Epstein! Epstein! Epstein! Please keep your minds focused on Jeffrey Epstein and his connection to President Donald Trump! No other story should be allowed to divert your attention away from Epstein and Trump. That definitely seems to be the attitude with Politico which is now treating the unfolding…
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‘It’s Scary’: CNN Dubs Colbert Cancellation ‘Fascist’ ‘Interference’ With Jokes
On Tuesday afternoon’s CNN News Central, host Brianna Keilar brought on liberal comedian Pete Dominick to dissect the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Dominick confidently suggested political motives were to blame, not CBS’s claim that the decision was “purely financial.” Keilar asked Dominick what “the…
Woke AI Fights Back, Attacks Trump in Lead-Up to His ‘AI Action Plan’
The AI machines are already fighting against President Donald Trump and his “AI Action Plan,” and with a vengeance. According to them, Trump is as bad or worse than the most brutal dictators the world has ever known, including familiar names like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Nicolás…
CNN’s Situation Room: Cutting Colbert Could Kill Free Speech Forever
Like many others in the liberal media, CNN’s The Situation Room co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown were quick to jump on the growing wave of fear that somehow spread from a flopping comedy show getting cancelled. In an interview with CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter, the three expressed their concerns over what Colbert’s cancellation…
Column: Pay No Attention to Hunter and the Bitter Bidens
Anyone who’s followed the dissolute life and times of Hunter Biden knows that no one wanted the Biden presidency to end less than Hunter. His father’s power was a cash cow, giving him millions he wasted on crack cocaine and hookers. So when he tried to mount a…
CNN Trashes Hunter’s F-Bomb Rant, Promptly Switches To Price Of Beef
Hunter Biden’s F-bomb-filled rant in which he attacked numerous Democrats by name was just too juicy for CNN to entirely ignore. But the liberal network clearly didn’t want to spend too much time on internecine Dem warfare, particularly when it relates to attempts by Democrats and the liberal…
NPR Chief Plays Race Card, Claims ‘We Report on Soybean Farmers and LGBTQ Activism’
Status newsletter founder and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy interviewed NPR chief executive Katherine Maher on Sunday about the awfulness of what she saw (at least through Darcy’s paraphrasing) as a decision that was “politically motivated, structurally damaging, and devastating to rural communities where public broadcasting is…
‘Cultural Zeitgeist’; CBS, NBC Beclown Themselves as Leftist Tools Celebrating Colbert
Despite having already spent nearly 12 minutes (11:38) on Friday morning decrying the stunning news of CBS cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today returned to do more pouting Tuesday about this show as one of many (far-left) late-night comedy…
Mahmoud Khalil Can’t Answer CNN When Pressed If He Condemns Hamas
On Tuesday, CNN’s The Situation Room had on Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder and former Columbia University student, as he attempted to downplay claims from the Department of Homeland Security that he was a terrorist sympathizer. Co-host Pamela Brown seemed to give him a layup by asking…
MRC President David Bozell Talks About PBS Defunding Victory with Scott Jennings
On Friday, MRC President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show to discuss a historic victory: the House vote to defund PBS and NPR. Hosted by Jennings, CNN’s lone voice of reason and MRC’s Bulldog Award winner for “Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines,” the show spotlighted MRC’s decades-long…
ABC’s Hostin: Colbert Firing ‘Is the Dismantling of Our Constitution’
The firing of “comedian” Stephen Colbert by CBS had the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View in a tizzy, as they finally got around to discussing it on Tuesday. Of course, co-host Sunny Hostin poured on the incendiary rhetoric, suggesting that his firing (with a 10-month ramp) “is…
Shellenberger Calls Out Foreign Leaders Behind ‘Global System of Mass Censorship’
Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger called out an attempt by anti-free speech foreign leaders to develop a “global system of mass censorship.” Shellenberger warned in a July 21 post on X that the heads of state or government of Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Spain “are meeting today to…
Supposedly Clueless PBS CEO Is Touting Their ‘Unflinching News Coverage’
Before Congress and on television, PBS CEO Paula Kerger has repeatedly pretended she has seen no evidence of liberal bias on PBS, which is like saying you were not being able to find the sun outside. But last week, Variety’s Todd Spangler wrote a long leftist editorial on…
MSNBC Brings On Lefty Brown Professor to Accuse Israel of ‘Genocide,’ U.S. ‘Complicit’
On Sunday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MSNBC hosts Ayman Mohyeldin and Antonia Hylton gave a forum to Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov to accuse Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians and the U.S. of being “complicit.” Mohyeldin set up the segment by blaming Israel for Palestinans being killed while…
MSNBC’s Weekend Panel Throws Tantrum Over LGBTQ Hotline Abandonment
On MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, co-hosts Antonia Hylton and Ayman Mohyeldin highlighted the Trump administration’s decision to abandon funding the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ-specific care, a move being called a “dangerous decision to play politics with real young people’s lives” by… those contracted to carry out the…
NewsBusters Podcast: Our PBS/NPR Victory Lap, Leftist Bias Defunded
