Ankle Biter: CNN Cheers Trump Hurting Fox News By Skipping GOP Debate
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…
ABC, CBS Tout Trump Upstaging GOP Debate With Tucker Carlson Interview
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…
TV’s Distorted GOP Primary Race: Three-Fourths Trump, 90% Negative
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).
MSNBC Pundit Revels In Trump Seeing a 'Really Dirty, Dangerous' Jail
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."
Todd Frets Biden's Collapsing Poll Numbers: Looks Like Hillary in 2016
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…
Todd Crows Over Biden & GOP Not Attacking Trump: Danger to Democracy!
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…
'Not How An Innocent Person Acts'—Scarborough Slimes Trump Delay Try
Joe Scarborough, saying "innocent people don't do that," argued Friday that Donald Trump's attempt to push his federal trial related to January 6th back to 2026 is evidence of his awareness of guilt.
NewsBusters Podcast: Jake Tapper Mounts High Horse on 'Ingraham Angle'
CNN's Jake Tapper sent a savage tweet over Laura Ingraham's segment on the leftist media "humiliating themselves" and reveling in Trump indictments and mug shots. Fox was wildly unfair and dishonest about CNN!
NY Times Gloats: Harsh J6 Convictions Discouraging Pro-Trump Protests
New York Times "democracy reporter" Nick Corasaniti adopted a vengeful tone in his report on Trump allies getting their legal comeuppance. The headline: “After Years of Lies, Election Deniers Face Something New: Consequences.” Corasaniti pushed a sinister argument: "Legal experts say those convictions are a key reason that recent provocations by Mr. Trump after his series of…
Scarborough: 'We Don't Need To Hear' What Conservative Media Is Saying
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "we don't need to hear what they [conservative media] say. It doesn't matter what they say...We all know where this is going."
PBS vs. PBS? NewsHour Assumes Trump Phone Call Guilt, Amanpour Doesn't
So just what was then-president Trump thinking when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2021, and asked him to “find 11,780 votes” in Georgia, which if really there, would have put Trump over Biden in the close Georgia race? NewsHour congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins seemed confident she knew just what Trump was thinking in her Tuesday evening…
POLITICO Cites 'Thick Bold Line' Between Biden White House and DOJ
If there's one theme we can isolate and mock as denying political reality, it's the theme that Joe Biden could still argue in any way that he's all about a "thick bold line" between the White House and the Justice Department. The Politico "Playbook" team on Wednesday set out to explain "Why Biden won’t touch on Trump".
PBS Cheers on Bidenomics vs Trump's 'Tax Giveaways to the Ultra Rich'
On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez acted as mouthpiece for the Biden administration to trumpet the so-called success of Bidenomics, tied to the president’s recent campaign trek to Milwaukee marking the anniversary of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. For this partially taxpayer-funded report, Barron-Lopez cited the Democratic vice-president…
Column: Presenting Trump's Democrat Prosecutors as Nonpartisans
The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The number one media-bias complaint on this trend – other than how these indictments “flood the zone” and devolve the Republican presidential primary into a hyperbolic courtroom drama – is that reporters typically fail to identify the prosecutors as Democrats.
