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Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw at CPAC, striking a pose next to Argentina’s president Javier Milei. The networks really hate Elon Musk for trying to reduce government in any way. "Public" broadcasters are incredibly anti-Musk, since they are dreading the DOGE wagon pulling up to PBS and NPR.

Reporters are in a dither than Team Trump's committing a "naked violation of the First Amendment" by denying access to the Associated Press. The liberal blob didn't react this way when Team Biden obstructed access to the New York Post in their time. The AP in no way should be presented as nonpartisan or "the gold standard of neutrality."

It was a deeply weird Sunday at CBS. Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan argued that free speech led to the Holocaust, as if the Nazis allowed free speech. Then 60 Minutes promoted German prosecutors fining and jailing people for "hate speech" on social media. CBS likes a little "German order" on the internet. Jorge Bonilla joins the show to ponder the CBS mysteries.

Donald Trump never gets any credit for granting broad access to the press. Team Biden was never blamed for avoiding them. That's because journalists don't care about their own access. They care about the Democrats winning. They're partisan team players, not nonpartisan watchdogs. 

The national media are now focusing a lot of their negative "news" energy on Elon Musk and his drive for government efficiency. CNN is upset about his messing with the Agency for International Development, and Jake Tapper lamented Elon opening "old wounds" with British grooming gangs raping little girls, which is a "distraction" for new prime minister Keir Starmer. Nick Fondacaro has the…

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is going to look into San Jose radio station KCBS unmasking undercover law-enforcement agents conducting operations in a town plagued with gang activity. Joseph Vazquez of NewsBusters had the story, and he joins the show to discuss.

According to content cops at Elon Musk's X, a tweet mocking CBS News for their softball interviews with Kamala and "Feeble Joe" was tagged under their "Hateful Conduct" policy. It's mocking someone's age or disability? Or is someone just super-sensitive about mocking CBS?

Speculation can be the opposite of information, but any breaking news event is going to be wallowing in it. A plane-helicopter crash that kills 67 over the nation's capital is going to dominate many news cycles. The victims and their loved ones left behind deserve a nonpartisan, fact-based investigation of what happened. Our political system makes that difficult.

A Daily Caller study of first-week press interactions between Biden and Trump II drove MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell straight into delusional ranting. He claimed the White House press corps are now just polite stenographers of Trump's lies, that they are uniquely polite to Trump. How insulting it was to NBC's White House reporters! 

Conservatives wonder why J.D. Vance is wasting his time with liberals like CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan. But when you watch him methodically take down every hostile question from Brennan, it's a win for him and a loss for CBS. MRC's Jorge Bonilla breaks down the battle. The VP named JD was messing with CBS. It’s the newsbusters podcast, I’m tim graham.  The "CBS Evening…

Two Politico alums -- Tara Palmeri and Marc Caputo -- dropped a bombshell about how their old employer mandated bias by omission on Hunter Biden in 2020: "Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop." Their "cowardly editors" made "dumb decisions"!

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.

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."

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.