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, normally posted on-line on Monday, I present a proof and suggest a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).

This put up accommodates 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 via 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 via the tip of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 via June 11, 2013.)

Verify Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the newest selection and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page will likely 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 newest outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)

 

■ New on October 11: Liberal Media Scream: Reporters debate easy methods to degenerate GOP

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

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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 convey.

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 suppose that is simply Democrats deciding how they’re going to truly get this performed,” stated Time Journal senior correspondent Charlotte Alter.

“I additionally suppose that everyone appears to be lacking the larger image of what $3.5 trillion over 10 years really might imply to American households,” Alter stated, citing as a optimistic “huge funding within the social security web, that might be the biggest funding in childcare, and in local weather change, in paid household depart in a era.”

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

“I’m 100% with Charlotte on this. It’s wonderful how little consideration over the previous few months we’ve given to those probably actually transformative items of laws,” he stated, itemizing how “each different nation on the earth has a paid depart legislation” 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 suppose that is simply Democrats deciding how they’re going to truly get this performed. You already know — and albeit, I additionally suppose that everyone appears to be lacking the larger image of what $3.5 trillion over 10 years really might imply to American households.

You already know, even when the quantity is smaller than that, we’re nonetheless wanting on the potential for an enormous funding within the social security web. That will be the biggest funding in childcare and in local weather change, in paid household depart in a era, and I type of fear that everybody’s sort of lacking the massive image about what the potential consequence may very well 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 wonderful 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 depart, each different nation on the earth has a paid depart legislation, we don’t, we might get one. This may very well be transformative to lots of of hundreds and billions of people who find themselves aged or disabled and might’t get dwelling 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 actually, you realize, 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: “Should you ever questioned why there’s rarely any scrutiny over federal spending, outdoors of the Protection Division, Alter and Cohn are displays A and B. They’re liberal activists personally invested in increasing authorities spending and authorities management of individuals’s lives. Simply hearken to their pleasure for large 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 Individuals unpatriotic

(Washington Examiner put up)

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 funds, 2022 elections, and President Joe Biden’s bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, liberals cannot cease battling over the past two elections and clearly will not hand over till Trump is nicely off the stage.

Exhibit One is Roland Martin, the left-wing radio and on-line speak present host who was once 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 speak and prepare for the following presidential election.

That ought to have happy 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,” stated 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 high-quality tonight with you judging my morals.”

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

ROLAND MARTIN: I recognize the speech, governor, however the actuality is that this. You must admit, Sarah, it’s a must to 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 it’s a must to 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 ideas, morals, and values, they don’t assist them even in case you lose. And what they are saying is, ‘I select patriotism and the nation over social gathering and energy.’ And the issue was, too many Republicans selected energy and driving with Donald Trump versus patriotism and America.

CHRISTIE: I’ll sleep high-quality 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 center to face as much as narcissists, to of us who lie, to of us who sit right here and led a rustic within the incorrect route. 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 high-quality. 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 best individual to be president. All of us get to make selections, Roland, on this democracy. I made my selection. I’m on document of my selection. And I’m not strolling away from my selection. Nevertheless it doesn’t preclude me from with the ability to be vital when the person who I did assist does issues that I’m in opposition to. And so this false selection that you just’re making an attempt to arrange—

MARTIN: It’s not false.

CHRISTIE: It’s a false selection, 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 reside 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. Perhaps they’re disgusted by being known as unpatriotic and un-American for not seeing the world in the identical good vs. evil method as does Martin, with them on the evil facet.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream comes again to Pleasure Reid and certainly one of her MSNBC friends who desires to ban viewpoints that don’t fall according to the liberal lunacy.

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

She stated, “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 via a traditional case could be actually dangerous headlines for the Roberts court docket. And so, they’re simply doing it in a sneaky method. It feels nearly like Bush v. Gore. And it’s working with some individuals. Let me allow you to hearken to Wealthy Lowry. And also you had some ideas on him earlier than. However he appears to have purchased their plan and stated, ‘See, they didn’t overturn Roe.’ Right here he’s.

Nationwide Evaluation’s Wealthy Lowry to Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Each day: Individuals are appearing as if Roe has been overturned. I might welcome that consequence. And it could finally be on this Dobbs case. Nevertheless it hasn’t been overturned but in any respect. This can be a procedural ruling that clearly was the right 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 recognize 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 right. However procedural rulings have substantive implications, as Eli [Mystal] stated. This specific procedural ruling successfully guts away with two, three many years’ price of Supreme Courtroom precedent. Roe is successfully lifeless in Texas. Casey is successfully lifeless in Texas due to these rulings. And it’s, as you say, engaged on the shadow docket, the court docket 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 certainly one of Murray’s legislation lessons, afraid that if I expressed a superbly 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 put up)

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 college lunch applications.

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

From the “The Absolute Worst” phase on the finish of The ReidOut Friday night time, selecting up after Reid talked a few Wisconsin county that rejected federal college lunch cash:

JOY REID: Perhaps they have 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 children. To place that in phrases that y’all can perceive, that implies that the dad and mom of youngsters who qualify at no cost or lowered 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 kids with a ferocity we’ve by no means seen. Alongside those self same strains, check out what Laura Ingraham lately stated about individuals struggling through the pandemic.

