Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as per week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every choose, normally posted on-line on Monday, I present a proof and suggest a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).
This publish comprises the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2025.
> For 2023 and 2024, for 2021 and 2022, for 2020. For 2019. For 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:
> July-December 2017 posts; January by way of June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 by way of the top of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by way of June 11, 2013.)
Examine Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the newest alternative and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page shall be up to date with Bedard’s newest instance of the worst bias of the week.
(For extra of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Analysis Middle’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the newest outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)
■ New on March 31, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Trump has made Bob Woodward deranged
See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s website the place you’ll be able to watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Every week later, Bedard’s article shall be posted right here.
■ March 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an ‘extortionist’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream gives the newest fodder for conservatives calling for an finish to taxpayer assist of public TV due to its anti-Proper bias and disdain for President Donald Trump.
In focus is the nightly PBS Information Hour program that usually options friends important of Trump.
For our instance, it wasn’t the liberal on the present rapping Trump however the resident centrist, New York Occasions columnist David Brooks, who known as the president an “extortionist” and “bully” for utilizing his powers to get nations, firms, and other people to do what he needs.
“Individuals name Trump a transactional politician, however he’s an extortionist. That’s really a distinction. There’s — a transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you till you give me what I would like,” mentioned Brooks.
At situation was an earlier transfer by the White Home to withdraw the safety clearance of the Paul Weiss authorized agency, which is near Democrats. The agency agreed to do $40 million value of professional bono work for causes favored by the White Home to win again the clearance.
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
HOST AMNA NAWAZ: We noticed President Trump going after establishments, together with Large Regulation, proper, together with universities, as you talked about, the place many of those guys went to highschool. And this week, we noticed two large establishments take steps to adjust to the calls for of the Trump administration. We noticed Paul Weiss conform to a settlement, basically, that claims they’re going to supply $40 million in professional bono authorized companies. Columbia College agreed to an inventory of calls for in order that they don’t lose tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in funding. Jonathan, what does this second, these steps from these establishments say to you?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: It says to me that our democracy is teetering. And I’ll deal with Perkins — I’m sorry — on Paul Weiss and the authorized sphere. We’ve got seen an entire capitulation by the legislative department, the Republican majority, to what the president needs to do within the government. And all our hopes for the upkeep of our democracy now rests with the judiciary.
And within the olden days, earlier than Trump, you’ll depend on these white shoe legislation companies like Paul Weiss to supply professional bono assist to people who’re suing for redress, who need the courts to step in when Congress or the president goes overboard. When a Paul Weiss decides to drag again, when different large legislation companies like that determine to drag again, what does that imply when it comes to the judiciary’s means to cease a president like Trump? And that’s what’s so regarding to me about this piece of the capitulation.
NAWAZ: David?
DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, individuals name Trump a transactional politician, however he’s an extortionist. That’s really a distinction. A transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you till you give me what I would like. And in order that’s what we’re seeing right here. Now, I put myself within the sneakers of, say, the president of Columbia, the pinnacle of Paul Weiss. And I feel, nicely, if I compromise with Trump, I’m hurting my establishment. But when I lose $400 million, I’m additionally hurting my establishment. These are actual selections that individuals need to make. And I perceive that.
Within the case of Columbia [University], I personally assume the Trump requests or calls for, no matter it’s, are type of affordable, and Columbia ought to have executed all these items 5 or 10 years in the past. They actually did get ideologically uncontrolled. And in the event that they’re publicly funded, partially publicly funded, you then’ve bought an issue. They usually created this downside. So I perceive why. I bought to avoid wasting my college. I bought to avoid wasting $400 million.
Then again, caving into an extortionist hardly ever pays off as a result of he’ll say, ‘Oh, I take that. Right here’s my subsequent demand, right here’s my subsequent demand.’ And in the event you have a look at the historical past of Zelensky, Macron, individuals — all of the individuals who’ve tried to cozy as much as the extortionists, all of them find yourself dropping ultimately.
