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CNN’s Friday Night Fusillade vs Musk Over Shutdown That Didn’t Happen

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Soon after the House on Friday night voted to advance a massive spending package and avoid a government shutdown (at least until March), CNN’s hosts and anchors targeted Elon Musk as the instigator of the “chaos,” “panic” and “madness”…

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NewsBusters Podcast: Shameless Spending and Shutdowns with Paul Teller

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How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to…

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MSNBC’s Ruhle: Republicans Want to Cut Funds to ‘Children With Cancer’

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Stephanie Ruhle took shots at Republicans in their Congressional struggle between a government shutdown and raising spending during her segment on Thursday during The 11th Hour. Claiming their tactics of running the government like a…

Friday, Dec 20

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On Morning Joe, Michael Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

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Michael Tomasky was back on Morning Joe today, beating his dour, one-note samba: right-wing media is the root of all evil.

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Column: Shocker! PolitiFact Tags Trump with 'Lie of the Year' for the 7TH Time

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Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since…

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Sunny Hostin Claims AOC Is NOT ‘Far Left,’ Only ‘Demonized’ By GOP!

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As more Democrats are losing House seats, following the Republican presidential win, the Democratic Party has been questioning its up-and-coming leaders. In reviewing this discussion, The View’s Sunny Hostin was appalled on Wednesday,…

Thursday, Dec 19

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Whoopi Claims Musk, Vance Plotting Trump's Murder, Blames Her Cat

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The loony liberals of ABC News’s The View were in a festive spirit Thursday morning as they kicked off their discussion with a baseless conspiracy theory that billionaire Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance were plotting to have…

Google Turns Up Heat on Trump Nominees, Continues to Rig Results

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Google’s relentless PR campaign against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees is still ongoing. The Media Research Center has caught the search giant rigging the results for a fifth consecutive week.

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Study: Broadcast Transition Coverage Aimed At Sinking Trump’s Picks

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While polling demonstrates a majority of Americans approve of President-elect Trump’s handling 555of the transition process, the coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative. In addition to a whopping…

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Regime Media FREAK OUT Over Elon Musk’s Role in Exposing and Killing Congress’s Christmas Cromnibus

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The Regime Media went into full meltdown mode over the death of the 1500-page cromnibus bill that went down in flames once DOGE chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy became aware of some of the bill’s provisions. D.C. media reacted at the…

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NewsBusters Podcast: How Will Trump Revise the White House Briefing?

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How will Team Trump revise the seating chart or the questioner list at the White House briefing when new press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes the podium in January? Would they dare to put conservative media in the front row? Managing…

Wednesday, Dec 18

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Massive Spending Bill Extends Censorship Agency’s Existence — For Now

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The end-of-year continuing resolution postpones the imminent shutdown of a State Department entity infamous for funding censorship efforts — for now.

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Reid Mocks CEOs and Republicans for Support of 'Toddler' Trump

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MSNBC’s Joy Reid perhaps may never come to terms with President-elect Trump’s November victory. Tuesday night’s episode of The ReidOut included the host hilariously downplaying Trump’s entire campaign while ridiculing the various CEOs and…

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PBS, NY Times Fear ABC’s Trump Defamation Settlement Sends ‘A Really Chilling Message’

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The PBS NewsHour was in full panic on Monday evening after ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by Donald Trump, offering scaremongering with this online headline: “ABC News settlement with Trump raises concerns about press freedom in his 2nd…

Woke of the Weak: Justice In the Hands of Our Court Jesters

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Deep down, most of our lawmakers, interpreters and political commentators are truly frustrated theatre kids at heart. Leave it to our DEI judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's supposed to uphold justice on the Supreme Court to turn that role…

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Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win

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How pathetic was Joe Scarborough's desperate attempt to downplay the scope of Trump's victory? The best Scarborough could do was to repeatedly cite a state that Trump won! A state Trump flipped, after losing it in 2020!

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Column: ABC's Payment to Trump Creates 'Chilling Effect'

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After ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $16 million over George Stephanopoulos incessantly lying about Trump being held “liable for rape,” the hot concept in media panic was the “chilling effect.”

Tuesday, Dec 17

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Won’t Let Go? TikTok Hit with Latest Defeat Amid Impending Deadline

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Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok just lost yet another frantic appeal to halt federal legislation that could kill its American market success.

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CNN’s Bash Takes Issue With Trump Saying People Want to Be His Friend

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CNN host Dana Bash put her pettiness on full display during Tuesday’s Inside Politics as she took issue with President-elect Trump quipping about how “In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my…

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NY Times Heads Into Battle Vs. Trump Alongside Radical 'Youth Climate Activists'

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The New York Times huddled with the leftist “youth climate movement” as they girded for battle against Trump II, in a so-called news story that appeared in Thursday’s paper: “As Teens, They Fought Trump on Climate. Now What?” by Austyn…

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NewsBusters Podcast: ABC Will Pay Trump for Stephanopoulos Rape Smear

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The Left was enraged that ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump by agreeing to donate $15 million to a Trump “presidential foundation and museum” over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly claiming in a March interview that…

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Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment

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Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation…

Monday, Dec 16

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MSNBC Whines About Defamation Settlement, Fearmongers 'Chilling Effect'

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MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster…

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The Proliferation of Democrats’ Buts

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Democrats are slowly, but surely, building a permission structure for progressive activists to kill those they determine are bad. From the rise of antisemitism to, now, the murder of an insurance CEO, few Democrats seem capable of…

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ABC, CBS Ignore Trump Winning $16 Million in Defamation Settlement

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Over the weekend, news broke that President-elect Trump reached a settlement with ABC News and other linked entities in the defamation suit he brought against the network. As NewsBusters previously reported, the settlement went unmentioned…

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'Non-Binary' Google Shopping Ad Star Mocks Women For Wanting Their Own Bathrooms

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On Thursday, MRCTV took a look at Google Shopping’s bizarre new Christmas advertisement, featuring a hairy man prancing around in women’s clothing and makeup.

Sunday, Dec 15

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Post-Settlement Stephanopoulos: Defanged But Still Venomous

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The immediate aftermath of ABC’s defamation settlement with President-Elect Donald Trump coincided with George Stephanopoulos’s scheduled turn to host ABC This Week. Stephanopoulos’s presentation was cosmetically muted, but unchanged in…

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Politico's Biggest Trump Hater Warns Against Kash Patel FBI Appointment

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Having antipathy towards Donald Trump seems to be almost a job requirement at Politico. However, even among the TDS crowd their senior staff writer Ankush Khardori seems to be an extreme standout. As has already been revealed at…

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ABC Settles With Trump in Defamation Suit, to Pay $15 Million Towards Future Library

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As first reported by Fox News Digital, ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump reached a $15 million settlement on Saturday after This Week host George Stephanopoulos falsely accused Trump of being found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean…

Saturday, Dec 14

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PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'

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The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the…