LAURA INGRAHAM ON FNC, AUG. 13: What if we simply lower off the unemployment? Starvation is a fairly highly effective factor. I don’t imply bodily starvation, as a result of individuals who really 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 incorrect 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 Courtroom. Final night time, that conservative majority cleared the way in which for evictions to renew throughout the nation. Yay! Three-and-a-half million Individuals might now find yourself on the street because of Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh, a call 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 specific 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 exhibiting 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 properly 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 lease they have 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 put up)

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 stated that the media isn’t giving Biden credit score for a fantastic mission completed, particularly when in comparison with deaths associated to the COVID and crime fights he’s combating.

Dowd, the previous chief political analyst for ABC Information, stated, “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: Approach excessive and unconnected to a perspective on the problem from the start. They added a perspective within the closing days, however from the start, they didn’t have a perspective on it.

My sense of that is, Joe Biden has performed — we should always decide it by the info of what’s occurred and never by anecdotes — and typically, 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 …

Bear in mind 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 scenario in a political hurricane, and I don’t suppose the press absolutely understands what the context is for the American public. And so once 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 among the Baghdad Bobs of the present debacle, ignoring the dire actuality that appears very dangerous for his favored political facet. 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 sincere evaluation about Biden’s bungling.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a key MSNBC visitor who stated Republicans are attempting 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 elimination” through 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, stated, “Stephen Miller couldn’t do it, or Trump couldn’t do it” — however following new census numbers, they are going to attempt via redistricting.

Beltran, writer of the e-book, Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Struggling Sustains White Democracy, stated 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 comply with, such as you do, inhabitants and demographics in America. However, I believe that the conclusion is counterintuitive. Most individuals say, ‘Properly, if the census says we’re extra various, our illustration ought to get extra various.’ The truth is, it’s prone to get much less various.

CRISTINA BELTRAN: Precisely, precisely, and I believe 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 elimination, proper? The place they’re making an attempt to vanish sure voices and populations, proper? And so, I believe they’re making an attempt to vanish plenty of Individuals politically, proper? Stephen Miller couldn’t do it, or Trump couldn’t do it of their politics in an entire method, 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 unsightly tackle a normal apply after each census when the social gathering which dominates in a state will get to do some ‘gerrymandering.’ It’s hardly the nefarious deed urged by Beltran and hardly distinctive to at least one social gathering. However depart it to MSNBC to present 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 put up)

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 newest 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 stated. Acosta, identified 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 palms.

With an identical picture on display, Acosta urged, “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 may very well be used “to assist pay for all of the funerals that will likely be coming.”

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

“Folks mustn’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 begin 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 will likely be coming within the days to come back.”

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 concern, 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 put up)

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 stated 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 stated.

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

Stelter had opened the phase 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 phase on the Aug. 1 Dependable Sources on CNN:

BRIAN STELTER: Welcome again to Dependable Sources, reside 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 nations typically electronic mail me and say, you realize, 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 knowledgeable, an unlucky knowledgeable, 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 capable of escape along with her life, others weren’t capable of that day. So, I needed to listen to her ideas concerning the comparability, the notion of the cult of Trump, particularly within the mild 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 can evaluate Jim Jones as a charismatic chief, who would convey his congregation collectively, compelled them to do issues that have 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 capable of say they dedicated suicide as a result of I don’t suppose they have been accountable for their schools, to be fairly sincere with you.

So, you have a look at Donald Trump, charismatic chief, who was capable of proceed to speak in phrases that appealed to those that are disaffected, disillusioned, and who have been searching for one thing, very similar to those that grew to become a part of Jim Jones’s congregation, the Folks’s Temple. They have 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 details, not suppose independently. And sowed a narrative for them that was certainly damaging.

STELTER: It’s scary to listen to that when you will have noticed the Trump phenomenon, you will 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 degree every week. Final week, he featured Carl Bernstein calling Trump a ‘battle felony.’ This week, Trump’s similar to a cult chief who led lots of of followers to commit mass suicide and homicide a congressman. Solely Trump has by no means performed that. Perhaps Stelter ought to look just a little nearer to dwelling 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 put up)

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

Sunday on CNN’s Dependable Sources, his fundamental venting venue, he overvalued his prior assaults on former President Donald Trump, claiming that the Republican is a “battle felony.”

His over-the-top invective in opposition to Trump is nothing new, as a fast journey via 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 scenario than Watergate.” In 2020, he was repeating his Watergate comparability as he charged Trump allies had “now joined palms 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 closing days of his reign.”

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

   ♦ “I believe it is a probably extra harmful scenario than Watergate, and we’re at a really harmful second. And that’s as a result of we’re wanting 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, Might 14, 2017.

   ♦ “Let’s have a look at what Watergate was as a result of it was a few felony president who acted as a tyrant. And what we’ve got right here now’s the Senate of america, via the Republican management and membership, has now joined palms with a tyrant.” — CNN Newsroom, Jan. 31, 2020.

