December 11, 2024

NYC subway hero Daniel Penny’s first interview following his not guilty verdict

Two days ago (December 9), Daniel Penny, on trial in New York City after being charged with the murder of a black homeless man (criminally negligent homicide and second degree manslaughter) on a NYC subway train last year, was found not guilty on the...

December 10, 2024

Finally, Pete Hegseth’s first interview as Department of Defense director nominee

Pete Hegseth, the Ivy League-educated Iraq War veteran and prominent FOX News program host, has emerged as Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet-level nominee since he was selected as the new director of the Department of Defense last month...

November 28, 2024

Hell may have just frozen over: META’s Mark Zuckerberg appears to be climbing aboard the Trump train!

POLITICO broke the story just before 9:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday:   Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made the trek to Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, where he met with President-elect Donald Trump and members of his soon-to-be second administration...

November 27, 2024

Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, visits the border and is thrilled at what he found

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s designated border czar, the indefatigable Tom Homan, has already started planning to solve the country’s myriad problems caused by the Biden-Harris open borders policy. Yesterday, Homan traveled to the...

November 21, 2024

Trump’s border czar Tom Homan explains what’s ahead for the illegal invaders

On the day that the illegal immigrant Venezuelan gang member was found guilty of brutally murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, FOX News turned for comment to Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s choice as the new “border czar...

November 16, 2024

RFK, Jr. as HHS Secretary can transform America

If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is confirmed as President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services next year, it promises to be a watershed event. It could potentially transform the practice of medicine in the U.S. and, as perhaps an uninten...

November 9, 2024

Failing cable news channel CNN likely to go to trial for libeling Project Veritas

It’s been largely under the radar until now, but third-place cable news channel CNN is facing a new problem: a potential jury trial to defend itself against charges that it libeled Project Veritas with a fake news report in 2021. The long-si...

November 7, 2024

There was another big winner on Tuesday Election Day — FOX News

On Tuesday, more Americans watched the reporting of the re-election of Donald J. Trump on FOX News than on any other mainstream television channel — cable, cable news, or broadcast television. Despite the ongoing exodus of people from conven...

October 11, 2024

Transcript: Obama’s racism on full display as he spoke to black Harris campaign workers in Pittsburgh yesterday

As a complement to Andrea Widburg’s look back at the history of Barack Obama’s insensitivity, crudeness, and racism over the years in her excellent blog at American Thinker today, here is the transcript of some of what he said in a privat...

October 7, 2024

Hell froze over yesterday as Tim Walz sat for a live interview on FOX News

Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) finally came out of hiding from the media yesterday and appeared for a live 15-minute interview on the FOX News channel’s signature Sunday morning program FOX News Sunday hosted by Shannon Bream. The Harris-Walz campa...

August 25, 2024

Mark Levin rips the mask off the anti-democratic 'thug' Kamala Harris in his FOX News show

Mark Levin is an attorney, a writer, a talk show host – and a great thinker. His eight non-fiction books, thoroughly researched and brilliant analyses of legal and political issues, are long form and have all been New York Times bestsellers. ...

August 23, 2024

Donald Trump’s first comments about Kamala’s convention speech in a live interview last night on FOX News

As is often the case, former president Donald Trump commented on breaking news by phoning it in to a live broadcast on FOX News. At 11:20 PM ET last night, eight minutes after Kamala Harris concluded her convention speech and as FOX was wrapping u...

August 8, 2024

President Trump’s first reaction to Tim Walz as the Democrats’ VP choice

Before 24 hours had passed since Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her choice for vice presidential running mate, former president Donald Trump appeared live on FOX News to share his reaction. During a 25-minute conversation by phone with the fo...

August 7, 2024

UPDATED: J.D. Vance’s first interview since Gov. Walz was named the Democrat’s VP choice

Yesterday morning at 9:13 AM ET, POLITICO was the first MSM to announce Kamala Harris had decided on Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz to be her choice of running mate for vice president. Until that moment, most media talking heads had identified Penns...

August 4, 2024

Trump opens up about his religious beliefs in faith, heaven and prayer

In the third and final segment of his July 29 exclusive sit down interview with FOX News prime time host Laura Ingraham, broadcast on her program on Friday August 2, President Trump was asked about his spiritual beliefs – for the first time tha...

August 3, 2024

Simone Biles ‘seemingly’ takes a swipe at President Trump

As she accepted her second gold medal at the Paris Olympics yesterday, GOAT (Greatest of All Time) American gymnast Simone Biles, whose total haul of Olympic gold is six, appeared by all accounts to diss President Trump. Befitting the superstar celeb...

August 2, 2024

Don Lemon came out of obscurity this week for a full-throated endorsement of Kamala

After 17 years at CNN, including a run as a prime time host for eight years, Don Lemon was fired last year, reportedly after failing to improve the ratings at his new assignment on CNN’s early morning show. He had also made more than a few cont...

July 31, 2024

President Trump’s latest long interview this week on FOX News puts more of his thinking on the record

In the eight days between Monday July 22 and Tuesday July 30, FOX News presented three exclusive long form interviews with former President Donald Trump, two of them on video. The truth is, if you want to see President Trump interviewed on television...

July 29, 2024

Mark Levin had the best analysis yet of Kamala Harris

Mark Levin’s Saturday and Sunday prime time news analysis and commentary shows on FOX News, Life, Liberty & Levin, are appointment viewing but never more than last night. In his 19-minute program opening, Levin focused on Vice President Kam...

July 28, 2024

The state of the race

Yesterday just after 12:00 midnight ET, the Wall Street Journal posted its lead story for Saturday July 27: Harris Erases Trump’s Lead, WSJ Poll Finds According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, the two candidates are effectively tie...

July 26, 2024

CNN and rest of MSM conspire to promote Kamala Harris

Watching CNN and reading much of the rest of the mainstream media in print and online since last Sunday, when Joe Biden announced that he’s not running for reelection, is like a nightmare vision of a dystopian future.  True to the Marxi...

July 24, 2024

More breaking news from Donald Trump on FOX News’s exclusive sit down interview with him and JD Vance

In the final segment Tuesday evening of Jesse Watters’s Primetime interview with former Donald President Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, some pointed questions were asked and answered. Watters’s sit down with Trump and V...

July 23, 2024

Trump reveals even more about the assassination attempt in FOX News Watters interview

More from the first television interview with Donald Trump since the attempted assassination attempt on July 13, recorded one week later in Grand Rapids, Michigan, took up a significant part of Watters World on the FOX News channel last evening. The ...

July 22, 2024

'Obama hates Biden,' and other excerpts from the Trump/Vance interview with Fox News's Watters

Since the whole dynamic of the 2024 race for the presidency was totally upended in the aftermath of President Biden’s abysmal performance in the Trump-Biden debate on CNN on June 27, former president Donald Trump has done few interviews –...

July 21, 2024

Trump and Vance both raised questions about the failure of the Secret Service to protect former president Trump

Yesterday, while they were in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the former president’s first public rally since the assassination attempt on him seven days earlier, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance sat for an interview with FOX News prime time host Jesse W...

July 21, 2024

Rep. Ronny Jackson, M.D. releases first medical report on former President Trump’s ear injury

In the absence of any official statement about the injury Donald Trump suffered when he was shot in Pennsylvania one week ago, critics of the former president, especially cable news hosts such as Joy Reid and guests on MSNBC, have expressed doubts th...

July 18, 2024

Tonight: The ‘blue collar billionaire’ on stage at the RNC as Donald Trump delivers the most important speech of his career

The year 2024 is starting to rival the most significant election years in our country’s history. In the last three weeks alone, the disastrous debate performance of President Biden that exposed his significant liabilities, the assassination att...

July 16, 2024

Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance is President Trump’s choice for his vice presidential running mate

At 3:04 PM ET yesterday, in a posting on his Truth Social media platform, former president Donald Trump finally announced his choice for a vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. Recent speculation had centered on three finalists: Vance...

July 14, 2024

Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks? Not much is known at this time but a disturbing picture is starting to emerge

We are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. Late Saturday, the FBI identified the shooter – the attempted assassin – of President Donald Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was also allegedly...

July 13, 2024

FOX News trumps the competition the night of Biden’s “big boy” news conference

When the national television ratings for Thursday night’s much awaited prime time “big boy” press conference with President Biden were released yesterday, the FOX News cable channel (FNC) beat all of the competition by a wide margin...

July 12, 2024

Mainstream AXIOS confirms Sen. J.D. Vance is high on Trump’s VP list

In an exclusive report at American Thinker yesterday, I broke the news that a highly placed reliable source had confirmed that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance is former president Donald Trump’s choice for his vice presidential running mate. My source did ...

July 11, 2024

J.D. Vance will be Trump’s VP choice according to a highly-placed reliable source in the former president’s orbit

A reliable source who I have known for more than five years and who enjoys unique access to former president Donald Trump’s thinking told me in confidence on Tuesday that Mr. Trump has decided on J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate...

July 9, 2024

Trump breaks his recent post-debate silence with his first extensive interview Monday night

Former President Donald Trump gave his first interview Monday evening since his game changing June 27th debate with President Biden which has upended the 2024 campaign for the presidency. The venue was Sean Hannity’s prime time FOX News prog...

July 8, 2024

Black radio host who took questions from White House before Biden interview is fired

In an interview with Victor Blackwell on CNN two days ago, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, who conducted a live phone interview with President Biden on July 3 on her program “The Source” on radio station WURD in Philadelphia — the president...

July 6, 2024

A Biden-Stephanopoulos interview anomaly

Like most followers of political news, I was eager to watch the much-hyped interview with President Biden by ABC News Good Morning America co-anchor and reliable Democrat operative George Stephanopoulos. But something that occurred in the post...

June 25, 2024

Former White House Physician Rep. Ronny Jackson speculates on which drugs may be 'jacking up' President Biden

During a live appearance two days ago on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on the FOX News channel, former White House physician to three presidents Ronny Jackson, M.D., who is now a Republican member of Congress from Texas, took the r...

December 6, 2023

Trump said Biden will not be the Democrat nominee in 2024

Last night, in his third town hall appearance on FOX News since last June, former President Donald Trump said he believes that President Joe Biden will not be the Democrat party’s nominee for president next year. This was one of the two majo...

December 5, 2023

President Trump will be on cable T.V. tonight (Tuesday) in a town hall for an hour from Iowa

Tonight at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT with a replay at 11 p.m. PT), President Donald Trump will appear on the FOX News channel for another town hall from Iowa – his third on the channel since last June. Once again, the venue is Sea...

December 3, 2023

Thursday’s DeSantis-Newsom TV Debate was a Ratings Winner for FOX News

The unusual one-on-one debate between Red and Blue State Governors Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA), which aired live in an expanded edition of Sean Hannity’s prime time show on FOX News on Thursday, was a confirmed ratings success f...

August 2, 2023

Trump, Tucker, FOX News, and January 6th are in the news - sort of

A story that as of early Wednesday had not gotten much attention was broken on Monday by Eriq Gardner at the subscription site Puck. The left-wing site Mediaite picked it up later on Monday and quoted excerpts. I managed to get access to the orig...

July 29, 2023

Surprise: Fox News has bounced back and once again tops the cable news ratings

The recent predictions of the demise of the FOX News channel have proven to be premature. After FNC’s #1 prime time program, Tucker Carlson Tonight, was abruptly taken off the air three months ago, the country’s only mainstream right-of-c...

July 26, 2023

RFK Jr. scores some hits with conservatives on FOX News's town hall Tuesday

In the third FOX News town hall of the 2024 election season (the first two were with President Trump), Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appeared for an hour Tuesday night on Sean Hannity's prime time program Hannity....

July 26, 2023

Greg Gutfeld of FOX News attacked for alleged anti-Semitic comments

If I have the TV on at 7 P.M. P.T. now, I often tune around, since I am not particularly a fan of Greg Gutfeld's nightly satire-comedy program Gutfeld!, which now airs at that early hour in the Pacific Time Zone.  Imagine my surpri...

July 24, 2023

Escalating battle: RFK Jr vs. the Dem Establishment — broke new ground Sunday

Democrat candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. went farther on Sunday than he has previously in criticizing President Joe Biden for the latter's (alleged) corruption.  During a live in-studio interview with FOX News host Maria ...

July 21, 2023

RFK Jr finally has his say after House Democrats fail to completely shut him up

Prior to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s testimony yesterday before the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the House Judiciary Committee, I thought President Trump had gotten the worst treatment of anyone in public life by th...

July 20, 2023

Trump town hall with Hannity on FOX News was a big ratings win

On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump appeared for his second town hall in seven weeks on the FOX News channel, once again, as on June 1, in Iowa with Sean Hannity.  When the overnight ratings became available on Wednesday, FOX New...

July 17, 2023

RFK, Jr. Attacked for Alleged Anti-Semitic Claims About COVID-19 Engineered to Bypass Jews: Fact Check: Fake News or Something Else?

