Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as every week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every decide, normally posted on-line on Monday, I present a proof and advocate a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).
This submit incorporates the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2023.
> For 2021 and 2022, for all of 2020. For all of 2019. For all of 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:
> July-December 2017 posts; January by means of June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 by means of the tip of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by means of June 11, 2013.)
Examine Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the newest selection 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 2: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough again to attacking Trump
See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s web site 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.
■ November 25: Liberal Media Scream: Axios founder rants ‘Elon Musk is bulls**it’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the co-founder of Axios ranting about billionaire Elon Musk and his feedback on X about being a part of the information media.
“Being a reporter’s exhausting,” mentioned Jim VandeHei. “Elon Musk sits on Twitter daily, or X right now, saying, like, ‘we’re the media, you’re the media.’ My message to Elon Musk is: Bulls**t. You’re not the media. You having a blue test mark, a Twitter deal with, and 300 phrases of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter.”
VandeHei’s feedback got here after he accepted the Nationwide Press Membership’s Fourth Property Award. Musk has been on X from Mar-a-Lago zinging the media as he prepares to go the Trump-created Division of Authorities Effectivity.
The billionaire’s feedback irked many within the media, particularly since he owns X, and VandeHei confirmed that he’s a type of miffed with Musk.
The feedback had been proven on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, which dubbed them “very highly effective.”
Jim Vandehei on the Fourth Property Award Gala held Thursday on the Nationwide Press Membership, as performed Monday on Morning Joe:
JIM VANDEHEI: I hate this rattling debate about, oh, “we don’t want the media.” It isn’t true … There’s one thing about freedom, capitalism, the animal spirits of democracy, however on the core of that’s possibly transparency, possibly a free press, possibly the flexibility to do your job with out worrying to go to jail, possibly the flexibility to take a seat in a battle zone and inform individuals what is definitely occurring in order that they’re not simply taking a look at distortion, issues.
It issues profoundly. It’s why, it’s not like we simply love getting up at 3:00, 4:00 within the morning, doing this each single day, we do it as a result of we find it irresistible. We do it as a result of it issues. The work that we do issues. All the things we do is underneath hearth.
Elon Musk sits on Twitter daily, or X right now, saying like, “We’re the media, you’re the media.” My message to Elon Musk is: Bulls**t. You’re not the media. You having – [applause] you having a blue test mark, a Twitter deal with, and 300 phrases of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter any greater than me taking a look at your head and seeing that you’ve a mind and telling you may have an superior set of instruments makes me a rattling neurosurgeon.
Proper? Like what we do, what journalists do, what you probably did in Mississippi, what Al Jazeera does within the Center East, you don’t proclaim your self to be a reporter. Like, that’s nonsense. Like being a reporter’s exhausting. Actually exhausting. It’s important to care. It’s important to do the exhausting work. It’s important to stand up each single day and say I need to get to the closest approximation of the reality with none concern, with none favoritism. You don’t do this by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do this by having an opinion. You do it by doing the exhausting work.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. Come on, sluggish clap, all people. To begin with, I received to say, extraordinary content material. It wanted to be mentioned. It continues to must be mentioned when the entire rubbish that’s flying round on social media, mendacity about reporters, mendacity concerning the exhausting work they do, mendacity concerning the exhausting work editors do, mendacity about the whole lot up and down about not solely their various set of details however various set of details about what individuals such as you do. And I really like the way you related reporters in Mississippi within the Sixties to reporters preventing for his or her life to get the story out within the Center East right now. Jim, it was very highly effective.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Actually good.
SCARBOROUGH: Very highly effective.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, defined our decide: “Vanity mixed with obliviousness. Within the face of report low belief within the media, as a substitute of some introspection about why the media have misplaced the general public’s belief, VandeHei determined to as a substitute lash out on the competitors, a platform which wouldn’t have such relevance if the legacy media weren’t so discredited. It’s as if Ford responded to exploding Pintos by denouncing the gasoline mileage claims made by GM.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
■ November 18: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Raddatz exhibits why it’s time to boycott networks
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one instance of the media lunacy that has adopted the sweeping electoral and widespread vote for President-elect Donald Trump regardless of years of warnings and smears from the resistance media.
Whereas most within the Democratic Occasion are licking their wounds and making an attempt to determine how they did so poorly towards Trump and why they picked the worst candidate round in Vice President Kamala Harris, many liberal TV anchors are nonetheless affected by “Trump derangement syndrome.”
Sunday confirmed all of them nonetheless at work. On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley opened with a rant towards Trump’s Cupboard picks. And he was preceded by the frenzied Sunday public affairs exhibits making an attempt to persuade the nation that the president-elect was unfit for responsibility.
On Monday, two of these with the worst case of TDS, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, all however admitted their preelection anti-Trump hype on their MSNBC present Morning Joe was a lie once they revealed that they traveled to Mar-a-Lago final week to interrupt bread with Trump.
The worst instance of the ranting rage on community TV got here from ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who opened Sunday’s This Week with a cost that Trump’s picks had been “retribution” for many who have wronged him. “The retribution begins,” she declared.
From the highest of Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
MARTHA RADDATZ: The retribution begins.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT: We’re going to wash out the corrupt, damaged, and failing bureaucracies.
RADDATZ: The president-elect sparking alarm with controversial Cupboard nominees, together with a firebrand Fox TV host to guide the Division of Protection.
PETE HEGSETH, DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE: I’m straight up simply saying, we must always not have girls in fight roles.
RADDATZ: Famous vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for well being and human providers secretary.
TRUMP: He needs to make individuals wholesome. It’s pushed him fairly wild during the last variety of years.
RADDATZ: And ardent Trump loyalist, now former congressman, Matt Gaetz, to run the Justice Division.
SEN. KEVIN CRAMER (R-ND): He’s received a very steep hill to climb to get numerous votes, together with mine.
RADDATZ: Democratic Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin responds to the nominations. Plus, former CDC Director Richard Besser, former prosecutor Preet Bharara, and evaluation from our powerhouse roundtable. Plus:
JOE DEL BOSQUE, CALIFORNIA FARMER: We pay a number of the highest wages for farm staff within the nation proper right here in California, they usually gained’t come out.
RADDATZ: We traveled to California farmland to see what Trump’s large deportation plans might imply for farmers and the nation’s meals provide. Texas Republican Tony Gonzales joins us for response.
ANNOUNCER: From ABC Information, it’s This Week. Right here now, Martha Raddatz.
RADDATZ: Good morning, and welcome to This Week. Donald Trump is losing no time naming the crew he needs round him in a second time period. In rapid-fire trend, he introduced a collection of nominees this week to fill the White Home and lead key Cupboard departments. Lots of them had been proper by Trump’s aspect final night time to attend a UFC struggle at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. Amongst them, controversial picks just like the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who will lead a brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity, an amorphous position geared toward slashing federal spending.
Whereas that transfer raised a whole lot of intrigue, different picks have raised eyebrows to say the least, and a few, outright opposition.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vice chairman for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Heart, explains our decide: “Lower than two weeks after the MAGA agenda gained an electoral mandate and confirmed how the legacy media have misplaced their affect, Raddatz remains to be residing in a preelection world. As an alternative of explaining to her viewers what the enchantment of Trump’s picks might be, or presenting a balanced take with matching reward and criticism for them, she didn’t even attempt to disguise her disdain for them. And Disney wonders why they’re shedding viewers.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
■ November 12: Liberal Media Scream: How dare Trump make calls for on Senate, CNN whines
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN struggling to seek out new methods to assault President-elect Donald Trump.
This time, it’s Trump’s stress on the Senate to OK his Cupboard picks, that are coming quick and livid, with out the conventional affirmation steps.
At CNN, they mentioned it’s simply Trump “once more bucking norms.”
From Sunday’s CNN:
ALAYNA TREENE: [President-elect Donald Trump] mentioned, quote: “Republican senators in search of the coveted management place in the US Senate should comply with recess appointments within the Senate, with out which, we will be unable to get individuals confirmed in a well timed method.”
The submit goes on to explain different issues. However I need to clarify why that is so essential. Basically, Donald Trump is asking for the shattering of norms. Now what this implies, a recess appointment, I do know this seems like we’re getting within the weeds a bit with the Hill lingo. However recesses are usually averted in Congress. Usually, once they really go on break, they do one thing referred to as a professional forma session. A part of that’s as a result of if you happen to go to a recess, you really need to have a vote within the Home and the Senate, and Democrats, on this case, giving Republicans management of the Senate come subsequent yr, would be capable of filibuster.
However primarily, to get right down to it, to essentially boil right down to what this is able to imply, is that Donald Trump is looking for a means and use whoever the following Senate chief — Republican chief — is to attempt to keep away from the affirmation course of for his high Cupboard officers. And I remind you, a whole lot of occasions when totally different presidential candidates or individuals want to make these hires and to nominate totally different individuals to those totally different Cupboard roles, a key factor that’s all the time on the high of their minds is whether or not or not this particular person can get confirmed within the Senate, if they’ve a controversial background, if they’re extra conservative, on this case, in the event that they had been Democrats, they’d be possibly too liberal. However actually, the Senate is form of the final line of protection of who the president might put into workplace with him.
And so this is able to be an enormous change. And I will even argue that actually this course of that Congress has now about avoiding recess appointments of their entirety began again with George W. Bush and has continued since then underneath the totally different presidents with Obama and Trump and now Biden. And so, this once more can be an enormous break from the norms that we at the moment have. Fred.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: And once more, bucking norms.
Jorge Bonilla, a information analyst at NewsBusters, defined our weekly decide: “The Biden administration shattered many norms, whether or not it was the weaponization of state and federal governments towards President-elect Donald Trump, the suppression of President Joe Biden’s bodily and psychological decline, or the federal government’s cooking of all types of information. Any considered one of these incidents occurring underneath a Trump administration would’ve garnered wall-to-wall ‘shattered norms’ protection. Quite the opposite, the Biden parade of horribles drew nary a peep. Now, the media go nuts about norms the second a just-reelected Trump talks about staffing his administration by way of recess appointments.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ November 4: Liberal Media Scream: Gaslighting Politico calls Obama, Harris, and Biden ‘centrists’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the declare by Politico that Democratic leaders thought of essentially the most liberal in historical past are “centrists.”
In gaslighting voters, the outlet’s White Home correspondent Eugene Daniels mentioned President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, and Vice President Kamala Harris aren’t liberals. Ditto for the Democratic Occasion and the get together’s “base” of black voters, he added.
“What it reminds us is that the Democratic Occasion continues to be a extra centrist get together, proper? Whenever you have a look at Obama, who, regardless of what individuals thought, form of operated as a centrist, Biden, centrist, Kamala Harris, a centrist,” Daniels mentioned on PBS.
Daniels from Friday’s Washington Week with the Atlantic:
“What it reminds us is that the Democratic Occasion continues to be a extra centrist get together, proper? Whenever you have a look at Obama, who, regardless of what individuals thought, form of operated as a centrist, Biden, centrist, Kamala Harris, a centrist. The bottom of the Democratic Occasion continues to be black voters. They’re nonetheless extra centrist and extra pragmatic versus ideological. And so the takeover of the Democratic Occasion, because the Republican Occasion has came upon, it hasn’t occurred on the Democratic Occasion, the identical with the Left.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “The get together of letting highschool boys play on women sports activities groups and operating an open border is ‘centrist’? Daniels must convey just a little extra skepticism to his journalism. Simply because a politician spins themselves as ‘centrist’ doesn’t make them one. Kamala Harris has a protracted report of far-left coverage views that haven’t disappeared simply because she shouldn’t be touting them on this yr’s marketing campaign.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.
■ October 28: Liberal Media Scream: CBS’s Brennan frets Cheney’s security if Trump wins
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the Face the Nation host elevating considerations {that a} Trump election will result in violence towards former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney for endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in her yearlong marketing campaign to cease former President Donald Trump’s comeback.
Although it’s Trump who has been the goal of two assassination makes an attempt, CBS’s Margaret Brennan requested Cheney on her present on Sunday, “Given how outspoken you may have been, are you involved about your private safety if Donald Trump wins this election, as he properly could do?”
Fed the softball pitch, Cheney hit it exhausting: “Trump has ushered violence into our politics in a means that we haven’t seen earlier than.”
It was simply the newest instance of the anti-Trump bias community TV has wallowed on this election yr. Earlier on Monday, the Media Analysis Heart, which helps with this weekly characteristic, issued a report that confirmed a historic stage of bias by CBS, ABC, and NBC.
From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: Given how outspoken you may have been, are you involved about your private safety if Donald Trump wins this election, as he properly could do?
LIZ CHENEY: Look, to begin with, I’m very assured that Vice President Harris goes to win this election. It’s what we’re seeing all throughout the nation, the form of completely unprecedented coalition that’s coming collectively to help her, you already know, we’re going to run by means of the tape, and no one is overconfident right here, however I do consider she’s going to be the following president of the US.
And I believe that Donald Trump has ushered violence into our politics in a means that we haven’t seen earlier than. And any violence is unacceptable. Definitely, the assassination try on the previous president was fully unacceptable and clearly ought to by no means have occurred. However when you may have a state of affairs the place, you already know, Donald Trump means that individuals who disagree with him should be put earlier than navy tribunals, that the previous chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers ought to be hanged for treason, and his operating mate doubles down on it, that tells you that you simply’re coping with a person who doesn’t have any conscience, and the individuals who labored most carefully with him know that. So, I’m assured that he’s going to be defeated subsequent week.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “The fact of political violence on this yr’s marketing campaign got here from the Left and opponents of Trump, not from him. Brennan appeared to have her personal political agenda to attempt to generate a solution which might show another excuse to vote for Harris: {that a} Trump win would bodily endanger his critics. However not even Cheney, a Trump-hater, would go that far to presume Trump’s supporters are a bunch of violent fanatics who have to be feared.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ October 21: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Swamp’ journalists admit cluelessness on Trump and MAGA
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options three of Washington’s outstanding political correspondents lastly admitting simply how clueless they’re about former President Donald Trump, whom at the least half the nation sees as one of many best politicians to grasp — and like.
We characteristic the puzzlement of Washington Publish journalists Max Boot and Jonathan Capehart and the Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich as they mull Trump’s comeback.
“How can we have now tens of hundreds of thousands of our fellow residents suppose it’s OK to elect this delusional maniac as president of the US? I, you already know, I simply don’t get it,” Boot advised Capehart, who whined, “It’s baffling to me as properly.”
Mark Leibovich on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday:
“I believe the bigger stain on our historical past that we’re residing by means of proper now’s Trump clearly and what he has stood for and what he has gotten away with.”
“The concept that Donald Trump has operated inside a permission construction of considered one of our two main events to a degree the place there’s only a consequence-free surroundings for him to function in is without doubt one of the most appalling, I believe, takeaways from this period. Clearly, one which portends very, very ominously in case he wins as a result of there’s not going to be a test and stability from his personal get together. They’ll function from a platform the place he can do no matter he needs. However, primarily, I imply, these are individuals who I believe will, hopefully, you already know, reside underneath a really, very damning verdict of historical past.”
Max Boot throughout Friday’s “First Look” present for Washington Publish Reside
“To me, what’s dismaying shouldn’t be that Trump is denying actuality, that he’s depicting the rioters and insurrectionists of Jan. 6 as individuals engaged in a day of affection. It’s not that Trump is denying the outcomes of the 2020 election, as is his operating mate, J.D. Vance. All of that we’ve come to count on by now.
“What’s dismaying to me, Jonathan, is that regardless of all of this, Trump could be very near profitable the presidency once more. It’s principally a coin-flip election. We don’t know the way it’s going to go, however merely the truth that it’s as shut as it’s proper now’s, to me, a horrible commentary on America and a really dismaying, very dismaying augury of our future, that so many People appear to be so OK with this. I imply, how is that this? How can we have now tens of hundreds of thousands of our fellow residents suppose it’s OK to elect this delusional maniac as president of the US? I, you already know, I simply don’t get it.”
Jonathan Capehart: “Yeah, it’s baffling to me as properly.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “What’s ‘dismaying,’ ‘appalling,’ and a ‘horrible commentary’ on the state of American journalism is that two veteran journalists with main media establishments have such disdain for half of their fellow residents. It additionally portends a harmful response from the media if Trump does certainly win. As an alternative of dispassionately reporting on how and why he gained, they’ll be condemning as a ‘stain’ on the nation those that voted for him.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
■ October 14: Liberal Media Scream: Vance and Johnson hit media TDS nitpickers
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the escalation of media whining and excuse-making for the issues Vice President Kamala Harris is encountering in her wobbly bid to grow to be president.
We characteristic MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, who nervous on Meet the Press about black and white males and companies favoring former President Donald Trump, although she expressed no related considerations about girls favoring Harris within the gender hole.
In a single phase, she suggested Harris to do extra interviews to win over extra males, although the vice chairman’s latest media blitz has introduced principally damaging evaluations. And she or he mentioned Harris must push again on companies’ view of her as a light-weight.
“I believe there’s misogynation in all of this, black and white males, huge downside. But in addition, the enterprise world, they don’t suppose she is severe,” Mitchell mentioned.
Mitchell’s feedback got here throughout a dialogue on NBC’s Meet the Press about how Harris must do extra media interviews to let individuals learn about her financial insurance policies:
“They’ve received to double down on doing extra interviews and severe interviews as a result of what I’m listening to from Democratic and Republican businesspeople and a whole lot of males — and she or he’s received such a giant downside with males. I believe there’s an undercount of the Trump vote. I believe there’s misogynation in all of this, black and white males, huge downside. But in addition, the enterprise world, they don’t suppose she is severe. They don’t suppose she’s a heavyweight. And a whole lot of that is gender, however she’s received to be extra particular about her financial plans.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “After all, Andrea Mitchell attributes the worst of motives, misogyny, for why males favor Trump over Harris however expresses no concern for why girls again Harris over Trump. Similar to a partisan Democrat would see the world. Which is what the NBC Information journalist is.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams.
■ October 7: Liberal Media Scream: Andrea Mitchell whines males and enterprise supporting Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the escalation of media whining and excuse-making for the issues Vice President Kamala Harris is encountering in her wobbly bid to grow to be president.
We characteristic MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, who nervous on Meet the Press about black and white males and companies favoring former President Donald Trump, although she expressed no related considerations about girls favoring Harris within the gender hole.
In a single phase, she suggested Harris to do extra interviews to win over extra males, although the vice chairman’s latest media blitz has introduced principally damaging evaluations. And she or he mentioned Harris must push again on companies’ view of her as a light-weight.
“I believe there’s misogynation in all of this, black and white males, huge downside. But in addition, the enterprise world, they don’t suppose she is severe,” Mitchell mentioned.
Mitchell’s feedback got here throughout a dialogue on NBC’s Meet the Press about how Harris must do extra media interviews to let individuals learn about her financial insurance policies:
“They’ve received to double down on doing extra interviews and severe interviews as a result of what I’m listening to from Democratic and Republican businesspeople and a whole lot of males — and she or he’s received such a giant downside with males. I believe there’s an undercount of the Trump vote. I believe there’s misogynation in all of this, black and white males, huge downside. But in addition, the enterprise world, they don’t suppose she is severe. They don’t suppose she’s a heavyweight. And a whole lot of that is gender, however she’s received to be extra particular about her financial plans.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “After all, Andrea Mitchell attributes the worst of motives, misogyny, for why males favor Trump over Harris however expresses no concern for why girls again Harris over Trump. Similar to a partisan Democrat would see the world. Which is what the NBC Information journalist is.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams
■ September 30: Liberal Media Scream: Latinos like Trump as a result of they ‘need to be white’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a key MSNBC Latina visitor who smeared her fellow Latinos with a racist anti-Trump rant on Sunday.
On The Sunday Present with Jonathan Capehart, NPR’s Maria Hinojosa ripped Latinos for abandoning the Democratic Occasion.
Reacting to a brand new NBC Information/Telemundo ballot that discovered Vice President Kamala Harris shedding help from Hispanic voters, Hinojosa mentioned, “Latinos need to be white. They need to be with the cool youngsters.” The 63-year-old Hispanic journalist apparently isn’t up with what’s cool on social media.
From The Sunday Present With Jonathan Capehart on Sunday:
JONATHAN CAPEHART: So she has a 14-point lead, nevertheless it has been shrinking after every consecutive presidential election from 2016. Why is that? Why is the Democratic share of the Latino vote shrinking?
MARIA HINOJOSA: And what I mentioned to you after we requested the query was, Latinos need to be white. They need to be with the cool youngsters. They need to be — I’m asking Latinos on a regular basis, they usually simply say, ‘Nicely … he’s such a very good businessman.’ It’s, like, no, he’s not. He had bankruptcies. However they don’t need to be recognized with all of these different immigrants that Donald Trump speaks so badly of, together with me, as a Mexican immigrant. In order that they’re, like, ‘We’d fairly, let’s be with him.’
However these numbers? They may value Kamala Harris the election. All the things that I’ve been saying that Latinos might push her excessive, these are the numbers that would additionally take her down.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “Hinojosa displays the very worst of identification politics. Vote just for liberal Democrats — or you’re a race traitor. The very fact a strong majority of Hispanics help Kamala Harris isn’t ok for Hinojosa. Each Latino who dares stray from the get together line have to be shunned as a result of such betrayal might value the Democrat the election.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams
■ September 23: Liberal Media Scream: PBS says Harris a ‘completely happy warrior’ able to ‘slap’ Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest PBS effort to painting Vice President Kamala Harris as a joyful and completely happy warrior taking up evil in difficult former President Donald Trump for the presidency.
On PBS NewsHour, MSNBC and Washington Publish lefty pundit Jonathan Capehart declared Harris as part of the “tradition” prepared to struggle Trump.
“She’s a part of what’s driving this tradition that I believe you mentioned will slap Donald Trump within the face. It’s slapping him within the face now,” Capehart mentioned, including, “She, in her complete profession, has been the completely happy warrior about serving to individuals and leaving apart the negativity. It simply occurs to hit on the proper particular person on the proper time.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour, choosing up after anchor Geoff Bennett cited David Brooks’s column, “How a Cultural Shift Favors Harris.”
GEOFF BENNETT: Jonathan, that phrase pleasure, Kamala Harris, Vice President Harris, when she sat down with the three reporters from the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists right now [actually on Tuesday], considered one of them requested her about how she views assaults on her joyful warrior strategy. And she or he defended it. And she or he mentioned individuals will attempt to generally use your finest asset towards you. What do you make of that and this notion that she’s benefitting from a cultural wave?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: I don’t suppose she’s benefitting from a cultural — sure, she is, and I learn your column, David. It’s not a lot that she’s driving — she’s — like see this wave coming and she or he’s driving. No, she is a part of the tradition. And that’s why I believe when she grew to become the highest of the ticket, everybody marveled at how rapidly the sunshine change flipped. That may — and it occurred so organically in a really dramatic trend.
That, to me, says you possibly can’t manufacture that. And she or he was in a position to do this as a result of she is the tradition. She is a part of the tradition. She’s a part of what’s driving this tradition that I believe you mentioned will slap Donald Trump within the face. It’s slapping him within the face now, which is why I believe he’s so discombobulated.
He doesn’t know the way to take care of her. I believe it’s why the polls are — the momentum is shifting in her course. And to your level about completely happy warrior, and David is true, that is the best way the vice chairman has all the time been, which type of reinforces what you’re saying. It’s not that she has met up with the tradition. She, in her complete profession, has been the completely happy warrior about serving to individuals and leaving apart the negativity.
It simply occurs to hit on the proper particular person, on the proper time.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “What a joke. Harris ‘is the tradition’ and has been the embodiment of ‘the completely happy warrior about serving to individuals’ for her ‘complete profession’? She alters her tradition and accent with each crowd she addresses. It have to be good to be a liberal Democrat, the place supposed journalists not solely endorse the glowingly upbeat imagery you need however rejoice it with none essential pondering over whether or not it’s phony after which market it as a real compelling life story.”
Ranking: 5 out of FIVE screams
■ September 15: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ September 9: Liberal Media Scream: Staff Harris calls US ‘extremely backwards’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a key Staff Harris supporter decrying America as “extremely backwards” for electing solely males as president.
Trump traitor Alyssa Farah Griffin, the “conservative” on The View, was discussing the controversy between her ex-boss, former President Donald Trump, and Vice President Kamala Harris on CNN’s State of the Union when she blasted America.
“We’re extremely backwards as a rustic that we’ve by no means had a feminine president,” she mentioned.
The remark clashed with one of many key themes of the Harris marketing campaign: criticizing Trump for claiming that America is in a shambles and spinning backward underneath the management of Harris and President Joe Biden.
From Sunday’s State of the Union:
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And the fact is, you shouldn’t underestimate Donald Trump. He has now performed extra presidential race — debates, I ought to say — than anybody in historical past, and he’s any person who got here up on tv. He’s a communicator. He’s any person who’s used to talking to a mass viewers. If he can keep targeted and he stays to the core points: financial system, border, it’s a very good night time for him. However we’ve additionally seen the world by which he shouts out the Proud Boys, or he talks about Hannibal Lecter, or he will get into identify calling. That might go towards him. To Kamala Harris, she must look presidential. We’re extremely backwards as a rustic that we’ve by no means had a feminine president. So, for lots of people seeing any person up there who’s a lady who may be our first feminine president, she wants to look commanding. She can not get too within the weeds on coverage. She wants to speak about it however can’t get sidetracked. Large image. How will you demonstrably make individuals’s lives higher? How will you flip the financial system round? If she will do this and never get rattled by Donald Trump, it’ll be a very good night time for her.
Jorge Bonilla, a information analyst with the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “One can very simply think about Griffin uttering this similar nonsensical sizzling tackle ABC’s The View, with nice care in order to not get yelled at by Sunny Hostin and earlier than no matter box-wine-fueled nonsense sputtered by Ana Navarro. Given when a significant get together first nominated a lady to the highest of the poll, Griffin is asking America ‘backwards’ for committing the sin of electing Donald Trump to the presidency — a presidency that she served. This Trump-deranged nonsense is what passes for ‘evaluation’ at CNN.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.
■ September 2: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ August 26: Liberal Media Scream: ‘CNN’ has grow to be amusing line
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options talker Invoice Maher mocking CNN and its hosts for viewing the lefty cable community as politically centrist, citing never-ending “gushing” over Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential nomination acceptance speech the night time earlier than.
“I watched from 8:09 to eight:23. There was simply gushing about how nice a speech it was,” the speak present host and comic advised CNN host Kaitlan Collins. He mentioned it wasn’t for quarter-hour till “Lonely Scott” Jennings, one of many few conservatives paid by CNN, received a phrase in.
“It was like 5-to-1. It all the time appears to be like like 5-to-1,” Maher mentioned of how CNN stacks liberals towards conservatives.
Collins, who every week in the past confronted laughter from Stephen Colbert’s viewers when he referred to as CNN truthful, tried to defend the community, however Maher wasn’t listening to it. “It’s, form of, like, the identical as The View. It’s like, it’s virtually higher to have no one there like MSNBC,” he dissed.
From Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO on Friday:
BILL MAHER: You made press since you had been on Stephen Colbert’s present, and he mentioned one thing such as you guys at CNN simply report the information straight, and the gang burst into laughter.
That tells you a large number, doesn’t it? How do you guys suppose you’re doing in that area of, like, it is a terribly divided nation. We’re not solely politicized, lots of people hate the opposite aspect. And CNN, for my part, ought to be the place the place each side can watch. How do you suppose you’re doing with that?
COLLINS: CNN is the place the place each side can watch. And I believe, you already know, my present is proof of that. We’ve got lawmakers on from each events.
MAHER: I’m speaking concerning the individuals on CNN, and I do know what the conservative aspect of America thinks, and I don’t blame them. I watched Kamala’s speech final night time. It ended at 8:09, or, I suppose, 11:09 within the East. It wasn’t till 11:23 ‘until the one conservative man, what’s his identify?
COLLINS: Scott Jennings.
MAHER: ‘Lonely Scott,’ I name him.
COLLINS: David City was there too.
MAHER: Wait a second. Wait a second. I watched from 8:09 to eight:23. There was simply gushing about how nice a speech it was — and I believe she did nice. I didn’t suppose it was nearly as good as they had been making it out to be, but when I’m a conservative in America, and I’m watching CNN, only for the straight middle-of-the-road, that’s what I hear for quarter-hour is “it’s nice” after which Lonely Scott. Whenever you see — it does appear to be tokenism. It’s, form of, like, the identical as The View, it’s like, it’s virtually higher to have no one there like MSNBC.
COLLINS: I believe it was a Democratic conference. They turned to Democrats, individuals like David Axelrod, who ran profitable presidential Democratic campaigns first, for his or her evaluation of this, and I don’t suppose that you would be able to say that CNN is something however truthful.
I imply, have a look at, we coated President Biden’s exit from the race very carefully, the stress on him to get out, and I really feel like I might communicate with authority on this — I’m from Alabama. I’m from a really pink state. I’ve very conservative household, a whole lot of them are Trump voters. They watch my present each night time, and I believe they know that they will belief me, that we name bulls*** on each aspect, not simply no matter leaning our viewers could also be, and I believe that’s one thing that folks need extra of is to listen to from that.
