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Hopeless Hacks: ABC Cheers Biden ‘Trying to Take on Big Oil’

November 1st, 2022 6:36 PM

ABC’s Good Morning America did its best Tuesday to earn brownie points from its friends in the Biden White House as they touted their hapless attempt to trash oil companies and threaten them with new taxes if they don’t (artificially) lower prices and surrender their profit margins.

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Don Lemon: Kari Lake Pelosi Comments 'Vile, Vile'

November 1st, 2022 5:11 PM

In his first day co-hosting the new show, CNN This Morning, Don Lemon calls Kari Lake's comments on the attack on Paul Pelosi "vile, vile." Lake had observed that in DC, Nancy Pelosi has protection, but, "apparently her house doesn't have a lot of protection."  Commenting on John Fetterman's debate performance, Lemon said that his mother, who he called his "one-woman focus group," said she…

Gay AP Scribe Rants Right-Wing 'False Claims' Are Tainting Drag Queens

November 1st, 2022 4:54 PM

You know the media outlet is liberal when they go rushing to the defense of the "rich history" of drag queens. This Associated Press story was supportively tweeted out by the PBS NewsHour (and ran on its website): "Analysis: Political rhetoric, false claims obscure the history of drag performance…

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Cotton SCHOOLS CBS for Trying to Blame Conservatives for Pelosi Attack

November 1st, 2022 3:31 PM

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) finally put a stop on Tuesday to CBS Mornings’s attempts to blame conservatives and Republicans for the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi by a drug-addicted, mentally ill, and former Green Party-supporting nudist. During the six-plus-minute interview meant to promote his new book, Cotton calmly beat down the repeated aspersions from co-host Tony Dokoupil by citing…

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The View Blames GOP/Fox for Pelosi Attack, This Is 'On Your Hands'

November 1st, 2022 2:17 PM

It’s a fact that the ladies of ABC’s The View find political violence palatable when it’s Republicans who are the targets and their lives are in danger. But on Tuesday’s show, they were trying to tie Republicans and Fox News to an attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband Paul, claiming “this is on your hands,” falsely suggesting Republicans have not condemned the attack, and…

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MSNBC Asks 'What The Hell Is Wrong With' GOP, Alleges Violence Fetish

November 1st, 2022 1:56 PM

In the wake the assault on Paul Pelosi, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes took time on the latter’s Tuesday show to ask “What the hell is wrong with these people.” “These people” referring to Republicans to highlight their "fetishization of violence," which is MSNBC's way of saying support for the Second Amendment in their campaign ads.

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CBS, NBC Blame ‘Far-Right Extremism,’ Tea Party Wave for Pelosi Attack

November 1st, 2022 11:39 AM

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today followed up their attempts Monday to smear tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans as responsible for Friday’s brutal attack on Paul Pelosi by insisting the suspect was engaged in “far-right extremism” and tied to both the Tea Party movement and the 2010 GOP wave.

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CNN Claims Political Violence 'Is a Uniquely Right-Wing Problem'

November 1st, 2022 11:24 AM

In the aftermath of the assault on Paul Pelosi and against all evidence, the Monday edition of CNN Tonight confidently proclaimed that political violence is a “uniquely right-wing problem right now.” Steve Scalise, Lee Zeldin, and Brett Kavanaugh, and the victims of the riots of 2020 were all unavailable for comment.

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Noah, Abrams Lament 'Vile' Attacks While Spreading Conspiracy Theories

November 1st, 2022 10:15 AM

The last time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she compared herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians fighting for their freedom. Now with only eight days until Election Day, she returned to join the show’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” attacks against her while spreading election conspiracy theories and labeling Gov.…

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Don Gets Demoted to the Morning: The Worst of Lemon

November 1st, 2022 9:50 AM

Don Lemon will be starting his totally-not-a-demotion stint on CNN’s revamped morning show CNN This Morning this morning. So we at NewsBusters thought it would be nice to take a stroll down memory lane and look back at Lemon’s heinous remarks that the network would prefer were memory-holed. The following is an extended but by no means complete list of Lemon’s most obnoxious and…

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Study: The Dangerous Partisanship of TV’s Midterm Coverage

November 1st, 2022 7:55 AM

A new MRC study of midterm election coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts finds Republicans are being walloped with 87% negative coverage while the networks' agenda for these stories — GOP candidate controversies, abortion rights and the danger of “election deniers” — perfectly match the topmost items in Democrats’ campaign playbook.

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Reid Accuses GOP of Rigging Polls to Create Narrative of a Red Wave

October 31st, 2022 11:49 PM

On Monday night, MSNBC’s Joy Reid went full-blown conspiracy kook during her show The ReidOut. She was apparently wearing her tin foil hat so tight that it was cutting off her circulation because she claimed with a straight face that over half of the midterm election polls published over the last few weeks are Republican polls that are skewed to create a media narrative that a red…

NewsBusters Podcast: Leftist Twitter Meltdown, Google Suppresses GOP

October 31st, 2022 10:51 PM

Social-media networks are a hot topic going into the midterms. Leftists are losing their minds over Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. On MSNBC, Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer called Musk a "child," said he's "Immature," he has "daddy issues." She can't imagine why a single advertiser would stay.

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Nets Ignore News Alleged Pelosi Attacker Is An Illegal Immigrant

October 31st, 2022 9:22 PM

Despite spending parts of their respective reports lashing out a Republicans for the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul in the middle of the night on Friday, the big three evening news networks managed to ignore the fact that the alleged attacker was an illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa. Only Fox News’s Special Report mentioned this key detail.