NewsBusters Podcast: Any Good Economic News Is NOT News Under Trump
When the networks try to drive President Trump's approval rating as low as possible, they avoid presenting any positive news. In the first term, they routinely skipped good news. Now we've compiled “Five Economic Facts the Media Don’t Want You to Know” as we head into midterm elections. The good news is Not News.
Networks Giddily Promote Bad Polls, Seek to Depress GOP Turnout
Whereas the broadcast networks spent the days prior to the 2022 midterms ensconced in January 6 Committee hearings, talk of the 2020 election, and demands no one assign blame for the bad economy, the elitist networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued on Monday morning to emphasize the impending blue tsunami through negative polls, treating President Trump seeking to drive base turnout as a five-…
MS NOW Claims Trump Threatens SCOTUS As It Labels Court As Right-Wing
After Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito began his book tour over the weekend with interviews on FOX News and CBS, MS NOW, of course, reacted with some displeasure as former host and now analyst Alex Wagner complained that Alito did not mention Trump as a person who was threatening the court. Both Wagner and State of Play host Peter Alexander did not mention threats against conservative…
21 Trump Lawyers Swept Up in Jack Smith’s Spying on Susie Wiles
As part of his fervent effort to find grounds to prosecute President Donald Trump in 2023, then-Special Counsel Jack Smith monitored the phone calls and text messages of Trump’s current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – sweeping up records of her calls with nearly two dozen lawyers in the process.
ABC’s The View Ramps Up the Electioneering a Month Out from Midterms
Now that America was a month out from the critical midterm elections, America’s number one daytime talk show and purported “bona fide news program,” The View ramped up their electioneering efforts during Monday’s episode. They sent the tone early with arguments that President Trump didn’t care about the nation’s kids and to vote accordingly, and ended their political conversations for the day…
Morning Joe Promotes Fmr. Biden Press Sec to Lecture Trump on Economy
At the end of Monday’s Morning Joe, the premier liberal morning show on MS NOW had on former Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to promote an opinion piece she wrote in the New York Times that lectured President Trump on the economy and political messaging around it, as she claimed Biden at least had “facts,” but Trump was just “making it all up.”
NY Times Opinionator Bizarrely Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case
NewsBusters Editor at Large Brent Baker caught this moment on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. New York Times opinion writer Michelle Cottle energetically stretched the Cornell fraternity rape case to somehow be about President Trump and his anti-women ways.
New 60 Minutes Fears For Democracy With Outgoing GOP Senator Tillis
The newest episode of the “revamped” 60 Minutes on Sunday featured an interview with outgoing Republican Senator Thom Tillis, a vocal critic of some Trump Administration activities during the second term, to promote his new book titled How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents. Near the end of the interview, which focused on Tillis’ disagreements with Trump and dislike of cabinet…
Cornish Shrinks 16-Pt. IA Poll Miss, Pads GOP's Trouble With Dem Seats
On CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish pulled two pro-Democrat tricks. First, she underplayed the extent of the huge 2024 presidential poll miss by Ann Selzer of the Des Moines Register. Next, to bolster her case that Republicans are in trouble, Cornish displayed a chart thatshowed 10 Senate seats most likely to flip. Problem: three of the seats—in Michigan, New Hampshire and Georgia— were…
Sunday Shows Push Polling DOOM: Hispanic Edition
The Elitist Media Sunday shows continue to push polling doom ahead of the midterms which are now a month away. This week, polling hysteria centered on President Trump’s polling numbers within the Hispanic community, a vote that he won outright in 2024.
PBS Anchor Tosses the 'No Evidence' Card at Trump and Bibi on Flydubai
Most of the network coverage of the hijacking attempt on a Flydubai plane headed to Israel and loaded with Israelis has cited President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suggest that the early intelligence suggests a terrorist motive. PBS anchor Geoff Bennett claimed neither Trump nor Netanyahu "has provided evidence" of a terrorist motive. It's not what an official should…
Kimmel and Bernie's Midterm Pitch: Vote Democrat Or People Die
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel closed out his week of Brooklyn shows by welcoming Sen. Bernie Sanders to a rare Friday episode. What was not rare, however, was Kimmel using the interview to team up with his guest in an effort to give the liberal audience a pep talk on why Democrats need to win in November. According to Sanders, one such reason is that Republicans are killing people with their health care…
CBS Hits Trump Over Approval and SNAP Changes Amid Midterm Campaigning
On Friday night, CBS Evening News bashed President Trump amid his campaign rally stop in Mobile, Alabama, as longtime White House correspondent Weijia Jiang hit the president on the economy and SNAP program work requirement changes from the Big Beautiful Bill. The report, featuring an Alabama food bank, also hit Trump on gas prices and low numbers in approval polls, a new media favorite, amid…
Stelter on Trump and TIME: How Dare He Kvetch About Negative Press!
President Trump granted another interview to Time magazine (for another cover story), even if Time’s interviewers want to push him around and try to get him to say scandalous things. But CNN's Brian Stelter dismissed it all as "One giant ego trip."
