After Hinting Birx Is Trump Stooge, NYT Says Fauci Criticism Deadly

The front page of Sunday’s New York Times used the coronavirus crisis to hypocritically accuse the right of spreading life-threatening disinformation about White House coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Chief Scientist Draws Venom From the Right.” Reporters Davey Alba and Sheera Frenkel actually performed an analytical study of a sparsely populated universe of tweets to conjure up a…
Clay Waters
March 29th, 2020 5:32 PM

Sugar-Daddy Democrats Insert $75 Million for Their PBS-NPR Buddies

When a crisis hits and a massive legislative package is organized to meet it, it's never surprising when Democrats go to supporting their own media assets. So there on page 746 of the 854-page "stimulus" bill is a provision granting $75 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for fiscal stabilization grants to public…
Tim Graham
March 29th, 2020 3:09 PM

NYTimes Plays Statistical Games, Hypocritically Hits Trump's China Ban

New York Times fact-checker Linda Qiu targeted President Trump’s coronavirus response, with statistical sleight of hand, and managed to criticize Trump both for what he does and for not doing it quickly enough: “Analyzing the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods About Coronavirus.” After the paper criticizing Trump for the restrictions, Qiu then criticized him for skepticism of those restrictions.…

Clay Waters
March 29th, 2020 1:53 PM

NBC's Chuck Todd to Biden: Does Trump Have 'Blood on His Hands?'

On Sunday’s Meet The Press, moderator and NBC News political director Chuck Todd conducted a sympathetic interview with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Almost all of Todd’s questions were open-ended invitations for Biden to speculate about how he'd have handled the coronavirus pandemic better than the President, and at one point the NBC host even asked whether Trump had “blood on his…
Bill D'Agostino
March 29th, 2020 1:51 PM

Joy Reid Warns: Trump Might Use Virus as Guise to 'Reign as Monarch'

On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid warns that President Trump might use the coronavirus crisis as a "guise" to "reign as a monarch." She also mocks the President as "Apprentice Guy."
Mark Finkelstein
March 29th, 2020 1:23 PM

Christian Leader Rips 'Hate-Filled, Bigoted Rant' in New York Times

Conservative Twitter was outraged on Friday by a New York Times op-ed viciously titled "The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals." On Friday's Fox News at Night, Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins blasted the Times as "reprehensible" for posting this "hate-filled, bigoted rant in their paper."
Tim Graham
March 29th, 2020 7:42 AM

Lester Holt Celebrates Cuomo's 'Outspoken Voice,' 'Stirring Speech'

Lester Holt gave Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York a mostly laudatory interview from a field hospital on Friday's Nightly News. Holt introduced Cuomo as " an outspoken voice with his blunt and sobering assessments  You spoke to National Guard troops today in a stirring speech that if I wasn't listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off to war.
Tim Graham
March 28th, 2020 8:39 PM

Kathleen Parker: 'Let Andrew Cuomo Speak for America, Not Trump'

If you want to maintain job security at the Washington Post, you must adhere to the Orange Man Bad narrative- whether you are a conservative, or a "conservative" such as columnist Kathleen Parker. On Tuesday, Parker stuck to that policy by writing yet another column based on the Orange Man Bad narrative concerning the response to coronavirus: "Let Andrew Cuomo speak for America, not Trump."
P.J. Gladnick
March 28th, 2020 6:16 PM

MSNBC Uses Pandemic to Trash Reagan: 'Demonized' the Poor

On Saturday's Velshi show, as MSNBC host Ali Velshi again used the coronavirus pandemic to promote an increase in welfare and socialism in the U.S., MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude made time to go all the way back to the Ronald Reagan administration as he complained about an "ideology" "that has demonized poor people" for decades.
Brad Wilmouth
March 28th, 2020 5:10 PM

Who Runs America? The Media or the American People?

Call me crazy. But I had this strange idea that Americans ran America. I was under the apparently mistaken impression that every four years Americans elected a president. And that when times of crisis hit, as they occasionally do, the American people turn on their televisions, radios or, in today’s world, their computers - and listen to their freely elected leader update them on the crisis.
Jeffrey Lord
March 28th, 2020 4:00 PM

NY Times: Birx Squandered Credibility By Denying Doom, Praising Trump

In Saturday’s New York Times, Noah Weiland and Maggie Haberman irresponsibly suggested coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx has hopelessly compromised her integrity for trying to remain on good terms with her boss, President Trump, in “For Trump Adviser, Urging Calm Has Come With Heavy Criticism.” The press is highly annoyed with Birx for trying to quell panic and doomsaying about…
Clay Waters
March 28th, 2020 3:07 PM

Ali Velshi Tries to Fact Check Dr. Birx's Assessment of Trump

Dr. Deborah Birx is a retired U.S. Army colonel who was appointed to her current job at the State Department by former President Obama, but that didn't stop Ali Velshi from attempting to do some petty fact checking of Birx's positive assessment of President Trump on Friday's The Last Word.  
Alex Christy
March 28th, 2020 2:21 PM

Top Movie Producer Declares: Hollywood Is 'Out of Touch with America'

Two things are certifiably true about producer Jason Blum. He’s as left of center as his Hollywood peers, witness his previous comments about President Donald Trump. Blum’s films reflect that progressive spirit. Think Get Out and the Purge franchise as prime examples. But he’s not a fan of the woke mob, nor does he want to silence his ideological foes. He’s ready to talk to conservatives and…
Christian Toto
March 28th, 2020 1:30 PM

FLASHBACK to When This Celeb Told You to Limit Your Toilet Paper Use

As Americans go from store to store, hunting for available toilet paper during the Coronavirus crisis, it occurred to us here at NewsBusters, that this isn’t the first time TP has become a major media topic. Back in the spring of 2007, liberal singer Sheryl Crow floated the idea of a self-imposed toilet paper limitation. During a global warming college tour, Crow offered up this disturbing idea…
Scott Whitlock
March 28th, 2020 12:15 PM