Beschloss Warns We May Have Seen 'Our Last Fair and Free' Election
Even by his standards, MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss brought some absurd analysis to Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour where he claimed that for as supposedly bad as this Supreme Court term was, it could get even worse next term and that it is possible that the U.S. has seen its last “fair and free presidential election”
For Independence Day: Five Patriotic Movie or TV Scenes You'll Love
Hollywood produces a lot of liberal, anti-American films. But, occasionally, filmmakers get things right, offering movies and TV shows that showcase the best about our country. In honor of Independence Day, we at NewsBusters compiled five of the most patriotic movie or TV scenes. Movies such as "Red Dawn" and "Rocky IV" captured a time when Hollywood actually portrayed the U.S. as a force for…
New York Times Page One: Roe Overturning ‘an Immediate Catastrophe’
The New York Times is not taking the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade well. Reporter Julie Bosman made Wednesday’s front page with “Women Fear What More They Might Lose.” The text box also made the front: “Feeling Angry and Sad at the Reversal of Roe.” Bosman piled on the rage, especially when under the guise of being included in a front-page “news” story.
Melissa Harris-Perry Compares Dobbs Case to Dred Scott on NPR Stations
On Thursday, former MSNBC host and public-radio host Melissa Harris-Perry energetically compared the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade to the Dred Scott fugitive-slave decision of 1857. It came in a segment titled “Reproductive Coercion is an American Cornerstone.”
Know Your Value! Mika Works Book Plug Into Praise of Hutchinson
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski works Know Your Value, the title of her book, into her praise for the testimony of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the House January 6 Committee.
NewsBusters Podcast: Media Hate Clarence Thomas and Mayra Flores
It's been 31 years since President George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court, and the media have hated him the entire time. Today, the media -- in English and Spanish-- don't want to say anything about Rep. Mayra Flores, the new Mexican-born Republican congresswoman for Texas. Minority conservatives get the outcast treatment.
ABC Notices Cratering Stocks, Pricey Cookouts...But Absolves Biden
Friday’s Good Morning America had full reports commiserating over the fact that the stock market had its “worst first half of the year” in over 50 years and the cost of a Fourth of July cookout have gone through the roof, but not surprisingly, the always superficial (and factually challenged) network refused to assign blame for either and thus absolved the Biden administration of any…
MSNBC: 1/6 Hearings About Same Dark Forces that Tempted Adam & Eve
Going into the Fourth of July weekend on Friday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough ended the 8 O’clock hour with an interview with presidential historian Jon Meacham where the duo went on to pompously and hypocritically wax poetic about the state of the country and how we should reflect on the situation we’re in regarding the January 6 hearings. And according to these two, we’re facing down the same…
How We Got to Roe v. Wade and Beyond
WASHINGTON -- In the good old days, when the liberals flourished, they undertook many grand designs. Some actually worked, for instance, the interstate highway system that now girdles America. The Cold War was another liberal idea. It worked, at least at first, before the liberals went wobbly and the conservatives and independents had to come in and finish the liberals' work for them. Of…
NBC Trashes FL Bill for ‘Combustible’ Parents, ‘Confusion’ in Schools
NBC’s Today went into the holiday weekend Friday in a tizzy over the implementation of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, decrying it as having “unleashed a torrent of controversy,” “combustible confrontations” by parents and “widespread confusion” and the insane, fact-free claim that it’s “frightening” to be a Floridian.
Late Night Hosts Blast 'Masturbating' Critic, Tell Thomas to 'Suck It'
The trio of Chelsea Handler, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert continued their lamentations at the downfall of Roe v. Wade on their Thursday night and Friday morning shows. The trio did everything from rage at random Twitter accounts, give the Supreme Court an “F” grade, and invited Justice Thomas to “suck it.”
USA-Bashing Press Uses Fourth of July to Trash: America, You Suck!
For most Americans, the Fourth of July is a time to celebrate the heritage of this country, the freedoms that we enjoy as citizens that so many others around the world do not. But journalists in America often use Independence Day as an excuse to complain about everything that’s wrong with the country. We at NewsBusters dug into our archives to find recent and not-so-recent examples of…
'Idiot'! NY Times Slammed for Sudden Concern for Supreme Court Power
When the Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 in Roe vs. Wade and liberals were dominant, the "objective" media loved the court and its "landmark" rulings. Now that the court is tilting to the right, it's a danger to democracy as we've known it.
Colbert, Kendi Falsely Claim Critics Opposed to Teaching Slavery
Radical, self-proclaimed anti-racist author Ibram Kendi journeyed over the The Late Show on CBS for Stephen Colbert’s Thursday-taped show and miraculously the duo managed to not burn Ed Sullivan Theater to the ground despite all the torched strawmen that say Kendi’s critics want avoid teaching about slavery in schools.
