PBS's Amanpour Agrees with Democrat: GOP Competing for 'Most Extreme'

May 20th, 2023 10:11 PM

Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour, fresh from arrogantly criticizing her network CNN for hosting a Donald Trump town hall and urging student journalists to “speak truth to power,” didn’t exactly renew confidence in the news media to challenge the powerful with her choice of guest to discuss the looming debt-ceiling deadline: Patrick Gaspard, president of the left-wing Center…

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Ex-Conservative Michael Steele Bemoans 'Criminalizing Women's Wombs'

May 20th, 2023 10:47 AM

On Morning Joe, Michael Steele, who as the chairman of the Republican National Committee supported repealing Roe v. Wade, now spouts the liberal line, bemoaning "criminalizing the wombs of women."

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Good Riddance: 95% of Late Night ‘Comedy’ Show Guests Are Liberals

May 19th, 2023 9:00 AM

With the Writers Guild of America going on strike, it is likely that America has seen the last of the first half of 2023’s late night comedy shows. Whether America wants them to return is another question as 95 percent of their guests were liberal, a NewsBusters study has documented.

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CNN Tags Republicans as 'Fascist' 'Nazis' for Alleged Book Bans

May 17th, 2023 10:11 AM

The cast of CNN Tonight was all in agreement on Tuesday that conservative attempts to “ban books” are “fascist,” similar to Nazism, and worse than the current trend of leftists re-writing books they did not write. At no point could anyone point to a book that was actually banned.

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Still at War: Disney-Owned ABC Screeches at DeSantis for Defunding DEI

May 16th, 2023 6:22 PM

Disney returned Tuesday to use its broadcast network ABC and Good Morning America to throw another childish tantrum over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R) conservative agenda driving a stake through the heart of wokeism. This time, the Disney-owned outfit bemoaned DeSantis signing into law a bill to defund Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs from public colleges and…

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Study: Taxpayer-Subsidized PBS Whacks GOP with 85% Negative News

May 16th, 2023 8:30 AM

Given their government funding, citizens should expect public broadcasting’s news coverage to be scrupulously neutral, yet an exhaustive Media Research Center study of PBS NewsHour found coverage of the first four months of the new Congress has been heavily slanted against Republicans.

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Rick Wilson: Trump Will Tear DeSantis Head Off, Kick Like Soccer Ball

May 14th, 2023 10:29 PM

Appearing on Ali Velshi's MSNBC show on Sunday, Rick Wilson of the disgraced Lincoln Project said that Ron DeSantis "has to pretend to be human," and that in a debate, Donald Trump will "tear Ron DeSantis's head off and kick it around like a soccer ball."

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Brooks Blames 'Arrogant' Media For Trump's Popularity

May 13th, 2023 9:48 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart mixed up their usual Friday routine on PBS NewsHour and actually had, by PBS standards, a contentious argument on whether or not media arrogance partly explains Donald Trump’s popularity.

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CNN Accuses Oklahoma Of Waging a 'Bitter Culture War' By Defunding PBS

May 12th, 2023 3:34 PM

The Friday afternoon edition of CNN News Central purported to discover another way in which Republican governors are waging culture wars: defunding PBS. Not only is Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt going after “LGBTQ inclusive programming,” but in doing so, he is making it more difficult more people to learn about impending tornados.

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Scarborough: GOP Debt Plan Would Make Cars, Trains, Food Supply Unsafe

May 11th, 2023 4:09 PM

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough showed how far gone he is from being a Republican (and instead a Democrat) when he tag-teamed with former Obama official and Morning Joe analyst Steven Rattner that, if Republicans get their way on government spending and debt, cars and trains could be more at risk of crashing and falling apart, food-borne illnesses could skyrocket…

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Behar Lashes Out at Pro-Trump Town Hall Audience, ‘Not American’

May 11th, 2023 1:36 PM

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were in a tailspin from the get-go during Thursday’s episode, as the majority of them fumed over CNN’s town hall with former President Trump the previous evening. But instead of keeping her animosity trained on Trump, co-host Joy Behar immediately started taking swings at the average Americans in the audience. Their crime? Being Republicans and…

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PBS Doc Reduces Tea Party Opposition To Obama To Racism, Bigotry

May 11th, 2023 11:30 AM

For the third episode of Iconic America, PBS explored the history and meaning of the Gadsden Flag and during the portion covering the Tea Party protests during the Obama era, the assorted cast sought to reduce those protests to racists and other bigots.

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Heinrich Blasts KJP Over ‘MAGA Republican Extremists’ Rhetoric on Debt

May 9th, 2023 6:41 PM

In an otherwise pedestrian questioning Tuesday of White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the looming debt battle, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich actually made something out of the gathering by grilling her on her rhetoric smearing 260 members of the House and Senate as domestic extremists and threats to the country for either supporting or voting spending cuts tied to raising the debt…

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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…