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Chris Hayes Touts Biden's 'Booming Economy,' Slimes Trump's Record
Real Clear Politics co-founder Tom Bevan took to Twitter to express amazement at the first segment of All In with Chris Hayes: Left-wing cable TV Host/Administration lackey standing in front of a graphic of Dark Brandon signs with the caption "The Greatest Economy" complains of "constant propaganda" by the previous president on the economy. You just can't make this s--t up.
Priebus: People Want A Bigger Middle Finger in 2024 Than in 2016
Today’s “powerhouse panel” on ABC This Week inadvertently showed the widening gulf between what is top-of-mind for the Acela Media versus what is on the minds of the actual American electorate. In particular, this exchange between host Jon Karl and former RNC chair Reince Priebus on the general election suitability of Donald Trump.
Lawyer: Clients Would Trade $148 Million From Rudy To Get Lives Back
On Katie Phang's MSNBC show, Von DeBose, the lawyer for the election workers who won a $148 judgment against Rudy Giuliani, claims that would "trade it" to get their former lives back.
Fired NYT Editor Nukes Paper's Path: ‘Liberal Bias to Illiberal Bias'
Media mavens may remember the blow the New York Times reputation took when James Bennet was forced out of his Editorial Page Editor slot at the paper. It came in June 2020, days after the paper ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas that called upon President Donald Trump to use troops to quell violence connected to Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of…
Politico Handles Senate Gay Sex Tape Scandal Very, Very Delicately
Politico's Playbook gingerly handled the gay unprotected sex in the Hart Senate Building by letting the Daily Caller tackle most of the sordid details.
Fox News Touts Gun Owner Who Scared Off Five Robbers in San Francisco
On Friday's Fox & Friends, the show again showed viewers an example of how important it is for Americans to own guns to deter crime as the hosts discussed surveillance video of a 73 year-old man in San Francisco who used a handgun to scare five smash and grab robbers out of the store where he worked.
At NY Times, Cynical Weisman Paints Antisemitism As GOP Wedge Issue
New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with “Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic? A Fraught Question for the Moment.” Weisman approached the sensitive matter with his trademark politically corrupted cynicism: In Weisman’s world, no matter the gravity of the issue at hand, Republicans are invariably being…
WashPost's Matt Viser Offers Valentine to Hunter's 'Defiant' Statement
When the Bidens need a really syrupy approach to its public statements, they can count on Washington Post reporter Matt "Biden Adviser" Viser to lay it on thick.
Fired New York Times Editor James Bennet: The Times 'Lost Its Way'
In the day, it was a news-grabbing story. NewsBusters’ own Curtis Houck headlined the story when it happened in 2020.
Comedy Cowards: Late Night, ‘SNL’ (Mostly) Ignore Antisemitism Spike
Give “Saturday Night Live’s” disastrous Ivy League presidents sketch a little credit. The show indirectly acknowledged the anti-Jewish sentiment flooding the country following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles
Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Marcus Attacks GOP For 'Shameful Misuse of the Impeachment Power'
In a surprising development, PBS NewsHour’s Friday weekly news recap featured almost a debate between New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus on House Republicans formally approving an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with the former wondering what the big deal is and the latter labeling it a “shameful misuse of the…
FLASHBACK: Cheering Obama’s ‘Historic’ Embrace of Castro Dictatorship
Nine years ago this week, President Barack Obama chose to establish formal relations with the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Instead of worrying that Obama was handing a much-needed and undeserved lifeline to the decades-long Castro dictatorship, the liberal media applauded the “historic” decision.
NewsBusters Podcast: When 'Fact Checkers' Sound Like Lefty Columnists
They describe themselves as "independent fact-checkers," but they're not. They sound like liberal columnists, which is why conservatives and Republicans disdain their partisan rulings. Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren have been "fact checked" very, very differently in the last decade. Alex Christy discusses the chapter he wrote with Brent Baker in the new book A Future for the News.