And so I feel it’s time for the colleges as a physique — and we noticed this with the Princeton president — to say no extra offers. We’re standing up as a result of there shall be a time — and, once more, I don’t assume that is fairly the time to form of beat down the Trump administration. There shall be a time the place all people has to carry collectively and rise up and say, no, no extra offers.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “An ideal reflection of how ‘range’ on PBS is all about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and race, not political ideology. PBS’s panel of Capehart and Brooks, touted as providing perspective from the left and proper, doesn’t (Brooks agrees with the liberal Capehart 61% of the time per a Media Analysis Middle evaluation). Certainly, they usually discover commonality to denouncing President Trump. A lot for PBS viewers listening to a lot of something that challenges their liberal world view and disgust for all issues Trump.”
Ranking: FOUR out of 5 screams
■ March 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: NBC urges harsher Trump hate by Democrats
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream includes a Sunday NBC panel mocking Democrats for failing to be harsher and sooner in blasting President Donald Trump and his relationship with Tesla founder Elon Musk.
On Meet the Press, there was a collective scream on the liberal occasion for dropping the ball in attacking Trump, which the panel clearly felt was so as when the president displayed Teslas on the White Home.
“Stunning,” they agreed, that Democrats didn’t work up a fast advert blasting Workforce Trump for basically doing what former President Joe Biden did when he featured American-made autos on the South Garden throughout a White Home occasion.
“One other missed alternative,” mentioned MSNBC senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels, who’s president of the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation.
From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
HOST KRISTEN WELKER: One of many placing moments of this week was the second the place President Trump principally had a automotive present on the White Home. Teslas on show with Elon Musk. It comes as, after all, Tesla’s gross sales have been dropping. Elon Musk’s approval rankings, a lot decrease than President Trump’s, by the way in which. The optics of this, Anna, is it difficult for the White Home?
ANNA PALMER, Punchbowl Information: Nicely, it’s wonderful that they’re doubling down on Elon Musk, as a result of, to Cornell’s level, that is the opening for Democrats. They’re already beginning to run advertisements that includes Elon Musk because the boogeyman. This offers them the B-roll and the visuals that you’ll want to say that the White Home is, you recognize, type of mixing enterprise with the work of the federal government.
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POLLSTER CORNELL BELCHER: And the concept that what Biden did on the White Home is much like Trump principally being a salesman and hawking the Teslas on the entrance garden of the White Home is totally totally different. The advert writes itself.
MSNBC’s EUGENE DANIELS: However Democrats aren’t doing it. Instantly, the subsequent day, there ought to’ve been simply, that advert, simply displaying it over and over.
WELKER: You’re saying one other missed alternative for Democrats. Stunning!
DANIELS: One other missed alternative to get on the identical —
BELCHER, DANIELS: Stunning that the Democrats are dangerous on messaging!
DANIELS: However I imply, you recognize, like, while you speak to them behind the scenes, they clarify the Elon of all of it in a significantly better approach than they do once they go on tv. They don’t discuss him as an oligarch behind the scenes, proper? They discuss him as somebody who’s, of their eyes, doing this, doing DOGE as a result of he needs to assist his companies on the finish of the day, proper? They discuss that battle of curiosity. That’s one thing that the American individuals really perceive, however they, once more, proceed to overlook a chance to really try this.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “A lot for pretending there’s any separation between the Washington press corps and Democratic Occasion pursuits. Are you able to think about journalists ever advising Republicans or Trump supporters on extra successfully undermine a Democrat? In fact not.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ March 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Sunny Hostin tells Democrats battle or ‘individuals will die’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the return of one among America’s lefty pundits struggling most from Trump Derangement Syndrome, The View’s Sunny Hostin.
Reacting to Rep. Al Inexperienced’s (D-TX) censure by Congress for his outbursts throughout President Donald Trump’s joint session handle Tuesday, the hostile Hostin mentioned the Democrats within the chamber ought to have joined him in rudely protesting Trump and stormed out in assist.
Whereas just about each different Democrat within the media is asking for a extra level-headed method to Trump, she went within the different course, claiming with no shred of proof that Trump’s insurance policies will kill individuals.
Consequently, we give her outburst a uncommon five-scream trophy.
The View on Friday:
JOY BEHAR: Ten Democrats voted to censure Inexperienced.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Would you like an inventory of the ten?
BEHAR: Do you need to hear their names?
HOSTIN: Sure, I do.
BEHAR: Why go after them too? Go after the Republicans.
HOSTIN: As a result of they don’t know battle and be a part of an opposition occasion. Consultant Inexperienced gave them the instance. The Democrats should not assembly the second. It is extremely clear that Medicaid is on the desk. It is extremely clear that Social Safety is on the desk. It is extremely clear that individuals will die. The infant boomers, the civil rights era, they knew what they needed to do! They have been keen to battle and die for his or her rights. This era of Congress, they don’t seem to be assembly the second. That is an existential disaster!
BEHAR: And in addition, I’d level out a few of them are from probably the most liberal states like New York, Hawaii, California.
HOSTIN: They need to be ashamed of themselves! They need to have all walked out with him!
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “ABC Information needs to be embarrassed by the each day left-wing drivel on The View. Even many Democrats have been ashamed by Inexperienced’s antics, which went far past what any Republican has ever executed throughout a presidential speech to Congress. A lot for contending it’s Trump who has lessened decorum. Hostin is advocating extra coarseness in politics. And ABC Information is sanctioning it.”
Ranking: FIVE out of 5 screams.
■ March 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS twists Trump press pool range as ‘sinister’
(Washington Examiner publish)
Right here’s one more reason for all of the PBS and NPR critics to name for federal tax greenback defunding. As a substitute of cheering the enlargement of media allowed into the White Home press pool, PBS declared it a “sinister” transfer to censor the press.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the outlet’s twisted view of White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s choice to take cost of selecting who’s within the each day pool that covers White Home occasions for the remainder of the press when there isn’t sufficient room for all, such because the near-daily back-and-forths President Donald Trump hosts within the Oval Workplace.
She made the choice as a result of she believed that the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation was being too selective by favoring legacy media and barring new-age social media and conservative shops.
The outdated guard protested, although, in its first week of operation, the brand new pool remained heavy with legacy media. One exception was the Related Press, which Trump’s staff omitted as a result of the information service received’t acknowledge the president’s government order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, as the federal government has.
In our instance, PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz known as the White Home transfer an assault on the press, prompting contributor and Washington Put up columnist Jonathan Capehart to chirp that “we’re in additional sinister territory” with Trump and the media.
In fact neither talked up former President Joe Biden’s transfer to remove the press passes of over 400 primarily conservative shops or former President Barack Obama’s seizing of cellphone information from AP or others in his dragnet for leakers.
From Friday’s PBS Information Hour:
AMNA NAWAZ: His continued assaults on the press, blocking the AP’s entry from some White Home protection as nicely. You noticed him take management of the White Home, take management of the press pool that covers the president full time, makes certain everybody else is aware of what’s taking place with the president. Peter Baker, after all, longtime Russia correspondent, mentioned it reminded him of the Kremlin press pool takeover. And I simply need to get your takes on the place that form of assault on the press stands and whether or not we’re in far more sinister territory now.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do assume we’re in additional sinister territory since you’ve bought to take a look at what’s taking place with AP, in mild of his lawsuits in opposition to CBS, in opposition to ABC, threats, threatening the licenses of different broadcast entities. That is all a part of a sample of roughing up anybody he views as not both insufficiently loyal or individuals who have wronged him. And he appears to be like on the press as an entity that has wronged him.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “Think about that. President Trump sees ‘the press as an entity that has wronged him.’ And he’s preventing again, which actually upsets the legacy media even though nothing he has executed has blocked the general public from full entry. It’s hardly ‘sinister’ simply because the White Home is permitting a extra ideological various group of shops to get entry as a substitute of just some privileged and entitled journalists.”
Ranking: Three out of 5 screams.
■ February 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Mike Johnson cuts off CBS bedwetting
(Washington Examiner publish)
It took over two years for the Nixon-era Watergate scandal to deliver on the constitutional disaster that led a president to resign. However listening to CBS describe President Donald Trump’s first month of strikes the community doesn’t like exhibits this era’s Watergate has already arrived.
Much more than the Hollywood whining of Jane Fonda and others at Sunday’s Display Actors Guild Awards, Jane Pauley’s CBS Information Sunday Morning jumped head first into decrying Trump’s strikes promised throughout a 12 months on the marketing campaign path to empty the swamp as a constitutional disaster.
“Greater than a half-century in the past,” mentioned CBS’s Robert Costa, “because the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Division and the courts” that the media declared a “constitutional disaster.”
