Accuracy in Media

Efforts by the mainstream media to rehabilitate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) and her false claim to be of Cherokee Indian heritage intensified in recent days after Warren’s remarks to a Native American group in Washington, D.C. Slate took the latest crack at it with a piece headlined, “Elizabeth Warren Addresses (but Doesn’t Apologize for) Contested […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) spoke at the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C., in an unscheduled speech. There, Warren used the opportunity to criticize President Donald Trump’s claims that she used a fake Native American identity to get a professorship and tenure at Harvard University and called her Pocahontas on social media. The […]

President Donald Trump criticized Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D.-New York), saying she begged for political donations from him in the past by using the social media platform Twitter. The phrasing was disputed by the press and politicians, some of whom interpreted the comment as sexual innuendo. Here is the tweet from the President: Lightweight Senator Kirsten […]

President Trump was called a racist, among other things, for referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as Pocahontas. But Trump’s purpose in referring to Warren by the name of the 17th-century Native American is to brand her as a fraud for claiming to be Cherokee to get a leg up in her efforts to get […]

In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters asked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) to identify the leader of the Democratic Party. Warren’s response, which was not picked up by the media’s home webpages (ranging from ABC News, CBS News, CNN to NBC News), was “the grassroots.” “I mean, you can either […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) told the press on November 2 that the Democratic Party primary between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton was rigged in favor of Clinton. However, last Thursday, November 9, Warren walked back those remarks and the media did not cover it. Reasons for the lack of coverage were either due to the […]

Progressive U.S. Senator Elizabeth “Liz” Warren, buoyed by GOP’s struggles with replacing Obamacare, suggested that her party should run on passing single payer health care (i.e. government-run health care). Has she forgotten that Obamacare has been a disaster?

In her op-ed, run at news outlets such as CNN, Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth “Liz” Warren criticized Trump’s Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and vowed to make DeVos “accountable” for her actions. First, DeVos was confirmed, so how can she be held accountable if she is an unelected cabinet official in the new administration? […]

According to CNN Editor-at-large Chris Cilizza (formerly of the Washington Post), the top three candidates for the Democratic Party heading into 2020 presidential elections are Joe Biden (who recently told an audience that he won’t be running), Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But, there are nineteen other potential candidates for the party, in Cilizza’s estimation. […]

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time, did not hold back with Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth “Liz” Warren when she appeared on his show this past week. President Trump called Warren “Pocahontas” because Warren once claimed she was part-Native American, and Maher used same nickname when Warren tried to rebut one of his statements on why she […]