As NewsBusters has documented for years, ABC’s The View has a serious problem with incendiary rhetoric designed to inflame political tensions, incite violence, and generally disregard the lives of conservatives. So, their toxic hypocrisy was fairly potent during Monday’s episode when the cast were demanding the rhetoric be…
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CNN Highlights Walz Telling People To Shake Hands—Ignores He Boasted of ‘Kicking Ass’
Short-term memory loss at CNN. Host Audie CornishCNN This Morning’s coverage of the arrest of the man suspected of assassinating a Minnesota state legislator and her husband, and wounding two others, with a clip of Gopher State Governor Tim Walz telling people that “rather than arguing, shake hands, find common…
MSNBC’s Soboroff Puts Protester On Air to Call Trump a ‘F—ing Felon’
Interviewing protesters live can be risky. On Saturday, Mediaite reported MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff was happily interviewing people on a highway overpass who want ICE out of Los Angeles when one masked leftist called President Trump a “f—ing felon” on TV. Guest anchor Stephanie Ruhle apologized. “Clearly, emotions are…
Publicity Hound Padilla Preens On CNN: Noem Should Have Known Who I Was!
We’ve all seen public officials making the bad mistake of telling law enforcement officers who have stopped them: “Do you know who I am?” Democrat Senator Alex Padilla of California gave a variation on that line when interviewed by Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union on…
Ten Years Ago, the Liberal Media LAUGHED When Trump Entered Politics
The liberal media may thoroughly despise President Donald Trump, but they cannot deny his political clout. “Trump is the heart, soul and undisputed leader of the Republican Party,” Mike Allen wrote in Axios back in 2021. After Trump’s 2024 election victory, Time magazine admitted the President-elect was “the…
Somehow, Leftist Anti-Trump Protesters Cannot Be Identified as Leftist
On some days, you could call Associated Press just Associated Press Release. On Friday, they prepared everyone for the leftist protests coming on Saturday with a pseudo-explainer headlined “What to know about ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump’s policies.” Nowhere in this 17-paragraph article is a single ideological label…
Finkelstein vs. Wax: The New York Times Double Standard on Academic Freedom
Leftist professor Maura Finkelstein, conservative professor Amy Wax, and the New York Times’ double standard on academic freedom: In the last two years the paper has run four major articles, two on Finkelstein’s controversy and ultimate firing, and two on Wax’s controversy and ultimate suspension. While these articles…
NewsBusters Podcast: Defunding PBS & NPR Is Not a Cow Town’s Nightmare
NewsBusters is taking a victory lap for the House vote to claw back funding for PBS and NPR. But the media didn’t seem to want to mention it. ABC and NBC skipped, and CBS threw in a brief on CBS Evening News Plus. The New York Times and The Washington…
CNN Media Analyst: ‘Folks On Right’ Might Have Destroyed Stores Post-George Floyd
Did conservatives commit widespread destruction during the post-George Floyd riots? No. But, CNN, or at least its media analyst Sara Fischer, thinks the answer could be . . . yes! Fischer was a panelist on Friday’s edition of CNN This Morning. Host Audie Cornish described the anti-ICE activity…
The Scavenger Mentality in Los Angeles
As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on — why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled rocks…
The View Finds It Suspicious Army, Trump Share a Birthday; Bash Troops
According to the unhinged conspiracy theorists of ABC News’s The View on Friday’s episode, not only was President Trump a master manipulator of people, he was apparently also a master manipulator of the space-time continuum. They found it suspicious that Trump shared a birthday with the U.S. Army;…
PEW! Nicolle Wallace MANGLES Poll to Claim There’s Little Support for Trump’s Deportations
On Wednesday’s Deadline: White House show, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace twice spread misinformation to her viewers as she greatly understated public support for deportations by misquoting a recent Pew poll. While speaking with correspondent Jacob Soboroff about recent ICE raids on farms in Ventura County, California, Wallace brought…
House GOP Vote to Defund CPB Skipped by ABC, NBC, New York Times, and Washington Post
While conservatives at NewsBusters and elsewhere celebrate a major win as the House passed a rescission package that would claw back $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the liberal media didn’t greet that as a big deal at all. The New York Times…
STUDY: CNN, MSNBC Overwhelmingly Call Riots ‘Peaceful’ as LA Burns
Left-wing cable networks CNN and MSNBC have spent the past week serving as public relations officials for the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, California. Both networks have almost exclusively described the turmoil as “peaceful,” while taking great pains to downplay or outright dismiss the chaos and violence. MRC…
Jake Tapper Refuses to Fact Check Dem Senator Contradicting CNN Reporter on Padilla Removal
On Thursday, the liberal media rushed to enflame the removal of far-left Senator Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference after he namelessly rushed at Secretary Noem and fought with security. Doing his part on CNN’s The Lead, Jake Tapper refused to fact-check powerful Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth…
