As the government shutdown continued, the Media Research Center kept up an emphasis on hammering its preferred narrative, that Democrats were solely to blame for it:
- Kimmel Gets Triggered At The Idea Of Schumer Is Behind Shutdown
- ‘F*** You, James Madison’: Stewart Rants At Founders Amid Government Shutdown
- PBS Whines Trump, GOP Won’t Buckle On Shutdown
- Colbert and Wagner Gush Over No Kings, Dems’ Government Shutdown
- Jonathan Martin Admits Government Shutdown Is about Dems Defying Trump
- NBC’s Kristen Welker Presses Secretary Bessent to End the Shutdown
- WATCH: CNBC’s Becky Quick Completely Wrecks Hakeem Jeffries on Shutdown Hypocrisy
- ABC, CBS’s Nightlies OMIT Government Worker Union’s Call to End The Shutdown
- Colbert and Gallego Seek To Align Shutdown Talking Points
- Shutdown: CNN’s Audie Cornish Pushes Republicans To Cave To Democrat Demands
- Amid Travel Chaos, ABC and CBS Skip Airlines Telling Dems To Give Up On Shutdown
Craig Bannister used his sad little CNSNews.com platform to spread more right-wing propaganda:
- Dem Whip Katherine Clark: Families Suffering from Shutdown Give Us Leverage
- Every Shutdown in Last 35 Years Was Ended by a Continuing Resolution Like the One Dems are Rejecting
- Democrats’ Support of Illegal Aliens Also Caused the Previous Shutdown
- List of Democrat Strongholds Calling on Party to End Shutdown Swells
Curtis Houck served up his own lame “study” in an Oct. 28 post:
A NewsBusters analysis of five leading liberal Capitol Hill reporters has found that, by a margin of roughly two-and-a-half-to-one (72 to 28), they have taken to X more times since the start of the government shutdown to condemn Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House for being out of session than they have highlighted crucial government programs like food stamps and pay for soldiers that have been affected by the Democrat-created crisis.
With X posts starting with the shutdown itself on October 1 and running through Monday, NewsBusters chose five of the longest-tenured and well-known reporters on the Hill: PunchBowl’s John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman, The New York Times’s Annie Karni, independent reporter Jamie Dupree (formerly with Cox), and The Washington Post’s Paul Kane.
Concerning attacks on Johnson and the House, we found 72 relevant tweets using the following terms: Calendar, district, House, out, session, votes, and work. Tweets specifically discussing Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) were not included.
Houck didn’t explain why right-wing Capitol Hill reporters were not surveilled. Instead, he pressed his narrative yet again:
The liberal press have always been hostile toward Republicans and government shutdowns have long been an unfortunate but crystal clear contrast.
But given the fact that this shutdown has been driven by their fellow liberals, these journalists have used social media to eschew the usual tactic of accusing Republicans of being heartless to instead complain about….process.
In fact, polls show that the public increasingly blamed Republicans for the shutdown.