CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left. 

Asked to defend Trump's "tariff chaos," Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Tapper "Everyone, especially on your side, on the left, is freaking out." Tapper quickly replied "I'm not on the left." Where is he, then? 

We know what Tapper is trying to do here – his colleague Brian Stelter has tried to do this, too – "I am not taking a side." But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side. They had to uncork grand speeches. "We call them homilies," said Tapper in 2020. CNN is not a church.

Jake Tapper can question Democrats sternly, and he had a couple for Tim Walz on Sunday, citing the criticism that the "Democrats were gaslighting the country, saying that inflation was not a big deal....pretending there wasn't a problem at the border?"

The only problem with that question is this: How did CNN perform during that "gaslighting"? Last summer, when she was granted access by Harris and Walz, Dana Bash's worst question was the open-ended one about President Biden's mental decline: "Right after the debate, you insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong. Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people?" Harris was able to say she had no regrets and then tout Biden and his record. We called her Dana No-Bash on that one.

Bill D'Agostino reports over the past week, these two networks have referred to an illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego-Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father” a whopping 120 times in 72 stories, while identifying him as an illegal alien only seven times. Meanwhile, MSNBC alone aired thirteen objectively false assertions that Garcia was actually a legal resident.

What we have here is NOT using gauzy language like he’s "undocumented." Calling him a "Maryland man" implies he’s not a migrant at all. Like they deported a native-born Marylander, which would be quite a snafu.

Saturday’s leftist “Hands Off” protests against President Trump and Elon Musk were eagerly promoted on the network news programs – although they didn’t want to tag them as leftist. It’s quite a contrast to how these same networks barely acknowledged or skipped the annual “March for Life” protest on January 24. NBC and NPR stood out, since they aired precisely zero seconds on the pro-life march, but pumped this anti-Trump dump.

Finally, Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd ridiculously claimed PBS is fair and balanced, and conservatives "reflect a misinformed, incurious reading of how public broadcasting works, what it does and whom it serves." He added "I doubt [Marjorie Taylor] Greene or her like-minded colleagues have spent much, or any time, watching PBS or listening to NPR, beyond the minimum needed to fuel their outrage." To say conservatives don't watch or listen! How insulting! 

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