NewsBusters Podcast

Episode 835: Interviewers Go Suddenly Soft on Abdul el-Sayed

MRCTV — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:16:51 +0000

Journalists are often firmer with Democrats before they win a primary election. Then, when facing off against a Republican in the general, they go soft on the Democrat and rough on the Republican. That's already happening in the Michigan Senate race with Abdul el-Sayed vs. Mike Rogers.

Episode 834: Donie O'Sullivan's 'Piker Pals' Sunday Special

MRCTV — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:24:25 +0000

CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan hosted a Sunday night special tilted "The Left Insurgency," promoting radical leftist Hasan Piker's designs on the Democratic Party. When Jorge Bonilla began tweeting video during the show, Donie started mocking Jorge and the MRC on X.

Episode 833: Fauci's Media Partisans Paint Him as Victim of Mean Republicans

MRCTV — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:50:15 +0000

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky dropped some fascinating messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci and his very political approach to "the science" of Covid, not to mention the chummy collusion between Fauci and the press. After Paul's hearing, the networks and the News Apps painted Fauci as a victim of unhinged Republicans waging a war on science.

Episode 832: Did Trump Ruin the Media's Self-Adoring Dinner?

MRCTV — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:08:10 +0000

President Trump finally served up his long-planned speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and they hated it so much the reporters started kvetching about how they need to "rethink" this event, since Trump was not "advancing" the First Amendment with his mockery of the press.

Episode 831: Illegal Immigrants Voting? Ain't No Big Deal

MRCTV — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:37:34 +0000

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.

Episode 830: Noah Rothman on the Media's Left-Wing Violence Denial

MRCTV — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:56:20 +0000

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.

Episode 829: Has PBS Lurched Further Left After Defunding?

MRCTV — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:25:54 +0000

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.

Episode 828: Anti-Trump Spin, Partisan Glee at Graham's Death

MRCTV — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:59:03 +0000

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.

Episode 827: Epstein Obsession, Graham Platner Omission

MRCTV — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:22:54 +0000

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.

Episode 826: Nasty July 4 Takes Hyped as 'Critical Patriotism'

MRCTV — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:52:26 +0000

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?

Episode 825: Sick Socialist Wave vs. America's 250th Birthday

MRCTV — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:26:29 +0000

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."

Episode 824: Jake Tapper's Haitian Danger Hypocrisy

MRCTV — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:40:50 +0000

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.

Episode 823: Sanitizing the Hateful Mamdani-Endorsed Radicals

MRCTV — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:44:17 +0000

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.”

Episode 822: The Fake News About Obama's Unifying Presidency

MRCTV — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:27:10 +0000

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.

Episode 821: 'News' Apps Push Leftist Propaganda Against GOP

MRCTV — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:35:56 +0000

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.

Episode 820: Elitist Media Snobbery Overflows, from UFC to JD

MRCTV — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:16:49 +0000

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.

Episode 819: Questioning California Vote Counting Is Baseless?

MRCTV — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:27:31 +0000

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.

Episode 818: Striking Gold With Dr. Mike Fuljenz

MRCTV — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:47:24 +0000

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.

Episode 817: Pelley’s Pompous Crashout and Taer Scoops on NJ ICE Facility

MRCTV — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:22:18 +0000

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.

Episode 816: Jill Biden Proves CBS Still Boosts the Democrats

MRCTV — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:19:19 +0000

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.

Episode 815: A Giant Controversy for a QB to Introduce Trump?

MRCTV — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:03:39 +0000

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.

Episode 814: Mosque Shooting Reveals 'Islamophobic' America?

MRCTV — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:26:59 +0000

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."

Episode 813: Dems Pounce on Trump's Nukes vs. Economy Answer

MRCTV — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:36:24 +0000

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.”

Episode 812: Redistricting Rot with Jim Crow and Dred Scott

MRCTV — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:50:57 +0000

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.

Episode 811: The Media Celebrate the Angry Democrat Fringe

MRCTV — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:09:27 +0000

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.

Episode 810: Singleton's Times 'Behind Enemy Lines' at CNN

MRCTV — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:02:45 +0000

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.

Episode 809: Sean Spicer on the Outraged Press vs. 'Trump 2.0'

MRCTV — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:00:30 +0000

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.