I believe Scott’s voice is absolutely essential, however I believe different voices are essential to listen to from, and everybody who was talking final night time, it’s not like they had been all Democrats. I imply, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Abby Philip, all my wonderful colleagues giving evaluation.
MAHER: They arrive throughout that means. They got here throughout that means in a second like that. It was like 5-to-1. It all the time appears to be like like 5-to-1.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “It’s exhausting to consider Kaitlan Collins is absolutely that clueless concerning the ingrained left-wing, anti-conservative agenda of CNN. {That a} historically left-of-center comic acknowledges that actuality, to say nothing of an viewers in Manhattan laughing at calling CNN goal, ought to give Collins pause. The truth that it doesn’t exhibits simply how ideologically blind are Collins and her CNN colleagues are. To them, nothing is extra essential than preserving Donald Trump out of the White Home.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams
■ August 19: Liberal Media Scream: Media now correcting MAGA, not simply Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the media’s newest line of assault on former President Donald Trump, MAGA, and anyone who voices help for the GOP presidential nominee.
It comes from the weekend public affairs present hosts who apparently really feel compelled to have the final phrase when that includes Trump or a Trump supporter. One offensive decide got here from Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan, who can be co-moderating the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate.
She gratuitously hit Trump after he referred to as Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan for value controls “communist.” Brennan promised: “We’ll let you know why that’s fallacious.” However after a break, she by no means advised her viewers what was false or fallacious concerning the Trump quote and even prompted any visitor to appropriate Trump.
Then there was Martha Raddatz, internet hosting ABC’s This Week. Not solely did she open the present with a cheer for Harris, however in reporting proven later, she featured a black girl who mentioned she was leaning towards voting for Trump. “Trump’s rhetoric has clearly had an impact on her in an astonishing means,” mentioned Raddatz, whose fact-checking about race didn’t sit properly with the black girl. “There was no convincing her in any other case,” she mentioned.
From the highest of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m Margaret Brennan in Washington, and this week on Face the Nation, Democrats head to their conference in Chicago as inflation cools and the political back-and-forth over financial insurance policies intensifies. With the presidential contest lineup set to be formally locked on this week, each side flip their consideration to situation No. 1 on the minds of the voters: the financial system and inflation.
KAMALA HARRIS: I’ll go after the unhealthy actors, and I’ll work to cross the first-ever federal ban on price-gauging [sic] on meals.
DONALD TRUMP: Lots of people are very devastated by what’s occurred with inflation and the entire different issues. However they are saying it’s a very powerful topic. I’m undecided it’s. However they are saying it’s a very powerful — inflation is a very powerful, however that’s a part of financial system.
BRENNAN: The previous president’s prescription is twofold.
TRUMP: Vote Trump and your incomes will soar.
BRENNAN: And a brand new line of false assault on Vice President Harris.
TRUMP: Kamala went full communist. You heard that? She went full communist. She needs to destroy our nation after inflicting catastrophic inflation.
BRENNAN: We’ll let you know why that’s fallacious and the way the voters see the candidates’ dealing with of the financial system in our new CBS Information ballot.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “Welcome to the world of multinational media enjoying speech police, deciding whose rhetoric is so over the road that their delicate viewers have to be warned that it’s ‘false’ and/or ‘fallacious’ with none subsequent justification provided for the hassle to discredit the candidate. I await her equal vigilance with Kamala Harris or Tim Walz claims about how the ‘fascist’ Trump will ‘finish democracy,’ ‘destroy NATO’ or ‘reduce’ Social Safety.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams
■ August 12: Liberal Media Scream: PBS anchor falsely claims ‘no proof’ of Walz’s stolen valor
(Washington Examiner submit)
Think about if a Republican navy hero, say, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), lied concerning the excessive factors of his profession within the U.S. Marine Corps whereas operating for vice chairman.
The media can be taking a look at each phrase he spoke on his profession and displaying his misstatements and lies on the entrance pages of each newspaper.
However with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic vice presidential decide, the media have determined to look previous his lengthy record of faux claims about serving in “battle” and Afghanistan whereas within the Nationwide Guard.
What’s extra, some even declare that there isn’t a proof of his fabrications.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options PBS New Hour anchor Amna Nawaz within the no-evidence camp. On Friday, for instance, she mentioned Vance has “no proof” of his claims towards Walz regardless of nonstop postings by beginner fact-checkers on social media.
She mentioned, “That is so harking back to that swiftboating assault on John Kerry again in 2004,” noting that former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign supervisor, Chris LaCivita, was behind the swiftboat assaults. She requested, “Why run with these assaults when there’s no proof for what they’re saying proper now?”
Visitor Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, countered, “There’s no query Tim Walz has padded and inflated his resume.” To which Nawaz demanded: “In what means particularly?”
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour, by which Johnson was joined by Jonathan Capehart, affiliate editor of the Washington Publish:
AMNA NAWAZ: Whereas we’ve seen Mr. Trump proceed with private assaults and form of veering means off message, we’ve additionally seen from Sen. Vance focusing now on Tim Walz’s navy profession. This can be a new line of assault we’ve seen open up from Republicans. We all know Mr. Walz served within the Military Nationwide Guard for twenty-four years earlier than retiring. And we’ve heard Vance assault him on this means every now and then.
SEN. J.D. VANCE: I did it honorably, and I’m very happy with my service. When Tim Walz was requested by his nation to go to Iraq, you already know what he did? He dropped out of the Military and allowed his unit to go with out him.
AMNA NAWAZ: Eliana, that is so harking back to that swiftboating assault on John Kerry again in 2004. We all know the identical man is behind it. He’s operating the Trump marketing campaign now, Chris LaCivita. Why run with these assaults when there’s no proof for what they’re saying proper now?
ELIANA JOHNSON: Nicely, I do suppose there’s some proof for what they’re saying, however let’s have a look at it in two components. One is the problem on the deserves, the place I believe there’s no query Tim Walz has padded and inflated his resume. And the second is his navy resume.
NAWAZ: In what means particularly?
JOHNSON: Nicely, J.D. Vance talked about that the timing of his retirement is suspect, and I believe it might take just a little bit longer to speak concerning the timeline of that. However the —
NAWAZ: He’s alleging that he retired as a result of his unit was being deployed.
JOHNSON: Proper. He knew that they had been going to be referred to as up. He had gotten a warning that they had been going to be referred to as up, and he mentioned in a press launch for his marketing campaign, if referred to as up, I’ve an obligation to serve. He didn’t do this.
It’s clear he has — he’s inflated this, and he’s made it part of his biography. By the best way, this has been a difficulty in each single considered one of Walz’s campaigns. However, individually, I believe there’s a query of how important is that this going to be down the street? You talked about the swiftboat veterans. These assaults had been efficient, however they had been levied towards the presidential nominee of the Democratic Occasion, John Kerry, again in 2004 —
NAWAZ: They had been additionally discredited.
JOHNSON: — which is, which is totally different.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “Nawaz illustrates what’s so fallacious with the trendy media in how they reflexively take sides on the very second they suppose they’re performing as robust journalists getting on the fact. As an alternative of pursuing these within the Harris-Walz camp to find out the reality about Walz’s navy report, she presumes the Republicans are within the fallacious and so their supposedly false claims have to be discredited. It proves which aspect of the political divide she sits.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams
■ August 5: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Rachel Scott doubles down on Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options ABC’s Rachel Scott, contemporary from zinging former President Donald Trump at a black media conference, whacking him once more whereas discussing marketing campaign debates on the community’s Sunday public affairs present, This Week.
Collaborating in a panel dialogue, Scott praised Vice President Kamala Harris’s “nuance” on her mixed-race heritage. “It has been actually notable for us reporters who’ve picked up on the nuance about how she has responded to a few of these assaults questioning her racial identification,” she mentioned.
Scott was criticized by Trump when she opened a Q&A on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference by questioning his previous feedback on black individuals and why they need to help him. An irked Trump shot again, “I believe it’s a really nasty query.”
On This Week, she channeled a Harris marketing campaign speaking level as she fancied a Harris-Trump debate: “And picture that on the controversy stage the place you may have a prosecutor probably going through off towards somebody who has simply been convicted.”
From Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: I used to be struck, Rachel, within the vice chairman’s response to what occurred at your interview. She appeared to concentrate on what Jonathan Martin is speaking about. Don’t make this again about her after he offers these feedback.
RACHEL SCOTT: And it has been actually notable for us reporters who’ve picked up on the nuance about how she has responded to a few of these assaults questioning her racial identification. She shouldn’t be going there, and Democrats say, “Look, she is aware of who she is.” She identifies as a black and Asian girl. Why does she need to go on the market and reply in that type of means? What she is doing is placing it again on Donald Trump and Republicans, saying they’re dividing, after which pivoting again to the problems.
….
SUSAN PAGE, USA TODAY: I moderated the final debate she did in 2020, the vice presidential debate. She is an efficient debater. She is assured. She makes use of just a little humor. She made Mike Pence be quiet, which is one thing I struggled to do, and she or he got here throughout as a prosecutor, and that may be a good message for her.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That appears to be her candy spot.
SCOTT: And picture that on the controversy stage the place you may have a prosecutor probably going through off towards somebody who has simply been convicted, proper? And that’s the type of picture that, in fact, Democrats are hoping that they will even have on the controversy stage. However sure, and pondering again to her taking up President Biden once they had been operating towards one another within the Democratic major, Democrats see her as somebody who can thrive doubtlessly on the controversy stage. The query is, does it really occur?
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “Scott appears near-giddy over Harris, performing extra as a Kamala Whisperer than as any form of impartial journalist. She could sofa her ‘reporting’ by citing ‘what Democrats are hoping,’ nevertheless it’s clear she’s hoping for a similar factor: eagerly anticipating ‘the prosecutor versus the felon’ debate adopted by a Harris election victory.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS
■ July 29: Liberal Media Scream: CNN spins Biden as martyr for stopping Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest spin from CNN that President Joe Biden’s determination to drop out of his reelection race ensures the tip of President Donald Trump too.
Fareed Zakaria provided this Sunday on his “My Take” commentary:
“The ultimate legacy of Biden is that he has returned the presidency to an workplace of sanity, decency, and dignity, ushering out the damaging demagoguery and anti-democratic rhetoric and habits that preceded him. However for that legacy to endure, and for Biden’s time period to not merely be a second in time, he wanted to make sure that the US really closes the chapter on Donald Trump.”
Perspective didn’t matter. In actual fact, Biden’s “associates” pushed him out due to his poor polling, and whereas Vice President Kamala Harris has seen a soar in curiosity in her, she is main Trump in solely two of eight nationwide polls taken after Biden’s July 21 announcement, and people leads are of 1% and a couple of%.
Zakaria on Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN:
“The ultimate legacy of Biden is that he has returned the presidency to an workplace of sanity, decency, and dignity, ushering out the damaging demagoguery and anti-democratic rhetoric and habits that preceded him. However for that legacy to endure, and for Biden’s time period to not merely be a second in time, he wanted to make sure that the US really closes the chapter on Donald Trump.
“And to assist make this extra seemingly, he made the painful determination to not run for the presidency, which will even earn him a particular place within the historical past books. Joe Biden has felt that he has been underestimated all his life. Judging by his tenure within the White Home, he’s proper.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “A lot for jaded journalists holding to account these in energy. Relating to preserving Trump from returning to the White Home, a lot of the media eagerly purchase into advancing the get together line on how Biden made a ‘painful determination’ to place the nation forward of himself when, in actual fact, a skeptical journalist would understand it was nothing greater than Biden making use of grandiose spin, which Zakaria ate up, to cowl for an impending humiliating defeat.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 22: Liberal Media Scream: NBC insider says Biden as ‘nice’ as Washington
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the race amongst Washington journalists to erase their protection of President Joe Biden as a senile loser and lift him to sainthood standing.
The perfect instance got here from a former Newsweek reporter and NBC Information contributor who not solely in contrast Biden to former President George Washington but additionally to the Roman statesman Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, thought of the determine of advantage for leaving his place of energy to return to farming.
“I additionally was pondering of Joe Biden’s legacy,” Jonathan Alter mentioned. “He will probably be remembered as an important president. He will probably be talked about in the identical sentence as George Washington. Why? As a result of selflessly leaving energy, and the circumstances of him clinging to it within the final three weeks will probably be forgotten, the fundamental determination to depart energy, which began with Cincinnatus in 439 B.C.,” he added.
From Monday’s Morning Information NOW on the NBC Information NOW streaming channel:
CO-ANCHOR JOE FRYER: You like historical past a lot. What was going by means of your thoughts yesterday when this determination got here down? How do you rank this within the twenty first century so far as essential tales?
JONATHAN ALTER: Extraordinarily essential, extraordinarily uncommon in American politics. The final time it occurred was in 1968 when incumbent President Lyndon Johnson stepped away.
I additionally was pondering of Joe Biden’s legacy. He will probably be remembered as an important president. He will probably be talked about in the identical sentence as George Washington. Why? As a result of selflessly leaving energy, and the circumstances of him clinging to it within the final three weeks will probably be forgotten, the fundamental determination to depart energy, which began with Cincinnatus in 439 B.C.
After which George Washington picks up from Cincinnatus. Town, in fact, is called for this. Why Cincinnatus? Why is he nonetheless so well-known? As a result of this selfless act — of leaving energy, which in human historical past is an especially uncommon factor to do — elevates you. And together with a report of real achievement, it’s going to put Joe Biden in very, superb stead by way of historical past.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What’s subsequent? Evaluating Biden to Jesus? Solely a matter of time, I believe, at the least on the earth of MSNBC and NBC Information. Apparently, Alter is so enthralled with Biden that he can’t see a distinction between the extensively admired George Washington, who rejected the general public groundswell urging him to grow to be the king, and the unpopular Biden who solely stepped away when confronted with the close to certainty of an embarrassing defeat bringing down him and far of his get together.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 15: Liberal Media Scream: Anger over blood-splattered ‘struggle, struggle, struggle’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the instantly iconic images of a blood-splattered former President Donald Trump urging supporters to “struggle, struggle, struggle” to revive him to the White Home and the media’s queasiness with and misinterpretation of his message.
For the president and his supporters, the message was clear: Stand as much as the assaults and construct a unified base to win. However to many within the media, they noticed it as a disturbing, indignant message of revenge.
At CNN, for instance, Jamie Gangel took offense to Trump, who survived the assassination try by millimeters. “I believe what we’re listening to from individuals is that’s not the message that we need to be sending proper now. We need to tamp it down,” she mentioned.
That is what Gangel mentioned on CNN Saturday night time, about 4 hours after the taking pictures:
“I do need to say there was one factor that, once I watched the tape, I discovered odd due to the entire heated rhetoric. And that’s that after he was hit, former President Trump received up and mentioned, ‘Struggle, struggle, struggle.’ I believe what we’re listening to from individuals is that’s not the message that we need to be sending proper now. We need to tamp it down.”
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “I’m sorry, not, that Trump didn’t show the proper decorum to fulfill Gangel a minute after getting shot and barely escaping alive in an assassination try. That Gangel’s first intuition was to assault the phrases of the sufferer exhibits the distorted worldview of CNN, the place Trump and MAGA are the threats to democracy which have to be suppressed.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 8: Liberal Media Scream: Welker pushes Meet the Press even additional left
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest demonstration that NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, within the anchor seat for lower than a yr, has pushed the present additional left than Chuck Todd left it.
This Sunday, it was Welker utilizing her trademark follow of beating her level into the bottom in demanding one other Republican to “settle for the election outcomes,” which she clearly believes will present President Joe Biden reelected.
Her goal was Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on former President Donald Trump’s brief record of operating mates.
“Are you able to say unequivocally, unequivocally right here and now, that you’ll settle for the outcomes of the 2024 election it doesn’t matter what they’re?” she requested, ignoring warnings from the FBI about election hanky panky and a number of the issues discovered within the 2020 poll casting.
When Vance mentioned he’s hoping for a clear election, Welker mentioned he was signaling that the election gained’t be truthful. He fired again that it’s the media’s blindness to issues that’s the menace to the election end result, not a candidate’s hope for problem-free elections.
“What I believe really undermines individuals’s confidence within the electoral system is when the media is incurious about apparent examples of issues in our electoral system,” Vance mentioned.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
KRISTEN WELKER: Nicely, right here we’re a couple of week earlier than the Republican conference. Earlier than I allow you to go, are you able to say unequivocally, unequivocally right here and now, that you’ll settle for the outcomes of the 2024 election it doesn’t matter what they’re?
SEN. J.D. VANCE [R-OH]: As long as it’s a free and truthful election, Kristen, in fact we’ll. We’ll use constitutional processes to problem points if we predict there are points. But when it’s a free and truthful election, we’ll do what the Structure requires. We’ll respect the outcomes. And I count on these outcomes are going to be to reelect Donald Trump.
WELKER: It was a free and truthful election in 2020. Donald Trump took his considerations to court docket. He misplaced in court docket. However he nonetheless has not conceded. Do you perceive that while you refuse to commit unequivocally, that feeds into individuals’s considerations, skepticism concerning the nation’s electoral course of?
VANCE: Nicely, Kristen, I don’t agree with that really. I believe that feeding into individuals’s considerations about our electoral course of is that one-half of America’s political phase, they gained’t help laws that makes it more durable for unlawful aliens to vote. They gained’t help common voter ID in our elections regardless that it’s a must to current ID to do virtually something on this nation. I believe taking individuals’s considerations critically about election fraud is the best way to strengthen safety and confidence in our elections.
WELKER: Sure, senator, it’s already towards the legislation for noncitizens to vote. However simply on that very level, while you, when others refuse to say, “Sure, we’ll settle for the election outcomes,” do you perceive how that undermines individuals’s confidence within the electoral system?
VANCE: However, Kristen, what I simply mentioned is I don’t agree with that. What I believe really undermines individuals’s confidence within the electoral system is when the media is incurious about apparent examples of issues in our electoral system. I believe we’ve received nice elections, however a whole lot of issues might be higher in sure states. I need to work to make that occur so the American individuals have better confidence of their elections. That’s what I’ll maintain doing.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Welker has managed to make Meet the Press extra of a car for the agenda of liberals than it was underneath Chuck Todd. Each week, it appears, she acts as a thought police operative, demanding Republican company pay fealty to the Democratic media get together line on how elections can’t be questioned, making an attempt to undermine their very legitimacy as elected officers. In Vance’s case, she distorted his reply to seem the other of what it was so she might lecture him about his improper pondering.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 1: Liberal Media Scream: NBC’s Welker lies about ‘lies,’ can’t stand truthful Republicans
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options President Joe Biden’s media cheerleading squad looking for some option to divert the general public’s consideration away from the truth that the president was out of it throughout final week’s debate with former President Donald Trump.
The highest tactic of the liberal press was to say that Trump advised extra “lies” than the comatose president. And when Republicans pushed again, the media simply ignored and pressed on.
Living proof was NBC’s Kristen Welker, the Meet the Press anchor. One in every of her featured company was Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), who’s on Trump’s brief record of operating mate candidates. Not solely did she press him on whether or not he was a liar, she advised lies about debate statements Trump made which were fact-checked as truthful.
“As somebody who’s on Donald Trump’s brief record to be his vice presidential nominee, do you suppose he ought to cease saying issues that aren’t true?” She then recited his supposed lies: “Simply to say a couple of: He mentioned that Democrats need to kill infants after start. That’s not true. He once more lied about widespread fraud. Not true. He lied about his feedback after Charlottesville. Ought to he be truthful with the American individuals if he needs to guide this nation? Particularly given what you simply mentioned that you simply by no means lie. That’s your commonplace, governor.”
However Democrats actually do help permitting abortion up till start and even loss of life to newborns. That was clearly said by former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, himself a pediatric neurologist. And liberal reporters love misquoting Trump’s “good individuals on each side” remark concerning the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, nevertheless it has been debunked, and he was not referring to Nazis as one of many “each” sides.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
GOV. DOUG BURGUM: 4 years in the past, after we ended up with the present ticket on the Democrat aspect, that was this grand satan’s discount of “all people drop out, we’re going with these two.” Then, the largest lie that has been foisted on the American public was seen on Thursday night time. Individuals can’t un-see what they noticed. What they noticed was, we’ve been advised by the White Home, two weeks in the past, the White Home was attacking journalists, together with your folks, saying that no, you possibly can’t say these tales about that Joe Biden isn’t able to serving proper now. After which, all of America noticed it. And you already know who else noticed it? Our adversaries noticed it. Putin noticed it. Xi noticed it. The ayatollah noticed it. I imply, the nation — we maintain speaking about elections. We’re at a better nationwide safety danger right now than we had been on Thursday as a result of the commander in chief confirmed that he’s not able to serving.
KRISTEN WELKER: Nicely, there’s not proof of that, however governor, let me simply ask you concerning the debate and just a little bit extra of what we noticed. By one depend, Donald Trump made greater than 30 false claims throughout that debate. I need to play one thing you advised my colleague Chuck Todd on this broadcast final yr. Have a look.
CHUCK TODD: You ever lied in politics?
BURGUM: No.
TODD: That you already know of? You don’t consider you’ve ever lied?
BURGUM: No.
TODD: You’re feeling such as you’ve all the time advised the reality as you understood it?
BURGUM: Completely. That’s how I used to be raised and the way I’ve gone ahead.
WELKER: As somebody who’s on Donald Trump’s brief record to be his vice presidential nominee, do you suppose he ought to cease saying issues that aren’t true?
BURGUM: I believe the entire manufactured factor this morning of, that Donald Trump has mentioned one thing that he hasn’t mentioned earlier than, I imply, the whole lot that he mentioned on Thursday night time he’s been saying earlier than. I imply, so this isn’t, this isn’t information.
WELKER: This isn’t manufactured. However this isn’t manufactured, governor. I imply, simply to say a couple of: He mentioned that Democrats need to kill infants after start. That’s not true. He once more lied about widespread fraud. Not true. He lied about his feedback after Charlottesville. Ought to he be truthful with the American individuals if he needs to guide this nation? Particularly given what you simply mentioned that you simply by no means lie. That’s your commonplace, governor.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Welker is so certain of herself, so smugly superior that she will rattle off an inventory of supposed lies from Donald Trump with none self-awareness that she is passing on distortions of what Trump mentioned whereas she calls for Gov. Burgum criticize Trump for not being truthful. After which, when Burgum makes a superbly affordable statement, she corrects him with the ‘there’s not proof of that’ bromide. Pot, meet kettle.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 24: Liberal Media Scream: CNN proves anti-Trump bias days earlier than debate
(Washington Examiner submit)
And similar to that, CNN confirmed its anti-Trump bias on Monday, simply three days earlier than internet hosting the primary debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, proving Republicans appropriate in complaining that the controversy can be an ambush.
It got here early Monday morning when anchor Kasie Hunt was internet hosting Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. On the time, Secrets and techniques was contemplating the week’s decisions for the Liberal Media Scream characteristic with Brent Baker of the Media Analysis Heart.
Tales concerning the sturdy anti-Trump bias of co-debate moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper began to seem over the weekend, so it wasn’t surprising that Leavitt would criticize them. Readers could recall that CNN and Trump have an antagonistic relationship, highlighted when CNN host Jim Acosta tussled with Trump throughout a press convention 5 years in the past.
When Leavitt hit CNN’s bias, Hunt, who usually consists of Republicans on her present, wouldn’t hear of it, shut off her visitor’s microphone, and kicked Trump’s spokeswoman off the air. The 2 traded tweets afterward, however the harm was performed and led to a piling on by these upset with Hunt’s liberal bias, together with Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) spouse, who famous that Hunt referred to as the story about an assault on the senator considered one of her “favourite tales.”
So, for her actions, Hunt wins our Liberal Media Scream of the week with a ranking of 5 out of 5 screams.
From Monday’s CNN This Morning:
KAROLINE LEAVITT: Nicely, President Trump is properly ready forward of Thursday’s debates. In contrast to Joe Biden, he doesn’t have to cover away and have his advisers inform him what to say. President Trump is aware of what he needs to say, and he’s going to relay his imaginative and prescient to the American individuals to make this nation sturdy, secure, safe, and rich once more. He’s been doing that throughout this nice nation, to all corners of this nation.
That’s why he was in Detroit, Michigan, final week. He was in Philadelphia for a giant rally on Saturday night time, and that’s why President Trump is knowingly going right into a hostile surroundings on this very community, on CNN, with debate moderators who’ve made their opinions about him very well-known over the previous eight years of their biased protection of him. So President Trump is prepared to convey his message to each nook of this nation, to voters, to make sure that he wins this election in November. He appears to be like ahead to doing that, and I do know the American public appears to be like ahead to listening to from him.
KASIE HUNT: So, I’ll simply say my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have acquitted themselves as skilled as they’ve coated campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I’ll additionally say that if you happen to speak to analysts at debates earlier, that if you happen to’re attacking the moderators, you’re normally shedding. So, I actually need to deal with what these two males are going to do and say once they stand on the stage. Now, we have now just a little little bit of what Donald Trump, your boss, has mentioned in making an attempt to set expectations for this debate. I need to play a few of a collection of his feedback, after which we’ll speak about it. Watch.
DONALD TRUMP CLIPS: Perhaps I’m higher off shedding the controversy. I’ll be sure that he says I lose the controversy on objective. Perhaps I’ll do one thing like that. … I assume he’s gonna be any person that will probably be a worthy debater. … Ought to I be robust and nasty and simply say you’re the worst president in historical past, or ought to I be good and calm and let him communicate?
HUNT: So he’s principally saying there, properly, will I let Joe Biden win? It does appear as if many Republicans have set the bar very low by way of arguing that Joe Biden is principally senile. Now, you may have individuals like Doug Burgum popping out and saying, properly, President Biden’s very completed, making an attempt to set expectations in a distinct place. What do you count on from Joe Biden?
LEAVITT: Nicely, to begin with, it takes somebody 5 minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper has persistently, regularly likened President Trump to Adolf Hitler —
HUNT: Ma’am, I’m going to cease this interview if you happen to proceed to assault my colleagues. I want to speak about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you’re employed for. In case you are right here to talk on his behalf, I’m prepared to have this dialog.
LEAVITT: I’m stating details that your colleagues have said up to now. Now, as for this debate, the expectations for, the expectations for —
HUNT: Now, I’m sorry, guys. We’re going to come back again out to the panel. Karoline, thanks very a lot to your time. You’re welcome to come back again at any level. She is welcome to come back again and talk about Donald Trump, and Donald Trump can have equal time to Joe Biden once they each be a part of us … later this week in Atlanta for this debate. Our due to Karoline.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Not a very good signal for Donald Trump and his supporters forward of CNN’s debate. If Hunt’s aggressiveness is any information, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash gained’t be reluctant to make use of their energy to kill the rostrum microphones to silence the candidate who says issues they’ve a protracted report of denouncing and condemning. Trump could properly remorse agreeing to permit CNN to host a debate.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 17: Liberal Media Scream: ‘What the f***?’: Celebrities baffled voters like Trump for sounding ‘regular’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options world-class comics expressing shock that the general public connects with former President Donald Trump as a result of he sounds regular and even humorous.
“What the f***?” yelped Charlamagne tha God, showing on Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher’s “Extra time” with liberal talker Ana Navarro.
The trio had been speaking about Trump and answering questions when Maher mentioned, “Is Trump harmful as a result of he’s humorous?”
When Maher mentioned the very fact is that folks reply to Trump’s commoner means of speaking, the black comedian mentioned, “Republicans are extra honest about their lies than Democrats are about their fact. Like while you hearken to Donald Trump speak, you hearken to Marjorie Taylor Greene, that’s what Waffle Home seems like at three within the morning. And sadly, individuals relate to that.”
From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher’s “Extra time” present posted on YouTube after the common program aired on HBO, choosing up as Maher posed questions from viewers:
BILL MAHER: Charlamagne, that is for you. “Is Trump harmful as a result of he’s humorous?”
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD [CTG]: What the f***? No, Trump is harmful as a result of at one level he was president of the US of America and he’s operating to be president of the US of America once more. If he wasn’t, you already know, operating to be in that place, he’d be essentially the most hilarious particular person on the planet.
ANA NAVARRO: However, I imply, do you, do you really — you’re a comic — do you really discover him humorous as a result of individuals are laughing at him?
MAHER: Sure, unintentionally?
CTG: Sure.
MAHER: He’s a scream? Oh, he’s so humorous, however he doesn’t understand it. No, actually. I imply, there are individuals like that. He has no—
NAVARRO: After I, once I hearken to him, when he’s speaking in these rallies concerning the sharks and the batteries, I’m ready for the boys in white jackets to indicate up.
CTG: However it’s solely as a result of he’s operating for president. If he wasn’t operating for president, you’d be like, “This stand-up is wonderful.”
MAHER: However he sounds — and I’ve heard you speak about this topic earlier than — he seems like extra of a standard particular person.
CTG: Sure.
MAHER: And that you simply, I do know you mentioned that the Republicans have a giant benefit as a result of they convey higher.
