NB Podcast

NewsBusters Podcast: Democrats and Media Going Soft on Crime
Whether it's in Washington, DC or Atlanta, the media struggle with upsetting the far left on crime and policing. Reporters relayed the anger at President Biden for agreeing with Republicans that the DC City Council revision of the criminal code was unacceptable. The allegedly anti-rioter media struggles with Antifa hotheads throwing Molotov cocktails at an Atlanta police training facility.…

NewsBusters Podcast: Fox News, Krakengate, and 'Reliable Sources'
The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News has uncovered an embarrassing collection of messages underlining that Fox's owner and stars had contempt for wild claims about Trump winning the 2020 election, but aired lawyers like Sidney Powell, who pledged to "release the Kraken" of truth....that never arrived. Conservative journalists and conservative media critics and conservative…

NewsBusters Podcast: The Lib Media’s Hostility to COVID Leak Theory
With CPAC on the horizon, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I dive into the liberal media’s hostility to the lab leak theory for COVID-19’s origin and how they’re now blaming former President Trump’s criticism of China for rejecting it.

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden WH Forces Press to Consider Lab Leak Theory
Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were back behind the microphones to kick off a new week, which began with a bombshell that the Biden Department of Energy believes it’s likely the COVID-19 pandemic was borne out of a lab leak. We also discussed the initial media coverage as well as one new tidbit about the Asbury revival, the latest silliness from The View, and ABC becoming a…

NewsBusters Podcast: Behar’s Disdain for East Palestine Trump Country
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, managing editor Curtis Houck and I are back to fill in for our executive editor Tim Graham. We examine the vile comments of Joy Behar, who viciously suggested that the residents of East Palestine, Ohio got what was coming to them since they voted for former President Trump who supposedly was to blame for the derailment. They also discussed The…

NewsBusters Podcast: When They Make Crystal Meth Jokes on MSNBC
Ron DeSantis is Public Enemy #1 on the left-wing TV networks, as he stands falsely accused of ending the teaching of slavery. On The Reidout, MSNBC guest host Jason Johnson said DeSantis can't successfully run for president from Florida, which is seen as the state of "crystal meth and alligators." Someone confusing actual Florida with an episode of Miami Vice?

NewsBusters Podcast: Is It Time to Fire Don Lemon?
Are "embattled" anchor Don Lemon's days at CNN numbered? The New York Post reported top executives were meeting to discuss his future after rude remarks about Nikki Haley being past her "prime." Then they reported Lemon has "zero defenders" left at CNN.

NewsBusters Podcast: Hating Nikki Haley Saying America’s Not Racist
Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announced her presidential campaign with a video defending America and attacking the Left. Some think are founding principles are bad, they say the promise of freedom is just made up.” Over images of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and an MSNBC video segment about the "1619 Project," Haley objected to the notion that America hasn't overcome systemic racism…

NewsBusters Podcast: Ohio Toxic Train Story Trailed Off Into Silence
A study by NewsBusters found that after an original burst of coverage, ABC, CBS and NBC stopped covering the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals near Youngstown, Ohio around February 8, once the EPA and railroad officials said it was safe. In the last 24 hours, the networks have returned the story.

NewsBusters Podcast: Liberals Are Happy Biden Spurned Fox Interview
Journalists at CNN and NPR expressed happiness that President Biden spurned any Super Bowl interview with Fox News. Days before those "failed negotiations," Biden received a warm and open-ended interview with the liberals at PBS NewsHour. It washis first interview with a journalist since before the midterm elections.

NewsBusters Podcast: Racial Hustlers Get Worse & Lemon Feels Squeezed
With Executive Editor Tim Graham off celebrating his birthday, Deputy Managing Editor Nick Fondacaro and I returned to hold down the fort and, even leaving aside the State of the Union, the world was our oyster with content. Of course, The View was a major topic with their cockamamie and erroneous claims that conservatives such as Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) want to ban the teaching…

NewsBusters Podcast: Boosting Biden's Trash-Talking State of the Union
Network anchors claimed President Biden's State of the Union speech was an appeal to unity, which may have been true in small snippets. But as a whole, Biden was a trash-talking partisan, uncorking lies about Republicans phasing out Social Security and so on. Curtis Houck joins the show to explore just how boosterish the networks stars were in the speech's aftermath.

NewsBusters Podcast: Networks Avoid New Hunter Biden Scandal Scoops
As the House Republicans prepare for their first oversight hearing on Joe Biden and his dissolute lobbyist son Hunter, MRC's Geoff Dickens reports that ABC, CBS, and NBC are still energetically avoiding scandalous new developments in the Joe-and-Hunter story.

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Stand Proudly with Antisemite Ilhan Omar
As the House voted to remove far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the bluest media (like 'Morning Joe') said they would stand proudly with Omar and against GOP "hypocrisy." Benjamin Weingarten wrote a book on Omar and explains the whole scene.