Now, he added, “that time period, constitutional disaster, is again.”
However amid the name-calling and historic hyperventilating within the present’s major story, Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) supplied a way of calm and perspective.
“I’ve been requested so many instances, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not,” he mentioned, making the CBS report our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From CBS Information Sunday Morning:
JANE PAULEY: With judges throughout the nation pushing again in opposition to a number of the Trump administration’s flurry of government orders, there are those that ask: What would occur if the White Home defies the courts and easily strikes forward with its plans? We’ve requested our Robert Costa to make some inquiries.
ROGER MUDD, CBS ANCHOR, NOV. 4, 1973: Regardless of his powers as chief government, his future is actually within the palms of the opposite two branches of presidency: the courts and the Congress.
ROBERT COSTA: Greater than a half-century in the past, because the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Division and the courts.DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: In breathtaking succession tonight, the next historic occasions occurred. The president of the US demanded that the legal professional basic fireplace Particular Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The legal professional basic refused and resigned.
COSTA: The tensions introduced a sure phrase to the fore of the American dialog.
JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: The nation within the midst of what stands out as the most critical constitutional disaster in its historical past.
COSTA: Now that time period, ‘constitutional disaster,’ is again.
JULIAN CASTRO, former Home Democrat from Texas: We’re headed towards a constitutional disaster.
U.S. SENATOR ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): We’re quick barreling towards a constitutional disaster.
COSTA: Many Democrats are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s use of government energy.
U.S. REP. SEAN CASTEN (D-ILL): The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they’re unlawful.
COSTA: And a few concern that Trump, who has shattered norms and who labored relentlessly to attempt to overturn the 2020 election, can’t be counted on to comply with the courts.
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I’ve been requested so many instances, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not.
COSTA: Most Republicans are shrugging off speak of a disaster. Actually, many are cheering as Trump overhauls the Justice Division and FBI, works with Elon Musk to fireplace 1000’s of federal workers and indicators piles of government orders.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “ it’s a media-fueled effort to create a scandal when the journalist in query regurgitates Watergate. It’s what Costa and the Washington press corps see as their halcyon days of glory. And if the supposed scandal matches a present liberal Democratic speaking level, a lot the higher, regardless of the shortage of any actual substance to the fearmongering.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ February 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Scott Pelley, now TV’s prime Trump hater
(Washington Examiner publish)
He has a variety of competitors within the media, however few have as large a stage as 60 Minutes elder Scott Pelley. As he continues to step up his assaults on President Donald Trump and the brand new administration, Pelley is elbowing apart all others to emerge as Trump’s loudest TV critic.
By no means a fan of Trump, Pelley has taken his 60 Minutes perch at CBS to supply important monologues of the president. Individuals took discover even earlier than Trump returned to the White Home when Pelley ripped Trump’s Cupboard picks, saying, “Some nominees seem to haven’t any compelling {qualifications} apart from loyalty to Trump.”
Nonetheless, apart from gnawing down his studying glasses, Pelley had no affect. All of Trump’s picks to get a Senate flooring vote received.
Then, on Sunday’s present, he opened with one other hit on Trump, saying the president was in “defiance of the Structure” along with his agenda. Once more, there was no affect since a day later, a federal choose expressed skepticism about any hurt the president’s Division of Authorities Effectivity threatened.
Every week, Secrets and techniques groups with the Media Analysis Middle to decide on the loudest liberal media scream, and Pelley received once more this week. What’s extra, Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker gave Pelley’s rant a rating of 5 out of 5 screams. That could be a uncommon prime rating, however one we count on to see extra of because the liberal media turns up the warmth on Trump because it loses its affect on him and his White Home.
From the lead story on Sunday’s 60 Minutes:
SCOTT PELLEY: It’s too quickly to inform how critical President Trump is in defiance of the Structure. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some — a proper assured by the 14th Modification. And he has closed businesses and frozen spending that Congress mandated by legislation. Decrease courts are holding up most of the president’s priorities, however nothing has risen to the Supreme Courtroom, the place these battles over presidential energy might rewrite historical past. Presidents typically push limits — FDR’s New Deal, for instance — and voters on this final election needed change. However the scope and velocity of Trump’s attain for energy could also be unprecedented. One instance is a 63-year-old company created by Congress, codified in legislation and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days.
