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Oops, they did it again.The White House decision to cooperate with Vanity Fair, giving the magazine exclusive access to top Trump administration figures, is one more example of what happens when you let the legacy media pretend that this time, it’s changed. That its editors won’t screw you over, its reporters won’t put the worst possible spin on your remarks, its photographers won’t dream of using Photoshop to highlight your every blemish for social-media snipers to spread far and wide.Why, oh why, does every Republican administration fall in love with the idea of trying to win over the people who...

Vice President JD Vance was questioned about White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles calling Vance a conspiracy theorist.Vance embraces the conspiracy label, defines how accurate it is, then delivers a strong set of remarks in defense of Susie Wiles. WATCH: The overall remarks themselves are not terribly toxic to the White House, but the question of why a chief of staff would sit down for eleven interviews over 11 months with Vanity Fair remains rather curious.What exactly did Susie Wiles expect was going to happen with all those recorded interviews?

The left-wing dark money behemoth Arabella Advisors may have just dissolved, but that hasn’t stopped outlets from spewing its anti-Trump propaganda whenever they get the chance. Take this headline: "Tis the Season for Price Hikes: Popular Holiday Gifts Climb 26 Percent Under Trump" Of course, the study was laced with cherry-picked figures to bolster its narrative, but don’t expect the media to be forthcoming about it or its explicit left-wing bias. Politico, the New York Post and NPR-affiliate Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) were like bees buzzing around honey over the supposed findings of a study spearheaded by Groundwork Collaborative,...

President Trump lodged an eye-watering $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the British broadcaster of defaming him through a deceptive edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the White House Ellipse. The lawsuit took aim at a 2024 documentary by the BBC, which spliced different sections of Trump’s comments before his supporters ransacked the Capitol to make it appear as though he explicitly encouraged the riot. “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump grumbled to reporters earlier in the day, Monday. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to...

Maggots and blowflies, creatures that feast on dead human bodies, serve highly useful purposes by returning organic matter to the soil and removing potential sources of disease. So, it's possible that Chris Murphy might also be of some social utility -- although it's hard to see him as other than a self-promoting ghoul after a shooting. Even the left-leaning Politico has named Murphy, the Democrat junior senator from Connecticut, as one of "The 7 Most Shameless Attention-Seekers in Congress." And sure enough, just hours after the mass shooting at Brown University, there was Murphy on CNN's State of the Union....

It was straight outta Dem Playbook 101: when trying to make the case for--or against--a law or regulation, don't argue the broad principle. Instead, highlight the most sympathetic individual case to play on the public's heartstrings and put pressure on Republicans. On CNN This Morning, that ploy worked -- almost. But then MRC alum Rob Bluey, the president and executive director of the Daily Signal, intervened to dump some serious rain on the liberal parade. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Elon Musk recently asked a question that millions of Americans have been asking for years: “Who sends them their instructions!? Real question.” He was reacting to a familiar spectacle, within minutes or hours of an event, leading Democrats, left leaning pundits, and drive-by media outlets suddenly begin using the same phrase, the same framing, sometimes almost the same sentence, on TV, on 𝕏, and across the web. The pattern is so obvious that it has become a kind of dark joke on the right. We all see the copies, the question is whether there is in fact a script....

In a holiday special from the canceled former MSNBC host, Reid reposted a bizarre theory that "Jingle Bells," the song we all know and love, is actually racist. According to a Wednesday report from the New York Post, Reid shared the video with her 1.3 million followers on Instagram. It begins with Khalil Greene, a creator with pronouns in his bio and a mission to expose "historical injustice," in front of the plaque in Massachusetts where James Lord Pierpont is purported to have composed the song in 1850.

President Donald Trump assailed The New York Times, accusing the paper of "seditious, perhaps even treasonous" behavior as it and other mainstream media outlets circulate "fake" reports suggesting he's slowing down. "There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me," Trump said in a Tuesday night statement on Truth Social, pushing back on claims about his stamina and sharpness. He touted what he described as a record of achievements, saying he "stopped Eight Wars," built "the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country," rebuilt the military, delivered the "Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER,"...

Paramount boss David Ellison is believed to have assured Trump officials that if the government approves the company's acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), he would overhaul the President's media arch-nemesis, CNN. Netflix announced last Friday that it reached a deal to acquire Warner and HBO properties for $72 billion, but Paramount immediately launched a hostile counterbid, taking its case directly to shareholders. The Netflix-WBD merger is facing a stiff challenge from Paramount, whose majority shareholder is billionaire Trump ally, Oracle founder Larry Ellison. On Monday, Paramount made its move, offering $77.9 billion in all-cash and urging Warner shareholders to...

