ABC Settles With Trump, to Pay $15 Million Towards Future Library

ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump reached a $15 million settlement on Saturday after This Week host George Stephanopoulos falsely accused Trump of being found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case. 

Alex Christy
December 14th, 2024 6:30 PM

The Media and the Lie That Was the Duke Lacrosse Coverage

Well isn’t this interesting. A headline this week: The Victim Involved in the Infamous Duke Lacrosse Players Sexual Assault Case Admits She Lied

Jeffrey Lord
December 14th, 2024 4:00 PM

New Media Mocks Hunter Biden While Late Night Sleeps

Hunter Biden is a gift late-night comedians refuse to open.

Christian Toto
December 14th, 2024 1:30 PM

Ruhle Ties Celebrating Murder To Taking Daniel Penny To Army-Navy Game

By her own admission, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was making a bad analogy on Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour when she tried to compare the reaction to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the reaction to Daniel Penny’s acquittal of manslaughter after he subdued a threat to fellow New York City subway riders. However, Ruhle still tried to make the analogy work as she…

Alex Christy
December 14th, 2024 12:00 PM

PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v

Alex Christy
December 14th, 2024 9:45 AM

Tapper Reheats Leftist Hot Take on Trump as Jurassic Park Velociraptor

The people who watch CNN know why they are watching CNN. They hate Donald Trump, and they love to hear him compared to Hitler, or perhaps murderous dinosaurs. On Thursday's The Lead, host Jake Tapper fed the CNN base by bringing up a recent "progressive" Trump insult, comparing his second term to the velociraptors in Jurassic Park figuring out how to terrify the humans.

Tim Graham
December 14th, 2024 6:37 AM

PBS 'Expert' Rips Hegseth Cross Tattoo, Compares Him to Mass Shooters

Thursday’s PBS News Hour welcomed back Brad Onishi (host of the podcast "Straight White American Jesus") to warn once again about scary Christian conservatism, this time encapsulated in Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, interviewed by the show’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez. Onishi compared Hegseth to mass shooters and to white nationalists…

Clay Waters
December 14th, 2024 6:06 AM

CNN Accused of Misleading Court on Discloser of Financial Documents

As NewsBusters previously reported back in September, Judge William Scott Henry ordered CNN to comply with financial discovery in the $1 billion defamation suit against them and turn over documents related to net worth and cash flow, among others. The order was further supported in October when he cleared the way for CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to be subpoenaed for…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 14th, 2024 12:15 AM
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CNN Skeptical On Biden Admin 'Nothing to See Here' On Drones

CNN This Morning expressed considerable skepticism over the Biden administation dismissive attitude toward the drone sightings over New Jersey. Host Kasie Hunt led the skeptical charge. Thus, reacting to John Kirby saying many of supposed drones have turned out to be manned planes or helicopters: "So, basically, he says, don't believe your own eyes."

Mark Finkelstein
December 13th, 2024 10:35 PM

NewsBusters Podcast: Liberal Media Swoon for Cold-Blooded Killer

During what’s supposed to be a slow time of year for major political stories, NewsBusters has been kept on their toes. Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I are dodging leftist assassins and buzzing drones on this episode in which they chat about the liberal media’s yearning love affair with the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the media's reaction to the mysterious drones over…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 13th, 2024 5:26 PM

Big Three Ignore Billion Dollars Wasted on Discriminatory Ideology

When a new report exposed that the federal government had wasted over $1 billion politicizing American education and indoctrinating children, NBC, CBS and ABC completely failed to mention it in their evening programming. 

Tom Olohan
December 13th, 2024 5:05 PM

Behar: Voters 'Misinformed' About Their Quality of Life Under Biden

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were not enthused by President-elect Trump being named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year of a second time. Amid lazy notations that “Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler” were also on the cover, Friday moderator Joy Behar lashed out at voters for electing Trump and declared that they were “misinformed” about their quality of life under the…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 13th, 2024 2:45 PM

Networks Go All Out to Paint Trump as Admitting He Can’t Fix Groceries

Between Thursday night and Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to promote a disinformation campaign first launched by The Bulwark’s Sam Stein to use President-Elect Trump’s comments about grocery prices to argue he can’t and won’t improve the lives of struggling Americans.

Curtis Houck
December 13th, 2024 2:36 PM

Reid Claims Trump Is 'In The Same Category' As Hitler, Stalin, Putin

As President-elect Donald Trump celebrated being named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2024, MSNBC’s Joy Reid tried to throw cold water on the occasion by pointing out that not everyone who has won the award historically has done so because they made the world a better place. The ReidOut host claimed “we all know” which side Trump is on, and it is the one with “Adolf…

Alex Christy
December 13th, 2024 1:47 PM