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By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015 | 12:09 PM EST

With the year winding down and the news cycle slowing (aside from the weather), Wednesday’s CBS This Morning found it proper to reserve 59 seconds for fawning over Hillary Clinton receiving a question on Tuesday from a young boy about equal pay. Spinning it in the on-screen headline as some “pay perspective” from Clinton, fill-in co-host Margaret Brennan started the brief by making clear that the former secretary of state “did not mention Trump by name at a rally in New Hampshire” and instead “argued the economy does better when a Democrat is president.”

By Kristine Marsh | December 30, 2015 | 10:28 AM EST

It’s a given that the majority of Hollywood’s top stars are outspoken liberals. But this year, a few celebrities in particular made the media go ga-ga (and conservatives groan) over their pushy politics and their perpetual time in the spotlight.

 
By Sam Dorman | December 30, 2015 | 10:04 AM EST

The Atlantic needs a reminder that journalists should mention both sides when covering stories. The Society of Professional Journalists says the media are supposed to “support the open and civil exchange of views.” That includes climate change.

Ignoring that standard, Atlantic writers bypassed objectivity and went straight to alarmism by asking a number of “experts” “Can the Planet Be Saved?” in a Dec. 28 article.

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015 | 9:54 AM EST

Today’s installment of the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” as selected by our 39 expert judges, the “The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.” Winning this award, former Star Trek actor George Takei, who in a local news interview on June 30 spluttered out a racist condemnation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after being asked about Thomas’s dissent in the gay marriage ruling:

By Tim Graham | December 30, 2015 | 7:39 AM EST

The New York Times is transparently panicking about Republican-backing billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s secretive purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In a Monday article by Barry Meier and Sydney Ember, they strongly imply that it’s okay when billionaires buy newspapers, as long as they don’t tilt the political playing field to the right.

Adelson has used his Israeli media holdings as a "powerful weapon" for Bibi Netanyahu, so that's very troubling to the lefties in Times Square.

By Tom Blumer | December 29, 2015 | 11:46 PM EST

Just one week after CNN's Don Lemon shut down a guest who dared to raise the issue, there is now an agreement across the ideological spectrum that if Hillary Clinton is going to use her husband Bill as a campaign surrogate and go after her opponents' real or imagined sexism, then, as the headline at liberal Ruth Marcus's Monday evening Washington Post column says, "Bill Clinton's sordid sexual history is fair game."

Meanwhile, a Wall Street Journal editorial, while citing Marcus's column, agrees: "if Mrs. Clinton wants everyone to forget about Bill’s harassment of women, she ought to stop playing the sexism card, or drop Bill as surrogate, or both."

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | December 29, 2015 | 11:11 PM EST

Hillary Clinton has slammed Donald Trump for having a “penchant for sexism,” but the Clinton-adoring media are acting shocked and dismayed that Trump would be so rude as to respond that she ought to look at her own husband when it comes to sexism and a “record of women abuse.” Reporters are treating this as a sketchy allegation, or if true, a remarkably impolite way to campaign.

"Alleged” is the lying weasel word of the day. "Alleged" adultery? "Alleged" sexual harassment and intern exploitation? Reporters acted like they were literally born yesterday.

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015 | 8:00 PM EST

A week after he cut the mic of conservative guest Kurt Schlichter for bringing up Bill Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct, CNN host Don Lemon found himself trying to shut down another guest during Monday’s CNN Tonight when conservative radio host and CNN GOP debate co-moderator Hugh Hewitt argued that Donald Trump should use his Twitter account to educate millennials on the former President’s past.

By NB Staff | December 29, 2015 | 7:11 PM EST

"According to a new report, welfare recipients in Maine are using their benefits to purchase alcohol, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.  OR, as Democrats call it: the safety net." – NewsBusted's Jodi Miller.

By Mark Finkelstein | December 29, 2015 | 6:41 PM EST

Judging by Nicolle Wallace's performance on today's With All Due Respect, it looks like establishment Republicans are going full bore against Ted Cruz. Here was Wallace talking about her personal experience with Ted Cruz: "I worked with him on the [2000 Bush/Gore] recount in Florida, and the recount was sort of ground zero for the biggest egos in both parties in the whole country, and he rose to the top in terms of hubris and egomania."

Co-host John Heilemann was flabbergasted: "you're saying that among all of your colleagues in the recount effort, that he was the biggest ego?  Is that really what I heard you say? Wow! That is an incredible thing to say."

By Randy Hall | December 29, 2015 | 6:06 PM EST

Liberal pundit Bill Moyers decided to “celebrate” the holiday season by posting a negative opinion piece from the Far Left that stated “the super rich” and the “vast inequality” between segments of the population “are creating a death sentence for government of the people.”

“This is the fight of our lives,” the managing editor of the BillMoyers.com website asserted, and how “the bipartisan disgusting spectacle” ends “is up to us.”

By Melissa Mullins | December 29, 2015 | 4:47 PM EST

During a trip to the Kara Tepe Syrian refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, actress Susan Sarandon tried the tired talking point that Syrian refugees are like the Virgin Mary and Joseph sojourning from Nazareth. Sarandon was describing her encounter with a 16-year-old refugee girl who had recently given birth.

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015 | 3:46 PM EST

During his latest phone-in interview Tuesday morning, Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s Today where co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to convince Trump that former President Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs (and specifically what occurred with Monica Lewinsky) were merely “alleged” and thus might not be fair to bring up in a campaign involving Hillary Clinton.

By Sarah Stites | December 29, 2015 | 3:09 PM EST

It’s no secret that ABC pushes the gay agenda. But if you doubt it, wait until its newest miniseries comes out (pun intended).

Authored by openly gay screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, When We Rise will detail the history of the gay rights movement from the 1969 Stonewall Riots to the present day. It follows the stories of three people who are also members of the women’s rights movement, the peace movement and the black rights movement. “It's When We Rise, not When Gay People Rise,” Black told Adweek. “It's about how everyone benefits when we lift up any one group in this country.” If you think it will be a neutral examination of one of the biggest rights movement of our time, think again. 

By NB Staff | December 29, 2015 | 12:32 PM EST

MRC president Brent Bozell appeared Tuesday morning on the Fox Business program Varney & Co. to discuss the media feigning shock that Donald Trump would dare question Bill Clinton's record on sexism and "alleged sexual misconduct." They insist it was all "just sex, sex, sex. In fact, Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, and he lost his license to practice law in the state of Arkansas."