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CNN's Bash Bows to Blinken on Biden Team's Failures on Israel and Iran

On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash conducts a toadying interview of Secretary of State Tony Blinken regarding the Hamas attack on Israel. She lets NSA Jake Sullivan off the hook for recently bragging that the Middle East is quieter than it's been in decades, and that he spends less time on it than any of his predecessors in 20 years. And Bash virtually apologizes to Blinken for asking…

Mark Finkelstein
October 8th, 2023 6:44 PM

MSNBC Provides 'Context' to Terrorist Attacks Against Israel

During live coverage on MSNBC of the terrorist attacks against Israel Saturday morning, host Ali Velshi complained that nobody in Israel or the United States seemed to care that Palestine was supposedly being mistreated by Israel. He went on to criticize Republicans for using "boilerplate" language defending Israel after they were attacked. 

Kevin Tober
October 8th, 2023 3:11 PM

CBS Lets Rachel Maddow Warn of 'Ultra-Right' Fascism Coming to America

During a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, correspondent Rita Braver sat down with rabid leftist MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and dutifully helped her promote her new book "Prequel: An American Fight against Fascism." While it's common for Sunday Morning to interview authors about their new books, they have yet to interview talk radio star and Fox News host Mark Levin about his new…

Kevin Tober
October 8th, 2023 2:30 PM

Washington Post Lectures on the 'Corporate Genocide' of Pumpkin Spice

Leftist newspapers like The Washington Post dearly love a chance to remind us of how savage white Europeans committed genocide 500 years ago. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn noted that on Friday, the Post brought the Debbie Downer history lesson to "pumpkin spice," just in time for the October craze.

Tim Graham
October 8th, 2023 2:24 PM

Haley SCHOOLS NBC's Welker on Biden's Terror Money to Iran

On Sunday, the day after the horrific and unprovoked terrorist attacks by Hamas against the state of Israel, the Biden administration's surrogates in the media have begun circling the wagons around the president and pretending that the $6 billion he provided Iran didn't embolden Hamas's reign of terror. The latest evidence of this came during NBC's Meet the Press when moderator…

Kevin Tober
October 8th, 2023 11:36 AM

Ex-WashPost Editor Implies Any Interview with Trump Is a 'Big Mistake'

On Friday, former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron appeared on their Washington Post Live to promote his new book on leading the Post in the Trump years. Baron implied any interview with Donald Trump is a big mistake. It's just "giving him a platform, he controls the conversation." In essence, unless the press can "win," Trump should be denied. 

Tim Graham
October 7th, 2023 10:11 PM

The New York Times Has No Self-Awareness

Ya gotta love the sheer self-unawareness at The New York Times. In the wake of the GOP rebellion in the House that cost GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy his job, The Times headlined this:

Jeffrey Lord
October 7th, 2023 4:00 PM

UH-OH! NPR Morning Anchor Steve Inskeep Infuriates the Left on MSNBC

NPR morning anchor Steve Inskeep appeared on MSNBC's Alex Wagner Tonight and infuriated leftist Joan Walsh for suggesting the Democrats were acting in their own interests (and not on principle!) in voting to dump Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Another leftist said he won't listen to NPR, or "Nice Polite Republicans," because of Inskeep.

Tim Graham
October 7th, 2023 3:07 PM

Amanpour Shocked Palestinian Doesn't Feel Threatened By Hamas

Christiane Amanpour took a day off from her “truthful, not neutral” campaign on Saturday’s CNN Newsroom when she interviewed Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti about the massive Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel. Not only did Barghouti naturally spew his propaganda, but he also surprised Amanpour, who apparently lives in such a thick bubble, was surprised when he…

Alex Christy
October 7th, 2023 2:20 PM

Free to Choose Mini-Doc Captures Chilling Attacks on Comedy

“Lenny Bruce would be impossible today.” So says Svetlana Mintcheva, the director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship. Mintcheva shares that observation in a compelling new docu-short called “Crossing the Line in Comedy.”

Christian Toto
October 7th, 2023 1:30 PM

NBC Breaks Out 'Extreme Right' Label as Israel Works to Save Hostages

NBC’s Raf Sanchez picked the worst possible time to break out the “extreme right” labeling as he reported from Israel on Saturday’s Today in the aftermath of the massive Hamas terrorist attacks and the possibility that the “extreme right” Israeli government may decide to invade Gaza to rescue the hostages there.

Alex Christy
October 7th, 2023 12:05 PM

Mitchell Blames Terrorist Attack On Israelis, Saudis Ignoring Biden

During the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Israel that left over 100 dead, 900 injured, and resulted in several hostages, MSNBC naturally asked on Saturday how this could have happened. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell joined the breaking news coverage via phone to claim that a big reason why was that the Israelis and the Saudis would not listen to President…

Alex Christy
October 7th, 2023 10:39 AM

FLASHBACK: Media Blamed GOP ‘Hard Right’ After Boehner’s Exit, Too

Since Tuesday’s ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, journalists have slammed House Republicans as radicals and extremists. If it sounds familiar, it’s because that’s exactly what viewers heard after Republican Speaker John Boehner stepped down eight years ago.

Rich Noyes
October 7th, 2023 8:42 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Covering (Up) Antifa Activist Stabbed to Death

ABC, CBS, and NBC reported the senseless murder of Antifa activist Ryan Carson in Brooklyn, but they downplayed his radicalism ("community activist") and ignored his girlfriend refusing to cooperate with police identifying the black suspect.

Tim Graham
October 6th, 2023 9:45 PM