In what may turn out to be one of the most glaring examples of fake news in recent memory, the New York Post, in an exclusive on Saturday morning, published an incendiary article titled “RFK Jr. says COVID may have been ‘ethnically target...

July 11, 2023

RFK Jr. gets his shot on Jesse Watters Primetime?

On Monday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appeared on FOX News in what was at least his sixth one-on-one interview on the country's number-one cable news channel since he declared his candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination last April 19....

July 10, 2023

RFK Jr. scheduled for a live interview on FOX News tonight

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the leading Democrat challenger to President Biden for the Democrats' 2024 presidential nomination, will appear live for an interview tonight with Jesse Watters on the FOX News channel.  The program airs live fro...

June 29, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s impressive first televised town hall

NewsNation's 90-minute town hall broadcast live from Chicago Wednesday with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was an intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving event.  Despite the hour of mostly put-downs that preceded it (hosted by Ch...

June 28, 2023

RFK Jr. will face voters in his first live televised town hall tonight (Wednesday) on NewsNation

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., one of three announced candidates for the Democrat presidential nomination next year, will appear in his first televised town hall this evening on NewsNation.  According to a June 20 NewsNation news release: ...

June 27, 2023

Nine weeks after canceling Tucker Carlson, FOX News announces his replacement — and a new prime-time schedule

Exactly nine weeks after FOX News canceled its leading prime-time host, Tucker Carlson, FOX News yesterday finally announced his replacement along with a new Mon–Fri evening schedule.  Moving from 7 P.M. (all times E.T.) into Carlson...

June 8, 2023

FOX News attempts to stop Tucker Carlson from continuing his new Twitter program

As Thomas Lifson reported yesterday, Tucker Carlson uploaded "Ep. 1" of his new video show on Twitter to the social media site on Tuesday evening.  According to a "scoop" at AXIOS on Wednesd...

June 6, 2023

New whistleblower insists UFOs have landed here and the US government has them

Exactly 30 years since the premiere of The X-Files and more than four decades since Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., credible reports emerged yesterday that the U.S. government has recovered "many" crashed or lan...

June 3, 2023

FOX News debuts a new weekend prime-time schedule tonight — and Steve Hilton's The Next Revolution on Sundays is no more

Two days ago, FOX News announced a new schedule of its prime-time weekend shows.  The previous lineup was on hold since the departure of host Dan Bongino from his popular Saturday-night program that was announced on April 20.  Unr...

June 2, 2023

Donald Trump's town hall on FOX News went off as scheduled — but it wasn't exactly a real 'town hall'

Former president Donald Trump's second televised town hall of the 2024 presidential campaign season took place yesterday, broadcast in prime time for an hour on the FOX News channel.  The venue was a large facility in Clive, Iowa, with ...

June 1, 2023

Donald Trump on FOX News tonight (Thursday) for a televised town hall

In the second broadcast town hall since he declared his candidacy last November, former president Donald Trump will be on FOX News for an hour tonight (June 1).  The broadcast, taped before a live audience earlier in the day in Clive, Iowa,...

May 25, 2023

DeSantis finally launches his campaign, and Trump and the MSM attack

The MSM and President Trump's supporters and minions were clearly lying in wait for Florida governor Ron DeSantis's unconventional campaign launch on Twitter yesterday.  Actually, any announcement by the governor would hav...

May 23, 2023

Sen. Tim Scott officially throws his hat in the ring — and does an impressive interview on FOX News

South Carolina senator Tim Scott officially declared his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in Charleston, S.C. yesterday.  (See Andrea Widburg's first-person account of the event here.)  ...

May 19, 2023

Turmoil and change in the air at FOX News

In a “blockbuster” exclusive on Wednesday, Matt Drudge blasted his latest scoop, citing a single anonymous source, that FOX News was about to upend its primetime schedule that has been, to some extent, limping since the forced departure o...

May 18, 2023

Is a major primetime schedule shakeup imminent at FOX News?

See also: Fox News desperately needs new blood Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report broke an unsourced story yesterday morning that pushed both the MSM and alternative media to immediately take notice. Based on one anonymous source, the Drudge Report...

May 17, 2023

Is RFK Jr. moving to the left in his campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination?

On Tuesday, May 16, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who declared his candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination last April 19, appeared for (at least) the fourth time for a live interview on the FOX News channel.  On this occasion, he was i...

May 12, 2023

CNN's brief ratings success with the Trump Town Hall

The television ratings are in, and CNN's live Town Hall Wednesday evening at 8 P.M. E.T. with President Trump, as expected, gave the third-place cable news channel a decisive win in the ratings — but only for the 75 minutes when Trump was o...

May 10, 2023

President Trump returns to CNN tonight for the first time since 2016 in a live town hall from NH

Surprise, surprise!  Former president Donald Trump, acknowledging an offer he couldn't refuse, is scheduled to appear in a live town hall event on CNN tonight (Wednesday, May 10) starting at 8 P.M. E.T. with a replay four hours later....

May 10, 2023

Tucker Carlson announces his move

After sixteen days of uncertainty and rampant speculation in the MSM, the left and right media and blogosphere, and social media, Tucker Carlson let it be known yesterday how he plans to continue to communicate with his millions of fans.  I...

May 9, 2023

FOX News's Hannity embraces (figuratively) RFK Jr.

In a lengthy, heavily promoted live interview on FOX News's Hannity Monday evening, Democrat candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made the case for his challenge to President Biden.  He also made news by restating hi...

May 8, 2023

Predictions of FOX News's post-Tucker ratings demise may be premature

As might have been expected, the ratings for FOX News's 8 P.M. E.T. hour suffered after Tucker Carlson was unceremoniously dumped without warning on Monday, April 24.  During that last week of April, Tucker Carlson Tonight was...

March 20, 2023

3 years ago American Thinker was the first to call out the fraud of Dr. Anthony Fauci and was viciously attacked by the WaPo, NYT other MSM outlets

Three years ago tomorrow, on March 21, 2020, American Thinker published the first nationally-read critical article about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Deep State medical bureaucrat who would play a determinative role in the country’s draconian and fai...

March 12, 2023

The mainstream media, and now the government, want to shut down FOX News

FOX News, which last October marked its 26th anniversary as a cable news channel, has long been a target for its increasingly leftist competition, CNN and MSNBC. But now, the Federal  Government is jumping on the kill-FOX bandwagon and making no...

December 10, 2022

Tucker Carlson's onetime 'Liberal Sherpa,' Cathy Areu, is arrested and in jail in Miami

In the early days of Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News show (from shortly after its premiere in 2017 until around 2020), before it found its current footing, a frequent guest, dubbed the "liberal sherpa," was Cathy Areu.  S...

December 7, 2022

Sen. Ted Cruz's daughter reportedly hospitalized after attempt to harm herself. There is a backstory to this sad family tragedy

Late Tuesday evening, the Daily Mail broke a story about an emergency response team sent to Sen. Ted Cruz's home in Houston at 8 P.M. CST Tuesday to treat a 14-year-old patient who had reportedly experienced self-inflicted injuries...

November 23, 2022

Violent crime comes to previously peaceful and safe Martha's Vineyard. And guess why!

The previously unimaginable has happened: the storybook island of Martha's Vineyard, the seasonal home of billionaires and hundreds of elite cultural and political movers and shakers, not to mention one of three year-round homes of the Obamas, ha...

November 16, 2022

Did Mike Pence just announce he's running for president?

America's #1 cable news channel was the outlet that former vice president Mike Pence chose on Tuesday evening to do everything but formally declare that he will be a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. In an extensive...

November 4, 2022

CNBC's $10-million-a-year man Shep Smith is out after two years

See also: Increasing chaos engulfs CNN as its ratings hit rock bottom with no end point in sight It was announced on Thursday that the cable channel CNBC's $10-million-a-year man, news reader Shepard Smith, will be doing his last show at 7 P.M...

November 4, 2022

Increasing chaos engulfs CNN as its ratings hit rock bottom with no end point in sight

See also: CNBC's $10 million a year man Shep Smith is out after two years Big news this week in the world of left-wing mainstream cable news.  It almost gives one hope that the fake news house of cards that has ruled the roost s...

November 3, 2022

Don Lemon's premiere as an early-morning host on CNN this week is a ratings disaster

On Tuesday, November 1, CNN's revamped three-hour early morning show, titled CNN This Morning, co-hosted by former prime-time host Don Lemon, premiered to dismal ratings.  This was despite massive promotion and several marquee gues...

October 30, 2022

CNN Embarrasses Itself with Documentary Series Slamming the Founder of the Network that has Humiliated It

Launched in 1980, CNN, the country’s oldest cable news network, has been on ratings life support for years. Tonight, Oct. 30, 2022, at 10 PM ET/PT, promises to witness another of the Cable News Network’s major low points – and possi...

July 20, 2022

Social media appear to be planning to censor the truth about the Democrats prior to the November election

Social media apparently are planning on turbo-charging the censoring of conservative voices — particularly ones who criticize Democrats — leading up to the midterm elections.  How do I know this?  What happened to me o...

June 18, 2022

The Watergate break-in: 50 years ago

Just after 12 midnight EDT on June 17, 1972 — exactly 50 years ago — the notorious break-in at the Democratic party's headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. took place. That weekend, I was in New York City, cover...

May 17, 2022

Critical Race Theory has infected 80% of the top US medical schools

The U.S. medical establishment is in the process of absurdly identifying "racism" as the major determinant in health care outcomes. Last January, I wrote about how the Biden administration was "institutionalizing...

January 10, 2022

Biden administration institutionalizes medical racism nationwide

The lead story on Fox News's website on Saturday reported that the Biden administration was telling hospitals that "certain Covid patients may qualify for treatment faster based on their RACE" (emphasis original).  E...

June 9, 2021

D-Day's 77th anniversary on June 6 — why so little attention this year?

This past Sunday, June 6, 2021, was the anniversary of a truly historic day in our nation's and the world's history.  It was 77 years ago, at dawn in Europe that morning, that the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France began. ...

June 1, 2021

Fauci will be gone in 90 days

A lot has happened in the last two weeks that may result in the retirement of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The face of the government’s Covid-19 response may have finally met his Waterloo. The way things are going, a forced retirement at age 80 may be th...

May 30, 2021

One year after the death of George Floyd, the psy-ops have triumphed

A lot was made last week about Tuesday, May 25th being the first anniversary of George Floyd's death while in police custody. For me, the most graphic indication of the impact of Floyd’s death and its year-long over-the-top aftermath was pr...

May 17, 2021

Dr. Fauci is Finally Unmasked

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the leader of the federal government’s politically based responses to Covid-19 since day one of the pandemic.  The director since 1984 of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he now serves a...

April 26, 2021

Medical Racism – Preferential Treatments for Blacks over Whites – is Here

Race has always been used by the left and the Democrats to divide us. As we’ve seen all too clearly in recent weeks, this strategy has now achieved critical mass – and it’s moved into health care, the largest sector of the economy a...

April 19, 2021

Cable news shake-up has Fox News again at the top

Soon after last November's election, an odd meme took hold.  On the conservative right, it had suddenly become fashionable to hate Fox News, largely because of Trump-supporters' disappointment in how the channel reported the electio...

April 7, 2021

On the way out the door, CNN's Brooke Baldwin disses her employer of 13 years

In her final month on CNN before leaving her job (apparently her own decision), anchor Brooke Baldwin gave an hour-long interview to a Ms. Magazine podcast that criticizes the cable news network that has employed her in prominent roles since 2008....

March 21, 2021

Fauci’s Fall from Grace Began a Year Ago Today

One year ago today, an article of mine at American Thinker became a flashpoint of mainstream media coverage and criticism. Before two weeks had passed, my article was referenced, including with links to it and me in four major articles at the Washing...

March 21, 2021

Fauci’s fall: Frank Luntz focus group of Trump voters disses both Fauci and the Covid-19 vaccines

Last year at this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as the NIH, was riding high. Pundits from both left and right – including the opinion hosts on Fox News – as well as Pres...

March 15, 2021

CNN's war on Fox News goes nuclear — with a twist

CNN's on again-on again war (that's not a typo — it never ends) against Fox News is getting hotter, most likely because CNN is once again seriously trailing Fox News in the ratings.  Brian Stelter, his network's ...

March 5, 2021

Fox News reclaims top spot in cable news ratings

It was a tough couple of months for Fox News after the November 3rd election. Clips of questionable moments on the channel fueled the meme that the conservative house that Roger Ailes built was “going left.”  For the first time in tw...

February 25, 2021

Capitol Hill hearing targets Fox News and lays the groundwork for government censorship

One of the most chilling examples in modern times of the accelerating full-spectrum assault on free speech and the First Amendment took place yesterday on Capitol Hill, courtesy of a subcommittee of the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Energy a...

February 23, 2021

Red Alert: Democrats take first steps to censor conservative TV channels OANN, Newsmax, and Fox News

In a shocking development in the ongoing censorship debate, two influential Democrat members of the House of Representatives have taken the first steps to challenge the continued availability of conservative channels Newsmax, OANN, and Fox News on ma...