On Saturday's edition of MS NOW's The Weekend, co-host Jackie Alemany, discussing the huge Feeding Our Future welfare fraud conducted by Somalis in Minnesota, prompted Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to discuss how President Trump's criticism is just another outbreak of bigotry. She "explained" in her question to Ellison that Trump has " historically used isolated instances to justify this language of bigotry and paint with extremely broad brushstrokes and make these generalizations. He has honed in on this investigation into Feeding Our Future, which your office actually prosecuted." That is false. It was a federal prosecution. Then she made...

Here is a question you can ask the Google AI: "Can the Associated Press editorialize?"And here is the answer you will get:"No, the Associated Press (AP) strives for factual, nonpartisan reporting and prohibits its journalists from editorializing or expressing personal opinions in their news coverage; their core mission is to provide objective news, but they face scrutiny and debate over potential biases, requiring consumers and member editors to remain vigilant for bias and clearly identify third-party contributions."That's some remarkably unintelligent artificial intelligence.Well, it sure seems like the AP violated its own alleged prohibition of editorializing with their Saturday story about...

The new Pentagon press corps entered the imposing building on the Potomac for the first time this week as those disgruntled members of the former press corps took to their pages to complain about it. The New York Times went a step further and is suing the Pentagon over what they say is a violation of the First Amendment. The Times claimed that the outlets that are currently covering the Pentagon were selected "based on viewpoint." They state that in "In describing the '[n]ew media outlets' willing to accede to the Department's 'media access policy,' [Sean] Parnell wrote that they...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pentagon, attempting to overturn new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that have led to most mainstream media outlets being banished from the building. The newspaper said the rules violate the Constitution’s freedom of speech and due process provisions, since they give Hegseth the power to determine on his own whether a reporter should be banned. Outlets such as the Times walked out of the Pentagon rather than agree to the rules as a condition for getting a press credential. During her briefing Tuesday, Pentagon...

With Tuesday’s White House Cabinet meeting chugging past the two-hour mark, President Donald Trump ‘s eyes fluttered and closed. His budget director busied himself doodling a fluffy cloud. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was lucky enough to speak early, but the title on his nameplate was misspelled. The sleepy, and occasionally slipshod, gathering nonetheless ended with a flurry of news. Trump declared that he didn’t want Somalis in the U.S. and Hegseth cited the “ fog of war ” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea in September. The president started things off by...

Looks like CNN Democrat political commentator Bakari Sellers’ push of a leftist campaign to boycott businesses that supported President Trump in any way fell harder than Kamala’s poll numbers on Election Day. CNN NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip concluded her November 28 roundtable by questioning panelists on what they would “be willing to wait in line and risk the absolute chaos and madness” for? Sellers, acting like he was the wokest of the group, pivoted to promote a daffy campaign spearheaded by George Soros-backed activist and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown dubbed “We Ain’t Buying It” to punish any stores...

President Trump just dropped one of the most savage and hilarious tools the White House has ever created — a brand-new Media Bias Monitor that publicly names, shames, and exposes the most misleading outlets in America. And the media is absolutely LOSING IT. This official White House website features weekly “Media Offenders,” a full “Hall of Shame,” detailed breakdowns of misreported stories, and even a leaderboard showcasing the worst offenders in real time. The Boston Globe, CBS News, The Independent, CNN, MSNBC — nobody is safe. And what’s even better? The media’s meltdown over this website is doing more damage...

When it comes to Muslim terrorism, the official trope is that “it’s always mental illness until you find a video of him pledging allegiance to ISIS” and even then there’s some wriggle room. Little surprise then that the media is trying to sell the “he was just sad” angle to explain why Rahmanullah Lakanwal traveled from Washington State to D.C. and then ambushed and shot and killed two members of the National Guard.

LMFAO! There is now an attempt to get corporate media outlets to BOYCOTT President Trump's press conferences and availabilities - "until you clean up your act!" Take Jim Acosta's advice and DO IT! 🤣 Press credentials can be swapped for New Media!

The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a “professional degree” program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The move has sparked significant uproar among nurses and nursing groups, with the American Nurses Association saying, as reported by Nursing World, that “limiting nurses’ access to funding for graduate education threatens the very foundation of patient care.