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'It's Christmas!' Colbert Celebrates 'Most Beautiful' Mar-a-Lago Raid

August 10th, 2022 9:54 AM

CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert must live a rather dull life because how else does one come to the conclusion that the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is like Christmas? Not only did Colbert compare the raid to that holiday on Tuesday, he also declared the related news headline “the most beautiful sentence America has ever produced.”

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Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid!

August 9th, 2022 11:41 PM

On MSNBC's The 11th Hour, host Stephanie Ruhle spent the opening segment of her show on Tuesday evening with her assembled panel to discuss the fallout from the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. While the panel discussion itself could constitute a NewsBusters blog in and of itself, what Ruhle said at the end of the segment outshined…

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ABC Highlights Bipartisan Calls for Transparency in FBI Trump Raid

August 9th, 2022 9:11 PM

On Tuesday, the day after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago, ABC’s World News Tonight highlighted how not only have Trump’s allies come out in opposition to the FBI’s raid and its lack of transparency but some of Trump’s biggest critics have expressed their dissatisfaction.

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ABC, CBS Warn of No 'Transparency,' 'Overreach' in FBI’s Trump Raid

August 9th, 2022 3:12 PM

The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC dedicated extensive time Tuesday morning to the stunning news that former President Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida home of Mar-a-Lago was raided Monday night by the FBI, but the liberal networks were surprisingly not ready to celebrate with ABC and CBS noting there’s been very little “transparency from the Justice Department or the FBI” and, if they…

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Mitchell Blasts 'Outrageous' McCarthy Plan To Investigate Garland

August 9th, 2022 2:37 PM

On her Tuesday show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell blasted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s “outrageous” pledge to investigate Attorney General Merrick Garland if the GOP were to regain the House in November in the aftermath of the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s home.

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CORRUPT: Nets Ignore Report of FBI Meddling in Hunter Biden Probe

July 26th, 2022 10:43 AM

Late Monday, CBS’s Catherine Herridge, FoxNews.com’s Kelly Laco, and Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy reported that FBI whistleblowers had told Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) of alleged meddling in the Hunter Biden investigation, claiming evidence against Hunter was being intentionally discounted as disinformation. Of course, the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, NBC and their fellow liberals…

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Doocy, Wegmann Slam Jean-Pierre For Ignoring Hunter Biden Voicemail

July 6th, 2022 12:11 PM

Holding her first press briefing since June 22, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre showed Tuesday that she hadn’t improved since her cringeworthy opening months in the top post. As part of that, she flailed when grilled by Fox’s Peter Doocy and Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann over a 2018 voicemail from Hunter Biden’s laptop allegedly showing Joe Biden discussed business…

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CBS Skips Hunter’s Laptop From Hell in Interview With Ex-Wife

June 16th, 2022 2:39 PM

Two days after ABC’s Good Morning America and co-host Amy Robach aired what our Tim Graham called an interview with Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle featuring “preposterously vague” questions and “carefully curated” answers, Thursday’s CBS Mornings sunk lower in ignoring topics such as Hunter’s infamous laptop and his alleged child out of wedlock.

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Woodward, Bernstein Cite Themselves to be Optimistic About Democracy

June 15th, 2022 2:37 PM

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein joined CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday to reminiscence for four segments about the fall of Richard Nixon during Watergate and assuage Colbert’s fears about the future of democracy by citing their roles in that process.

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Curtains Down! Here’s Some of the Top Moments From The Psaki Show

May 13th, 2022 11:43 AM

Friday marked the end of an era with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki departing the Biden administration after over 200 editions of The Psaki Show, filled with humorous and tense moments. Simply put, Psaki was effective in having served as the chief spin officer and lying propagandist for President Biden amid a litany of crises as he himself has spent much of his presidency hiding from…

NewsBusters Podcast: Saying Bye to Psaki as Abortion Debate Heats Up

May 11th, 2022 7:11 PM

Filling in again for boss Tim Graham but reunited with my usual fill-in co-host Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro, we continued our focus Wednesday on the liberal media’s systemic aversion to facts when it comes to the abortion debate. After sharing our latest study on pro-abortion versus pro-life voices, I spent a few minutes reflecting on the end of an era with Jen Psaki’s departure from the…

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Heinrich Keeps Chipping Away at Psaki on Hunter Biden, Border Crisis

April 28th, 2022 11:35 AM

For the second day in a row on Wednesday, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich pressed lame duck White House press secretary Jen Psaki on both Hunter Biden’s life of corruption and the ongoing crisis at the border as the Biden administration continues to divert resources away from American citizens and toward illegal immigrants.

Joe Biden’s Problems Pile Up

April 24th, 2022 6:25 PM

Washington — April, the great poet T.S. Eliot has tried to tell us, is the cruelest month of the year, and yet we continue to go out without our raincoats. Many pedestrians even forget their windbreakers. What about the fate of the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, the Moskva? A stray cigarette was presumably tossed on the floor of one of the ship's secured ammunition rooms and kaboom, the…

NY Times Whine: What Would Disqualify a Candidate in a GOP Primary?

April 19th, 2022 10:45 AM

In “As G.O.P. Candidates Face Accusations, Rivals Tread Carefully,” New York Times political reporter Jonathan Weisman again singled out Republicans as solely to blame for some trait that is actually a bipartisan sin. The name “Bill Clinton” somehow goes unmentioned, a media-beloved Democratic president who notoriously escaped allegations of sexual harassment and rape thanks…