Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as every week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every decide, often posted on-line on Monday, I present a proof and advocate a “scream” score (scale of 1 to 5).
This submit accommodates the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2025.
> For 2023 and 2024, for 2021 and 2022, for 2020. For 2019. For 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:
> July-December 2017 posts; January via 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 via the top of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 via June 11, 2013.)
Examine Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the most recent selection and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page will likely be up to date with Bedard’s newest instance of the worst bias of the week.
(For extra of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Analysis Heart’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the most recent outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)
■ New on Might 12, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC prays Pope Leo XIV will ‘counter’ Trump
See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s web site the place you may watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Per week later, Bedard’s article will likely be posted right here.
■ Might 5, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Pompous’ media on public TV’s dole rip Trump cuts
(Washington Examiner submit)
There may be nothing extra self-serving than media figures on public TV’s payroll ripping President Donald Trump’s name to finish taxpayer funding of Nationwide Public Radio and tv’s Public Broadcasting System.
However that’s precisely what occurred over the weekend, making it our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
First there was NPR President Katherine Maher telling Face the Nation that it’s Trump’s fault if protection comes off too liberal. “NPR folks report straight down the road,” she stated. “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 are able to communicate for everybody when people received’t be a part of us.”
Documentary filmmaker and PBS producer Ken Burns acquired 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 stated, including, “That is who we’re. It places the ‘us’ within the U.S.”
And depart it to PBS Information Hour common Jonathan Capehart to show true Trump’s complaints about bias on the community when he stated, “There is just one career that’s protected within the Structure, and it’s the free press. It’s the press.”
Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
I believe what the president is doing, it’s a basic assault on our Structure, on the inspiration of this nation. Individuals want to grasp and bear in mind, there is just one career that’s protected within the Structure, and it’s the free press. It’s the press.
And why? As a result of the founders understood that the survival of a democracy relies on an knowledgeable citizenry. And the citizenry can solely learn by a press that may report and do — report on affairs of the republic free and unfettered.
And whether or not they’re, come from the left or from the appropriate, the federal government shouldn’t intervene with that reporting. And so, when you have got a president of america 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 centered 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 function the nation can’t survive with out, are dissembling. Anybody who watches or listens to PBS and/or NPR is aware of their far-left skew and that Capehart and many others. are simply upset Trump has dared to strive to remove their taxpayer subsidies.”
Ranking: 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 previous favourite of the Liberal Media Scream workforce 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 demise camps.
“I acquired a nasty one for you,” he advised Acosta. “What did Hitler do within the Holocaust? He took folks from Germany to different international locations 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 stated, “I wish to ask you about one thing I stated final week: that the truth that Trump is keen to say Americans must 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 in a position to 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 feels 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 nowadays is Donald Trump. And I’ve to ask you some newsy questions earlier than we spend your complete time collectively reminiscing.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I acquired a nasty one for you.
ACOSTA: Okay, properly, 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 international locations.
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 suppose?
MATTHEWS: Effectively, it will get them in a foreign country.
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 reveals to Jim Acosta and Chris Matthews. As if there weren’t sufficient Trump-hating journalists with a platform. On this case, Matthews has taken TDS to an entire new stage. There are rational arguments one might cite for arguing with sending unlawful alien criminals to a overseas jail, however to equate that coverage with a mass-murdering dictator who applied genocide in opposition to an entire faith is inane.”
Ranking: 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 are able to 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, now we have one of many first examples of the liberal media attempting to maintain wandering members of the tribe in line.
It occurred Friday night time after HBO speak present host and political comedian Invoice Maher described his current dinner within the White Home with President Donald Trump. Maher stated 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 have been a prop in that PR stunt.”
From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:
JOSH ROGIN, WASHINGTON POST: Counterpoint? You understand, Invoice, I believe you’re proper in saying that individuals make an excessive amount of of this. OK, it’s not the Yalta Summit, you’re not Churchill, Child Rock is just not Stalin, Trump, positive 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 signify 99% of the web once 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, all people loves Invoice, proper?
