Triggered: CNNer Has the Major Sads That People Like The Babylon Bee
January 6th, 2020 4:49 PM
Self-described CNN “disinformation, politics, and technology” reporter Donie O’Sullivan hasn’t been having the best time with life as, between Sunday and Monday, he’s suffered a full-blown, public meltdown over......the Babylon Bee. Yes, the Christian, right-of-center satirical site has long been a scourge of the liberal media and their horrendously bad “fact-checking” sites like Politifact…
Salon Uses Laughably Narrow 'Fake News' Study to Deny Liberal Bias
January 6th, 2020 4:30 PM
Paul Rosenberg devoted 3,000 words in the left-wing Salon to refuting the indisputable liberal bias of the press: “Not fake news: Major study finds no 'liberal bias' in media -- but there are other problems -- Yes, the media is liberal -- but there's no 'gatekeeping bias.' If anything, journalists have become too cautious.” That "Not fake news..." bit in the headline is ironic, given that the…
Behar Dismisses ‘So-Called Threat' Soleimani: What About Impeachment?
January 6th, 2020 4:07 PM
The bitter media began the new year being outraged over President Trump ordering a drone strike to kill a terrorist, and the bizarre complaining continued on Monday’s The View. The hosts invited ABC News’ political director Rick Klein on the show to parrot Democrat fear mongering about how killing Soleimani was going to start a war with Iran. Co-host Joy Behar refused to give Trump any credit…
CRAY CRAY: AP Gets Weak Knees for Ayatollah’s ‘Tears’ at Funeral
January 6th, 2020 2:52 PM
Continuing the liberal media’s disturbing infatuation with the murderous Iranian regime, the Associated Press published an embarrassing 831-word puff piece Monday morning about “the typically reserved and measured” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “rare display of emotion” in which his “voice cracked under the weight of the moment” at Qasem Soleimani’s funeral.
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MSNBC's Newest Mom Kasie Hunt Thumps the Tub for Paid Parental Leave
January 6th, 2020 1:15 PM
On Sunday's Kasie D.C. show, MSNBC host Kasie Hunt followed in the footsteps of her new-mom colleague Katy Tur in returning from pregnancy leave and lobbying on air for a federal law in the U.S. to require employees receive paid parental leave.
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Nets Allow Scant Seconds of Gervais’s BLISTERING Attack on Hollywood
January 6th, 2020 12:31 PM
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais delivered a blistering, brutal attack on liberal Hollywood, Sunday night, bringing up awkward topics like covering for Harvey Weinstein. All three morning shows covered the Globes on Monday, but they allowed just seconds to the biting commentary that Gervais served up to the not-so-pleased crowd. CBS This Morning included just 7 seconds to playing the words the…
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NBC Hypes ‘Pressure’ on Iran to ‘Retaliate In A Big Way’ Against U.S.
January 6th, 2020 12:06 PM
On Monday, while marveling over the “massive crowds” that “filled the streets of Tehran” following the U.S. killing of Iran’s leading terrorist Qasem Soleimani, NBC’s Today show hyped the notion that the authoritarian regime was under “pressure” to “retaliate in a big way” by killing Americans.
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ABC Moved by 'Profound' 'Powerful' 'Mourners' Bashing America, Trump
January 6th, 2020 10:18 AM
ABC News spent another morning sympathizing with our enemies on Monday’s Good Morning America. This time, it was correspondent Martha Raddatz’s turn to be awestruck by the anti-American protests in Iran over the U.S. drone strike-kill of General Qasem Soleimani, last week. Instead of praising the death of a man who ordered the murder and torture of countless American soldiers, Raddatz sided with…
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Study: Trump Was TV News’s Biggest 'Outrage' in 2019
January 6th, 2020 9:30 AM
Even a casual watcher of broadcast news these days knows that journalists are using increasingly emotional language in their reports. Case in point: the word "outrage," which MRC analysts found was used 229 times in ABC, CBS and NBC's evening news reports in 2019.
Univision Asleep: No Post-Soleimani 'Al Punto'
January 5th, 2020 5:25 PM
The first Sunday of 2020 offered no shortage of things to be discussed on the nation’s Sunday public affairs shows. However, Univision took the opportunity to show how committed it is to immigration advocacy, and how disconnected from the public it claims to serve.
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ABC Stands in Awe of Iranian Politicians Chanting ‘Death to America’
January 5th, 2020 3:52 PM
ABC News kicked off Sunday’s Good Morning America by marveling at the sea of mourners in the streets of Iran and hyping the Iranian politicians who gathered on the floor of their legislature to chant “death to America;” in the wake of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani on Thursday.
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CNN Grills Pompeo on Airstrike, But Treated Iran With Kid Gloves
January 5th, 2020 1:14 PM
As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham recently reported, CNN’s Erin Burnett conducted a sit-down interview with Iranian ambassador to the U.N., Majid Takht Ravanchi on Friday where she treated him to some slow-pitch softball questions. The network took a complete 180 on Sunday when State of the Union host Jake Tapper unloaded on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by grilling him on the airstrike…
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NBC: Trump Starting ‘Religious War’ To Distract from Impeachment
January 5th, 2020 10:38 AM
Three days after President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the liberal media were still tripping over themselves as they continued to clamor about the President supposedly starting a war (while downplaying the Iranian-backed attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq). But during NBC’s Sunday Today they took it another step, declaring Trump had started a “religious war” and…
NYT: Trump 'Wags the Dog,' Pompeo Spreads Soleimani 'Misinformation'
January 4th, 2020 5:34 PM
The front-page lead story of the New York Times National Edition prominently framed conspiratorial Democratic doubts after the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani, responsible for the death of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq, was killed by an American drone strike at Baghdad airport ordered by President Trump. That wasn’t quite the paper’s spin. Over the banner headline…
