NPR Story Stars Dumped USAID Staffers Trashing 'Evil' Trump Actions

WAMU-FM, the NPR station airing news all day in D.C., has openly sided with the federal bureaucracy and against the Trump team's effort to reform government. On Friday morning, their aired a story for four and a half minutes during Morning Edition that was devoted only to frustrated staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development.  The "evil" Trump side wasn't allowed to…

Tim Graham
February 22nd, 2025 11:00 PM
John Brennan Michael Steele MSNBC The Weekend 2-22-25

John Brennan: 'Absurd' To Say Fired Joint Chiefs Head Had Woke Agenda

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, former CIA Director and current MSNBC analyst John Brennan claimed it was "absurd" to suggest that President Trump fired C.J. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because of his woke agenda. In fact, there is copious evidence of Brown having pushed a DEI agenda.

Mark Finkelstein
February 22nd, 2025 10:01 PM

CNN's Sidner Underlines Ex-NFL Punter Who Compares Trump to Hitler

On Friday morning, CNN host Sara Sidner rewarded an anti-Trump protester who was arrested in California by giving him a forum to compare President Trump to Adolf Hitler. It's former NFL punter Chris Kluwe.

Brad Wilmouth
February 22nd, 2025 4:54 PM

The Media's Musk Hostility Has a Historical Echo

The President of the United States looked his chief budget cutter in the eye, saying, "You’re a victim of sabotage by the press. They’re trying to bring you down because of what you’ve helped us accomplish."

Jeffrey Lord
February 22nd, 2025 4:00 PM

PolitiFact Rates Musk Pants-on-Fire For Biden 'Importation Scam' Claim

PolitiFact writers Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman teamed up on Friday to give Elon Musk a “pants-on-fire” rating for his claim that former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy was “a giant voter importation scam.” To reach such a conclusion, the duo engaged in plenty of hyperliteralism and bad faith arguments.

Alex Christy
February 22nd, 2025 2:00 PM

Clooney’s Truth-Telling Play Arrives at Terrible Time

George Clooney cemented his auteur status with 2005’s Good Night, and Good Luck. The drama recalled journalist Edward R. Murrow’s clash with Sen. Joseph McCarthy during what later became known as the Blacklist era.

Christian Toto
February 22nd, 2025 1:30 PM

ABC Goes Soft On Mangione Fans, Paints Trial As 'Cultural Flashpoint'

ABC’s Trevor Ault went soft on those who showed up to support alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione on Friday’s edition of World News Tonight. Instead of reacting in horror that such an alleged cold-blooded killer has such support, Ault portrayed his upcoming trial as a “cultural flashpoint.”

Alex Christy
February 22nd, 2025 11:45 AM

AP Sues WH Over Gulf of America Name, Alleging Free Speech Violation

On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small,…

Curtis Houck
February 22nd, 2025 10:34 AM

Brooks: People Will Die Because Trump Admin Wants To 'Break Things'

New York Times columnist David Brooks is theoretically supposed to be PBS News Hour’s conservative half of its weekly Friday news recap with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, he constantly fails to live up to this arrangement, and this Friday was no exception, as he alleged that people all over the world will die because the Trump administration simply…

Alex Christy
February 22nd, 2025 9:57 AM
Joe Scarborough Eugene Robinson MSNBC Morning Joe 2-21-25

Not Bernie: Scarborough Rants About Millionaires and Billionaires!

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough does his best Bernie Sanders impression, ranting against "millionaires and billionaires." Scarborough condemns plans to reduce the number of IRS agents, and to give tax cuts to "billionaires."

Mark Finkelstein
February 22nd, 2025 6:17 AM

NB Podcast: PBS & NPR Lose Their Minds Over Musk & His CPAC Chainsaw

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.

Tim Graham
February 21st, 2025 11:05 PM

MSNBC Settles Defamation Suit Over Erroneous 'Uterus Collector' Story

CNN being found liable for malicious defamation might have put the fear of God into MSNBC. In a filing obtained by NewsBusters, NBCUniversal and plaintiff Dr. Mahendra Amin had entered into settlement negotiations on Thursday. Although, they’re still working on the language.

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 21st, 2025 10:05 PM

PBS Seethes at Michael Knowles: ‘You Don't Believe Gay People Exist?'

PBS News anchors and reporters have brought the soft soap for sob-story interviews for people losing their jobs thanks to Trump executive orders and Musk-driven budget cuts, without any ideological labels attached to their designated victims. Yet the rare conservative who appears on the News Hour is almost guaranteed to get smacked with at least on warning label. So no…

Clay Waters
February 21st, 2025 9:24 PM

Stein, Todd Lament Media's 'Collective Weakness' Defending AP, Rip Fox

Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf…

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 21st, 2025 6:51 PM