So, I’m not questioning your motivation, I’m questioning Trump’s, OK? And if we are able to say that you just went there in good religion, however possibly, simply possibly he wasn’t there in good religion. I imply, you offered 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 influence? 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 all people 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 stated, there are individuals who didn’t need it to occur in any respect, you sound like certainly one of them. It’s OK.
ROGIN: No, no.
MAHER: Did you hear what I stated?
ROGIN: Yeah.
MAHER: What’s the different 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, it’s a must to perceive, that individuals who on the market know, all Individuals know, that for him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you have been a prop in that PR stunt.
MAHER: The truth that you started your little rant with the web — that tells me all the things. You’re taking your cues from the web. Good luck! The web is a cesspool that simply desires to struggle.
ROGIN: I assist what you’re attempting to do. I’m simply saying the expectation that Donald Trump goes to be modified by one thing —
MAHER: I stated within the piece I didn’t suppose that was going to occur. I like the folks on both facet who ignore the components they don’t like. I simply did it. It wasn’t prefer it was three weeks in the past. Watch it once more, possibly you’ll discover one thing new in it.
ROGIN: It’s not a judgment, however it’s slightly 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 angle frequent within the Washington press corps that anybody who does something which could ‘normalize’ President Donald Trump should be discredited. Invoice Maher did an awesome job, nonetheless, of discrediting Rogin’s weak arguments.”
Ranking: 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 Obtained Information For You, put the highlight on certainly one of its “captains,” Amber Ruffin, who reiterated the hatred of President Donald Trump that acquired her kicked out of the dinner.
After her firing got here up on the present, Ruffin added to her explanation why she hates the president and his workforce, claiming that they’re “disappearing folks to a jail in El Salvador.”
She stated, “I misplaced the gig as a result of I used to be out right here speaking s***.”
From Saturday’s airing of Have I Obtained 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 stated that she meant to make enjoyable of the present administration. Amber, do you suppose you misplaced the gig since you stated too early what you have been going to do about getting into on Republicans?
AMBER RUFFIN: I imply, oh, my god, I might 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 factor that I misplaced the gig as a result of I used to be going to point out up there and act all the best way out. Additionally, like, additionally, it’s not anybody’s fault as a result of once I was employed, we have been like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to all people. 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 chunk of s***. I can’t f***ing try 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 offer comedic commentary in regards to the political scene. She’s stuffed with vitriol and hate towards the person who the nation selected as its president. However she discovered her viewers on CNN the place she was cheered and applauded for her crude invective. A tragic commentary on the state of CNN.”
Ranking: FIVE out of 5 screams
■ March 31, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Trump has made Bob Woodward deranged
(Washington Examiner submit)
President Donald Trump has executed it. In simply two quick 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 in opposition to Trump by which he claims that the billionaire businessman has a purpose of ruining the economic system?
“Effectively, his finish purpose is it appears like he desires to destroy the economic system,” stated the 82-year-old reporter and creator on a Washington Publish podcast.
For that, he wins this week’s Liberal Media Scream with 5 out of 5 screams.
From the Publish Stories podcast interview, recorded at Woodward’s residence by Washington Publish “nationwide politics/democracy reporter” Colby Itkowitz, which was posted Friday night time on YouTube:
BOB WOODWARD: All these government orders. I imply, he’s, stood his floor and stated that is what I’m going to do. I’m shrinking. He and Elon Musk, the richest man on the earth, his sidekick, are reducing the federal government, and take a look at what we’re seeing. I imply, in some instances it’s executed, as folks have stated with the chain noticed, and we all know from our private lives or companies that when it’s a must to minimize, that’s a very tough endeavor, and it’s worthwhile to very fastidiously spell out what you’re gonna do and do it very slowly and be very sure that the influence is that they’re not secondary occasions that you just set off with — and take a look at what’s happening now. I believe it’s some of the harmful occasions this nation has ever confronted.
COLBY ITKOWITZ: What do you suppose 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 large finish purpose as president?
WOODWARD: Effectively, his finish purpose is it appears like he desires to destroy the economic system and that may be a very harmful endeavor. I imply, he states the motive could be very constructive, however take a look at what individuals are going via — having very destructive influence.
