Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment

Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as every week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every decide, often posted on-line on Monday, I present a proof and suggest a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).

This submit incorporates the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2021.

> For all of 2020. For all of 2019. For all of  2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:

> July-December 2017 posts; January by way of June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 by way of the tip of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by way of June 11, 2013.)

Test Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the most recent alternative and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page can be up to date with Bedard’s newest instance of the worst bias of the week.

(For extra of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Analysis Middle’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the most recent outrageous, generally humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)

 

■ New on September 5: Liberal Media Scream: Lefty bias lastly catches up with CNN’s Harwood

See the posting on the Washington Examiner‘s web site the place you’ll be able to watch the video and skim Baker’s evaluation. Every week later, Bedard’s article can be posted right here.

 

■ August 29: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC gushes over Biden — ‘Isn’t he the best?’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options precisely what it takes for legacy information shops to gush about President Joe Biden. Simply hate former President Donald Trump — it’s so simple as that.

On MSNBC on Sunday morning, former federal prosecutor and cable community authorized analyst Cynthia Alksne set the tone when she mentioned of President Joe Biden, “Isn’t he the best?” It got here after a visitor host, Michael Steele, introduced up how Biden had mocked Trump’s declare he might declassify any doc. “He simply has to kind of name it like he sees it, proper?” Alksne mentioned. Steele agreed: “He did.”

Following the clip of Biden speaking, Alksne added with a chuckle, “He’s out of malarkeys, that’s all. He’s simply out of malarkeys.”

From the Aug. 28 The Sunday Present With Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC:

GUEST HOST MICHAEL STEELE: Cynthia, the White Home has been in a really fascinating spot right here — slightly bit ticklish, I’d assume. They’ve been cautious to not make any statements that would appear to get people excited or definitely impede the investigation or be perceived as doing so. However the president did enable slightly slip this week. So—

CYNTHIA ALKSNE: Isn’t he the best?

STEELE: Yeah, properly.

ALKSNE: I imply, he simply has to kind of name it like he sees it, proper?

STEELE: He did.

ALKSNE: He’s staying away from it.

STEELE: He did. Let’s simply take a pay attention. Let’s see what he mentioned.

REPORTER: President Trump mentioned he declassified all these paperwork. Might he have simply declassified all of them?

JOE BIDEN: Why, I simply wish to know. “I’ve declassified all the things on the earth. I’m president. I can do all of it.” Come on! He declassified all the things. I’m not going to remark as a result of I don’t know the small print. I don’t even wish to know. I’ll let the Justice Division handle that.

STEELE: Actual fast.

ALKSNE: He’s out of malarkeys, that’s all. He’s simply out of malarkeys [Steele laughs]. However that’s undoubtedly true. This complete declassification argument is — is absolutely sort of silly.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “‘Isn’t he the best?’ 4 phrases by no means earlier than spoken about President Joe Biden. Solely on MSNBC might you discover anybody so impressed by Biden, however naturally, it’s not about his job efficiency however about Biden mocking the individual the Left actually hates, Donald Trump. That’s the way you impress MSNBC hosts, visitors, and viewers.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 22: Liberal Media Scream: Stelter’s final sanctimonious lecture at CNN

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream says farewell to considered one of our regulars, CNN media critic Brian Stelter. His present was dumped final week, and he has determined to give up the slumping cable community.

He has been criticized over time for harping on conservative media and ignoring the issues of liberal media.

He ended his ultimate episode of CNN’s Dependable Sources on Sunday with a lecture by which he put himself on the aspect of decency and patriotism over demagogues and liars: “I do know it’s not partisan to face up for decency and democracy and dialogue. It’s not partisan to face as much as demagogues. It’s required. It’s patriotic. We should ensure we don’t give platforms to those that are mendacity to our faces,” he mentioned.

Stelter wrapped up by championing CNN as vital to the survival of the nation and the planet: “I imagine America wants CNN to be sturdy. I imagine the free world wants CNN to be sturdy.”

And that’s the watchword right here: accountability. So this present’s going away, however there’s going to be so many extra. We have to have room for media criticism and debate and dialogue. And we are going to. A lot of the media ecosystem in 2022 is rubbish. And a lot of it’s spectacular. The arduous half is finding out the treasure from the trash.

These are thorny, sophisticated issues. I do know I by no means had all of the solutions. I didn’t even at all times have all of the questions. However it was the present of a lifetime to get to confront these points on worldwide tv with the backing of CNN.

Right here’s what I do know. I do know it’s not partisan to face up for decency and democracy and dialogue. It’s not partisan to face as much as demagogues. It’s required. It’s patriotic. We should ensure we don’t give platforms to those that are mendacity to our faces. However we additionally should ensure we’re representing the total spectrum of debate and representing what’s occurring on this nation and on this world.

That’s why CNN must be sturdy. That’s why I imagine CNN will at all times be sturdy. You viewers at house, it’s on you. CNN should stay sturdy. I do know the 4,500 staffers are going to do their half to make it stronger than ever.

However it’s going to be on you to carry CNN accountable. And never simply CNN, you have to maintain your native paper accountable. You have to maintain your native digital outlet accountable. It’s on all of us. We’re all members of the media, all serving to to make it higher. That’s what I imagine.

I can’t wait to be watching CNN, seeing what occurs right here sooner or later. I’m going to be rooting for it. I would like CNN to be sturdy. I imagine America wants CNN to be sturdy. I imagine the free world wants CNN to be sturdy. And it’ll proceed to be, as a result of all of us are going to assist make that occur.

The free world wants a dependable supply. So, for Dependable Sources, for the final time, I’m Brian Stelter. Thanks for being with us.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Stelter, filled with sanctimonious chutzpah, till the tip. No acknowledgment of how he destroyed a 30-year franchise by turning it right into a partisan hatefest extra involved with proving Donald Trump was ‘authoritarian’ and/or a ‘fascist’ than media criticism past relentless bashing of CNN’s extra common competitor, the Fox Information Channel. For anybody excited by critiques of ‘mainstream media’ and why so many see a lot faux information, he gained’t be missed.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 15: Liberal Media Scream: Andrea Mitchell slaps down GOP senator

(Washington Examiner submit)

If you’ve lined Washington for practically half a century, as 75-year-old Andrea Mitchell has, there could be a tendency to know-it-all-ism. Add in a wedding to a former Federal Reserve chief who as soon as tried to broaden the definition of “recession” past two months of unfavourable progress, and also you’ve obtained a canine within the combat over when a recession is a recession.

So when Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) gave Mitchell, internet hosting NBC’s Meet the Press, the long-established definition of “recession,” she didn’t hesitate to problem him.

Her “That’s outdated, outdated!” gained Mitchell our weekly liberal media scream award.

The change on the Sunday, Aug. 14, Meet the Press:

ANDREA MITCHELL: On condition that they did take all this materials, packing containers of fabric and categorised paperwork as properly, and given how informal he was about securing paperwork — that’s been properly established when he was president — do you assume that ought to disqualify him from being president once more? And would you vote for him if he runs?

SEN. MIKE ROUNDS: I’ll hold my powder dry with regard to your final query. I feel proper now we’re going to concentrate on the 2022 election. We wish to retake the Home. We undoubtedly wish to retake america Senate. And I feel in doing that, our aim is to concentrate on what’s occurring proper now with the American individuals. We’re going to concentrate on the truth that inflation continues to be over 8.5%. We’re nonetheless speaking about GDP, which has been happening, and as you understand, sharing breakfast with the chair, the previous chairman of the Federal Reserve, anytime you bought two quarters in a row, you might be in a recession. We wish to see us get out of that recession, and we definitely wish to see fuel costs come down. They’re nonetheless a buck and a half larger than when Joe Biden took workplace. These should not good insurance policies to run on for Democrats. We have to concentrate on that. And as we get previous that and get into the 2024, I feel the Republican can be properly positioned, however let’s get previous the 2022 election first.

ANDREA MITCHELL: And we’re not in a recession but. However we’ll wait and see what does occur. And we actually wish to thanks. It’s superb that you just got here on right this moment, Sen. Rounds.

ROUNDS: Two quarters inform you otherwise than that.

MITCHELL: No, that’s outdated, outdated, even in keeping with Republican economists, in any case.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Please don’t castigate Trump supporters for supposedly undermining democracy by accusing company media of selling ‘faux information’ when a veteran broadcast community star does simply that — and does it with out compunction, to appropriate a U.S. senator. Rounds wins this spherical. The information are on his aspect. Mitchell conveyed embarrassing, pro-Biden rewriting of the definition of a recession.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 8: Liberal Media Scream: Jane Pauley hypes local weather agenda to ‘human extinction’ stage

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream brings us Jane Pauley, internet hosting the pleasant CBS Sunday Morning, with a scary warning that “human extinction isn’t out of the query” from local weather change.

It was jarring to see Pauley, as soon as seen because the As we speak Present sweetheart, warning of demise and destruction as a result of worst of the leftist warnings on international warming.

“So how unhealthy can it get? In response to some scientists, the potential for worldwide societal collapse, and even eventual human extinction, isn’t out of the query,” she mentioned.

Pauley’s tease on the prime of CBS Sunday Morning on Aug. 7:

“Good morning. I’m Jane Pauley, and that is Sunday Morning. Searing warmth, huge wildfires, catastrophic flooding — unequivocal proof, the United Nations says, that local weather change is actual and that human exercise is its main trigger. So how unhealthy can it get? In response to some scientists, the potential for worldwide societal collapse, and even eventual human extinction, isn’t out of the query. It’s a harsh warning, to say the least. And but, this morning, Tracy Smith finds there may be nonetheless motive for hope.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “And journalists surprise why so many haven’t purchased into the massive authorities ‘local weather change’ agenda pushed by President Biden and liberals. It’s this type of over-the-top, dire fearmongering that does extra to discredit the information media than any scorching day or massive rainstorm in August will ever do to get individuals to imagine their freedoms have to be curtailed so as to save humanity from the impacts of ‘local weather change.’”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ August 1: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Karl Pleads for Jon Stewart to Make Run for President

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream brings us one other left-leaning weekend information journal host urging a fellow liberal to get into politics and run for workplace, together with the workplace of the president.

Final week, it was Chuck Todd egging on Al Gore to run once more. “Why not you?” mentioned Todd, to which Gore demurred.

This week, we had Jonathan Karl, internet hosting ABC’s This Week, counsel the identical to comedian and activist Jon Stewart, who was in Washington final week in his newest marketing campaign for Gulf veterans.

Karl famous the profession path of Volodymyr Zelensky, “a man in Ukraine who’s a comic who had a very fashionable present, who’s now a president of Ukraine.” Karl then added, “Is there any likelihood you run for workplace? I imply, you understand, any workplace in any respect?”

From ABC’s This Week, hosted by Jonathan Karl:

JONATHAN KARL: I’ve heard you say — or say that you’ve ideas prior to now, you had given consideration of working for workplace. I feel I’ve that appropriate. And, you understand, look, we’ve had some precedent now. There’s a man in Ukraine who’s a comic who had a very fashionable present, who’s now a president of Ukraine. Some individuals assume he’s an excellent president. Is there any likelihood you’d run for workplace? I imply, you understand, any workplace in any respect?

JON STEWART: There’s a likelihood that once I go down, I’m going to return again down there to Washington, and I’m going be a part of my brothers and sisters on the Capitol steps who’ve been sleeping out on fireplace watch. Rosie Torres of Burn Pits 360, Tim Jensen of Grunt Type, and anybody else who needs to go down there and be a part of them on the Capitol steps. And I’ll be a part of them, and we are going to keep there till america authorities does the precise factor by the women and men who fought to guard it. That’s what I’m after.

KARL: All proper, Jon Stewart, thanks so much for becoming a member of us.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “For the second week in a row, an occasion of a journalist placing his private passions forward of excellent journalistic judgment. Jon Stewart is a hero to the Left for his aggressive and crass assaults on conservatives, and that appears to excite Karl, who needs Stewart to contemplate turning that fervor right into a candidacy.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ July 25: Liberal Media Scream: Even Al Gore perplexed by Chuck Todd’s 2024 push

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options Meet the Press host Chuck Todd egging former Vice President Al Gore into one other bid for president, this time as a inexperienced candidate.

On his Sunday present, Todd proposed that Gore lead “a local weather change presidential marketing campaign sooner or later.” He requested, “Why not you, Al Gore?”

The previous Democratic vp appeared rightly perplexed and mentioned, “Oh, properly, thanks for making the suggestion. You realize, I’m a recovering politician. And the longer I am going with out a relapse, the much less doubtless one turns into.”

CHUCK TODD: I’m not going to allow you to go with out asking you this: Australia’s election was a local weather change election. And also you talked about, “With a purpose to get that political will.” Jay Inslee tried to run a climate-focused marketing campaign, and it didn’t get off the bottom. Why not you, Al Gore?

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: Why not me, as a candidate?

TODD: Main a local weather change presidential marketing campaign sooner or later.

GORE: Oh, properly, thanks for making the suggestion. You realize, I’m a recovering politician. And the longer I am going with out a relapse, the much less doubtless one turns into.

TODD: However the thought of local weather change and making it the problem, would you prefer to see extra presidential candidates do it?

GORE: Completely.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Liberal goals die arduous for Democrats, and Chuck Todd can’t let go of what might have been — and what he imagines could possibly be sooner or later. Because of his tv present, we’re all let in on what animates Todd’s political fantasies. Onerous to think about Todd ever craving for one more presidential run by any conservative.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ July 18: Liberal Media Scream: CNN defends Biden, saying ‘governing is tough’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a key CNN host mouthing one thing hardly ever or by no means mentioned throughout former President Donald Trump’s 4 years: Give the president a break as a result of “governing his arduous.”

Amid traditionally low approval scores, sky-high inflation, and a path of international coverage missteps, CNN anchor John King didn’t condemn the administration final Friday however as an alternative supplied a weak protection of Democratic inaction.

Throughout a dialogue of this November’s midterm elections, King confirmed a Republican TV advert after which mentioned, “It’s a lot simpler to be the opposition occasion. Give the Democrats — give the Democrats some grace. Governing is tough, particularly when you might have tiny margins.”

From Friday’s Inside Politics with John King on CNN:

JOHN KING: This can be a group, Mitch McConnell tremendous PAC, if you’ll — that’s not precisely what it’s however a management PAC affiliated with the want-to-be majority chief, the Senate Republican chief. That is in a Arizona Senate race, however you’re going to see this in robust Senate races all throughout the nation.

TV AD: Wasteful authorities spending is in charge for inflation. Sen. Mark Kelly was a deciding vote for President Biden’s spending spree. Sen. Kelly and President Biden spending trillions. What we get? Inflation, file fuel costs, and hovering costs on groceries. Their spending spree worsened inflation.

KING: It’s a lot simpler to be the opposition occasion. Give the Democrats — give the Democrats some grace. Governing is tough, particularly when you might have tiny margins. However … that’s the problem for Democrats: They should get on the identical web page as a result of the Republicans are simply going to hammer with that.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Not fairly how CNN approached President Donald Trump and Republicans when his administration hit challenges forward of the 2018 elections. As an alternative of displaying grace to Republicans and regretting how governing is tough, CNN led the cost in placing up obstacles to make it even tougher for Republicans and Trump to control. And so they definitely by no means trumpeted Trump’s successes. Identical to an opposition occasion acts.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ July 4 and 11: No Liberal Media Scream these weeks.

 

■ June 27: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC formally joins DNC over Dobbs

(Washington Examiner submit)

It’s been one thing of a joke in conservative media that MSNBC ought to actually name itself “MSDNC” as a result of a few of the cable community’s hosts typically echo speaking factors of the Democratic Nationwide Committee.

However this week, it’s turn into clear that it’s not a joke anymore, particularly among the many main hosts who’ve been close to tears for the reason that U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated within the Dobbs case and despatched the matter of abortion regulation to the states.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options a kind of hosts, Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, who ranted in opposition to former President Donald Trump for naming the important thing conservative judges who’ve introduced a number of victories to the Proper this month. She didn’t simply complain concerning the selections of the courtroom however implored her viewers to vote for Democrats.

“For all of the Democratic Celebration’s flaws, they’re the one occasion that may stem this continued rise of fascism. Register and vote. Work towards an amazing majority that may shield your physique, shield your freedoms, and simply could save our nation,” she mentioned in a speech that the present aired twice.

Mika Brzezinski on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

“I’ve been listening to from ladies all around the nation and even all over the world. That is devastating. And, you understand, they requested me what we will do, and I’ve obtained two phrases: ‘Please vote.’ It was Winston Churchill who mentioned that ‘democracy is the worst type of authorities apart from all of the others which have been tried,’ and the identical is perhaps mentioned of the Democratic Celebration at this level. Democrats in some way managed to get probably the most votes and lose probably the most elections. So that they want extra. Even once they win, they lose.

“It could possibly be argued that right this moment’s Democrats are too weak, too fragile, too woke, too elitist, too disconnected from the realities of working People, and but the Democratic Celebration is the world’s final finest hope in opposition to fascism, in opposition to an excessive, autocratic, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-freedom assortment of fascists who dominate the Trump wing of right this moment’s Republican Celebration. A gaggle of fascists who even refuse to research the violent riots that their president launched on January 6 to overthrow a legitimately elected president. Why? As a result of they’re fascists.

“And now, they’re claiming management over your our bodies, your well being, your life. And so they’ve promised they’re coming subsequent to remove your contraception tablets, and even what you do with one other consenting grownup within the privateness of your bed room. To name Trump’s Republican Celebration and Trump’s Supreme Court docket excessive understates the hazard these establishments pose to American freedom, to our democracy. They’re fascists who’ve contempt for what 70% of People imagine about Roe v. Wade, what 90% of People imagine about common background checks, and what you imagine about your proper to regulate your personal physique and your life.

“So what does Donald Trump’s America appear like? Joe kind of described it there. In actuality, it appears like a 13-year-old rape and incest sufferer being ordered by the state to have a compelled beginning of her rapist’s child. That’s the place we’re in 2022. And for all of the Democratic Celebration’s flaws, they’re the one occasion that may stem this continued rise of fascism. Register and vote. Work towards an amazing majority that may shield your physique, shield your freedoms, and simply could save our nation.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Unhinged appears the most effective phrase to explain Brzezinski’s indignant rant, by which she not solely impugned an excellent portion of her fellow People as ‘fascists’ however explicitly turned partisan in urging her viewers to vote for Democrats. A lot for Morning Joe pretending to be any sort of ‘information’ program. And a lot for her actually having any sort of anti-fascist religion in democracy. The courtroom’s ruling merely lets the elected official in every state decide its guidelines on abortion. What could possibly be any extra, small d, democratic?”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ June 20: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Harwood is Biden’s defender in chief

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN’s John Harwood defending President Joe Biden in opposition to claims he’s too outdated to control, even from liberal sources such because the Atlantic and CNN’s Brian Stelter.

On Stelter’s media present, Harwood tried in charge conservative media for pushing the age story, even after Stelter confirmed him an Atlantic story by a liberal journalist begging Biden to surrender discuss of a reelection marketing campaign.

From Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

BRIAN STELTER: The place are Biden’s critiques concerning the media professional, the place are they justified? And the place would you say they’re not justified?

JOHN HARWOOD: Properly, look. Let’s discuss concerning the age factor, to start with.

STELTER: Let’s put up Mark Leibovich’s column. Mark Leibovich, prime author for the Atlantic, saying Biden shouldn’t run for reelection. It’s not simply Sean Hannity speaking about Biden’s age, it’s the Atlantic journal.

HARWOOD: That’s proper. It was an excellent piece by Mark. With out taking a stand on whether or not he’s too outdated to run for reelection, let me simply run by way of what’s true, what’s false, and what will get conflated. What’s true is the presidency is a vastly taxing job. Mentally and bodily. And Joe Biden is outdated. He doesn’t discuss or stroll as easily as he as soon as did. That implies challenges. If you get into your 80s, which he’s about to do, the chance of well being issues grows with yearly.

However, what’s false is that he’s not able to doing the job proper now or he’s not mentally in tune with the calls for of the job. Anyone, any aide who engages with him or reporters, we will see this. The gears of his thoughts are working. That’s a problem pushed by right-wing media. However it’s not appropriate.

And what will get conflated is that this. President Biden is in a weak political place proper now, and since he’s outdated, individuals assume he’s weak as a result of he’s outdated. His greatest political downside proper now could be $5-a-gallon fuel. Fuel isn’t $5 a gallon as a result of Joe Biden’s outdated. His legislative program isn’t stymied in Congress as a result of Joe Biden is outdated. It’s as a result of he obtained a 50-50 Senate. And one of many members of that Democratic Senate comes from a Trump +39 state.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Many Democrats and liberals have begun to indicate concern for Biden’s psychological talents as he ages, with even a front-page New York Occasions story on Democrats who don’t need him to run for reelection, in addition to the Atlantic piece Stelter highlighted. But Harwood sees the world in black and white: liberals striving for what’s finest and so have to be defended, conservatives at all times malevolent and so have to be denounced.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ June 13: Liberal Media Scream: Indict Trump or else, says NBC professional

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a new escalation of Trump Derangement Syndrome within the press over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and former President Donald Trump.

NBC contributor Eddie Glaude Jr. used his look on Meet The Press to assert after only one Home listening to for the Jan. 6 particular panel that Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland can both indict Trump or watch the American justice system crumble.

Glaude, a professor of African American Research at Princeton College, mentioned on the present that “in the event you don’t indict him, there may be the tip of the rule of regulation.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press:

EDDIE GLAUDE JR.: The actual fact is that if we all know that he [Trump] must be indicted or he’s damaged the regulation indirectly, however there’s a risk of violence in the event you indict him, and in the event you don’t indict him —

CHUCK TODD: Isn’t there a risk of violence?

GLAUDE: “For those who don’t indict him, there may be the tip of the rule of regulation. So it’s the tragic alternative that Merrick Garland faces, I feel.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “A Hobson’s alternative? Glaude has already determined Trump is responsible of one thing unhealthy and so have to be charged. The selection is between two unhealthy outcomes: Violence from his supporters or an finish of the rule of regulation if he is not charged. After all, there’s a 3rd possibility: Enable the authorized course of to play out with out political commentators like Glaude weighing in early to attempt to affect the end result.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ June 6: Liberal Media Scream: 2024 have to be close to if Morning Joe is slamming ‘authoritarian’ DeSantis

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options one of many first indications that left-leaning information shops are beginning to imagine Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is rising because the best choice to interchange former President Donald Trump on prime of the GOP 2024 ticket.

Exhibit A is MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who chastised DeSantis for vetoing $35 million for a brand new Tampa Bay Rays baseball follow facility after the crew tweeted in favor of gun management.

On Monday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough went on a rant denouncing DeSantis for “punishing a public enterprise due to their political beliefs.” He added of the doubtless 2024 GOP main candidate: “It’s simply craziness. This isn’t conservative. That is authoritarian. It’s plain and easy, and conservatives know that.”

Scarborough, a onetime Florida Home member, on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, establishing visitor Dave Aronberg, the state legal professional for Palm Seaside County, Florida:

“If it had been simply concerning the sports activities stadiums, he might have vetoed it and mentioned, ‘I do not help giving cash to sports activities stadiums or sports activities outfits,’ when, in fact, Marc [NBC reporter Marc Caputo] simply identified, he does for ones he prefers. However once more, there may be an authoritarian streak right here. For those who tweet one thing {that a} governor doesn’t like, he’ll veto your spending, and he’ll inform you that’s why he vetoed the spending. He might have simply vetoed it and mentioned, ‘I don’t like sports activities stadiums,’ and go away it there. However no, he needed individuals to know.

“He’s punishing a public enterprise due to their political beliefs with taxpayer cash. Identical factor once more, I talked about it earlier than with Disney. Talked about with cruise strains that needed, on the top of COVID, to maintain their individuals protected, to have them put on masks, which any physician, sane physician, would have mentioned, ‘This is smart.’ Advised them they couldn’t do this. Advised small companies they couldn’t have masks mandates if that’s how they needed to run their small enterprise. Advised faculty boards what they might or couldn’t do regardless of the actual fact there’s 67 counties within the large state of Florida.

