NewsBusters Podcast: Blaming Trump's Hot Talk for His Foiled Assassins

September 16th, 2024 10:52 PM

The foiled second assassination attempt on Donald Trump wasn't uniformly treated as a serious security problem. We found major networks blaming Trump's hot talk on migrants and pets for his own assassins. They blamed him for not toning rhetoric down -- the flagrantly hostile networks! Curtis Houck explains how Sunday unfolded.

No Surprise: ABC’s Debate Moderators Were Only There to Attack Trump

September 15th, 2024 7:41 PM

The debate tone was set with the first question. Debate co-moderator David Muir, ABC’s news managing editor, asked Vice President Kamala Harris: “I want to begin tonight with the issue voters repeatedly say is their No. 1 issue ... When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”

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VILE: NBC, ABC Tie 2nd Trump Assassination Attempt to ‘Dogs and Cats’

September 15th, 2024 7:37 PM

As we exposed earlier, the Regime Media have wasted no time in blaming former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for the second assassination attempt against him. The evening newscasts have now picked up MSNBC’s lead, tying the attempted shooting to the “dogs and cats rhetoric coming out of Springfield, Ohio.

The Liberal Media Bubble and the ABC Debate

September 14th, 2024 4:00 PM

It wasn’t a hard call. At this point in the history of televised debates, a history that began with the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates ( 64 years ago!!) and has continued on with a seemingly endless stream of both Republican vs. Democrat nominee debates plus Republican vs. Republican and Democrat vs. Democrat nomination debates, one would think ABC would have learned a thing or two.

NB Podcast: LA Times’s Gushy Profile of ABC’s Davis Gave Away the Game

September 13th, 2024 10:21 PM

Sitting in on Friday for host and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I dove into an absurd Los Angeles Times profile celebrating ABC’s debate co-moderator Linsey Davis for, along with co-moderator David Muir, interjecting for so-called fact-checks of Donald Trump. 

Column: 'Fact Checking' Is Often Spin Spoiling, Especially on Abortion

September 13th, 2024 6:00 AM

The debate debacle hosted by ABC underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to “fact checkers.” Object to them, and the Left decrees it’s because you’re hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist argumentation that’s poorly disguised as nonpartisan and devoid of opinion.

NY Times Touts ABC Debate's Calm 'Factual Guardrails' Against Trump

September 12th, 2024 10:35 PM

New York Times’ media reporter Michael Grynbaum made Wednesday’s paper with the smugly confident post-presidential debate “Media Memo,” “ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump.” He wrote: "Using calm and authoritative tones, Mr. Muir and Ms. Davis offered a model for real-time fact-checking that has been absent from many recent presidential debates."

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PBS: Trump Denouncing Walz On Abortion Is 'Extraordinarily Stupid'

September 12th, 2024 3:35 PM

During Tuesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump called out Tim Walz’s extremely radical and, frankly, diabolical abortion stance as governor of Minnesota, but for PBS’s Christiane Amanpour, the fact that Trump even brought it up made him “very, very extreme,” while her panel labeled it "extraordinarily stupid."

The Cipher and Her Praetorian Guard

September 12th, 2024 10:28 AM

In the lead-up to this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the polls showed a dead heat, both nationally and in seven swing states. The 2024 race is, by all measures, the closest presidential race we have seen in our lifetimes. But the usual presidential math applies The person upon whom the race becomes a referendum loses.

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Bozell on WMAL: ‘Not Surprised’ by Debate, ABC’s Been the ‘Worst’

September 11th, 2024 1:43 PM

On Wednesday, MRC founder and president L. Brent Bozell appeared on WMAL’s O’Connor and Company to break down ABC’s awful debate moderator performance put in by anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis.

ABC Blackout on Most Fundamental Issue During Presidential Debate

September 11th, 2024 1:07 PM

ABC hosts and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis asked at least 27 questions of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris but not a single one touched on freedom of speech or censorship.

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ABC Cheers Working With Kamala to Wage ‘Warfare’ on ‘Defensive’ Trump

September 11th, 2024 12:16 PM

Following what can safely be placed at the top of the worst presidential debates ever given the election interference by ABC News’s questioning and open liberal partisanship by moderators Linsey David and David Muir, Wednesday’s Good Morning America was bursting at the seams over Vice President Harris “confron[ting] Donald Trump” (along with Muir and Davis) and putting him “on defense…

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Muir and Davis Asked Harris Only 2 Of Our 25 Recommend Questions

September 11th, 2024 12:12 PM

On Friday, we published a list of 25 questions that ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis should ask Vice President Kamala Harris at Tuesday’s debate with former President Donald Trump. However, the duo would ask only two of them.

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'Holy ****, She Crushed That': Comedians Hail Harris After Debate

September 11th, 2024 10:46 AM

Three of the five regular late night comedy programs were able to react to Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and all agreed that Harris was the big winner as they attacked Trump for spreading falsehoods while covering for the falsehoods told by Harris and the ABC moderators.