NewsBusters Podcast: The Ludicrous Anti-Trump Ballroom Horror Movie
The networks and newspapers hyperventilating over President Trump as a "one-man wrecking ball" who okayed demolition of the East Wing of the White House to build a new ballroom is the silliest Trump scandal imaginable. He's a "mob boss" who may "never leave" office, and his architectural plans betray "a darker history in fascist and totalitarian politics."
NBC Is the ONLY Legacy Nightly Newscast to Report Bondi Murder Bounty
In an ongoing climate of political violence, you would think that the legacy nightly news would devote significant air time to a threat to assassinate a senior member of the Cabinet. But, alas, that did not happen. CBS and ABC both omitted the story from their evening newscasts.
PBS News Hour Marks 50 Years by Lying: It's 'Even-Handed to a Fault'
The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: Finally tonight, we have been marking a milestone this week, the 50th anniversary of the "PBS News Hour." Before we go, we have a look back at our beginnings and at how the "News Hour" has evolved over five decades, while remaining…
Psaki Pushes Conspiracy Theory: Trump Trying to Suppress Voters
During her Friday night opening monologue on The Briefing, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki theorized that President Trump was conspiring to “suppress the vote any way that he can.” She cited various loosely-related administration efforts and jumbled them together as proof of Trump attempting to wrongfully sway midterm results.
ABC Oozes Empathy Over Mamdani, Laments Cuomo 'Laughing' Over 9/11
If the "mainstream media" takes a position within a Democrat primary, they typically favor the most extreme candidate. Take New York democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Former governor Andrew Cuomo is the "mainstream" candidate, but he's apparently an Islamophobic jerk. On Friday's edition of ABC World News Tonight, anchor David Muir lamented Cuomo getting "personal" with Mamdani…
WashPost's Ignatius Ignores His Paper's Support for Trump's Ballroom
On Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius lamented Trump's "presidency as wrecking ball" over the new ballroom. But Ignatius fails to mention an editorial by the Post editorial board, "In defense of the White House ballroom--Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs," which is supportive of the president's project.
Painfully Stupid: The KJP Book Is Worse Than You Could Have Imagined
For years, Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was arguably the most reliable source of entertainment for NewsBusters (and viral posts on X). Her press briefings were a heavyweight bout with the English language. And, when she announced in June she would be writing a book entitled Independent about having left the Democrat Party, we made a promise we’d read it and…
‘Damn, If He Isn't a Dictator’: ABC News Claims Trump Not Leaving Ever
Watching ABC News’s The View throughout October, one couldn’t help but think that their pearl clutching hyperventilation about President Trump supposedly trying to steal the midterms with the National Guard and the ballroom being evidence that he planned on holding onto power, were meant to incite another assassination attempt. On Monday’s show, they claimed that Trump was in fact a “…
PBS Falls Overboard on East Wing Demolition: 'Shocking to Conscience'
On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg devoted 14 minutes -- over half the show’s 22-minute discussion time -- to the East Wing demolition undertaken by President Trump, using private funding, in order to build a much-needed White House ballroom. After the introduction, where Goldberg complained “President Trump this week took a wrecking ball to the…
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Bye-Bye John! The Worst of CBS’s Dickerson
On Monday, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson announced he is leaving the network at the end of the year. His departure may have something to do with the new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, taking over
NBC Touted Kamala's Talk of a 2028 Run on the BBC, But Left Out a LOT
On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Jose Diaz-Balart introduced a Yamiche Alcindor report on how Kamala Harris told a BBC interviewer that she's "not done," meaning she's considering another run for president in 2028. It didn't include any Republicans adoring that thought. The BBC interviewer challenged Harris on her chances.
NBC’s Kristen Welker Presses Secretary Bessent to End the Shutdown
The legacy media’s ongoing coverage of the current government shutdown continues to maintain a Democrat frame, to the point of ridiculousness. Case in point, Kristen Welker’s interview of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on NBC’s Meet the Depressed.
HASTA LA VISTA, TAPPER: Arnold Schools Jake on Redistricting
CNN’s Jake Tapper had on the seven-time Mr.Olympia and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss partisan gerrymandering, among other topics, and got an earful when he tried to justify California’s gerrymandering referendum known as Prop 50. Tapper got a near-total recitation of Democrat partisan gerrymandering efforts in a way not normally seen on cable TV.
