NewsBusters Podcast: Speaker Votes and Jonah Goldberg Fart Jokes

January 6th, 2023 10:34 PM

After all the House speaker votes amid January 6 drama, CNN pundit Jonah Goldberg slammed conservatives voting against Kevin McCarthy as a RINO loser is a "fantasy" that "these guys are getting high on their own farts in the Fox green room."  Goldberg went on to insult NewsBusters, so we evaluate it all.

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CNN Tries to Stamp Out GOP Investigations into Bidens, COVID, Fauci

January 3rd, 2023 2:33 PM

With Republicans set to take control of the House, GOP congressional leaders have promised to hold President Biden, his administration, and federal bureaucrats to account and get to the truth on key issues. But after a series of dragged-out investigations into former President Trump and other Republicans, CNN had suddenly had their fill of congressional inquiries with correspondent Randi “Kush…

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CNN: Biden's 'Full Frontal Attack' on GOP 'Reclaiming Patriotism'

September 1st, 2022 10:01 PM

Illuminated with blood-red lights, draped in inky shadows, and flanked by U.S. Marines, President Biden launched into an angry screed Thursday night, using dangerous and inciting rhetoric to attack so-called “MAGA Republicans.” It was a terrifying sight that drew praise and flowery language from the “journalists” of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 as they lauded the “full frontal attack”…

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CNN Promotes Lefty Donor as 'Republican' to Trash Nevada GOP Candidate

July 18th, 2022 4:57 PM

Back on July 8, CNN’s AC360 had a full report on a marquee Senate race in Nevada and, instead of focusing on the economy and the crushing blows businesses have suffered due to the pandemic, host Anderson Cooper and correspondent Kyung Lah made it seem as though abortion was the driving issue. And to do so, they touted “registered Republican” Susan Fisher as turned off by the GOP.

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CNN's Sick Satisfaction With 'Destroyed' 'Little Bodies' at Shooting

May 24th, 2022 11:22 PM

As their coverage of the tragic shooting in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school progressed into the night Tuesday, things on CNN got downright ghoulish and disgusting as paid analysts and guests were allowed to take things to dark and terrible places. Between former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem showing a bizarre satisfaction in talking about the “destroyed” “little bodies” of the…

CNN, MSNBC Primetime COVER-UP WashPost Confirming Hunter Scandals

March 30th, 2022 11:11 PM

On Wednesday, the Washington Post finally got around to confirming what the rest of us have known since the fall of 2020, that the Biden family is corrupt and Hunter Biden is the funnel for international funds and is involved with other illegal activities (here’s the NewsBusters breakdown of their two reports). But despite a staunch liberal rag confirming the story the primetime hours…

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Priorities: CNN Spends Almost 3x More on January 6 Than Inflation News

January 13th, 2022 2:30 PM

On Wednesday afternoon, the House Select Committee on January 6 requested cooperation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Naturally, CNN returned January 6 to its prime position as, from 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Eastern, the Jeff Zucker-led network spent 97 minutes obsessing over what it (and other developments) meant for the probe. In contrast to the 97 minutes and 19 seconds on…

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GHOULS Use Harry Reid's Death to Push for Abolishing Senate Filibuster

December 29th, 2021 9:50 AM

On Tuesday night it was announced that former Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid passed away at age eighty-two. Although even the passing of one of their beloved party leaders didn’t stop CNN and MSNBC from ghoulishly exploiting his death to push for repealing the Senate filibuster.

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CNN Hypes Dem's Vile Attacks Blaming GOP for School Shooting

December 6th, 2021 11:12 AM

In the aftermath of the shootings at Oxford High School in Michigan, CNN again showed how much of a partisan Democrat network it has become as host Anderson Cooper not only promoted Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) in a hyped attack on Republicans, but, in the same show, spent more than four minutes trying to undermine Dr. Mehmet Oz as a possible Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.

SAD TROMBONE: Turns Out, Fredo Wasn’t CNN’s Highest-Rated Show

December 2nd, 2021 5:24 PM

In another case of Zuckerville (aka CNN) living in an alternative reality, CNN’s chief Zucker bootlickers and Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter claimed in his Wednesday newsletter of hate that November ratings showed suspended Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo had the network’s highest-rated show among total viewers. But like most things with CNN, that wasn’t true.

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CNN Gives Cuomo’s Suspension One On-Air Mention, Under One Minute

November 30th, 2021 10:51 PM

The news that CNN had indefinitely suspended Chris Cuomo broke shortly before the broadcast evening newscasts went live at 6:30 p.m. Eastern early Tuesday night. And the only on-air mention of the move that day came in a less-than-one-minute notation from host Anderson Cooper moments before Cuomo Prime Time would normally air and announcing a second hour of his show, AC360,…

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WashPost's Wemple Calls Out CNN's Trashing of Joe Rogan

October 25th, 2021 9:30 AM

In a piece posted on Thursday evening, Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple called out CNN for the liberal news network's refusal to admit that they misinformed viewers in claiming that podcast host Joe Rogan used "horse dewormer" to treat his COVID infection.

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CNN Treats Biden to Another Clownish Pep Rally Littered With Softballs

October 22nd, 2021 2:10 AM

On Thursday night, CNN collaborated with the White House for the third town hall of Joe Biden’s presidency and fourth in 13 months and, as has been the case with the previous installments (which you can read about here, here, and here), Thursday’s 89-minute state-run media operation featured questions that were either sapless, unimaginative, or watered down to ensure they came across as…

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Kooky Tom Friedman: Cruz, Hawley Seek to 'Burn Down the Country'

October 21st, 2021 3:29 PM

On Wednesday night's Anderson Cooper 360, the host lamented the state of America, as Trump Republicans keep challenging the 2020 election results. Then New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman asked "how the hell" could Democrats be losing "when we have a big plan, and all they have is a Big Lie?" Then he turned on Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley as nihilists.