Scott Pelley
FLASHBACK: In 2016, the Media Were Sure They’d Destroyed Trump
At this point in the 2016 election, the liberal media were sure that their months of hostile negative coverage had succeeded in destroying Donald Trump’s chances of winning the presidency.
The 2024 GOP Convention Is Still Happening. Here’s What to Expect
A review of coverage of past GOP conventions shows the establishment press consistently malign Republicans as an extremist, racist, sexist, mean-spirited mob that must be defeated at all costs.
FLASHBACK: Cheering Obama’s ‘Historic’ Embrace of Castro Dictatorship
Nine years ago this week, President Barack Obama chose to establish formal relations with the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Instead of worrying that Obama was handing a much-needed and undeserved lifeline to the decades-long Castro dictatorship, the liberal media applauded the “historic” decision.
Journos Push Hamas Propaganda, Compare New GOP Speaker to David Duke
On October 7 the world witnessed a horrific attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists. Yet shockingly and disgustingly there were some in the journalism community who actually sympathized with Hamas. Well those leftists are still at it, as they passed along Hamas propaganda as factual and called any opposition to a ceasefire racist. The following are just some of the worst outbursts from leftists…
'60 Minutes' Escorts Fumbling Biden, Slams 'Hard-Right Republicans'
Once again, former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley politely offered President Joe Biden a helpful platform to pretend he's taking the tough questions. The worst question was Pelley suggesting "hard-right Republicans" are making the world more dangerous with their failure to elect a new Speaker.
Syrupy Minutes! Pelley Touts Garland's Moderation, Holocaust Stories
Scott Pelley's Sunday night interview with Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland is not what anyone would call a "hard-hitting investigative report." Instead, it resembled a video press release. Just check out the tweets!
FLASHBACK: The Media’s Long History of One-Sided Shutdown Coverage
Journalists’ shutdown playbook is straightforward: single out Republicans for blame; highlight “victims” of the shutdown to build public anger; and then claim Democrats won because they were the “grown-up” party.
FLASHBACK: Lib Journalists Loved Obama’s Ill-Fated Iran Nuke Deal
Eight years ago this week, the liberal media touted the “major victory” of President Obama’s “historic” deal with Iran that would supposedly limit the terrorist state’s access to nuclear weapons for at least a decade.
FLASHBACK: How the Media Tried to Kill Hillary’s E-Mail Scandal
Eight years ago, the New York Times’s Michael Schmidt broke the news that Hillary Clinton ignored government rules and used a personal server for e-mail during her time in office. Friendly journalists spent the next week furiously attempting to spin her scandalous conduct away, ultimately deriding reporters who provided tough coverage as Hillary “haters.”
TV News Censors Buffett’s Slam of Biden’s ‘Illiterate’ Class Warfare
This week, the liberal news networks said absolutely nothing about billionaire Warren Buffett’s barely-veiled slam of President Biden and other liberals for their newest class warfare gambit: demonizing corporations that buy back their stock. That’s a far cry from 2011 and 2012, when those same networks helped juice then-President Obama’s re-election campaign by trumpeting Buffett’s call for…
FLASHBACK: 50 Years of the Liberal Media’s Pro-Abortion Zealotry
Fifty years ago this weekend, the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision split Americans on the issue of abortion, but the media elite have never been divided on the issue. Most journalists support abortion, and their news coverage has reflected their own opinions on the subject — including that the repeal of Roe was “a dark day in America.”
FLASHBACK: Paul Ehrlich, The Media’s Favorite “Doomsday Celebrity”
When you’re seeking to panic viewers with talk of an impending environmental apocalypse, there’s no one with a more established track record than Stanford University’s Paul Ehrlich.
‘60 Minutes’ Gave Airtime to ‘Population Bomb’ Fanatic Paul Ehrlich
CBS took a page out of the movie script from Ron Howard’s Inferno (2016) and gave airtime to the widely-debunked, overpopulation-obsessed Paul Ehrlich to stoke new conniptions over extinction.
NEW NewsBusters Podcast: '60 Minutes' Acts as News Butler for Biden
CBS journalist Scott Pelley was as firm as jelly in his 60 Minutes interview with President Biden. His "questions" were often like "what did you think?" and "I wonder why you think that is." Kevin Tober joins the show to analyze all of the sappy passages that sound like the White House wrote them.