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Scarborough Skeptical About Colorado Judges Barring Trump From Ballot

December 20th, 2023 9:40 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough is surprisingly skeptical about the ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court barring Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot there on the grounds that he is barred from office under the 14th Amendment for having committed insurrection against the Constitution. Scarborough suggests that a finding of insurrection should be made by a jury convicting him of…

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Network Newscasts Hype Colorado Ruling Taking Trump Off Primary Ballot

December 20th, 2023 6:17 AM

The evening network newscasts delivered their breaking news reports on the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot with little substance, but plenty of emotional impact. 

 

Column: Labeling the Debate as 'Nonpartisans' Versus the 'Ultra-Right'

December 20th, 2023 5:39 AM

No one should trust our “mainstream media” in defining where the “center” of politics from their perch on the left-wing fringes. No one should trust them to define who is “nonpartisan” and who is “independent.” The way they classify political actors is subtle, and yet blatantly unfair and unbalanced.

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NBC’s Cheap Shot Against PragerU OMITS Public School Advocates

December 20th, 2023 1:45 AM

NBC News went in on PragerU, depicting the conservative educational nonprofit as scary disinformers threatening to upend our nation’s noble and besieged public education system. But in order to do so, NBC News engaged in active disinformation by depicting a family of entrenched public school advocates as a regular family.

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PBS: Pope Francis Has ‘Gained Adoration’ For His LGBTQ+ Inclusion

December 19th, 2023 4:54 PM

Slot him into the media’s “Strange New Respect for Religion” category: Pope Francis, beloved by liberals for his “progressive” tack toward the LGBTQ movement -- and hostility toward conservative Catholics. PBS Weekend was the latest to genuflect toward the “social reform” minded (i.e. liberal-pleasing) pontiff on Saturday.

65-Year-Old Madonna Still Simulating Oral Sex, Masturbation on Stage

December 19th, 2023 1:56 PM

Christmas might be a time to focus on images of "Madonna and Child," but Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is once again calling out the aging pop tart's tawdry old pranks on the stage of her latest "Celebration Tour." 

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Maddow Stitches Insane Argument Linking Trump & Synagogue Bomb Threats

December 19th, 2023 1:43 PM

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow might as well have been standing in front of a corkboard with newspaper clippings and red twine during Monday’s edition of her eponymous show. The ranting Maddow opened her once-a-week show with an over 25-minute screed where she stitched together a bizarre argument that tied the recent increase in anti-Semitism in the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan (not the pro-Hamas crowd),…

NYT 'Heir Apparent' Bennet Blasts Rag's Lefty 'Culture of Intolerance'

December 19th, 2023 1:24 PM

If someone who was once considered “heir apparent to run the Times” declares that his former paper has become an intolerant “illiberal” hellhole, you should listen. The latter part of former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet’s 17,000-word autopsy of his former employer sharpened the focus on the suffocating liberalism of the media world in general and the Times --and…

TIME Blames 'Right-Wing Media' for Spread of Senate Gay Sex Scandal

December 19th, 2023 11:12 AM

Time magazine is sending out not-so-subtle signals that it is primarily "right-wing" media outlets that are interested in the sordid Senate gay sex scandal.

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Scarborough Mocks Speaker Johnson's Non-Existent Southern Accent

December 19th, 2023 9:47 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Speaker Mike Johnson's southern accent, although in fact Johnson does not have a southern accent. Scarborough also mockingly calls Johnson, "Jesus's man in Congress." Mika Brzezinski gloats at the prospect that Rudy will not have "a penny left to his name" when the two plaintiffs in the defamation case are "done with him."

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Jen Psaki On MTP: ‘Please, Hunter Biden…Stop Talking In Public'

December 19th, 2023 7:00 AM

During a panel discussion regarding the impeachment inquiry against Hunter Biden, former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki let loose on what she (and probably her former comrades at the White House) think of Hunter’s Capitol press conference prior to blowing off his scheduled closed-door testimony: to wit, very little.

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NBC Oversells Pope Francis’ Decision To Bless Same-Sex Couples

December 19th, 2023 5:00 AM

The Peacock Network is doing quite the bit of peacocking over Pope Francis’ decision to bless same-sex couples. There is no change in doctrine, but NBC cheers the change in perception and speculates that it may lead to a change in doctrine down the road.

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ABC, CBS Newscasts Continue The Media’s MELTDOWN Over Trump Remarks

December 19th, 2023 2:30 AM

The Acela Media are still abuzz over a controversial segment of former President Donald Trump’s remarks in Durham, New Hampshire, and two of the major evening network newscasts continued to parrot Biden campaign talking points in a scramble to turn Trump into Literally Hitler.

NewsBusters Podcast: Capitol Porn, Trans Panic, and Trump Exhaustion

December 18th, 2023 10:52 PM

The networks and major papers avoided all talk of a Democrat Senate aide getting fired over making a gay porn video in a Senate hearing room. NBC included a "trans woman" in a focus group saying Republicans would execute him, and Nikki Haley told ABC's Jonathan Karl that the media's obsession over every Trump tidbit is "exhausting."