NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Liberal Outlets Express Love for #PsakiBombs
White House press secretary Jen Psaki has her detractors -- and she obviously has a devoted pack of fanboys and fangirls. The leftist website MeidasTouch sells "Psaki Bomb" T-shirts, sweatshirts and mugs.
ABC Grills Biden on Misleading Americans on Afghan Withdrawal Chaos
President Biden’s Afghanistan disaster was so eclipsing that it was forcing the media to actually do some real journalism for a change. And during an exclusive interview with Biden on Wednesday, ABC’s normally partisan chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos grilled him on how he had misled the American people on how smoothly the withdrawal would go and how fast the Afghan military and political…
DESPERATE NY Times Tries to Smear Larry Elder, Save Floundering Newsom
New York Times reporters Shawn Hubler and Jill Cowan covered the upcoming gubernatorial recall vote in California, a race which polls suggest is a dead heat, and tried to help sitting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom by smearing the idea of the recall and his leading conservative opponent, black conservative talk show host Larry Elder. Newsom is suffering a backlash fueled by his harmful…
NBC Profiles U.S. Afghanistan Vets Taking Over Where Biden Failed
Amid the Biden administration’s catastrophic abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban, on Wednesday, NBC’s Today show profiled U.S. military veterans trying to make up for White House failures by taking it upon themselves to rescue Afhgan allies still trapped in the country. The brave soldiers talked about being racked by feelings of guilt in the wake of the President’s disastrous…
WATCH as Even Gayle King Mocks Biden Happy Talk: Trust the Taliban?
The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is so bad that, day after day, some prominent mainstream journalists are having trouble parroting the White House’s talking points. Yesterday, Chuck Todd hammered Joe Biden for losing his “competency” card. On Wednesday, reliably liberal Gayle King grilled Biden’s U.N ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on the ridiculousness of trusting the Taliban.
Alcindor on Afghanistan: Biden 'Not Running Away From Responsibility'
On Tuesday's Morning Joe, after Willie Geist pressed Yamiche Alcindor hard, twice asking whether the Biden administration understood the gravity of the Afghanistan situation, Alcindor, of PBS and MSNBC, responded: "I think it’s been very clear to me in talking to White House officials that they understood the gravity. This is a 20-year war spanning multiple presidencies. And President…
Column: Hunter Biden, Bane of the 'Mainstream' Press
The networks skipped the latest video of Hunter Biden talking about losing a third laptop, this time to Russians. On top of that, the networks are mostly bored senseless at Hunter Biden's scandalous plans to sell his “novice” paintings for as much as $500,000. Journalists are aggressively uncurious about Hunter's dissolute life and lobbying career.
Cuomo, Lemon Fantasize About Beating up Maskless Guy on the Subway
CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo was known for being the network’s faux tough guy; threatening to throw Trump supporters down flights of stairs and glorifying Antifa violence. But on Tuesday, Don Lemon tried his hand at the tough guy routine by suggesting he would “throw hands” with a maskless guy on the New York City subway.
Lessons From Afghanistan
You have to give President Biden credit for consistency. Unfortunately, he has been consistently wrong. As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration once put it, Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan (and former President Trump’s…
Broken Clock Emerges: WH Reporters HAMMER Biden Flacks on Afghanistan
Though most of it didn’t make the Tuesday network evening newscasts, the White House press corps made an effort to raise tough questions with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Press Secretary Jen Psaki amidst the collapse of Afghanistan, showing that neither had the answers to basic questions about how they’ll ensure the safe departure of American citizens and Afghan allies, the…
CBS Skips Own Reporter Grilling WH on Saving Americans in Afghanistan
If a news outlet got a Republican administration to hint they didn’t plan to ensure every American got out of a collapsed country run by terrorists safely, it would be the headline of the day. But that wasn’t the case for CBS Evening News on Tuesday after White House correspondent Weijia Jiang grilled national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the issue;…
CNN Historian: Afghan Airport Disaster to Become a 'Symbol of Hope'?
Plenty have people have compared the current situation in Kabul to Saigon in 1975, but on Tuesday, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley became probably the first to suggest that may not be all bad. For Brinkley, the fact that people are scrambling to get onboard or hanging off the exteriors of C-17s might, one day, lead to them being seen as symbols of hope.
McMaster Blows Up CBS’s ‘False Narrative’ About Afghanistan
Appearing on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, retired general and former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster not only blasted President Biden’s disastrous decision to recklessly surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban but completely blew up the broadcast network’s “false narrative” that the Afghan people wanted the U.S. out.
Even Chuck Todd Worries: Biden Lost His 'Competency' Card
What happens to Joe Biden if he loses even Democratic stalwarts like Chuck Todd? The liberal Meet the Press host will assuredly switch back to propping up the President. But, for Tuesday at least, he said the quiet part loud and admitted that Biden has lost his so-called “competency” card.a
