NewsBusters Podcast: Leftist Media Exploit Hurricanes to Trash the GOP

October 9th, 2024 10:32 PM

Nobody needs a Category 5 hurricane, but that doesn't mean our media won't use it for political ends. The newest Trump scandal is his "misinformation" in criticizing Team Biden's response to Hurricane Helene. But in 2005, the networks sang a very different tune: George W. Bush was incompetent and he didn't care if black bodies floated in the river after Hurricane Katrina.

Lyin’ Brian Is BACK? Williams Set to Return for Election Day on Amazon

October 3rd, 2024 5:22 PM

First reported by Puck’s Dylan Byers and others who’ve since followed, former MSNBC host and disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will make his return to the journalism business on Election Day with a primetime special covering the election returns on…Amazon.

Why Would Harris Duck a Press Corps That Asks Questions Like These?

August 25th, 2024 10:05 AM

Democratic presidential nominees have never had a problem finding friendly journalists who will toss easy softballs, inviting the nominee to bash their Republican opponent while showcasing their own warm wonderfulness.

FLASHBACK: Media Seethed Over the 2020 ‘Sh*tshow’ Debate

June 23rd, 2024 10:12 AM

Four years ago, when Donald Trump and Joe Biden met in the kickoff debate of the 2020 cycle, the liberal broadcast and cable networks crudely blasted Trump’s performance and crowned Biden the “winner” of “the worst debate in modern history.”

FLASHBACK: How TV News Botched Clinton’s 1996 ‘Filegate’ Scandal

June 9th, 2024 9:58 AM

After the confidential files of hundreds of Republicans were found in Democrat Bill Clinton’s White House safe, journalists decided quickly to chalk it up to the “general incompetence” of Clinton’s youthful staff, and instead blasted Republicans for making “ugly” charges in an election year.

FLASHBACK: The Liberal Media’s Slanted Farewell to Pope John Paul II

March 31st, 2024 10:06 AM

After Pope John Paul II died 19 years ago this week, liberal journalists praised his “charisma” and “magnetism” but rejected what they characterized as his “extremely conservative” policies, as if long-standing Catholic Church doctrines were merely one Pope’s personal opinions that could be discarded on a whim.

FLASHBACK: The Media’s Skewed Coverage of Past Super Tuesday Primaries

March 3rd, 2024 10:35 AM

To political junkies, Tuesday is “Super Tuesday,” when 16 states (plus American Samoa) hold primaries or caucuses to choose their 2024 presidential nominees. Here’s a quick re-cap of how the media elite have spun the last four Super Tuesday primaries.

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FLASHBACK: Hateful Media Trashed Limbaugh After Cancer Diagnosis

February 4th, 2024 10:10 AM

Instead of respectfully permitting conservatives to honor a cherished leader, media liberals felt compelled to unleash a nasty stream of rhetoric tarring Rush Limbaugh as a bigot, a “racist,” and a “misogynist” mere hours after he disclosed what would turn out to be a fatal cancer diagnosis.

FLASHBACK: Slobbering Coverage of the Kennedys’ 2008 Obama Endorsement

January 28th, 2024 10:17 AM

Sixteen years ago, so-called reporters giddily celebrated the confluence of the ultra-liberal Kennedy family (a.k.a., “Camelot”) and the hard-left Obama campaign.

FLASHBACK: Cheering Obama’s ‘Historic’ Embrace of Castro Dictatorship

December 16th, 2023 8:45 AM

Nine years ago this week, President Barack Obama chose to establish formal relations with the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Instead of worrying that Obama was handing a much-needed and undeserved lifeline to the decades-long Castro dictatorship, the liberal media applauded the “historic” decision.

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama, ‘An Evolutionary Flash Point For Humanity’

December 9th, 2023 8:43 AM

Fourteen years ago tomorrow (December 10), liberals were ecstatic as President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Obama had been president for a mere 11 days before the window for nominations closed on January 31, but his media fan club nonetheless celebrated the “towering honor” bestowed upon their hero.

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FLASHBACK: How TV News Spun for Hamas During the Last Gaza War

October 14th, 2023 8:49 AM

The last time Israel sent tanks into Gaza, in 2014, we saw many in the U.S. media work to undermine the effort by blaming the Israelis for heavy casualties among Palestinian civilians who were, in fact, put in danger by the cruel decisions of cynical Hamas leaders.

Media Spare Biden Bad Press Over Maui Blunders; Savaged Bush in ’05

August 26th, 2023 8:50 AM

The media's kid-gloves treatment of Joe Biden after his inept response to the horrific Maui firestorm on August 8 stands in stark contrast to the withering attacks unleashed against then-President George W. Bush in the wake of the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.

The Shameless Media Partisans Who Praised Biden’s Afghan Debacle

August 19th, 2023 8:30 AM

Two years ago this week, even liberal journalists were appalled by the disastrous incompetence of the Biden administration regarding the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yet quickly the most shameless partisan journalists identified themselves by deciding to praise, rather than criticize, the disaster that all could see with their own eyes.