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The current dominant spin about President Trump's bunker-busting bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities comes from anonymous intelligence sources who are guessing that the Iranian nuclear program has only been set back about three months. Once again, reporters like CNN's Natasha Bertrand exploit shadowy sources for an anti-Trump spin, pretending all the way that there's no politics being played.

Within minutes of American bombs dropping in Iran on Saturday night, the network “experts” were second-guessing everything, calling the moves “extremely risky.” President Trump was responsible for endangering both American troops and innocent Iranian civilians. Journalists always want to line up for diplomatic “solutions,” even if nothing gets solved.

Newsletters on the media are channeling gloom inside CNN after Warner Bros. Discovery spun them off, much as Comcast spun off MSNBC. Insiders are worrying about CNN being able to exist. There's panic at Anderson Cooper's disco, and his pay will probably shrink. Meanwhile, Fox quadruples CNN in the ratings.

The polls are wildly varying on President Trump's approval rating right now. One has him down 17 points, while another has him up ten. It's more likely our left-wing media will prefer the worst number. But maybe approval ratings are overrated by the power sniffers.

Toning down the rhetoric sounds like the right idea after political violence. But nobody thinks liberal journalists like CBS host Margaret Brennan or the ranting ladies of "The View" are the role models for civility referees. They have a blatant double standard on who gets to savage and smear their opponents.

NewsBusters is taking a victory lap for the House vote to claw back funding for PBS and NPR. But The Washington Post went to my neck of Wisconsin and suggested this is bad because "other radio signals are staticky and internet service can be patchy." They'd be "poorer" without the "independent option" of NPR. That's the NPR PR.

If the media were truly objective on violent protests against police, they would discourage January 6 rioters and leftist rioters. They shouldn't be shaming Trump at the same time they downplay violence against police in Los Angeles as a nothingburger.

ABC reporter Terry Moran was suspended on Sunday for a rage-filled tweet about President Trump and Stephen Miller being "world-class haters." This followed liberal rage over Trump ordering the California National Guard to restore order over immigration protests in Los Angeles.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now dramatically ad odds, and no one is happier than the left-wing press. This week pundits compared Elon's DOGE efforts to the mass murders of Stalin and Mao, including "The View." Nick Fondacaro explains the craziness.

On Tuesday, the White House sent a request to Congress for rescinding the money appropriated in advance for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Can the Republicans unite to pull the plug on "public" broadcasting subsidies? This is the best chance ever, but "moderate" Republicans will face heavy lobbying from PBS and NPR -- including on their own taxpayer-funded airwaves. 

Incoming "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas dared to proclaim to The Washington Post that NBC News is "right down the middle," they are 'tough but fair" on both parties. Why would he express such an unfounded opinion?

As NPR faces the prospect of being defunded by conservatives, ABC's 'The View' marked Jewish American Heritage Month by honoring former NPR anchor Susan Stamberg and NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, touted as the 'Queen of Leaks,' meaning leaks from Democrats seeking to damage Republicans.

NPR argues with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. Apparently, liberal speech must be forcibly supported by conservative taxpayers for the Constitution to be upheld. Trained lawyer Dan Schneider exposes the nonsense.

The brazen murder of two young Israeli Embassy staffers in DC was committed by a man on the radical left, but other than Jake Tapper, none of TV network stars could identify the shooter as "left," let alone "radical left." MRCTV's Justine Brooke Murray helps break it down.

The breaking news that former president Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer revealed that we have a new scandal of Biden deception and a faceplant press that can't seem to get to the bottom of anything about Democrats when it truly matters.

Editor Curtis Houck returns from vacation to join Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro in discussing the liberal media's largely muted response to disgraced former FBI Director James Comey's seashore seashells threat against President Trump. They also call out the Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson as, at least based on the earlier excerpts of their book, they tried to reframe the left's failure to acknowledge President Biden's plummeting mental acuity.

The Night Train rides solo to call out the liberal media's hypocrisy in condemning the 59 refugees from South Africa because they're white, while at the same time getting hyped about possibly using and abusing Pope Leo XIV as a cudgel against the political right in America.

Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro discusses the liberal media's reaction to the Trump administration's wins on the world stage over the weekend and their begrudging admission of hard truths. Mr. Producer, Ben Graham, also makes an appearance to talk about the media's continued attempts to claim Pope Leo XIV and one media personality's flip-flop on him for a reason that's only skin deep.

Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro is joined by News Analyst Alex Christy to discuss the liberal media's covetous reaction to the election of Pope Leo XIV. Leftist outlets rushed to claim Leo as one of their own, while at the same time trying to downplay and or obfuscate his conservative elements. Yet others were surprised that the leader of the Catholic Church held Catholic beliefs about abortion and marriage.

Is every day Watergate Day in the anti-Trump media? At a London event, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg said "every day is a kind of Watergate at this point," implying Trump was a crook like Richard Nixon. Brian Stelter celebrated this "Truth Tellers" summit of liberals congratulating themselves for valiantly fighting against the Trump menace.

On Sunday, President Trump tangled with NBC's Kristen Welker, after he had verbal combat with ABC's Terry Moran and Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. Four years ago, President Biden granted no interviews to the liberal media. They didn't care. Once again, Trump is punished for granting broad access to hostile journalists.

It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-controlled media like PBS and NPR. And since the EO was such a major event, usual host Tim Graham calls in to share his decades of wisdom and insights.

At the 100-day mark in President Trump's second term, it's apparent once again that the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC are organized to cover Trump as negatively as possible. A new NewsBusters study finds coverage of Trump has been 92 percent negative. Four years ago, Biden coverage was 59 percent positive. Rich Noyes explains the difference.

From the White House Correspondents Dinner to '60 Minutes,' reporters spent the weekend claiming they're not an opposition party, they're just "independent" people who search for the "truth," doing "honest journalism." Fact check: False.

Eight years after she left the White House, the liberals on TV are still fawning all over Michelle Obama. Gayle King and Whoopi Goldberg led the parade defending Queen Michelle's self-absorbed decision to skip Jimmy Carter's funeral and Donald Trump's inauguration because it wasn't "the right thing for me." She's free to do that, but she's not free to demand we all shut up about it.

As the Left celebrates Earth Day or Climate Week, George and Alex Soros are the most prominent financiers of this secular crusade. Joseph Vazquez of MRC Business and Matt Palumbo of Bongino Report discuss their latest deep dive into the Soros empire, titled "Eco-Kingpins: How the Soros Empire Funds and Steers the Global Climate Change Agenda."

When Pope Benedict died at the end of 2022, reporters called him "cartoonish" and "God's Rottweiler." The breaking news on the late Pope Francis was much more positive, he was "inclusive" and "reformist" and was "throwing doors open." This is how liberal reporters describe someone they feel is an ally.

The networks demonstrated biases by their choice of anecdotes. They completely skip murders by illegal aliens. like the newly convicted killer of Rachel Morin. Instead, they've gone all in to advocate for illegal alien Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, despite his gang connections and domestic-violence accusations.

On Friday's badly named "All Things Considered" on NPR, painter Amy Sherald -- who is pals with Michelle Obama after she painted her portrait -- smeared the Trump administration and anti-DEI conservatives by describing her woke art as a "counterterrorist attack." 

In all the tariff turbulence, the networks have obsessed over economics with a very negative tone, even on the typically soft-news morning shows. Good news on inflation and employment is buried in the "meltdown" hype. 

NewsBusters just published a study demonstrating that ABC's 'The View' is a double-reinforced leftist bubble. Over the last three months, they welcomed on 63 guests pushing a liberal agenda, and zero conservatives or Republicans. Why would we do that? Nick Fondadaro explains.

CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left. We know what Tapper is trying to do here with this "I am not taking a side." But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side -- and it certainly wasn't neutral or conservative.

Sometimes you can sense that Happy News for Democrats is the most important kind of news. Sen. Cory Booker speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours, unloading wheelbarrows of Democrat talking points, isn't exactly epic. But Democrats in the media will pretend it is.

The White House Correspondents Association is already having a bad week. They fired comedian Amber Ruffin from their White House Correspondents Dinner. Add to that President Trump is taking over the seating chart in the White House Briefing Room. What will they do as the left sees them as weak? Curtis Houck takes it on.

A CNN poll found Jasmine Crockett tied with Barack Obama when they asked Democrats which leader "best reflects the core values" of the Democrat Party. If she's that beloved, why doesn't she get more press attention?

