During an appearance on Fox News, former Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated that the administration made the right call on limited press briefings because the media turn them “into a circus” that has created “a bunch of YouTube stars that were B-rate reporters.”
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Bullies: NBC Takes Swings at Covington Kids and Lets Phillips Scold Them
Continuing to treat them like little Klansmen, NBC Nightly News added to their disgusting coverage of the Covington Kids Tuesday night by taking repeated shots at them even though new video had vindicated them
Searing Fox Nation Documentary Exposes Dan Rather’s Fraud in “The Birth of Fake News”
Sketchy, unreliable, and downright fake news predates the 2016 presidential election. And now, one of the most infamous examples is fully exposed in a Fox Nation streaming documentary. “Black Eye: Dan Rather and the Birth of Fake News” is a 93 minute investigation of the former CBS News host and his 2004 quest to take down George W. Bush.
7 Horrific Crimes by Illegal Immigrants That Network News Buried
Includes the beheading of a senior citizen and the suffocation of elderly patients.
CBS Tries to Shame Karen Pence for Working at Christian School
“Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen, has returned to teaching at a Christian school in Virginia where gay students and gay teachers are not welcome,” anchor Jeff Glor announced with a disapproving tone. As he began his report, correspondent Chip Reid seemed to be in dismay by the school’s stance on homosexuality.
3 Broadcast Networks Trashed Trump with 90% Negative Spin in 2018
The tone of coverage remains incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements), matching the historically bad press that we documented in 2017. Yet despite the media’s obvious disapproval, public opinion of the President actually improved slightly during 2018.
PC Mouthpiece Bill Maher Hilariously Called Out in Hollywood Billboards
It turns out there are still a few good-humored, politically-incorrect folks in Hollywood after all. Over the weekend, lefty-bashing street artist provocateurs publicly slammed HBO’s Bill Maher with a satirical billboard depicting him not as the thought leader he imagines himself to be, but as a rote purveyor of mainstream liberal propaganda.
CNN’s Stelter Complains That Media Aren’t Talking About Russia Enough
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday complained — with a straight face — that some in the news media were not spending enough time covering the Russian collusion narrative.
Cable News Repeats Myth That Illegals Commit Fewer Crimes Than US Citizens
Between Monday evening and Wednesday morning, a significant number of journalists and regular commentators across CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News have cited claims from a handful of flawed studies claiming that illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than do American citizens.
NBC’s Seth Meyers Jokes About Americans Murdered by Illegal Aliens
Late Night host Seth Meyers’ Twitter account sent out a tweet mocking the victims of illegal alien crime, after President Trump’s primetime address on the border.
Christian Bale Thanks Satan for Giving Him the Inspiration to Play Satan at Golden Globes
Along with thanking Satan for inspiration, he also mused about playing Senator Mitch McConnell as the next in a series of “charisma-free assholes.”…So, the awards season is off on and running. Hopefully political snark will be kept to a minimum but we can see that the standard pet projects will continue to be mentioned.
NewsBuster Staffer Locked from Twitter for Mocking Drunk Don Lemon
NewsBusters Analyst Nicholas Fondacaro was briefly suspended from Twitter on January 2 after posting a tweet with a story criticizing CNN anchor Don Lemon. The story in question described Lemon as “salivating” over Nancy Pelosi becoming speaker of the House. For hinting that Don Lemon was drunk on New Year’s Eve, Fondacaro was considered to be violating one of the 10 categories that he clearly didn’t violate. The account was restored late yesterday.
Where Are Media Demands for Democrats to Cooperate with Trump?
Democrats take control of the House of Representatives today, but you don’t hear journalists instructing them to “show that they can govern” by finding ways to “compromise” with President Trump, as you do when Republicans are poised to gain power.
CNN Plays Shutdown Sob Stories
It’s not hard to imagine federal workers are concerned about the length of the current shutdown. But CNN’s New Day Saturday really larded up the airwaves with Twitter sob stories, and then let a federal employee union leader claim one worker can’t afford a tombstone for his wife now.
Tracking the Media’s Hate for Conservatives in 2018: The Year in Review
In 2018 there was a torrent of ugliness directed at conservatives. For example: Vice President Mike Pence was disgustingly derided as a “dangerous” Christian with a “mental illness” on ABC’s The View.
Media in Hysterics Over World’s Most “Racist” Haircut
For the sixth straight day, liberal news outlets blew their racism whistles on Thursday at a referee who ordered black high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks. Journalists on ABC, CBS, and NBC have pointed to the ensuing “outrage” on social media – always an effective barometer for determining the national importance of a story – as evidence that the horrific “incident” was caused by the referee’s unabashed racism.
CNN Dumps on Trump Troop Visit
On New Day, it was repeatedly mentioned that this was Trump’s first visit to troops in a combat zone, with intimations it was done to deflect attention from the resignation of Jim Mattis and the withdrawal from Syria. Multiple references were also made to Melania having worn sunglasses at night upon her return.
The Naughtiest and the Nicest of the New TV Season
Tops among the naughtiest: “Murphy Brown.” Leading the nicest: “God Friended Me.”
Blitzer Interview with Stephen Miller Flies Off the Rails
On one of the more chaotic days in Washington anyone will experience, CNN’s The Situation Room saw a 22-minute interview that careen off the rails from the get-go on Thursday night between host Wolf Blitzer and White House senior adviser Stephen Miller that touched on the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the likelihood of a government shutdown over border security.
Upset with Conservative Guest, ABC’s Stephanopoulos Causes Mic Mishap
George Stephanopoulos had a mishap on the set of ABC’s This Week on Sunday when Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union (and the lone conservative on the panel) clashed with liberal ABC commentator Roland Martin…The Clinton lackey was so upset he accidentally flung his microphone under the desk.
Smug CNN Mocks Nauert Pick, Forgetting Journalists Who Worked for Obama
Ending his “Reality Check” segment Monday morning about the high turnover rate in the administration, CNN’s John Avlon expressed “concern” about the “C team” entering the administration, dramatically noting the number of Fox News employees who’ve ended up in the Trump administration.
What the Liberal Media Didn’t Tell You About the Looting in Paris
Indications point to Anarchists and possibly Antifa, which somehow the mainstream media seemed to overlook while blaming the Yellow Vests in general for those crimes.
Joy Behar Gets Massive Blowback After Trashing Fox News
During Tuesday’s edition of The View, co-host Joy Behar described President Trump as “the only President who has his own TV channel in history…” Not surprisingly, two of the other co-hosts on The View, who once worked at Fox News, strongly objected to Behar’s characterization of the network as a pro-Trump echo chamber.
Washington Post Rips Trump a New One 3 Times at Bush Funeral
On Wednesday night, the Post website was boasting at least three articles ripping into Trump’s behavior at the funeral, or his bad optics. This isn’t a “newspaper.” It’s an Insult Aggregator.