Coronavirus

China is responsible for every American Covid death. But if you’re going to try to parse out blame to a particular president, at least get the simple math right. On Christmas Eve, CNN Newsroom fill-in host Boris Sanchez had some trouble doing that as he definitively claimed it was “fake news” to accurately say that more Americans have been killed by Covid under President Biden than…

In the wake of a surge in Covid cases driven by the Omicron variant, the New York Times is trying to scare you back into your homes, alone, perhaps through government edict, just in time for the holidays.

Two days before Christmas, and CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News spent part of their Thursday newscasts gawking at the long lines in major cities as people scrambled to get tested for Covid before gathering with family for the holiday. But what they failed to share with viewers was ABC World News Tonight grilling President Biden the previous evening on his ‘…

Despite her name coinciding with Christmas cheer, Joy Reid really seems to be more of a Scrooge. She spent her Wednesday show doing what she loves best, stirring up hatred and fear against people she doesn’t like, ie: the right, but also included the military and the unvaccinated on this episode.

Affectionately referred to here as The Psaki Show, Thursday featured 2021’s final White House press briefing and it served as solid encapsulation of the year as Fox’s Peter Doocy tangled with Press Secretary Jen Psaki on a variety of issues (with Covid and crime on Thursday’s docket) mixed in with other reporter questions that ranged from solid to inoffensive to boring to hitting from the left…

On Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the presidential election, Joe Biden tweeted, “I'm not going to shut down the country. I'm not going to shut down the economy. I'm going to shut down the virus.” This was a lie. It was a lie because nobody can shut down the virus. Government does not have the power to end disease, as a general matter. When it comes to a wildly transmissible…

President Biden must have been as shocked as anyone watching that ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir gave him a hard time on his poor handling of the Covid pandemic, during their Wednesday interview. There was little room for Biden to maneuver as Muir pressed him on the lack of testing availability ahead of Christmas and the lack of forward vision of a new variant like Omicron…

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…

On Wednesday’s podcast, newly minted early bird Curtis Houck and I discuss the Covid crazies in the media who are desperately trying to get America to reinstitute mass lockdowns. We also do a rundown of the fun project I worked on: “2021’s Top Dirty Dozen Fredo Moments from CNN’s Former Wise Guy.” And chatted with the newest member of the NewsBusters night crew, former intern Kevin Tober about…

The pseudo-medical geniuses at Facebook partner Lead Stories tried to fact-check the British Medical Journal. Then they somehow claimed those actions weren’t censorship. 

When people criticize Dr. Anthony Fauci, he says: “They’re really criticizing science. Because I represent science.” Pretty arrogant. I assume Fauci is a top-notch scientist. My brother worked with him at the National Institutes of Health and respected him. But power tends to corrupt, and Fauci has been given a lot of power. His department directed tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of…

As the bad news surges and throbs again about the coronavirus, you can easily sense the lack of political vitriol for this president. Joe Biden gets a free pass. Trump was treated like a mass murderer.

Having been off on Monday, MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid returned on Tuesday amid a busy news week and didn’t waste time showing the opposite of the Christmas spirit as, after having repeatedly said “God bless Joe Biden,” she argued Fox News wants “their viewers and their fans” to “die because they don't give a damn” and it’d be a “fun” way to make Biden look bad.

With the Omicron variant of Covid-19 being the major story of the day on Tuesday, and President Biden giving an address laying out yet another plan to end the pandemic, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt did an interview where he pushed Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy to recommend individuals impose a "self-lockdown” and “dial back” their lives “on all fronts."