NewsBusters Podcast: Big 3 Networks Go Soft on NYC Vote-Count Debacle
Somehow, ABC, CBS, and NBC are collectively bored by the vote-counting failures in New York City, where they mistakenly included 135,000 test ballots in their vote counting. ABC, however, can get excited about the saccharine-sweet cover story on Jill Biden in Vogue magazine.
Doocy Hangs Tough, Continues to Battle Psaki Over Her Defund Lies
Two days after he faced shameless gaslighting from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki over which party supports defunding the police, Fox News’s Peter Doocy was back at it during Wednesday’s briefing and pressed Psaki on her false claims that the GOP (and not Democrats) have defunded the police.
The Right to Bear Arms
Would carrying a gun make you feel safer? Robert Nash and Brandon Koch thought so. But the state of New York denied them gun permits, saying they hadn't demonstrated a “special need.” Why did they have to prove such a “need”? The Supreme Court ruled more than 10 years ago that all Americans have a right to keep and bear arms, no matter where they live.
Yes, It’s Ungrateful to Turn Your Back on the National Anthem
This week, heretofore nearly anonymous hammer thrower Gwen Berry made international headlines when, during the podium ceremony for winning bronze in an Olympic trial, she turned away from the United States flag as the national anthem played. The anthem wasn’t played for her, or for the other competitors in the hammer throw; every day during the trials, a pre-scheduled anthem went out over the…
Rumsfeld Dies, MSNBC's Mohyeldin Blames Him, U.S. For Mideast Misery
Former two-time Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Given his role in the Iraq War, both in its conception and in how it was fought, it was inevitable that media reaction would be at least somewhat critical. On his MSNBC show, Ayman Mohyeldin, however, went much further, blaming him and the U.S. for the misery that exists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CNN: NYC Elections Board 'Corrupt,' But It's a 'Uniquely' NYC Problem
On Wednesday's New Day, CNN analyst John Avlon calls the Board of Elections in NYC, the nation's biggest city, is "corrupt" and "incompetent." Avlon's allegation of BOE corruption isn't the mere speculation of an outsider: He used to work for the BOE, and the voter advisory committee! Substitute host Erica Hill obviously sensed the danger for Democrats, insisting to Avlon it's "uniquely" a…
CNN Host Pesters Stelter: Why Isn't Fox Airing Biden Live?
CNN Newsroom host Alisyn Camerota brought on media reporter Brian Stelter on Tuesday to discuss former President Obama saying the raise of misinformation "worries me," spurring Stelter and Camerota to lament the lack of solutions of information echo chambers and sensationalist media coverage...as if CNN isn't part of the problem.
Nets BLASTED Georgia’s Elections Law, But Bury NYC Debacle
The networks this spring and summer blasted states like Georgia for election security laws, deriding them as racist power grabs. But when the deeply liberal and Democratic state of New York suffered a massive debacle on Tuesday, the networks were virtually silent. ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday offered ZERO coverage to New York City’s mayoral race descending into chaos
NY Times Goes Full PR on LGBTQ ‘Unsung Heroes of Color’
An embarrassingly fulsome tribute to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer movement on Tuesday extended the New York Times’ outsized attention to a minority group that defines itself based on sexuality: “They Came to Slay: L.G.B.T.Q. Trailblazers,” interviews with five “L.G.B.T.Q. people of color.” L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy has long infiltrated the paper’s cultural sections and has also…
Column: Jill Biden, 'Every Inch a Goddess'
So much of what people call “news” isn’t hard facts. There’s a less favorable word for it: Publicity. When Democrats rule, news meets a dam, and publicity overflows. On June 29, ABC’s Good Morning America aired several minutes of this, swooning over Jill Biden, promoting a preposterously positive cover story in the August issue of Vogue magazine.
Did Politifact Cave to VA Dems After McAuliffe Piece? [UPDATED]
On Tuesday, we saw yet another example of the buddy-buddy relationship between the liberal media and those they want to help work to elect. A day after Virginia’s Politifact published a takedown of a misleading ad from former Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe’s campaign against Republican Glenn Youngkin, the outlet retracted it Tuesday under the auspices of “a substantial omission.”
Good Cops: Baier, Doocy Fact-Check White House on Defunding Police
While ABC was busy covering up a Democratic city council defunding the Oakland Police Department in California, and CBS and NBC refused to highlight the ridiculousness of the White House’s latest efforts to gaslight America, Fox News spoke the truth on Monday by fact-checking which party was out there defunding police departments and adding to the crime wave gripping the country.
CNN Continues to Circle the Drain, Hemorrhaging Viewers in Ugly Q2
When it rains, it pours. And when it comes to ratings at the Jeffrey Zucker-led clownshow known as CNN, it’s a monsoon. The second quarter’s ratings came out on Tuesday and the immature, noxious, and repugnant network suffered its worst month in total viewers and the 25-54 demo since June 2019 and primetime ratings have tumbled 71 percent in total viewers and 78 percent in the demo since…
ABC Gawks at Police Overwhelmed By Killings, Ignore Dems Defunding
In a slight improvement to their coverage of the violent crime wave gripping the nation the previous evening, the Tuesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight reported that police departments, like the one in Oakland, California were overwhelmed by the situation. But while chief national correspondent Matt Gutman was speaking with the Oakland police chief, he refused to mention that the chief…