The Media's All Over the Lot on the Debate: Ratings, Trump, and 'X'

The media coverage of the first Republican presidential debate is all over the lot.  Which, in fact, says something about the state of the GOP race in the media. It's too early to decide much yet. 

Jeffrey Lord
August 26th, 2023 5:30 PM

Clay Travis: Cancel Culture Made Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ Even Bigger

Author Clay Travis includes a “Letter to the Editor” he wrote during his college days in “American Playbook.”

Christian Toto
August 26th, 2023 1:30 PM

Nets Push Left-Wing Grievances For March On Washington Anniversary

The Saturday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today, and CBS Saturday Morning all focused on the festivities 60th anniversary of the March on Washington not just by recounting Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech, but by assisting today’s organizers in portraying overcoming current progressive grievances as the next chapter in the…

Alex Christy
August 26th, 2023 12:00 PM

CNN: Florida May Make It 'Illegal to Read About an Enslaved Person'

CNN Tonight host Laura Coates previewed the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Friday by welcoming The Beat Goes On director Mario Van Peebles and executive producer who promptly used the occasion to push not only left-wing agendas, such as abortion, but to spread fake news about how Florida Republicans make it “illegal to read about an enslaved person.”

Alex Christy
August 26th, 2023 9:53 AM

Media Spare Biden Bad Press Over Maui Blunders; Savaged Bush in ’05

The media's kid-gloves treatment of Joe Biden after his inept response to the horrific Maui firestorm on August 8 stands in stark contrast to the withering attacks unleashed against then-President George W. Bush in the wake of the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.

Rich Noyes
August 26th, 2023 8:50 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Mug Shot Glee and Stephanopoulos Fit of Pique

The media's Trump-indictment obsessives engaged in all kinds of glee out of Fulton County mug shots of Donald Trump's "co-conspirators" in Georgia, and the glee only grew once Trump's mug shot was released. After the first Republican debate, alleged democracy-defending reporters suggested Trump-less debates were pointless. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joins the show.

Tim Graham
August 25th, 2023 10:48 PM

Asian NBC Reporter Links Vivek's Border Talking Points to 'Neo-Nazis'

The Republicans never get credit for diversity on the debate stage. Instead, the "Asian America" section of NBCNews.com bizarrely connected Vivek Ramaswamy to the talking points of "neo-Nazis."

Tim Graham
August 25th, 2023 8:48 PM

CNN Exploits Hawaii, California Disasters to Push Climate Change

Over the weekend, CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta fanned the flames of global warming hysteria in his coverage of both the wildfires in Hawaii and Tropical Storm Hilary in California. On Saturday, he had on environmental alarmist Professor Michael Mann to link fossil fuel use to the disaster in Hawaii, and, on Sunday, Acosta wrongly claimed that it was the first time that California had…

Brad Wilmouth
August 25th, 2023 6:08 PM

Vox’s Kara Swisher Melts Down in Reaction to Trump’s Twitter Return

Anti-free speech podcast host Kara Swisher issued a series of nasty tweets after former President Donald Trump returned to X (formerly Twitter).

Catherine Salgado
August 25th, 2023 5:57 PM

Bill Targeting Supreme Court Justices Introduced by Democrat Senators

Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), have introduced a bill by which Supreme Court justices can be disqualified, or otherwise punished, based on a yet-to-be-crafted and fluid “code of conduct.”
Craig Bannister
August 25th, 2023 5:20 PM

Joe Biden Is a Narcissist, Not an Empath

President Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. This has been the pitch for Biden for decades: not much in the way of brains, not a tremendously resourceful politician, awkward on his feet — but he cares. Or maybe, just maybe, Biden was never an empathetic man. Maybe he simply trafficked in ersatz empathy, all the while feeding his own narcissism.

Ben Shapiro
August 25th, 2023 4:47 PM

The Right BLASTS False Planned Parenthood Tweet on Late-Term Abortions

It’s days like this I just like to sit back with some popcorn and watch.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg
August 25th, 2023 4:05 PM

DEBACLE: Squawk Box Reacts to Disney’s Worst Close Since October 2014

Andrew Ross Sorkin announced the cataclysmic news from Disney with a chyron reading “Has Disney Lost its Magic” beneath him. 

Tom Olohan
August 25th, 2023 2:51 PM
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Steele Fears: If Elected in 2024, Trump Could Refuse To Leave Office!

On Morning Joe, Michael Steele, the former RNC Chairman turned MSNBC analyst, suggests that if elected in 2024, Donald Trump would refuse to leave office at the end of his term, and instead declare: "I'm going to be president for as long as I want to be president."

Mark Finkelstein
August 25th, 2023 2:12 PM