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’

Tom Johnson
October 14th, 2015 10:27 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 12th, 2015 9:29 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 11th, 2015 8:42 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 10th, 2015 12:22 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 6th, 2015 9:28 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 5th, 2015 9:50 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 4th, 2015 1:18 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 3rd, 2015 11:17 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
October 1st, 2015 10:36 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 30th, 2015 9:09 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 29th, 2015 9:28 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 28th, 2015 8:27 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 25th, 2015 9:41 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 23rd, 2015 10:13 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 21st, 2015 10:03 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 20th, 2015 4:18 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 19th, 2015 2:38 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 17th, 2015 10:21 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 17th, 2015 2:34 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 16th, 2015 2:34 PM