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'Do You Have Any Tissues?' CNN Tears Up Over Walz's Son

August 22nd, 2024 12:14 PM

CNN This Morning repeatedly runs the clip from the DNC of Tim Walz's son Gus getting emotional and pointing to his father: "That's my dad." The panel collectively tears up, with Mark McKinnon saying "do you have any tissues?" 

ABC Gets Hots for ‘Coach Walz’ Giving ‘Pep Talk’ With ‘Queen’ Oprah

August 22nd, 2024 12:08 PM

On Thursday, the nervous sweat had yet to wear off on ABC’s Good Morning America from their weak knees and clammy palms from their Tuesday and Wednesday shows recapping the Democratic National Convention. This time, the played the role of Russia Today anchors promoting their party’s vice presidential candidate Tim Walz as a scandal-free “[s]ocial studies teacher, retired National…

PBS Harkens to 'Joyful Warrior' Harris Rekindling Excitement of Obama

August 22nd, 2024 9:51 AM

The “excitement” began right from the introduction of PBS’s coverage of Night Two of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago, which featured consecutive speeches by Michelle and Barack Obama. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett set up this T-ball of a question: “And former president Barack Obama speaks to the city that helped launch his political career.” Next, in a staged soundbite, someone off-…

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Meyers Fawns Over Obama's Trump Is 'Bad At Sex' DNC Speech

August 22nd, 2024 9:33 AM

NBC’s Seth Meyers reacted on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night to former President Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention by claiming that “the best Obama is stand-up Obama” as he reveled in Obama’s jab at Donald Trump’s crowd sizes, which was a euphemism for saying Trump is “bad at sex.”

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CNN DNC Panel Grits Their Teeth, Reluctantly Praises JD Vance

August 22nd, 2024 2:03 AM

Amidst of the “joyous” and spellbound coverage of the Democratic National Convention, there was time on CNN for a little GOP counterprogramming between vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance and Jake Tapper.

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An Aroused CBS News Pushes DNC Sycophancy Into Overdrive

August 22nd, 2024 12:50 AM

The Regime Media are having a grand old time at the Democratic National Convention, as they chronicle the coronation of their new figurehead with a verve and zeal more in place in Pyongyang than in Peoria. And the old Tiffany Network is no exception.

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Worst of the Night! ‘You Will Remember Where You Were’

August 22nd, 2024 12:27 AM

It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Democratic National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night.

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Van Jones: Dems Want Freedom of ‘Full Life’ - Abortions in Parking Lot

August 21st, 2024 11:40 PM

Well into Night Three of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, CNN liberal commentator Van Jones opined about how Democratic supposedly had a “deeper patriotism” than what was on display during the Republican National Convention last month. He also insisted that Democrats valued the “freedom of a full life.” Meanwhile, they had Planned Parenthood killing babies out in the parking…

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CNN’s Erin Burnett Floats the Idea Kamala SHOULD NOT Do Interviews

August 21st, 2024 9:44 PM

Vice President Kamala Harris had not done a press conference nor an interview since Democratic Party elites installed her as their presidential nominee following a coup against President Joe Biden. But, amid their coverage of Night Three of the Democratic National Convention on The Situation Room on Wednesday, CNN host Erin Burnett floated the idea that Harris should just ignore the…

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ABC Only Network to Report Massive Downward Jobs Revision

August 21st, 2024 9:39 PM

Between the ongoing sugar hangover from their onanistic coverage of Obama Night at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and the anticipation of speeches from President Bill Clinton and the Governor of Stolen Valor, the Regime Media evening newscasts mostly neglected to report on a piece of data that is potentially damaging to the electoral prospects of the Regime’s new figurehead- Vice…

PBS’s Woodruff Apologizes for Forwarding Bad Reporting on Trump Call

August 21st, 2024 8:30 PM

During Night One of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, veteran reporter Judy Woodruff falsely reported on a Donald Trump phone call to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that never happened, a call that would have made Trump appear to influence Israel’s war policy in order to help himself win election. Discussing how lame-duck President Joe Biden could still help VP Kamala…

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CBS: ‘Virtuoso’ Obamas Created ‘Phenomenal’, ‘Cultural Moment’ at DNC

August 21st, 2024 6:53 PM

With co-host, Democratic donor, and Obama family friend Gayle King helming CBS Mornings, Wednesday’s show was packed to the brim with adulation among King and a host of pals for the “virtuoso performance” by Barack and Michelle Obama addressing the Democratic National Convention the night prior in what they insisted will be remembered as not only an “energetic” and “phenomenal” “one-…

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Jake Tapper Rages at GOP Service Members Who Decry Walz’s Stolen Valor

August 21st, 2024 6:51 PM

CNN’s Jake Tapper – who never served, who was never a war reporter, who got rich off of books and movies he’s written about other peoples' war stories – had some pretty strong, negative thoughts about Republicans who answered the call to serve America, on Wednesday. Ahead of Night Three of the Democratic National Convention were valor thief Governor Tim Walz (MN) was set the accept the veep…

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NBC Enamored by ‘Barn-Burning’, ‘Powerful’ Obamas ‘Electrifying’ DNC

August 21st, 2024 3:50 PM

NBC’s Today gave ABC’s Good Morning America a run for its money Wednesday in the Obamagasam department as they too fell head over heels for Barack and Michelle Obama “energiz[ing]” and “light[ing] up the convention hall....with back-to-back barn-burning speeches” “sharing the powerful, contagious power of hope, as [Michelle] described it” doubling as a “takedown” of Donald…