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 economic system, however to cost that ‘he desires to destroy the economic system’ is an angle which displays a very nefarious view of Trump. Does Woodward actually suppose Trump is so terrible that he has got down to deliberately ‘destroy’ the economic system? That’s what he stated and it suits along with his very far-left perspective that lowering the scale of presidency makes this ‘some of the harmful occasions this nation has ever confronted.’”
Ranking: 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 supplies the most recent 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 friends 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 known as the president an “extortionist” and “bully” for utilizing his powers to get international locations, firms, and folks to do what he desires.
“Individuals name Trump a transactional politician, however he’s an extortionist. That’s truly a distinction. There’s — a transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you till you give me what I would like,” stated Brooks.
At difficulty was an earlier transfer by the White Home to withdraw the safety clearance of the Paul Weiss authorized agency, which is near Democrats. The agency agreed to do $40 million price of professional bono work for causes favored by the White Home to win again the clearance.
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
HOST AMNA NAWAZ: We noticed President Trump going after establishments, together with Large Regulation, proper, together with universities, as you talked about, the place many of those guys went to high school. And this week, we noticed two large establishments take steps to adjust to the calls for of the Trump administration. We noticed Paul Weiss conform to a settlement, basically, that claims they’re going to offer $40 million in professional bono authorized companies. Columbia College agreed to a listing of calls for in order that they don’t lose lots of 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 give attention to Perkins — I’m sorry — on Paul Weiss and the authorized sphere. We have now seen an entire capitulation by the legislative department, the Republican majority, to what the president desires to do within the government. And all our hopes for the upkeep of our democracy now rests with the judiciary.
And within the olden days, earlier than Trump, you’d depend on these white shoe legislation corporations like Paul Weiss to offer professional bono assist to people 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 drag again, when different large legislation corporations like that determine to drag again, what does that imply when it comes to the judiciary’s skill 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 truly 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 sneakers of, say, the president of Columbia, the top of Paul Weiss. And I believe, properly, if I compromise with Trump, I’m hurting my establishment. But when I lose $400 million, I’m additionally hurting my establishment. These are actual decisions that individuals should make. And I perceive that.
Within the case of Columbia [University], I personally suppose the Trump requests or calls for, no matter it’s, are type of cheap, and Columbia ought to have executed all these things 5 or 10 years in the past. They actually did get ideologically uncontrolled. And in the event that they’re publicly funded, partially publicly funded, then you definately’ve acquired an issue. And so they created this downside. So I perceive why. I acquired to save lots of my college. I acquired to save lots of $400 million.
Alternatively, caving into an extortionist hardly ever pays off as a result of he’ll say, ‘Oh, I take that. Right here’s my subsequent demand, right here’s my subsequent demand.’ And in the event you take 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 likely be a time — and, once more, I don’t suppose that is fairly the time to kind of beat down the Trump administration. There will likely be a time the place all people has to carry collectively and get up 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 ‘variety’ on PBS is all about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and race, not political ideology. PBS’s panel of Capehart and Brooks, touted as providing perspective from the left and proper, doesn’t (Brooks agrees with the liberal Capehart 61% of the time per a Media Analysis Heart evaluation). Certainly, they commonly discover commonality to denouncing President Trump. A lot for PBS viewers listening to a lot of something that challenges their liberal world view and disgust for all issues Trump.”
Ranking: 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 contains 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 get together for dropping the ball in attacking Trump, which the panel clearly felt was so as when the president displayed Teslas on the White Home.
“Surprising,” they agreed, that Democrats didn’t work up a fast advert blasting Staff Trump for basically doing what former President Joe Biden did when he featured American-made autos on the South Garden throughout a White Home occasion.
“One other missed alternative,” stated 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 hanging moments of this week was the second the place President Trump principally had a automobile present on the White Home. Teslas on show with Elon Musk. It comes as, after all, Tesla’s gross sales have been dropping. Elon Musk’s approval scores, a lot decrease than President Trump’s, by the best way. The optics of this, Anna, is it sophisticated for the White Home?
