February 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Name on MSNBC for weekly Trump impeachment votes
(Washington Examiner submit)
Have you ever heard this one? Democrats wish to impeach President Donald Trump.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream incorporates 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 Every part 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 believe Democrats ought to begin having a distinct man come out each week and introduce new articles of impeachment, simply to encourage folks and present them that we’re doing one thing and let the document present for historical past we’re preventing towards this,” he added.
In his first time period, Trump was impeached twice, and Democrats thought that may finish his political profession. In fact, it solely strengthened Trump, who gained workplace once more towards someone who voted for impeachment twice, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
From Friday’s The eleventh Hour With Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, selecting up as Fugelsang reacted to information CBS could make a monetary settlement with Trump to finish his lawsuit over deceptive modifying of its 60 Minutes interview with Harris, which adopted an earlier monetary settlement from Fb over that platform eradicating him in 2021:
John Fugelsang: They’re bribes. I imply, these are bribes. You already know, Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural handle for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has obtained 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 rather a lot about schooling 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 had been doing of their impoverished state was consolidating the bottom, fundraising, and getting their messaging throughout. It labored for them.
I believe Democrats ought to begin having a distinct man come out each week and introduce new articles of impeachment, simply to encourage folks and present them that we’re doing one thing and let the document present for historical past we’re preventing towards this.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman 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 govt 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 might 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 submit)
America is studying fairly shortly that Vice President JD Vance isn’t any pushover simply cornered on robust points.
In our newest Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic Vance’s retort to Catholic bishops and CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan over complaints that the Trump administration is being imply in its effort to deport prison unlawful migrants.
Showing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded damage 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 frightened that the administration’s coverage has “a chilling impact, arguably, to folks 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 working towards Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. I believe that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror a little bit bit and acknowledge that once they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they frightened about humanitarian issues, or are they really frightened about their backside line?”
Clearly, it will be a troublesome 4 years for liberals within the media, resembling 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 govt orders signed by President Trump, particularly these permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter church buildings and to enter colleges. Do you personally assist the concept of conducting a raid or enforcement motion in a church service, at a faculty?
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Properly, let me handle this. In fact, you probably have an individual who’s convicted of a violent crime, whether or not they’re an unlawful immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you need to go and get that particular person to guard the general public security. That’s not distinctive to immigration. However let me simply handle this explicit challenge, Margaret, as a result of, as a working towards Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. And I believe that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror a little bit bit and acknowledge that once they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they frightened about humanitarian issues, or are they really frightened about their backside line? We’re going to implement immigration legislation. We’re going to guard the American folks.
Donald Trump promised to do this. And I imagine the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops, in the event that they’re frightened in regards to the humanitarian prices of immigration enforcement, allow them to speak in regards to the youngsters who’ve been sex-trafficked due to the wide-open border of Joe Biden.
BRENNAN: So, you personally assist them going into colleges and church buildings?
VANCE: Allow them to discuss folks like Laken Riley, who had been brutally murdered. I assist us doing legislation 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 challenge. In the event you had a violent assassin in a faculty, after all, I would like legislation enforcement —
BRENNAN: In fact.
VANCE: — to go and get that particular person out.
BRENNAN: In fact.
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 legislation enforcement to implement the legislation all over the place to guard Individuals.
BRENNAN: However that additionally has a knock-on impact, a chilling impact, arguably, to folks 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 assume the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals from legislation enforcement?
VANCE: I believe the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a great companion in commonsense immigration enforcement that the American folks 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 vice chairman 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 information on her aspect, presuming it could 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 how you can 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 submit)
Our last 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, shops resembling CBS went out of their strategy to prop up a president who polls as considered one of America’s worst.
From CBS Information Sunday Morning:
NANCY CORDES: In some ways, he did ship. His administration oversaw the profitable rollout of the COVID vaccines. The inventory market steadily rose to document highs, whereas unemployment fell to a near-record low. Abroad, he expanded NATO, strengthened alliances in Asia with the purpose of containing China, and cobbled collectively lasting assist for Ukraine in its struggle towards Russia.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The obligation of a president is to defend what’s greatest about America.
CORDES: He did so whereas racking up main legislative victories, together with huge new investments in clear power and semiconductor manufacturing.
BIDEN: I imagine, to my core, there isn’t a single factor this nation can not 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 vice chairman 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 that regardless of the rejection of his presidency and his insurance policies by the voters, Joe Biden actually was an amazing president who delivered laudable accomplishments. The media and Biden do share at the very least one factor in frequent: 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 endlessly be a ‘convicted felon’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is already anticipating the approaching media hate that may greet President-elect Donald Trump when he enters workplace for a second time per week from immediately.
No shock, however biased liberal PBS “analyst” Jonathan Capehart isn’t simply readying his anti-Trump speak for Inauguration Day. He’s already seeking 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 endlessly be often called a “convicted felon,” and he desires each reporter to say that of their tales about Trump.
Cheered the talker, “What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing immediately, the place the choose 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, undoubtedly by the second reference.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
GEOFF BENNETT: However after, you already know, 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 rushing 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 vital, the shakiest.
And but it’s the one case the place Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case the place he was dropped at trial earlier than a jury of his friends in his hometown of New York Metropolis and was discovered responsible 34 occasions. I believe that’s nice punishment.
What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing immediately, 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, undoubtedly 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 can do.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Discuss petty immaturity. Capehart’s response to the choose’s sentence on Trump bared how a lot of the press corps’ hostility to Trump was at all times fueled by private animosity as a lot as by disgust with conservative insurance policies. So a smug Capehart will get pleasure from a courtroom giving him the okay to use a derogatory label to the incoming president.”
Score: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.
■ January 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC the only real #Joementia denier
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend because the media’s final denier that President Joe Biden has misplaced it. What’s crazier than the plain is that she claims that it’s incoming President-elect Donald Trump who suffers mind fog.
Showing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Sanders-Townsend’s protection of the president who dropped out of his reelection marketing campaign after his mind locked throughout a debate with Trump got here simply hours earlier than his weird cursing rant about immigrants following a White Home ceremony.
“The query on the desk is, ‘Is the president all they method there?’ And the reply is unequivocally sure,” Sanders-Townsend mentioned on the present. The MSNBC host, in truth, charged it’s Trump whose psychological capacities ought to be questioned. Biden “can at the very least put a sentence collectively,” however “the president-elect is the one I’m involved about.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press:
SYMONE SANDERS TOWNSEND: Properly, 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 way in which there?” And the reply is unequivocally sure. Now, folks can say that you simply really feel as if President Biden is perhaps a little bit too outdated to do the job, however he’s doing the job. And his psychological acuity is there. So, I believe that there’s a conflation of two issues right here: his psychological capability and serving one other 4 years as outdated as he’s. However these are two separate issues in my view. And, look, these those that have identified Joe Biden their whole political lives, I do know Joe Biden is like, “Are you able to all simply please defend me a little bit extra?”
MARC SHORT: I believe it damage Democrats. It damage Democrats in November to attempt to inform the American folks one thing they may see with their very own eyes wasn’t true.
SANDERS-TOWNSEND: But it surely’s not true that the president doesn’t have the psychological acuity.
SHORT: In fact it’s, Symone. The American folks noticed that for themselves within the debate—
SANDERS-TOWNSEND: What are you saying? He can at the very least put a sentence collectively. The president-elect is the one I’m involved about as a result of I lately talked to the president.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, explains our decide: “Sanders is a final holdout, a real silly believer. Just about all of her colleagues, even those that pretended for years that Biden was positive, 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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