NewsBusters Podcast: Media Gift Trump Prosecutors a Pass on Party ID

September 6th, 2023 8:38 PM

Hot off the presses! On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I discuss a brand new Rich Noyes on NewsBusters about the broadcast networks omitting the political party connections of the prosecutors going after former President Trump. Hint: They’re connected to Democrats. We also talked about the return of The View after their summer vacation.

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Media Hide the (D) When Covering Those Prosecuting Trump

September 6th, 2023 12:00 PM

Even though the various legal cases against Donald Trump are taking place in the obviously partisan environment of a presidential election, an examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage finds the networks rarely identified even elected Democratic prosecutors as “Democrats.”

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Univision Anchor on Trump GA Indictment: We Were Waiting For This Day

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August 24th, 2023 10:00 PM

From time to time, we are reminded that Univision acts in a manner reminiscent of a leftwing immigration advocacy PAC with a broadcast license. Today, we have a stark reminder, when a network anchor overstates her enthusiasms on the day of Donald Trump's booking at the Fulton County Jail. 

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CNN Nudges John Dean on GA Indictments: 'Much Bigger than Watergate'

August 16th, 2023 6:50 AM

John Dean appeared on CNN to perform his utterly predictable "bigger than Watergate" shtick in reference to Donald Trump's indictment in Fulton County, Georgia.

Column: Presenting Trump's Democrat Prosecutors as Nonpartisans

August 16th, 2023 6:00 AM

The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The number one media-bias complaint on this trend – other than how these indictments “flood the zone” and devolve the Republican presidential primary into a hyperbolic courtroom drama – is that reporters typically fail to identify the prosecutors as Democrats.

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Scarborough Concerned Trump Charged In Heavily Dem Fulton County

August 15th, 2023 10:18 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough expresses concern that the Georgia indictment of Donald Trump was brought in heavily Democrat Fulton County. He wonders how people would react if a prosecutor in a heavily-Republican county indicted a Democrat president or ex-president. Greg Bluestein of the liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution defends the bringing of the case in Fulton county, on the…

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Clockwork: Nets Use 33 Mins of New Trump Charges to Ditch Shady Bidens

August 15th, 2023 11:58 AM

It’s like clockwork with the liberal media and their friends in government as, following more bad news and new allegations of bribery, corruption, and malfeasance from the Biden family, another Trump indictment dropped Monday night with this one emanating out of Fulton County, Georgia and far-left District Attorney Fani Willis. On Tuesday morning, the morning news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC…

Joe Scarborough Jonathan Lemire MSNBC Morning Joe 8-14-23
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Scarborough: Trump Would Be 'Quite Dumb' Not To Give Up, Plead Guilty

August 14th, 2023 10:55 AM

Morning Joe opened its week on Monday with the argument that Donald Trump should seek a plea deal in the various criminal cases against him, with Joe Scarborough saying Trump would be "quite dumb" not to do so.

Politico Features Unhinged Professors Commenting on Bragg Indictment

April 10th, 2023 6:08 AM

Politico Magazine allowed several professors to pontificate on the "destruction of civic customs" and their own words reveal a frightening truth.

Poppy Harlow Don Lemon CNN This Morning 2-22-23
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Defense Will Have 'Field Day' With GA Grand Jury Forewoman's Comments

February 22nd, 2023 11:34 AM

On CNN This Morning, chief legal correspondent Paula Reid, commenting on the interview of Emily Kohrs, the forewoman of the special grand jury created by Fulton County, Georgia DA to look into possible crimes related to attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, called the interview "very unusual, and said that defense attorneys would have a "field…

Joyce Vance Katie Phang Hugh Lowell MSNBC The Katie Phang Show 2-18-23
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MSNBC's Phang Predicts Georgia DA Fani Willis Will Indict Trump

February 19th, 2023 6:20 AM

On her MSNBC show Saturday, Katie Phang predicted that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis will indict Donald Trump in connection with the 2020 presidential election, but fretted whether that indictment can "coexist" if special counsel Jake Smith indicts Trump on federal charges. MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance assured Phang that the indictments can coexist.

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Morning Joe Claims—Yet Again—That Walls 'Closing In' On Donald Trump

September 13th, 2022 4:34 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Gene Robinson agree that, as the liberal media loves to say, the walls are "closing in" on Donald Trump.

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Whoa! CNN Analyst Rips Stacey Abrams and Georgia DA Fani Willis

August 19th, 2022 5:19 PM

Elie Honig has established himself as CNN's leading legal iconoclast. He has a history, as we recently described it, of "throwing cold water on the fever dreams of the left." Honig was back at it on this morning's New Day, absolutely tearing into Stacey Abrams and Fulton County DA Fani Wills regarding Willis' investigation into possible 2020 election interference, and Abrams' comments on it…

Ken Frydman John Berman Brianna Keilar John Avlon CNN New Day 8-16-22
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Overwrought on CNN: Giuliani's Goal Is 'To Die A Free Man'

August 17th, 2022 5:42 AM

Two of Rudy Giuliani's former aides turned on him with a vengeance on CNN's New Day on Tuesdayt morning. First up, former Rudy spox Ken Frydman. Commenting on Rudy being made a prosecution target in Fulton County, Georgia, Frydman said that Rudy's strategy is to "delay, delay, delay," and that: "At this point in his life, Rudy's goal is to die a free man."