Morning Joe Admits Trump Can Be A 'Likable Guy'

It is no secret that MSNBC's Morning Joe are not big fans of Donald Trump.  Yet, on Tuesday's edition of the morning show, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reluctantly admitted that the President can be a quite personable, while also engaging in some revisionist history.
Alex Christy
January 29th, 2019 10:47 AM

WATCH Media Freak Out Over Ex-Starbucks CEO’s Possible Independent Run

As NewsBusters has documented, reporters immediately began tearing their hair out over former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announcing on Sunday that he was considering an independent run for president. The video that follows is just a sampling of the liberal press denouncing the possible move as “disastrous” and “catastrophic” for Democrats seeking to defeat President Trump in 2020.
Kyle Drennen
January 29th, 2019 10:01 AM

NBC Sports Focuses On Police Criticism of Arrested NFL Player

After an NFL player badly injured a New York police officer, NBC Sports' Michael David Smith was much more concerned about a statement by the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) than the crime committed by the alleged perpetrator.
Jay Maxson
January 29th, 2019 10:00 AM

CNN's Begala Contradicts Himself on Whether 'Crisis' Exists at Border

Appearing as a panel member on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, longtime liberal CNN commentator Paul Begala acted like a misinformed man who gets all his news by watching too much CNN as he not only made incorrect claims about illegal immigration across the Southern border, but he also contradicted himself on whether there is a "crisis" situation on the border.
Brad Wilmouth
January 29th, 2019 9:53 AM

Media Claim Warren’s ‘Popular’ Wealth Tax Could ‘Save America'

Left? Lefter? Leftist? In the quest to see which candidate can be the most liberal, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for an “ultra-millionaire tax” to force the wealthy to fork over more to the government.
Julia A. Seymour
January 29th, 2019 9:44 AM

D'oh! CBS Claims Pope Francis 'Spoke Out Strongly in Favor of Abortion

On Monday's CBS This Morning, as Seth Doane reported live from Rome, the CBS reporter made a major flub as he actually stated that Pope Francis "spoke out strongly in favor of abortion" without catching his mistake. The misstatement went uncorrected as the anchors did not notice the error either.
Brad Wilmouth
January 29th, 2019 8:46 AM

NYT Hints: Press Failed its Mission to Stop Trump in 2016

The front page of the New York Times Business Day on Monday featured two stories on Donald Trump and the media, one chiding his opinion journalism supporters, the other suggesting the mainstream press failed its mission by not stopping his election in 2016. Michael Grynbaum’s “Media Memo,” “2020 Looms, And News Faces Test Of Judgment” may have revealed more anti-Trump media bias than intended.…
Clay Waters
January 29th, 2019 8:07 AM

CNN Pulls Harris Left With Town Hall, ZERO Questions from the Right

Monday night was CNN’s gooey town hall with Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) moderated by Jake Tapper. And as my NewsBusters colleague, Curtis Houck noted on Twitter, “Parkland Town Hall Jake is here tonight to moderate this #HarrisTownHall”. In all, there were 16 questions posed to Harris from the audience and all but two of them came from purely leftist positions. The…
Nicholas Fondacaro
January 29th, 2019 12:50 AM

Showtime's 'SMILF' Fantasizes of Harvey Weinstein, Steals Virgin Mary

Despite terrible storylines and a notable, real-life #MeToo-type scandal, Showtime’s SMILF has somehow returned for a second season. In an effort to prove how grossly insane that decision was, the latest episode goes full throttle with the disgusting and sacrilegious “humor.” Sadly, last week's fairly tame season two premiere seems to have only been a fluke.
Lindsay Kornick
January 28th, 2019 11:34 PM

Proof That Media 'Fact Checking' Is First and Foremost Trump-Checking

We've made it a routine point that the media's "independent fact-checkers" spend most of their time fact-checking President Trump, and the rest of the politicians (especially Democrats) get far less attention. This was confirmed in a recent article in the British leftist paper The Guardian. The headline on Adam Gabbatt's piece was "The 'exhausting' work of factcheckers who track Trump's barrage…
Tim Graham
January 28th, 2019 9:48 PM

Nets Panicked Schultz ‘Brewing Trouble for Democrats’ With 2020 Run

Over the weekend, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sent the liberal media into a tailspin by announcing he was seriously exploring the idea of running as an independent candidate in 2020. Instead of treating him as just another candidate in what was turning out to be a very crowded field Monday evening, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) treated him as a threat to the…
Nicholas Fondacaro
January 28th, 2019 9:06 PM

Jim Acosta, CNN ‘Peddled Slime’ With Anonymous Attack on Sarah Sanders

It’s certainly no surprise that CNN's Jim Acosta would go to virtually any length to criticize President Trump and anyone in his administration. The most recent example of this behavior comes in an excerpt from a new book written by former Trump administration official Cliff Sims, who wrote that Acosta and his channel “peddled slime” with “unsubstantiated misinformation from a disgruntled ex-…
Randy Hall
January 28th, 2019 6:34 PM

CNN, MSNBC Ignore Concealed Carrier Intervening in Road Rage Incident

In the aftermath of two men getting into a road rage incident in Massachusetts which ended after a concealed carry permit holder helped tamp down the situation, the broadcast networks and Fox News Channel all gave attention to video of the story, which includes footage of one man holding onto the hood of an SUV while it was being driven as rapidly as 70 mph. But CNN and MSNBC have so far ignored…
Brad Wilmouth
January 28th, 2019 6:10 PM

Hypocrites CNN, MSNBC Complain About No Briefings....Then Skip It

On Monday, the White House held its first press briefing in 41 days, a stat passed around the press about how it was the longest span between briefings since cameras were brought in during the Clinton administration. Despite this kvetching, CNN and MSNBC chose not to air a single second of the briefing live, which included an announcement of new Venezuela sanctions plus questions for White House…
Curtis Houck
January 28th, 2019 5:31 PM