Jim Justice, the governor of the state, was changing his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. It’s rare for sitting governors to change their party affiliation, but that didn’t matter to ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News who ignored the news altogether.
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MTV’s Gore Town Hall Proves It Should Stick to Music
It wouldn’t be shocking for a television network known for programming gems like Jackass, and The Real World, to lack perspective on serious matters — or to lack serious reporting. Both deficiencies were on full display during An Inconvenient Special on MTV, starring former Vice President Al Gore promoting his new film.
NBC Promotes Covert Liberal Activist Mother in Effort to Save ObamaCare
Thursday’s NBC Nightly News featured one of the classic tricks in the liberal media playbook as Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt declined to disclose the liberal activist history of a woman in her story about the Senate push to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Viacom to Help Hype Gore’s Climate Apocalypse Sequel
The liberal media love Former Vice President Al Gore, the politician turned climate “crusader.” So much so that one of the biggest media companies in the nation — Viacom — is throwing its massive weight behind his new movie.
Networks Cover Up Wasserman Schultz’s Shady IT Staffer Being Arrested
Late Tuesday afternoon, it was announced that Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fl.) had fired shady I.T. staffer Imran Awan after being arrested trying to flee the country amid a criminal investigation. And yet the “big three” networks ignored this piece of breaking news.
NRA: Journalism Dies at The Washington Post
The NRA has been firing back at false accusations made by the Washington Post including one that claimed the gun-rights advocate had illegal ties to Russia (Fake News).
MSNBC Wrongly Claims “Majority” of Police Killings Hit “People of Color”
According to statistics compiled on police killings for 2015and 2016, for those cases in which the victim’s race has been identified, more than half those killed were white.
CNN Gives Three Times More Coverage to Trump Dinner Than Obama’s Hot Mic
In their initial hours of coverage on July 18, CNN allotted three times more airtime to Trump’s (of yet) innocuous discussion than they did on March 26, 2012, to President Obama’s hot mic posturing promising “more flexibility” to hostile actors in Russia.
Latest Media Obsession: Trump’s Health
Pausing briefly from the press’s never-ending Trump-Russia obsession, both Politico Magazine and USA Today decided earlier this week to focus on the state of President Donald Trump’s health. Nothing tangible appears to have prompted either report.
Keith Olbermann Compares Trump Jr. to Benedict Arnold and Other Traitors
Keith Olbermann doubled down on his ridiculous accusations of treason against the Trump family with a tweet Monday morning. In response to President Trump’s tweet that most politicians would’ve gone to the meeting his son attended Olbermann replied, “Sure! Benedict Arnold would have….”
Politico Absurdly Hypes Supposed Resurgence of John Birch Society
The real reason for his fact-free hyping of the John Birch Society is to promote the idea that its ideas are being adopted by the GOP in general and Trump supporters in particular.
Nets Smear Updated Senate Health Care Bill with Fake News of Medicaid Cuts
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled the revised version of the GOP health care bill on Thursday. And despite the fact that the Congressional Budget Office had yet to release their report on the revisions, the Big Three Networks wasted no time in tearing it down with the usual fake news of massive cuts to Medicaid.
CNN’s Historian Smear “Mafioso” Trump Family, White House Staff “Embarrassed”
CNN Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley went on an angry rant where he railed against the Trumps as a family…Brinkley clearly had a bone to pick with the Trump family as he equated them to an Italian organized crime family.
Network Coverage of Trump Jr. Emails Dominate 54% of Evening News
The obsession was over the top, especially since much of the coverage was just the rehashing of their old Russia coverage up until the e-mail release Tuesday morning.
All 3 Networks Ignore New Damning Comey Report
All three networks spent so much time Monday morning breathlessly questioning whether or not Donald Trump Jr. “colluded” with Russia by agreeing to a meeting with an anonymous Russian lawyer during the campaign, that they couldn’t find any time to report on another important development in the same investigation–perhaps because it wasn’t centered on the Trump campaign.
Unused Confetti from Hillary Victory Party Honored as Feminist Art
Your taxpayer-funded radio at work: arts reporter Willis Ryder Arnold of St. Louis Public Radio promoted a gallery showing for progressive artist/former Clinton arts bureaucrat Bunny Burson….Burson has used the confetti that never fell from the Hillary Clinton “victory party”…on Election Night to create inspirational art for the depressed feminists of America.
CNN’s Amanpour Likens Denying Climate Science to Denying Planets Orbit the Sun
On Thursday’s New Day on CNN…CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour at one point hinted that those who are “denying climate science” are similar to those who used to think the planets and sun revolve around the Earth as she recalled Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Accord.
VH1’s “Daytime Divas” Has Christian Character Kissing Lesbian Then Priest
Too bad this week’s episode title, “Shut it Down,” didn’t stand for shutting down this tired and overused bullying of Christianity and Christians once and for all.
PBS NewsHour Promotes Leftist Pastor Who Accuses GOP Christians of Heresy
It shouldn’t be surprising that a government-funded broadcasting service would happily promote a socialist Christian preacher that eschews all those old conservative Christian concerns like prayer in school, abortion, and homosexuality – even calling that “heresy” and “theological malpractice.”
Stephen King’s TV Show “The Mist” Sprinkles in Liberal Agenda with Gore
Lindsay Koranic: What does surprise me is how they somehow manage to take works by King and make them even more left-leaning to the point of parody.
Maddox Laments Partisan Implications of Bad Weather for GA Election
When it became clear on Tuesday that Georgia Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff was going to blow tens of millions of dollars and lose to Republican Karen Handel, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested that heavy rain in Georgia had “partisan implications” that affected the special election.
False Tweet Sends Media into Overdrive on Warrior’s Boycott of Trump White House
June 13 will not go into the annals of “Great Days in Journalism History.” It’s a day of shame for much of the left-stream media, which proved that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth puts on its boots.
MSNBC’s Richard Lui Worries About Police “Overreacting” After London Attacks
MSNBC’s Richard Lui appears to be testing the limits of irresponsible media coverage of terrorist incidents.
Michael Moore Directs Video and Anti-Americanism Ensues
Amidst myriad images of President Trump, the video depicts a cartoon image of an ominous wall spanning the width of a desert plane; the wall’s tan hue slowly fades into a dingy red, white, and blue. Prophets of Rage and Michael Moore seem to believe most are “collectively” opposed to border control involving a wall.