White House Calls for Media to Scrutinize Republicans, Media Oblige

Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks, a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we recap the media’s embarrassing reaction to the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, look at an unusual defense of a Virginia House candidate’s online sex work, and cover more media misses.

Media Jumps to Biden’s Defense on Impeachment Inquiry

To no one’s surprise, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement that he is launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden unleashed yet another round of media advocacy on the Biden family’s behalf.

But this time the buddy-buddy relationship between the Biden White House and the mainstream media went from implicit to explicit; the White House sent a 14-page memo to editors at several mainstream news outlets asking them to “ramp up [their] scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.”