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Celebrities Freak Out Over Amy Coney Barrett
With Barrett’s hearings beginning today, we here at NewsBusters decided to take a quick look back at how hard celebrities first took the news of her nomination. Just imagine where their heads will be once Barrett is actually confirmed.
Debate Night Appetizer: Media LOVES Kamala, But DESPISES Pence
As Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris get ready to debate tonight, we at NewsBusters thought it would be helpful to remind our readers of the stark contrast in how the press has treated both VP candidates. The following are worst attacks on Pence followed by the media’s love of Harris, as culled from the MRC’s archives:

Top 12: Kicking Him When He’s Down, Media Mock Trump Getting COVID
The following is a Top 12 countdown of the gross gloating by liberal journalist of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.

Top 10: ‘Terrifying’ Trump Sat Back and Watched Americans ‘Die’
The following is a top 10 countdown of just some of the most outrageous bias by lefty journalists over the last month.

Top 12: Disgraceful Donald Takes a ‘Dump’ On Debate and ‘Democracy’
The following is a top 12 countdown of the most disgusting and outrageous takes by left-wing journalists of Trump’s first 2020 debate performance against Biden.

STUDY: Media Boost Biden With Softer Coverage than Clinton in ’16
Four years ago, the liberal networks pounded Republican nominee Donald Trump with bad press, yet he won the White House anyway. Now, ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts are giving Trump the same hostile treatment, but they’ve significantly softened their approach to Trump’s Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.

FLIP-FLOP: Four Years Ago, Media Demanded Election-Year SCOTUS Vote
While journalists today loudly criticize Republicans as hypocrites for moving forward on replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trip through the Media Research Center’s archives shows the liberal media are also exhibiting more than their fair share of hypocrisy. Four years ago, when Republican leader Mitch McConnell would not permit a Senate vote on a liberal replacement to…

Crushing Conservatives For Replacing Righteous Ruth
The following are the worst reactions (so far) by liberal journalists and celebrities in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.

Trump Brings Peace to Mideast, PETTY Networks Won’t Let Him Have a Win
MRC analysts looked at 33 days of ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News programs from August 13 (when Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they were establishing full diplomatic relations) to September 15 (the joint signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords between Israel-UAE-Bahrain at the White House) and found just brief hiccups of…

TILT: The Deseret News’s Political Bias in 2020 Congressional Race
One of the closest congressional contests in 2020 is the race for Utah’s 4th district, pitting freshman Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams against former NFL player and businessman Burgess Owens. The district's newspaper, The Deseret News, has created a favorable environment for the Democratic candidate and his message, even as it repeatedly hammers the Republican on an array of personal…
Moderna President Shoots Down Media's Vaccine Fear-Mongering
In recent days, the liberal media have dedicated a lot of effort into stoking fear the coronavirus vaccines being developed by multiple pharmaceutical companies under the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, which put the full weight of the U.S. government behind developing and distributing a safe and effective vaccine. Of course, they were taking their cues from the Biden campaign and…
NBC Looks to Key Impeachment ‘Never Trumper’ to Sway Viewers
Praising him as the “key witness in the impeachment of President Trump last year” during Monday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt flaunted his exclusive interview with admitted “Never Trumper” and now-retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. And the admitted point of the interview, according to Vindman, was to “persuade [people] to choose an alternative to what we have, an…
Nets Gift 16 Min. to Anti-Trump Book, ZERO to Peace Prize Nomination
It was easy to tell the broadcast networks were in full campaign mode on Wednesday seeing as they spent large chunks of their evening newscasts hawking yet another anti-Trump book, Rage by Bob Woodward. But while they spent over 16 minutes (16:26) being up in arms over something President Trump said publicly back in April, they used it to cover-up how the President was nominated by a…

Top 21: Panicked About President Trump Going ‘Postal’
The media’s hatred for Donald Trump and conservatives was on full-tilt this past month, with lib hosts and reporters worried about the President going “postal” over mail-in ballots. They also charged him as guilty for the COVID-related deaths of Americans, including Herman Cain. The following is a top 21 countdown of just some of the most outrageous bias by lefty journalists over the last…