Only NBC Balanced Its Story on DC Crime, ABC and CBS Unload on Trump

All three broadcast networks reported Monday on President Trump announcing a takeover of the D.C. police, but only NBC attempted any balance on the matter. ABC and CBS both rained skepticism on the policy as unnecessary and overwrought.

Tim Graham
August 12th, 2025 6:39 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: CNN's Daniel Dale Wages War on His White Whale

President Trump held a press conference Monday to announce a federal takeover of D.C. police, and CNN unfurled its usual fury, starting with Canadian "fact checker" Daniel Dale lamenting "there was a lot of deception." But was there? Dale hemmed and hawed over Trump's framing of crime stats, while allowing that D.C. is a high-crime city.

Tim Graham
August 11th, 2025 10:12 PM

On MSNBC, NPR's Jasmine Garsd Frets at Normalized ICE 'Brutality'

On Sunday's The Weekend: Primetime, NPR's Jasmine Garsd joined the regular MSNBC panel to fret over the alleged "brutality" of ICE arrests, and went along with co-host Charles Coleman Jr. dismissing Dean Cain and other potential ICE recruits as "rogue cowboys."

Brad Wilmouth
August 11th, 2025 9:46 PM

FAFO: CNN Chief Media Expert Mourns for Hamas Terrorist Killed By IDF

CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter dedicated the top of his Monday morning “Reliable Sources” newsletter to shedding a tear and pouring one out for his journalist homies at Al Jazeera as they mourned for a colleague who was blown to bits by an Israeli Defense Forces airstrike. But here’s the thing, Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist posing as a journalist. He shared posts praising the…

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 11th, 2025 5:06 PM
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Search for Fugitive Texas Dems Intensifies: ‘Tip Line,’ Faces on ‘Milk Cartons’

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott joked off the idea of establishing a tip line to locate fugitive Texas state House Democrats on Sunday – but, the next day, the House speaker did just that.
Craig Bannister
August 11th, 2025 4:38 PM

MELTDOWN: CNN Goes Ballistic Over Trump Taking Action on D.C. Crime

On Monday in the moments after President Trump’s press conference announcing he was taking over the Washington D.C. police department and deploying the D.C. National Guard to bring down crime, CNN’s mostly white, uber-wealthy liberal journalists suffered a collective breakdown blasting this as “deception,” a “major exaggeration,” and not “comport[ing] with a lot of people’s experience” as well…

Curtis Houck
August 11th, 2025 4:24 PM
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D.C. Police Union: “If you Believe ‘Crime Is Down,’” Think Again

Crime isn’t down in the Nation’s Capital – no matter what Mayor Muriel Bowser and local Democrats claim – the D.C. Police Union reports, in support of President Donald Trump’s effort to make the city safer by deploying the National Guard.
Craig Bannister
August 11th, 2025 2:27 PM

Bill Maher: The View Is Not ‘the Best Advertisement for Women’

The hits kept coming for ABC News’ The View during their 2025 summer hiatus. In the Monday release of his Club Random podcast, comedian Bill Maher was sitting down with actress Drew Barrymore discussing life, the industry pressure, and online cancel culture when Maher brought up how problematic The View was for women and for discussing politics. The criticism came at…

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 11th, 2025 1:51 PM
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Cornish Suggests Trump Plan To Clean Up DC A Racist Dog Whistle

On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish, speaking of President Trump's plan to clean up DC, says: "Talking about juveniles, people are one beat away from saying superpredators. It just feels familiar."

Mark Finkelstein
August 11th, 2025 1:46 PM

Will Elon Musk Remove Biased Wikipedia from Community Notes?

In response to a recent post from a well-known Wikipedia bias critic, X owner Elon Musk hinted at forbidding the use of the online encyclopedia as a go-to source for censoring users’ posts on X. 

Tom Olohan
August 11th, 2025 1:30 PM

Front-Page Trans Sob Story in The Washington Post Skips Over Opponents

Anyone who didn’t know The Washington Post is still a leftist propaganda sheet should look at Monday’s front page, with a bathroom-bill sob story from Vermillion, South Dakota that spilled over onto the entire back page of the front section with four color photographs. This is the entirety of quoted words granted to opponents in this story: “Biology matters.” Two…

Tim Graham
August 11th, 2025 12:34 PM

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Geoffrey Dickens
August 11th, 2025 11:32 AM

PBS Compares Kid-Vid Host Who Accuses Israel of Genocide to Mr. Rogers

PBS’s Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour showed off her anti-Israel bona fides in a novel way on Thursday, inviting on to her international affairs talk show not a foreign diplomat or dignitary, but "Ms. Rachel," a creator of educational videos for children, with a big helping of Hamas-adjacent propaganda. Of course, Amanpour doesn’t portray her that way but introduces her as…

Clay Waters
August 11th, 2025 11:17 AM
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Gov. Abbott: ‘Only Cowards Run to Blue States,’ It's ’Un-Texan’

“Only cowards run to blue states,” Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Sunday, blasting Democrat state House members who fled the state to prevent a vote on Congressional redistricting.
Craig Bannister
August 11th, 2025 10:44 AM