“I imply, it’s simply craziness. This isn’t conservative. That is authoritarian. It’s plain and easy, and conservatives know that.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Conservatives admire DeSantis as a result of he takes it to these making an attempt to undermine conservative values. Liberals like Scarborough don’t like him as a result of he’s so efficient at doing that, in order that they apply the media’s common derogatory label to him, ‘authoritarian.’ Supporters of DeSantis would say that if he had been a liberal Democrat doing the identical factor, journalists can be praising him.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 30: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ Could 23: Liberal Media Scream: CNN pushes absurd, white-blaming abortion conspiracy

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options considered one of America’s prime liberal black voices and a daily CNN visitor claiming that white conservatives oppose abortion as a result of they concern changing into a minority race.

Showing on CNN Tonight final week, Michael Eric Dyson mentioned that “white alternative principle” is the motivator behind why conservatives oppose abortion. “There’s a newfangled twist to it right here — the express expression that we’re scared of genetically disappearing, proper?” he mentioned.

Knowledge of moms who report having abortions, nonetheless, present that extra black individuals than white, 38%-33%, go for the process.

However that doesn’t match the Left’s posture that the hot-button situation boils all the way down to racism, not faith or fostering life.

“If you tie all of it collectively, white alternative principle, anti-CRT argument, the insistence that abortion be banned and that white infants, specifically, be born — that is all of a bigger piece. And that bigger piece is the concern of whiteness disappearing within the face of a worldwide international enlargement of individuals of coloration,” mentioned Dyson, Vanderbilt College’s centennial chairman and college distinguished professor of African American and diaspora research.

Dyson, on the Could 18 CNN Tonight hosted by Laura Coates:

“So, as odd and as distinctive because the white alternative principle appears, there’s a newfangled twist to it right here — the express expression that we’re scared of genetically disappearing, proper? We all know that in, what, 20-some-odd years, white individuals will not be the statistical majority on this nation. And whenever you tie all of it collectively, white alternative principle, anti-CRT argument, the insistence that abortion be banned and that white infants, specifically, be born — that is all of a bigger piece. And that bigger piece is the concern of whiteness disappearing within the face of a worldwide international enlargement of individuals of coloration. And proper right here on this nation, we won’t get replaced by Jews, by blacks, by Latinos and others. That’s a part of the tragedy that has to continually be handled and seen as a throughline from white supremacy, starting earlier than 1619 on all the way down to right this moment.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “A lot for CNN changing into extra rational underneath new possession. Dyson’s ludicrous principle, past its wild conspiracy assumptions a couple of widespread effort by white individuals to eradicate ‘individuals of coloration,’ doesn’t make a lot sense. A a lot bigger % of pregnancies to black than white ladies finish in abortion, so banning all abortions would imply the beginning of extra black infants in comparison with white ones.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 16: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ Could 9: Liberal Media Scream: No Bias, Says CBS Reporter Now at Deliberate Parenthood

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options perhaps the three most ridiculous phrases we’ve heard currently from a TV community: “We now have requirements.”

On this case, they had been aired by an abortion activist who jumped from CBS to Deliberate Parenthood.

Kate Smith, who final month moved from CBS Information to a newly created place at Deliberate Parenthood, senior director of stories content material, on Sunday denied her abortion activism got here by way of in her reporting. On CNN’s Dependable Sources, she insisted: “We now have requirements, now we have attorneys. Earlier than something goes on-air, there’s a radical overview of what’s occurring.”

Exhibiting her hostility to her critics, she mentioned, “I feel these individuals simply don’t perceive how newsrooms really work, they don’t have that sort of expertise.”

From Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

BRIAN STELTER: Final 12 months, although, Nationwide Overview, the conservative outlet, known as you — two years in the past — “Deliberate Parenthood’s ambassador to CBS.” They mentioned you had been posing as a reporter and developing articles that extra carefully resemble press releases than information. So, that was the cost whenever you had been at CBS and now, you’re at Deliberate Parenthood. How do you react to the conservatives who mentioned you had been biased in your CBS protection?

KATE SMITH, PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Look, in the event you’re a blogger on-line, you may not understand all the completely different layers that somebody goes by way of earlier than they publish a chunk, earlier than they go on-air. We now have requirements, now we have attorneys. Earlier than something goes on-air, there’s been a radical overview of what’s occurring. So, I stand by each article I write.

And I’d say making that accusation, you’re enjoying into the Proper. Anyone who doesn’t fall by their guidelines, who isn’t anti-abortion, is in opposition to them. So, in the event you’re making an attempt to cowl this from a impartial standpoint and also you’re together with either side, they mechanically assume you might be in opposition to them as a result of they view medical doctors as anti — or, excuse me, for abortion. And so they view them as biased, though these are medical doctors we’re speaking about.

So, I actually reject all that criticism. Once more, I feel these individuals simply don’t perceive how newsrooms really work, they don’t have that sort of expertise. However yeah, utterly reject that criticism.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What an ideal encapsulation of the vanity of the elite press corps. Conservatives joked that Smith, when at CBS Information, was little greater than a propagandist for Deliberate Parenthood. Then she proves it by becoming a member of the abortion group’s employees. But, she denigrates her critics as uniformed louts, claiming CBS ‘has requirements,’ however apparently not requirements that weed out an activist with a selected political agenda.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ Could 2: Liberal Media Scream: After all CNN’s Stelter helps Biden’s ‘Fact Ministry’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN media critic Brian Stelter mocking the protection of President Joe Biden’s new “Disinformation Governance Board,” dubbed the “Fact Ministry” by conservative foes and media.

“There’s this unbelievable backlash to one thing that feels like a primary authorities forms,” mentioned Stelter on his Sunday present after his visitor, Moira Whelan of the Nationwide Democratic Institute, described it as a innocent little effort.

Our personal media critic, Brent Baker of the Media Analysis Middle, requested a query posed all weekend by these frightened concerning the new board. What if former President Donald Trump had proposed a fact division just like the one headed by Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas?

From CNN’s Dependable Sources on Sunday, Could 1:

BRIAN STELTER: Right here within the U.S., there’s been an uproar in current days concerning the Division of Homeland Safety establishing what they name a Disinformation Governance Board. This has been largely a Foxworld story — it did come up earlier right this moment on CNN’s State of the Union, however I don’t assume individuals know what it’s and what it isn’t, and there’s simply been a variety of right-wing uproar with out understanding what it’s, so are you conscious of this in any respect? What is that this all about?

MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE: Conscious of it. And I feel the very first thing is that it’s a board, precisely as we are saying. It’s meant to carry collectively individuals to coordinate a variety of the efforts within DHS. Meaning regulation enforcement. Meaning emergency providers like FEMA. They’ve all been doing counter-disinformation efforts for some time to provide us correct details about human rights abuses, but in addition about disasters and the place individuals can get help. So coordinating that exercise and making it converse with one voice and being a stronger advocate to tech firms and fascinating the general public and academia, that’s actually what they’re after.

STELTER: Properly, that feels like frequent sense. However once I Google this, all I see is, like, “Joe Biden’s Ministry of Fact,” and so they’re going to, you understand, like, it’s — there’s this unbelievable backlash to one thing that feels like a primary authorities forms.

WHELAN: It’s primary authorities forms …

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What could possibly be extra ominous to a real journalist than a authorities company setting itself as much as choose what’s disinformation? Sounds very Orwellian, compounded by the actual fact the lady chosen to run it has a file of spreading disinformation to advance the pursuits of liberal Democrats. Add it up, and condemning it ought to have been the highest story on Stelter’s present. Think about what his outrage would have been if this occurred throughout the Trump presidency.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 25: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC says DeSantis, Youngkin similar to Russian rapists

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream finds former President George W. Bush’s spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace shifting from her crazed anti-Trump rants to attacking common GOP governors, evaluating their “dehumanizing” techniques to Russian troops who rape Ukrainian youngsters.

On her MSNBC present Deadline: White Home final Wednesday, Wallace mentioned that the efforts by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to dam specific intercourse discuss in kindergarten are based mostly on the identical motivations of Russians who’re raping youngsters in Ukraine.

The host mentioned that by framing their actions as on behalf of “parental rights,” the 2 are hiding how they’re actually “dehumanizing” the LGBT group.

“Dehumanization is a tactic that’s getting used proper now. Russians get their troopers to rape youngsters by dehumanizing them. Dehumanization as a follow is a tactic of struggle. It’s being deployed in our politics, and folks such as you and I generally lose the plot and admire its effectiveness,” she mentioned.

From Wednesday’s (April 20) present throughout a section with visitor Tim Miller of the Bulwark:

NICOLLE WALLACE: You and even I fall into a practice of, or occupation of, specializing in what works. And I feel we not too long ago had a dialog about Mitch McConnell. And why does he do what he does? As a result of it really works. It’s the political actuality.

And I fear that in overlaying Glenn Youngkin and his politics of “parental alternative” [uses air quotes], all the main target was on how properly it labored. And even in our conversations about DeSantis, it’s about how properly they’re serving him. The reality is dehumanization as a tactic for politics is from struggle. Dehumanization is a tactic, it’s getting used proper now. Russians get their troopers to rape youngsters by dehumanizing them. Dehumanization as a follow is a tactic of struggle. It’s being deployed in our politics, and folks such as you and I generally lose the plot and admire its effectiveness.

It’s not acceptance, however even the evaluation of those techniques loses sight of what this speech brings us again to, which is that dehumanization has a price proper now! Proper now! Because it’s being deployed, there are kids — and Chasten Buttigieg made this level when “don’t ask, don’t inform” was launched: Children will die. How can we carry it again to the substance of the hurt that’s finished by any technique in struggle and politics of dehumanizing individuals?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “This can be a notably vile take, a low blow even by the requirements of MSNBC. You’ll be able to disagree with the particulars of a coverage meant to guard youngsters and the rights of oldsters to resolve what sexual issues they’re uncovered to at school, and even say its advocates have ulterior motives, however to equate Youngkin and DeSantis with Russians raping youngsters in Ukraine is disgusting and ends any rational coverage dialogue.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS

 

■ April 18: Liberal Media Scream: Nothing’s Biden’s fault

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream finds President Joe Biden making historical past — he will be the first president for whom nothing is his fault.

Whereas each president earlier than him, Democrat or Republican, has had wars, inflation, or horrible insurance policies hung round their neck, Biden’s media followers are discovering others in charge for out-of-control inflation, historic unlawful immigration, and bumbling selections.

Lengthy gone are the Truman days, when the buck stopped on the Oval Workplace.

Oddly, it was a Clinton-era adviser this weekend who led the “don’t blame Biden” brigade. On his present, George Stephanopoulos seemed previous Biden when speaking about border woes and inflation.

“In terms of inflation, there’s not a lot the president can do about it,” mentioned the previous communications aide to Invoice Clinton.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: In terms of inflation, there’s not a lot the president can do about it.

MARIA ELENA SALINAS, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: There’s not a lot that he can do about it, however on the similar time, individuals’s notion, and that’s what’s essential. They have a look at the numbers, and it doesn’t matter that now we have low unemployment, it doesn’t matter that the fuel costs are starting to go down slightly bit. The notion is issues are dearer, and once I go to the market, all the things is dearer, even when it does begin to get slightly bit higher. That’s the sensation that individuals have, and that’s what motivates individuals to exit and vote generally. Not essentially reality, however the notion, what they’re feeling.

….

STEPHANOPOULOS: Is that this a wedge situation that cuts in opposition to Democrats?

SALINAS: I feel it undoubtedly does. Now that you just talked about Title 42, what involves thoughts to me is that it actually depends upon who’s speaking. After all, Republicans are going to say President Biden is opening up the border. However then critics are going to say it’s too little too late. Why didn’t he do that earlier than? Bear in mind, this can be a well being initiative. It’s not an immigration coverage that was carried out, so if the CDC is already permitting youngsters to return to high school, individuals going again to baseball video games and soccer video games, why do they proceed to have this on the border once they compelled these individuals to place up these camps, when the “keep in Mexico” coverage, why are they not permitting them in earlier than? So, you’re between a rock and a tough place. It’s actually troublesome for the administration. It’s such as you’re damned in the event you do and also you’re damned in the event you don’t.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Poor, poor Biden. After enacting insurance policies that brought on the issues (on inflation, huge new authorities spending and hampering home vitality manufacturing; on the border, stopping the constructing of Trump’s wall and permitting unlawful immigrants to cross into america whereas awaiting asylum selections), he’s now helpless to unravel the issues he’s exacerbated. How about he reverse his insurance policies? This media spin is harking back to the hapless Carter years, when the media painted the presidency as overwhelmed till Reagan proved the issue wasn’t the workplace however who was in it.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 11: Liberal Media Scream: Caught with Biden, Dems push anti-Trump scare techniques

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream focuses on the uncooked actuality of simply how unhealthy the 2022 political panorama appears for floundering Democrats caught with a deeply unpopular President Joe Biden.

As an alternative of selling the kind of unity agenda Biden promised in his Inaugural Handle, key strategists mentioned the occasion ought to deploy anti-Trump scare techniques.

“It’s important to remind people what America seemed like, the dumpster fireplace that Joe Biden obtained from Donald Trump, and make it clear that Donald Trump nonetheless owns that occasion and intends to waltz again into the White Home if we let him,” mentioned Patrick Gaspard, CEO of the Middle for American Progress, on Sunday’s weekly The Circus on Showtime, hosted by political-media insiders John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, Alex Wagner and Jenn Palmieri.

“Democrats higher not f*** this up,” mentioned Heilemann.

Beneath are two parts from the present. And a warning that the video contains language that could be thought of offensive.

MARK McKINNON: What’s your outlook for the midterms and what do Democrats should do to beat all of the challenges?

TERRANCE WOODBURY: If you have a look at a spot like Georgia, a spot like Florida, the place there’s very more likely to be an individual of coloration on the prime of the ticket, they’ve to achieve Obama-level help amongst black voters. And so once we begin to see that approval ranking drop to 73, 72 % amongst black voters, I can inform you proper now, any Democrat working statewide in 2022 that has 73% of the black vote has misplaced, full cease. There isn’t a path to victory.

McKINNON: Wow.

WOODBURY: I feel that now we have to place Donald Trump again on the poll. If you discuss to voters, this concept that if we don’t vote it might lend to a shift in partisan energy in Congress, not motivating to them to all. However once we later requested, what if I advised you if Republicans win the Home then Donald Trump can be president in 2024? Each single hand went up.

McKINNON: Oh actually, fascinating.

WOODBURY: Each single hand. Now that proper there, we will’t let that occur.

McKINNON: Attention-grabbing.

…….

PATRICK GASPARD: I’m solely suggesting that along with the affirmative message that now we have about successes, you’ve obtained to be clear they solely win by punching arduous. It’s important to remind people what America seemed like, the dumpster fireplace that Joe Biden obtained from Donald Trump, and make it clear that Donald Trump nonetheless owns that occasion and intends to waltz again into the White Home if we let him.

JOHN HEILEMANN: If elevating the stakes is absolutely essential, what’s at stake?

GASPARD: We’ve already seen the results of what occurs once we enable the Donald Trump extremists to run our nation. We had individuals overrunning the capitol, parading the accomplice flags, chasing down the vp of america.

HEILEMANN: It’s mainly like excessive stakes.

GASPARD: The best stakes ever, past inflation, past jobs, past fuel costs.

HEILEMANN: Democrats higher not f*** this up.

GASPARD: Democrats can’t f*** this up. Democrats can not f*** this up.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Sure, a fantastic instance of the Democratic-news media alliance. To win, we each should scare voters. Democratic strategists formulate a plan to vilify Trump much more and journalists nod alongside in settlement about how key the technique, which they’ll eagerly push, is to the survival of the nation.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ April 4: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ New on March 28: Liberal Media Scream: GOP can’t quiz a black choose with out being dubbed ‘racist’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options an excessive instance of the media’s portrayal final week of all GOP inquiries to Supreme Court docket nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as racist.

On TV present after TV present and in liberal newspapers, GOP senators had been known as racists in the event that they didn’t supply reward for the “historic” nominee — a ridiculous commonplace, particularly for a decide with a rookie appeals courtroom file and who wouldn’t even outline what a “girl” is.

However some went additional, charging that Republicans merely don’t need black judges on the courtroom, which could come as a shock to senior Affiliate Justice Clarence Thomas, the lone black choose on the courtroom — and a conservative. He was chosen by former President George H.W. Bush, who rejected questions that he picked Thomas solely due to his race, as you’ll be able to see within the above C-SPAN clip.

Subsequent Democratic presidents, Invoice Clinton and Barack Obama, didn’t identify a black choose to the best courtroom.

On Actual Time with Invoice Maher, host Invoice Maher really mentioned of Republicans, “I feel they might be thrilled to don’t have any black seats on the courtroom.” Visitor John Heilemann, nationwide affairs analyst for NBC Information and MSNBC, agreed, calling the GOP questions “racist prime to backside by way of the entire week.”

From Friday’s Actual Time:

BILL MAHER: We now have the primary black girl, let’s return — a few of the individuals who don’t keep in mind this additionally. The primary black we’ve ever had, we’ve solely had two, Thurgood Marshall [in] 1967. When he died, it was — George [H.W.] Bush … was president, and they also accepted the concept there was now a black seat on the courtroom, and that’s how we obtained Clarence Thomas. Now, I assumed it was not precisely cricket to provide the black seat to somebody who didn’t characterize the vast majority of black considering in America, however right here’s the distinction. No less than they accepted, George Bush did, the concept of a minimum of one black seat on the courtroom, proper? I feel right this moment’s Republicans wouldn’t do this. I feel they might be thrilled to don’t have any black seats on the courtroom. OK, a variety of them. OK, so —[Applause]

JOHN HEILEMANN: Judging by the way in which they handled this nominee, which was racist prime to backside by way of the entire week.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The casualness with which these two main media figures accuse a complete political occasion of virulent racism is in itself astounding, complicated a choice for conservative over liberal insurance policies for racism. All Republicans I do know can be ‘thrilled’ to interchange each white liberal on the courtroom with conservative black women and men.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 21: Liberal Media Scream: Choose Jackson so ‘good,’ criticism is racist

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options how the Left has a easy phrase to hit critics of President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court docket decide, Ketanji Brown Jackson: racist.

On Sunday’s media panels and final Friday’s The View on ABC, liberals declared the rookie federal appeals courtroom choose so certified that she is ideal. Thus, questioning her can solely be racist, they mentioned.

We’re that includes The View right here and criticism of the primary black girl nominated to the excessive courtroom by Republicans comparable to Sen. Josh Hawley.

Co-star Whoopie Goldberg known as Jackson “excellent” and higher than the three white judges former President Donald Trump nominated. Visitor host Eboni Williams went straight to racism when she mentioned, “You realize what bus is at all times on time? The one which indicts the determinations of the {qualifications} of black ladies on this nation. And in order that bus is rarely late.”

Goldberg agreed: “That’s what’s scary to them. And it’s like, in the event you say you need the brightest, the best that now we have, she’s an ideal illustration of that.”

From Friday’s The View on ABC:

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Simply based mostly on the individuals, the final three individuals they put in. You realize, this can be a girl who can — who can outshine every a kind of individuals.

EBONI WILLIAMS: Very actually.

GOLDBERG: Her talents are excellent. I imply, she’s excellent. So, you set in Amy Coney Barrett, you set within the different one, you understand, and also you’re questioning her?

WILLIAMS: However Whoopi, let’s not fake we don’t know what that is about. You realize what bus is at all times on time? The one which indicts the determinations of the {qualifications} of black ladies on this nation. And in order that bus is rarely late.

GOLDBERG: It’s by no means late.

WILLIAMS: It’s by no means late. And I wish to say this: Based mostly off the truth that this can be one of many solely Supreme Court docket justices — to your level of that instance of the final three we obtained — who can be confirmed by bipartisan nature — I’m sorry, already has been on the appellate stage by america Senate, she’s overqualified. Let me go on file in saying that. She’s overqualified.

GOLDBERG: That’s what’s scary to them. And it’s like, in the event you say you need the brightest, the best that now we have, she’s an ideal illustration of that.

WILLIAMS: Sure.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How uninterested in an argument. As an alternative of addressing the substance of the criticism, or just accepting that some may have a much less upbeat interpretation of a nominee’s judicial file, Goldberg and Williams bounce on to dismissing the criticism as prompted by racism. Is it ever attainable to criticize an African American and never be known as racist by somebody within the media?”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 14: Liberal Media Scream: NYT says Trump would have killed NATO by now

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent motive why a Trump Derangement Syndrome vaccine for the press needs to be developed — and its use mandated.

Throughout a Meet the Press panel centered on the struggle in Ukraine, the dialogue turned to former President Donald Trump and the tussle over what he would have finished in comparison with what President Joe Biden has finished.

New York Occasions Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper minimize to the chase, providing to “sport out” Trump’s transfer, which she mentioned would have been the destruction of NATO in two weeks.

“NATO, at this level, would have been utterly divided. You’d see disunity. You’d see different NATO international locations peeling off. What are we going to do? The alliance can be damaged,” she mentioned on the NBC present.

Throughout his presidency, Trump demanded that NATO allies begin paying their fair proportion of bills and cease counting on america to produce the majority of cash and troops. In his sport of hardball, he additionally minimize troops in Germany, sending some house and redistributing others.

“We do not wish to be the suckers anymore,” Trump mentioned. “We’re lowering the power as a result of they are not paying their payments; it is quite simple.”

However the Occasions reporter mentioned that was a preview of his plans to kill NATO, which she then mentioned Pentagon generals held off till the election for Biden to cease. Former Trump nationwide safety adviser-turned-critic John Bolton has additionally claimed the previous president would have pulled the U.S. out of NATO.

From the March 13 Meet the Press roundtable:

New York Occasions Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper: “I’d love to simply sport out the place we’d be proper now if Donald Trump was nonetheless president and Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine. To begin with, Trump, who would have already got pulled us out of NATO, as a result of that’s what he needed to do. He had already began pulling American troops out of Europe. The Pentagon had sort of stalled that till Biden got here into workplace.

“The very first thing he would have mentioned is, ‘It’s not our downside. Ukraine isn’t our downside.’ That’s it. ‘Go off and do,’ you understand, ‘this isn’t our enterprise.’ And NATO, at this level, would have been utterly divided. You’d see disunity. You’d see different NATO international locations peeling off. What are we going to do? The alliance can be damaged. So, let’s ensure, when Trump is saying these things about how a lot otherwise — simply if President Trump was president proper now, we’d be in a totally completely different place.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Regardless of all of the coverage modifications from the Trump years made by the Biden administration which happy Vladimir Putin, comparable to ending arms gross sales to Ukraine and making the U.S. extra depending on importing oil and fuel, Cooper can’t see previous her Trump myopia: Every part have to be worse if Trump is concerned. And she or he neglected one little reality: When Trump was in workplace, Putin didn’t invade.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ March 7: Liberal Media Scream: Lester Holt fights fact that cops are the place crime is

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a uncommon case of a information supply pushing again in opposition to the bias of a big-shot information host, this time NBC anchor Lester Holt’s view that minorities are focused by biased police.

Doing the pushing again was former President Donald Trump’s legal professional normal, William Barr, who challenged Holt’s constructive view of Black Lives Matter and rejected the liberal assertion that police are racists.

In a particular about Barr, who’s pitching his new e book, One Rattling Factor After One other: Memoirs of an Lawyer, the previous legal professional normal was his typical matter-of-fact self, stopping Holt useless in his tracks when he mentioned, “Black males are the topic of thrice as many visitors stops by police.”

Barr responded, “That generally is a operate of the place the police are. Police go the place the crime is.”

From the Sunday evening NBC Information particular, “Invoice Barr: Within the Eye of the Storm”:

LESTER HOLT: Can we discuss concerning the “massive lie”?

BILL BARR: Which one is that?

HOLT: Properly, you write concerning the “massive lie” being Black Lives Matter.

BARR: Yeah.

HOLT: What did you imply by that?

BARR: Black Lives Matter relies on the premise that the primary risk to black welfare within the interior metropolis are out-of-control police power that gratuitously kill African People. That’s merely not borne out by the information.

HOLT, NARRATION: Because the nation’s prime regulation enforcement official, Invoice Barr at all times had hard-line views on crime and how one can combat it. In 1992, when Barr was legal professional normal the primary time, he wrote a memo known as “The Case for Extra Incarceration” — the sort of robust, “lock ‘em up” coverage that’s been cited as a number one reason behind destabilizing black communities.

HOLT TO BARR: 1 in 3 black males can be incarcerated someday of their lifetime, 1 in 17 for white males. Are you able to not see how that shapes the notion and makes individuals wish to rally across the thought of Black Lives Matter?

