FLASHBACK: How TV News Botched Clinton’s 1996 ‘Filegate’ Scandal

June 9th, 2024 9:58 AM

After the confidential files of hundreds of Republicans were found in Democrat Bill Clinton’s White House safe, journalists decided quickly to chalk it up to the “general incompetence” of Clinton’s youthful staff, and instead blasted Republicans for making “ugly” charges in an election year.

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Scarborough Clings to NYT Article to Keep Hope Alive for Biden

June 3rd, 2024 11:09 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough clings to an article by Nate Cohn of the New York Times to keep hope alive for Biden's chances in the 2024 election. Scarborough also boasts about having predicted in 2016 that Trump could win, omitting the fact that just a few days before the 2016 election, he told worried Democrats; "Just relax. Don't go under your bed and get in the fetal position and get…

Column: Hillary Clinton’s Conspiracy Privilege

May 15th, 2024 7:02 AM

It’s hard to watch the incessant gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Donald Trump trial in Manhattan without feeling like you’re traveling in a time warp back to 2016. We’re back reliving the “Access Hollywood” tape and talk of how Trump would have never been elected except porn star Stormy Daniels accepted a six-figure check to keep quiet.

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FLASHBACK: When ABC News Buried Top Anchor’s Ethical Scandal

May 12th, 2024 10:10 AM

Nine years ago this week, ABC News was roiled by a journalistic scandal: Their top political anchor had refused to disclose his big dollar contributions to the Clinton Foundation at the same time he used ABC’s airwaves in an attempt to discredit an anti-Clinton author, an obvious favor to the just-launched Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.

NewsBusters Podcast: Hillary's Hot Talk of Hitler and Bimbo Eruptions

May 10th, 2024 11:00 PM

Hillary Clinton was the big guest Thursday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, and unloaded all the "Trump is Hitler" talk (goaded by Joe) and the hypocritical notes on Trump squashing stories about alleged sexual escapades.

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Don Lemon Shows ZERO Remorse for Trump-Russia Probe, Mocking MAGA

April 29th, 2024 1:45 PM

In an interview posted Friday with The Intercept’s Ryan Grim and Federalist editor/National Journalism Center (NJC) director Emily Jashinsky, former CNN host Don Lemon showed zero regret or remorse for CNN’s Trump-Russia obsessions, mocking Trump voters as Boomer rubes, and insisted CNN had no liberal bias.

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MRC’s Schneider Bashes Facebook Election Interference on TND

April 26th, 2024 1:44 PM

MRC Free Speech Vice President Dan Schneider went after Facebook for not only repeatedly engaging in election interference but also for relentlessly censoring conservatives. 

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.

Column: Do Celebrities Have Deeper Liberal Thoughts?

April 19th, 2024 6:24 AM

When Laura Ingraham wrote her book Shut Up and Sing in 2003, the Left didn’t read the book as much as overreact to the title. The title implied something important. While celebrities gain a “platform” they feel compelled to use, do their opinions reflect any expertise? Or is fame more important than logic?

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Late-Night Panic: Biden Could Lose to Trump!

April 13th, 2024 1:03 PM

Late-night television changed forever after Donald Trump descended that escalator in 2015.

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Fallon, Clinton Implore People To Back Biden: 'Get Out There And Vote'

April 2nd, 2024 10:00 AM

NBC’s Jimmy Fallon welcomed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Monday’s edition of The Tonight Show to not only promote her new Broadway play about the women’s suffrage movement but also give those watching who may not be fans of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden a pep talk on the need to fall in line behind the latter.

The Smell of Mendacity Down in Georgia

March 19th, 2024 3:47 PM

Court decisions can sound complicated because they sometimes contain legal language that is difficult for a layperson to understand. That’s not the situation in the case of Fulton County, Georgia’s District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Judge Scott McAfee gave Willis a choice – either dump Wade, with whom she’d had a romantic relationship, as prosecutor in the case…

FLASHBACK: The Media’s Skewed Coverage of Past Super Tuesday Primaries

March 3rd, 2024 10:35 AM

To political junkies, Tuesday is “Super Tuesday,” when 16 states (plus American Samoa) hold primaries or caucuses to choose their 2024 presidential nominees. Here’s a quick re-cap of how the media elite have spun the last four Super Tuesday primaries.

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Amanpour Demands Media Stop Treating Biden's Age Like Hillary's Emails

March 2nd, 2024 2:33 PM

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour welcomed the Columbia Journalism School’s Margaret Sullivan to the Saturday edition of The Amanpour Hour where the two condemned their media colleagues for allegedly focusing on President Joe Biden’s age to the exclusion of everything else. They also claimed it should be their “public service role” to not let Biden’s age turn into Hillary Clinton's emails or…