NewsBusters Podcast: Barry Manilow 'Bans' and 'Virtue Bombs'
On Friday, we were flustered by the rumor that Seventies pop star Barry Manilow sided with Neil Young in pulling his songs from Spotify over Joe Rogan. The rumor was untrue. But this kind of controversy lines up with our interview with Christian Toto about his new book on politically correct entertainment, Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul.
ABC Hides Widow of Slain NYPD Officer Blasting Weak-on-Crime DA
In an emotional message during her husband’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Friday, Dominique Luzuriaga, the widow of slain 22-year-old NYPD Detective Jason Rivera, blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his weak-on-crime policies getting her husband killed. But despite how powerful a moment it was, ABC’s World News Tonight completely omitted her scathing rebuke of…
Of Course: MSNBC Leftist Legal Analyst on Biden’s SCOTUS Short List
On Friday, MSNBC eagerly touted how one of its own, left-wing legal analyst and NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray, was reportedly on President Biden’s short list for the Supreme Court. Interviewing Murray on his 11:00 a.m. ET hour show, anchor Craig Melvin tried to pump her for any information about being contacted by the White House.
PolitiFact Bungles 'Mostly False' Claim on CRT, Refuses to Budge
On January 24, PolitiFact wrote a “fact check” throwing a “Mostly False” rating at Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears for an TV interview with Fox News on Martin Luther King Day claiming the school system in Loudoun County, Virginia spent $300,000 on critical race theory. When faced with the facts, PolitiFact wouldn't budget. She was still "Mostly False." No, they were.
'Life's a Mitch,' Acosta Whines About 'Hard-Right' Supreme Court
While hosting the scary sounding Democracy in Peril on CNN on Thursday, Jim Acosta blasted the "hard-right" Supreme Court for possibly overturning Roe v. Wade, which would increase democracy in the country, lamented that Democrats won't get rid of the filibuster in response to this, and decried their "life's a Mitch" attitude towards the situation.
Behar Responds to Criticism of Bigotry on Justices Thomas, Barrett
On Friday’s edition of The View, co-host Joy Behar seemed to lash out at NewsBusters and other critics for calling them out on Thursday for the bigotry they showed towards Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett, suggesting they were not a real “black man” or “a woman,” respectively, by use of air quotes. And she seemed to cry sexism by saying the “baloney attacks” were…
Kimmel Jokes Trump Jr. Is Crackhead Who’d ‘Snort...Powdered Sugar’
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel continued into Thursday’s show his never-ending obsession with the Trump family as what he seems to believe as the lone source of jokes on planet Earth, quipping that Donald Trump Jr. has been such a failure in life that he’s actually a cocaine addict who “couldn't run a Dunkin’ Donuts” and, if he did, “on the first day, he'd snort all the powdered sugar and get his head…
Editor’s Pick: NR on Politico Bracing for Conservative Pouncing
On Thursday, National Review Executive Editor Mark Antonio Wright reported: “In a ostensibly straight-news write-up on the politics of the coming confirmation of Justice Breyer’s successor, Politico reporters Meridith McGraw and Hailey Fuchs write: ‘The conservative movement has, for decades, prioritized Supreme Court fights over nearly all other forms of political battle....[but] they aren’t…
On MSNBC: Republican Voters Are 'Often More Emotional Than Rational'
Could the liberal media possibly be any more contemptuous and condescending toward us poor, benighted, conservative rubes? On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, contributor Alexi McCammond said: "It doesn't matter, necessarily, what the polls show about support for abortion or Roe v. Wade being constitutional law. Republicans know how to strike a nerve in accord with their voters. And know…
STUDY: Lying Nets Spin Retiring Breyer as a ‘Pragmatic’ ‘Centrist'
When Joe Biden announces his new Supreme Court nominee in February, you can probably be sure of one thing: Media outlets will call this person a “moderate.” The network newscasts are pushing that same (false) talking point on Stephen Breyer after he announced his retirement from the Court.
Column: Indecent Biden Advised to Enjoy the Gutter
One of the most insincere campaign promises Joe Biden ever made was to bring unity and decency back to the presidency. When Joe Biden called Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch,” he showed he won't demonstrate decency or empathy to a journalist who isn’t obsequious to him.
Maddow Deceptively Edits Statement from Florida Health Department
Leftist MSNBC cable news host Rachel Maddow was caught red-handed on Thursday deceptively editing a statement given to her by the Florida Department of Health press secretary Jeremy Redfern regarding her ongoing smear job of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who she claims never treated COVID patients during the pandemic.
Politico Editor Suggests Biden Trash-Talk His Way to Popularity
The founding editor of Politico recommends that Joe Biden should use trash talk to reverse his sinking political fortunes.
Joe Walsh: GOP Voters 'Want a Dictator' Who Won't Teach The Holocaust
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Trumper-turned-Never Trumper Joe Walsh took the opportunity to portray himself as one of the good Republicans who is not like the other Republicans who allegedly want a dictator who will prohibit American children from learning about the Holocaust. Thursday was also International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