February 14, 2021

What’s Up with Fox News?

In recent months, the hatred of Fox News from the left has been almost matched by trending memes – from the right! Examples include (to paraphrase) “Fox News has turned left.” “Fox News is being run by Disney.” “Th...

February 14, 2021

YouTube is now blocking links to American Thinker

YouTube appears to be – no, it definitely is – blocking links to American Thinker. When one attempts to post a comment to a YouTube video or to reply to someone else’s comment that includes a link to American Thinker, the comment ca...

January 12, 2021

Washington Post claims Cumulus Media orders its prominent talk hosts to stop supporting President Trump’s claims – or else

In a report hotly disputed by Mark Levin, the most prominent figure mentioned, Paul Farhi of the Washington Post reports that Cumulus Media, a major syndicator of talk radio programs by conservative icons including Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and D...

January 12, 2021

Major shake-up rocks Fox News

Yesterday, with nine days left before Democrats take total control of the federal government, stunning news rocked the world of conservative media.  In addition to a disputed report on a talk radio ban, a news release emailed...

December 12, 2020

President Trump's latest televised interview set for Sunday morning

Readers who are interested in President Trump's first television interview since the unfavorable Supreme Court ruling on Friday may want to set their alarms or DVRs for Sunday morning's broadcast of Fox & Friends Weekend on the ...

December 10, 2020

Honor student athlete commits suicide due to COVID-19 school lockdown

A local story in Maine that chronicled the suicide of a 16-year-old high school student who was seriously depressed due to the COVID-19 lockdown of his school might have remained local.  But it was brought to national attention Wednesday on...

December 3, 2020

Renowned scientist tells Laura Ingraham the COVID-19 vaccine is 'downright dangerous' and will send you 'to your doom'

On Wednesday, The Ingraham Angle on the Fox News channel broadcast a mind-boggling live interview with a world-renowned microbiologist who said the "looming" COVID-19 vaccine is "downright dangerous" and will send you ...

November 25, 2020

Prominent physician advises Biden to prioritize people of color for COVID-19 vaccine

The perception that Joe Biden will soon be overseeing the country’s response to COVID-19 has unleashed a number of control freaks and social justice warriors in the medical establishment to show their true colors. Another example popped up on C...

November 9, 2020

The Unholy Trinity: The co-chairs of Biden's COVID-19 panel

Later today, it is expected that Joe Biden will announce the creation of his COVID-19 Task Force that will guide him in his plan to "manage" the coronavirus pandemic that reportedly was a — if not the — major factor in infl...

October 22, 2020

Roots of today's revolutionaries: The 1967 Pentagon March

Fifty-three years ago yesterday — October 21, 1967 — was a landmark event in the modern history of the United States.  On that fine fall Saturday in Washington, D.C., a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 people assembled in th...

October 22, 2020

'Millennial Millie' Weaver's felony case totally dismissed

Ten weeks after her widely reported arrest, the conservative new media star Millie Weaver and her two fellow defendants have been exonerated, and the mainstream media are ignoring her vindication.  On Friday, August 14, 2020, Weaver, widely k...

October 16, 2020

Our Best Hope in the Homestretch for a Trump Victory: V I P – Vote, Influence and Pray

For this writer, the year 2020 has been characterized by reporting on one bad news story after another: the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the insurrection based on a whipped up racial divide, the physical attack on Michelle Malkin, the arrest of Millie...

October 8, 2020

After surgery Wednesday to remove a large tumor on his neck, Dan Bongino tweeted that it may be cancer

Two weeks after he announced in an emotional episode on his daily radio podcast that he had developed a large tumor on his neck, Dan Bongino, 48, had surgery in a New York City hospital on Wednesday to remove the growth.  Prior to the surge...

October 5, 2020

Mark Levin lays out the challenge facing us in the next four weeks

On his weekly prime-time Fox News channel program yesterday evening, tireless conservative talk show host and bestselling author Mark Levin summarized the challenge that the nation faces in Election 2020 in four short weeks.  The guest on...

October 5, 2020

Dan Bongino to undergo surgery on Wednesday for a tumor on his neck

On September 27, Dan Bongino, Fox News contributor, host of one of the most popular political podcasts, and bestselling author (and prior to all of that a Secret Service agent who served on the presidential protection detail ...

September 12, 2020

Dr. Fauci outs himself, sharing Atlantic Festival platform with Hillary, Pelosi, Stacey Abrams, and a Marxist BLM co-founder

Yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg, the infamous editor of The Atlantic, whose latest fake news article one week ago alleged that President Trump had cruelly disparaged members of the U.S. military, sent an email announcing the lineup of...

September 1, 2020

Trump implies opposition to feds mandating COVID vaccination as some states move in that direction

Laura Ingraham raised the issue of whether or not a COVID-19 vaccine would be mandated by the federal government when she interviewed President Trump on her Fox News Channel program on Monday.  The topic first came to the fore las...

August 18, 2020

Millie Weaver and her co-defendants are freed on bond

Conservative new media personality Millicent (Millie) Weaver, AKA Millennial Millie, had her day in court Monday morning via a live Zoom video stream from jail in northeastern Ohio after being arrested last Friday and spending the weekend locked...

August 17, 2020

Millie Weaver faces her first court hearing this morning after being arrested and jailed last Friday

New media reporter Millie Weaver is scheduled to have her first court hearing this morning after a weekend in jail following her arrest last Friday.  Weaver's arrest came on the eve of the release of her 82-minute documentary, Shad...

August 15, 2020

New media journalist Millie Weaver arrested and jailed until at least Monday

Millie Weaver, widely known as Millennial Millie, a 29-year old conservative new media video and print journalist with a large following online, was arrested at her home in Ohio on Friday morning. Police officers apparently from a local SWAT team too...

August 15, 2020

Sarah Palin has advice for Kamala Harris tonight on Fox News

Sarah Palin has been offering advice to Kamala Harris on running for Vice President as a woman, and tonight goes on Jesse Watters’s Fox News program to add a personal touch. There is sudden interest this week in past female nominees for vice...

August 12, 2020

President Trump, TikTok, and Big Tech

Not only President Donald Trump, but millions of people are witnessing, experiencing, and complaining about the left-wing political bias and tilt of Big Tech, which has appropriately been called Big Tech Tyranny.  In recent days, Presi...

August 12, 2020

Before taking on Kavanaugh and Biden, Kamala honed her attacks on Jeff Sessions

Sen. Kamala Harris first exposed her Trump-hating prosecutorial attack style early in her Senate career, in her interrogation of then–attorney general Jeff Sessions in June 2017.  That was half a year before she ascended to a seat on ...

August 3, 2020

Hundreds of NPR and PBS stations broadcast Noam Chomsky's anti-Trump rant

Somehow, I got on AlterNet's daily email list. AlterNet is a prominent left-wing website that has been online since 1998 and, according to Alexa, has a respectable rank of the #5,752 most popular website in the United States. The mos...

July 23, 2020

Michelle Malkin demands Denver cops' accountability for not protecting pro-police rally from violent attacks by BLM/Antifa/Marxist mob

The premeditated attack by violent leftists on Sunday that shut down a pro-police rally in Denver, injuring several of the speakers, is not being forgotten.  Yesterday, Michelle Malkin, the best known invited speaker who was roughed up and ...

July 21, 2020

Denver disgrace deepens as Michelle Malkin calls out perps and enablers of attack on Sunday’s aborted pro-police rally

On Monday, the day after the violent leftist attack on Michelle Malkin and her fellow conservatives at a pro-police rally in Denver, more information about the assailants came to light. For a refresher, my blog yesterday at American Thinker was the f...

July 20, 2020

Michelle Malkin beaten by BLM thugs and prevented from speaking at Denver pro-police rally

See also: Denver disgrace deepens as Michelle Malkin calls out perps and enablers of attack on Sunday’s aborted pro-police rally Conservative author and activist Michelle Malkin was brutally assaulted and prevented from speaking as she made ...

July 19, 2020

Civil War 2.0 going hot in Portland, Oregon

In recent weeks, Portland, Oregon has emerged as the flashpoint of the organized violent anarchist-communist movement that seeks to “transform” the United States into a lawless Third World Marxist state. Late Saturday night and early Sund...

July 2, 2020

Ed Henry is fired from Fox News

Prominent Fox News channel daily anchor Ed Henry was summarily fired yesterday as the #MeToo movement has apparently claimed its latest mark.  The announcement came in an internal email to Fox News staff early Wednesday morning, f...

June 21, 2020

Was Trump Tulsa turnout punked by alliance of AOC and Trump-hating RINOs?

A major story to emerge from President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla, on Saturday evening was the unexpectedly low turnout at the event. The rally was an extremely high-profile kickoff of the POTUS’s 2020 re-election effort after 3½...

June 13, 2020

Back in the day when FDR praised Robert E. Lee as he dedicated a statue of the Confederate general

Three years before the Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, the recently suppressed biggest grossing film of all time,[i] premiered in Atlanta, liberal Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled to Dallas to officiate at the unveiling of a giant...

June 5, 2020

Conservative black icon Candace Owens's uncompromising video critique of George Floyd creates a firestorm

The release of the official copy of the Hennepin County, Minnesota medical examiner's autopsy of George Floyd on Wednesday inspired conservative black commentator Candace Owens to live-stream an 18-minute video commentary that...

May 30, 2020

George Floyd’s preliminary autopsy raises the question: Was this another rush to judgement?

Almost totally absent from the mainstream news Friday, as the violent insurrection in the wake of George Floyd’s death spread to cities nationwide, were the preliminary results of his autopsy. The report was part of the arrest warrant for Derek...

May 28, 2020

Lawsuit against Fox News for its COVID-19 coverage dismissed by Washington state judge

A judge in Washington State on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News that attempted to quash the First Amendment to the Constitution and get the court to enforce prior oversight and restraint on the channel's future reporting. ...

May 16, 2020

Mandatory coronavirus vaccination looming on the horizon

The reports during the past two days that President Trump has engaged the military in a project called Operation Warp Speed to fast track a Covid-19 vaccine – which is being compared to the World War Two Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear w...

May 9, 2020

America vs. China: A topic whose time has come

Now that many states are opening back up, the cable news channels are finally making some time available for non-COVID-19 programming.  A new hour-long documentary premiering this weekend on two Fox cable channels promises to explore a vita...

May 7, 2020

Barry Farber, conservative talk radio pioneer and author, passes away a day after his 90th birthday

Barry Farber, an original pioneer of talk radio who shared his intelligent conservatism with untold millions of listeners during a career in broadcasting that spanned 60 years, has passed away.  One day after his 90th birthday on Tuesday, F...

May 4, 2020

In the Fox News town hall, President Trump encourages the states’ re-opening – and promises a COVID-19 vaccine soon

Last evening, for almost two hours, President Donald Trump participated in a town hall event, "America Together: Returning to Work," on the Fox News Channel.  The program was much watched by observers on both sides of the politica...

April 19, 2020

Will the Covid-19 PsyOp succeed?

From the outset of this story of the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been cautious about coming to conclusions about what’s really going on. The information coming out of Communist China has been corrupted and unreliable from the begin...

April 15, 2020

They’re coming for the First Amendment: The target is Fox News and its coronavirus coverage

A significant constitutional legal battle, under the radar for the past two weeks, has now emerged into the open. On April 2, an obscure Washington state group, WASHLITE, filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Washington against Fox News and severa...

April 13, 2020

Is President Trump finally getting ready to fire Dr. Fauci?

For the first time in the 2020 coronavirus crisis, President Trump has appeared to publicly put some major distance between himself and the Coronavirus Task Force’s principal medical advisor and spokesman, Anthony Fauci, M.D. For 36 years, Dr. ...

April 5, 2020

April 5, 1968: One of my nine lives was used up that day

April 5, 1968 – the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. As a freshman college student in Washington, D.C., I will never forget that Friday. The day before, I had made a date to visit my girlfriend who was a student...

April 1, 2020

The progressive left also has serious problems with Dr. Fauci

In focusing like a laser on American Thinker's and the conservative right's criticism of Anthony Fauci, M.D., the New York Times, Politico, and the Washington Post (including yesterday in its second critical article in three days th...

March 30, 2020

New York Times publishes fake news about American Thinker

In its Sunday edition, with the biggest readership of the week, the New York Times published an utterly baseless accusation: The American Thinker falsely claimed that the [Fauci] email was evidence that he was part of a secret group wh...

March 28, 2020

Dr. Fauci and me

Last Saturday, I wrote a blog that focused on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s leading medical expert, and his long background, especially as he shepherded the government’s four decade long war on HIV-AIDS. The ...

March 28, 2020

Fox Business Network's Trish Regan a casualty of the coronavirus war?

