'The Five' Responds To Whoopi Goldberg's 'America Is De-Balled' Claim

Whoopi Goldberg is no stranger to saying outrageous things on The View, like blacks are still having dogs sicked on them at the polls. So it may not have been too shocking to learn that on Wednesday after Goldberg proclaimed that America has been "de-balled," it got attention on Thursday's edition of Fox's The Five, and caused a minor stir. Greg Gutfeld had a hot take.

Steve Malzberg
May 15th, 2026 1:19 PM

Daily Show Promotes Communist's Movie That Promotes Shoplifting

Most of the time Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is a reliably liberal show, but on Thursday, host Jordan Klepper decided to shake things up a little bit and become a communist show when he did his best Hasan Piker impression and welcomed writer, director, and self-described communist Boots Riley to promote his new movie that promotes shoplifting.

Alex Christy
May 15th, 2026 12:30 PM

PBS: Is Ending Racial Gerrymandering in Louisiana 'Unfair,' 'Racist'?

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour predictably injected racism allegations into its coverage of the Supreme Court striking down race-based gerrymandering in Louisiana v. Callais, even covering the story under its portentous “Race Matters” series rubric. White House correspondent Liz Landers traveled to Baton Rouge to collect accusations of racism -- though to be fair, the first…

Clay Waters
May 15th, 2026 11:27 AM

China: Our Enemy, Not Our Rival

China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America’s geopolitical enemy — and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949. For decades, American leaders and elites indulged the fantasy that this reality could be softened or reversed. Richard Nixon opened relations with China in part to split Beijing from the Soviet Union. Later, economic globalists…

Ben Shapiro
May 15th, 2026 10:24 AM

Letterman Rants 'I Have Every Right To Be Pissed Off' At CBS

Former host of CBS’s The Late Show, David Letterman, stopped by to visit with current and outgoing host Stephen Colbert on Thursday to rant at the network about how “pissed off” he is at the situation and how personally he takes it. Later, the duo vented some more by going to the roof of the Ed Sullivan building and throwing the show’s furniture off the roof at a CBS logo.

Alex Christy
May 15th, 2026 10:00 AM

CBS Uses TMZ Hotel Story to Attack LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt

On Thursday, CBS Mornings echoed a TMZ report that accused Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt, which accused Pratt of lying about living in a trailer in his lot that burned due to the LA Wildfires, and instead lived in a hotel.

Nicholas Spinnato
May 15th, 2026 9:56 AM

Column: Kamala's 'Brainstorm' Is Destroying All the Norms

the Democrats have been at war with long-standing political norms for a while now. In the Trump era, the leftist lust to overturn all the norms to maximize their power has been growing every year. Look no further than 2024 loser Kamala Harris calling for wrecking a stack of norms in an “Emergency Call” with the group Win With Black Women.

Tim Graham
May 15th, 2026 6:01 AM

Today's Highlights: What MRC's Media Watchdogs are Saying

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media. 

 

Catherine Mortensen
May 15th, 2026 5:30 AM

CBS's Tony Dokoupil Drops Another Banger in Taiwan

The media hall monitors have feasted on CBS’s hardships while covering the Trump-Xi summit from Taiwan. However, this hasn’t deterred Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil from delivering banger after banger on commentary to close out the newscasts.

Jorge Bonilla
May 15th, 2026 12:40 AM

OMISSION: Nets Skip House Grilling of Soros-Funded Fairfax DA

The Elitist Media is quite selective when it comes to their coverage of what happens in the Commonwealth of Virginia. There was no shortage of coverage for the recently-overturned redistricting, for example. But when a Soros-funded prosecutor gets called to The Hill to answer for soft-on-policies that endanger the community? Crickets.

Jorge Bonilla
May 15th, 2026 12:00 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Putting a Redsteeze Squeeze on Media Misbehavior

Stephen L. Miller -- "Redsteeze" on X -- won our Bulldog Award for Outstanding Social Media Personality for taking on all kinds of media misbehavior on Elon's free-speech playground. We discuss bizarre rape-dog stories, the "Corbynization" of the Left, and Oliver Darcy's farcy website waging war on Bari Weiss as she barely makes changes at CBS News.

Tim Graham
May 14th, 2026 9:30 PM

CNN’s Brownstein Ties China Summit & Iran War to Minnesota ICE Unrest

On Thursday, amid President Trump’s state visit to China, CNN This Morning panelist Ron Brownstein, also a senior political analyst for the network, harkened back to the unrest seen in Minneapolis earlier in the year over the presence of ICE as he compared the unrest to actions between the U.S. and China, along with the War in Iran. 

Nicholas Spinnato
May 14th, 2026 7:36 PM

FALLACY: NPR Decries Trump Illegal Migrant Crackdown Hurting Economy

Don’t cure cancer because it would devastate the cancer industry! Don’t improve healthcare access because you’ll hurt the funeral industry! That’s the kind of brain hurt logic NPR employed to decry President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration as a devastating blow to the U.S. economy.

Joseph Vazquez
May 14th, 2026 4:55 PM

Whoopi: Wildfire Victim Pratt Shouldn’t Be ‘Passing Judgment’ on Dems

After having actor Spencer Pratt (R) on the show earlier this year in which they praised his run to be the mayor of Los Angeles, his new momentum against incumbent Democrat Karen Bass had the liberal ladies of The View now attempting to coming to her rescue. ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg scoffed at him for running as a victim of Bass’s mismanagement during the wildfires. Despite…

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 14th, 2026 4:25 PM