Politico Exposes Media's Anti-Trump Legal Echo Chamber's Meetings

April 24th, 2024 3:08 PM

Cable news has often been described as an echo chamber, but a Tuesday report from Politico’s Ankush Khardori provided evidence that cable news legal analysts regularly meet up to discuss what talking points they should bring with them when they are on the air.

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STATE PROPAGANDA: ABC Wishcasts Abortion Driving A Biden Florida Win

April 24th, 2024 12:36 AM

Among the major broadcast network evening newscasts, ABC’s is often the likeliest to go into over-the-top campaign propaganda for Democrats holding power. Case in point, ABC Whirled News Tonight’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s Florida speech on abortion.

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Stewart Mocks MSNBC, Tapper For Obsessing Over Trump Trial

April 23rd, 2024 1:56 PM

The media is obsessed with Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial to such a degree that even Jon Stewart can’t help but mock them. On Monday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Stewart ridiculed the media for their priorities, with MSNBC and CNN’s Jake Tapper bearing extra scrutiny.

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39 Times Facebook Interfered in US Elections Since 2008

April 23rd, 2024 11:09 AM

Facebook has interfered in U.S. elections multiple times since 2008. The platform has been involved in incidents of political censorship and policy changes that detract from free speech, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg's affirmations to support it. MRC researchers have documented 39 instances where Facebook intervened in electoral processes, from removing political posts and ads to limiting users…

NewsBusters Podcast: Hillary Says Trump Wants to 'Kill His Opposition'

April 22nd, 2024 10:30 PM

As pro-Biden media outlets argue that Donald Trump's criticism of his legal adversaries is endangering lives, Hillary Clinton claimed on a podcast that Trump would like to "kill his opposition," and the media find that's not dangerously suggestive. Democrats tweeting "Die MAGA Die" shouldn't be questioned.

NPR's 'Extremism' Reporter: Trump Could Cause Violence Against Jurors

April 21st, 2024 10:54 PM

One way the leftist media want to add juice to the Trump trial is to suggest the jurors will be threatened by Trump outbursts in court or on social media. On Friday’s All Things Considered, they brought in “NPR domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef” to spread the conspiracy theory that Trump messages will lead to violence.

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J-MART LAMENTS: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win'

April 21st, 2024 6:02 PM

Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum…

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NBC's Andrea Mitchell Frets Trump’s NYC Trial Is Crowding Biden Out

April 21st, 2024 3:51 PM

During the weekly panel discussion on NBC’s Meet The Press, Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell fretted about the trial of former President Donald Trump overshadowing everything President Joe Biden is doing on the campaign trail, to the point of referring to the present media environment as “The Trump Story”.

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Tapper Brings In 'Fact Checker' Daniel Dale to Knock Trump's Opinions

April 21st, 2024 8:35 AM

CNN's resident "fact checker" Daniel Dale usually shows his face on air when CNN wants to attack Donald Trump. On Thursday's The Lead with Jake Tapper, Dale confessed that Trump's statements during jury selection were mostly just opinion, but he mocked the idea that President Biden had something to do with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's prosecution, even though an Associate Attorney…

Brian Stelter, Post Reporter Can't Get Press Badges from Trump Team

April 20th, 2024 9:34 PM

Charlotte Klein at Vanity Fair was upset that the Trump campaign is “cutting off access” to reporters who are extremely hostile to Trump, starting with Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf, whose new book is titled Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy. They didn't love that title.

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CBS Travels To Britain To Attack Trump As 'Misogynistic, Racist'

April 20th, 2024 2:00 PM

As the presidential election kicks into high gear, CBS Saturday Morning hit the road to seek the opinions of a group of people who will have zero impact on the results: the British, and more specifically, Brits who think Donald Trump is a racist and a misogynist.

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Meacham Declares It 'A Patriotic Duty' To Vote For Biden

April 20th, 2024 12:12 PM

Presidential historian and frequent MSNBC talking head Jon Meacham traveled to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to wax poetic about “there is a patriotic duty” to vote for Joe Biden and that any Republican who votes for Donald Trump needs to stop and heed the words of George Washington.

NewsBusters Podcast: Fervent Obsession with Trump Trial Jury Selection

April 19th, 2024 10:10 PM

The Manhattan trial of Donald Trump on "hush money" charges drew hundreds of minutes of TV obsession this week. Meanwhile, the impeachment of Homeland Security Mayorkas was briefly covered and derided as a partisan stunt. Curtis Houck has the details and clips.

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WILD: ABC’s Moran Blames Trump for Man Lighting Himself on Fire in NYC

April 19th, 2024 5:25 PM

Friday afternoon featured one of the more disturbing incidents one will ever see on live TV as, amid rolling coverage on cable news and streaming platforms of the Trump trial brought by far-left Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, a man lit himself on fire in the so-called protest space outside the New York City courthouse. On ABC News Live, longtime network correspondent Terry Moran invoked January 6…