Episode 808: The Third Failed Assassin Ruins the Media Dinner

MRCTV — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:35:21 +0000

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?

Episode 807: Just Call Them the Southern Poverty FRAUD Center

MRCTV — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:46:21 +0000

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.

Episode 806: With Violent Crime In DC, Not All Victims Matter

MRCTV — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:01:12 +0000

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.

Episode 805: Is California Trying to Make Journalism Illegal?

MRCTV — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:57:31 +0000

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."

Episode 804: It's An 'Honor' for NBC to Interview a Commie?

MRCTV — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:36:23 +0000

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.

Episode 803: Flipping from the Apocalypse to 'TACO Tuesday'

MRCTV — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:48:40 +0000

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.

Episode 802: The View Tries to Abort Encouraging Happy Mothers

MRCTV — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:45:32 +0000

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.

Episode 801: NewsBusters Podcast: Revealing the 'Fact-Checking Frauds' Playbook

MRCTV — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:16:47 +0000

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.

Episode 800: 'No Kings' Collides with Democrat Crackdowns

MRCTV — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:50:50 +0000

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.

Episode 799: Networks Hate 'Illegal Alien Kills Woman' Stories

MRCTV — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:43:36 +0000

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.

Episode 798: Why Are Climate Doomsayers Never Fact-Checked?

MRCTV — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:23:50 +0000

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.

Episode 797: Why Must Comedians Drown the Oscars in Politics?

MRCTV — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:17:50 +0000

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.

Episode 796: Jake Tapper Pretends All Reporters Love America

MRCTV — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:12:32 +0000

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.

Episode 795: Networks, News Apps Skipping Popular 'SAVE Act'

MRCTV — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:16:35 +0000

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.

Episode 794: Tehran Tyrants Get the Soft Soap on Sunday

MRCTV — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:58:38 +0000

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.

Episode 793: Stelter Cries 'Fake News' That Media Hates Trump

MRCTV — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:12:14 +0000

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."

Episode 792: Iran's Tyrants Draw Media Goo and Soft Questions

MRCTV — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:19:27 +0000

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.

Episode 791: The State of Our Division Is Strong

MRCTV — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:12:10 +0000

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.

Episode 790: Pre-Game Analysis on the Media SOTU-Squashers

MRCTV — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:12:32 +0000

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.

Episode 789: Libs Coddling Colbert and Circling Around Whoopi

MRCTV — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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.

Episode 788: Yelling Democrats Dominate TV Hearings Coverage

MRCTV — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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.

Episode 787: Who Needed Bad Bunny's Polarizing Politics?

MRCTV — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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.

Episode 786: Bezos Becomes 'Evil Rich Guy' After Washington Post Cuts

MRCTV — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:01:14 +0000

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.

Episode 785: Don Lemon Makes Lemonade Out of Anti-ICE Arrest

MRCTV — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:40:45 +0000

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.

Episode 784: The Media Don't Want to De-Escalate in Minnesota

MRCTV — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:17:53 +0000

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.

Episode 783: Peter Schweizer on Media & Weaponized Migration

MRCTV — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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.”

Episode 782: Mayor Frey's 'Winter of Love' Spin Against ICE

MRCTV — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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."

Episode 781: Why Consult Actors for Law-Enforcement Expertise?

MRCTV — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Several leftist movie stars lectured about the allegedly villainous law-enforcement activities of ICE on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards. They wore "Be Good" pins to mourn Renee Good and mourned of "terrorized" immigrants. Why should we care what they think?

Episode 780: Media Mangle Facts with 'De-Escalating' SUV Mom

MRCTV — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Everyone can agree that Renee Good's shooting as she drove into an ICE agent was tragic. But the media and Democrats mangled the facts into Good was just a peaceful mom who was driving away from the villains in an exhibit of "classic de-escalation behavior."

Episode 779: It's Not 'Minnesota Nice' If You Run Over ICE

MRCTV — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:28:57 +0000

What is going on in The People’s Republic of Minnesota? The network news can hardly notice the massive welfare fraud perpetrated by Somalis in that state, and the media find nothing offensive about local Democrats telling ICE to 'get the f--k out of Minneapolis' and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE.

