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CNN's Sidner Underlines Ex-NFL Punter Who Compares Trump to Hitler

February 22nd, 2025 4:54 PM

On Friday morning, CNN host Sara Sidner rewarded an anti-Trump protester who was arrested in California by giving him a forum to compare President Trump to Adolf Hitler. It's former NFL punter Chris Kluwe.

The Media's Musk Hostility Has a Historical Echo

February 22nd, 2025 4:00 PM

The President of the United States looked his chief budget cutter in the eye, saying, "You’re a victim of sabotage by the press. They’re trying to bring you down because of what you’ve helped us accomplish."

PolitiFact Rates Musk Pants-on-Fire For Biden 'Importation Scam' Claim

February 22nd, 2025 2:00 PM

PolitiFact writers Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman teamed up on Friday to give Elon Musk a “pants-on-fire” rating for his claim that former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy was “a giant voter importation scam.” To reach such a conclusion, the duo engaged in plenty of hyperliteralism and bad faith arguments.

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Clooney’s Truth-Telling Play Arrives at Terrible Time

February 22nd, 2025 1:30 PM

George Clooney cemented his auteur status with 2005’s Good Night, and Good Luck. The drama recalled journalist Edward R. Murrow’s clash with Sen. Joseph McCarthy during what later became known as the Blacklist era.

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ABC Goes Soft On Mangione Fans, Paints Trial As 'Cultural Flashpoint'

February 22nd, 2025 11:45 AM

ABC’s Trevor Ault went soft on those who showed up to support alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione on Friday’s edition of World News Tonight. Instead of reacting in horror that such an alleged cold-blooded killer has such support, Ault portrayed his upcoming trial as a “cultural flashpoint.”

AP Sues WH Over Gulf of America Name, Alleging Free Speech Violation

February 22nd, 2025 10:34 AM

On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small,…

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Brooks: People Will Die Because Trump Admin Wants To 'Break Things'

February 22nd, 2025 9:57 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks is theoretically supposed to be PBS News Hour’s conservative half of its weekly Friday news recap with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, he constantly fails to live up to this arrangement, and this Friday was no exception, as he alleged that people all over the world will die because the Trump administration simply…

MSNBC Settles Defamation Suit Over Erroneous 'Uterus Collector' Story

February 21st, 2025 10:05 PM

CNN being found liable for malicious defamation might have put the fear of God into MSNBC. In a filing obtained by NewsBusters, NBCUniversal and plaintiff Dr. Mahendra Amin had entered into settlement negotiations on Thursday. Although, they’re still working on the language.

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Stein, Todd Lament Media's 'Collective Weakness' Defending AP, Rip Fox

February 21st, 2025 6:51 PM

Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf…

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Anti-DOGE NBC Celebrates Return of Angry Liberals at GOP Townhalls

February 21st, 2025 3:49 PM

With the networks having already established over the last few weeks a totally-not-coordinated stream of sympathetic laid off federal workers to attack the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump, NBC’s Today added another wrinkle Friday by cheering liberal rabble rousers shouting at House Republicans during constituent townhalls.

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The View’s Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines CLASH Over Effectiveness of DEI

February 21st, 2025 3:00 PM

It’s not often that the liberal ladies of The View actually have divergent views, but when those happen, they don’t know how to deal with it. During Friday’s show, staunchly racist Sunny Hostin lashed out at white men and was on so on the defensive about racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that she couldn’t recognize that pretend independent co-host Sara Haines was…

NY Post: CBS Already Waving White Flag on Revamped ‘Evening News’

February 21st, 2025 11:46 AM

The New York Post had a juicy scoop Thursday about the newly formatted CBS Evening News – with new co-anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois and fewer-but-more-in-depth stories – has been such a failure in just four weeks they’re crying uncle.

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Reid, Ex-NFL Punter Attack MAGA's 'Nazi Playbook' On 'Trans People'

February 21st, 2025 11:40 AM

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe went on a wild anti-Trump tirade at a city council meeting on Tuesday that led to him being arrested. On Thursday, he went on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to beat his chest about what a great guy he is for it and accuse anyone who disagrees with him, especially on transgender issues, of being a Nazi.

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Lewinsky To Colbert: Dem President Could Still Dodge a MeToo Scandal

February 21st, 2025 10:25 AM

When Monica Lewinsky traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday to promote her new podcast, she briefly popped the show’s liberal bubble by lamenting to the eponymous host that if what she went through in 1998 were to happen with some future Democratic president, she isn’t convinced the reaction would be any different.