NewsBusters Podcast: Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan School Sunday Hosts

January 30th, 2023 10:56 PM

Tom Jones, a liberal analyst at the Poynter Institute, praised CBS's Margaret Brennan and NBC's Chuck Todd for aggressively taking on (respectively) Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan. But McCarthy and Jordan gave as good as they got, exposing the Sunday hosts as the Democrats that they are.

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McCarthy Schools CBS's Brennan Over Dem Election Denial Hypocrisy

January 29th, 2023 5:32 PM

On Sunday's edition of CBS's Face the Nation, moderator Margaret Brennan made the mistake of bringing up how according to her network 70 percent of House GOP members allegedly denied the results of the 2020 elections. When Brennan mentioned this to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, it did not go well for her. McCarthy turned it around on Brennan and noted how prominent members…

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To Jog the Media’s Memory, Here’s a Supercut of Adam Schiff Lying

January 26th, 2023 10:44 AM

It’s remarkable to see a group of people who call themselves “journalists” so aggressively defending a Congressman who strung them along for more than three years with false promises and empty assertions.

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Hilarious: Andrea Mitchell Claims Liar Adam Schiff Isn't a Liar

January 25th, 2023 3:20 PM

On Wednesday, Andrea Mitchell continued her recent history of spreading fake news on her MSNBC show. This time, Mitchell rushed to the defense of Rep. Adam Schiff, claiming he isn’t a liar and that Speaker Kevin McCarthy is really the one with a problematic relationship with the truth.

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WATCH: Speaker McCarthy DEMOLISHES PBS Reporter During Wild Presser

January 25th, 2023 12:33 AM

During a Tuesday news conference after deciding to remove California Democrat Congressmen Adam Schiff & Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee, Speaker Kevin McCarthy completely annihilated PBS reporter Lisa Desjardins when she started arguing with him over his decision to remove Schiff and Swalwell but let Republican Congressman George Santos serve on committees. 

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CNN: Booting Schiff, Swalwell Off Committee Is Break With 'Tradition'

January 24th, 2023 11:31 AM

As House Republicans prepare to kick Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee, CNN Newsroom co-host Erica Hill condemned Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday for not following “tradition.” Apparently, Hill forgot that history did not begin yesterday.

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Velshi Mourns The Demise Of 'Useful Committees' As GOP Takes Control

January 21st, 2023 12:05 PM

For his Saturday show, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi began by lamenting that McCarthyism is coming back to the House of Representatives as Republicans take control and that the era of “useful committees” is over, or at least temporarily over.

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Nets Note Bipartisan Criticism of Biden, Lack of Transparency on Docs

January 16th, 2023 9:56 PM

All three evening news networks continued covering the rapidly metastasizing scandal involving President Joe Biden’s irresponsible mishandling of classified documents. ABC’s World News Tonight & CBS Evening News each led with the story, while NBC Nightly News covered it after they did their obligatory panicking over drought-stricken California receiving badly…

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On PBS, Journos Label House GOP As All 'Very Extreme,' Unlike Dems

January 14th, 2023 6:47 AM

On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co., PBS put on display the liberal media's tendency to view nearly all elected Republicans as "extreme," but not so much with Democrats.

Reining in Government Spending? Let’s Get Real

January 12th, 2023 9:03 PM

Behind the refusal of the House Republican Party’s so-called freedom caucus to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the caucus’s skepticism that he will actually “rein in government spending.” I’ve never quite understood why all Republicans do not belong to the Freedom Caucus. If the Republican Party supports low taxes, light regulations and strong national security, why is a Freedom…

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On MSNBC, NYT's Peters Frets GOP Congressional Investigations

January 12th, 2023 5:40 PM

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters worried that the Republican-controlled Congress will hold investigations into the Joe Biden administration that will "make Benghazi look like child's play."

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CNN Pulls Plug on McCarthy After He Criticizes Schiff and Swalwell

January 12th, 2023 3:15 PM

On Tuesday, CNN cut away from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s press conference after he made a series of unflattering claims about Representatives Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA).

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MSNBC: GOP Investigating Investigators is an 'Insurrection Committee'

January 11th, 2023 12:09 AM

On Tuesday's Deadline: White House on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace and guest David Jolly sounded despondent over the House Republican plan to establish a committee to investigate the abusive federal agencies which have tormented and targeted American citizens for the past two years. Jolly even went as far as to claim that it would be an "insurrection committee." 

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'It's Their Damn Hormones,' Colbert Alleges Sexism Amid Speaker Fight

January 10th, 2023 11:11 AM

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert tried and failed during his Tuesday show to use Republican infighting during the Speaker battle to play the sexism card by suggesting there was a double standard present.