NY Times Can't Handle Fetterman's Right Shift: 'Caustic...Hostile'

May 30th, 2024 12:56 PM

On the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, congressional correspondent Annie Karni sympathized with recent criticism of Pennsylvania’s freshmen Sen. John Fetterman, once mocked in Republican circles for his Senate floor fashion sense but now reviled by the left for his support of Israel and other iconoclastic positions, in “Fetterman, Flashing a Sharper Edge, Keeps Picking Fights…

Trump’s Map to the White House

February 5th, 2024 10:34 AM

In 2020, Joe Biden won three states by less than 1 point: Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin. If Donald Trump can flip these three in November — he took them all in 2016 — he’ll be back in the White House this time next year. Can he do it? First he has to hold every state he won last time. Trump’s narrowest victory was in North Carolina, where his margin was a little more than 1.3%. His home state…

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Hostin, Navarro Defend Menendez from Ouster Calls, Fetterman Counters

December 1st, 2023 1:30 PM

Things took an interesting turn on Friday’s edition of ABC’s The View in the wake of Republican Congressman George Santos (NY) getting ousted from the House in a bipartisan vote. While the liberal ladies generally cheered Santos’s ouster, lines were drawn when the corruption allegations against Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (NJ) were thrown into the mix. Co-hosts Ana Navarro and…

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Colbert Fawns Over Fetterman's 'Excellent Meme Game'

October 12th, 2023 10:00 AM

For the second night in a row, Stephen Colbert welcomed a Democratic member of Congress to CBS’s The Late Show. On Wednesday, it was Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s turn as Colbert pretended that Fetterman is the first question to ever be questioned about his health, gifted him a tuxedo T-shirt, and fawned over this “excellent meme game.”

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CBS Downplays New Senate Dress Code, Ignores Fetterman’s Mental State

September 22nd, 2023 1:04 PM

On Friday’s CBS Mornings during the “Talk of the Table” segment, they came through with the first broadcast network news show coverage of the Senate dress code change in order to accommodate the mentally and physically incapacitated Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). And, instead of focusing on how the former was made to baby the ladder, the CBS crew laughed about opposition to axing a…

NYT Puts Protective Cloak Over Slob Sen. Fetterman, Hits 'Hard-Right'

September 21st, 2023 6:18 PM

New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni thought she had a good “gotcha” in response to Republican criticism of the Senate’s new relaxed dress code, imposed by Majority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (NY), in response to a fellow Democrat’s insistence in showing up on the Senate floor dressed like a slob in defiance of Senate rules. In Wednesday’s “For Some Senators, New…

NewsBusters Podcast: Democrats Get an F for Feinstein and Fetterman

May 17th, 2023 10:44 PM

An easy way to discover how the media favor Democrats is from the treatment of embarrassing gaffes by Senators Feinstein and Fetterman. The same media outlets that constantly questioned Donald Trump's mental fitness are acting very gentle and protective around their favorite partisans.

Column: A Stunning Sunday with CBS News

April 5th, 2023 5:54 AM

CBS News offered a perfectly awful contrast on its Palm Sunday news shows. On Sunday Morning, Jane Pauley puffed and polished Democrat Sen. John Fetterman. In the evening on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl assaulted Trump-adoring Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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The View Defends Fetterman’s Hospitalization as a Win for Transparency

February 17th, 2023 2:17 PM

The liberal media didn’t care about the people of Pennsylvania being properly represented when they propped up struggling now-Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s candidacy; they certainly didn’t care about his health as the stress from the job and the recovery caused the Senator to check himself into Walter Reed Medical Center to treat his clinical depression. As some of his most outspoken…

NewsBusters Podcast: Racial Hustlers Get Worse & Lemon Feels Squeezed

February 10th, 2023 10:46 PM

With Executive Editor Tim Graham off celebrating his birthday, Deputy Managing Editor Nick Fondacaro and I returned to hold down the fort and, even leaving aside the State of the Union, the world was our oyster with content. Of course, The View was a major topic with their cockamamie and erroneous claims that conservatives such as Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) want to ban the teaching…

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Nets Tout Oprah Backing Fetterman as CBS Trumpets Failed Kamala Flack

November 4th, 2022 4:19 PM

Friday on the “big three” network morning shows from ABC, CBS, and NBC, the trio eagerly touted Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of the handicapped Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) over longtime colleague and Fetterman’s GOP challenger, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Also on the crazy train, two of them insisted Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was in a tough reelection fight and, on another, they brought in a failed…

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Weekend at Fetterman’s: The View Props Up Struggling PA Democrat

November 4th, 2022 2:26 PM

The Friday edition of ABC’s The View brought with it one of the more highly anticipated interviews for the show, Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman. If you predicted it would be a cakewalk for him, you’d be correct. They refused to grill him pretty much on anything and instead repeatedly teed him up to go after critics and his Republican opponent…

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Lemon Desperately Tries To Argue Oprah Endorsing Fetterman Matters

November 4th, 2022 1:37 PM

Of all the stories that could’ve led off Friday’s CNN This Morning, the one that the cast settled on was Oprah Winfrey endorsing John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s Senate race with co-host Don Lemon desperately trying to suggest it all mattered.

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Study: The Dangerous Partisanship of TV’s Midterm Coverage

November 1st, 2022 7:55 AM

A new MRC study of midterm election coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts finds Republicans are being walloped with 87% negative coverage while the networks' agenda for these stories — GOP candidate controversies, abortion rights and the danger of “election deniers” — perfectly match the topmost items in Democrats’ campaign playbook.