Following two weeks off the air and in limbo after commenting on her Fox Business Network show on March 9 that the coronavirus pandemic is "another attempt to impeach the president," FBN prime-time host Trish Regan has left the cable networ...

March 21, 2020

Anthony Fauci, the NIH's face of the coronavirus, is a Deep-State Hillary Clinton–loving stooge

Anthony Fauci, M.D., the 79-year old head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has become the #1 point man on the government's role in the coronavirus crisis.  Fauci has worked for the National Institute...

March 19, 2020

How did Italy become the new ground zero of the coronavirus?

Much is being made of the fact that Italy — an advanced European nation — has become the hot zone of coronavirus impact.  The implication is that if a first-world country with the equivalent of "Medicare for All" could...

March 19, 2020

Cable News in the era of coronavirus: Skype rules as Fox News rules the cable news ratings

Viewers of the cable news channels in recent days may have noticed a change in how the talking head guest experts are presented: rather than in-studio in Washington, D.C.; in New York; or at a remote by satellite from a professional television facili...

March 5, 2020

Joe Biden promises anti-gun nut Beto O’Rourke will be his gun control czar

In an announcement that should terrify supporters of the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution, the sudden Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden announced on Monday night that Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke would play the lead role in the...

February 26, 2020

Official investigation into the shooting death of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney continues

The sheriff's office in rural Amador County, California, which originally labeled the death by a single gunshot of DHS Obama-era whistleblower Philip Haney last week as "self inflicted," has now backed away from that assertion...

February 23, 2020

Philip Haney, a genuine Obama whistleblower, found dead at age 66

Philip Haney, an expert on Islamic extremism who was a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 and who became a prominent critic of President Obama’s questionable management of the agency after he retired in 2015, died fr...

February 9, 2020

Mayor Pete unmasked as a Bernie Sanders-socialist sympathizer

The word is finally starting to get out about Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the fresh faced, suddenly “surging” Democrat presidential contender who is poised to do well in Tuesday’s first in the nation New Hampshire primary. Just as I suspe...

January 27, 2020

Hit piece in USA Today attacks Fox News as hate speech

Since its launch in October 1996, the Fox News channel (FNC) has been under constant attack from the leftist-dominated mainstream media.  Contrary to the pervasive propaganda spewed by much of the left-of-center MSM, FNC has always been mor...

January 25, 2020

NYC's new police commissioner challenges the Left, confirming NY's new bail laws have caused an explosion in crime

At the behest of radical left-wing Democrat politicians, New York — like other states — has recently instituted criminal-coddling "reform" laws that require that violent offenders be released on the streets immediately after the...

January 12, 2020

Prominent Trump- and Fox News-hater gets punked by a joke about POTUS – and then writes a fake news story

Gabriel Sherman is a widely published writer of articles in some of the country’s leading mainstream magazines. Currently, he’s a Vanity Fair special correspondent in addition to being a frequent NBC News/MSNBC contributor. Sherman’...

January 4, 2020

CNN exploits an impaired Linda Ronstadt to attack President Trump

For more than a month, CNN has been hyping its showing this week of a new biographical documentary film about the famous singer and recording artist, Linda Ronstadt.  At age 73 now, Ronstadt has been out of the public eye for the past decad...

January 3, 2020

Es la hora para irse a casa, Julián – Translation: Time to go home, Julián Castro

Less than one year ago, leading Latino Democrat Julián Castro threw his sombrero into the ring of left-wing candidates for his party's 2020 presidential nomination.  As I wrote at American Thinker last January 15: ...

December 27, 2019

Christmas in New York tells us a lot about America in the 21st century

A trip to New York City in the days right before Christmas 2019 wound up being an unexpectedly revelatory experience. Every December, the area of Midtown Manhattan around the iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the dazzling decorated store f...

November 26, 2019

He can't get a break: The POTUS is attacked for welcoming the hero dog Conan to the White House

CNN political analyst Joan Walsh had a lot of company when she crudely attacked President Trump in a series of tweets after he, Melania Trump, and Vice President Pence welcomed the heroic military dog Conan to the White House on Monday.  Co...

November 22, 2019

British press drops bombshell story on Hunter Biden's sexcapades

A new story about Hunter Biden with details almost completely unreported in the U.S. media sheds additional unfavorable blinding light on former vice president Joe Biden's son.  On November 20, the Daily Mail of London dropped an a...

November 15, 2019

Fox News rules the TV ratings on day one of the open impeachment hearings in the House

An average of 13.9 million viewers watched the opening day of the House impeachment hearings on Wednesday on the ten television networks that broadcast the Democrats' show trial live, according to Nielsen Media Research.  The big news i...

November 13, 2019

Left's new spin: The Soviet communists 'saved democracy as much as Gen. Patton and Iwo Jima'

The title of a feature article Tuesday in The Daily Beast by the author of a new book is bad enough: "9 Reasons to Thank the USSR: How We Got the Cold War Wrong."  As anti-communist historian and author Di...

November 12, 2019

Plot thickens the day after Mollie Hemingway outed so-called whistleblower on Fox News

A media tempest in a teapot followed Federalist senior editor, author, and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway's naming of the so-called whistleblower during FNC's live show Media Buzz on Sunday morning. Conservative media complimented h...

November 11, 2019

Will Mollie Hemingway still have a job at Fox News after naming the whistleblower on live TV Sunday?

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist and a highly regarded independent journalist, created a stir during a panel discussion on FNC's Sunday morning program Media Buzz, hosted by Howie Kurtz.  At 11...

November 7, 2019

MSM ecstatic over young Somali woman newly elected in Maine

Of all the local election victories decided in Tuesday’s vote, a Muslim Somali immigrant named Safiyah Khalid elected to a local office in Maine’s second largest city has gotten the royal treatment from the MSM. It reminds me of the prima...

November 6, 2019

ABC News shills for Kamala Harris

ABC News may be an expert at the arts of deception.  Consider the censoring of a three-year-old report on Jeffrey Epstein that never saw the light of day, revealed by Project Veritas on Tuesday.  And when it co...

November 5, 2019

Does Catherine Herridge Leaving for CBS News Portend a Left Turn for Fox News?

The announcement last Thursday that popular veteran Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge would be leaving the channel the following day – and moving to a new job as Senior Investigative Correspondent at CBS News later this month – took bo...

October 28, 2019

Leading Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is dead at 76

Vladimir Bukovsky, the most famous surviving anti-communist Soviet dissident, has passed away.  The sad news broke almost simultaneously early Sunday evening E.T. in a tweet from journalist Diana West and a news release emailed by...

October 13, 2019

Project Veritas announces major undercover exposé of CNN next week

Project Veritas, the activist conservative group credited with taking down ACORN and dealing significant blows to other leftist groups, thanks to its undercover videos, is promising to release its next exposé and it looks like it will be ...

October 12, 2019

Shep Smith is out at Fox News: Conservatives agree it's about time

After 23 years as one of the most prominent on-air personalities at the Fox News channel, left-wing program host Shepard Smith made the surprise announcement at the end of his program Shepard Smith Reporting on Friday afternoon that he is l...

October 1, 2019

Fox News internal war widens with Mark Levin challenging Ed Henry

A second front in the internal war at Fox News that is pitting news and opinion personalities against one another broke out into the open on Sunday.  Unlike the first on-air skirmish last week, in which Tucker Carlson an...

September 28, 2019

Fox News's on-air war cools off — for now

The incendiary on air war that broke out earlier this week, pitting several of the most prominent Fox News channel personalities against each other, has cooled off for the moment.  The sudden flare-up of simmering grudges between Fox N...

September 26, 2019

Air war breaks out between Fox News Channel hosts

The ideological war between prominent Fox News channel program hosts that I first reported on eighteen months ago has gone hot — and this time, the dust-up is approaching near-nuclear levels of direct on-camera mano a mano. ...

August 15, 2019

Whistleblower: American Thinker was on Google’s blacklist of news sites

Buried deep in the extensive trove of internal documents documenting Google’s onerous censorship policies is this gem: American Thinker was on the dominant tech giant’s list of “blacklisted” news websites. The source of the...

July 31, 2019

In defense of Fox News

It is increasingly popular in some conservative circles to bash the Fox News Channel.  As one who has followed Fox News closely since its launch in 1996 and has written about it extensively — including critically when I felt that it w...

July 27, 2019

Mueller underwhelms — so CNN and MSNBC do pre- and post-testimony fake news and obfuscation

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's six-and-a-half-hour-long testimony in the House on Wednesday was expected to be a big ratings win for the three cable news and three broadcast television channels, all of which covered it wall-to-wall.  ...

July 11, 2019

CNN tells its website staff: ‘Take some cues from Fox News’

Television viewing habits are rapidly changing and the cable news channels' days of dominance in the boob tube infowar delivered on aging electronic platforms supplied by cable and satellite providers are numbered.  With many ...

July 6, 2019

Foul play suspected in death of 36-year-old new media personality Joe Hagmann

The new media lost a prominent figure on June 29 when Joseph D. Hagmann, for eight years the Millennial co-host of the popular conservative internet TV and radio program The Hagmann Report, died suddenly at his home in Erie, Pa. The story of ...

June 30, 2019

On the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, free speech in the gay community is hard to find

This weekend is the 50th anniversary of the “Stonewall Uprising.” The violent street demonstrations resulting from the NYC police crackdown on the gay-lesbian-transvestite underground Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village on June 27, 1969 fo...

June 29, 2019

The dystopian Democrat debates

The interaction among 20 Oval Office wannabes who took the stage Wednesday and Thursday in the first live televised Democrat debates provided the first opportunity to take the measure of our opponents.  A total of 12 debates among the leadi...

May 14, 2019

Capitalism, Socialism and the Future: Talking with Charles Payne of Fox Business Network

Last week, I spoke one-on-one with Charles Payne, the Fox Business Network (FBN) host and Fox News Channel analyst and frequent substitute host, who is an expert on all things financial and political.  Payne will be hosting of a live town hall e...

May 3, 2019

In 1988, four Mexican military troops with automatic weapons 'invaded' San Diego. I was there.

On Sunday, March 13, 1988, at 10:25 P.M., four Mexican military troops wearing camouflage uniforms and brandishing automatic weapons penetrated a mile and a half into U.S. territory south of San Diego, Calif. Their entry point was an unfenced st...

April 25, 2019

Biden makes it official

Joe Biden has made it official. At 6 AM E.T. this morning, the former Senator and Vice President, who held elective office continuously for 44 years (January 1973 to January 2017), announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination...

April 18, 2019

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the Notre Dame Cathedral fire…brilliantly

Victor Davis Hanson is a well known conservative historian, academic, and author.  He contributes commentaries prolifically on the current political scene to a variety of publications.  He is a frequent guest commentator on the Fox News Cha...

April 17, 2019

New DOJ Report: 60,000 criminal illegal aliens are in federal custody at a staggering cost

In an exclusive report on the The Ingraham Angle last evening (Fox News 10 P.M. E.T.), U.S. attorney Zachary Terwilliger broke major news about the DOJ's brand new report on the number and costs of the incarceration of illegal aliens in federal c...

April 14, 2019

Obama’s Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan tells it like it is about the illegal alien crisis

Last January, Mark Morgan, the last head of the U.S. Border Patrol agency under the Obama Administration, started weighing in on the illegal alien invasion crisis at the Southern border. On January 8, Law & Crime was one of the first news outl...

April 11, 2019

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange arrested inside London Ecuadorian embassy

Breaking this morning, shortly after dawn today on the East Coast: WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested by London police and taken into custody shortly before 11 A.M. London time. NBC News reported: Assange was wanted by British p...

April 1, 2019

Judge Jeanine is back — and took the high road

See also: Judge Jeanine is back – without a word about her two-week suspension I think Jeanine Pirro took the high road on her program Saturday.  She returned, did a great show, looked and sounded fabulous. Her guests all congratula...

March 31, 2019

Tonight: A hard look at the soft coup

A compelling hour of intelligent television is in store tonight at 10 PM ET/PT on the Fox News Channel, Life, Liberty & Levin. The program will feature a discussion of the Mueller Report and the Deep State’s efforts to take down President D...

March 28, 2019

President Trump makes news in first interview since Mueller Report on Sean Hannity's FNC show

On Wednesday, March 27, Sean Hannity devoted three quarters — 45 minutes — of his prime-time Fox News channel program which was commercial-free to an exclusive telephone interview with President Donald Trump.  It was the preside...

March 27, 2019

CNN and MSNBC ratings plummet, Fox News triumphs in wake of 'no collusion'

The long awaited news on Sunday that the Mueller Report had exonerated President Trump of collusion with Russia instantly shed major new light on the complicity of the mainstream media in perpetrating the mass delusion of collusion. ...

March 10, 2019

FNC’s Scandalous series returns tonight with a review of the William Kennedy Smith rape trial

The best documentary series on cable news, Fox News Channel’s Scandalous, is returning for what the Fox News channel is calling the occasional program’s third season. Tonight at 8 and 11 PM ET, and for the next two Sundays, Scandalous: Th...

