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NBC: Repeaters Not Reporters on Claudine Gay's New York Times Op-Ed

January 4th, 2024 5:41 PM

NBC’s Today took up the Claudine Gay story again on Thursday…not as reporters, but as repeaters. Reporter Erin McLaughlin was a stenographer to deposed power, quoting large passages of Gay’s op-ed in Thursday’s New York Times, titled “What Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me.” It’s the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy! It was a video press release. 

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Surprise: CBS’s Dokoupil Brings the Heat to Mayorkas on Border Crisis

January 4th, 2024 5:39 PM

On Thursday’s CBS Mornings, co-host Tony Dokoupil surprisingly brought the heat against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas amid the latest wave in the ongoing Biden border crisis, calling out Mayorkas’s anger-filled attacks against Republicans and reminding him that his boss — President Biden — campaigned on encouraging illegal immigration.

Simple Question: Are You a Maker or a Taker?

January 4th, 2024 5:10 PM

Politicians are often takers. They take our money (and freedom) in the name of achieving goals they rarely achieve. Elon Musk and Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be the best examples of maker and taker. They’re the stars of my video this week. Warren shouts, “Tax the rich!” She especially wants to tax Musk, the richest man in the world.

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Bash Questions Pelosi Why Biden Doesn't Get Credit For Economy

January 4th, 2024 2:17 PM

Dana Bash welcomed former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on to Thursday's edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to discuss a variety of topics including why voters do not give President Joe Biden credit for the economy, which Bash insisted “continues to do well.”

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Amanpour Lamely Responds To Lebanon FM Blaming ISIS Bombings On Israel

January 4th, 2024 12:36 PM

CNN/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour may claim to be truthful and not neutral, but when Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib joined her on her Wednesday show to blame Israel for the twin bombings in Iran that killed 84 people at the tomb of Qasem Soleimani, Amanpour simply noted that was “your opinion,” but since the program aired, ISIS has taken credit for the attacks, which was always…

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LOL! Tapper: Biden's Done So Much on the 'Conservative Side' on Border

January 4th, 2024 11:57 AM

On Wednesday’s The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper questioned Speaker Mike Johnson for eleven minutes on the border, persistently pressing him to compromise with Senate Democrats. Then he touted Biden's argument to an ex-Biden aide: "Boy, they've done more on the conservative side of things than any Democratic president in recent history."

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'The Cruelty Is The Point,' Velshi Smears GOP As Racist On The Border

January 4th, 2024 10:12 AM

Why do Republicans care about the border? It is a simple question with a simple answer: it is a mess. But for MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, who had guest hosting duties for Wednesday’s Alex Wagner Tonight, it is because “they want to let fewer brown people in” and any measures to address the issue prove that “the cruelty is the point.”

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CBS’s Margaret Brennan Presses Speaker Johnson On Immigration Judges

January 4th, 2024 12:37 AM

During an interview which will air in its entirety on CBS’s Face The Nation, CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent and Face The Nation moderator Margaret Brennan pressed Speaker Mike Johnson on the need to fund more immigration judges so as to address the backflow of asylum claims, as our southern border remains collapsed under the pressure of the ongoing migrant surge.

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ABC News Dutifully Carries Biden’s ‘Democracy’ Water

January 3rd, 2024 11:16 PM

ABC World News Tonight closed out a report on the ongoing Republican presidential primary by echoing Biden campaign talking points on upcoming campaign stops, which are aimed at highlighting “the stakes” of the 2024 election.

NewsBusters Podcast: New Year's TV Cuddles with Karine Jean-Pierre

January 3rd, 2024 10:40 PM

The White House sent out press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for a round of softball TV interviews on ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Sometimes, the host didn't even ask questions, just a sentence to move things along. How can anyone see this and think these networks do "news" instead of just offer publicity and spin? Curtis Houck explains the press-White House partnership.

AP's Take on Gay Ouster: Plagiarism 'Conservative Weapon' vs. Colleges

January 3rd, 2024 9:42 PM

The Associated Press story on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay was a pathetic woke whine from headline to text: “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president: “Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.” It got no better: "Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who helped orchestrate the effort against Gay, celebrated…

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Nets: ‘Conservative Attacks,’ Plagiarism ‘Claims’ Wounded Claudine Gay

January 3rd, 2024 5:02 PM

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC gave full stories Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to the long-delayed resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay following her infamous congressional testimony refusing to condemn rampant anti-Semitism on her campus and a growing list of examples of plagiarism.

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'Even If It Kills Someone,' The View Fearmongers About Pro-Lifers

January 3rd, 2024 3:23 PM

The Wednesday edition of ABC’s The View kicked off with a discussion of a recent federal court ruling that left a Texas pro-life law intact which did set well with the assembled quintet as the fearmongering went from accusations that women will die, that doctors will have to violate the Hippocratic Oath, that women will not be able to get treatment for ectopic pregnancies, to pro-…

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CNN Pesters Guests To Cut Israel Aid, Agree Gay Is a Victim of Racism

January 3rd, 2024 10:52 AM

CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip tried without success on Tuesday to get Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to agree with Sen. Bernie Sanders that the time has come to cut aid to Israel. Later in the show she also failed to get Manhattan Institute podcaster Coleman Hughes to agree that now former Harvard President Claudine Gay is a victim of racism or, at the very least, partisan politics…