You’ve heard of Optimist International, the global service organization. If there were a “Pessimist International,” MS NOW military analyst Barry McCaffrey could be kicked out of it — for being too darn negative.
Caution is warranted when predicting U.S. success in foreign military operations. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq remain sobering reminders.
On Thursday Hillary Clinton testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of their investigation of the Epstein files, where she claimed in her opening statement that she had never met Jeffrey Epstein, and accused the committee of using her testimony to "distract" from and "cover up" Donald Trump's involvement with Epstein. This is a theme that the leftist media had been pushing, and later, on CNN's The Arena, Hillary's words seemed to serve as a shot in the arm for them to ratchet up the anti-Trump rhetoric.
In the wake of Iranian Supreme Leader Aylatollah Khamenei coming down with a killer headache after getting a U.S. warhead on his forehead, on Saturday, The Washington Post published one of their infamous glowing remembrances of Islamic terrorists. The paper fondly remembered the brutal Islamic dictator as a “avuncular figure” with an “easy smile” and love for “Persian poetry.”
After being deprived of its federal funding by Republicans, it's only natural that NPR is going to sound especially bitter about President Trump engaging in what they claim is "media censorship." The ruse here is that Stephen Colbert was somehow unable to put leftist Democrat James Talarico on his Late Show because of Trump. But the Trump administration didn't stop it. CBS's lawyers warned him it could be an "equal time" violation.
As NewsBusters was first to report last November, Navy veteran Zachary Young filed an appeal for his $453 million defamation suit against the Associated Press. Three months later and both sides have submitted their arguments to Florida’s First District Court of Appeals as they await a date for their oral arguments.
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's The Last Word on MS NOW, veteran actor Morgan Freeman compared America under Donald Trump to Nazi Germany.
As Freeman appeared to promote the series The Gray House about a group of Southern women who spied for the Union during the American Civil War, host Lawrence O'Donnell brought up the time Freeman read the final message of civil rights icon John Lewis for O'Donnell's show, leading the actor to remark, "The world today is not the world he left."
The combined political and liberal media counteroffensive against President Trump was underway within hours of the Iran strike.
As socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) launched a frontal assault on Trump’s decision — declaring the military action “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment” — the New York Times provided covering fire, unleashing a barrage of skepticism about the justification for the strikes.
ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl joined Saturday’s Good Morning America to discuss any possible political fallout from President Trump’s decision to attack Iran. Despite polling showing Republicans broadly supportive of the idea before Saturday, Karl suggested there is “potential for significant blowback” from the MAGA base.
The headline was big.
TV Insider put it this way:
CNN, MS NOW & Fox News Ratings: Which Network Just Had Massive Month?
The story reported:
February was a huge month for Fox News, with the network averaging 34% more primetime viewers and 35% more total day viewers than competitors CNN and MS NOW combined throughout the month, according to Mediaite.
With an average 2.61 million primetime viewers between Monday and Sunday, Fox News crushed CNN and MS NOW, which averaged a combined 1.94 million primetime viewers (807,000 average for CNN and 1.14 million average for MS NOW). Notably, Fox News also topped CBS, which averaged 2.4 million primetime viewers in February.
For Fox News, these primetime numbers were a 28% increase compared to January, while CNN and MS NOW also saw 22% and 28% increases, respectively.
“A short time ago, the United States began major combat operations in Iran,” President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning in a brief address providing hope to Iranian citizens and explaining to Americans how the action is vital to world safety.
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart works for a network that openly presents itself as an outlet for progressives, but when he joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.—which would include CNN—Capehart hilariously claimed “that the media isn't necessarily liberal.”
After the United States and Israel began combat operations against Iran, NBC’s Peter Alexander and Laura Jarrett welcomed Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to Saturday’s edition of Today to get his perspective. The worst part of the interview was when Jarrett opened up the floor for Araghchi to give his “message to the president," which consisted of an airing of grievances that were not fact-checked.
