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Left-Wing Media Skip Extreme Pro-Abortion Law Signing in Massachusetts

Screenshot from Snapstream/Newsmax On August 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the gaps” in “abortion rights protections.” Abortion foes call it “abortion until birth,” making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb.The “mainstream” media called it nothing. You couldn’t find that…

Kasie Hunt Says Latin American Commie Dictatorships Led by ‘National Socialists’

CNN viewers got to witness a magnificent piece of historic whitewashing today, in service of propping up a Senate candidate aligned with the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA). While questioning the Florida Democrat nominee to the U.S. Senate, Angie Nixon, on her potential engagement with the various exile communities in the state, The Arena host Kasie Hunt suggested these Latin American…

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Salute Smear of Trump's 'Binky' Natalie Harp

Sen. Jon Ossoff delighted liberal journalists when he smeared young Trump aide Natalie Harp (who's 35) as carrying on a sexual affair with the president (who's 80). It showed "the art of the viral clip," claimed CNN's Brian Stelter. They didn't really care to ask: But is that true? MRC Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino and Mediaite columnist Brad Slager joined the show to assess the Harp…

TDS Intrudes Upon New Yorker Review of New Road Runner Movie

YouTube Screenshot The many fans of the Road Runner cartoon series will be interested to know that there is a full length Road Runner movie featuring live action opening on August 28 called "Coyote vs. Acme." It has the fascinating premise of Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme company. A New Yorker review of this film, "Toons Have Seldom Been Loonier Than in 'Coyote vs. Acme,'" on August 14 by Justin…

Judge Refuses Disney’s Demand for Injunction, Sets Stage for Legal Fight

CNN via SnapStream Alongside Disney’s lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission regarding the early renewal of the broadcast licenses for their eight owned affiliates, they also demanded a preliminary injunction ahead of any formal legal proceedings. The federal judge overseeing the case issued her first order on Thursday, setting up the schedule but also not immediately granting an…

Partial Credit: Networks Cover, Express Horror at National Debt, But Skip Real Drivers

Screenshot via ABC/Snapstream Since President Trump is in the White House and Republicans control Congress, it was only a matter of time until the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC noticed the national debt, and Wednesday’s grim milestone that the debt had crossed $40 trillion gave them the perfect hook. While it’s admirable the press suddenly care about the national debt, they still failed…

Sports Columnist Resigns When Seattle Times Spikes His Piece Supporting Female Athletes

After 11 years writing for the Seattle Times, Sports Columnist Matt Calkins announced his resignation Thursday, citing the publication’s spiking of his pro-female athlete story as the last straw of leftist censorship.“It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one,” Calkins explained in a social media post:“The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of…

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Quote of the Week?

POLL: What was the worst media quote of the week? (Vote below) Watch the Worst Quotes from Joe Scaborough, @iamjohnoliver, and Rosie O'DonnellVideo by @Schineman pic.twitter.com/9HquweQXg7— Media Research Center (@theMRC) August 20, 2026 NOMINEES: Joe Scarborough: ICE Agents Are Nazi “Shock Troops” That Are Gunning Down Americans “You’re actually going to use shock troops in the United States of…

Psaki Attacks Trump, DOJ For Investigating Fake Dan Sullivan In Alaska Senate Race

MS NOW’s Jen Psaki attacked President Trump and the Justice Department on Wednesday’s edition of The Briefing for launching an investigation into whether Alaskan GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan is running a deception operation to try to take votes away from the GOP incumbent senator of the same. Psaki portrayed this as just another instance of a politicized DOJ but naturally declined to mention…

PBS News Hour Finds GOP 'Election Deniers' Everywhere, After Ignoring DSA Nuttery

The PBS News Hour has skipped over the extremist viewpoints of Democratic candidates affiliated or adjacent to the Democratic Socialists of America, whose radical campaign program includes abolishing the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College and to “Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”Yet the tired anti-Republican trope of…