BARR: Properly, I perceive the notion, and I feel there’s ambivalence. That’s what I’ve discovered on the one hand, there’s a concern that, once they encounter police, they’re not given the good thing about the doubt and so they’re handled as second-class residents, and there’s undoubtedly that concern. However, I feel additionally they perceive that the police are there to attempt to make their group safer, that it’s a really robust job and so they need extra police.

CROWD: Black Lives Matter! No justice, no peace! No justice, no peace!

HOLT: In society, do you imagine there’s such a factor as systemic racism?

BARR: I really assume the entire thought is a cop-out. I feel racism exists in individuals’s, particular person’s souls.

HOLT: By dismissing systematic racism, are you not dismissing the ache of African American households which have to sit down down with their youngsters and have “the discuss” as a result of they’re afraid a easy visitors cease might result in their deaths?

BARR: No, I don’t — you understand, I don’t — I don’t ignore that —

HOLT: “Dismiss” is the time period I used.

BARR: I don’t dismiss that as a actuality. I don’t assume that police are racist and, as a normal matter —

HOLT: You don’t see bias in police?

BARR: No, in each research of the state of affairs that I’m accustomed to says there isn’t any bias. The numbers are the product of the variety of interactions police have.

HOLT: Yeah, and black males are the topic of thrice as many visitors stops by police.

BARR: Proper. And that generally is a operate of the place the police are. Police go the place the crime is.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Because it occurs so hardly ever, it’s nice to see an interviewee press again in actual time in opposition to the loaded liberal premise pushed by a star TV journalist. Holt appeared baffled that somebody wouldn’t see the world by way of his liberal prism, the place America is racist and police implement that racism, and thus Black Lives Matter needs to be handled as a heroic trigger.”

RATING: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 28: Liberal Media Scream: Greek gods gave Biden his courtroom decide, says CNN star

(Washington Examiner submit)

Simply when experiences have advised that the brand new management at CNN deliberate to steer the cable community away from its lefty bias, this week’s Liberal Media Scream options considered one of its stars declaring that President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court docket decide is so nice that she seems to have descended from Mount Olympus.

Minutes after Biden introduced Friday his collection of Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson as his decide to interchange retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, CNN senior authorized analyst Laura Coates known as the nominee “nearly a authorized deity” regardless of having served on the appeals stage for lower than a 12 months.

Gushing on CNN, she mentioned that Jackson’s achievements, “frankly, sounded as if Mount Olympus determined to decide on and provides her every of the credentials and gave this nice, nearly a authorized deity, of kinds.”

And as if that wasn’t sufficient, she mentioned, “I’m unsure I’ll be capable of take away this smile off my face right this moment. I’m unbelievably proud, on this second, to have witnessed what I simply did.”

Coates commonly anchors CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight on Friday nights.

Coates, throughout CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell, final Friday:

“I’ve to inform you, my coronary heart feels full. I’m unsure I’ll be capable of take away this smile off my face right this moment. I’m unbelievably proud, on this second, to have witnessed what I simply did. Not solely did I see the vp of america behind her, but in addition seeing this profoundly proficient, eloquent, well-versed within the regulation and dignity and humanity, to relay why she must be precisely the place she is right this moment.

“Listening to her speak about not solely her quest and love of the regulation, having her invoke the late Constance Baker Motley, talk about her personal family members having been incarcerated — mine have as properly, in some situations — the concept of the intersectionality we’re speaking about, about all of the completely different sides of what it takes to be who she is was simply profoundly shifting to look at and to see, and never the least of which as a mom to look at her talk about her youngsters and concerning the reverence she has for her mentors all through the sphere of regulation.

“However most significantly, what I feel she brings right here is the data of, ‘Don’t we would like someone within the Supreme Court docket of america, solely 9 of them, to replicate the individuals of america?’ Not simply in scholarship, though her credentials, frankly, sounded as if Mount Olympus determined to decide on and provides her every of the credentials and gave this nice, nearly a authorized deity, of kinds. And but she disrupted the parable that you just needed to be however one factor so as to be a Supreme Court docket justice.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “One other instance of a journalist placing her private political agenda and identification politics forward of doing her job. The media are Biden’s base. For those who painting a nominee as a God-like determine, it’s fairly arduous for viewers to see your evaluation as something severe price listening to.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 21, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: Historian equates GOP vote reform to Lincoln’s murderer

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a famous presidential historian drawing a direct line between Republicans who search smart voting reform enlargement to Abraham Lincoln’s murderer, John Wilkes Sales space.

On CNN to plug her Presidents Day e book on Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin Sunday confirmed once more how unhinged liberals are on the matter of poll reform, even proposals superior by Republican governors and legislatures to make it simpler to vote than in President Joe Biden’s house state of Delaware.

Goodwin made the connection by suggesting that the final speech Sales space heard from Lincoln, a Republican, was one calling for giving blacks the precise to vote.

Lincoln, she mentioned, hoped to increase the precise to vote to “African People who had fought within the struggle. He then loses his life as a result of that speech was the place John Wilkes Sales space heard him give that speech and determined now it’s time to kill him.”

Drawing parallels to right this moment, she charged, “Right here we’re, 150 years later, and there are individuals within the nation now making an attempt to get the concept voting rights needs to be pulled again, slightly than pushed ahead.”

Goodwin throughout on Sunday’s CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield:

“I feel crucial lesson that Lincoln gives for us right this moment is on that bigger problem of the massive disaster of, is our democracy in peril? Within the first days of the Civil Warfare, he mentioned, proper then, the central thought they needed to combat was if the minority that loses an election, because the South did, might resolve to interrupt up the Union just because they wouldn’t settle for the peaceable transition of energy, it will show that democracy was an absurdity. And that’s why that struggle needed to be fought proper from the start. Within the final speech he makes earlier than he dies, just some days earlier than he dies, is speaking about extending the precise to vote to African People who had fought within the struggle. He then loses his life as a result of that speech was the place John Wilkes Sales space heard him give that speech and determined now it’s time to kill him.

“And right here we’re, 150 years later, and there are individuals within the nation now making an attempt to get the concept voting rights needs to be pulled again, slightly than pushed ahead, individuals unclear about what occurred in that election and claiming that an election pretty gained was not pretty gained. That is the combat that now we have to be preventing. I feel Lincoln would inform him, ‘That is your combat proper now. Voting rights is central.’”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “That’s some unhinged hyperbole, arguing those that want 10 days to 12 days of early voting, or are a part of the vast majority of all races who help voter identification, are on an ethical par with a pro-slavery assassin who needed to disclaim primary human rights based mostly on race.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 14, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Acosta went there, saying to ‘flush’ Trump

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options new proof that the as soon as proud and revered CNN has no plans to shift away from its scores catastrophe and as an alternative is doubling down on its hate for half of the nation.

Main the cost was the grim and humorless Jim Acosta and his lecturing assault on former President Donald Trump and key GOP leaders in what might have been a mildly humorous use of the Chinese language Olympics to sort out his favourite targets.

However as an alternative, his Saturday CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta was simply an overbearing slam of Republicans, Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy, and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“Now that the GOP has didn’t root out the issue, it’s as much as the American individuals to flush as many instances as attainable,” he mentioned. “Go Group USA.”

From the 4 p.m. hour on Saturday’s CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta:

JIM ACOSTA: If doc preservation hypocrisy had been an Olympic sport, Trump would simply take house the gold, which has me fascinated with this. Trump and his buddies ought to contemplate internet hosting their very own Winter Video games. There are some main gamers to look at. Like Kevin McCarthy speed-skating previous questions concerning the RNC labeling Jan. 6 as professional political discourse. After which there’s the Tonya Harding of the Home GOP, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who found a fly in her canned speaking factors after it was too late.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (voiceover): Not solely do now we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C gulag, however now now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work we do, spying on our employees, and spying on Americans that wish to come discuss to their representatives.

ACOSTA: As some observers famous, first gazpacho police, what’s subsequent? Sangria regulation? Maybe Ted Cruz might compete. Sure, it’s true Cancun might be too heat for the Winter Video games, except there’s a tequila luge, by which case, depend me in. However the far-right Olympic video games would match proper in with its autocratic tendencies. The MAGA Olympics might observe the lead set by China with its freestyle snowboarding competitors at a dystopian-looking Beijing industrial park, to not point out its appalling human rights file.

As for our personal cheater in chief again right here within the U.S., Trump doesn’t appear very frightened as if his punishment is being determined by the Olympic committee slightly than the Justice Division. Maybe in 2024, Trump might run for the White Home underneath the banner: the TIC, the Trump Revolt Committee. He might carry house yet one more gold rest room. However actually, that is what occurs whenever you enable someone like Trump to clog the pipes of American democracy. Now that the GOP has didn’t root out the issue, it’s as much as the American individuals to flush as many instances as attainable. Go Group USA.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “That is Exhibit A within the decline and fall of CNN from a information community to put for left-wing commentary that ridicules half the inhabitants and the politicians they elect. Acosta’s smug insults could delight the slim viewers that also watches CNN, however he is speaking to a smaller and smaller membership of woke liberal elites who discover this type of factor amusing.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ February 7, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: Stelter says foes mendacity about dying CNN

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent effort by CNN to beat a collection of ratings-killing fumbles.

Enjoying center linebacker is media critic Brian Stelter. His declare: Those that say CNN is depressing to view, biased, and scandal-ridden don’t watch it. Unsaid: Why would they?

Stelter spoke off the cuff on the finish of his Sunday present. “They’re not watching CNN. They’re watching complaints about CNN on different channels that don’t know what they’re speaking about. That’s the reality,” he mentioned in a protection of his community.

Stelter’s commentary on the finish of Sunday’s Dependable Sources:

“I wish to finish the hour with a ultimate thought, and I’m going to go slightly bit rogue right here, so bear with me, OK? Jeff Zucker’s departure was stunning to the employees of CNN. However CNN was not constructed by only one man, not by solely Ted Turner, and it was not led solely by Jeff Zucker. CNN is a lot greater than any single particular person. It’s about groups and groups of individuals, 1000’s of people who make up CNN.

“This place isn’t good, it is going to by no means be good. We are going to at all times have flaws, we are going to at all times screw up, we are going to at all times should run corrections, we are going to at all times should hold working to make it higher and higher and higher each single day. That’s the aim.

“However the individuals who say we’re missing journalism, that we’ve turn into an all-talk channel that we’ve run off, and we’re all opinions on a regular basis, that Jeff Zucker led us astray. These individuals aren’t watching CNN. They’re not watching CNN. They’re watching complaints about CNN on different channels that don’t know what they’re speaking about. That’s the reality.

“Let’s put the map up on the display of bureaus all over the world. CNN has extra bureaus all over the world than nearly another information group on the planet. That map covers the world, London and Moscow, Hong Kong and Beijing, and Nairobi and all the remaining. That’s why one of many community’s slogans is, ‘Go There.’ On the day Jeff Zucker resigned, CNN aired greater than 135 reporter hits, 135 reporters within the U.S. and all over the world.

“I’m speaking about dozens of stay pictures from worldwide correspondents in simply someday. On the day Jeff Zucker resigned, CNN revealed greater than 215 tales on the web site, practically 90 unique movies. That’s a hell of a variety of information. It’s a hell of a variety of journalism. Do a few of the anchors say provocative issues? Sure. Do a few of these clips get performed again and again on different channels and mislead individuals about what CNN really is? Sure.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The truth that CNN has a bunch of international bureaus doesn’t mitigate the truth that CNN’s fame has collapsed as a result of its hours are dominated by anchors delivering left-wing opinion within the guise of offering ‘the reality.’ If something, these international correspondents are being discredited not by correct clips of CNN hosts performed by conservative channels however by the actual fact that anybody who tunes in to CNN is much extra more likely to see a CNN anchor ranting in opposition to conservatives or Donald Trump than they’re to see a report from the Bangkok, Johannesburg, or Santiago bureaus.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 31, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: CNN sees ‘everlasting political warfare’ solely on Proper

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the blinders-on view of the Left press that solely conservative shops interact in “everlasting political warfare” over controversial points in Washington.

Witness A is CNN’s media analyst Brian Stelter speaking concerning the upcoming affirmation strategy of President Joe Biden’s eventual decide for the Supreme Court docket. Stelter mentioned he hoped a combat wouldn’t happen, then added, “Let’s be trustworthy. Fox needs a combat. Proper-wing radio and TV needs a combat.”

And with out entering into CNN’s warlike protection of current GOP courtroom picks, he concluded, “It is a state of everlasting political warfare, however does it should be?”

From Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

BRIAN STELTER: I can see this type of battle proper now over the looming Supreme Court docket affirmation battle. I assume I might name it a affirmation course of, perhaps I ought to, however I default to the phrase “battle” as a result of that’s the way in which it’s portrayed within the press. And look, perhaps it gained’t actually be a battle, as some conservative activists are saying they’re not planning to go scorched Earth in opposition to President Biden’s nominee to interchange Justice Stephen Breyer since, whoever the nominee is, won’t change the stability of the courtroom. However let’s be trustworthy. Fox needs a combat. right-wing radio and TV needs a combat. They want a combat over the Supreme Court docket. They’re already beginning a combat that’s rooted in white identification politics. All of Fox’s prime-time exhibits are outraged that Biden has dedicated to nominating a justice who’s black and feminine.

TUCKER CARLSON: What issues, Joe Biden defined, is intercourse and pores and skin coloration.

SEAN HANNITY: It’s past extraordinarily divisive. It might even be unlawful.

LAURA INGRAHAM: Rubber-stamp justice.

STELTER: It’s a state of everlasting political warfare, however does it should be?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Stelter has a variety of chutzpah to castigate conservatives and Fox Information for planning to combat a Supreme Court docket nominee after CNN joined in so eagerly in left-wing efforts to destroy the reputations of President Donald Trump’s picks for the excessive courtroom, notably Brett Kavanaugh. And to imagine conservative opposition to a liberal nominee is ‘rooted in white identification politics’ is an odious presumption. For Stelter, it’s smears first, information a distant second.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 24, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: Clarence Thomas’s spouse, Ginni, focused

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream options an effort to smear Ginni Thomas, the activist spouse of Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas, due to her activism on key Washington points.

Main the cost was MSNBC and The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, who wrote a narrative headlined “Is Ginni Thomas a Risk to the Supreme Court docket?” A number of MSNBC exhibits appeared to assume “sure.”

On Friday’s Andrea Mitchell Stories, as an illustration, fill-in anchor Garrett Haake mentioned, “a brand new New Yorker article is elevating questions on Thomas’s spouse’s conservative activism.”

In his interview, Mayer known as Thomas’s political actions “astonishing and worrisome” and cited a liberal judicial ethics professional who mentioned Thomas is “undermining the administration of justice and the rule of regulation.”

From the Friday at noontime Andrea Mitchell Stories:

GARRETT HAAKE: On January nineteenth, the Supreme Court docket rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene and cease the January sixth Committee from accessing his information. Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone justice to dissent.

Now, a brand new New Yorker article is elevating questions on Thomas’s spouse’s conservative activism. One instance: Ginni Thomas and different outstanding conservatives signed a letter to Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy, demanding that the Home Republican Convention take away Congresswoman Cheney and Congressman Kinzinger on account of, quote, “Their egregious actions as a part of the Home of Representatives’ January sixth Choose Committee,” writing that “the actions of Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger on behalf of Home Democrats have given supposedly bipartisan justification to an overtly partisan political persecution that brings disrespect to our nation’s rule of regulation, authorized harassment to personal residents who’ve finished nothing unsuitable, and which demeans the standing of the Home.”

Becoming a member of me now could be Jane Mayer, chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker and writer of the brand new article “Is Ginni Thomas a Risk to the Supreme Court docket?” So, Jane, thanks for being with us. I wish to say off the highest that Clarence and Ginni Thomas declined to be interviewed to your article and NBC has additionally reached out to Justice Thomas and his spouse’s political lobbying agency, Liberty Consulting. We now have not heard again. Your story lays out Ginni Thomas’s lengthy historical past of conservative activism. Speak about what you discovered.

JANE MAYER: Properly, I imply, she has been a problem for fairly a while as a result of she’s such a vocal activist in politics. And the courtroom is meant to be seen as, sort of, above politics. The truth is, her husband has made a degree of claiming so.

However what I used to be taking a look at was her ties to points instantly in entrance of the courtroom. And there are such a lot of of them, it’s astonishing and worrisome. In order that I interviewed ethics specialists on the regulation, individuals like Stephen Gillers, who actually might be the foremost professional on judicial ethics, who mentioned that she is, in his phrases, “behaving horribly.” And he fears that it’s undermining the administration of justice and the rule of regulation and the picture of the Supreme Court docket, which proper now could be dealing with a few of the most explosive points in entrance of the nation, and likewise has an issue with public help at this level. It’s dwindled to its lowest fee. And that is worrisome at this level …

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The information media/left-wing political trade in motion. A far-left journalist with an extended historical past of hostility towards Clarence Thomas writes a narrative to get Thomas and his conservative voice recused from instances, and MSNBC jumps to advertise her message.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 17, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s laughable cost Sinema a white supremacist

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent MSNBC host crossing the road to this point to lift scores that each one you are able to do is snort.

Think about someone calling Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema a white supremacist. Loopy, proper?

Not at MSNBC. That’s precisely what host Tiffany Cross mentioned on Saturday as a result of the first-term senator determined to affix fellow Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in selecting to face behind the filibuster, thus spoiling President Joe Biden’s probabilities for nationalizing elections with guidelines that even his own residence state of Delaware doesn’t observe.

“Sinema is a Democrat. However she is in some ways upholding white supremacy,” mentioned Cross, who has even attacked black politicians, notably Republican Sen. Tim Scott.

In a means, in fact, she was echoing Biden’s speech in Atlanta suggesting that these blocking “voting reform” had been racists and confederates. That speech had some Senate Democrats rolling their eyes.

From the Jan. 15 The Cross Connection on MSNBC:

TIFFANY CROSS: That is an fascinating problem, Angela [Rye], as a result of, look, Sinema is a Democrat. However she is in some ways upholding white supremacy. You and I each know what the filibuster was initially used for. Take a take heed to some remarks she made this week, after which we’ll speak about it.

SEN. KYRSTEN SINEMA, ON THE SENATE FLOOR: When one occasion must solely negotiate with itself, coverage will inextricably be pushed from the center in direction of the extremes. And I perceive. There may be some on each aspect of the aisle that want the end result. However I don’t.

CROSS: I don’t assume I can roll my eyes arduous sufficient, and also you sort of simply wish to say, ‘Woman, bye.’”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Dare to not observe the liberal agenda, and this MSNBC host will smear you as a white supremacist based mostly on disagreement over the ‘guidelines’ of Senate procedures. No room for subtlety at MSNBC. For those who cross Tiffany Cross, you have to be silenced, as she acts because the enforcer of what views senators are allowed to carry.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 10, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: CNN goes full Nazi on Trump

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the most recent anti-Trump screed from CNN by alarmist Fareed Zakaria in a particular concerning the risks to U.S. democracy that former President Donald Trump and his followers pose.

In his particular, aired Sunday and scheduled once more for tonight, he strikes rapidly to lift the Nazi Germany comparability, and that of madman Adolf Hitler, with the forty fifth president, who’s eyeing a 2024 bid to get his job again.

If Trump “wins the nomination and it’s a detailed election, we are going to nearly definitely face a constitutional disaster,” Zakaria mentioned in urging Republicans to affix extra level-headed Democrats to “save American democracy.”

From a CNN Particular Report aired Sunday evening, The Struggle to Save American Democracy, narrated by Zakaria:

FAREED ZAKARIA: Democracy all over the place is underneath assault. However keep in mind, America has been right here earlier than. America has vanquished demagogues earlier than. So how can we do it now? …

The worldwide superpower promoted democracy overseas and proudly embraced it at house. However can America nonetheless be Ronald Reagan’s shining metropolis on a hill?

JON MEACHAM: There’s nothing inevitable about American democracy. This can be a fragile, fallible, sophisticated experiment.

ZAKARIA: That experiment has faltered earlier than. It’s nearly failed, solely to return triumphant. To grasp how that occurred, we have to return nearly a century in the past.

MEACHAM: It was an existential disaster.

ZAKARIA: The early Nineteen Thirties. The Nice Melancholy is battering a virtually damaged nation. …

Simply forward, whereas America was rising from the ashes of the Melancholy, in Germany, democracy was shedding to a fanatical madman. How did it win right here however lose there?

[NEWSREEL OVER VIDEO OF HITLER: The German republic was dead.]

ZAKARIA: A narrative with a twist that has haunting echoes to the present American disaster. …

Let’s be very clear. Donald Trump isn’t Adolf Hitler. However Weimar’s demise highlights a hazard for all democracies, particularly the way in which conservative elites, decided to maintain the Overlooked of energy, align themselves with an anti-democratic demagogue. The story in Germany started with an enormous lie. After the nation was defeated in World Warfare I, a baseless, right-wing conspiracy principle was born, that the navy had not misplaced in battle however was compelled to give up by traitorous left-wing politicians. …

If the eventualities outlined right here come true, Donald Trump runs, wins the nomination, and it’s a detailed election, we are going to nearly definitely face a constitutional disaster. …

However right this moment for Republicans, occasion politics trumps institutional loyalty. The actual scandal of Jan. 6 isn’t what occurred exterior the Capitol alone. It’s what occurred inside when a majority of Home Republicans voted to overturn the legitimate outcomes of a presidential election merely to curry favor with Donald Trump.

It’s that vote, not the violence, that nearly broke the American system. … Specifically, Republicans should come to appreciate they will and will disagree with Democrats vigorously on taxes, regulation, inflation, the atmosphere, no matter they need. However now, they have to come along with these similar Democrats to protect a reputable and bonafide political system. For all of us, that is crucial political situation proper now. Not your views on Iran or inflation or inexperienced subsidies. These can wait. Let’s first save American democracy. I’m Fareed Zakaria. Thanks for watching.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Any ‘journalist’ who says ‘Let’s be very clear, Donald Trump isn’t Adolf Hitler,’ is, the truth is, saying Donald Trump could be very very similar to Hitler. And, by extension, Trump’s supporters are following the identical deluded path which led to Nazi rule. Such apocalyptic fearmongering, portray a major % of the general public as a risk to democracy, simply additional proves CNN is extra an arm of liberal Democratic Celebration activists than an neutral information group.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ January 3, 2022: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC visitor in 2022 rage about GOP, a ‘demise cult’

(Washington Examiner submit)

As Washington and Massive Media flip to the 2022 congressional midterm elections and the institution’s fear that President Joe Biden’s unpopularity will spoil Democratic management, this week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the left’s stepped-up desperation to smear Republicans.

Depart it to MSNBC to prepared the ground, that includes visitor Wajahat Ali of the Every day Beast labeling the Republican Celebration a “weaponized demise cult” over the Jan. 6 riots and dealing with of the coronavirus, which has turned worse underneath Biden.

“Weaponized as a result of they got here for violence to overhaul the election and a demise cult as a result of we’re in a pandemic proper now and 850,000 individuals are useless and assault masks and vaccines,” he ranted on Sunday evening’s American Voices With Alicia Menendez.

The underside line was nearly pure politics when he warned that if the Republicans get management of the Home, Senate, or each, “that’s the finish of democracy and we’re going to have authoritarianism.”

From Sunday evening’s American Voices With Alicia Menendez on MSNBC:

Alicia Menendez: “How do Democrats, and their few Republican allies, successfully inform the story of January sixth?”

Wajahat Ali: “Firstly, you must identify one thing for what it’s. You’ll be able to’t deal with the GOP as a accountable political occasion as a result of it isn’t. I name them a radical, weaponized demise cult. Radicalized as a result of they imagine in harmful conspiracy theories comparable to the massive lie. Weaponized as a result of a variety of them got here with the intention of violence on January 6 to overhaul the election by way of a coup and a pro-death cult as a result of we’re in a pandemic proper now and 850,000 individuals are useless and so they’re attacking masks and vaccines. So that you want accountability.

