Hysterical NYTimes Frets Over Country Star Morgan Wallen, Bigoted Fans
The country has largely forgiven country star Morgan Wallen for uttering a racial slur after a night out in Nashville last year. But The New York Times won’t let it go. In last Sunday’s “The Morgan Wallen Conundrum,” music critic Jon Caramanica spent a staggering 2,400 words condemning Wallen for the one offensive word. Even worse: At a Wallen concert, "there were no tables in the lobby…
Hollywood Journalists Protect Liberal Stars from Themselves
Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin get off easy while reporters look the other way. This just in: The earth has nine years left before Climate Change’s impact is irreversible. So says Leonardo DiCaprio in a new Deadline interview. It’s clear to most casual observers that DiCaprio doesn’t practice what he preaches. So how many journalists have asked some tough but fair questions of DiCaprio on the…
FLASHBACK: Last Court Vacancy, Media Melted Down Over ‘Catastrophe’
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retired on Wednesday, prompting absurd responses from journalists such as Andrea Mitchell. She bizarrely described Breyer as “conservative or moderate.” (He’s not.) Here’s a look back at the media reaction to the last vacancy, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
USA TODAY 'Fact Checker' Rushes to Defend NYC, DC Requiring Papers
In Washington, DC today, you need proof of vaccine AND your ID for admission to most indoor venues. But Bob Daley, an Edgewater, Maryland Facebook user with 427 followers, was flagged by "fact checker" Daniel Funke of USA Today for "missing context" with a meme that read "When you need to show papers to eat in a restaurant, but not to vote, something is wrong."
NewsBusters Podcast: Barry Manilow 'Bans' and 'Virtue Bombs'
On Friday, we were flustered by the rumor that Seventies pop star Barry Manilow sided with Neil Young in pulling his songs from Spotify over Joe Rogan. The rumor was untrue. But this kind of controversy lines up with our interview with Christian Toto about his new book on politically correct entertainment, Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul.
ABC Hides Widow of Slain NYPD Officer Blasting Weak-on-Crime DA
In an emotional message during her husband’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Friday, Dominique Luzuriaga, the widow of slain 22-year-old NYPD Detective Jason Rivera, blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his weak-on-crime policies getting her husband killed. But despite how powerful a moment it was, ABC’s World News Tonight completely omitted her scathing rebuke of the…
Of Course: MSNBC Leftist Legal Analyst on Biden’s SCOTUS Short List
On Friday, MSNBC eagerly touted how one of its own, left-wing legal analyst and NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray, was reportedly on President Biden’s short list for the Supreme Court. Interviewing Murray on his 11:00 a.m. ET hour show, anchor Craig Melvin tried to pump her for any information about being contacted by the White House.
PolitiFact Bungles 'Mostly False' Claim on CRT, Refuses to Budge
On January 24, PolitiFact wrote a “fact check” throwing a “Mostly False” rating at Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears for an TV interview with Fox News on Martin Luther King Day claiming the school system in Loudoun County, Virginia spent $300,000 on critical race theory. When faced with the facts, PolitiFact wouldn't budget. She was still "Mostly False." No, they were.
'Life's a Mitch,' Acosta Whines About 'Hard-Right' Supreme Court
While hosting the scary sounding Democracy in Peril on CNN on Thursday, Jim Acosta blasted the "hard-right" Supreme Court for possibly overturning Roe v. Wade, which would increase democracy in the country, lamented that Democrats won't get rid of the filibuster in response to this, and decried their "life's a Mitch" attitude towards the situation.
Behar Responds to Criticism of Bigotry on Justices Thomas, Barrett
On Friday’s edition of The View, co-host Joy Behar seemed to lash out at NewsBusters and other critics for calling them out on Thursday for the bigotry they showed towards Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett, suggesting they were not a real “black man” or “a woman,” respectively, by use of air quotes. And she seemed to cry sexism by saying the “baloney attacks” were directed at “…
Kimmel Jokes Trump Jr. Is Crackhead Who’d ‘Snort...Powdered Sugar’
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel continued into Thursday’s show his never-ending obsession with the Trump family as what he seems to believe as the lone source of jokes on planet Earth, quipping that Donald Trump Jr. has been such a failure in life that he’s actually a cocaine addict who “couldn't run a Dunkin’ Donuts” and, if he did, “on the first day, he'd snort all the powdered sugar and get his head…
Editor’s Pick: NR on Politico Bracing for Conservative Pouncing
On Thursday, National Review Executive Editor Mark Antonio Wright reported: “In a ostensibly straight-news write-up on the politics of the coming confirmation of Justice Breyer’s successor, Politico reporters Meridith McGraw and Hailey Fuchs write: ‘The conservative movement has, for decades, prioritized Supreme Court fights over nearly all other forms of political battle....[but] they aren’t…
On MSNBC: Republican Voters Are 'Often More Emotional Than Rational'
Could the liberal media possibly be any more contemptuous and condescending toward us poor, benighted, conservative rubes? On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, contributor Alexi McCammond said: "It doesn't matter, necessarily, what the polls show about support for abortion or Roe v. Wade being constitutional law. Republicans know how to strike a nerve in accord with their voters. And know that […
STUDY: Lying Nets Spin Retiring Breyer as a ‘Pragmatic’ ‘Centrist'
When Joe Biden announces his new Supreme Court nominee in February, you can probably be sure of one thing: Media outlets will call this person a “moderate.” The network newscasts are pushing that same (false) talking point on Stephen Breyer after he announced his retirement from the Court.
