Mike Pompeo vs. the Libertarians

February 9th, 2023 6:43 PM

Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will probably run for president. People call him a “staunch conservative.” In our extended interview, I give him a hard time about that. “Conservative” once meant promoting limited government. But lately Republicans push new regulations and drive up America’s debt by spending more.

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SOTU Round-Up: ‘Mr. Smooth’ Biden Beats Back ‘Bitter and Rude’ GOP

February 9th, 2023 5:30 PM

The following are just some of the most absurd (post-SOTU) outbursts from liberal journos, as caught by the NewsBusters staff.

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Handler Cites Pope's Sex Life, Environment To Defend Not Having Kids

February 9th, 2023 3:02 PM

Chelsea Handler’s attempt to win battle to be the full time host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is going about as well as anyone could expect. On Wednesday’s episode, she confused shock value for comedy as she mused about the Pope’s sex life, labeled Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and Sen. J.D. Vance “boner killers,” and cited carbon footprints to defend her decision not to have…

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Disney’s Attack Dogs? The View Unloads INSANE Lies, Hate at DeSantis

February 9th, 2023 2:21 PM

With Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis seemingly eyeing a run for president in 2024 and his continued pressure on left-leaning Disney as they go increasingly woke, the multinational national corporation seems to have unleashed the hounds to smear him with lies on a national level. Enter the cackling coven of ABC’s The View (owned by Disney), who on Thursday unloaded truly…

NPR Isn't 'Untangling Disinformation' on Hunter Biden Scandals

February 9th, 2023 1:18 PM

After the first House hearing on Hunter Biden and the Twitter Files, NPR didn’t talk about it on its national network of radio stations. Instead, there was a dismissive hissing on their website under the heading “UNTANGLING DISINFORMATION.”

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ABC, NBC Stay Quiet on Hunter Biden Laptop Hearing, CBS Breaks Ice

February 9th, 2023 12:50 PM

After the broadcast networks ignored the House Oversight Committee hearing into Twitter’s censorship of the New York Post’s reporting of Hunter Biden’s laptop on their Wednesday night newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today followed suit on Thursday. In contrast, CBS Mornings gave viewers two minutes and 35 seconds on the hearing that, while it…

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CNN: Twitter Probe 'A Conspiracy of Dunces,' Twitter Favored GOP

February 9th, 2023 11:18 AM

Podcaster and NYU marketing Professor Scott Galloway joined Thursday’s CNN This Morning where he launched into a wild denunciation of the GOP-led hearing on Twitter, the FBI, and the Hunter Biden laptop story. Galloway labeled Republicans as “a conspiracy of dunces” and “idiots” while laughably claiming the fact that Twitter’s previous leadership was full of progressives is evidence…

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Morning Joe Trashes GOP Over Feloniously 'Dumb' Twitter Bias Hearing

February 9th, 2023 10:45 AM

Morning Joe trashes Republicans over their handling of the House Oversight committee's hearing on Twitter's pro-Democrat, anti-Republican bias. The panel claims no one cares about Hunter Biden's laptop, and Joe Scarborough says that if being "dumb" is a felony, many Republicans need "a good lawyer."

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Meyers Defends Biden's SOTU Social Security Falsehood About GOP

February 9th, 2023 9:47 AM

Despite all the proclamations from Republican leaders saying cuts to Social Security and Medicare are not on the table, NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers reacted to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Wednesday by defending him against allegations he lied about GOP intentions to do just that.

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PBS Gives Softball Interview to Biden, Stumped on Low Poll Numbers

February 8th, 2023 11:57 PM

On Wednesday night’s PBS NewsHour, Judy Woodruff followed Biden out on his post-State of the Union road trip to give him a soft-ball interview. During the friendly sit-down, Woodruff couldn’t understand “the disconnect” between what Woodruff described as Biden’s good economy and the polling that shows overwhelmingly that Americans are pessimistic and struggling financially.

NewsBusters Podcast: Boosting Biden's Trash-Talking State of the Union

February 8th, 2023 10:54 PM

Network anchors claimed President Biden's State of the Union speech was an appeal to unity, which may have been true in small snippets. But as a whole, Biden was a trash-talking partisan, uncorking lies about Republicans phasing out Social Security and so on. Curtis Houck joins the show to explore just how boosterish the networks stars were in the speech's aftermath.

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Nets Ignore Hearing on Twitter's Hunter Biden Laptop Story Censorship

February 8th, 2023 10:40 PM

On Wednesday the House Oversight Committee grilled former Twitter executives over their censorship and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, with two of the executives even admitting it was a mistake to have suppressed the story and suspended the New York Post for publishing and posting it on their platform. Predictably the three networks ignored the story.

At SOTU, PBS Argues for Biden’s ‘Objectively Historic Achievements’

February 8th, 2023 10:17 PM

PBS coverage of President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening begin with special pleading for the president on the NewsHour, with co-host Amna Nawaz querying Sen. John Thune (R-SD). After Thune called for more bipartisanship from Biden, Nawaz insisted that President Joe “Jim Crow 2.0” Biden had in fact been more than bipartisan. Before Biden’s long State of the Union…

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Nets Tout Biden's Fiery SOTU, Scold GOP's 'Anger-Fueled Heckling'

February 8th, 2023 8:54 PM

The evening network broadcasts drooled all over themselves getting weak-kneed over President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address on Wednesday evening, describing it as “fiery” and touting Biden getting out on the road to lobby for what’s left of his agenda. Simultaneously the three liberal networks scolded Congressional Republicans for what they dishonestly described as “anger-fueled…