CTG: Yeah, Republicans are extra honest about their lies than Democrats are about their fact. Like while you hearken to Donald Trump speak, you hearken to Marjorie Taylor Greene, that’s what Waffle Home seems like at three within the morning. And sadly, individuals relate to that.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Charlamagne tha God seemingly displays a lot of the bafflement of these on the Left as to why common, not-so-political individuals can be attracted by the messages delivered by Trump and different Republicans. So, aghast on the phenomenon, he should attribute it to how Trump and conservatives are higher talkers and liars, not that their coverage views higher deal with the issues going through the nation.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 10: Liberal Media Scream: ‘The View’ says black individuals not allowed to depart the Democratic plantation
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options The View participating in racial politics and suggesting that minority viewers ought to keep of their Democratic lane.
On the present, Sunny Hostin was discussing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) giving his help to former President Donald Trump. He’s considered one of Trump’s potential picks for a operating mate.
Hostin, whose roots are Puerto Rican, accused Donalds of pandering to Trump, although a number of polls present black voters just like the ex-president, particularly males, and are shifting to the Republican Occasion after a long time of pandering by the Democratic Occasion.
She mentioned that such black voters are ultra-rare. “These black males that he was talking with, I’d like to see them. It might be like taking a look at unicorns,” Hostin mentioned on Friday’s present.
From Friday’s The View, a present produced by ABC Information:
JOY BEHAR: Florida congressman Byron Donalds hit a brand new low when he advised a room stuffed with black Republicans that he misses the quote, unquote, good outdated days. Watch.
BYRON DONALDS, on June 4: Throughout Jim Crow, the black household was collectively. Throughout Jim Crow, extra black individuals weren’t simply conservative — black individuals have all the time been conservative-minded — however extra black individuals voted conservatively. After which, H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson, and you then go down that street, and now we’re the place we’re.
….
SARA HAINES: What’s scary is while you hear the audio, there are lots of people going, uh-huh, uh-huh. So it seems like a category must be taught to everybody in that room as a result of segregation left you with no selection. Like, you weren’t choosing the household. They had been actually making you go to totally different locations. They didn’t enable for — so, speaking a couple of black particular person selecting to be with your loved ones after which wanting on the better social scheme and the injustice of that, he should not know what it’s? I imply, that looks like a far leap to not perceive Jim Crow, segregation, and the separation of the race. I don’t perceive.
ANA NAVARRO: If he doesn’t know, disgrace on him, as a result of there’s nothing worse, I believe, than when individuals obtain sure standing and sure rights and don’t admire, take with no consideration, the struggles, the deaths, the fights, the marches, the whole lot it took to have the ability to give Byron Donalds the chance he has now as a result of, underneath Jim Crow, he couldn’t vote. He wouldn’t have been in Congress. He couldn’t have married his spouse. He’s married to a beautiful girl named Erika, who’s white. Interracial marriage was unlawful in Florida till 1969. He might haven’t gone to Florida State College — for over 100 years, black college students weren’t admitted to that college. Over 250 blacks had been lynched in Florida underneath Jim Crow.
For him to be waxing nostalgic about that period that elicits a lot ache — that was such a darkish interval within the historical past of the US — is offensive. And for him to be doing it as a black man, as an individual of colour, is much more offensive. What actually drives me loopy, although, is that it’s, like, each three months, a Republican says one thing extra silly about black historical past and slavery, proper? I imply, final yr, we had Ron DeSantis saying — defending that there have been good issues about slavery, expertise that had been realized that might be put to good use. Then we had Nikki Haley, who couldn’t admit that slavery was the trigger for the Civil Warfare.
JOY BEHAR: So, my query to you, Sunny: Is it stupidity, like she says, or is it one thing else?
HAINES: I believe it’s pandering. I don’t suppose it’s stupidity.
BEHAR: To whom?
HOSTIN: It’s pandering to Donald Trump. I believed it was fascinating that the framing was a room of black Republicans. The place are they? The place are they? As a result of if you happen to have a look at the stats, 77% of — 81%, I’m sorry, of black males are a part of the Democratic Occasion. Black voters persistently align with the Democratic Occasion. Ninety, over 95% of black girls are a part of the Democratic Occasion. So these black males that he was talking with, I’d like to see them. It might be like taking a look at unicorns.
And so, I believe that the unhappy factor is, you already know, I agree with you, Ana, is that this got here from the mouth of a black man, proper? And so, if you happen to’re pandering your self and your group and your historical past to a person like Donald Trump, who’s a disgraced, one-term, twice impeached, convicted felon, we get to say now, is much more despicable on this nation.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What a disgusting show of left-wing elitism. To suppose that, within the identify of calling out racism, you suppose it’s your house as white individuals to lecture a black man about his views of the standing of the black household and the way it has fared over the a long time. Liberals simply can’t enable anybody to deviate from the accredited liberal perspective and, in the event that they do, they have to be ‘shamed’ and corrected in order that they get in line.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 3: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos anti-Trump spin, condescendingly Clintonesque
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the mannequin of the media’s bias within the authorized instances towards former President Donald Trump — ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
The previous Clinton White Home communications boss opened his Sunday present, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, with a lecture towards Trump after which introduced on Trump lawyer Will Scharf to face left-wing speaking factors.
Scharf didn’t take it and challenged the Democratic talker, particularly when Stephanopoulos tried to silence him for making factors he didn’t like.
The actions by Stephanopoulos had been harking back to the best way he used to attempt to shut down reporters in the course of the 1992 presidential marketing campaign when quite a few Clinton scandals had been raised, a follow he and different aides continued whereas within the White Home when going through troublesome tales, particularly the Travelgate affair.
From Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, and welcome to This Week. In 1774, John Adams mentioned consultant authorities and trial by jury are the guts and lungs of liberty. 200 and fifty years later, the guts and lungs of liberty are going through what often is the final stress take a look at. Twelve nameless jurors rendered their verdict on Thursday, discovering Donald Trump responsible on all counts. It’s the third time within the final two years that jurors have rendered verdicts towards Trump.
Jurors have but to think about prices towards Trump for much more severe crimes: blocking the peaceable switch of energy, concealing labeled paperwork, encouraging the submitting of false electors. However for now, the New York jurors have already offered their fellow residents with a selection: Will we need to be represented, to be led, for the primary time in historical past by a convicted felon? That reply will are available in November….
STEPHANOPOULOS: The ethics panel for the state of New York mentioned the decide was not required to recuse….
STEPHANOPOULOS: If look of impropriety is the usual for recusal, then why shouldn’t Justice Thomas and Justice Alito need to recuse from the instances earlier than the Supreme Court docket?….
WILL SCHARF: The weaponization of our authorized system, the politicization of prosecution, these are all issues that President Trump completely has to touch upon. I believe the truth that he labored underneath a gag order for so long as he did was manifestly unjust. So, sure, completely, President Trump must be carrying his message to the American individuals. And I don’t see how anybody can actually poke holes at that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You talked concerning the weaponization of the authorized system. After all, it was former President Trump who threw out the 2016 marketing campaign, led chants of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton. However what do you count on from the sentencing course of?
SCHARF: Nicely, however maintain on a second, George, President Trump could have mentioned that, however after he entered workplace, he actually didn’t weaponize the Division of Justice to pursue his political opponents the best way that we’ve seen … within the final couple years.
Bear in mind, this case in New York, it was referred to as the zombie case. It sat and sat and sat. It might have been introduced at any level after 2020. After which out of the blue, when President Trump introduced his marketing campaign for president, it was dusted off, rushed in entrance of a grand jury, after which rushed into court docket. You need to speak concerning the politicization of the authorized system, I imply, that is Exhibit A. It’s completely unprecedented in American historical past. It’s not the best way that our campaigns are presupposed to be run. We contest elections on the poll field, not within the courts, on this nation.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That’s true. However, in fact, we’ve by no means had a former president or presidential candidate going through the form of prices that the president confronted due to his personal actions. And, in fact, the legal professional basic in Manhattan has nothing to do with the Division of Justice. Lastly, what do you count on from the sentencing course of?
SCHARF: I vehemently disagree that the district legal professional in New York was not politically motivated right here, and I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren’t up their necks on this prosecution. I believe the truth that the Biden marketing campaign —
STEPHANOPOULOS: There’s no proof right here of that. Sir, there’s no — there’s not — I’m not going to allow you to proceed to say that. There’s simply zero proof of that.
SCHARF: Nicely, how about the truth that Matthew Colangelo was standing over Alvin Bragg’s shoulder when he introduced this verdict? I imply, Colangelo was the No. 3 official within the Biden Division of Justice who out of the blue disappears and exhibits up as an assistant district legal professional, proper as Trump’s case in New York begins to proceed. You need to speak about political —
STEPHANOPOULOS: After the choice was made there —
SCHARF: You need to speak about political coordination, George, it’s proper there in entrance of you.
STEPHANOPOULOS: This has nothing to do — this has nothing to do — no, it’s not. This has nothing to do with President Biden. Do you need to reply the query concerning the sentencing course of or not?
SCHARF: I fully disagree that this has nothing to do with President Biden. With respect to sentencing, as I mentioned earlier than, we’re going to vigorously problem this case on enchantment. I don’t suppose President Trump goes to finish up being topic to any sentence by any means. And we sit up for getting this case into the following court docket and taking this once more all the best way as much as the U.S. Supreme Court docket if essential to vindicate President Trump’s rights.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Thanks to your time this morning.
SCHARF: Respect it, George.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “A Sunday sermon adopted by aggressive left-wing speaking factors geared toward not permitting legitimacy for views which don’t comport with ‘the details’ because the very liberal and really partisan Stephanopoulos sees them. We’re in for 5 extra months of this from the media and left-wing activists in it like Stephanopoulos: aggressive disdain for anybody making a degree on behalf of Trump, imbued with condescending sneering about how there’s ‘no proof’ for that time when there’s loads of proof for it.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ Might 27: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC common cites Clarence Thomas’s white spouse in racist rant
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest instance of the Left’s hysteria over conservative judges on the Supreme Court docket.
MSNBC common talker Elie Mystal mentioned that Affiliate Justice Clarence Thomas not solely wished votes from black individuals to depend lower than white votes in elections, however he cited Thomas’s spouse of 37 years, Virginia Thomas, who’s white, as proof.
“Yeah, the by means of line between the Alito flag story, the Clarence Thomas coup story, and their wives, and what we noticed right now from the Supreme Court docket on this gerrymandering determination, the by means of line is that they don’t need black individuals’s votes to depend equally,” Mystal mentioned on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC Thursday.
“I imply, he ain’t married to Ginni Thomas for nothing, all proper — like, that’s what the person thinks,” the black pundit mentioned.
He was discussing a 6-3 Supreme Court docket determination final week to maintain a South Carolina congressional map {that a} decrease court docket had dominated included a racially drawn gerrymander. The court docket mentioned the challengers had not confirmed their case. The choice was written by Affiliate Justice Samuel Alito, who has drawn hearth for his spouse’s flying of their American flag within the “misery” sign.
From Thursday’s All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC:
CHRIS HAYES: I need to begin on what we received from the court docket right now and the very fact it was an Alito-authored determination. It was an Alito-authored determination from the Trump majority, 6-3 majority, liberals in dissent, holding up a Republican gerrymander.
ELIE MYSTAL: Yeah, the by means of line between the Alito flag story, the Clarence Thomas coup story, and their wives and what we noticed right now from the Supreme Court docket on this gerrymandering determination, the by means of line between all of that’s that they don’t need black individuals’s votes to depend equally.
HAYES: Do you suppose that’s true of Clarence Thomas?
MYSTAL: I do know that it’s true of Clarence Thomas, all proper. Their concept and Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence right now, wrote straight up that he doesn’t suppose the 14th Modification and the equal safety clause of that modification can be utilized to guard the voting rights of black individuals.
HAYES: Sure.
MYSTAL: I imply, he ain’t married to Ginni Thomas for nothing, all proper — like, that’s what the person thinks. He wrote it right now. The by means of line — perceive this, Chris, when these individuals like Alito and Thomas help the rebel, proper, what are they actually saying? They’re saying that Trump gained — misplaced the election however gained the white vote, which is true, he did, he gained the white vote by quite a bit, white individuals ought to most likely do one thing about that, however he gained the white vote by quite a bit. And what Alito and Thomas are saying is that it’s that white vote that Trump gained is that’s the one votes that matter.
That we must always do what the white voters need and once they write these choices like they did within the gerrymandering case, what they’re straight up saying is that black voters may be diluted, can have their voting rights taken away, just because black voters occur to vote Democrat.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How insidious an angle to have towards an American establishment when your ideological competition is that it’s Trump and MAGA who’re destroying democracy. No, you’re doing that with such a disreputable, race-based assault on the court docket since you don’t agree with a ruling, compounded by an affordable shot on the first conservative African American on the Supreme Court docket as a self-hater as a result of the race of his spouse doesn’t match his. Can’t go a lot decrease.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ Might 20: No Liberal Media Scream this week.
■ Might 13: Liberal Media Scream: Networks shamefully use Reagan to defend Biden
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options all three community Sunday public affairs exhibits going to bat for President Joe Biden’s betrayal of Israel for largely political causes by suggesting he was simply following a sample set by former President Ronald Reagan.
“Historians would say, ‘Why is it OK for Reagan to do it and never President Biden?’” NBC’s Kristen Welker mentioned in a key instance of the hassle.
At situation was Biden’s flip-flop to carry again weaponry Israel must push its effort to rid Hamas from Gaza after the terrorists shocked the world with brutal assaults on Israeli girls, youngsters, and troops final October. Biden’s transfer got here in response to campus protests by pro-Hamas protesters.
The community speak exhibits famous that Reagan additionally performed hardball with Israel however usually for extra diplomatic causes than home politics. What’s extra, as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) famous, no one ever questioned whether or not Reagan had Israel’s again in going through down Arab enemies.
From the Might 12 ABC, NBC, and CBS Sunday morning interview exhibits:
— ABC’s This Week host Martha Raddatz to Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX): You often invoke former President Ronald Reagan. You heard Sen. Coons convey up the very fact he paused weapons to Israel as properly. You consistently ask your self, ‘What would Ronald Reagan do?’ That’s what Ronald Reagan did.
— NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): President Biden shouldn’t be the primary president to make use of arms shipments to attempt to affect Israeli coverage. As you already know, former President Ronald Reagan, on a number of events, withheld weapons to affect Israel’s navy actions. Did President Reagan present that utilizing U.S. navy assist as leverage can really be an efficient option to rein in and affect Israel’s coverage?…
GRAHAM: The Republican Occasion is with Israel, with out apology.
WELKER: Nicely, historians would say, ‘Why is it OK for Reagan to do it and never President Biden?‘
— CBS’s Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): You realize that previous presidents have withheld navy assist to Israel to drive modifications in habits. President Reagan did that. President Bush did that. Why do you may have an issue with President Biden doing it?
COTTON: Ronald Reagan’s determination to pause the supply of fighter jets within the Eighties was completely totally different from what’s occurred right here. Israel is preventing a battle of survival towards a terrorist group that dedicated the worst atrocity towards Jews since World Warfare II. Within the Eighties, an Israeli ambassador had been focused for assassination. Ronald Reagan knew the pause of fighter jets wouldn’t intervene with Israel’s preventing as a result of they’d loads of fighters. He didn’t pause munitions. Joe Biden shouldn’t be sending munitions in the midst of a taking pictures battle that’s a battle of survival. And have a look at the broader context. Israel knew that Ronald Reagan had its again within the area. He sank half of Iran’s navy. Joe Biden has persistently given Iran a whole lot of billions of {dollars} of sanctions aid that precisely funded teams like Hamas.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “The sudden respect for the insurance policies of Ronald Reagan from members of the Washington press corps, who’re usually disdainful towards him, is outstanding. It makes one suppose all of them received a speaking factors memo from Biden marketing campaign allies and are repeating them to problem their Republican company.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ Might 6: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Karl cries wolf with DEFCON 1 Trump warning
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one other breathless election warning from one other ABC Information Trump critic, Jonathan Karl.
Per week after This Week host George Stephanopoulos virtually seized up over the potential for former President Donald Trump returning to energy, as many citizens need, fill-in Karl spun the election as a very powerful ever on Sunday.
“No extra crying wolf. That is it,” he mentioned.
With six months earlier than the election, let’s hope the New York Metropolis Fireplace Division begins parking an ambulance at ABC Information headquarters in case one of many information readers passes out in warning America whom to vote for.
Karl, on the high on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
“Good morning. Welcome to This Week. For so long as I’ve coated politics, politicians have mentioned, ‘This will probably be a very powerful election of our lifetimes.’ They mentioned that regardless of how excessive or low the stakes really had been. Election Day 2024 is precisely six months from right now, and this time, the divisions in our nation are so huge and the selection so stark there’s little doubt this actually is a very powerful election of our time. No extra crying wolf. That is it.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “The election is six months away, and the highest anchors for ABC Information are already constructing themselves right into a lather of concern, lecturing their viewers on who they higher not vote for — or else. One wonders how uncontrolled they are going to grow to be because the election grows nearer, particularly if polls proceed to indicate Donald Trump within the lead. They’re passing DEFCON 2. As soon as they hit DEFCON 1, what’s subsequent?”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 29: Liberal Media Scream: Might you cry extra, George Stephanopoulos?
(Washington Examiner submit)
For years, George Stephanopoulos ran block and worse for former President Invoice Clinton. First, it was Gennifer Flowers, after which Travelgate and Whitewater. A number of different scandals adopted.
His boss received away with most and didn’t face the music till he was lastly impeached for mendacity concerning the Monica Lewinsky intercourse scandal.
However on Sunday, in an editorial to guide off his ABC Sunday speak present, the previous Clinton spokesman ripped into former President Donald Trump, who’s going through a number of court docket instances for what some authorized analysts see as political assaults. That each transfer Trump makes is hit by the media or added to his authorized troubles isn’t sufficient for Stephanopoulos.
As an alternative, and the rationale he’s our characteristic for this week’s Liberal Media Scream, he needs Trump handled otherwise, claiming that the previous president has pushed the nation to the brink of civil battle regardless of now being the candidate most individuals need to win in November, in accordance with CNN.
“It’s all too straightforward to fall into reflective habits, to deal with this as a standard marketing campaign the place each side embrace the rule of legislation, the place each side are devoted to a debate based mostly on details and the peaceable switch of energy,” he lectured on Sunday.
“However that’s not what’s occurring this election yr. These bedrock tenets of our democracy are being examined in a means we haven’t seen for the reason that Civil Warfare. It’s a take a look at for the candidates, for these of us within the media, and for all of us as residents,” he added.
From Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
Good morning, and welcome to This Week. Till now, no American president had ever confronted a felony trial. No American president had ever confronted a federal indictment for retaining and concealing labeled paperwork. No American president had ever confronted a federal indictment or a state indictment for making an attempt to overturn an election or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two different states for a similar crime. No American president ever confronted a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in judgments for enterprise fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse. Till now, no American presidential race had been extra outlined on what’s occurring in courtrooms than what’s occurring on the marketing campaign path — till now.
The dimensions of the abnormality is so staggering that it could actually really grow to be numbing. It’s all too straightforward to fall into reflective habits, to deal with this as a standard marketing campaign the place each side embrace the rule of legislation, the place each side are devoted to a debate based mostly on details and the peaceable switch of energy.
However that’s not what’s occurring this election yr. These bedrock tenets of our democracy are being examined in a means we haven’t seen for the reason that Civil Warfare. It’s a take a look at for the candidates, for these of us within the media, and for all of us as residents.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Talking of exams, George Stephanopoulos has failed the journalism take a look at. He appears fairly happy with it and certain speaks for all too many within the information media who suppose they’ve the ethical superiority to declare Trump voters not solely misguided however responsible of placing the fundamental tenets of the nation in danger. So, Stephanopoulos, a high Clinton spokesman within the Nineties who suppressed from voters details about his candidate’s misdeeds, will save us all by utilizing these left-wing political instincts to resolve which candidate voters ought to be allowed to select.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 22: Liberal Media Scream: Historian Meacham says ‘patriotism’ calls for Biden win
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is a uncommon five-screamer that includes a liberal journalist turned “historian” and biographer claiming that voter patriotism calls for reelecting President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump.
Jon Meacham, the previous high editor of Newsweek, mentioned on HBO’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher, “Patriotism is allegiance to an concept. It’s not simply an allegiance to your personal variety. That’s nationalism. Trump is a nationalist. President Biden is a patriot.”
Speaking extra like an East Coast elitist than a Tennessee native, the liberal analyst added with seriousness, “I’m fortunate in that I don’t have explicit coverage passions, explicit points.”
And he included a condescending little jab at his dwelling state. “I would like the constitutional order to proceed to unfold, and President Biden is dedicated to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I’d say to my Republican associates — and I reside in Tennessee, in order that’s redundant — that it’s, in actual fact, an ethical query.”
Right here is Meacham, on Actual Time with Invoice Maher, reacting to the information that former Lawyer Normal William Barr (a Trump critic) will vote for his former boss:
JON MEACHAM: What Barr is doing, and what so many — I generally consider them because the Peter Millar Republicans, proper, these are Republicans who will not be full MAGA individuals, they’re males’s grill varieties who don’t need Democrats choosing judges or setting tax charges.
They talked themselves into this twice. In ’16 and in ’20. After which got here December and January of 2020 and 2021, and, at that time, I consider, and I say this with care, that it’s grow to be evident, to me, anyway, that there’s a patriotic responsibility to help President Biden towards Donald Trump because of this: Patriotism is allegiance to an concept. It’s not simply an allegiance to your personal variety. That’s nationalism. Trump is a nationalist. President Biden is a patriot, and I’m fortunate in that I don’t have explicit coverage passions, explicit points. I would like the constitutional order to proceed to unfold, and President Biden is dedicated to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I’d say to my Republican associates — and I reside in Tennessee, in order that’s redundant — that it’s, in actual fact, an ethical query….
To me, the fascinating factor concerning the Republican Occasion is if you’re, in actual fact, going to place partisanship as your central organizing precept, if reflexive partisanship is a very powerful factor — I’d argue that it is advisable to return and browse George Washington’s farewell deal with. It’s essential learn the founders that in any other case, you already know, they love.
You realize, they love the founders once they can transfer it round to agree with them. It’s very clear that if get together spirit grew to become the organizing precept, that, that was going to be deadly to the Structure, and it’s very fascinating when Barr mentioned it’s “suicide.” The concept that President Biden is main us to nationwide suicide. I’m undecided what he’s speaking about, however Lincoln used that picture in his first main speech within the 1830s. He mentioned if we ever fall, it’s not going to be from a international foe: It’s going to be from somebody internally rising up and mastering these passions. And people passions about partisanship, that’s what’s ruining us.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Might Meacham be any extra condescending and elitist? A lot for the pretense of being a journalist and never a partisan activist. His take: I’ve determined which candidate is unhealthy for America, so if you happen to vote for that one, you aren’t solely not a patriot, however you’ll convey concerning the destruction of the nation. And he wonders why his neighbors in Tennessee don’t admire him for denouncing them as on ‘the fallacious aspect’ of ‘an ethical query.’ I wager they’ve much more respect for his views than he does for theirs.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 15: No Liberal Media Scream this week.
■ April 8: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Reid needs jail, not airport, named for Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream revealed once more simply how straightforward it’s to make cable TV hosts affected by “Trump Derangement Syndrome” go nuts.
With Congress on Easter break, there wasn’t a lot Capitol Hill information final week. So when a report was posted a couple of GOP proposal to rename Dulles Worldwide Airport after former President Donald Trump, MSBNC turned all its weapons on the thought.
On the ReidOut, host Pleasure Reid mentioned it was unhealthy sufficient that the “worst” airport in America is called after Eisenhower-era Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. “Let’s make it worse” by naming it for Trump, she mentioned.
As an alternative, she advised that Trump’s identify be placed on a Miami jail, a reference to the authorized instances he faces, one in Florida.
She and her company, together with Ali Velshi and Fordham College professor Christina Greer, piled on. Greer even bashed Washington’s nationwide airport being renamed after former President Ronald Reagan. Reid mentioned, “Yeah, I simply name it ‘DCA.’”
From Friday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC:
JOY REID: Let’s speak just a little about this concept of renaming Dulles. Now, Dulles shouldn’t be the most effective airport — it may be the worst airport in America. The Republicans are like, “Let’s identify it after Donald Trump.” I really like the truth that it’s named after some of the diabolical secretaries of state who destroyed Iran and a bunch of Central America.
ALI VELSHI: However let’s make that worse.
REID: Let’s make it worse. Additionally, the Democrats have mentioned, “As an alternative, let’s identify a jail after Trump.” Ideas? Ideas? Ideas? Title a jail in Miami?
VELSHI: That may be a incredible concept.
…
REID: I believe it is a nice alternative for the nerds on the desk simply to speak about Allen Dulles and likewise his brother — it was John Foster Dulles, I believe, and Allen Dulles, and each of them had been concerned in destroying Guatemala and Iran.
VELSHI: Yeah.
REID: So I really feel like that’s essential, and that’s given me the chance, so, thanks, Republicans.
CHRISTINA GREER: Nicely, I imply, we’ve — they’ve already renamed Nationwide, Reagan, which I refuse to name it.
REID: Yeah, I simply name it “DCA.“
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “Glad one thing about Trump made them chuckle, a quick break from the standard full hour of irrational anger at any point out of something Trump. Naturally, Reid couldn’t disguise how her contempt for Republicans goes means past simply Trump. It’s a disdain so deep she’s nonetheless mad about Ronald Reagan getting an airport named for him and the international coverage of a president who left workplace greater than 60 years in the past.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 1: Liberal Media Scream: High editor joins CNN host in ripping MAGA with their ‘fact’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is a uncommon however deserved five-screamer by which the editor of the Cleveland Plain Supplier joins with a CNN host to sentence former President Donald Trump and his MAGA followers.
Showing on CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt, editor Chris Quinn defined why he wrote a weekend letter to readers concerning the paper’s anti-Trump protection.
He mentioned, “These are folks that watch Fox Information or Newsmax they usually consider it as a result of they — it seems credible. Then they arrive to our platforms and see the other they usually’re conflicted as a result of they like us. They learn us for the sports activities protection or the native information, or what have you ever.”
Quinn added, “This was for them. I needed to, I owed them some type of a proof. And the rationale it was so tough is I don’t need to demean them. I don’t need to criticize them. However I can’t stray from the reality. The reality is that this man is a monster. He’s the worst president in historical past and many individuals perceive that. Those that get their information from not credible sources consider what they’re listening to.”
Hunt mentioned, “You mentioned — one other piece of this to your level of what the reality is, you mentioned, ‘Belief your eyes. Trump, on Jan. 6, launched essentially the most severe menace to our system of presidency for the reason that Civil Warfare. You realize that. You noticed it.’ And simply earlier than that you simply write, ‘This isn’t subjective. All of us noticed it. Loads of leaders right now attempt to persuade the lots we didn’t see what we noticed however our eyes don’t deceive us.’”
“And I believe that that is the piece of it that will get me as a result of I used to be there on that day and I seemed out the window and I noticed these individuals making an attempt to assault the Capitol. After which, now, half of those political leaders are attempting to say no, really, that factor that you simply noticed with your personal eyes didn’t occur.”
From right now’s CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt:
KASIE HUNT: The best way to cowl former President Donald Trump is — fairly actually — one of many hardest, thorniest questions going through us as journalists. It’s one thing that I take into consideration fairly actually each single day once I get up to hitch all of you. And it’s very true within the wake of Jan. 6, which affected me each personally and professionally along with, in fact, having huge implications for our democracy. That is why this all stood out to me.
The Cleveland Plain Supplier determined they wished to handle this with their readers head-on over the weekend. The editor, Chris Quinn, writes this: “The north star right here is fact. We inform the reality, even when it offends a number of the individuals who pay us for info. The reality is that Donald Trump undermined religion in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an rebel meant to overthrow our authorities and maintain himself in energy. No president in our historical past has performed worse.”
And becoming a member of me now’s Chris Quinn. He’s the editor of the Plain Supplier and Cleveland.com. Chris, thanks a lot for being right here. It’s an honor to have you ever.
CHRIS QUINN: Good morning.
HUNT: So I cherished the way you approached this since you began along with your readers — with the individuals who write to you about this. Lots of them, in fact, are supporters of Donald Trump. And also you write a few of them are extra considerate than others, shall I say.
However that is one thing that I’ve wrestled with as a result of there are such a lot of individuals within the nation who help Donald Trump and plenty of of them have causes for doing that that need to do with the circumstances that they face. We don’t need to lose empathy for these individuals. We don’t need to not communicate to these individuals. To be, you already know, advocates and useful by way of offering these individuals with info.
However you sat down and also you grappled with this query, and also you tried to clarify why you’re doing what you’re doing in the best way that you simply’re doing it. Are you able to clarify just a little bit extra of that to all of us proper now?
QUINN: Yeah. This was a really difficult piece to jot down. It really took me virtually six months to get my ideas collectively. I get two sorts of correspondence from Trump supporters and one shouldn’t be good. It’s very condescending and sneering. And I form of chalk that as much as individuals who had felt disregarded of society. Donald Trump gave them a membership to take part in. And there’s nothing I can say or do to assist them perceive what we’re doing.
However the different half write me with nice courtesy and implore me for a proof. They are saying, “You’re dismissing a big phase of the nation while you say that Donald Trump is the monster you describe him as and I don’t see him that means. What do you say to me?”
