The Daily Caller News Foundation compiled a list of examples exposing bias in Mike Allen’s Axios daily email newsletter that briefs subscribers on the news of the day.
From expressing worry that President Donald Trump will seize more power in a 9/11 type attack, to leaving out “inconvenient truths” about former Vice President Al Gore, and trying to revise Senate history, Axios seldom disappoints.
Below is a list of the most egregious examples from the past week:
1. One of Axios’s top six crises came straight out of the land of make believe – a 9/11-like terror attack where Donald Trump seizes more power. Since when is “people in government” a legit source?
Richard Nixon wrote a book called “Six Crises” after losing the 1960 presidential race to JFK. Here are six of Trump’s coming trials:It’s rarely discussed publicly, but people in government say that a domestic attack — although unlikely to be on the scale of 9/11because of all the countermeasures that have been added — is a constant possibility. And critics and skeptics worry about ways Trump could consolidate power in the wake of such an event.
2. Well, Trump IS the president. He was elected to make decisions. I’m no expert, but if the generals are telling the president what to do, that might be considered a military coup.
One big challenge: Trump doesn’t like to be told what to do, even by his generals.
3. One of the most dramatic moments in Senate history? Right up there next to the actual caning of an antislavery Republican by a proslavery Democrat in the Senate chambers?
McCain’s maverick moment … Amazing CNN video gives a second-by-second breakdown of the wee-hours death of the Republicans’ health-care repeal plan, one of the most dramatic moments in Senate history: “1:29 a.m. [yesterday]: Senator McCain reenters the chamber. …
“McCain waves his hand to get the attention of the Senate clerk, pauses for just a moment, and gives a dramatic thumbs-down. … Audible gasp on the Senate floor, and then commotion. … Republicans like Senator Marco Rubio stare in disbelief …
4. Pretty sure Trump’s bad week in his inaugural year pales in comparison to former President George W. Bush’s week of Sept. 11, 2001. Just throwing that out there.
It’s official … Peter Baker writes in the lead story of today’s N.Y. Times: “Trump enters a new phase of his presidency on Monday with a new chief of staff but an old set of challenges as he seeks to get back on course after enduring one of the worst weeks that any modern occupant of the Oval Office has experienced in his inaugural year in power.”
5. To Axios, if you disagree with the Democrats’ enlightened position on the Trump administration’s policies on climate change, then Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry obviously don’t know how it works. What is this? Second grade?
And if you want to treat yourself to one long read today, here ’tis: In Vanity Fair’s September issue (Angelina Jolie on the cover), Michael Lewis dives deep into the Department of Energy, based on the hunch that President Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry don’t know what it does (spoiler: nukes and R&D):
There might be no time in the history of the country when it was so interesting to know what was going on inside these bland federal office buildings—because there has been no time when those things might be done ineptly, or not done at all.
6. Even The Atlantic was forced to admit the reality that Affirmative Action doesn’t help minority students, but who could pass up “Trump is a bigot” narrative.
“The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants,” Charlie Savage writes in the lead story of the N.Y. Times:
“The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on ‘investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.'”
7. The actual “inconvenient truth”: Al Gore burned through enough energy just this year to power the typical America household for 21 years.
The former vice president [Al Gore] stars in ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ [out today], … a follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary about his efforts to combat climate change. … The sequel arrives in a new world of smart homes, mass-produced electric vehicles and Donald Trump in the White House.”
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