We’ve Survived 2021! Here’s the Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs From 2021
Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.
DOOCY TIME: Here’s Peter’s Top Briefing Tangles With Jen Psaki in 2021
Following four years of combative White House press briefings and showboaters like Jim Acosta and April Ryan becoming Resistance household names, the White House Briefing Room saw a different show in 2021 with Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Often times, one could count on one man to do what Acosta refused to do in respectfully challenging an administration: Fox’s Peter Doocy.
Pedo Problem: Second CNN Producer With 'Potential Juvenile Victims'
CNN is ending 2021 the same way they spent most of it: in the gutter. Late Wednesday, news broke that yet another CNN producer was under “criminal investigation” for sexually preying on minors. This time it was the producer for Jake Tapper’s weekday show The Lead, Rick Saleeby.
Which Tweeter Is More Ridiculous? Dan Rather or Keith OIbermann?
It seems to be a contest this week for which disgraced "news" man can sound more ridiculous on Twitter -- Dan Rather or Keith Olbermann? Is it Rather on "Let's Go Brandon"? Or is it Keith whacking at Mitt Romney's family Christmas photo?
MSNBC: Parents Criticizing School Boards Are 'Attacking Democracy'
You just can’t make this stuff up. MSNBC spent Wednesday night worrying that parents involved in their kids’ school educations were an "attack on democracy.”
Here's 2021's Most Out of Touch Moments on 'The View'
The View is hardly a balanced political show. How can it be, with three or four liberals against one conservative? (Or no conservative, as it has been this season.) Still, there are moments on the show where you can’t believe what you are hearing, because it is so far removed from reality. Recognizing that, here are the most out of touch, wackiest reactions and comments from the hosts in 2021…
Editor’s Pick: NRO Covers Fallout of NYC’s Drug Injection Sites
Doing reporting the liberal media wouldn’t dare to do (or at least consistently), National Review’s Zachary Evans has a piece from Thursday morning highlighting the scene outside New York City’s two so-called safe injection sites, which “provide clean syringes and overdose-prevention services to addicts, who bring drugs from outside,” allow them to shoot up, and then be revived by medical…
CNN Analyst: 'Too Kind' To Call Trump 'Leader of a Terror Movement'
Lumping Donald Trump with Osama Bin Laden? That's going too easy on the former president! On New Day, CNN's "national security analyst" and former Obama aide Juliette Kayyem said that when a year ago in an Atlantic article she depicted Trump as being "the leader of a terror movement," she was, as she recently tweeted, actually being "too kind" to him!
MSNBC: Fox News Only Covering Theft Because They Hate Black People
Chris Hayes has a long history of making absurd and hateful claims on his nightly MSNBC show, but it appears there is no comment or bizarre conspiracy theory that’s too low for him. On Wednesday night’s edition of “All In”, Hayes spent an entire segment dismissing America’s rising crime rates, and questioned the motives of any network that dared to cover it.
NBC Bemoans Harry Reid's Decision to Change Senate Filibuster Rule
As was reported here on Wednesday afternoon, ABC, NBC, and CBS had nothing but gushing praise for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This was also true on Wednesday evening as the liberal networks drooled all over Reid and his legacy as the longtime leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate. However, NBC Nightly News did change their tune slightly from this morning.
NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Somehow 'Yacht Rock' Is Racist
As we wrap up 2021, it's time for a little cultural talk on the NewsBusters Podcast. NPR recently suggested the Beatles signified how the rock band was a white-male institution. They also recently brought on Nikole Hannah-Jones to explain that "yacht rock" like Steely Dan, Toto, and the Doobie Brothers is culturally appropriated black music.
HERESY: Nets Deny the Science Behind CDC Loosening Isolation Rules
For nearly two years, Dr. Fauci was the pope of the media’s new church of science and the CDC was the Vatican Council handing down the dogmas of the rites and rituals around masks, isolation, and vaccine anointments. But with the CDC loosening isolation recommendations in the face of new information about the Omicron variant’s life cycle, the media’s faith was shaken as they openly denied the…
NY Times Condemns GOP Candidate ‘Quack’ Dr. Oz in Front-Page Hit
The New York Times is getting an anti-Republican hit piece in early. Correspondent Trip Gabriel devoted nearly 2,000 words to the U.S. Senate campaign of Dr. Oz, the television doctor who is now a candidate in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary, for a front-page story Monday, “Dubious Advice From TV Doctor In Senate Hunt.”
NBC’s Roker Freaks Out Over the U.S. Experiencing Weather in 2021
On Wednesday, several MSNBC shows ran a report in which NBC weather presenter Al Roker hyperventilated about the weather over the past year. Roker blamed virtually every form of unpleasant weather on climate change, while also sneaking in some high praise for President Joe Biden. By the end of the report, it had become apparent that his definition of “extremes” was not significantly…
