NewsBusters Podcast

This week, illegal alien Jose Ibarra was convicted of the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. PBS and NPR have aired next to nothing on Riley over the last 6 months. Curtis Houck and Bill D'Agostino explain their studies of broadcast and cable news coverage of the Laken Riley trial. 

Washington Examiner columnist David Harsanyi's new book "The Rise of Blue-Anon" underlines that the conspiracy theories on the Democrat side are not on the fringes. They come from the very center of the party establishment and the one-party media. Like MSNBC's Michael Beschloss suggesting your kids will be killed if Republicans win.

The media are freaking out over Trump’s Cabinet picks, because the freakout machine must be kept humming. But you can see the wheels turning there. If you’re a liberal Democrat, they assume you’re automatically qualified and super-intelligent. Because you're a liberal Democrat.

The liberal media’s post-election meltdown bullet train hit breakneck speed with President-Elect Trump nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino dove into the histrionics over this week’s personnel moves, including how CBS is seething over Mike Huckabee’s nod to become U.S. Ambassador in Israel. Later, the fellas made the case illegal immigration is the issue where the liberal media are the most disconnected from the American public and they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.

Pete Hegseth is a 20-year Army veteran with two combat tours, two Bronze Stars, and two Army Commendation Medals, but his nomination to be the secretary of defense has brought out the worst in the liberal media. NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck break down the media’s disgusting diminution of Hegseth’s career, and call out the liberal ladies of The View for their ignorance and divisiveness.

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro dug into how the liberal media are reacting nearly a week later to their landslide election loss. For some, there seem to be likely brief attempts at soul-searching (albeit possibly disingenuous in nature) and others are struggling to admit campaigning on saving women's sports and securing the border proved to be incredibly popular. The fellas also dove into another possible legal headache for CNN and a new Biden-Harris administration scandal that the liberal press predictably seem uninterested in covering to any granular detail.

The ladies of "The View" were besides themselves over Donald Trump winning the White House again. Sunny Hostin lashed out at "uneducated" white women, Latino sellouts, and then America as a whole. An actual debate broke out over the need for self-reflection. Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar refused that entirely.

The media "professionals" are seriously distraught. They deeply believe that they were destined to be the saviors of democracy. They have to be amazed and perplexed that their hours and hours and years and years of negative media bias toward Donald Trump did not sink in with the voters.

The networks grumbled on Sunday, imagining their nightmare scenario -- a second Trump term. Chuck Todd was unintentionally hilarious about how this would ruin democracy, turn it into "kleptocracy," and worst of all, the Democrats might emulate the Republicans and start lying and exaggerating about their opponents. Jorge Bonilla joins the show for that, and all the claims Trump wants Liz Cheney dead, and Liz said this is how "dictators" talk.

Our latest NewsBusters study of all the jokes on late-night "comedy" shows this fall found that 98 percent of the jokes about presidential candidates were about Donald Trump, and only 2 percent about Kamala Harris. Our late-night watcher Alex Christy explains just how this remarkable tilt by the "comedians" erupts night after night. Kamala is mostly off-limits to joke about.