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Two Weeks After Cancellation, Colbert Doubles Down on Liberal Advocacy

August 5th, 2025 10:00 AM

It has now been over two weeks since CBS announced it was cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026. However, Colbert has responded by doubling down on the same jokes and guests that made viewers (and advertising dollars) turn away in the first place. According to a new MRC study, Colbert’s political jokes targeted conservatives and Republicans 95 percent of the time,…

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CNN ADMITS America Thinks Democrat Party Is ‘Total & Complete Garbage’

August 4th, 2025 7:24 PM

Democrats may have just realized that having “orange man bad” as their sole political message for the past 10 years was a really bad idea. In a surprisingly blunt segment on CNN News Central, the show’s hosts acknowledged what many Americans have long suspected: the Democratic Party was “a complete and utter mess” as they looked toward the 2028 presidential election. With no…

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90 Percent of Jon Stewart's Podcast Guests Have Been Liberals

August 1st, 2025 1:11 PM

We here at the Media Research Center have been counting the guests that appear on the late night comedy programs since September 2022, and The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is not a fan. On Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show Thursday podcast, Stewart went on an expletive-laden rant against Fox News for citing those studies, so we did the only natural thing we could think of in…

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The View Spoke to ZERO Conservative, Pro-Trump Guests in 2025 (So Far)

July 30th, 2025 8:57 AM

On July 25, ABC News program, The View concluded their 28th season, putting them on hiatus until return for Season 29 in September. But in spite of being founded to share a wide range of opinions, a new NewsBusters study discovered that in the first seven months of 2025, the cast spoke with ZERO guests that promoted conservative or pro-Trump policies. Looking back into 2024…

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Cuomo Blames How We Speak to Each Other on Social Media for Shooting

July 29th, 2025 2:31 PM

We didn’t know much about the man who shot up a high-rise office building in midtown Manhattan Monday night, but NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo thought that he knew the reason why it happened. According to him, the source of blame was the culture perpetuated on social media where “political extremism” was reinforced with the perverse idea that the ends justified the means whether it be political or…

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Katy Tur Talks Up Viral Democrat Who Argues Against 'Far Right'

July 27th, 2025 7:24 PM

On Friday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur devoted a segment to promoting the latest viral Democrat, Texas state legislator James Talarico, touting his history of arguing against the "far right," and letting him blame Fox News for political divisions in America.

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Mika and MAGA!—Epstein Case Makes The Strangest Of Bedfellows

July 19th, 2025 6:40 AM

Mika and MAGA: the strangest of bedfellows! On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski describes MAGA as "searching for justice" in the Epstein case, and criticizes people who call MAGA "stupid." 

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The View Stokes GOP Divisions Over Epstein, Decry Criticism of Dems

July 18th, 2025 3:48 PM

The liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View had a field day the week of July 14 as they tried to divide Republicans with the Jeffrey Epstein documents snafu. Smelling blood in the water, they kicked off nearly every episode that week talking about Epstein. Meanwhile, at the same time, they cut out a chunk of time to decry liberals who dared to criticize the Democratic Party’s messaging…

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Pants on Fire: CBS, MSNBC Insult Rural America Defending NPR, PBS

July 14th, 2025 6:08 PM

Ahead of a likely vote this week on a rescissions package to claw back $1 billion in funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, CBS’s streaming platform and MSNBC went full doom and gloom and lied to viewers Monday, insulting their intelligence by arguing rural Americans rely on NPR and PBS as “critical” lifeline, “their only source of information,” and “emergency alerts.”

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MSNBC's Velshi Gives Okay to Rubin’s Dangerous Rhetoric on ICE, BBB

July 10th, 2025 11:26 AM

On his eponymous Sunday show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi voiced agreement with ex-Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin as the embittered ex-Republican trashed the GOP over its deportation policies. She also claimed that 50,000 people a year will die as a result of the Republican budget plan.

STUDY: PBS Washington Week Still Spreading Fear and Loathing of Trump

July 8th, 2025 9:10 AM

Washington Week with The Atlantic, public television’s taxpayer-funded weekly political roundtable featuring a rotating stable of journalists, touts itself as "objective.” But a review of the last three months of Washington Week (April 4, 2025 – June 27, 2025) proved Trump-phobic liberalism still reigns over the public airwaves: Republicans were covered negatively 93 percent…

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ABC Breaks in for Special Report to Dump on Big Beautiful Bill Passage

July 3rd, 2025 5:15 PM

ABC was surprisingly the only major broadcast network to break in Thursday afternoon for a special report on the House passage of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which he’s slated to sign into law Friday. What was unsurprising, however, was the ABC presented a wholly negative perspective declaring the bill was to “mostly” benefit “the wealthiest Americans” while stating as though it’s a…

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Backtrack: CNN Returns to ‘Hate in America,’ But Calls Motives ‘Murky’

July 1st, 2025 4:05 PM

O, Donie, where art thou?! That was the question worth asking Monday night when CNN’s The Lead had a new report about “Hate in America” in light of the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Colorado and deadly shootings of Minnesota state Democrats and host Jake Tapper brought out correspondent Tom Foreman instead of CNN’s supposed extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan.

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NPR's Inskeep Finds It 'Interesting' GOP Doesn't Complain About Fox

July 1st, 2025 1:14 PM

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep joined Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast hosts Max Tani and Ben Smith last Friday to discuss the current battle over NPR’s public funding. There were several puzzling claims made throughout, including claims that Fox’s personnel decisions and Hunter Biden laptop coverage are analogous to NPR’s.