NewsBusters Podcast: Shameless Spending and Shutdowns with Paul Teller

How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to buy a Christmas tree.  Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom talks about hopes for restricting federal spending in 2025 and beyond.

Tim Graham
December 20th, 2024 10:50 PM

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Republicans Want to Cut Funds to ‘Children With Cancer’

Stephanie Ruhle took shots at Republicans in their Congressional struggle between a government shutdown and raising spending during her segment on Thursday during The 11th Hour. Claiming their tactics of running the government like a business as incomplete, Ruhle made digs towards the party’s choice in cutting programs. Though David Drucker provided pushback explaining the eventual…

Mary Clare Waldron
December 20th, 2024 7:02 PM

Doocy Vindicated: Nets Skip WSJ Bombshell on Biden’s Cognitive Decline

Now that the coast is (largely) clear, the liberal media and their Biden administration sources have increasingly come out of the woodwork to sound off on the President’s reportedly paper-thin mental fitness to have fully served the last four years. With 50 sources, Thursday’s Wall Street Journal item was devastating, but of no concern to ABC, CBS, and NBC on their flagship newscasts…

Curtis Houck
December 20th, 2024 3:12 PM

‘Too Speculative’: Judge Axes CNN Witness Claims for Defamation Trial

CNN is set to ring in the New Year in a Panama City, Florida courtroom (on January 6) as they try to defend themselves from a $1 billion defamation lawsuit. But before they even got there the network got hit with a set back in the form of getting witness testimony partially axed by the judge. Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Circuit Court ordered that CNN’s expert witness on alleged…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 20th, 2024 1:10 PM
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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

Mark Finkelstein
December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM

Sunny Hostin Claims AOC Is NOT ‘Far Left,’ Only ‘Demonized’ By GOP!

As more Democrats are losing House seats, following the Republican presidential win, the Democratic Party has been questioning its up-and-coming leaders. In reviewing this discussion, The View’s Sunny Hostin was appalled, claiming persecution against young Democratic lawmakers such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), by Republicans. The ABC co-host claimed that Cortez’s political…

Mary Clare Waldron
December 20th, 2024 9:16 AM

Column: PolitiFact Tags Trump with 'Lie of the Year' for the 7TH Time

PolitiFact has singled out Donald Trump six times for their "Lie Of The Year" dishonor from 2015 to 2021. It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating…

Tim Graham
December 20th, 2024 5:57 AM

Regime Media VERY RELUCTANT to Report Fani Willis Dismissal

It appears that the Regime Media, which just a few months ago breathlessly covered every aspect of civil and criminal litigation against former and future President Donald J. Trump, now have little interest in updating the status of one of the pending trials. There was nary a peep on the network evening newscasts about the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from…

Jorge Bonilla
December 20th, 2024 1:42 AM

Alanis Morissette Misgenders Jesus in Rendition of 'O Holy Night'

Alanis Morissette has been enjoying renewed fame as of late, touring across the country this year following the hit Broadway show Jagged Little Pill that’s based on her music. When she released her version of a classic and cherished Christmas carol, “O Holy Night.” But in the second part of her version of the song, Alanis blasphemously misgenders Jesus as “she,” all in the name of “…

Dawn Slusher
December 20th, 2024 12:55 AM

PBS: Amanpour Laments Media ‘Kiss-the-Ring Progression to Mar-a-Lago’

Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour talked to former Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron about Trump’s “massive chilling effect” on the press on Wednesday, and added another metaphor to describe the media supposedly bowing down to Trump’s threats (since when!): Amanpour: "...we're seeing quite a lot of media and like the tech streaming titans and all the…

Clay Waters
December 19th, 2024 10:11 PM

Colbert Criticizes 'Stupid' ABC News for Settlement in Trump Suit

CBS’s Stephen Colbert delivered his usual round of lackluster one-liners during his news summary on Wednesday night’s episode of The Late Show. After a couple digs at Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) and astronauts stranded in space, the host pivoted to the latest on President-elect Trump and the $15 million settlement in his defamation suit with ABC News; the first time a show on CBS…

Michael Wnek
December 19th, 2024 9:52 PM

Whoopi Claims Musk, Vance Plotting Trump's Murder, Blames Her Cat

The loony liberals of ABC News’s The View were in a festive spirit Thursday morning as they kicked off their discussion with a baseless conspiracy theory that billionaire Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance were plotting to have President-elect Trump assassinated and usurp control of the government by pushing him down a flight of stairs. There was an attempt to walk it back my…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 19th, 2024 2:43 PM

Google Turns Up Heat on Trump Nominees, Continues to Rig Results

Google’s relentless PR campaign against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees is still ongoing. The Media Research Center has caught the search giant rigging the results for a fifth consecutive week.

Tom Olohan
December 19th, 2024 2:34 PM

MSNBC Swerves Around NY Times Noting Biden Couldn't Do Four More Years

Thursday's front page at The New York Times featured a story headlined "Biden, Wearied and Stinging, Prepares to Exit." White House reporters Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs were blunt in the third paragraph about Biden's twilight. "Time is catching up with Mr. Biden....it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years…

Tim Graham
December 19th, 2024 12:18 PM