KRISTINA DRYE: Persons are actually scared. I feel that you recognize, 12 days in the past, individuals knew the place their subsequent paycheck was coming from. They knew how they have been going to pay for his or her children’ daycare, their medical payments. After which, all gone in a single day.
PELLEY: “All gone, in a single day,” for Kristina Drye and Adam Dubard — fired this month within the chaotic shutdown of international assist distributed by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, USAID. Greater than 8,000 USAID workers have been despatched house by the administration.
ADAM DUBARD: They’re not searching for competency. They’re not searching for — in the event you’re good at your job. They’re searching for pure loyalty checks, and in the event you don’t give it, you may be punished…
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PELLEY: The world’s richest man had lower off help to the world’s poorest households. Musk spent practically $250 million to get Trump and different Republicans elected. He collects billions in taxpayer {dollars} for his SpaceX rockets.
ANDREW NATSIOS, FORMER USAID ADMINISTRATOR: I feel we’re making a system that violates the separation of powers and the checks and balances which might be supposed within the Structure.
PELLEY: Republican Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID, spoke to us in Washington, partially as a result of he’s not listening to public appeals to purpose from fellow Republicans.
PELLEY TO NATSIOS: How do you view this second in historical past?
NATSIOS: I don’t need to be too pessimistic. Nevertheless it does seem we could also be headed in direction of some form of a constitutional disaster. I don’t, I hope that doesn’t occur. I pray it doesn’t occur. Nevertheless it’s definitely regarding to me what’s happening on this metropolis proper now.
PELLEY: Is the constitutional order breaking down?
NATSIOS: We’ll see in the event that they refuse to implement a court docket order by the Supreme Courtroom. If it will get to the Supreme Courtroom and the Supreme Courtroom guidelines in opposition to the administration on one thing they usually refuse to implement it, then we could have a constitutional disaster.
PELLEY: What occurs then?
NATSIOS: Nicely, I don’t know.
PELLEY: Nobody is aware of.
NATSIOS: Nobody is aware of.
Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow, defined our choose: “One other hit to no matter remnants are left of 60 Minutes as some form of dispassionate information journal which affords a good and balanced have a look at difficult points. Pelley not solely matched the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the left, he doubled down on it, presuming absolutely the worst motives behind President Trump whereas taking low cost ideological photographs at Elon Musk. That is Exhibit A in why federal spending has by no means been lower for the reason that finish of World Battle II: The media go to warfare to discredit anybody who takes on the spending behemoth.”
Ranking: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ February 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS airs excessive TDS, ‘hunger,’ ‘loss of life’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream includes a PBS freak panel of left-wing journalists spewing probably the most excessive anti-Trump evaluation of the cost-cutting by the White Home and effectivity company headed by Elon Musk.
Whereas discussing the destiny of USAID, which President Donald Trump’s staff closed and shifted spending authority to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a reporter for Nationwide Public Radio warned to others nodding sure that the affect shall be “poverty and elevated hunger.”
Then an Atlantic reporter, previously with the Washington Put up, mentioned on the tax-subsidized PBS present Washington Week with The Atlantic that chopping by Trump and Musk of the federal world assist slush fund would result in “cruelty and loss of life.”
The language utilized by the reporters are simply two examples of the kind of Trump Derangement Syndrome assaults on Musk and the president’s efforts to root out waste and fraud in authorities packages.
From the February 7 version of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS:
ASTHMA KHALID, NPR: There’s one thing I feel very unusual at this second of seeing the world’s richest man actually form of take a hatchet that may basically take people who find themselves already within the depths of poverty and, you recognize, enhance hunger charges, or enhance starvation charges, which is probably going what’s going to occur if USAID is completely lower off.”…
ANNE APPLEBAUM, THE ATLANTIC: It’s a take a look at case for can businesses simply be abolished with out Congress having any say, however it’s additionally a take a look at case of cruelty. , are Individuals keen to simply accept a excessive stage of cruelty and loss of life simply, you recognize, on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “Your taxpayer {dollars} at work: A journalist for taxpayer-funded Nationwide Public Radio and one other journalist – each on taxpayer-funded PBS – relay the speaking factors, of their most excessive kind, of the federal government worker union making an attempt to discredit any discount in federal spending. As a substitute of a rational evaluation of efforts to trim spending, the 2 show they’re within the tank for the deep state, presuming hunger and loss of life will outcome. They usually marvel why so many don’t see them as critical sources of info.”
