Written by Robert Knight
For the past couple of weeks, aside from bashing President Trump over tariffs, the media have been fixated on an illegal immigrant deported to El Salvador.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland, is reputedly a member of the MS-13 gang, a U.S. government-designated foreign terrorist organization. He was summarily shipped off to his home country. Cue the outrage.
The Democratic Party and the media, in lockstep, have made this the case of the century.… Continue Reading
Tags: Chris Van Hollen, CNN, Donald Trump, El Salvador, First Amendment, Jeff Bezos, Kamala Harris, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Leon Trotsky, Mahmoud v. Taylor, Media Research Center, MS-13, MSNBC, Nayib Bukele, Rachel Morin, The New York Times, The Washington Post
Federal Issues, Immigration, Media Watch | David E. Smith |
April 28, 2025 7:32 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in the news again.
Kermit the Frog, the iconic “Sesame Street” Muppet, will give the 2025 commencement address at the University of Maryland.
Kermit’s appearance will coincide with the 65th anniversary of the graduation of UM’s Jim Henson, who was awarded a degree in home economics in 1960. In a press release, “Kermit” said he would keep the address upbeat, even though, as he put it, “It’s hard to be green.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Bill Clinton, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Jim Henson, Katherine Maher, Kermit the Frog, Laurence Jarvik, Marjorie Taylor Greene, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NPR, Paula Kerger, PBS, PBS: Behind the Screen, President Trump, Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sesame Street, Stephen Lynch, The Free Press, The Washington Post, Uri Berliner
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
April 1, 2025 6:00 AM |
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Written by Victor Joecks
Lasting political change doesn’t come from winning elections but reshaping institutions.
On Feb. 26, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, issued a stunning announcement.
“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages,” he wrote on X. “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Yes, that’s the same Washington Post editorial board that attacked Donald Trump last year for promising tax cuts and reduced regulations.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amazon, Biden Administration, Black Lives Matter, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Frederic Bastiat, IRS, Jeff Bezos, Justice Department, Obama Administration, The Washington Post, U.S. Department of Education
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
March 4, 2025 6:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
On Monday, Jan. 6, Congress will convene to certify the 2024 reelection of former President Donald Trump. Jan. 6, 2025, marks the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riot that Democrats and their media still falsely portray as an “insurrection.”
Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after Mr. Trump spoke to a crowd. Among other things, he said:
“Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ashli Babbitt, Benjamin Phillips, Brian Sicknick, Donald J. Trump, Electoral College, FactCheck.org, George Floyd riots, Gunther Hashida, Howard Liebengood, Insurrection, January 6th Riots, Jeffrey Smith, Joe Biden, Kevin Greeson, Kyle DeFreytag, Merrick Garland, Rosanne Boyland, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tucker Carlson
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
January 5, 2025 6:00 PM |
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Written by Tim Graham
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, the president spoke to a Democratic National Committee holiday party. Any reporter would expect a pep talk, with all the echoes of “we’ll get them next time.”… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, ABCNews.com, Associated Press, CBS, Cleve R. Wootson, Democratic National Committee, Donald J. Trump, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Lie of the Year, Matt Kittle, NBC, NPR, PBS, PolitiFact, Stephen Henriques, The Federalist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, USA Today
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
December 28, 2024 5:00 AM |
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Written by Peter Heck
The numbers speak for themselves. MSNBC is suffering through a ratings catastrophe as the disillusioned loyalists, who kept believing the network’s stable of left-wing hosts who continued to promise that Trump was an unelectable Hitler, have walked away.
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Tags: Abby Phillip, ABC, Barbara Walters, Bernie Sanders, Brian Stelter, Chris Hayes, CNN, David Brooks, David French, Donald Trump, Glenn Greenwald, Jen Psaki, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Biden, Joe Rogan, Joe Scarborough, Joy Behar, Joy Reid, Kamala Harris, Mary Katharine Ham, Max Boot, Megyn Kelly, Mollie Hemingway, MSNBC, Pete Hegseth, Rachel Maddow, Sunny Hostin, The New York Times, The View, The Washington Post, Whoopi Goldberg
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
November 19, 2024 8:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Everett Piper
One of the first things President-elect Donald Trump says he will do when he returns to the Oval Office is close and disband the Department of Education. He said:
“We are going to send all education, [along with its corresponding] work and needs, back to the states. We want them [i.e., the states] to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it. … We spend more money per pupil, by three times, than any other nation, and yet we are [approaching] the bottom; we’re one of the worst.
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Tags: Department of Education, Donald Trump, George Washington, Jimmy Carter, Los Angeles Times, Malcolm Muggeridge, National Center on Education and the Economy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, U.S. News & World Report
Education | David E. Smith |
November 18, 2024 6:58 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has doubled down on his extremist agenda for LGBTQ youth.
The man who, as a teacher, launched a gay-straight alliance group in his school went on to use his power as governor of Minnesota to push the transgender agenda in full force.
He issued an executive order last year and signed a law making Minnesota what the measure’s supporters call a “trans refuge state.”
Critics rightly interpreted this as an anti-parent bill aimed at bringing in minors from other states who request puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Alfred C. Kinsey, American Civil Liberties Union, cross-sex hormones, David Reimer, Donald Trump, Dr. Hilary Cass, Edward Eichel, Gavin Newsom, John Colapinto, John Money, Judith Reisman, Kamala Harris, LGBTQ youth, puberty blockers, sex reassignment surgery, The Washington Post, Tim Walz
Federal Elections, LGBTQ Agenda, Political | David E. Smith |
October 28, 2024 4:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
It’s not even Halloween, and the election is two months away, yet the Russian hobgoblins are coming out again to scare all the boys and girls.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department is working hard to turn some annoying Russian cyber meddling into the greatest threat to “democracy” since Hillary Clinton’s operatives hatched the Russian collusion hoax of 2016.
Here’s how it works. The FBI identifies “divisive” themes put out by Russian bots, such as citizens’ concerns over inflation or crimes committed by illegal aliens and then denounces them as “disinformation.” … Continue Reading
Tags: Bill Clinton, Digital Services Act, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron, Facebook, FBI, Gary Bauer, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Hunter's laptop, Instagram, Joe Biden, Justice Department, Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Merrick Garland, Meta, New York Post, Pavel Durov, Presidential Climate Action Project, Robert Reich, Russian Collusion Hoax, SpaceX, Starlink, Telegram, Tesla, The Washington Post, Thierry Breton, Threads, Tim Walz, WhatsApp
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith |
September 9, 2024 4:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
There is never a level playing field in an American election. For example, the two major political parties have major advantages that third parties can’t muster. Another example is the major Democratic Party advantage of the home-team announcers calling the action on the playing field. Our national media set the terms and the tone of our democracy.
The pro-Democrat tilt of every election comes to mind when the pseudo-conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin gushed on ABC’s “The View” on Sept.… Continue Reading