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MSNBC's Capehart Frets Trump Would Take Citizenship from Blacks

January 28th, 2025 6:42 AM

On MSNBC's The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart fretted and fearmongered that President Donald Trump's drive to put more limits on birthright citizenship could mean that blacks who are descended from slaves might also be stripped of citizenship.

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REVIEW: The New CBS Evening News- Is It Too Late to Bring Norah Back?

January 28th, 2025 12:46 AM

The new and revamped CBS Evening News emerged after much hype and a treacly send-off for its prior anchor, Norah O’Donnell. After watching its maiden broadcast one is left wondering: is it too late for Norah to come back? 

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CNN: Trump Deporting Those Who ‘Don't Look Like the Trump Family’

January 27th, 2025 11:02 PM

CNN has had plenty to say lately on President Trump’s recent executive orders regarding enforcement of America’s immigration laws. On Monday’s showing of CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt interviewed senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem, who offered one of her ridiculous views on the subject. Kayyem’s take on the matter was pretty simple: the sacrificial victim of…

NewsBusters Podcast: J.D. Vance Coolly Disarms Margaret Brennan Bombs

January 27th, 2025 10:14 PM

Conservatives wonder why J.D. Vance is wasting his time with liberals like CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan. But when you watch him methodically take down every hostile question from Brennan, it's a win for him and a loss for CBS. MRC's Jorge Bonilla breaks down the battle. The VP named JD was messing with CBS. It’s the newsbusters podcast, I’m tim graham.  The "CBS Evening…

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We'll See: New CBS Evening News Promises News ‘In a Clean & Clear Way’

January 27th, 2025 5:28 PM

Hours ahead of their debut as co-anchors for the revamped CBS Evening News, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois stopped by Monday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus to preview their outlook on what promises to be a different newscast that would cover fewer stories, but go more in depth on those they do highlight. The two promised to help viewers “understand” the news…

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The View Caps Off Trump Deportation Talk By Remembering The Holocaust

January 27th, 2025 5:23 PM

The Trump administration kicked off its mass deportation campaign over the weekend, so, of course, the liberal ladies of The View had to clutch their pearls over it. After erroneously suggesting that the American people didn’t support it and unhinged accusations of racism, the ABC News programs capped off the segment my remembering the Holocaust. Unironically, it was moderator Whoopi…

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CNN, MSNBC Bemoan Deporting People Whose 'Only Crime' Is Illegal Entry

January 27th, 2025 4:12 PM

Morning Joe and CNN This Morning fret the deportation of people swept up in deportation procedures seeking violent illegals whose "only crime" was entering the US illegally.

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Sniveling CNN Canadian Kicks Dirt on Trump’s Trips to CA, NC

January 27th, 2025 12:55 PM

Twice on Friday, CNN turned to in-house fact-check and Canadian Daniel Dale to spin-spoil for FEMA and lambast President Donald Trump targeting the response of the agency to last fall’s aftermath of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina and this month’s wildfires in southern California.

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POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

January 27th, 2025 12:45 PM

The results of the Worst Media Quote of the Week are in and the winner is….

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ABC, CBS, NBC Give Trump’s Pardons 15x More Time than Biden’s

January 27th, 2025 11:33 AM

Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC spent last week incensed by President Trump’s pardoning of Jan. 6 defendants, heaping over 46 minutes of coverage on the story within just a 48-hour period on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. By contrast, those same newscasts spared a pathetic three and a half minutes for the last-minute pardons former-President Biden issued for his family…

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Meet the New Bosses: The Worst of CBS’s Dickerson and Brennan

January 27th, 2025 9:42 AM

The following are just a few of the most obnoxious outbursts from the John Dickerson and Margaret Brennan over the years (via the MRC archives).

MAGA and King’s Dream

January 27th, 2025 9:21 AM

I have written often that there is a common denominator in our deeply divided nation. That is the general sense that something is wrong. The points of departure among our large and diverse population are the perceptions about what the problems are and what must be done. In this spirit I ask, as many have over recent days, what message we might take from the coincidence of the inauguration day…

AP's Party Lost, Whines About Red States 'Rolling Back Trans Rights'

January 27th, 2025 7:47 AM

Blithely tossing aside biological reality for ideological ends, Associated Press wrote from Topeka: “Republican-led states emboldened to continue rolling back trans rights as Democrats struggle with response.” AP absolutely mangled the political controversy over “transgender rights,” and assumed with no scientific evidence that a high number of children are “trans." AP used all the LGBTQIA-…

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Trump Pardons Only! Bash Doesn't Like Graham Raising Biden Pardons

January 26th, 2025 8:58 PM

On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash repeatedly tries to cut off Lindsey Graham when he mentions Biden's pardon of the killer of two FBI agents and of many of his family members, and Kamala Harris having raised bail money for people arrested for post-George Floyd crimes. Bash only wants to talk about Trump's pardons of J6 participants.