CNN Host PERPLEXED By Biden's Low Approval, Historian Oozes Optimism

While guest hosting Inside Politics on CNN on Thursday, Phil Mattingly wondered how President Biden's approval rating could be so low, after all he has signed major pieces of legislation and the economy is "robust." To alleviate his confusion, Mattingly welcomed CNN historian Tim Naftali to explain that Biden's numbers will eventually go up because at the current moment he is being…

Alex Christy
December 30th, 2021 7:57 PM

We’ve Survived 2021! Here’s the Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs From 2021

Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.

Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2021 5:07 PM

TikTok Permanently Bans Judicial Watch Boss Tom Fitton’s Account

Judicial Watch is speaking out on Instagram after video social media app TikTok allegedly permanently banned its president’s account.


 

Autumn Johnson
December 30th, 2021 4:40 PM

DOOCY TIME: Here’s Peter’s Top Briefing Tangles With Jen Psaki in 2021

Following four years of combative White House press briefings and showboaters like Jim Acosta and April Ryan becoming Resistance household names, the White House Briefing Room saw a different show in 2021 with Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Often times, one could count on one man to do what Acosta refused to do in respectfully challenging an administration: Fox’s Peter Doocy.

Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2021 3:30 PM

Pedo Problem: Second CNN Producer With 'Potential Juvenile Victims'

CNN is ending 2021 the same way they spent most of it: in the gutter. Late Wednesday, news broke that yet another CNN producer was under “criminal investigation” for sexually preying on minors. This time it was the producer for Jake Tapper’s weekday show The Lead, Rick Saleeby.

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 30th, 2021 3:23 PM

Report: Facebook Strategized to Divide Congress, Not Apologize

Facebook has done everything since “whistleblower” Frances Haugen’s revelations except apologize. The company changed its name, denied massive problems, and reportedly even sold different narratives to politicians from different ends of the political spectrum.

Catherine Salgado
December 30th, 2021 3:22 PM

Which Tweeter Is More Ridiculous? Dan Rather or Keith OIbermann?

It seems to be a contest this week for which disgraced "news" man can sound more ridiculous on Twitter -- Dan Rather or Keith Olbermann? Is it Rather on "Let's Go Brandon"? Or is it Keith whacking at Mitt Romney's family Christmas photo? 

Tim Graham
December 30th, 2021 3:19 PM

Twitter Bans Vax Scientist for Alleged COVID-19 ‘Harmful Information’

mRNA vaccine inventor Robert Malone was suspended by Twitter for alleged “misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”

Catherine Salgado
December 30th, 2021 2:39 PM

MSNBC: Parents Criticizing School Boards Are 'Attacking Democracy'

You just can’t make this stuff up. MSNBC spent Wednesday night worrying that parents involved in their kids’ school educations were an "attack on democracy.” 

Kristine Marsh
December 30th, 2021 2:20 PM

Economist Who Downplayed Inflation Says He’s Still ‘Team Transitory’

An elitist economist is insulting his readers by doubling down on the much-criticized notion that spiking inflation is only “transitory.” 

Joseph Vazquez
December 30th, 2021 11:55 AM

Here's 2021's Most Out of Touch Moments on 'The View'

The View is hardly a balanced political show. How can it be, with three or four liberals against one conservative? (Or no conservative, as it has been this season.) Still, there are moments on the show where you can’t believe what you are hearing, because it is so far removed from reality. Recognizing that, here are the most out of touch, wackiest reactions and comments from the hosts…

Kristine Marsh
December 30th, 2021 10:26 AM

Editor’s Pick: NRO Covers Fallout of NYC’s Drug Injection Sites

Doing reporting the liberal media wouldn’t dare to do (or at least consistently), National Review’s Zachary Evans has a piece from Thursday morning highlighting the scene outside New York City’s two so-called safe injection sites, which “provide clean syringes and overdose-prevention services to addicts, who bring drugs from outside,” allow them to shoot up, and then be revived by medical…

Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2021 10:11 AM
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CNN Analyst: 'Too Kind' To Call Trump 'Leader of a Terror Movement'

Lumping Donald Trump with Osama Bin Laden? That's going too easy on the former president! On New Day, CNN's "national security analyst" and former Obama aide Juliette Kayyem said that when a year ago in an Atlantic article she depicted Trump as being "the leader of a terror movement," she was, as she recently tweeted, actually being "too kind" to him!

Mark Finkelstein
December 30th, 2021 9:23 AM

MSNBC: Fox News Only Covering Theft Because They Hate Black People

Chris Hayes has a long history of making absurd and hateful claims on his nightly MSNBC show, but it appears there is no comment or bizarre conspiracy theory that’s too low for him. On Wednesday night’s edition of “All In”, Hayes spent an entire segment dismissing America’s rising crime rates, and questioned the motives of any network that dared to cover it.

Kevin Tober
December 30th, 2021 1:02 AM