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

This publish 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 by way of 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 by way of the top of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 by way of June 11, 2013.)

Test Bedard’s “Washington Secrets and techniques” weblog for the most recent alternative and his different Washington insider posts. Every week, this web page will likely 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 Heart’s Notable Quotables with compilations of the most recent outrageous, typically humorous, quotes within the liberal media.)

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

See the posting on the Washington Examiner’s website the place you’ll be able to watch the video and browse Baker’s evaluation. Per week later, Bedard’s article will likely be posted right here.

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

(Washington Examiner publish)

Final week, for instance, when a reporter didn’t like McCarthy’s reply to a query, the speaker stated: “Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You requested me a query. Once I reply it, it is the reply to your query. You do not get 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 acquired good committee seats, he stated, “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 need to ask you about among 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 set lots of them on very key committees: Intelligence, Homeland Safety, Oversight. Why are you elevating people who find themselves denying actuality like that?

McCarthy: Nicely, in case 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 Celebration.

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 while you look to see simply Republicans — Democrats have completed the identical factor. So possibly it’s not denying. Possibly it’s the one alternative they should have a query about what went on in the course of 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 acquired 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 Heart, explains our weekly decide: “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 ‘completely happy slaves’

(Washington Examiner publish)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream highlights the most recent cable TV assault on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s struggle on woke insurance policies in what’s prone to turn out to be 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. However it’s not that straightforward, regardless of her spin.

In accordance with the DeSantis administration, the brand new course provided by School Board violates Florida’s new anti-“woke” regulation as a result of it’s favorable to vital race principle.

“As submitted, the course is a automobile for a political agenda and leaves giant, ambiguous gaps that may be stuffed with further ideological materials, which we is not going to permit,” stated Bryan Griffin, the governor’s press secretary. “As Governor DeSantis has said, our lecture rooms will likely be a spot for schooling, not indoctrination.”

Reid, nonetheless, 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 suppose he’s racist.”

She added that DeSantis desires solely completely happy historical past taught in faculties, “the historical past of slavery as completely happy 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 identification, and sexual orientation in favor of curriculum that facilities and lionizes individuals who appear to be 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 take into account fascist Italy to have been a nasty man in that struggle, effectively, that’s up for debate. …

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

DeSantis, when he was a highschool historical past instructor — that is the quote from considered one of his former college students. He was a highschool historical past instructor at a non-public college in Georgia. ‘Mr. DeSantis was imply to me and hostile towards me,’ stated 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 method that sounded to her like an try and justify slavery. So, after I add that to the very fact he’s going after the Nationwide Hockey League as a result of they dare to recruit nonblack individuals, primarily saying you might recruit white individuals and proceed to maintain a really white league white, however you might not attempt to recruit minorities. You understand, I’m not saying Ron DeSantis is racist, however to cite Andrew Gillum, I feel the racists may suppose 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 completely happy slaves, good slave masters. If you happen to’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 needed to show historical past of slavery as kind of gallant slave homeowners who had been type to their completely happy slaves.

He’s cool with that. And if the AP course stated that, he’d be high-quality with it. I additionally suppose that you simply’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 stated, ‘The bigger hazard right here is that these programs, in the event that they’re accepted, 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 schooling.’ Dr. Gallon, in your view, is that this an try and 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 Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Reid’s vitriol exhibits DeSantis should be succeeding in making inroads to undercut establishments, such because the schooling 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 plenty of impartial 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 publish)

This week’s Liberal Media Scream raises an fascinating query in immediately’s partisan Washington. Why do Republicans speak to liberal journalists in the event that they know that they’re going to be insulted?

That was the case Sunday on Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WY) appeared, understanding he was holding the brief finish of the stick it doesn’t matter what he stated. Johnson even stated 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 acquired the final insult in when he stated, “You may return in your partisan cable cocoon and speak about media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your identification.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press:

CHUCK TODD: I’ll take it at your phrase that you simply’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 need 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 in case you’re involved about what Hunter Biden did, try 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 concentrating on Hunter Biden a number of instances on this present, senator. You’re concentrating on a person.

JOHNSON: Chuck, , 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 attempting to put out the details that actually 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 don’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 attempting to do points right here and details. Look, you’ll be able to return in your partisan cable cocoon and speak about media bias all you need. I perceive it’s a part of your identification.

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Chuck Todd, in all his obnoxious glory. Kudos to Sen. Ron Johnson for taking over Todd’s apparent bias and hostility to the considerations 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 publish)

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 wanting to level out the biased and infrequently 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 sometimes biased questions and views of the host, equivalent to when Todd instructed the GOP could be holding votes on laws it is aware of President Joe Biden received’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 finances as “present votes,” Comer countered, “Lots of instances, as , Chuck, it’s important to take payments by way of quite a few classes of Congress earlier than they lastly turn out to be regulation.”

And when Todd hit GOP plans to probe the Biden administration as “extra partisan than skilled,” Comer stated, “I feel the one people 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 don’t have any likelihood of passing. A few of them may should be constitutional amendments, and you understand how arduous that course of is. What’s the purpose of passing a invoice that principally, you get to place a press launch out on, nevertheless it doesn’t get enacted?

REP. JAMES COMER: Lots of instances, as , Chuck, it’s important to take payments by way of quite a few classes of Congress earlier than they lastly turn out to be regulation.

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

COMER: Nicely, with all due respect, Chuck, I disagree with that. I feel the one people who see this as a partisan investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats. Look, on the identical second that the Democrats on the Methods and Means Committee launched Donald Trump’s taxes, they then moments later circled and stated, “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 Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Comer is off to a terrific 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, immediately 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 can embarrass Democrats. As if Democrats have by no means had ‘present votes,’ to place Republicans in a nasty mild, which most journalists discovered admirable.”

Ranking: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS (CHEERS.)

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

(Washington Examiner publish)

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

Not glad with its report of attacking Republicans and conservatives as MAGA crazies, the cable channel rolled out a bunch and visitor who dismissed the get together 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 acquired 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 e-book 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 truly 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 will likely be a good bit of normalizing of them once more by the media. In your view, is it truthful to explain the trendy GOP as ‘neo-fascist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or, to cite Joe Biden on the MAGA motion, ‘semi-fascist?’

JASON STANLEY, Yale College: There’s actually throughout the fashionable GOP, because the scapegoating of LGBT residents demonstrates, a fascist motion rising. We — and, to speak about this as some sort 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 acquired, kind of, heritage of Jim Crow. We’ve acquired an anti-democratic enterprise institution. And this can be a construction, a grouping, that’s going to convey individuals to vote for an authoritarian get together. And that’s what now we have, that’s what the trendy GOP is more and more trying like — as Ruth [NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat] stated, an anti-democratic get together. 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 truly going through.

Brent Baker, vice chairman of analysis and publications for the Media Analysis Heart, explains our weekly decide: “Fairly the multiple-choice, a variety which says extra in regards to the slim pondering of MSNBC hosts and visitors attempting 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 tackle views with which you disagree.”

Ranking: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

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