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Guardian Reporter Outraged at 'Only 23' Tax-Funded Abortions in Northern Ireland
By Bryan Ballas | January 9, 2016 | 7:35 PM EST

For years Northern Ireland has been a safe space for the unborn. With tight regulations on abortion in place, Irish children enjoyed protection that unborn Americans could only dream about. Naturally, writer Carmen Fishwick of the Guardian seized the opportunity to exploit women to propagate abortion in the Emerald Isle. The paper's headline? "Illegal pills and trauma: how Northern Ireland's abortion ban affects women."  

Fishwick lamented that Northern Ireland has a much lower unborn body count than its neighbors.  “Just 23 legal NHS abortions took place in Northern Ireland last year, compared with more than 200,000 in the rest of the UK.”

NY Times Upset 'Armchair Watchdogs' Nitpick 'Truth' of Historic Movies
By Tim Graham | January 9, 2016 | 6:06 PM EST

On Friday, New York Times entertainment reporters Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes lamented “the dreaded Oscar-season truth squad. Once again, confrontations between an expanding field of reality-based movies and a growing pack of watchdogs, mostly of the armchair variety, have been turning the annual awards ritual into a brutal game of ‘gotcha.’”

CNN Paints Pro-Gun Conservatives as Conspiracy Theorists
By Brad Wilmouth | January 9, 2016 | 4:13 PM EST

On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN correspondent Drew Griffin filed a report painting conservative opponents of President Barack Obama's gun control initiatives as conspiracy theorists, following up on the previous report finding that a number of gun owners in Florida are suspicious that Obama wants to go further with gun control that he is letting on.

Politico’s ‘Obama Issue’ Fawns Over ‘Historic Presidency’
By Kyle Drennen | January 9, 2016 | 12:07 PM EST

The latest gushing edition of Politico Magazine released on Wednesday entitled “The Obama Issue: A Special Report on a Historic Presidency,” was loaded with one article after another largely celebrating the impact of President Obama’s waning administration.

Memo to AP: Job Growth Doesn't Automatically Equal Economic Growth
By Tom Blumer | January 9, 2016 | 11:27 AM EST

At the Associated Press, as seen at its "Top Business News" page Friday afternoon, Christopher Rugaber opened his song of praise for yesterday's jobs report ("US EMPLOYERS HIRE AT ROBUST PACE, DEFYING GLOBAL TRENDS") as follows: "American employers added a robust 292,000 jobs in December, suggesting that the U.S. economy is so far defying global weakness and growing solidly. ..."

Rugaber's opening sentence has since been revised, but the damage was done — or, being cynical, the mission was accomplished. Thanks to Rugaber's original opening sentence being used at AP-subscribing outlets nationwide, most news readers, listeners and viewers will believe that decent job growth has been translating into "solid" overall economic growth. Too bad that hasn't been the case — and there are reasons to believe that it will continue to not be the case.

NBC's Mitchell Hypes 'Special' Tie Between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair
By Matthew Balan | January 9, 2016 | 11:11 AM EST

Andrea Mitchell touted how "the [Bill] Clinton-[Tony] Blair relationship was, indeed, special" on Friday's NBC Nightly News, as she reported on the release of transcripts of conversations between the two former leaders during the former's presidency. Mitchell spotlighted how "Blair calls Clinton 'mate.' Clinton offers to babysit Blair's son. They chat about everything from Pink Panther movies to the tragedy of Princess Diana." She barely mentioned the Monica Lewinsky scandal during her report. The journalist also played up how Clinton's "legacy is relevant again, because [Hillary] is running for president."

Maddow: Motive Of Philly Cop Shooter Who Pledged ISIS Allegiance 'Murky'
By Mark Finkelstein | January 9, 2016 | 10:24 AM EST

Let's see: a guy in a Muslim tunic, who after being arrested tells police he has pledged allegiance to ISIS, and who has made trips to the Middle East, shoots 11 times at a Philly policeman, wounding him. What could be the shooter's motive? If you're Rachel Maddow, the answer is "murky" and "unclear." So said Maddow on her MSNBC show last night. 

AP Applauds 'Blistering Pace' in Jobs Report, Buries Awful Wholesale Trade News
By Tom Blumer | January 9, 2016 | 8:47 AM EST

Yesterday at NewsBusters, Ken Shepherd noted how quickly and gleefully the New York Times jumped ("an impressive sprint capping off a year of solid job growth") on December's relatively strong jobs report.

