Lawmakers Threaten to Subpoena Amazon CEO Bezos

House lawmakers sent a scorching letter to the Amazon CEO, threatening to use force if he does not come voluntarily. House lawmakers sent a letter last Friday demanding that Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos answer for his company’s alleged monopolistic activities — such as using data from third-party merchants using Amazon to make competing products. The letter threatened that, “If…
Alexander Hall
May 4th, 2020 4:00 PM

Huh? Lemon Argues Trump Family Is Dumber, Less Attractive Than Obamas

Similar to how MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has been treated like a journalist, the same goes for CNN Tonight host Don Lemon. Whether it’s his hatred for Trump supporters, an affinity for the left, or love for the Obamas, Lemon demonstrated that Sunday when he ended an opinion-filled commentary by bashing President Trump as dumber, less attractive, and racist compared to predecessor Barack Obama. Lemon …
Curtis Houck
May 4th, 2020 3:23 PM

Sharpton Wrongly Claims Trump Never Condemned Anti-Asian Racism

On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton devoted a segment to claiming that President Donald Trump has stoked up racism against Asian-Americans by accurately linking the COVID-19 virus to China. He also incorrectly claimed that President Trump had not spoken out against anti-Asian racism even though the President did so not only on Twitter but also in one of his televised press…
Brad Wilmouth
May 4th, 2020 2:51 PM

Bozell Slams Galling Media Hypocrisy on Biden Sex Assault Claims

Appearing on Sunday’s, Life, Liberty & Levin, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell blasted a hypocritical media for ignoring and downplaying the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden. Talking to Fox's Mark Levin, Bozell described the MRC’s unearthing of a clip of Tara Reade’s mom calling into Larry King Live in 1993. Talking about CNN, he explained, “They were embarrassed last…
NB Staff
May 4th, 2020 11:10 AM

Buffett Gives Trump Economy Ammo: ‘Nothing Can Basically Stop America’

Liberal billionaire Warren Buffett apparently doesn’t believe that the coronavirus will cripple the might of the U.S. economy in the long-run. A prominent liberal business figure like Buffett voicing such sentiments provides ammunition to President Donald Trump, who also predicted that the economy is “going to make a very strong comeback.” Buffett stated during a virtual shareholder meeting that…
Joseph Vazquez
May 4th, 2020 11:04 AM

Scarborough Trolls Trump: 'You're Not Well, Let Pence Run Things'

In a transparent ploy to shift the focus from a doddering Joe Biden now beset with a serious allegation of sexual assault, Joe Scarborough did his best today to suggest that President Trump was not mentally "well," should "get checked out, take a rest," and "let Mike Pence run things."
Mark Finkelstein
May 4th, 2020 10:19 AM

Sex Permeates Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ Overwhelm Its Equality Messaging

To many the word Hollywood evokes glamour and dreams of stardom. Perhaps no time in history was that more true than the late 1940s. But the city that birthed silent movies and talkies also had a seedy underbelly. Prostitution rings. Abusive agents, casting directors and motion picture moguls. Mob rackets. Netflix’s new original, Hollywood, which debuted last Friday takes the dirtiest secrets,…
Julia A. Seymour
May 3rd, 2020 11:07 PM

Velshi Cues Up Laurence Tribe to Fearmonger Over Trump Judges

On Saturday's Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi provided a forum to liberal constitutional attorney Laurence Tribe to bash the conservative judges that President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are putting on the courts, and to fearmonger about how they might effect the country's future, calling it a "terrifying" and a "really scary prospect for anyone who cares about the…
Brad Wilmouth
May 3rd, 2020 9:28 PM

WHO Do They Think They Are? NYT Still Shills for China-Corrupted Group

The New York Times may have slightly changed its tune on reporting how Communist China is indeed covering up and taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, but the paper is still reliably shilling for the World Health Organization’s China-corrupted response to the coronavirus crisis, as demonstrated previously and in several recent pieces. A rather hysterical piece debating whether President…
Clay Waters
May 3rd, 2020 6:56 PM

NBC Groans About Calls to Investigate Biden: No ‘Huge Appetite’ for It

Tucked into the final minutes of Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC political director Chuck Todd led a panel discussion, featuring Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt, where they groaned about calls to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for an allegation of rape. One even claimed there was no “huge appetite” for it. Meanwhile, the call…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3rd, 2020 5:11 PM

Stelter Throws Hardballs at McEnany, Softballs at Harsh Olivia Nuzzi

On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter cued up New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi to defend herself for asking Trump if he deserves re-election after he "lost" more Americans than died in the Vietnam War. Nuzzi's boyfriend Ryan Lizza of Politico claimed it's "never been the case" that reporters showboated in the briefing room. Has he never watched Jim Acosta?
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2020 4:46 PM

Candace Owens Suspended for Encouraging Defiance Against Lockdown

Conservative commentator Candace Owens was suspended from Twitter for encouraging Americans to defy stay-at-home rules. Owens blasted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday for her stringent stay-at-home policies enforced on her state. The fiery tweet reportedly read that: "Apparently @GovWhitmer believes she is a duly elected dictator of a socialist country. The people of Michigan need to…
Alexander Hall
May 3rd, 2020 1:59 PM

Media Outlets Offer More Accuracy for Aborted 'Baby Pigs' Than Humans

Our former NewsBusters colleague Katie Yoder wrote a column for Townhall on how media outlets that ideologically resist using the term “baby” in abortion stories don’t have the same reservations now as hog farmers abort baby pigs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Farmers had to "abort their baby pigs."
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2020 12:48 PM

RNC Head DESTROYS ABC’s Raddatz on Media Ignoring Biden Rape Claim

During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel leveled the media by calling out their hypocrisy in blacking out the rape accusation against Joe Biden, while they had tried to eviscerate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The rebuke was so potent that fill-in host Martha Raddatz appeared unable to make eye contact and avoided looking at the camera while…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3rd, 2020 12:01 PM