OMISSION ROUNDUP: Illegal Stabber, Bessent Murder Plot, Tajik Escapee

We are often reminded that one of the main purposes of the Elitist Media Evening News is not so much to convey actual news but to distract viewers for 22 minutes and lead them to believe they watched the news. Meanwhile, important stories slip past the American public. Here are but a few of them.Fairfax County, Virginia awakened to news Monday morning of a woman horrifically stabbed to death in a…

'Bring Sexy Back': CNN This Morning Declares New Democrat Election Strategy

CNN/SnapStream After more primary elections passed by with another surprising Democratic socialist victory in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, Wednesday’s CNN This Morning dedicated a segment near the end of the post-election show to infatuation with a supposed Democratic candidate strategy for the midterms and beyond: “Bring Sexy Back.”At the start of the cringe-filled segment, host Audie…

Joe Scarborough Runs Defense For Radical Florida Dem, Misrepresents Rahm on Israel

Morning Joe 8-19-26 Joe Scarborough spent a long segment on Wednesday's Morning Joe playing defense for Florida’s new Democratic Senate nominee, DSA member and State House Representative Angie Nixon. Fresh off her primary win, Nixon sat for an interview that showcased both her radical positions and Scarborough’s determination to sand down the sharp edges. Early on, Nixon ran afoul of the truth,…

Vanity Fair Irked by the Fashion Power of MAGA Hats

YouTube Screenshot Imagine if a magazine staffer had walked into the offices of Vanity Fair these days wearing a MAGA hat. It is not is not hard to envision the enraged reaction that would be directed towards that staffer. Most likely he (or she) would be subjected to demands to resign. Perhaps even therapy sessions to help those subjected to a view of such a hat in their "safe spaces" to treat…

Ouch: CBS Fires Hardballs at Florida DSA Candidate, Pennsylvania Governor on Socialism

Screenshot via CBS/Snapstream In addition to a more traditional recap of Tuesday’s primary election results, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings went hard in the paint after socialism (read: communists) with tough questions for Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro about where he stands in this fight and then an entire interview of hardballs for socialist State Representative Angie Nixon, the upset…

Networks Revel in Leftist Hijinks in Alaska, Socialist Upset in Florida

Screenshot via NBC/Snapstream On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Today all had full reports on Tuesday’s primary results that boasted a socialist candidate pulled off an upset in Florida’s Senate race and trumpeted Alaska Senate primary with blatant political chicanery in which someone seems to have found another Alaska with the same name as incumbent Republican Dan…

Stelter Sleaze: Ossoff's Natalie Harp Smear Is a Marketing 'VICTORY'

At a rally on Sunday, Sen. Jon Ossoff smeared White House aide Natalie Harp by suggesting the president likes to “travel with Natalie” and not much else – implying a sexual dalliance between the 80-year-old president and his 35-year-old aide. If the president was a Democrat, the liberal journalists would cry smear. But it’s Trump, so Brian Stelter is touting Ossoff as a savvy social-media…

Former Senior Advisor to Fauci Pleads Guilty to COVID Cover-up Charges

Dr. David ‌Morens, a former senior advisor to COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci, pled guilty Tuesday to crimes relating to a scheme to prevent public disclosure of information regarding the origin of the deadly COVID-19 virus.Morens served as a senior advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Fauci, from 2006 through 2022.Morens pled guilty in a federal court…

‘Full-on Breakup’: Morning Joe Promotes Novel with Gloomy Scenario of New U.S. Civil War

MS NOW/SnapStream On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW morning program spread doom and gloom on the state of the country as it promoted a new book by author Kurt Andersen titled The Breakup, which focused on a fictional future of America 20 years in the future in the aftermath of a civil war. Andersen constantly seemed pessimistic about the future of America throughout the interview and even said…

PolitiFact Rushes to Defend Jolly on Transgender Surgeries for Minors

Florida Republican-turned MSNBC talking head-turned Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly has portrayed himself as the kind of aspiring governor who would not insert himself into decisions about whether or not a minor should receive transgender “medical care.” This has led GOP nominee Byron Donalds and his PAC to say Jolly supports transgender surgeries for minors, but the damage control…