Doocy, CBS Reporter Battle Stammering Jean-Pierre on Student Loan Debt

Thanks to President Biden’s seemingly endless vacations, Wednesday marked the first White House press briefing in 15 days and, not surprisingly, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s succinctness didn’t improve. Worst yet, it came as President Biden announced he would forgive $10,000 to $20,000 in student loans for millions of Americans. Sure enough, Fox’s Peter Doocy and Real Clear Politics’s…

Curtis Houck
August 25th, 2022 10:35 AM

CNN Analyst Slams Biden Student Loan Plan: Wasting Too Much Money!

Wednesday night's edition of Don Lemon Tonight had a rare moment of sanity when discussing President Joe Biden's student loan bailout. CNN economics commentator Catherine Rampell slammed the plan as essentially a waste of money since it is structured in a way that bails out wealthy people with MBAs and medical degrees who are perfectly capable of paying the loans back. 

Kevin Tober
August 25th, 2022 12:30 AM

NYTimes: Fight for Fetal Personhood Mere ‘Strategy,’ Fetal Pain a Myth

Are conservatives not allowed to hold genuine beliefs on abortion? The front page of Monday’s New York Times showed the outlet once again reducing actual pro-life beliefs to cynical politics. Reporter Kate Zernike wrote “Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes.” Zernike showed her pro-choice bona fides in this story about pro-life activists working to confer personhood…

Clay Waters
August 24th, 2022 11:53 PM

Nets Hype Biden Student Loan Bailout, Omit Pelosi's Criticism

On Wednesday evening, the three evening broadcast networks gushed over President Joe Biden’s bailout for millions of Americans who willingly took out student loans. A slap in the face to all who paid off their loans or who never went to college. While this point of view was brushed off by the three networks, the constitutionality of Biden forgiving student loans was completely ignored.…

Kevin Tober
August 24th, 2022 8:54 PM

The Babylon Bee’s Kyle Mann Says His Site Won’t ‘Bow Before Twitter’

The Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann told Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie why his company has refused to delete the infamous tweet that got it kicked off Twitter.

Gabriela Pariseau
August 24th, 2022 6:22 PM

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Brush Redistricting Errors Under the Rug

On this edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I breakdown a new NewsBusters study of the media’s silence about how Census Bureau errors largely hurt red state representation. We also look at Snopes playing word games with misleading “fact checks” about lies against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and more on Brian Stelter leaving CNN.

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 24th, 2022 6:08 PM

CCP-Tied ByteDance Has Influence, Ownership Across Multiple Industries

Chinese Communist Party-tied ByteDance not only owns other tech companies like the U.S. app TikTok, it also is extending its influence to sectors including news and the medical industry, Forbes reported.

Catherine Salgado
August 24th, 2022 5:03 PM

CNN Whines Nadler vs. Maloney: Shouldn't 'Have Even Happened,' 'Nuts'

As part of the Democratic Party primaries in New York Tuesday night, one of the “liberal lions of Manhattan politics,” Representative Carolyn Maloney lost to fellow lion Representative Jerry Nadler after their districts were consolidated and rearranged via a court order. But on that day’s Don Lemon Tonight, the “journalists” of CNN were less than enthused about two big-named Democrats…

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 24th, 2022 4:40 PM

Stephen A. Offers Good Take On Jon Gruden's Decision On Brady Trade

Jon Gruden is in some hot water for a bad football decision.

John Simmons
August 24th, 2022 4:11 PM

Big Brother Flunkies: Leftist Publications Whore Themselves Out to IRS

Leave it to the clowns at The Washington Post, Politico and The New York Times to make the tyrannical Internal Revenue Service seem like a victim of those darn congressional Republicans.

Joseph Vazquez
August 24th, 2022 3:59 PM

Morning Joe Pushes Possibility Trump Sold 'Ultra-Secret' Documents

On Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Katty Kay suggests that Donald Trump might have done something "nefarious," and sold "ultra-secret" documents he had taken to Mar-a-Lago.

Mark Finkelstein
August 24th, 2022 2:38 PM

What’s in a Nickname? What They Worry About in San Fran

Industrial-scale shoplifting, violent crime, an army of homeless, open-air drug markets, streets paved with human feces, astronomical housing prices. Just don’t call the place by the wrong nickname.

Matt Philbin
August 24th, 2022 2:17 PM

CNN Guest: Biden Student Debt Forgiveness Will ‘Make Inflation Worse’

CNN guest Johns Hopkins University professor Marc Goldwein punctured the left’s narrative that student loan debt forgiveness for those making less than $150,000 will not increase inflation during a guest appearance.

Jeffrey Clark
August 24th, 2022 2:10 PM

Nets Cheer Dems Having ‘Road Map’ to Win Midterms With Abortion

The “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC tried on Wednesday morning to resurrect the Democratic Party’s midterm election prospects, using the results of a special election for a Hudson Valley seat in dark blue New York to insist their side has the “momentum” and a “road map” to put up “a fiercer fight” against Republicans by foisting abortion on voters as their top issue.

Curtis Houck
August 24th, 2022 2:09 PM