Hysterical NYT Piece Chronicles West Coast Liberals Upset at Trump Win

NewsBusters has chronicled a slew of media reactions both on-air and print in the hours and days since Donald Trump’s stunning presidential election upset of Hillary Clinton, but stories like one posted late Friday for Saturday’s print edition of The New York Times about West Coast liberals proved that such meltdowns will be here to stay for the near future.
Curtis Houck
November 12th, 2016 12:07 PM

Former ABC Reporter on ‘Toxic Oaf' Trump's Win: ‘It Was Sexism’

Left bereft by the election results, veteran former ABC reporter Lynn Sherr had a long rant on the site of left-wing public television omnipresence Bill Moyers, under an aggressive headline: “Agree: It Was Sexism: It wasn't because she was unqualified or didn't get the popular vote. It was sexism.” Sherr lamented "the tide that turned America into a nasty pit of hatred is a direct descendant of…
Clay Waters
November 12th, 2016 11:29 AM

AP Pity Party: 'Obama Must Find a Way to Explain Trump' to the World

The Associated Press and reporter Josh Lederman are feeling sorry for outgoing President Barack Obama. Shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, in advance of Obama's last foreign tour, the AP's headline at Lederman's dispatch read: "On last foreign tour, Obama must find a way to explain Trump." Lederman wrote that our poor, put-upon president "must pivot and reassure the U.S. and other…
Tom Blumer
November 12th, 2016 11:16 AM

CBS Crime Drama Takes Jab at Just-Elected Donald Trump

Less than 24 hours after CBS and the other networks declared that Donald Trump had been elected president, one of their prime time crime dramas took a thinly-veiled jab at the new President-elect, as [spoiler alert!] a homicidal teenager justifies his murders of entire families as a way to punish high school bullies by citing “some politicians” who say “the best way to handle terrorists is to…
Rich Noyes
November 12th, 2016 11:02 AM

ABC, CBS Spotlight Assaults on Trump Supporters; NBC Censors

ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening newscasts all devoted air time to racially-charged incidents in schools in the wake of the election. However, NBC Nightly News stood out from its competitors for failing to mention the violence against Donald Trump supporters in recent days. ABC's World News Tonight featured cell phone video of a California high school student being punched for supporting Trump. CBS…
Matthew Balan
November 12th, 2016 1:31 AM

CW Show: Abortion is Ok If You Don’t Tell Your Priest

Friday night’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on the CW presents abortion as an acceptable option if the couple doesn’t tell their priest - because then the priest won’t tell God. What kind of liberal mumbo-jumbo rationalization is this?
Karen Townsend
November 12th, 2016 12:31 AM

'The Exorcist' Features Mercy-Killing Nun

To follow-up on the adulterous priest (which still continues by the way), Friday night’s episode of Fox's The Exorcist delivers yet another awful depiction of religious figures. This time, it is a nun who must be demeaned as she actually suggests “mercy killing” as an option.
Lindsay Kornick
November 11th, 2016 11:27 PM

Liz Warren Admits All Trump Voters Aren't Knuckle-Dragging Bigots

Now that they're slightly less shell shocked after their world was flipped upside down and shaken on that extended downer of an election night, liberals appear to be taking stock of the sobering new reality confronting them. An example of this was evident on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show last night when Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, odds-on favorite to lead Democrats post-Hillary,…
Jack Coleman
November 11th, 2016 8:30 PM

New Republic Writer: Media’s ‘Bias Toward Balance’ Helped Trump

In their respective articles alleging that the mainstream media facilitated the election of Donald Trump, Brian Beutler of The New Republic and Eric Alterman of The Nation overlapped somewhat. For example, each claimed that the Hillary e-mail story was wildly overcovered, with Beutler citing it as the shining example of how the media “failed abysmally” regarding the “framing and contextualizing…
Tom Johnson
November 11th, 2016 5:27 PM

Celebs Cancel Moving Plans: Cite ‘Weather,’ ‘Responsibility’ to Stay

After Donald Trump’s stunning victory, some stars were in a bind. They had told fans they’d leave the country if the Republican candidate won the race...a possibility they never legitimately entertained. What to do now that the unthinkable had happened? See why these celebs decided to stay.
Sarah Stites and Callista Ring
November 11th, 2016 4:43 PM

Mitchell in Awe of Hillary’s ‘Resilience’ and ‘Grit’ After Loss

On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell interviewed Margot Gerster – a Hillary Clinton supporter who met the defeated Democratic nominee on a hiking trail in New York – and eagerly wondered: “What insights did you glean about her demeanor, her mood? And you know, we all want to know how she's holding up.”
Kyle Drennen
November 11th, 2016 4:24 PM

NYT Bitterly Accuses Trump Voters or Racism, Sexism, and Hate Crimes

Friday’s New York Times proved the paper still hasn’t processed Donald Trump’s win, unleashing three bitter articles accusing Trump and his supporters of sexism, racism, and hate crimes. First up, Katharine Seelye and Claire Cain Miller wrote weepily about women whose dreams were crushed by sexist Trump supporters who couldn’t stand the idea of a woman president. Liam Stack spread gay panic,…
Clay Waters
November 11th, 2016 4:18 PM

‘Unconfirmed Reports’ Inflate Post-Election Suicides Among Trans Youth

Actress Debra Messing took to Twitter on Thursday with a statement linking Donald Trump’s victory to a spike in suicides among transgender youth. 
Sarah Stites
November 11th, 2016 3:38 PM

MSNBC's Reid Smears GOP Voters as 'Voting KKK,' 'Neonazism' in WH

Liberal MSNBC host Joy Reid has been in meltdown mode since the news of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton, as evidenced by some of her over the top tweets from the past couple of days as she has tried to link Trump and even his supporters to neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. On Thursday, reacting to news that the Trump campaign's Steve Bannon would work in the White House, Reid snarked…
Brad Wilmouth
November 11th, 2016 3:07 PM