Remember how hard the so-called mainstream media was on Barack and Michelle Obama? Neither do we. But the new Showtime series The First Lady lives in an alternate reality where hateful CNN, NBC and CBS journalists freely yelled at Michelle over whether she was a “terrorist” who “hated America.” The series also distorts conservative Cal Thomas in a […]Read More
Russian leader says any country that intervenes will be hit with ‘lightning-fast’ retaliation as UK calls for more support for Kyiv. Plus, global measles cases surge by 80% in a year Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Vladimir Putin has threatened allies of Ukraine that if any country […]Read More
I love Wikipedia. I donated thousands of dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation. Before Wikipedia, all we had were printed encyclopedias — out of date by the time we bought them. Then libertarian Jimmy Wales came up with a web-based, crowd-sourced encyclopedia. Crowd-sourced? A Britannica editor called Wikipedia “a public restroom.” But Wales won the battle. […]Read More
Elon Musk said Twitter must remain “politically neutral” in order to gain public trust. Musk sent out several tweets that expressed his desire to uphold freedom of speech on the platform. “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” he […]Read More
During the final days of CNN+ as dies a slow death, on Monday, struggling host Chris Wallace invited Hollywood producer Brian Grazer on his show Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace and embarrassingly pressed him for a movie featuring his interviews with former President Trump. And the kicker? Grazer seemed very much open to working with […]Read More
New York’s highest court tossed the Democrats’ gerrymander map, sarcastically referred to as the Hochulmander after unelected Governor Hochul. According to Dave Wasserman, a Cook Political reporter, “the NY ruling likely costs Democrats at least three seats they otherwise would have captured under the gerrymander, a devastating result you can’t message your way out of.” […]Read More
One of the ways the liberal media will throw mud at new Twitter owner Elon Musk is to accuse him of endangering people with his free speech. Beware the right-wing mobs! Early on Wednesday, The Washington Post dropped this attack: Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives, prompting online attacks The targeting of employees by […]Read More
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) got a standing ovation in a Wednesday House GOP conference meeting after he addressed secret recordings of his comments in the aftermath of Jan. 6, according to members and sources in the room. It looks like the members will support him for the speakership. McCarthy told members that the damning quotes from […]Read More
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has spurred a lot of salty takes on corporate media, and some of the saltiest takes of all have come via CNN En Español and anchor Juan Carlos López. Watch the report in its entirety, as López seemingly auditions for the 9PM hour on the main network: JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ: […]Read More
On Wednesday, President Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was grilled by Republican members of the House Homeland Security committee over the administration’s mishandling of the rapidly worsening crisis on the US/Mexico border, with one member even calling on him to resign. While NBC Nightly News managed to report on the richly deserved grilling […]Read More