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…
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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…