Politico Handles Senate Gay Sex Tape Scandal Very, Very Delicately

Politico's Playbook gingerly handled the gay unprotected sex in the Hart Senate Building by letting the Daily Caller tackle most of the sordid details.

P.J. Gladnick
December 17th, 2023 6:31 AM

Fox News Touts Gun Owner Who Scared Off Five Robbers in San Francisco

On Friday's Fox & Friends, the show again showed viewers an example of how important it is for Americans to own guns to deter crime as the hosts discussed surveillance video of a 73 year-old man in San Francisco who used a handgun to scare five smash and grab robbers out of the store where he worked.

Brad Wilmouth
December 17th, 2023 6:06 AM

At NY Times, Cynical Weisman Paints Antisemitism As GOP Wedge Issue

New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with “Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic? A Fraught Question for the Moment.” Weisman approached the sensitive matter with his trademark politically corrupted cynicism: In Weisman’s world, no matter the gravity of the issue at hand, Republicans are invariably being…

Clay Waters
December 16th, 2023 10:44 PM

WashPost's Matt Viser Offers Valentine to Hunter's 'Defiant' Statement

When the Bidens need a really syrupy approach to its public statements, they can count on Washington Post reporter Matt "Biden Adviser" Viser to lay it on thick.

Tim Graham
December 16th, 2023 6:51 PM

Fired New York Times Editor James Bennet: The Times 'Lost Its Way'

In the day, it was a news-grabbing story. NewsBusters’ own Curtis Houck headlined the story when it happened in 2020. 

Jeffrey Lord
December 16th, 2023 4:00 PM

Comedy Cowards: Late Night, ‘SNL’ (Mostly) Ignore Antisemitism Spike

Give “Saturday Night Live’s” disastrous Ivy League presidents sketch a little credit. The show indirectly acknowledged the anti-Jewish sentiment flooding the country following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

Christian Toto
December 16th, 2023 1:30 PM

Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles

Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Alex Christy
December 16th, 2023 12:09 PM

Marcus Attacks GOP For 'Shameful Misuse of the Impeachment Power'

In a surprising development, PBS NewsHour’s Friday weekly news recap featured almost a debate between New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus on House Republicans formally approving an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with the former wondering what the big deal is and the latter labeling it a “shameful misuse of the…

Alex Christy
December 16th, 2023 10:02 AM

FLASHBACK: Cheering Obama’s ‘Historic’ Embrace of Castro Dictatorship

Nine years ago this week, President Barack Obama chose to establish formal relations with the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Instead of worrying that Obama was handing a much-needed and undeserved lifeline to the decades-long Castro dictatorship, the liberal media applauded the “historic” decision.

Rich Noyes
December 16th, 2023 8:45 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: When 'Fact Checkers' Sound Like Lefty Columnists

They describe themselves as "independent fact-checkers," but they're not. They sound like liberal columnists, which is why conservatives and Republicans disdain their partisan rulings. Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren have been "fact checked" very, very differently in the last decade. Alex Christy discusses the chapter he wrote with Brent Baker in the new book A Future for the News.

Tim Graham
December 15th, 2023 11:59 PM

Bidenomics after 34 Months: Six Charts the Media Don’t Want You to See

Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.
Craig Bannister
December 15th, 2023 3:41 PM

MSNBC: Impeachment Probe Vote Is a Distraction Biden’s Booming Economy

The crack sleuths on MSNBC were on the case Thursday afternoon and got to the bottom of the impeachment probe of President Joe Biden. No, they didn’t take the accusations of corruption seriously and they didn’t care to dig into the Biden family’s tangled web of shell companies getting payments from foreign entities. But what they did purport to discover was the motive of House Republicans in…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 15th, 2023 2:05 PM

TV Says You’re Wrong, Joe Biden’s Economy Is Really Wonderful

As polls show Joe Biden’s re-election is in peril because of the public’s negative opinion of how he’s handled the economy, TV viewers woke up Friday morning to a round of happy talk telling them that, despite what they might think, the economy is really quite spectacular.

Rich Noyes
December 15th, 2023 11:50 AM

The Bold & the Beautiful…& the Pro-Hamas: This Week at WH Briefings

With President Biden out and about to start the week, White House press briefings didn’t kick off this week until Wednesday and continued on Thursday, leaving plenty of space for questions from the left bashing Israel, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson and Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann stumping Biden flacks Karine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby, and, of course, Doocy Time on Hunter…

Curtis Houck
December 15th, 2023 11:32 AM