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Hasan Piker Sues Scott Jennings Over Loose Talk of Lynching
Screenshot of YouTube/Snopes Why does Hasan Piker hate the First Amendment? On Tuesday, Piker filed a lawsuit against CNN commentator and Salem radio host Scott Jennings over accusations that he favored lynchings for black Americans. He asked for $72 million in damages. This clearly delighted Piker fans like Dean Obeidallah, who tweeted "Bankrupt the scumbag." When Donald Trump sues left-wing media, the left-wing media unleash panic-stricken outrage that it’s the end of Democracy.
Pretending the Justice Department Was Never Partisan Under Democrats
Screenshot from YouTube/CBS The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the “independent media” is that Trump’s Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It’s like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be the most nonpartisan thing imaginable. Team Biden going after the opposing party is nonpartisan?
Texas Detransitioner: CNN Wouldn't Let Me In to Question Talarico at His Town Hall
One topic that the elitist media are allergic to is “detransitioners,” people who return to identifying with their actual gender. Hanna Panreck at Fox News Digital reported that Texas detransitioner Soren Aldaco was not allowed to question Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico at the CNN/Jubilee town hall on October 14, which was hosted by Erin Burnett. Aldaco discussed this on The Katie Miller Podcast: "He needs to have a long-form conversation, a real face-to-face with someone like me.
NewsBusters Podcast: Kristen Welker Offers Partisan Double Standard
On Sunday, NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker offered a perfect Exhibit B to her Exhibit A of partisan double standards. Two weeks ago, Kristen Welker lunged to help Democrat Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed with prompts: “I want to give you the chance to address some of the attacks that were lobbed on the debate stage.” It was about his associations with the Egyptian Islamists called the Muslim Brotherhood.
That's Bari Funny: Disgraced Dan Rather Claims Someone ELSE Wrecked CBS News
The Hollywood trade publication Variety performed its typical left-wing tapdance on Monday for touting disgraced ex-CBS anchor Dan Rather insisting someone else disgraced CBS.
THUD: NPR Host A Martinez Gets an 'F' on Trump's Popularity In Israel
Screenshot from Patrick Strattner photo for NPR On Thursday's Morning Edition, NPR anchor A Martinez (not the soap-opera actor) interviewed Rand Corporation expert Shira Efron, who was in Tel Aviv, on the closeness of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Lesley Stahl Engages In Anti-Journalism on California Voting
Screenshot from Snapstream/CBS If CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss lived up to the Cruella De News caricature of hostile media reporters, Lesley Stahl would have been kicked out of 60 Minutes right after pompous Scott Pelley. That might look like moving CBS to the sensible center. Instead, 60 Minutes is still engaged in its traditional bomb-throwing activism, making Democrat propaganda films during fall election season.
NewsBusters Podcast: Should Election News Revolve Around Pollsters?
News networks, newspaper and polling sites were embarrassed when the makers of the Wedgewood Poll admitted they were fakers. The polls weren’t real, but were being spread by The New York Times and MS NOW’s Ali Velshi, among others. Isn’t it time to be skeptical of polls and how they’re promoted by the Democrat-touting media? NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and MRC Video Senior Content Creator Nick Kangadis discussed this and other political issues.
Leftist Media Spin Furiously on French Leftist Rioting
The New York Post cover on October 19 summed it up in two words: “FRANCE BURNS.” Over the weekend, there was massive unrest in France from leftist extremists. So there were several interesting journalism patterns. Labeling. Typically, reporters didn’t want to label protesters as “far left,” let alone “left.” Note to reporters: When Greta Thunberg shows up in solidarity, it’s a leftist protest.
THE HELP: CNN's Tapper, MS NOW's Wallace Offer Rebuttal Service to Sen. Slotkin
Screenshot from Snapstream/CNN On Monday, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) performed on both late-afternoon cable programs for Democrats: CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper and MS NOW’s Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace. She was doing damage control for a mean-spirited paragraph at an October 13 event that became a viral video, where she said she wants to prosecute “signature cases” against people who’ve “enabled” President Trump.
