The Media's Long History of Covering for Joe Biden

In a nearby flashback, this September, 2019 post from NB colleagues Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock  recalled the 1987 flame-out of then Delaware Senator Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign over the issue of plagiarized speeches. The flashback caught my eye because, as I have mentioned over time in other venues, I was involved. And were the situation to occur in today’s media world, there is no…
Jeffrey Lord
May 9th, 2020 4:00 PM

Source Finds Nasty NY Times Story Didn't 'Fully Reflect My Experience'

On the front of Wednesday’s New York Times was an article with the usual anti-White House theme. The headline was “FEMA Supply Effort Tangled by Kushner Team.” There were five names in the byline, and another three credited at the end. But still, the main character in this article wasn’t thrilled. Dr. Jeffrey Hendricks shared his frustrations with the Team Trump volunteers trying to procure…
Tim Graham
May 9th, 2020 3:14 PM

MSNBC's Melber Refuses To Confront Schiff About Transcripts

During the early part of the Trump Administration it was not uncommon for Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to tell every TV camera and sympathetic journalist he could find that it was beyond doubt that Trump had colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. But recently released transcripts showed former Obama officials, despite their public proclamations to the contrary, had no such…
Alex Christy
May 9th, 2020 2:39 PM

NY Times Whines: GOP Science 'Denialists' 'Seized' on Wacky Green Deal

New York Times environmental activist reporter Lisa Friedman, whose paper has taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to push liberal causes, now regrets the Republican Party has “seized” on (wholly justified) fears about Democratic environmental policy: “G.O.P. Aims to Use Pain Of Shutdown to Tarnish Climate Change Policies.” It opened: "The coronavirus and the struggle to contain it has…
Clay Waters
May 9th, 2020 2:26 PM

Early Look at 'Space Force': Trump Bashing and Praise for AOC?

Modern comedians have President Donald Trump living rent free in their heads for better and certainly worse. The laugh industry is obsessed with America’s 45th president. Trump turned late night monologues into DNC jam sessions, to say nothing of how he crushed Saturday Night Live’s apolitical lineage. Now, we have Space Force.
Christian Toto
May 9th, 2020 1:30 PM

NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With Trump (Fired Days Later)

Usually, our NewsBusters FLASHBACK items showcase liberal news media examples a little older than a week. But this one is too good to forget. On April 27, NBC News President Andy Lack published a haughty op-ed for the network’s website Think. It was titled, “Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we're winning.” One week after this op-ed was published, Lack was fired…
Scott Whitlock
May 9th, 2020 12:15 PM

Does YouTube Consider CCP to Be an 'Authoritative Source?'

We already know that YouTube considers the World Health Organization to be an 'authoritative source' to the extent that it will remove (censor) videos that run counter to the views promoted that organization by labeling such videos as "misinformation." However, the real question should be does YouTube also consider the Chinese Communist Party as an "authoritative source" in light of the fact that…
P.J. Gladnick
May 9th, 2020 10:00 AM

The Nation: NFL Part of Trump Re-election Campaign

It's "official" now: conscience-lacking NFL owners are part of President Donald Trump's re-election project, says Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine. Unbelievably, so is ESPN! They're all willing to risk lives and support the president's re-election campaign by going ahead with the NFL season this fall. "He and his cronies want the games back, even if it means watching from…
Jay Maxson
May 9th, 2020 10:00 AM

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman Forced To Correct False OAN-Sale Story

One of the most recent entries in the ongoing battle of multiple cable television news channels is the One America News Network, a conservative entry that is also known as OANN or OAN. In a sign that the channel is starting to draw attention from people within the “mainstream media,” company president Charles Herring has responded to a “false and misleading” claim that a group associated with…
Randy Hall
May 9th, 2020 8:38 AM

MSNBC Claims Putin Was Behind Dropping the Michael Flynn Case

After weeks of Andrea Mitchell Reports repeating Chinese Communist Party talking points, Andrea Mitchell and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and current MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi declared on Friday without any evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had something to do with the Justice Department's decision to drop the case against former national security…
Alex Christy
May 9th, 2020 7:06 AM

NPR's Michel Martin Cues Journalist to Hint Trump Voters Are Racist

On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin prodded The New Yorker's Evan Osnos to suggest that Donald Trump supporters are racists even if they don't like to admit it. He also hinted that they vote racist because they support a President whose actions "explicitly, demonstrably, measurably harm people of color."
Brad Wilmouth
May 8th, 2020 10:27 PM

MacGyver Testifies Before Congress on Climate: ‘Planet in Trouble'

A significant plot of season 4 of CBS’s reboot of MacGyver was dedicated to Mac (Lucas Till) trying to stop a criminal mastermind conglomerate called Codex from trying to end the world. Their reasoning was your typical liberal propaganda, as there are supposedly too many people in the world (actually overpopulation is a myth) and climate change is so evil that they need to ‘reset’ the world which…
Rebecca Downs
May 8th, 2020 10:20 PM

Colbert Coddles Cuomo: 'Who Do You Want to Have Play You' in a Movie?

CBS's Late Show host Stephen Colbert devoted nearly the entire show on Thursday to liberal media darling and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). In turn, the interview was loaded with softballs. While Colbert did not find any time to confront Cuomo over his state’s insane nursing homes policy requiring them to accept those who contract coronavirus, the left-wing comedian trumpeted a survey showing…
Ryan Foley
May 8th, 2020 9:04 PM

NYTimes Headline Hijinks Hide Abortion Danger for Dems:'Deal Breaker'?

Reporter Maggie Astor profiled several young conservatives for her full-page lead National story in Thursday’s New York Times: “For Young Republicans, Abortion Fight Remains a Deal Breaker.” The framing of that headline is so strange. At first glance, one could easily think the “deal breaker” refers to the abortion issue being an electoral problem for the Republican Party, as liberal young people…
Clay Waters
May 8th, 2020 6:58 PM