   ♦ “His response has been homicidal negligence. He has failed to guard the American individuals and relatively 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 closing days of his reign, prepared to scorch the Earth of his nation and convey down the entire system to undermine our entire 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 believe we have to calmly step again and possibly have a look at Trump in a distinct context. He’s America’s, our personal American battle felony, of a sort we’ve by no means skilled earlier than … In worldwide legislation, there have been, quote, ‘crimes in opposition to humanity.’ I believe what we’re speaking about, Trump’s crimes as an American battle felony 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 targeted anger to get some consideration. With a lot unhinged animus for Trump, it’s onerous 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 detrimental public picture for his opponents via artistic terminology.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses a Washington Submit columnist telling it like it’s: Liberal advocacy within the media is the right 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 stated the “core mission” of the media is to current “details” and “an evidence-based view of the world.”

However his “details,” after all, overlap with the priorities of liberals, not unusual for Washington Submit columnists who’re given extra freedom of their work. For instance, he stated, “We within the media are biased when it comes to we assist 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 Submit for highlighting the bias of its scribes. In Bacon’s bio, for instance, it gives up his protection space. Below “The Democratic Get together,” it says, “The Democratic Get together is usually shifting in a pro-equality (racial, financial, class, gender, sexual identification) route.” Below “The Republican Get together,” it reads, “The Republican Get together is shifting in an anti-democratic, anti-Democrats route.”

Bacon on Sunday’s Dependable Sources on CNN:

“They need to transfer on from this concept that they’re making an attempt to, you realize, 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 actually get targeted on what’s our core mission. And I might argue the core mission is to current details, current proof, current an evidence-based view of the world, and to additionally, in my opinion, defend the concepts of a democracy and a multiracial democracy, I believe, is a part of what the media needs to be doing. What that appears like, I believe, is defending and being unabashed. Vaccines work. Joe Biden received the election. Black lives do matter, and we needs to be sincere about when black individuals are discriminated in opposition to unfairly. And to type of begin from a spot of, do we’ve got some clear-cut values we will articulate — articulate these indirectly on our web sites, in our programming, to be sincere about like, we’re making an attempt to combat this bias factor.

“We’re biased when it comes to details. We within the media are biased when it comes to we assist vaccines. We within the media rent LGBT workers. We’re biased in opposition to bans in opposition to trans or homosexual individuals. So we could be sincere about these biases, and type 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 received the election being president. So as soon as we’re sincere about these issues, that will flip off some individuals, however it would assist us be higher as establishments and higher as journalists if our first objective is, listed here are the values we said we are attempting 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 believe if we get clear on values, after all, the media is for, in opposition to authoritarian individuals like Trump. The media can not exist in a purposeful method with out having, you realize, with out having a free press, which dictators normally 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 now not faux 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 put up)

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 gasoline to get meals and vote.

The Thursday Supreme Courtroom 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, stated the justices have 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 gasoline to get to a grocery retailer” and so “now you’re forcing minorities to determine” between attending to a polling place or shopping for groceries.

Washington Submit reporter Mary Jordan cited misdeeds she noticed in Mississippi with “all types of soiled tips being performed about closing polls, switching the place you’re purported to be, telling individuals they’re within the incorrect place even when they’re in the best place.”

From the Sunday, July 4 roundtable after host Martha Raddatz characterised the ruling as “not precisely according to public opinion,” an evaluation primarily based on an ABC Information/Washington Submit ballot:

LZ Granderson: “No, after all not, however they don’t actually care about public opinion, proper? In the event that they did, then all of this laws could be checked out in another way. You already know, the factor that basically 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 stated that the inconvenience of it isn’t so nice. Properly, they’re all privileged. And I grew up poor. I bear in mind my mother scraping collectively 50 cents, 75 cents, a greenback only for gasoline to get to a grocery retailer. If you do this to polling locations, now you’re forcing minorities to determine whether or not or not they’re going to speculate cash, gasoline cash, to get to the polling locations that are actually additional away or do I exploit this gasoline 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 are you aware? When was the final time you have 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 prove and the polling place could be closed within the place the place there have been plenty 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 all types of soiled tips being performed about closing polls, switching the place you’re purported to be, telling individuals they’re within the incorrect place even when they’re in the best place. I believe if individuals actually knew what was occurring, as a result of it differs state by state and county by county, they’d suppose, you realize what, it’s July 4th right here. It’s all about voting, proper? It’s probably the most basic of rights. We had the Boston tea social gathering as a result of we couldn’t vote, and we have been getting taxed. And it’s sort of surprising that proper now, lots of people don’t have the identical entry to votes as different Individuals.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Granderson and Jordan appeared to be looking for anecdotes to justify their place in opposition to very fundamental voter integrity guidelines and got here up with fairly weak ones. Making everybody vote at their native precinct is the last 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 plenty 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 social gathering controls the election methods nearly all over the place the place minorities and Democrats are the bulk? It’s not wealthy, privileged Supreme Courtroom justices.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the clearest instance but that taxpayer-subsidized PBS is turning 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 adjustments than President Joe Biden’s dwelling 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 just a little recommendation, this time to “speed up his nominees to the courts.”

From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

“If you speak to people who find themselves actually accustomed to the fascinated by this, it’s that Democrats understand that they could, that it’s not going to solely be solved in a legislative method. There needs to be a judicial and a court docket 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 cannot 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 court docket. They wish to see President Biden speed up his nominees to the courts. So, I believe 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 case 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 believe, is an actual drawback. Should you have a look at Philadelphia state legislatures and in the event that they, and whether or not or not they’ll even nullify 1,000,000 votes in Philly — that may very well be an issue and an enormous drawback.”

