Written by Cliff Kincaid
Conservatives have canceled their own culture. Glenn Beck was a recent example, blasting anti-communist U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy and warning of a new “Red Scare” targeting conservatives. We should have taken the old Red Scare more seriously and could have avoided our current fate.
That fate, recently described by federal Judge Laurence Silberman, is the “ideological consolidation” of the media in the hands of the Democratic Party and its allies. Marx called it the centralization of the means of communications in the hands of the state.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Bernstein, Alger Hiss, American Communist Party, America’s Survival TV, Bobby Kennedy, Carl Bernstein, Caroline Kennedy, Communist Party, Communist Party USA, David J. Garrow, Democratic Party, Ernest Hemingway, George Soros, Glenn Beck, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, JFK, Joe McCarthy, Jr., Laurence Silberman, M. Stanton Evans, Martin Luther King, McCarthyism, Nicholas Reynolds, Richard Nixon, Stanley Levison, Sylvia Bernstein, Washington Post, Watergate
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
April 11, 2021 4:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
President Biden’s first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media’s job is to hold presidents accountable.
Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor was the worst. She complimented the president, saying: “You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country right now; this isn’t the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors.”… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC News, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Associated Press, Barack Obama, CBS News, Cecilia Vega, CNN, Fox News Channel, immigration, Janet Rodriguez, Jim Acosta, Jim Crow, Joe Biden, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Welker, Nancy Cordes, NBC, Peter Doocy, Press Conference, Seung Min Kim, Univision, Washington Post, Yamiche Alcindor, Zeke Miller
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
March 27, 2021 4:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
Liberals love to insist they’re on the “right side of history,” and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.
It’s not just historians but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian Ken Burns. On the day before President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration, NPR’s “Morning Edition” presented him as an American treasure with no partisan bias.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brian Stelter, CNN, David Nakamura, Democratic National Committee, Douglas Brinkley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Joseph Crespino, Ken Burns, Leah Wright Rigueur, Matthew Dallek, Morning Edition, Nicole Hemmer, NPR, Politico, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Sara Gideon, Sherrod Brown, Susan Collins, The Washington Post, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
January 20, 2021 8:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
So, Colin Kaepernick is the current face of American professional sports.
This is the guy widely panned four years ago for his protests during the playing of the National Anthem at National Football League games. Now he’s the bee’s knees.
That’s the picture from a Washington Post poll that says a majority (56 percent) of Americans actually approve of athletes kneeling in protest when the Star-Spangled Banner is played. Only 42 percent of those polled say it’s “not appropriate.”… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
The hallmark of a first-world country is not that violence never occurs within its borders, but that once it does, the damage is mitigated immediately and the perpetrators are punished and future criminals deterred. Yet here we are, over 80 days into this national insurrection by terrorist groups like Back Lives Matter and Antifa, and there is no end in sight.… Continue Reading
Tags: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Cantwell v. Connecticut, death to America, Donald J. Trump, Insurrection Act, Kenosha, Militia Act of 1792, racketeering, Ulysses Grant, Washington Post, Whiskey Rebellion
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
September 4, 2020 5:52 AM |
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Written by Peter Heck
Better late than never. And I’m serious.
I’ve been adamant about holding woke warriors like outspoken NBA coach Steve Kerr accountable for his inexcusable moral hypocrisy when it comes to matters of social justice.
Kerr’s persistence in pointing out to everyone how sensitive he is to the plight of those treated unjustly counterbalanced against his flagrant unwillingness to say a single word on behalf of the most oppressed and mistreated victims of systemic injustice in the world is mindless.… Continue Reading
Tags: Candace Buckner, Christian persecution, Daryl Morey, Hong Kong, Houston Rockets, human rights abuse, LeBron James, NBA, Peter Heck, Steve Kerr, Uighur, Washington Post, Woke
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
August 6, 2020 7:00 AM |
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Written by Peter Heck
In a 2017 USA Today op-ed, journalist Jonathan Merritt, who has distinguished himself by persistently undermining the authority of Scripture while wearing the name of Jesus, fretted over a potential Christian boycott of Disney and its LGBT activism. He wrote:
It risks making Christians look like antiquated bigots, and it reeks of moral hypocrisy. Worse, it diverts energy from a more worthwhile effort: teaching Christian children to coexist in a pluralistic society.
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Tags: Bill de Blasio, Chick-Fil-A, intersectionality, Jonathan Merritt, LGBTyranny, New York, Samaritan's Purse, USA Today, Washington Post
Media Watch, Religious Liberty | David E. Smith |
April 3, 2020 7:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things that you would otherwise avoid.”
So said former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was President Obama’s chief of staff and an astute practitioner of smashmouth politics.
It’s worth remembering this as the Democrats and their media do everything they can to hype the dangers of the Wuhan coronavirus. Not that it isn’t deadly serious. It is.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alex M. Azar II, Bernie Sanders, COVID–19, Donald Trump, Eliot L. Engel, Hyde Amendment, Joe Biden, Media Research Center, Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, National PTA Legislative Conference, Nita Lowey, Obamacare, Rahm Emanuel, Rose L. DeLauro, USA Today, Washington Post, World Health Organization, Wuhan coronavirus, xenophobic
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
March 19, 2020 7:00 AM |
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Written by Brent Bozell III
Our media elites arrogantly lecture about our democracy being undermined by robotic propaganda, but do they ever listen to themselves talk about the Democrats? Somehow, they think their robotic propaganda is just the “truth.” The press came to witness the Senate impeachment trial, and U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) had them at hello.
No member of Congress has been more dramatically partisan in this war on the Trump presidency than Schiff. … Continue Reading
Tags: ABC News, Adam Schiff, CNN, Donald J. Trump, Fox News Channel, Greg Miller, impeachment, Jason Johnson, Jeffrey Toobin, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Alter, Lev Parnas, Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC, PolitiFact, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz, Terry Moran, Ukraine, Washington Post, Wolf Blitzer
Federal Issues, Impeachment | David E. Smith |
January 24, 2020 6:39 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
In November 2010, Republicans gave Democrats a “shellacking,” regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2014, they held the U.S. House and captured the U.S. Senate, swept a majority of governorships. Overall, the GOP gained more state legislative offices that they had held since the 1920s.
In the face of this, President Barack Obama made it clear that he was not about to move to the right in any fashion.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Daniel Cameron, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, George Soros, Impeechment, Karen Tumulty, Marxism, Michael Bloomberg, National Rifle Association, Trevor Loudoun, Victor Davis Hanson, Washington Post, Washington Times
Uncategorized | David E. Smith |
November 13, 2019 9:00 AM |
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