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ABC, CBS Dismiss Debate As 'Fantasy Land,' Sham 'Job Interview'

August 24th, 2023 12:12 PM

When it comes to elections, the media should be pro-debate, especially when no votes have officially been cast, but the post-non Trump debate coverage on Thursday’s Good Morning America on ABC and CBS Mornings dismissed the whole thing as a “fantasy land” that resembled a “job interview” in which the candidate has already been selected.

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Miller Smacks Down Todd's 'Idiotic Question' on Tucker/Trump Talk

August 24th, 2023 1:31 AM

During a special edition of Meet the Press on NBC News Now, anchor Chuck Todd decided to ask Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller if former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump were embracing the idea of violent conflict during a sitdown chat between the two on Twitter. Miller didn't take Todd's biased questioning lying down and told Todd he was "framing it incorrectly…

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Here Are The Wildest Moments From The Tucker & Trump Interview

August 23rd, 2023 10:56 PM

In the only newsworthy counterprogramming of the first GOP presidential debate Wednesday night, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed former President Donald Trump on his show "Tucker on X." While the sitdown lasted over 46 minutes, there were a few wild moments that are sure to grab headlines. 

Trump Highlights MRC Poll Exposing Big Tech's Pro-Biden 'Cheating'

August 23rd, 2023 10:42 PM

Former President Donald Trump touted an MRC poll that exposed Big Tech’s nefarious role in stealing the 2020 election through relentless censorship.

NewsBusters Podcast: Trump's Legal Jeopardy vs. Biden's Maui Empathy

August 23rd, 2023 3:52 PM

On the cusp of the first presidential debate, the "news" media have two partisan spins. They obsess over Trump's arrest in Georgia and play up his legal jeopardy, while their coverage of President Biden avoids all gaffes and blunders and touts the "Empathizer in Chief" in Maui.

Column: GOP 'Campaign Coverage' Is Stuck in Courtrooms

August 23rd, 2023 6:17 AM

The four-indictment whirlwind around Donald Trump – alongside a courtroom battle over an ancient rape allegation – has dominated the narrative of the Republican campaign. Where are the issues? So far this year, stump speeches aren’t making the news. Only arrests and arraignments are.

PolitiFact Celebrates Birthday By Hyping Devotion To Left-Wing Causes

August 22nd, 2023 12:40 PM

PolitiFact celebrated its 16th birthday on Tuesday and while some may mark the occasion by remembering about that one time they defended President Obama by citing an arms control treaty that went defunct in 1936, author Katie Sanders celebrated by highlighting the website’s devotion to left-wing causes.

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SHOCK: MSNBC Grills Liberal Never Trump Republican Asa Hutchinson

August 21st, 2023 6:04 PM

Even a milquetoast Republican who hates Donald Trump just as much as they do isn’t safe on MSNBC. At least that was the case on Monday afternoon when former Arkansas Republican governor Asa Hutchinson appeared on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House in what he probably thought was going to be a friendly, softball interview with host Nicolle Wallace and her assembled cast. Things turned south…

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Ankle Biter: CNN Cheers Trump Hurting Fox News By Skipping GOP Debate

August 21st, 2023 2:00 PM

Chronically the third-place cable news outlet, CNN was the little goblin biting at the ankles of Fox News, the cable news giant. So, of course, it brought CNN great joy to see that former President Trump had chosen to avoid taking part in the first Republican presidential debate, which was hosted by their rival. Senior media correspondent Oliver Darcy beamed on Monday as he boasted about Trump…

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ABC, CBS Tout Trump Upstaging GOP Debate With Tucker Carlson Interview

August 21st, 2023 10:48 AM

Showing disrespect for Republican primary voters, former President Trump announced Sunday night that he would not be attending the first Republican primary debate later in the week with reports suggesting he was planning to counterprogram the event with an interview with Tucker Carlson. ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings welcomed the internal party drama and hyped…

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TV’s Distorted GOP Primary Race: Three-Fourths Trump, 90% Negative

August 21st, 2023 8:01 AM

A new Media Research Center study finds the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 74% of their GOP campaign coverage on Donald Trump, with the remaining candidates forced to split the remaining airtime. Most TV coverage of Trump (90%) was negative, but the media also bashed his nearest challenger Ron DeSantis (78% negative).

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MSNBC Pundit Revels In Trump Seeing a 'Really Dirty, Dangerous' Jail

August 20th, 2023 10:57 PM

When Jake Tapper tried to claim it was wildly wrong for Fox host Laura Ingraham to suggest liberal networks were reveling in the Trump indictments, he should have imagined MSNBC regulars sounding giddy at Trump being arraigned in Georgia in "a really dirty, dangerous scary place," where he could end up "really freaked out."

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Todd Frets Biden's Collapsing Poll Numbers: Looks Like Hillary in 2016

August 20th, 2023 2:23 PM

Is the media starting to panic? Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd put up a graphic during his roundtable discussion which compared President Joe Biden's most recent standing in the polls with where he was in October 2020, as well as Hillary Clinton's poll numbers in October 2016. This clearly made him nervous since Biden is far behind where both he and Clinton were. Of course, he…

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Todd Crows Over Biden & GOP Not Attacking Trump: Danger to Democracy!

August 20th, 2023 11:43 AM

NBC's Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd opened his program on Sunday with a mini temper tantrum due to the majority of the 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls and even President Joe Biden steering away from attacking former President Donald Trump in the manner Todd demands. Of course, the icing on the cake was Todd's insistence that Republicans staying "silent has left a…