Unequal Treatment: Bash Presses Speaker, Lets Booker Skate On Shutdown
Midway through day number 30 of the government shutdown, CNN's Dana Bash discussed the situation with both House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) in separate interviews on last Thursday's "Inside Politics", on CNN, and although the topic was the same, her questions and Bash's handling of each guest's responses were noticeably different. First it was Speaker Johnson's turn…
David Bozell on WMAL: Networks Gave Zero Coverage to Arctic Frost
Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Derek Hunter Show Friday night for a discussion on the media’s silence on the conservative-targeted surveillance operation, Operation Arctic Frost, and its meltdown over White House renovations.
Brooks Mourns Dems Are Focused On Obamacare Over Threats To Democracy
Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away…
ABC and CBS Skip Airlines Telling Dems To Give Up On Shutdown
On Thursday, the nation’s four major airlines came together to embrace the Republican position that the government shutdown should end with a clean continuing resolution. However, NBC’s Today was the only Friday morning show to report this. By contrast, CBS Mornings made it seem as if the airlines wanted squabbling siblings to just get along, while ABC’s Good Morning…
List of Democrat Strongholds Calling on Party to End Shutdown Swells
On Thursday, the Teamsters union called on Senate Democrats to pass a clean continuing funding resolution (CR), as a growing number of traditional Democrat strongholds are demanding their party end the federal government shutdown.
Stewart Tells Harris Dems Need To Go Further Left On Healthcare
Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare…
Shutdown: Audie Cornish Pushes Republicans To Cave To Democrat Demands
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish doesn't point out Democrat hypocrisy in opposing a clean resolution to end the government shutdown. Instead, Cornish suggests the solution is for Republicans to cave and give Democrats "what they want." Cornish plays a clip of Elizabeth Warren claiming that President Trump is telling 15 million children to "eat dirt."
Democrats’ Support of Illegal Aliens Also Caused the Previous Shutdown
The last federal government shutdown, like the current one, was caused by Democrats’ support of illegal immigrants. That time, they won – until President Trump took an extraordinary measure to thwart their agenda.
Goldberg Thinks Trump Is Colluding with UPS, and Behar Can’t Sleep
The View’s lead stars, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, once again upheld their reputation for bloviating nonexistent fears created by President Trump. This time, Trump somehow timed the federal furloughs to coincide with private businesses contracting their labor pools, and has been haunting celebrity dreams!
Colbert and Gallego Seek To Align Shutdown Talking Points
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Wednesday’s taping of The Late Show for one of his regular segments where he seeks to align his show’s talking points with those of congressional Democrats. This time, the duo focused on the ongoing government shutdown and claimed that they are merely interested in providing affordable healthcare.
OUCH: Even CNN’s Jake Tapper Wasn’t Having It With Theatre Kid Dem
On Tuesday, CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper was all of us in having to deal with the middle-aged, theatre kid buffoonery of Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), who was brought on as a Democrat from the Oversight Committee to counter an earlier interview with Chairman James Comer (R-KY) about the Biden autopen report. Instead, she hijacked it to accuse Republicans of wanting tens…
Every Shutdown in Last 35 Years Was Ended by a Continuing Resolution
“The gold standard for ending a shutdown has been a clean continuing resolution,” Brit Hume told “Special Report” Monday - but, it’s actually been the only standard for ending shutdowns over the last 35 years.
MSNBC Talks Up Dems Bringing a 'Gun to a Knife Fight' vs GOP
On Monday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and never Trump Republican Mark McKinnon seemed to cheer for Democrats to aggressively gerrymander states like California against Republicans as both used the provocative expression "bring a gun to a knife fight" to describe the strategy.
Hill Journos Tweet Twice as Many Johnson Jabs vs Shutdown Consequences
A NewsBusters analysis of five leading liberal Capitol Hill reporters has found that, by a margin of roughly two-and-a-half-to-one (72 to 28), they have taken to X more times since the start of the government shutdown to condemn Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House for being out of session than they have highlighted crucial government programs like food stamps and pay for soldiers that…