NewsBusters Podcast: The Probe Into 'American Ingrate' Ilhan Omar
When federal investigators raided the D.C. home of radical Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over potential immigration fraud, the overarching media narrative matched the spin of Barack Obama: This is just Trump punishing a political opponent. That is not how journalists spun Team Biden authorizing a raid on Trump’s Florida home in 2023 over some classified documents. Back then, when it was Trump, Ilhan Omar tweeted: "Our democracy rests on the rule of law.
NPR's 'Left Right & Center' Claims Trump Hater Sarah Longwell's on 'The Right'
“Public” broadcasting in the United States demonstrates routinely that it cannot stand conservatives and their arguments. The spectrum of debate on their show is often from far left to liberal Democrat. This is especially comical on the NPR talk show Left Right & Center, where their October 16 show filled the “Right” side with…..Sarah Longwell, a former Republican who campaigned with and for Kamala Harris in 2024.
Christiane Amanpour Decides to 'Separate' from CNN After Ellison Merger
Screenshot from Snapstream/PBS Longtime CNN correspondent and host Christiane Amanpour responded to CNN's merger into Skydance by announcing she was "separating" from CNN (and by extension, PBS), following through on her commitments that wrap up next June. She is a natural candidate to walk away now that "good old days" might be waning, and worrying that CNN could turn into CBS under new owner David Ellison.
Christiane Amanpour Decides to 'Separate' from CNN After Ellison Merger
Longtime CNN correspondent and host Christiane Amanpour responded to CNN's merger into Skydance by announcing she was "separating" from CNN (and by extension, PBS), following through on her commitments that wrap up next June. She is a natural candidate to walk away now that "good old days" might be waning, and worrying that CNN could turn into CBS under new owner David Ellison.
PolitiFact Throws 'Pants On Fire' to Defend Pro-Trans Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Liberal journalists know that Democrats can be vulnerable on transgender issues, so the badly named “independent fact checkers” are quick to screech against Republican ads. On Wednesday, PolitiFact threw a “Pants on Fire” flag at a commercial by the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC. "Pants On Fire" is a tag they use to denounce the worst lies, as the words imply.
New York Times Spreads Becerra's Repeated 'Son of Immigrants' Lie in Page 1 Puff Piece
We've noted California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has lied repeatedly about his life story, for example, announcing in a September 30 CNN debate that his parents “came to this country with $12, and they settled in California.” He also told Ana Navarro his father came to America in his 20s with $12 in his pocket. But an obituary said his father was born in Sacramento.
NPR 'Honors' Hamas-Loving Hasan Piker with Long, Soft 'Newsmakers' Interview
FADEL: There's another very online person, Tucker Carlson, who you couldn't be more different politically, right? PIKER: Yeah. Oh, yeah. FADEL: But you do come to the same conclusions on certain issues when it comes to Israel, Palestine, the continued killings in Gaza. Make that make sense for me. How do you guys agree on a lot of U.S. foreign policy issues and yet you're completely different politically? PIKER: Yeah. I think about that a lot.
The Perils of Believing the Pollsters Every October
Everyone absorbing the elitist media spin on the midterm elections cannot avoid the swirling symphony of doom for the Republicans. Conventional wisdom suggests a good night for Democrats, and that’s before you look at the president’s dreadful approval rating. Polls can be tricky: one can disapprove of Trump and still vote the Republican party line. All this doom might be accurate -- or it might turn out like 2016. Hillary Clinton had a 98 percent chance of winning, they said.
NewsBusters Podcast: Using Pain at the Pump to Overpower Trump
No one likes putting gas in their car right now, but the networks talk about “soaring” or "skyrocketing" gas prices even as prices at the pump stay the same, or decline a bit. Four years ago, under Biden, they touted "relief" on gas prices when the price went down a few cents. The framing of inflation depends entirely on which party is in power. MRC Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino and MRC Video Senior Director Eric Scheiner analyze it all.
LOL: NH Public Radio Apologizes for Sponsoring 'Anarchist Book Fair'
The Boston Globe reports on some unintentional political comedy: New Hampshire Public Radio issued an apology that they sponsored a “Live Free Anarchist Book Fair” in Hanover, New Hampshire over the weekend, since they somehow didn’t realize an Anarchist event might look political! They posted on Facebook: Screenshot from NHPR Store NHPR erred in accepting an invitation to sponsor and host a table at the Anarchist Book Fair in Hanover on Saturday.
