NewsBusters Podcast

One of the things that’s most upsetting to conservatives is the way liberals pose as the apostles of kindess and compassion and decency. Their hearts bleed for people, to use the old joke. But in today’s rhetorical hothouse, the so-called bleeding hearts relish the idea of death for their opponents, starting with Scott Galloway wanting Elon Musk executed as a "traitor."

The media's joy over the blue wave on Tuesday was palpable. CNN's Kasie Hunt said "it took years for us to get there." MS NOW's Rachel Maddow called it a "freaking one-finger salute" to Trump's alleged authoritarianism. George Stephanopoulos asked James Talarico how he would now "pursue a politics of love."

Democrats and their media enablers were outraged that Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens offered a last-minute endorsement of Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race. Abdul-boosting journalists sounded  like Joe Scarborough, who bitterly tweeted that Stevens "endorsed Donald Trump's most savage policies" -- like "brutalizing Hispanics," i.e. deporting illegal aliens.

We could easily guess that the Democrats engaged in a conspiracy to put a "fake" Dan Sullivan on the ballot in the Alaska Senate race to confuse voters -- and lied about it. The New York Times confirmed it yesterday, that the Democrat nominee Mary Peltola was hip-deep in the conspiracy.

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, Welker lunged to help Michigan Democrat Abdul el-Sayed. Now she has lunged at the throat of Republican Mike Rogers for daring to criticize his opponent (her hero).

News networks, newspapers, 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?

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.

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.

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 Kristen Welker badgering Trump, and it's nothing like her softball session with Abdul el-Sayed.

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 on their "News Hour." Nobody can argue that spinning against the GOP 94 percent of the time is synonymous with "the truth." 

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.

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. 

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. Anything the Trump administration achieves is energetically ignored. 

A federal judge overturned Trump's attempt to ban three elitist media outlets from the White House. The ban was doomed, but what did it accomplish? It spurred the journalists into a wave of pompous lectures about how they are an "essential mechanism of democracy" who represent the entire American people. What rot. 

Christian Toto says the new Daily Wire movie "Run Hide Fight: Infidels" is like a "Red Dawn" for wokeness in academia. The Hollywood elite and their supportive media denounce it with words like "Islamophobic," "deranged," and "trolling."

What kind of morally upside-down world do the networks live in? After the mistrial of Lindsey Clancy, who strangled her three children, the morning and evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC were much nicer to the murderer than they were to the juror who refused to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. 

Is public trust in the media completely broken? Can it ever be fixed? The last Gallup poll found only 14 percent said they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in TV news. Former ABC News political director Mark Halperin explores how this has happened, and how he would try to fix it.

If a Democrat had proposed giving every American $5,000, the liberal, elitist media would be heralding it as a stroke of genius, not panning it like they did Wednesday and Thursday after President Trump raised the specter of it at night one of the GOP midterm convention. NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro broke down the highlights and lowlights before cove...

NewsBusters young bucks Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck come to you on Labor Day to give you a preview of The View as they prepare to head into their 30th season on Tuesday. As ABC planned to celebrate their pearl anniversary, the purported “bona fide news program” bore the scars of the network’s recent tussle with the evidence collected by the Media Research Cente...

Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro dove into the results of a new study from Tim Graham about Politifact's ongoing double standard when it comes to fact-checking conservatives vs. liberals. Spoiler alert: They only really try when they can make the right look bad. The fellas also covered more incendiary, pants-on-fire rhetoric from far-left loon Jennifer Welch. Whethe...

CNN host Dana Bash pressured Tom Homan -- "as a border czar and as a human" -- how can you be comfortable with sending Haitians back to Haiti? Emotional appeals against most if not all deportations is what journalists do now. They can't admit the border czar might also have emotional appeals for getting dangerous people out of the country.

Jason DeFord -- the country music singer known as "Jelly Roll" -- guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show this week. He acted upset when people protested the hostile jokes about President Trump, and claimed they should have voted for Kamala Harris if they wanted Harris jokes. That ignores the entire late-night pattern of ritual Trump loathing.

TV "news" hosts have come rushing to the defense of radical-left and DSA-backed Democrats. Over the weekend, Kristen Welker and Al Sharpton both threw the "no evidence" card at anyone asserting Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed has ties to terrorist sympathizers and terror groups.  

Sen. Jon Ossoff delighted liberal journalists when he smeared young Trump aide Natalie Harp as carrying on a sexual affair with the president. It showed "the art of the viral clip," claimed CNN's Brian Stelter. They didn't really care to ask: But is that true?

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is departing to spend time with her young children. Who is Jen Psaki to criticize Leavitt for how she has to please the president? And who is she to say the press corps is suddenly too "friendly"?