NewsBusters Podcast
531 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham discusses the left's media bias.
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Episode 542: Nina Totenberg Radio Exposed Again as Leftist Den
April 12, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBNewsBusters can tell you National Public Radio has demonstrated a leftist bent from the beginning. Nina Totenberg destroyed the Douglas Ginsburg nomination to the Supreme Court, then tried again with Clarence Thomas. This animus against conservatives didn't kick in when Donald Trump ran for president.
Episode 541: PolitiFact Is NOT 'Obsessed with Fairness'
April 10, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBWhile USA Today fact-checking boss Eric Litke says fact-checkers should be "obsessed with fairness," our latest NewsBusters study of PolitiFact demonstrates a significant partisan aggression against Republican politicians.
Episode 540: The Leftist Media Often Can't 'Get Religion'
April 08, 2024 00:00 - 51 minutes - 42.5 MBAs the media bring their leftist lens to the "culture wars" and religion in politics, they're prone to simplifying everything and only covering religion when it intrudes on the new orthodoxy of wokeness. Terry Mattingly operated the site GetReligion for 20 years, and he explains how he assesses the media's handling of religion stories.
Episode 539: Mark Levin Hammers CNN's Bash and Tapper
April 05, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBCNN is perennially offended at the thought that Donald Trump is still politically viable despite all its dirty work for Democrats. On his radio show this week, Mark Levin hammered Dana Bash for "fact checking" RFK Jr and tackled Tapper's pleading for Democrats to pander harder to pro-Hamas voters.
Episode 538: A Fevered, Frenzied, Frazzled Media War on Trump
April 03, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.2 MBOnce again in 2024, journalists need to justify treating Trump as a deadly bubonic plague, an impending Hitler. Treating him as one side of an election is dangerous when he is the End of Democracy. Then they claim they only have a bias in favor of Truth. Yes, they're totally not favoring the Democrats with this foam-flecked coverage.
Episode 537: Biden Lays an Egg on Transgender Day of Easter
April 01, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 33.7 MBThe hot item of the Easter weekend on conservative social media was President Biden's "compassionate" embrace of Transgender Day of Visibility when it coincided with Easter. Biden chose his woke-left voters over church-going Christian voters. The media rushed to Biden's defense.
Episode 536: The 'Democratic Party' Aims to Squash 'Spoilers'
March 29, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBThe Democratic Party turns out to be a pretty funny name, because they’re really interested this year in keeping everyone else off the ballot. Third-party "spoilers" like RFK Jr. must be treated by the media as a "threat" to democracy, since democracy and the Democrats are treated as synonymous.
Episode 535: PBS and The Atlantic Merge in the Liberal Bubble
March 27, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBLast August, PBS announced it was entering a partnership with the leftist magazine The Atlantic to rebrand its Friday night journalist roundtable show Washington Week. We've studied six months of this merger, and it's no surprise that it's dramatically anti-Trump and anti-Republican. Our PBS analyst Clay Waters shares his findings.
Episode 534: Angry Peacocks Prance Against Ronna McDaniel Joining NBC
March 25, 2024 00:00 - 39 minutes - 35.5 MBFrom NBC's 'Meet the Press' to MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' the liberal bubble is in a furious revolt against ex-RNC boss Ronna McDaniel joining their team as a commentator. They want her fired before she begins. But they're all for ideological diversity....yeah, right.
Episode 533: NewsBusters Podcast: A Sappy Rerun for Christine 'No Evidence' Ford
March 22, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes - 38.2 MBChristine Blasey Ford provided what they call “no evidence” to back up her 2018 claim that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were teens. Kavanaugh fiercely denied the charge. But CBS and ABC and NPR have provided sappy publicity for her new book – which provides no new evidence of her story.
Episode 532: Search Lurch, or Google Tilts the Internet to the Left
March 20, 2024 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBA new study by Free Speech America found that Google was guilty of election interference on 41 occasions from 2008 to today. FSA chief Dan Schneider explains all their findings.
Episode 531: Bombast Over 'Bloodbath' Reflects Biden PR Points
March 18, 2024 00:00 - 39 minutes - 31.9 MBOn Saturday, Donald Trump spoke out against China's attempt to build electric vehicles in Mexico, saying he'll slap a 100% tariff on it if he's elected, and if not, "it's going to be a bloodbath for the country." The media then reported it like he said "elect me, or get a bloodbath." Jorge Bonilla joins the show to explain how the Sunday morning and evening "news" shows reflected a Biden-Harris statement cartooning Trump's speech.
