I go solo in this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast to call out the liberal media’s hypocrisy in condemning the 59 refugees from South Africa (because they’re white), while at the same time get hyped about possibly using and abusing Pope Leo XIV as a cudgel against the…
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Bhattacharya Slams Pandemic Censorship: Free Speech Is ‘Essential for Scientific Progress’
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed that medical and scientific advancement is made possible by the protection of free speech. Bhattacharya condemned pandemic censorship and discussed the vital importance of free speech among scientists during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret…
HOW IS THIS REAL? CNN Oxymoronically Says Trump’s Tumbling Egg Prices ‘Fiction’ Now ‘Reality’
Talk about having egg on your face. In an article published Tuesday on their website, CNN decided to make a badly-cooked omelette out of itself by admitting President Donald Trump was actually on to something about falling egg prices, but still attempted to say he was still peddling…
MRC Challenges Woke AI on Pope, Responses Didn’t Disappoint
What characteristics and priorities should the newly elected pope have? Opinions both in and outside the Catholic Church abound, but the bias and warped priorities programmed into artificial intelligence on this topic may leave even the most avid chatbot fan surprised. MRC Free Speech America asked five different…
Hypocrisy on Parade: ABC Scrutinizes Trumps, Ignored Biden Family Deals
ABC’s Good Morning America had President Trump and his family under the microscope Wednesday as they dissected what they hinted was corruption during his trip to the Middle East. Democrat operative turned anchor George Stephanopoulos brazenly proclaimed: “We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like…
‘Big Ideas For Change’: Morning Joe’s Guarded Praise For Trump’s Iran Plan
For the second day running, Morning Joe has struck a surprisingly positive tone about President Trump, specifically regarding his approach to peacemaking and diplomacy. Yesterday, we noted Washington Post editor and MSNBC commentator David Ignatius saying there was “something to” the notion that Trump could win the Nobel…
Hollywood’s Latest ICE Capade: CBS’s ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ Turns Deportation Debate into Organ-Harvesting Horror Show
With illegal immigration being a focal point in Trump’s second term, we knew it wouldn’t be long before Hollywood would drum up sympathy for illegals again. So, Tuesday’s episode of CBS’s procedural drama FBI: Most Wanted, “Souls on ICE,” came as no surprise. The episode depicted illegals as…
PBS Whitewashes Media Deportation Hero (and Pro-Hamasnik) Mohsen Mahdawi
Friday’s edition of the PBS News Hour contained a frustrating interview with the left’s deportation hero of the day, conducted by the outlet’s most slanted reporter, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez. After she and co-anchor Geoff Bennett talked about the release of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, whose…
Column: An American Pope Confounds the Press
The quick election of a pope born and raised in the United States was a shock to almost everyone outside the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Conclaves begin with secular and Catholic experts making a list of possible “front-runners” and no one had Robert Prevost on their bingo card. …
Grenell RIPS Anti-Free Speech HRC’s Whole Rating System: ‘Total Scam’
MRC Free Speech America made a disturbing find on the website of a radical anti-free speech group. MRC researchers found that some of the worst censors are highly decorated by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a group that pushes censorship and LGBTQ values on corporations. The HRC has…
OH STUFF IT: AP Desperately Tries to Shut Down Hype Over Good Inflation News for Trump
The Associated Press is feverishly trying to stoke doom and gloom on the heels of a welcome inflation report showing prices increasing less than expected. This, of course, is after the decrepit outlet spent the past four years attempting to put lipstick on the morbidly obese pig of…
Eternally Miserable: The View Decries Trump Trying to Lower Drug Costs
There’s seemingly nothing that President Trump could do that would get the approval of the eternal haters on ABC’s The View, even when it was the exact same thing their side of the political isle was trying to do. During their Tuesday show, the liberal ladies were up…
Racism: ABC Decries U.S. Admitting White Refugees from South Africa
ABC News finally found a group of people they didn’t want to let into America: white farmers fleeing from South Africa. That much was clear during Tuesday’s Good morning America when they decried the Trump administration for allowing farmers allegedly being targeted by the South African government to…
NewsBusters Podcast: Media Fume Over Trump Trade Wins & Covet ‘Black’ Pope Leo
On this episode of the NewsBusters podcast, I discusses the liberal media’s reaction to the Trump administration’s wins on the world stage over the weekend and their begrudging admission of hard truths (or something close enough). I also speaks with podcast producer Ben Graham about the media’s continued…
Romanian Presidential Front-Runner Slams Censors: ‘They Cannot Control Us’
Member of the Assembly of Deputies of Romania George Simion told Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec what free speech on social media means to his campaign and his country. Simion credited social media with ending mainstream media’s ability to ignore and silence disfavored candidates during a Friday interview on Human…
Sunny Hostin Suddenly Likes New Pope After Learning Black Ancestry
After initially bristling at the election of Pope Leo XIV because of his support for traditional marriage, purported “devout Catholic” and staunch racist Sunny Hostin announced that she changed her mind about the pope. She made it clear during the Monday edition of ABC’s The View that her…
60 Minutes Admits U.S. Gov. Loses Up to $750 Billion in Fraud Per Year, Knock DOGE Anyway
While the liberal media previously scoffed at the necessity of the Department of Government Accountability (DOGE), suggesting that the federal government wasn’t losing a significant amount of money through fraud, CBS’s 60 Minutes did something astounding on Sunday night: admit the truth. Cecilia Vega actually spoke with a…
‘Dramatic Retreat’: ABC Spins Trump’s Trade Deal With China as Defeat
Over the weekend, the United States and China took a step back from their economic brinkmanship and reached a 90-day trade deal that rolled back much of the tariffs both sides were planning to levy on each other. But instead of portraying it as a victory for America…
Morning Joe: ‘Something To’ Notion Trump Could Win Nobel Peace Prize!
