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CNN's Audie Cornish Prefers Farmer Calling Tariffs A 'P---ing Match'

March 13th, 2025 11:28 AM

On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish plays a clip of an Iowa soybean farmer calling tariffs a "pissing match." The p-word is muted but it is clear what he said. A bit later, when a panelist begins a factual description of the effects of tariffs, Cornish eventually cuts him off, saying: "the farmer gave us a very, like, people understand what tariffs are now. Yeah. Right?"

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Meyers, Colbert: 'Naked Authoritarianism' To Deport Pro-Hamas Student

March 13th, 2025 9:53 AM

NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist…

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HAMAS MEDIA: ABC Again Advocates for Terror-Adjacent Student Agitator

March 12th, 2025 10:52 PM

ABC World News Tonight continues to champion the cause of radical campus protesters at Columbia University and elsewhere. Tonight’s report on detained green card holder Mahmoud Khalil was the continuance of an ongoing exercise in gaslighting and propaganda. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Why Do Reporters Hate Government Efficiency?

March 12th, 2025 10:37 PM

As much as liberals want to embarrass conservatives for questioning the "Clean Air Act" or the "Civil Rights Act," it might be time to ask liberals and the media why they are so opposed to Donald Trump and Elon Musk working on the goal of  "Government Efficiency." Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino talks about his latest videos.

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Morning Joe Regular Admits Oval Office Meeting With Zelensky A Success

March 12th, 2025 10:05 PM

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski describes as "disastrous" the Oval Office meeting among Trump, Vance, and Zelensky. But Morning Joe regular Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times admits though "hard to watch," it was a "pressure tactic that got us somewhere." Mika responds with a curt "all right" and quickly moves on.

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THAT’S (D)IFFERENT: Nets Suddenly Not So Gleeful About Lower Inflation

March 12th, 2025 9:23 PM

There are many noticeable differences between the first and second Trump administrations, but some things remain constant throughout. Then and now, the major network newscasts are reluctant to report any good economic news to emerge from the Trump administration, in this case: the Consumer Price Index coming in lower than expected.

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ABC Stokes Fear of Recession, Downplayed Biden's, Admits Media's Role

March 12th, 2025 5:45 PM

After telling the American people not to worry about the economy during the 2024 presidential election out of political convenience, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View had suddenly found reason to fret as they pushed the notion that President Trump was bringing about a recession. They betrayed their motivations with a conversation about how media narratives play a role in…

The Trump Effect: Winning Hearts and Minds

March 12th, 2025 4:37 PM

Democrat strategist James Carville advises his party to simply wait for President Donald Trump to fail: “I’m telling the Democrats, just sit there, play possum. Let them go, let them go, let them go. Poll numbers have declined, and the collapse is already underway. ... Just let the ball come to you. We don’t need to be aggressive now.”

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Leavitt Praises WashPost Changes, Battles AP, CNN, Politico on Tariffs

March 12th, 2025 1:58 PM

On Tuesday’s installment of the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the changes owner Jeff Bezos is making at The Washington Post, gave the “new media” seat to Saagar Enjeti of Breaking Points, and faced tough questions from across the spectrum on the economy from Fox News, CNN, Politico, and even the Associated Press.

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PBS Journo: Axing Education Dept Hurts 'Poor and People Of Color' Most

March 12th, 2025 1:44 PM

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect that will lead states to…

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ABC/CBS/NBC Spend Less Than Five Minutes (In 32 Days) on DOGE Savings

March 12th, 2025 12:58 PM

In 32 days of coverage (February 8 - March 12) ABC, CBS, NBC (on their evening and morning news shows) spent a total of (4 minutes, 43 seconds) citing specific dollar amounts that DOGE or President Donald Trump claimed to have saved the American taxpayer. 

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FLASHBACK: When the Media Adored ‘Jesus Christ of Our Era’ Elon Musk

March 12th, 2025 11:07 AM

Some of us are old enough to remember when journalists praised Musk as a “real-life Iron Man,” “a visionary,” and even “the Jesus Christ of our era.” Back then, every SpaceX rocket launch drew more media adulation than a Barack Obama speech, with journalists describing the company’s breakthroughs as “glorious,” “stunning,” and once, even “a miracle.”

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Colbert, Guests Warn of Trump-Run Nazi Plays, Post-Soviet Oligarchy

March 12th, 2025 10:10 AM

Ham-fisted Nazi analogies and dumb post-Soviet oracles—these are a few of Stephen Colbert’s favorite things. On Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS, Colbert welcomed actor Nathan Lane and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein to his show to lament the Trump Administration where it was warned that the Trump era will feature pro-Nazi versions of The Sound of Music

Column: When the Word 'Insurrectionist' Should Be Used

March 12th, 2025 5:45 AM

It would have been a dangerous drinking game during the Biden presidency to chug every time the media broadly described January 6 protesters as “insurrectionists.” That was the automatic journalistic assumption for every protester on the scene.So it’s remarkable when you consider radical leftist Mahmoud Khalil and the group he led, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).