NewsBusters Podcast: Cory Booker's 25 Heroic Hours of Democrat Babble

Sometimes you can sense that Happy News for Democrats is the most important kind of news. Sen. Cory Booker speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours, unloading wheelbarrows of Democrat talking points, isn't exactly epic. But Democrats in the media will pretend it is. "It was nothing less than the most dramatic and powerful Senate speech I have ever heard," gushed MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell…

Tim Graham
April 4th, 2025 11:14 PM

Is Meta Turning Away from Fact-Checking?

A Meta executive announced that the social media giant will soon fulfill a January promise to abolish fact-checking. Is it too good to be true?

Tom Olohan
April 4th, 2025 5:47 PM

Networks Skip Suspect in SCOTUS Assassination Plot Seeking Guilty Plea

Amid the latest blow in Signalgate and the torrent of negative stories about President Trump’s tariffs, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC used the opportunity to completely ignore word Wednesday the suspect who allegedly wanted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 has decided to plead guilty, possibly sending him to a sentence of life in prison.

Curtis Houck
April 4th, 2025 5:22 PM

Skeptics Doubt L.A.’s Switch to Solar Will Curb Thieves’ Street Light Vandalism

So many Los Angeles streets are dark because of the “rampant” theft of the copper wire for the street lights that the city has resorted to installing solar street lights in the hopes of deterring thieves.
Craig Bannister
April 4th, 2025 4:56 PM

Hostin: 'Lack of Empathy’ Is Why Voters Want Immigration Enforcement

Despite being a former federal prosecutor, The View’s Sunny Hostin didn’t like to see certain laws enforced. During Friday’s edition of the show, the ABC News co-host lashed out at American voters for wanting President Trump to actually enforce American’s immigration laws and suggested that such wants were a symptom of the “lack of empathy in this country.” Additionally, she and co-…

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 4th, 2025 3:51 PM

Netflix Narnia Adaptation Considers Making C.S. Lewis's Aslan a Female

Sometimes there are early April stories so absurd that you hope they are just April Fool’s pranks, but unfortunately the idea that Netflix might decide to go with a female Aslan in their upcoming adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia appears to be very real.

Alex Christy
April 4th, 2025 2:57 PM

GOP Effort to Save Americans from Largest Tax Hike in U.S. History Advances in Senate

Republicans’ attempt to save Americans from the largest tax hike in U.S. history took a step forward Thursday night.
Craig Bannister
April 4th, 2025 1:29 PM

Mystal Smears The Constitution As 'A Piece Of Crap'

The Nation justice correspondent, frequent MSNBC guest, and all around crazy person Elie Mystal took his book tour to The Breakfast Club podcast on Thursday. The premise for Mystal’s book is the laughable premise that every law passed prior to 1965 is unconstitutional, but also that the constitution is “a piece of crap.”

Alex Christy
April 4th, 2025 12:23 PM

TARIFFDOME: Scott Jennings Stands Tall for American Snacks

A very interesting exchange on last night’s CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip (AKA The Thunderdome) proved that a worthy argument can be undermined by an ineffective spokesperson. In this case, a point on the everyday effects of tariffs on imported goods that ended with Scott Jennings standing tall in defense of American snack foods.

Jorge Bonilla
April 4th, 2025 11:53 AM

Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP

A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress — also known as the nation’s report card. The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation’s children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. AEI characterizes the most recent results as a “five-alarm fire.” I call it…

Star Parker
April 4th, 2025 11:17 AM

Job Growth Dwarfs Expectations in March

The number of jobs created in March exceeded expectations by nearly a hundred thousand while the unemployment remained in a narrow 0.2 percentage point range for the 11th straight month.
Craig Bannister
April 4th, 2025 9:51 AM

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week? 

Geoffrey Dickens
April 4th, 2025 9:45 AM

Tomlinson: Luigi Mangione Has 'Shown Men How to Attract Women'

CBS’s outgoing host of After Midnight, Taylor Tomlinson, continued to display her infatuation with alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson assassin and terrorist Luigi Mangione on Wednesday’s show. After a monologue discussing the latest trends in men’s fashion, Tomlinson put up a photoshopped image of Mangione, claiming, “I'm just glad that the internet has shown men how to …

Alex Christy
April 4th, 2025 9:45 AM

Column: Caterwauling Over a Kennedy Center Coup

Our media elites love to tout themselves as “independent” and “fact-based.” But on almost any story on Donald Trump, they can’t help but put those words in the shredder. Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has spurred the usual wild-eyed talk of "authoritarianism" from a pop star. 

Tim Graham
April 4th, 2025 9:25 AM