NewsBusters Podcast: No Fact Checks for 'Saturday Night Live'

April 11th, 2022 9:28 PM

NBC's Saturday Night Live aired several jokes in their most recent episode scouring Senate Republicans Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, and nobody expects the "independent fact-checkers" will find "missing context" in the humor. They have punished right-leaning satirists at The Babylon Bee, but liberals get a pass as they pretend Ted Cruz called Ketanji Brown Jackson a pedophile for a week,…

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CNN's Bolduan, WH Advisor Lament 'Rough Road' For Jackson To History

April 7th, 2022 12:20 PM

CNN At This Hour host Kate Bolduan teamed up with presidential senior advisor Cedric Richmond on Thursday to decry the fact that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had to face some tough questions from Republicans during her Senate confirmation hearings.

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Morning Joe: DNC Chair Calls Tom Cotton 'Little Maggot-Infested Man'

April 7th, 2022 6:53 AM

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough welcomed DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison as he called Republican Sen. Tom Cotton the "lowest of the low" and a "maggot-infested little man."

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Capehart, Brooks: Republicans Put Jackson 'Through Hell' To Get on Fox

March 26th, 2022 1:49 PM

Columnists Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday for their weekly panel discussion to recap Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Together, the duo would accuse Republicans of putting her through hell so that they could get on Fox.

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Kimmel Gives Jackson Award For 'Listening to Idiots'

March 25th, 2022 10:29 AM

On his Thursday, ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel summarized Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings with a parody of Hollywood award shows. For his final award, he bestowed on Jackson the “award for Outstanding Poker Face While Listening to Idiots.”

NY Times Cries GOP Racism on Front Page in Desperate Defense of KBJ

March 24th, 2022 10:55 PM

Summing up Day Two of Supreme Court hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the New York Times accused Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee of appeals to racism in Wednesday’s front-page “news analysis,” “Judging a Judge on Race and Crime, G.O.P. Plays to Base and Fringe.” The reporters hurled racist accusations at Sen. Ted Cruz: "The attack, the most dramatic of several launched…

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CBS Whines It Was ‘Difficult,’ ‘Tough’ to See Jackson Being ‘Attacked’

March 24th, 2022 1:00 PM

Thursday’s CBS Mornings devolved into a world divorced from reality as, led by co-host and Democratic Party donor Gayle King, the show said Republican questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was “tough” and “very painful to watch” as “[i]t felt so personal watching her being really attacked” and “needled” in “searing” fashion over “something that has nothing to do…

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Kimmel Goes After 'Slug' GOP For Asking Jackson to Define 'Woman'

March 24th, 2022 10:20 AM

ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel had a hard time on Wednesday comprehending why Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz would quiz Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on the definition of a "woman." Kimmel resorted to personal attacks to defend Jackson, but only ended up making himself the butt of the joke as he also couldn’t come up with a definition.

Kimmel began by…

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‘No Spark’; CBS Sneers at ‘Debunked’ GOP Claims About Jackson

March 23rd, 2022 6:43 PM

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings went above and beyond to prop up Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson with almost 11 minutes of eye-rolling spin, denouncing Republican queries as unrelated to Jackson and instead to please their base, mocked concerns about her history on sentencing child sex predators as having “no there there,” and described Republicans as having failed to “…

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Tables Turned: ABC Seethes Over Cruz Asking Jackson About Race

March 23rd, 2022 2:07 PM

On Wednesday, the liberal media-wide PR campaign for Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson continued apace on the broadcast network morning newscasts with ABC’s Good Morning America continued to screech about the “Republican attacks” she’s faced despite Democratic attempts to allow her time to show emotion when it comes to “the realities of being a working mom.”

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Joy Reid Has a MELTDOWN Over GOP Senators Questioning Judge Jackson

March 23rd, 2022 12:07 AM

When the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown's nomination to the Supreme Court wrapped up, MSNBC's Joy Reid only had five minutes left of her show The ReidOut to squeeze in as much venom and hatred against Republicans as she could. To her credit, she was successful. In the five minutes she had to react to Tuesday's hearings she managed to call Senator Tom Cotton…

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INSANE! CNN: ‘Clown’ Cruz Asking Jackson About CRT Is ‘Below the Line’

March 22nd, 2022 7:31 PM

During an afternoon break Tuesday in Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, CNN Newsroom mocked and dismissed questions from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) about critical race theory (CRT) as “below the line” and “reek[ing] of desperation” from “a clown” who “put on a performance” in “the surreal.”

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Scarborough: I'm Not Politicizing Ukraine, But GOP Would Trigger WWIII

March 18th, 2022 9:47 PM

On Morning Joe Friday, host Joe Scarborough claimed he's not politicizing the Ukraine crisis, but then proceeded to rant that "jackass" Republican senators are proposing things that could trigger World War III. Scarborough also condemned Donald Trump, saying his approach to Europe would never have united it the way Biden's "experience" has.

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Ted Cruz GRILLS Censorship-Supporting Gigi Sohn in Senate Hearing

February 9th, 2022 6:23 PM

Republican senators slammed President Joe Biden’s FCC nominee Gigi Sohn during her Feb. 9 Senate confirmation hearing. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others hit her both for her bias and for a “sweetheart deal.”