Capitol Hill Riot
Alcindor Seems Disappointed More White 1/6 Rioters Were Not Shot
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, on her last day as the show's White House correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor sounded like she was possibly disappointed that more of the 1/6 Capitol Hill rioters were not shot by Capitol Police as she speculated that they would have been if they were minorities protesting peacefully.
Guess Who Snopes Tagged 'Mostly False' When Kamala Linked 1/6 and 9/11
Vice President Kamala Harris began her speech marking the one-year anniversary of the January 6 riot by comparing it to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. I joked the "independent fact-checkers are taking the day off." They didn't. Snopes declared conservative radio host Todd Starnes "Mostly False," not Kamala Harris.
Scarborough Brags Lib Journalist Decried Trump Supporters in 2016
On Friday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough lauded The New Yorker editor David Remnick for an article he published excoriating Donald Trump supporters immediately after the former President's election in 2016. The frequent MSNBC guest then compared the 1/6 Capitol riots to "climate change" allegedly leading to natural disasters after decades of the U.S. not taking the…
NewsBusters Podcast: You Can't Turn 1/6 Into 9/11, But They'll Try
As the liberal media devoted many hours to commemorating the 1/6 riot, it was considered horrible to "minimize" it, but it's apparently never objectionable to exaggerate it beyond belief -- an event where five died doesn't match the terrorist murder of 3,000 on 9/11.
Fox Bests CNN, MSNBC on January 6 Anniversary (And It Wasn't Close)
CNN and MSNBC spent over 1,600 minutes Thursday obsessing over the first anniversary of the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, but it failed to translate into any success in the ratings department. Thanks to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research, the Fox News Channel cruised to an easy victory in both total viewers with 1.6 million and 245,000 in the 25-54 demographic.
CNN, MSNBC Spend Over 1,600 Minutes Flaunting January 6 Anniversary
It was bound to be a nauseating day for anyone who turned on CNN or MSNBC Thursday during their voluminous coverage for the first anniversary of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and, according to a NewsBusters tallying of their live programming (20 hours on CNN and 19 hours on MSNBC), they didn’t disappoint. All told, the two far-left channels spent 1,653 minutes marking the occasion and…
CNN’s 1/6 Special: Fox News ‘Relishing the Idea’ of a Civil War
For years now, the liberal media have been telling us the county is in a “cold civil war” or a “neo-civil war” because people and policies they don’t like have popularity. But according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper during the network’s January 6 primetime special (Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later) it was the folks at “other networks” – aka Fox News – that were “relishing…
MSM Stories About Jan 6 Pipe Bomber Skip Incredibly Obvious Question
Journalists are displaying an incredible lack of curiosity for not asking the FBI about why they haven't used a certain investigative technique to track down the identity of the January 6 pipe bomber.
MSNBC's Wallace Crew Praises Cheneys and Rove for Their 1/6 Stance
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, per the ancient adage. And thus, for their condemnations of Donald Trump and the January 6th riot, Liz and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove have become the friends of the left. But for denizens of the liberal media, any praise of that trio— and in particular Dick Cheney and Rove—risks alienating their liberal base, which loathes them. And so it was that on Nicolle…
NBC's Lester Holt Plays Therapist With Speaker Pelosi In 1/6 Interview
NBC News has always been in the tank for the Democratic Party, and Thursday was no different. On NBC Nightly News during an exclusive interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the topic of the anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Hill riots, Lester Holt gave her a fluffy softball interview.
CBS PANICS Over Michigan Enacting Voter ID Laws, Ending Vote By Mail
With 2022 being a midterm election year, and historical election precedent not being on their side, CBS decided to run a segment warning about Republicans in Michigan enacting voter identification laws as well as banning the Michigan secretary of state from sending vote by mail applications to registered voters unsolicited.
The Second Half: CBS/NBC Give Jan. 6 Over 80% Evening News Airtime
As NewsBusters documented Thursday morning, the anniversary of January 6 was their Super Bowl as the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) spent nearly 90-combined-minutes obsessing over the riot at the Capitol like their political careers depended on it. That infatuation cared over through half-time (to stick with the football nomenclature) to their evening newscasts where CBS and NBC each…
WashPost Touts Development of Algorithm to ‘Prevent Another Jan. 6’
Hysteria proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a MAGA-fueled “insurrection” against “democracy” is strong as ever one year later. Government agencies, a university and nonprofits are all coming together to develop supposed “political violence”-predicting algorithms in response. That plan could prove seriously damaging to free speech online.
INSANE: ABC Historian Compares Biden Speech to the Gettysburg Address
Continuing Thursday’s theme of news organizations allowing all nutty comparisons to fly on the anniversary of the January 6 riot, ABC News presidential historian Mark Updegrove proclaimed after President Biden’s “powerful” speech that it belonged alongside those from “FDR after Pearl Harbor,” “Lyndon Johnson after Selma,” “George W. Bush after 9/11,” and, most egregiously, Abraham Lincoln’s…
