FLASHBACK: Cynical Media Used COVID As Excuse for Anti-Trump Rampage

March 16th, 2025 10:47 AM

On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency. Five years later, here are the most extreme quotes from the NewsBusters archives showing how liberal journalists cynically exploited the bad news to bash Trump in order to turn the crisis to Democrats’ advantage

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MSNBC Scorches Schumer For CR Support: 'Punked, Folded Like a Napkin'

March 15th, 2025 8:06 PM

Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend absolutely tears into Chuck Schumer for orchestrating the support of a sufficient number of his fellow Democrat senators to support the continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown. Co-host Michael Steele claims that Schumer was "punked" by Republicans, and a "pissed" Symone Sanders, saying Schumer "folded like a napkin," declares that she is…

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'Morning Joe' Attempts to Put Negative Spin on Trump Border Success

March 14th, 2025 3:50 PM

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski tried to put a negative spin on how successful President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has been, but was then contradicted by reporter Julia Ainsley who pointed out that there has been a dramatic drop in illegal border crossings.

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As GOP Talks Defunding, 'Morning Joe' Fawns Over Pro-NPR Author

March 13th, 2025 5:02 PM

On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC gave author Steve Oney a forum to promote his book, On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR, and to lament the possibility that the "down the middle" NPR will be defunded by Republicans.

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Morning Joe Regular Admits Oval Office Meeting With Zelensky A Success

March 12th, 2025 10:05 PM

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski describes as "disastrous" the Oval Office meeting among Trump, Vance, and Zelensky. But Morning Joe regular Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times admits though "hard to watch," it was a "pressure tactic that got us somewhere." Mika responds with a curt "all right" and quickly moves on.

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Joe AND Mika Lied on Musk Aim to 'Eliminate' Social Security, Medicare

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March 12th, 2025 5:14 PM

The blowhards at MSNBC’s Morning Joe should realize that continuing to shoot lies through their whitened tooth implants on the air about Elon Musk doesn’t make them any more true. What’s worse is that they don’t even attempt to be clever about it.

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FLASHBACK: When the Media Adored ‘Jesus Christ of Our Era’ Elon Musk

March 12th, 2025 11:07 AM

Some of us are old enough to remember when journalists praised Musk as a “real-life Iron Man,” “a visionary,” and even “the Jesus Christ of our era.” Back then, every SpaceX rocket launch drew more media adulation than a Barack Obama speech, with journalists describing the company’s breakthroughs as “glorious,” “stunning,” and once, even “a miracle.”

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Katy Tur Promotes 'Convincing' Speech of Montana Transgender Democrat

March 11th, 2025 10:25 PM

Concluding her eponymous show on Monday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur promoted transgender activist Zooey Zephyr by playing clips of the Montana state legislator speaking out against a proposed law against drag shows.

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Sanders Compares Start Of Trump Administration To 'Russia In 2000'

March 11th, 2025 2:15 PM

MSNBC’s weeknight viewers got a preview of a new show on Monday as Symone Sanders-Townsend joined Inside with Jen Psaki guest host Michael Steele for a panel on the political ramifications of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting initiatives. The fact that the ex-RNC chairman is so at home on MSNBC, he is guest hosting the Biden White House press secretary’s show aside, Sanders-Townsend alleged…

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MSNBC's Jong-Fast Claims 'Strong Mainstream Nonpartisan' Media Is GONE

March 9th, 2025 12:42 PM

One of the weirdest things that leftists can say in the second Trump term is that there's not an opposition media to Trump. On Saturday's The Weekend on MSNBC -- which is peak opposition media to Trump -- Molly Jong-Fast dropped this flop-bomb: “There is not the same strong mainstream non-partisan media there was in 2016."

FLASHBACK: Nets Praised Faltering Biden’s ‘Feisty,’ ‘Fiery’ 2024 SOTU

March 9th, 2025 10:07 AM

The liberal media had a predictably sour reaction to President Trump’s speech to Congress. Yet one year ago, these same networks used Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech to dishonestly proclaim the obviously faltering 81-year-old was brimming with energy and ready for a second term.

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MSNBC, Weingarten Claim Trump Admin Wants Students 'Ignorant'

March 8th, 2025 2:39 PM

One interesting development over the first month and a half of the Trump Administration has been the degree to which the media has deeply passionate opinions about the federal government’s bureaucratic org chart. On MSNBC’s Saturday edition of The Katie Phang Show, the eponymous host welcomed AFT president Randi Weingarten to simultaneously claim the Department of Education does not…

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MSNBC Admits Border Crossings Down, But Denies There Was a Crisis

March 7th, 2025 11:54 PM

On The Sunday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart admitted that illegal border crossings are now at a record low, but seemed to do so only so he could scoff at President Donald Trump for wanting to send more troops to the border.

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POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week? 

March 7th, 2025 9:50 AM

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?