NYT Leads With 7,500 Words on Ron DeSantis, Arrogant ‘Bully’ Hypocrite

August 24th, 2023 2:53 PM

As the opening round of the 2024 presidential campaign kicks off tonight with the first Republican debate, Tuesday’s lead New York Times story was a 7,500-word investigative epic by Nicholas Confessore, Times reporter and MSNBC political analyst, on the highest polling Republican on the lectern tonight. The mission was clear from the headline: 2024 presidential candidate,…

Disgusting NY Times Conflates All GOP With Buffalo Supermarket Killer

May 16th, 2022 4:37 PM

Nicholas Confessore was the author of the New York Times’ vast smear on Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this month, in which he crowned Carlson’s show “the most racist show in the history of cable news.” Confessore eagerly brought the same nasty energy to blame Carlson for Saturday’s mass killing at a Buffalo supermarket by a murderer who…

NewsBusters Podcast: The New York Times Tucker Haters Want Him Fired

May 4th, 2022 10:00 PM

Why would the New York Times publish almost 20,000 words inveighing against "apocalyptic" Tucker Carlson and his "racist" show? Because they want to destroy his show on Fox. MSNBC is happy to help.

Column: The Unintentionally Hilarious Anti-Tucker Carlson Term Paper

May 4th, 2022 6:06 AM

On Sunday and Monday, the New York Times published almost 20,000 words of “investigative reporting” on the Tucker show, announcing they'd watched 1,150 episodes and chronicled all the guests and the messages and the monologues. This should be defined as “opposition research.”

Tucker vs NY Times, Round 2: ‘Nativist Tilt and Racial Scaremongering’

May 2nd, 2022 5:19 PM

In Part Two of the New York Times’ vast hit piece against Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, “How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News -- and Became Trump’s Heir,” which dominated Monday’s front page, reporter Nicholas Confessore claimed the host “had adopted increasingly catastrophic views of immigration and the country’s shifting demographics….Even among the generally right-of-…

NY Times Goes to War on Tucker: ‘Most Racist Show in History of Cable'

May 1st, 2022 10:30 PM

The New York Times is running a three-part expose of Fox News show host Tucker Carlson. sub-titled “American Nationalist,” delivered by a staggering ten-person research/reporting crew led by reporter and MSNBC contributor Nicholas Confessore, including an exhaustive analysis of 1150 episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Confessore relied on anonymous sourcing and hostile…

NYT ‘Triggered’ by Trump Jr. Book: How Did It Become Our Best-Seller?

November 22nd, 2019 2:33 PM
The New York Times is officially “triggered” by Donald Trump Jr.’s book of the same title somehow hitting #1 on the paper’s own best-seller list: “R.N.C. Spent Nearly $100,000 on Copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s Book." After years of controversy, the Times finally recognized problems with its best-seller lists -- but only when a book by Donald Trump Jr. claims the top spot. Alter and Confessore skip…

NYT's 10-Page Attack on Trump Twitter's Racist, Anti Media-Madness

November 3rd, 2019 6:35 PM
President Trump’s dangerous Twitter. That was the paper’s overriding obsession in Sunday’s edition. The enormous story launched on the top half of the front page and jumped to a special 10-page section, “The Twitter Presidency.” The timing is apt, considering the paper is pressuring Twitter to be better than Facebook and actually squelch political messaging as the 2020 campaign nears. One reason…
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Johnson 'Thrilled' About Impeachment: 'I Am So Glad This Happened'

November 1st, 2019 10:05 PM
While congressional Democrats did their best to make it sound like they were sad about the formalization of the impeachment inquiry, MSNBC’s Jason Johnson had a different take. Appearing on Thursday’s Deadline: White House, Johnson declared “I may be in the minority here. I’m not somber today. I’m thrilled.”
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MSNBC Plugs PBS 'Frontline' Film Hitting Trump on Illegal Immigration

October 23rd, 2019 3:35 PM
On Monday's Morning Joe, they devoted a segment to a new documentary on the PBS show Frontline attacking the Trump administration over the zero-tolerance policy that resulted in illegal immigrant children being separated from their families until the practice was ended in June 2018.
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Scarborough Calls Pompeo a ‘Disgrace’ and a ‘Joke’ After FNC Interview

June 18th, 2019 8:10 AM
When Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough runs out of things to use in slamming President Trump, the MSNBC anchor is more than happy to instead roast someone who is a member of the GOP official’s administration. That was the case on Monday, when Scarborough used an interview of Mike Pompeo by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace to hammer the secretary of state as “a joke” and “a disgrace” who “made…
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Absurd Wallace, Panel Freak Over Trump ‘Attacking’ Mueller on D-Day

June 6th, 2019 6:58 PM
No matter the occasion, whether it be a funeral for a former President, hurricane, sitting Senator, or mass shooting, the liberal media will never stop trying to make news events about President Trump. On Thursday’s Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace went ballistic (along with her panel) over the President “attacking” “American hero” and “Vietnam War veteran, Robert S. Mueller” on the…
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Morning Joe Laments 'Sabotage' of Obama Bureaucracy

April 16th, 2019 11:23 AM
New York Times reporter Nick Confessore was on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday to talk about his nearly 8,400 word article about Acting White House Chief of Staff and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney's changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau entitled "Mick Mulvaney's Master Class in Destroying the Government From Within," under the graphic "Make America Pay…
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‘Morning Joe’ Says Anti-Semitism Is Mainly a Right-Wing Problem

March 11th, 2019 11:39 AM
MSNBC's Morning Joe kicked off the week by discussing President Trump's reaction to the controversy surrounding Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and how House Democrats have responded to her dual loyalty comments. Co-host Joe Scarborough asked Jake Sherman of Politico if Trump, as part of his 2020 re-elcection campaign, would, "Continue to paint Democrats as the anti-Jewish party, despite his…