Oliver: Musk Is 'One Of The Worst White Guys' Ever From South Africa

HBO’s John Oliver kicked off the 2025 season of Last Week Tonight on Sunday by recapping the first four weeks of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that included a bit on Elon Musk and DOGE. Oliver would label Musk as “one of the worst white guys South Africa has ever produced” while ignoring questions about whether South Africa really needs or deserves aid. On Monday, Oliver…

Alex Christy
February 18th, 2025 10:00 AM

CBS Evening News Can’t Resist Cheapshotting Trump on Presidents Day

Dear readers, we regret to inform you that the new and by-no-means improved CBS Evening News is at it again. This time, turning an otherwise serviceable report on the disappearance of Washington’s birthday into a vessel with which to take a shot at President Donald Trump.

Jorge Bonilla
February 18th, 2025 12:11 AM

NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell Buries the Lede While Politicizing FAA Firings

The ongoing effort to smear the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its related federal job cuts has officially pivoted to the ridiculous. In an over-the-top piece for NBC Nightly News, Senior White House Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell politicizes the firings while completely burying the lede.

Jorge Bonilla
February 17th, 2025 10:32 PM

NewsBusters Podcast: CBS Makes It Springtime for Censors in Germany

It was a deeply weird Sunday at CBS. Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan argued that free speech led to the Holocaust, as if the Nazis allowed free speech. Then 60 Minutes promoted German prosecutors fining and jailing people for "hate speech" on social media. CBS likes a little "German order" on the internet. Jorge Bonilla joins the show to ponder the CBS mysteries.

Tim Graham
February 17th, 2025 9:57 PM

NBC’s Costello Ties Trump, Musk to Delta Airlines Crash...in Canada!?

On Monday afternoon during an NBC News Special Report, NBC senior correspondent and longtime aviation reporter Tom Costello directly linked Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the Delta Airlines crash in Toronto that, fortunately, all 76 passengers survived (as of this blog’s publication).

Curtis Houck
February 17th, 2025 5:31 PM

Vice President Denounces Authoritarianism Exposed on 60 Minutes

Vice President JD Vance denounced German censorship after a major legacy media player acted as an apologist for the authoritarian practices in the European country. 

Tom Olohan
February 17th, 2025 5:13 PM

Biased CBS Uses Covert Partisan Appointees to Bemoan Gov’t Layoffs

For CBS, Sunday marked a day for the ages. Along with Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan having engaged in a new act of political masochism and shamelessly peddled a pants-on-fire lie that free speech caused the Holocaust, 60 Minutes not only embraced Germany’s criminalizing of dissent as a model, but tried to convince the populous to commiserate with government workers in…

Curtis Houck
February 17th, 2025 4:50 PM

‘We're Mad as Hell’: The View Commiserate on Floundering ‘Resistance’

In a pre-recorded episode of ABC’s The View, the liberal ladies celebrated Presidents Day Monday by being “mad as hell” about President Trump’s executive orders and commiserating on ways to help the “resistance” to stop spinning its wheels. Together, they threw around empty buzzwords about the need to “build community support,” look at “how they're communicating,” how they “need to…

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 17th, 2025 3:38 PM

CNN's Keilar Promotes Angry Anti-Gun Parents on Parkland Anniversary

Is it news? Or is it political advertising? On Friday afternoon, CNN's Brianna Keilar promoted anti-gun activists Manuel and Patricia Oliver on the seventh anniversary of the Parkland school shooting. CNN displayed them disturbing the peace, yelling at a Biden gun-control event and at a congressional hearing.

Brad Wilmouth
February 17th, 2025 3:03 PM

NBC: Axing USAID Means People Will Die in Cambodia From U.S. Landmines

Making sure all sob stories are fed to the masses, the liberal media are pulling out all the stops to defend and justify the need to keep the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in place (and offer no suggestions for reform). Friday’s NBC Nightly News sent its China-based correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer to Cambodia to declare innocent Cambodians will die without USAID…

Curtis Houck
February 17th, 2025 1:31 PM

White House: Our Spat with AP Is About ALL Their Left-Tilted Lingo

It's strange to see AP and the White House battling over the Gulf of America, but Axios reports there's a broader message. "This is about AP weaponizing language through their Stylebook to push a partisan worldview." 

Tim Graham
February 17th, 2025 12:20 PM

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is….

Geoffrey Dickens
February 17th, 2025 11:55 AM
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Morning Joe Can't Handle Zelensky Saying Putin's 'Scared' Of Trump

Morning Joe devoted a segment today to fretting over Trump arranging peace talks with Russia on Ukraine without, at this stage, the participation of Ukrainian officials.  But the show ignored Zelensky's stunning statement: that Putin is "afraid" of Trump and that while Putin is a "liar," Trump can push him into peace negotiations because he is "scared" of Trump, who is "strong."

Mark Finkelstein
February 17th, 2025 10:47 AM

REGIMEPRESSE: 60 Minutes Sees German Censorship, Finds It Wunderbar

It is not coincidental that mere days after Vice President JD Vance went into the Munich Security Conference and denounced European censorship regimes, CBS’s 60 Minutes would air a report extolling the virtues of German censorship. The report filed by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi makes sure to highlight prosecutors who go after memeposters as defenders of civility.

Jorge Bonilla
February 17th, 2025 12:00 AM