MSNBC’s Weekend Despair Over Media Rolling Over for ‘Tyrant’ Trump

There was an air of despair on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, as an anti-Trump panel expressed outrage about the President-elect’s various lawsuits against journalists and news organizations, but also despair that the liberal media establishment is failing to step up as leaders of the #Resistance, singling out ABC News for its $15 million settlement earlier this month.

Rich Noyes
December 22nd, 2024 11:21 AM

Ex-CNN/WashPost Reporter: 'Should Have Pushed Harder' on Biden Decline

Former CNN and Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza was feeling contrite. In a Friday video, he suggested "As a reporter I have a confession to make. I should have pushed harder, earlier for more information about Joe Biden's mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline."

Tim Graham
December 22nd, 2024 6:37 AM

NPR Touts 'Sequeerity' Squad Protecting Trans Folks from Trumpers

Everyone knows National “Public” Radio hates half the public, the half that voted for Donald Trump. On Wednesday’s terribly named All Things Considered, NPR promoted “Sequeerity,” an LGBT security force in Minneapolis protecting their own from the allegedly violent hatred of the Trump-loving right-wing extremists.

Tim Graham
December 21st, 2024 9:00 PM

PBS Oozes Over Paul Krugman: He Sees 'Resurrection' of Biden's Image

On Friday’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour introduced “the Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, who's written his last column for The New York Times, after 25 years of sharp and often indispensable takes on major issues that shape America and the world.” But NewsBusters has compiled decades of research proving Krugman’s knee-jerk…

Clay Waters
December 21st, 2024 5:45 PM

NOW We Learn We Had a 'Diminished Biden in Charge' for All Four Years

For Americans wondering when the media will finally admit President Joe Biden is, in the words of Fox’s Sean Hannity, “a cognitive mess,” light finally dawns.

Jeffrey Lord
December 21st, 2024 4:00 PM

CBS In Springfield, Ohio for ‘Victims’ of Trump’s Mass Deportation

Right on the heels of PolitiFact declaring President-elect Donald Trump’s line about immigrants eating dogs and cats as the “Lie of the Year,” CBS Saturday Morning profiled legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, suggesting they would somehow suffer because of Trump’s promised mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

Rich Noyes
December 21st, 2024 1:02 PM

Justine Bateman Shames Hollywood Reporter for Fake News

Actress-turned-filmmaker Justine Bateman (who starred with Michael J. Fox on Family Ties in the 1980s) did not endorse Donald Trump, nor does she call herself conservative. She avoids political labels. She wants a free, robust return to free speech, American style. But The Hollywood Reporter got that all wrong. 

Christian Toto
December 21st, 2024 12:45 PM

CNN’s Friday Night Fusillade vs Musk Over Shutdown That Didn’t Happen

After the House on Friday night voted to advance a massive spending package and avoid a government shutdown, CNN’s hosts and anchors targeted Elon Musk as the instigator of the “chaos,” “panic” and “madness” because he “threw a grenade” and “torpedoed” the backroom deal reached earlier in the week.

Rich Noyes
December 21st, 2024 10:13 AM

PBS Anchor Quotes WashPost: Elon Has Too Much Power, It's 'OLIGARCHY'!

The PBS NewsHour Friday night pundit panel of Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks took on the shutdown showdown. Anchor Geoff Bennett quoting from a “news report” from The Washington Post that sounds a lot like a liberal editorial, that Musk’s advising reeks of “oligarchy.” These people really have to keep insisting democracy on the wane!

Tim Graham
December 21st, 2024 6:49 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Shameless Spending and Shutdowns with Paul Teller

How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to buy a Christmas tree.  Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom talks about hopes for restricting federal spending in 2025 and beyond.

Tim Graham
December 20th, 2024 10:50 PM

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Republicans Want to Cut Funds to ‘Children With Cancer’

Stephanie Ruhle took shots at Republicans in their Congressional struggle between a government shutdown and raising spending during her segment on Thursday during The 11th Hour. Claiming their tactics of running the government like a business as incomplete, Ruhle made digs towards the party’s choice in cutting programs. Though David Drucker provided pushback explaining the eventual…

Mary Clare Waldron
December 20th, 2024 7:02 PM

Doocy Vindicated: Nets Skip WSJ Bombshell on Biden’s Cognitive Decline

Now that the coast is (largely) clear, the liberal media and their Biden administration sources have increasingly come out of the woodwork to sound off on the President’s reportedly paper-thin mental fitness to have fully served the last four years. With 50 sources, Thursday’s Wall Street Journal item was devastating, but of no concern to ABC, CBS, and NBC on their flagship newscasts…

Curtis Houck
December 20th, 2024 3:12 PM

‘Too Speculative’: Judge Axes CNN Witness Claims for Defamation Trial

CNN is set to ring in the New Year in a Panama City, Florida courtroom (on January 6) as they try to defend themselves from a $1 billion defamation lawsuit. But before they even got there the network got hit with a set back in the form of getting witness testimony partially axed by the judge. Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Circuit Court ordered that CNN’s expert witness on alleged…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 20th, 2024 1:10 PM
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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

Mark Finkelstein
December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM