NYT Columnist Proposes Banning Elections to Save Democracy!

August 22nd, 2023 5:59 PM

A Monday guest essay in the New York Times proposed doing away with elections in order to save democracy. If that sounds absurd to you, then it won’t make any more sense to you after reading the column. Since the New York Times poses as the pseudo-intellectual mouthpiece of the Democrat Party’s thinking, we can now say Rush Limbaugh was right: the left wants to ban elections…

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Networks Refuse to Explain Non-Coverage of Grieving Gold Star Parents

August 22nd, 2023 4:26 PM

Given a week to reply, the presidents of ABC, NBC, and CBS have refused to respond to Media Research Center (MRC) Founder and President Brent Bozell’s letter asking why they didn’t cover the testimony of Gold Star parents who lost loved ones in President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

TV News Spends Days Pushing Misinfo on Tropical Storms Battering SoCal

August 22nd, 2023 2:42 PM

In the lead-up and aftermath of Tropical Storm Hilary thrashing Southern California, which led to landslides and extensive flooding, various TV news outlets across the political spectrum pushed false information about when the last time the region experienced a tropical storm. Looking to blame the rare event on climate change, many of their estimates on how “historic” the storm was ranged from…

PolitiFact Celebrates Birthday By Hyping Devotion To Left-Wing Causes

August 22nd, 2023 12:40 PM

PolitiFact celebrated its 16th birthday on Tuesday and while some may mark the occasion by remembering about that one time they defended President Obama by citing an arms control treaty that went defunct in 1936, author Katie Sanders celebrated by highlighting the website’s devotion to left-wing causes.

Politico Rushes to Help Unpopular Kamala Make a 'Second Impression'

August 22nd, 2023 12:17 PM

As Vice President Kamala Harris wrestles with abysmal polls -- the latest NBC News poll found 32 percent approval, 49 percent disapproval -- pro-Biden media outlets are energetically attempting to help her spin out of these dismal numbers

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CBS Declares Border Crisis ‘Out of Control,’ Hurting ‘Big Cities’ Now

August 22nd, 2023 10:41 AM

CBS Mornings was in a tizzy on Tuesday after just 500 illegal immigrants were dropped off in their beloved New York City. Co-host Gayle Kind was floored that the city was forced to open a new facility that could house a whopping 3,000 people. King and the network’s shock at the “humanitarian crisis” showed just how divorced from reality they were since those numbers were just a drop…

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Maddow Spreads Fake News About Arkansas History Standards

August 22nd, 2023 10:11 AM

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and NBC national reporter Bracey Harris teamed up on the former’s Monday show to discuss Arkansas’s announcement that AP African American Studies will not count towards graduation credits because it is still a pilot program. Extrapolating from that, the duo suggested the state will not teach about the Little Rock Nine, which is simply not true.

PBS Mourns Montana GOP Opposing 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Children

August 22nd, 2023 6:42 AM

In the latest example of a tax-funded media outlet blurring obvious biological lines for ideological purposes, PBS News Weekend’s Saturday edition celebrated a Montana teen, “assigned female at birth,” who started taking puberty blockers at 14 and “feels a connection to masculinity.” Host John Yang introduced the segment on Montana “banning certain medical treatments for minors with…

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Nets Skip Revelations Hunter's Lawyers Wanted Joe to Testify in Court

August 21st, 2023 11:05 PM

Over the weekend, Politico reported the existence of a 2022 letter from Hunter Biden's lawyers were "ready to put President Biden on the stand" as a "fact witness" for the defense of his son Hunter. This would, as Fox News Channel's Special Report anchor noted would have put President Biden "in a very tough position." Despite the news of this near-legal drama of the sitting President…

NewsBusters Podcast: ABC/CBS/NBC Can't Help Falling in Hate with Trump

August 21st, 2023 10:40 PM

Is the GOP campaign coverage in 2023 turning out a lot like 2015? Is Trump dominating the media? A new MRC evening-news study by Rich Noyes found that Trump's share of Republican media coverage is twice as big a share of the overall percentage as the last time the primary was open eight years ago.

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SHOCK: MSNBC Grills Liberal Never Trump Republican Asa Hutchinson

August 21st, 2023 6:04 PM

Even a milquetoast Republican who hates Donald Trump just as much as they do isn’t safe on MSNBC. At least that was the case on Monday afternoon when former Arkansas Republican governor Asa Hutchinson appeared on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House in what he probably thought was going to be a friendly, softball interview with host Nicolle Wallace and her assembled cast. Things turned south…

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Ankle Biter: CNN Cheers Trump Hurting Fox News By Skipping GOP Debate

August 21st, 2023 2:00 PM

Chronically the third-place cable news outlet, CNN was the little goblin biting at the ankles of Fox News, the cable news giant. So, of course, it brought CNN great joy to see that former President Trump had chosen to avoid taking part in the first Republican presidential debate, which was hosted by their rival. Senior media correspondent Oliver Darcy beamed on Monday as he boasted about Trump…

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ABC, CBS Tout Trump Upstaging GOP Debate With Tucker Carlson Interview

August 21st, 2023 10:48 AM

Showing disrespect for Republican primary voters, former President Trump announced Sunday night that he would not be attending the first Republican primary debate later in the week with reports suggesting he was planning to counterprogram the event with an interview with Tucker Carlson. ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings welcomed the internal party drama and hyped…

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TV’s Distorted GOP Primary Race: Three-Fourths Trump, 90% Negative

August 21st, 2023 8:01 AM

A new Media Research Center study finds the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 74% of their GOP campaign coverage on Donald Trump, with the remaining candidates forced to split the remaining airtime. Most TV coverage of Trump (90%) was negative, but the media also bashed his nearest challenger Ron DeSantis (78% negative).