NewsBusters Podcast: NPR Disinformation Team, Heal Thyself

July 20th, 2022 9:58 PM

Conservative Twitter pounced on the news that NPR was creating a "disinformation" team, noting NPR puts out its own factually fractured "news." But their avoidance of the Kavanaugh assassination attempt remains stunning.

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NPR Claims Dino Emojis Belong to Trans People, Tucker Mocks Them

July 18th, 2022 5:25 PM

As frequent viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel are aware, Carlson has a recurring segment where he exposes how insane NPR has gotten over the years. No longer are they simply a monotone liberal public radio station, but now simply a woke leftist outlet that sits around and rails against the United States and its founding while finding things to be offended over…

NPR Touts New 'Disinformation' Team, Righty Twitter Has Field Day

July 18th, 2022 6:20 AM

Doug P. at Twitchy noted National Public Radio (NPR) announced the creation of their "Disinformation Reporting Team" on Friday in a note to newsroom staff. On Twitter, NPR contributor Casey Morell tweeted, "some great company news: we're launching a disinformation team." It didn't take long for Conservative Twitter to "pounce."

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NPR Host Asks Warnock to Explain Pro-Lifers, Laments Biden's Low Polls

July 15th, 2022 10:07 AM

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is running for re-election which also means he has a book to promote and to do that he joined NPR’s Michel Martin on Thursday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on PBS. During the interview, Martin would ask Warnock to explain pro-life Christians and wonder why President Biden’s approval ratings are so low despite all his alleged accomplishments.

NPR Puts On Leftist Who Thinks the Pro-Life Side Shouldn't Get TV Time

July 9th, 2022 8:09 AM

As part of its ongoing abortion advocacy badly disguised as journalism, Thursday’s Morning Edition devoted a segment to how Hollywood hasn’t been pro-abortion enough! Anchor Rachel Martin spoke to Tanya Melendez, a doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois, who wrote an article for Vox.com last fall titled “How TV lied about abortion.”

NewsBusters Podcast: NPR Insults 'Divisive Arch-Conservative' Leader

July 8th, 2022 10:20 PM

The shocking news of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe being shot dead was matched by the shock that oh-so-civil National Public Radio would tweet out in the aftermath that Abe was a "divisive arch-conservative" and an "ultra-nationalist." Fidel Castro won warmer treatment from taxpayer-funded NPR.

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CBS Slams ‘Polarizing’ Abe as ‘Nationalist’ With ‘Controversial’ Views

July 8th, 2022 10:29 AM

Much of the world awoke Friday to news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated by a deranged suspect with a homemade shotgun. Instead of eulogizing Abe and expressing condolences to the Japanese people, CBS Mornings decided it would join the Associated Press and National Public Radio (NPR) in smearing Abe as “a polarizing figure,” “right-wing nationalist,…

Why We Can’t Have a Nice Independence Day

July 7th, 2022 10:44 AM

On July 3, 1776, shortly after the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail. “I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States,” Adams wrote. “Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see…

NPR Dumps Annual Reading of Declaration of Independence on July 4

July 5th, 2022 1:30 PM

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio canceled their annual July Fourth reading of the Declaration of Independence. The surprise here is that NPR ever showed reverence for 1776 in the first place. They’re more marinated in the spirit of 1974, lobbying to impeach Nixon and lose the Vietnam War and enshrine abortion on demand.

Melissa Harris-Perry Compares Dobbs Case to Dred Scott on NPR Stations

July 2nd, 2022 6:52 AM

On Thursday, former MSNBC host and public-radio host Melissa Harris-Perry energetically compared the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade to the Dred Scott fugitive-slave decision of 1857. It came in a segment titled “Reproductive Coercion is an American Cornerstone.”

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Ruhle Excuses Biden Policies, Blames Media Talking US Into Recession

June 23rd, 2022 12:33 AM

On Wednesday’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC, in her discussion with NPR business correspondent David Gura, host Stephanie Ruhle proved once again that she knows very little about economics or even basic business. While Americans are suffering under crushing inflationary pressures, Ruhle let the Biden administration off the hook and claimed the media and people with political agendas are…

NewsBusters Podcast: Devout Pro-Abortion Demos Claim They're Religious

June 22nd, 2022 9:42 PM

On this edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, executive editor Tim Graham examines how the Democrats and the liberal media pretend to be religious as they preach their pro-abortion agenda, calling out Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) who says she's "very Catholic" and very pro-choice, and Vice President Kamala Harris who claims pro-choice positioning has no bearing on your faith. The media nod along.…

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Katy Tur Suggests Trump Needs a Therapist, Like Her Dad

June 18th, 2022 11:41 AM

As part of a media tour selling her new personal memoir Rough Draft (after her Trump-campaign memoir a few years ago), MSNBC host Katy Tur appeared on Monday's Fresh Air for the hour on NPR. Tur talks about growing up with an abusive journalist father, Bob Tur, who now identifies as Zoey Tur. She compared him to Donald Trump as bombastic and volatile and scary, and suggested they…

NewsBusters Podcast: Fox News Haters Have No Shame on Kavanaugh Scare

June 13th, 2022 9:29 PM

Liberal haters of Fox News (like NPR's media reporter) shame Fox for ignoring "unwelcome facts," even as NPR couldn't do one story on the failed Brett Kavanaugh assassin.