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

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

Geoffrey Dickens
April 10th, 2025 9:50 AM

THUNDERDOME: Jennings and Singleton WRECK the Panel

CNN’s Thunderdome, more commonly referred to as NewsNight with Abby Phillip, was particularly lively tonight. Given the issue array, there was bound to be fireworks. And sure enough, there were.

Jorge Bonilla
April 10th, 2025 1:54 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: People Ask Why Would Anyone Study 'The View'?

NewsBusters just published a study demonstrating that ABC's 'The View' is a double-reinforced leftist bubble. Over the last three months, they welcomed on 63 guests pushing a liberal agenda, and zero conservatives or Republicans. Why would we do that? Nick Fondacaro explains.

Tim Graham
April 9th, 2025 10:19 PM

Looney Behar Floats Conspiracy Trump Crashing Stocks for ‘Martial Law’

On their Wednesday episode, ABC’s The View spewed their usual vitriol about the Trump administration, with Joy Behar especially going above and beyond. As the rest of the panel cheered her on, she spun an on-the-spot conspiracy theory, with zero to flimsy evidence, about Trump plotting to declare martial law and make himself a dictator. She threw that piece of fiction out there as…

David Milliken
April 9th, 2025 9:39 PM

MSNBC Regulars Paint 77 Million Trump Voters as Racists

In the past few days, two MSNBC regulars have aimed the kind of race-obsessed vitriol at Republican voters that the liberal news network has long been known for, claiming that the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump are racists.

Brad Wilmouth
April 9th, 2025 9:07 PM
Charlie Dent Kristen Soltis Anderson CNN This Morning 4-9-25

Audie's 'Republican Group Chat'—Two Critics of Trump's Tariffs

On Wednesday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish calls two of her guests her "Republican chat group." The Republicans in question are Charlie Dent, a Never Trumper who says he is "very cynical" about Trump's tariffs, calling them a "bad rule," and Kristen Soltis Anderson, who has written a New York Times op-ed warning Republicans about the path they're going down. Anderson suggests there's…

Mark Finkelstein
April 9th, 2025 8:51 PM

CBS Tells Illegals to Not Worry, You Have the Same Rights as Citizens

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings Plus showed its thoughts on whether borders and citizenship actually mean anything as they dedicated a segment to a Columbia University Law professor informing illegal immigrants to cheer up and not as fearful because everyone enjoys the same rights under the Constitution, no matter whether you immigrated legally, we’re born in this country, or came illegally…

Curtis Houck
April 9th, 2025 7:01 PM

Lawyer Behind MSNBC Defamation Suit: Words Hurt Like Sticks and Stones

In late February, Dr. Mahendra Amin settled his defamation suit with MSNBC (for an undisclosed amount) after they falsely claimed that he had performed medically unnecessary hysterectomies on illegal immigrant women in the custody of ICE, erroneously dubbing him “the uterus collector.” NewsBusters recently spoke with Dr. Amin’s lead counsel Georgia State Representative Stacey Evans (D) and co-…

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 9th, 2025 4:46 PM

Factcheck.org Mangles Science Fact-Check Of Trump's Transgender Orders

Factcheck.org may be the best of the fact-checking websites that recently saw their influence decline when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to break up with them. However, a nearly 3,000-word SciCheck essay from Catalina Jaramillo on Monday proved that is still not good enough to justify the previous partnership, as she took aim at a series of transgender-related executive orders from…

Alex Christy
April 9th, 2025 2:33 PM

Networks Ignore Bombshell Report Team Biden Hid on Covid Cases in 2019

Our friend and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr put a spotlight Tuesday on the revelation that a previously censored 2022 Biden administration report on the coronavirus pandemic that he said showed “[s]even Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic.”

Curtis Houck
April 9th, 2025 1:53 PM

Fox's The Cleaning Lady Laughs About an Illegal Stealing an Identity

Tuesday night's episode of Fox's The Cleaning Lady, a drama about illegal aliens living in the U.S., made light of criminal aliens stealing the identities of American citizens.

Elise Ehrhard
April 9th, 2025 10:31 AM

Woke of the Weak: Media Distorts And Contorts To Fit Woke Narrative

One student arrived at a school track meet with an intent to play sports. Another arrived with an attitude and a knife.

Justine Brooke Murray
April 9th, 2025 10:30 AM

Lydic Promotes Senate Candidate Who Claims 'Hate Is Having a Moment'

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Desi Lydic, welcomed Michigan State Senator and U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow to Tuesday’s show to discuss her book Hate Won’t Win. Both host and guest lamented that “hate is having a moment” after the 2024 election as McMorrow tried to sanitize her record that led her to become famous in the first place.

Alex Christy
April 9th, 2025 10:05 AM

Column: Cory Booker's Blab-a-Thon Underlines 'Fact Checker' TILT

On April 7, Facebook pulled the plug on the censorship of “independent fact checkers,” replacing it with a “Community Notes” approach, like Elon Musk’s X uses. No one was more upset than the censorious left-wing “fact” police. But PolitiFact's treatment of Sen. Cory Booker's "historic" 25-hour speech on the Senate floor proves they're often in the tank for Democrats.

Tim Graham
April 9th, 2025 6:11 AM