ANNA PALMER, Punchbowl Information: Effectively, it’s superb that they’re doubling down on Elon Musk, as a result of, to Cornell’s level, that is the opening for Democrats. They’re already beginning to run adverts that includes Elon Musk because the boogeyman. This provides them the B-roll and the visuals that it’s worthwhile to say that the White Home is, you realize, type of mixing enterprise with the work of the federal government.
…..
POLLSTER CORNELL BELCHER: And the concept what Biden did on the White Home is much like Trump principally being a salesman and hawking the Teslas on the entrance garden of the White Home is totally completely different. The advert writes itself.
MSNBC’s EUGENE DANIELS: However Democrats aren’t doing it. Instantly, the subsequent day, there ought to’ve been simply, that advert, simply exhibiting it time and again.
WELKER: You’re saying one other missed alternative for Democrats. Surprising!
DANIELS: One other missed alternative to get on the identical —
BELCHER, DANIELS: Surprising that the Democrats are unhealthy on messaging!
DANIELS: However I imply, you realize, like, while you speak to them behind the scenes, they clarify the Elon of all of it in a a lot better approach 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 truly perceive, however they, once more, proceed to overlook a possibility to truly try 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 tips on how to extra successfully undermine a Democrat? In fact not.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ March 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Sunny Hostin tells Democrats struggle or ‘folks will die’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the return of certainly 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 stated the Democrats within the chamber ought to have joined him in rudely protesting Trump and stormed out in assist.
Whereas just about each different Democrat within the media is asking for a extra level-headed method to Trump, she went within the different path, claiming and not using a shred of proof that Trump’s insurance policies will kill folks.
Because of this, 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 a listing 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 tips on how to struggle and be a part of an opposition get together. Consultant Inexperienced gave them the instance. The Democrats are usually not assembly the second. It is extremely clear that Medicaid is on the desk. It is extremely clear that Social Safety is on the desk. It is extremely clear that individuals will die. The child boomers, the civil rights technology, they knew what they needed to do! They have been keen to struggle and die for his or her rights. This technology of Congress, they don’t seem to be assembly the second. That is an existential disaster!
BEHAR: And likewise, I’d level out a few of them are from essentially the most liberal states like New York, Hawaii, California.
HOSTIN: They need to be ashamed of themselves! They need to have all walked out with him!
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “ABC Information must be embarrassed by the every day left-wing drivel on The View. Even many Democrats have been ashamed by Inexperienced’s antics, which went far past what any Republican has ever executed throughout a presidential speech to Congress. A lot for contending it’s Trump who has lessened decorum. Hostin is advocating extra coarseness in politics. And ABC Information is sanctioning it.”
Ranking: FIVE out of 5 screams.
■ March 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS twists Trump press pool variety 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 a substitute of cheering the enlargement of media allowed into the White Home press pool, PBS declared it a “sinister” transfer to censor the press.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the outlet’s twisted view of White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s 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 previous 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 workforce omitted as a result of the information service received’t acknowledge the president’s government order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, as the federal government has.
In our instance, PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz known as the White Home transfer an assault on the press, prompting contributor and Washington 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 cellphone data from AP or others in his dragnet for leakers.
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
AMNA NAWAZ: His continued assaults on the press, blocking the AP’s entry from some White Home protection as properly. You noticed him take management of the White Home, take management of the press pool that covers the president full time, makes positive everybody else is aware of what’s taking place with the president. Peter Baker, after all, longtime Russia correspondent, stated 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 rather more sinister territory now.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do suppose we’re in additional sinister territory since you’ve acquired to have a look at what’s taking place with AP, in gentle of his lawsuits in opposition to CBS, in opposition to 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 appears 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 if nothing he has executed has blocked the general public from full entry. It’s hardly ‘sinister’ simply because the White Home is permitting a extra ideological various group of shops to get entry as an alternative of only a few privileged and entitled journalists.”
Ranking: 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 reveals this technology’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 12 months on the marketing campaign path to empty the swamp as a constitutional disaster.
“Greater than a half-century in the past,” stated 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 fundamental 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 stated, 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 in opposition to a few of the Trump administration’s flurry of government orders, there are those that ask: What would occur if the White Home defies the courts and easily strikes forward with its plans? We’ve requested our Robert Costa to make some inquiries.
