ABC, NBC Try to Sweep Away Joe Biden’s Vow to Obstruct Congress

On Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to not comply with any subpoena to testify in the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump. Such an action could be classified as obstruction of Congress, the same thing Trump was being impeached for. Biden began to backpedal over the weekend and he was aided in that effort by ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today. Both used…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 29th, 2019 10:31 AM

eSports Star McLean Named Non-Binary Person Of Year

It's a big, wacky and extremely wide world of sports as seen through the bizarre lens of SB Nation Outsports. It's also an expanding world, as Outsports just recognized its first-ever "Non-Binary Person of the Year": Dominique "SonicFox" McLean, a esports superstar and also a "furry." Not to mention the Republicans' worst friend.
Jay Maxson
December 29th, 2019 10:00 AM

WashPost Media Blogger Hits Maddow for 'Rooting' for Dubious Dossier

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple has been a fierce critic of Fox News in the Trump era. So it’s notable that he’s done six pieces on the collapse of the Steele dossier, and no article drew more notice than this one: “Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart.”
Tim Graham
December 29th, 2019 7:03 AM

MSNBC: 'Cruel' & 'Disturbing' That Mexico Keeps Illegals Out of U.S.

On Friday's The Beat with Ari Melber, fill-in host Ayman Mohyeldin led a panel discussion in which he and other MSNBC regulars complained about President Donald Trump's success in getting Mexico to shoulder some of the cost and responsibility for keeping illegal immigrants out of the U.S.
Brad Wilmouth
December 29th, 2019 6:26 AM

MSNBC Tries to Spin Booming Economy as Good for Democrats

With all the traditional economic indicators looking strong heading into an election year the conventional wisdom would hold that this is good news for the incumbent. But since the incumbent is a Republican, MSNBC Live host Ali Velshi and CNBC's John Harwood declared on Friday that all is not well and implied that the current economic situation could give credence to Democratic policy priorities…
Alex Christy
December 28th, 2019 9:42 PM

NPR's David Brooks Says Dems Are 'Crazy' to Think Trump Can Win Again

Liberals are breaking out in flop sweat that impeachment is going to backfire and that Donald Trump will be re-elected in November. So if you need someone to shake you out of your fears, there's always pseudo-conservative David Brooks of The New York Times. On the Friday "Week in Politics" segment on NPR's All Things Considered, he said Democrats are "crazy" to think Trump can win again. 
Tim Graham
December 28th, 2019 8:45 PM

Media Backfire: Christianity Today vs. Christian Post

For a small snapshot of the media battles that lie ahead in 2020? Take this one small example that spread like wildfire over the Christmas holidays. Six days before Christmas, one Mark Galli, the editor of Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine founded by no less than the late Reverend Billy Graham, penned this editorial.  The headline: "Trump Should Be Removed from Office It’s time to say…
Jeffrey Lord
December 28th, 2019 4:00 PM

NYT Front: Warren 'Makes Times to Talk to Kids...Not Asking for Money'

Reporter Shane Goldmacher had some hard-hitting news from the Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaign trial that made the front of Saturday’s New York Times. Her poll struggles as the voting public rejects her far-left plans to re-make health care and business? Not quite: “She Has a Plan For Telephoning Early and Often.” (That’s an affectionate take-off on Warren’s assurances of “having a plan” for…
Clay Waters
December 28th, 2019 3:22 PM

Think Hollywood's 2019 Box Office Was Bad? Wait Until 2020

The end of 2019 brings some grim news for Hollywood bean counters. The year’s box office tally came in roughly 4 percent lower than 2018. That’s the “sharpest decline in 5 years,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. With Dec. 31 fast approaching, industry leader Comscore projected Sunday that box office revenue in North America will hit $11.45 billion for the full year, a decline of 3.6 percent…
Christian Toto
December 28th, 2019 1:30 PM

FLASHBACK: WashPost Admired Obama’s ‘Chiseled Pecs’

Given the intense and sustained media attacks on Donald Trump, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how much journalists loved Barack Obama. Instead of comparing the President to Hitler or Nazis, The Washington Post embarrassed itself by drooling over the Democrat’s “chiseled pecs.” Eleven years ago this week, on December 25, 2008, The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow gushed over Barack Obama as a “…
Scott Whitlock
December 28th, 2019 12:15 PM

The Nation Honors Best Of The Best SJW's For Sports in 2019

Hardcore socialist Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation magazine, characterizes 2019 as a time of political resistance and victory against Trumpian white nationalists. His heroes shone in spite of the "orange smear" in the White House, and he also issued a call to arms for young journalist comrades to take up the social justice fight beyond the playing field.
Jay Maxson
December 28th, 2019 10:00 AM

Atlantic Mag Tries, Fails to Get Evangelical Leader to Criticize Trump

No matter how many times Atlantic magazine writer Emma Green tried to get the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Leith Anderson,  to criticize President Trump, she failed completely. Green should definitely made the effort over and over again but ultimately she completely failed to get the her desired result as you can see her  Wednesday interview, "Evangelicalism’s Silent…
P.J. Gladnick
December 28th, 2019 9:27 AM

WORST OF THE DECADE: Silliest Analysis

All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the decade. Today, we finish the series with the silliest analysis of the decade.    

Geoffrey Dickens
December 28th, 2019 9:00 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Cultural Winners and Losers of 2019

Whenever a force on the cultural left flaps its wings, it is saluted. In the rare occasion that the entity advances the cultural right, it's slammed, or ignored. But that's not necessarily how America sees it, thanks to social media that has done an end run around the press and told the truth. The left still dominates in the cultural space, but it no longer enjoys a monopoly. Let's look at the…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
December 28th, 2019 8:48 AM