Late Night Shows Receive Their Shutdown Talking Points
On Wednesday, the late night comedians received their government shutdown-related marching orders. To listen to them is no different than any generic Democratic member of Congress who portrays the shutdown as a showdown between Democrats, who want people to have healthcare, and Republicans, who do not.
HACK! Stephanopoulos Berates Johnson, Sucks Up to Jeffries on Shutdown
For day one of the government shutdown, ABC’s Good Morning America showed its rancorous liberal bias with back-to-back interviews Wednesday of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Co-host George Stephanopoulos fully embraced his background as a one-time Clinton official by berating and screeching at Johnson while providing Jeffries a…
Colbert Ties Hegseth's 'Warrior Ethos' Speech To Debate Over Rhetoric
There were plenty of dumb hot takes from the left after a Tuesday speech by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to an assembled audience of generals and admirals, but CBS’s Stephen Colbert may have had the dumbest. For some reason, The Late Show host tried to tie Hegseth’s observation that the people in the crowd “kill people and break things” to other ongoing conversations about the need to…
Ex-Meta Executive Pans Milquetoast YouTube Censorship Rollback on CBS
YouTube is already signaling that any move away from censorship will be limited and far off. But even the hint that the enormous video program might back down was too much for this CBS guest.
Kimmel, Colbert Talk Suspension, But Avoid Reason Why
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert guested on each other’s respective Tuesday shows, and the former’s recent suspension was naturally a topic of interest. However, the reason why ABC suspended Kimmel in the first place went unmentioned, but there was still plenty of attacks on “that son of a bitch,” President Trump, and mutual back patting.
Networks Side With Liberals, Covert Activists in Shutdown Fight
Despite the only group standing in the way of averting a government shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Wednesday are Senate Democrats, ABC, CBS, and NBC have all taken their side in demanding a permanent extension of ObamaCare subsides that were meant to be temporary during the pandemic (along with a whole host of other goodies, including refunding PBS and NPR). Shutdowns have long been something…
Houck on ‘Right View with Lara Trump’: ‘We Need a Cultural Revival’
In a Thursday interview with Lara Trump on her show The Right View for the Right Side Broadcasting Network, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck highlighted the Media Research Center’s commitment to providing rigorous, evidence-based analysis of media coverage. He also talked about how the corporate media can regain the trust of the American people.
CBS Suggests Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Had Some Good Arguments & Tactics
Under no circumstances did they ‘have to hand it to him.’ That’s the lesson CBS News seemed incapable of comprehending during this past weekend’s Sunday Morning when veteran journalist Ted Koppel led off the show’s programming with a story about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s brother, which featured a chat where they touted how the terrorist and murderer may have been right about…
'Shatter Norms And Carry On': CBS Mourns Response To Comey Indictment
CBS Evening News host Maurice DuBois and chief Washington analyst Robert Costa collectively mourned on Friday that there does not appear to be any internal White House dissent over the decision to indict former FBI Director James Comey. For Costa in particular, the mood could be described as “shatter norms and carry on.”
See No Evil: Networks Won’t Link ICE Attack to Far Left Rhetoric
Since Wednesday’s deadly attack on a Dallas, Texas Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) facility by an anti-ICE loon, ABC, CBS, and NBC followed an identical pattern from their coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination by cowardly refusing to tie the incendiary rhetoric from their own side about the Trump administration and its supporters to crazies taking matters into their own hands. …
Stephanopoulos UNGLUED Over Comey Indictment, ‘Norms...Shattered’
ABC’s Good Morning America — helmed by co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos — was beside itself on Friday and enraged over Thursday’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, calling this a sign “norms...have been shattered” about an independent Department of Justice with “President Trump’s retribution campaign” having “reached a new and ominous level[.]”…
Colbert, Strong Blame George H.W. Bush For Impending Climate Doom
No Republican is safe from CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s wrath, not even former President and quintessential moderate George H.W. Bush. According to Colbert and actor Jeremy Strong on Thursday, “we risk losing essentially everything” to climate change, and it is Bush’s fault.
BLACKOUT: Evening Nets Spike 3rd Q2 GDP Revision Showing Hotter Growth
There’s no other way to say it: A new report shows the Trump economy has continued to defy expectations, but you wouldn’t know any of this watching the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts.