NPR Touts New 'Disinformation' Team, Righty Twitter Has Field Day

July 18th, 2022 6:20 AM

Doug P. at Twitchy noted National Public Radio (NPR) announced the creation of their "Disinformation Reporting Team" on Friday in a note to newsroom staff. On Twitter, NPR contributor Casey Morell tweeted, "some great company news: we're launching a disinformation team." It didn't take long for Conservative Twitter to "pounce."

WashPost Changes Fareed Zakaria's Headline Slamming Pronouns

July 17th, 2022 2:53 PM

The Washington Post changed the headline of a column written Friday by CNN weekend host Fareed Zakaria which originally told Democrats to "forget pronouns" after backlash from leftists on Twitter. The original headline from the Thursday piece read "Forget Pronouns: Democrats need to become the party of building things."   

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'Acting Like Mob Bosses': Kurtz Slams Media Picking 2024 Favorites

July 17th, 2022 2:25 PM

Proving that his show is the antithesis of Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources, Fox News Channel’s Howard Kurtz took a flamethrower to the media for what he noticed “feels like an orchestrated campaign” to knock both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential campaign before they even announce. 

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What Trump Russia Collusion? CNN Says Fox Never Admits They're Wrong

July 17th, 2022 12:37 PM

On Sunday morning’s Reliable Sources on CNN, host Brian Stelter opened his show like he always does by whining about conservative media coverage of whatever issue or controversy he’s particularly exercised about. Such was the case this Sunday when he brought on CNN media analyst Bill Carter to complain about how conservative media was initially skeptical about the rape of a ten-year-…

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The Collected Wisdom of MSNBC's Tiffany Cross

July 17th, 2022 11:40 AM

A mash-up of inane and obnoxious comments by Tiffany Cross on her MSNBC show of Saturday, July 16th.

Free Beacon Mocks Biden-Backing 'Fact Checkers' as Democrat Spinners

July 17th, 2022 7:25 AM

Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler huffed and puffed on Tuesday about "The misplaced outrage over Hunter Biden and U.S. oil reserves bought by China." One of the "liars" in this outrage was the Washington Free Beacon. In an editorial, they replied "We at the Washington Free Beacon love the fact-checkers. When they’re 'fact-checking' us, we know we must be doing something…

New York Times: GOP ‘Seizes on Inflation,’ Campaign Ads Risk Recession

July 17th, 2022 6:12 AM

As new economic data showed prices climbed a shocking 9.1 percent year-to-year in June, New York Times economic policy reporter Alan Rappeport lamented Republicans "seizing" the issue on the front of Friday’s Business section: “G.O.P. Seizes on Inflation, Putting Democrats in Peril.” Rappeport suggested further inflation fallout, including a recession, might be the fault of….the…

Liberal Media’s Inconvenient Truth: Illegal Admits to Shocking Attack

July 16th, 2022 7:24 PM

The liberal media this week faced another inconvenient truth: The person behind a shocking rape in Ohio, one that started a debate about abortion, was an illegal immigrant. 

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Remember When Hollywood Celebrated Free Speech?

July 16th, 2022 3:15 PM

Aaron Sorkin is one of Hollywood’s most gifted scribes. The mind behind The West Wing, “A Few Good Men” and, more recently, “Being the Ricardos” writes smart, snappy banter that makes even mediocre moments pop. And he’s got an Oscar and four Emmys to show for it. But how would Hollywood of 2022 feel about his free speech views? 

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FLASHBACK: Nixon Hammered Extreme Bias of Liberal Press in 1962

July 16th, 2022 2:00 PM

As conservatives gear up for a contentious midterm election, Republicans such as Ron DeSantis have been battling the bias and dishonesty of the press. As we all know, it’s not a new complaint. But it predates 2022, as well as Trump, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan. Way back on election night in 1962, after Richard Nixon lost his bid to be governor of California, he called…

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MSNBC Cites Hitler, Mussolini To Warn GOP is Threatening Democracy

July 16th, 2022 12:12 PM

Politico White House editor Sam Stein stepped in to guest host MSNBC’s Saturday installment of Velshi where he asked what he thought was a profound question: what is “closest historical parallel to the moment.. that we are in right now with our democracy?” The answer he got back from Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat was to analogize the current situation to the raise of Hitler and Mussolini.

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Ruhle Accuses Conservatives of 'Weaponizing' Ohio Child Rape Story

July 16th, 2022 10:14 AM

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle hypocritically weaponized the case of a 10-year old girl who traveled from Ohio to Indiana to seek an abortion by declaring that it was actually conservatives who were “weaponizing this story” by not initially believing its veracity.

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PBS Anchor Says GOP Tried to 'Make Hay' of Child Rape, Not Democrats

July 16th, 2022 8:29 AM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, anchor William Brangham twisted around the horrible child rape in Ohio as something the Republicans tried to "make hay" of, somehow not a story that Democrats and the liberal media were the first to exploit. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Don Lemon Says It's His 'Job' To Trash GOP Daily

July 15th, 2022 10:00 PM

CNN host Don Lemon appeared on their morning show to rant about how Republicans are "very dangerous to our society" and journalists have to constantly warn people or "we're not doing our jobs." Just put on a pink pussy hat and be done with it.