ABC Goes Soft On Mangione Fans, Paints Trial As 'Cultural Flashpoint'
ABC’s Trevor Ault went soft on those who showed up to support alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione on Friday’s edition of World News Tonight. Instead of reacting in horror that such an alleged cold-blooded killer has such support, Ault portrayed his upcoming trial as a “cultural flashpoint.”
AP Sues WH Over Gulf of America Name, Alleging Free Speech Violation
On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small,…
Brooks: People Will Die Because Trump Admin Wants To 'Break Things'
New York Times columnist David Brooks is theoretically supposed to be PBS News Hour’s conservative half of its weekly Friday news recap with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, he constantly fails to live up to this arrangement, and this Friday was no exception, as he alleged that people all over the world will die because the Trump administration simply…
Not Bernie: Scarborough Rants About Millionaires and Billionaires!
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough does his best Bernie Sanders impression, ranting against "millionaires and billionaires." Scarborough condemns plans to reduce the number of IRS agents, and to give tax cuts to "billionaires."
NB Podcast: PBS & NPR Lose Their Minds Over Musk & His CPAC Chainsaw
Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw at CPAC, striking a pose next to Argentina’s president Javier Milei. The networks really hate Elon Musk for trying to reduce government in any way. "Public" broadcasters are incredibly anti-Musk, since they are dreading the DOGE wagon pulling up to PBS and NPR.
MSNBC Settles Defamation Suit Over Erroneous 'Uterus Collector' Story
CNN being found liable for malicious defamation might have put the fear of God into MSNBC. In a filing obtained by NewsBusters, NBCUniversal and plaintiff Dr. Mahendra Amin had entered into settlement negotiations on Thursday. Although, they’re still working on the language.
PBS Seethes at Michael Knowles: ‘You Don't Believe Gay People Exist?'
PBS News anchors and reporters have brought the soft soap for sob-story interviews for people losing their jobs thanks to Trump executive orders and Musk-driven budget cuts, without any ideological labels attached to their designated victims. Yet the rare conservative who appears on the News Hour is almost guaranteed to get smacked with at least on warning label. So no…
Stein, Todd Lament Media's 'Collective Weakness' Defending AP, Rip Fox
Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf…
Earth to the News Media: Downsizing Happens
Chelsea Milburn is a disabled veteran of the United States Navy who, until recently, worked for the United States Department of Education. As part of cuts from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, she has lost her job. On Wednesday, she appeared on the news and lamented, “They don’t care about how this impacts me or people like me. And to me, it’s inhumane. It feels like they…
Sen. Schmitt at CPAC: Google ‘Ultimate Black Box’
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) ripped search giant Google for abusing its power to exert influence over the minds of Americans.
Anti-DOGE NBC Celebrates Return of Angry Liberals at GOP Townhalls
With the networks having already established over the last few weeks a totally-not-coordinated stream of sympathetic laid off federal workers to attack the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump, NBC’s Today added another wrinkle Friday by cheering liberal rabble rousers shouting at House Republicans during constituent townhalls.
Oh, So Now Axios Suggests the US Inflation Outlook Actually Sucks?
What a joke. The same outlet that tried to paint America’s inflation situation before the 2024 election as Yankee Doodle Dandy! is doing the backstroke now that Donald Trump is president.
The View’s Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines CLASH Over Effectiveness of DEI
It’s not often that the liberal ladies of The View actually have divergent views, but when those happen, they don’t know how to deal with it. During Friday’s show, staunchly racist Sunny Hostin lashed out at white men and was on so on the defensive about racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that she couldn’t recognize that pretend independent co-host Sara Haines was…
PBS Smears Musk: People Worried About His 'Mental Health and Drug Use'
PBS News Hour reporter William Brangham dumped a truckload of slime over space entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk’s head in a 10-minute news piece/hit piece that aired Thursday evening: "Musk changed the platform's policies on hate speech, and when analysts claimed that vitriol then flourished on the renamed X, advertisers balked and the company's value slid. In characteristic…