“And the Democrats have a slim majority till 2022. God is aware of in the event that they’ll have it afterwards. It’s important to flex your energy at each department of the federal government to indicate the American folks that nobody is above the regulation. So that you want accountability, by way of the committee and the hearings, you want Merrick Garland hopefully to observe the proof and use the Justice Division to go after individuals who dedicated these crimes after which so that you additionally want a every day, 24/7 nonstop story as a result of as Steve Bannon mentioned he needs to flood the zone with ‘S’ phrase, proper? His enemy is the media and also you’ve already seen, with the info that you just’ve proven, that a variety of People are like ‘yeah, perhaps, either side, we don’t know, let’s see.’ Each single day drumbeat from now to the mid-terms to inform individuals precisely what the Republican occasion is, the vast majority of them imagine this, and that proper now the elected officers proper now in workplace are doing the deed of President Trump by spreading the massive lie. This isn’t a minority. That is your entire GOP proper now that’s dedicated to the massive lie and has turn into radicalized and in the event that they take over in 2022 that’s the finish of democracy and we’re going to have authoritarianism.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Ali lays naked the left’s obsession with Jan. 6 and the way the media are gleefully exploiting it to push an explicitly partisan agenda to defeat Republicans within the 2022 midterms. If you demand a ‘every day, 24/7 nonstop story’ and an ‘each single day drumbeat,’ it’s not about high-minded beliefs of strengthening democracy, it’s about ramming your agenda into each crevice of the information so as to advance the pursuits of the political occasion you favor.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ New on December 27: Liberal Media Scream: ABC thinks throwing Reagan’s ‘welfare queen’ at Manchin hurts

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream is one other instance of how out of contact Beltway journalists are with America and why the media are being ignored increasingly more.

To discredit West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who is obstructing President Joe Biden’s huge social spending invoice, the panel on ABC’s This Week resurrected President Ronald Reagan’s trope of “welfare queens.”

Citing Manchin’s issues that individuals may misuse little one tax credit, Averi Harper, deputy political director for ABC Information, mentioned it gave the impression of “the parable of the welfare queen — that Reagan-era trope used to argue in opposition to entitlements, implying that the poorest amongst us are inherently irresponsible.”

ABC Information veteran Terry Moran famous that Manchin “does characterize one of many poorest states within the union,” but he “appears to characterize the plutocrats so much” in Washington.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

JONATHAN KARL: There was some reporting about what Manchin was saying about how the kid tax credit score can be used or was being utilized in West Virginia. What was that each one about?

AVERI HARPER: Proper. There have been reported feedback from Sen. Manchin by which he privately expressed issues about dad and mom utilizing the kid tax credit score funds to purchase medicine or if household paid go away was initiated, that people may use it or exploit it so as to go deer searching, successfully, you understand, resurrecting the parable of the welfare queen — that Reagan-era trope used to argue in opposition to entitlements, implying that the poorest amongst us are inherently irresponsible and incapable of utilizing authorities providers for his or her supposed functions. And that’s such a obvious assertion that outraged people who heard it and illustrates simply how out of step Joe Manchin is with this present Democratic Celebration.

KARL: And as you understand, Terry, he’s from a state that Biden solely obtained, what was it, 30-some % in?

TERRY MORAN: Yeah, so he’s obtained that to cope with. He does characterize one of many poorer states within the union. He appears to characterize the plutocrats so much. However look, Manchin is simply a part of the issue. This can be a vastly bold invoice to restructure healthcare, training, immigration, local weather, all completely different sorts of issues. The general public in West Virginia, elsewhere, is targeted on inflation, pandemic, crime, the border.

KARL: All proper, Terry. Sadly, we’re out of time. Thanks for the roundtable. We’ll see you subsequent 12 months.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Washington press corps shorthand: reasonable and liberal Republicans who undermine conservatives, such because the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Susan Collins, are heroic mavericks placing their nation forward of occasion. Lower than 100% liberal senators, however, comparable to Manchin who dares undermine a left-wing aim, have to be discredited as a egocentric operative out to counterpoint himself who doesn’t care about anybody else.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

 

■ New on December 20: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Zakaria puzzled by Biden’s unpopularity

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream gives the right demonstration of why Washington journalists are sometimes out of contact with the remainder of America.

At a time when President Joe Biden is experiencing approval scores decrease than former President Donald Trump and even Democrats are expressing hope that Biden doesn’t run for reelection, a prime CNN talker mentioned he simply couldn’t perceive why the president isn’t extra common.

“I’ve to admit, I discover Joe Biden’s unpopularity puzzling,” mentioned CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

Apparently suffocating inflation, an out-of-control border, damaged guarantees to finish the coronavirus and remedy international warming, People caught in Afghanistan, and a normal incapacity to mission a coherent plan aren’t sufficient of a motive for some.

Zakaria as an alternative mentioned that Biden “has largely dealt with his job with intelligence and decency” and is a sufferer of circumstances past his management.

Beneath is the start and finish of Zakaria’s commentary on the prime of Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria: GPS on CNN:

“However first, right here’s ‘my take.’ I’ve to admit, I discover Joe Biden’s unpopularity puzzling. He’s rounding out his first 12 months within the White Home with the bottom end-of-first-year approval scores of any elected president in trendy instances, aside from Donald Trump. Why is that this? Biden is a genial, likable individual. Lots of the insurance policies he’s pursued have been common, even some with Republican help. The nation is doing fairly properly economically, as measures like unemployment, which is declining, the inventory market, which is rising, and rates of interest exhibit.

“So why did the most recent CNN common of the polls have him at simply 45%? Now, one has to keep in mind that Biden is one thing of an unintended president. He obtained elected for 2 causes, neither of which has a lot to do together with his private reputation. First, Barack Obama selected him as vp, which immediately elevated him within the Democratic discipline. Second, Donald Trump. Had these two components not been current, it’s troublesome to think about Biden within the White Home…

“Presidents typically get rewarded for being round in good instances, whether or not they brought on them or not. In Joe Biden’s case, he has largely dealt with his job with intelligence and decency, however he’s paying the value for the sophisticated instances that we live by way of.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “File underneath ‘Clueless in New York Metropolis.’ Zakaria displays how out of contact a lot of the press corps are with the issues of most People. To anybody paying consideration, it’s not ‘puzzling’ why Biden isn’t common. Simply have a look at the out-of-control border. It’s solely ‘puzzling’ why anybody who’s paid to report the information wouldn’t understand the actual thriller is why greater than 40% approve of the Biden presidency in its lurch far to the Left.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ December 13: Liberal Media Scream: TDS Todd blames Trump for Biden’s stoop

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent instance of how the media stay gripped with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” none greater than NBC’s Chuck Todd.

On his Meet the Press Sunday present, he framed President Joe Biden’s plummeting approval numbers as one thing past his management and actually the fault of former President Donald Trump. “It appears as if there’s nothing the White Home can do to enhance their political standing,” he mentioned, citing the president’s failed guarantees on eliminating the coronavirus and getting previous Trump.

“COVID’s not behind us and Donald Trump’s nonetheless lurking. It’s not his fault,” Todd defended.

Visitor panelist Kimberly Atkins Stohr then blamed Republicans for Biden’s woes. “Is all of it Joe Biden’s fault? After all not. Most of it isn’t. You’ve got Republicans who’re lock strong in opposition to him and gained’t vote for something.”

From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

CHUCK TODD: And we’re again. It appears as if there’s nothing the White Home can do to enhance their political standing as of late. It does really feel like each week, there’s one other ballot. It’s a brand new backside, it’s a brand new this. And a few of it’s out of their management. Mark Murray and I had been having a dialogue. His two massive guarantees had been to get COVID behind us and to do away with Donald Trump. COVID’s not behind us and Donald Trump’s nonetheless lurking. It’s not his fault, however is that why we’re on this no man’s land right here for him?

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR, Boston Globe: It’s a convergence of a variety of issues. You’ve got this pandemic that we will’t get behind. You continue to have people who find themselves struggling economically. Joe Biden additionally campaigned on an enormous, broad agenda of defending civil rights and getting individuals — serving to to get individuals again on their toes after this, these massive, broad packages. However even after these packages have handed, there may be nonetheless this fixed risk to democracy that we hold speaking about. The Democrats have didn’t cross any measure to guard and bolster up our election system. So, that has individuals uneasy. Is all of it Joe Biden’s fault? After all not. Most of it isn’t. You’ve got Republicans who’re lock strong in opposition to him and gained’t vote for something, irrespective of what number of instances Joe Manchin says he needs bipartisanship. So, it’s about the place do you assign that blame, who’s in opposition to each measure, together with vaccine mandates that would get us previous this pandemic. Is that Joe Biden? The place does the blame really lie?

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How ridiculous. Trump is out of workplace and Joe Biden is within the Oval Workplace, but, for journalists like Todd, there’s nothing for which they gained’t blame the omnipotent Trump. In Todd’s twisted world, a liberal like Biden can’t be held chargeable for his failures, and Trump presents a handy scapegoat. Because the saying goes, ‘Trump resides rent-free in Todd’s head.’”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ December 6: Liberal Media Scream: Joe, Mika push Jan. 6 ‘decomposition’ of GOP

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the forged on MSNBC’s Morning Joe embracing the liberal Atlantic journal’s particular version on the Jan. 6 riots that implies the occasions on that day had been a dry run for extra GOP antics.

Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski featured Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who mentioned it will take multiple situation of his journal to “hint the Republican Celebration’s decomposition from Lincoln’s day to ours. It is sufficient to say that its most up-to-date, and most catastrophic, flip — towards authoritarianism, nativism, and conspiracism — threatens the republic that it was based to avoid wasting.”

With no point out, in fact, of the Democratic efforts to show the U.S. right into a socialist state, the trio gleefully took a stroll down Trump Derangement Syndrome avenue to counsel that the GOP and the Jan. 6 rioters are keen to show america right into a banana republic.

Brzezinski even raised a warning about GOP politics from Czech-born, Clinton-era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Goldberg agreed: “Folks like Madeleine Albright, who come out of Europe or Asian experiences or African experiences with authoritarianism, they’re warning us.”

From the 8 a.m. hour of Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: We’re closing in on the one-year anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, in the event you can imagine it. With that, only one month away, the Atlantic has devoted its January and February points to American democracy in disaster. The headline of the quilt story is jarring. Quote, ‘January sixth Was Observe.’

Becoming a member of us now, the journal’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. And Jeffrey writes this for the brand new situation’s editor’s word. Quote, ‘There may be inadequate house in anybody situation of this journal to hint the Republican Celebration’s decomposition from Lincoln’s day to ours. It is sufficient to say that its most up-to-date, and most catastrophic, flip — towards authoritarianism, nativism, and conspiracism — threatens the republic that it was based to avoid wasting. Stating plainly that considered one of America’s two main events, the occasion putatively dedicated to advancing the concepts and beliefs of conservatism, has now fallen into autocratic disrepute is unnerving for {a magazine} dedicated to being, within the phrases of our founding manifesto, ‘of no occasion or clique.”

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Jeffrey, speak about your resolution to dedicate this particular situation to this subject. As we glance behind you at a really ominous cloud hovering over the Capitol.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Yeah. I organized that for you, Joe.

SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: You’re welcome. You realize, now we have three years till an election that is perhaps in contrast to any election we’ve ever seen, which is to say the next: Democracy depends upon the consent of the losers. On the willingness of the occasion that has misplaced to say, ‘We misplaced, we’ll strive subsequent time. However in the meantime, we’ll help the elected president.’ We’re heading to a state of affairs, due to Donald Trump’s habits and due to the individuals who abet his habits, by which that’s not completely clear. It’s not completely clear that that’s going to occur.

And so, I assumed we must always actually focus now, begin to actually focus now on these — it’s an entire vary of threats, an entire vary of issues that Trump and his minions are doing to attempt to assure that, come what may, that they win in 2024, and so, we’ve pulled collectively this particular situation simply to stipulate for our readers all of the issues that would go unsuitable and all of the issues which can be taking place proper now that the Republican Celebration or a lot of the Republican Celebration is doing to be sure that the state of affairs is geared to their favor.

…

BRZEZINSKI: For those who converse to individuals like Madeleine Albright and people who have come from this kind of factor who comprehend it so properly, their concern is that January — we’re properly over the sting. We’re properly over the sting, and we’re not the place we needs to be by way of turning this ship round. And in the event you have a look at the way in which that Republicans are performing proper now in Congress, it will possibly’t be checked out as, oh, they’re the crazies on the far, far Proper. That is now the habits that’s being embraced.

GOLDBERG: Proper. Folks, individuals like Madeleine Albright, who come out of Europe or Asian experiences or African experiences with authoritarianism, they’re warning us. The warning is, don’t assume you’re particular. Human beings are human beings. Societies are societies. Individuals are prey to the identical weaknesses and temptations throughout the planet. And simply because we’ve managed to stave off authoritarianism prior to now doesn’t imply that you just’re in a position to stave it off sooner or later when you might have a decided group making an attempt to govern democracy to end result of their everlasting domination.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The Atlantic journal and Jeffrey Goldberg appear to have determined their mission is to push your entire information media to discredit the Republican Celebration and conservatives due to former President Donald Trump’s continued affect inside the occasion. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski eagerly performed alongside, although making an attempt to silence a big slice of the citizens, by way of fearmongering over the worst attainable interpretations of how some are involved about election integrity, hardly matches primary journalistic norms of sharing a number of factors of view.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ November 29: Liberal Media Scream: Morning Joe visitor imagines US democracy ‘backsliding’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC’s Morning Joe present internet hosting a prime editor for the Monetary Occasions suggesting that america has misplaced its authority to carry a democracy summit after 4 years of former President Donald Trump.

Discussing the assembly set for subsequent 12 months on the White Home, to which Russia and China have been excluded whereas Taiwan and Ukraine have been invited, the U.S. editor for the influential outlet questioned “whether or not America is within the place right this moment to essentially play host and to choose and select.” His reasoning: “A variety of international locations, together with america, at the moment are outlined as much less democratic than they was. Because the time period of artwork goes, ‘democratic backsliding.’”

Edward Luce, U.S. nationwide editor of The Monetary Occasions, on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:

“What’s going to it obtain? That’s an open query. A variety of international locations, together with america, at the moment are outlined as much less democratic than they was. Because the time period of artwork goes, ‘democratic backsliding’ and so there may be some query whether or not America is within the place right this moment to essentially play host and to choose and select. So I think many of the attendees are popping out of politeness slightly than any nice expectation this can be an enormous advance, a kind of blow, for the advance of democracy.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “An indication of how deep Trump Derangement Syndrome has dug in, the place a prime editor at a serious western information company would give legitimacy to the view that, compared to China and Russia, the U.S. has misplaced its ethical positioning as a democratic nation.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ November 12 and 19: No Liberal Media Screams these weeks.

 

■ November 8: Liberal Media Scream: Black on black racism greets Winsome Sears in savage assault

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options considered one of a number of assaults on Virginia Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears, the primary black girl chosen for that job.

Liberals have been shockingly daring in attacking her as mainly not being black sufficient as a result of she is a Republican and likewise claiming that her election doesn’t absolve the GOP of the sins of racism.

We’re that includes Vanderbilt College’s Michael Eric Dyson, who was particularly nasty to Sears, a former Marine who will be a part of Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin in Richmond.

Dyson smeared Sears as an enabler of white supremacy: “The issue is: Right here they need white supremacy by ventriloquist impact. There’s a black mouth shifting however a white thought working on the runway of the tongue of a determine who justifies and legitimates the white supremacist practices.”

On MSNBC on Thursday, Dyson, who was previously with Georgetown College, additionally known as Sears a race traitor: “To have a black face talking on behalf of a white supremacist legacy is nothing new.”

Dyson lectured white individuals for considering they need to get any credit score for voting for a black girl who dares stray from left-wing considering as a result of if “that individual of coloration occurs to undermine and undercut and subvert the very rules about which we’re involved, you do your self no service by pointing to them for instance of your racial progressivism.”

From Thursday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC:

JOY REID: And even when they’re actually making an attempt to ban books about black individuals and saying, “You can’t discuss concerning the black expertise. We’re going minimize that out of colleges as a result of white individuals don’t prefer it,” they nonetheless need credit score. They nonetheless need to have the ability to say it’s not racist. And on this case, I simply wish to get your touch upon this as a result of the 2 decisions that voters had in Virginia had been a black girl who shares my daughter’s identify and Jamaican heritage and an Afro Latina who is an element Lebanese. So, you had a alternative of two brown/black individuals, and also you picked considered one of them. Do you get credit score? Do you get particular credit score? It’s like I had ice cream or cake as two choices, however I would like credit score for decreasing my calorie depend as a result of I picked ice cream. You had two decisions, and so they had been each black. Your ideas?

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: I would eat the cake and the ice cream, clearly. What’s fascinating is that you just’re completely proper. They need credit score for respiration. They need credit score for having hair within the morning or getting up and brushing their enamel. “Look, I’ve made an achievement that needs to be noteworthy.” No, you might be doing what all political figures should do: make decisions. The issue is: Right here they need white supremacy by ventriloquist impact. There’s a black mouth shifting however a white thought working on the runway of the tongue of a determine who justifies and legitimates the white supremacist practices.

We all know that we will internalize, in our personal minds, in our personal unconscious, in our personal our bodies, the very rules which can be undoing us. So to have a black face talking on behalf of a white supremacist legacy is nothing new. And it’s to the chagrin of these of us who research race that the white folks on the opposite aspect and the right-wingers on the opposite aspect don’t perceive. That is politics 101. And that is race, not even 101.

What’s beneath 101? It’s the pre-Okay of race. You need to perceive the truth that in the event you inform black individuals, “Look, I help a negro. Look, there’s a individual of coloration that I’m in favor of,” and that individual of coloration occurs to undermine and undercut and subvert the very rules about which we’re involved, you do your self no service by pointing to them for instance of your racial progressivism.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Might something be any extra racist than what Dyson mentioned? Declaring an individual’s political beliefs invalid as a result of they don’t match the orthodoxy of the Democratic Celebration and liberals like Dyson? A really unhappy instance of how MSNBC sows discord and animosity by showcasing race-based thought-police conformity within the guise of knowledge from a daily visitor celebrated by a star prime-time host.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ November 1: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd shocked GOP favored over Biden

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a traditional instance of simply how shocked the biased Left press is when the general public doesn’t fall in line behind ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, in addition to their view of the world.

Speaking a couple of new ballot on key nationwide points, the chief of the pack, NBC’s host of Meet the Press Chuck Todd, appeared dumbfounded that the general public is selecting Republicans over President Joe Biden. When a chat present host makes use of the phrase “imagine it or not,” you understand he doesn’t.

“Republicans, imagine it or not, have double-digit leads in coping with border safety, inflation, crime, nationwide safety, the financial system and, shockingly, on ‘getting issues finished,’” Todd mentioned on his Sunday present discussing a brand new NBC Information ballot.

Todd led Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

“We now have a model new NBC Information ballot out this morning that’s stuffed with some scary information for the Democrats. The overarching message: People have misplaced their confidence in President Biden and their optimism for the nation, a minimum of, they’ve proper now. Simply 22% of adults say we’re headed in the precise path. A stunning 71% say we’re on the ‘unsuitable observe’ and that features a close to majority of Democrats who’re saying that.

“President Biden’s approval ranking stands at a dismal 42% versus 54% who disapprove. Imagine it or not, simply two months in the past, Mr. Biden was in constructive territory — 49% approving and 48% disapproving. So, what’s knocking down the president’s numbers? Properly have a look at his set of numbers: Simply 37% say he has the flexibility proper now to deal with a disaster versus practically a majority who say he doesn’t. Thirty-seven % additionally say he’s competent and efficient as president. Fifty % disagree with that description.

“What’s extra, Republicans, imagine it or not, have double-digit leads in coping with border safety, inflation, crime, nationwide safety, the financial system and, shockingly, on ‘getting issues finished.’”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “How dare the general public not match the views of the press corps. Todd appears genuinely shocked, perhaps even appalled, that most individuals have extra belief in Republicans than in President Biden and Democrats. Todd is a sufferer of his personal media bubble the place it’s a shock Republicans lead in areas the place Biden has clearly failed, comparable to border safety and crime. It ought to lead Todd to query NBC’s journalism, but it surely gained’t.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ October 25: Liberal Media Scream: Meet the Press all in for McAuliffe

(Washington Examiner submit)

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, making an attempt to make some historical past by getting that job once more, has seen the facility of the media be a part of his effort to cheer him on as he flounders, the most recent being NBC’s Meet the Press.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the present’s bid to spice up the Democrat on Sunday with display texts that confirmed its very biased view.

All 4 on-screen textual content headlines throughout this Sunday’s Meet the Press roundtable section on the gubernatorial race framed the competition from the view of the Democratic candidate. One, for instance, relayed the declare that McAuliffe “will make issues higher.” No joke.

As substitute host Andrea Mitchell and her 4 panelists mentioned the race, in a section launched by a video clip of former President Barack Obama campaigning for McAuliffe, viewers noticed this textual content throughout the underside of the display: “Pres. Obama Campaigns for McAuliffe.” That was quickly adopted by: “Obama: McAuliffe Will Make Issues Higher.”

The subsequent two conveyed factors superior by McAulliffe’s marketing campaign: “McAuliffe Hyperlinks Youngkin to Trump in Advert.” And: “McAuliffe Hopes to Nationalize Race.”

No textual content on display throughout the three-minute dialogue promoted any factors made by or in favor of the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, in fact.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “What a terrific perception into the behind-the-scenes considering of Andrea Mitchell and the employees on the Washington bureau of NBC Information. They see the world by way of the prism of liberal Democrats excited a couple of Barack Obama marketing campaign look and the hope he offers to the troubled marketing campaign of the native Democratic candidate, and thus pushed liberal speaking factors as the one ones price making, as if any factors in favor of Republican Youngkin don’t exist.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ October 18: Liberal Media Scream: Stelter’s present says Rush Limbaugh, Fox ‘brainwash’ individuals

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a new stage of intolerance at CNN for individuals who don’t assume like Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and the lefty gang.

On Sunday, CNN’s media-themed present Dependable Sources headlined a visitor who mentioned the late Rush Limbaugh and Fox Information are responsible of tearing households aside and even brainwashing listeners and viewers.

Jen Senko, writer of The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Proper-Wing Media Modified a Father and Divided Our Nation — And How We Can Struggle Again, mentioned, “Our household sort of suffered for about 20 years when my dad found Rush Limbaugh and Fox Information.”

Whereas some would counsel he was enlightened by the invention, Stelter marveled, “You hardly ever hear about that. You hardly ever hear concerning the impression on the viewers of the content material on Fox Information, however perhaps that’s altering.”

From the Oct. 17 episode of Dependable Sources on CNN:

BRIAN STELTER: Inform us concerning the brainwashing of your dad. That’s the title of the e book. It’s not nearly your dad, although. What you describe is that this phenomenon the place households are torn aside by right-wing radio and TV. Why did you resolve to deal with this head-on?

JEN SENKO: Properly, our household, sort of, suffered for about 20 years when my dad found Rush Limbaugh and Fox Information. His persona completely modified. He was unrecognizable. He grew to become a zealot, he grew to become very vital of Democrats, and we had been run-of-the-mill Democrats. And you understand, it wasn’t a lot that he grew to become a Republican, it was that he was an excessive Republican, and he was at all times in a rage. And he was at all times making an attempt to transform us, he was like a zealot. And my mom would get in these arguments with him and say, you understand, “Frank, I feel you’re brainwashed.”

And once I first named the film, The Brainwashing of My Dad, I didn’t really assume that it was essentially brainwashing, however that is what it felt prefer to me and plenty of, many individuals. After all, after I did the film and talked to neuroscientists, then I discovered, properly, yeah, it’s brainwashing. However I’ve seen this occur to so many individuals, and 1000’s and 1000’s of individuals have advised me their tales. It’s at all times very unhappy.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide:

“Conformity. That’s what Stelter and Senko demand. How dare anybody stray from liberal Democratic positions, and in the event that they do, their sources of data have to be denigrated and silenced as a result of anybody who believes them will need to have been ‘brainwashed.’ How insulting. If a conservative author cited false notions forwarded by CNN in attacking President Donald Trump and charged that the community was thus ‘brainwashing’ its viewers into changing into liberal, Stelter, removed from providing a visitor slot, would condemn the smearing of CNN.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ October 11: Liberal Media Scream: Reporters debate how one can degenerate GOP

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the talk in media circles about how one can trash Republicans with out seeming like Democratic Celebration cheerleaders.

Veteran journalist James Fallows expressed frustration with how robust it’s to painting Republicans as terrible for opposing President Joe Biden with out making the media seem biased or taking a aspect — like most did for 4 years underneath former President Donald Trump.

Showing on CNN’s Dependable Sources, the nationwide correspondent for The Atlantic rued “the battle” for journalists who should blame Biden’s opponents for misbehaving. But, he added, journalists have to be “acutely aware of seeming to take a aspect.” So, he mentioned, they want to determine how one can “give out a story of the particular realities, recognizing how that is at odds with our conventions.”

