Category Archives: Wonky Media

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 […]

Jim Acosta Dragged For Interrupting Dr. Birx: “An Effort To Score Points”

While Fox News is leading with Dear Diary Jim Acosta “mansplaining” to Dr. Birx, the focus should be on the scoring points part CNN’s Jim Acosta blasted for ‘mansplaining’ after interrupting Dr. Birx to attack Trump CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta was widely blasted for interrupting Dr. Deborah Birx during Friday’s coronavirus briefing […]

ZOMG, Amazon Fired Worker For Staging Walkout Or Something

Here’s the HuffPost Amazon Worker Fired After Staging Walkout Over Company’s Handling Of Coronavirus Risk Amazon fired an employee who helped organize a walkout at one of its fulfillment centers over the company’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on Monday. Chris Smalls, the employee who helped organize the demonstration, said he felt Amazon had failed to enact adequate measures […]

Journalism: Washington Post Actually Contacts Random Guys Parents Over Tweet

No, seriously https://twitter.com/mffisher/status/1242957612204916739 This is the state of journalism these days. Yesterday, Sissy Willis responded to this Ted Koppel: With so many people spreading "absolute nonsense and sometimes damaging nonsense over the internet," this is a time "when, rather than questioning the credibility of the media, we need to reinforce it." https://t.co/aUyhmFhuAm — Brian Stelter […]

Latest Fearmongering: DOJ Wants To Suspend All Sorts Of Constitutional Rights

The Coronavirus fearmongering has obviously been flying around for weeks. We keep getting all the “Trump’s shutting down the nation for (X) long!!!!!!!”. No one ever actually has a named source, but, they keep having to knock this down, like People with too much time on their hands were spreading unfounded rumors, looking for their […]

Trump Calls Out NY Times For Missing Half A Quote

The NY Times still hasn’t updated the article to reflect the entire quote Trump calls the New York Times a ‘disgrace to journalism’ for misrepresentation of his coronavirus quote Media pundits criticized President Donald Trump based on an incomplete quote from a recording of the president’s conference call with state governors about the crisis from […]

After Years Of Calling Trump Authoritarian, Media Upset Trump’s Not Being Authoritarian On Coronavirus

Trump has been called all sorts of things. such as Nazi, Fascist, Putin’s buddy, till the Democrats and the Credentialed Media settled on “authoritarian”. They can’t actually show any proof of Trump doing things authoritarian, but, that doesn’t stop them. Now that he’s not telling people what to do with the force of government, they […]

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