Written by Tim Graham
White House briefings in the Biden years are often sleepy meetings compared to the Jim Acosta shriek-fests we remember under Trump. President Joe Biden pledged he would be so much nicer to the press corps. He promised to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.” But the press is much nicer to him than the other way around.
Biden provides far less access than Trump did. He avoids press conferences and one-on-one interviews like the plague.… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Bill D'Agostino, Catherine Lucey, Chinese Communist Party, CNN, Drew Barrymore, Geoff Bennett, Hunter Biden, Jacqui Heinrich, Jeremy Diamond, Jim Acosta, Joe Biden, John Kirby, Karine Jean-Pierre, Media Research Center, National Security Council, Nicolle Wallace, PBS NewsHour, Peter Baker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Weijia Jiang, White House
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | July 8, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Scandal Questions Go Down the Latrine Jean-Pierre
Written by Robert Knight
What is it with Republicans who try to fight the culture war with one hand tied behind their backs? They shift to a defensive crouch even when their position is clearly right.
G.K. Chesterton mocked this tendency years ago. Some politicians, he wrote, would loudly oppose the deadly mugging of a grandmother in a city park not because it’s immoral but because it would be a “waste of a perfectly good grandmother.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Abigail Shrier, Biden Administration, Brian Kilmeade, Chris Christie, CNN, female genital mutilation, Fox & Friends, Francis Suarez, G.K. Chesterton, gender affirming care, Gender Dysphoria, gender reassignment surgery, genderqueer, Hunter Biden, Jake Tapper, Joe Biden, LGBTQ flag, Los Angeles Dodgers, Navy Jones Roberts, Robert Knight, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Scott Wilk, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, State of the Union
Political | David E. Smith | June 27, 2023 8:00 AM | Comments Off on GOP’s Moral Cowardice Leads to More Concessions, Acceptance of Dems’ Unthinkable Agenda
Written by Tim Graham
As CNN looks for a new leader, former CNN host Brian Stelter proposed this as the most important question: “What should an anchor do when a guest says something untrue?”
The public could turn this question around: “What should a politician do when a CNN host says something untrue?” The Stelters of this world cannot imagine anyone at CNN would ever say anything false. They arrogantly presume they always defend the “truth.”… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Biden-Harris Campaign, Brian Stelter, CNN, Dana Bash, EWTN, H.R. 8296, Jake Tapper, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Owen Jensen, Planned Parenthood, PolitiFact, Roe v. Wade, Women's Health Protection Act
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 9, 2023 6:00 AM | Comments Off on CNN’s Mostly False Take on Biden’s Stance on Abortion
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
I reposted a meme this week. It was a graphic of a mass of humanity, with tens of thousands of people standing shoulder to shoulder and one solitary individual standing outside, looking back at the group. The accompanying text was, “Yes, you all are wrong.” To this, I added, “It appears those of us who stood nearly alone on masks and jabs are exonerated. May the same prove true on all else woke and wrong.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Adrian Rogers, BBC, Black Lives Matter, CNN, COVID–19, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, Hans Christian Andersen, mask mandate, mRNA, Os Guinness, Pfizer, Rasmussen, The Washington Post, Twitter Files, William Wilberforce, Winston Churchill, Wuhan coronavirus
Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 14, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Truth Always Wins: Liberal Media Has Started to Report Actual Facts
Written by Tim Graham
Anyone who thinks the First Amendment is best represented by the “news” media is not paying attention to the way they wage war on freedom of speech for the conservative “rabble” on social media platforms.
Imagine if the media had attacked new media owners Jeff Bezos or David Zaslav with the kind of venom that they’re using on Twitter owner Elon Musk. No one would suggest it’s important for the government to monitor The Washington Post or CNN as potential sources of misinformation.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrea Shalal, Center for Countering Digital Hate, CNN, David Zaslav, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, First Amendment, GLAAD, Hunter Biden, Jeff Bezos, Karine Jean-Pierre, Rupert Murdoch, The Washington Post, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 30, 2022 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The Media vs. Free Speech on Twitter
Written by Robert Knight
If you haven’t been unduly anxious lately, just open a newspaper or tune into a TV network like CNN.
Scaring the public is the media’s reason for being.
Not the suits who run the media, understand. The suits may be stylishly “woke,” but they’re in the business to make a buck. I’m talking about the so-called journalists. They are steeped in Marxist theory they learned in college and which they never outgrew.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Humanist Association, Anthony Fauci, Big Media, Chinese Communist Party, CNN, COVID–19, Democrats, Humanist of the Year, Joe Biden, Omicron, vaccine mandate, Washington Post, Wuhan Institute of Virology
Media Watch | David E. Smith | December 6, 2021 4:00 AM | Comments Off on The Looting Party’s Media Scare Machine
Written by Dr. Jerry Newcombe
If there are riots now in America, what will it be like 20 years from now if the New York Times gets its way?
The New York Times sponsored The 1619 Project, which postulates that America’s real beginnings as a nation are when the first African slaves were brought over….to Jamestown in 1619.
Many historians note that this is a distortion of our nation’s roots. Worse, it makes young people turn against this country.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Bob Woodson, Carol Swain, CNN, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Dr. Carol Swain, Dr. Richard Land, George Orwell, George Washington, Mitch McConnell, New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Teddy Roosevelt, The 1619 Project, Thomas Jefferson, William Wilberforce
Education | David E. Smith | May 8, 2021 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Teaching Kids That America Was Always Racist
Written by Jackie Cushman
This week, Project Veritas released a video of Charlie Chester, a CNN technical director, talking to a woman who recorded him during what he thought were “dates”; she had purposely targeted him and videoed him surreptitiously. While you might not agree with her tactics, her videos reveal that CNN was involved in what proved to be a successful media campaign to control the political process.
“Look what we did, we got Trump out.… Continue Reading
Written by Tim Graham
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) came under blistering attack from Washington Post scribe Aaron Blake for having wondered whether President Joe Biden is really in charge, since he’s kept an extremely low profile with the press. Blake took after the senator for implying the Trump spin that old Joe has lost a few mental gears and is something of a “Manchurian Candidate.” “It’s a baseless and ugly bit of innuendo,” Blake wrote.… Continue Reading
Tags: Aaron Blake, CNN, COVID–19, Eugene Daniels, Joe Biden, John Cornyn, Lester Holt, Manchurian Candidate, Norah O'Donnell, NPR, PBS, Politico, Ron Klain, Steve Inskeep, Steve Krakauer, Trump Administration, Washington Post, Yamiche Alcindor
Media Watch | David E. Smith | April 14, 2021 6:00 AM | Comments Off on The Press Is Infrastructure for Biden
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
Last Monday, CNN host Don Lemon strutted onto the world’s stage to declare with ex-cathedra confidence that Christian orthodoxy and its 2,000 years of church teaching on sexual dignity, sexual morality and about God himself is wrong.
“I think that the Catholic Church and many other churches really need to reexamine themselves,” said Mr. Lemon, “[Their teaching] is not what God is about. God is not about hindering people or even judging people.”… Continue Reading