Not-So-Great: Hulu Debuts Raunchy Royal Series With Trump 'Parallels'

Billed as “an occasionally true story,” Hulu’s The Great loosely follows the rise of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) as she marries the depraved Russian emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult) and soon plots her inevitable coup of the ruler. Although the series takes place in 1761, it gives a contemporary look at Catherine’s story, especially as her progressive ideals clash with the Russian royal class…
Lindsay Kornick
May 20th, 2020 7:00 AM

Column: Feminist Hypocrisy Is a Fact, Not a 'Right-Wing Trap'

Feminist author Susan Faludi made a lame attempt in The New York Times to help feminists escape from their hypocrisy on believing all female “survivors” of sexual harassment or assault. Somehow, Faludi claimed, this isn’t true. They never said you should believe all women. She claimed this "canard" came from me on NewsBusters, among others.
Tim Graham
May 20th, 2020 6:37 AM

FAIL: ‘CBS Evening News’ Forced Off-Air Due to ‘Technical' Problems

Any routine viewer who tuned into watch CBS Evening News at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Tuesday night immediately knew something was amiss. By 6:31, anchor Norah O’Donnell would normally be delivering the opening teases. But by 6:32, the commercials were still running and they were all for CBS entertainment properties. It wasn’t until 6:34 when the commercials ended and CBSN, the network’s 24-hour online…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 19th, 2020 11:17 PM

ABC, NBC Fume Over Trump’s Medication, Boost Pelosi Calling Him Fat

For the second day in a row, the liberal media were obsessed with President Trump’s decision to start taking hydroxychloroquine to possibly prevent coronavirus as a medication he obtained with a prescription from his doctor. Tuesday’s evening newscasts saw ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News continued their meltdown from the previous night, with the later boosting Speaker Nancy Pelosi (…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 19th, 2020 9:29 PM

Seth Meyers Slams Karl Rove as a 'Gross A**hole,' 'Sociopath'

On the late Monday/early Tuesday Late Night show, liberal NBC comedian Seth Meyers devoted his regular commentary to attacking President Donald Trump and "sociopaths on the right" who defend him,  and specifically deriding Fox News contributor Karl Rove as a "gross a**hole."

Brad Wilmouth
May 19th, 2020 9:14 PM

Trump Embarrasses CBS Reporter After Absurd Unemployment Question

Two and a half hours before the CBS Evening News suffered catastrophic technical difficulties Tuesday that kept it from airing, CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid was embarrassed by President Trump after she fired off a mind-numbing question wondering what the White House will do to get unemployed Americans “back to work.” Predictably, Trump snuffed out Reid’s nonsense, calling her “a rude…
Curtis Houck
May 19th, 2020 7:55 PM

MSNBC Cheers Pelosi's Attacks on Trump as Fat: 'Straight Talker!'

Proving just how juvenile the network can be when it comes to personal insults against Republicans, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday appeared delighted at Nancy Pelosi’s attacks on Donald Trump’s weight, cheering that “the country has a new straight talker.” Rather than even question whether it’s helpful for bipartisanship to call the President “morbidly obese,” Wallace justified it.
Scott Whitlock
May 19th, 2020 5:42 PM

Daily Beast Anoints Hillary Flack to Whack Crazy Right-Wing Media Bias

It’s easy to imagine Hillary Clinton’s frustration that an inexperienced amateur like Donald Trump would challenge her for president. It’s the feeling a media critic gets when an inexperienced amateur like Hillary Clinton press flack Phillippe Reines attempted to do media criticism for the Daily Beast website. The headline was “I Spent a Week Down the Right-Wing Media Rabbit Hole—and Was…
Tim Graham
May 19th, 2020 5:20 PM

‘Heil Trump!’ Former WWE Star Bautista Mocks Trump in Deranged Video

Former WWE wrestler and Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista has been trying to get President Trump in a Twitter chokehold for the past couple months, particularly because he’s unhappy with the U.S. leader’s coronavirus response. Recently, the big man posted a video of himself mocking Trump to his Twitter page. In it, the lefty entertainer pretended to be a dumb, overzealous Trump fan in an…
Gabriel Hays
May 19th, 2020 5:10 PM

NYT Enthuses Over 'Occupy Democrats': Immigrant Twins vs Trump Machine

New York Times reporter Nick Corasaniti celebrated the creators of the Facebook page Occupy Democrats in a big profile on Tuesday, “Immigrant Twin Brothers Battle Trump Machine on Facebook.” It was a friendly chat: "Meet Rafael and Omar Rivero, the co-founders of Occupy Democrats, the social media mavens of the left who are quickly emerging as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing online…
Clay Waters
May 19th, 2020 4:09 PM

Oversight Board: Conservatives Think Board ‘Loaded' with Progressives

A co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board admitted that conservatives had reason to believe that the Board was “loaded” with “people from the progressive side of the spectrum.” Four members of the Facebook Oversight Board answered some questions in an interview, hosted by the Aspen Institute. Co-chair Michael McConnell, a former federal circuit judge and professor at Stanford Law, answered a…
Corinne Weaver
May 19th, 2020 3:07 PM

'View' Hosts Rage at Trump, GOP Rep. Taking Dr. Prescribed Drug

After President Trump shocked reporters Monday by telling them he was taking Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against coronavirus, the media melted down claiming he was giving Americans dangerous medical advice, again. The hosts of The View rushed out with the rest of the media to obsessively condemn the president’s decision. Co-host Joy Behar also attacked a Republican congressman…
Kristine Marsh
May 19th, 2020 2:53 PM

Mark Zuckerberg WARNS: West Must Lead Internet, Not ‘Dangerous’ China

Facebook’s CEO has taken flak from both the left and the right for how he runs his platform, but Mark Zuckerberg appears to have set his sights on preventing China from corrupting the internet. Zuckerberg warned in a livestream discussion with an EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, European that “Western countries” must set the standard for freedom and privacy on the internet, not countries like…
Alexander Hall
May 19th, 2020 2:41 PM

Bloomberg News Stealth Edits Story Praising Commie Dictator Xi Jinping

You’d think that Bloomberg News would want to lay low after a recent report showing it censored a story about Chinese elites and fired the reporter behind it. The news outlet is still shilling for Beijing and its tyrant leader Xi Jinping. Bloomberg News plastered a Chinese propaganda, stealth-edited piece on the front page of its website headlined “Trump Threatens to Exit WHO, Leaving Xi to Lead…
Joseph Vazquez
May 19th, 2020 1:58 PM