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

Mike Barnicle: ‘Nut-Boy’ Ben Carson ‘Gives New Meaning to Crazy’

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Lefty Blogger: House Freedom Caucus Needs to Be ‘Sidelined’

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Blogger: America Needs a ‘Rigid Quarantine’ of GOP Extremism

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Blogger: 'We Really Do Want to Take Your Guns...a Lot of Them'

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Vox Writer: Hillary’s Not Concerned With ‘The Spirit of the Rules’

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Jonathan Alter: Obama-LaPierre Debate Would Be Must-See TV

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Blogger: American Exceptionalism Mainly a ‘Strange Belief’ About Guns

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New Yorker Writer: Second Amendment ‘Sanity’ = Gun Control

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Blogger: GOP Unique In Its Anti-Government ‘Virulence’

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Blogger: Meeting Kim Davis ‘Dumbest Thing’ Francis Has Ever Done

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TNR Writer: On PP Videos, It’s Truth vs. Fiorina’s ‘Twisted Version’

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Lefty Pundit: GOP Practices Idea-Free ‘Politics of Anger’

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Law Prof: Christian Right Throwing ‘Tantrum’ Over Gay Marriage

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Walker Didn’t Appeal to GOP’s ‘Increasingly Disreputable Base’

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Pundit Rips GOP’s ‘Budgetary Terrorism’ On Planned Parenthood

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Salon Writer: Goebbels Would Have Been ‘Proud’ of GOP Debate

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Blogger: Today’s Right Could Eventually Stand For ‘True Fascism’

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Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky: A Democrat Won the GOP Debate

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Lefty Blogger: GOP Debate, Like Reagan, Is ‘Complete Bulls**t’

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New Republic Writer: Beware of ‘Genial Fanatic’ Ben Carson

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