These are folks that watch Fox Information or Newsmax they usually consider it as a result of they — it seems credible. Then they arrive to our platforms and see the other they usually’re conflicted as a result of they like us. They learn us for the sports activities protection or the native information, or what have you ever.
So this was for them. I needed to, I owed them some type of a proof. And the rationale it was so tough is I don’t need to demean them. I don’t need to criticize them. However I can’t stray from the reality. The reality is that this man is a monster. He’s the worst president in historical past and many individuals perceive that. Those that get their information from not credible sources consider what they’re listening to.
HUNT: Yeah. I’ll simply say I believe that the decline in our native media is a disaster for a lot of, many causes, however not least is that you simply, as an area paper, have a stage of belief with individuals in your communities that’s merely not attainable to ascertain when you find yourself a nationwide information group. And I believe that actually comes by means of on this piece that you simply wrote.
And also you mentioned — one other piece of this to your level of what the reality is, you mentioned, “Belief your eyes. Trump, on Jan. 6, launched essentially the most severe menace to our system of presidency for the reason that Civil Warfare. You realize that. You noticed it.” And simply earlier than that you simply write, “This isn’t subjective. All of us noticed it. Loads of leaders right now attempt to persuade the lots we didn’t see what we noticed however our eyes don’t deceive us.”
And I believe that that is the piece of it that will get me as a result of I used to be there on that day and I seemed out the window and I noticed these individuals making an attempt to assault the Capitol. After which, now, half of those political leaders are attempting to say no, really, that factor that you simply noticed with your personal eyes didn’t occur. Was it that that actually was the factor that underscored this essentially the most to you as properly?
QUINN: Yeah. And look, it’s heartbreaking what you’re seeing right now. I come from a state the place we’ve had senators like George Voinovich and John Glenn — individuals who would by no means have stood by throughout these latest years and allowed what’s occurred to occur.
And right now, we have now J.D. Vance and we would have Bernie Moreno, whose declare to fame is that they need to be puppets for Donald Trump. And it’s not what we ought to be about.
And that’s why I referenced that New Yorker piece in what I wrote as a result of the New Yorker had a e-book overview that seemed again and mentioned the rationale Hitler got here to the fore wasn’t as a result of a bunch of individuals went and voted to have a fascist chief. It was as a result of the individuals in authorities, in making an attempt to get energy for themselves, appeased him and that allowed him to rise.
That’s what we have now happening. All people is aware of what the reality is. The individuals in Congress had been there. They had been underneath menace from it. However for expedience, they’re denying it occurred.
HUNT: Do you suppose that these individuals who want to allow Donald Trump, as you say, what’s the — their stage of culpability right here? I imply, clearly, you speak about Trump, himself, and his, the actions that he takes and his position in making an attempt to hold on to energy. However these enablers, I imply, what duty do they bear?
QUINN: I believe they’ve full duty. I believe journalists who veer from the reality are going to finish up having full duty.
Look, we’re a regional newsroom and we’re doing properly. We’re really one of many native newsrooms that’s form of figured it out and we’re thriving and we’re not in any hazard of going away. However we have now our restricted affect.
And so, we’re doing what we are able to. We’re, you already know, we ask ourselves what’s the fitting factor to do right here? The precise factor to do is to name this out, to not say there’s two sides to Donald Trump. There aren’t two sides to Donald Trump. Anyone who has been watching and making an attempt to discern what the reality is right here is aware of that this man tried to destroy our complete system of presidency and can achieve this once more. Any individual has to say it.
I want individuals like Dave Joyce, a congressman from Ohio who’s a very good man, would rise up and simply denounce it. As a result of if you happen to began to have a couple of individuals of fine conscience do this, possibly we might cease this wave, which is horrifying past perception.
HUNT: Nicely, I’m very grateful that you simply took the time to hitch us right now, Chris, and I do commend studying this column. I’ll once more say that is one thing I take into consideration actually each single day as a result of we do need to be a useful resource, a spot for individuals who need to help Donald Trump or who really feel dissatisfied with the system in their very own lives. I simply needed to guarantee that these ears are persevering with to be open to us is a problem that I grapple with daily. And I actually appreciated studying this.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Together with his smug ethical superiority, Quinn encapsulates the whole lot that’s fallacious with trendy journalism. He’s determined what ‘the reality’ is and his readers higher get on board. No marvel fewer and fewer are shopping for native newspapers. They’ve grow to be simply as insulting to their readers because the nationwide media have been for many years. Incredulous that anybody might see Trump as a greater president than Biden.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 25: Liberal Media Scream: Condescending ‘Actually?’ to Rubio’s want to be Trump VP
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream reveals simply how deep the disrespect for former President Donald Trump goes within the press, particularly with those that have created a worthwhile aspect gig writing and speaking about him.
In only one phrase, ABC’s Jonathan Karl heaved up a sanctimonious putdown of Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) when the subject of the seemingly 2024 GOP presidential nominee’s decide for operating mate was raised.
Rubio has mentioned he can be honored to get the nod, as have a couple of dozen different main Republicans. What’s extra, Rubio would seemingly assist Trump add to his coalition to create a doubtlessly profitable ticket.
However all Karl needed to say was, “Actually?”
It didn’t finish there. As Rubio defined the issues President Joe Biden dumped on America, Karl couldn’t assist however complain, “You’re not suggesting that’s all occurring due to Biden?” Rubio affirmed, “Completely I’m.”
Right here’s the change on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
JON KARL: There was some reporting this week that you’re probably into consideration to be Donald Trump’s operating mate. I don’t put a whole lot of inventory on this reporting proper now. We’re early. However you mentioned it might be “an honor” to be provided a spot on his ticket. Actually?
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, I believe anybody who is obtainable the chance to serve this nation as vice chairman ought to be honored by the chance to do it if you’re in public service. I’m within the Senate as a result of I need to serve the nation. Being vice chairman is a crucial option to serve the nation. However I’ve additionally been clear. I’ve by no means talked to Donald Trump. I’ve by no means talked to anyone on his crew or household or interior circle about vice chairman. That’s a choice he’s going to make. He has loads of actually good individuals to select from.
KARL: I imply, the rationale why I requested is, I imply, look what occurred to the final man. I imply, a mob stormed the Capitol, actually calling to hold Mike Pence, and Trump defended these chants of “cling Mike Pence.”
RUBIO: I’ll let you know this, that when Donald Trump was president of the US, this nation was safer. It was extra affluent. We had relations, for instance, in part of the world that I care about referred to as the Western Hemisphere that had been very sturdy. We had a whole lot of good issues performed there. I believe the nation and the world was a greater place when he was president, and I’d like to see him return to the White Home compared to the man who’s there now, Joe Biden, who’s been a catastrophe economically.
Take a look at the world. Each single day, we get up to a brand new disaster, to a brand new battle. All the things has gone on hearth for the reason that time Joe Biden took over. Afghanistan’s gone down. Ukraine has been invaded. Now the Philippines and the Chinese language are on the verge of one thing unhealthy occurring each single day. To not point out the threats to Taiwan. And we have now this blowup in Haiti happening in our very personal hemisphere. We get up each single day, terrorist assaults, 9 million individuals throughout the border. That’s what issues to me.
KARL: However, I imply, you’re not suggesting that’s all occurring due to Biden?
RUBIO: Completely I’m. Completely I’m suggesting it’s occurring due to Biden. He’s president and his weak point and his —
KARL: It’s due to Biden that Russia invaded Ukraine?
RUBIO: Completely.
KARL: It’s due to Biden that Haiti?
RUBIO: Completely. I imply Putin is sitting there, saying these guys can’t even stand as much as the Taliban they usually need to fly individuals hanging off the wings of those airplanes. Now could be the time to go.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How boastful and condescending for a broadcast community TV host to scoff at a U.S. senator for saying he’d be ‘honored’ to function the vice presidential candidate of his get together. After which, to behave astonished over a standard Republican speaking level about President Biden’s international coverage failures exhibits Karl is little greater than a liberal political operative within the guise of a journalist who’s incredulous that anybody might see Trump as a greater president than Biden.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 18: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Massacre’ is what media are doing to Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream focuses on the media and President Joe Biden’s distortion of former President Donald Trump’s warning of an financial “massacre” if he’s not returned to the White Home to cease China’s dumping of autos within the U.S. underneath Biden.
The media, and now the Biden marketing campaign, pulled the phrase out of a protracted Trump clarification at an Ohio political rally of auto gross sales to make it sound like he was calling for a civil battle if he’s not elected.
It’s similar to what the media did after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and spelled out how they’d deal with a President Trump if given an opportunity.
Main that pretend rant over the weekend was ABC and a visitor on This Week, New York journal’s Susan Glasser, previously with the liberal-left Washington Publish and Politico.
With none signal of embarrassment for distorting Trump’s phrases, Glasser ranted on about how threatening Trump is.
In workplace, Trump did assail reporters for his or her “pretend information” and overwhelming bias but additionally was essentially the most accessible and talkative president throughout his one time period. He adopted an Obama-Biden administration that was condemned by journalists for avoiding reporters and utilizing know-how to go across the media.
Susan Glasser on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
“Donald Trump, it appears to me, it’s very exhausting eight years into this. We nonetheless battle with the way to cowl him as journalists, however in a means, the unhinged, rambling rants that you simply see from the previous president of the US are baked in, and I believe, in a means, we’re all desensitized and inured to the extraordinary, outstanding and really at occasions un-American and threatening issues that the previous president is saying.
“I’m not saying it’s straightforward to grasp the way to cowl it, however I believe we have now to cowl it when the previous president, who’s already incited violence amongst his followers, says that there’s going to be a massacre after the election if he doesn’t win. He’s telling us what he’s going to do. …
I’m sorry. I simply need to say one thing. Like Donald Trump is attacking, in a broad-brush sense, the fundamental pillars of American democracy. Interval. Full cease. If that’s not information to you. It’s not about tariffs. That’s not the rationale why hundreds of thousands of People are supporting Donald Trump. Let’s be actual about that.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Sure, after eight years of fixed hyperventilating by journalists, over supposed outrageous feedback from Donald Trump, many have grow to be ‘inured,’ nevertheless it’s not journalists. It’s the general public to the media’s unending scare-mongering about Trump bringing an finish to ‘the fundamental pillars of American democracy.’ Glasser’s reply: Double down and get extra journalists to be much more aggressive in denouncing Trump. Good luck with that, convincing anybody who has already tuned out such vitriol.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 11: Liberal Media Scream: Hollywood freaks over Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
Hollywood’s awards season has lastly ended and in completely regular election-year trend: Tinseltown freaking out over former President Donald Trump’s attainable return to the White Home.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel received a retort from Trump after he blasted the previous president and his Republican allies. Kimmel responded, “Nicely, thanks, President Trump. Thanks for watching. I’m stunned you’re nonetheless — isn’t it previous your jail time?”
However his shruggable efficiency was far outdone by the indignant venting of actor Robert De Niro, who stepped up his assaults on Trump.
On Friday, De Niro happy Invoice Maher’s viewers by blasting Trump. “Vote for Trump and also you’ll get the nightmare. Vote for Biden and it is going to be again to normalcy,” he started.
To laughter and applause from Maher’s Los Angeles studio viewers, De Niro marveled at how anybody might help Trump. He referred to as the poll-leading former president “a complete monster” who will set up a “dictatorship.” Extra insults adopted: “sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist,” in addition to an “fool” and “clown.”
From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:
ROBERT DE NIRO: The underside line is: It’s Biden vs. Trump. We need to reside in a world that we need to reside in and luxuriate in residing in or reside in a nightmare? Vote for Trump and also you’ll get the nightmare. Vote for Biden and it is going to be again to normalcy. …
The man is a complete monster, and anyone, I don’t perceive it. I suppose they get behind the form of logic: They need to f*** with individuals, screw them as a result of they’re sad about one thing. He’s such a imply, nasty, hateful particular person. I’d by no means play him as an actor as a result of I can’t see any good in him — nothing, nothing in any respect, nothing redeemable in him. Whoever the individuals are who need to vote for him, they usually appear to be clever individuals round there, for some purpose, it could actually’t be, it can’t be. If he wins the election, you gained’t be on the present anymore. He’ll come in search of me. They’ll be issues that occurred that none of us can think about. That’s what occurs in that form of a dictatorship — which is what he says. Let’s consider him. Take him at his phrase.
He’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. He’s a harmful particular person … the individuals who in some way suppose he’s going to be the reply to their prayers, no matter these are.
BILL MAHER: Do you know him as fellow New Yorkers?
DE NIRO: By no means wished to know him.
MAHER: By no means wished to, you have to have crossed —
DE NIRO: He was an fool. He was a clown. He was a clown in New York.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Rants like this from pretentious Hollywood celebrities most likely drive extra to vote for Trump than dissuade anybody from supporting him. What number of care concerning the all-too-predictable left-wing political beliefs of lefties in Hollywood who all the time denounce the Republican candidate and advocate for the Democratic one? Not anybody who’s drawn to Trump.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 4: Liberal Media Scream: Media position is reeducating you on greatness of Bidenomics
(Washington Examiner submit)
President Joe Biden has apparently realized that pitching “Bidenomics” is a loser politically, however his White Home forgot to inform its media echo chamber.
In accordance with an Points & Insights report, Biden has “ditched” the time period, with the report noting Biden and his White Home used the time period 59 occasions final July. By final month, it received a point out simply 10 occasions.
That is sensible since most polls present that the general public seen the time period negatively as a result of they really feel that the financial system is poor and that costs are unjustifiably excessive.
However the well-paid Washington media thinks the general public is silly and must be reeducated on simply how nice Bidenomics is for them.
For instance, this week’s Liberal Media Scream options longtime editor and columnist Margaret Sullivan telling fellow anti-Trumper Christiane Amanpour that it’s as much as them to verify individuals perceive the implications of their wrong-headedness.
“You realize,” Sullivan mentioned on Amanpour’s present, “individuals suppose that the financial system shouldn’t be doing properly. You realize, do our public service mission, which is to verify, as certain as we are able to, that we have now an knowledgeable voters. Whose fault is that? Nicely, it’s partly the fault of the media. And I believe that that should be rectified.”
From Saturday’s The Amanpour Hour on CNN
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: The horse race and an age-old dilemma. Why the obsession over Biden’s age misses the purpose.
MARGARET SULLIVAN, GUARDIAN: I ponder whether individuals are as conscious of Trump’s authoritarian plans as they’re of Biden’s age.
AMANPOUR: My subsequent visitor says sufficient is sufficient with the media’s hyperbolic herd mentality protection of Biden’s age and competency. Critic, columnist, and educational Margaret Sullivan urges us to get actual concerning the points as a result of this election is about way more than, quote, “chasing clicks.”
SULLIVAN: I believe that the leaders of main American information organizations ought to have entrance and heart of their minds, and be speaking to their staffs, that that is an especially consequential election and we ought to be doing our public service position that it’s not a lot about chasing the newest clicks and the newest horse race protection however fairly to guarantee that we’re getting the stakes of the race throughout to individuals.
You realize, individuals suppose that the financial system shouldn’t be doing properly. You realize, do our public service mission, which is to verify, as certain as we are able to, that we have now an knowledgeable voters. Whose fault is that? Nicely, it’s partly the fault of the media. And I believe that that should be rectified.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What Margaret Sullivan advocates is precisely why the media have misplaced all credibility and belief for many People. She’s determined Trump is simply too harmful to be president, so journalists ought to throw away all requirements of journalism by brazenly becoming a member of Staff Biden to persuade voters of Biden’s virtues whereas downplaying his negatives. After which journalists marvel why they’re seen in such low esteem when they’re little greater than Democratic Occasion operatives.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 26: Liberal Media Scream: Trump Derangement Syndrome flies off the charts
(Washington Examiner submit)
The media have been on a rantfest recently, warning that former President Donald Trump will finish democracy and execute his enemies.
Simply think about what Bob Costas mentioned over the weekend. “It’s important to be within the throes of some type of poisonous delusion in a poisonous cult to consider that Donald Trump has ever been, in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically match to be president of the US,” he mentioned.
However that’s nothing in comparison with our Liberal Media Scream deal with Tom Schaller, the writer of White Rural Rage: The Risk to American Democracy, who went additional to assault the half of the nation that has supported Trump over time.
White rural voters, he advised MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski, “are essentially the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay geodemographic group within the nation. … They’re essentially the most conspiracist group: QAnon help and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birthism.” And that’s simply the beginning of his 5 scream rant.
From Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: As we barrel towards a probable rematch of the 2020 election, one candidate continues to have a maintain over white rural voters. However it’s not Joe Biden, seen right here as a boy on the fitting aspect of your display screen, who went to public college, is the son of a used automobile salesman, and was born to a middle-class household in Scranton, Pennsylvania. As an alternative, it’s Trump, right here on the left aspect, a non-public school-educated son of a New York Metropolis actual property tycoon who grew to become a millionaire at 8 years outdated and didn’t need to serve as a result of he claimed he had bone spurs in his little ft. So, why is it that Trump appeals a lot to a gaggle he couldn’t be extra totally different from?
Becoming a member of us now, professor of political science on the College of Maryland, Baltimore County, Tom Schaller, and journalist and opinion author Paul Waldman. Their new e-book out tomorrow is entitled, White Rural Rage: The Risk to American Democracy. Tom, I’ll begin with you. Why are white rural voters a menace to democracy at this level? You’ll suppose, as we identified, taking a look at Joe Biden’s background and Donald Trump’s, that the other can be true.
TOM SCHALLER: “We lay out the fourfold interconnected menace that white rural voters pose to the nation. To begin with, we present 30 polls and nationwide research that show this. So we offer the receipts in Chapter 6. They’re essentially the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay geodemographic group within the nation.
“Second, they’re essentially the most conspiracist group: QAnon help and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birthism. Third, anti-democratic sentiments. They don’t consider in an impartial press — free speech. They’re most definitely to say the president ought to be capable of act unilaterally with out checks from Congress or the courts or the paperwork. They’re additionally essentially the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalists. And fourth, they’re most definitely to excuse or justify violence as acceptable various to peaceable public discourse…
“I believe that is the disconnect, proper? They’d fairly channel their rage. I believe what a whole lot of white rural People have determined is that their financial fortunes are determined by globalization and admittedly, late-stage capitalism, which is consuming up all of the mother and pop shops and taking away the extractive industries, in coal and farming and so forth, so they may as properly vote on their tradition points, they may as properly vote on God, weapons, and faith as a result of they really feel like neither get together goes to ship any materials profit.
“They’re not going to reverse the closure of rural pharmacies and rural hospitals and rural healthcare services, that are disappearing not due to communism and never due to socialism however due to capitalism, proper? Rural pharmacies and hospitals are closing as a result of they’re not moneymakers, and except they’re a part of a regional chain, they’re disappearing. So Trump is available in and says, let’s simply hate on cities, let’s simply hate on minorities, let’s hate on immigrants, and at the least they will ship on that. And they also’re not even voting of their materials curiosity anymore, and that’s inflicting an extra decay and decline of rural communities.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “So, if a category of voters prefers a candidate you don’t like, it couldn’t be that they only have a differing opinion with which you’ll be able to respectfully disagree. No, you have to impugn and demean them to discredit their irrational choice for the candidate you condescendingly have determined shouldn’t be of their finest curiosity. And since this makes MSNBC viewers really feel superior, you get a welcoming platform on the left-wing cable channel’s morning present.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 19: Liberal Media Scream: Colbert says Trump ‘going to jail’ higher than intercourse
(Washington Examiner submit)
Bear in mind when late-night comedy exhibits had been humorous as a substitute of being populated by left-wing lecturers?
Living proof in our weekly Liberal Media Scream is Late Present host Stephen Colbert. Together with many individuals final week, he watched the televised testimony of Fulton County, Georgia, District Lawyer Fani Willis and her clarification of her affair with an legal professional she put in command of the election case towards former President Donald Trump.
“How good was this intercourse? Ok to danger democracy over?” he requested in his monologue.
Colbert then added, “You realize what feels actually good? Donald Trump going to jail. That — that, my associates — is what they name an actual completely happy ending.”
From Thursday’s Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS:
STEPHEN COLBERT: Now, I don’t know who’s telling the reality right here but, however I’ll say exchanging enterprise playing cards isn’t precisely a meet cute. The film’s not referred to as When Harry Networked with Sally. Now, at one level, Willis had had sufficient and actually laid into opposing counsel.
FANI WILLIS: You’re confused; you suppose I’m on trial. These individuals are on trial for making an attempt to steal an election in 2020. I’m not on trial, regardless of how exhausting you attempt to put me on trial.
COLBERT: Rattling straight. Yeah. That’s proper. That’s proper. Right here’s the factor. Sure, it’s true Donald Trump and his associates are on trial on this, some of the essential instances within the historical past of our republic. So, and, I’ve simply received one follow-up query right here: Provided that if you’re faraway from the prosecution, it might delay this trial till after the election: How good was the intercourse? Ok to danger democracy over? As a result of I’ve by no means had intercourse that good. You realize what feels actually good? Donald Trump going to jail. That — that, my associates — is what they name the actual completely happy ending.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Liberals like to complain that Donald Trump has damaged many norms, however outstanding leisure media figures like Colbert have destroyed late-night TV. It was a comedy refuge from hard-edged politics, however Colbert is utilizing his present to advance left-wing speaking factors and push his hate of Trump and conservatives within the guise of comedy. It’s not humorous, and a legend like Johnny Carson, whose political jokes had been light-hearted and chided each side, is rolling over in his grave.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 12: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC host laughably says press towards Biden
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream has LOL written throughout it.
Think about any cable information present host claiming that the media has a damaging bias towards President Joe Biden. LOL, proper?
That’s what occurred on Sunday’s Meet the Press when MSNBC host Jen Psaki mentioned the media confirmed its bias when it merely repeated what the almost 400-page report from particular counsel Robert Hur mentioned concerning the president’s foggy thoughts.
Psaki, who was Biden’s first White Home press secretary, complained that the media ought to be attacking former President Donald Trump, not her former boss.
“For those who’re sitting within the White Home and on the marketing campaign proper now, you’re completely banging your head towards the wall on the means that the Thursday report has been coated, given the entire issues” Trump has mentioned and performed, she mentioned.
From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
JEN PSAKI: For those who’re sitting within the White Home and on the marketing campaign proper now, you’re completely banging your head towards the wall on the means that the Thursday report has been coated, given the entire issues which have occurred this week, together with, and I do know you requested Chris Christie about this, the truth that Donald Trump yesterday advised that Vladimir Putin ought to have free rein in attacking NATO allies, and what will we see is wall-to-wall protection of whether or not a man who’s 4 years older than his opponent is simply too outdated to be president.
KRISTEN WELKER: And we’re going to get to NATO. Go forward.
BRENDAN BUCK, former spokesman to ex-speaker Paul Ryan: A part of that job, to convey that to the entrance is, it’s the president’s job to convey that out and assault his opponent. I imply, the president shouldn’t be taking the chance on Tremendous Bowl Sunday. He’s not taking, actually, any alternatives. And we hear, again and again —
PSAKI: To begin with, that’s not true. It’s not being coated. He has traveled simply as a lot as Donald Trump, as Barack Obama. It’s exhausting to interrupt by means of the cloud of Donald Trump on this media surroundings. That’s true.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “A media hostile to a liberal trigger or Democratic politician is such a novelty that liberal political operatives like Jen Psaki simply can’t know it. After three-plus years of sycophantic protection of Joe Biden, he will get a couple of days of damaging protection, and she or he lashes out on the media for daring to briefly act as actual journalists. Welcome to the world endured daily for many years by conservatives and Republicans.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 5: Liberal Media Scream: Kristen Welker likes to lecture Republicans, too
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a have a look at new Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker’s therapy of Republican leaders. And shock — not — she continues to be simply as biased as former host Chuck Todd.
First, she lectured Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the border invoice launched by the Senate on Sunday. “You are actually the speaker of the Home. Do you not have a duty to your voters, to the individuals who put you in workplace, to handle what you may have referred to as a disaster and disaster? Isn’t one thing higher than nothing?” she mentioned.
Then, she handed alongside the Democratic speaking level that after three years of aggressively enacting open border insurance policies, “Joe Biden mentioned he would shut down the border.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
KRISTEN WELKER: You’ve got been calling for legislative change to really take care of this downside. You are actually the speaker of the Home. Do you not have a duty to your voters, to the individuals who put you in workplace, to handle what you may have referred to as a disaster and disaster? Isn’t one thing higher than nothing?
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: Kristen, we did that. We did that 9 months in the past. And since we handed our measure within the Home to resolve this downside, and the rationale we needed to do it’s as a result of we noticed that President Biden was not fulfilling his obligation underneath the legislation. That’s why it’s such a failure of management, however we did our half. And by the best way, since then, within the 9 months since that invoice sat on [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer’s desk, gathering mud, 1.8 million illegals have been allowed into this nation, welcomed into the nation, despatched across the nation into each group — communities close to everybody listening and watching this morning. And that may be a disaster, and the American individuals understand it, and that’s a part of the rationale that Joe Biden has the bottom approval ranking of any president going through reelection.
WELKER: Even former President Trump, although, referred to as for legislative change on this situation. You’ve got one of many slimmest majorities within the Home in historical past. Don’t it’s a must to compromise to get one thing performed? What you handed within the Home can’t cross within the Senate, Mr. Speaker. You realize that.
JOHNSON: We’re prepared to work. We’re prepared to work with the Senate. I’m not disclosing that, and I’ve been very constant for the hundred days that I’ve had the gavel. We’re prepared to work, however they need to be severe about it. For those who solely do a couple of of these parts, you aren’t going to resolve the issue, and Kristen, that’s not a Republican speaking level. That’s what the sheriffs on the border, the Border Patrol brokers, the deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol, a 33-year veteran of the company, advised us. He mentioned that it’s as if we’re administering an open hearth hydrant. He mentioned, “I don’t want extra buckets,” just like the president has proposed. I must cease the circulate, and we all know how to do this, however Joe Biden is unwilling to do it.
WELKER: Let me ask you about your determination, and by the best way, Joe Biden mentioned he would shut down the border. He’s calling for extra funding. He’s calling so that you can cross this laws.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “An ideal instance of a so-called journalist serving as an advocate for Washington’s media-political institution, demanding a recalcitrant conservative get in line and undertake the accredited narrative.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ January 29, 2024: No Liberal Media Scream this week.
■ January 22, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: Washington Publish’s Rubin needs Trump ‘fascists’ reeducated
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options widespread Washington Publish columnist Jennifer Rubin doubling down on her By no means Trump marketing campaign.
Showing on the MSNBC weekend present Velshi precisely a yr from Inauguration Day, the onetime conservative opinion author mentioned that the lots showing at former President Donald Trump’s rallies “are a part of a fascist cult.”
And, she added, “they’re impervious to any form of knowledge, any form of info. However what it’s a must to do, if you happen to care about democracy, is mobilize the individuals who already know that he’s a hazard and reaffirm and reeducate the people who find themselves maybe form of flirting within the center — they’re gentle Republicans, they’re by no means Republicans — concerning the hazard of going again to Trump.”
Rubin on MSNBC’s Velshi on Saturday:
“Why it’s maybe essential to go to considered one of these rallies is to grasp why he does have supporters. These individuals are a part of a fascist cult. And let’s be sincere, there are a whole lot of them. However a whole lot of them doesn’t imply that they’re behaving logically or rationally. On the contrary, we’ve seen in different fascist regimes that hundreds of thousands of individuals, generally even a majority of the nation, turns into intoxicated with an authoritarian determine, and these individuals are totally irrational. For those who communicate to a few of them, they are going to spit again these bizarro conspiracy theories. They really consider in the entire mumbo-jumbo that he tells them.
“So I believe it might be a wake-up name about what these individuals are about, and, no, we’re not going to persuade people who find themselves a part of the cult to change. As you say, they’re impervious to any form of knowledge, any form of info. However what it’s a must to do, if you happen to care about democracy, is mobilize the individuals who already know that he’s a hazard and reaffirm and reeducate the people who find themselves maybe form of flirting within the center — they’re gentle Republicans, they’re by no means Republicans — concerning the hazard of going again to Trump. And I believe that’s the job between now and November, and that’s the problem for the Biden administration.”
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How condescending of Rubin to be so snug denigrating supporters of a presidential candidate she despises with some of the vile insults. Simply because she hates Trump doesn’t make these going to his rallies, the very embodiment of democracy in motion, ‘fascists.’ No matter occurred to liberals desirous to broaden participation within the democratic course of?”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ January 15, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Mika all in to assist Biden’s reelection
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, fawning over first woman Jill Biden in an indication of the place the cable community stands earlier than the 2024 presidential major season begins.
With straightforward questions quizzing Biden about her favourite emoji to dismissing chants of “Let’s go Brandon” that also comply with the president, Brzezinski placed on an in a position protection of the Biden White Home.
Among the many questions posed to the primary woman was this: “The division on this nation, the cruelty of MAGA Republicans towards your loved ones. Does any a part of you every now and then suppose, ugh, possibly we bow out?”
