FLASHBACK: The Media LOST IT When Mueller Declined to Charge Trump

Five years ago this weekend, a confused and disoriented liberal media was forced to deal with the fact that Robert Mueller had ended his investigation of the Trump campaign’s alleged “collusion” with Russia without recommending any charges against the then-President.

Rich Noyes
March 24th, 2024 10:14 AM

NO FRENZY: On CNN, Carville Talked Up 'Wet Work' (or Murdering) Trump

Fox reporter Alexander Hall reported a double standard in the use of political metaphors. After all of the media hyperventilating over Trump using the word "bloodbath" to describe the economy in a second Biden term, CNN brought on James Carville to describe how Team Biden needs to do the "wet work" on Donald Trump. That's slang for assassination. But Carville apparently has rhetorical immunity…

Tim Graham
March 24th, 2024 8:21 AM

HA: NYT Scribe Hates Righty Activists Editing Clips, Badgering People

New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger covers “right wing media and national campaigns,” and the hostility and clear revulsion he felt toward right-wing figures, and credulity toward the story of every single migrant he encountered, is evident in every word of “How the Right Shapes the Immigration Debate from Panama,” his long expose that led Thursday’s paper.

Clay Waters
March 24th, 2024 7:22 AM

USA TODAY Canonizes St. Al Gore: 'Climate Icon Talks Hope and Regrets'

USA Today can often sound like a large advertisement for the Left, and never more so than on Monday’s front page celebrating the wisdom and compassion of Al Gore. The infomercial headline: “Climate icon talks hope and regrets.” There's no acknowledgment Gore paid for this message, but it sounds like he did. 

Tim Graham
March 24th, 2024 5:40 AM
Symone Sanders-Townsend Alicia Menendez Michael Steele Hayes Brown MSNBC The Weekend 3-23-24

MSNBC Blames 'Anti-Muslim Racism' For Rejection of Biden Nominee

On MSNBC's The Weekend, MSNBC writer Hayes Brown blames "anti-Muslim racism" for the rejection of a Biden judicial nominee, Adeel Mangi. Brown and co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend condemn "rumors and vitriol" allegedly being spread against Mangi, but offer no facts to refute the case against Mangi that Republicans have made, including his association with extremist groups.

Mark Finkelstein
March 23rd, 2024 7:46 PM

China Hawk Donald Trump and the Bloodbath of Media Credibility

Watching on television as former President Trump spoke at an event in Dayton, Ohio, as I did, his speech made perfect sense.

Jeffrey Lord
March 23rd, 2024 4:00 PM

PolitiFact Warns Properly Defining Gender May 'Lead To Discrimination'

As state legislatures across the country deal with the ramifications of the gender ideology’s movement to redefine gender and differentiate it from sex, PolitiFact’s resident “LGBTQ issues” staff writer Grace Abels warned on Friday that those opposed to this redefinition are persuing bills that will “lead to discrimination.”

Alex Christy
March 23rd, 2024 2:00 PM

UH-OH: Bill Maher, John Cleese Trash The New York Times

John Cleese visited Bill Maher’s “Club Random,” this week, and the conversation quickly went woke.

Christian Toto
March 23rd, 2024 1:30 PM

Swisher Decries Lack Of Serious Debate, Labels Murdoch 'Uncle Satan'

Liberal journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher took her book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to offer up several contradictory claims. Swisher claimed to be for debate while defending collusion between the government and social media companies and labeled Rupert Murdoch “Uncle Satan” while lamenting the lack of serious debate.

Alex Christy
March 23rd, 2024 11:02 AM

Wild Bash Contrast: Trump Praises Hitler, Biden's 'March Madness Fun'

Drew Holden of the Washington Free Beacon tipped everyone on an amazing contrast of "accountability modes" toward Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the last minutes of Inside Politics in the noon hour. Trump has kind words for genocidal Nazi maniacs, but hey, have you seen Biden's March Madness bracket?  

Tim Graham
March 23rd, 2024 9:42 AM
Donny Deutsch Jen Palmieri Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 3-22-24

Ignore 'Stupid March Polls! Joe Scarborough Goes Baghdad Bob For Biden

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough goes full Baghdad Bob for Biden. He suggests people should ignore "stupid March polls" that show Biden losing, and analogizes the race to the 1980 race between Carter and Reagan, before Carter's support collapsed at the very end.

Mark Finkelstein
March 23rd, 2024 6:44 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: A Sappy Rerun for Christine 'No Evidence' Ford

Christine Blasey Ford provided what they call “no evidence” to back up her 2018 claim that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were teens. Kavanaugh fiercely denied the charge. But CBS and ABC and NPR have provided sappy publicity for her new book – which provides no new evidence of her story.

Tim Graham
March 22nd, 2024 10:39 PM

Doocy, Parks Battle KJP on Border Overrun After She Blames Abbott

Friday’s White House press briefing was largely dominated by anti-Israel-leaning questions directed toward John Kirby, but there was still time for the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre to make a fool of herself with exchanges such as ones with ABC’s MaryAlice Parks and Fox’s Peter Doocy over the viral video from our friend Jennie Taer at the New York Post and freelance videographer James…

Curtis Houck
March 22nd, 2024 6:51 PM

PBS Blows ‘Bloodbath’:‘Latest Example of Trump Using Violent Rhetoric'

By now everyone has heard that Donald Trump threatened U.S. democracy or something by predicting a “bloodbath” if he didn’t win election in November. (Trump didn’t actually do that, as we know: His “bloodbath” comment, delivered at a campaign rally in Ohio, referred to tariffs on Chinese electric cars potentially being made in Mexico, as a brief perusal of what Trump actually said at the rally…

Clay Waters
March 22nd, 2024 6:26 PM