NewsBusters Podcast: Cheering and Laughing at the 'Tesla Takedown'

March 24th, 2025 10:46 PM

Rooting for bad things to happen to your adversaries isn't unusual. But when Rush Limbaugh said "I hope he fails" about incoming President Obama in 2009, leftists suggested he should be executed for treason. Now, people are talking about vandalism against Elon Musk's Tesla vehicles and dealerships, and crowds cheer and laugh as the Tesla stock price sinks. The double standard is obvious, with…

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Friday Networks Tout NYT on Musk/China Despite Team Trump Denials

March 24th, 2025 1:29 PM

On Friday night, ABC, CBS, and NBC celebrated a story from Thursday by their friends at The New York Times alleging the Department of Defense was set to grant Elon Musk a top-secret briefing on hypothetical war plans against China as part of his Friday meeting at the Pentagon, but was changed due to The Times raising concerns about his business work with Tesla in China. Of…

Will The Media Investigate Who's Behind The Tesla Terror?

March 22nd, 2025 4:00 PM

History records this of the famous Nixon Watergate scandal. In the summer of 1972, as an American presidential election featuring incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon and Democrat Senator George McGovern swirled, two young, green Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by name, learned of a break-in at Washington’s Watergate Hotel and office complex. A break…

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'Democracy Is Teetering': Brooks, Capehart Decry 'Extortionist' Trump

March 22nd, 2025 9:53 AM

The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”

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Springtime At CNN? Cornish Has An Actual Conservative On Her Show!

March 21st, 2025 4:56 PM

Audie Cornish, the new host of CNN This Morning, has stocked her panels with left-leaning voices.  But today, she had an actual conservative on the show in the person of Rob Bluey, the President and Executive Editor of The Daily Signal. Bluey is a former reporter at Cybercast News Service, where he broke the story of Dan Rather's fake typewriter font in the phony Bush draft-evasion story. 

How Can the Left Ignore Freeman Dyson and Elon Musk?

March 21st, 2025 2:09 PM

In March 2009, The New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, Dyson began publicly to express doubts about the global warming or “climate change” alarmism promoted by the likes of former Vice President Al Gore, whom Dyson disparaged as “an opportunist” engaging in “lousy science.”

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Kimmel Welcomes Schiff To Tell Trump To 'Go F*** Himself'

March 21st, 2025 10:02 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed California Sen. Adam Schiff to his Thursday show for some liberal group therapy. The theme of the interview was that Kimmel would put the ball on the tee for Schiff, who would then say things like Democrats have to fight against the “dictator wannabees,” that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a “certain arsonist's glee,” and that Trump can “go [bleep]…

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CBS’s John Dickerson Blames Trump, Elon, AMERICA for Ruining Spring

March 20th, 2025 11:33 PM

If you wanted more evidence of the descent of CBS News into utterly pretentious piffle, look no further than CBS Evening News Plus, which indulges the ego of its anchor, John Dickerson, by enabling a “Reporter’s Notebook” editorial at the close of each telecast. Dickerson’s latest oeuvre: a diatribe blaming President Donald Trump and Elon Musk for ruining spring for him.

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On CNN, Audie's All Anti-Trump Panel Assails Dept. of Education End

March 20th, 2025 10:46 PM

Keeping her habit alive of assembling conservative-free panels, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish's guests this morning were CNN's oh-so-serious Stephen Collinson, Washington Post reporter Sabrina Rodriguez, and Cari Champion, a CNN contributor who's also the host of the "Naked Sports" podcast. The target was Trump's moves to shut down the Department of Education, and after clips of a union…

PolitiFact: Musk 'False' For Social Security-Ponzi Scheme Comparison

March 20th, 2025 12:32 PM

PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson slapped a “false” label on Elon Musk on Wednesday for his claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Jacobson’s big argument against Musk was not convincing, as he insisted that because Social Security is legal, it can’t be accurately described as a Ponzi scheme.

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'Can't Handle the Consequences': Klepper Tries To Explain Tesla Arsons

March 20th, 2025 10:00 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper tried to rationalize all the anti-Elon Musk vandalism going on throughout the country. Kimmel insisted that arson and vandalism is bad but still portrayed them as what happens when you “celebrate firing thousands of people” and do “one, maybe two Nazi salutes.” Meanwhile, Klepper was less reasonable…

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NBC: DOGE Cuts Will Ruin VA Care for Veterans

March 19th, 2025 11:33 PM

As the media furor over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dies down, so, too, does the frequency of DOGE-related reports across the evening news. Nonetheless, those reports are still coming out. The latest such report, via NBC Nightly News, suggests that DOGE will ruin VA care for veterans in Wyoming 

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Not Hard, Libs: Conservative Media Push Leavitt on DOGE, Gangs, Tesla

March 19th, 2025 7:45 PM

For only the second time since the week of January 26, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a second briefing of a week. Along with our friend Katie Pavlich of Townhall having the chance to sit in the “new media seat,” she and other conservative reporters showed the liberal reporters it’s not that hard to ask real questions of your own “side” on issues ranging from crime to the…

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Scott Jennings RIPS Smug Neera Tanden Over Tesla Terror Attacks

March 19th, 2025 7:29 PM

On CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Democrat apparat and failed Biden OMB nominee Neera Tanden tried to conflate the leftist terror attacks against Tesla vehicles and facilities with the January 6th Capitol Riot. Conservative commentator Scott Jennings had none of it.