Public vs Private: Park Edition
People want “public” rather than “private.” Public is ... free, right? Wide open. Sharing. Available to everyone. All good things. “Private” is ... selfish, closed, for the rich. Clearly, public must be better. But then why do the words “public toilet” make me cringe? I think: dirty, smelly, ugly, maybe dangerous. Lots of people think that. I know because I watch tourists stare at the long…
ABC, CBS Deem 12 Cities Breaking Homicide Records Not Newsworthy
Horrific was the only way to describe the statistic that broke Wednesday showing over 12 American cities had broken their all-time-high homicide rate so far in 2021, with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania topping 523, breaking their previous record of 500 from 1990. But this wasn’t deemed newsworthy by ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News. Nor were the top law enforcement…
NewsBusters Podcast: Rittenhouse-Obsessed Nets Are Bored by Smollett
On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss how the broadcast networks have been reluctant and slow in covering the Jussie Smollett trial. ABC's been almost non-existent after energetically boosting Smollett's hate-crime hoax two years ago.
Gag! After Recall, 'View' Asks Newsom to Run for President!
Despite recently facing a recall election and despite his state suffering from an alarming crime wave, California governor Gavin Newsom was cheered and celebrated while appearing on Wednesday's The View. To make matters worse, the ABC hosts begged him to run for president, and even thanked him for bashing Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis (to deflect criticism away from his own…
NBC Hails Hillary’s BIZARRE Reading of Fantasy 2016 Victory Speech
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today show swooned over failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton living in an alternate reality where she won the election and delivered a fantasy “victory” speech. The bizarre display was part of the former Secretary of State’s upcoming MasterClass seminar and clips of it will be exclusively featured during a fawning interview with Willie Geist for the…
Williams Mocks Manchin: Not a Regular Guy (Brian Is Worth $50 Million)
Brian Williams’s time at MSNBC is finally coming to an end. In a few days, the disgraced former Nightly News anchor is leaving the cable network that propped him up after losing his previous job over telling multiple lies. But Williams isn’t going out quietly. The anchor on Wednesday night ranted about the most pressing problem for liberals: Joe Manchin.
CNN Uses Pearl Harbor Anniversary To Warn of Second Civil War
CNN's John Avlon joined CNN Tonight host Michael Smerconish on Tuesday for another of of his pretentious "reality check" segments. This particular instance involved using the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor to hype the possibility of a second civil war.
Morning Joe: Hard to Subdue Ukraine — People Have a Million Guns!
On Morning Joe, Washington Post editor/columnist says of a potential invasion of Ukraine ordered by Putin: "He's also going to face a guerrilla warfare, extended partisan warfare in Ukraine. There -- I counted 400,000 people who've received some kind of militia training. There are a million guns floating around Ukraine. I mean, it's a place where it’d be hard to subdue the population…
Editor’s Pick: NR on Alcindor’s Worst Bias as She Moves to NBC
On Tuesday, National Review’s media reporter Isaac Schorr covered PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor moving to NBC News to perform the same role. He highlighted how “Alcindor has built a reputation as one of the most partisan reporters in the mainstream press, using her seat in the White House briefing room as a soapbox for progressive politics, despite working for the…
MSNBC Blames Russia Invasion Threat on 'Republican-Russian Alliance'
On Tuesday, President Biden met with Vladimir Putin to discuss the latter amassing of a potential invasion force on the Ukrainian border. That afternoon, MSNBC's Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace wildly wondered if Biden's job has been made more difficult by former President Trump and a supposed "Republican-Russian Alliance" that she claimed seeks to serve Russian interests…
Column: Networks Skip Trouble In Kamala's Camp
In the last week, alarms started going off about Vice President Kamala Harris facing an embarrassing staff exodus by her communications team, including well-known strategist Symone Sanders. By Saturday morning, December 4, The Washington Post reported on the front page that this morale problem “reignites leadership concerns.” How can she take over for Biden?
Surprise: WH Reporters Join FNC’s Heinrich in Pressing Psaki on Russia
Tuesday’s White House press briefing was jam-packed amid Russian troops gathering on the border with Ukraine and a high-stakes call between President Biden and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, so it was a welcome sight when Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich and others highlighted the U.S.’s acquiescence to Russia on the Nord Stream II pipeline, Biden’s lack of public comments about the tensions, and…
In ‘Deep Denial’: Chris Cuomo’s Planned Covid Book Pulled By Publisher
Apparently, disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wasn’t the only one from that corrupt clan looking to make a buck off of the coronavirus pandemic. In another instance of when it rains it pours, book publisher HarperCollins announced on Tuesday that they “do not intend to publish” Chris “Fredo” Cuomo’s planned book – hilariously titled Deep Denial, where he bloviated about former…
Nets Skip Biden’s Court-Packing Pipedream Ending With a Whimper
Last April, President Biden and far-left Democrats were looking for the moon when the former convened a commission they hoped would recommend radical changes to the Supreme Court, including giving him the green light to attempt to pack it with his partisans and ideologues. But on Tuesday, that commission ended in a whimper as the divided commissioners couldn’t agree on upending the highest…