As tough as it was for the liberal media to swallow Trump’s 2016 and 2024 presidential election wins, imagine their absolute horror if Trump were to win the Nobel Peace Prize! And yet . . . On today’s Morning Joe, MSNBC commentator and Washington Post editor David Ignatius,…
FLASHBACK: Media Hit Popes Benedict AND Francis as Too Conservative
After the election of Pope Leo XIV, liberal reporters cited the new Pope’s views, expressed prior to his elevation, as a way of criticizing the Trump administration. “He represents values that are different than the values on the world stage of the MAGA Trump administration,” former Time managing…
Washington Post Downplays Significance of New USA-UK Trade Deal
The White House announced a major trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning. It was good news which the Dow Jones greeted with a quick rise as soon as some of the details of the agreement were announced. The Washington Post reported on this news in…
NewsBusters Podcast: The Liberal Media’s Potpourri of Papal Hot Takes
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, I’m joined by News Analyst Alex Christy to discuss the liberal media’s covetous reaction to the election of Pope Leo XIV. We breakdown who and which outlets rushed to claim Leo as one of their own, while at the same time…
The View’s ‘Catholics’ Fear Pope Will Follow Church Marriage Doctrine
While the rest of the liberal media were trying to convince the American public that Pope Leo XIV was one of theirs, the purported Catholics of ABC’s The View were fearful that he would abide by church doctrine. They were upset by the idea that he would continue…
CNN Dreams: Maybe An English-Speaking Pope Will Change Trump’s Mind?
It’s no secret that the gang at CNN aren’t exactly fans of President Trump’s strict immigration policies, which have resulted in an astonishing 94% fewer border encounters in 2025 than occurred under President Biden’s watch a year ago. But the election of a new American Pope on Thursday…
PolitiFact Shows Trump is Right about Due Process For Illegals, Rates Him False Anyway
PolitiFact’s relationship with Facebook might be over, but just in case Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg feels the need to change his mind one day, a Thursday article from Maria Ramirez Uribe proved why it should stay that way. Uribe rated President Trump “false” for saying “there’s a different…
Lib Journalists Delight in New Pope As Possible Anti-Trump Activist
While Americans across the political spectrum celebrated the elevation of an American Cardinal, Robert Prevost to become Pope Leo XIV, liberal journalists took special delight in evidence that the new Pope — just like his predecessor — seems to disagree with the Trump administration on issues like immigration….
NPR Frets Over Francis’ LGBTQ Legacy: Will Church Be ‘Hateful’ Toward Gays, Trans?
National Public Radio was in Rome for the just-concluded papal conclave, which elected American Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Before the white smoke appeared, All Things Considered host Scott Detrow interviewed LGBTQ-friendly Fr. James Martin for the occasion, (Detrow even led his interview with…
Column: PBS, the Pelosi Broadcasting Service
Everywhere she goes, PBS CEO Paula Kerger makes the preposterous claim that there’s “nothing more American than PBS.” That’s not an answer to anyone asking about the network’s inevitable left-wing tilt. It’s a way of changing the subject. Last week, PBS and San Francisco PBS station KQED hosted…
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Defends Massive Change for Exposed Anti-Free Speech Agency
A Democratic representative mourned a huge change to a government agency responsible for massive censorship. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put him in his place. Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) went after Noem during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, criticizing President Donald Trump’s proposed $491 million funding…
Lib Catholic on CNN to Conservatives: ‘Your Politics Need to Change’
The Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals made history Thursday by electing the first American pope, Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV. The liberal media celebrated Leo as a pope cut from a similar cloth to Pope Francis, while downplaying the reported Republican streak to his…