Bill D'Agostino
Bill D'Agostino | April 1, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. CNN’s Poppy Harlow got her talking points confused on Monday morning and accidentally ended up making an argument that supported President Trump's case for closing the southern border: "But as you know, I mean, you know the stats. In terms of just drug flow, one thing you noted, that 90% of illegal drugs like heroin and – you know, with the opioid…
Bill D'Agostino | March 26, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. MRC founder and president Brent Bozell appeared on Monday's Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream to discuss the end of Robert Mueller's investigation into the notion that President Trump colluded with the Russians in the 2016 campaign. Bozell insisted the Democrats and their media allies  refuse to accept Mueller's finding that there was no collusion…
Bill D'Agostino | March 25, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Attorney General William Barr's inclusion of the phrase “does not exonerate” in his summary of the Mueller report has become something of a security blanket for liberal journalists. For the past 24 hours, CNN hosts and commentators have clung to the phrase with something bordering on obsession, repeating it ad nauseam in a vain attempt to reassure…
Bill D'Agostino | March 25, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. The Sunday afternoon letter from Attorney General Bill Barr on the Mueller report has rocked the political world and burst more than a few bubbles in the liberal media, most notably their years-long insistence that the President and/or his team colluded with Russia. Some journalists have conceded this reality upon hearing from the special counsel’s…
Bill D'Agostino | March 20, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. CNN still has yet to report on the now week-old lawsuit filed against them by lawyers for Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann. The suit, which accuses the cable network of “falsely attacking, vilifying, and bullying” the teenager, has not received a single second of airtime during any CNN broadcast, nor has it been mentioned in…
Bill D'Agostino | March 15, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. CNN has discovered that Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is a white male, and they are not happy about it. The cable network went into race-baiting overdrive following the announcement of O’Rourke’s candidacy, airing hours of feverish handwringing over whether Beto’s “white maleness” rendered him an unacceptable candidate.
Bill D'Agostino | March 11, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has spent the past week using his evening show The Situation Room as a platform for Democratic lawmakers to plug their numerous investigations of President Trump. Blitzer, a veteran reporter and host on the network, is not a name that immediately springs to mind when one thinks of biased or outlandish statements from CNN…
Bill D'Agostino | March 6, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Former MSNBC contributor Daniel Goldman, who was recently hired as director of investigations for the House Intelligence Committee, has quite a track record of spewing anti-Trump Democratic talking points on cable television. Over the past few months alone, Goldman has used his television platform to tell viewers “that the President has committed a…
Bill D'Agostino | March 4, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. With Special Counsel Robert Mueller expected to deliver his report on alleged Russian collusion as early as this week, it’s worth a look back at how the news media greeted the results of another presidential investigation two decades ago. Unlike today’s media depiction of Mueller as an authoritative, non-partisan fact-finder, when Independent Counsel…
Bill D'Agostino | February 28, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Justifying the gargantuan amount of Cohen coverage they provided yesterday, media talking heads continuously claimed that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen was a contemporary version of Nixon lawyer John Dean, and that his testimony constituted the Watergate hearing of our time.