Can’t Get Enough: CBS Sucks Up to Former New Zealand PM Ardern

Few foreign leaders in recent decades have engendered as much fawning, pathetic adulation in the American liberal media like New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, who served as the leftist prime minister from 2017 to 2023 and thus, with a memoir out, they’d be lining up to sing her praises. Tuesday’s CBS Mornings filled that quota with co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King emoting joy over…

Curtis Houck
June 5th, 2025 11:47 AM

David Bozell on WMAL Sees Path Forward for Defunding PBS & NPR

MRC President David Bozell joined WMAL’s "O'Connor & Co." show on  Wednesday morning to break down the latest developments in the push to stop the misuse of taxpayer dollars by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Bozell expressed optimism that defunding will happen. 

NB Staff
June 5th, 2025 11:32 AM

THUNDERDOME: Abby Melts Down After Getting Checked on Holocaust Gotcha

There is nothing Elite Acela media hate more than getting checked by a conservative after trying to sneak in a bad-faith question premised on a bad-faith frame. Such is the case of CNN’s Abby Phillip, who had an absolute meltdown after getting called out by Scott Jennings and Brad Todd for suggesting that Education Secretary Linda McMahon tried to both-sides the Holocaust in a Congressional…

Jorge Bonilla
June 5th, 2025 11:11 AM

Don’t Drink and Write! NYT’s Goldberg Wails Musk’s Legacy Is ‘DEATH’

One of the most unhinged columnists at The New York Times penned such a deranged rant against X owner Elon Musk that it begs the question of whether she was drunk before she turned it in.

Joseph Vazquez
June 5th, 2025 10:24 AM

Daily Show Spreads Fake News About SCOTUS, Labels It 'Snowflakes'

Leah Litman is a law professor, podcaster, author, and on Wednesday, a fake news-peddling guest on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. During her appearance with Michael Kosta, Litman came across as a profoundly unserious person who took quotes from conservative Supreme Court justices wildly out of context and was more interested in name-calling.

Alex Christy
June 5th, 2025 9:40 AM

PolitiFact's 'Truth-O-Meter' TILTS Dramatically Against Republicans

NewsBusters analysts reviewed PolitiFact articles from January to May 2025 that evaluated a named politician or public official with a “Truth-O-Meter” ruling, and their tilted version of the "truth" shows that PolitiFact is not nonpartisan. Republicans were tagged as "Mostly False" or worse more than 85 percent of the time, while Democrats landed on the False side only 39 percent of the time…

Tim Graham
June 5th, 2025 9:00 AM

NBC Only Legacy Newscast to Report on KJP Book and Party Switch

The legacy media generally love to report on perceived palace intrigue and betrayal, unless the intrigue happens within a Democrat White House. Then, it’s all quiet on the Leftern Front. NBC’s reporting on the new book by former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is the exception.

Jorge Bonilla
June 5th, 2025 1:33 AM

Desperate Grift: KJP Returns to Spotlight with Book, Change in Party

On Wednesday, Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre – our reliable source of seemingly endless content – announced she not only would have a tell-all book coming out in October about her time in the White House (entitled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines), but she has left the Democrat Party.

Curtis Houck
June 4th, 2025 10:33 PM

NewsBusters Podcast: Can the Republicans Finally Cut Off PBS and NPR?

On Tuesday, The Trump administration sent its rescission package to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Tim Graham
June 4th, 2025 10:17 PM

Senator Kennedy Schools ABC Legal Analyst on SCOTUS Rhetoric

On Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) schooled ABC News legal analyst Kate Shaw during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that included a brief spotlight on Shaw's previous remarks about Supreme Court Justices – calling some of the colleagues of Justice Elena Kagan “evil”. Shaw, also a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and wife of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, was invited by Senate…

Ashley Taylor
June 4th, 2025 9:26 PM

Keith Olbermann’s CRAZY Claim: Boulder’s Blood is on Trump's Hands

Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann opened his Countdown podcast Tuesday with a segment which could only be described as the ravings of a lunatic. The topic of his ten-minute tirade:  “the blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.” If that relatively unsupported claim didn’t seem extreme enough, Olbermann doubled down, describing Trump’s “ethnic cleansing” policy,…

Lucas Escala
June 4th, 2025 5:33 PM

Erasing Content! How Is China AI DeepSeek Better than US Competitors?

The Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, popular since its debut, erases data pertaining to sensitive topics disapproved by the Chinese government, including Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Jimmy Lai, and Uyghur rights. Despite initially processing encoded questions on these subjects, DeepSeek self-censors, claiming ignorance. Its popularity raises concerns due to its censorship, contrasting its high praise…

Michael Morris and Jonah Messinger
June 4th, 2025 4:44 PM

Uh-Oh, Politico Goes 'Meh!' on Kamala Harris Political Future

The Politico article assesses Kamala Harris's lukewarm political prospects in South Carolina and California. In South Carolina, influential Democrats show little enthusiasm for a Harris presidential campaign. In California, where Harris is considering a gubernatorial bid, reactions are similarly tepid, with some viewing it as merely a fallback. Despite Politico’s mixed title, the narrative…

P.J. Gladnick
June 4th, 2025 4:01 PM

‘CBS Evening News’ Footnotes Boulder, Harps on Dubious Gaza Shootings

On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, they projected a desire it was time to at least temporarily move on from Sunday’s Boulder, Colorado anti-Semitic terror attack by giving it a 27-second news brief. But instead, they spent over three and a half minutes (3:34) harping on allegations Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been indiscriminately shooting defenseless Gazans at an aid station, setup…

Curtis Houck
June 4th, 2025 3:19 PM