The Lead

On Thursday, CNN’s Jake Tapper must have been longing for the days when former boss Jeff Zucker would command him through his earpiece as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) laid out the evidence of President Joe Biden’s alleged corruption on The Lead. Throughout the over nine-minute long (9:30) interview Comer repeatedly countered Tapper’s defense of the President…

Not only have ABC, CBS, and NBC not been interested in Wednesday’s reporting from the House Oversight Committee that the Bidens have taken in $20 million in payments and some coming from foreign oligarchs, but MSNBC has similarly punted and put the proverbial fingers in their ears like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.

Liberal media outlets are forever congratulating Democrats for "trailblazer" candidates. On Wednesday's The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN turned its focus on Delaware, where an open House seat could be won by Sarah McBride, a former Beau Biden aide who is transgender. They not only congratulated McBride for her "historic" possibility, but for open that "lifelong Catholic" Joe Biden's…

On June 15, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused CNN’s Kailtan Collins of referring to Judge Aileen Cannon as “Trump-appointed” in order to instill doubt in the Trump documents case and questioned whether she would do the same if the judge was appointed by Barack Obama. Collins defended herself by saying “We talk about who judges were appointed by all the time.” Now, less than one week later we…

On Tuesday, CNN Tonight co-host Alisyn Camerota took to the airwaves during The Lead With Jake Tapper to bemoan that the Fox News Channel was able to settle out of court in the Dominion lawsuit for about half of the original 1.6 billion dollar lawsuit without apologizing. She declared that this was a “victory for Fox” and that this was “the best outcome that Fox could ever…

In the run-up to the formal indictment of former President Trump on Tuesday, many in the liberal media were chomping at the bit to see the statement of facts behind New York D.A. Alvin Bragg’s case. But following the release of the document, the wind was taken out of their sails early Wednesday night as even the most anti-Trump legal experts and talking heads were forced to admit the case was…

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck made three appearances on the late Friday/early Saturday edition of the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night and the first couldn’t have been any more different than the others. In the first, he took on ugly smears last Sunday of Nikki Haley by New York Times opinion writer Wajahat Ali and ABC’s Joy Behar saying East Palestine, Ohio…

On Tuesday's The Lead show, CNN host Jake Tapper did his part to promote transgender surgery for underage teens as he devoted a segment to fretting over Idaho's push for a state ban. Republicans only stood for "cruelty" and "meanness" that is somehow against God.

The good Jake Tapper made an appearance Tuesday in the second hour of CNN’s The Lead as he did a segment with his panel calling out New York Times opinion writer and MSNBC guest Wajahat Ali for his racist and sexist smear Sunday of 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as “us[ing] her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points.” At one point, Tapper said it…

A CNN political commentator on the network had a mini-meltdown Wednesday during coverage of protests over Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis cracking down on racial and sexual courses and books in Florida public schools. 

The corporate media on Monday rushed to the defense of President Biden, after his administration waited a full week to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon that flew over the continental U.S. last week.

On Friday, The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN investigated the currently prominent "He Gets Us" TV ads promoting Jesus in terms meant to please centrists and liberals. Comically, CNN presented this largely as a right-wing conspiracy. 

Not long after Speaker McCarthy warned on Tuesday that he received a classified intelligence briefing from the FBI about Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) that concerned him enough to pull his Intelligence Committee assignment, some of CNN’s purported journalists on The Lead – including host Jake Tapper – pretended not to know why the compromised Congressman shouldn’t be allowed to…

On Thursday’s edition of The Lead, fill-in CNN host Phil Mattingly pointed out the incompetence of the former campaign team for Robert Zimmerman, the New York Democrat who was defeated in the 2022 midterm election by embattled Congressman-elect George Santos. It was recently revealed that an absurd number of autobiographical claims Santos made on the campaign trail were whole-cloth…