The questions had been a part of Brzezinski’s Know Your Worth “motion.” Our companions on the Media Analysis Heart highlighted these from final Thursday’s present and right now’s occasion on the White Home:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: You’ve been married to President Joe Biden for 46 years. There have been Senate races, three presidential campaigns, eight years of your husband serving as vice chairman. Unthinkable private loss and problem, and now democracy is on the poll. What do you suppose while you hear individuals say, “Nicely, I simply can’t vote for Joe Biden this election?” What’s it that they might not learn about him at this level, particularly when the choice appears to need to change this nation so radically?
BRZEZINSKI: Doubtlessly one other 4 years within the White Home. With the whole lot you do right here, does yet one more one offer you any pause pondering of, like, the non-public well being and well-being for each of you? The division on this nation, the cruelty of MAGA Republicans towards your loved ones. Does any a part of you every now and then suppose, ugh, possibly we bow out?
BRZEZINSKI: How have you ever been coping personally with the onslaught of accusations towards your husband and your loved ones, together with and particularly Hunter, the main focus of a Home Oversight Committee listening to holding, holding him in contempt, obsessing over him, exhibiting footage of him throughout weak moments in his battle with dependancy on the ground of the Home. This is able to crush any household.
BRZEZINSKI: What do you suppose while you hear Trump Republicans calling it “Biden crime household” or one congresswoman, “The Biden crime household bought out America,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, “He’s a liar, he’s mentally incompetent,” and let’s not even speak about what “Let’s go Brandon” means. However you may have U.S. senators holding indicators that say that.
….
BRZEZINSKI: Your favourite emoji?JILL BIDEN: Oh, my gosh. The turquoise coronary heart.
BRZEZINSKI: Turquoise coronary heart?
BIDEN: Yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: I don’t have the turquoise coronary heart on my telephone. What does that imply?
BIDEN: It’s just like the seashore. It’s calm.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, I like that.
BIDEN: Colour of the ocean.
BRZEZINSKI: Do I sort out turquoise coronary heart? Consolation meals?
BIDEN: Oh, french fries.
BRZEZINSKI: Umm. Yeah, yeah.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Mika Brzezinski is all in on the reelection of Joe Biden. First woman Jill Biden picked properly in choosing Brzezinski to interview her, assured she wouldn’t be challenged as they each might commiserate with how terrible Trump is and the way imply Republicans are to her household, topped by letting her tout the turquoise coronary heart emoji. How informative.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ January 8, 2024: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos judges Trump an insurrectionist, unqualified for 2024
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is a five-screamer that includes an ABC host and former Clinton handler performing as decide, jury, and executioner of former President Donald Trump and his effort to stay on the 2024 major ballots and let voters, not partisan state officers, resolve his destiny.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, on his Sunday present This Week, was quizzing his panel concerning the campaigns in some states to declare Trump ineligible for election as a result of an official determined that the previous president triggered a 14th Modification ban on insurrectionists.
On his present, which occurred the day after the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, considered one of his panelists advised the Supreme Court docket will resolve Trump is responsible however that it is going to be as much as Congress and never the states to erase the GOP front-runner’s identify from the ballots.
“For those who say he engaged in rebel,” Stephanopoulos mentioned, “I don’t see how one can escape the plain that means of the 14th Modification and say he’s certified to run for workplace.”
Panelist Donna Brazile, an influential liberal and former performing Democratic Occasion chairwoman, advised her host, “I completely agree with you, George.”
From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Sarah, what’s your guess on what the court docket does right here?
SARAH ISGUR, SENIOR EDITOR OF THE DISPATCH: I believe you’ll have the Supreme Court docket maintain that he’s not disqualified from being on the poll. They’ll overturn the Colorado Supreme Court docket.
STEPHANOPOULOS: The query is, how will they do it although?
ISGUR: Appropriate. I believe they’ll say that, in actual fact, the 14th Modification makes clear it’s as much as Congress. If Congress can requalify somebody by a two-thirds vote, there’s no timeline on that. Which implies that, you already know, as one of many amicus briefs has identified, it’s actually presupposed to be post-elections about holding workplace, not operating for workplace. And so I believe they’ll say it’s actually Congress’s job. The states can’t make up their very own commonplace. Is it past an inexpensive doubt? Is it extra seemingly than not? Et cetera. What’s fascinating to me will probably be whether or not or not the Supreme Court docket goes out of their means as a way to get these three, Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson votes, in saying, “Sure, it was an rebel, and sure, he engaged in it, nevertheless it’s as much as Congress.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: I don’t see how they will do this, Donna Brazile. For those who say he engaged in rebel, was the query I requested Nancy Pelosi, I don’t see how one can escape the plain that means of the 14th Modification and say he’s certified to run for workplace.
DONNA BRAZILE: I completely agree with you, George.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “One other instance of how Stephanopoulos stays a Democratic partisan first, a journalist a distant second. No true journalist would weigh in with a definitive conclusion on what the Supreme Court docket ought to do weeks earlier than a ruling on such a contentious situation which divides People. Stephanopoulos has clearly put himself within the camp with those that need to deny the general public’s means to vote for whomever they like. A lot for saving democracy from Trump while you need to subvert the method.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ December 25, 2023 and January 1, 2024: No Liberal Media Screams these weeks.
■ December 18, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: Scaremonger Scarborough: Trump will ‘execute’ foes, crush ‘American experiment’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough’s newest anti-Trump ranting.
The host, whose earlier declare that former President Donald Trump will “execute” foes ought to he be reelected gained the Media Analysis Heart’s “Worst Quote of the Yr,” mentioned on Monday that Trump would destroy America’s democracy, too.
“A yr from now, it might be over, the American experiment at an finish one yr from now,” Scarborough mentioned in feedback we graded a uncommon 5 out of 5 “liberal media screams.”
His feedback are clearly what the newest Rasmussen Stories survey was tapping into when it discovered that extra voters than ever consider the left bias within the media has reached a brand new excessive. The feedback additionally increase a query about what scaremongering liberal media figures will probably be saying in 11 months if Trump is on the verge of beating President Joe Biden.
Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe in a dialogue with Politico’s Jonathan Lemire:
“One yr from now, it might be over. American democracy might be over. Donald Trump, one yr from now, might win. He’s advised us what he’s going to do. After I say American democracy goes to be over, I haven’t mentioned this. Donald Trump is the man who mentioned it. He’s the one speaking about executing generals that aren’t loyal sufficient to him, a man that’s speaking about terminating the Structure if it will get in the best way of his energy. He’s the man that’s speaking about taking off information networks he disagrees with. He’s the one speaking about prosecuting and placing in jail individuals who disagree with him. He’s the one saying that.
“So, a yr from now, it might be over, the American experiment at an finish one yr from now. So, let me ask you, with that being the case and with Joe Biden’s ballot numbers getting worse, why is the White Home going round singing, ‘Don’t fear, be completely happy’? As a result of that’s principally what they’re saying. Why does Joe Biden nonetheless have all of his marketing campaign individuals contained in the White Home? When are they going to exit and begin engaged on the marketing campaign — not of his lifetime, of our lifetime? When are they going to start out performing like American democracy is on the road and cease telling all people to not fear?”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, defined our weekly decide: “Saying day after day after day the identical excessive ‘the sky is falling’ warning to attempt to scare his viewers about Trump ending democracy is doing nothing however making Scarborough look each bit as unhinged as he needs individuals to see Trump. It might be catnip for MSNBC viewers, however Scarborough has grow to be a parody of somebody caught inside a Trump Derangement Syndrome whirlwind unable to make cogent criticisms.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ December 11: Liberal Media Scream: PBS runs interference for Biden over Hunter scandals
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the efforts of Public TV and a Washington Publish columnist to deflect the newest felony indictment of first son Hunter Biden away from President Joe Biden.
Following the tax prices filed by the Justice Division towards Hunter Biden, the PBS NewsHour was keen to inform viewers on Friday that it noticed no connection to the president.
Anchor Geoff Bennett began with the “context” that Hunter Biden “doesn’t work within the White Home for his father in the best way that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did. And the indictment doesn’t in any means implicate President Joe Biden.”
PBS visitor Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Publish additionally ran block for Biden. “For Republicans to attempt to make a connection between Hunter Biden and making an attempt to say that, ‘Nicely, if you happen to’re going to go after Trump, properly, why shouldn’t we go after Biden?’ these are two fully totally different instances,” he lectured.
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
GEOFF BENNETT: So, let’s begin with the newest authorized hassle going through Hunter Biden, with the essential context that Hunter Biden’s a non-public citizen. He isn’t in search of, nor has he ever held, public workplace. He doesn’t work within the White Home for his father in the best way that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did. And the indictment doesn’t in any means implicate President Joe Biden.
And but it will actually add to the issues, the political issues, going through this White Home, as Home Republicans, Jonathan, zero in on Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings as a part of their very own investigations.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: As a part of their very own investigations which were happening for years now, they usually’ve been utilizing the president’s son, the president’s troubled son, to attempt to sully the president. And up to now, they’ve give you nothing, regardless that, subsequent week, apparently, they’re going to be voting on, you already know, to authorize an impeachment inquiry, making an attempt to make connections that aren’t there.
Look, while you learn the indictment, while you hear concerning the indictment, it’s unhealthy. I imply, it’s not good. It’s not good in any respect. However we’re speaking about somebody, as you — I’m glad you set that correct context there. He’s an grownup. He has not held workplace. He’s not sought workplace. He’s not working for his father.
The one factor is, is that he — his father is president of the US. He’s being held accountable. And I take — I agree with [Hunter Biden’s lawyer] Abbe Lowell that, if his final identify weren’t Biden, he most likely wouldn’t even have these prices. They’d have labored it out.
However he’s going through the implications, and he’s going by means of the authorized avenues which might be afforded to him. And for Republicans to attempt to make a connection between Hunter Biden and making an attempt to say that, ‘Nicely, if you happen to’re going to go after Trump, properly, why shouldn’t we go after Biden?’ these are two fully totally different instances.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “You possibly can virtually really feel by means of the display screen how uncomfortable the PBS crew was to even cowl this story, however they realized they needed to at the least point out it, in order that they poured on the caveats so their viewers wouldn’t be burdened with any info which may harm their notion of President Biden. It’s the precise reverse tack they take with Donald Trump, the place any allegations round him are amplified and mentioned advert nauseam.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ December 4: Liberal Media Scream: Media eagerly crew with Liz Cheney to undermine Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the outstanding teaming of the media with conservative Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney to cease former President Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.
Repeating her success in profitable Democrats to her trigger after the Jan. 6 riots and in her No. 2 position on the Home Jan. 6 panel, the media have eagerly opened its finest exhibits for her to speak about her new e-book and marketing campaign towards Trump.
The media have helped to advertise her e-book and supplied high platforms, notably on CBS Sunday Morning, the place she warned that “one of many issues we see right now is type of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the US.”
In interviewing her about Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, John Dickerson provided the right set-up query: “If an individual is a member of Congress they usually have sworn an oath to defend the Structure, can they defend the Structure and likewise endorse Donald Trump?”
Cheney replied: “You possibly can’t be for Donald Trump and for the Structure. It’s important to select.”
The media’s deal with the e-book has helped it into the No. 1 spot on Amazon on Monday, a day earlier than it’s launched.
From Sunday’s CBS Information Sunday Morning:
JOHN DICKERSON: After shedding her 2022 Republican major, Cheney traded the U.S. Capitol dome for the Thomas Jefferson-designed rotunda on the College of Virginia, the place she has been lecturing on politics and writing a brand new e-book, Oath and Honor.
Let me ask you about that oath. If an individual is a member of Congress they usually have sworn an oath to defend the Structure, can they defend the Structure and likewise endorse Donald Trump?
LIZ CHENEY: No. It’s inconsistent.
DICKERSON: So, they’re breaking with their oath by saying they want him to be the following president?
CHENEY: For my part, you already know, basically, there’s a option to be made. You possibly can’t each be for Donald Trump and for the Structure. It’s important to select.
DICKERSON: It’s lots of people who’re selecting Donald Trump.
CHENEY: Yeah, it’s.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Normally, to earn such a laudatory CBS Information phase to your e-book, it have to be revealed by CBS-owned Simon & Schuster. However Dickerson and CBS are so enthralled together with her quest to destroy Trump and anybody Trump-adjacent that regardless of having Little, Brown and Firm as her writer, they went into full promotion mode, cuing up her speaking factors with no pushback.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ November 27: Liberal Media Scream: Publish reporter says ‘sources’ fret public’s lack of credit score for Biden ‘successes’
(Washington Examiner submit)
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we have now the newest instance of a journalist contained in the Beltway involved that President Joe Biden simply isn’t getting the credit score he deserves for “Bidenomics,” the Center East disaster, or just about anything.
Regardless of two years of polling that exhibits the general public doesn’t purchase the White Home spin that their life is best underneath the Democratic administration, the Washington Publish’s Leigh Ann Caldwell on Sunday’s Meet the Press cited “my sources” complaining that Biden is getting handled just like the no-respect funnyman Rodney Dangerfield.
“My sources are saying President Biden doesn’t get a whole lot of credit score, not solely on this, however on a complete host of issues,” she mentioned in addressing the hostage releases over the weekend.
However possibly there’s hope, she added, that Biden will get the credit score she says he deserves if his crew simply sells it higher. “They’ve a whole lot of work to do to as soon as once more, like I mentioned, attempt to get credit score for the successes that he’s had over the previous two years which he retains on getting blamed for the whole lot unhealthy that’s occurred.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press:
KRISTEN WELKER: Leigh Ann, I need to begin with you. This can be a enormous take a look at for President Biden. And clearly now, the stress’s on to launch the People. How is that this enjoying for him politically, do you suppose?
LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: Nicely, clearly it’ll be nice if People are launched with these hostages. However my sources are saying that President Biden additionally doesn’t get a whole lot of credit score for his successes, not solely on this, however on a complete host of issues. In order that does concern Democrats on Capitol Hill….
Yeah, Bidenomics has actually been, grow to be a damaging phrase, particularly amongst Democrats, as a result of it’s not working. I used to be texting with some Democratic members of Congress final night time simply making an attempt to get a learn over the vacation weekend, what they’re listening to at dwelling and what individuals are saying, and these members mentioned that it’s simply not wanting good for President Biden politically on the market, that he would most likely lose some swing states if the election had been held right now. In order that they have a whole lot of work to do to as soon as once more, like I mentioned, attempt to get credit score for the successes that he’s had over the previous two years which he retains on getting blamed for the whole lot unhealthy that’s occurred.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Caldwell maintained Democrats ‘have a whole lot of work to do to as soon as once more, like I mentioned, attempt to get credit score for the successes’ President Biden has ‘had over the previous two years,’ however she’s clearly simply as invested as any liberal Democrat in advancing that narrative to assist Biden. And in that curiosity, she displays a lot of the press corps which need to affect the result, as confirmed by how complaints that Biden isn’t getting the credit score he supposedly deserves have grow to be a standard media theme.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ November 20: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Jonathan Karl says he wrote e-book to warn voters away from Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic the newest instance of the legacy media going from self-appointed on the spot fact-checkers on former President Donald Trump to out-and-out enemies.
The selection is ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who admitted that he wrote his newest e-book on Trump to warn America about him.
Requested on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS why Trump is main the Republican nomination contest, Karl mentioned that “superficially” there’s “a way” that issues had been higher in the course of the Trump presidency. And, he added of his just-released Uninterested in Successful: Donald Trump and the Finish of the Grand Outdated Occasion, “that’s why I wrote this e-book.”
He defined that “if individuals are going to enter this subsequent election serious about that, in addition they must be pondering, not nearly what Trump was, however what he’s now and what he’s proposing and planning on doing, what a second Trump administration would appear to be. And I don’t suppose individuals have come to phrases with that in any respect.”
Karl on Thursday’s The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS:
“I believe a part of what’s occurred is individuals look again. There’s anxiousness within the nation. Individuals have financial anxiousness. There’s discontent with Joe Biden and I believe there’s some superficially a way like ‘Look, if we might solely return to 4 years in the past, the world was comparatively at peace, inflation was low, the whole lot was —’ I believe there’s a few of that and that’s why I wrote this e-book as a result of if individuals are going to enter this subsequent election serious about that, in addition they must be pondering, not nearly what Trump was, however what he’s now and what he’s proposing and planning on doing, what a second Trump administration would appear to be. And I don’t suppose individuals have come to phrases with that in any respect.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Karl’s quest is the very definition of improper political advocacy by a journalist. His job is to report the information in an neutral method, not soar into the fray when a candidate he hates will get widespread, and write a e-book to persuade voters they’re making a nasty selection. How might any Trump supporter, or any Republican, ever belief his reporting once they know he has a private curiosity in directing the result?”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ November 13: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Hunt says no room for ‘completely happy and sunny’ in GOP
(Washington Examiner submit)
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic the newest CNN absurdity, a blanket declaration that there isn’t a place for happiness within the Republican Occasion.
The declare got here right now from CNN’s Kasie Hunt, who was giving her early morning evaluation on the choice by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, becoming a member of former Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines.
“There’s simply no urge for food within the Republican base proper now for somebody who’s completely happy and sunny,” she mentioned, citing her election night time sources.
After all, many pollsters would counsel that there’s simply no urge for food within the Republican base for anyone aside from former President Donald Trump, and GOP voters appear to be fairly pleased with that.
Hunt, CNN’s chief nationwide affairs analyst, on Monday’s CNN This Morning:
“The noteworthy factor to me about this — I imply, look, I believe it was fairly clear that Tim Scott’s marketing campaign by no means took off the best way, frankly, lots of people in Washington thought that it’d. He had, you already know, all of the elements to be actually profitable within the conventional Republican Occasion. He had a whole lot of backing. Actually, he wasn’t public about it, however a whole lot of the individuals who have been working towards Donald Trump for extra conventional candidates like Mitt Romney had been engaged on his operation making an attempt to determine how they might make that occur.
“However once I talked to sources, and I did a whole lot of this on election night time final week, they maintain saying to me that there’s simply no urge for food within the Republican base proper now for somebody who’s completely happy and sunny. They’re indignant. The bottom is indignant. And that’s a giant a part of why Donald Trump has had such a sturdy lead on this race as a result of he campaigns in a a lot totally different means. Tim Scott tried to be the form of ‘Morning in America’ Republican candidate, and it’s simply not what individuals are into. So, you already know, it does make sense. He noticed the writing on the wall, particularly concerning the fourth debate, and right here we’re.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Not one of the GOP presidential candidates are coming near Trump, so why the actual argument Tim Scott failed as a result of he’s a ‘completely happy warrior’ and the voters is motivated by anger? Trump followers would contend his rallies are peppered with humorous traces and upbeat messaging concerning the foundation for his motion, Make America Nice Once more, which in itself is a cheerful and aspirational quest for a return to the most effective of America.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ November 6: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Zakaria says Biden higher on border than Trump
(Washington Examiner submit)
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream we characteristic the zaniest pro-White Home spin but on the historic border disaster brought on by President Joe Biden’s insurance policies.
Whereas huge metropolis “sanctuary” mayors are crying uncle as a result of the president’s insurance policies are dumping in 1000’s of unlawful immigrants with out offering any cash or assist with housing, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in some way thinks that the White Home is dealing with the disaster properly.
Biden is “really not doing a nasty job,” he mentioned on Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher. For proof, he cited the deportation of unlawful immigrants, ignoring the big crowds of migrants waved into the U.S. daily and the excessive variety of those that slip in undetected.
Zakaria on Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO:
“Biden’s really not doing a nasty job, they’ve deported extra individuals — if you happen to suppose that’s proper and I do since you desire a system of legal guidelines, proper? They’ve deported extra individuals underneath the Biden administration than Trump did. They’ve been more durable line. The issue for Biden is, and it is a downside for Democrats, you possibly can’t take credit score for it as a result of you then’re going to outrage, the progressive wing goes to go nuts. And so, even the issues he does, it’s like stealth enforcement. You possibly can’t speak about it.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Speak about lacking the forest for the timber. The one purpose the Biden administration deported anybody was due to the Trump-imposed Title 42 to take care of COVID, which stayed in place for greater than two years of his administration till he ended it in Might. Within the fiscal yr that ended September 30, 2.4 million individuals crossed the southern border, the best quantity since information began being saved in 1960, and that was the third straight report yr, all underneath Biden.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ October 30: Liberal Media Scream: Speaker Johnson takes examine him to KKK and mass shooter
(Washington Examiner submit)
We might see this coming from miles away.
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we characteristic the predictably unhappy response of the press to the unanimous Republican vote to substantiate soft-spoken Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) because the 56th Home speaker final week.
Outlet after outlet tried to painting the Bible-toting Johnson as out of contact with America, as a substitute evaluating him to a KKK chief. It’s stunning liberal media shops didn’t determine him together with his center identify, James Michael Johnson, like mass killers.
Even on CNN, analyst Gloria Borger conceded that the media was making an attempt too exhausting to demonize the little-known lawmaker. It’s “exhausting to demonize” him, she mentioned, explaining, “He’s not the satan incarnate.”
However Invoice Maher and his crew didn’t get the memo.
First, on his Friday present, Scott Galloway, a professor at New York College’s Stern Faculty of Enterprise, mentioned to viewers applause, “The rationale this man is speaker is none of us have the time to learn his resume and understand he’s David Duke-lite.”
Maher pushed again on that characterization, however he provided his personal invective, calling Johnson “a spiritual nut” earlier than elevating final week’s mass shooter of 18 in Maine: “Apparently he heard voices, and I believed, ‘Is he that totally different than Mike Johnson?’”
From Friday’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on HBO and Max:
SCOTT GALLOWAY: The entire level right here is that we separate church and state, that we consider within the peaceable switch of energy, and the rationale this man is speaker is none of us have the time to learn his resume and understand he’s David Duke-lite.
BILL MAHER: Nicely, we do now. I don’t know if he’s David Duke-lite — I learn right now he has an adopted black son. I don’t suppose David Duke would do this, however he’s a spiritual nut.
….MAHER: Whenever you’re this a lot of a spiritual fanatic, there isn’t a room for actual democracy. That’s not what you consider in. He mentioned it right now: Look within the Bible — that’s my worldview. I used to be studying about this horrible taking pictures in Maine. We don’t know a lot concerning the man but, however apparently he heard voices, and I believed, ‘Is he that totally different than Mike Johnson?’ I imply, diploma, sure, nevertheless it’s thinner than you suppose.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What hypocrisy. You possibly can’t decry how Donald Trump and MAGA have lowered discourse in America and undermined respect for democracy after which smear the incoming speaker of the Home as no totally different than a racist Klan chief or a mass assassin. The comparisons are ridiculous and ought to be beneath anybody who considers themselves a severe political analyst.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ October 23: Liberal Media Scream: Morning Joe warns of Trump retaliation simply in need of firing squads
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC host Joe Scarborough speculating on a second Trump White Home, ranting that it is going to be one retaliation after one other for slights he’s felt over the previous eight years, beginning with the media and courts.
On his present this morning, Scarborough in contrast Trump to hard-line Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “He’s worn out the judiciary, he’s worn out the free press,” Scarborough charged.
There was no point out, in fact, of how Trump made historical past as president together with his appointments to federal courts, together with three of the present U.S. Supreme Court docket justices, or that he was among the many most accessible presidents in latest reminiscence regardless of his verbal hits on the press.
However at the least he provided that Trump gained’t line up his enemies and shoot them.
Scarborough’s ruminations got here throughout an interview with the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, who simply wrote an article titled “Netanyahu’s Assault on Democracy Left Israel Unprepared.”
Joe Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
“I all the time inform individuals, if you wish to see what Donald Trump goes to do if he will get reelected, don’t take into consideration him lining up individuals towards the wall and having them shot.”
“Simply see what [Viktor] Orban has performed in Hungary the place he’s bragged about having intolerant democracy, and he’s worn out the judiciary, he’s worn out the free press. And Anne [Applebaum], I suppose, that’s most likely what Donald Trump will search for as a blueprint if he will get elected once more.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Left-wing paranoia completely encapsulated by Joe Scarborough. Regardless of how unhealthy you suppose a second Trump presidency can be for the nation, the concept simply because he makes derogatory remarks about judges, prosecutors, and journalists means he needs to ‘wipe out’ the judiciary and free press, is ridiculous. And even when he had been so inclined, the U.S. political system would by no means enable it, leaving Scarborough’s warning as little greater than baseless scaremongering.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ October 16: Liberal Media Scream: CBS anchor scoffs, ‘Indictment’ of Biden?
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the hypocrisy and bewildering ignorance of the media’s protection of the labeled paperwork instances each President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face.
On the hypocrisy entrance, think about all of the hours of TV protection Trump acquired for his dealing with of paperwork in comparison with Biden. Additionally, think about how a lot time the networks gave the extraordinary two days of questions Biden confronted final weekend from the prosecutor: simply 48 seconds.
Then watch as CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan seems astonished that Biden’s case and prices are just like Trump’s and {that a} Home Republican chairman would even counsel that they need to be dealt with the identical means.
“Indictment?” she interjected when her visitor, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence, mentioned, “President Biden wants the identical consequence that they pursue with President Trump.”
From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: You had been speaking about labeled paperwork mishandled by the present president, and also you mentioned that when it got here to Biden and Trump, they’re each equally egregious with equal classification points. This previous week, President Biden was interviewed by particular counsel Robert Hur. Will there be authorized penalties? Will your committee do something to behave on this? I imply, what precisely do you imply equally egregious?
REP. MIKE TURNER: Nicely, while you have a look at the paperwork, each the classification stage and the subject material, each side, Trump and Biden’s paperwork, if they’d been launched within the public or gotten into the fingers of nefarious events, can be damaging to the US nationwide safety. After I have a look at these paperwork, there are paperwork on each side, equally egregious, that may have damaging penalties to our means, strategies, strategies, and our allies. Now, on this occasion, I believe President Biden wants the identical consequence that they pursue with President Trump. The actions are the identical. And on this occasion, if you happen to discover—
BRENNAN: Indictment?
TURNER: You’re getting leak after leak after leak on the Trump paperwork. You’re listening to nothing on the Biden paperwork. So that you’re persevering with to see the inequality that comes out of the Justice Division as there’s silence on the opposite aspect with respect to Biden’s. And by the best way, he was a serial labeled doc hoarder. I reviewed paperwork that had been from on a regular basis that he’s been in authorities. This actually is a really severe breach by President Biden.
BRENNAN: Simply to be clear right here, although, are you saying that President Biden had high secret and TS/SCI classification stage paperwork in his private dwelling?
TURNER: That’s public already, Margaret, so I’m not confirming one thing that folks don’t already know. That’s appropriate.
BRENNAN: OK. So I believe you’re saying that he ought to be indicted while you say handled the identical?
TURNER: I believe they must be handled precisely the identical. Now, they’re persevering with their investigation with President Biden. I don’t suppose if President Biden ultimately has been discovered to violate the legislation, and I consider from what I’ve seen that he has, that he ought to be handled any otherwise than Donald Trump. Why would he? Simply because he’s president or as a result of he’s a Democrat? And that’s how the Division of Justice has been performing. They must be handled the identical.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Brennan’s naivete about President Biden’s potential very severe misdeeds and seeming shock {that a} veteran congressman would counsel he deserves to get handled simply as harshly as former President Trump, displays the bigger disinterest in Biden’s habits by the Trump-obsessed press corps. Certainly, particular counsel Robert Hur interviewed Biden over two days final week, but the ABC, CBS, and NBC night newscasts provided a measly 48 seconds of protection in complete.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ October 9: Liberal Media Scream: CBS touts waitress jobs as signal Bidenomics works
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the clear effort by the media to prop up Bidenomics at a time when most individuals consider prices and bills underneath President Joe Biden are means too excessive.
CBS led the best way over the weekend when Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan mentioned {that a} jobs report exhibiting restaurant jobs up was proof Biden’s claims are proper.
She cited it to counter claims from 2024 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) that the financial system shouldn’t be doing sufficient for individuals.
“That appears to undercut your argument that the financial system’s damaged,” Brennan mentioned.
Scott slapped down that logic. He mentioned, “Nicely, all it’s a must to do is speak to the typical American household and ask them what they really feel — how they really feel about Bidenomics. The reply could be very easy. We’ve misplaced over $5,000 of spending energy since January of 2021. We should always all the time rejoice the creation of jobs, however we must always always remember that we went 52 consecutive paychecks — 52 consecutive paychecks — with a lack of spending energy.”
From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: On Friday, we spoke with Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott from his dwelling state of South Carolina. Our dialog started on the financial system and the surprisingly strong September jobs report.
BRENNAN TO SEN. TIM SCOTT: Friday’s jobs numbers shattered expectations. It confirmed some financial momentum. In actual fact, restaurant hospitality hiring is again to pre-pandemic ranges. That appears to undercut your argument that the financial system’s damaged.
SCOTT: Nicely, all it’s a must to do is speak to the typical American household and ask them what they really feel — how they really feel about Bidenomics. The reply could be very easy. We’ve misplaced over $5,000 of spending energy since January of 2021. We should always all the time rejoice the creation of jobs, however we must always always remember that we went 52 consecutive paychecks — 52 consecutive paychecks — with a lack of spending energy.
BRENNAN: And also you blame political management, not the Federal Reserve?
