Scarborough gave Democrats some free messaging advice towards the end of the opening segment. He encouraged at least some Democrats to stay in Washington during the Easter weekend to “own Saturday and Sunday” to ensure there is “an explosion of news on Saturday that completely dominates the cycle Sunday and leading into next week.”
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20th Anniversary of Columbine Sparks Agenda-Driven Coverage
Saturday marks 20 years since the tragic Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado. Liberal journalists have already begun their retrospectives that included requisite attacks on the NRA and gun owners.
Media Try to Use Notre Dame Fire to Embarrass Trump
A deeply concerned President Trump put out a tweet urging for water-tanker helicopters to be used to put out the blaze. We later learned that French authorities didn’t use them because the weight of the water could cause further destruction. Despite many other people thinking the same thing, members of liberal media used it as an opportunity to score cheap points against Trump.
Leading Character on HBO’s “Veep” Has an Abortion
Each episode of this show’s final season includes vulgar language and liberal agendas. This random abortion and the quick treatment of it is particularly unfortunate. Human life was taken because the parents didn’t want the responsibility of raising a child. How sad.
Network News Gives 1 Minute to Obama Counsel Indictment
NewsBusters previously documented that following the indictments of Paul Manafort and deputy chair Rick Gates, the evening programs of ABC, CBS, and NBC dedicated 33 minutes and nine seconds on related news, while spending 22 minutes and 14 seconds on all other news for the day. Doing the math, that meant they spent 60 percent (59.86 percent) of their total airtime on news sparked by the indictments.
Sulzbergers Whisper That Murdochs Took Their Global Lunch and Ate It
The America where attention was paid to Times columnists and their dominating left-wing world view has vanished – replaced by massive audiences listening these days to Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Breakfast is not about reading The Times – it’s about tuning in to Fox & Friends. The Times hit job on the Murdochs and Fox News is furious that Trump calls not them but Rupert Murdoch and – oh the horror!!!! – Sean Hannity.
Liberal Site Now Mocking Maddow as Bonkers Like Glenn Beck, Hannity
The New Republic posted an article on “MSNBC’s Wild Ride” by Jacob Bacharach, which argued Maddow is “frequently just as bonkers” as Glenn Beck was on Fox News in the Obama years.
The 7 Most Undercovered Obama Scandals
Including the IRS targeting the Tea party, the VA scandal and the ObamaCare failure.
Undaunted by the Facts, CNN Continues to Push Collusion Conspiracy Theory
Over the last two nights, CNN’s prime time hosts have found no shame in continuing to push what had become their obsession for two years.
CNN Chants Report “Does Not Exonerate” 120 times in a Day
Attorney General William Barr’s inclusion of the phrase “does not exonerate” in his summary on Sunday afternon of the Mueller report has become a much-needed security blanket for liberal journalists.
Sarah Sanders Blasts Liberal Media, Demands Apology
Appearing on NBC’s Today show Monday morning to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller clearing President Trump of collusion with Russia, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders eviscerated irresponsible liberal media coverage of the investigation and demanded that the press apologize to the President and the American people.
Time Magazine Fawns Over AOC in Major Cover Story
Dinosaur media outlet Time magazine awarded Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a gushing cover story for the April 1 issue, rhapsodizing over the “phenom” who is “the best storyteller in the [Democratic] Party.”
Network TV Silent on Islamists Butchering Nigerian Christians
ABC, CBS and NBC have all ignored the extreme violence against African Christians occurring in the last month. Varying reports say that anywhere from 120 to 280 Christians have been slaughtered by Islamist militias in Nigeria since Feb. 9.
CNN Treats Elizabeth Warren to a Cakewalk Town Hall
NewsBusters has been monitoring CNN’s town halls with the Democratic presidential hopefuls for 2020, and Monday’s event with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, hosted by Jake Tapper, was arguably the easiest for any candidate so far.
Vanity Fair Publishes Disgustingly, Syrupy Profile of Beto
Late Wednesday afternoon and hours ahead of announcing a presidential campaign, lefty-wing rag Vanity Fair published a profile of liberal former Congressman Beto O’Rourke that rivaled some of the worst Obama hero worshipping during the 2008 campaign…All told, the slobbering love note was over 8,600 words.
Journalists Go Bonkers for Beto
Failed Democratic Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke announced his presidential candidacy today, despite his last political campaign ending in a loss to Ted Cruz in 2018. But who needs a stretch of political victories to build momentum for a presidential run when you have gale force winds – in the form of liberal media hype – behind your back?
Tucker Comes Out Swinging Against the Liberal “Outrage Machine”
Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson once again found himself in the sights of the left’s “outrage machine,” as he called it, for “naughty” comments he made over 10 years ago…The comments were unearthed by a radical left-wing political organization and were immediately pounced on by liberal hacks, such as CNN’s media team.
“Captain Marvel” Drowns in Hollywood Victimhood
Brie Larson’s promotional push for Captain Marvel couldn’t be more woke. The Oscar winner railed against too many white male reporters, trumpeted the film’s feminist agenda and dictated which under-represented writers could pen her glossy magazine profiles. Super chutzpah!
MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch Asserts That Manafort Judge Has “Hard-On” Against Mueller Probe
Just when you thought MSNBC couldn’t get any more vulgar, along comes Donny Deutsch…For those unfamiliar with the expression, in this context it would mean that the judge held a grudge against the investigation. But the origin of the phrase is, of course, of a graphically sexual nature.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo Politicizes Alex Trebek’s Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis
He said Wednesday night: “In a time of shallow beliefs and rampant truth abuse in our politics and beyond, every night he makes facts first. We need him now more than ever…”
CNN, MSNBC Spend 428 Minutes on Cohen, 12 on N. Korea Summit
For all the liberal media’s prior pontifications about Wednesday being a “split screen” between two major events for President Trump, the congressional testimony of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and the denuclearization summit with North Korea, they were sure to only give the latter just a few pixels.
NBC Pushes Dubious Kiss Claim Against Trump
In what seemed like an echo of how they handled the shady sexual misconduct claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh by Julie Swetnick, Monday’s NBC Nightly News pushed a claim that then-candidate Donald Trump kissed a campaign staffer without consent.
Would CBS Actually Dump the Least Anti-Trump Anchor on Broadcast TV?
CBS News President Susan Zirinsky is considering a shake up at the CBS Evening News barely 15 months after the network installed Jeff Glor as anchor. If true, it would mean the loss of the least anti-Trump of the Big Three anchormen, just as the 2020 presidential election is about to heat up.
Two Networks Ignore Covington Teen Suing Washington Post
Just days ago, there was a blackout of broadcast network coverage after an independent investigation cleared the Covington students of wrongdoing in the incident. The press often smear people with great fanfare, but when it comes to correcting the record and admitting they were wrong, the media are either silent or merely whisper.