David Zurawik, now a professor at Goucher Faculty after a few years with the Baltimore Solar, chimed in to agree: “Amen. That’s nice.”

From Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

James Fallows: “The battle for us all within the media is that if we hold stating that one aspect of the political divide is definitely instigating this stuff, defying subpoenas, making an attempt to renege on the debt, holding up State Division appointments, et cetera, we’re acutely aware of seeming shrill, we’re acutely aware of seeming unbalanced, we’re acutely aware of seeming to take a aspect. And so it’s one thing about our tradition, we have to work out how we may give out a story of the particular realities recognizing how that is at odds with our conventions.”

David Zurawik, former Baltimore Solar media reporter: “Amen, sure. That’s nice.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Right here’s a thought for Jim Fallows: Possibly if the nationwide information media wasn’t so apparent about taking sides in opposition to conservatives and in favor of liberals, journalists wouldn’t be seen as unbalanced and so they wouldn’t should ‘battle’ over a battle between ‘realities’ and their journalistic ‘conventions.’ The ‘conventions’ are what have to be adopted, abandoning them in favor of being political activists is the issue.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ October 4: Liberal Media Scream: Journos scold America for not appreciating Biden’s $3.5T spending

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the media’s swampy disdain for Republicans and people who don’t share their appreciation for all of the goodies President Joe Biden’s “transformative” $3.5 trillion in promised social welfare spending will carry.

Two journalists on CNN’s Dependable Sources fretted concerning the media concentrate on Democratic infighting over the $3.5 trillion social spending invoice and $1.2 trillion infrastructure package deal as an alternative of highlighting all the good issues within the large payments.

“There’s this narrative that it’s Democrats dividing over this. I really assume that is simply Democrats deciding how they’re going to truly get this finished,” mentioned Time Journal senior correspondent Charlotte Alter.

“I additionally assume that everyone appears to be lacking the larger image of what $3.5 trillion over 10 years really might imply to American households,” Alter mentioned, citing as a constructive “huge funding within the social security internet, that will be the most important funding in childcare, and in local weather change, in paid household go away in a era.”

Jonathan Cohn, a senior nationwide correspondent for Huffington Publish, agreed.

“I’m 100% with Charlotte on this. It’s superb how little consideration over the previous few months we’ve given to those probably actually transformative items of laws,” he mentioned, itemizing how “each different nation on the earth has a paid go away regulation” and “the profound change in coverage on local weather change.”

So, “there’s a lot on this invoice, and we most likely needs to be speaking much more about it.”

From Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

CHARLOTTE ALTER, TIME MAGAZINE: There’s this narrative that it’s Democrats dividing over this. I really assume that is simply Democrats deciding how they’re going to truly get this finished. You realize — and albeit, I additionally assume that everyone appears to be lacking the larger image of what $3.5 trillion over 10 years really might imply to American households.

You realize, even when the quantity is smaller than that, we’re nonetheless trying on the potential for a large funding within the social security internet. That may be the most important funding in childcare and in local weather change, in paid household go away in a era, and I kind of fear that everybody’s sort of lacking the massive image about what the potential end result could possibly be right here.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN: Jonathan, is that true? Is the media lacking the legislative forest for the person bushes?

JONATHAN COHN, HUFFPOST: I’m 100% with Charlotte on this. It’s superb how little consideration over the previous few months we’ve given to those probably actually transformative items of laws. As Charlotte talked about, a pair — childcare, paid go away, each different nation on the earth has a paid go away regulation, we don’t, we might get one. This could possibly be transformative to a whole lot of 1000’s and billions of people who find themselves aged or disabled and might’t get house care, and so they find yourself in nursing houses.

And that’s not even to say, the profound change in coverage on local weather change, which is absolutely, you understand, an existential disaster for the planet. So, there’s a lot on this invoice, and we most likely needs to be speaking much more about it.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “For those who ever puzzled why there’s rarely any scrutiny over federal spending, exterior of the Protection Division, Alter and Cohn are reveals A and B. They’re liberal activists personally invested in increasing authorities spending and authorities management of individuals’s lives. Simply take heed to their pleasure for enormous extra spending with none regard for the burden placed on future generations to pay for it.”

Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ September 20 and 27: No Liberal Media Screams these weeks.

 

■ New on September 13: Liberal Media Scream: Roland Martin calls 74M People unpatriotic

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits that liberals miss former President Donald Trump greater than Republicans.

Whereas Republicans are able to combat over the price range, 2022 elections, and President Joe Biden’s bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, liberals cannot cease battling during the last two elections and clearly will not quit till Trump is properly off the stage.

Exhibit One is Roland Martin, the left-wing radio and on-line discuss present host who was on CNN. On Sunday’s This Week on ABC, he seized on former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s current feedback that the election is over and that it’s time to drop the conspiracy discuss and prepare for the subsequent presidential election.

That ought to have glad liberals. However not Martin, who, in full sanctimony, turned on Christie for his efforts to assist Trump win. “Too many Republicans selected energy and driving with Donald Trump versus patriotism and America,” mentioned Martin. “Any Republican who stood with him has to personal it and settle for the function that they performed.”

Christie urged that Martin recover from himself. “I’ll sleep fantastic tonight with you judging my morals.”

From the roundtable on the Sunday This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

ROLAND MARTIN: I admire the speech, governor, however the actuality is that this. It’s important to admit, Sarah, you must admit the function that you just performed in placing the individual in management who’s driving conspiracy theories. It’s one factor to sentence them after the actual fact, however you must come clean with the function that you just performed in placing the individual in energy. The time—

SARAH ISGUR, THE DISPATCH: We each ran campaigns in opposition to him.

MARTIN: No, no, no, no, no.

CHRISTIE: First off, I don’t should admit something to you.

MARTIN: Can I end? Can I end? Can I end?

CHRISTIE: First off, I don’t should admit something to you. And, second, I ran in opposition to Donald Trump in 2016.

YVETTE SIMPSON, DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA: You additionally coached him for the talk, sir.

MARTIN: Right here’s the deal. You ran in opposition to him. However when an individual has rules, morals, and values, they don’t help them even in the event you lose. And what they are saying is, ‘I select patriotism and the nation over occasion and energy.’ And the issue was, too many Republicans selected energy and driving with Donald Trump versus patriotism and America.

CHRISTIE: I’ll sleep fantastic tonight with you judging my morals.

MARTIN: Properly, guess what? As a voter who has 13 nieces and nephews, what I additionally wish to see in America are Republicans and Democrats who’ve the heart to face as much as narcissists, to people who lie, to people who sit right here and led a rustic within the unsuitable path. And what that man has unleashed on this nation. Any Republican who stood with him has to personal it and settle for the function that they performed.

CHRISTIE: Properly, that’s fantastic. I’ll settle for the function that I performed within the 2016 election working in opposition to him. And I’ll settle for the function—

MARTIN: However you helped him put together for the debates.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let him end his level now. Let him end his level.

CHRISTIE: Excuse me. And I’ll settle for the function that I performed in my perception that Hillary Clinton was not the precise individual to be president. All of us get to make decisions, Roland, on this democracy. I made my alternative. I’m on file of my alternative. And I’m not strolling away from my alternative. However it doesn’t preclude me from having the ability to be vital when the individual that I did help does issues that I’m in opposition to. And so this false alternative that you just’re making an attempt to arrange—

MARTIN: It’s not false.

CHRISTIE: It’s a false alternative, and one which the American individuals are not going to purchase both.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “It have to be good to stay in Martin’s world, the place it’s really easy to dismiss political opponents as illegitimate. If he wonders why so many Trump supporters are sticking with Trump, he ought to look in a mirror. Possibly they’re disgusted by being known as unpatriotic and un-American for not seeing the world in the identical good vs. evil means as does Martin, with them on the evil aspect.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ September 6: Liberal Media Scream: Pleasure Reid’s ‘sister’ needs to cancel Nationwide Overview’s Lowry

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream comes again to Pleasure Reid and considered one of her MSNBC visitors who needs to ban viewpoints that don’t fall in step with the liberal lunacy.

Within the very definition of “cancel tradition,” NYU regulation professor Melissa Murray was requested on ReidOut about Nationwide Overview Editor Wealthy Lowry’s arguing that the Supreme Court docket didn’t overturn Roe vs. Wade in final week’s resolution supporting the six-week abortion ban in Texas.

She mentioned, “That take is completely absurd and actually has no enterprise being broadcast on mainstream tv.”

Pleasure Reid: They’re making an attempt to get away with implementing very unpopular right-wing concepts that they imagine in due to their very own studying of the Christian religion, and so they wish to do this stuff. However to do them by way of a standard case can be actually unhealthy headlines for the Roberts courtroom. And so, they’re simply doing it in a sneaky means. It feels nearly like Bush v. Gore. And it’s working with some individuals. Let me allow you to take heed to Wealthy Lowry. And also you had some ideas on him earlier than. However he appears to have purchased their plan and mentioned, ‘See, they didn’t overturn Roe.’ Right here he’s.

Nationwide Overview’s Wealthy Lowry to Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Every day: Individuals are performing as if Roe has been overturned. I’d welcome that end result. And it might ultimately be on this Dobbs case. However it hasn’t been overturned but in any respect. This can be a procedural ruling that clearly was the proper one. There was no hurt right here but.

Reid: In order that’s a conservative activist pretending he’s not seeing what occurred as a result of it is the higher PR technique. You had some ideas on Twitter, saying you would like you had been on Meet the Press to answer that. Properly, you’re right here now sister, reply.

Melissa Murray: So I admire the chance to say forthrightly that that take is completely absurd and actually has no enterprise being broadcast on mainstream tv. This was a procedural ruling. That’s completely appropriate. However procedural rulings have substantive implications, as Eli [Mystal] mentioned. This specific procedural ruling successfully guts away with two, three a long time’ price of Supreme Court docket precedent. Roe is successfully useless in Texas. Casey is successfully useless in Texas due to these rulings. And it’s, as you say, engaged on the shadow docket, the courtroom can do issues that it will not be capable of do on the deserves docket the place there’s extra consideration.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “I wouldn’t wish to be in considered one of Murray’s regulation courses, afraid that if I expressed a wonderfully well-grounded opinion with which she disagreed she’d disgrace me into silence, banning me from talking once more at school. A lot for liberals encouraging an open dialogue of public coverage points.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ August 30: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s joyless Reid says Republicans ‘love…savor’ cruelty

(Washington Examiner submit)

MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid made selecting this week’s Liberal Media Scream simple when she ranted about Republicans, claiming they love cruelty and act because the “grim reaper.”

On the finish of her Friday present, Reid charged Republicans with “cruelty” for not spending extra on faculty lunch packages.

Then she turned to the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s resolution blocking President Biden’s unconstitutional extension of a moratorium on rental evictions: “Yay! Three-and-a-half million People might now find yourself on the street because of Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh, a choice they most likely cooked up whereas sitting within the consolation of their million-dollar suburban houses.”

From the “The Absolute Worst” section on the finish of The ReidOut Friday evening, selecting up after Reid talked a couple of Wisconsin county that rejected federal faculty lunch cash:

JOY REID: Possibly they had been impressed by the resident grim reaper of the South, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s refusing to use for as much as $820 million in meals help for greater than two million youngsters. To place that in phrases that y’all can perceive, that implies that the dad and mom of children who qualify free of charge or decreased lunches in Florida are lacking out on an additional $375 throughout a pandemic. And DeSantis does this whereas flinging open the door to a variant that’s concentrating on youngsters with a ferocity we’ve by no means seen. Alongside those self same strains, check out what Laura Ingraham not too long ago mentioned about individuals struggling throughout the pandemic.

LAURA INGRAHAM ON FNC, AUG. 13: What if we simply minimize off the unemployment? Starvation is a fairly {powerful} factor. I don’t imply bodily starvation, as a result of individuals who actually are in want, need assistance. I’m speaking about individuals who can work however refuse to work.

REID: I’m sorry. What? [impersonating Scrooge] ‘Are there no workhouses? Are there no orphanages?’ What’s unsuitable with these individuals? Oh, wait. I do know. They love cruelty. They savor it. Cruelty is the purpose. Need one other instance? Simply check out the conservative-led Supreme Court docket. Final evening, that conservative majority cleared the way in which for evictions to renew throughout the nation. Yay! Three-and-a-half million People might now find yourself on the street because of Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh, a choice they most likely cooked up whereas sitting within the consolation of their million-dollar suburban houses. So on this Friday night, I toast these Republicans as absolutely the worst as a result of it takes a selected sort of individual to look somebody in want within the eye after which simply flip your again on them and say ‘Go hungry. Cease being so grasping. Why would you like meals?’

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Reid retains displaying how nasty she is, presuming probably the most vile instincts of anybody not as far left as she is. Reid has contempt for anybody involved about correctly spending taxpayer cash, presuming each recipient of federal largess is deserving. However she has no such concern for the plight of housing suppliers who weren’t getting hire they had been due, seemingly OK with subverting the structure to permit individuals to flee their obligations.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ August 23: Liberal Media Scream: CNN common says Biden’s doing a heck of a job

(Washington Examiner submit)

It’s no shock that some within the liberal media are working block for President Joe Biden’s bumbling in Afghanistan. However CNN took the Liberal Media Scream prize this week by that includes a pundit who thinks the president is doing a heck of a job.

It got here on CNN’s Sunday Dependable Sources present hosted by Brian Stelter when guide Matthew Dowd mentioned that the media isn’t giving Biden credit score for a terrific mission achieved, particularly when in comparison with deaths associated to the COVID and crime fights he’s scuffling with.

Dowd, the previous chief political analyst for ABC Information, mentioned, “the press tends to guage issues by anecdotes,” however “knowledge for the final week exhibits Joe Biden has mainly gotten 30,000 individuals out of Afghanistan with out a single lack of an American life.”

From the Sunday, Aug. 22 Dependable Sources:

BRIAN STELTER: So, Matthew Dowd, you’ll describe the media protection this week as what?

MATTHEW DOWD: Method excessive and unconnected to a perspective on the problem from the start. They added a perspective within the ultimate days, however from the start, they didn’t have a perspective on it.

My sense of that is, Joe Biden has finished — we must always choose it by the info of what’s occurred and never by anecdotes — and generally, the president, the press tends to guage issues by anecdotes and never the info. And the info for the final week exhibits Joe Biden has mainly gotten 30,000 individuals out of Afghanistan with out a single lack of an American life …

Be mindful one factor, Brian, 5,000 individuals, whereas this was occurring, died of COVID on this nation. 5 hundred individuals died of gun violence within the final week on this nation. And never a single American has died within the pullout amidst this chaotic state of affairs in a political hurricane, and I don’t assume the press absolutely understands what the context is for the American public. And so whenever you perceive the context not solely of Afghanistan however the context of what’s occurring in our nation, there’s far worse disaster conditions, together with the assault on our democracy, that get forgotten about within the midst of this.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Dowd is likely one of the Baghdad Bobs of the present debacle, ignoring the dire actuality that appears very unhealthy for his favored political aspect. He’s a sycophant in protection of President Biden spinning liberal speaking factors concerning the supposed misdeeds of Trump and conservatives as an alternative of providing any sort of trustworthy evaluation about Biden’s bungling.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ August 16: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC ‘professional’ says GOP making an attempt to make migrants ‘disappear’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a key MSNBC visitor who mentioned Republicans try to “disappear” nonwhites and liberal migrants from voting rolls.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday featured a visitor who charged “the politics of Republican redistricting actually displays a sort of ugly logic of removing” by which “they’re making an attempt to vanish sure voices and populations.”

Cristina Beltran, affiliate professor at New York College’s Division of Social and Cultural Evaluation, mentioned, “Stephen Miller couldn’t do it, or Trump couldn’t do it” — however following new census numbers, they’ll strive by way of redistricting.

Beltran, writer of the e book, Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Struggling Sustains White Democracy, mentioned that “the GOP actually can’t make the nation whiter, in order that they’re utilizing redistricting to strip residents of their energy and to make Congress look much less like America.”

From Saturday morning’s Velshi on MSNBC:

ALI VELSHI: Cristina, when individuals — the census shouldn’t shock most individuals who observe, such as you do, inhabitants and demographics in America. However, I feel that the conclusion is counterintuitive. Most individuals say, ‘Properly, if the census says we’re extra numerous, our illustration ought to get extra numerous.’ The truth is, it’s more likely to get much less numerous.

CRISTINA BELTRAN: Precisely, precisely, and I feel that’s an actual problem right here is that the census, one hand, is telling us one thing we already know: That America is a deeply multiracial nation, however the politics of Republican redistricting actually displays a sort of ugly logic of removing, proper? The place they’re making an attempt to vanish sure voices and populations, proper? And so, I feel they’re making an attempt to vanish a variety of People politically, proper? Stephen Miller couldn’t do it, or Trump couldn’t do it of their politics in an entire means, although they tried with anti-immigration politics, however the GOP actually can’t make the nation whiter, in order that they’re utilizing redistricting to strip residents of their energy and to make Congress look much less like America.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The one ‘ugly logic’ right here is from Ali Velshi and MSNBC of their resolution to characteristic a visitor with such an unpleasant tackle a typical follow after each census when the occasion which dominates in a state will get to do some ‘gerrymandering.’ It’s hardly the nefarious deed advised by Beltran and hardly distinctive to 1 occasion. However go away it to MSNBC to provide it a racist tinge whereas tossing in some vitriol towards Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ August 9: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Acosta sneers, ‘Name it the DeSantis variant’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN’s Jim Acosta going full liberal bias in attacking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s dealing with of the most recent coronavirus outbreak.

On CNN Saturday afternoon, Acosta blamed Republican politicians for COVID-19 deaths, notably DeSantis.

“As an alternative of the delta variant, why not name it the DeSantis variant?” the anchor mentioned. Acosta, recognized for his hostility to President Donald Trump when he lined the White Home, didn’t say the identical factor about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who earlier had a COVID demise outbreak on his fingers.

With an identical picture on display, Acosta advised, “We might promote beer koozies that say ‘Don’t Florida My Fauci,’” (a play on koozies that say ‘Don’t Fauci My Florida’) earlier than snidely concluding with how the cash raised could possibly be used “to assist pay for all of the funerals that can be coming.”

Acosta, on CNN Newsroom, on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 7:

“Folks shouldn’t should die so some politicians can personal the libs. They’re not proudly owning anyone, however they might find yourself proudly owning the pandemic, as a result of they’re prolonging it. Maybe it’s time to start out naming these new variants that could be popping out after them. As an alternative of the delta variant, why not name it the DeSantis variant? We might promote beer koozies that say ‘Don’t Florida My Fauci’ and use the cash to assist pay for all of the funerals that can be coming within the days to return.”

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “Acosta is simply furthering his picture as extra of a clownish political hack than any sort of fair-minded journalist. If deaths from COVID-9 are such a severe situation, which they’re, why is he, an anchor for a nationwide cable information channel, making such a crass political insult which hardly exhibits respect for the science?”

Score: THREE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ August 2: Liberal Media Scream: New CNN low, evaluating Trump ‘cult’ to Jonestown bloodbath

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN’s Brian Stelter’s Trump Derangement Syndrome hitting a brand new low, inviting a comparability of the “cult” of Trump to the Jim Jones cult killings in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.

On his Sunday present, Dependable Sources, the liberal media nag introduced aboard Rep. Jackie Speier, who survived the Jonestown bloodbath, to equate the “cult of Trump” with the mass murder-suicide of 918 followers of Rev. Jim Jones. “I needed to listen to her ideas concerning the comparability, the notion of the cult of Trump,” Stelter mentioned in establishing the welcoming California lawmaker.

Speier, who was shot 5 instances as she tried to flee at an airfield when she was a member of the employees of Rep. Leo Ryan, welcomed the spin. “There is not any query” you “might evaluate” the 2 “charismatic leaders,” she mentioned.

Stelter performed alongside: “It’s scary to listen to that when you might have noticed the Trump phenomenon, you might have seen similarities to Jonestown.”

Stelter had opened the section by relaying suggestions from worldwide viewers asking, “Why doesn’t the American media simply name out Trump for what he’s, name Trump fandom for what it’s? Generally they use the phrase, cult.”

From the beginning of the section on the Aug. 1 Dependable Sources on CNN:

BRIAN STELTER: Welcome again to Dependable Sources, stay within the U.S. and all all over the world. And one of many nice issues about being proven on CNN Worldwide is that I hear from viewers who observe American political dysfunction from an outsider’s standpoint. These residents in different international locations generally electronic mail me and say, you understand, why doesn’t the American media simply name out Trump for what he’s, name Trump fandom for what it’s? Generally they use the phrase, cult. I do know that’s a delicate phrase. It doesn’t come up so much in American information protection.

So, I needed to place it to an professional, an unlucky professional, Congresswoman Jackie Speier began out her profession in politics, working for a lawmaker. She’s on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown. She sadly is aware of firsthand concerning the weight of that phrase, cult. She was in a position to escape along with her life, others weren’t in a position to that day. So, I needed to listen to her ideas concerning the comparability, the notion of the cult of Trump, particularly within the gentle of January sixth, and the mass delusion that led individuals to a riot of lies on Capitol Hill. Once I introduced this up along with her, she didn’t mince phrases.

REP. JACKIE SPEIER: Tright here’s no query that you may evaluate Jim Jones as a charismatic chief, who would carry his congregation collectively, compelled them to do issues that had been unlawful, after which took 900 of them into the jungles of Guyana, the place over the course of time, he then satisfied them that they need to die. I’ve by no means been in a position to say they dedicated suicide as a result of I don’t assume they had been accountable for their schools, to be fairly trustworthy with you.

So, you have a look at Donald Trump, charismatic chief, who was in a position to proceed to speak in phrases that appealed to those that are disaffected, disillusioned, and who had been in search of one thing, very similar to those that grew to become a part of Jim Jones’s congregation, the Folks’s Temple. They had been misplaced souls. And the one distinction between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is the truth that we now have social media. So, all these individuals can discover themselves in ways in which they couldn’t discover themselves earlier than.

So, he mainly was a service provider of deceit, each of them retailers of deceit, each of them making individuals not have a look at information, not assume independently. And sowed a narrative for them that was certainly damaging.

STELTER: It’s scary to listen to that when you might have noticed the Trump phenomenon, you might have seen similarities to Jonestown.

Brent Baker, vp of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly decide: “The longer Trump is out of the White Home the extra Trump Derangement Syndrome appears to develop amongst his greatest haters within the media, with Stelter taking it to an entire new stage every week. Final week, he featured Carl Bernstein calling Trump a ‘struggle prison.’ This week, Trump’s similar to a cult chief who led a whole lot of followers to commit mass suicide and homicide a congressman. Solely Trump has by no means finished that. Possibly Stelter ought to look slightly nearer to house to see who’s in a personality-based cult.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ July 26: Liberal Media Scream: The worst of Trump hater Carl Bernstein

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent anti-Trump outburst from Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein — and his worst hits checklist.

Sunday on CNN’s Dependable Sources, his important venting venue, he overrated his prior assaults on former President Donald Trump, claiming that the Republican is a “struggle prison.”

His over-the-top invective in opposition to Trump is nothing new, as a fast journey by way of the CNN archive exhibits. In 2017, he declared of Trump’s resolution to take away the FBI director, “This can be a probably extra harmful state of affairs than Watergate.” In 2020, he was repeating his Watergate comparability as he charged Trump allies had “now joined fingers with a tyrant.” Final fall, he described Trump’s response to COVID as “homicidal negligence” earlier than declaring “we’re witnessing the Mad King within the ultimate days of his reign.”

Our Liberal Media Scream accomplice Brent Baker, the vp of the Media Analysis Middle, drew up an inventory of Bernstein’s best anti-Trump hits:

   ♦ “I feel this can be a probably extra harmful state of affairs than Watergate, and we’re at a really harmful second. And that’s as a result of we’re trying on the risk that the president of america and people round him throughout an election marketing campaign colluded with a hostile international energy to undermine the idea of our democracy: free elections.” — Dependable Sources, Could 14, 2017.

   ♦ “Let’s have a look at what Watergate was as a result of it was a couple of prison president who acted as a tyrant. And what now we have right here now could be the Senate of america, by way of the Republican management and membership, has now joined fingers with a tyrant.” — CNN Newsroom, Jan. 31, 2020.

   ♦ “His response has been homicidal negligence. He has failed to guard the American individuals and slightly to place his personal curiosity of reelection and holding on to the workplace of the presidency in entrance of the well being and well-being of the American individuals.” — CNN Newsroom, Oct. 3, 2020.