In a House hearing, Republicans pressed the bosses of PBS and NPR on the blatant leftist bias of their news shows, and both leaders claimed these networks are unbiased and nonpartisan. No one believes this.

Rooting for bad things to happen to your adversaries isn't unusual. But when Rush Limbaugh said "I hope he fails" about incoming President Obama in 2009, leftists suggested he should be executed for treason. Now, people are talking about vandalism against Elon Musk's Tesla vehicles and dealerships, and crowds cheer and laugh as the Tesla stock price sinks. The double standard is obvious, with the Left switching from Obama is like God to Trump is like Satan.

In a recent email, DC PBS station WETA sent an email to donors still squeezing good will out of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." We're told "public media belongs to you," and PBS believes in sharing "the good that we know is in one another." Anyone who watches PBS or listens to NPR knows this isn't true.

Karoline Leavitt announced she's not attending the White House Correspondents Dinner, which looks like an even better decision after the journalists ripped Trump and Musk and Hegseth at the "Gridiron Club" dinner. Journalists complain about Trump "curtailing media access," which is ludicrous compared to how much access reporters were given to President Biden.

Why are the media so hostile to Israel and so sympathetic to pro-Hamas activists? Why should America stick with Israel as an ally in global geopolitics? We ask Josh Hammer, author of the new book "Israel and Civilization."

We've reached the five-year anniversary of when the U.S. government locked down the country to curb the Covid pandemic. It lasted much longer than "Two weeks to stop the spread." CBS and PBS explored the anniversary, but there were no apologies for getting so much of the "science" wrong and using the pandemic so mercilessly against Trump and Republican governors in an election year. 

As much as liberals want to embarrass conservatives for questioning the "Clean Air Act" or the "Civil Rights Act," it might be time to ask liberals and the media why they are so opposed to Donald Trump and Elon Musk working on the goal of  "Government Efficiency."

It's not often that we associate leakers within the government with criminals -- often, they're just frustrated liberals. But leaking the location of potential ICE raids or leaking American troop locations endangers the safety of Americans. Are reporters going to defend these kinds of leaks?

Reporters like Oliver Darcy and David Folkenflik serve as sounding boards for the radical-left staffers inside liberal media outlets who are furious whenever owners or executives threaten to move any outlet toward the center, or make any move that seems to please President Trump. Vicious bias is equated with freedom of speech.

What a difference a year makes. Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro compared the liberal media's reactions to Joe Biden's final State of the Union last year to Tuesday night's address to Congress by President Trump and found a surprising change from fawnings (in the case of Ol' Joe) to exhaustion. Sure, they hated Trump's speech, ranging from his policies to his showmanship with ordinary Americans. But other than MSNBC's gross meltdowns (see Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow), one got the sense they just wanted the day to be over.

Who let this happen on "Saturday Night Live"? Comedian Shane Gillis uncorked a monologue that mocked Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, liberal moral arrogance, and PBS documentary star Ken Burns as making dreadfully boring films. Plus some of the latest hatred of DOGE.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher came for a 15-minute interview at a Semafor summit on "trust in media," but it was a softball session. Instead of being pressed on NPR's liberal tilt, Semafor reporter Maxwell Tani was incredibly vague: "What have you done in your first year to build or restore trust in NPR?" I was in the room, and suppressed the desire to yell about the answer (and the question).

They called it a "bombshell" on Tuesday, when Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced they were going to take the credentialing and pooling powers away from the liberal press. Liberals screamed, conservatives cheered. New York Times reporter Peter Baker tweeted "this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access." That's not what Trump did.

The new boss of MSNBC not only canceled "The Reidout" and "Alex Wagner Tonight," she also ended the weekend shows of Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, and Jonathan Capehart. Is anything really going to change -- other than Joy Reid's visibility? Is Symone Sanders much "safer" for MSNBC? Or is it just rearranging the host furniture?

The CPAC crowd loved Elon Musk playing with a chainsaw, butthe media played it as scary. Nobody is going to milk the Musk hatred likeso-called "public" broadcasting, the taxpayer-funded leftists calling themselvesthe Mainstream Media.

Reporters are in a dither than Team Trump's committing a "naked violation of the First Amendment" by denying access to the Associated Press. The liberal blob didn't react this way when Team Biden obstructed access to The New York Post in their time. The AP in no way should be presented as nonpartisan or "the gold standard of neutrality."