Natasha Bertrand, Purveyor of Biggest 2020 Fake News, Promoted by CNN

February 14th, 2024 10:05 PM

CNN has promoted Natasha Bertrand, a journalist previously criticised for promoting fake news stories, including the debunked claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a result of Russian disinformation. Bertrand also notoriously backed the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative. This decision drew criticism from various commentators, including Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, who…

NewsBusters Podcast: Hunter Biden Scoops, Michelle Obama's 'Epic' Goop

April 21st, 2023 10:48 PM

Surprise! Stories broke about the Hunter Biden investigation this week, and some networks actually covered them for a bit. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama drew typical goop about her "epic lines" and whether she would please her superfans by running for president someday.

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ABC, NBC Hide BRUTAL News on Intel Letter Dismissing Hunter’s Laptop

April 21st, 2023 1:07 PM

The news got worse Thursday for Hunter Biden as it was revealed now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the catalyst behind the debunked and infamous October 2020 letter from former intelligence officials dismissing the surfacing of Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation. This bombshell showing more interference in the 2020 election was nowhere to be found on the Thursday night…

Column: The Steele Dossier Boosters Lecture Fox News on Truth?

April 21st, 2023 5:50 AM

It’s a heady time for the badly disguised Democrats in the “objective media,” seeing Fox News settle a fake-news lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over wild and unproven claims of massing voting-machine fraud. But a new book excerpt from “BuzzFeed Ben” Smith should remind everyone that the same “Truth Matters” cheerleaders accepted wild and unproven claims about Donald Trump willy-nilly.…

Politico Confirms Hunter Biden Laptop Story They Slammed as 'Disinfo'

September 22nd, 2021 2:32 PM

Politico  has finally gotten around to admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop story, which for almost a year they discounted as Russian "disinformation," was valid.

Politico Spins Biden Email Story as Possible Russian Disinformation

October 17th, 2020 5:33 PM

Russian disinformation! Ah! That old fallback excuse for liberals to explain away unpleasant news for them. Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2016. And of course, the left has made it perfectly clear they believe he's an illegitimate officeholder due to Russian disinformation. And now we have a bombshell report in the New York Post revealing inconvenient emails suggesting corruption…

MSNBCer Says Russia Wanted To Elect Trump After Video Says Otherwise

November 23rd, 2019 11:37 AM

MSNBC contributor and Politico national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand twisted herself into a rhetorical pretzel on Friday where she declared that Vladmir Putin interfered in the 2016 election in order to see Donald Trump elected president. This assertion occurred less than a minute after MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle played a clip of Dr. Fiona Hill's Thursday testimony saying that…

Poppycock: Politico Claims Brennan Never Accused of Lying to Congress

October 23rd, 2019 12:22 PM

Conservative Twitter bubbled over when Politico's Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippmann baldly contradicted the facts about Obama CIA director John Brennan's self-defensive lying -- as even Politico has reported.

Facebook's Latest Crime, According to MSNBC: Talking to Conservatives

October 16th, 2019 10:03 AM

On her Monday show, MSNBC Live host Katy Tur theorized that the future of Facebook as a company is very much up in the air. The latest controversy surrounding the social media company? CEO Mark Zuckerberg dared to talk to conservatives and yield to Elizabeth Warren's demands.

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Maddow's Hot Story on Trump-Dealing Military 'Markups' Fell Apart

September 15th, 2019 6:56 AM

Rachel Maddow touted another Trump scandal on September 6, that the Air Force was putting "taxpayer money directly into the president's pocket" by using Glasgow Prestwick Airport near his Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to Politico. But Byron York reported "The only problem with the Politico story was that it was not the whole story. In fact, it omitted so much important information…

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Media Worry ‘Anti-Climactic’ Mueller Hearing Could ‘Backfire’ on Dems

July 2nd, 2019 4:11 PM

During her 10:00 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson expressed concern that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s upcoming congressional testimony might be “anti-climactic” and possibly “backfire” on Democrats investigating President Trump. In the segment that followed, guests attempted to reassure Jackson that the hearing would pay off.

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Matthews Spends Hour Hitting Dems from the Left on Impeachment

April 24th, 2019 5:07 PM

On Tuesday night, MSNBC host Chris Matthews spent the duration of Hardball going after his fellow lefties from their own even more fanatical flank, pushing impeachment because America has “a President who broke his oath” who’s illegitimate on similar footing with disputed home run king Barry Bonds due to his reported use of steroids.

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NBC's Dilanian: Mueller Gave 'Complete Vindication of the President'

March 25th, 2019 10:59 PM

While many of his colleagues have spread conspiracy theories about the Mueller report and even called it racist, MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian seemed open to self-reflection; declaring that “those of us and members of the public who placed stock in the idea that this was a criminal case…we have to acknowledge today that what Robert Mueller found on collusion and conspiracy was a complete vindication of…

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‘The Russians Have Clearly Won’; MSNBC's Nance Melts Down After Letter

March 25th, 2019 5:19 PM

As NewsBusters illustrated all day on Sunday, MSNBC’s nonsense was shooting out into the ether like water from a fire hose During the 6:00 p.m. Eastern hour, so-called experts offered hot takes such as “the Russians have clearly won” and “Mueller basically seem to abdicate or punt on” the obstruction portion of the investigation.