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NB Year in Review: Tracking the Media's Hate for Conservatives
In 2018 there was a torrent of ugliness directed at conservatives. Vice President Mike Pence was disgustingly derided as a “dangerous” Christian with a “mental illness” on ABC’s The View. When White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was hounded by leftist activists at a Virginia restaurant, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin praised them as she condemned: “Sarah Huckabee has no right…
December 25th, 2018 8:00 AM
New York Times Humbly Revisits Its Critics Trashing Christmas Classics
There are rare moments that The New York Times allows some air out of its balloon of arrogance. For Christmas, Scott Tobias revisited some of the most popular Christmas-themed classics, and found the Times film critics didn't always match the popular consensus. "The holidays have given us an occasion to dig through the archives to see if New York Times critics were on the right side of history…
December 25th, 2018 7:10 AM
NYT Reveals Secret to Happiness: Government Programs and High Taxes
A New York Times reporter travels to a small town in Finland billed as the happiest place on earth, and determines that its secret to happiness is . . . multitudinous government programs and high taxes.
December 25th, 2018 6:00 AM
Joe Scarborough Slams Wall 'Insanity,' Won't Stop Visa Overstays
On the Christmas Eve edition of Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough pushed the lame argument that, because a majority of illegal immigtants are estimated to be visa overstays, it is therefore not worth it to build a border wall to halt the substantial number who cross from Mexico illegally.
December 24th, 2018 11:49 PM
CNN Gives 15-Year-Old Forum to Push Climate Alarmism
On his Sunday show, CNN host Fareed Zakaria devoted the final segment to interviewing 15-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, giving her an unchallenged forum to promote her alarmist views on global warming. Thunberg -- who gained attenton by skipping school for three weeks to draw attention to her cause -- claimed that "climate change" is the "biggest crisis humanity has ever…
December 24th, 2018 7:53 PM
As Court Now Leans Right, NYT Warns 'Dangerous Time' for 'Legitimacy'
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak sent up a warning flare for Chief Justice John Roberts from the front page of Monday’s New York Times: It would be “dangerous” for the Supreme Court to be seen as conservative. The headline: “As Supreme Court Tips Right, Chief Justice Steers to Center." patting Roberts on the back for his perceived shunning of his more right-leaning Justice…
December 24th, 2018 4:35 PM
Chuck Todd's Hype Machine: 'What If the President IS the Crisis?'
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has proclaimed he thinks NBC and MSNBC are very centered on Facts, unlike Fox News. But his opening to his show on Sunday sounded like a dramatic editorial, underlining all of Trump’s problems with Republican leaders and conservative radio and TV hosts, throwing together the shutdown, the resignation of the defense secretary, and the stock market decline into one…
December 24th, 2018 12:29 PM
Ex-NY Times Boss Raines Hints 'Treason' in WH, GOP Tearing U.S. Apart
Appearing as a guest on Friday's All In show on MSNBC, former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines suggested that there is the "functional equivalent of treason" in the White House, and asserted that, unlike President Abraham Lincoln's Republican party, the modern GOP is "intent on tearing apart" the Union.
December 24th, 2018 11:56 AM
WashPost Finds #MeToo Excess: 'Should Children Sit on Santa's Lap?'
It was only a matter of time. On Sunday, The Washington Post ran a story asking "Should children sit on Santa's lap?" We're told "Some parents are questioning the tradition amid the #MeToo movement and a national conversation over teaching children about consent."
December 24th, 2018 10:31 AM
All Aboard the Crazy Train! Here’s the Ten Craziest Briefing Moments
Though they decreased dramatically in frequency as 2018 wore on, the year still offered plenty of aggravating and head-scratching moments inside the White House Briefing Room. Whether it was CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta making a fool of himself, CNN political analyst April Ryan trying to make herself into a martyr, or most of the press corps questioning the President’s mental…
December 24th, 2018 10:05 AM
Scarborough: 'Terminal' Trump Presidency Threatens a Global 'Pandemic'
After agreeing with a Washington Post column calling the Trump administration a "rogue presidency," Joe Scarborough declares that the Trump administration is "terminal: this administration will not survive." Then—in describing what he sees as the threat that Trump poses to the world— Scarborough proceeded to use literally apocalyptic language: "what does everybody do, working together, to make…
December 24th, 2018 8:58 AM
NB Year in Review: Media Swooning Over Their Liberal Heroes
As 2018 comes to a close, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. In today’s installment, we have the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons. Examples include MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell gushing over Barack Obama: “His mind is too supple, too complex, too rich compared to my own.”
December 24th, 2018 8:00 AM
MSNBC Republican: Rick Tyler Suggests Wall Supporters Are Racists
On Friday's Hardball, Rick Tyler became the latest allegedly right-leaning MSNBC contributor to insert blatantly liberal or anti-conservative commentary into his analysis as he accused border wall supporters of racism, asserting that they "don't want people who are not white" coming into the country. "That's what this is about," he added.
December 24th, 2018 6:56 AM
Merry Trumpmas:'Madam Secretary' Decries 'Inhumane' Family Separations
CBS’s Madam Secretary is proving to be the real Grinch this holiday season. In addition to premiering its 100th episode less than 48 hours before Christmas, it proceeds to feature a plot on family separations at the border. Somehow, I doubt anyone’s heart will grow three sizes after this day.
December 23rd, 2018 11:27 PM