MSNBC Dutifully Repeats Fire Alarm-Pulling Dem's Excuses

Saturday brought the simultaneously bizarre and outrageous development of New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling the fire alarm in order to disrupt the House’s business as it eventually passed a 45-day continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown. Naturally, MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian accepted the statement that it was just an accident.

Alex Christy
September 30th, 2023 4:40 PM

Networks Leaped to Live Coverage of Trump Impeachments, Yawn at Biden

It didn't escape notice that none of the networks offered live wall-to-wall coverage of the first hearing of the House impeachment inquiry. When they covered it later, they made a point of rallying for Biden. An impeachment inquiry into Trump was urgent and deserving news. A Biden inquiry is dismissed as garbage. 

Jeffrey Lord
September 30th, 2023 4:00 PM

Defending ‘Joey From Scranton,’ Hating ‘Destructive’ Clarence Thomas

On the first day of the impeachment inquiry hearings into the Biden family scandals, ABC’s Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos advised his viewers it was “unprecedented” because it was the “first time we’ve ever had an impeachment inquiry absent evidence.” Meanwhile conservatives like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia were…

Geoffrey Dickens
September 30th, 2023 3:30 PM

Is Bill Burr’s ‘Old Dads’ the Comedy Conservatives Crave?

Mainstream comics leave countless jokes on the table. Just consider the Biden administration, for starters. The material practically writes itself, from the president’s near-daily short circuits to VP Kamala Harris’ word salad speeches.

Christian Toto
September 30th, 2023 1:30 PM

CBS Hypes Christian Activists Spreading Fossil Fuel Abolition 'Gospel'

CBS Saturday Morning correspondent Adam Yamaguchi took the idea that climate activism is a religion literally when he hyped activist and 2021 college graduate Elsa Barron’s efforts to “help spread the gospel” to the unconverted Evangelicals who are not onboard with the abolition of fossil fuels.

Alex Christy
September 30th, 2023 12:23 PM

Maher, DeSantis Mock New York Times, Battle on Election Laws, Abortion

With the writers’ strike over, the late night comedy shows are back and first out of the gate on Friday was HBO Real Time host Bill Maher, who chose Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis to be his first guest. The interview was typical Maher as the two teamed up to mock the New York Times, but Maher’s liberal atheism still came through as the two also…

Alex Christy
September 30th, 2023 10:00 AM

FLASHBACK: The Media’s Long History of One-Sided Shutdown Coverage

Journalists’ shutdown playbook is straightforward: single out Republicans for blame; highlight “victims” of the shutdown to build public anger; and then claim Democrats won because they were the “grown-up” party.

Rich Noyes
September 30th, 2023 8:50 AM

Couric: Obama Owes Me a 'Big-Ass Bouquet' for Palin Attack Interview

Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reported on Friday that former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric boasted about how she helped Barack Obama get elected in 2008 with her infamous attack interview on Republican Gov. Sarah Palin. "You're welcome, by the way," Couric told the audience, sparking laughter and applause.  "I always thought that Barack Obama should have sent me a big…

Tim Graham
September 30th, 2023 7:20 AM

Univision Openly Mourns Passing of Senator Feinstein

We are often reminded that Univision has taken it upon itself to act like an immigration lobby rather than a news division. So it is today, wherein the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein is not reported as a news story, but mourned as the death of a political ally.

Jorge Bonilla
September 29th, 2023 9:43 PM

NewsBusters Podcast: The Fox Biz Debate That Oddly Slanted to the Left

The second GOP presidential debate on Fox Business took an odd turn to the Left in the questions of Univision anchor Ilia Calderon, who pressed the candidates like an MSNBC host on guns, fentanyl, '"dreamers," LGBTQ issues, and Florida's black history curriculum.

Tim Graham
September 29th, 2023 7:57 PM

PBS Lets Green Party Nut Bash Capitalism, Bolsters Biden With Krugman

It was “Green Day” on Amanpour & Co. Wednesday, with host Christiane Amanpour in London interviewing Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski and Obama administration economic advisor Betsey Stevenson on the same show. The result was 20 minutes of environmental rabble-rousing against the Conservative Party in the UK, followed by kissing up to the Biden administration in the US over…

Clay Waters
September 29th, 2023 6:21 PM

New Survey Exposes TikTok’s Disturbing Influence on Gen Z Women

A new survey revealed that TikTok’s influence over Americans is only growing, thus increasing the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance of citizens. 


 

Autumn Johnson
September 29th, 2023 5:40 PM

CBO: Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance to Take Bigger Bite Out of GDP

The percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) consumed by federal spending on health insurance will grow over the next ten years, the Congressional Budget Office projects.
Craig Bannister
September 29th, 2023 4:59 PM

Will SCOTUS Kill Texas, Florida Free Speech Laws?

After years of delay, the notoriously risk-averse Supreme Court will finally decide whether states have the right to protect free speech from Big Tech’s authoritarian censors.

Tim Kilcullen
September 29th, 2023 4:55 PM