PolitiFact Spins For Democrats On Late-Term Abortion

May 18th, 2024 2:17 PM

There are three things certain in life: death, taxes, and self-styled fact-checkers defending Democrats on late-term abortion. The latest example came on Friday from D.L. Davis who gave Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson a “false” label for claiming “Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”

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The War on Jerry Seinfeld, Explained

May 18th, 2024 1:30 PM

Some stars float on a bed of pure adulation.

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ABC, Once Again, Helps The Left Smear Alito

May 18th, 2024 12:21 PM

After not-so cleverly trying and failing to get Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from important Supreme Court cases related to January 6, the left and the media have moved on to try to not-so cleverly get Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself based on a photo of an upside-down flag outside his home that was said to show support for the rioters. On Saturday’s Good Morning America…

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PBS 'News' Bias: Upside-Down Alito Flag Bigger Than Kavanaugh Assassin

May 18th, 2024 11:57 AM

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, the Week in Review segment dove into the New York Times “scoop” that the flag flew upside down for a few days in January 2021 outside the home of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito. This was Big News? Two years ago, when a man showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house intending to assassinate him, the NewsHour didn’t find…

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MSNBC Spews Fake News About Butker Speech To Warn About GOP 'Misogyny'

May 18th, 2024 10:41 AM

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner continued the media tradition of spreading fake news about what exactly Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker told a Catholic college during a recent commencement address. Wagner falsely reported that Butker told the women graduates “their rightful place was in service to men” as her guest, law Prof. Leah Lithman, urged viewers to vote against GOP “misogyny.”

Media Platforms Warned of Fines on Slovak PM Shooting 'Disinformation'

May 18th, 2024 9:20 AM

The European Commission has warned Big Tech platforms they can face fines for failing to tackle disinformation following the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. The warnings come as the EU ramps up its efforts to combat 'fake news,' leveraging wide-ranging investigatory powers afforded by the new Digital Services Act. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Lawrence O'Donnell's Cheesy Trump Trial Diaries

May 17th, 2024 10:37 PM

Part of the endless Trump trial coverage on MSNBC was The Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell reading what sounded like bad diary entries on courtroom happenings. Porn star Stormy Daniels dressed loosely in black, which "suggested the modesty of a nun." How bizarre. 

 

PBS Takes Pro-Hamas Line on Israel: 'Mass Expulsion' of Palestinians

May 17th, 2024 10:11 PM

Wednesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour forwarded pro-Hamas historical talking points to paint Palestinians as endless victims of yet another war they launched against Israel, matching up with the network’s consistently slanted coverage of the current Israel-Hamas war. It’s been 76 years since Arab countries attacked the fledgling state of Israel en masse in 1948 to strangle the…

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Genocide, Alito, & Scheffler: Best & Worst of This Week’s WH Briefings

May 17th, 2024 6:04 PM

This week marked a rare occasion in which President Biden remained at the White House all five weekdays and thus allowed for five press briefings from the ever-inept press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre (and John Kirby only serving as a crutch on Friday). The questions were, not surprisingly, all over the place given the lunacy of the week, ranging from accusing Jews of genocide to harassment…

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Evidence? Joe Scarborough Accuses Justice Alito of Leaking Dobbs Draft

May 17th, 2024 5:25 PM

On Morning Joe, in the course of a segment devoted to criticizing Justice Samuel Alito for permitting an upside-down American flag to be flown at his house, Joe Scarborough accuses Alito of having leaked the draft Dobbs opinion, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

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We ‘Need to Fix’ It: Behar Decries the Constitution as ‘Un-American’

May 17th, 2024 3:10 PM

Joy Behar, the same co-host of ABC’s The View who thought the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the military alliance that defeated Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, was back with more of her wisdom during Friday’s show. According to her, two elements of the U.S. Constitution – both present since the founding – were “un-American.”

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'Jesus Was Gay': CBS Yucks It Up With Anti-Jesus 'Comedy'

May 17th, 2024 1:36 PM

CBS’s late night comedy game show After Midnight went off rails on Thursday as host Taylor Tomlinson and her fellow comedian guests yucked it up with some cheap and flippant anti-Jesus and “Jesus was gay” laughs.

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ABC, NBC Giddily Tout ANOTHER Far-Left Smear of Conservative Justice

May 17th, 2024 12:58 PM

ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) and NBC’s Today eagerly touted in faux serious tones early Friday a new front in the left’s war to delegitimize, shame, and even attempt to remove conservative judges as The New York Times published a screeching story about an upside down flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021.

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'I'm Sorry, What?" Acosta Whines Butker Not 'Banned' Like Kaepernick

May 17th, 2024 11:45 AM

CNN host and self-appointed guardian of truth Jim Acosta welcomed sports reporter Rachel Nichols to Friday’s CNN Newsroom for a factually-challenged segment about Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement address to Benedictine College, where he declared that female graduates may get more satisfaction from their family lives than their careers. For Acosta, it was…