The Media and The Hostages: In 1979 and Today

October 21st, 2023 4:00 PM

It was November 4, 1979. The President of the United States was Democrat Jimmy Carter. Carter was seen by many on the GOP side as a weak president, which was part of the reason Republican Ronald Reagan was making another try for the GOP nomination to face off with Carter in the soon-to-arrive 1980 presidential election.

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Maher Blasts New York Times's 'Terrible' Gaza Hospital Headline

October 21st, 2023 1:51 PM

HBO Real Time host Bill Maher condemned the New York Times on Friday for their “terrible” headline on the explosion at the Gaza hospital earlier in the week where they uncritically repeated Hamas’s line that the explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike. At the same time, Times columnist Bret Stephens criticized his employer and the media as a whole on the…

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Roy Wood Jr. Compares ‘Daily Show’ Gig to Being a Marine

October 21st, 2023 1:30 PM

Roy Wood, Jr. once worked as a radio journalist. Now, he twists the news to fit a progressive agenda.

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PBS Celebrates Jordan Failing To Become Speaker

October 21st, 2023 11:49 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks gathered for their regularly scheduled weekly news recap on PBS NewsHour on Friday by welcoming the failure of Rep. Jim Jordan to become Speaker of the House.

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CBS Promotes Both-Sideism On Israel's Creation

October 21st, 2023 10:17 AM

CBS ran a special report on the Israel-Hamas War on Friday night and had the common decency to acknowledge that history did not begin on October 7 or even in 1967. Unfortunately, however, they also decided to commit to both-sideism on the question of Israel’s creation, a decision that naturally led to one massive and glaring historical omission.

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FLASHBACK: Media Hit GOP Over Anti-Hillary Benghazi ‘Witch Hunt’

October 21st, 2023 8:54 AM

Eight years ago, when ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced tough questions over the Benghazi disaster, helpful news reporters lavished praise on her performance while condemning the partisanship of Republicans who dared question the Democratic presidential frontrunner.

PolitiFact Hits Conservative Group as 'Mostly False' For True Claim

October 21st, 2023 6:51 AM

When it comes to "fact checking" conservatives, PolitiFact seems at war with plain English. The conservative group Americans for Prosperity offered an ad on Facebook criticizing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) as he seeks re-election in a tough battle with Republican Gov. Jim Justice."The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes," the ad said. They ruled this is "Mostly False," when it's true…

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden's 'Blind Rage After 9/11' Talk vs. Reality

October 20th, 2023 10:40 PM

President Biden is warning that after 9/11, America responded with "blind rage." But a look at our archives shows moral equivalence and loathing of patriotism in our media came quickly after 9/11. Bill Maher, Geraldo Rivera, Phil Donahue...it was a lineup of fools. 

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After Crying ‘No Evidence,’ ABC/CBS/NBC Ignore Direct Payment to Biden

October 20th, 2023 8:01 PM

“No evidence” was the liberal media’s communal cry when House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and the other Republicans on the committee exposed the Biden family’s web of shell companies used to allegedly take in money for corrupt means. The media proclaimed it didn’t mean anything because it supposedly wasn’t linked to President Biden directly. But on Friday, after Comer…

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PBS Won’t Trust Israel on Hospital: It’s ‘Carried Out Strikes' Before

October 20th, 2023 6:28 PM

On Wednesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour concerning an errant Palestinian rocket that landed near a hospital in the Gaza Strip and killed many, show host Amna Nawaz offensively attempted to leave the question of responsibility open: Could the untrustworthy Israeli military still be blamed for the bombing? Nawaz talked to National Security Adviser Jon Finer and led off with the…

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After Hospital Explosion, Mitchell Labels The Squad 'Very Outspoken'

October 20th, 2023 2:45 PM

One day after arguing with GOP Rep. Mike Lawler that American media did not rush to repeat Hamas propaganda in the manner of Baghdad Bob on the Gaza hospital explosions, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell joined Friday’s Chris Jansing Reports to claim that The Squad has “been very outspoken” on the issue of Gaza in the aftermath of that event. That’s a funny way of saying "lied."

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Stelter: Lack of 'Common Sense' Led to 'Atrocious' Gaza Reporting

October 20th, 2023 1:34 PM

“There is no defense here.” Even CNN’s former media janitor Brian Stelter couldn’t find it in him to throw rhetorical sawdust on the liberal media’s regurgitation of Hamas propaganda and misreporting of the blast at a hospital in Gaza. In a Wednesday appearance on NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live, Stelter ripped into the media for their “atrocious” coverage of the blast and said they…

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ABC, NBC Peddle New Fake News from Hamas, Claims Israel Bombed Church

October 20th, 2023 12:34 PM

Despite slowing back away from accepting Hamas’s lies and propaganda that Israel fired a rocket into a hospital (which was done by Islamic Jihad via a misfired rocket) and killed hundreds (which, at best, is dubious), ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today decided Friday to again shack up with the terrorist group by falsely claiming Israel had bombed a hospital crucial to…

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CNN And MSNBC Absurdly Compare Israel to Russia

October 20th, 2023 10:58 AM

According to CNN, Rula Jebreal is a “journalist and foreign policy analyst,” but as a Friday appearance on CNN This Morning proved, such analysis should not be taken too seriously as she compared Israel to Russia.