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Acosta, Navarro Accuse Republicans of 'Cancelling' Disney

April 23rd, 2022 4:41 PM

The only thing CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and former nominal Republican strategist Ana Navara know about cancel culture is that Republicans claim to be against it. Their ignorance of the issue was illustrated on Acosta’s Saturday show as the duo accused Florida Republicans of “cancelling” Disney by revoking its special tax status.

CNN Reportedly Wants ‘Cease-Fire’ With Fox as Zucker News Piles Up

March 14th, 2022 4:41 PM

With Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine having dominated the headlines, you may have missed some of the latest headaches for CNN, which has sought to pivot back to its past reputation and reporting of yesteryear thanks to the war. But in reporting from far-left outlets at Daily Beast and Rolling Stone, the headaches over Jeff Zucker aren’t over and, when it comes to…

Column: Allergic to the 'So-Called Freedom Convoy'

February 25th, 2022 5:57 AM

Something caught my ear in the car, listening to a radio simulcast of the February 21 PBS NewsHour. Anchor Judy Woodruff drily reported that “Canadian police have arrested more than 190 protesters and issued 389 charges in connection with the so-called Freedom Convoy.”

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NBC News Head: We’re ‘Nonpartisan,’ His Employees Didn’t Get the Memo

February 12th, 2022 10:00 AM

NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, on January 19, spat out the laughable line that his news network is “ferociously defending the idea that it’s possible to....be objective and nonpartisan.” Well his employees didn’t get the memo. Here is just some of the worst bias from NBC/MSNBC hosts and pundits since the NBC News president made that ludicrous statement. 

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CNN's Acosta Frets Fox Calling for Jailing More Criminals

February 8th, 2022 5:02 PM

Over the weekend, CNN host Jim Acosta joined his Democrat congressional guest in being dismissive of the need to actually lock up criminals who commit serious offenses as the two fretted over Fox News's insightful criticisms of President Joe Biden's failure to call out his party's soft-on-crime policies.

It’s a Cult: CNNers Continue Worshipping Zucker Despite Ouster

February 4th, 2022 8:06 PM

Through a series of stories this week, it was evident CNN’s current staff have no interest in being salvaged as a serious news organization and anything other than a far-left propaganda outlet worthy of being some combination of mocked and ignored. Instead of seeking to move on from disgraced former boss Jeff Zucker, they’ve tried to canonize him as a tent pole of American democracy.

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Acosta & Guest Compare Unvaccinated to Committing Human Sacrifices

January 30th, 2022 7:36 PM

Just when you think CNN can't go any lower they manage to prove us wrong. On Sunday afternoon's CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, the leftist anchor brought on Atlantic writer Kurt Anderson to claim that those who are skeptical of the COVID vaccines are akin to the Aztecs committing "mass human sacrifices."

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'Life's a Mitch,' Acosta Whines About 'Hard-Right' Supreme Court

January 28th, 2022 2:42 PM

While hosting the scary sounding Democracy in Peril on CNN on Thursday, Jim Acosta blasted the "hard-right" Supreme Court for possibly overturning Roe v. Wade, which would increase democracy in the country, lamented that Democrats won't get rid of the filibuster in response to this, and decried their "life's a Mitch" attitude towards the situation.

Acosta BOMBS, Loses to Hallmark Movie, Vanderpump, Ray Romano

January 27th, 2022 7:08 PM

Following New Day co-host Brianna Keilar’s spectacularly bad week hosting CNN’s poisonously partisan Democracy in Peril special, carnival barker Jim Acosta received his chance to audition for the primetime slot formerly held by Chris Cuomo and, through three days, Acosta did even worse. Among the shows he lost to, Acosta fell behind a Hallmark movie, History’s Forged in…

Editor’s Pick: Daily Wire on Virginia AG Blasting CNN’s Acosta

January 27th, 2022 10:10 AM

On Wednesday, Daily Wire News reported on how “Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slammed CNN host Jim Acosta on Wednesday night for suggesting that the commonwealth is now a ‘soviet-style police state’ under Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.” That came after Acosta ranted Tuesday night: “I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia....I was told there was…

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ACOSTA: Anti-CRT Law is Making Virginia a 'Soviet-Style Police State'

January 25th, 2022 11:51 PM

On night two of Jim Acosta's hosting of CNN's Democracy in Peril, it's safe to say he outdid himself with the dangerous hyperbolic rhetoric. During a Tuesday segment on Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) banning Critical Race Theory from influencing schools, Acosta referred to Virginia as a "Soviet-style police state." 

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Tapper: Doocy’s Fox Would Never Defend Me From POTUS Smear (Not True)

January 25th, 2022 1:02 PM

Appearing on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CNN host Jake Tapper falsely claimed to the eponymous ABC host that Peter Doocy’s employer in Fox News “would never come to my defense” if a president called him “a stupid son of a bitch” as President Biden did hours earlier to the Fox White House correspondent.

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Jim Acosta's 'Democracy in Peril' Debut Was as Dumb as You'd Expect

January 24th, 2022 11:44 PM

If you are like the overwhelming majority of Americans and did not tune into Jim Acosta’s debut of the low-rated CNN show Democracy in Peril, you weren’t missing much. In fact, you can probably guess what was said by Acosta and his conga line of leftist guests.

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We’ve Survived 2021! Here’s the Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs From 2021

December 30th, 2021 5:07 PM

Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.