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Thirty years ago, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck packed with explosives next to Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. After the immediate shock of the bombing passed, liberal journalists began assigning blame to ordinary conservatives, hoping to blur the facts and discredit the competition.

Over there on this very site, NewsBusters’ own Alex Christy had a sharp-eyed focus on a curious moment on a recent episode of Stephen Colbert’s late night CBS show. 

CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, and, even by CNN’s standards, it was quite the softball session. Not only did both men take advantage of fact-checker Daniel Dale apparently having better things to do with his time by accusing President Trump of “whitewashing American history,” but Cooper even invited the president of American University’s…

CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.

The Daily Show wrapped up the month of February on Comedy Central on Thursday by sending correspondent Josh Johnson out into the world to interview the masses and pretend that the Trump Administration getting rid of DEI initiatives means people can no longer say things like “civil rights” or “oppression” when talking about history.

PBS News Weekend guest host Ali Rogin promised that a Saturday evening segment would “explore the deep roots of DEI in this country as it comes under increasing attack,” and it certainly delivered a strong if false defense, comparing the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” push to the fight against Jim Crow, with the host agreeing wholly with the segment’s sole guest, an activist…

It was an eventful evening for CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert. First, during his monologue, Colbert praised Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s plea to Trump that repeated several left-wing grievances and claimed Vice President JD Vance was upset during the sermon because he could not have sex with the pew. Second, Colbert later welcomed CBS News’s John Dickerson to give a…

Joe Biden may still hold the office of President of the United States, but the media are treating him like he’s anything but a newsmaker. Nobody wanted to cover Biden claiming "we left the country in better shape than we found it"....better "than at any point in the last 50 years of my career."

Washington Post film critic Ty Burr not only hated the biopic Reagan with Dennis Quaid as too soft and bland. He lashed out at the young-Trump movie The Apprentice as not at all harsh enough on Trump. Shouldn't Republicans always be unintelligent monsters? So say the film critics on the Left. 

MSNBC’s Joy Reid likes to fashion herself as a good race and gender conscious progressive, which is why it was weird when she declared on Monday’s edition of The ReidOut that it was natural that Donald Trump said he admires President William McKinley because the 1890s were a time that was “only great for men like Donald Trump.” At the same time, Reid had nice things to say about…

Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb traveled over to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Wednesday to promote his new PBS documentary on the Electoral College. As Donald Trump may win the election despite losing the popular vote, Cobb and weekly host Michael Kosta probably felt it was important to delegitimize such a possible outcome.

On the cusp of the vice-presidential debate, Maddow naturally sought to connect Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) to a series of antisemitic and fascist revolutionaries who wanted the universities destroyed in the 1930s and 1940s because they spread “communistic” ideas.

Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon showed three national news outlets easily repeated Gov. Tim Walz claiming he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests broke out in Beijing. Minnesota Public Radio discovered Walz was not in China at that time, and that Walz's staff could not provide evidence otherwise. 

The ratings competition between CNN and MSNBC took a back seat on Monday as CNN’s Dana Bash traveled over to Inside with Jen Psaki to promote her new book on the 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election and allege that the imagined voter suppression of today is on par with the real voter suppression of back then when such tactics included literal race massacres.