Episode 778: Trump Seizes Maduro, Networks Can't Find Upside

MRCTV — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Submerged in all the coverage of the American military seizing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife on Saturday was how well the mission went: the target was apprehended with zero American deaths. But the media spin was: this must be illegal, this must be headed for failure, this feels like American imperialism.

Episode 777: Media Deny Trump Any 'Achievements' in 2025

MRCTV — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

What were President Trump’s “achievements” in 2025? The media use and abuse of this term is an important measurement of bias. Conservative wins don't get the A-word. Achievements are programs like Obamacare, lauded as Obama’s “signature achievement.” It doesn’t matter if the Affordable Care Act ended up affordable. Capitalism is measured by its results. Socialism is measured by intentions.

Episode 776: Christian Toto on Comedy, Kimmel, and Rob Reiner

MRCTV — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:56:10 +0000

Did you ever notice the Hollywood Left is never guilty of hate speech? Unleashing your hatred on Donald Trump and his supporters is never subjected to “fact checking” and it’s never a reason to doubt the future of late-night “comedy.” Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com reviews the cultural landscape.

Episode 775: The 'Crisis' of Delaying a '60 Minutes' Hit Piece

MRCTV — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The leftists inside CBS News clearly despise new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who threatens to add troublesome balance to their “news.” The war erupted when Weiss delayed the latest ’60 Minutes’ hit piece on Team Trump deporting Venezuelans into a "notorious" Salvadoran prison. Delaying it is a “crisis,” the Trump-haters screamed, a “death knell for democracy.”

Episode 774: The People's Republic of Late Night Gets Worse

MRCTV — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:29:28 +0000

Alex Christy is our super-serious media analyst with the late night-comedy spreadsheet, counting jokes and guests over the last three years. In 2025, it tilted even further to the left. An amazing 92 percent of late-night political jokes are aimed at conservatives, up from 82 percent in 2024. The guest list included almost zero conservatives. Jimmy Fallon put on Greg Gutfeld in August.

Episode 773: Networks Denounce Trump's 'Hyperpartisan' Speech

MRCTV — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:21:14 +0000

President Trump gave a prime-time address on the economy on Wednesday night, and the networks felt it was necessary to attack it, especially ABC. Jon Karl claimed he'd never heard a primetime speech that "was as defensive and hyperpartisan as this one." He certainly forgot Joe Biden's 2022 Philadelphia speech denouncing "MAGA Republicans" as endangering democracy.

Episode 772: Sunday Show Suckups Let Democrats Drop Bombs

MRCTV — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

In the era of Donald Trump, journalists will earnestly tell each other that their jobs begin with fact-checking Trump's lies. They must do "fact-checking in real time." But they do nothing like that when they interview Democrats. The Sunday show hosts suck up to Democrats and let them drop rhetorical bombs, like Trump is engaging in a “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

Episode 771: Journalists Can NOT Locate a 'Far Left' Anywhere

MRCTV — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Journalists always warn us of the far right, but where on earth is the far left? When journalists are puffing socialists like Zohran Mamdani, they show where they belong on the ideological spectrum. If they tagged Ilhan Omar or AOC as "far left," our jaws would drop.

Episode 770: Derek Hunter on What Happens Next to Talk Radio?

MRCTV — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:39:34 +0000

How is talk radio doing when so many young people don't listen to broadcast radio? How can anyone stand listening to NPR? These questions and some free-speech concerns came up in a chat with Derek Hunter, an author and talk-radio host on WMAL-FM in Washington, DC.

Episode 769: Sean Spicer on the GOP and Young People's Media

MRCTV — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

As the Media Research Center reported a new poll finding that less than 25 percent of survey respondents correctly identified Charlie Kirk's killer as a leftist, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tells us that young people have largely abandoned traditional media and form opinions from very non-traditional platforms from TikTok on down.

Episode 768: Our Fragile Press Can Dish It Out, But Can't Take It

MRCTV — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The Washington Post and others were upset when the White House created a new web page to name a worst "Media Offender of the Week." How dare they challenge the "rigorous" journalism of the elitist media! Plus: You won't believe Jim Acosta's new boycott idea.

Episode 767: Why Is The Low-Trust Media Still So Influential?

