Stewart Continues Anti-Capitalism Crusade, Asks If It Requires Poverty
For the second Monday in a row, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart used his time as host of The Daily Show to launch an attack against capitalism. While Stewart managed to keep his hand in one piece this time, he wondered to Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond if capitalism requires poor people to function while Desmond urged the country to return to the economic policies of the 1960s.…
NOT NEWS? Fox Notes Plummeting Border Crossings, Fewer Migrant Deaths
On Monday morning, Fox's Bill Hemmer covered the phenomenal success that the Donald Trump administration has had in cutting the number of illegal border crossings to record low levels.
OMISSION: A Melania-Sized Gap in NBC’s “Protect the Children” Report
NBC’s reporting on protecting children from harmful content was undermined by an enormous omission: Melania Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill to advocate for children exposed to online exploitation.
CBS News Frets Over Plight of DOGE-Fired USAID Worker
Once again, the CBS Evening News has decided to shine a victim spotlight on fired federal workers. This time, the focus is cast on the plight of a fired USAID worker.
NewsBusters Podcast: 'SNL' Lets Shane Gillis ROAST Biden, Ken Burns
Who let this happen on Saturday Night Live? Comedian Shane Gillis uncorked a monologue that mocked Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, liberal moral arrogance, and PBS documentary star Ken Burns as making dreadfully boring films. Plus some of the latest hatred of DOGE.
AP Video Features TWO Ukrainians to 'Prove' Support for Zelenskyy
The Associated Press released a video aiming to demonstrate Ukrainian support for President Zelensky over Trump after their contentious White House meeting. However, the video, featuring only two Ukrainian interviewees, was criticized and mocked for its inadequate representation. Viewers expressed skepticism, noting the limited sample size and questioning AP's attempt to portray…
Scott Jennings Disrupts CNN’s Storyline, Points to Trump’s ‘Success’
Scott Jennings, former special assistant to George W. Bush, provided his usual, much-needed touch of sanity to CNN Sunday morning, on State of the Union. As a panel hosted by Dana Bash railed against the Trump administration in a by now pretty true-to-form way, Jennings forced them to listen as he confronted them with actual facts about the current state of affairs, and the proper…
WH’s Leavitt Battles FNC’s Kurtz Over AP Suit, Changes to Press Pool
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared Sunday on the Fox News Channel’s MediaBuzz and debated host Howard Kurtz on a slew of subjects over two segments, including the Associated Press hubbub over its ban from the press pool (the smaller, rotating group of journalists that follow the President to smaller events and on Air Force One) and the press shop taking over the…
On PBS, Amanpour's Kooky on Hillary and Handmaid’s Tale 'Manosphere'
Christiane Amanpour is an international affairs correspondent, but for Friday’s PBS edition of Amanpour, she interviewed playwright Joe Murphy and actor Stephen Kunken at the Soho Place theatre in London, where the climate change message play Kyoto, cowritten by Murphy and starring Kunken, is being performed. Amanpour, who surely considers herself an intellectual, sounded like any…
Whoopi Supports Ukraine By Smearing America, Demands Media 'Be Vocal'
After spending the first segment of Monday’s show talking about the Oscars and commending ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s dress at the event, The View pivoted to talking about the confrontation between President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House last week. In leading the discussion, Goldberg came out in support in Ukraine but…
POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!
The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is….
Media and Dems in LOCKSTEP on Zelensky Meeting: ‘It Was an Ambush!’
The media were predictably horrified by the explosive Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky. But notably, the language journalists have been using to describe the meeting is virtually identical to that of Democratic politicians: namely, that the whole thing was a “premeditated,” “deliberate ambush,” meant to provide justification for the USA’s…
CNN Pushes Pool On How Long Rubio 'Will Last' As Secretary of State
On her first day as host of CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish assembles a panel consisting of Never Trumper Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch, and two New York Times journalists. The panel pushes a pool on how long Marco Rubio will last as Secretary of State, based on the notion that the views he is obliged to promote in the position are antithetical to his historical views.
MSNBC's Mohyeldin Slams GOP Transgender Policies as 'McCarthyism'
On Saturday night, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin used his eponymously named show to paint Republican efforts to roll back the liberal agenda on transgenders and gays as a new "McCarthyism," and his guests pushed the conspiracy theory that recent actions are an "experiment" by Republicans to prepare to take rights away from a larger number of Americans later so they can stay in power.
