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CNN Declares Roger Stone Controversy Is Worse Than Watergate
February 13th, 2020 9:24 AM
The controversy over a Justice Department sentence recommendation for Trump associate Roger Stone doesn't carry a lot of weight -- it's merely a recommendation that a judge can ignore. But CNN treats everything in the Trump orbit as a grave crisis. On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, the Stone sentencing scandal was somehow worse than Watergate!
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CNN Insists We Feel Bad for Andrew McCabe After Trump ‘Attacked’ Him
February 12th, 2020 7:33 PM
CNN continued to embody its Jeffrey Zucker-led moniker of being an ethics-free, fear-mongering, and liberal-heavy network as The Situation Room and host Wolf Blitzer again attempted to make viewers feel bad for CNN contributor Andrew McCabe, the former acting FBI director (who’s under criminal investigation). Why? Because hours earlier, McCabe was again “a prominent target of” President Trump’s “…
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Did ‘Marxist’ Matthews, Panel Just Give Away the Game on the Trial?
January 23rd, 2020 9:55 PM
From time to time, the liberal media will not only have their masks slip, but completely give away the store in terms of their partisan motivations and strategy. During Thursday’s dinner break in the Senate impeachment trial, MSNBC seemed to have done just that, conceding the trial to be the left’s latest attempt to remove President Trump out of office because they don’t like him.
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Chuck Todd Finds All the Disinformation In 'Ecosystem' on the Right
December 29th, 2019 2:52 PM
Chuck Todd ended 2019 with a special edition of Meet the Press on "Alternative Facts: Inside the Weaponization of Disinformation." It felt more like moving Reliable Sources to NBC. It had all the same pomposity about liberals possessing all the truth and conservatives being responsible for all the disinformation.
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No Surprise Here: MSNBC’s Jackson Offers Trump-Hating 2019 Recap
December 26th, 2019 2:34 PM
Joining the ubiquitous collage of year-in-reviews from news organizations (including this one), weekday morning MSNBC Live host and NBC chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson offered one Thursday morning about the Trump presidency. Not surprisingly for a liberal network, it took one jab after another at the President. In contrast, Thursday's CBS This Morning had a more straightforward…
Chuck Todd in Rolling Stone: Right ‘Cheering on Falsehoods for Sport'
December 26th, 2019 11:12 AM
Rolling Stone’s Peter Wade interviewed NBC political director and Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. Wade provided some publicity for a very special Meet the Press airing December 29, featuring big media bosses discussing the spread of disinformation: "Chuck Todd has had a front-row seat for the spread of disinformation while hosting NBC’s Meet the Press." Todd spouted: "So I do think that is…
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Redux: CNN Touts Possibility House Dems Could Impeach Trump AGAIN
December 23rd, 2019 9:26 PM
With the Democratic-led impeachment effort falling flat with voters (according to many polls), House Democrats and the liberal media seemed to be setting the groundwork for their next anti-Trump production: Impeachment 2: Electric Boogaloo. That’s right, during Monday’s Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN, fill-in host Kate Bolduan and her assorted liberal guests kicked around the idea of impeaching…
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The Ten Worst Chris Matthews Moments from 2019 You Didn’t Ask for
December 23rd, 2019 3:55 PM
Folks, you know the drill. With the end of each year, we look back at some of the nuttiest takes from some of the more infamous liberal media types in 2019. As my colleagues have and will continue to do through December 31, this piece will serve as the recap of the year that Chris Matthews had on MSNBC and his show Hardball.
Annihilation: NRO’s Cooke Takes Massive Blowtorch to the Farcical CNN
December 20th, 2019 5:06 PM
Following up on his February 11 tour de force on the national embarrassment that is the dishonest liberal media, National Review editor Charles C.W. Cooke concluded 2019 with another masterpiece for the magazine’s December 31 issue that NewsBusters readers will enjoy in “CNN Is Not a News Network.” Cooke eviscerated CNN as having become “a peculiar and unlovely hybrid of progressive propaganda…
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WashPost Columnist: FISA Scandal Gives Trump a 'Huge Talking Point'
December 20th, 2019 3:29 PM
Imagine that the biggest takeaway you got from the FBI FISA abuse scandal which was revealed last week by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz in his report was that this gives President Trump a "huge talking point." That was the observation of Washington Post contributing columnist and former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman.
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Network BLACKOUT: Top FISA Judge Accuses FBI Lawyer of Criminal Act
December 17th, 2019 8:49 PM
A complete and total blackout. That was how ABC, CBS, and NBC reacted on their Tuesday evening newscasts when the top Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge, Rosemary M. Collyer blasted the FBI for misleading the court when seeking surveillance warrants for a former Trump campaign staffer. The order was damning, accusing an FBI lawyer of a criminal act in intentionally lying to the…
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Nets Spike Comey Conceding FBI Deceived to Get Spy Warrants for Page
December 16th, 2019 11:17 PM
Fired FBI Director James Comey had his feet held to the fire on Fox News Sunday by anchor Chris Wallace, who grilled him on the FBI’s misconduct during the Russia probe. Despite Comey’s admission that the FBI mislead the FISA court in their applications to spy on a Trump campaign staffer, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) refused to cover Comey’s comments on their flagship…
Gullible Guardian Picks Up Fusion GPS Disinfo, Still Pushing Fake News
December 16th, 2019 12:05 AM
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the deluded duo of former journalists behind Fusion GPS, the Democratic opposition research group responsible for the discredited “dossier” from British spy Christopher Steele, has put out a calling card for business in Great Britain: “Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian ‘interference.’” Simpson and Fritsch, who helped snarl Donald Trump and his staff…
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Feet to the Fire: FNC's Wallace GRILLS Comey on FBI’s Gross Misconduct
December 15th, 2019 3:46 PM
In one of the only instances of former FBI Director James Comey being held to some form of account for his overseeing of the bureau’s misconduct during the Russia investigation, Fox News Channel anchor Chris Wallace grilled Comey on what he knew about lies his people were telling the FISA court, his false statements to the public, and whether or not he would resign if he was still the head of the…
