The splenetic Democrats at The Atlantic magazine love to paint themselves as Team Truth, while Trump "is an enemy of fact-based discourse," and "The guiding principle of Trumpism is 'Feelings don't care about your facts.'”
So why on Earth would they publish Elizabeth Bruenig's made-up story of a mother learning her child would die of measles? Twitchy pointed out The Washington Post softened the fakery that "some feel deceived." Feel deceived? It was literally Fake News.
The Atlantic podcaster and end-of-democracy doomsday prophet David Brooks had the temerity to claim on Friday’s PBS News Hour that he and people like him represent the “forces of humanization” in America while people like President Trump fight a “constant battle of forcing dehumanization.”
On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, the panel reacted with alarm to reports that the Department of Homeland Security is compiling data on anti-ICE activists. Host Audie Cornish played a clip in which an ICE agent, in what she described as a “tossed off” remark, told a protester she was now considered a “domestic terrorist.” Cornish claimed that such language, once written into a report, “becomes a real problem for someone.”
During Friday’s The Situation Room, CNN co-anchor Pamela Brown continued her crusade against religious Christian schools ahead of the release of her anti-Christian documentary over the weekend. Despite claiming all week that she was supposedly investigating “Christian nationalism,” Friday’s tease was the first time politics was overtly discussed with any of the people she interviewed. Brown’s premise during this particular tease was that these schools were part of a cabal pumping out students to one-day fill government positions.
The Wall Street Journal has promoted itself as the "Daily Diary of the American Dream," as a promoter of national prosperity. But some columnists find the titans of capitalism too unseemly to support any more.
The Journal’s "Heard on the Street" columnist Carol Ryan threw down the gauntlet against the “superwealthy” in her February 18 screed headlined, “Billionaires’ Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy.”
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The following discusses themes of race, gender, “hate” speech ...
Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit -- and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses.
February is Black History Month, so it shouldn't be considered unreasonable for one to expect to see media coverage of President Trump's White House event, which took place on Wednesday, in recognition of the contributions of Black Americans.
It's possible that Politico hasn't been this happy since the 2020 election was "fortified."
By pretending to be censored, which did not happen according to CBS, Late Show host Stephen Colbert was able to gain more viewers than usual to his interview on YouTube with the Democrat primary candidate for senator from Texas, James Talarico. Politico briefly acknowledged the trickery involved in their Wednesday Playbook celebration by Dasha Burns and Jack Blanchard, "The Talarico moment."
Friday’s Supreme Court decision ending President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs will exacerbate the nation’s financial crisis, analysis of the decision shows.
“With today’s Supreme Court ruling affirming the illegality of President Trump’s emergency tariffs, the country will now be about $2 trillion deeper in the hole,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) President Maya MacGuineas said, announcing the organization’s findings.
MS Now’s fun haters at Morning Joe had an interesting recap on Friday of the previous day’s Olympic events, where the U.S. women’s hockey team defeated Canada in a dramatic overtime comeback to win the gold medal, and American figure skater Alysa Liu also took home gold. Forcing politics into sports, ESPN talking head Pablo Torre, the hockey women proved one can cheer on America without embracing a certain nameless president, while host Joe Scarborough and New York Times opinion writer Eugene Robinson argued it was ironic for “MAGA World” to celebrate an immigrant.
All the major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — broke in Friday morning with special reports on the Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 ruling declaring most of President Trump’s landmark tariffs unconstitutional. Unsurprisingly, ABC was almost ebullient in touting the ruling as “devastating,” “huge,” and “monumental” in hampering Trump’s presidency.
In the aftermath of DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin announcing her resignation, MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff accused her of spreading misinformation when, in fact, he was the one misinforming his viewers.
Antonia Hylton filled in for Chris Hayes on Monday's All In show. She began by asking Soboroff what it has been like having to interact with McLaughlin to get information about immigration issues. He began by taking a shot at ex-DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from the first Donald Trump administration: "It's been a bit of deja vu quite frankly, and I think that Tricia McLaughlin comes from a long line, I think it's fair to say, of Trump administration officials dealing with immigration policy that have been less than forthright with the truth."