MRCTV — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

On a recent radio interview, we discussed why the major media performs so poorly in polls about trust in the news, and yet, they are still influential in setting the agenda. Congress has low approval ratings -- lower than the press! -- and yet Congress is still our legislative authority. The power to decide what is "news" must still be challenged in every news cycle.

Episode 766: Welker Seeks to Underline Trump as Fascist Tyrant

MRCTV — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

NBC "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker devoted a chunk of her interview with socialist Zohran Mamdani to begging him to repeat his view that Donald Trump is a "fascist" and a "despot" and a "threat to democracy." This game of Repeat Yourself isn't about eliciting answers. It's about ginning up the most negative soundbites.

Episode 765: Scott Jennings on How He Brings the Pain on CNN

MRCTV — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings stars in viral clips for the verbal battles he has on "NewsNight with Abby Phillip." How does he prepare for TV combat, and how can he possibly stay calm in the face of leftist assaults that he's a racist or a Trump toady? He explains his CNN battles and discusses his new book on Trump, "A Revolution of Common Sense."

Episode 764: The Conveniently Timed Outbreak of Epstein Mania

MRCTV — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Once the Schumer Shutdown collapsed by the defection of more compromising Democrats, we find ourselves back in a conveniently timed outbreak of Jeffrey Epstein mania, appearing to change the subject away to whatever Democrats wanted to discuss now. Hundreds of network minutes have been spent making hyper-negative noises on how President Trump's interactions with Epstein are the latest exhibit of his evil ways.

Episode 763: Big Tech's 'Reliable Sources' Are Liberal Sources

MRCTV — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Whether it's Google News or Apple News or Wikipedia, too often the media outlets defined as "reliable sources" are the elitist liberal sources. People cruising their phones or digging into search engines are force-fed NPR, CNN, NBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times. Conservative sites are classified as unreliable. Wikipedia smeared NewsBusters as "unreliable."

Episode 762: Media Meltdown Over Schumer Shutdown Shriveling

MRCTV — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

On Sunday night, the Senate made the first steps toward ending the Schumer Shutdown, and the Keith Olbermanns of the world were fulminating away. Suddenly, the networks admitted it was the Democrats who had been holding out and shutting down things.

Episode 761: TV News Omission Helped Off-Year Democrat Wave

MRCTV — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

It was a Democratic wave election, and the journalists went surfing. The amount of TV coverage of off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City was minimal this fall, perhaps because Democrats were feeling good about their chances and didn't want to give publicity to their opponents. Negative angles on Zohran Mamdani or Jay Jones were ignored or downplayed. MRCTV's Brittany Hughes and Nick Kangadis analyze the results.

Episode 760: A New Book on Socialist 'Heir' Alexander Soros

MRCTV — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Bongino Report content manager Matt Palumbo is out with another book on the Soros family philanthropic empire. This one's titled "The Heir: Inside the (Not So) Secret Network of Alex Soros.” Our Soros expert Joseph Vazquez helps explain what Alex has been doing to make a mockery of their so-called "Open Society" foundations.

Episode 759: Interrogating the Left with Rep. Brandon Gill

MRCTV — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Congressional hearings are a great opportunity for Republicans to expose the Left with tough questions. In a March hearing with the CEOs of PBS and NPR, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) demonstrated how to drag them into answers they don't want to give. He joins the Podcast to discuss "public" media and the other occasions of liberal tilt.

Episode 758: NewsBusters Podcast: The Ludicrous Anti-Trump Ballroom Horror Movie

MRCTV — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:56:13 +0000

The networks and newspapers hyperventilating over President Trump as a "one-man wrecking ball" who okayed demolition of the East Wing of the White House to build a new ballroom is the silliest Trump scandal imaginable. He's a "mob boss" who may "never leave" office, and his architectural plans betray "a darker history in fascist and totalitarian politics."

Episode 757: Babylon Bee's Seth Dillon Dishes on Censored Humor

MRCTV — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Free speech includes the freedom to mock humorless liberals.Whether it was jokes about CNN buying huge washing machines to launder news or naming transgender Biden appointee Rachel Levine "Man Of The Year," Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tells us the Big Tech censors came to limit the reach of conservative satire.