Has Kristen Welker Ever Been Weaker?
Twenty years ago, Democrat politicians had a reason to be queasy over making an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. Back then, host Tim Russert asked pointed questions, often relying on research to bring up potentially embarrassing statements and actions. Even Barack Obama knew he was going to get a serious probe of his past statements and policy positions. Screenshot from Snapstream/NBC The current host, Kristen Welker, is no Tim Russert.
PBS Host Geoff Bennett Spins Talarico Absence: How Does He Fight 'Clear Misinformation'?
Screenshot from Snapstream/PBS Monday’s weekly political roundtable on the PBS News Hour sounded like the typical Republicans Are Losing hootenanny. The online headline was “Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the GOP's vulnerability in the midterms.” But the eye-opening part was anchor Geoff Bennett trying to paper over Texas Democrat James Talarico’s absence from the campaign trail. “You have got James Talarico, he's back on the campaign trail after falling ill.
NewsBusters Podcast: Kristen Welker's 'Meet the Concierge' Sitdown with Abdul
How can you tell if an interview's tough or soft? When interviewing Trump, the host will interrupt repeatedly to challenge him. When interviewing a Democrat, the answers can go on for 300 words without interruption -- a small speech. Look at NBC's Meet The Press host Kristen Welker badgering Trump, and it's nothing like her softball session with Abdul el-Sayed.
'Suck It!' Sophie Cunningham to NY Times Columnist Wanting Her Dumped by Her Team
The woke leftists at The Athletic, which functions as the sports department of The New York Times, cannot stand Indiana Fever basketball player Sophie Cunningham for her defense of women's sports, and keeping biological men off their court and out of their locker rooms. On October 6, columnist Candace Buckner insisted the Fever brass needed to dump Cunningham over her objectionable politics. The headline was "Fever should part with Sophie Cunningham.
Notoriously Censorious NPR CEO Katherine Maher Honored with 'First Amendment Award'
The American left always congratulates itself as “First Amendment advocates,” even as they campaign to shut conservatives up. The foundation of Harper’s magazine announced they are giving their 2026 “First Amendment Award” to NPR CEO Katherine Maher. She runs a network that won’t give conservatives a right to speak on their formerly taxpayer-funded airwaves. The invitation to their October 26 ceremony – ticket price “$85-$25,000” – describes the award this way: Named for James C.
ABC News Deletes 'Biased Hit Piece' on Trump Sons' Business and the Pentagon
Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reported that ABC News quickly deleted an investigative article about the president's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. On Wednesday, it came with the headline, "Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election." Profiting off government contracts! They alleged Anduril, the company investing in a new Baltimore shipyard, had ties to the Trump sons.
News or Ad? Texan Ken Paxton Gets Barbecued by Broadcast News
Our elitist media love spreading the buzz when First Lady Melania Trump goes “missing” for a few weeks, but they haven’t noticed Texas Democrat James Talarico vanishing for 12 days in the closing weeks of his Senate campaign. As of this writing, Talarico has no campaign events scheduled before Election Day (save a CNN town hall).
NewsBusters Podcast: PBS = MS NOW When It Covers Republican Campaigns
For more than five decades, conservative and Republican taxpayers were forced to subsidize PBS and their routinely leftist "news," or messaging. In the midterms, we have found again that they overwhelmingly pounce on the Republicans with negative spin. Nobody can argue that spinning against the GOP 94 percent of the time is synonymous with "the truth." MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider join the show to discuss our recent studies.
A Radical Rock-and-Roll Concert for the Terminally Insincere
The radical rock-and-roll leftists threw a concert in Maryland titled – what else? – the “Power to the People Festival.” The organizer was Tom Morello, the guitarist of the band Rage Against The Machine.
NewsBusters Podcast: Any Good Economic News Is NOT News Under Trump
When the networks try to drive President Trump's approval rating as low as possible, they avoid presenting any positive news. In the first term, they routinely skipped good news. Now we've compiled “Five Economic Facts the Media Don’t Want You to Know” as we head into midterm elections. The good news is Not News. In my 1996 book Pattern of Deception, I recounted how the networks aerobically denied that economic growth under George HW Bush was real, that the GDP was some kind of illusion.
