Accuracy in Media

Former President Bill Clinton told talk show host Trevor Noah on Tuesday night that while he supported the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va for how she handled her request to Sarah Sanders to leave her establishment, that he also had respect for the manner in which the White House Press Secretary […]

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace was forced to walk back physically aggressive comments she made against White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders when Wallace suggested her colleague might want to commit violence against Sanders during a press briefing. The comments were made during an exchange with MSNBC White House reporter Kristen Welker about Welker’s questioning of […]

The Daily Beast gave Kathy Griffin a platform to brag about all the insults she hurled at members of the Trump administration who attended the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday — and then hailed her for it. “It took everything within Griffin to not escalate the situation further,” wrote Marlow Stern of Daily Beast under […]

Even as the president of the White House Correspondents Association issued a note of apology for the performance by comedian Michelle Wolf at the organization’s annual dinner Saturday, mainstream media took advantage of the situation to lob still more insults at President Trump. Howard Fineman, an editor at HuffPost, tweeted, RE: #MichelleWolf: 1. Yep, blunt, […]

CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote an analysis bashing White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her “hugely offensive allegation” against media outlets such as his employer, CNN. During a televised White House press conference last week, Sanders criticized mainstream media for making major reporting mistakes that tried to paint her boss, Trump, in a negative light: […]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a simple request before her briefing the Monday before Thanksgiving – that reporters say what they are thankful for this holiday season before they ask their questions. Most played along, creating a lighter environment on a holiday week when little news is made. Most were “grateful for their children, their spouses, […]

CNN White House correspondent April Ryan has had her share of sparring sessions with White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but her latest one may take the cake — or pie, in this case. Sanders tweeted a photo of a pecan pie that she claimed to have baked for Thanksgiving, prompting a skeptical reply […]

Journalist Seth Abramson took to Twitter Monday to point out every lie Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in her first news conference since the Paul Manafort indictment was announced. In the process, Abramson demonstrated how far the mainstream media will go to concoct anti-Trump stories. He lined up a series of Sanders’ comments, then sought to […]

CNN published a recent fact-check of President Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders and her claims regarding her boss’s achievements and successes. CNN admitted that Sanders was correct in her assertions regarding job creation — though CNN disputed the time frame and claimed the Trump White House was fudging the data by including Obama’s statistics. She […]

President Donald Trump boasted that the Boy Scouts of America called him and praised his recent speech to their national jamboree audience, in addition to how the Mexican president called to talk about border crossings. The White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, clarified that these were conversations and were not discussed over the phone, as […]