George W. Bush

On Monday’s Morning Joe, the show promoted a recent New York Times piece that fretted over Freedom of Speech in President Trump’s second term. Host Jonathan Lemire described it as “Trumps’ attempts to stifle freedom of speech and of the press,” which he called “deeply worrisome.” Lemire and book author and former Slate editor Jacob Weisberg later complained that former Republican President…

Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour and Company, reflected on the 25 years since 9/11 on Friday by claiming the attack was “the beginning of intense Islamophobia” in America, which continues to be “so visceral and last to this day.” Meanwhile, Prof. Vali Nasr would naturally agree while also claiming the Bush administration and 20 years of American foreign policy reacted…

CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish gives panelist Noel King, a former NPR host like Cornish, the first chance to respond to her question about whether the US can return to the spirit of unity it experienced after 9/11. King sighs and says: "I don't think we're gonna get back to unity anytime soon. I think we have not got the right leadership in this country for unity at this moment."

Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on October 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims.

Donald Trump and George W. Bush may be two very different kinds of Republican presidents, but according to CNN political director David Chalian on Thursday’s Inside Politics, Trump’s attack on Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed echoes the “menacing aspect” of Bush’s 2004 campaign against John Kerry for simply pointing out the radicalness in their respective opponents.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, and on Monday, Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng sat down on the show’s podcast to look back at the show’s history. At one point, Klepper proved that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt when he claimed the show is “not partisan,” that it just calls “balls and strikes,” and to “put pressure on the bullshit.”

On Monday's Morning Joe, they naturally joined in the ongoing assault on Trump's attacks at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Friday night.  Senior White House reporter Vaughn Hillyard used his time to insist Trump was attacking the highest “form of patriotism.”

Before the originally scheduled 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner was postponed after a failed assassination attempt against President Trump, there was opposition from liberal circles that the usual tradition of having a comedian perform was being replaced by mentalist Oz Pearlman. With the dinner being rescheduled for Friday, a NewsBusters study decided to investigate why these liberal…

With the Obama Presidential Library opening on Thursday, the cast of characters that make up MS NOW has been provided an excuse to return to fangirling over their favorite president. On Wednesday’s On the Line, it was host Alicia Menendez’s turn as she claimed the library would not just be a tribute to Obama, but to the whole country. Menendez’s gushing review also fit in nicely with how the…

Politicians say they can “make the economy work better.” I once believed they could. But years of reporting taught me that politicians’ attempts to “fix” the economy usually make things worse. Twenty years ago, Republicans and Democrats helped create the Great Recession by telling government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy more peoples’ mortgages because, as President George W. Bush…

As his time as host of The Late Show winds down, CBS’s Stephen Colbert was awarded the Writers Guild of America’s Walter Bernstein Award on Sunday in another example of liberal celebrities giving other liberal celebrities awards for their liberalism. Introducing Colbert, Robert Smigel hailed Colbert as someone who speaks “truth to power,” by which he just meant that Colbert mocks Republican…

“Dan Rather Is Still Chasing the News” by the now-occasional New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg was a ridiculously whitewashed profile of the still-working “journalist” Rather, who resigned in disgrace from the anchor slot at CBS Evening News after relying on phony documents to smear then-2004 Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush’s service in the Texas National Guard, in a…

Keith Olbermann clearly needs some help. On his Thursday Countdown podcast, the former MSNBC and ESPN host unleashed deranged attacks on President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush, accusing the former of being behind the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and the latter of staging terrorist threats to get himself re-elected. The common thread, for Olbermann, is that Democrats…

One reason that many Republican voters took a shine to Donald Trump in 2016 was the way he showed no respect to the national chattering classes of the Democrat-media complex. George W. Bush was a kinder, gentler Republican – and they compared him to Hitler. No matter which flavor of  Republican was elected, the “objective” media savaged him. We’ve reached the 20th anniversary of deadly…