Hoping for Boycott? Darcy Whines WH Journos Participate in Press Pool

March 11th, 2025 5:32 PM

Former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy was apoplectic Monday night in his newsletter site Status over a leaked White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) meeting showing dissent within the ranks over the White House press office taking control of setting the press pool rotations from WHCA and a refusal to collectively boycott President Trump’s appearances and remarks.

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PBS 'Conservative' David Brooks Agrees With Capehart 61% of the Time

March 11th, 2025 3:00 PM

Every Friday, PBS News Hour devotes a segment to recapping the week's news with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart. Brooks is supposed to be the conservative half of the duo, but according to a new NewsBusters study, he agrees with Capehart 61 percent of the time.

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Whoopi Doesn't Include Republicans as People, Slotkin Insults America

March 11th, 2025 2:40 PM

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View seemed to be having a rough week and were in a pretty sour mood during Tuesday’s episode. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg was so irked by Republicans calling out the Biden administration’s bad economy that she seemed to suggest Republicans weren’t people. The lashing out also came from their Democratic guest Senator Elissa Slotkin (MI), who compared…

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Sanders Compares Start Of Trump Administration To 'Russia In 2000'

March 11th, 2025 2:15 PM

MSNBC’s weeknight viewers got a preview of a new show on Monday as Symone Sanders-Townsend joined Inside with Jen Psaki guest host Michael Steele for a panel on the political ramifications of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting initiatives. The fact that the ex-RNC chairman is so at home on MSNBC, he is guest hosting the Biden White House press secretary’s show aside, Sanders-Townsend alleged…

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PBS Falsely Says There's No Evidence Arrested Student Is Pro-Hamas

March 11th, 2025 12:18 PM

As Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his part in pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests, PBS News Hour would have its viewers believe that he is just a victim of a presidential administration that doesn’t like having its opinions challenged. On Monday’s episode, William Brangham falsely claimed there’s no proof to support the allegations against him.

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Nasty John Oliver Claims The Best Thing About Reagan Is 'He's Dead'

March 11th, 2025 9:12 AM

The alleged “twinkle in his eye” was missing from John Oliver’s latest Sunday rant on Last Week Tonight. The HBO host was tremendously upset that “centrist Democrats” are supposedly insistent on “bending over backwards for conservatives” to the point where they are praising Ronald Reagan. As Oliver tells it, the best thing Reagan did was die, and that if he were alive today, he would…

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Oh, No! CBS’s MacFarlane Upset DHS Is Looking for ICE Raid Leakers

March 10th, 2025 6:12 PM

Having little in terms of January 6 stories to continue foisting upon viewers like an obsessed ex-girlfriend, CBS Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane expressed concern during Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees being subjected to lie detector tests and investigations into leaks about Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) raids to find…

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Whoopi Defends Men in Women’s Sports: Men ‘Don't Know’ ‘Our Bodies’

March 10th, 2025 3:22 PM

Dylan Mulvaney, a man who thinks he’s woman and the social media influencer who got Bud Light boycotted, appeared on ABC’s The View during Monday’s episode to pitch his new book, Paper Doll. While conversing with him, ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended men competing in women’s sports and suggested the opposition came from men who “don't know anything about our bodies…

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CBS Hails ‘Influencer’ Dylan Mulvaney Book, Laments ‘Painful’ ‘Hate’

March 10th, 2025 12:22 PM

Monday’s CBS Mornings had a syrupy puff piece by contributor Natalie Morales on “trans influencer” Dylan Mulvaney ahead of a memoir’s release, lamenting all the “painful” “trans hate” Mulvaney faced due to the Bud Light debacle and claiming Mulvaney thought of dying by suicide because people opposed it. No opposing viewpoint. All fluffy-yet-pointed demands everyone embrace…

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Will the Real Jeff Bezos Please Stand Up?

March 8th, 2025 1:30 PM

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is taking a stand for free speech. Or is he?

 

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Ex-CNN Peace Prize Winner: Ditching Fact-Checkers Is 'Kleptocracy'

March 8th, 2025 12:30 PM

Former CNN reporter Maria Ressa won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” However, as the heads of the social media platforms move past their relationship with fact-checking companies and towards greater freedom of speech, she warned Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart that America is sliding towards “kleptocracy.”

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Capehart Laments Lack Of 'Nuanced' Discussion On Men In Women's Sports

March 8th, 2025 9:42 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett on Friday that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast appearance with conservative Charlie Kirk, where he dissented from the party line, continued the nation’s alleged inability to have “nuanced and thoughtful” conversations about transgender people participating in women’s sports.

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MSNBC Admits Border Crossings Down, But Denies There Was a Crisis

March 7th, 2025 11:54 PM

On The Sunday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart admitted that illegal border crossings are now at a record low, but seemed to do so only so he could scoff at President Donald Trump for wanting to send more troops to the border.

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The Daily Show Finds Religion... On Destroying Guns

March 7th, 2025 2:41 PM

The Daily Show found religion on Thursday, sort of. While Comedy Central’s flagship show did not repent for claiming Jesus would approve of Transgender Visibility Day or that Christmas is “the queerest holiday of all,” it did send Desi Lydic to Michigan to meet with Episcopal priest Chris Yaw to hype his gun buyback program.