Ranking: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ February 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Name on MSNBC for weekly Trump impeachment votes
(Washington Examiner publish)
Have you ever heard this one? Democrats need to impeach President Donald Trump.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream includes a SiriusXM host demanding on left-leaning MSNBC that Democrats vote to question Trump weekly.
“I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week,” mentioned Inform Me The whole lot host John Fugelsang on MSNBC’s The eleventh Hour final Friday.
“Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural handle,” he mentioned.
“I feel Democrats ought to begin having a unique man come out each week and introduce new articles of impeachment, simply to encourage individuals and present them that we’re doing one thing and let the file present for historical past we’re preventing in opposition to this,” he added.
In his first time period, Trump was impeached twice, and Democrats thought that may finish his political profession. In fact, it solely strengthened Trump, who received workplace once more in opposition to someone who voted for impeachment twice, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
From Friday’s The eleventh Hour With Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, selecting up as Fugelsang reacted to information CBS might make a monetary settlement with Trump to finish his lawsuit over deceptive enhancing of its 60 Minutes interview with Harris, which adopted an earlier monetary settlement from Fb over that platform eradicating him in 2021:
John Fugelsang: They’re bribes. I imply, these are bribes. , Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural handle for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has bought an enormous merger developing. This can be a bribe. …
The Democrats are going to do what they did final time. They’re going to lick their wounds, slowly assemble, let Trump do some work for them, they usually’re going to be speaking lots about training and healthcare. I hope a few of them will begin introducing impeachment articles each week.
When the GOP was making an attempt to repeal Obamacare 70 instances, we laughed at them. However what they have been doing of their impoverished state was consolidating the bottom, fundraising, and getting their messaging throughout. It labored for them.
I feel Democrats ought to begin having a unique man come out each week and introduce new articles of impeachment, simply to encourage individuals and present them that we’re doing one thing and let the file present for historical past we’re preventing in opposition to this.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “A lot for even pretending to permit President Trump to have an opportunity to offer voters what they voted for in electing him. MSNBC thinks it’s a official and credible place to contend Trump had earned impeachment lower than an hour previous midday on Inauguration Day — nicely earlier than he had signed a single government order. A lot for reflection and critical evaluation from the press corps. However it’s what Democrats and so many journalists love to do given this might be the third try and impeach him. Will they go zero-for-three?”
Ranking: 5 out of 5 screams.
■ January 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Vance colleges CBS and bishops on unlawful immigration
(Washington Examiner publish)
America is studying fairly shortly that Vice President JD Vance is not any pushover simply cornered on robust points.
In our newest Liberal Media Scream, we function Vance’s retort to Catholic bishops and CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan over complaints that the Trump administration is being imply in its effort to deport felony unlawful migrants.
Showing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded damage that the administration would enter colleges to seek out their targets. She cited complaints from the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops, which funds efforts to settle unlawful immigrants in America, as do different spiritual teams.
Vance had clearly heard all of it earlier than and was fast to level out that defending America and Individuals, together with migrants right here legally, is President Donald Trump’s No. 1 job.
Brennan nervous that the administration’s coverage has “a chilling impact, arguably, to individuals to not ship their children to highschool.” Vance reversed her spin to make his level: “I desperately hope it has a chilling impact on unlawful immigrants coming into our nation.”
And when she cited issues from the bishops, Vance mentioned, “As a working towards Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. I feel that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror somewhat bit and acknowledge that once they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they nervous about humanitarian issues, or are they really nervous about their backside line?”
Clearly, it’ll be a tricky 4 years for liberals within the media, equivalent to Brennan, since Workforce Trump is prepared and keen to parry the left media’s slant on main points.
From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about one other space that you simply campaigned on rather a lot, and there was a flurry of exercise on. And that has to do with immigration. The U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops this week condemned a number of the government orders signed by President Trump, particularly these permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter church buildings and to enter colleges. Do you personally assist the concept of conducting a raid or enforcement motion in a church service, at a college?
