Accuracy in Media

Episode 31.  This week we analyze the third and final presidential debate, DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile complaining that Megyn Kelly is persecuting her over her leaked town hall email, the specter of vote fraud in the election, Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest and the effect it has had on NFL ratings, fans walk out on […]

Episode 29.  This week we discuss the movement away from celebrating Columbus Day, Trump’s second debate performance, biased media debate fact checking, Clinton campaign emails mocking Catholics, Paul Ryan under fire and more.

Alex Nitzberg interviews author Cheryl Chumley and they discuss the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, who appeared to win, and the best parts of the debate.

The GOP presidential nominee may have had a rough start to his weekend after revelations of sexually crude remarks were leaked on Friday, but according to Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough Donald Trump finished strongly thanks to his debate performance on Sunday evening: “I think there are a couple of things that people in the […]

Dan Rather, the disgraced former anchor of CBS Evening News, took to Facebook to express his displeasure with Donald Trump’s behavior towards Hillary Clinton during Sunday evening’s debate. He compared the GOP nominee with a despot, tyrant or monarch for saying that she would “be in jail” if he was president: “As Donald Trump paced […]

NBC News’ online poll conducted with SurveyMonkey claimed to show that Hillary Clinton won the debate, but even FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver’s outfit) said to be cautious. Silver wrote that Clinton should be up, but pointed out flaws with post-debate polling, such as some polls had a small sample size of respondents post-debate compared to pre-debate.

Episode 27. This week Brian and I break down the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, comment on Howard Dean’s ridiculous tweet asking if Trump’s sniffling during the debate meant he was on cocaine, the public’s lack of trust in the media, the deaths of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and golfing legend […]

The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump fell short of initial projections in viewership, but still set records as the most-watched and most-tweeted debate in history. According to Nielsen, 84 million people tuned in to watch the highly anticipated match-up between Clinton and Trump across 13 networks, breaking the previous record of 81 […]

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinksi—who has declared that she will be voting for Hillary Clinton despite her concerns over the email scandal—said Tuesday that Hillary was “amazing” during the debate Monday night. She added that Donald Trump will still probably “do quite well” because he has struck a nerve with people who are sick and […]

Take it for what it is worth, but 67% of Twitter poll respondents said that Donald Trump won the debate, compared to 18% for Hillary Clinton and 15% for the liberal mainstream media. Who ‘won’ tonight’s debate? #debatenight #Debates2016 #tcot — Accuracy In Media (@AccuracyInMedia) September 27, 2016