Daily Caller News Foundation senior investigative reporter Philip Lenczycki published a troubling investigation Monday on Boston Mayor Michelle Wu during her bid for a second term that, during her first successful campaign in 2021, she “received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by…
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On NBC, Boston Globester Bombast: Democrats Should Cry ‘Autocracy’ from the Mountaintops!
Journalists aren’t normally the people who tell Democrats they need to be calmer and more pragmatic. They’re often the ones prodding the Democrats to shriek about Trump bringing the end of democracy. It doesn’t matter that the Democrats spent the entire 2024 election cycle pushing “autocracy” as an…
‘Saturday Night Live’ Uses Jesus Skit to Mock Trump as Ruining the Economy
The left-wingers at NBC’s Saturday Night Live can’t seem to start their shows without an anti-Trump skit, and this time, it started out with a Jesus Christ vs. the money-changers theme….until their Fake Trump James Austin Johnson showed up to unload a pile of comedy bits about how…
NPR Advocates for Pro-Hamas Left on Campus: ‘Fear and Silence Is a New Campus Reality’
NPR routinely demonstrates wokeness with an anti-Israel bias. Saturday’s All Things Considered story by youth-politics reporter Elena Moore from the frontlines of the Israel-Hamas campus wars. She lamented how students are afraid of expressing pro-Hamas sympathies on progressive college campuses: “For some students who protested war in Gaza,…
Christopher Rufo Takes Full Advantage of a Little Balance on NPR
It’s rare when you can acknowledge a conservative viewpoint was given a full airing on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio. But on Friday, the New York Times podcast The Daily — which airs across the country on NPR — offered a platform to Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, under…
CNN Gives No Credit to Trump for Better Than Expected Inflation Rate Drop
Remind us again about who was president in March? You wouldn’t know if you only depended on the CNN News Central report on the very unexpected DROP in the rate of inflation in March that was presented by reporter Matt Egan. Despite all his gushing about the drop…
‘PUBLIC’ Broadcasting Watch: PBS and NPR Delight LGBTQ Propagandists
As much as the CEOs of PBS and NPR claim to Congress they are nonpartisan and unbiased, there are many ways to demonstrate they careen to the Left. Shortly after their House hearing, the leftist Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued their “GLAAD Media Awards” and honored…
NewsBusters Podcast: Lester Holt Hypes the ‘Trump Tariff Meltdown’
If Trump’s second term was a movie, the network news anchors would title it Trump Tariff Meltdown. In all the tariff turbulence, the networks have obsessed over economics with a very negative tone, even on the typically soft-news morning shows. Good news on inflation and employment is buried in…
Look In the Mirror, Sport: Paul Krugman Accuses Trump Of ‘Junk Economics’ on Trade Deficits
It seems impossible for former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to stay out of the limelight and make himself look even more ridiculous. The insufferable economic dunce-in-chief joined the show Here & Now on National Public Radio to go on a predictable tirade against President Donald Trump’s…
Fox News Reports CNN’s Daniel Dale’s 80-Day Mark for On-Air Fact Checks: Trump 23, Biden 2
CNN hired Daniel Dale from the Toronto Star in 2019, where he dropped Twitter bombs on Trump. The leftists at Wikipedia nailed Dale’s reason for coming to America: Daniel Dale (born March 28, 1985) is a Canadian journalist known for rebutting a large number of false claims made by United States president Donald Trump during his 2016…
Fox News Reports CNN’s Daniel Dale 80-Day Mark for On-Air Fact Checks: Trump 23, Biden 2
CNN hired Daniel Dale from the Toronto Star in 2019, where he dropped Twitter bombs on Trump. The leftists at Wikipedia nailed Dale’s reason for coming to America: Daniel Dale (born March 28, 1985) is a Canadian journalist known for rebutting a large number of false claims made by United States president Donald Trump during his 2016…
Associated Press Faces Defamation Lawsuit from Navy Vet Who Beat CNN
In a Friday filing with Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit in Bay County, Navy veteran Zachary Young filed a defamation suit against the Associated Press for making similar claims against him which led to CNN being found liable for malicious defamation. The complaint pointed out that the AP used…
Cornish Praises Rubio On Revoking Visas —But Assembles Another Left-Skewing Panel
On today’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish offered surprising praise for Marco Rubio’s take on revoking student visas, calling it “common sense.” Rubio had said: “A student visa is like me inviting you into my home. If you come into my home and put all kinds of…
Column: Public Trust in Media Dies in ‘Groupthink’
Journalists are terrible at hiding their desire to run our democracy, using their platforms to direct history to the “right side.” That badly disguised lust for power creates an audience problem, where the people resent the media’s imperious lectures about which side they are supposed to favor –…
Sunny Hostin Insists Trump ‘Certainly’ Is ‘Guilty of Insider Trading’
Instead of seeing the 90-day pause on tariffs for most of the world and the rallying stock market as a sign of trade negotiations going well, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin used her platform on Thursday’s edition of The View to accuse President Trump of “certainly” being “guilty…
NPR Hosts Biden Book Author: ‘Biden Was Capable.’ Was NPR Culpable in Coverup?