   ♦ “We’re witnessing the Mad King within the ultimate days of his reign, keen to scorch the Earth of his nation and produce down the entire system to undermine our complete democracy, strip it of its legitimacy, poison the boldness of our individuals in our establishments and the structure for Donald Trump’s personal petulant, egocentric, rabid ends.” — CNN New Day, Nov. 20, 2020.

   ♦ “I feel we have to calmly step again and perhaps have a look at Trump in a special context. He’s America’s, our personal American struggle prison, of a sort we’ve by no means skilled earlier than … In worldwide regulation, there have been, quote, ‘crimes in opposition to humanity.’ I feel what we’re speaking about, Trump’s crimes as an American struggle prison in his personal nation that he has perpetrated upon our individuals.” — Dependable Sources, Sunday.

Baker explains our weekly decide: “Bernstein is a one-note musician, making an attempt each week to ramp up his singularly centered anger to get some consideration. With a lot unhinged animus for Trump, it’s arduous to think about anybody considers his rants something greater than leisure from a man making an attempt, however failing, to match Trump’s talent at making a unfavourable public picture for his opponents by way of inventive terminology.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ July 19: Liberal Media Scream: Press ought to ‘transfer on’ from stability to liberal advocacy

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a Washington Publish columnist telling it like it’s: Liberal advocacy within the media is the proper bias.

On CNN’s Dependable Sources present, Perry Bacon Jr. argued the information media “ought to transfer on from” caring about attracting simply as many Republicans as Democrats to learn or view their reporting. Selecting up on a column he wrote final week, Bacon mentioned the “core mission” of the media is to current “information” and “an evidence-based view of the world.”

However his “information,” in fact, overlap with the priorities of liberals, not unusual for Washington Publish columnists who’re given extra freedom of their work. For instance, he mentioned, “We within the media are biased by way of we help vaccines. We within the media rent LGBT workers. We’re biased in opposition to bans in opposition to trans or homosexual individuals.”

Give credit score to the Washington Publish for highlighting the bias of its scribes. In Bacon’s bio, for instance, it presents up his protection space. Below “The Democratic Celebration,” it says, “The Democratic Celebration is usually shifting in a pro-equality (racial, financial, class, gender, sexual identification) path.” Below “The Republican Celebration,” it reads, “The Republican Celebration is shifting in an anti-democratic, anti-Democrats path.”

Bacon on Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

“They need to transfer on from this concept that they’re making an attempt to, you understand, the viewers is making an attempt to get equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats or to not offend Mitch McConnell’s workplace or no matter it’s, and to essentially get centered on what’s our core mission. And I’d argue the core mission is to current information, current proof, current an evidence-based view of the world, and to additionally, for my part, defend the concepts of a democracy and a multiracial democracy, I feel, is a part of what the media needs to be doing. What that appears like, I feel, is defending and being unabashed. Vaccines work. Joe Biden gained the election. Black lives do matter, and we needs to be trustworthy about when black individuals are discriminated in opposition to unfairly. And to kind of begin from a spot of, do now we have some clear-cut values we will articulate — articulate these indirectly on our web sites, in our programming, to be trustworthy about like, we’re making an attempt to combat this bias factor.

“We’re biased by way of information. We within the media are biased by way of we help vaccines. We within the media rent LGBT workers. We’re biased in opposition to bans in opposition to trans or homosexual individuals. So we will be trustworthy about these biases, and kind of, we’re in favor of a multiracial democracy. That’s why journalists behave the way in which they did when Trump — we’re in favor of the one who gained the election being president. So as soon as we’re trustworthy about these issues, which will flip off some individuals, however it is going to assist us be higher as establishments and higher as journalists if our first aim is, listed here are the values we said we try to implement, after which secondary, we are going to take the viewers who embraces these values.

“That doesn’t imply our values are Democratic and never Republican, however our values that we’re speaking about are small-D democratic and never authoritarian or one thing like that. So I feel if we get clear on values, in fact, the media is for, in opposition to authoritarian individuals like Trump. The media can not exist in a useful means with out having, you understand, with out having a free press, which dictators often oppose.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “I assume Bacon ought to get some factors for honesty, for articulating how, presumably, lots of his colleagues really feel, that equity and stability needs to be damned in favor of declaring liberal presumptions because the factual actuality and dismiss opposite views as unworthy. However removed from fixing journalism, Bacon’s prescription will guarantee its demise as media figures not fake to be something however left-wing political activists.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ July 12: No Liberal Media Scream this week.

 

■ July 5: Liberal Media Scream: ABC analysts huff at justices over voting resolution

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options two ABC This Week commentators making a brand new argument for vast open voting — some individuals can’t afford sufficient fuel to get meals and vote.

The Thursday Supreme Court docket ruling, upholding two provisions of Arizona’s voting guidelines which required individuals to vote at their very own precinct and barred poll harvesting, irked the 2 who cited anecdotes about difficulties encountered by poor and minority voters.

LZ Granderson, an ABC Information podcaster, ESPN contributor, and Los Angeles Occasions columnist, mentioned the justices had been out of contact as a result of they don’t seem to be poor: “They’re all privileged.” He recalled his “mother scraping collectively 50 cents, 75 cents, a greenback only for fuel to get to a grocery retailer” and so “now you’re forcing minorities to resolve” between attending to a polling place or shopping for groceries.

Washington Publish reporter Mary Jordan cited misdeeds she noticed in Mississippi with “every kind of soiled methods being performed about closing polls, switching the place you’re speculated to be, telling individuals they’re within the unsuitable place even when they’re in the precise place.”

From the Sunday, July 4 roundtable after host Martha Raddatz characterised the ruling as “not precisely in step with public opinion,” an evaluation based mostly on an ABC Information/Washington Publish ballot:

LZ Granderson: “No, in fact not, however they don’t actually care about public opinion, proper? In the event that they did, then all of this laws can be checked out otherwise. You realize, the factor that actually frustrates me most is the justices acknowledged that these new legal guidelines does impression minorities. They didn’t deny that facet of it. They only mentioned that the inconvenience of it isn’t so nice. Properly, they’re all privileged. And I grew up poor. I keep in mind my mother scraping collectively 50 cents, 75 cents, a greenback only for fuel to get to a grocery retailer. If you do this to polling locations, now you’re forcing minorities to resolve whether or not or not they’re going to speculate cash, fuel cash, to get to the polling locations that at the moment are additional away or do I take advantage of this fuel cash to get to the grocery retailer or do I to get to work. They’re privileged, saying that this doesn’t inconvenience them sufficient. Properly, how have you learnt? When was the final time you had been that poor?”

Mary Jordan: “I’d like to speak about, I went down in Mississippi, and I noticed this. And on the morning of the election, individuals would end up and the polling place can be closed within the place the place there have been a variety of Democratic voters. And so the query then was do I drive, so I spend one other 45 minutes within the automobile to go there and wait in a extremely lengthy line? There’s every kind of soiled methods being performed about closing polls, switching the place you’re speculated to be, telling individuals they’re within the unsuitable place even when they’re in the precise place. I feel if individuals actually knew what was occurring, as a result of it differs state by state and county by county, they might assume, you understand what, it’s July 4th right here. It’s all about voting, proper? It’s probably the most elementary of rights. We had the Boston tea occasion as a result of we couldn’t vote, and we had been getting taxed. And it’s sort of stunning that proper now, lots of people don’t have the identical entry to votes as different People.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Granderson and Jordan gave the impression to be looking for anecdotes to justify their place in opposition to very primary voter integrity guidelines and got here up with fairly weak ones. Making everybody vote at their native precinct is the final word in equity and requires the least bus cash whereas eliminating plenty of alternatives for confusion and fraud. As for all of the misdeeds Jordan noticed in areas ‘the place there have been a variety of Democratic voters,’ which power individuals to ‘spend one other 45 minutes within the automobile,’ that’s simply what the Arizona native precinct rule is supposed to stop. And which occasion controls the election programs just about all over the place the place minorities and Democrats are the bulk? It’s not wealthy, privileged Supreme Court docket justices.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ June 28: Liberal Media Scream: Taxpayer-subsidized PBS is extra DNC than the DNC

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the clearest instance but that taxpayer-subsidized PBS is changing into an arm of the Democratic Nationwide Committee.

Showing on Meet the Press, activist journalist Yamiche Alcindor echoed the DNC speaking factors on state-passed voting reforms, ignoring a number of reality checks which have proven that some, notably Georgia, have adopted extra progressive voting modifications than President Joe Biden’s house state or uber-liberal Connecticut.

As an alternative, the brand new host of PBS’s Washington Week and the White Home correspondent for PBS NewsHour declared “an existential disaster in America” and went as far as to say that states are taking votes away from individuals “if we don’t like the way in which that you just voted.”

And, as she has earlier than, she gave the president slightly recommendation, this time to “speed up his nominees to the courts.”

From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

“If you discuss to people who find themselves actually accustomed to the fascinated with this, it’s that Democrats understand that they could, that it’s not going to solely be solved in a legislative means. There needs to be a judicial and a courtroom battle forward. And once I’m speaking to civil rights activists, they are saying they wish to see two particular issues: One, the DOJ actually going after state legislatures. So, it’s to say you can’t simply, not solely voters, not solely suppress individuals’s votes, however nullify individuals’s votes. So, that may’t be the way in which that America works. The second factor that they wish to see is extra judges on the courtroom. They wish to see President Biden speed up his nominees to the courts. So, I feel that’s additionally the place that is going.

“That is an existential disaster in America. Who can really get the entry to vote? Republicans in state legislatures are saying in the event you, primarily, and critics would say that ‘if we don’t like the way in which that you just voted, we are going to take away your vote.’ And that, I feel, is an actual downside. For those who have a look at Philadelphia state legislatures and in the event that they, and whether or not or not they will even nullify one million votes in Philly — that could possibly be an issue and an enormous downside.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker defined our weekly decide: “If there was any doubt remaining about whether or not Alcindor is a journalist or a Democratic political activist pretending to be a journalist, she eradicated it with this bombast, which has no foundation in actuality and echos probably the most excessive rhetoric of far-left activists. No person’s vote is being taken away anyplace. The truth is, whereas some Republican states have set guidelines to ensure a number of days of early voting, some states, comparable to Democratic-run Connecticut, don’t have any early voting.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ June 21: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd calls parent-led opposition to vital race principle faux

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the dismissal by NBC’s Chuck Todd of parent-led opposition to the instructing of vital race principle in colleges.

“It’s manufactured,” he mentioned, brushing apart all of the protests, even many close to Washington the place Todd experiences from, of public faculty dad and mom lining as much as oppose CRT. His Meet the Press visitor, pollster Cornell Belcher, went additional, blaming former President Trump and “tribalism.”

The truth is, polls present that even within the liberal Washington suburbs, the bulk oppose instructing the revisionism that America is mainly racist.

From the roundtable on the June 20 Meet the Press, with feedback first from PBS NewsHour chief correspondent Amna Nawaz and Republican pollster Brad Todd:

AMNA NAWAZ: Yeah. And particular to this concept of vital race principle, I’ve to inform you, I simply spent a while reporting on this county in Virginia about an hour exterior of Washington. And to your level, that is one thing that’s mobilizing individuals and resonating very deeply. It was a couple of 100 diploma day. Dozens and dozens and dozens of oldsters, largely white, on this largely prosperous county, confirmed up to a faculty board assembly, for a lot of of them, the very first faculty board assembly they’d ever attended, particularly due to this one situation.

BRAD TODD: That’s essential to notice, that you just talked about vital race principle a pair instances. This can be a parent-led backlash on the grassroots stage.

CHUCK TODD: It’s manufactured, after which kind of appears to have been lit, the fireplace was lit.

BRAD TODD: I disagree. I feel it began as a result of dad and mom have had it with the training forms after COVID. They’re fed up with it. They have a tendency to belief Democrats on the subject of training funding, however they belief Republicans on training accountability. I feel that what the backlash you’re seeing on vital race principle in colleges is one other instance of oldsters making an attempt to carry educators accountable.

CORNELL BELCHER: It’s coordinated. It’s aggressive. It’s intentional, proper? That is, that is a part of the tribalism play. The vital race principle is yet one more instrument within the racial tribal boogeyman’s toolbox to drive and inflame tribalism, which Republicans assume helps them in elections. That is Trump 2.0. That is, it’s a continuation of this, proper? Vital race principle is an, an arcane kind of ideally suited. Why is it entrance and heart proper now? The identical motive that Mitch McConnell assaults Stacey Abrams when she got here out for the voting invoice. It’s racial. It’s tribalism. We’ve seen it develop underneath Trump. And that is half and partial of it. And so they assume this helps ignite their base. There’s no means this isn’t grassroots. And, Brad, you understand that is organized and is being paid for.

CHUCK TODD: However, you understand, Ashley-

BRAD TODD: We’re not superb at organizing something on our aspect.

CORNELL BELCHER: You all are higher than us.

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Typical of boastful information media figures, dismissing grassroots issues as ‘manufactured’ and racist, as if on their very own dad and mom can’t acknowledge extremist racial instructing that may additional divide the nation. And it takes chutzpah for Belcher to accuse conservatives of ‘Trump 2.0’ and using ‘the racial tribal boogeyman’s toolbox to drive and inflame tribalism,’ when liberals have spent the final months racializing efforts to cross voter integrity legal guidelines by calling them ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ June 14: Liberal Media Scream: GQ journo says US could also be worse than Russia on human rights

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a prize-winning Russian-born journalist suggesting that President Joe Biden has no standing to problem Russian President Vladimir Putin on human rights.

Julia Ioffe, showing on MSNBC, mentioned america fails the ethical superiority check due to “voter suppression” and police “continually” killing black individuals.

Ioffe, who writes for GQ and different websites, mentioned, “It’s a lot tougher to speak to Vladimir Putin about human rights once we nonetheless haven’t cleaned up our mess at house.” And, she added, “Russians are seeing precisely what we’re seeing: the voter suppression legal guidelines, the, you understand, slide towards minority rule, the undermining of our personal democracy.”

Ioffe on Morning Joe right this moment:

“I did wish to return rapidly to the purpose of ‘whataboutism.’ After all, it’s a means of not answering the query, but it surely works on many individuals as a result of they at all times begin with a grain of fact, proper? And, you understand, it’s fascinating. Sure, the Soviet Union continually talked concerning the violation of the civil rights of African-People in America within the ’50s and ’60s and even going again to the ’30s. And one of many causes that the Civil Rights Act was handed and that the American president obtained behind it was to sort of take this card out of the fingers of the Soviets.

“And, you understand, President Biden, politically talking, isn’t going into this assembly with a terrific hand of playing cards, both. You realize, Russians are seeing precisely what we’re seeing: the voter suppression legal guidelines, the, you understand, slide towards minority rule, the undermining of our personal democracy. So it’s a lot tougher to speak to, you understand, we’re seeing black women and men being killed by police continually on this nation, so it’s a lot tougher to speak to Vladimir Putin about human rights once we nonetheless haven’t cleaned up our mess at house.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Ioffe not solely returned to ‘whataboutism,’ however she returned to the left-wing’s ethical equivalence between the U.S. and Soviet Union of the Chilly Warfare years when all too many journalists had been extra upset by what President Reagan mentioned concerning the Soviet Union than the human rights violations dedicated by the Soviets. She’s now justifying Putin’s tackle the U.S. by treating some shortcomings of the U.S., and democratic debate inside our nation about how one can enhance these shortcomings, with a Russian dictator who has no real interest in civil rights for anybody as he suppresses dissent, utilizing unjustified incarceration and homicide as his instruments.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ June 7: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Stelter offers the total Monty to Biden’s Jen Psaki

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN media critic Brian Stelter’s “interview” of White Home press secretary Jen Psaki, a show of how the liberal cable channel has whipsawed from ripping the Trump administration to fawning over the Biden crew.

Simply contemplate his first query throughout his Sunday present.

“What do you assume we get unsuitable?” Stelter requested.

That was adopted up with questioning, “what’s your recommendation” for journalists “to remain near the reality on this world of lies?”

Then, after noting that he and Psaki have younger youngsters, he requested, “What sort of nation is that this going to be when they’re our age? Do you concern that, given the craziness we’re seeing from the GOP? Do you concern that for our youngsters, your youngsters and mine?”

Stelter sympathetically arrange the section, recorded on Friday and aired on Sunday’s Dependable Sources: “On this period of media bunkers and various realities, the White Home press secretary faces some distinctive challenges. So let’s hear from Jen Psaki to get her perspective practically 5 months into the job and about what may lie forward.”

A few of his “questions” to Psaki:

    ♦ “Busy summer season forward, infrastructure, election reform. What does the press get unsuitable when overlaying Biden’s agenda? If you watch the information, whenever you learn the information, what do you assume we get unsuitable?”
    ♦ “For different P.R. professionals who watch what you do, for journalists who watch what you do, what’s your recommendation for them about making an attempt to remain as near the reality on this world of lies?”
    ♦ “I do know that is typically adversarial, but it surely additionally needs to be useful. Is the connection between the White Home and the press corps now a minimum of useful in ways in which it wasn’t within the Trump years?” (Psaki: “I feel so.”)
   ♦ “That is what I actually needed to ask you. You talked about your youngsters, you might have a daughter going into kindergarten, I’ve a daughter going into pre-Okay. And I feel to myself, what sort of nation is that this going to be when they’re our age? Do you concern that, given the craziness we’re seeing from the GOP? Do you concern that for our youngsters, your youngsters and mine?”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “My how the world has modified from the Trump years when CNN handled White Home officers as enemies who have to be discredited. Now, White Home employees are their associates and allies. Stelter needs to be embarrassed by such a efficiency after years of disdain for Trump’s politics and press secretaries. However he gained’t be. On this interview he acted extra like a groveling pupil craving for his professor’s approval (‘Inform me what I’m doing unsuitable,’ ‘How can we be a truthful as you?’), adopted by making an attempt to indicate his shared disdain for her political opponents, than any sort of journalist holding these in energy to account.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ Could 31: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Some issues could also be true, even when Donald Trump mentioned them’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a prime critic of the Trump years, ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who lastly mentioned out loud what supporters of President Donald Trump already knew: The White Home press corps had such contempt for the president that they dismissed all the things he mentioned.

Or, in Karl’s phrases, “some issues could also be true, even when Donald Trump mentioned them.”

Karl on Sunday’s This Week grudgingly conceded that Trump could have been appropriate in pointing to a lab in Wuhan, China, because the supply of COVID-19. He blamed Trump, not journalists, for ignoring the lab because the supply due to how Trump used “racist” phrases in describing the virus.

Throughout the roundtable section on This Week, after host Martha Raddatz advised “some individuals have egg on their face” for being so dismissive of the chance that the COVID-19 virus got here out of a Chinese language lab, Karl mentioned:

“Sure, I feel lots of people have egg on their face. This was an concept that was first put ahead by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump. And look, some issues could also be true, even when Donald Trump mentioned them. And there was — as a result of Trump was saying a lot else that was simply uncontrolled, and since he was, you understand, making a frankly racist enchantment speaking about ‘kung-flu’ and the ‘China virus,’ his notion that he put ahead that this may occasionally have, or that he mentioned flatly that this got here from that lab, was broadly dismissed. However really, there’s some actual motive — we don’t know, by the way in which, we nonetheless don’t know, we completely don’t know, however now, severe individuals are saying it wants a severe inquiry.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Karl mentioned out loud what everybody already presumed: So many within the Washington press corps had such contempt for President Trump that they dismissed something he mentioned they might characterize of their minds as coming from foul motives. Thus, journalists proudly rationalized placing their prejudices first. However that meant the media failed in its primary responsibility to tell the general public of the most effective data out there concerning the supply of a pandemic which has killed 3.5 million worldwide.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ Could 24: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ Could 17: Liberal Media Scream: Chuck Todd doesn’t prefer to be known as liberal, ‘Don’t begin that!’

(Washington Examiner submit)

The query on this week’s Liberal Mainstream Scream is that this: Can NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd deal with the reality?

A solution got here in his interview with Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw after Todd hit him for 5 questions on the removing of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney because the No. 3 Home chief after she refused to cease criticizing former President Donald Trump on his election fraud claims.

An exacerbated Crenshaw, after watching the liberal media flip the ouster into the subsequent catastrophe for the GOP, blurted out, “You guys within the press love doing this” and “I get it, proper? The press is essentially liberal. They’re largely pro-Democrat.”

Todd wouldn’t hear it and tried to take again the dialog. “No, no, no, no, don’t begin that … There’s nothing lazier. There’s nothing lazier than that,” he mentioned.

Todd tried repeatedly to get Crenshaw to denounce his Republican colleagues and Trump in a collection of questions, beginning with asking him to agree that “Liz Cheney was kicked out of management just because she wouldn’t carry the water of former President Trump’s election lies.” He adopted up with “Why ought to anyone imagine a phrase you say if the Republican occasion itself doesn’t have credibility?” and “Do any of your critiques come throughout as credible in the event you can’t settle for the basic incontrovertible fact that our democracy held a free and honest election?”

He then pressed Crenshaw to backtrack from ever asking courts to overview some election processes, resulting in this change on the Sunday program:

CHUCK TODD: This is a matter that many individuals have, is that you just’re sitting right here making an attempt to, making an attempt to say, ‘No, no, no, no, I simply had a selected query,’ but what you probably did will get weaponized by the previous president. Did you see the rantings of him yesterday? And to the purpose the place a Republican official in Maricopa County known as the previous president ‘unhinged.’ You realize, I perceive you guys wish to put this behind you, however he’s the chief of your occasion, and he doesn’t cease speaking about this nonsense.

REP. DAN CRENSHAW: Chuck, the one — look, he’s considered one of many leaders within the occasion. He’s a former president. We’re 5 months into President Biden’s presidency, and there’s a time to maneuver on. And look, you guys within the press love doing this, and I, and I get it, proper? The press is essentially liberal. They’re largely pro-Democrat.

TODD: No, no, no, no, don’t begin that. That’s the laz — look, there’s nothing lazier. There’s nothing lazier than that.

CRENSHAW: It’s. I imply, there’s a variety of, there’s a variety of causes to maintain this alive.

TODD: I perceive — what you’re making an attempt to appease —

CRENSHAW: And there’s lots of people in my occasion that take the bait. I’m not going to take the bait right here —

TODD: I’m not making an attempt to bait you. I’m making an attempt to — I’m making an attempt to determine —

CRENSHAW: What’s the end result you’re in search of?

TODD: Why do you, why do you, why can we sit right here and have a political occasion that’s mainly rallying round this weird lie and mythology that the previous president is doing, and also you guys simply wish to say, ‘Hey, pay no consideration to this,’ that, that in some way we within the press are bringing that up. It’s the previous president.

CRENSHAW: Properly, I already, I already debunked the notion, I already debunked the notion that there is, that there’s no house within the occasion for that. Bear in mind, Liz gained that first election —

CHUCK TODD: She’s not there now.

CRENSHAW: She gained that first management vote, OK? And I advised you why. I helped you perceive why. And what I’m making an attempt that can assist you perceive is these should not the cellphone calls I get about this, about who’s the chief of the occasion, what’s taking place with Trump? My Republican supporters don’t ask me about Trump, they don’t ask me about what he mentioned, they’re not riled up about it. You realize what they’re asking about? What are we doing about over 1 / 4 million unlawful crossings on our border within the final two months? That’s what they’re asking about. How is that sustainable? What about my inflation? What about my financial savings that at the moment are much less useful due to rising inflation as a result of we’re spending cash that we don’t have.

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “There’s nothing lazier than a liberal journalist, within the midst of pursuing a liberal narrative, denying the plain actuality that the press and journalists are largely liberal. If Todd doesn’t need his visitor to name out his biased agenda, then he shouldn’t hold asking a variation of the identical query again and again as a result of the visitor gained’t accede to his left-wing speaking factors.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ New on Could 10: Liberal Media Scream: Six extra years of ‘Stacey Abrams for president’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent and gushiest media profile of politician and writer (and surprise girl?) Stacey Abrams, who misplaced in her final election however who journalists imagine can be president quickly.

CBS Sunday Morning larded on the compliments and promoted her presidential ambitions.

In a section tied to plugging a brand new novel by Abrams, Erin Moriarty mentioned, “Your important character is at all times a lady of coloration who’s sensible and gutsy and funky underneath strain. Briefly, Stacey Abrams.”

After hailing her efforts to counter Republican voter integrity guidelines, Moriarty celebrated how “making certain that proper to vote could sometime assist Abrams obtain her best dream: working for president.”

