MS NOW’s Phony Balance: Passes Off Mark McKinnon as GOP Strategist
Saturday's episode of The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW pretended to present a balanced discussion about the critical Texas Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton. Co-host Elise Jordan introduced one of the guests this way: “Joining us now is Mark McKinnon, former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain… Mark, you have a long career advising Republicans in Texas…
Jill Biden Interview Forces Top ABC, NBC Shows to Mention DNC Autopsy
After having been silent on the May 21 release of the Democratic National Committee’s comically bad autopsy on the 2024 election, CBS and NBC broke the broadcast network-wide blackout across their lead morning and evening newscasts with mentions on Wednesday and Thursday once former First Lady Jill Biden spoke out about Joe Biden’s infamous June 2024 debate performance.
CNN Selects Two Texas Republicans Who Say They Won’t Vote for Paxton
CNN This Morning began its coverage today of Ken Paxton’s decisive victory over John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff by airing interviews with exactly two Texas Republicans who swore they won’t vote for Paxton. One even declared she will “absolutely” vote for Democrat James Talarico in November.
‘CBS Mornings’ Becomes First Network Show to Air WILD Talarico Clips
In what took only a few seconds and thus proving how easy it should be to do their supposed jobs as journalists, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings became the first flagship morning or evening broadcast network newscast — meaning ABC, CBS, and NBC — to mention Texas Democrat senatorial candidate James Talarico’s radical views on gender and religion in a larger piece about Tuesday’s Texas…
Troublemaker? CNN's Audie Cornish Asks: 'Is John Cornyn a RINO?'
On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish asked — seemingly out of nowhere — during coverage of the Texas GOP Senate primary runoff: “Is John Cornyn a RINO?” Cornish did not mention or dispute Cornyn’s widely cited [99%+] voting alignment with President Trump on roll-call votes where Trump took a clear position.
Shocking: PBS Takes Up DNC 2024 Autopsy, But Only As a Helpful Chat
The Friday night Week In Politics segment of the PBS News Hour is almost always focused on blasting Trump. So it was shocking when they took up the DNC “autopsy” of their 2024 losses, allowing MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart to lecture Democrats to stop internal fighting…minutes after he mocked the Republican resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.”
MS NOW Panel Admits: Beating Ken Paxton in Texas An ‘Uphill Battle'
On Saturday’s edition of The Weekend on MS NOW, a panel discussion about the Texas Senate race offered some unusually candid pessimism about the Democrats' chances. The panel conceded that even with the more controversial Ken Paxton on the ballot, Democrats still face steep odds in Texas.
Lead Network Newscasts Ignore DNC’s DUMPSTER FIRE Autopsy on 2024
On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee’s 2024 autopsy finally reached the public view, and its error-filled, omission-laden contents were laid bare following a much-ballyhooed, will-they-or-won’t-they-release-it strategy by Chairman Ken Martin as the party struggles to achieve basic aims like fundraising. Unsurprisingly, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored it on their flagship…
Daniels: Dems Should Focus On Kitchen Table Issues Like Trans Kids
Even by the low standards of MS NOW, senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels’s Thursday appearance on Chris Jansing Reports was a stellar example of how not to do journalism. Daniels’s title suggests that the network views him as a reporter, but he decided to go full activist. According to him, Democrats need “to be more comfortable with power” and that the party needs to…
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…
Barron-Lopez Laments Harris Didn't Push Back Against Trump's 'Identity
On Thursday, the DNC released its 2024 autopsy and based on the reaction from Chairman Ken Martin, an autopsy for the autopsy might be warranted. Joining MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera reports, White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez reacted to the train wreck by lamenting her biggest takeaway was that the party was not strong enough in its response to President Trump’s “identity politics.”
MS NOW Promotes Platner and Mamdani as Future, Hits on Spencer Pratt
In the final minutes of Tuesday’s Katy Tur Reports, the MS NOW host discussed the Democrats’ 2024 election autopsy that had not been released as she and Democratic strategist Morris Katz minimized Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner’s controversies, including a Nazi tattoo, and then went after LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt’s style.
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.
Sharpton Voting Rights Vision: 'Protect Your Lifestyle' of Dependence
In Saturday’s episode of MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime, Rev. Al Sharpton offered one of the clearest — and most depressing — expressions of a certain strain of modern progressive thinking. In Sharpton's bleak vision, "your lifestyles, everything you want," will be doled out by the government and is danger of being taken away if the right people aren't elected. Not a word of…
