Maher, DeSantis Mock New York Times, Battle on Election Laws, Abortion
With the writers’ strike over, the late night comedy shows are back and first out of the gate on Friday was HBO Real Time host Bill Maher, who chose Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis to be his first guest. The interview was typical Maher as the two teamed up to mock the New York Times, but Maher’s liberal atheism still came through as the two also…
FLASHBACK: The Media’s Long History of One-Sided Shutdown Coverage
Journalists’ shutdown playbook is straightforward: single out Republicans for blame; highlight “victims” of the shutdown to build public anger; and then claim Democrats won because they were the “grown-up” party.
Couric: Obama Owes Me a 'Big-Ass Bouquet' for Palin Attack Interview
Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reported on Friday that former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric boasted about how she helped Barack Obama get elected in 2008 with her infamous attack interview on Republican Gov. Sarah Palin. "You're welcome, by the way," Couric told the audience, sparking laughter and applause. "I always thought that Barack Obama should have sent me a big…
NewsBusters Podcast: The Fox Biz Debate That Oddly Slanted to the Left
The second GOP presidential debate on Fox Business took an odd turn to the Left in the questions of Univision anchor Ilia Calderon, who pressed the candidates like an MSNBC host on guns, fentanyl, '"dreamers," LGBTQ issues, and Florida's black history curriculum.
PBS Lets Green Party Nut Bash Capitalism, Bolsters Biden With Krugman
It was “Green Day” on Amanpour & Co. Wednesday, with host Christiane Amanpour in London interviewing Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski and Obama administration economic advisor Betsey Stevenson on the same show. The result was 20 minutes of environmental rabble-rousing against the Conservative Party in the UK, followed by kissing up to the Biden administration in the US over…
Trump Takes the Wheel? PBS Promotes Cassidy Hutchinson, No Fact Checks
Even on a newscast preceding that night’s GOP presidential debate, the tax-supported PBS NewsHour kept its focus on former president Donald Trump, inviting former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on to promote her book, Enough, about her traumatic experiences in the Trump White House and how dangerous it would be for Trump to win a second term of office. You may remember…
CNN vs. CNN: Smerconish Informs on 'Porous' Border as Acosta Misleads
Over the weekend, there was a stark contrast in the way CNN weekend anchor Jim Acosta slanted his coverage of illegal immigration to the left while his more independent-minded colleague, Michael Smerconish, used his Saturday morning show to actually inform CNN viewers on the issue in a way that one normally mostly sees on Fox.
Nets Circle the Wagons Around Bidens After First Impeachment Hearing
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held the first hearing Thursday in the chamber’s impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden into the litany of disturbing facts showing a life of corruption and ruin inside his family led by his son Hunter and brother Jim. Naturally, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship Thursday night and Friday morning…
Media Choir Raise Voices to Falsely Glorify Feinstein a ‘Centrist’
California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein was a liberal stalwart who took up extreme positions against Second Amendment rights and harmful environmental policies. But when it was announced on Friday that she had passed away overnight, the liberal media choir joined their voices to gaslight Americans and falsely proclaim her a “centrist Democrat” who simply leaned towards “liberal…
WashPost's Bump Accuses GOP of Turning 'CCP' Into a 'Pejorative'
Washington Post national columnist and hamburger height fact-checker Philip Bump released a column on Thursday discussing what he considers to be the latest scandal plaguing the Republican Party: the use of the terms “Chinese Communist Party” and “CCP.”
Biden’s a Loser — But Democrats Can’t Ditch Him
If Joe Biden is their nominee, Democrats will lose the White House next year. That conclusion gets harder to deny with each passing week. But what can Democrats do about it? The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll has Biden trailing Donald Trump by nine points, 42 to 51%. Progressive pundits have reacted with denial, anger and bargaining.
ABC, CBS, NBC Uniformly TILT Against First House Impeachment Hearing
ABC, CBS, and NBC failed to offer live wall-to-wall coverage of the House Oversight Committee launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. They all honored Speaker Nancy Pelosi with live wall-to-wall coverage of every January 6 Committee hearing, including two in prime time. On Thursday night, these networks all presented this first hearing in the most Democrat Party-pleasing terms (…
Avlon Praises Biden's 'Bipartisanship' Amid 'Farcical Impeachment
CNN senior political analyst John Avlon gave an unofficial donate to Biden 2024 on Friday’s CNN This Morning as he hailed his Thursday speech “about threats to democracy” and “bipartisanship” while Republicans launch their “farcical impeachment inquiry.”
Reporters Caught Using Identical Talking Points to Dems on Impeachment
With impeachment in the political headlines once more, Democrats and their media allies have formed a tight phalanx around President Biden, armed with a handful of fresh talking points. And unsurprisingly, it’s nearly impossible to distinguish the journalists from the politicians.
