TM Creating a Media Culture in America Where Truth and Liberty Flourish Liberal Media Double-Down on Anti-Trump Coverage After Impeachment Acquittal The liberal media have been on the as “dazzling.” At the same time, he march against President Donald J. Trump complained that Trump’s defense team Vol. 27 • Issue 3 • March 2020 since he first announced he was running was not diverse enough — “it was all for president in the summer of 2015. As white men … and two white women the MRC has documented and exposed, allegedly on the team.” MSNBC’s Joe INSIDE the liberal press’ reporting on Trump Scarborough described the president as has been relentlessly negative and “a failed reality TV host” surrounded by oftentimes hysterical. “liars” such as Vice PAGE 3 Since late 2016, President Mike Pence Liberal Media Attack MRC data show the and Attorney General Rush Limbaugh for Receiving Presidential coverage by ABC, CBS, William Barr. Medal of Freedom, and NBC has been HBO’s Bill Maher and the MRC about 93% negative declared, “This is the Caribbean Cruise against Trump. The moment in America latest numbers that Rome faced with PAGES 4-5 for Sept. 24, 2019 Julius Caesar when BITS & PIECES: through Jan. 31, 2020 the republic became This Really Happened! reveal 93% negative After the State of the Union address, a dictatorship.” New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Social Media Dictator, coverage overall and York Times editorial Hyperbolic Acosta, like a spoiled child, tore up the What Attack? a high of 95% negative president’s speech on national TV, board member in January. a move that was applauded Mara Gay fretted on by the liberal media. PAGE 6 Much of that MSNBC, “What’s on Nationally Syndicated reporting was focused on the House trial is not just Donald Trump right now. Column by Brent Bozell: impeachment and then the Senate trial What’s on trial is the rule of law. What’s Rush Limbaugh is of the president. Trump’s triumphant on trial is our democracy. What’s on Our True North — State of the Union Address on Feb. 4, his trial is the credibility we have as one of We Listen to Him to impeachment acquittal on Feb. 5, and the world’s oldest democracies.” Understand the World his post-acquittal speech from the White The trial was held in proper order, House on Feb. 6 only further infuriated overseen by Chief Justice John Roberts, PAGE 7 the leftist press, whose talking heads and the rule of law was maintained as MRC In the News now routinely label the president a was the credibility of our constitutional “dictator” and a “monarch.” republic. However, this was not good PAGE 8 The liberal media are totally enough for the press. A Lesson from invested in destroying Trump. As the CNN’s Carl Bernstein ranted “this March Madness, and MiniBits election in November approaches, the is a cover-up, plain and simple,” and attacks will only escalate. Let’s look at added that Senate Republicans had how the leftist press is doubling-down “joined hands with a tyrant.” NBC’s in its biased reporting. Chuck Todd claimed that Trump and his During the Senate impeachment supporters had “essentially bulldozed trial, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin lauded the Constitution.” Democrat Adam Schiff’s oratory skills Continued on page 2 Continued from page 1 Former Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham hysterically pronounced, “President Trump is functionally a monarch at this point. If the king does it, it’s okay. That’s what we’re seeing unfold in Washington right now.” Meacham, according to his bio, is a “presidential historian.” Another so-called presidential historian, Douglas Brinkley, asserted on CNN that Trump now “operates as an outlaw,” in a “demagogic” and “dictatorial way.” Not to be outdone, MSNBC guest host Michael Eric Dyson belched that Trump “stands up every morning to excrete the feces of his moral depravity into a nation he’s turned into The CNN jury listened in as judge Carl Bertstein declared that Senate his psychic commode.” The eloquent Mr. Tyson Republicans “joined hands with a tyrant”, a.k.a. President Trump, and is a tenured sociology professor at prestigious committed a “cover-up, plain and simple.” Georgetown University. Vile attacks came from nearly every outlet of On Feb. 6, Trump gave a speech from the White the liberal press. Former Time magazine Editor Rick House where he denounced his political enemies, Stengel said of Trump’s criticism of a hostile press, including the liberal press, and thanked his supporters “That’s what Stalin did.” Stalin also slaughtered in Congress and across the country. Again, the leftist 30 million of his own people, so we better act soon media flew into hysterics. Typical were the “reports” against Trump, if