Brad Wilmouth
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
In the final week of 2020, as the media have covered the disturbing case of an unarmed black man, Andre Hill, who was recently killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, CNN and CBS have both presented misleading statistics on the number of African Americans who have been killed by police officers since George Floyd's death from May.
On Monday, two…
Fox News Channel
Fox & Friends
December 29, 2020
8:47 a.m. Eastern
JILLIAN MELE: A Gallup poll finds President Trump to be the most admired man of 2020 -- 18 percent of Americans naming him as their pick, ending Barack Obama's 12-year run. He by the way, got 15 percent of the vote. Broken down by party, 48 percent of Republicans named President Trump their most admired man, compared to…
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
On Tuesday morning, Fox News viewers got to see that, for the first time, President Donald Trump has come in first place in Gallup's annual poll of "most admired man" of the year.
But in contrast with how journalists swooned over former President Barack Obama the last time he came in first place, the other networks have so far ignored the finding.
On…
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When police officers take the lives of criminal suspects, it is appropriate to evaluate each case to discover if the officer's actions were justified, or whether there was wrongdoing, and, when appropriate, take action that fits the circumstances.
But liberal activists on the issue of police violence should not exaggerate to the point of lying to…
From the June 17, 2020 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS
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On Monday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, as Kasie Hunt was fill-in co-host, she and contributor Mike Barnicle trashed Senator Marco Rubio after the Florida Republican sent out a tweet on Sunday complaining that Dr. Anthony Fauci has a history of lying about pandemic-related issues until he is ready to tell the public the truth -- which has happened on a couple…