SCOTT: Nicely, if you concentrate on the truth that during the last, I suppose, yr and a half, we’ve seen 16% inflation since Joe Biden’s taken workplace, which led to 11 consecutive charge will increase, that downward stress on our financial system actually created cracks and fissures all through the financial system. That was brought on by Joe Biden’s lack of management and understanding of the way to create jobs in America.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Brennan put Democratic speaking level spin forward of actuality in getting so excited a couple of jobs report largely constructed on good points in part-time employment and authorities jobs. Her precedence was to undermine Scott’s very persuasive argument that Bidenomics is a catastrophe, one thing acknowledged by the overwhelming majority of individuals exterior of the media elite.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ October 2: Liberal Media Scream: MAGA simply racists, says MSNBC common
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the continued smearing of MAGA by MSNBC, this time together with the broken-record declare that supporters of former President Donald Trump are racists.
Ignoring Trump’s help amongst black individuals, his friendships with notable African People, and his appointments of black individuals to high jobs throughout his administration, MSNBC let authorized correspondent Elie Mystal rant that Trump is operating for president once more “on white grievance” and including that “with out racism, Trump is simply dumber Chris Christie, all proper?”
From Sunday night time’s The Mehdi Hasan Present on MSNBC:
MEHDI HASAN: Whenever you watch Donald Trump speaking about “dampening the forest flooring,” and you then have a look at polls that present him neck and neck with Biden or possibly within the lead by 10 factors or 5 factors over Biden, do you set your head in your hair in your fingers?
ELIE MYSTAL: Look, Mehdi, not likely. There’s a latest ballot, a research out of the College of Chicago that mentioned the largest indicator of whether or not or not you help Trump is whether or not or not you consider racism has been defeated, proper? Whether or not or not you consider systemic racism doesn’t exist, whether or not or not you consider that what white individuals face extra racism than individuals of colour. Trump’s operating on white grievance. It’s how he’s all the time been. It’s what he’s all the time performed. And I really feel like decreasing it to racism all the time makes sure sorts of Democrats squeamish. We would like there to be a much bigger reply. We need to consider possibly Republicans really suppose it’s best to “dampen the forests.” We need to consider there’s a purpose. There’s nothing there there. All it’s is white grievance. With out racism, Trump is simply dumber Chris Christie, all proper? And so, that’s the reason he’s the place he’s as a result of he performs into the racism of his followers.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How handy it have to be to be so snug dismissing the political selection of a big portion of the general public by tarring all of them as a bunch of racists. Saves time on having to really deal with what failures of your aspect the highest candidate on the opposite aspect is fulfilling. However keep in your bubble, Mr. Mystal, and chances are you’ll very properly be stunned when these polls, exhibiting Trump beating Biden, come true.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ September 25: No Liberal Media Scream this week.
■ September 18: Liberal Media Scream: Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker debuts as Chuck Todd clone
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the debut of Kristen Welker as host of NBC’s Meet the Press. However aside from a brand new face, there was no change from the lefty bias of the declining present’s MC.
To assist Welker’s first episode, former President Donald Trump agreed to seem. In return, he confronted the standard liberal fact-checking interruptions, particularly when answering questions on abortion.
A number of occasions, Welker tried to quiet Trump’s cost that Democrats favor abortion proper as much as start. “Democrats aren’t saying that. Democrats will not be saying that,” she mentioned.
Her efficiency gained failing grades from conservatives, who weren’t anticipating a giant shift from the bias of former host Chuck Todd.
Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway was first out with an evaluation headlined, “NBC’s Kristen Welker Lied Repeatedly About Democrats’ Excessive Abortion Place.” “Kristen Welker openly and repeatedly lied in a weird, conspiracy-laden debate with former President Donald Trump on Sunday,” she wrote, including, “Welker interrupted her personal pre-taped debate with the president to insert her personal ‘truth checks’ that had been false or weren’t conscious of precise claims Trump made.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
DONALD TRUMP: Roe v. Wade. For 52 years, individuals, together with Democrats, wished it to return to states in order that states might make it proper. Roe v. Wade, I did one thing that no one thought was attainable, and Roe v. Wade was terminated and put again to the states. Now, individuals, pro-lifers, have the fitting to barter for the primary time. That they had no rights in any respect as a result of the novel individuals on this are actually the Democrats that say after 5 months, six months, seven months, eight months, and even after start, you’re allowed to terminate the infant.
KRISTEN WELKER: Democrats aren’t saying that. Democrats will not be saying that. Does it hassle you, although, that ladies say their lives are being put in danger? Do you’re feeling you bear any duty as a result of, as you say, you’re answerable for having Roe v. Wade overturned?
TRUMP: What’s going to occur? It’s a difficulty that’s been happening for a very long time. It’s a really polarizing situation. Due to what’s been performed and due to the very fact we introduced it again to the states, we will have individuals come collectively on this situation. They’re gonna decide the time as a result of no one needs to see 5, six, seven, eight, 9 months. No one needs to see abortions when you may have a child within the womb. I mentioned with Hillary Clinton after we had the controversy, I made an announcement: Rip the infant out of the womb within the ninth month, you are allowed to do this, and also you should not be allowed to do this.
WELKER: Once more, nobody is arguing for that, that is not part of anybody’s platform, Mr. President.
TRUMP: The Democrats are capable of kill the infant after start, and no one needs that.
WELKER: Democrats don’t need that, both.
Kevin Tober, information analyst for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Kristen Welker both by no means learn the 2020 Democratic platform or she’s purposefully making an attempt to gaslight her viewers within the guise of a ‘truth test’ of Trump. The present platform of the Democratic Occasion poses no limits on abortions. As an alternative of pointing this truth out, Welker determined to scold Trump for telling the reality, which apparently is not allowed on NBC. If that is what we are able to count on from Welker as the brand new moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd would possibly as properly have stayed on because the moderator. Completely different anchor, similar liberal media bias.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ September 11: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd places self among the many greats
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the departure of considered one of our favourite representatives of bias, Chuck Todd, the outgoing host of NBC’s Meet the Press.
Signing off from his day by day and Sunday exhibits, Todd mentioned he hoped he helped educate viewers on the problems of the day and that he would now flip extra to nuance and bridging divides.
As he appears to be like to his future because the community’s political analyst, he mentioned he would comply with the paths of two of the community’s previous greats, David Brinkley and Tim Russert.
“I’ll proceed, in fact, to be a giant a part of NBC’s political protection as a result of, as Tom Brokaw mentioned to me, ‘Look, some networks do some issues properly, however no one does politics like NBC.’ And he was referring again all the best way to David Brinkley. And that’s type of the custom I’ve all the time mentioned, from Brinkley to Russert, and that’s the stuff I need to stick with it,” Todd mentioned.
His ultimate feedback on each exhibits are on this clip:
Todd, on the finish of Friday’s day by day Meet the Press NOW on the NBC Information NOW streaming channel:
“On my first day on the job on Meet the Press, I used to be handed an viewers survey of Sunday present viewers. The No. 1 purpose why people determined to tune into any Sunday present, the No. 1 purpose: to get educated. It wasn’t to seek out out if their aspect was profitable or shedding. They only wished to know.”
“It’s that training piece I’m hanging my hat on for the remainder of my skilled life as a result of one factor all of us lament recently is the lack of understanding and nuance in our politics. That’s a vacuum I hope to proceed to fill, whether or not in a standard information platform or different venues —documentaries, docudramas, and even too-close-to-the-truth fiction.”
“I’ll proceed to be a giant a part of NBC Information political protection as a result of nobody on this enterprise covers politics in addition to NBC. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you down the street.”
Todd, wrapping up Meet the Press on NBC on Sunday morning:
“So, for almost a decade, I’ve had the dignity of serving to to clarify America to Washington and Washington to America, as Kristen [Welker] simply quoted me about. And it’s that training piece that I’m hanging my hat on for the remainder of my skilled life. One factor we’ll lament — all of us lament recently — is the lack of understanding and nuance in our politics and citizenship. That’s a vacuum I hope to proceed to fill, whether or not in our continued information protection right here at NBC or by way of different venues, like docuseries and docudramas, targeted on bridging our divides, piercing these political bubbles. And I’ll proceed, in fact, to be a giant a part of NBC’s political protection as a result of, as Tom Brokaw mentioned to me, ‘Look, some networks do some issues properly, however no one does politics like NBC.’ And he was referring again all the best way to David Brinkley. And that’s type of the custom I’ve all the time mentioned, from Brinkley to Russert, and that’s the stuff I need to stick with it.”
“In order that’s all for right now. Thanks for watching and for therefore a few years of loyalty to me and to this present. I’m completely happy to say my colleague, Kristen Welker, goes to be right here subsequent week as a result of it doesn’t matter who sits on this chair. If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Todd, pretentious to the tip. In all his years internet hosting Meet the Press, he by no means confirmed a lot curiosity in bringing ‘nuance’ to his liberal agenda or ‘bridging’ divides or ‘piercing … political bubbles,’ to say nothing of by no means matching the journalism of David Brinkley or Tim Russert. I watched David Brinkley and Tim Russert. Chuck Todd is not any David Brinkley or Tim Russert.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ September 4: Liberal Media Scream: Biden’s protection ‘more durable than he deserves’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the traditional angle of the Washington press corps towards Democratic presidents that initially received us working with the Media Analysis Heart to focus on out-of-touch newsies.
It’s the grievance that the press is simply too robust when, in actual fact, they’ve barely scratched the floor of what some critics consider to be a corrupt presidential operation relationship again to President Joe Biden’s days as vice chairman underneath former President Barack Obama.
NBC’s Meet the Press featured Franklin Foer, an Atlantic author who simply launched a bestselling e-book on the president titled The Final Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White Home and the Battle for America’s Future.
Foer advised moderator Chuck Todd that “Trump brought about the media to grow to be so emotional, to get so engaged in masking all of the excessive drama.”
And with Biden, he mentioned, there was a “want on the a part of the press to reassert its requirements of objectivity.”
However, he added, Biden has continued to complain about his press, similar to each different president. “He has been coated most likely more durable than he deserves,” Foer mentioned.
That line prompted our associate Brent Baker, the Media Analysis Heart’s vice chairman of analysis and publications, to grade it 5 out of 5 screams.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
CHUCK TODD: You write: “Biden thought of his poor approval ranking a failure of the media, which somebody uncared for to notice all of the methods by which his administration was superior to Trump’s. It was additionally a failure of his personal White Home to successfully talk. He complained that there weren’t sufficient surrogates on tv defending him.” I’m shocked to seek out out {that a} White Home believes they’ve a communications downside, not a substance downside.
FRANKLIN FOER: Proper. So I believe that Biden has — in fact, each president who suffers an upside-down approval ranking goes to moan concerning the media, and I believe that there’s some fact to it in his case the place Trump brought about the media to grow to be so emotional, to get so engaged in masking the entire excessive drama. And I believe, with the Biden administration, there’s been this want on the a part of the press to reassert its requirements of objectivity. So I believe, on sure measures, he’s most likely proper. He has been coated most likely more durable than he deserves. However it additionally —
TODD: There’s no curve? He’s not being graded on a curve?
FOER: No.
TODD: No.
Baker explains our weekly decide: “To channel what President Biden would say, ‘not a joke.’ Foer was seemingly fairly severe. However it’s a ridiculous evaluation to anybody however essentially the most enthused Biden sycophants or Democratic partisans. To contend that Biden is the topic of media ‘objectivity’ and has acquired ‘more durable’ protection than he ‘deserves,’ doesn’t cross the chuckle take a look at.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ August 28: Liberal Media Scream: Dour Dana bashes Ramaswamy over KKK reference
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN anchor Dana Bash repeatedly beating GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s comparability of liberal “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) to “a contemporary grand wizard of the KKK.”
Over greater than 5 minutes, the anchor harangued Ramaswamy, who mentioned he made the comparability to spark a debate over the lawmaker’s suggestion that candidates of colour ought to be in lockstep with liberals.
After 4 minutes of her bashing, an exasperated Ramaswamy mentioned: “Dana, I believe you’re doing, with due respect, what many within the media do, choosing on some fringe remark within the context of a broader context that I used to be providing in a speech, avoiding the meat of the problem.”
Right here’s a sampling from CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday:
DANA BASH: You took situation with feedback from Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). She reportedly mentioned, quote, “we don’t want any extra brown faces that don’t need to be a brown voice.” About that, you mentioned, “These are the phrases of the trendy grand wizards of the trendy KKK.” You realize, I’m certain, the KKK was answerable for greater than a century’s value of horrific lynchings, rapes, murders of black individuals. How in any means are the views you’re speaking about similar to the views and atrocities dedicated by the KKK?”
VIVEK RAMASWAMY: What I mentioned is: The grand wizards of the KKK can be happy with what they’d hear her say, as a result of there’s nothing extra racist than saying that your pores and skin colour predicts one thing concerning the content material of your viewpoints or your concepts.
BASH: No, you didn’t simply say that. You didn’t simply say that they’d be proud. You mentioned, “These are the phrases of the trendy grand wizards of the trendy KKK.”
RAMASWAMY: It’s the similar spirit. You’re proper about that, Dana. I believe it’s the similar spirit to say that I can have a look at you and, based mostly on simply your pores and skin colour, that I do know one thing concerning the content material of your character, that I do know one thing concerning the content material of the viewpoints you’re allowed to specific.
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BASH: However can you may have an intellectually sincere dialog while you accuse her of being a grand wizard of the KKK? Can you may have that intellectually sincere dialogue with that form of rhetoric?
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BASH: If you wish to have an mental query, do you suppose that possibly evaluating her to the grand wizard and the notion of what she mentioned to being a contemporary chief of the KKK was possibly a step too far, otherwise you stand by what you mentioned?
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BASH: What I did was clarify to our viewers that you simply had been requested a query and also you took it to a degree the place you referred to as a sitting member of Congress who’s black, who was having discussions about race, calling her the trendy grand wizard of the KKK. And I’m simply undecided how that’s open and sincere dialogue.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Bash’s fixed harping was not good tv. Ramaswamy defined his level and she or he ought to have moved on. However she so vehemently disagreed with him that she wouldn’t let go. In doing so, she helped show Ramaswamy’s level concerning the elite who gained’t countenance any opposite views on race relations, not even from the goal of a racist assault.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ August 21: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ August 14: Liberal Media Scream: Media rage at MAGA ‘various actuality’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest instance of the sputtering anger Washington journalists have on the help former President Donald Trump has from his MAGA hundreds of thousands.
Showing Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Susan Glasser, Washington reporter for the New Yorker and a veteran of the Washington Publish and Politico, coughed up a phrase salad to the storyline {that a} rising record of indictments is nice for Trump whereas the constructing felony deal with first son Hunter Biden is unhealthy for President Joe Biden.
From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
Susan Glasser: “A part of that is the unimaginable distortion area the place we’re all in some way residing in Donald Trump’s alternate actuality, proper? We’re speaking about, ‘Nicely, it’s an important profit to him,’ in accordance with, you already know, the large story within the New York Instances right now that he’s been indicted criminally, what, 3 times — and it appears to be like like a fourth developing this week — as a result of we’re residing on this warped distortion area of a Republican major by which Donald Trump is stampeding? It’s a minority of a minority within the nation, and so then, you may have one thing like these collection of abortion rights referenda within the wake of the Roe v. Wade determination.
“And also you understand that on this nation, even in deep-red states, there are strong majorities that don’t suppose, you already know, Donald Trump ought to be the president once more, who defeated him within the widespread vote in 2016 and in 2020, who help, by really report numbers, abortion rights, and but we reside on this world the place it’s in some way good that Donald Trump is a felony defendant however in some way unhealthy electorally for the president that his son is being investigated for one thing, that so far as we all know, doesn’t straight concern Joe Biden.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What an unimaginable lack of inquisitiveness for a journalist. Glasser resides in her personal ‘alternate actuality,’ one inhabited by just about all of her Washington press corps colleagues who’re enraged by the whole lot Trump however have placed on blinders with regards to President Joe Biden. They don’t need to give legitimacy to something which might hurt Biden’s reelection fortunes.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ August 7: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Behar would exile Trump to Saudi Arabia
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the women of The View leaping to a complete new stage of “Trump derangement syndrome” following the third felony indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Led by Trump Hater in Chief Pleasure Behar, they talked up a plea deal that prosecutor Jack Smith might provide that sends the previous president away for good — however not jail. As an alternative, and attributable to considerations that the Secret Service won’t enable a former president to reside in a jail cell if he’s convicted, Behar advised exile in Saudi Arabia.
“Wouldn’t that be good?” she mentioned to some viewers laughter. “I don’t even care if he goes to jail. I don’t have it in my coronary heart to punish the man. I simply need him to go away and cease ruining my nation.”
From Thursday’s The View on ABC:
JOY BEHAR: “Nicely, what about making a deal? What about, Sunny, if he makes a take care of [special counsel Jack] Smith?”
SUNNY HOSTIN: “With out jail time?”
BEHAR: “With out jail, and he says, “I’m going away and shifting to Saudi Arabia”?
Wouldn’t that be good? Simply go away. We don’t — I don’t even care if he goes to jail. I don’t have it in my coronary heart to punish the man. I simply need him to go away and cease ruining my nation.”
HOSTIN: “I believe there are particular prosecutors that may provide him a plea settlement with out time if he would comply with by no means run for public workplace once more wherever.”
BEHAR: “And go away. I don’t need to even see him within the Enquirer.”
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Presumably, The View doesn’t air in Saudi Arabia, so this concept might need some enchantment to Trump — and many people — who wouldn’t thoughts by no means once more listening to Pleasure Behar’s voice, however I’d advocate flipping this and exiling your entire crew of The View to Saudi Arabia so none of us have to listen to their discombobulated day by day rantings.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 31: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd nonetheless making an attempt to downplay Hunter Biden scandals
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a Sunday community public affairs present host that President Joe Biden and his cronies are actually going to overlook when he lastly leaves his perch.
It’s NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, in fact, enjoying “D” on the Hunter Biden scandals exploding within the information right now.
On his Sunday present and whereas interviewing yet one more Democratic politician, he sounded virtually apologetic for having to handle the primary son who’s going through tax and gun prices and has been linked to bribery allegations alongside together with his father.
Mentioned Todd to his visitor, Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Biden’s dwelling state of Delaware, “Republicans are gonna accuse” the president of misdeeds, “they’re going to make the accusation, whether or not they have the proof or not,” as a result of they “have an info ecosystem that helps amplify it.”
Todd not too long ago introduced that he was leaving his present in September to grow to be the community’s “lengthy kind” political analyst.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
CHUCK TODD: Let me begin with the Hunter Biden state of affairs and I perceive that, you already know, you consider that is all being emphasised attributable to politics, the Republican — the Home Republicans are doing. Let me ask you this, do you suppose it might behoove the president for him to come back out and say, “Hey, I had no enterprise dealings with my son. My son’s points are my son’s points”? Do you suppose he must say that extra straight as a result of there’s lots of people that consider one thing else occurred right here?
SEN. CHRIS COONS: Let’s be clear about that time, Chuck. There’s been a five-year investigation. 5 years by a Trump-appointed U.S. legal professional. This investigation began in the course of the Trump administration they usually’ve come ahead with not one shred of proof tying President Biden to any of this. I’m inspired that, in sharp distinction to President Trump, you’ve simply detailed his mountain of authorized issues the place President Trump is preventing, and pushing again and obstructing, Hunter Biden’s come ahead, taken duty, paid his late taxes. As you simply mentioned with Chuck Rosenberg, I believe the hiccup within the Delaware District Courthouse will get ironed out fairly rapidly and I don’t suppose President Biden must say something greater than he has.
TODD: Home Republicans are gonna accuse him. They’re going to make the accusation —
COONS: They’re going [to] accuse him of all types of stuff.
TODD: — whether or not they have the proof or not.
COONS: Appropriate.
TODD: The query — they usually could have an info ecosystem that helps amplify it to a degree the place you don’t suppose he wants to simply — “Hey, regardless of what you hear, simply so you already know, I don’t do enterprise with my son or my brother”?
COONS: I believe he’s been completely clear.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “If solely Chuck Todd had proven such reluctance to advertise accusations towards President Trump about ‘Russian collusion’ made by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and others, which turned out to be baseless, once they had been on his program. We’d be in a complete totally different political-media surroundings. However no, Todd is simply upset by publicity for revelations which will harm the Democratic president, not the Republican one. And he wonders why so many see him as extra of a liberal political operative than any form of respectable journalist.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 24: Liberal Media Scream: CBS pushes for Hunter Biden media cover-up
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest instance of how the networks are masking up the escalating Hunter Biden intercourse, gun, medication, and taxes scandal.
Not solely have most unconsidered the scandal going all the best way again to dissing studies on the primary son’s laptop computer stuffed with soiled deeds, however now some within the media are urging the GOP to “transfer on.”
Exhibit A is CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who this weekend mentioned the plea deal Hunter Biden has reduce ought to be the set off for Republicans to finish their investigation into the president’s son.
Her visitor, former federal prosecutor and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, dismissed her query. “No, I wouldn’t, Margaret, and right here’s why. The conduct right here by the U.S. legal professional in Delaware and by the Justice Division simply can’t be justified,” he mentioned.
She additionally rolled out the usual Democratic speaking level to make her case: “You realize that the U.S. legal professional in Delaware was appointed by former President Trump.” It’s typical for senators to counsel prosecutors of their state and U.S. Lawyer David Weiss was endorsed by Delaware’s two Democratic senators on the time.
From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: There are such a lot of authorized points on this marketing campaign, and I need to ask you about one involving the president’s son Hunter Biden who’s going to seem in court docket this week to plead responsible to 2 misdemeanor tax prices and can enter into an settlement that would avert conviction on a gun-related cost. The deal has infuriated many congressional Republicans, who had been holding their very own hearings, and I’m wondering after this plea occurs if you happen to would advise your get together to maneuver on?
CHRIS CHRISTIE: No, I wouldn’t, Margaret, and right here’s why. The conduct right here by the U.S. legal professional in Delaware and by the Justice Division simply can’t be justified. It doesn’t take 5 years, Margaret. As you talked about, I used to be the U.S. legal professional within the fifth-largest workplace within the nation for seven years in the course of the Bush administration. It doesn’t take 5 years to analyze two misdemeanor tax counts and to dismiss a gun cost, and we have to know what they had been investigating and why these are the fees they concluded to. This isn’t simply any particular person. That is the son of the president of the US. And whereas justice must be equal, it must be equal, and it doesn’t seem to me that that is the best way to do it. And I’d say one factor on the gun cost. I imply, it is a case the place Democrats yell and scream for extra new gun legal guidelines within the nation, and but you hear no Democrat yelling about the truth that Hunter Biden deliberately lied on his gun allow software, mishandled the gun after he acquired it with a false allow software, and faces completely no penalty. Guess what? The man who sponsored that legislation was his father, Sen. Joe Biden, and that cost carries a 10-year sentence, Margaret. We have to clarify — they should clarify to the general public why that was performed.
So no, I do not suppose it’s time to maneuver on.
BRENNAN: And you already know that the U.S. legal professional in Delaware was appointed by former President Trump.
CHRISTIE: Incompetent, Margaret. It doesn’t matter, Margaret. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re appointed by a Republican or a Democrat, in case your work seems to be incompetent and inexplicable, it is advisable to clarify it so we are able to have faith in our justice system, and I don’t care whether or not Mr. Weiss is a Republican or a Democrat. He owes the American individuals a proof.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “It takes a whole lot of chutzpah for Brennan to counsel Republicans ‘transfer on’ from a subject the published information networks and far of the remainder of the information media have performed all they will to keep away from of their quest to guard President Biden. Quite a few revelations about Hunter and his dad have gone unreported, or get one story on one night time, after which nothing extra. What sort of ‘journalist’ pushes for cover-up and suppression over urgent for extra protection three days after two IRS whistleblowers detailed federal efforts to profit Hunter and never pursue leads which might harm the president?”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 17: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ July 10: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Zakaria tells Biden, ‘You’ve got been an important president’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a uncommon one-on-one interview of President Joe Biden and a touch of what it takes to get a sit-down with him.
Within the case of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, the payback got here in a phrase of reward: “You’ve got been an important president.”
The road was a part of a protracted setup on his Sunday present to a query about some Democrats calling for Biden to step apart.
From Fareed Zakaria GPS:
Zakaria to Biden: “You’ve got usually mentioned when individuals ask you about your age, simply watch me. And I believe lots of people do watch you and are impressed, they usually suppose you’ve got been an important president. You’ve got introduced the financial system again. You’ve got restored relations with the world. However many of those individuals do say, and these are hardened supporters of yours, the following factor he ought to do is step apart and let one other era of Democrats take the baton.”
Kevin Tober, a information analyst & employees author on the Media Analysis Heart’s NewsBusters, explains our weekly decide: “Zakaria displayed a masterclass in skilled gaslighting Sunday when he advised Biden that ‘lots of people’ watch him and are ‘impressed.’ In actuality, even many Democrats have expressed their concern about Biden’s age and cognitive decline. Kissing Biden’s ring shouldn’t be ‘details first’ regardless of what CNN needs you to suppose.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ July 3: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ June 26: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC historian declares GOP hopefuls insurrectionists
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the newest instance of the standard liberal media’s view that every one Republicans are deplorable and, thus, dismissible.
MSNBC “historian” Jon Meacham, an writer and former Newsweek Washington bureau chief, wrote off the big and traditionally numerous assortment of Republican presidential candidates as insurrectionists and seditionists as a result of all have been supportive at occasions of former President Donald Trump.
“We’ve got a fairly clear selection on this political season. We will select a constitutionalist, a celebration that has been fairly trustworthy to the Structure, which is the get together of the incumbent president, or we are able to favor a celebration that has been shockingly however persistently supportive of an insurrectionist or a seditionist,” he mentioned on Friday’s Morning Joe present.
“It’s not easy, however it’s easy. That’s the selection earlier than the nation,” mentioned Meacham, who punctuated his evaluation with declarations of “proper?!”
From Friday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: We had been speaking concerning the Supreme Court docket, the Supreme Court docket who, once more, uncontrolled, operating roughshod over the desire of the overwhelming majority of People. And now, we have now this president, once more, unprecedented, however right here we’re shifting in the direction of, I consider, I believe, essentially the most severe prices and the one which I believe historians are going to be grappling with lengthy after we’re all gone. That may be a president charged with conspiracy to commit sedition towards the US of America.
JON MEACHAM: You’re proper, historians will probably be wrestling with it as all of us do on a regular basis. I believe residents need to wrestle with it now, proper? That is, it’s so central, and I simply actually consider that we have now a fairly clear selection on this political season. We will select a constitutionalist, a celebration that has been fairly trustworthy to the Structure, which is the get together of the incumbent president, or we are able to favor a celebration that has been shockingly however persistently supportive of an insurrectionist or a seditionist.
That’s not a sentence we might have mentioned about Eisenhower and Stevenson, proper? That was not one thing that lots of people grew up with. However it’s fairly important. And but that is the query: Is any coverage so essential that you’d need to favor somebody that you simply suppose is a car for that coverage, even when they don’t and have self-evidently tried to trash the Structure of the US? And we might go on, however that’s actually form of it. You realize, it’s fairly fundamental. Would you like a constitutionalist or an insurrectionist?
Then we get into the, ‘However, however, however, taxes and judges.’ If we don’t have a Structure, taxes and judges aren’t going to matter in any respect. That’s the place we’re, remarkably, proper now. Once more, we might go on, however I believe it’s a basic query. Individuals usually say, you already know, it’s easy. It’s not easy, however it’s easy. That’s the selection earlier than the nation.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Meacham, in all his haughty glory, sees it as his position to declare each candidate in a single get together illegitimate presidential contenders as a result of most of them chorus from denouncing the one candidate he actually hates. But Meacham and Scarborough marvel why conservatives don’t heed their recommendation once they present such disdain for the alternatives made by those that don’t share their left-wing worldview.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 19: Liberal Media Scream: CNN begs ‘older’ white individuals to step apart, give values up
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options considered one of CNN’s liberal huge pictures decrying “older” white individuals in Southern states for making an attempt to take care of values and traditions as a substitute of giving as much as the “new demography.”
Ron Brownstein, a CNN political analyst and Atlantic editor, argued it’s longtime residents who’re making an attempt to impose their values in states equivalent to Texas, not the opposite means round.
The dialogue got here Monday when CNN This Morning devoted a phase to how these in pink states are “imposing” their values on the remainder of the nation.
Not thought of by the panel: how these in pink states see themselves as merely pushing again on the imposition of left-wing LGBT Satisfaction values that CNN euphemistically described as “inclusion.”
From CNN This Morning:
RON BROWNSTEIN: The try to form of impose the values, and to drive corporations to toe the road of the values of 1 phase of society, actually places them in a tough place and, in the end, they need to resolve whether or not they’re going to embrace this altering, inclusive America, or whether or not they’re going to again down within the face of this type of stress.
CO-HOST ERICA HILL: That is going to really feel like a rhetorical query, however I imply it very critically, as from each a political and a enterprise standpoint, as you’re taking a look at this, proper, inclusion is nice for enterprise. How and the place is exclusion good for enterprise or for politics while you’re narrowing your pool?