February 22, 2019

2020 Democrat candidates are now supporting reparations for slavery

On February 21, a New York Times feature story about proposals for the government to pay American blacks reparations for slavery has moved the issue closer to the front burner in the lead up to next year's presidential elections. ...

February 19, 2019

Top Democrats, Identity Politics, and the Jussie Smollett Affair: Is This the Real Collusion?

Rather than usher in a post-racial, more unified society, the presidency of Barack Obama exacerbated America's divisions in hot-button areas of race, ethnicity, and identity.  A number of the Democratic Party's leading contenders to...

February 17, 2019

Now we know: it was (and remains) an attempted coup

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s 60 Minutes interview, airing in full on CBS tonight, is a disaster for the Deep State. His admission during his interview that he and other top FBI and Justice Department officials seriously considered...

February 17, 2019

Finally, the Democrats openly acknowledge their socialism

Masks are slipping away on the progressive left, as the 2020 election comes into focus. Not only do we know that a “coup” was planned by foes of President Trump, we now can openly and unreservedly speak of another unpleasant but inescapab...

January 30, 2019

New Age guru Marianne Williamson throws her aura into the 2020 presidential ring

Prominent New Age personality and bestselling author Marianne Williamson is the latest über-left-wing Democrat to declare her candidacy for her party's 2020 presidential nomination.  What sets apart Williamson from a rapidly expand...

January 25, 2019

Roger Stone’s last pre-arrest interview

In the immediate aftermath of Roger Stone’s indictment and arrest on the morning of Friday, January 25, Fox News Media Relations provided a transcript and a link to the video of Stone’s last mainstream media interview before he was taken ...

January 15, 2019

Julián Castro throws his sombrero in the ring

Early in the new year, the first of what are expected to be several dozen Democratic presidential wannabes are making preliminary announcements to supporters and the media of their intentions to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.  Th...

January 14, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez zooms to #2 on Twitter during the past month

For some time now, I have been sharing with friends, and the audience of The Hagmann Report (where I do political reporting and analysis for an hour or more every week), this unpleasant observation: it increasingly seems as if 29-year-old democratic ...

January 10, 2019

Conservative critics of Fox News need to get a grip

To those who comment consistently and negatively about the Fox News channel whenever it is mentioned in print, may I ask, What planet are you on? I began covering the cable news wars, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and other topics for American Thinker and...

January 7, 2019

Mounting indications that a Civil War 2.0 may be close at hand

For months now, I have been writing and speaking about the looming prospects for a Civil War 2.0 breaking out in the United States.  The analysis probably seemed to many to be speculative and premature, pointing to somet...

January 1, 2019

President Trump's final 2018 interview

President Donald Trump's last interview of 2018 took place in the afternoon of December 31 and was broadcast at 10:40 P.M. E.T. on Fox News channel's All-American New Year Special, from Times Square in New York City.  The ...

January 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren issues one of the most bizarre 'I am running!' videos of all time

On Monday, December 31, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) confirmed mounting speculation that she would be the first out of the gate to declare her candidacy for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination.  On the last day of the year, he...

December 2, 2018

Must-See TV: Scandalous: Chappaquiddick Premieres Tonight

Highly recommended is a new program on the Fox News channel tonight, Sunday, December 2 from 8-9 P.M. E.T./P.T.  It's the second season premiere of the occasional documentary series Scandalous.  Season two, episode one of Scan...

November 19, 2018

Mark Levin inducted into National Radio Hall of Fame

Last Thursday, November 15, a snowy, traffic-snarled night in New York City, veteran talk show host Mark Levin was among eleven individuals inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the organizat...

November 11, 2018

No special programming on the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War One on 2 of 3 cable news networks

Neither CNN or MSNBC has any special programming scheduled this weekend, on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, and the 99th anniversary of the first Armistice Day (renamed in 1954 Veterans Day), to commemorate the truce and to honor all...

November 6, 2018

The 2018 Midterms: How Did We Get Here and What’s Next?

The day of reckoning is finally here after two years of psychological warfare aimed at President Donald Trump and at us – the deplorables – by the mainstream media, the Deep State, the Democrats, and the rest of the Establishment. If the ...

October 28, 2018

Preview Tonight: Fox News Goes for the Cord-cutters with Its New Online Service Fox Nation

The Fox News Channel (FNC) is set to start promoting the launch of its major new online political, and mostly conservative, streaming service – Fox Nation – in an hour-long program that airs tonight at 8 PM ET/PT. The tag line for the new...

August 27, 2018

How it Feels When YouTube Disappears Your Video

YouTube’s policy of suppressing conservative broadcasters – Alex Jones and his Infowars site is the most prominent example – hit close to home early last Tuesday morning when a video I was on was suddenly taken down. It was there on...

August 26, 2018

CNN versus Fox News on John McCain’s death

John McCain died at home in Arizona at 7:28 PM EDT on Saturday, August 25, and it took less than an hour for the news to be made known to the world. The media had been prepared for this day on Friday by the McCain family’s announcement that the...

June 29, 2018

Feds Finally Take On Occupy ICE Portland

At dawn Thursday, federal forces took the first steps to secure and reopen the ICE HQ in Portland, Oregon. The facility had been shut down for 9 days as hundreds of radical “occupiers” set up a tent city camp and blocked access to the bui...

June 29, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A giant-killer with giant ambitions

The biggest political story of the week arising from last Tuesday’s primary elections was the David and Goliath takedown of entrenched Swamp Dweller Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) by someone who was given no chance.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28,...

June 28, 2018

ICE at Bay: Siege at Portland Continues as Copycat Insurrections Spread Nationwide

Thursday June 28 marks day 12 in the radical left wing and anarchist occupation and blockade of ICE headquarters in Portland, Oregon, organized by a group called Occupy ICE PDX. The direct action to shut down operations of the Federal Immigration and...

June 25, 2018

Insurrection is Here; How Long do We have Until Civil War 2.0 Starts?

Organized lawlessness is spreading to cities across the United States but the news is almost totally ignored and blacked out by the mainstream media. These ominous uprisings are taking various forms but the most visible and aggressive ones involve...

June 20, 2018

The real agendas behind the 'separation of families' psy-ops meme

For years – decades, actually – the Democrats have been facilitating the invasion of our country by millions of people who are from, as President Trump once reportedly described them, "s-hole countries."  The cons...

June 17, 2018

Judge Jeanine Pirro: IG report is evidence of Deep State hard at work

In the opening monologue of her weekly Fox News program Justice w/ Judge Jeanine on Saturday evening, Jeanine Pirro offered one of the more concise, on target, and passionate analyses of the Inspector General’s Report on the DOJ and the FBI tha...

June 16, 2018

The president meets the press – in a most unusual way

A unique encounter between the president of the United States and the press took place outside the White House on Friday morning, June 15.  It immediately made news for being both a historic first and for what was said. At 8:25 A.M. E.T....

June 14, 2018

Fox News triumphs in the ratings during summit week

The Fox News Channel, which had been celebrating strong ratings performances in recent weeks, has another reason to crow after resoundingly beating the competition so far during Summit Week.  On Monday, with coverage of the Singapore S...

June 10, 2018

Fox’s Legends & Lies: The Civil War concludes tonight

Tonight on Fox News, the channel’s ambitious 12-part series on the Civil War concludes with the episode “Brother vs. Brother.” Episodes 1-11 mainly focused on a historic individual like Union General Ulysses S. Grant, President Abra...

June 4, 2018

'I, Sean Hannity, am the next target of the Deep State'

On his Fox News program Friday night, June 1, Sean Hannity made a startling comment.  At the end of his opening monologue, he said, "I, Sean Hannity, am the next target of the Deep State."  As a source, Hannity cited Jer...

June 1, 2018

Did Michelle Obama successfully lobby ABC TV's president to fire Roseanne?

There are many angles to this week's Roseanne Barr controversy.  This one caught my attention: on Tuesday afternoon, about twelve hours after Roseanne tweeted and quickly deleted her comments about Valerie Jarrett that almost ...

May 31, 2018

Rudy sheds light on Trump's legal strategy – and has some fun, too

On Wednesday evening, in a crisp and crackling conversation with Sean Hannity on his Fox News program, President Trump's lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, made news in both what he said about the president's legal strategy and how he delivered th...

May 25, 2018

Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who pretended to be black, charged with felony welfare fraud

In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, the head of Spokane, Washington's NAACP chapter who presented herself as an African-American woman, was outed by a Spokane TV station as a Caucasian by birth.  Dolezal's moment in the media spotlig...

May 21, 2018

The truth about the 'Muslim prayer rugs' at Fox News's DC HQ

Over the weekend, reports began circulating in the media that Fox News's D.C. headquarters had turned long-time employee Oliver North's former office into a "meditation room," complete with "Muslim prayer rugs."  Nort...

May 19, 2018

Fox’s Bret Baier draws the line: Sean Hannity is a problem

The civil war between the Fox News Channel news and opinion sides appears to be hardening, with chief political anchor Bret Baier having joined the fray.  On Thursday May 17, Baier, a 20-year high-profile veteran of Fox News, entered the li...

May 13, 2018

Fox News poised to claim victory for best ratings week since 2017

This past week witnessed Fox News pull far ahead of its major cable news competitors CNN and MSNBC – setting itself up for the largest weekly ratings victory since last fall in the critical Nielsen Research television audience measurements. In ...

May 4, 2018

Conservative personality Eric Bolling is returning to TV

Eric Bolling is making a comeback.  He had enjoyed an increasingly prominent role at Fox News for ten years, including six as a co-host of The Five, until he left the channel under a cloud last September.  On May 3, CRTV...

May 3, 2018

Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani speaks for an hour – and breaks some big news

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his investigative team move closer to their intended target, the president of the United States, Donald Trump's new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, went on the record extensively for the first time on Tuesday. ...

May 1, 2018

Michelle Wolf: In her own words

My first take on seeing the live broadcast of Michelle Wolf's comic speech at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton last Saturday was revulsion and disgust.  Like many conservatives,...

May 1, 2018

What's ahead for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Greg Gutfeld?

Among those responding to this year's White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner Saturday evening, featuring comedian Michelle Wolf, was President Donald Trump.  In the two days after Saturday night's large, annual, i...

April 27, 2018

Has there ever been a day with as many big stories as yesterday?

Compelling stories kept breaking from dawn to dusk yesterday, Thursday, April 26, 2018, and the analysis on cable news and online continued well into the night. Before dawn Thursday morning on the West Coast, it was learned that Rear Adm. Ronny Ja...

April 26, 2018

Sean Hannity Owns $90 Million In Real Estate. So What?

On Monday April 23, the Guardian in England published a lengthy article about Fox News host Sean Hannity’s major investments in real estate – to the tune of almost $90 million. The information reportedly grew out of the recent government ...

April 23, 2018

Rep. Nunes unloads on Comey, the FBI, the endless investigation of Pres. Trump

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee went on the record yesterday on the latest issues surrounding the endless investigation of President Donald J. Trump and his associates.  These comments from the chair of the House committee ...

April 21, 2018

Has James Comey Already Jumped the Shark?

James Comey’s much-hyped supposedly tell-all book about President Trump, A Higher Loyalty, and the saturation media blitz surrounding it, are already fraying – before the end of the juggernaut’s first week. Last Sunday, Comey enable...

April 19, 2018

As Laura Ingraham bounces back, Sean Hannity is the new target

In the week before Easter, Laura Ingraham tweeted a putdown of Florida school shooting survivor and newly prominent anti-gun activist student David Hogg.  "David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines a...

April 14, 2018

Live from Damascus: Syrian TV covers the air raids

Whenever the United States embarks on a military intervention in or an action involving a foreign land, I try to get some information directly from the foreign source[i].  After a bit of searching on the internet, one can dial in to officia...

April 13, 2018

California Democrat pushes new law to gut First Amendment

There seems to be nothing the Democrats in California won't do to fan the flames of the destruction of this country, its laws, and its institutions – and now, one of its essential founding documents, the Bill of Rights of the United States ...

April 10, 2018

AP's Fox faux pas

Early Monday morning, it became clear that the Associated Press had made a significant mistake in an article that, upon close examination, is hard to see as anything other than another example of the Fake News phenomenon that has come to characterize...

April 8, 2018

Must-See TV: Sarah Palin Unplugged Competes with the Kennedys, the Popes, and Robert E. Lee

Tonight, Sunday April 8, promises some interesting viewing options on two of the three major cable television news channels, Fox News and CNN. In recent weeks, Sunday has been the most successful night of the week for the ratings-challenged CNN. The ...

April 2, 2018

Is Ben Shapiro Ready for Prime Time?

Ben Shapiro, the 34 year-old conservative wunderkind whose star has risen quickly in recent years, can claim a media first today as his daily hour long online podcast expands to include broadcast radio. And not just any radio, but several of the bigg...

