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

 

Salon Pundit: Has GOP Rhetoric Already Inspired a Terrorist Attack?

Tom Johnson
December 6th, 2015 12:17 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: Reagan Was ‘As Full of Crap As the Christmas Goose’

Tom Johnson
December 4th, 2015 9:05 PM
 

Vox Writer: Decades of GOP ‘Fear and Paranoia’ Paved Way For Trump

Tom Johnson
December 3rd, 2015 12:41 AM
 

Amanda Marcotte: Pro-Life Movement Is ‘Rotten to Its Seedy Core’

Tom Johnson
December 1st, 2015 12:56 PM
 

Conservatives Shun Colbert Because ‘Smart Comedy Has a Liberal Bias’

Tom Johnson
November 29th, 2015 2:20 PM
 

Blogger: Thanks to Palin, GOP Now ‘A Post-Truth Party’

Tom Johnson
November 27th, 2015 11:56 PM
 

Pundit: In 2016, GOP Establishment Would Prefer Hillary to Cruz, Trump

Tom Johnson
November 27th, 2015 12:23 AM
 

Nation Columnist: MSM Have Legitimized GOP’s ‘Dangerous Nonsense’

Tom Johnson
November 25th, 2015 9:15 PM
 

Daily Kos: ‘America's Right-Wing Mass Killers’ Deadlier Than ISIS

Tom Johnson
November 24th, 2015 11:25 AM
 

Lefty Blogger: GOP’s Fake Issues Distract Public From Real Issues

Tom Johnson
November 22nd, 2015 1:28 PM
 

Blogger: On ISIS, GOPers Make Obama ‘Look Like Alexander the Great’

Tom Johnson
November 21st, 2015 11:56 AM
 

Bill Simmons: 2015 Has Been Obama’s ‘Career Year’

Tom Johnson
November 18th, 2015 11:25 PM
 

Vox Writer: Right Prefers ‘Martial Rhetoric’ to Actually Bombing ISIS

Tom Johnson
November 17th, 2015 9:27 PM
 

Kos: Conservatives Afraid of Gun Attacks Only If Shooters Are Muslim

Tom Johnson
November 16th, 2015 5:52 PM
 

Pundit: GOP Presidential Field ‘Ignorant, Insulting, and Dangerous’

Tom Johnson
November 15th, 2015 10:26 PM
 

Salon Writer: O’Reilly-Will Clash Could Discredit Conservatism

Tom Johnson
November 14th, 2015 12:31 AM
 

Daily Beast Pundit: GOP Will Still Be ‘Delusional’ in 2016

Tom Johnson
November 12th, 2015 6:01 PM
 

Maddow Producer: In GOP Debate, ‘Clear Loser’ Was ‘Reality’

Tom Johnson
November 11th, 2015 5:29 PM
 

Ex-Franken Aide: GOP Attitude Toward Compromise Is ‘F**k That!’

Tom Johnson
November 9th, 2015 9:38 PM
 

Salon Writer: Abortion a ‘Medical Procedure,’ Not a ‘Social Issue’

Tom Johnson
November 8th, 2015 5:14 PM