CBS, NBC Blame ‘Far-Right Extremism,’ Tea Party Wave for Pelosi Attack
Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today followed up their attempts Monday to smear tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans as responsible for Friday’s brutal attack on Paul Pelosi by insisting the suspect was engaged in “far-right extremism” and tied to both the Tea Party movement and the 2010 GOP wave.
CNN Claims Political Violence 'Is a Uniquely Right-Wing Problem'
In the aftermath of the assault on Paul Pelosi and against all evidence, the Monday edition of CNN Tonight confidently proclaimed that political violence is a “uniquely right-wing problem right now.” Steve Scalise, Lee Zeldin, and Brett Kavanaugh, and the victims of the riots of 2020 were all unavailable for comment.
Noah, Abrams Lament 'Vile' Attacks While Spreading Conspiracy Theories
The last time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she compared herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians fighting for their freedom. Now with only eight days until Election Day, she returned to join the show’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” attacks against her while spreading election conspiracy theories and labeling Gov. Brian Kemp “…
Don Gets Demoted to the Morning: The Worst of Lemon
Don Lemon will be starting his totally-not-a-demotion stint on CNN’s revamped morning show CNN This Morning this morning. So we at NewsBusters thought it would be nice to take a stroll down memory lane and look back at Lemon’s heinous remarks that the network would prefer were memory-holed. The following is an extended but by no means complete list of Lemon’s most obnoxious and ridiculous…
Study: The Dangerous Partisanship of TV’s Midterm Coverage
A new MRC study of midterm election coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts finds Republicans are being walloped with 87% negative coverage while the networks' agenda for these stories — GOP candidate controversies, abortion rights and the danger of “election deniers” — perfectly match the topmost items in Democrats’ campaign playbook.
Reid Accuses GOP of Rigging Polls to Create Narrative of a Red Wave
On Monday night, MSNBC’s Joy Reid went full-blown conspiracy kook during her show The ReidOut. She was apparently wearing her tin foil hat so tight that it was cutting off her circulation because she claimed with a straight face that over half of the midterm election polls published over the last few weeks are Republican polls that are skewed to create a media narrative that a red wave is…
NewsBusters Podcast: Leftist Twitter Meltdown, Google Suppresses GOP
Social-media networks are a hot topic going into the midterms. Leftists are losing their minds over Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. On MSNBC, Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer called Musk a "child," said he's "Immature," he has "daddy issues." She can't imagine why a single advertiser would stay.
Nets Ignore News Alleged Pelosi Attacker Is An Illegal Immigrant
Despite spending parts of their respective reports lashing out a Republicans for the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul in the middle of the night on Friday, the big three evening news networks managed to ignore the fact that the alleged attacker was an illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa. Only Fox News’s Special Report mentioned this key detail.
'60 Minutes' Helps Dems With Hit Piece on Arizona 'Election Deniers'
As the midterm elections get closer, it’s obvious that the 60 Minutes crew is going to end with an aggressively partisan spin. We call this “Bias by Story Selection.” On Sunday night, Scott Pelley – the former CBS Evening News anchor who often trashed Trump for “tweeting tantrums and falsehoods” – spent the first 19 minutes of the show trashing the pro-Trump “election deniers” in Arizona and…
ABC, NBC Lash Out Over Supreme Court Hearing Affirmative Action Case
On Monday morning, in anticipation of the Supreme Court hearing a challenge to Affirmative Action in college admissions, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today lashed out at the five constitutionalist justices and Chief Justice John Roberts for daring to hear the case and possibly strike it down. Despite the court only having five to six judges who consistently uphold the constitution, the…
Criminalizing Dissent? Networks Blame GOP for Paul Pelosi Attack
On Monday morning, the objective from the liberal broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC was clear: blame conservatives as accessories for attempted murder in the attack of Paul Pelosi by a Berekely-residing nudist. The networks even admitted “no specific motive has been identified,” but argued without evidence tens of millions of right-leaning Americans are “play[ing] foosie with the forces…
WashPost's Wemple Atones for Not Condemning Cowardly, Woke NY Times
Erik Wemple, media critic at the Washington Post, issued a fascinating and revealing mea culpa on October 27, regarding the disgraceful firing in the summer of 2020 of former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet, after Bennet ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton that suggested sending in troops to quell the rioting stemming from Black Lives Matter protests after the police…
Deranged: The View Forces Kids to Dress in Mar-a-Lago Raid Costumes
Politics in excess – like many other things – rots your brain, which was evident on Monday’s Halloween edition of The View. While the cast didn’t dress up as the witches they are, they did think it was hilarious and appropriate to force kids to dress up as their favorite political obsessions and parade them around in a demented fashion show. Of course, the costumes involved mocking Trump,…
Morning Joe Blames Paul Pelosi Attack on GOP, 'Trump-Fueled Fascism'
On Morning Joe, at the end of the first half-hour spent exclusively on discussing the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, and blaming it on Trumpism, Mika Brzezinski vows, "we're going to be spending the entire show trying to take a deep dive into this."
