Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has as soon as every week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” choice in his “Washington Secrets and techniques” column. For every choose, normally posted on-line on Monday, I present an evidence and advocate a “scream” ranking (scale of 1 to 5).

This put up comprises the “Liberal Media Screams” beginning in January 2023.

> For 2021 and 2022, for all of 2020. For all of 2019. For all of  2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:

> July-December 2017 posts; January via June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 via the tip of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 via June 11, 2013.)

Examine Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the most recent alternative and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page shall be up to date with Bedard’s newest instance of the worst bias of the week.

(For extra of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Analysis Middle’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the most recent outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)

■ New on February 20: Liberal Media Scream: The View hits ‘Ron DeSaster,’ would ‘ban the alphabet’

See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s web site the place you may watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Per week later, Bedard’s article shall be posted right here.

■ February 13: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos calls for GOP examine Trump household

(Washington Examiner put up)

Armed solely with a Washington Submit story about Saudi hyperlinks to Kushner and Trump, Stephanopoulos requested Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the panel, “Will you be investigating that as properly?”

Comer known as for strict ethics disclosure legal guidelines, which Democrats have resisted, however that wasn’t adequate for the media star and former Clinton White Home aide. “To be clear,” he mentioned, “you imagine that this could apply to Kushner and Trump in addition to the Bidens at this level?”

The alternate on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you extra about your oversight obligations. You made it clear you will be Hunter Biden and his monetary entanglements with international international locations together with China. I wish to put up a front-page story from the Washington Submit this morning detailing Jared Kushner’s ties to the Saudis. “After serving to the prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner profit from Saudi funds.” A $2 billion funding in Kushner’s funds from the Saudis. We all know the president, former President Trump, has additionally obtained funds associated to the Saudi golf tour. Sen. Ron Wyden says these entanglements deserve investigation. Will you be investigating that as properly?

REP. JAMES COMER: I feel every part’s on the desk. Look, we’re investigating Joe Biden. We all know that Joe Biden mentioned through the presidential marketing campaign that he had no information of his son’s enterprise pursuits. He wasn’t concerned. He didn’t profit from them. We have now proof that will recommend in any other case, and that is very regarding. …

The Democrats complained about Kushner’s international dealings. Republicans are definitely complaining about the complete Biden household’s international enterprise dealings. We have to know what’s allowable and what isn’t allowable. We have to have strict ethics legal guidelines, and we have to considerably improve the disclosure legal guidelines in America. So I feel this investigation goes to be essential to repair an issue earlier than it will get out of hand.

STEPHANOPOULOS: However to be clear, you imagine that this could apply to Kushner and Trump in addition to the Bidens at this level?

COMER: I imagine that after we discuss passing laws to set a line as to the place you could be with family of high-ranking authorities officers with respect to doing enterprise with adversaries abroad, then it will apply to everybody. We have to repair this earlier than it will get worse within the subsequent administration.

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “If solely the Washington press corps had been as keen over time to leap on tales about Hunter and Joe Biden getting cash out of China as they’ve constantly been to advertise each new allegation in opposition to anybody in Donald Trump’s orbit. It’s nearly as if Stephanopoulos is making an attempt to deflect from Joe Biden, to use his personal model of ‘both-siderism’ to undermine the influence of Congressman Comer’s upcoming hearings on the Bidens.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

■ February 6: Liberal Media Scream: Reporters beg for Biden to get ‘credit score’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream exhibits how determined some within the media are for President Joe Biden to get “credit score” for his efforts at a time when polls present that 62% don’t imagine the Democrat has completed a lot.

The highest cheerleader is NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell who mentioned on Meet the Press that the president isn’t getting the thanks he deserves.

“He’s not getting credit score for the economic system, and must be,” she instructed host Chuck Todd.

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

ANDREA MITCHELL: And he’s not getting credit score for the economic system, and must be. Take a look at it, you already know, I feel the hazard of recession is receding. It’s not altogether gone. We see an enormous jobs market. It’s an issue for Jay Powell [chairman of the Federal Reserve] as a result of now they do should maintain tightening. However, you already know, wage development is moderating.