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Nicely, let me handle this. In fact, you probably have an individual who’s convicted of a violent crime, whether or not they’re an unlawful immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, it’s important to go and get that individual to guard the general public security. That’s not distinctive to immigration. However let me simply handle this explicit situation, Margaret, as a result of, as a working towards Catholic, I used to be really heartbroken by that assertion. And I feel that the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror somewhat bit and acknowledge that once they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they nervous about humanitarian issues, or are they really nervous about their backside line? We’re going to implement immigration legislation. We’re going to guard the American individuals.
Donald Trump promised to try this. And I consider the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops, in the event that they’re nervous in regards to the humanitarian prices of immigration enforcement, allow them to speak in regards to the kids who’ve been sex-trafficked due to the wide-open border of Joe Biden.
BRENNAN: So, you personally assist them going into colleges and church buildings?
VANCE: Allow them to discuss individuals like Laken Riley, who have been brutally murdered. I assist us doing legislation enforcement in opposition to violent criminals, whether or not they’re unlawful immigrants or anyone else, in a approach that retains us secure. Let me ask this query, Margaret. Separate the immigration situation. In case you had a violent assassin in a college, after all, I would like legislation enforcement —
BRENNAN: In fact.
VANCE: — to go and get that individual out.
BRENNAN: In fact.
VANCE: So, then what’s the purpose of the query?
BRENNAN: You modified the regulation this week. That’s the purpose of the query: giving the authority to enter church buildings and go into colleges.
VANCE: Precisely. We empowered legislation enforcement to implement the legislation in every single place to guard Individuals.
BRENNAN: However that additionally has a knock-on impact, a chilling impact, arguably, to individuals to not ship their children to highschool.
VANCE: I desperately hope it has a chilling impact —
BRENNAN: Within the church buildings …
VANCE: — on unlawful immigrants coming into our nation.
BRENNAN: You assume the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals from legislation enforcement?
VANCE: I feel the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a very good accomplice in commonsense immigration enforcement that the American individuals voted for. And I hope, once more, as a religious Catholic, that they’ll do higher.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “Brennan went into the interview considering she had the ethical excessive floor and info on her facet, presuming it will be simple to indicate how badly misguided are so many Trump insurance policies. However she bumped into JD Vance, who delivered a grasp class in tackle and undermine the premises of the Washington press corps.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ January 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks as much as Biden to the top: ‘Did ship’
(Washington Examiner publish)
Our ultimate Biden-era Liberal Media Scream finds CBS Information kissing as much as President Joe Biden to the top, brushing apart all of the polls and its personal reporting to declare he was efficient.
“In some ways,” CBS chief White Home correspondent Nancy Cordes mentioned, “he did ship.”
The media have resisted reporting on Biden’s psychological and bodily failings over his 4 unpopular years in workplace. And even on his final weekend in workplace, shops equivalent to CBS went out of their method to prop up a president who polls as one among America’s worst.
From CBS Information Sunday Morning:
NANCY CORDES: In some ways, he did ship. His administration oversaw the profitable rollout of the COVID vaccines. The inventory market steadily rose to file highs, whereas unemployment fell to a near-record low. Abroad, he expanded NATO, strengthened alliances in Asia with the purpose of containing China, and cobbled collectively lasting assist for Ukraine in its warfare in opposition to Russia.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The responsibility of a president is to defend what’s greatest about America.
CORDES: He did so whereas racking up main legislative victories, together with large new investments in clear power and semiconductor manufacturing.
BIDEN: I consider, to my core, there isn’t a single factor this nation can not do once we put our thoughts to it.
CORDES: And he scored a win that eluded his predecessors: signing a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure invoice.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “Taking place with the ship, CBS and Cordes are nonetheless making an attempt to persuade those that regardless of the rejection of his presidency and his insurance policies by the voters, Joe Biden actually was a fantastic president who delivered laudable accomplishments. The media and Biden do share at the very least one factor in frequent: Within the eyes of a lot of the general public, they’re each losers.”
Ranking: 4 out of 5 screams.
■ January 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will endlessly be a ‘convicted felon’
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream is already anticipating the approaching media hate that may greet President-elect Donald Trump when he enters workplace for a second time per week from right now.
No shock, however biased liberal PBS “analyst” Jonathan Capehart isn’t simply readying his anti-Trump speak for Inauguration Day. He’s already trying to pour on the hate in each Trump story.
