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Pundit: Woman-Hating, Limbaugh-Loving Republicans Have No Business Making Bill Clinton’s Sex Life a Campaign Issue
By Tom Johnson | January 6, 2016 | 9:32 PM EST

Give columnist Paul Waldman credit for coming up with a real grabber of a lead: “Get ready, America: we're about to take a long and unpleasant journey back down Bill Clinton's pants.” Less amusing is the rest of Waldman’s Monday American Prospect piece, which trashed Republicans for raising the 42nd president’s sexual behavior as an issue in the current presidential campaign.

Waldman jeered at GOPers for “pretend[ing] to…care so deeply about women” while being “the party that wants to keep women from being able to sue for discrimination on the job, the party that wants to keep insurance companies from having to provide coverage for birth control, the party that wants to make abortion illegal, the party whose favorite media figure, Rush Limbaugh, positively luxuriates in his hateful misogyny.” Moreover, argued Waldman, reporters’ fascination with Clinton’s sex life demonstrates that “the right's charges of endemic liberal media bias” are “laughable.”

Matthews Insists Hillary's a Centrist Democrat; She 'Doesn't Want to Be a Socialist'
By Ken Shepherd | January 6, 2016 | 9:29 PM EST

During a segment on tonight's Hardball centered around Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's criticism on the campaign trail that Hillary is insufficiently liberal and a flip-flopper on key issues, host Chris Matthews insisted that the architect of single-payer Hillarycare is a down the middle centrist, at worst slightly center left.

Networks Punt on ObamaCare Repeal, Planned Parenthood Vote Passing Congress
By Curtis Houck | January 6, 2016 | 9:14 PM EST

On Wednesday night, the major network evening newscasts all failed to cover the first full, successful congressional vote to repeal of ObamaCare and defund of Planned Parenthood that will go to President Obama’s desk where he’ll likely veto the measures seeking to undo his health care law and strike federal funding from the nation’s largest provider of abortions.

CNN's Foreman Frets Gun Control to Be Obama's 'Great Unfinished Business'
By Brad Wilmouth | January 6, 2016 | 8:13 PM EST

On Tuesday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman ran a piece sympathetic to President Barack Obama's failure to achieve his "passion" to enact new gun control against the opposition of the "gun lobby" in the aftermath of each public mass shooting during his presidency.

Foreman concluded his report by lamenting that "the matter of gun violence could well remain the great unfinished business of his presidency," with substitute host Kate Bolduan chiming in, "You're absolutely right."

The Delusional Self-Importance of the Liberal Media; Sorry Guys, Freedom of the Press Isn't Just for the Legacy Media
By David Limbaugh | January 6, 2016 | 7:28 PM EST

I have long marveled at liberals' air of superiority and lack of self-reflection, which have always been particularly evident among liberal media elites and journalists. They tend to view themselves as sacrosanct and above scrutiny.

Perhaps this attitude sprang from the British and, later, American tradition that the press is the Fourth Estate. It doesn't just serve to inform the people and make them better contributors to the democratic process. It is the virtual fourth branch of government, operating as a watchdog on the formal branches to further check their potential abuses of power.

CNN's Lemon Lets Far-Left Guest Wildly Berate Pro-Gun Conservative
By Matthew Balan | January 6, 2016 | 5:33 PM EST

Don Lemon granted the heckler's veto to Igor Volsky of Think Progress on Tuesday's CNN Tonight. Volsky repeatedly interrupted conservative talk show host Ben Ferguson during a panel discussion segment about President Obama's executive orders on gun control, and unleashed on the pro-gun lobby: "They want to silence any reasonable discussion about what can you do when a guy walks into a school and kills twenty first graders. That's the reason why it's about the 'Second Amendment.'" The left-wing guest put up his fingers up as scare quotes as he mentioned the Second Amendment.

ABC Hypes Obama on Guns: ‘America’s Parent-in-Chief’
By Scott Whitlock | January 6, 2016 | 5:28 PM EST

According to Nightline co-anchor Byron Pitts, Barack Obama is “America’s parent-in-chief” when it comes to guns. The ABC journalist on Tuesday night hyped the President’s White House speech: “Camera clicks the only sound in the White House east room as the normally stoic President Obama openly wept and paused to compose himself.” 

AP Highlights Wednesday's One Piece of Good Economic News, Buries Three Weaker Items
By Tom Blumer | January 6, 2016 | 4:29 PM EST

Today was a fairly brisk day for economic data, as four noteworthy reports were released. One of them contained good news, but with a heavy asterisk. The other three were either not good, period, or came in below expectations.

Readers here probably know which one the Associated Press was still carrying at its Top Business Stories page as of 2:39 p.m. Of course, it was the one with good news.

Inside the Garden of Town Hall Plants
By Michelle Malkin | January 6, 2016 | 4:04 PM EST

On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will "take questions from the audience."

Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question.

NBC’s Today Set to Air Obama Infomercial Live From White House
By Kyle Drennen | January 6, 2016 | 3:32 PM EST

At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teased an “exciting” announcement about the morning show preparing to broadcast from a new location far from its New York studio. Fellow co-host Savannah Guthrie added: “Yeah, the whole show is headed somewhere. We’ll have more on that in a minute.”

Cruz, Rubio Charged with Race Treason by Univision’s Jorge Ramos
By Jorge Bonilla | January 6, 2016 | 2:36 PM EST

Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are being denounced by Univision's Jorge Ramos as traitors to their ethnic roots, because neither of them toe his preferred line on immigration policy.

Brent Bozell Slams Media’s ‘Unanimous’ Push for Gun Control
By NB Staff | January 6, 2016 | 1:26 PM EST

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Wednesday slammed the media’s seemingly “universal” push for gun control. Appearing on Varney and Company, he explained, “There are three issues, Stuart, where the media... won't brook dissension. Gay rights, global warming, and gun control.” 

Larry Wilmore Raps 'Complicit Culture' Around Bill Cosby, But What About Bill Clinton?
By Melissa Mullins | January 6, 2016 | 1:01 PM EST

Larry Wilmore, host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, didn’t hold back his joyful glee on Monday night when he opened his first show of 2016 with Bill Cosby’s framed mugshot. “This is exactly what I wanted! How did you know?” Wilmore gushed over this apparent Christmas gift.  He then so eloquently added, “Yes, we didn’t forget about you, motherf***er, and now neither did the justice system...”

He lamented how the women accusing Cosby were "silenced by a powerful man and a complicit culture." So what about the other Bill, Bill Clinton?

CMP Releases Highlight Reel Targeting Planned Parenthood
By Katie Yoder | January 6, 2016 | 12:45 PM EST

In the wake of Wednesday’s vote by the U.S. House, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) is reminding the public of why Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

At midnight, CMP released a video compilation of highlights from its past videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts. Entitled "‘PROFIT’ - Planned Parenthood's Illicit Moneymaking From Baby Body Parts,” the two minute and 23 second film came the same day the U.S. House is scheduled to vote on Senate-passed legislation that would halt funding for the abortion giant. 

Nets Amazed by Obama’s ‘Anger and Emotions’ on Gun Control
By Kyle Drennen | January 6, 2016 | 12:39 PM EST

All three network morning shows on Wednesday were in awe of President Obama tearing up during his White House gun control address on Tuesday. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer used the “rare display of emotion” to tee-up a four-minute segment on “The Politics of Tears” and Obama being the “Latest in Long Line of Emotional Politicians.”