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Disconnect: Hours After Journos Grill WH on Lab Leak, Nets Move on

February 28th, 2023 1:53 PM

With the sudden news Sunday night via The Wall Street Journal that the Biden Department of Energy believes COVID-19 came via a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Monday’s White House press briefing featured one hardball after another for both Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her main crutch John Kirby of the National Security Council. However, the “big three”…

SMEARS: NPR Happily Relays Student Comparing DeSantis to Fidel Castro

February 28th, 2023 12:30 PM

Leftists like the ones at National Public Radio think it's super-kooky to compare Barack Obama or Joe Biden to communists, but apparently it's just "news" to let leftists compare Ron DeSantis to Fidel Castro. On Thursday's bizarrely named All Things Considered, there was another completely one-sided story ripping DeSantis.

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Journalists vs. Journalism: Milbank Opposes Anyone Seeing 1/6 Footage

February 28th, 2023 11:01 AM

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank now wants to keep the public from seeing the January 6, 2021 Capitol security camera footage. "The truth is, this doesn’t belong in the public domain for anybody."

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'Stay in Your Lane!' Late Night Downplays DOE's Lab Leak Conclusion

February 28th, 2023 10:26 AM

Monday provided the late night comedians their first opportunity to react to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting that the Department of Energy has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a lab leak. Of those who covered the story, most dismissed it due to the DOE having “low confidence” in its conclusion.

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Morning Joe's Main Reason for Keeping Kamala on Ticket: Woman of Color

February 28th, 2023 10:01 AM

On Morning Joe, Jen Palmieri and Jonathan Lemire are adamant that Kamala Harris will remain on the '24 ticket as Joe Biden's running mate. But the only reason either could identify was that Harris is a black woman who appeals to black women, described as "the foundation of the Democratic party."

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Joy Reid: DeSantis More Authoritarian Than Trump, Hates Civil Rights

February 27th, 2023 11:08 PM

On MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid melted down once again over Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. Proving how terrified the left is of DeSantis becoming the Republican nominee. According to Reid, DeSantis is a “more functionally authoritarian version of Trump” and would seek a return to a “Pre-civil rights America.” 

NY Times Book Review Trashes New DeSantis Tome: 'Culture War Mad Libs'

February 27th, 2023 10:17 PM

The folks at The New York Times Book Review would like you to believe they are the nation's premier evaluators of books, fiction and nonfiction. But the evidence shows the Times evaluates political books with a reliably partisan rancor or rapture, depending on which party it is. That explains their hammering the new Ron DeSantis book as a dull episode of "Culture War Mad Libs…

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NBC Notes Conservative 'Frustration' in Wuhan Lab Leak Vindication

February 27th, 2023 8:57 PM

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report that the United States Energy Department under President Joe Biden concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. While this may be news to some Americans, conservatives have believed this what the most likely cause of the pandemic for the past three years. During this time they were…

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ABC Bemoans End of COVID Food Stamps Despite Cheering Biden Economy

February 27th, 2023 5:56 PM

As NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro diagnosed it on Monday’s podcast, ABC News this weekend decided to morph into the infamous Spiderman meme as it simultaneously continued to peddle the leftist spin that the economy’s healthy and roaring while also bemoaning the end of pandemic-era foods tamps.

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden WH Forces Press to Consider Lab Leak Theory

February 27th, 2023 5:01 PM

Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were back behind the microphones to kick off a new week, which began with a bombshell that the Biden Department of Energy believes it’s likely the COVID-19 pandemic was borne out of a lab leak. We also discussed the initial media coverage as well as one new tidbit about the Asbury revival, the latest silliness from The View, and ABC becoming a…

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Multimillionaire Hostin Claims She’s ‘Oppressed,’ Wants Books Censored

February 27th, 2023 4:02 PM

Apparently, you can be a multi-millionaire who brags about taking their family vacations to Martha's Vineyard and Sag Harbor, has a husband who is a renowned orthopedic surgeon in New York City, and be a co-host of the top-rated daytime talk show and still be “oppressed.” That’s what the racist co-host of The View, Sunny Hostin wanted viewers to believe during a conversation about the…

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PBS’s Anti-'Monopoly' Screed: ‘Greed’ Is How Capitalism Game Is Played

February 27th, 2023 3:33 PM

Not even widely beloved board games are immune from the left’s ruthless politicization of daily life. The newest edition of the Public Broadcasting System series American Experience delves into the history of the famous board game Monopoly in “Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History.” But not content to relay the sordid history of how Parker Brothers-anointed game “…

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Morning Joe Lies That Trump Team's to Blame for Ohio Train Derailment

February 27th, 2023 1:38 PM

On Morning Joe, Jen Psaki and Joe Scarborough lie that the East Palestine train derailment is the fault of the Trump administration.  Says Scarborough: "They deregulated it. This is on them." In fact, as the Biden appointee who heads the NTSB has said, "even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes.”

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Good vs. Evil: MRC’s Houck Joins FNC to Discuss Asbury, Behar Smear

February 27th, 2023 10:02 AM

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck made three appearances on the late Friday/early Saturday edition of the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night and the first couldn’t have been any more different than the others. In the first, he took on ugly smears last Sunday of Nikki Haley by New York Times opinion writer Wajahat Ali and ABC’s Joy Behar saying East Palestine, Ohio…