The Associated Press joined the parade — "US EMPLOYERS HIRE AT BLISTERING PACE, DEFYING GLOBAL TRENDS" – and kept its story as its lead in its Business "Top Stories" until late afternoon. While that treatment was defensible, the absence of the wire service's terse coverage of the government's disturbing wholesale sales and inventories report from the "Top 10" roster wasn't. Clearly, the good news stays, while the bad news gets memory-holed at the Administration's Press.

Bozell & Graham Column: The Cosby-Clinton Double Standard Media
By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | January 9, 2016 | 8:00 AM EST

The indictment of Bill Cosby for sexual assault could play an important role in the 2016 campaign. On Comedy Central, leftist “fake news” anchor Larry Wilmore said even if Cosby isn’t convicted, a trial is a good thing. “For too long, the women who have accused him of this crime were not being listened to, because they were being silenced by a powerful man and a complicit culture. And, now, finally, regardless of what happens next, they're being heard.”

A powerful man, a complicit culture: sounds like Bill Clinton – except the real “news” media will never turn on him.

LA Times: 'White People Must Take Responsibility' for Trump
By Melissa Mullins | January 9, 2016 | 7:27 AM EST

The Los Angeles Times hired Dexter Thomas as a “contact reporter” to cover “black Twitter,” to write about black issues as they percolate through social media. But he ended 2015 by doling out advice to white people in an analysis headlined “In 2016, white people must take responsibility for Donald Trump.”

Or as Thomas put it, "White people, come get your boy."

NBC Drops Covering Iraqi Refugee Arrests; Led With It On 'Today'
By Matthew Balan | January 8, 2016 | 10:58 PM EST

Friday's NBC Nightly News failed to cover the arrests of two Iraqi refugees in Texas and California on terror charges. This omission came hours after the network's morning show, Today, led their broadcast with the story. The same evening, ABC and CBS's evening newscasts both covered the arrests of Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab and Omar Faraj Saeed al Hardan, who are accused of having connections to the radical Islamic group, ISIS.

Blogger Jonathan Chait: Rubio’s Not ‘Channeling Conservative Anger,’ But He’s Still a Right-Wing Extremist
By Tom Johnson | January 8, 2016 | 9:29 PM EST

In a Wednesday post, New York magazine's Chait sought to debunk the belief that Marco Rubio is a moderate. As for why some might see him that way, Chait suggested a few reasons, among them that Rubio, unlike fellow Republican presidential contenders Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, “avoids statements that make him appear ostentatiously deranged.”

Chait argued that while Rubio’s focus on positioning himself for the fall campaign “holds him back from viscerally channeling conservative anger,” the Florida senator is nonetheless a hardcore right-winger on economic and social issues and hasn’t distanced himself from “the excesses of the Bush administration’s wild-eyed response to the 9/11 attacks.”

Faux Feminists at NY Times Suddenly Think Bringing Up Sex Harassment 'Way Out of Line'
By Clay Waters | January 8, 2016 | 8:04 PM EST

The New York Times, an outlet that has respectfully pondered the idea of a flourishing “rape culture” in the United States, and which irresponsibly furthered false accusations against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of rape by a stripper in 2006, suddenly doesn’t think sexual harassment is worth talking about. Or at least not when the accused is Democratic “big dog” Bill Clinton, and the topic might risk his wife becoming president in 2016. After Donald Trump re-injected Clinton’s sordid sexual past into the news stream, the paper responded with an editorial accusing Trump of trying to “tar” Hillary Clinton in “sexist fashion” to her husband’s dark sexual past – even though Hillary herself tore down the reputations of her husband’s accusers in order to save the couples’ political skin.

Sure Sounds Like Ed Schultz Believes Juanita Broaddrick is Credible
By Jack Coleman | January 8, 2016 | 7:31 PM EST

"Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed and supported," Hillary Clinton tweeted in November while temporarily banishing all memories associated with her husband.

Former MSNBCer Ed Schultz, now podcasting daily since getting booted from the cable network last summer and ending his radio show in 2014, apparently agrees with Hillary Clinton -- although there's a specific victim of alleged sexual assault she'd like to banish from everyone's memory.

 

Obama Promotes 'Smart Gun' Use While Top Recipient of Industry Money
By Randy Hall | January 8, 2016 | 5:35 PM EST

During Barack Obama's town hall event hosted by Anderson Cooper on the Cable News Network Thursday evening, the president encouraged the use of “smart guns” that are designed to be fired only if the owner has a chip in a band or bracelet that prevents anyone -- from children to criminals -- from using the firearm.

However, the Democratic official failed to mention that he was the top recipient of campaign cash in 2008 and 2012 from the “smart gun” manufacturing industry, which stands to benefit from an influx of millions of dollars from his executive action calling for more research into the technology.