Stossel: Don’t Let Those Who Locked Us Down Off the Hook!

March 21st, 2024 2:35 PM

Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.” Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms. I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised at how authoritarian many were eager to be. Some demanded police to go after people surfing. They took down the rims of basketball hoops. Children’s…

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Media Loved Interviewing Trump's 2020 Rivals, But Not Biden's in 2024

March 21st, 2024 12:00 PM

In 2020 and 2024 respectively, GOP President Donald Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden each faced three longshot primary challengers, but the media coverage of these campaigns was vastly different, a NewsBusters study has found.

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Fake News Jim, Legion of Dumb Cry Uncle Over Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Line

March 21st, 2024 8:53 AM

In an unfortunate move for the country, CNN’s morning programming reshuffle has meant subjecting their tens of viewers to an hour of Fake News Jim Acosta (as opposed to stashing him for a few hours on weekends). In turn, we’re stuck with segments like one on Wednesday in which he convened rule of experts fan Tom Nichols and cockamamie professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat for what one could only describe…

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OOF: Arizona Latinos LAUGH At Weijia Jiang’s Question On January 6th

March 20th, 2024 11:03 PM

Talk about a disconnect between the media and the general electorate. Imagine flying all the way to Arizona to do the obligatory panel on Biden’s decline in the polls amongst Latinos, and having your January 6th question laughed off by the panel.

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CNN Labels Trump's 15-Week Abortion Proposal 'Very Callous'

March 20th, 2024 2:10 PM

Donald Trump is contemplating endorsing a 15-week abortion ban and Wednesday’s Inside Politics on CNN was eager to denounce it as extreme. In particular, senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson portrayed it and Trump’s language on the issue as “very cavalier” and “very callous.”

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Reid: Trump Is 'Useful Scary Clown' For Racist, Sexist, Tax-Haters

March 20th, 2024 10:28 AM

MSNBC’s Joy Reid brought out all the usual pejoratives on Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut as she sought to explain why anyone would support Donald Trump. Reid came to the conclusion that it has to be because they are a racist, sexist, tax-hating rich guys who claim to be a Christians while longing for the days when there were no child labor laws, and Trump is simply their “useful…

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‘Smooth Clay’ Brain: MSNBC Claims Trump Deports All Non-White People

March 19th, 2024 7:26 PM

During Monday’s The ReidOut, MSNBC host Joy Reid fear-mongered her audience by distorting practically everything former President Donald Trump said during his infamous “bloodbath” speech. In addition to spewing the “bloodbath” hoax, she also spun lies about his proposed immigration and deportation policies, suggesting he was just going to deport any brown or black person they came across in…

Soros-Funded Brennan Center Perverts Namesake’s Free Speech Position

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March 19th, 2024 6:59 PM

Imagine a radical law organization financed by George Soros lurching so far to the left on the free speech issue that it ends up bastardizing the very philosophy of the liberal U.S. Supreme Court associate justice it's named after. Enter the Brennan Center for Justice.

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Kimmel Cherry Picks In Order To Portray Trump Voters As Stupid

March 19th, 2024 1:49 PM

The Monday edition of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! unwittingly revealed a truth about comedy shows: you can’t trust their man on the street segments. This particular segment saw the show head to South Carolina for a Trump rally in an attempt to portray Trump supporters as stupid, but the interviewer disallowed a correct answer because someone away from the microphone and camera already…

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Kimmel Attacks Fox, Claims Putting Trump in Context Doesn't Matter

March 19th, 2024 10:00 AM

With much of the media rushing to take Donald Trump’s comments about an impending “bloodbath” in the auto industry, Fox & Friends declared that this is why viewers should trust them to cover the news accurately instead. This did not sit well with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, who accused them on Monday of both sides-ing the issue and ultimately proclaimed that the truth doesn’t actually…

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The Networks Still Pushing The Bloodbath Hoax, Now Wrapped Around J6

March 19th, 2024 12:53 AM

With The Bloodbath Hoax having been so swiftly and thoroughly debunked, the evening network newscasts had to scramble to find ways to keep this narrative alive. It appears that they’ve settled on wrapping this latest hoax around the Capitol Riot of January 6th, thus magically eliminating the need for context.

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SEIZENFREUDE: Nets Cheer Trump Cash Crunch Ahead Of Appeal Deadline

March 18th, 2024 11:59 PM

The network evening newscasts engaged in a feeding frenzy over breaking news that former President Donald Trump faces difficulties in putting together the monetary bond required in order to appeal his New York civil judgment. All three major networks giddily opened their newscasts with this story, bumping the Bloodbath Hoax off of the top spot.

NewsBusters Podcast: Bombast Over 'Bloodbath' Reflects Biden PR Points

March 18th, 2024 10:44 PM

On Saturday, Donald Trump spoke out against China's attempt to build electric vehicles in Mexico, saying he'll slap a 100% tariff on it if he's elected, and if not, "it's going to be a bloodbath for the country." The media then reported it like he said "elect me, or get a bloodbath." Jorge Bonilla joins the show to explain how the Sunday morning and evening "news" shows reflected a Biden-…

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The View Defends Media’s Trump ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax, Claim It’s in Context

March 18th, 2024 1:50 PM

Over the weekend, the liberal media went hog-wild with a grossly out-of-context soundbite of former President Trump claiming that he was going to bring a “bloodbath” to America if he wasn’t reelected. ABC’s The View kept the falsehood going Monday morning by airing a deceptively edited clip of Trump and repeatedly insisting that he was completely in context. Only one of them dared to…