Maddow Sees 'Alt-Right' In Vance's 'Lord of the Rings' Fandom

There were plenty of outrageous hot takes from MSNBC during the Republican National Convention, but Rachel Maddow might have had the dumbest. On Tuesday, Maddow saw alt-right and possibly Aryan messaging in VP-nominee JD Vance’s Lord of the Rings-inspired venture capital firm.

Alex Christy
July 19th, 2024 1:24 PM

ABC FREAK Over Trump’s ‘Dark,’ ‘Anti-Immigrant’ Speech, PUMMEL Biden

Like its competitors on CBS and NBC, ABC’s Good Morning America took time on Friday to get to former President Trump’s Republican National Convention speech and the hubbub surrounding President Biden’s cognitive and physical impairment thanks to the global Microsoft outage. But when they did, they denounced Trump’s “anti-immigrant”, “dark”, and “divisive” speech while continuing to…

Curtis Houck
July 19th, 2024 12:27 PM

Comedy Shows Smear Republicans As Racist Cultists During RNC

It was a week of ridiculing Republicans for the men of late night comedy. From Monday to Thursday, the comedians attacked Republicans as racist, cult-like drones and told more jokes about VP-nominee JD Vance in one week than they have about current VP Kamala Harris all year.

Alex Christy
July 19th, 2024 12:15 PM

Are Republicans Ready for Biden’s Counterattack?

Donald Trump has a lot of things to celebrate this week, but a foregone conclusion in November isn’t one of them. Joe Biden is down in the polls and losing the unwinnable war against time’s toll. But he’s nothing if not tenacious, and the president has a trick ready to turn Trump’s latest triumph — over an assassin’s bullet — into a political defeat. In his Oval Office remarks Sunday, Biden…

Daniel McCarthy
July 19th, 2024 12:00 PM

Worst of the Night! Wallace: GOP Is ‘Codependent on Disinformation’

It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Republican National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night.

Geoffrey Dickens
July 19th, 2024 12:00 PM

Trump: ‘We Rise Together or We Fall Apart’

A conciliatory Donald Trump promised his loyalty to all Americans, and offered an olive branch to his opponents, in a speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday.
Craig Bannister
July 19th, 2024 11:25 AM

Faux CNN Conservative Gushes Over Harris, Dems' 'Democracy in Action'

On Thursday, CNN Newsroom’s Jim Acosta hosted former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, Olivia Troye. Troye, a faux conservative, praised the Democratic Party while describing Trump as a “used car salesman.”

Sarah Butler
July 19th, 2024 10:44 AM

TEMP NOT LOWERED: MSNBC Claims Trump Win Will Lead to ‘Dictatorship’

When viewing MSNBC’s coverage of the Republican National Convention, one is led to wonder why leadership would sideline Morning Joe, albeit briefly, but not the insane asylum airing on prime-time. “Historian” Michael Beschloss’s assessment of President Trump’s acceptance speech only serves to intensify that wonderment. 

Jorge Bonilla
July 19th, 2024 10:32 AM

Colbert Attacks 'Deeply, Psychotically Weird' RNC

CBS’s Stephen Colbert wrapped up his week of live reactions to the Republican National Convention early Friday morning by decrying the whole thing as “deeply, psychotically weird” because the party is trying to dismiss Donald Trump’s legal controversies as no big deal. Colbert would also welcome Sen. Bernie Sanders to The Late Show to claim that Trump is a threat to democracy because…

Alex Christy
July 19th, 2024 9:38 AM

Post-Speech Roundup: Trump's a Narcissist Full of Lies and 'Unity' BS!

Staunch Republicans may have loved President Trump's long speech on Thursday night, but it's easy to suspect that the journalists watching it were going to go beyond skeptical, like on PBS: "The initial calls for unity quickly gave way to attacks on Democrats, to a litany of falsehoods, to a string of insults."

Tim Graham
July 19th, 2024 9:05 AM
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Morning Joe Warning To MSM: Do NOT Praise Trump's New Tone!

On Morning Joe, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire warns the MSM not to report Donald Trump's softer new tone. Says Lemire: "I do think we need a moratorium here in the media about Donald Trump's -- praising Donald Trump's new tone. That doesn't ever happen on this show, mind you."

Mark Finkelstein
July 19th, 2024 8:11 AM

Column: Are Trump Scandals Just Endless Hours of Noise?

Year after year, partisan “legacy media” outlets have churned out thousands of stories full of anticipation that the walls of scandal would close in on Donald Trump. Once again, a litany of Trump “legal woes” haven’t damaged his political standing.

Tim Graham
July 19th, 2024 5:30 AM

Joy Reid Thinks Masculinity is 'White-Adjacent'

One of the media’s general subthemes of the 2024 Republican National Convention is its revulsion at the idea of masculinity. Mention it and a mental gag reflex is triggered within pampered Acela types, which makes them spout all sorts of nonsense.

Jorge Bonilla
July 19th, 2024 2:31 AM

Joy Reid Insists Trump’s Speech Proves His Brain Is as Bad as Biden’s

In the wee hours of Friday morning, following former President Trump’s longwinded nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, MSNBC host Joy Reid continued her theme of the week of suggesting that Trump and President Biden were equal in most things from overcoming similar medical conditions (which weren’t) to being bad candidates.

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 19th, 2024 2:19 AM