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ABC, NBC Skip Gold Star Families at RNC; Nets Give Vance Strong Marks

July 18th, 2024 2:45 PM

With President Biden contracting Covid Wednesday and showing even more physical impairment in his grim gait on and off Air Force One, the Republican National Convention was knocked off the pole position Thursday morning for the flagship major news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC. But when they did get there, they receive only mixed grades as ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today…

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MSNBC Disrespects Gold Star Families, Frets Over Kamala Harris Instead

July 18th, 2024 12:06 AM

There is a jarring disconnect between the elite media, especially leftwing Acela Media, and the rest of America. And it is not often that we get such jarring examples of that disconnect as MSNBC’s treatment of the portion of the Republican National Convention devoted to honoring the memories of our brave service members killed during the ISIS-K attack on the Hamid Karzai International Airport…

NewsBusters Podcast: CNN's Profane Malice Erupts on Jake Tapper's Show

June 24th, 2024 10:58 PM

Nick Fondacaro broke a story on how debate moderate Jake Tapper's show aired a nasty hit piece that spurred a defamation lawsuit from a man working to evacuate people out of Afghanistan. Internal messages show profane malice from reporter Alex Marquardt and others. It's no one's idea of idealistic investigative journalism. It sounds like Gotcha journalism.

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MSNBC Swagger: Biden Plays Chess, Trump Plays 'Hungry Hungry Hippos'

June 15th, 2024 11:12 PM

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-anchor claims that Biden plays chess, whereas Trump, at best, plays Hungry Hippos. Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend chips in to suggest Uno might be a better fit for Trump.  Sanders-Townsend claims that Biden's performance at the G7 summit refuted any notion that he might be "a little too old" for the job, thus ignoring a video of a doddering Biden wandering off…

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Pants on Fire: Psaki to Alter Book for Lying About Biden, Afghanistan

May 13th, 2024 11:58 AM

Axios White House reporter Alex Thompson flagged on Monday former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s new memoir Say More will have an altered passage in future printings following the revelation that it falsely claimed President Biden never looked at his watch during the August 29, 2021 dignified transfer of remains for the 13 Americans murdered in Kabul during the U.S.’s disastrous…

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PBS Touts Film About Being a Trans Man Embedded with the Taliban

April 11th, 2024 8:09 AM

PBS NewsHour may have some sort of quota to meet for the number of supportive stories they must file for the transgender lobby. On April 4, they touted a new documentary available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV under the headline "Documentary captures journalist’s gender transition while embedded with Taliban."

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ABC’s Jon Karl Tries To Veep-Shame Marco Rubio, Gets SCHOOLED

March 24th, 2024 7:55 PM

While behind the moderator desk at ABC This Week, noted January 6th hysteric Jon Karl tried to “gotcha” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on several fronts during a broad-ranging interview, attempting to embarrass him over his prior primary against Donald Trump as Rubio is now under consideration, per reports, to be Trump’s 2024 running mate. Instead, Karl got shut down at each turn.

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Lead CBS, NBC Shows Skip Hearing on Biden’s Deadly Afghanistan Exit

March 20th, 2024 3:04 PM

On Tuesday afternoon, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing with retired Generals Mark Milley and Frank McKenzie on the Biden administration’s deadly and disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, which included the murders of 13 American soldiers by Islamic terrorists at the Kabul airport. In a cowardly move, CBS and NBC saw no reason to tell viewers about this push for…

Editor’s Pick: Foldi Interviews Gold Star Father Arrested During SOTU

March 11th, 2024 10:45 AM

Our great friend Matthew Foldi had a story from Sunday night at The Spectator that served as Steve Nikoui’s first interview since the Capitol Police arrested him on Thursday night for shouting at President Biden during the State of the Union about Abbey Gate and his late son, Karrem Nikoui. Karrem Nikoui, a United States Marine, was one of 13 Americans murdered by Islamic terrorists…

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Daily Show Faux-Debates 'America's Greatest War Criminals'

December 1st, 2023 9:55 AM

Comedy Central’s tempt host of The Daily Show, Michelle Wolf welcomed correspondents Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta for a “debate” on who is “America’s greatest war criminal” after the death of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. As Chieng and Kosta fake fought over Kissinger and former Vice President Dick Cheney, Wolf offered up President Andrew Jackson.

NewsBusters Podcast: Gold Star Families Angry at Biden Deemed Not News

August 30th, 2023 10:54 PM

Gold Star families who lost loved ones in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan are not happy with President Biden, or the State Department, or the Pentagon. This might explain why the networks have tried to avoid these people, since they seem like guardians of whatever popularity Biden still has.

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After MRC Pressure, NBC Covers Gold Star Hearing, ABC & CBS Ignore

August 29th, 2023 8:16 PM

Over two weeks since the three networks refused to cover the congressional testimony from numerous Gold Star families, and one week since NewsBusters’s parent company Media Research Center demanded an answer for why they refused to cover the emotional pleas from the families, one of the networks (NBC) decided to report on another hearing held today. 

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Networks Refuse to Explain Non-Coverage of Grieving Gold Star Parents

August 22nd, 2023 4:26 PM

Given a week to reply, the presidents of ABC, NBC, and CBS have refused to respond to Media Research Center (MRC) Founder and President Brent Bozell’s letter asking why they didn’t cover the testimony of Gold Star parents who lost loved ones in President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Shameless Media Partisans Who Praised Biden’s Afghan Debacle

August 19th, 2023 8:30 AM

Two years ago this week, even liberal journalists were appalled by the disastrous incompetence of the Biden administration regarding the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yet quickly the most shameless partisan journalists identified themselves by deciding to praise, rather than criticize, the disaster that all could see with their own eyes.