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Everyone knows that winning the assignment of officially responding to a State of the Union speech can be a curse, not a blessing. But it depends on which party is responding.

Last year, the media ripped apart freshman Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) as a ditz. PBS analyst Jonathan Capehart made a "Legally Blonde" joke: "After watching Sen. Britt, I ...Read more

The national media pay for national polls to measure public opinion. But often, they aren't just measuring public opinion. Their selection of polling questions carries an agenda, and tests how the liberal media arguments are faring in all 50 states. Their questions change depending on which party's president is in the White House.

There are ...Read more

CNN host Jake Tapper announced that he and Axios reporter (and CNN analyst) Alex Thompson have a book coming out in May titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." They promise "an unflinching and explosive reckoning."

Conservative reaction was fierce. CNN was part of the cover-up. ...Read more

When Democrats switch parties and become Republicans or vote for Republicans, no one expects the liberal media to keep describing them with words like "liberal" or "Democrat." But somehow, after former conservatives and ex-Republicans campaigned for staunchly leftist Kamala Harris for president, journalists just keep calling them "conservatives....Read more

At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.

On the morning of Feb. 20, NPR anchor Korva Coleman promoted an anti-Trump lawsuit, and notice there are no ...Read more

On the PBS show "Washington Week with The Atlantic" on Feb. 7, host Jeffrey Goldberg began: "Elon Musk, the unelected, unconfirmed, unofficial, but extremely powerful prime minister of the United States, is carrying out his plan to purge thousands of employees from the federal government."

A few minutes later, NPR reporter Asma Khalid talked ...Read more

One of the reasons I have long inveighed against "public" TV is its tendency to avoid authentic conservative opinion. For almost 20 years now, Exhibit A has been "PBS NewsHour" pundit David Brooks. PBS picked up Brooks as its supposedly right-leaning Friday night opinionator in 2004, shortly after he became a New York Times columnist in 2003.

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The entire media-Democrat complex spent years building panic over President Donald Trump being a dire threat to democracy, only to be embarrassed by the electorate who decisively chose the Terrible Threat over Kamala Harris.

Now Trump is displaying the highest approval ratings of his political career, and voters are satisfied he's acting on his...Read more

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased "fact checker" PolitiFact, and one of their executives, Kelly McBride, moonlights as the baldly boosterish "public editor" making excuses for National Public Radio.

Tom Jones -- not the hip-swaying Welsh pop singer -...Read more

Brian Stelter is back in his CNN comfort zone, penning those punchy sentences about "Trump's history of bullying media companies." It's as if he cannot conceive of the opposing view, as in "the legacy media's history of bullying Donald Trump." They've played rough -- seeking to destroy his political career, bankrupt his businesses and even put ...Read more

From the inception of Donald Trump's political career, journalists have found it necessary to police each other, to insist that any notion of objectivity or balance with Trump was a grievous sin, a corrupt attempt to "normalize" an abnormally dangerous candidate.

Now that Trump is in his second term, a few rare voices have floated the novel ...Read more

CNN data expert Harry Enten delivers poll results on air to his colleagues, whether they want to hear it or not. On the first Friday of President Donald Trump's second term, he brought bad news to CNN morning anchor Kate Bolduan that a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found Trump had a net approval rating of plus-6.

This term is starting much differently...Read more

In CNN's buildup to the Trump inauguration on Monday, anchor Jake Tapper uncorked a lecture about how five Big Tech executives in attendance "control so much of the information that we receive."

Was that a warning? Or an expression of jealousy? The leftist media hate that the American people have gone around them for information, and they can't...Read more

Even on Inauguration Day, you can count on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio to act like a hive of Democrats. It's not surprising. As longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner reported last year, he investigated D.C. voting records and found "87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans."

On "Morning Edition" before ...Read more

In 1989, Ronald Reagan gave his farewell speech in the Oval Office. After the live coverage on ABC, then-White House reporter Sam Donaldson offered a Democratic rebuttal of sorts on the Reagan legacy. Later, on NBC, David Letterman asked Donaldson if presidents are required to talk to reporters.

Donaldson said no, but "it doesn't do anyone ...Read more

If you're a late-night host with an affinity for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, you're probably going to love being the target of a Donald Trump Truth Social tirade, uncorked in the middle of the night.

Seth Meyers is a millionaire socialist who preaches on TV about how Trump won with a "fake woke boogeyman," so "anyone suggesting...Read more

In all the somber coverage of Jimmy Carter's death, the audience could and should expect the tone of kindness that wafts over wakes and funerals. Each president served as leader of our nation, shouldering a great burden over a large country with an ever-enlarging government.

But sometimes the tributes grow a little too treacly. CBS reporter ...Read more

Since Donald Trump won reelection, the fiercest Trump-bashers in the press have raged against any sign of media titans softening their approaches before the second term begins. Visits to Mar-a-Lago? Outrageous! Donating to Trump's inauguration? Unconscionable!

Then Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced his Meta sites would be abandoning ...Read more

Point and laugh at The Hollywood Reporter. After four years of Team Biden pressuring Big Tech to crush dissent on social media, not to mention Team Biden pressuring the news media to crush any word of President Joe Biden's mental decline, they're going to warn the world about Donald Trump and censorship.

The silly headline on this silly ...Read more

He held an important position -- U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia -- but Matthew Graves has been nearly invisible in the national media over the last four years as a Biden appointee. They didn't seriously cover what he's done, and what he's failed to do.

What he's done is hyperactively prosecute Jan. 6 protesters -- whether violent or...Read more