From the Sunday version of the present:

JANE PAULEY: We’re in dialog this morning with Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician who was a power in final 12 months’s presidential election. However she’s a lady of many different abilities, as she’ll inform Erin Moriarty …

MORIARTY: Stacey Abrams has at all times dreamed massive and achieved a lot, however there’s additionally one other aspect to the political activist from Georgia.

ABRAMS: I feel individuals can be shocked.

MORIARTY: Developing on Sunday Morning, a dialog with a lady of many abilities and identities.
…
MORIARTY: Your important character is at all times a lady of coloration who’s sensible and gutsy and funky underneath strain. Briefly, Stacey Abrams.

ABRAMS: Properly, I attempt to emulate my characters, and I attempt to have my characters replicate who I’m.
…
MORIARTY: Guaranteeing that proper to vote could sometime assist Abrams obtain her best dream: working for president.

ABRAMS: Do I maintain it as an ambition? Completely. And much more importantly, when somebody asks me if that’s my ambition, I’ve a duty to say sure for each younger girl, each individual of coloration, each younger individual of coloration who sees me and decides what they’re able to based mostly on what I feel I’m able to. Once more, it’s about you can’t have these stuff you refuse to dream of.

MORIARTY: With Georgia, Florida, and most not too long ago Texas, passing legal guidelines that restrict voting, Abrams is increasing Truthful Struggle’s efforts across the nation. She has a digital e book tour plan for her new novel and, in fact, extra books to put in writing, which leaves little time for the rest. How do you might have any time for a private life?

ABRAMS: Properly, let’s be clear. So Truthful Struggle, there’s additionally the Southern Financial Development Mission, there’s Truthful Rely, there’s writing —

MORIARTY: You’re making my level for me. You’re making my level!

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “It have to be good to be a liberal Democrat, really easy to get a pleasant profile from a serious media outlet selling your political ambitions. Moriarty is clearly a private admirer as she poured on the effusive reward, heralding Abrams for a way she has ‘achieved a lot,’ citing her ‘many abilities,’ and touting her as ‘sensible and gutsy.’ CBS by no means needed to establish her as a liberal or a Democrat. With that sort of pleasure about her from a journalist, viewers knew she couldn’t be the rest.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ Could 3: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC declares black Sen. Tim Scott a race traitor

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream featured a racist assault by a black MSNBC host on South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, additionally black, after he rebutted President Joe Biden’s joint session speech to declaring that America isn’t racist.

Main the cable community’s assault was host Tiffany Cross, who denigrated Scott for having the gall to dispute the liberal line that America is racist.

She rolled out each racist phrase she might. Cross known as Scott “a stone idiot,” “slow-witted,” “a token,” and known as his factors “asinine,” all earlier than the very low blow that Harriet Tubman would have left Scott “behind.”

Cross, nonetheless, didn’t have an issue when Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris agreed america is “not a racist nation.”

From Saturday’s The Cross Connection on MSNBC:

Tiffany Cross: “This week, the only black Republican within the Senate sounded a stone idiot when he mentioned this.”

Scott, within the Republican response to Biden’s handle to a joint session of Congress: “Hear me clearly, America isn’t a racist nation.”

Cross: “OK. Let’s be clear. Tim Scott doesn’t characterize any constituency apart from the small variety of sleepy, slow-witted victims of Stockholm syndrome who get elevated to prominence for repeating a false narrative about this nation that makes conservative white individuals really feel snug as a result of whenever you converse an uncomfortable fact, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, the occasion that Scott claims isn’t racist will get massive mad and tries to silence you. Simply this week, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell requested Training Secretary Miguel Cardona to scrap instructing the 1619 Mission in colleges as a result of it will ‘reorient the view of American historical past.’ Fortunate for McConnell, he has his personal faucet dancer to try to reorient the view of America for him.”

“There have been so many contradictions within the senator’s speech that it was clear not even Scott believed the phrases he was talking. I might go into element refuting every of his asinine factors, however he did that for me, and furthermore, a lesson I’ve discovered, don’t argue with individuals Harriet Tubman would have left behind. And certain, Tim Scott has spoken out about his encounters with regulation enforcement, and he co-sponsored the anti-lynching invoice within the Senate, however there are two sides to each token. So thirsty for white approval, this dude really stood on the nationwide stage to defend the voter suppression regulation in Georgia though, as of final month, 361 payments had been being launched in 47 states to maintain individuals who appear like him out of the poll field.

“The flexibility to disgrace the ancestors and appease the oppressors multi function speech, that’s excessive, although not fairly just like the home violent extremism that the Division of Homeland Safety is investigating inside its personal ranks, thoughts you. However please, senator, say extra about how un-racist the nation is when you trot out that drained line about going from cotton to Congress to clown. Maybe this was merely Sen. Scott’s audition to be Sam Jackson’s understudy within the movie Django as a result of, as a descendant of the enslaved and rattling close to a every day survivor of institutional racism, I can guarantee you the query, ‘is America a racist nation?’, is one which has been requested and answered many instances over.

“But we nonetheless love America. Not for what it was, however for what it could possibly be. On this one, you’re not solely on the unsuitable aspect of the aisle, Sen. Scott, however you’re embarrassingly on the unsuitable aspect of historical past, as properly.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “The 5 scream scale will not be satisfactory for this one. What a disgusting, hate-filled commentary full of non-public invective, excoriating a U.S. senator as some kind of race traitor for daring to deviate from the left-wing line on how America is a racist nation and anybody who’s black should not stray from particular insurance policies advocated by the Democratic occasion. Cross exhibits how scared liberals are of opposite views, pouncing to silence any divergence from the left’s race orthodoxy earlier than it will possibly get any consideration.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ April 26: Liberal Media Scream: DeSantis have to be prime canine the way in which media bark at him

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits the most recent proof that the media view rising Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as an enormous risk.

The identical group that likes to stay “Hate Has No House Right here” posters of their entrance yard has pulled out each nasty identify and reference they will to belittle his enhancements within the state, which continues to see hoards shifting there from the north.

The newest: He’s the reincarnation of former Alabama segregationist Gov. George Wallace.

On MSNBC late final week, anchor Pleasure Reid went on a rant making an attempt to discredit DeSantis as a Wallace-inspired racist for signing a invoice to carry rioters accountable for damages and hurt to others. “It feels so George Wallace that I’m shocked that George Wallace didn’t really consider it again when he was governor of Alabama,” she mentioned.

After a visitor from Black Lives Matter declared, “That is straight out of the Jim Crow textbook,” and that “white supremacy is scared to demise of us,” Reid mentioned, “DeSantis seems to essentially wish to reenact your entire George Wallace historical past. I assume he needs to be the modern-day George Wallace, as a result of he’s enacting a slew of legal guidelines that primarily attempt to make it unlawful to protest within the state of Florida.”

One thing they didn’t spotlight: Wallace was a Democrat who pursued segregationist insurance policies, as others in his occasion had. He was common sufficient that within the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, he misplaced to George McGovern by simply 2 factors within the common vote. He gained the Maryland and Michigan primaries, amongst others, regardless of being shot in an assassination try.

From the Thursday, April 22 The ReidOut on MSNBC:

JOY REID: You realize, Brittany, this feels prefer it’s directed at y’all. That is directed at Black Lives Matter. It feels so George Wallace that I’m shocked that George Wallace didn’t really consider it again when he was governor of Alabama.

BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM, BLM ACTIVIST: Oh, that is straight out of the Jim Crow textbook, and let’s contextualize Jim Crow, we could? When black individuals obtained extra free, there have been new legal guidelines created to make us much less free. That is precisely what is going on proper now. What this really exhibits me, Pleasure, is that white supremacy is scared to demise of us, and it completely needs to be. That is what you do whenever you can not win honest and sq.. You suppress votes, and also you suppress voice. So, now we have to concentrate right here, as a result of the GOP performs the lengthy sport, and so they play the expansive sport. They plan far upfront. They gerrymander states in order that they will management statehouses, after which, they use all of that energy to take care of their energy and suppress us from a number of angles. So, then they make it unlawful to have interaction within the two most democratic practices you bought on this nation, and so they ensure to focus on black people once they do it. That means, amongst different issues, you’ll be able to leverage the police that you just’ve militarized to guard your programs and to proceed to terrorize us. So, it’s our job to maintain them on the ropes, as a result of that is what desperation appears like, and I would like them to remain determined. They know the way {powerful} we’re. That’s why we’re seeing this.

REID: You realize, Rep. [Anna] Eskamani, the racist Miami sheriff who coined the time period ‘When the looting begins, the capturing begins’ was from South Florida. Donald Trump then turns round and quotes him. Ron DeSantis seems to essentially wish to reenact your entire George Wallace historical past. I assume he needs to be the modern-day George Wallace, as a result of he’s enacting a slew of legal guidelines that primarily attempt to make it unlawful to protest within the state of Florida, unlawful to the touch their treasured Accomplice statues from the shedding aspect of the Civil Warfare, proper? However then we can also’t vote. That is Jim Crow in your state. What can Democrats do about it?

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Reid way back misplaced any pretense of being a journalist and is now only a left-wing political activist devoted to smearing and discrediting conservative politicians, particularly rising leaders like DeSantis who dare acquire traction on the Proper by going in opposition to the woke far-left political narrative. She’s returned to her political roots. She labored for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential marketing campaign. Now, she’s engaged on behalf of your entire Democratic Celebration to abet its most radical parts.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams

 

■ April 19: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

■ April 12: Liberal Media Scream: Smug shrugs from 60 Minutes on DeSantis hit job

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream turns to the sloppy 60 Minutes report final week on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the TV information journal’s smug refusal to confess its reporting and enhancing failures in a narrative a Washington Publish media critic known as “a plume of innuendo.”

Below fireplace for every week for suggesting the governor was in a “pay to play” scandal it by no means proved, 60 Minutes as an alternative supplied an enormous “no matter” in response to critics.

At situation was a narrative two Sundays again by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who advised DeSantis partnered with Florida’s Publix supermarkets to provide COVID-19 pictures after dishing contributions to him.

He denied the costs, however a lot of his rationalization was edited out of the story, and media critics mentioned that the reporter made her case poorly. DeSantis known as the story a “massive lie.”

Final evening, on the finish of the present, when letters are generally learn, Alfonsi didn’t pull again her story and as an alternative learn excerpts from three letters, beginning with how “some viewers, together with a retired newsman, applauded the story.”

She moved on to a lady who denounced CBS’s “shameful biased reporting,” then ended with a cutesy problem from a person who wrote, “I’ll solely watch” the present “another time. Simply to see in the event you broadcast this message.”

From the conclusion of the April 11 60 Minutes:

Sharyn Alfonsi: “Within the mail this week, feedback on our story about disparities within the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine in Palm Seaside County, Florida. Viewers centered on an change with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a press convention. Some viewers, together with a retired newsman, applauded the story.”

Studying a letter from Nick Boryack of Vero Seaside, Florida: “Ron DeSantis will proceed to disclaim, refute, name your reporting a witch hunt. I can solely hope that you just proceed to research and expose the reality.”

Alfonsi: “However many extra feedback condemned our enhancing and reporting.”

Studying a letter from Amy Ernest of Houston, Texas: “Shameful biased reporting – that’s what you might be responsible of. You’re not journalists, however lobbyists and advocates.”

Alfonsi: “Then there was this:”

Alfonsi studying a letter from David Plewes of Lighthouse Level, Florida: “I’ve watched 60 Minutes for many years. After your biased piece on Governor DeSantis, I’ll solely watch it another time. Simply to see in the event you broadcast this message.”

Alfonsi: “I’m Sharyn Alfonsi. We’ll be again subsequent week with one other version of 60 Minutes.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “A really outstanding instance of how the information media refuse to carry themselves accountable which gives extra contemporary proof for why anybody proper of heart has no motive to ever belief journalists to be honest to a conservative elected official. After every week by which Democrats, and even liberal media observers, condemned 60 Minutes for a distorted story, the present didn’t admit its misdeeds or retract the story. As an alternative, they dug in, downgrading accountability to studying just a few random viewer feedback.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ April 5: Liberal Media Scream: PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor connects Georgia voting to George Floyd trial

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits the lockstep reactionaryism to Georgia’s new election reform regulation that truly expands some voting protections — however is seemingly too troublesome for critics to learn.

The checklist of these blasting it as racist is lengthy, however we characteristic PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor as a result of she took it one other step and tied it to the homicide trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged within the demise of George Floyd.

“Watching this [Chauvin] trial and watching what’s occurring in Georgia, they completely join,” she mentioned throughout Meet the Press on Sunday.

The Georgia regulation has divided partisans, particularly company America’s response, together with MLB’s resolution final week to maneuver the annual All-Star Recreation out of Atlanta in protest. On the similar time, some information shops have began to review the brand new regulation extra and located much less to complain about whereas noting that a number of different states have a lot stricter election guidelines.

From the present:

Yamiche Alcindor: “Properly, the Chauvin trial, and that homicide trial within the demise of George Floyd, is linked to voting rights as a result of, on the finish of the day, it’s about how African People and whether or not African People are allowed to outlive and thrive in America and are in a position to have entry to the rules that America holds up as close to and expensive. And that, in fact, is democracy. However it’s additionally your skill to pursue happiness and to not have an officer kneel in your neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Watching this trial and watching what’s occurring in Georgia, they completely join.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Alcindor displayed the all too typical angle of journalists who don’t see something unsuitable with presuming advocates of constructing voting safer are not any completely different than enforcers of ‘Jim Crow’ or, as she charged, are against letting African People ‘survive’ in America. Linking Georgia, which really expanded voting entry in a number of methods, to a homicide trial is an outrage and exhibits Alcindor is extra a far-left political advocate, who stirs up racial animosities to advance a trigger, than any sort of dispassionate journalist.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ March 29: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Unhappy however true,’ Pleasure Reid agrees GOP would make Jesus endure

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream has an Easter and election angle, but it surely’s not very uplifting.

It contains a well-known Georgetown College professor condemning GOP election reform efforts in states comparable to Georgia and suggesting that the occasion is so racist and imply it will “cross a regulation to maintain Jesus from getting a cup of water whereas he is dying on the cross.”

And, in fact, it led to Pleasure Reid, host of her present The ReidOut, agreeing with Professor Michael Eric Dyson.

The feedback got here whereas the nation is in a heated debate over election reform, with the GOP heading to tightening poll entry and Democrats shifting to open it as much as a nationwide mail-in system.

Reid’s present centered on condemning the GOP, and Dyson mentioned Republican efforts like these in Georgia are going additional than outdated segregationist Jim Crow legal guidelines. “The actual faith, the actual politics in America is whiteness and whiteness unhinged,” he mentioned.

Dyson on the Friday version of The ReidOut:

“I imply, President Biden is correct. That is Jim Crow, that is Jane Crow …The actual faith, the actual politics in America, is whiteness and whiteness unhinged … I feel he’s considering it severely when he sees the results. What he must do is fill these busters with some concern of the federal government. These are the sort of people that would cross a regulation to maintain Jesus from getting a cup of water whereas he is dying on the cross.”

Reid agreed: “Unhappy however true.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “A cute-sounding quip however with a tough edge simply earlier than Palm Sunday as MSNBC determined to showcase Dyson, a person who at all times sees racial animus motivating conservatives. It’s all a part of the far-left/information media joint effort to smear as racist anybody excited by conserving the voting system trustworthy, thus discrediting their issues with out having to deal with their substance.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ March 22: Liberal Media Scream: Seth Meyers rants in opposition to rural whites, Structure

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream steps exterior the standard lane of indignant information media figures to NBC’s Late Night time present hosted by Seth Meyers and his 15-minute rant for H.R. 1, the “For the Folks Act” election regulation, and in opposition to the filibuster.

His was a sweeping condemnation of Republicans, rural People, whites, and the Founding Fathers.

He opened Thursday by charging that the electoral system is “closely tilted towards a minority of voters which can be predominately white and rural, thanks largely to anti-majoritarian establishments just like the Electoral Faculty and the Senate.” He cited new Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s “impassioned speech in favor of sweeping voting reforms” and accused Republicans of pushing Jim Crow-style election modifications.

“Republicans tried to steal the final election by way of the courts. That didn’t work, so now they’re making an attempt to steal the subsequent election by way of voter suppression. Nuking or altering the filibuster to cease them is an ethical necessity,” he urged in his “Nearer Look” section:

A few of the lowlights:

“Our democracy as presently constituted is solely not a stage enjoying discipline. The truth is, it’s arguably by no means been a stage enjoying discipline, it’s closely tilted towards a minority of voters which can be predominately white and rural, thanks largely to anti-majoritarian establishments just like the Electoral Faculty and the Senate. Simply contemplate that proper now the Senate is evenly break up 50-50 and but the 50 Senate Democrats characterize practically 42 million extra People than the 50 Senate Republicans. For instance, Wyoming with a inhabitants of about 580,000 individuals, has two senators. And New York additionally has two senators, though there are 580,000 individuals simply on my co-op board. …

“I imply, simply contemplate the scope of how closely tilted our democratic establishments are towards Republicans. They’ve solely gained the favored vote as soon as within the final 32 years, but, they’ve appointed a majority of Supreme Court docket justices, they’ve misplaced the favored vote by practically 3 million. In 2016, misplaced the Home by the most important margin since Watergate in 2018, misplaced two Senate seats in traditionally purple Georgia this 12 months, and but, Mitch McConnell nonetheless mainly will get a veto over what the Senate can or can not cross. The one means the Senate can get something finished proper now could be by way of a course of known as price range reconciliation, which has extra guidelines than a Manhattan parking signal. …

“Warnock delivered an impassioned speech in favor of sweeping voting reforms, and he famous that the GOP assault on voting rights is probably the most ferocious assault on democracy for the reason that period of Jim Crow.”

[Sen. Raphael Warnock: “We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights, unlike anything we’ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes.”]

“He’s proper. And the garments aren’t even good. I imply, have a look at this [picture of Trump], it appears like he was thrown bare within the dumpster behind a Palm Seaside pro-shop, and given 5 minutes to choose an outfit. It’s an excellent Halloween costume if you wish to go as a misplaced grandpa at Disney World. Warnock was on the ground particularly to name for Senate passage of H.R. 1, a sweeping package deal of pressing voting reforms handed by the Home which can be desperately wanted to stage what’s presently a really lopsided enjoying discipline. H.R. 1 would fight just about each GOP voter suppression tactic by, amongst different issues, mandating nationwide early voting and no-excuse mail voting, instituting computerized and same-day voter registration, implementing public financing of elections, and banning congressional gerrymandering, amongst different issues. It’s additionally extremely common in polls, even among the many majority of Republican voters. So, naturally, Republican politicians are shedding their minds over it. …

“Republicans tried to steal the final election by way of the courts. That didn’t work, so now they’re making an attempt to steal the subsequent election by way of voter suppression. Nuking or altering the filibuster to cease them is an ethical necessity. We badly want sweeping reforms to make our democracy a stage enjoying discipline.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Meyers’s argument needs to be with the founders, not present-day Republicans. He’s upset that our constitutional system, with two senators from each state, is inhibiting the enactment of left-wing insurance policies, as if the Senate make-up is one thing new. He’s upset by Wyoming however ignores how the subsequent least-populous state, Vermont, has a socialist and a left-wing Democrat for senators. H.R. 1 needs to be referred to as the ‘Allow Unlawful Voting Act,’ because it’s a grab-bag of left-wing insurance policies geared toward making it simple for Democrats to get votes from these not certified to vote. The actual fact Meyers is so enthusiastic about it demonstrates he’s a left-wing Democratic activist first, a comic a distant second.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ March 15: Liberal Media Scream: Meet the Press blames Trump for Cuomo refusing to give up

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the most recent model of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” this time on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Discussing embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s refusal to step down over a few scandals, the tag crew of host Chuck Todd and visitor John Heilemann blamed Trump, suggesting that he set the “precedent” for refusing to give up when pressed by critics.

“He’s following what’s seen now because the Trump precedent,” mentioned Heilemann of Cuomo.

Todd turned on conservatives, calling them “enthusiastic about Cuomo’s downfall” when it’s been Democrats on the highest ranges calling the liberal governor to give up over COVID-19 and intercourse scandals.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

John Heilemann: “I feel, you understand, that the opposite factor that’s true is Cuomo is completely dug in. I feel the chance of Cuomo resigning is near zero. And I feel, you understand, he’s following proper now — uncomfortably for lots of Democrats — he’s following what’s seen now because the Trump precedent. You realize, if you’re decided sufficient, you might be shameless sufficient, you’ll be able to maintain on.

“And so the query then simply turns into: Does he really get impeached, does he really get thrown out? And I feel that’s going to be — a big query round that’s going to be what extra proof comes out over the approaching — perhaps sufficient now, however there’s going to be a big query of what else unfolds over the subsequent couple weeks.”

Chuck Todd: “It does really feel like he’s forcing that. I’m glad you introduced up Trump there a minute, John. Lanhee [Chen], I would like you to reply on one thing Tim Miller wrote within the Bulwark. He mentioned, ‘Dunking on Cuomo’s demise requires admitting that the opposite occasion has requirements and lays naked, as soon as once more, the cravenness of the excuse-making for Trump that stored the lights on for the previous 5 years.’ There’s a variety of conservative media, acolytes, and propagandists which can be very enthusiastic about Cuomo’s downfall, however they appear to not be very self-reflective.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Trump Derangement Syndrome lives on, particularly with these within the media nonetheless upset Trump’s private foibles didn’t undermine help amongst his followers. Heilemann and Todd can’t recover from their contempt for Trump and so nonetheless wish to scold his supporters for hypocrisy with out seeing any in themselves in cueing up a ‘Trump precedent’ to rationalize misbehavior by a liberal Democrat.”

Scream ranking: THREE out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ March 8: Liberal Media Scream: CNN anchor says Republicans don’t really feel ‘ache’ of individuals

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream takes a have a look at the in a single day bias on CNN, and it’s a doozy.

In response to CNN in a single day anchor Rosemary Church, Republicans are callous and heartless and might’t really feel the ache of these they characterize. It reminded us of once they used to name CNN the “Clinton Information Community” for its supportive protection of the president who famously mentioned in his 1992 marketing campaign, “I really feel your ache.”

The feedback got here after Senate Republicans balked at approving the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending invoice that the GOP mentioned spends little or no on quick coronavirus points.

Interviewing Ron Brownstein of the Atlantic, Church noticed urgency in advancing the Biden agenda.

The primary two inquiries to Brownstein from the Atlanta-based anchor for CNN Worldwide within the 3 a.m. hour of CNN Newsroom Reside simulcast on the home aspect:

“So President Biden’s COVID reduction package deal cleared the Senate with none Republican help Saturday. Now it’s heading again to the Home for a vote Tuesday. How doubtless is it that it’s going to cross this week? And the way crucial is it that this will get finished and finished quick?”

“How does all of this search for Republicans who didn’t get on board with serving to individuals? They don’t really feel a lot of the ache that different People are feeling throughout this pandemic, to allow them to’t start to grasp what individuals are going by way of. How a lot of a barrier is that disconnect for a celebration already scuffling with its personal identification?”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Church completely encapsulates the presumptions of so many journalists who assume it’s past dispute that anybody who opposes a large new spending invoice is an out-of-touch and uncaring lout, that anybody who disagrees with their outlook has crass motives unfit of consideration. It’s the sort of embedded bias which infuriates everybody proper of heart, however can’t be acknowledged by journalists like Church who’re blind to their very own bias.”

Scream ranking: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.

 

■ March 1: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Ali Velshi says racism defines America

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC host Ali Velshi condemning America as racist endlessly.

“Racism is one thing that has outlined america since its very founding,” mentioned the Kenyan-born former Canadian journalist on his present Velshi.

His feedback got here in introducing writer Heather McGhee on to speak about her e book on racism. In his intro, he mentioned American whites are so racist that they’ll damage their very own financial future to cease blacks.

McGhee, writer of The Sum of Us: What Racism Prices Everybody and How We Can Prosper Collectively, agreed and supplied Obamacare for instance of whites being racially pushed to oppose a useful program as a result of it was proposed by a black president.

From Saturday morning’s Velshi on MSNBC:

Ali Velshi: “Racism is one thing that has outlined america since its very founding. The truth is, it infects practically all sides of American life, like healthcare, about which we simply heard. However it additionally impacts our politics and our economics. The false perception that progress and prosperity for individuals of coloration comes on the expense of white individuals has helped prop up racist programs for generations. This zero-sum principle is what writer Heather McGhee tackles in her new e book, ‘The Sum of Us: What Racism Prices Everybody and How We Can Prosper Collectively.’ In it, she examines the self-destructive discount of white supremacy and the way a lot we’ve misplaced economically as a rustic on account of racism by way of a greenback quantity.