Column: Endangered NPR Never Stops Ripping Conservatives
So the House Republicans voted to end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has repeatedly claimed, in the face of avalanches of evidence, that she has never witnessed any bias at NPR. That’s beyond ridiculous. You can find it, day after day, hour on…
‘Significant Layoffs’; Puck Says CNN After Parent Company Spinoff Could Be TOAST
On Monday, Warner Bros. Discovery made it official that they would be splitting in two with one including their movie and TV production studios, the comic book behemoth DC Studios, HBO, and HBO Max. The other? It’s likely to be far less profitable as it’ll consist of its…
CNN Leads Anti-ICE Discussion With Organizer Of ‘Resistance School’
If you’re NPR alum Audie Cornish, what better way to lead a discussion of the anti-ICE protests/riots than with a guest who leads a self-described radical Resistance School? That’s precisely what Cornish, now host of CNN This Morning, did today. To begin the discussion, Cornish called on A “structure for…
Google AI Marks Flag Day with ‘Outrageous’ Take on American Flag
O say, can you see… that the American flag is now “controversial” because it’s tied to conservatives? That’s the latest take from Gemini, Google’s notoriously anti-American AI chatbot. Just days before Flag Day, a holiday to commemorate the adoption of the American flag, Gemini slandered the Stars and…
Tucker Carlson to Arrested Big Tech Founder: Your Platform Is ‘Massive Threat to Governments’
France reportedly arrested a Big Tech CEO, took his phone, detained him for days and continues to restrict his travel. Here’s what he told independent journalist Tucker Carlson about the European Union’s crackdown on online speech. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov criticized the EU’s assault on free…
Strawberry Whine: ABC Panics Over ICE Chasing Illegals Through a Field
ABC poured themselves a big glass of strawberry whine during Wednesday’s World News Tonight as they clutched their pearls over video of ICE agents chasing illegal immigrants through a strawberry field in southern California. Treating it as though they were watching a real life scenario of The Most…
CNBC’s Steve Liesman Wears the Clown Nose With Latest Good Inflation Report for Trump
It’s one of the most amusing aspects of MRC Business’s day-to-day routine when staff watch liberal media talking heads forced to eat crow over their blind adamancy that President Donald Trump was going to wreck the economy. CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman is the latest to be…
CNN’s Brownstein: Trump Sees LA as ‘Hostile Territory to Be Subdued’
Wednesday morning, The Situation Room aired CNN political analyst and Bloomberg opinion writer, Ron Brownstein, in order to talk about the ongoing situation in Los Angeles, California. Brownstein tried his best to create clear division between parties while downplaying the events of the riots and made President Trump…
NewsBusters Podcast: Why Can’t Reporters Oppose All Violence Against Police?
If the media were truly objective on violent protests against police, they would discourage January 6 rioters and leftist rioters. They shouldn’t be shaming Trump at the same time they downplay violence against police in Los Angeles as a nothingburger. NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck has watched all…
MSNBC’s Ari Melber: L.A. Riots Less Challenging Than Oscars Security
MSNBC’s Ari Melber to impressive lengths Tuesday night to try and downplay the riots that have plagued Los Angeles for the past few days. On his show, The Beat, he tried to make the impact these riots had seem as minimal as possible. “Let’s tell you here in…
MSNBC Lies: ‘There Is No Violent Mob In Los Angeles’
One of the week’s most inaccurate and biased statements was “there is no vicious and violent mob in Los Angeles.” This claim did not come from some fringe angry online social media user, but was pushed by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday night’s broadcast of The Last Word….
ABC: ICE, National Guard, Marines ‘Just Following Orders’ Like Nazis
The ABC News co-hosts of Disney’s The View were channeling their friend Jane Fonda on Wednesday as they took to viciously bashing America’s services members as Nazis. According to the gaggle of liberal extremists, the ICE agents as well as the soldiers with the National Guard and the…
‘Smoking Gun’ Docs Expose Biden’s Push Behind Brazil’s Censorship Crackdown
The Biden-era State Department promoted censorship in Brazil, according to documents highlighted by former State Department official and free speech advocate Mike Benz. The State Department’s “Integrated Country Strategy” for Brazil warned about “disinformation during elections” and promised to “support Brazil’s democratic institutions by providing training, capacity building,…
Google’s AI Can’t Say Exactly How Much NPR/PBS Get in Taxpayer Dollars—Because NPR/PBS Won’t
Google may be NPR and PBS’s partners in crime, but even the tech giant’s AI chatbot Gemini can’t run cover for the leftist outlets’ taxpayer-funded shell game. On Friday, Gemini gave inconsistent information in response to MRC Free Speech America’s questions about how much taxpayer dollars, both federal…
MESSING WITH TEXAS: Soros Funneled $8.3M into Leftist Group Trying to Turn Lone Star State Blue
If you thought that George Soros’s empire was taking a break to lick its wounds following President Donald Trump’s victory in November, think again. A group backed by the notorious left-wing billionaire is unleashing a fortune to achieve a leftist dream: to finally turn the state of Texas…