On ABC, New York Times Opinionator Bizarrely Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case
NewsBusters Editor at Large Brent Baker caught this moment on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
LOL: Jake Tapper Lectures on 'Cocoon of Tribalism,' Like CNN's SO Pure and Hate-Free
TAPPER: The cocoon of tribalism is no doubt cozy for those of brittle spirit. It's also dangerous. Last year, Pew polled 25 countries as to what folks thought about the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens in those countries; 92 percent of Canadians, for example, approved of their fellow citizens in that respect. Americans were not only the most likely country to question the morality and ethics of our fellow country men and women.
PBS Anchor Tosses the 'No Evidence' Card at Trump and Netanyahu on Flydubai Hijacker
Screenshot from Snapstream/PBS Most of the network coverage of the hijacking attempt on a Flydubai plane headed to Israel and loaded with Israelis has cited President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suggest that the early intelligence suggests a terrorist motive. On Thursday night, PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett broke from that pack and talked to former Clinton and Obama official Juliette Kayyem.
Stelter on Trump and TIME: How Dare He Kvetch About His Hypernegative Press!
President Trump granted another interview to Time magazine (for another cover story), even if Time’s interviewers want to push him around and try to get him to say scandalous things. In his “Reliable Sources” newsletter, CNN media analyst Brian Stelter summed up the interview this way: One giant ego trip Before you do anything else today, you should read the transcript of TIME’s brand-new interview with President Trump. The interview begins and ends with Trump’s complaints about the media.
Perpetual Paranoia Over CNN Turning 'MAGA-Friendly,' Like CBS!
Screenshot from Snapstream/CNN For months, ideological enforcer journalists who intensely labor to keep left-wing elitist media outlets as leftist and anti-Trump as possible have been panicking over the Ellisons getting their hands on CNN, and turning it into – cue siren noises – another CBS News. Paramount has been cleared to take over Warner Bros.-Discovery and CNN.
NewsBusters Podcast: Democrat Candidates Can Do No Wrong
As we watch TV news during the midterm season, what we've mostly noticed is that there's not much news about candidates -- just some general tilt against Trump's bad approval ratings. But Democrats get a pass, and Republican flubs are news. So Sen. Eric Schmitt getting his facts wrong in a question to former special counsel Jack Smith is the only story of that hearing. There was no time to consider that Smith was an out-of-control partisan trying to make sure Trump didn't get re-elected in 2024.
Daniel Dale Scolds: 'Mainstream' Media Have 'Regularly Failed' on Trashing Trump's Lies!
Screenshot from Snapstream/CNN Anyone who's paying attention to CNN knows that their Toronto-based "fact checker" Daniel Dale is almost entirely focused on the dishonesty of Donald Trump. Unless it's "Vance Repeats Trump's Fiction," on occasion. Trump certainly keeps the "fact checkers" busy.
The Leftist Tilt of 'Mamdani Night Live'
Screenshot from Snapstream/NBC The People’s Republic of Late-Night Comedy will do its part to boost Democrats during the midterm election season. See the season debut of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Zohran Mamdani is not on the ballot, but these comedians are deeply in love with the radical leftist Muslim, so they feel compelled to transfer their giddy feelings to their Fake Trump. In the opening skit, the Mamdani character is told he has a visitor during harsh weather.
NewsBusters Podcast: Google, Networks Skip GOP Anti-Fraud Task Force
Is billions of dollars of fraud against America’s taxpayers NOT newsworthy? That's what you would find when looking on Google News or the elitist broadcast networks. Free Speech America Associate Editor Luis Cornelio came to share his research on Google News, joined by our evening news analyst Jorge Bonilla. Luis found Google News blocked out any stories on the White House task force on fraud, led by Vice President J.D. Vance.
PEOPLE: Trump 'Loudly Booed' at Football Game, But Their Video Does Not Match!
One easy measurement of media partisanship is how they cover presidents getting cheered and/or booed at sports events. On Saturday afternoon, People magazine posted an article claiming President Trump was booed at a big college football game in Knoxville. The headline: Trump Booed at the Tennessee vs. Texas Football Game as He Appeared on the Jumbotron The president attended the highly anticipated matchup in Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept.
