Johnson: No Warren Joke At Mullin Ceremony Shows Trump Has Dementia
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson reacted to President Trump’s appearance at Markwayne Mullin’s swearing-in ceremony to be secretary of Homeland Security by declaring that the lack of a Pocahontas joke about Sen. Elizabeth Warren proves that Trump either is getting less racist or has dementia. Naturally, Johnson settled on the latter. Of course, Johnson…
CNN Lets Plaintiff Claim Social Media Lawsuits ‘Not About the Money’
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish had as a guest a mother who is suing social media platforms, seeking to hold them responsible for the suicide death of her daughter. Cornish asked the mother about criticism from a Wall Street Journal editorial describing such cases as a “social media shakedown” benefiting trial lawyers more than families.
The mother rejected that…
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Kimmel Fails Damage Control Effort After Mocking Mullin As a Plumber
On Thursday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tried and largely failed to clean up his Tuesday remarks, where he declared Markwayne Mullin is not qualified to be secretary of Homeland Security because he used to be a plumber. Kimmel’s damage control effort would fail because he tried to have it both ways as he tried to double down on the original comments while also implying his criticism of Mullin is just…
Column: PBS Smears All Republicans as 'White With Fear'
On March 24, PBS stations debuted a long negative campaign commercial disguised as a documentary titled White With Fear, on how “America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power.” The 85-minute film starts with Nixon’s campaigns, then goes on a tear against Fox News, Islamophobia after 9/11, birtherism against Obama, the Tea Party, and then into the Trump…
OMISSION: ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Dem Congresswoman’s Ethics Trial
The House Ethics Committee held their scheduled adjudicatory hearing, more commonly referred to as a “trial”, against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Sadly, none of the main broadcast network newscasts saw fit to carry the story.
PBS Report on Olympic ‘Trans Women’ Ban Hides a Big Part of the Story
Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to bar biological men from competing as women, beginning with the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The major broadcast evening newscasts all omitted the story. PBS NewsHour picked it up, in a report containing a significant omission.
NewsBusters Podcast: Networks Hate 'Illegal Alien Kills Woman' Stories
Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old college student at Loyola University in Chicago, was shot dead by an illegal alien. The networks hate reporting on crime committed by illegal immigrants. They would insist it’s atypical, and it seems too racist and pro-Trump to cover. News loses to narrative, and that narrative is Trump is ruining everything.
Scarborough Yells at ‘Stupid’ GOP Over TSA, Says Viewers Aren’t Stupid
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough continued his crusade to persuade viewers they had only Republicans to blame for the partial government shutdown and ensuing TSA problems for. On Thursday’s edition of the MS NOW’s liberal morning show, Scarborough, once again, ignored the cause of the shutdown was Democrat wish of policy change and ICE reforms, which had led to much of DHS being…
Deranged: Darcy Seems Committed to Seeing CBS’s Dokoupil, Weiss Fail
Status founder and former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Tuesday night for a psychotic tut-tutting over the supposed grave of CBS News under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, claiming Weiss’s “catastrophic,” “turbulent” tenure’s “five-alarm fire” has “destroyed” the “trust” “smart” viewers have in the brand in…
PBS Producer Blows Up CNN, Sky News Claims About No Minders in Iran
CNN and Sky News have maintained their claims that their journalists in Iran had complete editorial control over where and what they covered. They insisted they weren’t guided or followed by a minder, but they did hire translators. But on Thursday’s Morning Joe, PBS Frontline journalist and producer Sebastian Walker noted that when he was in Iran last year, the “government…
Time to Leave the Social Security Plantation
To repeat what Americans have heard a lot recently, our Social Security system is in very bad shape. Per the most recent report, in 2025, of the Social Security and Medicare board of trustees, Social Security is capable of paying out the entirety of promised benefits through 2033. After that, there is only capability of paying out 77% of promised benefits. That’s seven years from now.
MacFarlane: Joining Lefty Outlet Is a Win For 'Independent Journalism'
Former CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane had an unintentionally funny defense of himself as he started his new job with the liberals at MeidasTouch. According to MacFarlane, joining the liberal outlet is actually a win for “independent journalism,"…
Bill Maher Gets Mark Twain Prize from Trump-Kennedy Center After All
After initial reports were dismissed by Team Trump as "fake news" (or perhaps premature news), Politico's Daniel Lippman reports comedian and HBO Real Time host Bill Maher will receive the Mark Twain Prize from the Trump-Kennedy Center prize in June in a show made for Netflix in one of the center's last public events before it shuts down for a planned two-year renovation.