National Public Radio’s Fresh Air interview program, hosted by Terry Gross, brought on journalist Chris Whipple Tuesday to talk about his new book on former President Biden and how Biden’s handlers concealed his mental decline from the public — and themselves? And what role if any did NPR…
Axios Founder On Trump’s Tariff Pull-Back: ‘Make No Mistake—He Panicked’
File this one under “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.” The liberal media has been leading the charge against the Trump tariffs. So what happens when Trump heeds the warning signs and pulls back? Does the MSM applaud his statesmanship, his courage in changing course given changed circumstances? C’mon—of…
NewsBusters Podcast: People Ask Why Would Anyone Study ‘The View’?
NewsBusters just published a study demonstrating that ABC’s The View is a double-reinforced leftist bubble. Over the last three months, they welcomed on 63 guests pushing a liberal agenda, and zero conservatives or Republicans. Why would we do that? Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro explains. Nick watches The View for…
Looney Behar Floats Conspiracy Trump Crashing Stocks for ‘Martial Law’
On their Wednesday episode, ABC’s The View spewed their usual vitriol about the Trump administration, with Joy Behar especially going above and beyond. As the rest of the panel cheered her on, she spun an on-the-spot conspiracy theory, with zero to flimsy evidence, about Trump plotting to declare…
Audie’s Idea Of A ‘Republican Group Chat’—Two Critics of Trump’s Tariffs
Ever since she took over as the host of CNN This Morning, we’ve been documenting Audie Cornish’s aversion to having full-throated, Trump-supporting Republicans on her panels. Cornish gave another example of the phenomenon on today’s show. To discuss Trump’s tariffs, Cornish had on Charlie Dent and Kristen Soltis…
Lawyer Behind MSNBC Defamation Suit: Words Can Hurt Like Sticks and Stones
In late February, Dr. Mahendra Amin settled his defamation suit with MSNBC (for an undisclosed amount) after they falsely claimed that he had performed medically unnecessary hysterectomies on illegal immigrant women in the custody of ICE, erroneously dubbing him “the uterus collector.” NewsBusters recently spoke with Dr. Amin’s…
Factcheck.org Mangles Scientific Fact-Check Of Trump’s Transgender Orders
Factcheck.org may be the best of the fact-checking websites that recently saw their influence decline when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to break up with them. However, a nearly 3,000-word SciCheck essay from Catalina Jaramillo on Monday proved that is still not good enough to justify the previous…
Networks Ignore Bombshell Report Team Biden Hid About U.S. Covid Cases…IN 2019!
Our friend and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr put a spotlight Tuesday on the revelation that a previously censored 2022 Biden administration report on the coronavirus pandemic that he said showed “[s]even Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the…
Column: Cory Booker’s Blab-a-Thon Underlines ‘Fact Checker’ TILT
On April 7, Facebook pulled the plug on the censorship of “independent fact checkers,” replacing it with a “Community Notes” approach, like Elon Musk’s X uses. No one was more upset than the censorious left-wing “fact” police. Angie Holan, the leader of the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network,…
Fox’s ‘The Cleaning Lady’ Laughs About an Illegal Stealing Identities of Americans
Tuesday night’s episode of Fox’s The Cleaning Lady, a drama about illegal aliens living in the U.S., made light of criminal aliens stealing American citizens’ identities. In the episode “Mercy,” illegal immigrant Fiona (Martha Millan) struggles to make ends meet with her under-the-table cleaning business. Her employee Krista…
Morning ‘Jackass’ Scarborough Forced to Walk Back ‘I Told You So’ on Stock Market Panic
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is having a rough day. The same media schlub who waved around the “I told you so” foam finger when stocks whipsawed on April 7 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs is doing the backstroke now after the markets surged just a day later. “I…
Judge Rules for AP, Claims Trump White House ‘Poisoned’ Them With Press Pool Ban
Early Tuesday night, Trump-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden largely ruled in favor of the supposedly poor souls at the Associated Press (AP) in its ongoing legal fight against the Trump White House for barring them from their entitled, seemingly gilded spot in the White House press…
New York Times Columnist Masha Gessen: ‘Our Police State Has Arrived’
“America’s Police State Has Arrived,” screamed a column in Sunday’s New York Times by Masha Gessen, who was a prominent gay rights activist in Vladimir Putin’s Russia before escaping to the United States and writing books on Putin’s Russia. She’s using the byline “M. Gessen” now, and here’s…
The View Angered By Trump’s ‘Panican’ Post, But Wrote Off the Poor During Biden
ABC News should change the name of The View to “The Flag” since the liberal ladies change the direction of their outrage depending on which way the wind was blowing. Despite telling poor Americans to sit down and shut up about high prices during the election, they were…
CBS TWICE Covers Threat of Chinese Honeypots, Omits Fang Fang & Swalwell
On Friday and Tuesday, CBS Mornings Plus covered a newly revealed policy change during the Biden administration and kept in place under Team Trump that federal government workers stationed in China are barred from engaging in romantic relationships with Chinese citizens out of fear of spies engaging in…