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May 12: ABC prays Pope Leo XIV will ‘counter’ Trump.

On this episode of the NewsBusters podcast, I discusses the liberal media’s reaction to the Trump administration’s wins on the world stage over the weekend and their begrudging admission of hard truths (or something close enough). I also speaks with podcast producer Ben Graham about the media’s continued attempts to claim Pope Leo XIV as theirs (while trying to pit him against the conservative…

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After initially bristling at the election of Pope Leo XIV because of his support for traditional marriage, purported “devout Catholic” and staunch racist Sunny Hostin announced that she changed her mind about the pope. She made it clear during the Monday edition of ABC’s The View that her sudden change in position was driven by the pope’s black ancestry, which she repeatedly praised…

While the liberal media previously scoffed at the necessity of the Department of Government Accountability (DOGE), suggesting that the federal government wasn’t losing a significant amount of money through fraud, CBS’s 60 Minutes did something astounding on Sunday night: admit the truth. Cecilia Vega actually spoke with a former official with the Government Accountability Office (GAO…

Over the weekend, the United States and China took a step back from their economic brinkmanship and reached a 90-day trade deal that rolled back much of the tariffs both sides were planning to levy on each other. But instead of portraying it as a victory for America as the Trump administration negotiated better trade deals, ABC’s Good Morning America treated it as though the pain of…

On Morning Joe, describing President Trump's "amazing agenda" of diplomatic peace efforts around the world, MSNBC analyst David Ignatius of the Washington Post says there's "something to" the notion that Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize, noting that Trump's initiatives have been "generally positive."

If it’s Sunday, it’s time for Kristen Welker to press another Democrat guest into stating that the country is in a constitutional crisis…on Meet the Press. This week’s guest, Minnesota U.S. Senator and former 2020 presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar.

Despite warnings to the contrary, ABC News continues to inject American politics into their coverage of the papacy. The most Trump-averse of the legacy networks continues to wishcast their desire that Pope Leo XIV become an anti-Trump Resistance figure. 

The legacy media have largely avoided reporting on Friday’s ICE-Surrection at a New Jersey detention facility. On this Sunday’s CNN State of the Union, however, we see what clearly looks to be favorable coverage that sidesteps the violent nature of what happened there.

In both 2005 and 2013, when Popes Benedict XVI and Francis were elected, American journalists reacted to each Pope’s elevation by complaining about their traditional conservative attitudes while lobbying for the Church to “liberalize” on a host of issues.

Here’s the latest in an occasional series on how Parents magazine, a popular and ostensibly harmless outlet providing child-caring tips, smuggles in ultra-left-wing views inside the diaper bags, views that are harmful to the very children Parents is supposed to be helping. The latest offensive entry, “Medical Experts Continue to Support Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth…

Amazing. Over there in Rome the Cardinals of the Catholic Church have, astonishing the world, elected an American. That would be one Cardinal Robert Prevost, elected as the heir to the chair of St. Peter. The Cardinal, born in Chicago, is now Pope Leo XIV. (For those not into Roman numerals, that would be Leo the 14th.)

Not even the death of a former Supreme Court justice can stop PBS News Hour from freaking out about President Donald Trump setting up some sort of dictatorship. On Friday, former Trump impeachment witness and David Souter law clerk Noah Feldman joined the show to remember his former boss and while he never explicitly mentioned Trump, it was clear who he was referring to when he…