‘Vice’ Director: ‘Orangutan’ Trump ‘Nowhere Near’ as Bad as Bush Admin
In a statement that most modern liberals would consider to be blasphemous, “Vice” movie director Adam McKay told the Daily Beast that President Trump has done “nowhere near the damage” to America that Bush and Cheney did.
Gabriel Hays
On Christmas Morning, Pastor on ABC Compares Illegal Aliens to Jesus
To their credit, ABC's Good Morning America marked Christmas morning by having in three Christian pastors to discuss the life of Christ and the Christmas message. The guests were Episcopal bishop Michael Curry (he appeared all over television), Rev. Heidi Neumark of Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York City. ABC host George Stephanopoulos threw immigration…
Tim Graham
NYT's Christmas Present to Hezbollah, Which ‘Helped Ring in Season'
Lebanon-based Islamic anti-Israeli terrorist group Hezbollah, they helped whitewash the reputation of the murderous organization in “In This Arab Nation, ‘Jesus Isn’t Only for the Christians.’” Hezbollah’s objective is to obliterate the state of Israel. They have killed Americans as well. A suicide bomber the American Embassy in Beirut in 1983 killing 63. Later that year a Marine barracks was…
Clay Waters
CBS Anchor: Is DHS Covering Up Deaths of Detained Children?
The stand-in hosts of CBS This Morning repeatedly implied on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security was responsible for the recent death of a detained Guatemalan child. In an interview with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAaleenan, the second-string anchors asked a series of questions that framed the agency as either inept or calloused, at one point even…
Bill D'Agostino
Jon Voight: ‘Slanders and Lies’ ‘Trying to Hurt Our President’
Hollywood star and Trump supporter Jon Voight recently sent out a heartfelt message to fans on social media, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and also praising Donald Trump for “doing amazing things,” despite “the people trying to hurt our president.”
Gabriel Hays
ABC: 'Without Any Proof,' Trump Cites Federal Workers Who Want a Wall
On Wednesday's Good Morning America, ABC reporter Tara Palmieri picked on the president for "griping" and "fuming" about the border wall, and then sneered "As the government remains partially closed for the fifth day, the president claiming without any proof that 400,000 federal employees working without pay over the holidays support his position." But that's not what he actually said: Trump…
Tim Graham
Jimmy, Jim, Jim: Here Are the Worst Acosta Moments of 2018
To put it objectively, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta had quite the 2018. Whether he was throwing temper tantrums in White House briefings over CNN’s issue of the day or not being called on, 2018 saw Acosta become a hate object of sorts and a broader symbol of how much CNN loves CNN. For a year that began with him tussling with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and ended with…
Curtis Houck
Preacher Joe Scarborough: 'What Would Jesus Do' About Immigration?
Joe Scarborough opened Morning Joe with a canned statement, thundering against President Trump's policies on immigration and asking "what would Jesus do" about it?
Mark Finkelstein
Reuters, Bloomberg Report Chinese Tariff Cuts; Trump Not Mentioned
It's probably one of the biggest business stories right now that you haven't heard about both because the mainstream media has downplayed it and because the reports came just the public's attention was captured by last minute Christmas Eve shopping . And if you are aware of it, you haven't seen the name of a certain president who was instrumental in making it happen. So what is it?
The yuuuuge…
P.J. Gladnick
NB Year in Review: Journalists Exhibiting Trump Derangement Syndrome
This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2018. Today, it’s a look at the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome as we present the most over-the-top attacks on President Donald Trump. When he wasn’t being compared to tyrants like Benito Mussolini, he was being branded a traitor who sold out America to Vladimir Putin. And of course he was repeatedly tarred as a hateful…
Geoffrey Dickens
Bozell & Graham Column: The Media Was Still Unglued in 2018
President Trump has been in office for almost two years, which should mean that by now, all the crazy talk in the media about his impending dictatorship ought to be abandoned. Democracy is still vibrant, as we saw with record voter turnout in November. But the wild conspiracy theories about Trump never stop. Some of them qualify as the worst media quotes of the year.
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
WashPost's Milbank Paints Trump as Soviet 'Man in the High Castle'
The oppositional ardor that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank directs at President Donald Trump is never-ending in its silliness. Milbank's latest absurdity is that Trump is a Soviet version of "The Man in the High Castle." In other words he is calling the president a traitor doing the bidding of Russian (not Soviet) leader Vladimir Putin.
P.J. Gladnick
Carl Bernstein: Trump 'Unfit to Be the President' After Mattis Resigns
CNN’s Reliable Sources used to be a show about journalism and media ethics. In the Trump era, it’s all about Trump and conservatives ruining America. After weighing in on the “embarrassing” government shutdown, it did not take long for the discussion to veer off into a debate about whether or not the Mattis resignation letter proves that President Trump is “unfit to be the President.”
Ryan Foley
NY Times Discovers 'Problem' of GOP Judge Shopping, 'Weaponized' Court
There is a pernicious media trend to treat ordinary partisan things as out of the ordinary and a danger when conservatives do them. One offender is New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak. Recently he worried about the Supreme Court’s legitimacy, now that it was finally leaning somewhat rightward. He exhibited a sudden concern about the ordinary partisan phenomenon of “judge shopping,”…