“One of many issues that appeals to me about your e book is the dialogue that you’ve about how individuals, typically white individuals or individuals who have energy and privilege in society, typically make selections that aren’t of their financial pursuits or work in opposition to their very own prosperity as a result of they really feel like giving different individuals, on this case, black individuals, sure rights and privileges will take away a few of their very own.”

Heather McGhee: “That’s precisely proper. I imply, to remain on the problem of healthcare, which you have lined so properly, Ali, you understand, white individuals are really the most important group of the uninsured, and but, ever for the reason that Inexpensive Care Act was signed by our first black president, the vast majority of white individuals have disapproved of the beautiful modest thought that’s Obamacare, and there’s an enormous correlation between racial resentment in opposition to black individuals and the southern, usually, states and likewise Maine, which is the whitest state within the nation, refusal to broaden Medicaid underneath Obamacare. So it’s this concept that authorities is on the aspect of individuals of coloration, and that’s the reason there’s such a fierce anti-government skepticism and suspicion among the many majority of white voters — the vast majority of white voters who’ve voted for the Republican Celebration for president, I’ll remind you, ever since Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “As individuals obsessed by race, Velshi and McGhee lack self-awareness in attributing racism to these with a special standpoint. It’s inconceivable to have a rational coverage dialogue when so many liberals within the media hurl racism accusations in any respect these of 1 race who don’t purchase into the liberal agenda, as if they can not have a logical motive for opposing the coverage apart from their presumed racism. It’s very damaging politics.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

■ February 22: Liberal Media Scream: Liberals rush to dump on Rush Limbaugh

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream takes word of the demise of conservative discuss radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who influenced many and even pushed some, notably former Vice President Mike Pence, to leap into politics.

Mates and allies had been effusive of their reward.

So too was the hate from his foes, too many to checklist right here. However for instance, we characteristic former New York Occasions media reporter Invoice Carter who disparaged Florida’s plans to honor the long-time resident.

Showing on CNN’s Dependable Sources, Carter, now a “media analyst” for CNN, contended Limbaugh didn’t deserve the eye given him by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who plans to decrease the state flag.

After host Brian Stelter requested him concerning the plan by DeSantis, Carter mentioned:

“Properly, it’s sort of stunning as a result of, I imply, initially, you understand the governor of Florida is simply enjoying for conservative consideration in doing that. However the justification is absolutely questionable.

“I imply, look, Limbaugh had an enormous following, and it was very fashionable amongst, you understand, a bunch of right-wing listeners. However he wasn’t a heroic determine. I imply, he had a variety of incidents that had been extraordinarily questionable, and his views had been fairly ugly, and so they damage lots of people. They damage some individuals personally.

“And I feel – you understand, there have been an terrible lot of people who find themselves justifiably saying why are you celebrating a man who attacked Barack Obama on race, who sang ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ and every kind of extraordinarily outrageous issues that, frankly, the conservatives beloved. They beloved him for that. And he established the model. He did. That was a model. However to make it a heroic factor or one thing that needs to be celebrated like, you understand, a struggle hero, I discover that fairly questionable.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Fairly commonplace liberal ‘standard knowledge’ right here from Carter, and that’s the frustration. You’d hope a reporter with a profession overlaying the media might rise above simply passing alongside liberal bromides and, a minimum of within the days after his passing, would supply one thing constructive a couple of man who earned the loyalty of tens of millions for greater than thirty years and impressed generations of People about the advantages of conservative coverage options.”

Score: 3 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ February 15: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Don Lemon goes there and blames ‘horrible Reagan’

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This week’s Liberal Media Scream options ranting CNN host Don Lemon tying all the things he doesn’t prefer to probably the most common presidents in United States historical past: Ronald Reagan.

“Reagan was horrible,” mentioned Lemon, who advised that the Republican’s two-term presidency paved the way in which for the Capitol riots.

Shouting over fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo, Lemon mentioned Republicans are additionally unhealthy for respecting Reagan.

“They maintain him as much as a gold commonplace. If you have a look at what he really achieved, he didn’t,” he mentioned.

From the Thursday, Feb. 11 CNN Tonight, throughout the handoff from Chris Cuomo’s 9 p.m. present to Lemon’s 10 p.m. present:

CHRIS CUOMO: Reagan and Bush Republicans had been nothing like these guys.

DON LEMON: I don’t learn about that.

CUOMO: Simply the problem of immigration. Have a look at how Reagan and George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush talked about immigration.

LEMON: Reagan was the primary presidential election that I voted in. And pay attention, … I’m simply saying that individuals maintain him as much as be — Reagan was not good. Reagan was horrible when it got here to—

CUOMO: Excellent? He gave us one of many greatest deficits we’ve ever seen, and he completely fed the divide.

LEMON: That is what I imply. They at all times maintain him up as a gold commonplace. However whenever you have a look at what he really achieved, he didn’t. He was horrible when it got here to racial points. He was horrible when it got here to the AIDS disaster. He was horrible when it got here to uniting the nation. He didn’t unite the nation — he was a divider. And they also maintain him up as a gold commonplace. … I simply assume it’s levels, however I feel the Republican Celebration has been shifting on this path endlessly.

Once more, they’re the occasion of all the things that they’re making an attempt to fake that they’re not. Now saying, “The individuals within the Capitol, that’s not us.” Sure, it’s you! “The folks that had been in Charlottesville, that’s not us.” Sure, it’s you! These individuals are not marching for Democrats. And this complete bizarre factor that they hold saying, “What concerning the riots and the demonstration that occurred this summer season?” That’s apples and oranges. To begin with, the demonstrations, the protests had been for one thing that’s actual. It was for inequality. It was for police brutality. It was for all these issues. It was individuals who had been rising up for his or her rights. What occurred on the Capitol was constructed on a lie.

Media Analysis Middle Vice President for Analysis and Publications Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Such disdain for the late former president, who’s a hero to conservatives and an inspiration to many oppressed by communism all over the world, exhibits the baselessness of the widespread media line that they needed to be hostile to Donald Trump as a result of he posed a brand new sort of harmful and racist risk to democracy and all that’s good about america. If Lemon had a CNN present within the Eighties he would have been simply as hostile to Reagan, calling him a racist evening after evening, as he was and is to Trump. Conservative presidents come and go, however the media contempt for them by no means wavers.”

Score: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ February 8: Liberal Media Scream: Reporter decries ‘ex-boyfriend…abuse’ from Group Trump

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream had a variety of decisions from reporters by no means happier than to have a brand new administration that thinks like they do to report on.

However just one expressed the reduction she felt in attending to cowl the Democratic Biden administration after the “unhealthy ex-boyfriend” abuse she felt coping with Group Trump.

On CNN on Sunday, Yahoo Information White Home correspondent Brittany Shepherd got here down arduous on former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. She in contrast McEnany’s White Home briefings to “having a extremely unhealthy ex-boyfriend. We had been getting primarily abused by Kayleigh for thus lengthy.”

And worse, she charged that McEnany incited individuals to “go to lethal ends for some individuals with demise threats.”

However now, with spokeswoman Jen Psaki, “It’s very refreshing.”

Shepherd on CNN’s Dependable Sources:

“It’s been actually refreshing to have briefings day by day and to even know who the senior officers speaking to Biden are. We weren’t getting that in any of the Trump years, particularly in these waning days of the McEnany briefings.

“And it’s refreshing, I do sort of put it in direction of like having a extremely unhealthy ex-boyfriend. We had been getting primarily abused by Kayleigh for thus lengthy, or a minimum of she was calling us faux information and inciting her followers and followers of the president to not solely harass us on-line however clearly go to lethal ends for some individuals with demise threats.

“Now, now we have Jen and your entire Biden crew. It’s very refreshing. However it’s essential to keep in mind that the bar has actually been left on the ground, and simply having the ability to present up and clear it isn’t sufficient.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Shepherd exemplifies the hostility the White Home press corps had towards Kayleigh McEnany and all issues Trump, mixed with their keen embrace of the brand new administration, fast to hail Biden’s press crew as ‘very refreshing.’ It’s as if Shepherd simply obtained a job switch from an workplace full of individuals she finds disreputable to a brand new workplace full of people that encourage her.”

Score: 3 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ February 1: Liberal Media Scream: New excessive in CNN bias, blames GOP for ‘divided America’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream contains a new excessive within the anti-GOP bias proven by CNN, this time blaming the political divide on the Tea Celebration, Sarah Palin, Roger Ailes, Fox Information, former Home Speaker Newt Gingrich, and, in fact, former President Donald Trump.

Over one hour final evening, Fareed Zakaria pointed an enormous finger on the GOP in his particular, The Divided States of America: What Is Tearing Us Aside? Again and again, the reply was boiled all the way down to Republicans. And if that wasn’t sufficient, Republicans had been generally described as racists.

Zakaria mentioned, “When students frolicked with Tea Celebration activists, they discovered that behind the discuss of taxes and massive authorities had been individuals largely motivated by fears about race and immigration.”

He moved on to how Ailes “turned his channel right into a right-wing bull horn, blurring information and opinion like by no means earlier than.”

He added, “Trump had a task mannequin for his exploitation of the category divide: Sarah Palin, who did it first.”

His ultimate goal was Gingrich: “Earlier than there was a Donald Trump, there was a Republican pioneer who paved the way in which for the Trump model of damaging politics. … His legacy has been each darkish and far-reaching — a everlasting state of struggle between the events.”

Some excerpts from CNN’s The Divided States of America: What’s Tearing Us Aside? which aired Sunday evening, Jan. 31:

FAREED ZAKARIA: When students frolicked with Tea Celebration activists, they discovered behind the discuss of taxes and massive authorities had been individuals largely motivated by fears about race and immigration.

JON MEACHAM: The individuals who have been most radicalized by the Trump years believed that range was an thought, not a vivid actuality.

ZAKARIA: In 1950, the 12 months our political events had been mentioned to be too comparable, the nation was about 90% white. Now in 2021, as we face an existential disaster of political division, America is about 59% white.

MEACHAM: We live in probably the most vivid manifestation of the politics of concern in our historical past. That’s the place we at the moment are.

…

ZAKARIA: Ailes grew to become the go-to right-wing media strategist of the Eighties, notorious for his vicious assaults.

TV AD NARRATOR: As Gov. Michael Dukakis gave weekend furloughs to first-degree murderers.

ZAKARIA: In 1996, Ailes discovered his future when billionaire Rupert Murdoch got here calling. The appropriate wing’s favourite hatchet man was now creating a brand new information community. The outdated, mainstream media cartel had splintered.

BRIT HUME, IN OLD FNC PROMO: As of late, individuals assume TV information is about as unbiased because the commercials.

ZAKARIA: On cable, each channel wanted to seek out its personal slice of the viewers. Ailes turned his channel right into a right-wing bull horn, blurring information and opinion like by no means earlier than. Massive scores and earnings quickly adopted.

…

ZAKARIA: Donald Trump had a task mannequin for his exploitation of the category divide: Sarah Palin, who did it first. When America’s hockey mother grew to become John McCain’s working mate in 2008 —

SARAH PALIN, FORMER REPUBLICAN ALASKA GOVERNOR: They are saying the distinction between a hockey mother and a pit bull: lipstick.

ZAKARIA: She leaned closely on identification politics, on American values and tradition, to rile up her base.

PALIN: I’m not a member of the everlasting political institution.

ZAKARIA: Her model of America, speaking about the actual America, saying, ‘I’m considered one of you,’ was the precursor of Trump’s struggle on elites.

GEORGE PACKER: Sarah Palin, who I consider as John the Baptist to Trump, she was the one who got here first.

DONALD TRUMP: Governor Sarah Palin.

…

ZAKARIA: However earlier than there was a Donald Trump, there was a Republican pioneer who paved the way in which for the Trump model of damaging politics.

NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER: I’m a real revolutionary. They’re the real reactionaries. We’re going to change their world.

ZAKARIA: That is the story of Newt Gingrich, the person who wrote the playbook for the fashionable conservative motion. … It was a really completely different time in politics when civility and compromise mattered. Home Republican Chief Bob Michael was broadly referred to as Mr. Good Man. Think about that.

VAN JONES: Newt Gingrich is available in with a buzz noticed.

GINGRICH: What we live by way of is a elementary civil battle, a civil struggle fought in public speeches slightly than with armies.

ZAKARIA: The Gingrich philosophy: The one means for Republicans to win again energy was to be nasty — actually nasty.

GINGRICH: For the Democrats to mainly say not solely are we going to rape you however you must pay for the resort room is a bit a lot.

ZAKARIA: To deal with Democrats not as opponents however the enemy. … His legacy has been each darkish and far-reaching — a everlasting state of struggle between the events.

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Fairly a pretentious feat by CNN and Zakaria in managing in charge all the nation’s ills on the tone of the rhetoric from conservative political figures, as if liberals are innocent for political divisiveness. By selecting in charge just one aspect, CNN and Zakaria are exacerbating the very downside they declare to be making an attempt to diagnose.”

Score: 5 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ January 25: Liberal Media Scream: Nuremberg trial for Trump?

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You’d assume they might be pleased to maneuver on, however this week’s Liberal Media Scream options an ABC Information analyst calling for the second impeachment trial within the Senate of former President Donald Trump to be extra of a fact and accountability fee course of.

“To me, the impeachment — now we have to separate the components of the impeachment vote. I imply, different international locations have gone by way of this earlier than, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the factor earlier than you get to reconciliation and therapeutic, you must have some ingredient of fact and accountability on this,” mentioned Matthew Dowd.

What occurred in these international locations? South Africa arrange the Fact and Reconciliation Fee after the tip of apartheid, Japan had the Tokyo Warfare Crimes Tribunal after World Warfare II, and Germany had the Nuremberg trials.

In calling for a Trump fact tribunal, Dowd advised that with out one, america could possibly be in for a century of political hassle that he in comparison with racism.

Dowd throughout the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

“Properly, to me, the impeachment — now we have to separate the components of the impeachment vote. I imply, different international locations have gone by way of this earlier than, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the factor earlier than you get to reconciliation and therapeutic, you must have some ingredient of fact and accountability on this.

“And even in addition to these international nation examples, now we have an instance in our nation throughout Reconstruction within the aftermath of the Civil Warfare once we went by way of — we had been speculated to undergo a strategy of fact and accountability and altering the character of what went on. And when Abraham Lincoln was killed and Andrew Johnson took over, reconciling — I imply, the concept of forming a factor and demanding fact was stopped. And what did they end in, George? It resulted on this nation of Jim Crow legal guidelines, it resulted on this nation of the KKK, and it resulted on this nation of 100 years extra of a combat for justice and fact and equality in our nation.

“And so, now we have to get to a state of affairs the place, sure, let’s have a dialogue of what was the reality, what did Donald Trump do, what needs to be his accountability, and the ultimate stage of that’s: What needs to be his punishment?

“And to me, the one means to do this is to have a dialog within the trial within the Senate the place information and data and knowledge and knowledge is offered in such a means that the American public can see precisely what went on, what was Donald Trump chargeable for, what ought to he held accountable to. After which, in the end, what ought to his punishment be?

“However we must always not do what occurred in Reconstruction. When Reconstruction was ended and we went by way of this large, lengthy, centurylong course of when justice lastly prevailed in the long run. We now have to have an perception into the reality earlier than we get to reconciliation and therapeutic.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “To say something Donald Trump has finished is on par with genocidal regimes, or that he has left the nation in a situation anyplace just like a segregated, race-based two-class system just like the America within the a long time after the Civil Warfare, is simply ridiculous. The opposite panelists ought to have laughed at him. Dowd wants his personal accountability session to separate actuality from his overwrought historic comparisons.”

Score: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ January 18, 2021: Liberal Media Scream: Name to silence conservatives and kick OANN and Newsmax off air

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN offering a platform for a name to take rivals OANN and Newsmax off the air and to additionally rob conservative influencers of social media shops.

On the heels of Massive Tech kicking the conservative chat web site Parler and firearms web site AR15.com offline, the previous head of safety for Fb and Yahoo mentioned taking platforms away from conservatives is the results of the election and protests on the U.S. Capitol.

Alex Stamos mentioned, we “have to show down the potential of those conservative influencers to achieve these large audiences” on Fb and YouTube.

“Then we’re going to have to determine the OANN and Newsmax downside,” urging they be faraway from cable programs. “These firms have freedom of speech, however I’m unsure we want Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of tens of millions of houses.”

Stamos, on Sunday’s Dependable Sources, the place he appeared with Krebs Stamos Group accomplice Christopher Krebs, the Trump administration’s former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company:

“First, you must concentrate on the violent extremists, and people firms should be courageous in that means. And, second, now we have to show down the potential of those conservative influencers to achieve these large audiences. There are individuals on YouTube, for instance, which have a bigger daytime — bigger viewers than daytime CNN, and they’re extraordinarily radical and pushing extraordinarily radical views.”

“And, so, it’s as much as the Facebooks and YouTubes, specifically, to consider whether or not or not they wish to be successfully cable networks for disinformation. After which we’re going to have to determine the OANN and Newsmax downside, you understand, these firms have freedom of speech, however I’m unsure we want Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of tens of millions of houses. That is, you understand, permitting individuals to hunt out data in the event that they actually wish to, however not pushing it into their faces, I feel is the place we’re going to should go right here.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “A really strong sign Massive Tech’s agenda goes past what they wish to painting as benign efforts to close down these advocating violence. Stamos laid out the subsequent step: Use present issues to justify a wider suppression of conservative voices who’ve allowed house for views these on the Left discover appalling. The reply is extra free speech, not letting a small group of rich Silicon Valley tech leaders abuse their energy to function ‘speech police,’ deciding which views are OK or not with the elite in the mean time.”

Score: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ January 11, 2021: Liberal Media Scream: CNN needs conservative media squelched in ‘nationwide emergency’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN’s senior media reporter demanding the concentrating on of conservative media shops who ignored their anti-Trump bias in reporting on the president and his administration.

On Sunday’s Dependable Sources, Oliver Darcy demanded conservative information sources be “held accountable,” clearly suggesting that they have to be squelched, an enlargement of the so-called “cancel tradition” imposed with glee by shops comparable to Twitter and Fb on conservatives and even President Trump.

He cited Fox Information and “TV suppliers that beam OAN and Newsmax into houses, or Rush Limbaugh. There are lots of people profiting off of lies and conspiracy theories.”

He insisted, “this informational atmosphere” have to be “cleaned up.”

Darcy, on the finish of Sunday’s Dependable Sources:

“The story this week was bringing our informational disaster to the forefront. It’s a nationwide emergency. You’ve got companies and folks which can be profiting off lies and conspiracy theories, whether or not that’s massive tech, whether or not that’s Fox Information, whether or not that’s TV suppliers that beam OAN and Newsmax into houses, or Rush Limbaugh. There are lots of people profiting off of lies and conspiracy theories, and I don’t actually see how issues get higher, how we transfer on as a rustic till this informational atmosphere is cleaned up.”

After host Brian Stelter complained that “Fox Information, the Murdochs, they’re nonetheless enabling these things as a result of they’re obsessing over massive tech bias, that’s what they name it, and making an attempt to disregard the riot,” Darcy demanded:

“The place are they? They have to be held accountable as properly. We had been speaking so much about individuals like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, they have to be held accountable for the lies that they’ve peddled to this nation, not solely prior to now two months concerning the election both, however prior to now, you understand, a number of years which have actually introduced this to the forefront.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Darcy revealed the true agenda the arduous left inside CNN: Selectively cite the baseless allegations of some on one aspect of the political spectrum to justify shutting down all the most important shops which permit conservative views to get an airing, silencing these with which Darcy disagrees, thus permitting the general public to solely hear left wing views. An ideal instance of ‘cancel tradition.’”

Score: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

■ January 4, 2021: Liberal Media Scream: Smug Chuck Todd to senator, ‘I’ve Had Sufficient of Listening to This!’

(Washington Examiner submit)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options NBC’s Chuck Todd, who placed on his most dismissive smirk Sunday to mock Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s protection of President Trump’s claims of election fraud.

It got here on Todd’s present, Meet the Press, and regardless of speaking over Johnson, a matter-of-fact lawmaker/businessman, the senator stood his floor and advised the host after being badgered, “You’ve got destroyed the credibility of the information media by your bias.”

When Johnson identified, “This fireplace was began whenever you utterly ignored, for instance, our investigation of Hunter Biden,” Todd jumped in: “Senator. All proper, I’ve had sufficient of listening to this!”

Throughout the heated, multi-minute change, Todd turned to ridicule when Johnson mentioned investigating Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. “Why didn’t you maintain hearings concerning the 9/11 truthers? There’s loads of individuals who thought 9/11 was an inside job.” And: “How concerning the Moon touchdown? Are you going to carry hearings on that?”

From the Sunday, Jan. 3, Meet the Press:

SEN. RON JOHNSON: Chuck, this hearth was began again in, you understand, January of 2017. Folks like Mark Zaid in his tweet, ‘The coup has began. First of many steps. Rise up and impeachment to observe in the end.’ This was began when the mainstream media stopped, dropped any pretense of being unbiased and truly selected sides throughout this election. This fireplace was began whenever you utterly ignored, for instance, our investigation of Hunter Biden. You realize, no proof of wrongdoing there. And now we discover out after the election, no, there’s a honest quantity of proof to the purpose that now we have an actual FBI investigation. So-

CHUCK TODD: Senator. All proper, I’ve had sufficient of listening to this!

JOHNSON: No, pay attention. I’ve had sufficient of this, too. It’s the bias of the media.

TODD: No, senator. It’s, you might have spent, you might have spent the final two years —

JOHNSON: It’s the bias within the media that has created a state of affairs the place Republicans and conservatives don’t belief the mainstream media. And that’s what, that’s what has destroyed the credibility of the media and our establishments and actually —

TODD: Proper, no, the destruction of the establishments —

JOHNSON: — shaken confidence on this election end result. So I didn’t begin this … I didn’t, I didn’t gentle this hearth. This fireplace was lit over 4 years in the past. And we’ve destroyed the credibility, you might have destroyed the credibility of the information media by your bias. And naturally individuals like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan destroyed the credibility of the FBI and our justice system as properly. We now have an unlimited downside on this nation. It’s unsustainable. And the one means you resolve it’s with data, and transparency, and hearings, and investigations. It’s not quackery, it’s not conspiracy principle. It’s what’s going to be required.

TODD: Let me ask you this. Then why didn’t you maintain hearings concerning the 9/11 truthers? There’s loads of individuals who thought 9/11 was an inside job. So that you’re mainly saying is that if there’s sufficient individuals who imagine a conspiracy principle, if there’s sufficient individuals who maintain, how concerning the Moon touchdown? Are you going to carry hearings on that?

JOHNSON: There are every kind of issues that I’d like to carry hearings on. It’s important to sort of decide and select based mostly on priorities. Proper now, now we have this election. We’ve obtained tens of tens of millions of People that assume this election was stolen. We have to get the underside of it. Once more, what’s defined, we have to clarify it, get that off the desk. We additionally should acknowledge there have been some actual issues right here. There’s some points that have to be explored and investigated.

TODD: You’ve obtained to ask your self whenever you inform individuals one million instances that one thing was stolen or one thing was fraud after which they imagine it, I feel that you must look within the mirror and ask your self why so many individuals believed it.

JOHNSON: Properly, Chuck, that you must have a look at your mirror since you carried the Democrats’ water on the entire Russian collusion with the Trump marketing campaign hoax —

TODD: Sen. Johnson, I’ve obtained to go. I admire you approaching. I’ve allow you to, I’ve allow you to say loads of —

JOHNSON: That’s what you probably did within the media. You carried that water for years. You destroyed the credibility of the press, not me.

TODD: Sen. Johnson, apart from, apart from crediting you for approaching, I admire that as a result of solely two of your colleagues had the heart to say sure this weekend about this conspiracy principle that you just’re engaged on.

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Todd couldn’t have been extra smug and sanctimonious towards a visitor as he used his platform to discredit and mock a U.S. senator with whom he disagrees. Fairly an egregious abuse of Todd’s journalistic function, particularly because it’s very arduous to think about him ever displaying such disdain towards a liberal visitor, and another instance of why Trump supporters don’t belief the ‘mainstream media.’”

Score: 5 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

 

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