Episode 756: NewsBusters Podcast: FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Free Speech, Broadcast Licenses & Operation Clean Carts

MRCTV — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

FCC Chair Brendan Carr joins the NewsBusters Podcast to discuss protecting free speech over the airwaves and online, the future of broadcast licenses, and Operation Clean Carts—his push to block fraudulent Chinese hardware from infiltrating U.S. networks.

Episode 755: NewsBusters Podcast: Joe Concha on Town Halls, Pelosi, and Jay Jones

MRCTV — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:01:36 +0000

CNN granted a platform on Wednesday night to socialists Bernie Sanders and AOC in a "Shutdown Town Hall." The host, Kaitlan Collins, interrupted them only nine times. But when Collins interviewed Trump in a town hall format in 2023, she interrupted 113 times. Fox News contributor Joe Concha addresses that terrible tilt and other topics.

Episode 754: 'Open Society' George Soros Backs a Violent Fringe

MRCTV — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

One of the ironies of the left is they boast about backing democracy and then support people who despise Western civilization in its entirety. Ryan Mauro of the Capital Research Center and Joseph Vazquez of MRC Business discuss the “Open Society Foundations” and how they have supported a violent far-left fringe, including terrorists both foreign and domestic.

Episode 753: PBS and NPR's Inevitable Tilt, Our Pro-Antifa Press

MRCTV — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

New studies from NewsBusters demonstrate once again that "public" broadcasting inevitably tilts toward the leftist party, and the latest violent protest in Chicago and Portland prove once again that the press is pro-antifa, pushing their bizarre line that it's not an organized movement, it's just "an idea."

Episode 752: Trump's ICE, Not Hamas, Are the Media's 'Gestapo'

MRCTV — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:04:32 +0000

Three weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination, the media are back to promoting full-throated Nazi smears, especially denouncing ICE agents as Trump's "Gestapo." Plus: the liberal media celebrate the bravado of ICE-hating Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, recently named the half-time entertainer at Super Bowl 50 in February.

Episode 751: Jane Fonda and the Left Cry Censorship NOW?

MRCTV — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:02:13 +0000

Jane Fonda is relaunching her father's "Committee for the First Amendment," proclaiming Trump is engaged in a "coordinated campaign to silence critics." We're still reckoning with the dramatic Biden Administration pressure campaign to silence and deplatform critics across Big Tech platforms. But the pro-Biden media routinely ignore leftist censorship against conservative "misinformation."

Episode 750: Suddenly, Media Cry 'Lawfare' Over Poor Jim Comey

MRCTV — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000

The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey caused wailing and gnashing of teeth in the liberal TV studios. The most ridiculous argument came from anyone arguing that suddenly the nonpartisanship of our government prosecutors has come to an unprecedented end, as if Biden didn't weaponize the Justice Department, and Democrat prosecutors never sought to ruin Trump.

Episode 749: Kimmel Was Censored, But Not Bongino or Gorka?

MRCTV — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:25:42 +0000

Google admitted the Biden administration pressured them to suppress “misinformation” from their opponents, and they shut down YouTube accounts from Dan Bongino, Steve Bannon, and Sebastian Gorka. But the networks ignore all that as they make Jimmy Kimmel into their free-speech hero, despite his non-stop lying on national TV.

Episode 748: Tilt on Kirk's Service, House Biden-Decline Probe

MRCTV — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000

The networks were mostly respectful toward the Charlie Kirk memorial service on Sunday, unlike HuffPost calling it a "ragefest" and The New York Times worrying about church-state separation. Plus: some networks have offered zero seconds on the GOP-led House investigation of how Biden's staff desperately hid his mental decline.

Episode 747: Jimmy Kimmel Schtick's Too Cruel for ABC Stations

MRCTV — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:31:14 +0000

ABC stations revolted when late-night host Jimmy Kimmel uncorked some revolting remarks about the murder of Charlie Kirk, lying against all evidence that the suspect is a Trump supporter. MRC president David Bozell joins the show to call for ABC to fully break with Kimmel's dishonesty and cruelty.

Episode 746: TV Newsers Police Conservative Speech After Kirk's Death

MRCTV — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:27:58 +0000

The Sunday "news" shows demanded that Republicans condemn angry speech by conservatives after the murder of Charlie Kirk, not leftist rhetoric. It's perverse after a conservative was gunned down on campus.

