PBS Whines GOP Weaponizing 'Anti-Islamic Rhetoric' Against El-Sayed
After discussing the Republican Party’s strained relationship with President Trump and next week’s GOP midterm convention, nicknamed by some as Trump-a-palooza, the PBS News Hour “Politics Monday” talk turned to the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and controversial Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, and co-anchor Amna Nawaz fiercely defended El-Sayed against “anti-Islamic rhetoric.”
Who Is Renaming Everything on the Map? It’s Not Just Trump
In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” It’s easy to find these whole geographic kerfuffles unnecessary. But the media hated the first one so much that the Associated Press…
RARE: CBS Does a Very Clean Report on Florida 'Stand Your Ground' Case
Our normal review of the Elitist Media evening news presented us with something so rare it may as well have been a unicorn. When’s the last time you saw a super-clean report on ANYTHING having to do with a Stand-Your-Ground case?
ABC, CBS Continue to Single Tesla Out During Fatal Accident Reporting
We regret to inform you that the Elitist Media are at it again, singling out Tesla during reporting on a fatal auto accident. This time it was both ABC and CBS putting their Elon Derangement out on full display on their respective evening newscasts.
NewsBusters Podcast: Midterms Means Fact-Checkers Go Easy on Leftists
Filling in for Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I first dove into the results of Graham's new study about Politifact's ongoing double standard when fact-checking conservatives vs. liberals. Spoiler alert: They only really try when they can make the right look bad.
MRC’s David Bozell Responds to WSJ Support for ABC Lawsuit Against FCC
Media Research Center President David Bozell's letter responding to a letter to the The Wall Street Journal editorial team defending Disney from the Federal Communications Commission and backing their lawsuit.
CNN Leans on New Jersey Governor to Downplay Suspicious Voter Rolls
During Wednesday’s OutFront, CNN host Erin Burnett was irked that the Trump administration had agents with the Department of Homeland Security examining voter rolls and removing noncitizens. While framing it as President Trump willing letting Americans be exposed to terrorism and sex trafficking, Burnett brought on Democratic New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who recently announced her state…
MS NOW’s Peter Alexander Makes Gloria Steinem Death About Republicans
Following the news of the death of feminist Gloria Steinem, MS NOW pulled out the big guests for Thursday’s State of Play as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined for remembrance in live interviews. However, host Peter Alexander’s questions later turned into referendums on the current Trump presidency, especially in his interview with Pelosi, as he…
CNN's Cornish Says Colin Powell Wouldn't Have Risen Under Hegseth
On Thursday's CNN This Morning, at the end of a segment pondering whether President Trump might throw Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under the bus, host Audie Cornish took things in a very different direction: offering Hegseth an ostensible compliment she actually meant as a criticism: “He very much has completely made good on his promises to focus on culture war issues in the military.” She…
CBS Makes It Official: Norah O’Donnell Is Returning to the Mornings
Variety’s Brian Steinberg revealed Thursday that longtime CBS News fixture Norah O’Donnell has won the sweepstakes to become — or, in O’Donnell’s case, return as — the third co-host of CBS Mornings, starting on September 8. CBS News President Tom Cibrowski told Steinberg that “we believe there is a lot of life left in morning television, and therefore we are putting our best people on the…
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MS NOW Hosts Love MapQuest for Lake America Renaming Refusal
On Wednesday night, after Google and Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario on their respective maps to Lake America, MS NOW hosts Jonathan Capehart and Ali Velshi proclaimed their newfound love for MapQuest because it refused to change the name of the lake to follow a presidential executive order that officially changed the name amid a U.S.-Canada trade war.
Welch Makes VILE Claim About Vance Kids, Insists GOP Hates Veterans
I’ve Had It co-host Jennifer Welch went on a tour de force of venom early Tuesday by, in less than 15 minutes, asserting she and her viewers care more about Vice President JD Vance’s children than he does, deemed it “Islamophobia” to call out Abdul el-Sayed’s deleted tweets about 9/11, insisted Republicans “don’t give a shit” about veterans, and smeared evangelical Christianity as “weird-ass…
Morning Joe Pushes Ossoff 2028 After Innuendo About Natalie Harp
Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is up for re-election in two months, but the cast of MS NOW’s Morning Joe is already looking ahead two years to 2028. On Thursday, co-host Jonathan Lemire welcomed The New Republic editor Michael Tomasky to talk about his latest article that hyped Ossoff’s ability to create “conflict,” while highlighting his insinuation that President Trump is having an…
