Capehart Mourns GOP Voters Being Fed a 'Anti-Biden Family Diet'
Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.
NPR’s New Idiocy: ‘How Racism Became Marketing Tool For Country Music'
National Public Radio’s pop-culture show “It’s Been a Minute” bravely tackled the made-up problem of racist country music, in the wake of the failed censorship of singer Jason Aldrean’s hit “Try That in a Small Town.” Tax-funded NPR blurbed the August 1 radio segment under this heading: “How racism became a marketing tool for country music.”
FLASHBACK: NewsBusters Exposed Fareed Zakaria’s Plagiarism Scandal
Twelve years ago, NewsBusters exposed an act of plagiarism by CNN host and Time columnist Fareed Zakaria. Here's a look back at how the story unfolded, and the reaction from Zakaria's fellow journalists.
NewsBusters Podcast: Dana Bash & John King Lament Iowa's Right-Wingers
CNN's John King talked to Republicans in Iowa and lamented they would break CNN's "fact check machine." Dana Bash added they held crazy conspiracy theories from conservative media.
The Barack Obama Biography Cover-Up
This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of former President Barack Obama in his early years titled “Rising Stars.” By all rights, the book should have been a massive hit upon its release in 2017. Instead, it underperformed. The revelations contained therein never hit the mainstream.
CNN Ignores Comer Evidence in Biden Case, Claims ‘No Direct Evidence’
CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s interview with Representative James Comer (R-KY) on Thursday evening, where the latter laid out the evidence against President Biden, garnered a fair bit of attention among the liberal media. Among the shows that misused clips from the interview and misconstrued the information Comer presented was Friday’s CNN This Morning, in which anchor Victor Blackwell accused…
'It's Over' Moans Deutsch on Fears Trump Will Shut Down Morning Joe
“It’s over” wailed MSNBC co-host Donny Deutsch on Friday’s Morning Joe as he declared the show would be finished if Donald Trump ended up winning the 2024 election. This breakdown occurred while Deutsch and host Joe Scarborough were decrying the assault on democracy liberals imagined Republicans were plotting.
Deutsch said that Trump, if he got into the White House again,…
CNN Laments Hunter Special Counsel Probe, ‘Issue’ for President Biden
Immediately following U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s announcement on Friday that he was appointing U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel to further investigate Hunter Biden, CNN’s panelists were beside themselves. But given a little bit of time, during CNN News Central’s 2 p.m. hour, the feelings didn’t wane as White House correspondent and President Biden’s apple…
Scarborough Claims Trump Responsible For Death Of Utah Man Shot By FBI
On Morning Joe, after Susan Glasser of The New Yorker says that "because of Trump,"we're hurdling toward an unprecedented crisis." Joe Scarborough says of respect of the FBI having shot to death a gun-wielding man who had made explicit assassination threats; "because of Donald Trump, you know, you could make the argument, he's dead. You can make the argument that he is dead because of Donald…
ABC Rides Struggle Bus After Garland Picks Special Counsel for Hunter
Friday afternoon began with a bang as Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland made a move to further protect President Biden, Hunter Biden, and his own tail by giving David Weiss the title of special counsel (while also keeping U.S. Attorney status) to further investigate Hunter. As CBS’s Catherine Herridge and others sniffed out, Garland’s decision after the collapse of the plea deal between…
2024 MRC Post-Election Caribbean Cruise Registration Now Open
You can now register for the Media Research Center's 2024 Post-Election Caribbean Cruise, scheduled for the week following the election -- November 10 to 17, 2024.
CNN Fears Garland Not Protecting Biden After Special Counsel Decision
CNN Inside Politics host Dana Bash and legal analyst Shan Wu reacted negatively to the news that Attorney General Merrick Garland as appointed Jack Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation by wondering why he still has a job and worrying it implies that Joe Biden is now a subject in Weiss’s investigation.
CNN, MSNBC Spent 36 Min. Dismissing Comer, Then Special Counsel Drops
As NewsBusters reported Thursday evening, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer appeared on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper and laid out the evidence he had so far that pointed to President Biden being involved in his family’s “sleazy…
CNN Touts ‘Moderating Inflation Picture’ that Excludes Energy and Food
On CNN This Morning’s Thursday program, anchor Victor Blackwell brought CNN business correspondent Rahel Solomon on the show to discuss the July inflation report. Amid much praise of how well the economy had purportedly been doing, Solomon emphasized the “moderating inflation picture” in comparison with past months, and the “core inflation” that removed some of the most relevant factors, such…