ZERO Seconds on Networks for Senate Hearing on Men in Women's Sports
The networks treat Republican hearings as Fake News. They refuse to act like publicity organs for the party they despise. By contrast, they all adored the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6, since that had no actual Republican opposition on it, just two Pelosi-pandering Republicans. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on protecting women and girls in women’s sports. For most of it, there was not a single Democrat Senator in the room.
Lydia Moynihan, Sean Spicer Push Back on Abby Phillip's CNN Press Pass Drama
Lydia Moynihan of the New York Post and former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer pushed back on Saturday against CNN host Abby Phillip’s implication that Trump is the most grievous offender of press freedom, and that you can’t change the subject to Biden – whose press shop energetically ignored and suppressed New York Post White Housereporter Steven Nelson for years.
PolitiFact's 'Truth' Meter Mischief in Defending Trans-Booster Talarico in Texas
PolitiFact is demonstrating its partisanship in the Texas campaign for U.S. Senate. Hat tip to Matthew Hoy for pointing out that on Thursday, they threw a “False” flag at Texas PAC for the statement that Democrat state Rep. James Talarico “supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on young children.” PolitiFact used the fact-defying term "gender-affirming" eight times, including in headlines.
The Atlantic's Chait RIPS Peltola Aides 'Mean Boss' Tattling to The New York Times
Here's how you know The Atlantic is a Democrat Party organ: it dumps on a "mainstream media" outlet when it prints anything damaging to a Democrat. Everyone can read the "gift article" by leftist screed-demon Jonathan Chait under this headline: Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard. Chait loves bashing female Republicans.
Hollywood Feminist Makes Over Jesus to Sound Like Meryl Streep
Screenshot of Colbert interview from Snapstream/CBS Conservatives expressed grave concern when director Greta Gerwig happily announced that her forthcoming movie Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew would star Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan – the lion that author C.S. Lewis clearly used as a Christ figure.
NewsBusters Podcast: Trump Spurs Avalanche of Elitist Media Arrogance
Overnight, Trump-appointed judge Timothy Kelly unsurprisingly overruled the president's attempt to ban three left-wing media outlets from the White House premises. A ban was doomed from the start. So what did it accomplish? It demonstrated once again that the press will mount their high horse of arrogance that they are the most "essential mechanism of democracy," the sainted informers of the citizenry who hold the government accountable.
PolitiFact Claims It's 'Mostly False' to Cite Biden's True Cuts to Press-Pass List
Screenshot from Snapstream While the Democrat-pleasing “fact checkers” at PolitiFact aren’t throwing any “False” flags at wild-eyed Trump haters comparing the president to mass-murdering dictators ("Hitler to Stalin to Idi Amin") over pulling White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, they did pull out the “Mostly False” card for a mostly true claim about Team Biden dramatically shrinking the press-pass list in 2023.
LOL: Reporters Pretend They Represent All of America
Behold the most ludicrous argument unfolding after President Trump’s latest attempt to deny White House press passes to Trump-loathing reporters. Somehow, the liberal elitists shamelessly claim they represent the entire American people in the briefing room, and not just their own pink-haired audience. See National “Public” Radio White House reporter Tamara Keith, who told an CNN interviewer about her job: "I'm doing it on behalf of the American people. I'm not doing it for me.
NBC Host Presses on WH Access Ban, Rubio Says Media Sound Like 'Rooting for Iran'
MELVIN: But Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, should media outlets be banned because the president doesn't like their coverage? Should you be able to ban -- RUBIO: They're not banned – MELVIN: They are banned! They're banned from the White House. RUBIO: No, they're not. We’re not closing CNN. Well, that's different. What they want is access to the work space the president uses -- MELVIN: Does it sit right with you, though?
NewsBusters Podcast: Daily Wire's 'Infidels' Movie vs. Hollywood Left
Christian Toto says the new Daily Wire movie Run Hide Fight: Infidels is like a Red Dawn for wokeness in academia. "Infidels has little interest in subtlety," he wrote on his site Hollywood In Toto. "It’s a bare-knuckled assault on a Hollywood ecosystem that ignores reality and the Modern Left.
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