March 25, 2018

CNN and Fox News Documentaries Duke It Out Sunday Nights

Documentaries on basic cable television are making a comeback, and tonight brings a chance to see three of them on CNN and the Fox News Channel.  Last Sunday, CNN, which is struggling during the week, succeeded on the weekend with the ...

March 22, 2018

Lawyer for Stormy Daniels grilled by lawyer Shannon Bream

On Sunday, March 25, "porn star" Stormy Daniels (real name: Stephanie Gregory Clifford) is scheduled to appear on CBS's 60 Minutes in an interview recorded earlier this month.  Failing CNN prime-time host Anders...

March 21, 2018

CNN shakes up prime time in desperate effort to challenge Hannity and Maddow

In an attempt to end its chronic prime-time ratings slump, CNN is upending its weekday evening schedule with a new show intended to "energize the lineup" and "try and get better."  Those were the words of CNN's ...

March 19, 2018

Open War Breaks Out at Fox News

Prominent on-air news and opinion hosts at Fox News are going at it tooth and nail, as ailing 86-year-old Rupert Murdoch moves to hand the reins of the network to his liberal son Lachlan.  In early February, I got wind of an internal war bu...

March 18, 2018

Fox News rethinks talking heads TV with The Wise Guys tonight

In recent months, the Fox News Channel has been expanding its original programming on Sunday nights. The shows have included one with a new host, a provocative historical documentary series, and an unusual discussion program, The Wise Guys, which is ...

March 13, 2018

Fox News executive VP suddenly out after writing a non-PC article on the Olympics

Fox News appears to have given one of its marquee hosts – Juan Williams – considerable slack for his on-air defense of controversial Nation of Islam head The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.  John Moody, a longtime ...

March 12, 2018

It’s Time for Juan Williams to Go

His double-talking defense of Democrats who embraced Louis Farrakhan, and of Farrakhan himself, is the last straw For the past ten months that I have been reporting prolifically about the cable news wars and the Fox News Channel, readers who have ...

March 5, 2018

Mark Levin's new Fox News show raises the bar with Rep. Nunes interview

Mark Levin hit a home run with the bases loaded in the second outing of his new Fox News program on Sunday, March 4.  His guest for the full hour on Life, Liberty & Levin was Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman...

February 25, 2018

Fox News’s 'Scandalous' on Feb. 25 is right over the target

On Sunday, Feb. 25, the Fox News Channel will premiere part 6, the second-to-last episode, of its new series Scandalous that focuses on the 20th century scandals involving Bill and Hillary Clinton. Parts 1-5 of Scandalous – the series premiered...

February 22, 2018

CNN hits a new low, no longer pretending to be fair at all

See also: CNN busted trying to put scripted words in mouth of hero Stoneman Douglas student at televised town hall On Tuesday evening, I was watching CNN (note to editor: my request for hardship duty pay will follow) when I observed a new low poin...

February 18, 2018

Barry Farber, the Godfather of Modern Talk Radio

Barry Farber is a legendary and influential figure in the history of modern American media.  He is best known for being a pioneering host of intelligent talk radio, on the air almost continuously since 1960 right up to the present time....

February 1, 2018

Fox News is the Yuuge Victor in Tuesday's SOTU TV Ratings Contest

The Fox News Channel was the big winner in the live television coverage of President Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday – adding weight to its claim of being the most popular source for television news in the U.S. Twelve ...

January 29, 2018

The Week Ahead Promises an Awful Lot

The coming week looks like a doozy: another leftist “people’s” mass demonstration today, President Trump’s first State of the Union address to the Congress and the nation on Tuesday, and the expected release of the House Repub...

January 28, 2018

Fox Exposes the Clintons in the Scandalous Series

The excellent 7-part Fox News documentary series Scandalous, covering the scandals of the Clintons through the 42nd president’s impeachment trial in 1999, continues tonight with the premiere of part 2, “A Woman Called Paula.” The ho...

January 23, 2018

Illegals in California with Driver's Licenses Eligible to Vote After April 1

Starting on April 1, 2018, illegal aliens in California who have recently obtained state driver's licenses legally, or obtained them previously by lying about their immigration status, will automatically be registered to vote.  Since Ja...

January 17, 2018

Fox News launches Scandalous series with 7-part take on Clinton scandals

On Sunday, January 21 at 8 P.M. E.T./P.T., the Fox News channel will premiere the first episode of Scandalous, a new seven-part documentary series airing weekly in prime time on the scandals involving the Clintons, including the most famous one ...

January 16, 2018

Fake News and Toxic Media Bias Are Nothing New – Just Worse

The mainstream media's coverage of President Donald Trump is unprecedented in its lack of fairness and its constant negativity.  It represents the ultimate weaponization of big reporting that's in sync with efforts by the shadow gov...

January 9, 2018

What is behind Fox News's early 2018 ratings slide? -Updated

The cable news ratings for the first week of 2018 are in, and MSNBC beat competitors Fox News and CNN in the critical 25-54 demographic.  Since Monday January 1 was a holiday, regular cable news channel programming resumed on Tuesday Januar...

January 3, 2018

Mueller’s grand jury resembles a Bernie Sanders or Black Lives Matter rally

The 20-member grand jury convened by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation of the Trump administration for possible collusion with the Russians appears to be a classic kangaroo court.  According to an unnamed witness who te...

December 29, 2017

Exposed: Anatomy of a fake tweet aimed at Fox News

Social media are major purveyors of fake news in the era of President Donald Trump.  They're a co-conspirator with the mainstream media in the propagation of rampant disinformation.  The shocking debasement of MSM journalism in the Unit...

December 25, 2017

A Christmas Present to Cable TV Viewers – Sara Carter Joins Fox News

Sara Carter, who in recent months has emerged as one of the country’s finest investigative journalists, is joining Fox News. The official announcement came on Christmas Eve at 9 A.M. E.T. when Carter was introduced as a brand new Fox News Contr...

December 23, 2017

Chief DC correspondent James Rosen is suddenly out at Fox News

After 19 years at the Fox News Channel, veteran political reporter James Rosen is leaving at the end of this year.  The announcement came as a surprise when it was first reported by TVNewser on Friday at 2:09 P.M. E.T.  Rosen curr...

December 18, 2017

CNN Declares War on Fox News

CNN, never a friend of its competitor Fox News, now appears to have declared open war on the country’s #1 cable news channel (Fox) and its star host, the cable news ratings leader Sean Hannity. The latest salvo came on Sunday December 17, 2017 ...

December 14, 2017

Who is Richard Fowler, and why did he lie about Roy Moore on Fox News Channel?

Speaking live on the Fox News Channel Tuesday night after Roy Moore was declared the loser in the special U.S. Senate election in Alabama, Richard Fowler said this: "Roy Moore is guilty of saying things like 'LGBT people should be put to dea...

December 13, 2017

Fox News tops the ratings for the year – in both news and basic cable

The year-end television ratings came out this week, and the big winner is the Fox News Channel – not only against the competition in cable news, but in all of basic cable.  The Fox News Channel finished the year as the most watched basic c...

December 11, 2017

Nixon’s Ouster and the Attempt to Remove Trump

President Trump’s enemies are escalating their comparisons of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion to the resignation of President Richard Nixon after Congressional hearings that set the ...

December 9, 2017

Fake news on steroids: CNN forced to correct its latest big anti-Trump story

Yesterday, CNN was exposed committing another egregious fraud: publishing and repeatedly broadcasting a bogus news story smearing the Trumps.  The story remained online for at least seven hours before it was amended – about three hours aft...

December 6, 2017

Fake news – and now fake ratings – from MSNBC

The Cable News Wars of 2017 rage on, with the Fox News Channel and MSNBC fighting it out for first place in prime time.  When the ratings for the month of November came out, MSNBC appeared to be fine-tuning – some might say fudging or even...

November 29, 2017

New York Times Targets Hannity

Sean Hannity is the second most wanted man on the takedown list of the anti-Trump Resistance. We know this because the New York Times – in earlier times the  “newspaper of record” and still the most influential and Deep State a...

November 22, 2017

Mark Levin to host a new Fox News Channel show

Yesterday, November 21, at 10:17 A.M. EST, the press release went out from Fox News in New York: FOX News Channel (FNC) has signed nationally syndicated radio talk show personality Mark Levin as host of Life, Liberty & Levin, a new...

November 20, 2017

CNN and Media Matters trying tag-team takedown on Sean Hannity

Media Matters for America (MMFA), the far-left advocacy group that targets conservative media and talk show hosts, was assisted in its efforts to get Fox News host Sean Hannity fired during a show on CNN on Sunday.  In a new low point for the Ca...

November 19, 2017

In the Franken Scandal, Be Careful What You Wish For

The outing of U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) as the latest high profile alleged abuser of women – accompanied by photographic evidence – calls for a cautious analysis. Not because there is any doubt about the veracity of the accusations b...

November 19, 2017

Key figure in the DC Swamp scandals half a century ago passes on

Insider wheeling and dealing has a long, dishonorable history in our nation’s capital. There are many lessons to be learned from an all but forgotten insider at the heart of scandal in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.  The death on...

November 16, 2017

Hannity Goes on Offense as Attempts to Purge Him Continue

The bitter and dirty controversy swirling around the U.S. Senate candidacy of Roy Moore that has involved talk show host Sean Hannity continued on Wednesday with no resolution or end in sight. Hannity’s Tuesday evening challenge to Moore to com...

November 14, 2017

One Day Later – Has Hannity Dodged the 'Kill Shot' Aimed at Him?

An avalanche of mass defections of advertisers from Sean Hannity’s Fox News program appears to have been staunched –  at least for the present. Over the weekend, initially five, and then more, major sponsors were about to bolt. On Mo...

November 13, 2017

Sean Hannity unplugged: Embattled Fox News host opens up

In recent months, Sean Hannity, host of the #1 program on cable news and the #2 nationally syndicated political talk radio show, has been at the tip of the spear.  Day in and day out, his programs nightly on Fox News and during the day on r...

November 13, 2017

Sean Hannity is fighting for his survival

  On Friday, Sean Hannity reignited efforts by enemies of his on the left to take him off the air via putting pressure on his advertisers to dump his show.  His telephone interview with Senate nominee Roy Moore, broadcast live on hi...

November 10, 2017

Big new problems ahead for CNN

CNN, the venerable cable news channel now in its 38th year, is a mess.  While it masquerades as an objective news source, CNN's coverage of President Trump and the Republicans is anything but fair and balanced.  On Wednesday, ...

November 10, 2017

Tucker Carlson: The Democrats have debased American politics

A brilliant and hard-hitting analysis and commentary that went deep into the subject of what's happening politically in this country in the wake of Tuesday's election results was offered by Tucker Carlson halfway into his Fox News program (8 ...

November 9, 2017

The Fox Approach Triumphs in Another Cable Battle

After shocking the television news business by taking Fox News Channel from nowhere to cable news dominance, the same management team created by the late Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch took on another challenge.  The lucrative niche of business ...

November 4, 2017

Sean Hannity's Big Week

This was Sean Hannity’s week for a victory lap. With Fox News’s new prime time schedule now firmly in place, Hannity had the greatest number of total viewers for his program at 9 P.M. E.T. in the first four nights of the week and won thre...

October 26, 2017

Fox News regains its ratings dominance

Fox News Channel has restored its ratings dominance in prime time in the wake of the latest shake-up in its schedule four weeks ago.  Sean Hannity moved his nightly show from 10 to 9 P.M. E.T. to challenge MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.  O...

October 11, 2017

Dramatic Fox News ratings comeback

Fox News is back on top in the cable news wars.  Two weeks ago, Fox News began to introduce its new prime-time schedule and the shift in programming, which will be complete on October 30 when Laura Ingraham and Shannon Bream launch their ne...

October 8, 2017

Majority of American M.D.s Want to Work as Salaried Employees

Less than a week ago, I wrote about a new survey of American physicians which found that a majority of them support single-payer socialized medicine. That was shocking enough. Now, another national survey has come to light which also confirms that we...

October 2, 2017

Survey: Majority of U.S. Physicians Now Support Single-Payer

For the past century, socialists, progressives, communists, statists, and an increasing number of Democrats have supported the imposition of a government-run socialized medical care system in the United States. Every Democrat president since FDR (exc...

September 30, 2017

Hannity Beats Maddow Handily in First Four Nights Head-to-Head

The ongoing cable news wars gave renewed life to Fox News as Sean Hannity beat Rachel Maddow in the first four nights that they went head-to-head in prime time last week. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show had emerged as cable news’s #1 program i...

September 27, 2017

Cable news wars turn red-hot as Fox roars back

Fall is here, and, as usual, it's the time of the year when the broadcast television networks and the cable channels introduce their new schedules.  The channels devoted to cable news are not at all different – except that this year, F...

September 27, 2017

Bill O'Reilly Back at Fox News – for One Night Only?

