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BROADCAST BIAS: Media bash Sydney Sweeney, but cover for leftist Macklemore

Networks labeled Sweeney's sports betting commercial 'controversial' while softening Macklemore's rhetoric

By Tim Graham Fox News

Published September 26, 2026 8:00am EDT

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The broadcast networks can easily demonstrate their leftist bias in the way they cover entertainers. Those who use their fame for "good" are praised, and those who are the opposite – who lean Republican – are "controversial." Nowhere was that more evident than how the press freaked out about actress Sydney Sweeney vs. how they covered for antisemitic rapper Macklemore.

Sweeney, who identified as a registered Republican, keeps ending up on the "wrong" side of the networks. Last year, she made a provocative ad for blue jeans, making a pun with the word "good genes." ABC News warned: "The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda with racial undertones," and then invoked professor Robin Landa proclaiming the pun was racist: "The American Eugenics Movement and its prime between 1900 and 1940 weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism."

Right now, Sweeney is featured in mostly naked advertisements for a sports prediction market called Novig. On Sept. 14, "CBS Mornings" carried the feminist water, weirdly claiming the ad demeaned women’s sports. Adriana Diaz proclaimed, "Actor Sydney Sweeney`s appearance in a provocative ad campaign is drawing backlash, especially from........

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