NewsBusters Podcast: Suggesting Only One Party Has 'Sham Impeachments'
As the immigration issue begins to panic Democrats and House Republicans push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the newspapers and networks channel Democrat objectives and imply that only one party's impeachment efforts are a partisan "sham" with "no evidence." They insist Democrat impeachments are glorious. Managing editor Curtis Houck joins the show to discuss the TV…
Sigh: NYT's Zernike Sees Sexism in Sad Downfall of Ivy League Leaders
New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, infamous here for her hostile coverage of the Tea Party, absorbed an interesting takeaway from the spectacle of three Ivy League college presidents who testified before Congress and refused to condemn rallies in support of anti-Semitism on their progressive campuses: sexism! Zernike’s Monday piece, “Ivy League Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender ...…
CBS, NBC Censor DOJ Probing Cori Bush for Alleged Misuse of Donor Cash
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, CBS and NBC have ignored their announcement of a Justice Department probe into far-left Congresswoman and Squad member Cori Bush (D-MO) on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. The probe, which reportedly concerns using campaign funds to pay her now-husband to be her bodyguard, is a scandal that could be used against her fellow Democrats, so CBS and NBC…
‘With No Evidence’; ABC, CBS Melt Down Over GOP Impeaching Mayorkas
On the liberal broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the adversarial rhetoric continued to ratchet up on Wednesday from Tuesday night against the House GOP’s efforts to impeach Biden Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis as the networks used their morning news shows to screech there’s “no evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors” and the impeachment is leaving the…
ABC, NBC Ignore OR Issuing State of Emergency for Portland Drug Crisis
The deadly consequences of the Democratic Party’s drug policies were nowhere to be seen on ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today, on Wednesday, after the Democratic-controlled state of Oregon issued a state of emergency for Portland’s out-of-control fentanyl crisis. And while the order was reported on CBS Mornings, correspondent Adam Yamaguchi omitted which…
The View’s Black History Month: ‘Downward Spiral of Black Republicans’
In anticipation of the start of Black History Month on Wednesday, ABC’s The View decried “the downward spiral of black Republicans” and smeared ALL of them as “grifters” that would betray America and their race for “power.” They singled out South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, mocking and ripping his engagement to a white woman and claimed he would choose to placate former President “…
CNN Tries To Get NATO Chief To Denounce Trump, He Praises Him Instead
On Sunday, ABC’s Martha Raddatz tried and failed to get Gen. Charles Brown to attack Donald Trump as he tries to pull a Grover Cleveland and return to the presidency. On Wednesday, it was CNN’s Poppy Harlow’s turn to try to get someone to denounce Trump. However not only did Harlow, like Raddatz, fail, but NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg actually had positive things to say about Trump…
ABC, CBS Bemoan Mayorkas Impeachment, Still Shill For WH-Senate Bill
The network evening newscasts’ coverage of the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was uniformly fretful, with ABC and CBS further distinguishing themselves using the impeachment as an opportunity to further shill for the dying White House-Senate border compromise.
Colbert Butchers Facts to Accuse Texas of Fomenting Civil War
CBS’s Stephen Colbert used the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to launch into an extended factually-challenged diatribe against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s border policies.
Column: The American Media Landscape Is NOT 'Tilted Against Biden'
In the alternative universe of Vox, “Fox News is more consistently propagandistic than MSNBC and boasts a 42 percent larger viewership. Right-wing talk radio dwarfs the influence of progressive alternatives.” They claim "the U.S. media landscape is tilted against Biden." It's the silly old argument from Eric Alterman, pretending the liberal media is a figment of right-wing imaginations.
Nets SILENT On Maduro Regime’s Threat To Shut Down Deportation Flights
Some major news broke today with regard to U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and with potentially huge implications on the border crisis. But you wouldn’t know it from watching any of the network evening newscasts.
Joy Behar: Charlie Chaplin’s Comedy Created Hitler and the Holocaust
Joy Behar was a purported “comedian,” but during Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s The View, she decried the idea of the court jesters speaking truth to power and warned that comedy was the source of dictators. She blamed former President Obama for endangering the world because he made fun of former President Trump at a dinner. She also, insanely, accused comedian Charlie Chaplin of creating…
Factcheck.org Editor Dubiously Claims They Target Both Sides Equally
Factcheck.org may be the least offensive of all the fact-checking websites, but that is a low bar as it still has issues with case selection, but managing editor Lori Robertson claimed on C-SPAN’s Sunday edition of Washington Journal that they do not.
Nets: ‘Historic’ Mayorkas Impeachment Has Border Deal ‘In Jeopardy’
After having been indifferent toward the House Republican push to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC turned up the kvetching on Monday night. That continued Tuesday on their flagship morning news shows with gripes about the “splitscreen” of a “historic” impeachment while the Senate’s “work[ing] with” him on the border and how, in turn, the…