BROWNSTEIN: Nicely, look, it’s very totally different between the pink states and the blue and purple states. Within the pink states, you may have Republican coalitions which might be operating state authorities with an electoral coalition that’s basically rooted within the components of the state that aren’t altering, which might be principally nonurban, older white voters. And they’re utilizing that to impose the values of that coalition on altering locations earlier than the brand new demography possibly modifications the political stability in a spot like Texas. So that you see half the nation shifting on this course. And these boycotts are form of the enterprise flank of that very same effort that in some ways is trying to reverse what has been six a long time of nationalizing extra rights and creating widespread rights which might be obtainable in each state.
I imply, we’re shifting again towards a pre-Sixties world the place your fundamental civil liberties depended way more in your ZIP code. And I believe, look, that in some locations, just like the interval earlier than the Civil Warfare, no establishment was equally credible on each side of the sectional divide. And these corporations, a lot as they need to keep out of it, in the end need to resolve: Are they going to embrace the altering America, or are they going to embrace this effort to, in impact, “Make America Nice Once more” by going again to older guidelines and older values?
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “In being so involved about conservatives ‘imposing’ their values on blue America, Brownstein is oblivious to how red-state America sees itself simply pushing again towards the Left’s values being pushed on them. However to Brownstein and CNN, the liberal blue America world is all that issues.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 12: Liberal Media Scream: New host Charles Barkley calls CNN ‘the Titanic’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one thing we don’t hear usually — a CNN host who admits the cable community is in deep trouble.
On this case, it’s an incoming host and former NBA nice Charles Barkley who’s teaming up with CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King for a CNN prime-time present.
The present was mapped out by fired CNN chief Chris Licht, who mentioned on the time that the present would start within the fall.
Barkley is outwardly a bit involved about what he’s moving into. Speaking hockey with NHL Corridor of Famer Wayne Gretzky, Barkley mentioned, “Apparently, with this new speak present, I’m leaping on the Titanic.”
From the Saturday night time NHL on TNT pregame Face Off present:
WAYNE GRETZKY: You don’t must go take that information job. You possibly can come on our present. You realize extra about hockey than we do. You don’t need to journey out of Atlanta.
CHARLES BARKLEY: Apparently, with this new speak present, I’m leaping on the Titanic. So it’s not — all people retains saying “abort,” “abort,” “abort!” So, you already know what, I’m wanting ahead to it. Gayle is superior.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “The reality stumbles out spontaneously within the oddest of locations. Barkley didn’t see that remark coming from Gretzky, so he blurted out the very first thing he thought, which is the reality concerning the decline of CNN, earlier than recovering with the extra acceptable public stance of wanting ahead to the present. One suspects he’s having some second ideas about agreeing to hitch CNN programming.”
Ranking for telling the reality: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ June 5: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd says he’s a ‘actual political journalist’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream turns the highlight to NBC’s Chuck Todd, who portrayed himself as a journalistic martyr in saying that he’ll step down as host of Meet the Press later this yr.
“Being an actual political journalist isn’t about constructing a model. It is about reporting what’s occurring and explaining why it’s occurring and letting the general public soak up the details,” he bragged Sunday.
“I take the assaults from partisans as compliments, and I take the compliments from partisans with a grain of salt,” mentioned Todd, a favourite goal of the Secrets and techniques’ weekly Liberal Media Scream.
NBC mentioned that Kristen Welker, NBC Information’s co-chief White Home correspondent, will succeed him in what’s a well-worn path to internet hosting Sunday public affairs exhibits.
Todd, on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
“I’ll be sincere, although. I depart feeling involved about this second in historical past however reassured by the requirements we have set right here. We didn’t tolerate propagandists, and this community and program by no means will. However it doesn’t suggest sticking your head within the sand both. For those who ignore actuality, you’ll miss the large story. Being an actual political journalist isn’t about constructing a model. It is about reporting what’s occurring and explaining why it’s occurring and letting the general public soak up the details. For those who do that job in search of recognition, you’re doing this job incorrectly.
“I take the assaults from partisans as compliments, and I take the compliments from partisans with a grain of salt. The aim of this and each Meet the Press episode is to do the entire following in a single informative hour: Make you mad, make you suppose, shake your head in disapproval, and nod your head in approval. For those who do all of that in a single hour of this present, we’ve performed our jobs. So, once more, this isn’t goodbye. However know this: Regardless of who sits on this chair, if it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press.”
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Boastful till the tip. No acknowledgment from Todd that he simply may be biased in favor of the Left and towards conservatives. As an alternative, he performed the martyr card, portraying himself because the goal of misguided criticism which solely proves his integrity.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
Might 29: No Liberal Media Scream this week.
Might 22: Liberal Media Scream: NBC’s Chuck Todd says solely tax cheats oppose extra IRS brokers
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits precisely the distinction between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals.
Think about wanting 87,000 extra Inside Income Service brokers. Nicely, that’s not solely what NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd mentioned, however he sneered at those that don’t need them as seemingly tax cheats.
On his Sunday present, he took on the GOP plan to roll again the Biden administration’s request and mentioned, “I’ve by no means understood the resistance of additional IRA brokers — except you knowingly cheat in your taxes.” His visitor, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), replied, “That’s salacious and you already know that.”
Donalds mentioned that “when you may have that many extra brokers, it’s to not go after the wealthy. It’s to go after the center class.” Todd stood by his view that the sincere don’t have anything to concern from extra enforcement. “So if you happen to’re paying what you’re presupposed to pay, then it’s best to don’t have anything to concern,” he mentioned.
The change on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
CHUCK TODD: However there’s another factor Home Republicans are asking for, which is they need fewer IRS brokers. They need fewer makes an attempt to attempt to correctly get tax receipts into the federal authorities’s coffers. I’ve by no means understood the resistance of additional IRS brokers — except you knowingly cheat in your taxes.
REP. BYRON DONALDS: To begin with, that’s salacious and you already know that. Most People, by far, pay their taxes, they usually do it honorably. What Home Republicans, and admittedly the Republican Occasion, is anxious about is having IRS brokers go after middle-class households and small enterprise house owners. When you may have that many extra brokers, it’s to not go after the wealthy. It’s to go after the center class. That’s what it is for.
TODD: So if you happen to’re paying what you’re presupposed to pay, then it’s best to don’t have anything to concern.
DONALDS: You would make the idea that IRS audits are up, that they’re placing out extra liens on the American individuals. That’s not true. That knowledge shouldn’t be there. All Joe Biden is making an attempt to do is use each attainable nickel out of each sofa from each American to pay for his radical spending. Why would we do this?
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How ridiculous. Extra individuals in any job that entails monitoring the actions of others means at the least a few of these of their purview will get harassed. In spite of everything, the extra employees has to justify their existence. By Todd’s logic, minority communities don’t have anything to concern from dozens extra cops on patrol since solely criminals have any purpose to ‘concern’ extra cops. However that’s not the view of Black Lives Matter activists. But, Todd and the media would by no means tackle that premise.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
Might 15: No Liberal Media Scream this week.
■ Might 8: Liberal Media Scream: Even when Trump loses, Washington Publish editor sees America’s ‘dissolution’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream demonstrates that anti-Trumpers have jumped off the deep finish eight months earlier than the primary major and caucus vote is forged within the 2024 race.
We characteristic Washington Publish columnist and editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who has lengthy criticized former President Donald Trump, as soon as dubbing him a “Frankenstein monster.”
In his newest expression of “Trump derangement syndrome,” he talked about Trump operating once more and the way it will spoil the nation. However on this case, Trump doesn’t win however loses and claims fraud.
The end result: America ends. “At that time, I believe we face a really severe risk of dissolution of the US and secession,” the neoconservative By no means Trumper mentioned on the First Look podcast hosted by the Washington Publish’s Jonathan Capehart.
It even appeared an excessive amount of for the host, who referred to as Kagan’s take “a fairly apocalyptic view, and I’m laughing to maintain from crying.”
From Friday’s First Look on Washington Publish Reside:
ROBERT KAGAN: For those who look forward a yr, I believe it’s very exhausting. I actually don’t suppose most People — even attentive People — have actually targeted on the truth that a yr from now, Donald Trump goes to be the strongest particular person within the nation in some respects. Definitely, he’s going to dominate the Republican Occasion. At that time, he will probably be accumulating votes, which on this nation is the final word certification of legitimacy. And so I believe he’s going to be in an extremely highly effective place.
He’s going to make it clear to his supporters that if he loses, it could actually solely be on account of fraud. And due to this fact, I believe your entire Republican Occasion goes to, if Trump loses, say that the election was fraudulent. And at that time, I believe we face a really severe risk of dissolution of the US and secession. I do know that that sounds excessive, however secession has been fairly widespread, what was once a quite common exercise or at the least, you already know, within the first hundred years of our republic, and our nation hasn’t modified that a lot. So, I believe that’s what we’re taking a look at within the 2024 situation proper now.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Danielle [Allen], do you share? I imply, that’s a fairly apocalyptic view, and I’m laughing to maintain from crying, Bob, however—
KAGAN: For the very first thing within the morning.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “The final word in ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ scaremongering. It’s not ok for former President Donald Trump to lose. Per Kagan, even when Trump loses, we’ll get an apocalyptic end result. So, the one means for the U.S. to outlive as a nation is for Trump to not even run. For somebody who sees Trump as a destroyer of democracy, Kagan isn’t very assured within the energy of our democratic establishments.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ Might 1: Liberal Media Scream: Todd cues up Mayorkas to tout Biden as ‘extremely sharp’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits how the Washington political/media machine works with regards to a matter each side simply don’t need to deal with absolutely, equivalent to studies President Joe Biden doesn’t have the psychological capability or stamina to run for reelection or serve out a second time period.
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd cued up Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to champion Biden as absolutely match for reelection. Todd: “Is he up for a second time period?” Mayorkas: “100%. Extremely sharp, extremely probing, unimaginable command of the main points, probing on the main points.”
Todd’s follow-up: “You’ve got full confidence he can serve a second time period?” Mayorkas repeated his 100% line, after which Todd wrapped up the phase with out ever difficult the upbeat assurances from Mayorkas.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
CHUCK TODD: You’re in Cupboard conferences. There’s a whole lot of questions on President Biden and his means to serve in a second time period. You see him up shut, face-to-face. What say you? Is he up, is he up for a second time period?
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS: Oh, Chuck, 100%. Extremely sharp, extremely probing, unimaginable command of the main points, probing on the main points, asking robust questions. Completely. I’m extremely proud to serve in his administration. I’m extremely happy with the work that we have now performed throughout the board —
TODD: You’ve got full confidence he can serve a second time period?
MAYORKAS: 100%.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “It’s the obtuse main the blind. Everybody is aware of Joe Biden is as ‘extremely good’ because the border is safe, as Mayorkas has repeatedly assured. All however a couple of Biden sycophants know neither is true, but Todd let Mayorkas get away with the chuckle line.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 24: Liberal Media Scream: Authorities-funded PBS has Biden scandal, gaffe-free
(Washington Examiner submit)
If ever there was an instance that Twitter had it proper when the social media large slapped “government-funded” and “state-affiliated” on PBS and NPR, think about our Mainstream Media Scream instance this week that includes politically delusional contributors David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart.
Think about a conservative calling President Joe Biden a powerful speaker who’s gaffe- and scandal-free, ignoring his refusal to satisfy with the media, his weekly mistaken mumbles, and the investigations into the household funds or the historic disaster on the border.
Nicely, roll the tape from the Friday PBS NewsHour. There you will notice Brooks cheering Biden’s reelection plans and saying that the president “gave a powerful State of the Union,” and including that “there hasn’t been any apparent gaffes, huge scandals or something like that.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
GEOFF BENNETT, ANCHOR: President Biden’s allies say the truth that he’s going through solely token major opposition from writer Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. actually is a present of energy for him.
DAVID BROOKS: Oh, for certain. I imply, there’s — within the polling, there’s nonetheless a whole lot of Democrats who suppose he mustn’t run, however that’s principally an age situation, not an ideology situation. However the midterm election type of silenced all that. And he’s been wanting sturdy. He gave a powerful State of the Union. There hasn’t been any apparent gaffes, huge scandals or something like that.
And so there’s nothing — or, even ideologically, I’d say, over the 2 years up to now, two and a bit, that he’s fairly properly massaged the center-left fights that occur within the Democratic Occasion by doing issues that some individuals, the centrists like, and a few issues that folks on the Left like.
And so there’s no pure dwelling for an opposition candidate, and everybody’s united by Donald Trump. And so, you already know, I believe what’s fascinating about him, he’s been sounding fairly candidate-y for six months now. He’s been speaking like, ‘I actually need to go after Trump.’ And he’s been doing it.
You realize, I believe what has to concern the White Home just a little is that they’ve had bettering inflation, a whole lot of good home coverage achievements, Republicans have staked out some fairly excessive floor on a whole lot of points. And if you happen to have a look at the polls, it’s nonetheless moderately shut. His approvals are nonetheless in 46s.
And it might be that we’re simply in an especially partisan, divided nation, an especially cynical nation, the place, on the nationwide stage, no one — and that is world — no nationwide chief will get widespread anymore. No nationwide chief will get to 55, as a result of there’s a lot cynicism throughout the Western world.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How surreal to go to the world of PBS Information, the place Joe Biden is ‘sturdy,’ has had ‘a whole lot of good home coverage achievements’ and hasn’t had any ‘apparent gaffes’ or scandals. Biden is a ‘gaffe’ machine! As for scandals, howdy Hunter Biden and Chinese language cash going to the Biden household, to say nothing of the continuing scandal of the out-of-control border. Simply because PBS ignores Biden’s confusion and malfeasance doesn’t imply he’s good at his job. However to PBS, that is evaluation from the ‘conservative’ home analyst. No marvel conservative taxpayers are so aggravated about having to fund PBS.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 17: Liberal Media Scream: ABC pundit says Republicans are the bossy ones
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options an ABC Information pundit ripping Republicans for pushing individuals round.
Jane Coaston, as soon as with the New York Instances, cited abortion in claiming Republicans are America’s busybodies, ignoring how the Democrats are engaged in a wide-ranging effort to drive the nation to simply accept electrical automobiles, gasoline stoves, and kiddie transgender operations.
“I believe a very powerful political precedence for any political get together is to not be the individuals telling individuals what to do,” she mentioned.
Fortunately, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was sitting subsequent to her on ABC’s This Week. He countered, “Democrats are going to have a tough time making that case while you have a look at public training and what their place is, which is, us and the academics’ unions know what to inform your youngsters and the place they need to go to highschool and the way they need to be taught.”
From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
JANE COASTON: I believe a very powerful political precedence for any political get together is to not be the individuals telling individuals what to do. For the final 5 years, we’ve heard from Republicans, particularly even throughout COVID, about how freedom was going to reign and that they had been simply going to let individuals make choices for themselves. They need to be the cool mother of politics. Nicely, that period has ended.
And I believe that there’s a selected sort of libertarianism that could be very widespread in America. In contrast to the Libertarian Occasion. However there’s a selected sort of, don’t inform me what to do, let me make my choices. Let me make my choices for my household, that could be very politically worthwhile. And I believe that if Democrats are capable of say that we’re the get together that claims you can also make these choices, you can also make choices for your loved ones, your loved ones could make choices for themselves, I believe that that will probably be politically worthwhile. And I believe that for Republicans, it’s going to be difficult to attempt to sound concurrently like cool mother and the Ethical Majority that so many people grew up with.
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Nicely, the Democratic Occasion is all for that on abortion, however they’re towards it with regards to public training. Relating to public training, individuals shouldn’t be capable of make their very own choices, you should not be capable of have the flexibility to have your youngster go to parochial college if you happen to can’t afford it, or to go to a constitution college in the event that they’re not obtainable in your city. Or to have the ability to resolve what your youngsters ought to be capable of study sexuality and at what age they need to study that. So the Democrats are going to have a tough time making that case while you have a look at public training and what their place is, which is us and the academics’ unions know what to inform your youngsters and the place they need to go to highschool and the way they need to be taught.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What a complete lack of self-awareness. For those who actually suppose ‘a very powerful political precedence for any political get together is to not be the individuals telling individuals what to do,’ how will you be a Democrat, as Coaston clearly is, since telling individuals what to do is the elemental ardour of contemporary Democrats on the whole lot from the form of automobile you possibly can drive to the kind of range you possibly can put in your kitchen? Because the well-known line goes, the place Democrats may be substituted for liberals, liberals don’t care what you do so long as it’s obligatory.’”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 10: Liberal Media Scream: Liberals can’t deal with the reality
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the information business’s knee-jerk response to the expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats from the legislature for violating flooring guidelines in aggressively demanding gun management.
MSNBC political pundit Jon Meacham will get our highlight for his rambling tie-in of abortion, gender, weapons, and, in fact, former President Donald Trump to the ouster of state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson final week.
“This stuff are related,” Meacham mentioned in dismissing Republicans and blaming Trump within the newest instance of the media’s Trump derangement syndrome. “It’s a reminder that what Trump has represented, which is that this showmanship, this, ‘We’re going to personal the libs,’ is definitely of huge real-world consequence, proper? His actuality present, which is about his consideration and his fundraising and his ego and his narcissism, has an affect on how individuals reside and the way the weak reside.”
Our curator, Media Analysis Heart’s Vice President Brent Baker, gave a uncommon 5 out of 5 “scream” ranking and mentioned the meandering efficiency confirmed that liberals can’t deal with the reality.
“The Republicans accountable for the Tennessee legislature had been following the very guidelines of the state structure in expelling the 2 Democrats, the form of orderly course of Meacham advocated however can’t settle for when it reminds him of Trump-like wrath,” Baker mentioned in his evaluation.
Meacham on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
I can’t assist, simply due to the place I’m sitting in Nashville, to convey this up as properly. You realize, 14 days in the past, the youngsters, the academics, the adults who had been murdered on the Covenant Faculty had been preparing for varsity at this hour. And I convey it up as a result of there are — there’s the problem of reproductive well being, there’s the problem of a wildly and, if I’ll, weirdly expansive view of the Second Modification, there’s an anti-democratic, lowercase “D” motion as a result of we have now a supermajority right here. As a result of Republicans can expel two members, they did.
And this stuff are related. It’s a reminder — and picture a world the place we haven’t even talked about the indictment of a former president and the potential indictments coming — it’s a reminder that what Trump has represented, which is that this showmanship, this, “We’re going to personal the libs,” is definitely of huge real-world consequence, proper? His actuality present, which is about his consideration and his fundraising and his ego and his narcissism, has an affect on how individuals reside and the way the weak reside. And people who find themselves weak who don’t even know they’re weak as a result of they’re 9 years outdated they usually’re going to highschool. And so, the fitting wing — and, Joe, you alluded to it, you grew up round this, you had been elected — the fitting wing must be a totally functioning a part of a two-party constitutional system. They usually can consider what they need to consider about replica and about weapons, and that’s all what they’re presupposed to do. Then you definately take it to the individuals. And while you take it to the individuals, you then obey the end result as a result of that’s what we do. That’s what separates us from chaos.
Take into consideration what the Proper is doing right here. They’re doing two issues: They’re pushing, arguably, too far on these essential points, after which in the event that they get a end result they don’t like, they storm a capital, or they throw individuals out of a legislature. Appears to me you possibly can have the primary, however you possibly can’t have the second, and if you happen to insist on having each, then you aren’t a part of this dialog, and we’d like a dialog that has individuals of fine religion, whether or not you agree with them or not. These are tough points, proper? I imply, the definition of life and the Roe system. This isn’t straightforward.
There are individuals of huge goodwill, huge goodwill, who differ from numerous people that we’re speaking to and about. However you are taking it to the system, you are taking it to the Structure, and if there’s a choice, you respect it, and if the choice goes the opposite means, you’re employed inside channels. You don’t throw individuals out of legislative our bodies.
Baker explains our weekly decide: “A traditional instance of Trump derangement syndrome, although this time in a droll and low-key method, but nonetheless an occasion of how liberals within the media see the whole lot by means of a Trump prism. The Republicans accountable for the Tennessee legislature had been following the very guidelines of the state structure in expelling the 2 Democrats, the form of orderly course of Meacham advocated however can’t settle for when it reminds him of Trump-like wrath.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ April 3: Liberal Media Scream: 60 Minutes’ hate record towards Marjorie Taylor Greene
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the acid 60 Minutes interview of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by Lesley Stahl.
In it, the Georgia Republican pushed again exhausting towards Stahl’s trolling interview that included a hater’s record of nasty feedback thrown on the lawmaker ever since she first ran for the North Georgia Home seat.
For her reporting undertaking, Stahl went on social media to “search for” a number of the feedback. She learn them to Greene, who shrugged, “Appears like the typical troll in my Twitter feed, so I don’t actually care.”
There was no point out within the televised story of the occasions Greene has been swatted in a number of instances the place she was nervous about turning into a so-called “loss of life by police” sufferer.
Stahl additionally couldn’t resist the usual liberal media mantra on the need of elevating taxes.
On the debt ceiling, Stahl requested, “Would you be prepared to vote for compromise? In different phrases, increase some taxes?” Greene replied: “I don’t suppose we have now a income downside in Washington. We’ve got a spending downside.” Stahl sneered, “That’s glib. That’s glib.”
From Sunday’s 60 Minutes on CBS:
LESLEY STAHL: We seemed up some phrases which were mentioned about you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: OK.
STAHL: “Loopy,” “Q-clown,” “Looney Tune,” “unhinged,” “moron.” Fairly ugly stuff.
GREENE: Appears like the typical troll in my Twitter feed, so I don’t actually care.
STAHL: You’re used to it?
GREENE: I don’t let name-calling hassle me or offend me. I simply don’t.
…..
STAHL: Would you be prepared to vote for compromise? In different phrases, increase some taxes?
GREENE: I don’t suppose we have now a income downside in Washington. We’ve got a spending downside.
STAHL: You realize one thing? That’s glib. That’s glib. That, what does that imply? The 2 sides have to come back collectively and hammer it out.
GREENE: Reduce spending.
STAHL: Each side.
GREENE: Each side want to chop spending.
STAHL: The place do you need to reduce it?
GREENE: COVID bailout cash and a whole lot of inexperienced vitality spending.
STAHL: However are you prepared to allow us to go into default?
GREENE: No. I’ve all the time mentioned I wouldn’t do this.
STAHL: So, would you compromise?
GREENE: It relies upon.
STAHL: On taxes? You gained’t.
GREENE: No, I’m not elevating taxes.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “The 60 Minutes story was unremarkable in some ways as Stahl painted, as you’d count on from the institution media, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a loopy far-right extremist. However Stahl confirmed how she and CBS Information think about the congresswoman before everything to be an obstacle to their constant demand that taxes have to be raised. In that respect, to CBS she’s simply as terrible as any conservative who prefers reducing spending to elevating taxes.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 27: Liberal Media Scream: Jon Stewart says America all speak on ending discrimination
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options liberal activist Jon Stewart claiming that efforts in America to embrace the range, fairness, and inclusion motion are simply an inch deep, a “salve” to make individuals really feel good.
On CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, the previous host of the Every day Present on Comedy Central lumped essential race principle in with DEI and mentioned that regardless of all of the hand-wringing by many to vary society’s views on discrimination, it’s principally simply speak.
He pointed to the Nationwide Soccer League for example. The NFL has the so-called Rooney Rule, which requests that groups interview minorities when a high job comes open, nothing extra.
“So right here’s what we’re going to do,” Stewart mentioned. “We’re going to have to speak to at least one black man. ‘Are we good? I believe we’re good.’”
Jon Stewart on Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN:
By the best way, all these range initiatives and CRT and all these different issues are solely there as a result of we refuse to really repair the actual downside. The range and fairness initiatives are a salve. They’re to pacify and mollify as a result of we gained’t really do the actual factor. We gained’t really dismantle the vestiges of all of the systemic racism and all of the systemic classism and all of the systemic gender points. We gained’t really dismantle that.
However what we’ll do is you possibly can have an workplace within the constructing. And each few months, we’re going to have to take a seat and hearken to you speak for, like, an hour. “And so we’re good, proper?” Like, it’s a rustic that gained’t face — I’ll clarify it like, OK, the NFL, proper? You realize the Rooney Rule? The Rooney Rule within the NFL is as a result of there are so few African American coaches, it’s a must to at the least interview, like, considered one of them. In order that’s the rule now, as a substitute of it’s the factor you set in place as a substitute of wanting on the proprietor’s field, and realizing, oh, proper, that’s simply the legacy of the financial segregation that’s been in our nation since its founding.
So we’re by no means going to take care of that. So right here’s what we’re going to do. A range and fairness initiative, we’re going to have to speak to at least one black man. “Are we good? I believe we’re good.” However that’s what I’m, what I’m making an attempt to say is we don’t — the factor that they’re pointing at is the factor that’s in place as a result of we gained’t do the precise factor.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “To conservatives, DEI is undermining the American ultimate of equal alternative and changing it with pressured equal outcomes that exacerbate racial tensions. Stewart put himself clearly on the Left, contending DEI doesn’t go far sufficient however complaining it’s ‘in place as a result of we gained’t do the precise factor.’ But he by no means explains what that ‘precise factor’ would entail.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 20: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Reid coddles reporter fired for hostility to DeSantis
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream turns to the case of an Axios reporter who was fired for describing as “propaganda” a information launch dished out by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
As an alternative of backing Axios in her interview with the reporter, MSNBC’s liberal host Pleasure Reid blamed DeSantis and gave the reporter an opportunity to blast Axios and declare that the seemingly Republican presidential candidate bullied Axios into motion.
Reid mentioned, “There’s a bullying side and a whole lot of trolling” of those that work for DeSantis.
The Tampa-based journalist Ben Montgomery mentioned on Reid’s present, “I really feel like what Axios did to me has a chilling impact on your entire information media.”
Right here’s what occurred, in accordance with the New York Publish:
“Journalist Ben Montgomery was fired from the information outlet [Axios] after a staffer within the state Division of Training tweeted out a screenshot of him telling the division’s press workplace over electronic mail, ‘That is propaganda, not a press launch’ in reply to a launch that highlighted the GOP governor internet hosting a roundtable on ‘Exposing the Range Fairness and Inclusion Rip-off in Greater Training.’”
Oh, and naturally, he is pondering of cashing in with a e-book.
From the March 16 episode of The ReidOut on MSNBC:
BEN MONTGOMERY: So we have now the Florida Division of Training, that’s form of engaged in, for my part, campaigning for DeSantis for 2024 presidential marketing campaign. So what they’re doing is weaponizing these emails that we generally ship and making an attempt to make us appear to be lefty activists when actually we’re simply focused on them serving the individuals and being true public service and doing the proper of labor that the taxpayers are paying them for.
JOY REID: There’s a bullying side and a whole lot of trolling. They do a whole lot of Twitter trolling. They tried to bully my pricey buddy and colleague Andrea Mitchell for asking a query not even to DeSantis, to the vice chairman, Kamala Harris. Did you expertise, earlier than this, any form of bullying habits from the DeSantis camp?
BEN MONTGOMERY: Look, I principally write about fluffy form of issues. I cowl the information, in fact. I’ve been an investigative reporter for a very long time however not with this administration. By and huge I’ve not had the chance to essentially do any form of depth, in-depth reporting on a DeSantis administration. I’m not an individual that they need to be afraid of, I don’t suppose.
I’m not writing about them daily. I’m not digging deep, in different phrases. So yeah, however this was propaganda and it was a waste of my time. That’s in the end what I used to be saying to them. It’s losing my time and it’s performed in a transparent vein of propaganda. That is objectionably propaganda.
And I learn the entire thing as a result of I give them the good thing about the doubt as a result of they work for the individuals of Florida. And I need to do proper by my readers. And so when this wastes my time and it’s simply propaganda, I really feel like I’ve a proper to say so. And I really feel like what Axios did to me has a chilling impact on your entire information media. It’s a really unhappy factor.
REID: Oh, it 100% does! It does present that bullying works. And that sends a message to each different journalist. You place up a type of enjoyable tweet after this all occurred saying that you simply made a quiche. What are your subsequent plans?
MONTGOMERY: I used to be speaking to my agent right now about whether or not there was a e-book on this, and possibly there’s. Perhaps it’s time that any person isn’t afraid to face as much as DeSantis, write a real biography of him. So I may be the man to do this. We’ll see.
REID: Yeah, good luck, he has his navy information, individuals have heaps and many questions. Perhaps you possibly can pull it off. Ben Montgomery, thanks man. Actually admire you being right here, and better of luck in no matter you do subsequent.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Montgomery’s angle betrayed as true what the DeSantis employees noticed; he’s, regardless of his denial, a ‘lefty activist,’ only one {that a} media outlet, in a rarity, held accountable. Reid, in fact, noticed all of it by means of the prism of her hatred for all issues DeSantis and thus handled him because the sufferer as a substitute of because the one who violated the belief of his readers.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 13: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC needs baseball out of Florida over DeSantis
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a new name from an MSNBC anchor for baseball to tug spring coaching out of Florida over a number of the latest social coverage strikes by seemingly 2024 presidential candidate and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Anchor Lindsey Reiser in contrast Florida underneath DeSantis to the times of Jim Crow as she featured Washington Publish sports activities author Kevin Blackistone, who had simply revealed a column urging Main League Baseball to reply to “Ron DeSantis’s tradition wars.”
