By Clay Waters | December 26, 2015, 7:31 PM EST
In Saturday’s New York Times, reporter Matt Flegenheimer took a hostile tone in an ostensibly light-hearted story about Jeb Bush’s surprising reserves of humor in Saturday’s “ Bush Camp Suggests (Very) Secret Weapon: Its Candidate Is Funny.” Turns out Jeb ...
By Mark Finkelstein | December 25, 2015, 8:56 AM EST
About the last person you'd expect to have a Vulcan mind meld with Donald Trump is Chris Cuomo. But at a time when the focus is Star Wars, Cuomo went Star Trek today, sounding much like Trump in his description of Hillary Clinton. Trump of course ma ...
By Curtis Houck | December 20, 2015, 2:39 PM EST
Hours after praising socialist Senator Bernie Sanders prior to ABC’s Democratic presidential debate on Saturday night, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts completely reversed course on Sunday’s This Week and brushed off Sanders as unelectable and hav ...
By Brad Wilmouth | December 16, 2015, 7:53 PM EST
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's MSNBC Live, Linda Sarsour of the Arab-American Association of New York received no pushback from host Jose Diaz-Balart over her inflammatory assertion that some of the Republican presidential candidates "think ...
By Rich Noyes | December 14, 2015, 8:15 AM EST
After a five-week hiatus, the Republican presidential candidates meet tomorrow night for their next prime time debate, moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Based on how the various networks handled the first four debates, viewers should expect: 1) the questio ...
By Curtis Houck | December 4, 2015, 8:30 AM EST
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon chose to weave the 2016 election and the promotion of upcoming guest Daisy Ridley from Star Wars: The Force Awakens into his opening monologue late Thursday by joking that Ridley’s character had been hired by the Jeb Bush ca ...
By Brad Wilmouth | November 27, 2015, 2:08 PM EST
During a discussion of Wednesday's interview with GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush on New Day, CNN's John King gave a glimpse into the negative mindset of media liberals toward former President George W. Bush such that they have difficulty p ...
By Curtis Houck | November 23, 2015, 7:34 AM EST
On the heels of news that he’s slipped to third place in the network late night comedy show ratings due to his alienation of right-leaning voters, Late Show host Stephen Colbert proved why it’s the case on Thursday as he accused Republicans of not being C ...
By Michael McKinney | November 19, 2015, 4:07 PM EST
On Tuesday, The Atlantic featured an article that lamented decades of Republican race-baiting in presidential campaigns. The piece by Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur allow that race-baiting “does not mean that those who employ them are racists ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | November 16, 2015, 4:01 PM EST
On Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che shamelessly mocked Jeb Bush after the Republican told the Huffington Post he would happily travel back in time to kill baby Hitler. Che claimed this move would have “left Germany in the weak bum ...
By Tom Blumer | November 13, 2015, 7:51 AM EST
The "fact-checking" press has become a parody of itself during the past several years. It's not only because of their irritating penchant for putting statements by Republicans and conservatives under a twisted microscope while ignoring drop ...
By NB Staff | November 12, 2015, 5:48 PM EST
"Jeb Bush has a new campaign slogan: 'Jeb Can Fix It!' But a more appropriate slogan for Jeb is, 'I’ve Fallen, and I Can’t Get Up!'" – NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller. Subscribe to NewsBusted at YouTube here. Please consider he ...
By Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015, 9:58 PM EST
The Wednesday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News each provided their own wrap-ups of the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate from the night before, but the theme was predictably similar as both networks spun the even ...
By Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015, 8:41 PM EST
Filling in for Scott Pelley on Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, Charlie Rose provided a wrap-up of Tuesday’s Fox Business Networks Republican presidential debate and seemed exasperated when he wondered to Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson “why” did the G ...
By Curtis Houck | November 10, 2015, 8:46 PM EST
Offering analysis of the first Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate on the 8:00 p.m. Eastern edition of CNN’s AC360, CNN political commentator and Jeb Bush supporter Ana Navarro lamented that Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and his “passionat ...