Tuesday evening saw the return of Bill O’Reilly to Fox News – for the first time since the channel’s #1 host was ousted five months earlier. It wasn’t exactly triumphant, but it may have come close. The occasion was a prominen...

September 25, 2017

Tonight’s the Night: Can Fox News Get Its Mojo Back?

Tonight, Fox News will begin to take the first steps in an attempt to undo the damage to its brand caused by over a year’s worth of bad news and poor decisions. The cable channel’s strongest on air personality, Sean Hannity, will be shift...

September 22, 2017

Another major programming change at Fox News

It was a week of big news at Fox News as the channel shuffled its nighttime program schedule, moving Hannity to 9 P.M. and adding a new show with Laura Ingraham starting October 30 at 10.  On Thursday, there was another major...

September 20, 2017

Charles Payne, Fox Business Network host, accused of rape, defended by...Fox!

Most of the Fox News employees – both on-air talent and executives – who have been accused of sexual impropriety during the past year have been left to defend themselves and have eventually been fired or forced to resign.  An excepti...

September 19, 2017

It’s Official: Big Changes Coming to Fox News

Months of speculation ended on Monday September 18 when Fox News programming President Suzanne Scott made the announcement: Fox News’ prime time schedule is set for yet another big change starting next week. This marks the fourth major adjustme...

September 18, 2017

As St. Louis Erupts, Democrats Own It

Once again, big city Democrat politicians have failed us. A deep societal wound was opened this past weekend in the Show Me State, with Ferguson, the false clarion call of “Hands Up Don't Shoot,” and the Black Lives Matter marches all...

September 15, 2017

The MSM's disturbing trend: We can see it, but you can't

In recent years, the mainstream media have increasingly put up barriers to their viewers and readers seeing the reality of many of the stories that they're reporting on.  For instance, it is extremely rare in the domestic U.S. medi...

September 12, 2017

Fake News from Huffpost?

The site that effectively ended the Fox News career of Eric Bolling has revealed an astonishing level of carelessness in reporting on the aftermath. In what should be a serious blow to the quality of its fact-checking, its reputation for accuracy, an...

September 10, 2017

Eric Bolling, Jr., Son of Fired Fox News Host, Found Dead in Colorado

On the same day that Fox News announced that it had “agreed to part ways amicably” with suspended conservative host Eric Bolling, Bolling’s son Eric, Jr. was found dead in Boulder, Colorado. The younger Bolling, known by his middle ...

September 9, 2017

Fox News buries big changes on Friday PM during wall-to-wall hurricane coverage

For the past five weeks, Fox News conservative host and rising star Eric Bolling had been left to twist in the wind. On August 4, a 900-word anonymously sourced HuffPost article by a former Democrat party fundraiser-turned-journalist alleged that Bol...

September 8, 2017

Fox News bankrolls major LGBTQ convention

This weekend in Philadelphia, a four-day-long convention of LGBTQ (gay, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, queer) activists is meeting with leading mainstream journalists and corporate media producers and executives.  The stated purpose is to influ...

September 7, 2017

Study confirms white Christian Americans are an endangered species

White Christians now make up significantly less than one half – only 43% – of the U.S. population.  Four decades ago, they represented 81% of the country's residents.  These statistics pointing to the weakening of Chris...

September 3, 2017

North Korea Explodes Its First H-Bomb – So Says North Korea

At 2:30 AM E.D.T. on Sunday September, I was monitoring North Korea’s government Web site (Korean Central News Agency or KCNA), which has an English language version. At that moment, as CNN was reporting, NK state television was making the of...

August 31, 2017

Inevitable: Tomi Lahren joins Fox News

In another sign of the changing of the guard at Fox News, Tomi Lahren, who just turned 25, has been hired as the channel's latest high-profile political contributor.  The official announcement was made on Wednesday, August 30 and generated...

August 30, 2017

Unapologetic Kathy Griffin is back, thanks to the man who took out Eric Bolling

"Vile" (to quote Chelsea Clinton) leftist comedienne Kathy Griffin is back, and she's not sorry for what she did. Three months ago, Griffin posed for a photo holding what appeared to be the bloody severed head of President Donal...

August 29, 2017

Gorka speaks!

Recently departed deputy assistant to President Trump Dr. Sebastian Gorka appeared on Brian Kilmeade's Fox News Radio program on Monday morning, August 28.  Free to speak his mind now, he had a lot to say about his seven-month tenure wo...

August 26, 2017

CNN: From Fake News to Fudging Ratings?

CNN has reacted very badly to the political rise of President Trump, promulgating fake news and presenting an echo chamber of negative commentary.  Now, the struggling news channel appears to be trying to manipulate the ratings. Even if it...

August 24, 2017

Hannity's FNC monologue scores direct hit on the MSM's sick bias

Sean Hannity rose to the challenge of confronting the MSM's fake news Wednesday night and dealt a serious blow to the lies, misrepresentations, and omissions of the nation's press.  The vehicle was the opening monologue on his nightly Fo...

August 23, 2017

CNN viciously attacks POTUS for Phoenix speech and suggests he's a national security threat

CNN hit a new low – and that's saying a lot – Tuesday night in its coverage of President Trump's speech in Phoenix.  The former news channel is now little more than a propaganda mouthpiece for the Deep State.  On Tuesday...

August 19, 2017

Civil war breaking out at Fox News

An internal civil war is tearing at the fabric of Fox News.  The events of the past week have brought the long simmering conflict closer to the surface.  The legitimacy and viability of President Trump are under constant assault in the main...

August 17, 2017

Eboni Williams gets the top spot on Drudge

Less than 24 hours after I wrote that FNC host Eboni K. Williams "may wind up on the fast track to cable news stardom," Ms. Williams became the subject of a top story in the daily news cycle, with a red headline devoted ...

August 16, 2017

Big Changes Imminent at Fox News

In the midst of the maelstrom of breaking news of the past several days, the outlines of a big story affecting the future of the Fox News Channel are beginning to emerge.  They involve a major makeover of Fox News's once-dominant prime-time ...

August 15, 2017

Jesse Watters Hits One Out of the Park

Fox News’s prime time program The Five produced one of its best shows ever on Monday evening. In particular, rookie co-host Jesse Watters stood out in what was a memorable broadcast, and showed that he has the potential for gravitas. The Fiv...

August 12, 2017

Bloodlust: CNN's firing of Jeffrey Lord brings out the worst in the left

On Friday, the day after conservative author Jeffrey Lord was fired from his on-air commentator job at CNN, it was a field day for analysts on both ends of the political spectrum.  Most of the comments came from the left since leftist publicatio...

August 11, 2017

Ret. Gen. McInerney: Be ready to nuke NK

China is the real power behind the "animal" it has bred – North Korea – in the view of retired Air Force lieutenant general Thomas G. McInerney.  And if necessary, the United States should be prepared to use nuclear weapons...

August 11, 2017

CNN fires Jeffrey Lord

Jeffrey Lord, a prominent political analyst on CNN for the past two years, known for his passionate defense of Donald J. Trump, during the campaign and now as president, was fired on Thursday, August 10 after he used the phrase "Sieg Heil!"...

August 10, 2017

Pat Buchanan tells Sean Hannity the Deep State is out to get Donald Trump

Patrick J. ("Pat") Buchanan appeared on Sean Hannity's radio program on Tuesday, August 8.  The subject was Donald J. Trump and the efforts of the Deep State to unseat him.  Earlier the same day, Buchanan's latest col...

August 9, 2017

Cable news wars rage...and 'could grow even uglier'

Media rivals had plenty of space for more coverage of the woes that continue to plague the Fox News Channel yesterday – even on a day when North Korea's nukes and the missiles that might deliver them to the U.S. led the news.  Events f...

August 8, 2017

Eric Bolling's enemies pile on while Fox News consigns him to the Memory Hole

On Monday, August 7, around 9 A.M. EDT, three days after a 900-word unsourced HuffPost hit piece aimed a kill shot at his ten-year Fox News career, Eric Bolling tweeted for the first time: Overwhelmed by all the sup...

August 7, 2017

Star chamber justice condemns Eric Bolling of Fox News without a trial

A system of sorts has been perfected to destroy the most effective conservative spokesmen on the Fox News Channel, and it operated with stunning efficiency over the last few days.  A marginal writer with a documented background as a high level p...

August 6, 2017

The Plot Thickens: Conservative Host Eric Bolling is Suspended by Fox News

One-by-one, key players at Fox News are being taken out by allegations that remain untested in any judicial proceedings. On Friday evening August 4 at 8:23 PM, an article was published at HuffPost: “Fox News Host Sent Unsolicited Lewd Text Mess...

August 5, 2017

UK hospital medic blames Trump for baby Charlie Gard's final drawn out 'soap opera' days

In the latest instance of everyone seeming to pile on President Donald Trump, one of baby Charlie Gard's "medics," who communicated anonymously with the Guardian newspaper a week after the child died in hospice, blamed Preside...

August 5, 2017

Say it isn't so: Fox News wracked by new potential sex scandal

The dominoes continue to fall at the Fox News channel (FNC).  Last month, popular Fox Business channel host and Fox News channel occasional anchor and guest Charles Payne was suspended after allegations that he sexually harassed a freq...

August 4, 2017

New effort to destroy Hannity with O’Reilly-type advertiser boycott

Sean Hannity, who has the #1 MSM radio and TV programs opposing the Deep State fake news juggernaut that seeks to destroy the presidency of Donald J. Trump, is the target of a new attack that aims to deliver the "kill sh...

August 3, 2017

Is Rod Wheeler lying now about Seth Rich's murder? Sy Hersh seems to think so.

The day after DNC I.T. staffer Seth Rich's unsolved and suspicious murder one year ago was splashed all over the MSM, new reporting and analysis of former homicide detective Rod Wheeler's flip on the issue – which resurrected the s...

August 2, 2017

The Seth Rich case is back on the front burner – and it now involves the Trump White House!

After lying dormant for several months, the unsolved cold-case brutal murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich was front and center once again, yesterday[1].  Rich was shot in the back as he was walking to his apartment in Washington, D.C. in the early m...

July 29, 2017

Cable News Ratings War Intensifying

A headline and an accompanying photo that went up on the top of the Drudge Report at 6 PM EST on Monday, July 24 grabbed a lot of attention. In bold black caps, the headline read: “MSNBC Wins Week For First Time.” The photo: A smiling Rac...

July 29, 2017

Baby Charlie Gard dies in hospice

The short life of Charlie Gard came to an end on Friday afternoon, July 28 (London time), when the baby, who had become an international cause célèbre, died at a hospice one week shy of his first birthday.  A British High Court jud...

July 28, 2017

Baby Charlie Gard's Parents and Doctors Haggle over Details of His Final Days

On Monday, July 24, the parents of terminally ill 11-month old British baby Charlie Gard agreed with his doctors to end life support and allow him to die. It was assumed that the court proceeding in London where this decision was announced would be t...

July 28, 2017

Jeff Sessions opens up to Tucker Carlson

On Thursday, July 27, 2017, Tucker Carlson scored the first on-camera interview with embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions since Sessions began to be criticized – some would describe it as attacked – by President Donald Trump in tweets...

July 25, 2017

It’s Official: Baby Charlie Gard Is Now in the Final Hours of Life

After a hearing in London’s High Court of Justice on Monday afternoon, July 24, all parties agreed that doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital should be allowed to disconnect life support from baby Charlie Gard as soon as his parents have ...

July 24, 2017

The Evidence Is In – The U.K. Is Trying To Kill Baby Charlie Gard

It now seems abundantly and shockingly clear: Great Britain’s kangaroo High Court and the country’s National Health Service system of socialist medicine are trying to kill baby Charlie Gard. These two entities – the National Heal...

July 21, 2017

It’s down to the wire for Baby Charlie Gard: Today is his final court hearing

Charlie Gard – the 11-month-old British baby whose case has gained international media attention and tweets of support from the pope and President Trump (as well as offers of legislative help from a committee of the U.S...

July 20, 2017

Charlie Gard: It Can't Happen Here – or Can It?

Charlie Gard has, in effect, been medically kidnapped by the socialist National Health Service bureaucracy that has lined up with the British medical establishment to assert the primacy of the state’s rights over the parents’ rights to de...

July 18, 2017

Fox News Takes a Sharp Left Turn

If any doubts remained that the Fox News channel is continuing to swerve hard left away from its conservative roots, they were erased on July 16, 2017 when Ezekiel (Zeke) Emanuel, M.D. appeared on the channel’s signature weekly program Fox News...

July 15, 2017

Baby Charlie Gard given an 11-day stay of execution by a British judge

  Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old British baby who suffers from mitochondrial depletion syndrome, an extremely debilitating and rare neurological disease, was given an 11-day stay of execution by a British judge on July 14.  That may be a...

July 11, 2017

Single-Payer Socialized Health Care: What Would It Mean for Innovative and Alternative Medicine?

In the midst of the myriad destructive elements that are plaguing modern society or quickly coming into play, the looming transformation of the medical system in the United States into a single-payer socialist nightmare is one of the most alarming de...

