STUDY: Stephen Colbert Turned 'The Late Show' Into 'The DNC Show'
Stephen Colbert was well into his farewell media tour when he told GQ, “I think I'm more conservative than people think.” However, according to an aggregation of previous NewsBusters studies and quote packages, that is not true. Since NewsBusters began counting jokes in January 2023, Colbert has told 87 percent of his political jokes about conservatives. Likewise, since September 2022…
MS NOW: 'I Don’t Know GOP Voters,' CNN Analyzes GOP With 0 Republicans
On Sunday night, MS NOW host Ayman Mohyeldin admitted "I can't really speak for Republican voters, I don't know them very well." On Monday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish offered a full segment on the state of the GOP after the defeat of incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy in the Louisiana primary — with zero Republicans on the panel.
MS NOW's Wild Spin: GOP Seeks 'Decimation of Black Political Power'
On Saturday's The Weekend, MS NOW displayed overt hypocrisy by having on House Minority Whip and Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA) to complain about Southern Republicans cutting Democrat-leaning seats when her own home state has shut out Republicans from all its congressional districts since the 1990s.
STUDY: SNL Jokes About Conservatives Jump To 91 Percent In Season 51
Season 51 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live recently came to an end, and it was considerably more liberal than Season 50. A new NewsBusters study has found that 91 percent of the season’s Weekend Update jokes were directed at conservatives, while 83 percent of its cold open political characters were conservatives or Republicans.
MS NOW Flips Out Over Redistricting by Louisiana GOP
On Wednesday's Chris Jansing Reports on MS NOW, fill-in host Erielle Reshef presided over segment to fret over moves by Louisiana Republicans to eliminate a racially gerrymandered Democrat-leaning congressional district even though doing so is in accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision.
So Sad! CNN's Cornish 'Has to Admit' GOP Feeling Good On Redistricting
On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR, kicked off a redistricting segment with a classic tell of her liberal bias: “And I have to admit, Republicans are feeling good now.” We feel your pain, Audie!
MS NOW Analyst: GOP Moves = 'American Version of Apartheid'
In a wildly inflammatory segment on Saturday's edition of The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW analyst Basil Smikle declared Republican-led redistricting and other moves tantamount to “an American version of apartheid.” Earlier in the segment, law professor James Sample admitted that the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Democrat mid-decade power grab was “probably right on the law…
CNN Lets Virginia Rep Lecture GOP on Jim Crow, Never Mind His Party
On Friday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish gave Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) free rein to lecture Republicans on the evils of partisan redistricting, complete with hyperbolic comparisons to Jim Crow poll taxes and literacy tests. It took real chutzpah for Walkinshaw to condemn Republican redistricting. Virginia, under newly elected Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, narrowly…
Lydic Compares Trump Supporters To Jared Fogle Fans
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Desi Lydic was dismayed on Thursday at recent polling that still showed high levels of support for President Trump among Republicans. Under the guise of self-deprecating humor, she compared those who still support Trump with a fictitious version of herself who set up a Jared Fogle babysitter fan club.
Nicolle Wallace: Trump Turned Rubio Into a 'Jackass, Loser of the Day'
In one universe — the one inhabited by Nicolle Wallace and her Deadline White House on MS NOW— Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s lengthy, high-energy White House press briefing was an embarrassing disaster. Within 90 minutes, President Trump supposedly turned him into a “liar or fool,” a “jackass,” and the “loser of the day.” In the universe the rest of America watched, Rubio delivered a…
NewsBusters Podcast: Singleton's Times 'Behind Enemy Lines' at CNN
CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton has daily or nightly adventures sparring with liberals on CNN (including the liberal hosts at times). We awarded him our MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines, and he came into our studio to discuss cable-pundit battles and the expectation that blacks must always stay "with their own kind" on the Left.
Abrams on MS NOW: 'Racist Fascist' Republicans Bringing Back Jim Crow
On Saturday’s The Weekend on MS NOW, Stacey Abrams was given the full VIP treatment. Co-host Eugene Daniels introduced her as “Madam Leader,” and the panel kept the unctuous title going throughout the segment — even though her time as minority leader in the Georgia House ended nine years ago. Abrams accused Republicans of trying to “legalize the restoration of Jim Crow,” compared the…
Joe Scarborough Calls for Post-Trump ‘Rubio Reset’
On Wednesday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough said: “Let us hope, post-Trump, there’s more of a Marco Rubio reset.” Joe volunteering for Marco ’28? Is this just analysis—or is Scarborough signaling the kind of Republican he’d be comfortable backing in a post-Trump era?
Scarborough Rips GOP on VA Redistricting—Skips Guv's ‘No Plans' Pledge
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocked Republican criticism of Virginia’s gerrymandering scheme and cleared a path for Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to defend it without facing a single hard question.
