Written by Robert Knight
We keep being told that both sides of America’s political divide are equally culpable for violent rhetoric and violent acts. It’s a lie.
Virtually all of it comes from the political left. It wasn’t right-wingers who shot President Donald Trump and murdered health care executive Brian Thompson in New York and conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah in cold blood.
It wasn’t Young Republicans who attacked a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley, campus last week, beating up a TPUSA staffer.… Continue Reading
Tags: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Bluesky, Brian Thompson, Charlie Kirk, Dana Bash, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Family Research Council, George Floyd riots, Jane's Revenge, Joe Rogan, John Fetterman, Kamala Harris, Katie Couric, National Abortion Federation, Roe v. Wade, The New York Times, Turning Point USA, Weather Underground, Zizians
Marriage, Family & Culture, Media Watch | David E. Smith |
November 17, 2025 7:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it’s a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down?
Even before the shutdown occurred, NPR and PBS issued their poll warning Republicans would get more of the blame than Democrats. That’s why those partisan hacks deserved defunding.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, Arlette Saenz, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Brian Williams, CBS, Charles Schumer, CNN World News, Daniel Dale, Democrats, Donald Trump, Ed Schultz, Hakeem Jeffries, JD Vance, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Medicaid, Mike Johnson, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, Pamela Brown, PBS, PolitiFact, Republicans, Savannah Guthrie, The David Letterman Show, Tina Brown
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
October 4, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
Once the shock of Charlie Kirk‘s murder began to wear off, it became easier to notice how today’s “news” media routinely fail to live up to their own pompous prattle about their work. They don’t “hold people accountable,” they don’t “uphold democracy,” and they aren’t “independent” or “objective.” They don’t produce “news” as much as narrative.
You can see this in their energetic declarations that you couldn’t possibly ascribe a leftist motive to Kirk’s shooter … and even claimed you shouldn’t try.… Continue Reading
Tags: CBS Evening News Plus, Charlie Kirk, Chris O'Leary, CNN, Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, John Dickerson, Jonathan Lemire, Juliette Kayyem, Lance Trover, Morning Joe, MSNBC, Table for Five, Tyler Robinson
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
September 19, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by David E. Smith
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s horrific public execution, Governor JB Pritzker issued condolences to the Kirk family. He then pivoted to the broader issue of political violence, warning that it is “ratcheting up in this country.” Pointing to recent political killings in Minnesota, he insisted, “It’s got to stop, and I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.” Of course, Pritzker ultimately laid the blame at the feet of President Donald Trump, saying:
I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it.
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Written by David E. Smith
After a weekend of bloodshed—34 shot in Chicago, including a 5-year-old boy killed in his own home—Governor JB Pritzker, flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, had the audacity to declare with straight faces:
“There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention.”
For anyone who lives, works, or grew up in Chicago, the denial is staggering. Over the weekend alone, five people were killed, including the young child in Kenwood and a woman slain in a West Side mass shooting that left five others wounded.… Continue Reading
Written by Tim Graham
Liberal journalists who decry an allegedly pusillanimous White House press corps under Trump never seem to spend 10 seconds considering how “courageous” this group was under Biden.
CNN “Chief Media Analyst” Brian Stelter tweeted:
“The Trump White House has sought to reshape the press corps in its favor this year, and today showcased how well the effort has succeeded.”
Stelter was unhappy that no one ruined President Donald Trump’s Q&A session in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.… Continue Reading
Tags: Arlette Saenz, Brian Glenn, Brian Stelter, CNN, Courtney Subramanian, Donald Trump, Donie O'Sullivan, Jim Acosta, Joe Biden, Los Angeles Times, Stephen Collinson, Stephen Miller, Ukraine
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
August 22, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
The Democrats’ “free stuff army” has stopped growing, just in time. Maybe.
At some point, if tax eaters outnumber taxpayers, the whole thing will come crashing down.
That is the actual Cloward-Piven Strategy concocted by Marxist academics Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven back in 1966. Their hope was that a socialist government would pick up the pieces and destroy capitalism.
Anyway, the border is now secure under President Donald Trump after four years of President Joe Biden’s policies allowing an estimated 6 million to 10 million migrants to enter the United States illegally and get on the dole.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andy Harris, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Donald Trump, Frances Fox Piven, Gavin Newsom, illegal immigrants, J. B. Pritzker, Joe Biden, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Richard Cloward, Roscoe Bartlett, U.S. Census, Young Democratic Socialists of America, Zohran Mamdani
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith |
August 19, 2025 6:00 AM |
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Written by David E. Smith
One of the great truths that history teaches us is this: your means define your end. The methods you employ in pursuit of power reveal not only your character, but the kind of world you intend to create.
For years now, we have watched the political Left justify political violence and arson, widespread looting, heavy-handed censorship, and even election manipulation under the banner of “saving democracy.” During the 2020 riots, many progressives quietly admitted that movements like Antifa and BLM were destructive—but excused them as necessary to stop Donald Trump, whom they continue to equate with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
Last week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker raised the possibility of redrawing the state’s congressional map before the 2026 midterm elections, positioning it as a direct response to Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas.
Pritzker, who has his eyes set on becoming the next Democratic nominee for the White House, hosted a delegation of Texas Democratic lawmakers in Illinois, offering political support and strategic coordination with fellow Democratic governor Gavin Newsom of California.… Continue Reading
Tags: Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Gerrymandering, Illinois Congressional Delegation, JB Pritzker, Michael Madigan, Redistricting, Texas Republicans, The Chicago Way
Illinois Politics, Voter Integrity | David E. Smith |
August 4, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
As the world of “public” broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billions of dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They’re not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere.
Start with a man named Michael Tribble, the chief content officer at WAMU, the NPR station in the nation’s capital. He sent out a fundraising email after the U.S. Senate rebuke, oozing to their liberal supporters: “You’re part of a community that believes facts matter, that context matters, and that journalism has the power to bring us closer together.”… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, 1A, Brian Stelter, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Donald Trump, George Floyd, Katherine Maher, Kelly McBride, Michael Tribble, National Public Radio, PBS, Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, The New York Times, WAMU, white supremacy
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
July 18, 2025 9:00 AM |
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