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Jake Tapper: I'm Not Blaming Trump For Five Dead Ukrainians, But...

August 17th, 2025 5:47 PM

On Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, host Jake Tapper three times mentioned that Russian attacks killed five Ukrainians after President Trump's meeting with Putin ended without a ceasefire. In his final mention, Tapper said to Mike Pence: "I'm not blaming it on President Trump, it's obviously President Putin's fault. BUT, if the ceasefire had happened on Friday, those five…

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‘Let's Go to Union Station’: Republicans School CNN Libs on D.C. Crime

August 13th, 2025 3:16 PM

Republicans living in Washington, D.C. were relieved that the city’s out-of-control crime was elevated to a national conversation after President Trump decided to take federal action to quash it. In a segment on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Republican strategists Lauren Tomlinson and Doug Heye out classed former DNC communications director Karen Finney in proving that D.C. had…

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Jake Steps on a Rake: CNN’s Tapper SCHOOLED By Abbott on Texas Law

August 12th, 2025 1:12 PM

On Monday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper once again utterly embarrassed himself on the Texas redistricting issue. While he falsely claimed previously that Republicans were “the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering” and singled out Texas, this time he tried to go toe-to-toe with Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R). Tapper showed off a profound ignorance of the…

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Tapper Claims GOP 'Worst Offenders When it Comes to Gerrymandering'

August 6th, 2025 2:30 PM

Now that his book tour was over, CNN’s Jake Tapper was back to hauling water for the Democrats. During the Tuesday episode of The Lead, the former Democratic operative turned CNN “journalist” dismissed his party’s widespread gerrymandering in several states, suggesting infamous Illinois was an outlier, and falsely proclaimed “most of the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering…

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Bozell on Jesse Kelly: "For the Left, the Ends Justify the Means"

August 6th, 2025 11:56 AM

“Russia hacked the election!" That was the liberal media’s mantra that echoed endlessly during Trump’s first term. Tuesday night on The First TV’s I’m Right, an MRC montage kicked off host Jesse Kelly’s interview with MRC President David Bozell. The clip mocked the media’s frenzy, with pundits from CNN to MSNBC chanting, “Definitively, Russia hacked the election!” and leaning on the…

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Joins Russia Hoax Declassification Firefight

July 22nd, 2025 10:04 AM

Early coverage of the declassification of documents related to the Russia Hoax by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard proves the adage coined by internet sage David Burge: "Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.” Such is the case with CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s foray into the Russia Hoax firefight. 

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Tapper Hints Colbert Canceled Because Trump Can't Take Criticism

July 19th, 2025 2:00 PM

CNN’s Jake Tapper tried desperately on The Lead on Friday to connect the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with parent company Paramount’s legal drama with President Trump. Tapper admitted he had no evidence for this but still found the whole thing to be “interesting” and promoted anonymous sources to help him advance his conspiracy theory.

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Selective Reading? MSNBC, CNN Ignore Brazilian Censorship, Bash Trump

July 15th, 2025 3:18 PM

CNN and MSNBC anchors deliberately hid the ball from their viewers after President Donald Trump struck a blow against Brazil’s censorship regime, which has attacked American companies.

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'PUBLIC' Radio Watch: NPR's 'Fresh Air' Has ZERO Conservative Journos

July 10th, 2025 3:15 PM

Fresh Air is a daily National Public Radio chat show out of WHYY in Philadelphia (which airs nationwide). A NewsBusters review of Fresh Air programs from January 1 through June 30 reveals there have been 36 interviews with liberal and leftist journalists, and precisely zero with conservative journalists.

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Backtrack: CNN Returns to ‘Hate in America,’ But Calls Motives ‘Murky’

July 1st, 2025 4:05 PM

O, Donie, where art thou?! That was the question worth asking Monday night when CNN’s The Lead had a new report about “Hate in America” in light of the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Colorado and deadly shootings of Minnesota state Democrats and host Jake Tapper brought out correspondent Tom Foreman instead of CNN’s supposed extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan.

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Original Spin: Tapper, Todd Maintain Media's Innocent In Biden Coverup

June 24th, 2025 10:46 PM

On Monday, former NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd interviewed Jake Tapper on his podcast, The ChuckToddcast to further discuss Tapper’s book Original Sin. The book skyrocketed into the spotlight in May with its exposé of former President Biden’s mental decline and cover up. The two speculated that the media, however, were being treated as a scapegoat for the cover-up,…

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Jake Tapper Refuses to Fact Check Dem Senator Contradicting CNN Report

June 13th, 2025 9:56 AM

On Thursday, the liberal media rushed to enflame the removal of far-left Senator Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference after he namelessly rushed at Secretary Noem and fought with security. Doing his part on CNN’s The Lead, Jake Tapper refused to fact-check powerful Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth (IL) after she (twice) falsely claimed Padilla immediately identified himself;…

‘Significant Layoffs’; Puck Says CNN Could Be TOAST After New Merger

June 12th, 2025 11:35 PM

On Monday, Warner Bros. Discovery made it official that they would be splitting in two with one including their movie and TV production studios, DC Studios, HBO, and HBO Max while the other is likely to be far less profitable as it’ll consist of its TV channels, such as Food Network, HGTV, TNT, and, most notably here, CNN. Writing Wednesday night at Puck, Dylan Byers that CNN could be doomed…

Krugman Couldn’t Smell ‘Corruption’ If It Died In Front of Him

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June 9th, 2025 7:40 AM

The same deranged, former columnist for The New York Times who spent years praising President Joe Biden as the best thing since sliced bread is now trying to sound the alarm on so-called “corruption” within the Trump administration.