Episode 745: Absorbing The Shocking Murder of Charlie Kirk

MRCTV — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:15:56 +0000

The shock of Charlie Kirk being gunned down in Utah just doesn’t go away. There’s no one who’s been involved in conservative politics who doesn’t know about Charlie – even if some of us never met him – and there’s no one who doesn’t feel like this could have been the fate of any conservative speaker out in public.

Episode 744: Why Is 'News Judgment' Clouded by Racial Angst?

MRCTV — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:46:52 +0000

Horror bubbled up on social media over the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was randomly stabbed to death while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a homeless man with an extensive criminal and mental health record. A young woman fled war in Ukraine only to find death in an American city. The liberal networks struggled to locate it.

Episode 743: Drew Holden Unspools Media’s Manipulation of D.C. Crime

MRCTV — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:29:53 +0000

NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck speak with 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner Drew Holden to unspool some of his famous X threads calling out the liberal media’s bias. Living in the D.C. metro area, they take a deep dive in Holden’s findings regarding a dubious Washington Post poll claiming D.C. residents thought crime wasn’t an issue. They also examine the media’s knee-jerk reaction to the FBI’s raid of John Bolton’s house, claiming President Trump was on his “revenge tour.”

Episode 742: Did CBS News Really Think We Wouldn’t Notice Their New Hatchet Job?

MRCTV — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:13:11 +0000

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro were stunned by Sunday’s Face the Nation in which the show made a baffling decision to deceptively remove a key portion of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s answer about the alleged criminal record of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The fellas dove into CBS’s attempt to save face before highlighting some delicious hypocrisy at The Atlantic, a setback for Navy veteran Zachary Young in two defamation cases, and the left fawning over communist China’s military parade.

Episode 741: The Liberal Media Is Lost for Motive of Catholic-Hating Church Shooter

MRCTV — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:57:11 +0000

Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck fill in for a somber edition of the NewsBusters Podcast as they break down and analyze the liberal media’s coverage of the Annunciation Catholic Church and school shooting. They take a look at the liberal media’s refusal to identify the obvious anti-Catholic motive and the shooter’s transgenderism, all while taking jabs at prayer not saving the kids murdered in the church.

Episode 740: Abby Phillip Cries 'No Evidence' of Weaponization

MRCTV — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:10:35 +0000

When someone cries "no proof," it’s probably because they can’t handle the evidence. CNN host Abby Phillip repeatedly argued that there was no weaponization under Democrats because you can't identify a "Big Puppeteer" who's directing the entire conspiracy against Trump or Tea Party conservatives.

Episode 739: Car Crashes Are News, Except for Illegal Aliens

MRCTV — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:54:54 +0000

When is a non-lethal car accident a national news item -- and a car crash that killed three is not? When an illegal alien killed three. ABC, CBS, and NBC wouldn't touch the story of an illegal alien (with a commercial driver's license from California) who drove a truck into three people during a U-turn in Florida. We discuss this and other wokeness topics with Bill D'Agostino.

Episode 738: Omnidirectional Bias Against Trump's Policy Picks

MRCTV — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:10:20 +0000

The late professor Ted Smith accused the liberal networks of an “omnidirectional bias,” of granting negative coverage to Republicans regardless of where the winds blow, or the facts land. Nothing can go right or deserve praise. That goes double for President Trump over his talks with Russia and Ukraine.

Episode 737: Denying Any Crime Problem In DC Isn't Facts First

MRCTV — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:06:24 +0000

President Trump's temporary takeover of law enforcement in DC caused an outburst of media protest, that somehow crime was at a "historic low" -- if you use bogus numbers. Plus to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NewsBusters, we remember some of the most outrageous examples of network nonsense with Geoffrey Dickens.

Episode 736: CNN's Daniel Dale Wages War on His White Whale

MRCTV — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:45:45 +0000

President Trump held a press conference Monday to announce a federal takeover of D.C. police, and CNN unfurled its usual fury, starting with Canadian "fact checker" Daniel Dale lamenting "there was a lot of deception." But was there? Dale hemmed and hawed over Trump's framing of crime stats, while allowing that D.C. is a high-crime city.