ROGER MUDD, CBS ANCHOR, NOV. 4, 1973: Regardless of his powers as chief government, his future is actually 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 america demanded that the lawyer normal fireplace 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 will 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 government energy.
U.S. REP. SEAN CASTEN (D-ILL): The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they’re unlawful.
COSTA: And a few 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 1000’s of federal workers and indicators piles of government 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 understand 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 dearth of any actual substance to the fearmongering.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ February 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Scott Pelley, now TV’s prime Trump hater
(Washington Examiner submit)
He has a variety of competitors within the media, however few have as large 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} aside from loyalty to Trump.”
Nevertheless, aside from gnawing down his studying glasses, Pelley had no influence. All of Trump’s picks to get a Senate flooring vote received.
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 influence 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 received once more this week. What’s extra, Media Analysis Heart Vice President Brent Baker gave Pelley’s rant a rating of 5 out of 5 screams. That may be a uncommon prime rating, however one we anticipate to see extra of because the liberal media turns up the warmth on Trump because it loses its affect on him and his White Home.
From the lead story on Sunday’s 60 Minutes:
SCOTT PELLEY: It’s too quickly to inform how critical President Trump is in defiance of the Structure. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some — a proper assured by the 14th Modification. And he has closed businesses and frozen spending that Congress mandated by legislation. Decrease courts are holding up most of the president’s priorities, however nothing has risen to the Supreme Court docket, the place these battles over presidential energy might rewrite historical past. Presidents typically push limits — FDR’s New Deal, for instance — and voters on this final election 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: Persons are actually scared. I believe that you realize, 12 days in the past, folks knew the place their subsequent paycheck was coming from. They knew how they have been going to pay for his or her children’ 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 support distributed by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement, USAID. Greater than 8,000 USAID workers have been despatched residence by the administration.
ADAM DUBARD: They’re not in search of competency. They’re not in search of — in the event you’re good at your job. They’re in search of pure loyalty exams, and in the event you 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 can be meant within the Structure.
PELLEY: Republican Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID, spoke to us in Washington, partially 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. However it 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. However it’s actually regarding to me what’s happening on this metropolis proper now.
PELLEY: Is the constitutional order breaking down?
NATSIOS: We’ll see in the event that they refuse to implement a court docket order by the Supreme Court docket. If it will get to the Supreme Court docket and the Supreme Court docket guidelines in opposition to the administration on one thing they usually refuse to implement it, then we could have a constitutional disaster.
PELLEY: What occurs then?
NATSIOS: Effectively, I don’t know.
PELLEY: Nobody is aware of.
NATSIOS: Nobody is aware of.
Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow, defined our decide: “One other hit to no matter remnants are left of 60 Minutes as some kind of dispassionate information journal which presents a good and balanced take a look at sophisticated points. Pelley not solely matched the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the left, he doubled down on it, presuming absolutely the worst motives behind President Trump whereas taking low-cost ideological pictures at Elon Musk. That is Exhibit A in why federal spending has by no means been minimize because the finish of World Battle II: The media go to struggle to discredit anybody who takes on the spending behemoth.”
Ranking: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ February 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS airs excessive TDS, ‘hunger,’ ‘demise’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains 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 workforce closed and shifted spending authority to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a reporter for Nationwide Public Radio warned to others nodding sure that the influence will likely be “poverty and elevated hunger.”
Then an Atlantic reporter, previously with the Washington Publish, stated on the tax-subsidized PBS present Washington Week with The Atlantic that reducing by Trump and Musk of the federal world support slush fund would result in “cruelty and demise.”
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 basically take people who find themselves already within the depths of poverty and, you realize, enhance hunger charges, or enhance starvation charges, which is probably going what’s going to occur if USAID is solely minimize off.”…
ANNE APPLEBAUM, THE ATLANTIC: It’s a take a look at case for can businesses simply be abolished with out Congress having any say, however it’s additionally a take a look at case of cruelty. You understand, are Individuals keen to just accept a excessive stage of cruelty and demise simply, you realize, 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 attempting to discredit any discount in federal spending. As a substitute of a rational evaluation of efforts to trim spending, the 2 show they’re within the tank for the deep state, presuming hunger and demise will consequence. And so they marvel why so many don’t see them as critical sources of details.”
