NewsBusters Podcast: We'll Use Pete Hegseth's Mom to Wreck His Career

December 4th, 2024 10:46 PM

Would you like to imagine The New York Times publishing an email your mother sent you telling you you’re a terrible spouse? That's what happened to Pete Hegseth, and his mother. They will use notes that were supposed to be private for their own political gain. 

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Hegseth Sits Down With Megyn Kelly to Eviscerate Liberal Media Smears

December 4th, 2024 7:09 PM

Shortly after his mother went on Wednesday’s Fox & Friends in support of his nomination to become defense secretary, Pete Hegseth sat down with Sirius XM host (and fellow former Fox News host) Megyn Kelly for over an hour to discuss in detail the coordinated smear campaign by the liberal media and the Washington establishment that Kelly equated to the despicable character assassination…

CNN Doesn’t Want Tapper Questioned About Other Defamation Settlements

December 4th, 2024 6:20 PM

As part of the latest developments in the $1 billion defamation suit against them, CNN was attempting to keep anchor Jake Tapper from being compelled to answer deposition questions about his salary and comments he had made on-air regarding Fox News’s defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. That’s according to court filings exclusively obtained by NewsBusters.

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Charlamagne Tha God CONFRONTS The View on Biden Lies, Legal Notes

December 4th, 2024 3:38 PM

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View faced rare criticism of their antics to their faces during Wednesday’s edition of the show. In open defiance of moderator Whoopi Goldberg, radio host Charlamagne Tha God went there and called out President Biden for damaging himself by lying about not pardoning his son Hunter. He also noted that the media would not tell the truth about Trump during…

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MSNBC: SCOTUS Striking Down Hormones For Minors Would Be Hypocritical

December 4th, 2024 3:02 PM

Former U.S. Attorney and current MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade was distressed on Wednesday’s edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports as she tried to argue that the Supreme Court would be hypocritical if it decides to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-altering care for minors.

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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Slams ‘Almost Criminal’ Liberal Media Smears

December 4th, 2024 2:55 PM

On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth’s mother Penelope stepped out from private life into the spotlight for a sit-down on Fox & Friends to lay waste to the “almost criminal” liberal media and specifically “discredit” The New York Times for leaking a 2018 e-mail she had written to her son amid his second divorce but quickly regretted. 

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Smells like B.S., Something Is Rotten in Woke Academia

December 4th, 2024 2:38 PM

Our smug academic types love the smell of their own self-importance

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CNN Lets 10-Year Olds Claim People Want To Shoot Them For Being Trans

December 4th, 2024 12:53 PM

CNN National Correspondent Lucy Kafanov has a rainbow flag emoji in her Twitter handle and was wearing rainbow gloves on Wednesday, but CNN Newsroom still thought she was an appropriate choice to send to the Supreme Court to cover oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the case that seeks to answer whether Tennessee’s ban on so-called “gender-affirming care” violates the…

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ICYMI: CNN Thunderdome Becomes Apocalyptic Mess Over Hunter Pardon

December 4th, 2024 11:14 AM

The tire fire inside a dumpster fire that is CNN NewsNight showed within minutes Monday of its nearly 20-minute opening block why it’s an insult to civil discourse as, led by the smarmy host Abby Phillip, conservatives Scott Jennings and former Congressman Scott Taylor (R-VA) were shouted down for calling out the lies and hypocrisy of President Biden for pardoning son Hunter.

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PBS News Hour: 27 Times More Likely to Tag 'Far Right,' Not 'Far Left'

December 4th, 2024 11:00 AM

As a taxpayer-funded TV network, PBS should not be favoring one side over the other. But MRC analysts studying the use of labels over 18 months on the PBS News Hour found they were 27 times more likely to identify an "extreme" on the right than they would on the left. There were 162 extreme-right labels and only six extreme-left descriptions. 

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Scarborough Claims GOP Only Won House Because They 'Rigged' Districts

December 4th, 2024 10:44 AM

On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough proclaimed that "the only reason" that Republicans will have a majority in the House of Representatives is because North Carolina Republicans "rigged" the state's congressional districts to take three seats from Democrats. The MSNBC host did not mention that there are plenty of states (California, for example) where Republicans…

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'Got To Be Kidding': Kimmel, Colbert Dismiss Hunter Pardon Criticisms

December 4th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel were displeased on their Tuesday shows that some people are still criticizing President Joe Biden for pardoning his son, Hunter. For both men, the re-election of Donald Trump makes such criticisms moot.

Column: The Press Still Pretends the Justice Department Is Pristine

December 4th, 2024 5:50 AM

The surprising occurrence was people on the Left complaining now that Donald Trump has been re-elected that the Hunter pardon ruins all their talking points about nobody being above the law. It “muddies the water” of their anti-Trump crusades.

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TOTAL WAR: The Regime and Its Media Have Come For Pete Hegseth

December 3rd, 2024 10:16 PM

As the Regime Media array themselves against the Trump Cabinet, it has become crystal clear that Defense Secretary-Designate Pete Hegseth has become a prime target. With the Hunter Biden pardon rapidly fading from coverage, the disqualification attacks against Hegseth drew top billing.