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She Should Take KJP’s Job: ABC’s Bruce Spins for Biden on Border, Debt

May 9th, 2023 3:00 PM

Being a frequent NewsBusters reader and/or a trip to our taxonomy term for ABC chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce would give one the impression that Bruce is little more than a doormat for the Biden administration and loyally delivering the day’s preferred spin. Such was the case on Tuesday’s Good Morning America as she enthusiastically spun for President Biden on the border…

With the Debt Limit, It’s the Same Old Song

May 3rd, 2023 1:54 PM

The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea that increasingly appeals to some conservatives) and the claim that the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. is at stake. We have faith and credit? Who knew?

WashPost Hypes 'Far Right' Freedom Caucus 'Pledges Fiscal WAR'

May 1st, 2023 12:46 PM

On the top right of the Monday Washington Post came this glaring headline about "Far-right bloc is flexing muscle: Freedom Caucus pledges fiscal war." In the story, the reporters used the term "far-right" ten times to describe House Republicans. As they acknowledge, that neatly matches Biden's campaign rhetoric about "MAGA extremists."

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WH Press Ignore KJP Rant on GOP Filling U.S. With Smog, ‘Melt Bones’

April 24th, 2023 5:58 PM

Prior to the weekend, more Hunter Biden headlines, and Monday’s media tsunami regarding Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, there was Friday’s White House press briefing and it began with a rant from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ghoulishly claiming House Republicans want to “fill our cities with smog,” “give asthma to our children,” and allow oil companies to use chemicals that…

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CBS Blasts GOPs Rhetoric, Demand They Be Better ‘Steward’ of Democracy

March 31st, 2023 4:29 PM

On Friday’s CBS Mornings, there were numerous rhetorical finger-wags at Republicans for the crime of denouncing far-left, Soros-backed Manhattan DA’s indictment of former President Trump concerning the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels with one implication being they’re poor caretakers of our democracy and “adding fuel” to potential violence.

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Kevin McCarthy: Trump Admin Was Right, TikTok Must Be U.S.-Owned

March 30th, 2023 10:55 AM

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on CNBC Tuesday that the Trump administration was right to give Chinese-owned TikTok an ultimatum: sell to an American company or be banned.

Cracking Down! McMorris Rodgers, McCarthy Pushing Action on TikTok

March 27th, 2023 4:15 PM

Multiple congressmen from both parties are calling to target or ban TikTok after the popular app’s CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress.

Our Narrative Is 'News,' So Any Challenge to It Is 'Misleading'

March 11th, 2023 4:00 PM

At one time, the "news media" tried to give us something like just-the-facts journalism. But today they give us a liberal narrative and expect us to accept it as "news." Anything less than the liberal narrative is "misleading" or "false."

What We Weren’t Shown About January 6

March 10th, 2023 4:47 PM

Jan. 6 was, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer explained that the riot of Jan. 6 was a "violent insurrection." And in order to preserve democracy, Schumer stated, Fox News should take Tucker Carlson off the air. What, pray tell, did Carlson do that merited the Senate Majority…

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MSNBC Reports Poll 40% Disapproving Immigration, Then Dismiss It

February 17th, 2023 12:23 AM

On MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, guest host and daughter of corrupt New Jersey Democrat Senator Robert Menendez, Alicia Menendez seemed shocked that forty percent of voters on a recent Gallup poll want immigration decreased, yet Menendez and her guest Victoria DeFrancesco of the Clinton School of Public Service dismissed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s visit to the U.S. Mexico border as “political…

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CNN Invokes 'Our Children' While Attacking GOP Reaction To Biden Lies

February 8th, 2023 10:41 AM

Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom did not directly say that President Biden lied during his State of the Union address when he claimed that Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare, but they strongly implied it wasn’t true. Still, the Republican reaction to that claim garnered more condemnation from the assorted cast than the claim itself with co-host Jim Sciutto go so far as to…

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MSNBC's Wagner: McCarthy's GOP Wants to Subvert the Will of the People

February 7th, 2023 11:21 PM

In the immediate aftermath of President Joe Biden’s bitterly partisan and divisive State of the Union address, MSNBC host Alex Wagner went after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for not showing enough allegiance to the left’s latest obsessions like the war in Ukraine and “democracy” at home and abroad. Wagner was outraged that McCarthy didn’t stand up when he clapped for Biden’s applause lines and…

NewsBusters Podcast: Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan School Sunday Hosts

January 30th, 2023 10:56 PM

Tom Jones, a liberal analyst at the Poynter Institute, praised CBS's Margaret Brennan and NBC's Chuck Todd for aggressively taking on (respectively) Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan. But McCarthy and Jordan gave as good as they got, exposing the Sunday hosts as the Democrats that they are.

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McCarthy Schools CBS's Brennan Over Dem Election Denial Hypocrisy

January 29th, 2023 5:32 PM

On Sunday's edition of CBS's Face the Nation, moderator Margaret Brennan made the mistake of bringing up how according to her network 70 percent of House GOP members allegedly denied the results of the 2020 elections. When Brennan mentioned this to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, it did not go well for her. McCarthy turned it around on Brennan and noted how prominent members…