Ranking: 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 contains a SiriusXM host demanding on left-leaning MSNBC that Democrats vote to question Trump weekly.
“I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week,” stated Inform Me The whole lot host John Fugelsang on MSNBC’s The eleventh Hour final Friday.
“Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural handle,” he stated.
“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 file present for historical past we’re preventing in opposition to 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 received workplace once more in opposition to any person who voted for impeachment twice, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
From Friday’s The eleventh Hour With Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, choosing 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 understand, Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural handle for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has acquired 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 loads about schooling and healthcare. I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week.
When the GOP was attempting to repeal Obamacare 70 occasions, we laughed at them. However what they have been doing of their impoverished state was consolidating the bottom, fundraising, and getting their messaging throughout. It labored for them.
I 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 file present for historical past we’re preventing in opposition to 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 provide voters what they voted for in electing him. MSNBC thinks it’s a reputable and credible place to contend Trump had earned impeachment lower than an hour previous midday on Inauguration Day — properly earlier than he had signed a single government order. A lot for reflection and critical evaluation from the press corps. However it’s what Democrats and so many journalists love to do given this is able to be the third try and impeach him. Will they go zero-for-three?”
Ranking: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ January 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Vance colleges CBS and bishops on unlawful immigration
(Washington Examiner submit)
America is studying fairly rapidly that Vice President JD Vance is not any pushover simply cornered on powerful points.
In our newest Liberal Media Scream, we function Vance’s retort to Catholic bishops and CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan over complaints that the Trump administration is being imply in its effort to deport prison unlawful migrants.
Showing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded 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 children to high school.” 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 stated, “As a training Catholic, I used to be truly heartbroken by that assertion. I believe that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to truly look within the mirror slightly 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’s going to be a tricky 4 years for liberals within the media, equivalent to Brennan, since Staff Trump is prepared and keen 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 just campaigned on rather a lot, and there was a flurry of exercise on. And that has to do with immigration. The U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops this week condemned a few of the government orders signed by President Trump, particularly these permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter church buildings and to enter colleges. Do you personally assist the concept of conducting a raid or enforcement motion in a church service, at a college?
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Effectively, let me handle this. In fact, when you have an individual who’s convicted of a violent crime, whether or not they’re an unlawful immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, it’s a must 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 difficulty, Margaret, as a result of, as a training Catholic, I used to be truly heartbroken by that assertion. And I believe that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to truly look within the mirror slightly 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 try 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 have been brutally murdered. I assist us doing legislation enforcement in opposition to violent criminals, whether or not they’re unlawful immigrants or anyone else, in a approach that retains us protected. Let me ask this query, Margaret. Separate the immigration difficulty. If you happen to had a violent assassin in a college, 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 in all places to guard Individuals.
BRENNAN: However that additionally has a knock-on impact, a chilling impact, arguably, to folks to not ship their children to high school.
VANCE: I desperately hope it has a chilling impact —
BRENNAN: Within the church buildings …
VANCE: — on unlawful immigrants coming into our nation.
BRENNAN: You suppose the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals from legislation enforcement?
VANCE: I believe the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been 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 considering she had the ethical excessive floor and details on her facet, presuming it could be straightforward to point out how badly misguided are so many Trump insurance policies. However she bumped into JD Vance, who delivered a grasp class in tips on how to tackle and undermine the premises of the Washington press corps.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ January 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks as much as Biden to the top: ‘Did ship’
(Washington Examiner submit)
Our last Biden-era Liberal Media Scream finds CBS Information kissing as much as President Joe Biden to the top, brushing apart all of the polls and its personal reporting to declare he was efficient.
“In some ways,” CBS chief White Home correspondent Nancy Cordes stated, “he did ship.”
The media have resisted reporting on Biden’s psychological and bodily failings over his 4 unpopular years in workplace. And even on his final weekend in workplace, shops equivalent to CBS went out of their solution to prop up a president who polls as certainly 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 file 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 in opposition to Russia.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The responsibility of a president is to defend what’s finest about America.
