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MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster for the “free press” as the Republicans realized their malicious plans, straight from the “playbook in authoritarianism.”

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that Pete Hegseth's views on women in the military would take us back to the 11th century. Calling him a "retrograde throwback," MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan says his views would take us back to "the Crusades."

Over the weekend, news broke that President-elect Trump reached a settlement with ABC News and other linked entities in the defamation suit he brought against the network. As NewsBusters previously reported, the settlement went unmentioned during Stephanopoulos’s Sunday show, but further, it was not mentioned on any ABC News program through Monday’s Good Morning America. The…

CBS Sports broadcast the Army-Navy game on Saturday, but as often happens, when Donald Trump attends and is warmly welcomed, you're not going to see it during the actual game. On Sunday's MediaBuzz on Fox, Clay Travis of Outkick lamented that CBS put Trump on for four seconds. 

Thursday’s CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip — perhaps the most toxic show on television after ABC’s The View — beclowned itself with an opening block of host Abby Phillip, CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers, and the cartoonishly faux journalist Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post lectured former GOP Senate candidate Jeff Bartos and the great Scott Jennings with claims about…

The immediate aftermath of ABC’s defamation settlement with President-Elect Donald Trump coincided with George Stephanopoulos’s scheduled turn to host ABC This Week. Stephanopoulos’s presentation was cosmetically muted, but unchanged in terms of bilious bias and disregard for facts.

Former CNN host Don Lemon insulted Time magazine as a "joke" after revealing President-elect Donald Trump as their Person of the Year. They could have done it to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country....You have someone on the cover of your magazine who is an adjudicated assaulter."

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the three co-hosts and two guests all expressed support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to supplant Gerry Connolly as the ranking minority member on the House Oversight Committee. Julian Castro hailed AOC's "fighting spirit." Michael Steele and Symone Sanders took some not-so-subtle shots at Nancy Pelosi for her support of Connolly. 

Politico allowed their senior staff writer Ankush Khardori to reveal again his loathing of Trump in an article titled "You Should Worry About Kash Patel Running the FBI." He claimed Patel "calls to mind the specter of J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous FBI director whose nearly 50-year stint running the agency until 1972 was marked by egregious abuses of power."

ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump reached a $15 million settlement on Saturday after This Week host George Stephanopoulos falsely accused Trump of being found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case. 

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v

The people who watch CNN know why they are watching CNN. They hate Donald Trump, and they love to hear him compared to Hitler, or perhaps murderous dinosaurs. On Thursday's The Lead, host Jake Tapper fed the CNN base by bringing up a recent "progressive" Trump insult, comparing his second term to the velociraptors in Jurassic Park figuring out how to terrify the humans.

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were not enthused by President-elect Trump being named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year of a second time. Amid lazy notations that “Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler” were also on the cover, Friday moderator Joy Behar lashed out at voters for electing Trump and declared that they were “misinformed” about their quality of life under the…

Between Thursday night and Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to promote a disinformation campaign first launched by The Bulwark’s Sam Stein to use President-Elect Trump’s comments about grocery prices to argue he can’t and won’t improve the lives of struggling Americans.