NewsBusters Podcast: How Will Trump Revise the White House Briefing?

How will Team Trump revise the seating chart or the questioner list at the White House briefing when new press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes the podium in January? Would they dare to put conservative media in the front row? Managing editor Curtis Houck brings all his daily monitoring of the briefings to the table.

Tim Graham
December 18th, 2024 6:56 PM

The White Pill: Big Government Can Be Defeated (Just Ask the Soviets)

The movie “The Matrix” gave us the “red pill” and the “blue pill.” The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated. Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it think the world is doomed.So, podcaster Michael Malice wrote the book “The White Pill,” calling it a “symbol of hope.” “Young people in recent years,” he tells me, “were discouraged about the future…

John Stossel
December 18th, 2024 6:31 PM

Massive Spending Bill Extends Censorship Agency’s Existence — For Now

The end-of-year continuing resolution postpones the imminent shutdown of a State Department entity infamous for funding censorship efforts — for now.

Catherine Salgado
December 18th, 2024 5:47 PM

Reid Mocks CEOs and Republicans for Support of 'Toddler' Trump

MSNBC’s Joy Reid perhaps may never come to terms with President-elect Trump’s November victory. Tuesday night’s episode of The ReidOut included the host hilariously downplaying Trump’s entire campaign while ridiculing the various CEOs and Republican politicians who had voiced their support for Trump.

Michael Wnek
December 18th, 2024 4:02 PM

Hostin, Navarro Brag About Attending Biden, Harris Christmas Parties

A couple of members of the Cackling Coven known as The View flaunted their elitism during Mondays show as the ABC News hosts boasted about attending Washington, D.C. Christmas parties hosted by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Sunny Hosting showed off pictures of her in the White House while fake Republican Ana Navarro gushed about dancing the night away with the…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 18th, 2024 1:30 PM

The Brian Stelter Award for Worst Quote of the Year

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and declared a winner.

Geoffrey Dickens
December 18th, 2024 10:45 AM

PBS, NYT Fears ABC’s Trump Settlement Is ‘A Really Chilling Message'

The PBS NewsHour was in full panic on Monday evening after ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by Donald Trump, offering scaremongering with this online headline: “ABC News settlement with Trump raises concerns about press freedom in his 2nd term.” PBS’s guest, New York Times reporter David Enrich, hyped up ABC’s supposedly strong case, ABC’s decision “sends a really chilling…

Clay Waters
December 18th, 2024 10:26 AM

Woke of the Weak: Justice In the Hands of Our Court Jesters

The blog criticizes political and judicial figures as misplaced theater enthusiasts, highlighting Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's alleged transformation of her role into a theatrical act, including a Broadway cameo. It argues that leftist activism, characterized by its theatrical roots, often distorts justice, citing incidents emblematic of perceived excessive liberalism. The…

Justine Brooke Murray
December 18th, 2024 10:20 AM

CBS's Woke Drama 'FBI: Most Wanted' Goes Insanely Anti-Cop for Finale

Leave it to a show as woke as CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted to come up with a fall finale where an entire “sundown town’s” police force is a “racist” “gang” of murderers out killing innocent black people.

Dawn Slusher
December 18th, 2024 9:44 AM

Fighting Communism After the Cold War

Communism didn’t win the Cold War, but it’s doing surprisingly well in the 21st century, including in America. Elsewhere, especially in East Asia, Communism is the tyrannical creed of a ruling class that stays in power by jailing its opponents — or rolling tanks over them. Here, especially on college campuses, Communism is a status marker and a way to make murder seem cool. Fascism isn’t the…

Daniel McCarthy
December 18th, 2024 9:36 AM
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Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly cites the election results in Wisconsin to downplay the scope of Trump's win.  He doesn't mention that Trump flipped  the state after having lost it in 2020. Scarborough also buries the fact that the electorate shifted right in all 50 states, and in 89% of counties.

Mark Finkelstein
December 18th, 2024 9:01 AM

Column: ABC's Payment to Trump Creates 'Chilling Effect'

After ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $16 million over George Stephanopoulos incessantly lying about Trump being held “liable for rape,” the hot concept in media panic was the “chilling effect.” Both the Democrats and their media enablers can’t imagine that people see them as the Freeze Police of the chilling effect. They’re constantly trying to intimidate people from speaking in Trump’…

Tim Graham
December 18th, 2024 6:00 AM

The Networks Struggle to Cover Motive Behind Madison School Shooting

At this stage, the motive of the Madison school shooter seems pretty clear, but the network news seems hesitant to report what it is. Of course, this generally means that the motive is inconvenient to prevailing leftwing narratives or identity politics. This case is not the exception.

Jorge Bonilla
December 18th, 2024 12:34 AM

PBS Mourns as AOC Is Annihilated in House Oversight Committee Vote

The DOGE chainsaw won’t officially rumble to life for another 34 days, but one of its potential targets insists on calling attention to itself. The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), although taxpayer-funded, insists on pretending it is MSNBC as it covers House Democrat committee chair races.

Jorge Bonilla
December 17th, 2024 11:10 PM