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CNN and Sellers Push Michelle Obama Ad, Decry 'Level of Malaise' in US

January 10th, 2022 9:35 AM

On New Day, Democrat Bakari Sellers, a CNN political commentator, speaks of "the malaise that we’re in now with the resurgence of the virus, inflation, et cetera." In doing so, Sellers echoed Kamala Harris, who over the weekend said America was at a "level of malaise."

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CNN Fails To Press Radical NY DA On His Worst Soft-on-Crime Plans

January 8th, 2022 9:15 AM

For the second day in a row, CNN's New Day let the newly-elected far-left Manhattan DA off the hook regarding his most radical soft-on-crime policies. We blogged Thursday about the show's segment on Alvin Bragg's policies. On Friday morning, co-host John Berman actually interviewed Bragg. And both times, the show focused on Bragg's relatively less controversial policies, while burying…

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Nets Hide Liberal Justice Sotomayor Spreading COVID Misinformation

January 7th, 2022 8:46 PM

On Friday, the liberal broadcast networks and Spanish-language networks (Telemundo & Univision) weren’t interested in showing just how ignorant a liberal Supreme Court justice was when discussing COVID-19. During the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about the vaccine mandates, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor made multiple hyperbolic and false statements suggesting Omicron was as deadly as…

Fox Bests CNN, MSNBC on January 6 Anniversary (And It Wasn't Close)

January 7th, 2022 6:24 PM

CNN and MSNBC spent over 1,600 minutes Thursday obsessing over the first anniversary of the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, but it failed to translate into any success in the ratings department. Thanks to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research, the Fox News Channel cruised to an easy victory in both total viewers with 1.6 million and 245,000 in the 25-54 demographic.

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CNN, MSNBC Spend Over 1,600 Minutes Flaunting January 6 Anniversary

January 7th, 2022 4:47 PM

It was bound to be a nauseating day for anyone who turned on CNN or MSNBC Thursday during their voluminous coverage for the first anniversary of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and, according to a NewsBusters tallying of their live programming (20 hours on CNN and 19 hours on MSNBC), they didn’t disappoint. All told, the two far-left channels spent 1,653 minutes marking the occasion and…

CNN Desperately Tries to Spin ‘Dismal’ December Jobs Report

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January 7th, 2022 4:35 PM

CNN just can’t catch a break in its crusade to spin President Joe Biden’s atrocious economy in a way that benefits his image.

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CNN’s 1/6 Special: Fox News ‘Relishing the Idea’ of a Civil War

January 7th, 2022 11:30 AM

For years now, the liberal media have been telling us the county is in a “cold civil war” or a “neo-civil war” because people and policies they don’t like have popularity. But according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper during the network’s January 6 primetime special (Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later) it was the folks at “other networks” – aka Fox News – that were “relishing…

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CNN Rushes to Defend Outrageous Soft-on-Crime Policies of Manhattan DA

January 6th, 2022 5:12 PM

What CNN did Thursday morning was a crime—against good journalism. In a New Day segment discussing the soft-on-crime policies of the new Manhattan DA, CNN focused on the less controversial aspects of his policies, while failing to disclose the truly outrageous ones.

Editor’s Pick: RedState on CNN’s Cillizza Mocked for COVID Realization

January 6th, 2022 9:53 AM

On Wednesday, RedState’s Nick Arama reported on CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza “having some revelations of late when it comes to COVID.” In particular, the cable news pundit “invited a ton of new mocking with his latest realization thread on Twitter — sharing that he realized that people had been afraid of admitting they had COVID out of fear of being shamed earlier but that, suddenly,…

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VIDEO: Media Cynics Are Helping Dems Use Jan 6 to Federalize Elections

January 6th, 2022 9:00 AM

After obsessing over the January 6 Capitol riot for the past year, the media are now using its one-year anniversary to advocate for unprecedented, sweeping election reforms. Democrats would have been foolish not to make political hay out of the January 6 anniversary, and so they've decided to wield it as a justification for federalizing America's elections. Naturally, their friends in the…

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CNN Reporter Touts 'Benefits' of 1/6 Committee Exposing Fox News

January 5th, 2022 11:05 PM

At 2 pm on Wednesday, CNN's "Citizen" project live-streamed a panel discussion with four of its journalists on the top "Lessons of the Insurrection: Where Are We Now?" Dana Bash read a question from a viewer about how to protect democracy, and reporter Alex Marquardt touted that "one of the many benefits" of the 1/6 committee was how they exposed Fox News as Trump collaborators.

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CNN: Holding Dems Accountable for Violence is 'Both-Siderism'

January 5th, 2022 6:03 PM

During CNN's breaking news coverage of Attorney General Merrick Garland's news conference on the Justice Department's January 6 investigation, chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at Garland's desire to prosecute political violence no matter what political party is involved. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Press Resolute, Everything a Threat to Democracy

January 5th, 2022 5:17 PM

NewsBusters rings in 2022 with Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro filling in for Tim Graham and discussing the media New Year resolution to make every day, this midterm year, about January 6 in an attempt to swing the election for Democrats. I’m also joined by research director Scott Whitlock to talk about the media’s refusal to better themselves as they stoke hatred against the right.

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Wall-to-Wall: Media Plan AVALANCHE of Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage

January 5th, 2022 3:47 PM

In an effort to push the Democratic Party agenda on the federal takeover of elections and hype an anti-Republican campaign narrative ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, leftist media outlets have planned an avalanche of special coverage commemorating the one year anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Hill riot. On Wednesday, network hosts eagerly announced plans to anchor live from…