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STELTER: Cancer Diagnosis Should ‘Pause’ Scrutiny of Biden’s Decline

May 18th, 2025 10:02 PM

As news was breaking of former President Joe Biden’s advanced cancer diagnosis, there immediately emerged efforts to turn the diagnosis into a vehicle with which to suppress scrutiny of the former president based on the respective releases of the Hur tapes and the Tapper/Thompson book Original Sin. Chief among those doing so on CNN, Brian Stelter and former Obama guru David Axelrod.…

Vanity Fair Scribe Raises Trump Obsession with MARK TWAIN Biographer

May 18th, 2025 8:03 PM

In a Vanity Fair interview, author Ron Chernow discusses his new biography on Mark Twain, aiming to immerse readers in the historical period without modern political biases. Interviewer Erin Vanderhoof's attempts to draw parallels between Twain and Donald Trump fall flat, as Chernow stresses his avoidance of modern political interpretations. Chernow also expresses concern about the…

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TOO LATE: CBS’s Brennan Wants to ‘Look Forward’ from Biden Decline

May 18th, 2025 7:56 PM

Many elected Democrats and media are beginning to wilt under scrutiny over the damning revelations published in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin”. Many, as we heard from CBS’s Margaret Brennan, are just wanting to move on, or “look forward.”

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Clyburn Tells Tapper Biden Was Capable Of Serving Till End Of 2nd Term

May 18th, 2025 4:13 PM

On CNN's State of the Union, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) tells host Jake Tapper he continues to believe that Joe Biden would have been capable of serving out a second term, at which time he would have been 86 years old.

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ORIGINAL SINNER: Jake Tapper Remains Unrepentant During Promo Segment

May 18th, 2025 2:06 PM

On the latest installment of CNN State of the Union, an unrepentant Jake Tapper devoted a segment to promoting his upcoming Original Sin, co-written with Alex Thompson of Axios. The promotional segment makes clear, however, that Tapper appears unwilling to take personal responsibility for his own role, and that of the broader media, in perpetrating the biggest…

Liberals Also Disgusted by Jake Tapper's Book on Biden Mental Decline

May 17th, 2025 11:08 PM

Jake Tapper is facing backlash from both conservatives and liberals for his upcoming book on Joe Biden’s mental decline. Conservatives criticize Tapper for the hypocrisy of writing a book on a coverup he contributed to, while liberals are upset he is not focusing on Donald Trump’s issues, accusing him of betraying their narrative. Critics from the left, like Charlotte Clymer and Wajahat Ali,…

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MSNBC's Capehart Dismisses Comey's '8647'—A 'Pseudo Controversy'

May 17th, 2025 10:49 PM

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart dismisses former FBI Director James Comey posting a photo of 8647, which can be interpreted as a call to assassinate President Trump, as a "pseudo controversy."

Censorious NY Times Frets Over Trump's 'Misinformation Research Cuts

May 17th, 2025 6:15 PM

New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of…

Media Covers Hillary Attack on Trump's Qatar Gifts, Silent on Clintons

May 17th, 2025 4:00 PM

The media silence is deafening. There has been much media ado about a jet plane that has been gifted from the government of Qatar to President Donald Trump. The President, he the Commander in Chief, quickly made clear that while he would use it as a previously scheduled new Air Force One is being readied, the plane would eventually be passed on to the U.S. Department of Defense.

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CNN's Phillip Covers Up Her Own Role In Hiding Biden's Decline

May 17th, 2025 2:00 PM

CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five host Abby Phillip was confident that Democrats who covered up President Joe Biden’s mental decline should face consequences, and while that may sound like a random act of journalism from CNN, it was more of a way for Phillip to cover up her own role in dismissing the idea that Biden wasn’t all there.

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Kimmel, Clooney Have Some Serious Explaining to Do

May 17th, 2025 1:30 PM

George Clooney helped end President Joe Biden’s final presidential campaign with one, withering op-ed.

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ABC and CBS Ignore Audio of Biden Forgetting When Beau Died

May 17th, 2025 11:28 AM

Of the three Saturday network morning shows, only NBC’s Today covered Axios releasing audio files of former President Joe Biden suffering a memory lapse during an interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.

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Brooks Falsely Claims Trump's Trip Undid '100 Years' of Foreign Policy

May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM

There are undoubtedly parts of any Donald Trump presidency that are unique to him, but there are also parts that are continuous with other presidents, and one problem the media has is that they freak out over both. New York Times columnist David Brooks did precisely that on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he gave a factually-challenged retort to Trump’s speech in the Saudi capital…

NewsBusters Podcast: Comey’s Seashore Seashells, Tapper’s Credibility?

May 16th, 2025 6:00 PM

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck is back from vacation and joins me in discussing the liberal media’s largely muted response to disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s seashore seashells threat against President Trump. We also call out the false penance Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson were trying to perform on behalf of the liberal media to atone for not reporting on President Biden’…