Todd: Biden Screed Not Partisan, ‘Pro-Democracy’ & ‘Pro-America’
During NBC News special coverage of President Biden’s divisive speech using the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol Hill riot to attack Republicans, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd absurdly claimed the screed was not partisan “if you’re pro-democracy and pro-America.” He also predictably hailed the address as Biden at his “best.”
It’s Their Super Bowl: Networks Go ALL OUT With 90 Mins on January 6
On Thursday, it was the liberal media’s Super Bowl and on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack and riot at the U.S. Capitol as, according to a NewsBusters analysis of the major broadcast network morning newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Today spent roughly 90 minutes dissecting, obsessing over, and painting the 75 million-…
Top 4 Moments of CBS Lamenting Media Mistrust, Blaming the Voters
On the one year anniversary of the violent January 6, 2021 attack on Congress, CBS Mornings hosts spewed Democratic talking points as they attempted to pretend that only one party has election deniers. The network that cheered election denier Stacey Abrams, the show that regularly trashes conservatives, now wants to know why Americans don’t trust the press.
Andrew Yang Proposes a Way Forward
Independents are now America's largest group of voters. After George Bush's presidency, fewer people called themselves Republicans. After Obama's, fewer called themselves Democrats. How will these independents vote? Andrew Yang hopes they'll vote for him. In my latest video, the former Democrat explains why he's started a new party, the Forward Party.
Editor’s Pick: RedState on CNN’s Cillizza Mocked for COVID Realization
On Wednesday, RedState’s Nick Arama reported on CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza “having some revelations of late when it comes to COVID.” In particular, the cable news pundit “invited a ton of new mocking with his latest realization thread on Twitter — sharing that he realized that people had been afraid of admitting they had COVID out of fear of being shamed earlier but that, suddenly,…
VIDEO: Media Cynics Are Helping Dems Use Jan 6 to Federalize Elections
After obsessing over the January 6 Capitol riot for the past year, the media are now using its one-year anniversary to advocate for unprecedented, sweeping election reforms. Democrats would have been foolish not to make political hay out of the January 6 anniversary, and so they've decided to wield it as a justification for federalizing America's elections. Naturally, their friends in the…
Let’s Out the Men in Maxwell-Epstein Case
The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell on five of six charges of recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual encounters with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is not and should not be the end of the story. While Maxwell has been held accountable for her actions, the men who engaged in these encounters with underage girls have not, at least not yet. There is speculation Maxwell could strike…
CNN Reporter Touts 'Benefits' of 1/6 Committee Exposing Fox News
At 2 pm on Wednesday, CNN's "Citizen" project live-streamed a panel discussion with four of its journalists on the top "Lessons of the Insurrection: Where Are We Now?" Dana Bash read a question from a viewer about how to protect democracy, and reporter Alex Marquardt touted that "one of the many benefits" of the 1/6 committee was how they exposed Fox News as Trump collaborators.
NBC Backs Chicago Teachers' Union on Closures, Kids Could Die
Late Tuesday night the Chicago teachers union voted to cancel all in-person classes for all public schools. This decision left parents to scramble to find babysitters and other accommodations for their children during the school day. Wednesday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News decided to take the side of the teachers’ unions.
Nets Silent on New York City DA Vowing to Let Violent Criminals Walk
While the broadcast networks were busy spending Wednesday hyping the anniversary of January 6 for political gain in the midterms, they were intentionally overlooking the violent chaos in their own backyard in New York City. There, newly minted District Attorney Alvin Bragg promised to allow violent criminals to walk free as part of his progressive Democratic criminal justice reform plan; at a…
Politico Column Slams U.S. Constitution as Undemocratic
In a Wednesday op-ed for Politico, invoking the media’s obsession with January 6, Brooklyn College political science professor Corey Robin flashed just how little he understood about how and why America’s founders set up the system of government they did. Or perhaps the goal was to just undo that great architecture and supplant it with something inferior.
CNN: Holding Dems Accountable for Violence is 'Both-Siderism'
During CNN's breaking news coverage of Attorney General Merrick Garland's news conference on the Justice Department's January 6 investigation, chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at Garland's desire to prosecute political violence no matter what political party is involved.
NewsBusters Podcast: Press Resolute, Everything a Threat to Democracy
NewsBusters rings in 2022 with Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro filling in for Tim Graham and discussing the media New Year resolution to make every day, this midterm year, about January 6 in an attempt to swing the election for Democrats. I’m also joined by research director Scott Whitlock to talk about the media’s refusal to better themselves as they stoke hatred against the right.
NPR Promotes 'Sedition Hunters' Who Identify 1/6 Riot Suspects
NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday delighted in a supposedly nonpartisan group that they called the "Sedition Hunters," who have helped scoured videos to help identify suspects in the January 6 riot. NPR turned to reporter Odette Yousef, whose alleged beat is "extremism," but it's all about right-wing extremism, because this is NPR.
