Media Bias
September 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
When we started this web site, we spent a lot of time criticizing what was then called the “mainstream media.” Over the years, I have done this less and less. Twenty years ago, the legacy press at least pretended to be fair and objective its reporting, so we pointed out errors and biases. But today, the pretense is gone: most media outlets are shills for the Democratic National Committee, and
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September 12, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
As with every political party, there exists a broad spectrum in terms of extremity among Democrats, whose members range from the sane, such as Bill Maher and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, to the rabid, such as Fox News’ token liberal Juan Williams and the New York Times’ Frank Bruni. Obviously, I am a creature of the Right, and perhaps I’ve become intolerant with age, but I can
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September 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
James Taranto observed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal apropos of the Dem/media assault on Justice Thomas that “[o]ne reason Americans don’t trust the media is that politically biased reporters routinely adulterate the news with tendentious language and prepackaged opinions. The result is crude propaganda—lousy opinion writing and unreliable information rolled into one and deceptively packaged as straight news.” Take the case of the Washington Post and Post “national columnist” Philip
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September 1, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon has compiled the video below contrasting the media treatment of John Fetterman’s stroke-related brain damage with Mitch McConnell’s something-related “freeze” (related story here). ¿Quien esta mas impedido? John Fetterman’s stroke-related disability appears to be a credit to the human spirit and to the United States Senate, formerly known as the world’s most exclusive club. By contrast, McConnell’s most recent “freeze” gets an unsympathetic, i.e., realistic treatment,
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August 23, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The late Tom Bethell used to point out in his American Spectator columns how denizens of Washington DC—people we now regard as the shock troops of the administrative state—regarded elections as a nuisance, because the results could interfere with their plans to extend expert control over everyone and everything, especially if those icky Republicans won (though usually not for long). Well, the New York Times has sort of come around
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August 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Washington Post can’t understand why Republicans won’t get with the global warming program: Nearly 150 million Americans were under heat alerts Tuesday, after July marked the planet’s hottest month on record. Devastating downpours dumped two months of rain on Vermont in two days. Smoke from Canadian wildfires choked East Coast skies, causing the worst air quality on record for some locations. And Hawaii is reeling from the deadliest U.S.
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August 14, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Just caught up with the issue of Wired magazine that carries an interview with our wonderboy secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg. And here’s the long introduction to the Q & A portion, and by god this should be read aloud at cocktail parties for the rest of the year as it is comedy gold: THE CURIOUS MIND of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he
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August 6, 2023 — Steven Hayward
A properly Biden-hating but Trump-critical friend remarked to me lately that “I just don’t know any intelligent, educated people who want to vote for Trump next year.” Well maybe so, but I am reminded of the revealing line from Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 presidential campaign, when an enthusiastic supporter ran up to him and breathlessly exclaimed, “Oh, Governor Stevenson! All educated people are for you!” To which Stevenson responded,
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July 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In the late 18th Century, French Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice Talleyrand took bribes from foreign powers in exchange for influencing France’s foreign policy. Well over 200 years later, he is remembered as a singularly corrupt (if also remarkably able) government official. The evidence that Joe Biden did exactly the same thing is fast becoming irresistible. Will Biden be remembered for his corruption 200 years from now? Not if Democrats in the
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July 22, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
At a Jan. 26, 1998 White House event, with wife Hillary by his side, then-President Bill Clinton wagged his finger at reporters and said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” If not for the stains on Monica Lewinsky’s infamous “blue dress,” he would have been happy to leave it at that. But called upon to provide a blood sample for DNA testing that summer, Clinton
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July 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The most ignorant people in America must be those poor souls who rely on the New York Times for their news. The Times is a typical left-wing outlet, in that it exists not to cover the news, but to cover up the news. Its treatment of yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing, featuring testimony by IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, is a case in point. Lest its readers think
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July 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, “Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism.” Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error. The Washington Post has had to post a correction
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July 5, 2023 — Steven Hayward
While all eyes are on the riots in France, not to mention the rolling riots in American cities such as—once again—the Twin Cities over the last few days, there hasn’t been as much attention here on the latest Palestinian provocations against Israel emanating from the West Bank. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared on BBC News, and had the following exchange: Here’s the full video if you can stand
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June 12, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Liberals across the country are congratulating Minnesota’s Democrats on the state’s just-concluded legislative session. Barack Obama cited the DFL’s “accomplishments” as evidence that elections have consequences. He is right, for once, even when an election flips a state’s Senate by just one seat and 321 votes. The Democrats’ margin may have been vanishingly slim, but the election’s consequences are indeed far-reaching. Minnesota Democrats legalized abortion up to the moment of
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June 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
That the Democrats are scared to death of Ron DeSantis is evident from the quality of their attacks on him. They don’t want to talk about his record as governor; from their perspective, the less said about that the better. So they have launched one silly broadside after another. But this one takes the cake. It comes from Axios, a web site for the mentally below average: Dee-Santis or Deh-Santis?
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May 27, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This short video by the BBC’s “Disinformation Correspondent”–not a joke–explains how that news agency is seeking out disinformation and conspiracy theories. These are found on “alternative media,” i.e., not on the BBC, and the BBC is investigating the links between disinformation and “far right figures.” No mention of far left figures. And the BBC is using fake social media accounts to track what is happening in those venues, and how
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May 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
When I first saw this headline appear on Twitter, I assumed it was fake. But no—it is real. Take a bow, Vanity Fair: The author of this trenchant piece is Bess Levin, whom I have never heard of either, but Vanity Fair describes her as “An essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop. If you need
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