CHUCK TODD: I let you know, folks don’t–

MITCHELL: Layoffs are solely in a couple of sectors, they’re not common.

TODD: There is not any doubt–

AMY WALTER: Manufacturing is constructing.

TODD: –however folks nonetheless really feel like this economic system’s simply not–

MITCHELL: That’s proper, as a result of inflation’s steady.

TODD: It nonetheless feels wobbly.

CORNELL BELCHER: Mid-summer, mid-summer – let’s, let’s examine in on that.

TODD: That’s truthful.

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “How good it should be to be a Democratic president so you have got main members of the Washington press corps spinning speaking factors in your favor, days earlier than your large speech, about the way you ‘must be’ getting extra credit score. Mitchell’s contentions about Biden’s report are higher suited to somebody from the White Home press workplace than somebody who is meant to be a dispassionate journalist.”

Ranking: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

■ January 30: Liberal Media Scream: Hammer time: Speaker McCarthy kilos media bias and double requirements

(Washington Examiner put up)

Final week, for instance, when a reporter didn’t like McCarthy’s reply to a query, the speaker mentioned: “Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You requested me a query. After I reply it, it is the reply to your query. You aren’t getting to find out whether or not I reply your query or not, OK?”

Then, on Face the Nation, he bristled when host Margaret Brennan criticized his appointment of “election deniers” to committee posts. Noting that she didn’t complain when Democratic deniers of former President Donald Trump’s election obtained good committee seats, he mentioned, “If you wish to maintain Republicans to that equation, why don’t you additionally maintain Democrats?”

From Sunday’s interview on CBS’s Face the Nation:

Margaret Brennan: I wish to ask you about a number of the make-up of your caucus.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy: Sure.

Brennan: In accordance with CBS data, 70% of the Home GOP members denied the outcomes of the 2020 election. You place a lot of them on very key committees: Intelligence, Homeland Safety, Oversight. Why are you elevating people who find themselves denying actuality like that?

McCarthy: Effectively, should you look to the Democrats, their rating member [Jamie] Raskin had the identical factor, denied Trump or Bush was in there. Bennie Thompson —

Brennan: Did you see these numbers we simply put up there? Seventy %!

McCarthy: Did you even be truthful and equal the place you checked out Raskin did the identical factor, Bennie Thompson, whose a rating member and was a chair? These people had been chair of the Democratic Social gathering.

Brennan: I’m asking you, as chief of Kevin McCarthy’s Home, why you made these selections? These had been your selections.

McCarthy: Yeah, they’re my selections, however they’re the convention selections. However I’m additionally asking you once you look to see simply Republicans — Democrats have completed the identical factor. So perhaps it’s not denying. Perhaps it’s the one alternative they should have a query about what went on through the election. So if you wish to maintain Republicans to that equation, why don’t you additionally maintain Democrats? Why don’t you maintain Jamie Raskin? Why don’t you maintain Bennie Thompson? When Democrats had appointed them to be chair, I by no means as soon as heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that query once they had been in energy, within the majority. After they questioned —

Brennan: You’re speaking about issues going again to 2000, which was a time, I didn’t have this present again then, which is why I’m asking you now about your management.

McCarthy: No, no! They had been in energy final Congress. So why —

Brennan: You’re speaking about questions from the 2000 election.

McCarthy: You’re asking me about questions that occurred to a different Congress.

Brennan: About these selections you simply made, simply made. That is your Congress.

McCarthy: These are members who simply obtained elected by their constituents, and we put them into committees. And I’m proud to do it.

Brent Baker, the vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “It’s at all times refreshing to see a politician push again in opposition to a liberal media storyline the journalist presumes is past questioning, particularly when the journalist is somebody so oblivious as Brennan is to her bias.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS).

■ January 23: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid says DeSantis likes solely ‘comfortable slaves’

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the most recent cable TV assault on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s conflict on woke insurance policies in what’s more likely to change into a daily media sample as the highest Republican rival of former President Donald Trump steps nearer to a 2024 bid.

