CNN’s 2022 Resolution: Make Everything an Attack on Democracy
On Sunday, CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” rang in 2022 with some New Year resolutions for the media (I guess that makes them News Year resolutions) at the end of the show. But there was only one resolution they wanted to stick to and it was to gaslight their audiences by making everything into a threat to democracy.
MSNBC's Capehart Gets All Verklempt Over Trump Threat to Democracy
On the occasion of the approaching anniversary of the January 6th Capitol riot, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart gets verklempt on his MSNBC show as he agonized over the alleged threat to American democracy posed by Donald Trump and his supporters.
MSNBC Panel: Biden An 'Albatross' Around Democrat Necks In 2022!
Tiffany Cross was sipping a New Year's champagne cocktail on her MSNBC show this morning. Perhaps Cross could have used it to wash down a Prozac. Or two. Because the news she was getting from her panel about the 2022 elections was decidedly depressing for liberals like her: Joe Biden is dragging down Democrat candidates across the country. One panelist depicted Biden as an "albatross" on the…
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.
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!
Washington Post Cries GOP ‘Primed to Pounce on Inflation’ in 2022
The Washington Post tried to whip out the generic “Republicans have pounced” cliché in order to spin some of the attention on skyrocketing prices away from President Joe Biden.
ABC Fawns for Stacey Abrams' New Kid's Book, Pitch Race for Governor
In a nauseatingly gooey Tuesday interview with election conspiracy theorist and Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams, the co-hosts of ABC’s Good Morning America heaped praise on the previously failed gubernatorial candidate for announcing her second go at the position, her work as a “major voting rights advocate,” and her eponymous new children’s book Stacey's Extraordinary…
CNN's Harwood: Biden Covid Copout a 'Throwaway Line,' Being 'Polite'
Reacting to President Biden telling governors regarding the COVID pandemic that "there is no federal solution, this gets solved at the state level," CNN's John Harwood says: "I think that was a throwaway line from Biden . . . I don't think he was actually signaling it's not my job anymore, it's your job . . . So I think somewhat more has been made of that little, sort of polite beginning of…
Morning Joe: Don't Applaud Pro-Vax Trump—It's Just An Election Ploy
Morning Joe was in no mood today to give Donald Trump credit for his vigorous advocacy of the COVID vaccine during an interview with Candace Owens. Nope: it was just a nefarious ploy, with an eye to 2024, to win back the suburbs.
Brian Kilmeade Unloads on Kamala: A Lazy Complaint-a-holic
On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade says of Kamala Harris: "To me, this is a lack of performance. This is a lack of interest. This is laziness. And this is a complaint-a-holic who just wants to be anointed president, and she's angry that she's not."
S.E. Cupp 'Nauseous' Over Trump 1/6 Plans, Doubts GOP Will 'See Jesus'
Appearing on New Day, CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp says that the prospect of Donald Trump's January 6th speech at Mar a Lago makes her "physically ill, nauseous, and very afraid." As for whether congressional Republicans would move away from Trump, Cupp said: "I have long given up on the sort of pivot, that Republicans will see Jesus and understand just how dangerous and awful these…
CNN Mocks Manchin's 'I'm From West Virginia' Line
On Tuesday, CNN's New Day mocked Joe Manchin's statement explaining that as a West Virginian he couldn't be intimidated into supporting Build Back Better. Co-host John Berman led the charge, saying: "I will note, you know, I always love it when someone says, I'm from West Virginia, we don't back down to anything. People from all 50 states will say that, right? One state doesn't back down more…
Kamala: 'I’ll Be Very Honest,' I Don't Think About Biden '24 Run
Just as the books were about to close on 2021's Political Lie o' The Year, a new entry bursts into the lead! Interviewed on CNN's New Day Friday morning, The Wall Street Journal's Tarini Parti reported on her interview with Kamala Harris. When asked if she assumed Biden would run in 2024, Harris said: “I’ll be very honest: I don’t think about it."
Paper Won't Use the Term 'Dr. Oz' in His Senate Race, But Jill Biden?
TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz is running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, in a crowded Republican field. The first controversy he's exploiting to build his campaign is the Philadelphia Inquirer insisting that they will NOT be calling him "Dr. Oz," even though is an actual doctor and professor of surgery.
