NewsBusters Podcast

The networks reported that New Jersey found 6,600 illegal immigrants on its voting rolls, but labored mightily to play down its importance. CNN posted an article headlined “New Jersey’s non-citizen voting reveal isn’t all it seems.” CNN host Abby Phillip argued the aliens who voted didn't know what they were doing was wrong. The spin is dizzying.

Marco Rubio claimed “the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy.” National Review writer and author Noah Rothman explains how the media and extremism “experts” combine to claim there’s not a serious amount of left-wing political violence.

The latest NewsBusters study of the guests interviewed on the “PBS News Hour” now shows the liberal-conservative disparity to be 5.2 to 1. Removing their government funding might have encouraged a deeper leftist tilt. But at least conservatives aren’t forced to support it.

The most obvious occasion for civility in Washington is the sudden death of a public official. It shouldn't be a time for score-settling and expressing glee. Lindsey Graham's death led to both of these. Plus: Ro Khanna's West Bank stunt backfires.

The latest NewsBusters study from Curtis Houck underlined that ABC, CBS, and NBC unloaded more than 27 hours of coverage on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, mostly playing up his association with President Trump (and not Bill Clinton). By contrast, the networks spent months ignoring Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo and other embarrassing scandals.  

The elitist media put Independence Day fireworks on national TV, but afterward, they treated the smoke as a health hazard. PBS put on a half-hour special on Bruce Springsteen, who claimed his vicious partisan attacks are "critical patriotism." We hate, because we love? 

It's pretty sick that Socialist Revolution is the new fad in primary elections around America's 250th birthday. The media have a nasty habit of disparaging America, especially on race, and can even warn the American flag is a "red flag," now triggering people like "a MAGA hat on a stick." 

In 2018, after President Trump suggested Haiti was a terrible place, Jake Tapper gave a softball interview to comedian Conan O’Brien, who made a special for TBS mocking Trump by going to Haiti and telling everyone what a beautiful place it was. Now in 2026, Tapper lectured that Haiti is a very dangerous place, so you shouldn't send Haitians back home.

When radical socialist nuts endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their House primaries (in overwhelmingly Democrat districts), the "news" networks responded by sanitizing their extremism. For example, their support for Hamas and for eradicating Israel means believing “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”  

Over the last few days, the networks have overflowed with gooey propaganda about the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. But the fakest news in the goo was claiming Obama's career was all about "bridging divides and finding common ground." This spin pretends there was only unity, and no conservative opposition.

The "Big Four News Apps" -- Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! -- have a nasty habit of promoting not just "news" sites, but trashy opinion bins like the Daily Beast, Salon, and Rolling Stone. MRC Free Speech America studied 100 days of GOP primaries, and these "curators" are heavily leaning on negative midterm messages.  

The effete snobs of the leftist media were on full display as they lamented the "despicable vulgarity" of President Trump hosting a UFC event on the White House lawn on his 80th birthday.  Plus: Ladies of "The View" kvetch about talking to Vice President Vance. 

The liberal broadcast and cable news networks have attacked widespread skepticism about the slow-moving reversal in the Los Angeles mayoral election results as Trump and the Republicans spreading “baseless conspiracy theories.” California's unique way of taking a month to count votes was touted as careful, not manipulative.

Media Research Center President David Bozell and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck spoke to Universal Coin & Bullion Founder and President Dr. Mike Fuljenz, a leading numismatics expert with more than 60 awards to his credit on why now is a great time to invest in gold and silver. Fuljenz shared how the Founders believed in the necessity of investing in precious metals, advice on where to start your investment journey, why President Trump was right to kill the penny, and how Universal Coin & Bullion provides peace of mind through its free Gold Guide. Dr. Fuljenz also brought along a special offer ONLY for NewsBusters Podcast listeners. Beforehand, David and Curtis shared the winners of the Worst Media Quote of the Week plus their thoughts on Scott Pelley's absurd, tear-filled interview with The New York Times on his ouster from CBS.

NewsBusters editors Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro were joined by 2026 MRC Bulldog Award winner for Outstanding Reporter Jennie Taer of the Daily Wire to discuss her latest news-breaking scoops on the immigration beat, including one about the left’s latest meltdown over an ICE facility in northern New Jersey. They also discussed Taer’s rise from The Laura Ingraham Show intern to one of the country’s leading immigration reporters. Before that, the fellas tore into Scott Pelley for his arrogant ambush of his CBS News bosses and the subsequent pearl-clutching once he was fired.

