NB Podcast

A new MRC study by Rich Noyes of all the evening-news coverage of the Republican presidential race on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2023 makes it obvious the networks want Trump to be the nominee. He drew almost all of the coverage -- other candidates could barely get noticed. And most of the Trump coverage obsessed over his legal problems, mostly avoiding any national policy issues. 

Eyeballs were rolled when Brian Stelter argued to MSNBC's Joy Reid that Fox's audience is radicalized and wants to be dangerously misinformed, and "It is not biased or partisan to tug on the side of truth." His side is the "reality-based world."

A basic tenet of any sort of media tradecraft, whether in print or on-screen, is that you should have some knowledge of the things of which you speak or write. Revolutionary concept, I know. When that doesn’t happen, we get what we saw tonight- an assortment of drive-bys beclowning themselves over the meaning of a quote used by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a callback to Ronald Reagan.

A new MRC study by Bill D'Agostino found that of 337 Biden-scandal questions asked of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the second half of 2023, only eight (2.38 percent) drew an answer instead of a maddening deferral or a blatant refusal to answer. The answer was meant to be a dead end, so you'd avoid that street.

Multimillionaire TV host and movie star Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at poor people during Monday’s edition of ABC’s The View. She was irate that poor people would dare to be upset about having to pay high prices for basic goods and vote against President Biden because of it. She told them to ignore inflation and suggested that if they didn’t, and former President Trump returned to the…

A new Media Research Center study by Alex Christy underlines that the late-night jesters on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Comedy Central overwhelmingly tilt their political jokes to whack Republicans. So Alex joins the show to explain the mysterious joking patterns of liberal comedians inside their precious silos. 

As another state seeks to take Donald Trump off the ballot, the year's worst political takes in 2023 were about what might happen after the 2024 election, like claiming Trump will execute his enemies (like MSNBC hosts) in a second term, and maybe Ron DeSantis signaling that blacks are worthy of "extermination."

The news cycle is slower between the holidays, but there's still something ridiculous. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews compared "rural rage" at the liberal elites to....terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq who hate the U.S. military.

As 2023 winds down, it's time to review the best (or the worst) of "The View." Nick Fondacaro discusses how Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin are alleged to represent a Republican viewpoint, but most of the time, they are just as liberal as the others, and demand the Republicans surrender on social issues like abortion.

A think tank called the "Global Disinformation Index" compiled a "dynamic exclusion list" to help advertisers avert "risky" right-wing websites engaging in "misinformation." The list included the New York Post, The Blaze, the Daily Wire, and The Federalist. The censors' list of "reliable" sites included HuffPost and BuzzFeed, which printed the "Steele Dossier," a complete garbage barge of…

The networks and major papers avoided all talk of a Democrat Senate aide getting fired over making a gay porn video in a Senate hearing room. NBC included a "trans woman" in a focus group saying Republicans would execute him, and Nikki Haley told ABC's Jonathan Karl that the media's obsession over every Trump tidbit is "exhausting."

They describe themselves as "independent fact-checkers," but they're not. They sound like liberal columnists, which is why conservatives and Republicans disdain their partisan rulings. Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren have been "fact checked" very, very differently in the last decade. Alex Christy discusses the chapter he wrote with Brent Baker in the new book A Future for the News.

The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh declared that "the Bud Light boycott is still on,” after Dana White called for conservatives to drink the woke company’s beer.

Comedians wouldn't cast a shadow on a single page of the Koran, but it's always fair game to mock the marriage of Mary and Joseph, and joke that Joseph was gay. Christians and their New Testament stories are irresistible grist for mockery. But mock Hillary Clinton, and there's hell to pay on the Jimmy Kimmel set.