NY Times Condescends: 'McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us'

Nicholas Kristof linked his love for big-spending European nations to the coronavirus pandemic in a full-page column for Sunday’s New York Times, “McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us.” He got in tasteless cracks: "More than 35,000 Americans have already died in part because the United States could not manage the pandemic as deftly as Denmark." Then he suggested: "How horrifying would it be if…
Clay Waters
May 10th, 2020 6:23 PM

Fox Media Panel Slams HuffPost for 'Irresponsible' Anti-Trump Coverage

During Sunday’s MediaBuzz on Fox News, a bipartisan media panel excoriated the “left-wing Huffington Post” for publishing a “ridiculous” anti-Trump article titled: “Donald Trump doesn't care if you die from coronavirus.” And after noting that the article “simply said, ‘Well, he has trouble expressing empathy,’” Anchor Howard Kurtz knocked them for suffering from a “classic case of Trump Trauma.”
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 10th, 2020 5:49 PM

Stelter: Right-Wing Media Downplaying Virus Deaths By Covering Flynn

In kicking off Sunday’s un-Reliable Sources, host and liberal hack Brian Stelter tried to distract from the corrupt FBI officials exposed via the revelations in the General Michael Flynn case by suggesting: “right-wing” coverage of the case was an attempt to “downplay” and “normalize” the massive death toll from the Chinese Coronavirus.
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 10th, 2020 1:10 PM

NBC Cheers Task Force Quarantines as a Rebuke of Trump and Reopening

Over the weekend, three of the nation’s top health officials and members of the Coronavirus Task Force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, began their two weeks of at-home quarantine after they came in contact with someone with the virus. NBC’s Sunday Today, used the opportunity to take a morbid victory lap and cheer it as a rebuke of President Trump and calls to reopen. Political director Chuck Todd…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 10th, 2020 10:35 AM

Obama Aide Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Collusion

Sean Davis at The Federalist reports a newly declassified transcript of congressional testimony shows former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified under oath that she lied during an MSNBC Morning Joe interview on March 2, 2017, when she claimed to have evidence of alleged Trump collusion with the Russians. "I didn't know anything." She had a feeling. This represents the…
Tim Graham
May 10th, 2020 6:56 AM

Shields Slams Barr for Ruining Himself, Becoming 'Trump's Roy Cohn'

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal pundit Mark Shields ripped Attorney General William Barr for ruining his own legacy by being the president's "in-house lawyer," but he wanted a more stinging insult. He suggested he was "Donald Trump's Roy Cohn," a lawyer hated by liberals for prosecuting Soviet agents like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Cold War years. Shields pretended the whole time that…
Tim Graham
May 9th, 2020 9:45 PM

'AM Joy' Panel Blames NRA, the 'Rise of Trumpism' for Georgia Murder

The panel on Saturday’s edition of AM Joy wasted no time blaming the NRA as well as President Trump for the tragic shooting of unarmed African-American Glynn County, Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery. Throughout the segment, host Joy Reid and the panel painted police officers as racists and repeatedly trashed those protesting the stay-at-home orders.

Ryan Foley
May 9th, 2020 7:25 PM

The Media's Long History of Covering for Joe Biden

In a nearby flashback, this September, 2019 post from NB colleagues Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock  recalled the 1987 flame-out of then Delaware Senator Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign over the issue of plagiarized speeches. The flashback caught my eye because, as I have mentioned over time in other venues, I was involved. And were the situation to occur in today’s media world, there is no…
Jeffrey Lord
May 9th, 2020 4:00 PM

Source Finds Nasty NY Times Story Didn't 'Fully Reflect My Experience'

On the front of Wednesday’s New York Times was an article with the usual anti-White House theme. The headline was “FEMA Supply Effort Tangled by Kushner Team.” There were five names in the byline, and another three credited at the end. But still, the main character in this article wasn’t thrilled. Dr. Jeffrey Hendricks shared his frustrations with the Team Trump volunteers trying to procure…
Tim Graham
May 9th, 2020 3:14 PM

MSNBC's Melber Refuses To Confront Schiff About Transcripts

During the early part of the Trump Administration it was not uncommon for Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to tell every TV camera and sympathetic journalist he could find that it was beyond doubt that Trump had colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. But recently released transcripts showed former Obama officials, despite their public proclamations to the contrary, had no such…
Alex Christy
May 9th, 2020 2:39 PM

NY Times Whines: GOP Science 'Denialists' 'Seized' on Wacky Green Deal

New York Times environmental activist reporter Lisa Friedman, whose paper has taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to push liberal causes, now regrets the Republican Party has “seized” on (wholly justified) fears about Democratic environmental policy: “G.O.P. Aims to Use Pain Of Shutdown to Tarnish Climate Change Policies.” It opened: "The coronavirus and the struggle to contain it has…
Clay Waters
May 9th, 2020 2:26 PM

Early Look at 'Space Force': Trump Bashing and Praise for AOC?

Modern comedians have President Donald Trump living rent free in their heads for better and certainly worse. The laugh industry is obsessed with America’s 45th president. Trump turned late night monologues into DNC jam sessions, to say nothing of how he crushed Saturday Night Live’s apolitical lineage. Now, we have Space Force.
Christian Toto
May 9th, 2020 1:30 PM

NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With Trump (Fired Days Later)

Usually, our NewsBusters FLASHBACK items showcase liberal news media examples a little older than a week. But this one is too good to forget. On April 27, NBC News President Andy Lack published a haughty op-ed for the network’s website Think. It was titled, “Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we're winning.” One week after this op-ed was published, Lack was fired…
Scott Whitlock
May 9th, 2020 12:15 PM

Does YouTube Consider CCP to Be an 'Authoritative Source?'

We already know that YouTube considers the World Health Organization to be an 'authoritative source' to the extent that it will remove (censor) videos that run counter to the views promoted that organization by labeling such videos as "misinformation." However, the real question should be does YouTube also consider the Chinese Communist Party as an "authoritative source" in light of the fact that…
P.J. Gladnick
May 9th, 2020 10:00 AM