Category Archives: Wonky Media

MSNBC Prefers To Call Burning Buildings And Looting “Protests, Not Riots”

We’ve all seen the video of the 30 buildings that were burned through Wednesday night, Target and other stores looted, stuff thrown at police officers, right? MSNBC’s Ali Velshi says situation not ‘generally speaking unruly’ while standing outside burning building An MSNBC journalist attempted to explain that the violence that erupted in Minneapolis on Thursday night […]

After Telling Trump He Has The Power To Do Something About Bat Soup Virus, Liberals Seem Upset About His Call To Open Churches

Remember when all the media folks were telling Trump to use his power to Do Something about COVID19, even when he didn’t actually have that power? Well, now, Vox seems upset Trump claims he will “override the governors” who closed churches in the pandemic At a press conference Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced he […]

Exercises In News Bias: Senate On Weekend Break And Biden’s “You Ain’t Black”

Let’s start with the NY Times editorial board, which has forgotten some important information With Unemployment Expected to Reach 20%, Senators Take a Vacation Facing a calamity on par with the Great Depression, they left without a new relief package in place. After three weeks in session, the United States Senate emptied out again on […]

Media Tries To Play Gotcha With Trump Press Secretary, She Utterly Owns Them

Some in the media were upset that Kayleigh McEnany had comments prepared on the subject, but, really, the press is utterly predictable White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Is Asked Why She Downplayed Coronavirus Threat — And She Tries To Turn The Tables On The Media In her second official briefing before the White House […]

NY Times Seems Rather Cavalier About Curtailing Constitutional Rights

The editorial board forgets to mention what it looks like when threat passes. What are the conditions? We the People, in Order to Defeat the Coronavirus There are times when government must curtail individual freedoms to protect the public. But those measures must end once the threat passes. The tension between private liberty and public […]

NY Mag Reporter Asks Incredibly Dumb, Incredibly Partisan Question

He was asked “During these first 100 days,” he asked, “what has surprised you the most about this office? Enchanted you the most from serving in this office? Humbled you the most? And troubled you the most?” “Are you ready to call yourself the ‘comeback kid’?” “You definitely have some impressive accomplishments….And more than a lot of […]

Press Corp Which Demanded Trump Has Authority To Close Everything Upset Trump Says He Has Power To Reopen Everything

This is one of those times I would have liked to see Trump take a bit more of an even tone, maybe work a bit more with folks across the aisle, but, then, Democrats in governor and city leadership positions seem to want to keep things closed as long as possible. Mostly because they want […]

Washington Post, NY Times Finally Touch On Tara Read Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biden

We don’t really have to look back and see how the media covered allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, do we? BUSTED: The NYT stealth-edited the 'deep dive' into the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden https://t.co/d2onVUc6YR — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 12, 2020 The article itself takes a very soft touch on Biden, and then they […]

Pentagon Shoots Down ABC Report That White House Knew About Bat Soup Virus In November

See, ABC “News” tried this Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources – @ABC News. The National Center for Medical intelligence findings on Coronavirus in China briefed to White House and military officials in 2019. What was done in response? https://t.co/PBgxOLAlrK — George Stephanopoulos (@GStephanopoulos) April 8, 2020 This sent many […]

Hot Take: Trump Admin Let Thousands Stream In Before Implementing Travel Ban Media Slammed Him Over

There’s some very interesting revisionism going on. When Trump put in place the travel ban from China he was slammed for it, because the media had been saying it wasn’t that bad There was a lot of the sort of stuff depicted below. https://t.co/fuRZVtUDJv — Brit Hume (@brithume) April 1, 2020 Plus, you know, Orange […]

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