CORDES: He did so whereas racking up main legislative victories, together with large new investments in clear vitality and semiconductor manufacturing.
BIDEN: I imagine, to my core, there isn’t a single factor this nation can’t do once 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: “Happening with the ship, CBS and Cordes are nonetheless attempting to persuade those who regardless of the rejection of his presidency and his insurance policies by the voters, Joe Biden actually was an awesome president who delivered laudable accomplishments. The media and Biden do share at the least one factor in frequent: Within the eyes of a lot of the general public, they’re each losers.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ January 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will ceaselessly be a ‘convicted felon’
(Washington Examiner 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 every week from at the moment.
No shock, however biased liberal PBS “analyst” Jonathan Capehart isn’t simply readying his anti-Trump speak for Inauguration Day. He’s already trying to pour on the hate in each Trump story.
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Capehart, who additionally hosts a poorly-rated MSNBC present, took enjoyment of predicting that after being sentenced final week in a much-mocked authorized case, Trump will ceaselessly be 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 at the moment, the place the choose stated, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, however you’re a convicted felon. And so for the remainder of his life, any story written about him should point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, positively by the second reference.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
GEOFF BENNETT: However after, you realize, being convicted of 34 felonies, there are individuals who take a look at this case, they usually say that Donald Trump walks away with a punishment that’s lower than what one would obtain for a dashing ticket.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Look, this case, this hush cash case, was the case that everyone stated was the crappy case of the 4. Keep in mind, Donald Trump was indicted 4 occasions, and this one was the least essential, the shakiest.
And but it’s the one case the place Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case the place he was delivered to trial earlier than a jury of his friends in his hometown of New York Metropolis and was discovered responsible 34 occasions. I believe that’s nice punishment.
What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing at the moment, the place the choose stated, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, however you’re a convicted felon. And so, for the remainder of his life, any story written about him should point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, positively by the second reference.
And that’s becoming, that’s proper, that’s simply. Do I want the opposite three instances had gone to trial and that he had confronted accountability on these? Sure, however this may do.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Speak about petty immaturity. Capehart’s response to the choose’s sentence on Trump bared how a lot of the press corps’ hostility to Trump was at all times fueled by private animosity as a lot as by disgust with conservative insurance policies. So a smug Capehart will get pleasure from a court docket giving him the okay to use a derogatory label to the incoming president.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.
■ January 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC the only #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 apparent is that she claims that it’s incoming President-elect Donald Trump who suffers mind fog.
Showing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Sanders-Townsend’s protection of the president who dropped out of his reelection marketing campaign after his mind locked throughout a debate with Trump got here simply hours earlier than his weird cursing rant about immigrants following a White Home ceremony.
“The query on the desk is, ‘Is the president all they approach there?’ And the reply is unequivocally sure,” Sanders-Townsend stated on the present. The MSNBC host, in reality, charged it’s Trump whose psychological capacities must be questioned. Biden “can at the 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: Effectively, I used to be very stunned that while you requested the query about psychological acuity he didn’t extra forcefully push again. The query on the desk is, “Is the president all the best way there?” And the reply is unequivocally sure. Now, folks can say that you just really feel as if President Biden may be slightly too previous to do the job, however he’s doing the job. And his psychological acuity is there. So, I believe that there’s a conflation of two issues right here: his psychological capability and serving one other 4 years as previous as he’s. However these are two separate issues in my view. And, look, these those who have recognized Joe Biden their whole political lives, I do know Joe Biden is like, “Are you able to all simply please defend me slightly 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: However it’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 least put a sentence collectively. The president-elect is the one I’m involved about as a result of I just lately talked to the president.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, explains our decide: “Sanders is a final holdout, a real silly believer. Nearly all of her colleagues, even those that pretended for years that Biden was high quality, began to acknowledge, as quickly as Biden was not the Democratic candidate for reelection, that he’s not all there. However not Sanders. She’s nonetheless within the tank and embarrassing herself, particularly when suggesting it’s Trump who has the psychological shortcomings.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
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