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On the latest NewsBusters Podcast: The Monday morning shows were a bad neighborhood for Team Biden. "Saigon on steroids," proclaimed normally supportive George Stephanopoulos on ABC. NBC's Savannah Guthrie pressed Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan on how Biden insisted there would be no dramatic collapse of the Afghan government. And our latest study showed the networks skipping…

Now that Meghan McCain has exited the stage at ABC's The View, some TV critics are looking back at her tenure. Washington Post TV critic Inkoo Kang concluded she was a feisty asset for the show...as "a highly effective heel, a love-to-hate reality villain who brought a badly needed wild-card energy to the show." To many people to the right of Joy Behar, she was the hero, not…

In the Cuomo Prime Time slot the evening before Andrew Cuomo resigned in New York, CNN devoted an hour to the special Being... AOC. CNN's Dana Bash energetically celebrated the uncompromising (socialist) confidence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bash asked AOC what it was like being so rudely abused by Fox News, and how criticism of her in the conservative media is based on…

Glenn Kessler, the chief "Fact Checker" at The Washington Post, was exposed as he attempted a hit piece on Chris Rufo, the leading critic of Critical Race Theory, He asserted to one potential source on LinkedIn that Rufo was ripping her off and her anonymous tipster. Then he got exposed, and had to give up the "fact check." Facts weren't helpful.

The Washington Post has "honored" Fox White House reporter Peter Doocy by highlighting his exchanges with Biden press secretary Jen Psaki in the briefing room. Doocy gets "fact checked" by media reporter Paul Farhi...but in 2018, Farhi and the Post didn't check on CNN's Jim Acosta as he told them he was all about the facts, not about damaging Trump.

The New York Attorney General's report on sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo included new details into how extensively CNN prime-time host Chris Cuomo advised his brother. CNN seems to have no problem with this massive conflict of interest.

On Sunday's Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter made a big sloppy ridiculous point that somehow Trump was comparable to Jim Jones, who oversaw a mass suicide of 900 followers. Inside his bubble, Stelter blames the right-wingers for destroying the credibility of the press. He never sees garbage like this as hurting the media's image for fairness. Fairness is overrated.

We made it to the end of another week of Curtis Houck and I filling in for Tim Graham. He’ll be back on Monday, but we have a blast and we hope you enjoyed listening to us and our interns. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the coming reimplementation of the dreaded mask mandates, President Biden snapping at a Fox News reporter, and CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo getting called out on his…

On today’s podcast, Curtis Houck and I discuss the return of the mask. No, not the 90’s R&B hit Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison, but the return of the CDC’s demand that everyone return to wearing facemasks including those of us who have played by the rules and have gotten vaccinated already. We also cover the theatrical proceedings known as the January 6 Select Committee hearings. And…

The night crew makes it return as Curtis Houck and Nicholas Fondacaro will be serving as co-hosts for the week with Tim Graham out of the office. On today’s episode, the guys went through the liberal media’s silence on Hunter Biden’s latest escapade, Carl Bernstein calling Trump a “war criminal,” Tucker Carlson being harassed in public, and the rest of the past week’s news that Fondacaro…

In the newest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss CNN's softball townhall with President Biden, and how moderator Don Lemon let the president make wild claims without any attempt to fact-check him. NB managing editor Curtis Houck breaks down the partisan tilt of this embarrassing show. 

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we address a hot topic inside our own offices: How do we feel about kneeling American Olympians? Should Americans root for them anyway....or root for them to lose? The women's soccer team losing their opening match to Sweden was greeted with some mockery. And how will NBC News and Sports deal with protesting American Olympians?

The Washington Post and Time magazine have both uncorked new hit pieces on Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson as a terrible source of misinformation and "White grievance." It will only help him win his time slot.

The latest NewsBusters Podcast addresses the Hunter Biden art-sale scandal -- Paintergate? -- and how the NBC Nightly News actually aired a story addressing the ethical concerns around the president's rehabbed son selling his painting for as much as $500,000 to buyers who will remain unknown to Joe and Hunter Biden. NBC interviewed Obama's former ethics czar Walter Shaub, who thought…