NewsBusters Podcast: The Ludicrous Anti-Trump Ballroom Horror Movie

The networks and newspapers hyperventilating over President Trump as a "one-man wrecking ball" who okayed demolition of the East Wing of the White House to build a new ballroom is the silliest Trump scandal imaginable. He's a "mob boss" who may "never leave" office, and his architectural plans betray "a darker history in fascist and totalitarian politics."  

Tim Graham
October 28th, 2025 9:50 AM

NBC Is the ONLY Legacy Nightly Newscast to Report Bondi Murder Bounty

In an ongoing climate of political violence, you would think that the legacy nightly news would devote significant air time to a threat to assassinate a senior member of the Cabinet. But, alas, that did not happen. CBS and ABC both omitted the story from their evening newscasts.

Jorge Bonilla
October 28th, 2025 12:22 AM

PBS News Hour Marks 50 Years by Lying: It's 'Even-Handed to a Fault'

The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: Finally tonight, we have been marking a milestone this week, the 50th anniversary of the "PBS News Hour." Before we go, we have a look back at our beginnings and at how the "News Hour" has evolved over five decades, while remaining…

Clay Waters
October 27th, 2025 10:27 PM

Psaki Pushes Conspiracy Theory: Trump Trying to Suppress Voters

During her Friday night opening monologue on The Briefing, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki theorized that President Trump was conspiring to “suppress the vote any way that he can.” She cited various loosely-related administration efforts and jumbled them together as proof of Trump attempting to wrongfully sway midterm results.

Isaac White
October 27th, 2025 9:36 PM

Could This New Strategy STOP UK from Slashing Americans’ Free Speech?

Preston Byrne, a lawyer and fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, advocates for a legal doctrine, "Lex loci machinae," which suggests that U.S.-based tech platforms should follow American laws, not foreign censorship rules. Byrne aims to protect First Amendment rights and combat international overreach from countries like the U.K., which enforces strict online speech regulations. This approach…

Heather Moon
October 27th, 2025 5:56 PM

ABC Oozes Empathy Over Mamdani, Laments Cuomo 'Laughing' Over 9/11

If the "mainstream media" takes a position within a Democrat primary, they typically favor the most extreme candidate. Take New York democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Former governor Andrew Cuomo is the "mainstream" candidate, but he's apparently an Islamophobic jerk. On Friday's edition of ABC World News Tonight, anchor David Muir lamented Cuomo getting "personal" with Mamdani…

Tim Graham
October 27th, 2025 5:15 PM
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WashPost's Ignatius Ignores His Paper's Support for Trump's Ballroom

On Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius lamented Trump's "presidency as wrecking ball" over the new ballroom. But Ignatius fails to mention an editorial by the Post editorial board,  "In defense of the White House ballroom--Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs," which is supportive of the president's project.

Mark Finkelstein
October 27th, 2025 4:17 PM

Painfully Stupid: The KJP Book Is Worse Than You Could Have Imagined

For years, Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was arguably the most reliable source of entertainment for NewsBusters (and viral posts on X). Her press briefings were a heavyweight bout with the English language. And, when she announced in June she would be writing a book entitled Independent about having left the Democrat Party, we made a promise we’d read it and…

Curtis Houck
October 27th, 2025 3:35 PM

‘Damn, If He Isn't a Dictator’: ABC News Claims Trump Not Leaving Ever

Watching ABC News’s The View throughout October, one couldn’t help but think that their pearl clutching hyperventilation about President Trump supposedly trying to steal the midterms with the National Guard and the ballroom being evidence that he planned on holding onto power, were meant to incite another assassination attempt. On Monday’s show, they claimed that Trump was in fact a “…

Nicholas Fondacaro
October 27th, 2025 2:48 PM

Murray on Fox: The World of Woke Beauty Pageants

MRCTV Host Justine Brooke Murray made her debut guest appearance on Fox News Saturday Night with Host Jimmy Failla on Saturday night. Murray was part of a comedic panel asked to judge a "political beauty pageant." Murray shared how even beauty pageants have gone woke.

Catherine Mortensen
October 27th, 2025 2:47 PM

WATCH: CNBC’s Becky Quick Wrecks Hakeem Jeffries on Shutdown Hypocrisy

It looks like CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Becky Quick is fed up with the Democrats’ hypocritical nonsense over the ongoing government shutdown.

Joseph Vazquez
October 27th, 2025 2:18 PM

PBS Falls Overboard on East Wing Demolition: 'Shocking to Conscience'

On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg devoted 14 minutes -- over half the show’s 22-minute discussion time -- to the East Wing demolition undertaken by President Trump, using private funding, in order to build a much-needed White House ballroom. After the introduction, where Goldberg complained “President Trump this week took a wrecking ball to the…

Clay Waters
October 27th, 2025 1:52 PM

Anti-Trump Fed Employee Union Caves, Calls Dems to Reopen Government

The virulently anti-Trump American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is now calling on Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown by voting to pass a continuing resolution that would temporarily extend funding at previously-approved levels.

Craig Bannister
October 27th, 2025 12:51 PM

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

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Geoffrey Dickens
October 27th, 2025 12:14 PM