DeSantis Call Disproves Media Myth He Hides From Tough Questions

May 25th, 2023 6:23 PM

On Wednesday, Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis made his long-awaited presidential campaign announcement during a Twitter space with Elon Musk followed by numerous appearances on cable news and radio. Later on Wednesday evening, DeSantis held a call with members of conservative media where they asked the governor questions about how he’ll beat Donald Trump and what he’ll do if he’s…

PBS Hits L.A. Dodgers for 'Sin' of Disinviting Anti-Catholic 'Nuns'

May 25th, 2023 6:22 PM

Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour devoted a full segment to the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team re-inviting the offensive Catholic-mocking drag troupe “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” (i.e. a troupe of men who dress as nuns, founded in San Francisco in 1979, their motto "Go forth and sin some more!”) to the team’s 10th annual “Pride Night” in…

Kentucky Columnist SMEARS Black Republican as Betrayal to His Race

May 25th, 2023 5:53 PM

Leaning into the stereotype of white liberals being the most obsessed with race, Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Joseph Gerth used his Thursday column to smear Kentucky Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron (R) as a betrayal to his black skin for incorrect views on education, health care, policing, and welfare to instead embody “the Black man who doesn’t…

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OBSESSED: CNN and MSNBC Mention Trump 399 Times in 10 Hours

May 25th, 2023 5:06 PM

In 2016, former CBS head honcho Les Moonves said Donald Trump’s presence in politics “may be bad for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”  Clearly Mooves was not the only network head to have made such an assessment. On Thursday, just on CNN and MSNBC, Trump was mentioned by name a whopping 399 times between 6:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET.

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CNN Mourns EPA Losing 5-4 At Supreme Court (It Was 9-0)

May 25th, 2023 4:05 PM

Senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic joined Kate Bolduan on Thursday’s CNN News Central to react to a 9-0 Supreme Court defeat for the Environmental Protection Agency. However, Biskupic told a different story and instead claimed the result was 5-4.

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Sununu Schools The View on Respecting Gun Rights and Safe States

May 25th, 2023 3:45 PM

During an appearance on ABC’s The View to seemingly test the waters for a possible presidential run in the near future, New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu faced biting questions from the liberal cast members as the pushed for more gun laws and gun bans. He schooled them on how to respect gun rights and have a safe state by focusing on the mental health crisis, instead of…

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Nets Celebrate ‘Chaotic,’ ‘Roundly Mocked’ DeSantis 2024 Launch

May 25th, 2023 3:35 PM

On Thursday morning, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were ebullient at the initial technical failures of Twitter Spaces for Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) 2024 presidential campaign announcement, seeking to kill DeSantis’s campaign and clear the GOP field. Over five different segments, they barely touched on what DeSantis said and instead reveled in the “mess” that was “…

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CNN Calls Debt Ceiling Talks a ‘Philosophical’ and ‘Irrational Fight’

May 25th, 2023 3:03 PM

Politicians continued to negotiate the debt ceiling on Wednesday and Thursday but still have not reached a consensus. CNN This Morning anchors and correspondents believed the discussion surrounding the debt ceiling was unnecessary and destabilized the world economy and called Republicans’ efforts to curb America’s spending an “irrational fight.”

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Mitchell, Socialist Rep. Want To Spend Even More Money Amid Debt Fight

May 25th, 2023 2:05 PM

Amid the fight and negotiations over the debt ceiling, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell teamed up with socialist Rep. Maxwell Frost to lament that Republicans are seeking to cut spending, specifically President Biden’s student loan forgiveness order.

PolitiFact Attacks DeSantis's Twitter Campaign Forum

May 25th, 2023 11:46 AM

How many PolitiFact fact-checkers does it take to fact-check a presidential announcement? Apparently four, as that is how many reporters it took to assess seven statements from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Wednesday campaign launch on Twitter Spaces.

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CNN Warns Of 'Stochastic Terrorism' Amid 'Totalitarian 'Target Boycott

May 25th, 2023 10:04 AM

The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin and Rolling Stone’s Jay Michaelson teamed up on Wednesday’s CNN Tonight to attack conservatives for wanting to boycott Target for certain Pride-themed merchandise aimed at children. In things never said about liberal boycotts, Farah Griffin labeled it “very totalitarian,” while Michaelson warned of “stochastic terrorism.”

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NBC Bemoans Target Removing Transgender, Pro-Satan Clothing

May 24th, 2023 11:39 PM

On Wednesday, NBC Nightly News dedicated an entire segment of their newscast to Target being forced to remove some of their clothing from their stores which visibly worship satan. In addition, Target announced they were reviewing some of their other clothing which caused a national uproar. Most notably, their "tuck friendly" bathing suits in which men are able to "tuck" their private…

NewsBusters Podcast: Raging at the Ron DeSantis Campaign Launch

May 24th, 2023 9:59 PM

Gov. Ron DeSantis filed his presidential campaign papers and made it extra-official in a Twitter Spaces interview with Twitter owner Elon Musk, followed by an interview on Fox News Tonight. The Elon-first strategy was trashed on liberal shows from Morning Joe to The View, and Nick Fondacaro has the ugly details on the latest ABC slime.

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CBS Rediscovers Hunter Biden Scandal With IRS Whistleblower Interview

May 24th, 2023 8:59 PM

CBS Evening News displayed a random act of journalism Wednesday night when correspondent Jim Axelrod sat down with the IRS whistleblower in the Hunter Biden tax fraud scandal for an exclusive interview. While CBS doesn't deserve full credit or accolades for sitting down with the whistleblower since they have all but ignored the story since April 19, they at least returned to the story…