Tim Murtaugh
Columns by Tim Murtaugh
Weaponization of fact checks reveals partisan journalists for Harris
It's curious when all media fact-checks go against one candidate - including mistakes the fact-checkers make - while the other candidate is permitted to lie with nary a word of dissatisfaction from journalists. Published September 16, 2024
Harris’ problem: She’s a complete phony
If you're a candidate for president of the United States and you avoid the media for a week or two, you can reasonably call it a strategy. If you avoid them for almost six weeks, it's a problem. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, has a problem, even after she was finally shamed into breaking down and talking to CNN. Published August 29, 2024
Harris ignores news media, and they can’t get enough
People are saying that the news media have forgotten why they exist. Published August 15, 2024
The media are in love with Kamala Harris, and they’re telling everybody
Rarely has the media risen so suddenly in unison, with such excited certainty, to hail Kamala Harris, and it has been predictably nauseating. Published August 1, 2024
MSNBC acknowledges leftist radicalism by benching ‘Morning Joe’ for a day
It's rare that a news network publicly acknowledges, through its actions, that it is populated by radicals. Published July 18, 2024
Media concealed Biden’s cognitive decline because they hate Trump
The former executive editor of The New York Times gave away the game: The media were in on it. Published July 4, 2024
White House enlists media allies to protect Biden from videos of himself
In 2020, the mainstream media protected then-candidate Joe Biden by dismissing his son's laptop as "Russian disinformation" when it wasn't. This time, they're howling over unflattering video clips of President Biden and declaring them fake when they aren't. Published June 20, 2024
Hunter Biden’s laptop is real, and The Washington Post is in trouble
Two events in the political world this week proved that mainstream journalism is in the same sorry state it was during the last presidential campaign. Published June 6, 2024
Biden proves he’s a demagogue on race, yet his own record is terrible
When President Biden talks to a Black audience, he's able to convey only one thought: The United States of America is a racist hellscape, and he's the only hope for redemption. Published May 23, 2024
News media that botched huge stories appoint themselves arbiters of truth again
We are less than six months away from the presidential election, which means that certain members of the news media will soon appoint themselves the arbiters of truth. Published May 9, 2024
Spineless Biden won’t condemn antisemitic campus protests
It's instructive to watch the way people react to the pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses. You can learn a lot, especially about members of the media and President Biden. Published April 25, 2024
Brutal critique from within NPR proves it’s a leftist-only zone
Bashing National Public Radio's leftward bias is a favorite pastime of conservatives, especially since it is funded by taxpayer money, but critics received a boost this week from an unlikely source. Published April 11, 2024
Epic media failures and hissyfits are ominous signs for 2024 election coverage
If the last two weeks are any indication of how the news media are going to cover the 2024 presidential race, it seems clear that accurate reporting and independent thinking will be in short supply. Published March 28, 2024
Biden blew his chance at Sister Souljah moment on Laken Riley killing
In politics, there's a thing called a "Sister Souljah moment," named for a 1992 incident when then-candidate Bill Clinton criticized the rapper by that name after she had encouraged interracial violence. Published March 14, 2024
Biden’s media allies shield him from ramifications of his border policy
If President Biden is talking about illegal immigration, it means he's losing the argument. Published February 29, 2024
New York AG Letitia James conducts the left’s war on free expression
It's clear that the government has orchestrated censorship in quite a lot of cases, in direct violation of free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Published February 15, 2024
Media should tear apart Biden’s claims on illegal immigration
The news media are always on the hunt for disinformation, if you believe their proclamations. Published February 1, 2024
Left again uses media and government to suppress political opposition
They got away with it the first time, so why wouldn't they try it again? Published January 18, 2024
Media identifies villains in Harvard president’s downfall: Conservatives, of course
Throughout my life, I've seldom thought about who runs Harvard University. And when I say "seldom," of course, I mean "never." Published January 4, 2024
‘Swing Hard in Case You Hit It’ recounts recovery from addiction and 2020 Trump campaign
I've been lucky to live two lives so far: a drinking life and another life completely free of alcohol. Published December 21, 2023