you get Stengel’s from CNN, which described Trump drift. In the same vein, New York as “angry,” “dark,” “disturbing, magazine’s Frank Rich compared “mean-spirited,” “poisonous,” Trump with cult-killers Jim Jones “spiteful,” and “vindictive.” and Charles Manson. That seems Lost on the liberal press is fair, doesn’t it? the fact that it has viciously and Just prior to Trump’s State of the relentlessly attacked the president Union (SOTU) speech — which 76% for three-plus years, spewing false of viewers later praised — MSNBC’s charges and labeling him another Chris Matthews predicted that Stalin, Hitler, and Satan. Indeed, Trump “will promise us the world if MSNBC’s Chris Matthews described we only bow down and worship him. Trump’s Feb. 6 speech as “the If this sounds familiar, it’s happened Vicious, insipid, and lashing out as usual, language of a dictator unleashing a before. You may have read about it MSNBC’s Chris Matthews says Trump “will violent purge.” He also compared promise us the world if we only bow down probably in church. It’s the classic and worship him. If this sounds familiar, Trump and his supporters to a deal with the Devil.” it’s happened before. You may have read goose-stepping, North Korean Trump apparently is worse than about it probably in church. It’s the classic dictatorial “cult.” Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and deal with the Devil.” Clearly, the leftist media are even Stalin — Trump is Satan. not capable of objectively reporting on the president After the SOTU, the liberal media went bonkers. or his administration’s accomplishments. Their Former Newsweek Editor Jonathan Alter, for instance, liberal bias is only going to grow more ludicrous as compared Trump with former Nazi propaganda chief the November election approaches. The MRC will be Joseph Goebbels, stating that the president repeats documenting and exposing that misleading coverage “the big lie” and will “run a big lie campaign all the 24/7. way to the election.” You can help us in this good fight by making a The next day, Feb. 5, Trump was acquitted by donation to the MRC. Please use the reply card and the Senate, which was not the outcome the liberal postage-paid envelope enclosed with this newsletter media tried to craft. So, as the MRC documented, to send your most generous gift today. We look they claimed the trial was “a sham,” “rigged,” “a forward to hearing from you. travesty,” “a pre-cooked outcome,” “not a real trial,” Sincerely, “a cover-up,” and “a hoax.” It was another stupendous loss for the leftist press, which had pushed “Russia collusion” for two years, L. Brent Bozell III the Mueller report, Stormy Daniels, emoluments, tax Founder and President filings — you name it. 2 • MRC WATCHDOG • MARCH 2020 Liberal Media Attack Rush Limbaugh for Receiving PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM After President Donald J. Trump awarded conservative CNN’s Chris Cuomo noted the Tuskegee airman honored by talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal Trump but then added, “How are you really honoring what of Freedom, during the State of the Union no less, the the Tuskegee Airmen represent if you have Rush Limbaugh liberal media swiftly attacked. They did so, moreover, in the same ceremony?” knowing that Limbaugh had revealed, less than 24 hours Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s The View, charged without previous, that he was battling “advanced lung cancer.” a drop of evidence that Limbaugh has “been so racist and Some liberal journalists only wished Limbaugh well, so misogynistic over the years.” Co-host Sunny Hostin was but many left-wing scribblers saw an opportunity to scar incensed that Trump “gave that honor to Rush Limbaugh him as a racist, and they stuck the knife in. during black history month.” NBC’s Chuck Todd said the Typical was CNN’s Jim Acosta, who said after the SOTU award was “a finger-in-the-eye of [Nancy] Pelosi.” speech was over that while Trump was “trying to make Not to be outdone, Hollywood lefty Rob Reiner an appeal to the African-American community it can’t tweeted, “Only one thing to say about Rush Limbaugh be forgotten he was awarding the Medal of Freedom to getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom at The State of Rush Limbaugh, who has a history of making derogatory the Union: I loathe this f***ing man.” Indeed, you do. comments about African-Americans.” Liberals in Tinseltown, in universities, and throughout Not surprisingly, Acosta did not quote any of those the leftist press despise Limbaugh. They hate the fact comments because they don’t exist. that he has the No. 1 talk-radio show in the nation, Former CNN host Reza Aslan tweeted, “Ask yourself a rank he has held for 32-plus years.