NB Podcast
NewsBusters Podcast: Will Media Coverage of Trump Sound Like a Rerun?
It's a cruel winter for the liberals, and the media are not taking it well. Will coverage of Trump's second term sound like a rerun? Curtis Houck talks about inauguration coverage and Nick Fondacaro wraps up all the revelations from the CNN defamation trial.
NewsBusters Podcast: Bitter Tears for Trump, Bizarre Spin for Biden
On Inauguration Day, we are already chronicling the bitter media tears that Donald Trump the 'Fascist Threat to Democracy' is coming in and Joe Biden has to be nice to him. Even last-minute pre-emptive pardons for influence-peddling Biden family members was given a bizarrely positive spin. The poor Biden family has been attacked in "the worst kind of partisan politics."
NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Fondacaro on CNN Found Guilty of Defamation
A jury in Panama City, Florida found CNN guilty of defamation in the case of Zachary Young, who worked to rescue people from Afghanistan after America withdrew. CNN must pay $5 million in damages (not counting punitive damages). Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro has been in the courtroom to explain it all.
NewsBusters Podcast: 'Fact Checkers' Are Not Heroes Like Firefighters!
CNN touted a former CNN producer from the "fact-checking" site Lead Stories saying Facebook cutting them is like "disbanding your fire department." That's wrong, and deeply insensitive. The media are now crying "disinformation" when anyone seeks to blame Democrats for their preparedness before the Los Angeles wildfires.
NewsBusters Podcast: The Comedy Tsunami Against Trump That Failed
NewsBusters reported that five late-night comedy shows uncorked almost 6,000 jokes against Donald Trump to about 1,100 about Joe Biden (and only 92 about Kamala Harris). All this allegedly hilarious hostility failed to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. Our comedy analyst Alex Christy has crunched all the late-night numbers and analysis of the Keystone Cops of comedy..
NewsBusters Podcast: Zuckerberg's Big Blast on Biased 'Fact Checkers'
Mark Zuckerberg fired the so-called "independent fact-checkers" from the Meta websites. He said they're so biased they "destroyed more trust than they created." Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider says this is a big victory.
NewsBusters Podcast: Biden Gives Liz Cheney a Medal for Bipartisanship
Surprisingly, the networks weren't riveted by President Biden awarding a presidential medal to Liz Cheney (and Democrat Bennie Thompson) for their work on the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6. One newspaper preposterously said the medals were part of Biden's "push for bipartisanship and decency in politics." This is pure publicity, claiming that Biden's been decent and bipartisan to the…
NewsBusters Podcast: Hollywood Doofus Expects Trump Will Ban 'Wicked'!
Filmmaker Adam McKay -- best known for making films like Anchorman with Will Ferrell -- comes unglued on Twitter, suggesting the movie musical "Wicked" is all about radicalization and fascism, so "If America keeps going on the track it is I wouldn’t be surprised to see the movie banned in 3-5 years." Which movies were banned under Trump in the first term?
NewsBusters Podcast: Is Liberal Cable News Going to Unravel in 2025?
Is CNN toast in 2025? Is MSNBC going to flounder? They're nervous on the Left about the legacy media being replaced by podcasters and the like. But if the usual pattern holds, the leftist base of these networks will return once Trump is inaugurated. We can hope they'll have a small audience in the long run if they're sticking to leftist propaganda.
NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Kristof's Fake Virgin Births & NPR's Pagans
Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.
NewsBusters Podcast: Shameless Spending and Shutdowns with Paul Teller
How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to buy a Christmas tree. Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom talks about hopes for restricting federal spending in 2025 and beyond.
NewsBusters Podcast: ABC Will Pay Trump for Stephanopoulos Rape Smear
The Left was enraged that ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump by agreeing to donate $15 million to a Trump “presidential foundation and museum” over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly claiming in a March interview that Trump was found “liable for rape.” That's not accurate. But cable "news" partisans shrieked about Trump's "authoritarian playbook." Like suing a media outlet…
NewsBusters Podcast: Liberal Media Swoon for Cold-Blooded Killer
During what’s supposed to be a slow time of year for major political stories, NewsBusters has been kept on their toes. Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I are dodging leftist assassins and buzzing drones on this episode in which they chat about the liberal media’s yearning love affair with the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the media's reaction to the mysterious drones over…
Behar: Voters 'Misinformed' About Their Quality of Life Under Biden
The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were not enthused by President-elect Trump being named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year of a second time. Amid lazy notations that “Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler” were also on the cover, Friday moderator Joy Behar lashed out at voters for electing Trump and declared that they were “misinformed” about their quality of life under the…