You have to laugh when Jim Acosta is warning that CBS and CNN are going to turn into a "propaganda giant" when they're in danger of being a little more balanced in their "news." The CBS show "Sunday Morning" has been a routine propaganda stop for Democrats, and that was no different for Jill Biden, who preposterously claimed her husband was still lucid.   

New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart spent half a minute last week introducing President Trump at a rally in the suburbs, and somehow became Public Enemy #1 to the Left. But the media adore political athletes when they land on the radical left, like former pro quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling to protest the police during the national anthem.   

Three men were killed at the San Diego Islamic Center by two teenagers who were then found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. It’s easy for us to feel unified in horror over this, but it’s also going to become grist for claims America is overwhelmed by "Islamophobia."

Democrats want to exploit the war in Iran to claim they’re the Affordability Party. Trump bluntly answered a Daily Caller question by saying Americans’ financial situation didn’t matter “not even a little bit” in his negotiating with Iran to end the war. “They can’t have a nuclear weapon.” 

There's a ludicrous talking point being shopped by the Democrats, that somehow blacks have been denied their "voting rights" unless they're allowed to be represented by a black Democrat. If you end "majority-minority" districts, their votes no longer count. MS NOW has been a hourly cesspool of leftists crying "Jim Crow" and "Dred Scott" and "most racist Supreme Court ever" over their decision against racial gerrymandering.

The Democrats are fighting among themselves, and it's the "establishment" versus the fringe. But the media can't find an actual extreme, so they just find "outsiders" who oppose the "centrists," defined as the Biden Democrats. This leads them to make excuses for candidates who have a Nazi tattoo, for example.

CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton has daily or nightly adventures sparring with liberals (including the liberal CNN hosts at times). We awarded him our MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines, and he came into our studio to discuss cable-pundit battles and the expectation that blacks must always stay "with their own kind" on the Left.   

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has a brand-new book titled "Trump 2.0: The Revolution That Will Permanently Transform America." He discusses how "markedly different" the second Trump term is, and how Republicans should never go to the White House Correspondents Dinner.

A California man decided to shoot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, and ruined all the fun where President Trump was expected to unload about an hour of mockery on the elitist media. Does anyone expect this scare to change the longstanding hostility of the press corps?

The Justice Department has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for financial fraud, taking money from leftist donors and paying informants inside racist and extremist groups and trying to hide the money trail as they "fight extremism and hate." Naturally, the leftist networks and newspapers don't want to get into the ugly specifics of the indictment underlining that scam.  

Violent crime has declined dramatically in the District of Columbia since 2024, but can we trust the statistics? Washington Examiner reporter and author Anna Giaritelli discusses her book "Under Assault" and how her sexual assault in 2020 was left out of the DC police statistics, as well as how crime and illegal immigration are filtered through the elitist media.   

A bill moving through California's state legislature would give taxpayer-funded "immigrant service providers" the power to demand the removal of videos recorded in public spaces that they don't like — and impose steep financial penalties on them. It's a narrowly tailored punishment on "anti-immigrant" journalists. Republicans call it the "Stop Nick Shirley Act."  

When Americans interview foreign tyrants, you have to question how they paint themselves as champions of democracy. They’re often so pleased to be granted access that this leads to compliant questioning. That happened on "Meet the Press" with Cuban “President” Miguel Diaz-Canel. "It's an honor," Kristen Welker said.

The elitist media are wildly inconsistent on President Trump, except for one thing: the coverage has to be negative. So this week, it swung from "Trump's about to destroy Iranian civilization" to "Trump chickened out again" when they announced a ceasefire. Whichever direction Trump takes -- left or right, backward or forward -- it's always wrong. 

Executive Editor Tim Graham and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro welcome Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown to discuss how she managed to unintentionally trigger the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View into an absolute meltdown by encouraging women to get married and have kids during a CPAC panel. Brown dismantles The View co-hosts and calls out their hypocrisy since most were happily married, and all had kids of their own.

On "International Fact Checking Day," we discuss how PolitiFact can't find any Democrats saying false things with Matthew Hoy, author of the new book "Fact-Checking Frauds: How Fact-Checkers Distract, Deceive, and Distort Our Politics." What tactics do they use? There's obvious selection bias -- in targets, in fact claims, and in expert testimony.

The elitist media celebrated another "massive" and "historic" set of "No Kings" protests on the Left, but they can't seem to remember the Democrats cracking down on conservative "disinformation," from COVID to climate to the Biden scandals. The new free-speech victory in the Missouri v. Biden case was ignored by the press.   

Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old college student at Loyola University in Chicago, was shot dead by an illegal alien. The networks hate reporting on crime committed by illegal immigrants. They would insist it’s atypical, and it seems too racist and pro-Trump to cover. News loses to narrative, and that narrative is Trump is ruining everything.

