Tom Johnson

Contributing Writer

Tom Johnson covers mostly websites (e.g., Salon, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos) for NewsBusters. He blogged frequently for the site from 2005 until 2007 and has been a regular contributor since 2011. From 1989 until 2002, he was an entertainment analyst for the Media Research Center and its spinoff, the Parents Television Council. From July 2004 until June 2005, he monitored National Public Radio for the MRC.


Latest Blogs

Pundit: Why Won’t Conservatives Admit They’re the GOP Establishment?

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Blogger: Republicans, Once ‘Decent People,’ Now ‘Batsh*t Insane’

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Garry Wills: Republicans Refuse to ‘Accept Enlightenment Values’

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Kos: If Not For Hillary, Trump Might Have Run as a Democrat

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Lefty Professor: ‘Stupidity Is the Ebola of GOP Politics’

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Salon Writer: Today’s Conservatives ‘Whiners…Who Never Shut Up’

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Lefty Pundits: Right’s Racial Politics, Ignorance Paved Way For Trump

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Amanda Marcotte: Palin Wants Her Crowds ‘Screaming For...Blood’

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Eric Alterman: Megyn Kelly ‘Really Just a Nicer Looking Roger Ailes’

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Lefty Pundit: It’s ‘Deranged’ to Call Obama ‘Divisive’

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Gawker On ‘13 Hours’: Its ‘Moral Landscape…Is Poisonous’

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Lefty Blogger: ‘Keith Olbermann Kept Our Democracy Safe’

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Vox Writer: GOP Candidates ‘Living In a Fiction’ Regarding Jihadism

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Bill Maher: Cruz Uses His ‘High Intelligence In the Service of Evil’

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Blogger Kevin Drum: ‘I'm Sick of Conservatives Being Such Babies’

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Slate Writer: Ted Cruz Is a ‘Passionate, Indefatigable Liar’

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Lefty Blogger: Conservatism Was Less Disgusting 85 Years Ago

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Blogger: Don’t Be Fooled -- Rubio’s As Nutty As Cruz and Trump

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Pundit: In Gun Remarks, Obama’s ‘Emotion Served His Reasonableness’

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Pundit Libsplains Why Clinton’s Sex Life Is Irrelevant to 2016 Race

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