Pathetic: ABC, CBS Fawn Over Dem Mark Kelly ‘Firing Back’ at Hegseth

A day after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth moved to censure Democratic Senator Mark Kelly (AZ) for his poke-the-bear video last year all-but-directly encouraging members of the military to refuse to orders from President Trump, Kelly ran whining Tuesday to ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings as both were more than willing to celebrate him “fighting back” and “speaking…

Curtis Houck
January 6th, 2026 6:24 PM

Sunny Hostin Defends Dictator Maduro, Should Have Remained in Power

Tuesday was day two of The View’s meltdown over President Trump arresting Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and extraditing him to the U.S. This time however, co-host Sunny Hostin amped up her rhetoric from the previous day and argued that Maduro should have remained in power because his removal supposedly wasn’t done the “right” way. It was also Joy Behar’s first day back since…

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 6th, 2026 4:08 PM

Tim Walz Personifies Democrats’ Decline

Tim Walz is going away, but the Democratic Party’s Tim Walz crisis isn’t. The Minnesota governor gave up his quest for a third term Monday: Staying out of jail will be challenging enough for him over the next few months, never mind prolonging his stay in office. Federal prosecutors estimate the Somali daycare scam and other frauds perpetrated under his watch cost taxpayers up to $9 billion.…

Daniel McCarthy
January 6th, 2026 4:05 PM

Review: New ‘CBS Evening News’ Shows Tony Dokoupil Will Do the News

Following an unscheduled, two-day soft launch thanks to the U.S. military action in Venezuela to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, Monday marked the first official episode of the new CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil that, aside from a teleprompter snafu, came off as refreshingly down-the-middle and normal. One might suggest normal might convey a feeling of boredom or staleness. But…

Curtis Houck
January 6th, 2026 2:45 PM

NBC Only One Of The Three Networks To Cover Attack On Vance Ohio Home

One would think that if the hometown residence of the Vice President had its windows smashed by someone wielding a hammer, who was subsequently arrested by police after being detained by Secret Service agents, that it would make the three nightly network newscasts. But since it was an attack on JD Vance's Cincinnati dwelling, ABC and CBS skipped it. 

Steve Malzberg
January 6th, 2026 1:54 PM

Colbert Hails 'Forward-Looking Feminist Agenda' Of The Soviet Union

For the left, 2026 will be a sad year in the realm of late night comedy because The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will depart the scene in May. For everyone else, the CBS host’s Monday ode to the Soviet Union with Puck News Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe was a good reminder of why they will not miss him.

Alex Christy
January 6th, 2026 1:45 PM

Bozell, Graham on Media’s ‘Yeah, But’ Coverage of Maduro

Media Research Center President David Bozell and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham joined The Sean Spicer Show Monday night to dismantle the media’s reaction to the arrest of indicted Venezuelan narco-terrorist Nicolás Maduro, calling out the networks’ reflexive negativity and double standards when covering decisive U.S. action under President Trump.

Évangéline Faussié
January 6th, 2026 1:25 PM

On January 6, PolitiFact Boasts of Its Activism on Riot Narratives

Liberals naturally gravitate to marking the fifth anniversary of the January 6 riot at the Capitol, and that includes the so-called "independent fact checkers." PolitiFact promoted its January 6 category page, and boasted of more than 100 "fact checks," but the tilt is dramatic. There are 44 "checks" of named conservatives or Republicans, compared to just three for Democrats, almost 15 to 1.…

Tim Graham
January 6th, 2026 11:43 AM

Comedy Shows Claim Maduro Op Was About Epstein, Dance Moves

The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.

Alex Christy
January 6th, 2026 10:53 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Trump Seizes Maduro, Networks Can't Find Upside

Submerged in all the coverage of the American military seizing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife on Saturday was how well this dramatic mission went: the target was apprehended with zero American deaths. But the media spin was: this must be illegal, this must be headed for failure, this feels like American imperialism. 

Tim Graham
January 6th, 2026 8:55 AM

NPR Faults Trump Calling Maduro 'Dictator' After Smearing Him Same Way

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition offered a petulant rundown of the shocking and wildly successful involuntary expatriation of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from Caracas to face drug trafficking charges in America (“7 takeaways from Trump's action in Venezuela”). Senior political editor Domenico Montanaro unleashed this doozy of a double-standard for entry No. 4, sub-headed…

Clay Waters
January 6th, 2026 8:25 AM

ABC OMITS Hegseth Censure of Sen. Mark Kelly Over ‘Seditious Six’ Vid

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a letter of censure to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) that initiates a review process of his retirement rank and pay, as a result of his role in the shameful “Seditious Six” video that sought to undermine troop morale and good order by instigating them to disobey unspecified “illegal orders” such as the ongoing boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Of…

Jorge Bonilla
January 6th, 2026 1:13 AM

NPR Anchor Inskeep: Much Evidence of Our Liberal Bias Is 'Imaginary'

As you should expect, NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep is a cheerleader for his “news” network. On his Substack page came a titled “Public radio may be stronger in 2026.” He claimed "The fact-free hypothesis of NPR’s partisan critics was that NPR lost audience in the early 2020’s because it was too woke... much of the 'evidence' of bias was imaginary."

Tim Graham
January 5th, 2026 10:02 PM

Not Unhinged: CBS, NBC Morning Shows Keep Emotions in Check on Maduro

In contrast to ABC’s Good Morning America injecting an aura of chaos, concern, and negativity concerning Saturday’s U.S. military operations in Venezuela, Monday’s CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today were able to remain critical while not losing their proverbial noodles.

Curtis Houck
January 5th, 2026 6:56 PM