NewsBusters Podcast

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.