The assault got here from MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid, enraged that DeSantis scuttled a pilot AP black course in state faculties. But it surely’s not that straightforward, regardless of her spin.

In accordance with the DeSantis administration, the brand new course provided by Faculty Board violates Florida’s new anti-“woke” legislation as a result of it’s favorable to important race idea.

“As submitted, the course is a automobile for a political agenda and leaves giant, ambiguous gaps that may be full of further ideological materials, which we won’t permit,” mentioned Bryan Griffin, the governor’s press secretary. “As Governor DeSantis has said, our school rooms shall be a spot for training, not indoctrination.”

Reid, nevertheless, smeared DeSantis as a racist for his administration’s actions. “I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite [former Tallahassee Mayor] Andrew Gillum, I feel the racists may assume he’s racist.”

She added that DeSantis needs solely comfortable historical past taught in faculties, “the historical past of slavery as comfortable slaves, good slave masters.”

Plus, watch as she twists the opposite AP historical past courses taught in Florida as she bashes the “book-banning wannabe president.”

From Thursday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC:

Pleasure Reid: The [Stop Woke Act] is aimed toward eradicating the educating of historical past, gender id, and sexual orientation in favor of curriculum that facilities and lionizes individuals who seem like Ron DeSantis. Simply check out what AP programs are deemed educationally beneficial within the state of Florida per the book-banning wannabe president. European historical past, after all. Together with programs on the historical past and language of Italy, the place DeSantis’s household hails from, Germany, and Japan, which occurred to be the Axis international locations the U.S. fought throughout World Conflict II. Now, whether or not Ron would think about fascist Italy to have been a foul man in that conflict, properly, that’s up for debate. …

So, what DeSantis is actually saying is that the one beneficial Superior Placement class for a Florida scholar are courses which are about Europe or the opposite Axis international locations. That’s it. African-American research isn’t deemed beneficial, and it’s not that he’s saying you may’t educate black historical past, however right here’s the proof. It’s the way you educate black historical past that he’s obtained an issue with.

DeSantis, when he was a highschool historical past trainer — that is the quote from one among his former college students. He was a highschool historical past trainer at a personal college in Georgia. ‘Mr. DeSantis was imply to me and hostile towards me,’ mentioned Miss Pompey, who graduated in 2003. ‘Not aggressively however passively as a result of I used to be black.’ She recalled DeSantis educating, that is the vital half, Civil Conflict historical past in a approach that sounded to her like an try to justify slavery. So, after I add that to the actual fact he’s going after the Nationwide Hockey League as a result of they dare to recruit nonblack folks, primarily saying chances are you’ll recruit white folks and proceed to maintain a really white league white, however chances are you’ll not attempt to recruit minorities. You recognize, I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite Andrew Gillum, I feel the racists may assume he’s racist. …

It’s the Daughters of the American Revolution, the pro-Accomplice teams who insisted that we are able to solely educate the historical past of slavery as comfortable slaves, good slave masters. Should you’re doing that, I promise you an AP class that taught that, that slavery was good, as a result of it appeared at the very least per his former college students, Dr. [Steve] Gallon [member of the Miami-Dale school board] that he wished to show historical past of slavery as kind of gallant slave house owners who had been sort to their comfortable slaves.

He’s cool with that. And if the AP course mentioned that, he’d be high quality with it. I additionally assume that you just’ve seen the revelation of what that is actually about. A man named Stanley Kurtz claims he learn the story, that he learn the curriculum, and he mentioned, ‘The bigger hazard right here is that these programs, in the event that they’re authorized, will see the faculty board devise AP programs in ladies’s research, gender research, transgender research, Latino research, environmental research, a full panoply of polarized research which have Balkanized and politicized greater training.’ Dr. Gallon, in your view, is that this an try to shut down the educating of not simply black historical past however any historical past however the Hallmark card of white and European historical past?