The "climate emergency" pushers have pompously predicted planetary doom within ten years for more than 30 years. Why are they never checked? Author Kevin Mooney has a new book titled "Climate Porn," and we discuss the remarkable imbalance of climate coverage and the nasty tendency to punish people who even gently question the panic on the Left. 

Sunday's Oscars telecast on ABC declined in the ratings again as the comedians -- both host Conan O'Brien and presenter Jimmy Kimmel -- drowned the event in a series of ridiculous anti-Trump jokes and comments.

CNN host Jake Tapper claimed "Every reporter that I know wants the United States to succeed in every way." But two London CNN bigwigs were photographed schmoozing with the Iranians at their embassy in London, and it didn't look like they were there to ask tough questions at the anniversary party for their Islamo-fascist revolution.

If journalists pose as guardians of the public interest, why do they get on the wrong side of 80-20 issues? Our study of the network newscasts and the Big Four News Apps found great disinterest in the "Save ACT," which would require proof of citizenship of voter registration and voter ID at the polls. It's overwhelmingly popular -- and being ignored.

Kristen Welker's softball Sunday interview on NBC with the Iranian foreign minister reminded everyone again of an anti-American double standard. The liberals inside newsrooms put enormous pressure on interviewers to question Trump fiercely, while representatives of mass-murdering Islamist regimes get open-ended softballs.   

CNN's Brian Stelter wasn't "Facts First" when he tweeted: "Pete Hegseth reverting to his fake-news routine in today's Pentagon presser." What's fake? "The press only wants to make the president look bad." Does Stelter watch CNN? Jim Acosta also trashed Hegseth as spewing "Fox MAGA talking points to bash the press."

President Trump ordered a new offensive in Iran over the weekend, taking out top Iranian tyrants like Ayatollah Khamenei. Bizarrely, our media composed puffy obituaries for the Ayatollah and gave Iran's foreign minister a softball platform, unlike when they all pressure each other to be ever more hostile in questioning our elected president. 

The State of the Union reveals that our country isn't unified. The media thrive on division, on trying to divide Trump from the public. The "fact checkers" pounce on Trump and leave the Democrats untouched. Their comedians and actors speak in the most hateful terms, and then Democrats accuse Republicans of being the ones who divide people.

The annual State of the Union address is every president's golden opportunity to talk all over live national television for an hour (and then some). We're poised for what happens afterward. They have touted Biden speeches as "forceful and feisty" and they have trashed Trump speeches as "intensely partisan." Look in the mirror, people.

In the new eruption of leftist protest over anyone demanding Stephen Colbert provide "Equal Time" to their incessant tilt, we point out again that all the comedy shows tilt dramatically to the left, just like "The View." Whoopi Goldberg felt pressed to address the NewsBusters scoop on her place in the Epstein files. 

Who is in the majority in Congress right now? If you watch TV news stories on congressional hearings, you're mostly given angry soundbites of yelling Democrats. Hearings featuring Trump officials were presented to make those officials look controversial, unpopular, and ineffective. 

The Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, fresh from trashing ICE at the Grammy Awards, organized a highly divisive Super Bowl spectacle that put his leftist Latino identity politics front and center. The ardent adoration it drew from leftists and Democrats underlined its political intent.

The Washington Post laid off 300 employees this week, transforming billionaire owner Jeff Bezos into a James Bond villain. Chuck Todd tweeted he was “leaning into the evil rich guy stereotype.” Owners must lose hundreds of millions of dollars for that “vital pillar of democracy” -- leftist media bias.

Journalists are rarely arrested, in part because the media elites freak out, since they apparently can never commit a crime if they're trying to interview people. Lemon can't be part of a mob violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, to which they added churches. Now if a journalist was part of a mob invading an abortion clinic, we all know the Left would freak out about that.

Most Americans think the violence and hot rhetoric in Minnesota have gone too far, but the national media are mostly attacking the Republicans and ICE as if they're the only violent ones with the hot rhetoric. TV "news" stars get furious when you suggest Tim Walz or Jacob Frey or any other Democrat needs to tone down the wild Nazi talk. They don't want to calm it down.

 At a time when deportation is a dirty word and ICE is smeared as the Gestapo, Peter Schweizer offers a vivid counterpoint about defending American civilization in his new book “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”  

Across the dial on Sunday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was cued up for his message about leftist anti-ICE protesters. On ABC, Frey responded to a softball question: "It's about love. We are showing something far more powerful and consequential here, which is love. We are standing up for one another."