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Here Comes the Completely Unfair General Election Coverage
Newsbusters ^ | 08/12/2026 | Tim Graham

Posted on 08/12/2026 11:35:57 AM PDT by DFG

With about three months remaining in the midterm campaign, it’s become time for the most desperate partisan gamesmanship, as our socialist-friendly media engage in helping the Democrats win.

Do not recognize the “independent media” and the “independent fact-checkers” as the referees of this campaign. These elitists should be identified as uniformed players for the Democrat team, since the following are their apparent rules of campaign communication:

1. Republicans can’t call Democrats “communists.”

This applies even if you make campaign appearances with someone like Hasan Piker, who thinks mass-murdering communist Mao Zedong is “one of the great leaders of this world." It applies even if you’re talking about New York's Darializa Chevalier, who published tweets about how great The Communist Manifesto is. That apparently proves nothing.

2. But Democrats can call Republicans fascists and Nazis.

CNN and MS NOW seem like they’re on an endless loop of comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler amassing his tyrannical powers in the 1930s. Try looking for an article where PolitiFact throws a flag at a liberal calling a conservative a fascist or a Nazi. It doesn’t exist.

3. Republicans can’t call Democrats Islamists, jihadists, or pro-terrorist.

Again, who are you if you campaign with Hasan Piker, who stated “America deserved 9/11”? Piker has hailed the mass-murdering terrorists of Hamas as "a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state" of Israel? The entire DSA contingent of candidates has a platform supporting "Palestinian resistance" while rejecting calls to condemn Hamas, framing the October 7, 2023 slaughter of innocents as an “inevitable” response to Israeli occupation.

4. But Democrats can accuse Republicans of Christian nationalist theocracy.

Abdul el-Sayed can make speeches at a 2022 CAIR event comparing conservatives in Oklahoma preemptively banning Sharia law to the 19th century murder of Indians, the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, and even the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995. That, to our media elites, is considered fair commentary. PolitiFact used that fact-mangling to defend el-Sayed as reasonable.

But when Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction suggested putting the Bible in the classroom in 2024, CNN anchor Pamela Brown pushed back with a cartoonish brushback pitch: “Are you okay with all teachings of the Bible? If you want to bring it back into the classroom: rape, incest, beheading. Are you — Is that acceptable to you?”

5. Republicans can’t call Democrats extremists.

The media consider it beneath their dignity when you recall their candidates denouncing Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and the “toxic masculinity” of football. They giggle at the ancient strains of “Woke One” in 2020, like those tweets were written on an IBM super-computer in 1971. The journalists all rush forward to say these Democrats didn’t seriously mean “defund the police,” they just wanted reform or something.

6. But Democrats can describe anyone to the right of the left-wing extremists as “moderates.”

If you support Hamas and oppose Thanksgiving, the media’s choice of adjective is “progressive.” If you don’t support eradicating the state of Israel or beloved American holidays, you get to be a “moderate.” In Minnesota, Rep. Angie Craig is a “moderate” because she voted for the Laken Riley Act. “Progressive” Peggy Flanagan trashes Craig for that vote, meaning she is staunchly opposed to detaining illegal aliens who are charged with crimes, including rape and murder.

These rules are not in any way fair and balanced. They are stacked to favor Democrats over Republicans. One party is considered to be constantly punching below the belt. The apparently fascist party deserves to be punched there.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: electioncoverage; mediabias
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1 posted on 08/12/2026 11:35:57 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Trump should declare a National Emergency and force the country to have honest elections this year.


2 posted on 08/12/2026 11:37:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: DFG

Republicans are cowards.

They actually fear the left wing, crazy media.


3 posted on 08/12/2026 11:40:20 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Sen. John Thune is a bigger enemy to the GOP than any Democrat.)
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To: DFG
Remember this is not 1996. The legacy media has far less influence than it did back in the day, even if President Trump and some of his advisers seem to believe otherwise. Numbers are telling; the audience for the alphabet networks and CNN is smaller in both numbers and percentage of the population. Whatever you think about Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and other podcasters, their audiences are far larger than the legacy media.
4 posted on 08/12/2026 11:41:27 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.; DFG
I get my news from FR and sometimes listening to Glenn Beck. My millennial dtr & SIL get theirs from Discord/X and Cr1TiKaL. Kids are left of center without being leftists, and oddly enough we agree more than we disagree. But no one I know on either side cares about legacy media.
5 posted on 08/12/2026 11:55:42 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: DFG

“1. Republicans can’t call Democrats “communists.”