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “Reid’s vitriol exhibits DeSantis should be succeeding in making inroads to undercut establishments, such because the training institution, as autos for liberal indoctrination of scholars. So, DeSantis should be discredited with over-the-top invective earlier than he positive factors any traction in a presidential race. However Reid’s hatred towards him will solely elevate the admiration for him amongst conservatives and lots of unbiased voters.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

■ January 16, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: In Chuck Todd’s ‘details,’ Sen. Ron Johnson sees bias

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream raises an attention-grabbing query in in the present day’s partisan Washington. Why do Republicans speak to liberal journalists in the event that they know that they will be insulted?

That was the case Sunday on Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WY) appeared, realizing he was holding the brief finish of the stick it doesn’t matter what he mentioned. Johnson even mentioned so: “That is fairly apparent to anyone watching this, is you don’t invite me on to interview me. You invite me on to argue with me.”

The host, after all, was having none of it. In between his favourite authority openings of “Look” and “So,” he obtained the final insult in when he mentioned, “You possibly can return in your partisan cable cocoon and discuss media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your id.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press:

CHUCK TODD: I’ll take it at your phrase that you just’re ethically bothered by Hunter Biden. I’m curious, although. You appear to have a sample.

SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): Are you not? Are you not?

TODD: I’m a journalist. I’ve to deal in details. I deal in details, so senator, my query to you is, I’ve skepticism of each events. I sit right here with skepticism of lots of people’s work.

JOHNSON: So do I.

TODD: And I’m curious, are you — had been you in any respect involved — your Senate Democrats wish to examine Jared Kushner’s mortgage from the Qatari authorities when he was working within the authorities, negotiating many issues within the Center East? Are you not involved about that? I say that as a result of it appears to me should you’re involved about what Hunter Biden did, you ought to be equally outraged about what Jared Kushner did.

JOHNSON: I’m involved about getting the reality. I don’t goal people —

TODD: You don’t? You’re focusing on Hunter Biden a number of occasions on this present, senator. You’re focusing on a person.

JOHNSON: Chuck, you already know, a part of the issue, and that is fairly apparent to anyone watching that is, you don’t invite me on to interview me. You invite me on to argue with me. I’m simply making an attempt to put out the details that definitely Sen. Grassley and I uncovered. They had been suppressed. They had been censored. They interfered within the 2020 election. Conservatives perceive that. Sadly, liberals within the media don’t. And that’s a part of the explanations our politics are infected is we wouldn’t have an unbiased media. We don’t. It’s unlucky. I’m all for a free press, and it must be extra unbiased.

TODD: Senator, look — go to partisan — Senator, look, we’re making an attempt to do points right here and details. Look, you may return in your partisan cable cocoon and discuss media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your id.

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “Chuck Todd, in all his obnoxious glory. Kudos to Sen. Ron Johnson for taking over Todd’s apparent bias and hostility to the issues of conservatives, even when he’s apparent to his personal ‘cocoon.’ Pot meet kettle.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.

■ January 9, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: James Comer nails Chuck Todd’s biased views

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream is the primary proof that there’s a new sheriff on the town, a Home GOP majority that’s desirous to level out the biased and sometimes hypocritical views within the media.

In our highlight is Rep. James Comer (R-KY), incoming chairman of the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform, invited on to Chuck Todd’s NBC Sunday present, Meet the Press. He confronted the usually biased questions and views of the host, equivalent to when Todd steered the GOP could be holding votes on laws it is aware of President Joe Biden gained’t signal, as if Democrats by no means held “present” votes.

Todd additionally sneered at Comer’s investigation agenda, suggesting it was simply political theater.

However as an alternative of taking it, the lawmaker pushed proper again, calling out the biased media.

When Todd dismissed Republican plans to carry votes on time period limits and a balanced price range as “present votes,” Comer countered, “Numerous occasions, as you already know, Chuck, it’s a must to take payments via quite a few periods of Congress earlier than they lastly change into legislation.”

And when Todd hit GOP plans to probe the Biden administration as “extra partisan than skilled,” Comer mentioned, “I feel the one those who see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats.” And for good measure, he added, “Are you kidding me!”

