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NBC ‘Historian’ Suggests Police Wanted Violence, Trump Will Use Nukes
Just past midnight Thursday after one of the more surreal days in U.S. history, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss all but donned a tinfoil hat on MSNBC to offer some utterly unhinged conspiracy theories, all cheered by 11th Hour host Lyin’ Brian Williams. Over the course of 11 and a half minutes, Beschloss suggested U.S. Capitol Police wanted and ensured violence took…

WORST OF 2020: The Media Plays Pandemic Politics
All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2020. Yesterday, we presented the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; today’s installment showcases some of the year’s most horrendous examples of the media exploiting the pandemic to score political points against Republicans.

WORST OF 2020: Media Gush Over Their Liberal Heroes
As 2020 comes to a close, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. In today’s installment, we present the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over their liberal heroes and left-wing icons.

Brian Williams Mocks Mike Pence Over Getting Vaccine, Space Force
On Friday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Brian Williams concluded his show by not only mocking Vice President Mike Pence over his recent announcements about the new Space Force branch of the military, but he even made a crack about the Vice President receiving his vaccine publicly in front of cameras even though vaccination advocates have asked public leaders to do.

EYE ROLL: Lyin' Brian Celebrates Anniversary of the Lincoln Project
On Thursday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Brian Williams welcomed disgruntled ex-Republican Rick Wilson -- who finally admitted in the same segment that he's no longer a Republican -- as the MSNBC host marked the one-year anniversary of Wilson and other disaffected and former Republicans forming the Lincoln Project to attack the GOP during the presidential election.

Column: Media Make Mountain of 'Dr. Jill' Molehill
The pro-Biden media is obsessing over the tiniest kerfuffle imaginable: Jill Biden wanting to be called "Dr. Jill Biden," based on her Doctor of Education degree (not an M.D.). The elites exploded in fury when The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Joseph Epstein, who professed this honorific “sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.” These people aren't…

Brian Williams Slimes Pro-Mask Fox Hosts, Blames for COVID Deaths
On Tuesday's The 11th Hour show, MSNBC host Brian Williams falsely labeled Fox News hosts like Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt as "deniers" who are only just admitting that wearing masks saves lives, even though both hosts have urged their viewers to wear masks many times since last spring.

Brian Williams Gives Free Air Time to Ad Attacking GOP 'Traitors'
On Thursday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Brian Williams showed his contempt for Republicans by giving free air time to an ad by the Lincoln Project attacking several Republicans who are expected to run for President in 2024. Introducing the ad, Williams declared that those Republicans had "sold their souls" in supporting President Donald Trump, and the ad derided them as "traitors" to…

PANIC! Williams Frets: 'Consequences' of Young Conservative Judges
On Wednesday's The 11th Hour show, MSNBC host Brian Williams put a negative spin on the recent appointment of five young conservative justices to the federal courts, making "elections have consequences" the theme of his closing commentary.

Brian Williams Frets Trump Voters are 'Tyranny-Curious'
On Friday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Brian Williams devoted a segment to comparing President Donald Trump to authoritarians, and suggested that millions of Americans who voted for him are "tyranny-curious." He also picked up on a tweet by NBC News historian Michael Beschloss to muse over what it might be like if President Trump were forcibly removed from the White House by the…

THRILLS and TINGLES: Media’s Long History of Adoring Barack Obama
Before they despised Donald Trump, the liberal media adored Barack Obama. From the moment then-state senator Barack Obama showed up on the national stage to address the Democratic convention in 2004, the news media were in love. When Obama ran for President four years later, news reporters led the cheers. And as President, reporters touted his “prodigious talents,” his “amazing legislative…

ZERO Ethics: MSNBC Contributor Has Been Writing Biden’s Speeches
In a revelation announced Monday by The New York Times, former Newsweek editor, liberal historian, and MSNBC/NBC contributor Jon Meacham has been writing speeches for former Vice President Joe Biden, including his Saturday night “victory speech.” Of course, Meacham and the Comcast-owned networks never disclosed this fact.

Too Bad, So Sad: Schmidt, Williams Fret 'Trumpism' Will Outlast Trump
On Friday's MSNBC coverage of the 2020 presidential election, MSNBC contributor and disaffected ex-Republican Steve Schmidt fretted that almost half the country voted for President Donald Trump, declaring that they "voted for a statist authoritarian movement with fascistic markers hostile to American democracy."

SIGH: Brazen Brzezinski Gloats Over Network Censorship of Trump
President Trump’s Thursday night speech alleging voter fraud was the latest target of the left-wing networks’ self-righteous censorship. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, congratulating her colleagues in the partisan press, proclaimed on Friday’s Morning Joe: “All three major networks along with this network cut off the President mid-sentence to shut down his disinformation campaign.”