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Capehart, who additionally hosts a poorly-rated MSNBC present, took enjoyment of predicting that after being sentenced final week in a much-mocked authorized case, Trump will endlessly be referred to as a “convicted felon,” and he needs each reporter to say that of their tales about Trump.
Cheered the talker, “What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing right now, the place the choose mentioned, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, however you’re a convicted felon. And so for the remainder of his life, any story written about him should point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, undoubtedly by the second reference.”
From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
GEOFF BENNETT: However after, you recognize, being convicted of 34 felonies, there are individuals who have a look at this case, they usually say that Donald Trump walks away with a punishment that’s lower than what one would obtain for a dashing ticket.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Look, this case, this hush cash case, was the case that everyone mentioned was the crappy case of the 4. Bear in mind, Donald Trump was indicted 4 instances, and this one was the least essential, the shakiest.
And but it’s the one case the place Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case the place he was dropped at trial earlier than a jury of his friends in his hometown of New York Metropolis and was discovered responsible 34 instances. I feel that’s nice punishment.
What’s additionally nice punishment is the sentencing right now, the place the choose mentioned, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, however you’re a convicted felon. And so, for the remainder of his life, any story written about him should point out the truth that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the primary reference, undoubtedly by the second reference.
And that’s becoming, that’s proper, that’s simply. Do I want the opposite three circumstances had gone to trial and that he had confronted accountability on these? Sure, however it will do.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, defined our choose: “Speak about petty immaturity. Capehart’s response to the choose’s sentence on Trump bared how a lot of the press corps’ hostility to Trump was at all times fueled by private animosity as a lot as by disgust with conservative insurance policies. So a smug Capehart will get pleasure from a court docket giving him the okay to use a derogatory label to the incoming president.”
Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.
■ January 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC the only real #Joementia denier
(Washington Examiner publish)
This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend because the media’s final denier that President Joe Biden has misplaced it. What’s crazier than the apparent is that she claims that it’s incoming President-elect Donald Trump who suffers mind fog.
Showing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Sanders-Townsend’s protection of the president who dropped out of his reelection marketing campaign after his mind locked throughout a debate with Trump got here simply hours earlier than his weird cursing rant about immigrants following a White Home ceremony.
“The query on the desk is, ‘Is the president all they approach there?’ And the reply is unequivocally sure,” Sanders-Townsend mentioned on the present. The MSNBC host, in actual fact, charged it’s Trump whose psychological capacities needs to be questioned. Biden “can at the very least put a sentence collectively,” however “the president-elect is the one I’m involved about.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press:
SYMONE SANDERS TOWNSEND: Nicely, I used to be very shocked that while you requested the query about psychological acuity he didn’t extra forcefully push again. The query on the desk is, “Is the president all the way in which there?” And the reply is unequivocally sure. Now, individuals can say that you simply really feel as if President Biden is perhaps somewhat too outdated to do the job, however he’s doing the job. And his psychological acuity is there. So, I feel that there’s a conflation of two issues right here: his psychological capability and serving one other 4 years as outdated as he’s. However these are two separate issues in my view. And, look, these those that have identified Joe Biden their complete political lives, I do know Joe Biden is like, “Are you able to all simply please defend me somewhat extra?”
MARC SHORT: I feel it damage Democrats. It damage Democrats in November to attempt to inform the American individuals one thing they may see with their very own eyes wasn’t true.
SANDERS-TOWNSEND: Nevertheless it’s not true that the president doesn’t have the psychological acuity.
SHORT: In fact it’s, Symone. The American individuals noticed that for themselves within the debate—
SANDERS-TOWNSEND: What are you saying? He can at the very least put a sentence collectively. The president-elect is the one I’m involved about as a result of I not too long ago talked to the president.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wooden senior fellow and vp for analysis and publications on the Media Analysis Middle, explains our choose: “Sanders is a final holdout, a real silly believer. Nearly all of her colleagues, even those that pretended for years that Biden was advantageous, began to acknowledge, as quickly as Biden was now not the Democratic candidate for reelection, that he’s not all there. However not Sanders. She’s nonetheless within the tank and embarrassing herself, particularly when suggesting it’s Trump who has the psychological shortcomings.”
Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
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