NewsBusters Podcast: J.D. Vance Confounds CBS with Civil Discourse

October 2nd, 2024 10:56 PM

The CBS veep debate wasn't bad as ABC, but the moderators quickly broke their own promise not to "fact check" the candidates (meaning the Republicans). After weeks of portraying Vance as a woman-hating, immigrant-baiting monster, Vance confounded CBS and other outlets by sticking to civil discourse and hitting soft notes for swing voters.

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CBS Turns to Pompous Dickerson to Push Dems, Warn of MAGA Violence

October 2nd, 2024 8:04 PM

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings predictably had robust coverage of the vice presidential debate it hosted between Republican Senator JD Vance and Democratic Governor Tim Walz (MN), but it was often colored by the condescending, elitist, and partisan analysis by chief political analyst John Dickerson, who predicted “fuel is out there” in the form of desire for “violence” by Trump supporters…

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PBS's Barron-Lopez Hails Vance Fact-Check, Blames Him for Bomb Threats

October 2nd, 2024 11:31 AM

PBS’s vice presidential debate favoritism began beforehand, in a political roundtable on Tuesday evening’s PBS News Hour in which White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez rolled out a list of Harris-Walz talking points. Predictably, Barron-Lopez embraced pro-Democratic “fact-checking” by CBS and defended the partisan "fact-checking" at last month’s ABC presidential debate.

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Colbert Hypes Walz's Fake News While Longing For More Fact-Checking

October 2nd, 2024 10:00 AM

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was not a fan of his CBS colleagues’ decision to refrain from fact-checking during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. However, his concerns were one-sided because he implicitly approved of Tim Walz not being fact-checked about his claim that a Donald Trump victory means pregnant women will have to register with the federal government. Later, when…

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CBS Moderators Trample All Over Debate Rules to Fight with GOP VP Pick

October 2nd, 2024 12:54 AM

While objectively not as bad a ABC’s presidential debate three weeks ago, which should go down as the worst debate performance by the moderators in U.S. history, CBS’s vice presidential debate Tuesday night didn’t fare much better. Liberal moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell were so desperate to make Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) look bad, that they repeatedly broke the rules of the…

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VP Debate on CBS: JD Vance Denounces the True ‘Threat to Democracy’

October 2nd, 2024 12:07 AM

When CBS News moderators harped on the events of Jan. 6, Republican 2024 vice presidential nominee JD Vance (R-OH) came out swinging, addressing a real threat to democracy: the assault by Big Tech and the left on Americans’ First Amendment rights.

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Nets Break in for Iran Missile Attacks to Defend Biden, Cut Iran Slack

October 1st, 2024 6:57 PM

On Tuesday afternoon, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each interrupted regular programming of daytime talk shows, game shows, and soap operas for coverage of Iran’s massive onslaught of missile attacks against Israel, particularly in the Tel Aviv metro area. While the networks largely behaved and stuck to the facts and the fear being inflicted on innocent Israelis, there were…

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CBS Anchor Calls Out Ta-Nehisi Coates as an ‘Extremist’ to His Face

October 1st, 2024 5:54 PM

CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil displayed a lot of courage on Monday’s show when confronted race hustler and author Ta-Nehisi Coates for his new book The Message, where Coates took the side of anti-Semitic, genocidal terrorists in their fight to exterminate Israel. Dokoupil pointed out that Coates completely omitted Israel’s perspective in the conflict and suggested…

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ABC and CBS Refuse to Report 13K Illegal Alien Murderers Statistic

October 1st, 2024 2:39 PM

On September 27, ICE revealed that it estimates there are roughly 13,000 non-citizen murderers running loose in the country, but of the three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks only NBC found time to mention it on the September 27 Nightly News and on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press.

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STARK CONTRAST! ‘Moderate’ ‘Folksy’ Walz Vs. ‘Dangerous’ ‘Weird’ Vance

October 1st, 2024 10:00 AM

The following are the most egregious examples of leftist journalists and celebrities eviscerating J.D. Vance while whipping up excitement for Tim Walz since the two VP candidates were nominated. 

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FAKED: CBS, NPR, NYT Spread Walz Was in China During Tiananmen Protest

October 1st, 2024 6:45 AM

Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon showed three national news outlets easily repeated Gov. Tim Walz claiming he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests broke out in Beijing. Minnesota Public Radio discovered Walz was not in China at that time, and that Walz's staff could not provide evidence otherwise. 

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CBS’s MacFarlane Hectors Trump Over Climate Change During GA Visit

October 1st, 2024 1:17 AM

The Regime Media can’t resist injecting their deeply held policy beliefs into certain stories. One of those policy preferences centers around climate, which the media address by performing the condescending ritual of lecturing Republicans on climate after a major disaster.

CBS Won't Fact Check Vance & Walz, Leftist 'Fact Checkers' Are Upset

September 30th, 2024 2:39 PM

Associated Press media reporter David Bauder reported on Friday that CBS News “says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents.” This upset "fact checkers" like former PolitiFact boss Angie Drobnic Holan, who want journalists to have the "courage" to challenge the candidates. Well, one party's candidates. 

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CBS Host Blows Up Reporter's Whining About Israel Stomping Hezbollah

September 30th, 2024 1:12 PM

Since October 7, CBS foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has flaunted his sympathies for the genocidal and anti-Semitic groups besieging Israel, as NewsBusters has documented. But after spending his Monday report bemoaning that Israel had eliminated the entire leadership of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and was seemingly preparing to invade Lebanon, CBS Morning co-anchor Tony…