July 8, 2017

Stephen Cohen on Tucker Carlson praises Trump-Putin meeting as most important summit since World War II

A familiar feature of Tucker Carlson's nightly prime-time Fox News channel program is for Carlson to debate – and usually one-up – a representative of the political left.  On occasion, he has welcomed a liberal who seem...

June 29, 2017

Hannity takes on CNN and targets corruption in the investigations of President Trump

Riding the crest of renewed ratings success, Fox News's prime-time host Sean Hannity is ratcheting up his strong defense of the Trump administration in the face of continuing Deep State sabotage, multiple investigations, and unprecedented at...

June 28, 2017

Smithsonian Magazine Exhumes Joe Pyne to Attack Today's Conservative Talkers

Few people today recognize the name Joe Pyne. In the 1960s, Pyne was the most popular talk show personality in America. He had been an early – possibly the first – pioneer of interactive call-in talk radio and by the mid-1960s he was an i...

June 27, 2017

Megyn Kelly's NBC show continues to tank

The ratings for the latest episode of Megyn Kelly's prime-time Sunday-night NBC program are in, and the bad news continues for the former Fox News channel star.  Kelly's June 25 show, her fourth outing on NBC, was the lowest rated one ye...

June 24, 2017

WaPo targets Sean Hannity (again) – and that should tell us something

This has been the week when the mainstream, aka Deep State, media have focused a lot of their ire on their new bête noire, Alex Jones.  Conveniently, that tactic can serve a dual purpose: demonize one member of the so-called Alt Right...

June 23, 2017

Fox News Ratings Are Up – and Why the Numbers Matter

Some readers may be wondering why the frequent reporting lately on cable news ratings – in an online political publication that is not well known for catering to the business side of media – is worthy of their attention. The simple answer...

June 21, 2017

Hannity for the defense: Fox News stalwart shines

  As the efforts by President Trump's enemies are settling into a permanent war of attrition in an attempt to unseat the 45th president, veteran broadcaster Sean Hannity's nightly program Hannity on the Fox News channel...

June 20, 2017

Megyn's stunt was no hit

The highly promoted face-off between Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones on Kelly's NBC show Sunday night was not only much ado about nothing – it was a ratings dud, too.  And ratings were its purpose.   The foil – the alpha mal...

June 19, 2017

Megyn Kelly and NBC News do hit job on Alex Jones and Trump

After two weeks of hype and controversy that preceded it, the episode of Megyn Kelly's prime-time NBC program, Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly, featuring Kelly's profile of and interview with Alex Jones, finally aired on the network Sunday...

June 18, 2017

Golden Girl Megyn Kelly vs. The Most Hated Man in American Media

This was not how it was supposed to be. The most hated man in American media has dealt a serious and potentially knockout blow to the career of the woman who thought she was all set to take him on and proceed unimpeded on the fast track to maybe beco...

June 15, 2017

Fox News Channel reportedly retires its 'Fair & Balanced' motto

It's official – according to the New York Times.  The "newspaper of record," citing a June 14 article by Gabriel Sherman in New York magazine, reports that the Fox News Channel (FNC) has retired its m...

June 14, 2017

The latest cable ratings are not good tidings for Fox News

The official Nielsen Media Research cable TV ratings for the weekend of June 10 and 11, 2017 are out, and the ping-pong effect of the popularity of the three cable news channels is continuing.  Overall, Fox News (FNC) continues in a weakened pos...

June 13, 2017

Last week's ratings are in: More bad news for the struggling Fox News Channel

  The cable television news channel ratings for the week of Monday through Friday, June 5-9, 2017 are in, and the news continues to be bad for the ailing Fox News Channel.  According to TVNewser, which is part of adweek.com: Rachel ...

June 12, 2017

The Murdoch Boys and the Future of Fox News

The Fake News-inspired perception that existential problems are enveloping the Trump Administration is expanding and deepening. As this questionable meme takes hold, it appears that the current toxic political climate is drawing more anti-Trump viewe...

May 30, 2017

Will This Be The Week That Was for the Fox News Channel?

The week ahead promises to be a critical one for the future of the wounded and limping Fox News Channel (FNC). Knocked off its perch in early May as the longstanding number one cable television news outlet, FNC is now contending with an uncertain fut...

May 23, 2017

Fox News death watch: Not time for an obituary yet

Fox News founder and hands-on chairman Roger Ailes is dead and buried, and it's been one month since reigning king of prime-time ratings host Bill O'Reilly was unceremoniously fired, but the story of the embattled Fox News cable channel (FNC)...

May 19, 2017

With Fox News’s Ratings in Free Fall, the Future Looks Bleak

The sudden death of Roger Ailes (R.I.P.) yesterday is a grim omen for the network he envisioned and built.  In the wake of the recent upheavals at Fox News, the conservative cable television network’s ratings are experiencing a precipitous...

June 14, 2010

Jerry Brown's Distasteful Campaign Kick-off

Having first met Jerry Brown in 1976 and reported extensively on five of his political campaigns between 1976 and '92, I was planning on waiting until later this summer before doing any reporting on his 2010 general election campaign for California g...

March 31, 2010

President Obama says First Family won't join a D.C. church

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March 24, 2010

Rep. Dingell: It's taken a long time to 'control the people'

Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the Dean of the House of Representatives for being the longest serving member of the body (he was first elected in 1955, succeeding his father, Rep.  John Dingell, Sr.), made an amazing admission during a live telephone...

August 11, 2009

Obama Lies About Supporting Single Payer at NH Town Hall

In response to an ill-framed question - one of only two that were not from Obama supporters - asked of him at the Potemkin Village-style health care "town hall" in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on August 11, President Obama said this:"I ha...

August 3, 2009

A Toast to the White House Beer Summit

After the White House Rose Garden beer summit happened, and after evaluating the coverage, I am not unhappy that it took place. I think it's a net plus for the conservative cause. It distracted the media and deflected them from their usual fawning co...

June 12, 2009

Rev. Wright: 'Paranoid... madman... more dangerous' (than Holocaust Museum shooter)

Keith Ablow, M.D., 47, is a psychiatrist with a medical degree from Johns Hopkins and clinical practices in New York City and Massachusetts, a New York Times bestselling author, and a frequent guest in the mainstream media.Recently, Ablow has been ap...

June 8, 2009

Puke Alert: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn Appear on C-SPAN

On June 7, 2009, C-SPAN II a.k.a. Book TV -- one of the three ubiquitous, non-commercial, not-for-profit cable television networks covering the Congress, government, and public policy issues -- devoted three hours of live programming to an interview ...

June 6, 2009

White House Video Features Muslim Proselytizers

Just after President Obama's Cairo speech ended, I clicked on the White House Web site. The home page, and especially its compelling large image, appeared to visually suggest the America that Obama has been describing recently -- a country that is no...

June 6, 2009

Bill Ayers on C-SPAN Live for Three Hours Sunday!

Bill Ayers, the Marxist revolutionary, unrepentant domestic terrorist, and early political mentor to Barack Obama, gets the serious author treatment on BookTV a.k.a. C-SPAN II on Sunday June 7, 2009. For three hours, starting at 12 noon EDT, to be re...

May 15, 2009

MSNBC Calls for International Savage Ban

Another day, another new low point for cable news channel MSNBC.On Thursday, May 14, syndicated left of center radio talk show host Ed Schultz, who has hosted The Ed Show, a daily political talk program (6-7 PM ET) on MSNBC since April 6, devoted his...

May 10, 2009

Michael Savage Banned in the UK

Well-known "independent conservative" radio talk show host Michael Savage has been catapulted to a new level of controversial notoriety, this time on an international level. On May 5, 2009, the Drudge Report broke the news in the U.S. that ...

April 3, 2009

Obama to Lula at G-20: 'That's my man!'

On March 27, 2009, the mainstream media reported that Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in a meeting with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said, about the world economic crisis:"This was a crisis that was fostered and ...

March 15, 2009

George McGovern Revisited

On March 11, 2009, former Sen. George S. McGovern (D-SD), now 86, came to San Diego to speak at the La Jolla Public Library, answer questions, and sign copies of his new biography of Abraham Lincoln.I had not seen McGovern in person since I last inte...

November 1, 2008

Bill Ayers Dedicated His 1974 Book to RFK's Assassin

While they were fugitives from justice, Sen. Barack Obama's friend, associate, and political mentor William Ayers and three of his radical Weather Underground co-conspirators, including his wife Bernardine Dohrn, dedicated their 1974 book Prairie Fir...

October 25, 2008

Bill Ayers, the Marxist Revolutionary in the 1960s

Most of the recent attention on Barack Obama's radical associate and friend Bill Ayers has focused on Ayers' history with the terrorist Weather Underground (WU) group in the 1970s. But starting in the mid-1960s, Ayers was an influential leader of the...

September 15, 2008

Bill Moyers Fights Conservative Talk Radio on PBS

In his weekly prime time national taxpayer-supported PBS show on September 12, 2008, left wing icon Bill Moyers targeted talk radio -- and not for the first time. But this time, the first one-third of the hour long program featured an in-depth report...

March 25, 2008

Finally Giving CNN Credit Where Credit Is Due

With its consistent left of center bias, CNN is usually worthy of criticism, and writing in American Thinker I have taken my shots at the network, last year here and last week here for its fawning coverage of Sen. Obama.But there's an exception and I...

March 19, 2008

CNN Pro-Obama and Pro-Wright All the Time

On Tuesday, CNN fully lived up to its reputation as left of center, on a day when Sen. Barack Obama was desperately trying to put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal behind him. In particular, the cable news channel's three programs in prime time (8-11 ...

December 17, 2007

Moyers and Olbermann Savage Michael Savage on PBS

When you put two extreme liberals like Bill Moyers and Keith Olbermann together on tax-supported PBS, the consequences are likely to be ugly. December 14th's broadcast of Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly, hour long program, proved no exception.Moyers ch...

December 17, 2007

NY Times profiles Michael Savage: Fair and Balanced!

Wonder of wonders, the New York Times on Monday December 17 published a lengthy -- and surprisingly positive -- feature article on controversial radio talk show host Michael Savage, complete with a not unflattering photograph of Savage broadcasting h...

September 4, 2007

Who's in charge of your health under socialized medicine?

This is where things are heading. From Amy Lorentzen of the AP:Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care. "It requires th...

August 2, 2007

Leftist dementia: Blaming Bush & GOP for Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

When I heard the news late Wednesday afternoon PT about the Minnesota Interstate 35W bridge collapse, after the initial shock and sadness for the victims, one of my first thoughts was that the Left would try to score points and blame the tragedy on P...

July 31, 2007

Tom Snyder (1936-2007): A Personal Recollection

For people of a certain age, Tom Snyder, who died on July 29 at age 71, was a major figure - a pioneer - in television news and talk programming. He burst on the national scene in 1973 as the unconventional host of the Tomorrow Show which ran for eig...

July 23, 2007

The CNN/YouTube Debates

At first glance, it looks democratic, with a small "d." Two high profile nationally-televised debates, featuring the major Democrat and Republican candidates for President in 2008, but with a significant twist: All of the questions will com...

July 16, 2007

Socialized Medicine Cult Undeterred by Sicko's Sputtering Box Office

On a typical day, exposed to literally hundreds of items about medicine and politics -- news stories, journal articles, white papers, government reports, broadcast media transcripts, Internet discussions, and blog entries -- I am increasingly frustra...

July 11, 2007

Sicko Flatlines and Michael Moore Lashes Out

Michael Moore's Sicko premiered in New York City on June 22 and nationally on June 29 after several weeks of promotion, hype, and mainstream media interest, most of it from a pro-universal health care slant. The attention that was generated completel...

July 7, 2007

Death-for-Rushdie Advocate Headlining Live Earth Concert

On July 4, the Web site of Live Earth announced that "music legend" Yusuf (formerly Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, and before that Steven Demetre Georgiou) will headline the Live Earth concert in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, closing the ...

July 7, 2007

Death-for-Rushdie Advocate Headlined Live Earth Concert

[Editor's note: This is a revised and extended version of a blog which appeared yesterday]On July 4, the Web site of Live Earth announced that "music legend" Yusuf (formerly Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, and before that Steven Demetre ...

July 5, 2007

Medicine At Gunpoint: The Sicko Crowd's Deadly Rx For America

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficient....The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."...

July 3, 2007

Medicine At Gunpoint: The Sicko Crowd's Deadly Rx For America

Part IMichael Moore has described his new film Sicko as a "comedy," but there's nothing funny about it. With its radical prescription for the takeover of all of American health care by the federal government, it's more like a tragedy -- a v...

June 22, 2007

Prepare to be Sickened by SiCKO

From start to end, SiCKO, the latest “documentary” from notorious writer and filmmaker Michael Moore, is a stunning example of the Big Lie. Almost shockingly devoid of fact and context, it's instead based on highly selective, emotionally-...