NYT's Tory-Hater Saw 'Spectacle of Corruption, Hubris, Folly, Misrule'

Great Britain’s Conservative Party went down to a huge defeat this summer, with Labour’s Keir Starmer taking the reins as prime minister in July. The New York Times Sunday Magazine of August 29 celebrated with a 4,000-plus-word story by Mark Landler, “The Conservative Crack-Up.” The equally blunt online headline: “How the Tories Lost Britain.” A gleeful, vengeful tone permeated the…

Clay Waters
September 8th, 2024 9:43 PM

The View’s Alyssa Farah BASHES America: ‘Backwards As a Country'

On CNN State of the Union, panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin pre-gamed the upcoming presidential debate by blasting America for not yet having elected a female president.

Jorge Bonilla
September 8th, 2024 8:52 PM

MSNBC's Velshi: Republicans Don't Care About Babies After They're Born

On his eponymous Saturday morning show, anti-gun MSNBC host Ali Velshi gave a commentary against the gun rights portion of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 agenda. After taking the opportunity to spread the typical misinformation about guns in America, he brought on anti-gun activist Kris Brown of the Brady Campaign to further trash gun rights activists.

Brad Wilmouth
September 8th, 2024 8:30 PM

The 2016 Debates: How the Media Hailed Hillary and Trashed Trump

Using the media's coverage of Donald Trump’s three debates with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 as a guide, expect the press on Tuesday night to adore Kamala Harris’s performance, while deriding Trump as someone out of a “third world” “banana republic.”

Rich Noyes
September 8th, 2024 10:10 AM

PBS, CBS Turn to 'Nonpartisan' Trump Hater to Pre-Spin 2024 Deniers

Beware when PBS brings on a "nonpartisan" expert on election integrity, and no one mentions Kamala Harris at all. On the September 3 PBS NewsHour, deeply biased White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez brought on David Becker for a segment titled "How Trump has made election lies a key feature of his campaign." But this wasn't just about Trump denying he lost the election in 2020. 

Tim Graham
September 8th, 2024 6:26 AM

PBS Promotes Author Accusing 'Far Right' of Attacking Voting Rights

On Tuesday's Amanpour & Company on PBS and CNN International, Hari Sreenivasan was seen interviewing a leftist author who accuses the Supreme Court of enabling Republicans to racially discriminate and rig elections in their favor. His book is titled Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections.

Brad Wilmouth
September 7th, 2024 10:55 PM
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MSNBC's Symone Sanders: 'Kick' Trump, 'Boom! Pop Him in The Shin'

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders Townsend made an explicit call for violence against Trump. When MSNBC analyst Basil Smikle suggested that Kamala Harris shouldn't descend into "the gutter" with Trump, Sanders took issue: "Well, sometimes when they go low, you gotta kick 'em. You gotta -- boom! -- pop 'em in the shin real quick. And maybe we will see…

Mark Finkelstein
September 7th, 2024 10:34 PM

Mara Gay's Anti-Conservative, Anti-American Bias Unveiled, Again

Well of course. Here’s the headline from Fox News: "NYT editorial board member says it's 'silly' for journalists to hold Harris and Trump equally accountable." 

Jeffrey Lord
September 7th, 2024 4:00 PM

Nets Hype 'Huge' Harris Endorsements, Ridicule or Ignore Trump's

On Friday, former Vice President Dick Cheney and daughter and former Rep. Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris while the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Donald Trump. For ABC, NBC, and CBS's Saturday morning shows, the former was a “huge” deal while the latter was portrayed as ironic given Trump’s legal controversies or simply ignored.

Alex Christy
September 7th, 2024 2:00 PM

Gwyneth Paltrow on Hamas: ‘Where Are the Feminists?’

Feminists spent four-plus years speaking out during the Trump administration.

Christian Toto
September 7th, 2024 1:30 PM

Kimmel Asks Swalwell If Ted Cruz Eats Urinal Cakes

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s week of liberal guests concluded with Rep. Eric Swalwell as Kimmel asked such thought-provoking questions as “Ted Cruz, like, is he eating the urinal cakes?” For his part, Swalwell saw something sinister in Republicans being nice to him.

Alex Christy
September 7th, 2024 12:00 PM

PBS Desperately Tries To Make Republicans For Harris a Thing

PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and New York Times columnist David Brooks desperately tried to spin the news that former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Rep. Liz Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris as some profound, potentially game-changing moment in the campaign.

Alex Christy
September 7th, 2024 9:45 AM

Salena Zito: Walz Put Up Walls to the Local Press in Pennsylvania

In the Washington Examiner, reporter and columnist Salena Zito reported that Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz toured Pennsylvania for photo ops in Lancaster, Moon Township, Fayette County, Pittsburgh and Erie and almost entirely avoided questions from the press. The headline was "Walz’s visit to Pennsylvania was heavy on cream and light on scrutiny."

Tim Graham
September 7th, 2024 7:14 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Will ABC's Debate Moderators Be Moderate? At All?

The big presidential debate on Tuesday night on ABC News will be moderated by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and their Sunday-night news anchor Linsey Davis. A review of their biased moments suggests they are going to tilt in favor of Kamala Harris making "history." Will they bring up Hunter Biden's guilty plea? Our Geoffrey Dickens joins the show to preview what we might see…

Tim Graham
September 6th, 2024 10:21 PM