NewsBusters Podcast

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 covering a fascinating study on CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ before Sunday’s season premiere. The fellas also marked a year since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, 25 years since 9/11, and a new CNN-led smear against GunTuber Brandon Herrera.

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 Center over the years and submitted to the FCC: Not a single Democratic Party or major liberal political figure was among the guests advertised for the first two months.

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. Whether it's Welch, Abdul el-Sayed, or your garden-variety MS NOW host, it must be great knowing you can say anything without fear of being fact-checked by the elitist media.

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?