Episode 530: Pinning 'Exoneration' on Robert Hur (He/Him)
March 15, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.2 MBDemocrats claimed that when special counsel Robert Hur decided not to prosecute the president, he was therefore "exonerated." But when Robert Mueller declined to prosecute Donald Trump in Russiagate, they all insisted he was "NOT exonerated!" Bill D'Agostino shares his video compilations on this and on terms used to identify the killer of Laken Riley.
Episode 529: David Frum Compares Trump to Earth-Ending Comet
March 13, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes - 23.7 MBWith the general election set, CNN analyst David Frum suggested Donald Trump's re-election is a catastrophe, like a giant comet striking the Earth. CNN host Kasie Hunt said "Very interesting analogy." These addled hot takes come from the folks who warn us of "misinformation."
Episode 528: NewsBusters Podcast: Trump Loves Orban vs. Biden Should Cater to Hamas
March 11, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBWhy do left-wing journalists want Joe Biden to come to the aid of Hamas terrorists? They accuse him of overseeing Israel's "genocide," and he's not supposed to be upset. Kristen Welker can pelt Republicans with questions about Trump saying nice things to Hungarian "autocrat" Viktor Orban, but she worries Biden's so-called "full-throated support of Israel" will hurt Democrats. When's the last time Hamas held an election?
Episode 527: Moms for Liberty Co-Founder on Her '60 Minutes' Experience
March 08, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 16.7 MBOn Sunday night, “60 Minutes” aired a hatchet job by Scott Pelley on Moms for Liberty and their advocacy for "book bans" -- keeping pornography out of the public school libraries. Pelley attacked the Moms for evasive answers, but the CBS edits were incredibly evasive...especially refusing to delve into the graphically sexual content at issue. Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice explains to us what happened during the taping last October.
Episode 526: Super Tuesday Sneers, State of the Union Cheers
March 06, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBThere wasn't any surprises in the Super Tuesday results, but there was some surprising spin from MSNBC, which suggested illegal immigrants killing Americans was not "a thing." Reporters are already laying the groundwork for how Biden will display his sharp mind at the State of the Union and remind the public of all of his great "achievements," like inflation reduction.
Episode 525: Nine-Zip SCOTUS Shredding Drives Olbermann Insane
March 04, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBOn Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously shredded blue states attempting to rip Trump's name off the ballot, ruling states could not edit the ballot using their novel interpretation of the 14th Amendment against alleged insurrectionists. Nick Fondacaro assists in addressing the meltdown.
Episode 524: Touting Biden in 'Dueling Speeches' at the Border
March 01, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBOn Thursday, President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump traveled to Texas towns at the southern border to tout their immigration plans. But the networks and the New York Times podcasters touted Biden's ridiculous claims about being staunch on the border while feeling a need to 'fact check' Trump.
Episode 523: Democracy Depends On Hunter Biden Staying Sober?
February 28, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 29.2 MBAs Hunter Biden headed into closed-door testimony in the Biden impeachment inquiry, Axios reported Hunter thinks there are "profound consequences" in his staying sober. "I have something much bigger than even myself at stake. We are in the middle of a fight for the future of democracy." Nobody wants to rest democracy on those chances.
Episode 522: Welker's Decent Question to Newsom Edited Out
February 26, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes - 17.5 MB'Meet the Press' host Kristen Welker surprised us by asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom in which week abortion could be limited. He implied zero limits...while he attacked Republicans as extreme. Sadly, it turned out that clip was in the full interview on YouTube, but left on the cutting-room floor when it came to NBC's Sunday show.
Episode 521: Biden’s Cheat Sheets Spur Worry on Biden’s Brain
February 23, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes - 20.9 MBThe liberal website, Axios, is quickly rising to the top of the Biden hate list. They’ve published a string of what Democrat insiders call “bedwetting” stories about Biden’s mental failings.
Episode 520: Evening Newscasts Keep Dumping Negatives on Trump
February 21, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBA new study by Rich Noyes found the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC have maintained their hypernegative coverage of Donald Trump since the New Hampshire primary. But now, it's pounding away on Trump's policy preferences and not just his legal troubles with Democrat prosecutors.
Episode 519: Historians Put Biden Above Reagan in 'Greatness'
February 19, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 18.4 MBThe New York Times touted a new survey of historians that ranked Joe Biden #14 on a "presidential greatness" list, while Ronald Reagan fell five slots to #16. Barack Obama is #7, and Donald Trump was dead last. Biden's greatest achievement? Beating Trump.
Episode 518: Fawning Over 'Fierce' Fani Willis as 'Sparks Fly'
February 16, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBAs a Georgia judge held a hearing that may disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis from her prosecution of Donald Trump for election interference, many journalists hailed her testimony as "fiery," "fierce," and "defiant" and described this hearing as a "detour" from the Trump scandals.
