2016 Presidential
Column: Democrats Get Softballs for the Holidays
As Christmas approaches, the network “news” divisions have showered the Bidens with gifts, both NBC and CBS. You didn’t even have to win the presidency to be handed a shiny platter of publicity. On Sunday Today, NBC’s Willie Geist offered 12 minutes of softballs to Hillary Clinton.
11th Hour at Midnight: Here’s the Worst of Lyin' Brian at MSNBC
On Thursday night, it was curtains for Brian Williams’s 28-year career at NBC and sister network MSNBC. Incredibly, the serial liar remained employed for six years at MSNBC following the revelation that he had embellished and fabricated stories during his time at the Peacock network. With that, NewsBusters decided to take a look back with Williams's 20 worst moments at MSNBC after his scandal…
NBC Hails Hillary’s BIZARRE Reading of Fantasy 2016 Victory Speech
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today show swooned over failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton living in an alternate reality where she won the election and delivered a fantasy “victory” speech. The bizarre display was part of the former Secretary of State’s upcoming MasterClass seminar and clips of it will be exclusively featured during a fawning interview with Willie Geist for the…
Washington Post Memory-Holes and Alters Steele Dossier Stories
2845. That was how many words that the Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler used on Thursday to try to explain away why the Washington Post, along with much of the rest of the media, for years treated the now-discredited Steele dossier as some kind of investigative "bombshell" endangering Trump.
'Family Guy' Still Pushing 2016 'Rigged' Election Conspiracy Theory
This week's episode of Family Guy included an election-connected joke about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Does that mean the series bravely attacked the unethical role Zuckerberg played in influencing the 2020 election through private funding of election offices? Of course not. Instead, the show pushed ridiculous 5-year-old claims that Facebook data mining rigged the 2016 election for…
WaPo's Wemple Asks CNN Retract Claim Steele Dossier Was Corroborated
The main source of the Steele dossier hyped by CNN and much of the media has been indicted for lying to the FBI so Erik Wemple of the Washington Post wonders if CNN will correct the record about their claim that the dossier was corroborated.
Andrea Mitchell and Abedin Complain Clinton Faced 'Sexism' From Press
On Thursday afternoon, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell reminded viewers that no segment on her show discussing Hillary Clinton would be complete without claims of the former Democratic presidential candidate being a victim of alleged "sexism."
NBC & CBS Find Abedin ‘Guilty’ for Clinton 2016 Loss
On Monday, both NBC’s Today and CBS Mornings devoted significant air time to promoting the new memoir from longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin while lamenting how the scandals that swirled around her disgraced ex-husband Anthony Weiner may have been what cost Clinton the 2016 election. The CBS coverage even imagined an alternate reality where the Democrat “could be in…
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Narcissus was a beautiful hunter in ancient Greece. He shunned all romantic advances. None were as beautiful as he knew himself to be, so there was no reason for a relationship with anyone. Eventually, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water by a stream. He stared so lovingly and longingly at himself, unmoved and unmoving, staying and staring till death. The gods…
Mollie Hemingway on Fox: No One Trusts the Liberal Media on Elections
While Brian Stelter complained on Sunday morning about Mollie Hemingway's new book Rigged on CNN and how it was getting play on Fox News, Hemlngway was interviewed in two segments on Fox's Mediabuzz. She laid out how the media claimed the 2016 election was rigged and then the 2020 election was somehow the fairest ever administered.
CNN Gives Platform to Bushie to Urge Republicans to Vote Democrat
CNN's New Day has on former George W. Bush speechwriter turned Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who encourages Republicans to vote for Democrats in the 2022 mid-term elections. Gerson claims it's the only way to get the GOP to change. Otherwise, he warns, Donald Trump is likely to win back the presidency in 2024 and use the powers of the federal government to punish his enemies and…
Irony: Clinton Trashes Trump Election Claims on 'View'
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was warmly welcomed to plug her new book and talk politics on ABC this morning. While on morning talkshow The View, the twice-failed presidential candidate was invited to trash former President Trump over and over again for sowing doubt in the 2020 election results. But no one seemed to be bothered by the idea that Clinton spent years calling her 2016…
Explaining Biden's Bad Polling, CNN Ignores His Afghan Fiasco
If there's one thing Democrats would like voters to forget, it's Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Thirteen US military members killed. Untold numbers Americans left behind. The country quickly seized by the Taliban. CNN did its part to advance Afghanistan amnesia this morning. In a New Day segment on Biden's bad poll numbers with poll maven Harry Enten, the Afghan elephant in…
Laura Ingraham Slams Networks for Spiking Latest on Russiagate Probe
On Friday's The Ingraham Angle, picking up on recent reporting by NewsBusters, Fox News host Laura Ingraham lambasted the liberal media for downplaying the most recent developments in the investigation of wrongdoing by those involved in the anti-Donald Trump Russia collusion probe.