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, similar 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 concept pretend

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

“It’s manufactured,” he stated, brushing apart all of the protests, even many close to Washington the place Todd studies from, of public college 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 educating 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 concept, I’ve to let you know, I simply spent a while reporting on this county in Virginia about an hour outdoors of Washington. And to your level, that is one thing that’s mobilizing individuals and resonating very deeply. It was a few 100 diploma day. Dozens and dozens and dozens of fogeys, principally white, on this largely prosperous county, confirmed up to a faculty board assembly, for a lot of of them, the very first college board assembly they’d ever attended, particularly due to this one concern.

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

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

BRAD TODD: I disagree. I believe it began as a result of dad and mom have had it with the schooling forms after COVID. They’re fed up with it. They have an inclination to belief Democrats with regards to schooling funding, however they belief Republicans on schooling accountability. I believe that what the backlash you’re seeing on vital race concept in faculties is one other instance of fogeys 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 concept is yet one more device within the racial tribal boogeyman’s toolbox to drive and inflame tribalism, which Republicans suppose helps them in elections. That is Trump 2.0. That is, it’s a continuation of this, proper? Vital race concept is an, an arcane type of ideally suited. Why is it entrance and middle 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 suppose this helps ignite their base. There’s no method this isn’t grassroots. And, Brad, you realize that is organized and is being paid for.

CHUCK TODD: However, you realize, Ashley-

BRAD TODD: We’re not excellent at organizing something on our facet.

CORNELL BELCHER: You all are higher than us.

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Typical of smug information media figures, dismissing grassroots considerations as ‘manufactured’ and racist, as if on their very own dad and mom can’t acknowledge extremist racial educating that can 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 go 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 put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream encompasses 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, stated america fails the ethical superiority check due to “voter suppression” and police “consistently” killing black individuals.

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

Ioffe on Morning Joe at the moment:

“I did wish to return shortly to the purpose of ‘whataboutism.’ After all, it’s a method of not answering the query, however it works on many individuals as a result of they all the time begin with a grain of fact, proper? And, you realize, it’s fascinating. Sure, the Soviet Union consistently talked concerning the violation of the civil rights of African-Individuals 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 acquired behind it was to sort of take this card out of the palms of the Soviets.

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

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 Struggle years when all too many journalists have been extra upset by what President Reagan stated 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 easy methods to enhance these shortcomings, with a Russian dictator who has little 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 put up)

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 staff.

Simply take into account his first query throughout his Sunday present.

“What do you suppose we get incorrect?” 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 kids, 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 children and mine?”

Stelter sympathetically arrange the phase, 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 almost 5 months into the job and about what would possibly lie forward.”

A few of his “questions” to Psaki:

    ♦ “Busy summer season forward, infrastructure, election reform. What does the press get incorrect when masking Biden’s agenda? If you watch the information, once you learn the information, what do you suppose we get incorrect?”
    ♦ “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, however it additionally needs to be purposeful. Is the connection between the White Home and the press corps now at the least purposeful in ways in which it wasn’t within the Trump years?” (Psaki: “I believe so.”)
   ♦ “That is what I actually needed to ask you. You talked about your children, you will have a daughter going into kindergarten, I’ve a daughter going into pre-Ok. And I believe 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 children 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 received’t be. On this interview he acted extra like a groveling scholar craving for his professor’s approval (‘Inform me what I’m doing incorrect,’ ‘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.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

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

Karl on Sunday’s This Week grudgingly conceded that Trump might have been right 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 phase on This Week, after host Martha Raddatz urged “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 stated:

“Sure, I believe 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 stated them. And there was — as a result of Trump was saying a lot else that was simply uncontrolled, and since he was, you realize, making a frankly racist attraction speaking about ‘kung-flu’ and the ‘China virus,’ his notion that he put ahead that this will likely have, or that he stated flatly that this got here from that lab, was extensively 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 stated out loud what everybody already presumed: So many within the Washington press corps had such contempt for President Trump that they dismissed something he stated 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 fundamental obligation to tell the general public of the very best data accessible concerning the supply of a pandemic which has killed 3.5 million worldwide.”

Score: FIVE out of FIVE screams.

 

■ Might 24: No Liberal Media Scream this week

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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 elimination 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 following 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 stated.

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 social gathering itself doesn’t have credibility?” and “Do any of your critiques come throughout as credible in case you can’t settle for the basic incontrovertible fact that our democracy held a free and truthful election?”

He then pressed Crenshaw to backtrack from ever asking courts to overview some election processes, resulting in this trade 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 already know, I perceive you guys wish to put this behind you, however he’s the chief of your social gathering, and he doesn’t cease speaking about this nonsense.

REP. DAN CRENSHAW: Chuck, the one — look, he’s certainly one of many leaders within the social gathering. 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 plenty of, there’s plenty 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 social gathering 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 consequence you’re searching for?

TODD: Why do you, why do you, why will we sit right here and have a political social gathering 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 by some means 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 area within the social gathering for that. Keep in mind, Liz received that first election —

CHUCK TODD: She’s not there now.

CRENSHAW: She received that first management vote, OK? And I advised you why. I helped you perceive why. And what I’m making an attempt that will help you perceive is these usually are not the telephone calls I get about this, about who’s the chief of the social gathering, what’s occurring with Trump? My Republican supporters don’t ask me about Trump, they don’t ask me about what he stated, they’re not riled up about it. You already know 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 are actually much less invaluable 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 simple 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 time and again as a result of the visitor received’t accede to his left-wing speaking factors.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

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

In a phase tied to plugging a brand new novel by Abrams, Erin Moriarty stated, “Your fundamental character is all the time a girl of colour who’s good and gutsy and funky underneath stress. Briefly, Stacey Abrams.”

After hailing her efforts to counter Republican voter integrity guidelines, Moriarty celebrated how “making certain that proper to vote might 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 girl of many different abilities, as she’ll inform Erin Moriarty …

MORIARTY: Stacey Abrams has all the time dreamed massive and completed a lot, however there’s additionally one other facet to the political activist from Georgia.

ABRAMS: I believe individuals will likely be shocked.

MORIARTY: Arising on Sunday Morning, a dialog with a girl of many abilities and identities.
…
MORIARTY: Your fundamental character is all the time a girl of colour who’s good and gutsy and funky underneath stress. Briefly, Stacey Abrams.

ABRAMS: Properly, I attempt to emulate my characters, and I attempt to have my characters mirror who I’m.
…
MORIARTY: Making certain that proper to vote might 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 accountability to say sure for each younger girl, each individual of colour, each younger individual of colour who sees me and decides what they’re able to primarily based on what I believe I’m able to. Once more, it’s about you can’t have these belongings you refuse to dream of.

MORIARTY: With Georgia, Florida, and most lately 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, after all, extra books to put in writing, which leaves little time for the rest. How do you will have any time for a private life?

ABRAMS: Properly, let’s be clear. So Truthful Struggle, there’s additionally the Southern Financial Development Venture, there’s Truthful Depend, 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 the way she has ‘completed a lot,’ citing her ‘many abilities,’ and touting her as ‘good and gutsy.’ CBS by no means needed to determine 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.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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 just 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, nevertheless, 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 real black Republican within the Senate sounded a stone idiot when he stated this.”

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

Cross: “OK. Let’s be clear. Tim Scott doesn’t signify any constituency aside 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 once you communicate an uncomfortable fact, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, the social gathering that Scott claims just isn’t racist will get massive mad and tries to silence you. Simply this week, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell requested Schooling Secretary Miguel Cardona to scrap educating the 1619 Venture in faculties as a result of it will ‘reorient the view of American historical past.’ Fortunate for McConnell, he has his personal faucet dancer to attempt 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 realized, don’t argue with individuals Harriet Tubman would have left behind. And positive, Tim Scott has spoken out about his encounters with legislation 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 legislation in Georgia although, as of final month, 361 payments have 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 whilst 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 day by 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 may very well be. On this one, you’re not solely on the incorrect facet of the aisle, Sen. Scott, however you’re embarrassingly on the incorrect facet of historical past, as nicely.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “The 5 scream scale will not be sufficient for this one. What a disgusting, hate-filled commentary full of non-public invective, excoriating a U.S. senator as some type 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 social gathering. Cross exhibits how scared liberals are of opposite views, pouncing to silence any divergence from the left’s race orthodoxy earlier than it might probably 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 put up)

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

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

The most recent: 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 stated.

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 stated, “DeSantis seems to actually wish to reenact the complete George Wallace historical past. I assume he desires 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 social gathering had. He was widespread sufficient that within the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, he misplaced to George McGovern by simply 2 factors within the widespread vote. He received 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 already know, 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 acquired extra free, there have been new legal guidelines created to make us much less free. That is precisely what is occurring 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 once you can not win truthful and sq.. You suppress votes, and also you suppress voice. So, we’ve got to concentrate right here, as a result of the GOP performs the lengthy recreation, and so they play the expansive recreation. They plan far upfront. They gerrymander states in order that they’ll 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 interact within the two most democratic practices you bought on this nation, and so they make sure that to focus on black of us after they do it. That method, amongst different issues, you’ll be able to leverage the police that you just’ve militarized to guard your methods 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 to be like like, and I need them to remain determined. They understand how highly effective we’re. That’s why we’re seeing this.

REID: You already know, Rep. [Anna] Eskamani, the racist Miami sheriff who coined the time period ‘When the looting begins, the taking pictures begins’ was from South Florida. Donald Trump then turns round and quotes him. Ron DeSantis seems to actually wish to reenact the complete George Wallace historical past. I assume he desires 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 dropping facet of the Civil Struggle, 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 the complete Democratic Get together 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 put up)

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 modifying failures in a narrative a Washington Submit media critic known as “a plume of innuendo.”

Below hearth 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 concern was a narrative two Sundays again by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who urged DeSantis partnered with Florida’s Publix supermarkets to present COVID-19 pictures after dishing contributions to him.

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

Final night time, on the finish of the present, when letters are typically 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 girl who denounced CBS’s “shameful biased reporting,” then ended with a cutesy problem from a person who wrote, “I’ll solely watch” the present “yet one more time. Simply to see in case 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 Seashore County, Florida. Viewers targeted on an trade 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 Seashore, 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 modifying and reporting.”

Studying a letter from Amy Ernest of Houston, Texas: “Shameful biased reporting – that’s what you might be responsible of. You’re now 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 yet one more time. Simply to see in case 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 middle has no motive to ever belief journalists to be truthful to a conservative elected official. After every week through 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 a number of 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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

The record 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 stated throughout Meet the Press on Sunday.

The Georgia legislation has divided partisans, particularly company America’s response, together with MLB’s resolution final week to maneuver the annual All-Star Sport out of Atlanta in protest. On the similar time, some information retailers have began to review the brand new legislation 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 Individuals and whether or not African Individuals are allowed to outlive and thrive in America and are capable of have entry to the ideas that America holds up as close to and pricey. And that, after all, is democracy. Nevertheless it’s additionally your potential 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 incorrect with presuming advocates of constructing voting safer aren’t any totally different than enforcers of ‘Jim Crow’ or, as she charged, are against letting African Individuals ‘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 undergo

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

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

And, after all, 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 targeted on condemning the GOP, and Dyson stated Republican efforts like these in Georgia are going additional than outdated segregationist Jim Crow legal guidelines. “The true faith, the actual politics in America is whiteness and whiteness unhinged,” he stated.

Dyson on the Friday version of The ReidOut:

“I imply, President Biden is correct. That is Jim Crow, that is Jane Crow …The true faith, the actual politics in America, is whiteness and whiteness unhinged … I believe he’s considering it significantly when he sees the implications. What he must do is fill these busters with some concern of the federal government. These are the type of people that would go a legislation 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 all the time sees racial animus motivating conservatives. It’s all a part of the far-left/information media joint effort to smear as racist anybody taken with preserving the voting system sincere, thus discrediting their considerations with out having to handle their substance.”

Score: FOUR out of FIVE screams.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

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

He opened Thursday by charging that the electoral system is “closely tilted towards a minority of voters which are predominately white and rural, thanks largely to anti-majoritarian establishments just like the Electoral School 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 adjustments.

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

A few of the lowlights:

“Our democracy as at the moment constituted is solely not a degree enjoying discipline. The truth is, it’s arguably by no means been a degree enjoying discipline, it’s closely tilted towards a minority of voters which are predominately white and rural, thanks largely to anti-majoritarian establishments just like the Electoral School and the Senate. Simply take into account that proper now the Senate is evenly cut up 50-50 and but the 50 Senate Democrats signify almost 42 million extra Individuals 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, although there are 580,000 individuals simply on my co-op board. …

“I imply, simply take into account the scope of how closely tilted our democratic establishments are towards Republicans. They’ve solely received the favored vote as soon as within the final 32 years, but, they’ve appointed a majority of Supreme Courtroom justices, they’ve misplaced the favored vote by almost 3 million. In 2016, misplaced the Home by the biggest margin since Watergate in 2018, misplaced two Senate seats in traditionally crimson Georgia this 12 months, and but, Mitch McConnell nonetheless mainly will get a veto over what the Senate can or can not go. The one method the Senate can get something performed proper now’s via a course of known as funds 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 because the 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 to be like like he was thrown bare within the dumpster behind a Palm Seashore pro-shop, and given 5 minutes to choose an outfit. It’s a very good 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 are desperately wanted to degree what’s at the moment a really lopsided enjoying discipline. H.R. 1 would fight nearly 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 widespread in polls, even among the many majority of Republican voters. So, naturally, Republican politicians are dropping their minds over it. …

“Republicans tried to steal the final election via the courts. That didn’t work, so now they’re making an attempt to steal the following election via voter suppression. Nuking or altering the filibuster to cease them is an ethical necessity. We badly want sweeping reforms to make our democracy a degree 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 following least-populous state, Vermont, has a socialist and a left-wing Democrat for senators. H.R. 1 needs to be often known as the ‘Allow Unlawful Voting Act,’ because it’s a grab-bag of left-wing insurance policies aimed 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 stop

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options the newest 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 staff of host Chuck Todd and visitor John Heilemann blamed Trump, suggesting that he set the “precedent” for refusing to stop when pressed by critics.

“He’s following what’s seen now because the Trump precedent,” stated 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 stop over COVID-19 and intercourse scandals.

From the roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press:

John Heilemann: “I believe, you realize, that the opposite factor that’s true is Cuomo is completely dug in. I believe the chance of Cuomo resigning is near zero. And I believe, you realize, he’s following proper now — uncomfortably for lots of Democrats — he’s following what’s seen now because the Trump precedent. You already know, in case you are 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 believe that’s going to be — a big query round that’s going to be what extra proof comes out over the approaching — possibly sufficient now, however there’s going to be a big query of what else unfolds over the following 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 need you to reply on one thing Tim Miller wrote within the Bulwark. He stated, ‘Dunking on Cuomo’s demise requires admitting that the opposite social gathering 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 plenty of conservative media, acolytes, and propagandists which are 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 assist 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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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 accordance with CNN in a single day anchor Rosemary Church, Republicans are callous and heartless and might’t really feel the ache of these they signify. It reminded us of after they used to name CNN the “Clinton Information Community” for its supportive protection of the president who famously stated 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 stated spends little or no on rapid 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 Stay simulcast on the home facet:

“So President Biden’s COVID aid package deal cleared the Senate with none Republican assist Saturday. Now it’s heading again to the Home for a vote Tuesday. How probably is it that it’ll go this week? And the way crucial is it that this will get performed and performed 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 Individuals are feeling throughout this pandemic, to allow them to’t start to know what individuals are going via. How a lot of a barrier is that disconnect for a celebration already combating 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 an enormous 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 middle, 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

(Washington Examiner put up)

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

“Racism is one thing that has outlined america since its very founding,” stated 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 stated American whites are so racist that they are going to 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 almost all aspects of American life, like healthcare, about which we simply heard. Nevertheless it additionally impacts our politics and our economics. The false perception that progress and prosperity for individuals of colour comes on the expense of white individuals has helped prop up racist methods for generations. This zero-sum concept 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 cut price of white supremacy and the way a lot we’ve misplaced economically as a rustic as a consequence of racism when it comes to a greenback quantity.

“One of many issues that appeals to me about your e-book is the dialogue that you’ve got about how individuals, typically white individuals or individuals who have energy and privilege in society, typically make choices 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 nicely, Ali, you realize, white individuals are really the biggest group of the uninsured, and but, ever because the Reasonably priced 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, generally, states and in addition 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 facet of individuals of colour, 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 Get together 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 distinct standpoint. It’s not possible 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’t have a logical motive for opposing the coverage aside 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 put up)

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

Pals and allies have been effusive of their reward.

So too was the hate from his foes, too many to record 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 stated:

“Properly, it’s sort of surprising as a result of, I imply, to start with, you realize the governor of Florida is simply enjoying for conservative consideration in doing that. However the justification is actually questionable.

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

“And I believe – you realize, 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 all types of extraordinarily outrageous issues that, frankly, the conservatives cherished. They cherished 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 realize, a battle hero, I discover that fairly questionable.”

Media Analysis Middle Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly decide: “Fairly customary liberal ‘typical knowledge’ right here from Carter, and that’s the frustration. You’d hope a reporter with a profession masking the media might rise above simply passing alongside liberal bromides and, at the least within the days after his passing, would provide one thing optimistic a few man who earned the loyalty of hundreds of thousands for greater than thirty years and impressed generations of Individuals 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’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options ranting CNN host Don Lemon tying every little thing he doesn’t wish to some of the widespread presidents in United States historical past: Ronald Reagan.

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

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

“They maintain him as much as a gold customary. If you have a look at what he really completed, he didn’t,” he stated.

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

CHRIS CUOMO: Reagan and Bush Republicans have 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 folks maintain him as much as be — Reagan was not excellent. Reagan was horrible when it got here to—

CUOMO: Good? 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 all the time maintain him up as a gold customary. However once you have a look at what he really completed, 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 customary. … I simply suppose it’s levels, however I believe the Republican Get together has been shifting on this route eternally.

Once more, they’re the social gathering of every little thing that they’re making an attempt to faux that they’re not. Now saying, “The individuals within the Capitol, that’s not us.” Sure, it’s you! “The those who have been in Charlottesville, that’s not us.” Sure, it’s you! These individuals are not marching for Democrats. And this entire 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 have 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 have 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 menace to democracy and all that’s good about america. If Lemon had a CNN present within the Nineteen Eighties he would have been simply as hostile to Reagan, calling him a racist night time after night time, 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 Crew Trump

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream had plenty of selections 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 aid she felt in attending to cowl the Democratic Biden administration after the “dangerous ex-boyfriend” abuse she felt coping with Crew Trump.

On CNN on Sunday, Yahoo Information White Home correspondent Brittany Shepherd got here down onerous on former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. She in contrast McEnany’s White Home briefings to “having a extremely dangerous ex-boyfriend. We have 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 every single 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 the direction of like having a extremely dangerous ex-boyfriend. We have been getting primarily abused by Kayleigh for thus lengthy, or at the least she was calling us pretend 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, we’ve got Jen and the complete Biden staff. It’s very refreshing. Nevertheless it’s vital to keep in mind that the bar has actually been left on the ground, and simply with 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 staff as ‘very refreshing.’ It’s as if Shepherd simply acquired 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 put up)

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

Over one hour final night time, 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 have been typically described as racists.

Zakaria stated, “When students hung out with Tea Get together activists, they discovered that behind the speak of taxes and large authorities have been individuals principally motivated by fears about race and immigration.”

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

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

His closing 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 battle between the events.”

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

FAREED ZAKARIA: When students hung out with Tea Get together activists, they discovered behind the speak of taxes and large authorities have been individuals principally 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 have been stated to be too related, 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 are actually.

…

ZAKARIA: Ailes grew to become the go-to right-wing media strategist of the Nineteen 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 suppose TV information is about as unbiased because the commercials.

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

…

ZAKARIA: Donald Trump had a job 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 certainly one of you,’ was the precursor of Trump’s battle 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 totally different time in politics when civility and compromise mattered. Home Republican Chief Bob Michael was extensively often known as Mr. Good Man. Think about that.

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

GINGRICH: What we live via is a basic civil wrestle, a civil battle fought in public speeches relatively than with armies.

ZAKARIA: The Gingrich philosophy: The one method 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 it’s a must to pay for the lodge 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 battle between the events.

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

Score: 5 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

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

(Washington Examiner put up)

You’ll suppose they’d be joyful 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 — we’ve got to separate the elements of the impeachment vote. I imply, different nations have gone via this earlier than, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the factor earlier than you get to reconciliation and therapeutic, it’s a must to have some factor of fact and accountability on this,” stated Matthew Dowd.

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

In calling for a Trump fact tribunal, Dowd urged that with out one, america may very well be in for a century of political hassle that he in comparison with racism.

Dowd through the roundtable on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

“Properly, to me, the impeachment — we’ve got to separate the elements of the impeachment vote. I imply, different nations have gone via this earlier than, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the factor earlier than you get to reconciliation and therapeutic, it’s a must to have some factor of fact and accountability on this.

“And even moreover these international nation examples, we’ve got an instance in our nation throughout Reconstruction within the aftermath of the Civil Struggle after we went via — we have been purported to undergo a technique 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 lead to, 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, we’ve got to get to a scenario 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 method to do this is to have a dialog within the trial within the Senate the place details and information and knowledge and knowledge is introduced in such a method that the American public can see precisely what went on, what was Donald Trump accountable for, what ought to he held accountable to. After which, finally, what ought to his punishment be?

“However we should always not do what occurred in Reconstruction. When Reconstruction was ended and we went via this large, lengthy, centurylong course of when justice lastly prevailed ultimately. We’ve got 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 performed is on par with genocidal regimes, or that he has left the nation in a situation anyplace much like a segregated, race-based two-class system just like the America within the many years after the Civil Struggle, 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 put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN offering a platform for a name to take opponents OANN and Newsmax off the air and to additionally rob conservative influencers of social media retailers.

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 stated taking platforms away from conservatives is the results of the election and protests on the U.S. Capitol.

Alex Stamos stated, 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 drawback,” urging they be faraway from cable methods. “These corporations have freedom of speech, however I’m undecided we’d like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of hundreds of thousands of houses.”

Stamos, on Sunday’s Dependable Sources, the place he appeared with Krebs Stamos Group associate Christopher Krebs, the Trump administration’s former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company:

“First, it’s a must to concentrate on the violent extremists, and people corporations should be courageous in that method. And, second, we’ve got 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, particularly, 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 drawback, you realize, these corporations have freedom of speech, however I’m undecided we’d like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of hundreds of thousands of houses. That is, you realize, permitting individuals to hunt out data in the event that they actually wish to, however not pushing it into their faces, I believe 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 following step: Use present considerations to justify a wider suppression of conservative voices who’ve allowed area 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 desires conservative media squelched in ‘nationwide emergency’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options CNN’s senior media reporter demanding the concentrating on of conservative media retailers 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 retailers similar 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 firms and folks which are 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 items 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 should be held accountable as nicely. We have been speaking so much about individuals like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, they should 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 realize, 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 onerous left inside CNN: Selectively cite the baseless allegations of some on one facet of the political spectrum to justify shutting down all the foremost retailers 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 put up)

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 destroyed the credibility of the information media by your bias.”

When Johnson identified, “This fireplace was began once you fully 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 trade, 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 realize, January of 2017. Folks like Mark Zaid in his tweet, ‘The coup has began. First of many steps. Revolt and impeachment to comply with finally.’ 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 once you fully ignored, for instance, our investigation of Hunter Biden. You already know, no proof of wrongdoing there. And now we discover out after the election, no, there’s a truthful quantity of proof to the purpose that we’ve got 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 will have spent, you will have spent the final two years —

JOHNSON: It’s the bias within the media that has created a scenario 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 outcome. So I didn’t begin this … I didn’t, I didn’t mild this hearth. This fireplace was lit over 4 years in the past. And we’ve destroyed the credibility, you will 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 nicely. We’ve got an infinite drawback on this nation. It’s unsustainable. And the one method you clear up it’s with data, and transparency, and hearings, and investigations. It’s not quackery, it’s not conspiracy concept. 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 concept, if there’s sufficient individuals who maintain, how concerning the Moon touchdown? Are you going to carry hearings on that?

JOHNSON: There are all types of issues that I’d like to carry hearings on. You must sort of decide and select primarily based on priorities. Proper now, we’ve got this election. We’ve acquired tens of hundreds of thousands of Individuals that suppose 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 should be explored and investigated.

TODD: You’ve acquired to ask your self once you inform individuals 1,000,000 instances that one thing was stolen or one thing was fraud after which they imagine it, I believe it’s good to look within the mirror and ask your self why so many individuals believed it.

JOHNSON: Properly, Chuck, it’s good to 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 acquired to go. I recognize 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, aside from, aside from crediting you for approaching, I recognize that as a result of solely two of your colleagues had the center to say sure this weekend about this conspiracy concept 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 onerous to think about him ever exhibiting such disdain towards a liberal visitor, and yet one more instance of why Trump supporters don’t belief the ‘mainstream media.’”

Score: 5 out of 5 SCREAMS.

 

 

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