U TURN: CNN Attack Dogs Turn Into Cuddly Biden Puppies
Co-host John Berman’s interview with Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan during Thursday’s New Day further showcases CNN’s continued transformation into soft partisan puppies. Throughout the interview, Berman did not press for answers when the Senator dodged, and did not even try to get her off the talking points. Instead, the partisan journalist asked softball questions on the topics of the…
NBC Sucks Up to Kerry, Wonders What We Must ‘Sacrifice’ to Heal Planet
On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Geoff Bennett offered his latest entry in a portfolio that’s increasingly geared toward sucking up to the incoming Biden administration. In an NBC News Exclusive with former Secretary of State John Kerry, Bennett lauded his new job as President-Elect Joe Biden’s climate envoy and wondered what Americans must “sacrifice” in order to heal the planet…
Don’t Let COVID-19 Lockdowns Become a Permanent Power Grab
This week, as Los Angeles County announced it would lock down all outdoor dining, a video went viral. That video featured restaurant owner Angela Marsden, proprietor of the Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill, decrying the lockdown policy while pointing to the erection of production catering set up for a Hollywood shoot just a few feet away. "Everything I own is being taken away from me, and they…
John Stossel Column: Investment Con
Want to make money and help the world, too? Wall Street says you can! If you invest in "socially responsible" funds, say big investment funds like BlackRock, Parnassus, TIAA-CREF, etc., then they'll do good things for the world, and your retirement funds will grow. These funds obsess about what they call Environmental, Social and Governance factors. For example, Parnassus says it picks…
Are You KIDDING? Hack Kimmel Asks Abrams Why Trump Hasn't Conceded
What do you get when a late night host asks Democrat Stacey Abrams if Donald Trump should concede? Hypocrisy is what Jimmy Kimmel showcased early Wednesday morning when Abrams joined in with mocking Trump for not conceding the election, despite the fact that she never conceded her own 2018 gubernatorial election. Despite being a late night entertainment show, Kimmel felt the need to trade in…
Cover-Up: ABC, CBS Barely Cover Hunter Biden Probe, Ignore China
Just over a month after the 2020 presidential election, Hunter Biden and his father’s team dropped their spin operation on Wednesday against any and all criticism of Hunter’s corruption business dealings, admitting that Hunter’s under federal investigation over his taxes. But when it came to the network evening newscasts, ABC and CBS couldn’t be bothered to each give it even a minute’s time or…
Costs Must Be Weighed Against Benefits
One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost. That is in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians virtually ignore cost and talk about benefits and free stuff. If we look only at the benefits of an action, policy, or program, then we will do anything because there is a benefit to any action, policy, or program. Think about one simple…
NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Scarborough's Fervent Death Wish for the GOP
In the latest intelligent iteration of the NewsBusters Podcast, executive editor Tim Graham takes on MSNBC prima donna Joe Scarborough and his remarks as he touted his new book on Harry Truman, proclaiming his hope the Republican Party is "destroyed....I hope they go the way of the Whig Party." Deputy research director Geoffrey Dickens joins Tim to discuss the media's rave reviews of the Biden…
New Yorker's Coll: Free Speech 'Being Weaponized' Against Journalism
The New Yorker's Steve Coll unashamedly presented free speech as a threat to journalism during an interview on Monday's Morning Joe show.
CNN UNITY: Net Compares Trump to Slavers During Civil War
As is often the case for the DNC TV CNN, Wednesday’s New Day compared Donald Trump to history's monsters. This time, it was when CNN hack John Avlon openly compared Donald Trump to slaveholders during the Civil War with warped views of liberty. Avlon describes people who have supported the President or believe his claims as: “Without knowing it, you bought into what Abraham Lincoln once called…
NASTY Mika Jokes About Trump Lawyer With COVID
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski finds the news that Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis has contracted COVID funny, joking [if that's what you call it]: "There are now more Trump attorneys with COVID than they have election challenge wins." Later, when Never Trumper Michael Steele imagines President Trump ranting at a President Biden "in his underwear," Mika finds the image "nauseating."
Nets Yawn at RADICAL Biden Cabinet Pick Who Vouched for Violent Judge
Joe Biden has named yet another radical liberal to his cabinet and, once again, journalists who were attack dogs against Donald Trump are now ignoring controversy. The President-elect on Tuesday nominated Congresswoman Marcia Fudge to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is a woman who, in 2015, vouched for a judge who beat his wife, calling him a “good man who made a bad…
NYT: GA GOP Motivating ‘White Conservatives….Who Harbor Racist Views'
A “Political Memo” filed by New York Times political reporters Jonathan Martin and Astead W. Herndon slurred Trump voters as racists for focusing on radical Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock, the latest attempt by the paper to push the Democrats to victory in the vital Senate runoffs coming up in January: “Spotlighting a Black candidate and linking him to the state’s most…
MSNBC's Ruhle Worries About Democrats More Than Dem Guest!
On Tuesday morning, MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle seemed worried about Democrats possibly failing to win the runoff Senate elections in Georgia even more so than her Democratic guest, Congresswoman-elect Nakema Williams, who is also the Georgia Democratic party chair.