She mentioned: “You outlined Main League Baseball’s transfer out of Florida for spring coaching in yesteryear — late ‘40s, a state with a number of the harshest Jim Crow legal guidelines because the league was introducing black gamers to the league.”
He responded that MLB has already proven a hand, shifting the 2021 All-Star Sport out of Georgia over voting reform legal guidelines that turned out to be a nonfactor in final yr’s elections that noticed report numbers of individuals on the polls.
Baseball, he mentioned, “ought to categorical if it has some uncomfortableness with the issues which might be happening within the DeSantis marketing campaign, in the best way that he’s run the state of Florida, and in a number of the different laws that has been handed there that they need to communicate out.”
From MSNBC Stories within the 10 a.m. ET hour, on Friday:
LINDSEY REISER: Again in DeSantis’s dwelling state, his fellow Republicans are fairly busy this week with lawmakers introducing three new payments that may broaden on laws that critics name the “Don’t Say Homosexual Regulation,” one other that may ban abortion after six weeks of being pregnant, and a proposal to require bloggers who write about Florida politics to register with the state. This all comes simply over a month after Gov. DeSantis’s determination to dam AP African American Research from Florida colleges, however as Florida sees every kind of controversy over these proposals, it’s additionally in the midst of a spring custom with 15 Main League Baseball groups at the moment holding spring coaching and the league and gamers going through rising calls to talk out towards these payments.
Becoming a member of me proper now, ESPN panelist and sports activities commentary author for the Washington Publish, Kevin Blackistone. He’s out with a brand new piece referred to as “Baseball can now not ignore Ron DeSantis’s tradition wars.” Kevin, thanks for being with us. I need to speak to you concerning the piece. You outlined Main League Baseball’s transfer out of Florida for spring coaching in yesteryear — late ‘40s, a state with a number of the harshest Jim Crow legal guidelines because the league was introducing black gamers to the league. In 1947, once more, Jackie Robinson becoming a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, his crew shifting spring coaching to Havana, Cuba. That very same yr, the Cleveland Indians, the New York Giants moved spring coaching to Tucson.
KEVIN BLACKISTONE: So baseball reacted, proper, they usually began to depart from, or sure groups did, from Florida. And that actually started the custom of the Cactus League in Arizona. So that’s the by means of line to what’s going on now. And baseball has within the very latest previous, proper, in 2021, they moved the All-Star Sport out of the state of Georgia in protest to a number of the election legal guidelines that lots of people within the state of Georgia felt had been burdensome on black voters particularly and different individuals of colour and individuals who had been marginalized in that state.
So I simply suppose that, you already know, baseball has spoken out on these points earlier than, and I believe it ought to categorical if it has some uncomfortableness with the issues which might be happening within the DeSantis marketing campaign, in the best way that he’s run the state of Florida, and in a number of the different laws that has been handed there that they need to communicate out.
You realize, we talked about — and I do know this community has — concerning the overview of books for youth within the public colleges within the state of Florida and a few of those who haven’t but been allowed again on the cabinets. A type of books occurs to be a e-book about Jackie Robinson, so take into consideration the irony of that. Additionally they briefly suspended the distribution of books about Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron, two of the good black stars of baseball.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “What an extremely insidious historic precedent to quote, the Democratic Occasion’s century of imposing segregation, as a rationale now for punishing the individuals of Florida over a disagreement with insurance policies pushed by the Republican DeSantis. Nothing DeSantis has ever advocated comes near the form of racist, inhumane insurance policies Florida enforced within the Nineteen Forties.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ March 6: Liberal Media Scream: Whoopi cheers erasing historical past she’s ‘not in tune with’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a feud on the Left about “woke” historical past rewriting between Invoice Maher and Whoopi Goldberg.
The preliminary focus is Maher’s protection on CNN of former President Abraham Lincoln, who ended slavery, and an obvious reference to the Washington, D.C., Emancipation Memorial that featured what many consider is a grateful former slave at his ft.
“Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial determine amongst liberals. We preferred him. Now they take his identify off colleges and tear down his statues. Actually, Lincoln is not ok for you?” mentioned Maher on CNN.
Enter Goldberg, a critic of the statue, who slammed the woke motion, claiming she and different black individuals have all the time been “woke” to undercurrents of racism.
“And this concept of woke, I will say it once more: Most of y’all had been asleep,” she mentioned on The View, drawing a glance from co-host Pleasure Behar.
From ABC’s The View on Thursday:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Maher additionally had some criticism for the opposite aspect of the aisle, claiming the Left misplaced the definition of the time period “woke.” Huh? OK. Have a look.
BILL MAHER: Democrats generally can take it too far. You realize, I’d categorize liberal as totally different than woke. Woke, which began out as a very good factor, alert to injustice — who might be towards that? However it grew to become type of an eye fixed roll as a result of they love range besides of concepts. Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial determine amongst liberals. We preferred him. Now they take his identify off colleges and tear down his statues. Actually, Lincoln isn’t ok for you?
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Nicely, that statue was not ok. As a result of it confirmed a slave down at Lincoln’s ft. And if we’re tearing down statues which might be actually not in tune with the place we’re as a nation, or at the least the place we had been a few months in the past, yeah, you bought to take it down. That’s why they eliminated stuff. That’s why individuals are shifting stuff round. And this concept of woke, I’m going to say it once more: Most of y’all had been asleep.
JOY BEHAR: Who’re you talking to?
GOLDBERG: I’m speaking to all these people that use that phrase “woke” on a regular basis. Y’all had been asleep. We had been by no means asleep. We needed to keep awake watching you. So, you wakened and also you thought, “Oh, my God, there’s numerous girls operating amok doing issues they’re not presupposed to be doing and drag queens all over the place and oh, my God, individuals of colour!”
You realize, you all the time speak concerning the snowflakes — look within the mirror. Y’all can’t appear to deal with something. You possibly can’t appear to deal with competitors from Democrats to Republicans. You possibly can’t appear to deal with the discussions of why individuals really feel the best way they do. Your concept is to eliminate the whole lot. So, cease calling us snowflakes.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “One wonders if Goldberg will probably be so happy when the calls come to take down statues of Martin Luther King and take away his identify from roads and colleges. In spite of everything, like her argument with Lincoln, ‘he’s actually not in tune with the place we’re as a nation’ since, by 2023 requirements, he was homophobic and transphobic.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 27: Liberal Media Scream: Hollywood says banning filming plastic bottles will save the world
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream goes just a little off beat to focus on a brand new Hollywood declare that film studios and actors are saving the world and the surroundings with an honor system to ban plastic bottles “on digital camera.”
It got here from Fran Drescher, the president of the Display Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists and the star of The Nanny, successful sitcom within the Nineties, as she addressed the SAG Awards present final night time.
To a smattering of applause, Drescher mentioned that Hollywood’s effort to cease exhibiting plastic on digital camera was the business’s largest effort “to save lots of the planet since World Warfare II.”
Drescher, in the course of the SAG Awards carried reside Sunday night time on Netflix’s channel on YouTube, mentioned:
“I’m very proud to say that SAG-AFTRA and MPAA has solid Inexperienced Council, the largest joint effort of stars and studios to save lots of the planet since World Warfare II. Mission No. 1: an honor system to remove single-use plastic on digital camera, behind the scenes, and leverage star energy to problem audiences around the globe to do the identical. You might discover this yr in your tables, they’re all glass bottles.”
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Nothing higher encapsulates out-of-touch Hollywood celebrities than the hubris displayed by Drescher to explain actors not utilizing single-use plastic on digital camera as key to the best effort ‘to save lots of the planet since World Warfare II.’ That’s ludicrous, and even her personal union members realized that, therefore the very minimal applause within the room. Many viewers watching at dwelling had been seemingly laughing at her absurdity. Maybe she ought to be just a little extra involved about her members demanding on-set trailers and personal jets.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 20: Liberal Media Scream: The View hits ‘Ron DeSaster,’ would ‘ban the alphabet’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the hosts of ABC’s The View and their escalating screeching about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and his efforts to have public college classes conform with state legislation and what Sunshine State dad and mom need.
As an alternative of a level-headed dialogue about his efforts, the hosts attacked DeSantis as a right-wing social warrior who liberal Republican and never-Trumper Ana Navarro dubbed “Ron DeSaster.” The name-calling included unhinged prices that the governor is so anti-education that he would “ban the alphabet.”
The ranting adopted strikes by DeSantis to query a brand new School Board Superior Placement class on black historical past. He and another governors are involved the liberal class plan teaches essential race principle and different classes banned within the state.
“I believe he’s going to ban the alphabet. Holy hell,” mentioned Navarro.
From ABC’s The View on Thursday, Feb. 16:
ANA NAVARRO: What that is all about getting on Fox Information. What that is all about is fanning the flames of grievance, of white grievance. What that is all about is manufacturing tradition wars that don’t exist in order that he can come out like William Wallace, the man in Braveheart — “Freedom!” Hear, I reside in Florida. I reside underneath Gov. Ron DeSaster!
SUNNY HOSTIN: You bought to maneuver, Ana.
NAVARRO: Every single day, I get up and marvel what he’s going to be. What’s the flavour du jour right now? What’s he going to be towards right now? He’s towards AP He’s towards DEI — range, fairness, and inclusion. He’s towards [environmental, social, and governance] this week. He’s towards electrical stoves.
HOSTIN: Don’t say homosexual.
NAVARRO: He’s towards LGBTQ. I believe he’s going to ban the alphabet. Holy hell.
JOY BEHAR: These individuals, these fascists on the market like DeSantis, they suppose that we’re simply going to take a seat again and allow them to do no matter they need. No, we’re not. We’ve seen this film earlier than. OK? These of us who lived within the ’60s and ’70s, we noticed this film. There have been many, many fascist ways coming down the pike from Nixon and the remainder of these fascists; that’s what they’re. And we protested and we protested, and we ended a battle that was unlawful. And we did stuff. And it’s occurring once more. That’s the excellent news.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “The unhinged response to Ron DeSantis says one thing about who the left is most afraid of operating for president. The celebrities of The View can’t have an sincere dialogue about his insurance policies and concepts, in order that they rant and rave and name him a ‘fascist’ and make different ridiculous accusations. It might entertain liberal viewers, nevertheless it ought to be embarrassing to ABC Information, which produces the day by day gabfest.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 13: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos calls for GOP examine Trump household
(Washington Examiner submit)
Armed solely with a Washington Publish story about Saudi hyperlinks to Kushner and Trump, Stephanopoulos requested Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the panel, “Will you be investigating that as properly?”
Comer referred to as for strict ethics disclosure legal guidelines, which Democrats have resisted, however that wasn’t ok for the media star and former Clinton White Home aide. “To be clear,” he mentioned, “you consider that this could apply to Kushner and Trump in addition to the Bidens at this level?”
The change on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you extra about your oversight obligations. You made it clear you’re going to be taking a look at Hunter Biden and his monetary entanglements with international international locations together with China. I need to put up a front-page story from the Washington Publish this morning detailing Jared Kushner’s ties to the Saudis. “After serving to the prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner profit from Saudi funds.” A $2 billion funding in Kushner’s funds from the Saudis. We all know the president, former President Trump, has additionally acquired funds associated to the Saudi golf tour. Sen. Ron Wyden says these entanglements deserve investigation. Will you be investigating that as properly?
REP. JAMES COMER: I believe the whole lot’s on the desk. Look, we’re investigating Joe Biden. We all know that Joe Biden mentioned in the course of the presidential marketing campaign that he had no data of his son’s enterprise pursuits. He wasn’t concerned. He didn’t profit from them. We’ve got proof that may counsel in any other case, and that is very regarding. …
The Democrats complained about Kushner’s international dealings. Republicans are actually complaining about your entire Biden household’s international enterprise dealings. We have to know what’s allowable and what isn’t allowable. We have to have strict ethics legal guidelines, and we have to considerably enhance the disclosure legal guidelines in America. So I believe this investigation goes to be essential to repair an issue earlier than it will get out of hand.
STEPHANOPOULOS: However to be clear, you consider that this could apply to Kushner and Trump in addition to the Bidens at this level?
COMER: I consider that after we speak about passing laws to set a line as to the place you may be with kinfolk of high-ranking authorities officers with respect to doing enterprise with adversaries abroad, then it might apply to everybody. We have to repair this earlier than it will get worse within the subsequent administration.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “If solely the Washington press corps had been as keen over time to leap on tales about Hunter and Joe Biden getting cash out of China as they’ve persistently been to advertise each new allegation towards anybody in Donald Trump’s orbit. It’s virtually as if Stephanopoulos is making an attempt to deflect from Joe Biden, to use his personal model of ‘both-siderism’ to undermine the affect of Congressman Comer’s upcoming hearings on the Bidens.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ February 6: Liberal Media Scream: Reporters beg for Biden to get ‘credit score’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits how determined some within the media are for President Joe Biden to get “credit score” for his efforts at a time when polls present that 62% don’t consider the Democrat has completed a lot.
The highest cheerleader is NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell who mentioned on Meet the Press that the president isn’t getting the thanks he deserves.
“He’s not getting credit score for the financial system, and ought to be,” she advised host Chuck Todd.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
ANDREA MITCHELL: And he’s not getting credit score for the financial system, and ought to be. Take a look at it, you already know, I believe the hazard of recession is receding. It’s not altogether gone. We see a giant jobs market. It’s an issue for Jay Powell [chairman of the Federal Reserve] as a result of now they do need to maintain tightening. However, you already know, wage progress is moderating.
CHUCK TODD: I let you know, individuals don’t–
MITCHELL: Layoffs are solely in a couple of sectors, they’re not common.
TODD: There is not any doubt–
AMY WALTER: Manufacturing is constructing.
TODD: –however individuals nonetheless really feel like this financial system’s simply not–
MITCHELL: That’s proper, as a result of inflation’s steady.
TODD: It nonetheless feels wobbly.
CORNELL BELCHER: Mid-summer, mid-summer – let’s, let’s test in on that.
TODD: That’s truthful.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “How good it have to be to be a Democratic president so you may have main members of the Washington press corps spinning speaking factors in your favor, days earlier than your huge speech, about the way you ‘ought to be’ getting extra credit score. Mitchell’s contentions about Biden’s report are higher fitted to somebody from the White Home press workplace than somebody who is meant to be a dispassionate journalist.”
Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ January 30: Liberal Media Scream: Hammer time: Speaker McCarthy kilos media bias and double requirements
(Washington Examiner submit)
Final week, for instance, when a reporter didn’t like McCarthy’s reply to a query, the speaker mentioned: “Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You requested me a query. After I reply it, it is the reply to your query. You do not get to find out whether or not I reply your query or not, OK?”
Then, on Face the Nation, he bristled when host Margaret Brennan criticized his appointment of “election deniers” to committee posts. Noting that she didn’t complain when Democratic deniers of former President Donald Trump’s election received good committee seats, he mentioned, “If you wish to maintain Republicans to that equation, why don’t you additionally maintain Democrats?”
From Sunday’s interview on CBS’s Face the Nation:
Margaret Brennan: I need to ask you about a number of the make-up of your caucus.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy: Sure.
Brennan: In accordance with CBS information, 70% of the Home GOP members denied the outcomes of the 2020 election. You place a lot of them on very key committees: Intelligence, Homeland Safety, Oversight. Why are you elevating people who find themselves denying actuality like that?
McCarthy: Nicely, if you happen to look to the Democrats, their rating member [Jamie] Raskin had the identical factor, denied Trump or Bush was in there. Bennie Thompson —
Brennan: Did you see these numbers we simply put up there? Seventy %!
McCarthy: Did you even be truthful and equal the place you checked out Raskin did the identical factor, Bennie Thompson, whose a rating member and was a chair? These people had been chair of the Democratic Occasion.
Brennan: I’m asking you, as chief of Kevin McCarthy’s Home, why you made these decisions? These had been your decisions.
McCarthy: Yeah, they’re my decisions, however they’re the convention decisions. However I’m additionally asking you while you look to see simply Republicans — Democrats have performed the identical factor. So possibly it’s not denying. Perhaps it’s the one alternative they need to have a query about what went on in the course of the election. So if you wish to maintain Republicans to that equation, why don’t you additionally maintain Democrats? Why don’t you maintain Jamie Raskin? Why don’t you maintain Bennie Thompson? When Democrats had appointed them to be chair, I by no means as soon as heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that query once they had been in energy, within the majority. After they questioned —
Brennan: You’re speaking about issues going again to 2000, which was a time, I didn’t have this present again then, which is why I’m asking you now about your management.
McCarthy: No, no! They had been in energy final Congress. So why —
Brennan: You’re speaking about questions from the 2000 election.
McCarthy: You’re asking me about questions that occurred to a different Congress.
Brennan: About these decisions you simply made, simply made. That is your Congress.
McCarthy: These are members who simply received elected by their constituents, and we put them into committees. And I’m proud to do it.
Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “It’s all the time refreshing to see a politician push again towards a liberal media storyline the journalist presumes is past questioning, particularly when the journalist is somebody so oblivious as Brennan is to her bias.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS).
■ January 23: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid says DeSantis likes solely ‘completely happy slaves’
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the newest cable TV assault on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s battle on woke insurance policies in what’s more likely to grow to be a daily media sample as the highest Republican rival of former President Donald Trump steps nearer to a 2024 bid.
The assault got here from MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid, enraged that DeSantis scuttled a pilot AP black course in state colleges. However it’s not that straightforward, regardless of her spin.
In accordance with the DeSantis administration, the brand new course provided by School Board violates Florida’s new anti-“woke” legislation as a result of it’s favorable to essential race principle.
“As submitted, the course is a car for a political agenda and leaves massive, ambiguous gaps that may be crammed with further ideological materials, which we won’t enable,” mentioned Bryan Griffin, the governor’s press secretary. “As Governor DeSantis has said, our lecture rooms will probably be a spot for training, not indoctrination.”
Reid, nevertheless, smeared DeSantis as a racist for his administration’s actions. “I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite [former Tallahassee Mayor] Andrew Gillum, I believe the racists would possibly suppose he’s racist.”
She added that DeSantis needs solely completely happy historical past taught in colleges, “the historical past of slavery as completely happy slaves, good slave masters.”
Plus, watch as she twists the opposite AP historical past courses taught in Florida as she bashes the “book-banning wannabe president.”
From Thursday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC:
Pleasure Reid: The [Stop Woke Act] is geared toward eradicating the educating of historical past, gender identification, and sexual orientation in favor of curriculum that facilities and lionizes individuals who appear to be Ron DeSantis. Simply check out what AP programs are deemed educationally invaluable within the state of Florida per the book-banning wannabe president. European historical past, in fact. Together with programs on the historical past and language of Italy, the place DeSantis’s household hails from, Germany, and Japan, which occurred to be the Axis international locations the U.S. fought throughout World Warfare II. Now, whether or not Ron would think about fascist Italy to have been a nasty man in that battle, properly, that’s up for debate. …
So, what DeSantis is actually saying is that the one invaluable Superior Placement class for a Florida pupil are courses which might be about Europe or the opposite Axis international locations. That’s it. African-American research shouldn’t be deemed invaluable, and it’s not that he’s saying you possibly can’t educate black historical past, however right here’s the proof. It’s the way you educate black historical past that he’s received an issue with.
DeSantis, when he was a highschool historical past instructor — that is the quote from considered one of his former college students. He was a highschool historical past instructor at a non-public college in Georgia. ‘Mr. DeSantis was imply to me and hostile towards me,’ mentioned Miss Pompey, who graduated in 2003. ‘Not aggressively however passively as a result of I used to be black.’ She recalled DeSantis educating, that is the essential half, Civil Warfare historical past in a means that sounded to her like an try to justify slavery. So, once I add that to the very fact he’s going after the Nationwide Hockey League as a result of they dare to recruit nonblack individuals, primarily saying chances are you’ll recruit white individuals and proceed to maintain a really white league white, however chances are you’ll not attempt to recruit minorities. You realize, I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite Andrew Gillum, I believe the racists would possibly suppose he’s racist. …
It’s the Daughters of the American Revolution, the pro-Accomplice teams who insisted that we are able to solely educate the historical past of slavery as completely happy slaves, good slave masters. For those who’re doing that, I promise you an AP class that taught that, that slavery was good, as a result of it appeared at the least per his former college students, Dr. [Steve] Gallon [member of the Miami-Dale school board] that he wished to show historical past of slavery as type of gallant slave house owners who had been variety to their completely happy slaves.
He’s cool with that. And if the AP course mentioned that, he’d be nice with it. I additionally suppose that you simply’ve seen the revelation of what that is actually about. A man named Stanley Kurtz claims he learn the story, that he learn the curriculum, and he mentioned, ‘The bigger hazard right here is that these programs, in the event that they’re accredited, will see the faculty board devise AP programs in girls’s research, gender research, transgender research, Latino research, environmental research, a full panoply of polarized research which have Balkanized and politicized greater training.’ Dr. Gallon, in your view, is that this an try to shut down the educating of not simply black historical past however any historical past however the Hallmark card of white and European historical past?
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Reid’s vitriol exhibits DeSantis have to be succeeding in making inroads to undercut establishments, such because the training institution, as autos for liberal indoctrination of scholars. So, DeSantis have to be discredited with over-the-top invective earlier than he good points any traction in a presidential race. However Reid’s hatred towards him will solely elevate the admiration for him amongst conservatives and plenty of impartial voters.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ January 16, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: In Chuck Todd’s ‘details,’ Sen. Ron Johnson sees bias
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream raises an fascinating query in right now’s partisan Washington. Why do Republicans speak to liberal journalists in the event that they know that they will be insulted?
That was the case Sunday on Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WY) appeared, figuring out he was holding the brief finish of the stick it doesn’t matter what he mentioned. Johnson even mentioned so: “That is fairly apparent to anyone watching this, is you don’t invite me on to interview me. You invite me on to argue with me.”
The host, in fact, was having none of it. In between his favourite authority openings of “Look” and “So,” he received the final insult in when he mentioned, “You possibly can return in your partisan cable cocoon and speak about media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your identification.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press:
CHUCK TODD: I’ll take it at your phrase that you simply’re ethically bothered by Hunter Biden. I’m curious, although. You appear to have a sample.
SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): Are you not? Are you not?
TODD: I’m a journalist. I’ve to deal in details. I deal in details, so senator, my query to you is, I’ve skepticism of each events. I sit right here with skepticism of lots of people’s work.
JOHNSON: So do I.
TODD: And I’m curious, are you — had been you in any respect involved — your Senate Democrats need to examine Jared Kushner’s mortgage from the Qatari authorities when he was working within the authorities, negotiating many issues within the Center East? Are you not involved about that? I say that as a result of it appears to me if you happen to’re involved about what Hunter Biden did, try to be equally outraged about what Jared Kushner did.
JOHNSON: I’m involved about getting the reality. I don’t goal people —
TODD: You don’t? You’re focusing on Hunter Biden a number of occasions on this present, senator. You’re focusing on a person.
JOHNSON: Chuck, you already know, a part of the issue, and that is fairly apparent to anyone watching that is, you don’t invite me on to interview me. You invite me on to argue with me. I’m simply making an attempt to put out the details that actually Sen. Grassley and I uncovered. They had been suppressed. They had been censored. They interfered within the 2020 election. Conservatives perceive that. Sadly, liberals within the media don’t. And that’s a part of the explanations our politics are infected is we would not have an unbiased media. We don’t. It’s unlucky. I’m all for a free press, and it must be extra unbiased.
TODD: Senator, look — go to partisan — Senator, look, we’re making an attempt to do points right here and details. Look, you possibly can return in your partisan cable cocoon and speak about media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your identification.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Chuck Todd, in all his obnoxious glory. Kudos to Sen. Ron Johnson for taking up Todd’s apparent bias and hostility to the considerations of conservatives, even when he’s apparent to his personal ‘cocoon.’ Pot meet kettle.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
■ January 9, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: James Comer nails Chuck Todd’s biased views
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is the primary proof that there’s a new sheriff on the town, a Home GOP majority that’s wanting to level out the biased and infrequently hypocritical views within the media.
In our highlight is Rep. James Comer (R-KY), incoming chairman of the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform, invited on to Chuck Todd’s NBC Sunday present, Meet the Press. He confronted the usually biased questions and views of the host, equivalent to when Todd advised the GOP can be holding votes on laws it is aware of President Joe Biden gained’t signal, as if Democrats by no means held “present” votes.
Todd additionally sneered at Comer’s investigation agenda, suggesting it was simply political theater.
However as a substitute of taking it, the lawmaker pushed proper again, calling out the biased media.
When Todd dismissed Republican plans to carry votes on time period limits and a balanced finances as “present votes,” Comer countered, “A whole lot of occasions, as you already know, Chuck, it’s a must to take payments by means of quite a few periods of Congress earlier than they lastly grow to be legislation.”
And when Todd hit GOP plans to probe the Biden administration as “extra partisan than skilled,” Comer mentioned, “I believe the one folks that see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats.” And for good measure, he added, “Are you kidding me!”
Two of the exchanges from Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
CHUCK TODD: I‘m curious, these two belongings you point out, these are present votes. They’re not going to cross. They haven’t any probability of passing. A few of them would possibly must be constitutional amendments, and you understand how arduous that course of is. What’s the purpose of passing a invoice that principally, you get to place a press launch out on, nevertheless it doesn’t get enacted?
REP. JAMES COMER: A whole lot of occasions, as you already know, Chuck, it’s a must to take payments by means of quite a few periods of Congress earlier than they lastly grow to be legislation.
TODD: Let me ask you this. You’re going to do a whole lot of oversight. You’re going to have a whole lot of subpoenas. Many individuals have a look at what you’re doing, they usually see that it appears to be like extra partisan than skilled. Inform me the way you’re going to attempt to departisanize an investigation? Or do you count on it to be partisan?
COMER: Nicely, with all due respect, Chuck, I disagree with that. I believe the one folks that see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats. Look, on the similar second that the Democrats on the Methods and Means Committee launched Donald Trump’s taxes, they then moments later rotated and mentioned, “Comer’s investigation of the Biden household affect peddling is a revenge listening to.” I imply, are you kidding me?
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Comer is off to an important begin, recognizing the information media are his enemy simply as a lot as Democrats. It was refreshing to listen to an elevated Republican chief tackle Todd for his a number of hypocrisies, out of the blue involved, now that Republicans are in cost within the Home, concerning the partisanship of an investigation and the futility of votes on two conservative agenda objects that may embarrass Democrats. As if Democrats have by no means had ‘present votes,’ to place Republicans in a nasty gentle, which most journalists discovered admirable.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS.)
■ January 2, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls GOP the get together of il Duce
(Washington Examiner submit)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC doing its finest to grow to be the community of the crackpot Left, speaking itself into irrelevance for almost everybody else.
Not happy with its report of attacking Republicans and conservatives as MAGA crazies, the cable channel rolled out a number and visitor who dismissed the get together as fascists. And never simply easy fascists equivalent to World Warfare II-era Italian chief Benito Mussolini.
How about “neo-fascist,” “proto-fascist,” and “semi-fascist?” Now that’s received to harm.
The name-calling got here Saturday when Mehdi Hasan hosted Yale College philosophy professor Jason Stanley on Velshi on MSNBC.
Stanley, who authored a e-book titled How Fascism Works, warned, “I believe ‘semi-fascism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘neo-fascism,’ these are correct descriptions. We have to drop speak of populism, drop these deceptive descriptions that disguise what we’re really going through.”
From Saturday’s Velshi:
MEHDI HASAN: Jason, the GOP is again in energy once more, at the least within the Home of Representatives, which implies there will probably be a good bit of normalizing of them once more by the media. In your view, is it truthful to explain the trendy GOP as ‘neo-fascist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or, to cite Joe Biden on the MAGA motion, ‘semi-fascist?’
JASON STANLEY, Yale College: There’s actually throughout the trendy GOP, because the scapegoating of LGBT residents demonstrates, a fascist motion rising. We — and, to speak about this as some form of European factor is a confusion since fascism is Jim Crow with a international accent. So we have now a local, we have now a number of native far-right extremist actions: Christian Nationalism, we’ve received, type of, heritage of Jim Crow. We’ve received an anti-democratic enterprise institution. And it is a construction, a grouping, that’s going to convey individuals to vote for an authoritarian get together. And that’s what we have now, that’s what the trendy GOP is more and more wanting like — as Ruth [NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat] mentioned, an anti-democratic get together. I believe ‘semi-fascism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘neo-fascism,’ these are correct descriptions. We have to drop speak of populism, drop these deceptive descriptions that disguise what we’re really going through.
Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Fairly the multiple-choice, a variety which says extra concerning the slender pondering of MSNBC hosts and company making an attempt to discredit Republicans than it does about something to concern from Republicans. Hasan dreads ‘normalizing’ Republicans as a result of it’s quite a bit simpler to demonize them than to tackle and critically deal with views with which you disagree.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
> Liberal Media Screams for 2021 and 2022
> For all of 2020.
> For all of 2018.
> For July by means of December 2017.
> For January by means of June 2017.
> For July by means of December 2016.
> For January by means of June 2016.
> For July to December 2015.