Heck, I call some republicans communists all the time...let’s start with Thune.


6 posted on 08/12/2026 11:56:27 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: DFG

Piss and moan about media. Don’t watch it. Grow up Republicans.


7 posted on 08/12/2026 11:57:24 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DFG

Call democrats what they are.

Fabian Society, a British organization founded in 1884 that promotes democratic socialism and social democracy through gradual, reformist, and evolutionary policies rather than violent revolution. Named after the Roman general Fabius Maximus, the group relies on strategic patience, research, and political infiltration.


8 posted on 08/12/2026 12:19:19 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: DFG

I’ve simply become so accustomed to it over the last 30 to 40 years that I don’t pay any attention to it anymore.

Then again, I don’t consume media except online, and haven’t since around 1998 or thereabouts.

It’s a shame, though, and it’s one of the leftist tools to maintain power. There’s a lot of people out there who listen to that and watch that and swallow it completely.

It is, and has been for a long time, an uphill battle for anyone who does not have a (D) after their name.


9 posted on 08/12/2026 12:56:11 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: DFG

Democrats can call Republicans Racist.

Republicans cannnot call Democrats Racist for exactly the same words, name calling style.

Democrats can call Capitalism Racist.
Democrats can call a mixed economy Capitalist even though the government takes 45% of the money.

Republicans cannot call Mixed economy “Socialist” or 50% Socialist.


10 posted on 08/12/2026 12:59:49 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Wallace T.
Re: "The legacy media has far less influence than it did back in the day..."

I disagree.

The Hard Left network news programs, the Hard Left PBS news channels, and the Hard Left cable news channels, have more than 10 million nightly viewers.

The Hard Left news print media like the New York Times and the Washington Post, and the Hard Left news wire services, have several million more Hard Left news readers.

Fox News has 2.5 million nightly viewers.

Conservatives probably have a majority of the Independent Web Broadcasters, but news hungry people need to research just to find them.

For the average voter - at least 75% of their information comes from Hard Left news sources.

11 posted on 08/12/2026 1:03:09 PM PDT by zeestephen (2024 Trump Landslide - Kamala Harris Lost By 230,000 Votes In WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m still hoping for that.


12 posted on 08/12/2026 1:48:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: zeestephen
The contrast between the legacy media sources vs. Fox and talk radio like the Salem Network would be valid if that were the only game in town as of 2026. Let's look at the podcast and blog world, where large numbers of people, especially Gen X and Millennials, get their information. Not all of these sources are solidly conservative and lean libertarian or alt-right, but neither are in the liberal to far left continuum of the legacy media. (My source is Grok.)

Joe Rogan: 21 million on YouTube and 11 million on other platforms.
Tucker Carlson: In the top ten on Spotify/YouTube and 4-5 million on his main YouTube channel, with some episodes ranging higher.
Candace Owens: 5-6 million on YouTube and 3.5 million in her podcasts, with some episodes being higher.
Megyn Kelly: About 4 million subscribers on YouTube, plus some episodes. Some episodes are downloaded in the hundreds of thousands.
Alex Jones: Despite his legal troubles, Jones has 4.5 million followers on X plus an unspecified number of viewers and listeners who migrated to his post-bankruptcy platforms.

Mainstream conservatives in the Buckley-Limbaugh tradition have a large presence as well:

Ben Shapiro: At least 1 million podcast listeners and 7 million YouTube subscribers.
Dan Bongino: Estimates run in the low to mid millions per month.
Glenn Beck: Ranges of 800,000 to 2.7 million on several platforms.
Mark Levin: Podcasts receive 500,000 views per month, with broader ranges in the 800,000-2.8 million range.
Bill O'Reilly: 700,000 to 2.4 million range.

There are crossovers in both sets of non-liberal podcasts, as there are in the legacy media. There are also liberal to far left podcasts and bloggers as well with large followings. The bottom line is that the information landscape has changed considerably in this century, especially in the last 10 years.

13 posted on 08/12/2026 2:12:44 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: quantim
I remember my Dad once calling Richard Nixon a Communist. (He voted for Nixon's conservative opponent in the 1962 gubernatorial primary.)

The problem with calling Democrats Communists, even if largely true, is that most Americans know too little about Communism for it to be an effective charge.

14 posted on 08/12/2026 3:31:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: spintreebob
I just heard a Fox News reporterette refer to the guy that beat Hong a “moderate Democrat.”

“Conservative” media is complicit.

15 posted on 08/12/2026 3:52:34 PM PDT by daler
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