Colbert Spins Staff Arrests by Capitol Police: 'First-Degree Puppetry'
On Monday's Late Show, CBS host Stephen Colbert addressed the arrest of seven staffers filming after-hours in the Longworth House Office Building. He made light of how they were committing "first-degree puppetry" and then blamed the sensitivity of the Capitol Police on "Putin's puppet" for causing the January 6 riots.
CBS: Gun-Rights Advocates Are Like People Who Fought for Slavery
On Face the Nation, CBS Racial Justice Contributor Ibram X. Kendi says that people who advocate for the right to own guns are akin to those who advocated for the right to own slaves.
CBS Hypes 2-Hour Watergate Special, Tries to Connect to Jan. 6 Panel
On Friday’s CBS Mornings, they promoted a two-hour documentary on Friday night hyping Watergate: High Crimes in the White House. They tied it into the new anti-Trump hearings. They brought on Lesley Stahl, who started 50 years ago at CBS News, to connect the Watergate hearings to the January 6 hearings.
Corden, RuPaul: Don't Ban Kids From Drag Shows, Ban Guns Instead
The Late Late Show host James Corden welcomed PuPaul onto the Friday edition of the CBS early morning talk show where they claimed to have a special insight into the mind of social conservatives: the reason they are opposed to children at drag shows is because they seek to distract from gun control efforts.
CBS Skips Hunter’s Laptop From Hell in Interview With Ex-Wife
Two days after ABC’s Good Morning America and co-host Amy Robach aired what our Tim Graham called an interview with Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle featuring “preposterously vague” questions and “carefully curated” answers, Thursday’s CBS Mornings sunk lower in ignoring topics such as Hunter’s infamous laptop and his alleged child out of wedlock.
Morning Nets Cover for ‘Frustrated’ Biden Blaming GOP for Poor Economy
On Wednesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC chose to do something it’s only occasionally done in mentioning President Biden during their coverage of the porous economy. But, as one would expect, they absolved him of blame and instead commiserated with the “frustrated” President as he’s “[felt] the heat” from voters while “pointing fingers at” Republicans and “tout[ing] his economic agenda.”
ABC, NBC Ignore HISTORIC GOP Win in Texas; Hispanic Nets Barely Cover
On Tuesday night, history was made in southeast Texas as Republican Mayra Flores won a special election in Texas’s 34th Congressional District, becoming the first Mexican-born woman to be elected to Congress and did so by winning a district President Biden won by 13 points in 2020. But not surprisingly, it fetched scant attention Wednesday morning on the English and Spanish broadcast networks…
Woodward, Bernstein Cite Themselves to be Optimistic About Democracy
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein joined CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday to reminiscence for four segments about the fall of Richard Nixon during Watergate and assuage Colbert’s fears about the future of democracy by citing their roles in that process.
Sick CBS Sees a 'Silver Lining' to Sky-High Gas Prices Plaguing U.S.
Are you paying $5 or more a gallon for gas when you fill up your car? One of the co-hosts of CBS Mornings on Wednesday wants you to find the bright side, suggesting that such skyrocketing costs could be the “silver lining” that pushes us off oil.
Shameless CBS Downplays GOP Ballfield Shooting, Kavanaugh Suspect
Given how CBS Mornings and the network morning news shows covered the January 6 hearings versus the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, it wasn’t shocking to see that a Tuesday segment warning about political violence ignored the party ID of those attacked five years ago on this date in Alexandria, Virginia (congressional Republicans), the gunman’s tilt (progressive),…
NewsBusters Podcast: The Prime Time Riot Special Fails to Impress
Democrats talked all the networks (except Fox News) into a breathless hearing (or retelling) of January 6. But it felt like a summer rerun.
CBS Fawns Over ‘Shocking,’ ‘Harrowing’ J6 Hearings to ‘Change History’
Friday’s CBS Mornings went all out in reaction to Thursday’s primetime hearing of the House Select Committee on January 6, leading all broadcast network morning news shows with 16 minutes and 30 seconds on the liberal extravaganza and boasting the “historic” and “vital” gathering contained “shocking new evidence,” “harrowing testimony,” and a recognition that America’s still in grave…
Broadcast Jan 6 Hearings Draw Smaller Audiences than Nightly Newscasts
The preliminary broadcast network ratings are in for last night’s January 6 committee hearings, and they paint a disappointing picture for Democrats and their media pals. On any given night last week, evening newscast audiences were 1.6 times larger than the total number of broadcast viewers who tuned into the hearings on Thursday.
Nets, Lefties Scramble Back to Drawing Board After Soros DA Gets Tosse
On Wednesday morning, all three broadcast network newscasts conceded that progressive darling, Soros-backed San Francisco prosecutor, and son of terrorists Chesa Boudin (D) was recalled by voters Tuesday night in the far-left city amid rising crime and growing decay in the Golden City.
