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WORST OF 2020: Silliest Analysis
All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. Today, we look at the silliest analysis of 2020.
Column: COVID Curtails the Comfort and Joy of Christmas Music
Way back on November 13, Washington D.C. radio station WASH-FM flipped the switch to its annual 24/7 Christmas music rotation. That’s about two weeks before the rest of America. After the severely limited year of 2020, it’s understandable more people would haul out the holly and get in the spirit early, but many on social media cried “No Christmas music until after Thanksgiving.” Then imagine…
CBS Frets Too Much E-MAILING Contributes to Global Warming
On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Mark Phillips devoted a full report to fretting that all the e-mailing and computer usage, as well as other ways people consume energy at home, is actually counterracting the environmental "silver lining" that liberals have tried to take comfort in during the pandemic as fewer people drive to work.
MSNBC's Wallace Slams GOP 'Jerks' After Rubio, McConnell Get Vaccine
On Monday's Deadline: White House, MSNBC host and disgruntled ex-Republican Nicolle Wallace reacted to news that Republican Senators Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham were among those who got the COVID-19 vaccine, suggesting they did not deserve it so soon because they have been "jerks" in reacting to the pandemic.
Boris-Hating NY Times Gloats Over UK Woes, Compares Brexit to COVID
The New York Times didn’t show much Christmas spirit when it likened the sudden stringent new Christmas-season corona restrictions put in place by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Brexit. The paper has always been hostile to both Brexit (the 2016 popular vote that called for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union) and conservative party leader Boris Johnson.…
'HAM-HEADED': Liberal Pals Rush to Defend Stelter from Fox Mockery
Sister Toldjah at RedState took up the sad story of Justin Baragona of the Daily Beast, rushing to the defense of CNN host Brian Stelter being mocked by Kennedy on Fox News, but couldn't seem to actually work hard enough to transcribe it for Twitter.
WORST OF 2020: The Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2020. Today, it’s a look at the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome as we present the year’s most over-the-top attacks on President Donald Trump.
'Merry Freaking Christmas': CNN Anchor's Hot Take on Trump Pardons
On CNN's New Day this morning, co-host John Berman felt free to say: "Merry Freaking Christmas." Berman did so for the purpose of scoring a cheap political point about Trump pardons. His notion was that, given the continuing wrangling over the Covid relief package, the unemployed and members of the armed services are unsure of when their relief or pay raises will be coming. But for…
Politico Hails Justin Trudeau's Mighty Beard, Mockery Ensues
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has been celebrated in American media as a socialist dreamboat, often compared in progressive sex appeal to our own Barack Obama. This broke out again (to conservative mockery on Twitter) when Politico reviewed the year in Canada with a reflection on how Trudeau's beard was capital-S "Significant:
UPDATE: Nets Cover-Up Police Video of Warnock’s Domestic Dispute
Tuesday night, NewsBusters asked if the broadcast networks would care to cover the newly revealed police body camera video featuring Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock (D) as they responded to a domestic dispute. Despite the alleged incident being contemporaneous and had video from the police response, ABC, CBS, and NBC omitted the story from their flagship morning and evening news…
NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Stop Coddling the Cuomos!
With Christmas approaching, the creatures weren't stirring so much at the Media Research Center, but there was still time for a NewsBusters podcast, time for a look back at one of the celebrated Democratic Party families that were coddled throughout 2020: the Cuomos. This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proclaimed before his Albany enablers in the press that Santa Claus would be good to him this year…
Sharpton, Guest: White Christians Are Denying Black People the Gospel
On Sunday’s PoliticsNation, Al Sharpton collaborated with pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Reverend William H. Lamar IV to launch racist attacks on the “white church.” In response to six seminary leaders refusing to add critical race theory to their curriculums, Lamar labeled white church leaders as “plutocrats,” “oligarchs,” and “…
Team Biden Upset White House Twitter Accounts Would Start From Zero
The left is never happy. Likely president Joe Biden’s team is angry at Twitter because the site won’t transfer all of President Donald Trump’s official followers to Biden.
NYT's Football-Hating Sportswriter Goes After Kansas City Chiefs
Perhaps disappointed that the National Football League had the audacity to play this year, New York Times “Sports of the Times” columnist Kurt Streeter found another way to attack the league from the left – the tired old hobbyhorse of allegedly offensive American Indian nicknames. “A Growing Movement Tired of Being Your Mascots” is the latest dose of guilt-ridden consciousness-raising…