WORST OF 2020: The Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2020. Today, it’s a look at the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome as we present the year’s most over-the-top attacks on President Donald Trump.
'Merry Freaking Christmas': CNN Anchor's Hot Take on Trump Pardons
On CNN's New Day this morning, co-host John Berman felt free to say: "Merry Freaking Christmas." Berman did so for the purpose of scoring a cheap political point about Trump pardons. His notion was that, given the continuing wrangling over the Covid relief package, the unemployed and members of the armed services are unsure of when their relief or pay raises will be coming. But for…
WORST OF 2020: Loathing Team Trump
This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2020. Today’s installment showcases some of the year’s most rancid quotes attacking Republicans or conservatives NOT named Donald Trump but who dared to support him.
‘One Horse Pony’; Joe Biden Mocks Doocy for Asking About Hunter
President-Elect Joe Biden took more softball questions Tuesday afternoon from a subservient liberal media as well as probes from the left. But when it came to a shouted Hunter Biden question from Fox News’s Peter Doocy as he left the stage, Biden insisted news stories about Hunter are Russian disinformation and mocked Doocy as “a one horse pony.”
CNN Attacks Rubio For Getting Vaccinated, Says It Is 'Immoral'
CNN Newsroom host Brooke Baldwin and alleged Republican strategist Ana Navarro were outraged on Monday that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was vaccinated against COVID-19. They argued that it was immoral that such a Trump-supporting science denier received the vaccine before those who are more at risk.
CNN Political Correspondent Sara Murray Is a Dem Donor (Corrected)
Despite multiple requests for comment on whether political correspondent Sara Murray donated to Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, CNN informed NewsBusters on Tuesday afternoon that both CNN and Murray unequivocally deny that she's made any political donations and are looking into the donation’s origins and this discrepancy. Check out the full post to see the original story.
WORST OF 2020: The Media Plays Pandemic Politics
All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2020. Yesterday, we presented the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; today’s installment showcases some of the year’s most horrendous examples of the media exploiting the pandemic to score political points against Republicans.
I'm Smart and I Want Respect! Cuomo's Most 'Fredo' Moments of 2020
You might remember when CNN host Chris Cuomo made headlines in the summer of 2019 when he threatened to physically assault a Trump supporter by throwing them down a flight of stairs because they dared to call him “Fredo.” It was an insult comparing him to Alfredo Corleone, the dumb brother from The Godfather film series. He even got CNN to back up his false claim of it being an ethnic…
Uncontested CNN Guest: ‘There Was a Little Cheating’ to Reelect Mitch
Disconnected from reality didn’t begin to describe what occurred on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on Monday night. Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was his usual unhinged self when he proclaimed that the 2020 presidential election was perfect before claiming (without evidence) “there was a little cheating” in Kentucky to reelect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. And completely…
CNN: Trump Already 'Dangerous?'; Politico Sees People 'Stepping In'
On CNN's New Day, substitute host Erica Hill suggests President Trump may have already become "dangerous," Politico reporter Anna Palmer responds, saying it could come to "people having to step in" to stop the president.
WORST OF 2020: Media Gush Over Their Liberal Heroes
As 2020 comes to a close, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. In today’s installment, we present the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over their liberal heroes and left-wing icons.
CNN Pounces on Unverified NYT Report: Trump Opposes Democracy!
Like they always do with any unverified negative report about President Trump, CNN is automatically assuming that the New York Time’s claim that Trump considered installing martial law is completely true and is using it to bash him.
CNN's Tapper Fails to Press Buttigieg on Pothole Blunders as Mayor
From the mayor of South Bend, Indiana to a nomination for Transportation secretary. It was quite the consolation prize for Pete Buttigieg’s failed bid for president. But it was a position he didn’t have the experience to fill. Using kid gloves to address that lack of experience on Sunday’s State of the Union, CNN host Jake Tapper asked Buttigieg about working on a national…
Fact-Challenged CNN Mocks Fox for Defending Restaurants Over COVID
On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, host Brianna Keilar devoted an eight-minute segment to freaking out over Fox News hosts scoffing out liberal philanthropist Bill Gates's recommendations that restaurants should be closed while she also failed to pick up on a recent finding that, in New York, only 1.44 percent of COVID patients caught the illness at a restaurant while 74 percent contracted…