CNN Nudges Michael Douglas to Tout Biden: ‘He’s Sharp As A Tack!’

On Sunday's CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS brought on 79-year-old actor Michael Douglas to plug his new Benjamin Franklin movie on Apple TV+. Zakaria nudged Douglas, a liberal Democrat, to vouch for Biden's mental acuity. From what he's heard, Douglas says Biden's "as sharp as a tack."

Tim Graham
April 22nd, 2024 10:38 AM

Doocy SLAMS KJP Over Biden’s Latest Lie About Uncle Being Cannibalized

In case you missed it from Friday, Fox’s Peter Doocy clashed with the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre during the White House press briefing when Doocy called out the President for falsely claiming his uncle not only died during World War II, but was cannibalized in Papua New Guinea by blood-thirsty natives. Jean-Pierre ducked, attacking Doocy and invoking the dubious “suckers” and “losers” tall…

Curtis Houck
April 22nd, 2024 10:28 AM

MSNBC Blames TN Gun Laws for Shooting -- But Gunman Came from Illinois

On this past weekend's The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart teamed up with anti-gun activist Dr. Jonathan Metzl to spread misinformation about the effects of gun laws as the two discussed his book on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine school shootings.

Brad Wilmouth
April 22nd, 2024 10:18 AM

NPR's 'Extremism' Reporter: Trump Could Cause Violence Against Jurors

One way the leftist media want to add juice to the Trump trial is to suggest the jurors will be threatened by Trump outbursts in court or on social media. On Friday’s All Things Considered, they brought in “NPR domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef” to spread the conspiracy theory that Trump messages will lead to violence.

Tim Graham
April 21st, 2024 10:54 PM

CBS Weekend News OMITS Latest Violent Campus Antisemitism

Weekend reporting of the latest round of anti-semitic protests, at Columbia University and elsewhere, yielded a mixed bag. ABC tried to bring balance to their reporting, NBC tilted heavily in favor of the protesters, and another, CBS, decided it was best not to report on the protests at all.

 

Jorge Bonilla
April 21st, 2024 9:07 PM

J-MART LAMENTS: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win'

Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum…

Jorge Bonilla
April 21st, 2024 6:02 PM

WaPo Portrays X-Hating Brazilian Judge as Disinformation Hero

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Twitter's new owner Elon Musk are in conflict over the control of disinformation, with Moraes seeking the removal of certain accounts. Moraes has gained increased power in Brazil to tackle false claims online, but Musk is opposing these measures and allowing greater speech freedom. Despite facing criticism and a place in Moraes' criminal…

P.J. Gladnick
April 21st, 2024 4:00 PM

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Frets Trump’s NYC Trial Is Crowding Biden Out

During the weekly panel discussion on NBC’s Meet The Press, Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell fretted about the trial of former President Donald Trump overshadowing everything President Joe Biden is doing on the campaign trail, to the point of referring to the present media environment as “The Trump Story”.

Jorge Bonilla
April 21st, 2024 3:51 PM

FLASHBACK: Media Seized on Elián Saga to Vilify Anti-Communists

24 years ago, gun-toting immigration officers snatched six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from his Miami home, in preparation to send him back to Cuba. Throughout the five-month saga, liberal journalists insisted there was nothing superior about living in the United States and slammed Florida's anti-communist Cuban community as a “banana republic.”

Rich Noyes
April 21st, 2024 10:11 AM

Tapper Brings In 'Fact Checker' Daniel Dale to Knock Trump's Opinions

CNN's resident "fact checker" Daniel Dale usually shows his face on air when CNN wants to attack Donald Trump. On Thursday's The Lead with Jake Tapper, Dale confessed that Trump's statements during jury selection were mostly just opinion, but he mocked the idea that President Biden had something to do with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's prosecution, even though an Associate Attorney…

Tim Graham
April 21st, 2024 8:35 AM

PBS Pundit Pals Hail Speaker Johnson Finding 'Inner Reagan' on Ukraine

The latest, foreign-policy-facing episode of Washington Week with The Atlantic found the weekly journalistic roundtable quite comfortable with both American hard and soft power -- as long as President Biden and the Democrats hold the reins. There was a scattering of hostile labeling, with three “far right” labels foisted on Republicans, but what was most striking was the panel’s…

Clay Waters
April 21st, 2024 6:23 AM

Brian Stelter, Post Reporter Can't Get Press Badges from Trump Team

Charlotte Klein at Vanity Fair was upset that the Trump campaign is “cutting off access” to reporters who are extremely hostile to Trump, starting with Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf, whose new book is titled Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy. They didn't love that title.

Tim Graham
April 20th, 2024 9:34 PM

Thanks to One Dissenter, the Mask Drops at NPR

Without a doubt, many readers here at NewsBusters were mega-dittos fans of the late, great Rush Limbaugh. In today’s media world perhaps you listen to conservative talk radio hosts Sean Hannity or Rush’s successors Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, or Glenn Beck or Jesse Kelly. Or, indeed someone else, perhaps a local conservative host in your area.

Jeffrey Lord
April 20th, 2024 4:00 PM

CBS Travels To Britain To Attack Trump As 'Misogynistic, Racist'

As the presidential election kicks into high gear, CBS Saturday Morning hit the road to seek the opinions of a group of people who will have zero impact on the results: the British, and more specifically, Brits who think Donald Trump is a racist and a misogynist.

Alex Christy
April 20th, 2024 2:00 PM