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Another one bites the dust!  Joy Reid is done at MSNBC.  There’s a long line of uber-leftist journalists (going back to CBS’s Dan Rather and NBC’s Bryant Gumbel) that the MRC has highlighted over the years who’ve lost their jobs for being astoundingly biased. But the hate-filled Reid was so voluminous in her rants against conservatives that she had her own category in our annual Worst of the Year awards.  The following is just a tiny, but staggering, sampling of Reid’s rants while she was…

The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks are freaking out over the Trump administration’s cuts of their beloved big government programs. They’ve filled their broadcasts with sob stories of federal workers losing jobs and fearmongering over how that may hurt everything from food and airline safety to how fast the IRS can issue refunds.  What they’ve hidden from their viewers is how Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have already saved the hard-working American taxpayer…

CORRECTION (February 12): The original version of this blog misattributed the quote  “They don’t care what happens to the people of the world because they don’t vote in the United States. They don’t care that hundreds of millions of people are going to have to be on the edge of starvation if these programs aren’t restored immediately,” to Eugene Robinson. Another guest on the same show, former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios, actually made that remark on the Feb.7 edition of MSNBC's Morning…

It’s official! Friday will be Andrea Mitchell’s last day hosting her daytime MSNBC show Andrea Mitchell Reports. Mitchell made the official announcement on Monday’s show. Back in October, Mitchell made the decision to step down from the daily duties of hosting her MSNBC show but will continue at NBC News in her roles as chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent. Before she departs on Friday, we at NewsBusters wanted to take a not-so fond look back at just some of…

It’s been a busy month for your friendly neighborhood bias-trackers here at NewsBusters.  The leftist media began it by attacking President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and dumping on his (inauguration) moment.  They then proceeded to libel Trump and Elon Musk as a bunch of fascist Nazis, while tossing final bouquets to Joe Biden.  The following are just some of the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist anchors, hosts, correspondents and pundits over the past month:    MSNBC’s…

It’s official! Chuck Todd is finally donezo at NBC!  According to Variety, the longtime NBC News correspondent and former moderator of Meet the Press is leaving the network for good: “Chuck Todd, the former Meet the Press moderator, is leaving NBC News, he told colleagues in a memo issued Friday, a move he’s making in order to pursue ventures outside the NBCUniversal empire.”  The writing was on the wall when Todd was replaced by Kristen Welker as moderator of Meet the Press back in 2023. …

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)     NOMINEES:    1. MSNBC’s Measuring Scale for Trump “On a fascism scale of one to ten with ten being peak fascism, how would you rate Trump’s first week?” — Substitute host Katie Phang to Democratic strategist James Carville on MSNBC’s The Beat, January 24.   2. You Voted for Trump and Eggs Are Still Expensive, “Great Job White Folks!” “I wrote specifically about this issue — what he [Donald Trump] was going to do to…

CNN’s cantankerous anti-Donald Trump anchor Jim Acosta is FINALLY leaving the network. He formally announced his departure on Tuesday’s show. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to kick him on the way out.  As is customary at NewsBusters we like to send off these leftist journalists with a reminder of their obnoxiousness over the years. We just did one for CBS’s Norah O’Donnell (They’re dropping like flies out here!)  The MRC archive is full of Acosta’s disgusting attacks on…

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)     NOMINEES:    You Know Who Else Was Voted Into Office? Hitler!  Co-host Joy Behar: “This is not a normal inauguration. This is not a normal person. He’s a convicted felon. Why do they go as if this is a normal inauguration? And it’s not.”...Co-host Sara Haines: “The normalizing of President Trump happened when the American public went out and voted.”Behar: “The Germans voted also. Just saying.”— ABC’s The View, January…

Time to wave bye-bye to Norah O’Donnell. The CBS Evening News anchor’s final show will be Thursday. So as is customary here at NewsBusters — whenever a longtime left-leaning host departs their program or network  — we like to show them the door with a reminder of their most biased moments.  O’Donnell (who began her run in the anchor chair in July 2019) most recently inserted herself in the 2024 campaign. NewsBusters readers will remember when she and her colleague Margaret Brennan tag-teamed…

We’ve got a brand new, fun interactive series for the new year called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.   Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).   The results are in and the winner is…. Joy Behar! It wasn’t a close race as the ABC’s The View co-…

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)     NOMINEES:    1. Will Trump Immigration Limits Stop the Next Albert Einstein From Coming to America? “When you look at Einstein and you look at Henry Kissinger, they were refugees to this country. Donald Trump set refugee admissions at very low levels first term. He’s talking about blocking refugee admissions this term. Is that a mistake?”— Host Margaret Brennan to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on CBS’s Face…

[LANGUAGE WARNING] With President Joe Biden’s imminent departure and Donald Trump’s return to the White House the leftist media have spent the last month making last gasp defenses of Biden’s “mental acuity” while trashing Trump cabinet nominations (like Pete Hegseth) as a “throwback” to the “11th century.”  MSNBC host Symone Sanders laughably asserted that Biden’s “mental acuity is there.” Her MSNBC colleagues Joe Scarborough and Elise Jordan claimed Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth’s views…

From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study. The 99 percent figure came during the heat of the presidential campaign season, including both party conventions, and its aftermath from June 3 through December 19. The study looked at the five daily late night comedy shows: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy…

After a strike-shortened 2023, 2024 was a busy year for the late night comedians. During the last year, the men of late night told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226, or 82 percent, were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political aisle, an MRC study has found. From January 8 through December 19, MRC analysts analyzed all five of the daily late night talk shows: Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring…