Category Archives: Wonky Media

NY Times: American Democracy Is In Crisis From Republicans Adhering To The Constitution

Of course, this is playing to their unhinged, bat guano insane base, but, it is also reckless in that it whips those same barking moonbats into a frenzy towards violence (non-paywalled Yahoo version here) ‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy The United States has experienced deep political turmoil several times before over […]

CBS News Finally Lets Us Know Inflation Reduction Act Probably Won’t Reduce Inflation

Man, if only we had a news media which did their job before massive, citizen behavior changing, IRS enforcement and tax increasing, energy killing legislation is passed One thing the Inflation Reduction Act may not do: Lower inflation The Inflation Reduction Act is aimed at tackling a host of problems, from climate change to catching […]

GOP Is Totally Misrepresenting The 87K New IRS Agents Or Something

The plan totally doesn’t exist, you know! Trump allies are attacking Biden for a plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents that doesn't existhttps://t.co/kulUehCEnm — TIME (@TIME) August 10, 2022 See? From the link “Do you make $75,000 or less?” tweeted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for […]

NY Times: Critics Pounce On Biden For MBS Fist Bump

Here’s Biden Fist bump between President Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Al Salam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/37Oz5EwwIB — CSPAN (@cspan) July 15, 2022 And here’s the NY Times Biden’s Fraught Saudi Visit Garners Scathing Criticism and Modest Accords President Biden exchanged the shaken fist for a fist bump on […]

CNN Tries To Define “Assault Rifle”, Fails Miserably

It’s a lot easier for CNN to demonize firearms and scary looking rifles than to cover how bad Joe Biden’s economy is doing U.S. Army definition of an "assault weapon": "A selective-fire rifle chambered for a cartridge of intermediate power." The only things that define an assault rifle are rate of fire and cartridge size. […]

NY Times Seems Upset So Many Republicans Believe 2020 Was Stolen

The same NY Times has still failed to cover the news that Hillary Clinton personally authorized the lies about him for the 2016 election, which led to years of investigations, a loss of trust in the FBI, losing the 2018 midterms, and a huge chunk of Democrats believing the 2016 election was stolen. The Times […]

Media Focuses On “Replacement Theory” To Blame All Republicans For Buffalo

This is why you cannot have an adult political conversation with Democrats anymore: they’ll take any issue and ramp it up so high that there’s no way to discuss it without screaming occurring. Think how no matter what Trump did It Was The Worst Ever. Now they’re taking a small notion that’s real and comparing […]

FBI Conducted Almost 3.4 Million Warrantless “Wiretaps” In 2021, Media Mostly Silent

Remember when this occurred during the George W. Bush administration? When they were listening to international calls involving potential terrorists and bad people? How most of those calls were between non-US citizens? But, some ended up coming into the U.S.? And a few involved U.S. citizens, so, the NSA retroactively obtained warrants? And the U.S. […]

LA Times Seem Surprised So Many Died Of COVID On Biden’s Watch

I’m blowing off my normally scheduled ‘climate change’ post in favor of Nicholas Goldberg blaming Let’s Go Brandon (also available at Yahoo News) Nicholas Goldberg: We weren’t supposed to get anywhere near 1 million COVID deaths in the U.S. Then we did At the start of the pandemic, in late March 2020, President Trump held […]

Surprise: Apparently, Presidents Can Do Very Little About Inflation

Oh, wait, not, sorry, since Biden is president, this is about government being limited in what they can do What can the government do to stop or slow inflation? Inflation in the U.S. rose 8.5% in March, compared with the prior 12 months, marking the highest increase since 1981, according to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price […]

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