Let's Compare Coverage of Biden's and Trump's Border Crises

March 23rd, 2021 7:59 AM

TV journalists spent the past week running cover for President Biden as his administration struggled to manage the migrant surge at the border, frequently reminding viewers that the border posed a “difficult” and “complex problem.” Some even repeated the Democrat talking point that Biden had “inherited” the crisis from the previous administration. Contrast that with the news media’s endless…

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NEW NewsBusters Podcast: The Media's Total Submission to Ilhan Omar

March 22nd, 2021 8:40 PM

On the Monday edition of the Podcast, we explore the media darling Ilhan Omar. On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter invited her on to discuss immigration and the media. Stelter didn't question her. He began: "I'm curious to hear how you think immigration should be framed in the media." How would a celebrated Somalian refugee/feminist/Muslim leftist "frame" the…

The Corruption of the Liberal Media: From the WashPost to Atlanta

March 20th, 2021 4:06 PM

So it wasn’t true. It was…a lie. As our own Tim Graham has noted, The Washington Post has fessed up that a story it ran on a conversation between then-President Trump and a Georgia election official was…ah….incorrect. Actually The Post story was more than incorrect. It was flat out false, replete with a made-up out of whole cloth, entirely fictitious “quote” from Trump. Here’…

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REWIND: CNN, MSNBC Spent 50 Mins Analyzing Trump’s West Point Visit

March 19th, 2021 8:13 PM

On Friday morning, President Joe Biden repeatedly fell up the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base and almost immediately, comparisons ensued as conservatives and Republicans recalled the liberal media’s wall-to-wall coverage of then-President Trump holding of a water glass and walking slowly down a ramp at the June 13, 2020 West Point commencement. A NewsBusters analysis has found…

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CNN Asks, Is U.S. 'Part Of the Problem' On White Nationalism?

March 19th, 2021 6:36 PM

CNN is enthralled with the notion that America must be more and more "anti-racist." So it's not surprising that they would turn to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for a strong serving.  

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CNN Collusion Rerun! Putin's Attacks on Biden's Marbles Echo Trump

March 19th, 2021 4:22 PM

Who knew that, even after leaving office, Donald Trump had such influence over Vladimir Putin? Maybe Biden should appoint Trump as his special envoy to Russia! On this morning's New Day, John Berman described as "Trumpian" remarks by Putin and Medvedev intimating that Biden might have lost mental acuity. This in response to Biden calling Putin a "killer." Susan Glasser of CNN and the New…

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CNN Wonders If America Never Learned From (FDR's) Internment Camps

March 19th, 2021 2:53 PM

Despite the fact that Atlanta police have still refused to say race played a factor in Tuesday's mass shooting -- and the FBI is suggesting race was not a factor -- CNN Newsroom still blamed Republicans like former President Trump for the shooting on Thursday and wondered if the country has moved beyond things such as World War II internment camps. And who was president then…

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Watch CNN's Fake Fact Check of Fox Fail Miserably

March 19th, 2021 9:26 AM

On Wednesday's New Day show, CNN analyst John Avlon delivered a misleading "Reality Check" that promised to explain "what is really going on" at the border with Mexico, suggesting that "right-wing media" like Fox News are spreading misinformation.

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Lemon v. Lemon: I Don’t Demonize, Fauci Critics Are Not Good People

March 18th, 2021 11:41 PM

In just 24 hours, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon flaunted his hypocrisy and two-faced nature as he first bragged about how he would “treat people as humans” on Wednesday; only to lose his cool on Thursday as he shouted about how people who didn’t like wearing masks or criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci should learn how to be “a decent human being.”

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FINALLY: CNN Admits FL Doing Well Under DeSantis’s COVID Leadership

March 18th, 2021 5:33 PM

On Wednesday morning, CNN finally highlighted positive reactions to Governor Ron DeSantis's handling of the pandemic after a history of repeatedly dunking on the Florida Republican for not enacting pandemic regulations as strict as some -- mostly on the left -- had wanted.

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Dueling Lemons: We're 'Healing' on Race Under Biden? Or 'All-Out War'?

March 18th, 2021 12:40 PM

Don Lemon joined CNN Newsroom hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow on Tuesday to promote his newly released book This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism. When asked if he is optimistic about the state of race relations in America, Lemon said that he was, because Joe Biden won in November. Then on his own show Tuesday night, Lemon was warning of a "collision…

Tell the Truth, Mr. President

March 16th, 2021 11:19 PM

When a politician promises to “tell the truth,” as President Biden did in his nationally televised address  last Thursday, you can add that statement to familiar ones lacking the ring of sincerity. They include: “The gun isn't loaded;” “the microphone is off;” “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” and “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”

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Hell Freezing Over? CNN's Berman Presses Biden WH on Border Mess

March 16th, 2021 1:45 PM

On CNN's New Day, Biden border coordinator Roberta Jacobson admits that when it comes to messaging, the human smugglers are more "quick and agile" than the Biden administration. Co-host John Berman surprisingly presses Jacobson on the Biden admin's various failures regarding the border. 

CNN AM Smear: Does Tucker Carlson 'Really Want His Viewers to Live?'

March 16th, 2021 10:38 AM

CNN led off New Day this morning at 6 am Eastern by suggesting Tucker Carlson may want you dead from COVID. Berman said  "Does Tucker Carlson really want his viewers to live? Look, this guy bemoans so-called cancel culture more than anyone on Earth. But he should look in the mirror. Because you can't get any more cancelled than dead."