Episode 517: KJP vs. Kirby Kerfuffle Makes NY Times Front Page
February 14, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBBattle of the briefers? The New York Times reported on Page One that John Kirby, "who is white," might "upstage a Black woman" as the face of the Biden white House. It's "turned their double act into a third-rail subject."
Episode 516: Chris Wallace Pours Hate on 'Useful Idiot' Tucker
February 12, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes - 21.8 MBTucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin sent CNN host Chris Wallace into the ceiling. On his Saturday show, he said calling Tucker a useful idiot was an insult to useful idiots. He also called him an "eager puppy." When he was at Fox, Wallace attacked Fox opinion hosts for bashing the media. Now it's fair commentary.
Episode 515: The Hur Report Spurs Biden Fury Toward the Press
February 09, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes - 35.9 MBFebruary 8 was a wild and crazy news day. It began with unified Supreme Court skepticism toward Colorado removing Donald Trump from the ballot. Then special counsel Robert Hur announced he wouldn't prosecute Joe Biden for misusing classified documents...because jurors would sympathize with a well-meaning elderly person who can't remember when he was Vice President. This prompted an angry Biden press conference, which deepened the optical problem, when he confused Mexico with Egypt. ...
Episode 514: The Elites Explode Before Tucker's Putin Gabfest
February 07, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBTucker Carlson announced he's in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin. Elitists like Bill Kristol and Adam Kinzinger exploded in anger at the "traitor." Journalists have been known to interview anti-American tyrants before, so what gives?
Episode 513: Late-Night Jesters Beat the Bongos for Bidenomics
February 05, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThe late-night comedy shows sound like they all received an email from the Biden campaign requesting they tout the latest economic numbers. NBC did it with Jimmy Fallon's show and on 'Saturday Night Live.' Stephen Colbert even pulled out the bongo drums on CBS to try to make it cool to like Bidenomics.
Episode 512: Joe and Mika's Slavish Pro-Biden Bias Makes Sense
February 02, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MBAxios reporter Alex Thompson revealed Joe Biden is "obsessed" with "Morning Joe" and "often" calls Joe Scarborough for advice. Joe and Mika had dinner at Kamala's house, and Mika just performed a pillow-soft interview with the First Lady. This is what earns the term "MSDNC."
Episode 511: Suggesting Only One Party Has 'Sham Impeachments'
January 31, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBAs the immigration issue begins to panic Democrats and House Republicans push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, the newspapers and networks channel Democrat objectives and imply that only one party's impeachment efforts are a partisan "sham" with "no evidence." They insist Democrat impeachments are glorious.
Episode 510: Top Papers Worry as Biden Slips with Black Voters
January 29, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBThe front pages of Monday's New York Times and Washington Post both expressed alarm at President Biden's slippage with black voters, the most reliable Democrat voting bloc. The Times channeled "black faith leaders" who are demanding Israel submit to a ceasefire in Gaza, including some well-known Louis Farrakhan fans.
Episode 509: YouTube Offers Katie Couric, Kamala, and Cackles
January 26, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes - 27.8 MBKamala Harris granted a softball interview to Katie Couric, who delighted in her abortion advocacy and asked to explain just how reporters allegedly aren't talking up Biden's accomplishments. What? We're in another cycle of reporters complaining that the economy is doing great, and the voters just aren't accepting their spin.
Episode 508: New Hampshire Spin on Nikki Haley, Dean Phillips
January 24, 2024 00:00 - 41 minutes - 34.7 MBThe New Hampshire primary results didn't dampen media enthusiasm for a Trump vs. Biden rerun. But Nikki Haley only lost by 11 percent. Democrat Dean Phillips almost hit 20 percent against President Biden. Haley's voters were lauded for their votes, but Phillips remained an asterisk in the pro-Biden media's coverage.
Episode 507: The Media Ignore Opponents of Unlimited Abortion
January 22, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.2 MBThis was another year that the networks skipped over the March for Life. They ignore people who oppose what they favor: abortion on demand at any point in pregnancy. Then their "fact checkers" get angry when you point out they favor abortion at any point.
Episode 506: Decline and Fall of the Fani Willis Juggernaut?
January 19, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBFulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was touted as a mortal threat to Donald Trump's reelection campaign with her election-interference indictments in Georgia. Now news is breaking that she had an affair with her special prosecutor and he's not very qualified for the job. The networks hate this story, and some are skipping over it.
Episode 505: 'Media Literacy' Means German-Inspired Censorship?
January 17, 2024 00:00 - 36 minutes - 30.5 MBMRC's censorship investigators have published a two-part report on how the Department of Homeland Security used a "Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention" program to malign conservative information as "misinformation" and worse. Dan Schneider explains just how deep this censorship effort goes.