Two of the exchanges from Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

CHUCK TODD: I‘m curious, these two stuff you point out, these are present votes. They’re not going to go. They haven’t any probability of passing. A few of them may must be constitutional amendments, and you understand how arduous that course of is. What’s the purpose of passing a invoice that mainly, you get to place a press launch out on, however it doesn’t get enacted?

REP. JAMES COMER: Numerous occasions, as you already know, Chuck, it’s a must to take payments via quite a few periods of Congress earlier than they lastly change into legislation.

TODD: Let me ask you this. You’re going to do quite a lot of oversight. You’re going to have quite a lot of subpoenas. Many individuals have a look at what you’re doing, they usually see that it appears to be like extra partisan than skilled. Inform me the way you’re going to attempt to departisanize an investigation? Or do you anticipate it to be partisan?

COMER: Effectively, with all due respect, Chuck, I disagree with that. I feel the one those who see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats. Look, on the similar second that the Democrats on the Methods and Means Committee launched Donald Trump’s taxes, they then moments later rotated and mentioned, “Comer’s investigation of the Biden household affect peddling is a revenge listening to.” I imply, are you kidding me?

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “Comer is off to an excellent begin, recognizing the information media are his enemy simply as a lot as Democrats. It was refreshing to listen to an elevated Republican chief tackle Todd for his a number of hypocrisies, instantly involved, now that Republicans are in cost within the Home, in regards to the partisanship of an investigation and the futility of votes on two conservative agenda gadgets that may embarrass Democrats. As if Democrats have by no means had ‘present votes,’ to place Republicans in a foul mild, which most journalists discovered admirable.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS.)

■ January 2, 2023: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls GOP the social gathering of il Duce

(Washington Examiner put up)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream options MSNBC doing its greatest to change into the community of the crackpot Left, speaking itself into irrelevance for nearly everybody else.

Not happy with its report of attacking Republicans and conservatives as MAGA crazies, the cable channel rolled out a bunch and visitor who dismissed the social gathering as fascists. And never simply easy fascists equivalent to World Conflict II-era Italian chief Benito Mussolini.

How about “neo-fascist,” “proto-fascist,” and “semi-fascist?” Now that’s obtained to harm.

The name-calling got here Saturday when Mehdi Hasan hosted Yale College philosophy professor Jason Stanley on Velshi on MSNBC.

Stanley, who authored a guide titled How Fascism Works, warned, “I feel ‘semi-fascism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘neo-fascism,’ these are correct descriptions. We have to drop speak of populism, drop these deceptive descriptions that cover what we’re really going through.”

From Saturday’s Velshi:

MEHDI HASAN: Jason, the GOP is again in energy once more, at the very least within the Home of Representatives, which suggests there shall be a good bit of normalizing of them once more by the media. In your view, is it truthful to explain the fashionable GOP as ‘neo-fascist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or, to cite Joe Biden on the MAGA motion, ‘semi-fascist?’

JASON STANLEY, Yale College: There’s definitely inside the fashionable GOP, because the scapegoating of LGBT residents demonstrates, a fascist motion rising. We — and, to speak about this as some form of European factor is a confusion since fascism is Jim Crow with a international accent. So now we have a local, now we have a number of native far-right extremist actions: Christian Nationalism, we’ve obtained, kind of, heritage of Jim Crow. We’ve obtained an anti-democratic enterprise institution. And it is a construction, a grouping, that’s going to deliver folks to vote for an authoritarian social gathering. And that’s what now we have, that’s what the fashionable GOP is more and more wanting like — as Ruth [NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat] mentioned, an anti-democratic social gathering. I feel ‘semi-fascism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘neo-fascism,’ these are correct descriptions. We have to drop speak of populism, drop these deceptive descriptions that cover what we’re really going through.

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Middle, explains our weekly choose: “Fairly the multiple-choice, a spread which says extra in regards to the slim considering of MSNBC hosts and friends making an attempt to discredit Republicans than it does about something to concern from Republicans. Hasan dreads ‘normalizing’ Republicans as a result of it’s loads simpler to demonize them than to tackle and critically handle views with which you disagree.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

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