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
Salon Pundit: Has GOP Rhetoric Already Inspired a Terrorist Attack?
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Lefty Blogger: Reagan Was ‘As Full of Crap As the Christmas Goose’
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Vox Writer: Decades of GOP ‘Fear and Paranoia’ Paved Way For Trump
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Amanda Marcotte: Pro-Life Movement Is ‘Rotten to Its Seedy Core’
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Conservatives Shun Colbert Because ‘Smart Comedy Has a Liberal Bias’
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Blogger: Thanks to Palin, GOP Now ‘A Post-Truth Party’
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Pundit: In 2016, GOP Establishment Would Prefer Hillary to Cruz, Trump
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Nation Columnist: MSM Have Legitimized GOP’s ‘Dangerous Nonsense’
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Daily Kos: ‘America's Right-Wing Mass Killers’ Deadlier Than ISIS
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Lefty Blogger: GOP’s Fake Issues Distract Public From Real Issues
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Blogger: On ISIS, GOPers Make Obama ‘Look Like Alexander the Great’
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Bill Simmons: 2015 Has Been Obama’s ‘Career Year’
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Vox Writer: Right Prefers ‘Martial Rhetoric’ to Actually Bombing ISIS
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Kos: Conservatives Afraid of Gun Attacks Only If Shooters Are Muslim
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Pundit: GOP Presidential Field ‘Ignorant, Insulting, and Dangerous’
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Salon Writer: O’Reilly-Will Clash Could Discredit Conservatism
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Daily Beast Pundit: GOP Will Still Be ‘Delusional’ in 2016
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Maddow Producer: In GOP Debate, ‘Clear Loser’ Was ‘Reality’
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Ex-Franken Aide: GOP Attitude Toward Compromise Is ‘F**k That!’
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Salon Writer: Abortion a ‘Medical Procedure,’ Not a ‘Social Issue’