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Joe Biden may still hold the office of President of the United States, but the media are treating him like he's anything but a newsmaker. For much of Biden's presidency, reporters were much more energized to cover the apparent menace of Donald Trump than agitate the officials that were always hiding Biden. Now he seems invisible.

On Dec. 15, ...Read more

Even after The Wall Street Journal published a four-byline bombshell detailing how President Joe Biden's staff energetically hid his ongoing cognitive decline from the public, there wasn't a single question at the White House briefing. No reporters demanded answers about how they were misled, or complained they were pressured into silence.

They...Read more

Don't call PolitiFact an "independent fact-checker." When they assemble to select their "Lie of the Year," they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.

It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: "A lie marked a town and its...Read more

After ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $16 million over George Stephanopoulos incessantly lying about Trump being held "liable for rape," the hot concept in media panic was the "chilling effect."

MSNBC commentator Barbara McQuade lamented "the chilling effect it might have on people who otherwise would be critical of Donald Trump." Is ...Read more

The reelection of Donald Trump has created overwhelming angst among the press. With Trump, they have been like the opposite of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. The media are all the king's horses and all the king's men -- and they couldn't tear Humpty Dumpty apart. All their screeching about his menace only makes him successful.

Longtime CBS News ...Read more

The Trump-loathing media hates the notion of mass deportations. They are upset that voters support it. After the election, a CBS News poll found 57% of Americans are ready to put the brakes on illegal immigration.

On Dec. 8, ABC "This Week" moderator Martha Raddatz pressed conservative Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on the cost: "A recent analysis...Read more

The anti-Trump media have already congratulated themselves for destroying the Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general and are now attempting to destroy the Pete Hegseth nomination for secretary of defense.

Vetting the records of cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a ...Read more

No one should be surprised that President Joe Biden lied when he said he would not pardon his corrupt son Hunter before wandering out of office. As much as journalists want to pretend this is just a Dear Old Dad rescue scenario, Hunter Biden enriched most of the Biden clan in his foreign influence-peddling projects, including Joe and Jill.

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Democratic attorneys waged legal war on former President Donald Trump on every level of government: federal, state, county and city. Now that he's been reelected, all that legal wrangling is going to be curtailed. Biden-appointed special counsel Jack Smith had to fold his tent, and on Nov. 25, the networks offered live "breaking news" that just ...Read more

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There's something about Donald Trump winning an election that drives journalists crazy. The National Press Club in the nation's capital is an epicenter of media arrogance, as anyone could see from its Nov. 21 "Fourth ...Read more

The 2024 election results certainly came as a surprise to the national media. They spent the last few weeks of the campaign wildly speculating about how Donald Trump wouldn't accept the results and it would be complete chaos. Instead, Trump won the popular vote, and they all had to follow their own norms and accept the results in an orderly ...Read more

Last month, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz was mocked by J.D. Vance when she tried to minimize the threat of gangs in Colorado taking over apartment buildings by force. "The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes," she said. It's too bad for you if you lived in one of those buildings.

"Do you hear yourself?" Vance asked.

That's ...Read more

After the decisive Republican victory on Election Day, one question bouncing around in conservative circles was: Will this lead the liberal media to change their ways? Will they reflect on how they are not in any way the "mainstream" media?

It's unlikely. They believe all their own bravado about being on the front lines against incoming "...Read more

Nothing underlines the partisan nature of PBS right now than The Atlantic magazine being allowed to take over the long-running "Washington Week" program in August of 2023. This was not a hostile takeover but a deeper branding of what PBS is -- taxpayer-funded mangle-MAGA TV.

Four years ago, The Atlantic tried to take Donald Trump down with ...Read more

There was one supervillain in the story of the 2024 campaign that almost surpassed Donald Trump -- Elon Musk.

From the minute he bought Twitter in 2022, the leftists who aspire to complete messaging control were furious. They knew their 2020 jig was up, that they couldn't just suppress damaging stories like the Hunter Biden laptop. Reporters ...Read more

The 2024 presidential campaign is ending pretty much where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. On the day before the election, The New York Times front page displayed a gaudy editorial (badly disguised as "News Analysis") under the title "Torrent of Lies Redefines Political Norms."

Doesn't that sound like a hard-...Read more

The Left has a tendency to grade the media's performance based on results. It doesn't matter if you favor the Democrats aggressively if they don't win -- or if the polls seem tied.

Recently, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson was celebrated on "Morning Joe" for writing a column that complained the media was rougher on Vice President ...Read more

It's deliriously funny that The Washington Post jumped into a cauldron of boiling angst by refusing to endorse Kamala Harris for president. The decision is deeply weird. It's like McDonald's declining to advocate for hamburgers.

We all know The Washington Post has a staff full of Democrats writing for an audience that's mostly Democrats (and ...Read more

The ideal of a town hall meeting where citizens can spontaneously ask politicians the questions they would like answered doesn't match what the town hall is in today's politics. There's too much risk for politicians, or the TV networks who platform the event.

A humorous example came on Oct. 21 at a so-called town hall with Vice President Kamala...Read more

On Oct. 20, the "60 Minutes" squad put out a statement dismissing Donald Trump's accusations of manipulative editing in their Kamala Harris interview as "false." But they offered no evidence in support of their claims.

Everyone can see the divergence between the Harris word salad that appeared in a promo on "Face the Nation" and the shorter, ...Read more