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Filling in for moderator Whoopi Goldberg because she had COVID again, ABC co-host Joy Behar was close to flying the American flag upside down on Thursday’s edition of The View. She was distressed by the growing list of Democrats speaking out against President Joe Biden by revealing their experiences with his mental decline and calling for him to exit the race.

The emotions of CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued to fluctuate wildly as he went from panicked on Monday to hopeful on Tuesday to solemnly imploring people to vote against Donald Trump and his “Christo-fascist future” on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show. Also on Wednesday, Colbert welcomed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to the show to accuse Trump of wanting to have her assassinated…

On Tuesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour, White House reporter Lisa Desjardins sounded unconvinced that President Biden had settled the waters among his Democratic caucus after his awful debate performance, pessimism that stood in contrast to the national news networks, whose White House reporters have hastily leapt back on board the Biden train after a day or so of relative calm on…

MSNBC’s Joy Reid may be a flaming progressive who says outrageous things on a nightly basis, but she is also simply not that smart. On Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut, she attacked the New York Times for demanding that Democrats urge President Joe Biden to step aside because the Times never called on former President Donald Trump to resign. The problem for Reid: The…

In addition to circling the wagons for President Biden earlier in the week, ABC’s The View spent part of Wednesday’s episode defending Vice President Kamala Harris from former President Trump’s jokes about her inappropriate laughing fits. According to co-host Joy Behar, such criticism was indicative of a man uncomfortable with Harris’s comedic mastery and that he was bad in bed.

After freaking out on Monday over President Joe Biden’s debate performance, CBS’s Stephen Colbert was more optimistic on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show. Colbert urged viewers to look across the pond to France because “if the French can unite to defeat fascisms, Americans can do it, too.” It was not only a vicious attack on Republicans, it was a wild distortion of what happened in…

The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) delivered a fresh dose of whiplash during their Tuesday morning shows. Just one day after highlighting the quickly waning support for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign within his own Democratic Party,…

The cast of ABC’s The View circled the wagons on Tuesday to express how “pissed off” they are that some people are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside while downplaying his lousy debate performance as the result of what happens when you’re 81 years old or when you’re “trying so hard to tell the truth.” Even co-hosts who were more open to discussing Biden’s issues were quick…

After a couple of weeks of vacation, the full slate of late night comedy shows returned on Monday to reveal their reactions to President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance and subsequent interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. While nobody called for Biden to step aside, there were definitely calls for him to step up his game because democracy is allegedly at stake.

During their Monday morning newscasts, the White House reporters on ABC, CBS, and NBC struggled with the internal Democrat debate over Biden. All three networks described President Biden as “defiant” but touted him for campaigning and traveling to other states.

After a weeklong hiatus The View is back, and has plenty to say to make up for lost time. Following a Democratic wave of panic which finally acknowledged the mental and physical state of President Biden, all five co-hosts took to the air to lay out their liberal opinions. They landed on both sides of the internal Democrat squabble.

Statistics-based journalist-pollster Nate Silver, who previously worked at the New York Times and ABC News, had some internal insight into the media bias debate, saying out loud what we at NewsBusters know well, in his Monday post “Blaming the media is what got Democrats into this mess.” (The mess being President Biden’s disastrous debate performance and the feigned shock from the…

The New York Times issued a 2,200-word Sunday front-page encomium by White House correspondent Erica Green, in support of struggling President Biden’s suddenly significant second-in-command: “Kamala Harris Has Stepped Up. If Biden Falters, Can She Lead?”  Green tried to make the case that Harris, a gaffe-machine and figure of mockery on the right, is ready to take over the leadership…

To close out her interview of Senator JD Vance (R-OH), NBC’s Kristen Welker trotted out the tired election acceptance question asked of every Republican appearing on an Acela Media Sunday talk show, and especially of Trump vice presidential shortlisters.