{"id":2495612,"date":"2025-10-07T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kennedy-media-buttheads-ripping-america-apart\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:09:35","slug":"john-kennedy-media-buttheads-ripping-america-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kennedy-media-buttheads-ripping-america-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kennedy: Media \u2018buttheads\u2019 ripping America apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-kennedy-media-buttheads-ripping-america-apart%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2495612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Senator John Kennedy&#8217;s criticism of the national media, highlighting that trust in the media has fallen to a historic low of 28% according to a recent Gallup poll. Kennedy attributes this decline to what he calls &#8220;agenda journalism,&#8221; accusing many journalists of liberal bias and a departure from objective reporting. in his new political biography, Kennedy argues that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-soros-getting-his-claws-wrapped-around-local-media-in-swing-state\/\" title=\"George Soros&#039; Influence Expanding in Swing State ...\">biased media environment<\/a> is contributing to political and social division in America. He points out that many young reporters move directly from progressive college campuses to left-leaning newsrooms, often lacking exposure to differing viewpoints. kennedy claims national reporters have become part of the anti-trump political establishment, further eroding public trust and transforming news into what many perceive as propaganda rather than unbiased details. While he acknowledges the media isn&#8217;t always wrong,he warns that mixing opinion with fact and selectively reporting to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >advance narratives damages credibility<\/a> and fuels public skepticism. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">John Kennedy: Media &lsquo;buttheads&rsquo; ripping America apart<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2215774\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Trust in the national media has dropped to a historic low of 28% in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/695762\/trust-media-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup<\/a> survey, and Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Kennedy<\/a> (R-LA) thinks he knows why.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They can be impertinent little buttheads,&rdquo; he said, adding that reporters are &ldquo;in many ways worse than the Democrats.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3839405\/pbs-calls-cruelty-russell-vought-erogenous-zone-liberal-media-scream\/\">PBS calls &lsquo;cruelty&rsquo; Vought&rsquo;s &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pbs-calls-cruelty-voughts-erogenous-zone-liberal-media-scream\/\" title=\"PBS ... \u2018cruelty\u2019 Vought\u2019s \u2018erogenous zone\u2019: Liberal ... Scream\">erogenous zone&#038;rsquo<\/a>;: Liberal Media Scream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3838485\/armed-citizens-active-shooters-gun-violence-data\/\">Armed citizens more effective in stopping shootings than FBI admits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3837333\/gaza-win-shutdown-stalemate-buoy-trump-white-house-report-card\/\">Gaza win, shutdown stalemate buoy Trump: White House Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>That liberal bias, he wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3835848\/john-kennedy-book-biden-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new political biography<\/a> released Tuesday and shared with Washington Secrets<em>, <\/em>is what&rsquo;s destroying the media business and America.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fact is that agenda journalism is doing its part to tear this country apart,&rdquo; he said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Test-Negative-Stupid-Washington\/dp\/0063428164?tag=usdeexplicits-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two-term senator, considered a &ldquo;national treasure&rdquo; among conservatives for his folksy style of ripping liberals and standing up for long-held Republican values, carved out space in his new book, published by Broadside Books, part of HarperCollins Publishers, to call out and challenge the media.<\/p>\n<p>He avoided mentioning specific reporters or outlets, with one exception: Former NBC <em>Meet the Press<\/em> host Chuck Todd. &ldquo;Chuck has never been mistaken for Walter Cronkite,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>With a broad brush, he accurately described how the media from Louisiana to Washington has shifted from a both-sides style of reporting to an agenda-driven model meant to win internet &ldquo;clicks&rdquo; from equally biased followers.<\/p>\n<p>And for most of the media, he said, that meant slamming President Donald Trump and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I talk to reporters. I&rsquo;ve talked to thousands of them over the years. But I&rsquo;ve also learned that 90% of their questions are loaded from a liberal perspective,&rdquo; wrote Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of the journalists I&rsquo;m describing are young. They went straight from woke college campuses to left-leaning newsrooms without ever hearing a dissenting opinion. They think it&rsquo;s immoral to fire bad employees, to cut wasteful spending, to deport illegal immigrants, to like cops, to prosecute most thieves who steal less than $950, to ask questions about vaccines and lockdowns, to use the wrong pronoun, to oppose sex-change operations for kids, to oppose trans people in women&rsquo;s bathrooms or locker rooms or sports, to oppose critical race theory in schools, to oppose reading porn in schools, and to oppose racial quotas. I could go on. The goal of education should be to teach people to think, not to make them feel comfortable. But too many young reporters go catatonic and foam at the mouth if they are confronted with any idea not part of their dogma,&rdquo; said Kennedy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>As with many in Washington, Kennedy said that national reporters have become a fixture in the anti-Trump &ldquo;swamp,&rdquo; and likely a driver in Gallup&rsquo;s findings.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most Americans see this. They think the news isn&rsquo;t the news anymore &mdash; it&rsquo;s propaganda. It&rsquo;s indoctrination. Even if they agree with it. That might not be fair, but it&rsquo;s what people think, and it&rsquo;s inevitable after the media squandered their trust,&rdquo; wrote Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s more, he said the fractured media business gets what it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Was, or is, the media always wrong? Nope. But when your job is to report facts and you report opinion, or you use facts selectively to advance a narrative, or you continue to balance on your nose, like a trained seal, what &lsquo;your&rsquo; side tells you and you squeal with delight when the &lsquo;other side&rsquo; stumbles, or you rationalize that this is all okay because it&rsquo;s for America&rsquo;s own good, because Trump hates democracy, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-change-public-health-racism-the-church-of-leftisms-diabolical-trilogy\/\" title=\"Climate Change, Public Health, Racism: The Church of Leftism\u2019s Diabolical Trilogy\">people stop believing<\/a> you,&rdquo; wrote the senator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kennedy: Media &#8216;buttheads&#8217; tearing America apart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2495613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25212640487111.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33599,33295,32171],"class_list":["post-2495612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-john-kennedy","tag-media-criticism","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25212640487111.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495616,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495612\/revisions\/2495616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}