Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | March 19, 2019
Following the mosque shooting in New Zealand last week, the media have not hesitated to portray President Trump as a white supremacist.  Their depiction of the President as a white nationalist continued on New Day Monday morning as part of a conversation about his tweetstorm over the weekend. When co-host John Berman described the President's tweets as "personal grievance," CNN Chief Legal…
Ryan Foley | March 18, 2019
Appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik endorsed the effort to pull Fox News host Tucker Carlson off the air.  Zurawik had previously complained that a previous boycott of Carlson based on comments he made back in December did not succeed: "the boycott started and then the holidays kicked in and it kind of fizzled."  According to Zurawik, "I don't like…
Ryan Foley | March 16, 2019
CNN's efforts to tie President Trump to the New Zealand shooting that killed dozens of Muslims continued well into primetime Friday night. On Anderson Cooper 360, host Anderson Cooper's guests effectively accused President Trump of harboring white nationalist ideology. Cooper's ccording to Never-Trumper Max Boot, "he has done and said a lot of things that are very congruent with the kind of…
Ryan Foley | March 16, 2019
Throughout the morning on Friday, CNN repeatedly tied the mosque shooting in New Zealand to President Trump.  This type of coverage continued well into the primetime hours. Reporting from the White House during Anderson Cooper 360, Jim Acosta talked about how Kellyanne Conway was "urging reporters to read the entire manifesto and that there were parts of the manifesto that said that this killer…
Ryan Foley | March 15, 2019
Two weeks ago, Bambi Larson of San Jose was murdered by illegal immigrant Carlos Arevalo-Corranza, who has an extremely lengthy criminal record. Not surprisingly, the legacy media largely ignored this story. With the exception of CNN's Early Start and a segment on Univision, all of the cable news coverage of Larson's death came from either Fox News or One America News Network. The Ingraham Angle…
Ryan Foley | March 13, 2019
Tuesday's edition of The Lead ended with a discussion about a new book that alleges that President Trump wanted his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared fired from their positions as senior advisors in his administration. When asked by host Jake Tapper if the book was a sign that “loyalty is preeminent with the Trumps," Democratic Strategist and CNN Political Commentator Paul Begala responded: "I…
Ryan Foley | March 11, 2019
While interviewing Special Report anchor Bret Baier, Media Buzz host Howie Kurtz highlighted the hypocrisy of the New Yorker article that complained that many people from Fox went to work in the Trump administration without noting that "this revolving door that the article talks about, hardly unique to Fox News." Kurtz also described the New Yorker article as "like writing an article about The…
Ryan Foley | March 11, 2019
Howie Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz, sat down with Special Report anchor Bret Baier on Sunday.  The two discussed the Democratic National Committee's decision not to allow Fox News to moderate a Democratic primary debate. After Kurtz noted that the "11,000-word" New Yorker piece that the DNC used as an excuse to keep Fox from hosting a debate failed to mention that "Fox has a full-fledged…
Ryan Foley | March 9, 2019
The Michael Jackson documentary "Leaving Neverland" came up on Friday's edition of Real Time With Bill Maher.  The eponymous host declared that President Trump and Michael Jackson have two similarities: "one, Michael Jackson could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his fans wouldn't leave him and two, both of them commit their crimes in the open." Maher went onto mention that Michael Jackson would…
Ryan Foley | March 8, 2019
A teacher in Utah asked one of her fourth graders to remove ashes from his forehead, giving him a wipe so he could wipe off the ashes; which millions of Catholics receive on their foreheads in honor of Ash Wednesday in honor of the beginning of lent.  This sounds like a story the media would be interested in covering.  But they didn't.  Only Fox News bothered to mention the story.  The fourth…