FLASHBACK: Decades of Lib Media Fawning Over Democratic Veeps

August 4th, 2024 10:06 AM

Any day now, we’ll learn who Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen as her 2024 running mate. But there’s no suspense about how the media will react, since liberal journalists have consistently praised and promoted every Democratic vice presidential nominee since the early 1990s.

FLASHBACK: 36 Years of Media Derision & Scorn for GOP Veeps

July 7th, 2024 10:10 AM

Expect the media elite to greet Donald Trump’s new running mate with derision and scorn, because that’s what has faced (nearly) all Republican VP candidates since the Media Research Center began tracking political coverage in the 1980s.

FLASHBACK: The Liberal Media’s Long Record of Reviling Ronald Reagan

June 2nd, 2024 10:21 AM

In the 20 years since his death, journalists have praised Ronald Reagan as a way to disparage today's conservatives. But a look at the record shows the media routinely derided both Reagan and his policies.

FLASHBACK: Media Seized on Elián Saga to Vilify Anti-Communists

April 21st, 2024 10:11 AM

24 years ago, gun-toting immigration officers snatched six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from his Miami home, in preparation to send him back to Cuba. Throughout the five-month saga, liberal journalists insisted there was nothing superior about living in the United States and slammed Florida's anti-communist Cuban community as a “banana republic.”

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FLASHBACK: Media Slammed Clinton’s ’99 Trial as a ‘Stalinist’ ‘Coup’

February 11th, 2024 10:17 AM

25 years ago, the U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton at his impeachment trial. At the time, journalists sneered that the trial of was a pointless waste of the Senate’s valuable time, while viewers heard it was an attempted “coup,” something “Stalinist” that evoked memories of Nazi Germany. Republicans were like KKK “night riders,” motivated by racism in their vendetta against a…

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FLASHBACK: How the Media Covered the Demise of the U.S.S.R.

December 23rd, 2023 8:45 AM

It was 32 years ago — on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991 — that the world rejoiced at the final dissolution of the Soviet Union. But some in the media refused to blame the communist system for its failures, even as they treated Gorbachev, the last communist, better than his Western counterparts and his anti-communist successors.

FLASHBACK: Cheering Obama’s ‘Historic’ Embrace of Castro Dictatorship

December 16th, 2023 8:45 AM

Nine years ago this week, President Barack Obama chose to establish formal relations with the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Instead of worrying that Obama was handing a much-needed and undeserved lifeline to the decades-long Castro dictatorship, the liberal media applauded the “historic” decision.

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FLASHBACK: The Media’s Nasty Attacks on Florida’s Katherine Harris

November 25th, 2023 8:50 AM

Twenty-three years ago, November 2000, the liberal media unleashed their full fury on Florida’s Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, for following the election laws of her state as well as various court rulings to certify George W. Bush as the winner of her state’s electoral votes in the disputed 2000 presidential election.

30 Years Ago: Media Gushed Over the Clintons’ Crazy Health Care Scheme

September 23rd, 2023 8:51 AM

Thirty years ago this week, Bill and Hillary Clinton outlined their ill-fated plan for unprecedented government intervention in the health care sector. The liberal media loudly crowed their approval, assuring voters “reform” would end the “shame” of America as the only developed nation without universal coverage.

Flashback: Fawning Over the ‘Centrist’ Clinton-Gore ‘Beefcake’ Ticket

July 8th, 2023 8:50 AM

It’s been 31 years since Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton picked Tennessee Senator Al Gore as his vice presidential candidate on the 1992 Democratic Party ticket. The announcement kicked off a wave of positive coverage, as the media gleefully participated in the re-branding of a new “centrist” Democratic Party.

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Flashback: The Media’s Flagrant Impeachment Double Standard

December 17th, 2022 9:10 AM

When Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, angry reporters branded his impeachment a “legislative coup d’etat” and a “spiteful” act from Republicans. When Donald Trump was impeached exactly 21 years later, journalists lauded it as an example of Democrats “putting principle before politics” and “a great day for constitutional democracy.”

30 Years Ago: The Media’s Shameless Coverage of the ’92 Campaign

October 29th, 2022 12:15 PM

Decades before the media’s embarrassing love affair with Barack Obama, or their open warfare against Donald Trump, there was the 1992 presidential campaign, when liberal journalists shamelessly promoted Bill Clinton’s candidacy and showed their contempt for George H. W. Bush.

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FLASHBACK: Nasty, Clinton-Loving Press Slimed ‘Demented’ Nazi Starr

September 13th, 2022 5:15 PM

Former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr passed away on Tuesday, “after a lengthy illness” according to local Texas news reports. Starr, the independent counsel who…

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The Liberal Media’s Gorbasms Over the Last Soviet Dictator

August 30th, 2022 5:25 PM

The late talk radio star Rush Limbaugh coined the phrase “Gorbasm” for the ecstasy that many reporters felt when covering Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at age 91 on Tuesday. It’s true that Gorbachev was obviously less brutal than previous communist rulers. But his Soviet Union was hardly an enlightened, peace-loving democracy. While Gorbachev relaxed the repression of previous…