Episode 504: No Hamas 'Hardliners' Rioting at the White House
January 15, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBBias by omission reared its ugly leftist head again over the weekend after a pro-Hamas protest started looking a little riot-ish, shaking fences at the White House as the Secret Service emerged in riot gear. But ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS were just too busy focusing on Donald Trump or other Republican "hardliners" to notice these radicals and their many "Genocide Joe" signs.
Episode 503: It's Obvious the Nets Want Trump to Face Biden
January 12, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MBA new MRC study by Rich Noyes of all the evening-news coverage of the Republican presidential race on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2023 makes it obvious the networks want Trump to be the nominee. He drew almost all of the coverage -- other candidates could barely get noticed. And most of the Trump coverage obsessed over his legal problems, mostly avoiding any national policy issues.
Episode 502: Stelter's Biased, Partisan 'ReidOut' On Who's the Truth
January 11, 2024 00:00 - 18 minutes - 15.6 MBEyeballs were rolled when Brian Stelter argued to MSNBC hostess Joy Reid that Fox's audience is radicalized and wants to be dangerously misinformed, and "It is not biased or partisan to tug on the side of truth." His side is the "reality-based world."
Episode 501: When KJP Rules Your Corruption Question Is DOA
January 08, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBA new MRC study by Bill D'Agostino found that of 337 Biden-scandal questions asked of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the second half of 2023, only eight (2.38 percent) drew an answer instead of a maddening deferral or a blatant refusal to answer. The answer was meant to be a dead end, so you'd avoid that street.
Episode 500: The Extreme Leftist Tilt in Late-Night Jokes
January 05, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes - 35.3 MBA new study by Alex Christy underlines that the late-night jesters on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Comedy Central overwhelmingly tilt their political jokes to whack Republicans. Rich targets of satire like Hunter Biden and Kamala Harris are rarely touched, while they gave us 835 jokes on George Santos.
Episode 499: New Year's TV Cuddles with Karine Jean-Pierre
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes - 39 MBThe White House sent out press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for a round of softball TV interviews on ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Sometimes, the host didn't even ask questions, just a sentence to move things along. How can anyone see this and think these networks do "news" instead of just offer publicity and spin? Curtis Houck explains the press-White House partnership.
Episode 498: The Hottest Media Takes of 2023 Are About 2024
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 29.1 MBAs another state seeks to take Donald Trump off the ballot, the year's worst political takes in 2023 were about what might happen after the 2024 election, like claiming Trump will execute his enemies (like MSNBC hosts) in a second term, and maybe Ron DeSantis signaling that blacks are worthy of "extermination."
Episode 497: Chris Matthews Finds the Green Acres of Terrorism
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 24.5 MBThe news cycle is slower, but there's still something ridiculous. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews compared "rural rage" at the liberal elites to....terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq who hate the U.S. military.
Episode 496: Ana & Alyssa Don't Bring 'A Game' to 'The View'
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 23.3 MBAs 2023 winds down, it's time to review the best (or the worst) of "The View." Nick Fondacaro discusses how Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin are alleged to represent a Republican viewpoint, but most of the time, they are just as liberal as the others, and demand the Republicans surrender on social issues like abortion.
Episode 495: Censors Save Us from 'Risky' Right-Wing Websites?
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.4 MBA think tank called the "Global Disinformation Index" compiled a "dynamic exclusion list" to help advertisers avert "risky" right-wing websites engaging in "misinformation." The list included the New York Post, The Blaze, the Daily Wire, and The Federalist. The censors' list of "reliable" sites included HuffPost and BuzzFeed, which printed the "Steele Dossier," a complete garbage barge of Russian-collusion misinformation. Joseph Vazquez discusses the censors like GDI and NewsGuard. ...
Episode 494: Capitol Porn, Trans Panic, and Trump Exhaustion
December 18, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 24.4 MBThe networks and major papers avoided all talk of a Democrat Senate aide getting fired over making a gay porn video in a Senate hearing room. NBC included a "trans woman" in a focus group saying Republicans would execute him, and Nikki Haley told ABC's Jonathan Karl that the media's obsession over every Trump tidbit is "exhausting."
Episode 493: When 'Fact Checkers' Sound Like Lefty Columnists
December 15, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 28 MBThey describe themselves as "independent fact-checkers," but they're not. They sound like liberal columnists, which is why conservatives and Republicans disdain their partisan rulings. Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren have been "fact checked" very, very differently in the last decade. Alex Christy discusses the chapter he wrote with Brent Baker in the new book "A Future for the News."