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Don Lemon: Kari Lake Pelosi Comments 'Vile, Vile'

In his first day co-hosting the new show, CNN This Morning, Don Lemon calls Kari Lake's comments on the attack on Paul Pelosi "vile, vile." Lake had observed that in DC, Nancy Pelosi has protection, but, "apparently her house doesn't have a lot of protection."  Commenting on John Fetterman's debate performance, Lemon said that his mother, who he called his "one-woman focus group," said she…

Mark Finkelstein
November 1st, 2022 5:11 PM

FCC’s Brendan Carr Says No Way Forward But to 'Ban’ TikTok: Report

Federal Communications Commission commissioner Brendan Carr said that the U.S. government should ban TikTok, according to Axios.

Gabriela Pariseau
November 1st, 2022 5:10 PM

Nude Celeb Emily Ratajkowski: 'No Such Thing As Straight People'

Sexuality is something on a “sliding scale” and straight people are something she doesn’t believe in. 

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg
November 1st, 2022 5:04 PM

Gay AP Scribe Rants Right-Wing 'False Claims' Are Tainting Drag Queens

You know the media outlet is liberal when they go rushing to the defense of the "rich history" of drag queens. This Associated Press story was supportively tweeted out by the PBS NewsHour (and ran on its website): "Analysis: Political rhetoric, false claims obscure the history of drag performance…

Tim Graham
November 1st, 2022 4:54 PM

TIME Freaks at Potential Trump Return to Twitter

TIME hid key facts and twisted others in a story that scare-mongered about former President Donald Trump’s potential return to Twitter.

Catherine Salgado
November 1st, 2022 4:51 PM

Cotton SCHOOLS CBS for Trying to Blame Conservatives for Pelosi Attack

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) finally put a stop on Tuesday to CBS Mornings’s attempts to blame conservatives and Republicans for the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi by a drug-addicted, mentally ill, and former Green Party-supporting nudist. During the six-plus-minute interview meant to promote his new book, Cotton calmly beat down the repeated aspersions from co-host Tony Dokoupil by citing…

Curtis Houck
November 1st, 2022 3:31 PM

The View Blames GOP/Fox for Pelosi Attack, This Is 'On Your Hands'

It’s a fact that the ladies of ABC’s The View find political violence palatable when it’s Republicans who are the targets and their lives are in danger. But on Tuesday’s show, they were trying to tie Republicans and Fox News to an attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband Paul, claiming “this is on your hands,” falsely suggesting Republicans have not condemned the attack, and…

Nicholas Fondacaro
November 1st, 2022 2:17 PM

MSNBC Asks 'What The Hell Is Wrong With' GOP, Alleges Violence Fetish

In the wake the assault on Paul Pelosi, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes took time on the latter’s Tuesday show to ask “What the hell is wrong with these people.” “These people” referring to Republicans to highlight their "fetishization of violence," which is MSNBC's way of saying support for the Second Amendment in their campaign ads.

Alex Christy
November 1st, 2022 1:56 PM
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CNN Pins Econ Woes on Fed Instead of Bad Gov't Policy, Omits Biden

Just months after the U.S. entered a technical recession, CNN Business blamed the Federal Reserve for tightening interest rates despite sky-high inflation. The liberal outlet also argued that raising interest rates is economic sabotage. 

Jeffrey Clark
November 1st, 2022 1:38 PM
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Sporting Events Awash In Climate Foolishness

“Greenwashing” is a thing. Who knew?

Jay Maxson
November 1st, 2022 1:29 PM

CBS, NBC Blame ‘Far-Right Extremism,’ Tea Party Wave for Pelosi Attack

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today followed up their attempts Monday to smear tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans as responsible for Friday’s brutal attack on Paul Pelosi by insisting the suspect was engaged in “far-right extremism” and tied to both the Tea Party movement and the 2010 GOP wave.

Curtis Houck
November 1st, 2022 11:39 AM

CNN Claims Political Violence 'Is a Uniquely Right-Wing Problem'

In the aftermath of the assault on Paul Pelosi and against all evidence, the Monday edition of CNN Tonight confidently proclaimed that political violence is a “uniquely right-wing problem right now.” Steve Scalise, Lee Zeldin, and Brett Kavanaugh, and the victims of the riots of 2020 were all unavailable for comment.

Alex Christy
November 1st, 2022 11:24 AM

Noah, Abrams Lament 'Vile' Attacks While Spreading Conspiracy Theories

The last time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she compared herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians fighting for their freedom. Now with only eight days until Election Day, she returned to join the show’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” attacks against her while spreading election conspiracy theories and labeling Gov.…

Alex Christy
November 1st, 2022 10:15 AM

Don Gets Demoted to the Morning: The Worst of Lemon

Don Lemon will be starting his totally-not-a-demotion stint on CNN’s revamped morning show CNN This Morning this morning. So we at NewsBusters thought it would be nice to take a stroll down memory lane and look back at Lemon’s heinous remarks that the network would prefer were memory-holed. The following is an extended but by no means complete list of Lemon’s most obnoxious and…

Geoffrey Dickens and Nicholas Fondacaro
November 1st, 2022 9:50 AM