The defunding on PBS and NPR finally happened, something the MRC has been advocating for decades. MRC President David Bozell and Managing Editor Curtis Houck reflect on all the lame liberal arguments and the questionable future for these networks. Start with the lame old argument about killing Big…
MSNBC Cites Politics For Colbert Cancellation, Not $40M Profit Loss
On Friday night’s The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Symone Sanders ran a segment discussing the recent announcement of CBS’s move to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ending David Letterman’s legacy. Despite indicators pointing towards financial implications, panelists, including co-creator of The Daily Show/abortion activist Liz Winstead,…
MSNBC Cites Politics For Colbert Cancellation, Not $40 Million in Losses
On Friday night’s The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Symone Sanders ran a segment discussing the recent announcement of CBS’s move to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ending David Letterman’s legacy. Despite indicators pointing towards financial implications, panelists, including co-creator of The Daily Show and Hinting that…
ABC Anchor Sidesteps Trump Border Win, Only Admits It in Buried Stream
ABC anchor Martha Raddatz had two chances to do her job last weekend during the network’s flagship Sunday program This Week. In the course of interviewing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D), Raddatz asked many questions about the morality of deportations, immigrant labor, and the “fear” allegedly sweeping…
Living Under a Rock? WashPost Editorial Board Whines Trump Supposedly ‘Politicizing’ Fed
Here’s a rule of thumb: Anybody who thinks that the Federal Reserve isn’t innately a political entity should have his head examined. But the collective of prefrontal cortex-challenged geniuses on The Washington Post editorial board are acting as if this politicization only started when President Donald Trump started…
‘Sometimes You Just Can’t Help It!’ Whoopi Defends Cheating CEO
Leave it to someone on The View to defend something so morally repugnant most of society was on the same page against it. In a very un-Disney move, on Monday, ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg came out in support of cheating former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and Chief People…
Joe Scarborough: Sanctuary City Advocates ‘Have All The Best Intentions’
Pathetic. Weak. Intimidated. Such was the despicable display that Joe Scarborough and his guest put on today. The subject was the shooting in New York City of a federal law enforcement officer by an illegal alien who had not been detained on other criminal charges because of NYC’s…
CNN Didn’t Disclose That Defender Of NPR Funding Is A Former NPR Host!
Among our story categories at NewsBusters, there’s one called “Covert Liberal Activists.” Today’s CNN This Morning provided a perfect example of the phenomenon. The panel [which the show calls the Group Chat] was discussing yesterday’s vote by the Senate to end federal [i.e., taxpayer] funding of NPR and…
Politico Posts FIVE Stories Worrying if Wall Street Journal Threw Trump a ‘Lifeline’ on Epstein
Politico broke out the worry beads and furiously began rubbing them in deep concern over whether the Wall Street Journal’s story about President Donald Trump supposedly sending Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy letter over twenty years ago would end up tossing Trump a “lifeline.” In fact Politico was so…
LOL: Ex-NPR CEO Says Stephen Colbert Spoke Truth to Power In a ‘Very Bipartisan Way’!
On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, former NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller, commenting on the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, said: “Stephen Colbert is unafraid to speak truth to power. He does it in a very bipartisan way over the years. And comedy and parody is…
Nets SKIP Another Biden Aide Taking the 5th, Obsess Over Trump-Epstein Developments
On Friday, ex-Biden White House deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini became the third key aide to take the Fifth Amendment, invoking her right against self-incrimination and declining to way whether Team Biden “instructed her to lie” about Biden’s health. Network coverage? Zip. Zilch. Zero. She’s the third…
PBS’s Frontline Didn’t Hold Back: Trump ‘A Travesty in All of American History’
Even as the Senate was preparing to take up defunding PBS, the taxpayer-funded network was shamelessly airing another Trump-trashing Frontline documentary on The online blurb to “Trump’s Power and the Rule of Law” claimed to go “inside the high-stakes showdown between President Donald Trump and the courts over presidential power….
New Yorker Review of CIA Book Pretends Russian Collusion Hasn’t Been Disproven
How can it be that in 2025, some leftists are still pretending that Russian collusion is a theory that hasn’t been disproven? That it’s not “fully digested”? There’s still hope, even if “clarity never came.” Such was the case with Keith Gessen, contributing writer for New Yorker magazine,…
CNN’s Cornish Invites Trump ‘Doomsday ‘ Author To Paint Horror Picture Of ‘Gestapo’-like ICE
Does Audie Cornish not realize that some viewers will discover just how rabidly anti-Trump her expert of the day is–or doesn’t she care? To discuss the plan to increase by 10,000 the number of ICE agents, on Thursday’s CNN This Morning, Cornish brought in Garrett Graff, innocuously portrayed…
Mika and MAGA!—Epstein Case Makes The Strangest Of Bedfellows
If politics make strange bedfellows, it doesn’t get much stranger than this: Mika Brzezinski defending, and even praising, MAGA! Mika, a down-the-line liberal Democrat and Morning Joe co-host, made her surprising comments on Wednesday’s show in the context of commenting on the Epstein case and MAGA’s demand that…