CNN Has Cozy Interview With Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Fails to ID Him as Demo

Is CNN this cozy only with Democrats? New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo was on Tuesday's New Day with his brother Chris, the show's co-host, for a playful interview. The network failed to identify the governor as a Democrat. Co-host Kate Bolduan hailed Gov. Cuomo's "Sexiest Fiftysomething" award by People magazine and the Cuomos enjoyed some light-hearted banter including this line, "New York…
Matt Hadro

Fox News Clobbers CNN and MSNBC on 50th Anniversary of JFK Assassinati

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, you would have thought people would have been clamoring for the liberal views espoused by CNN and MSNBC. Such wasn't the case, for last Friday, Fox News clobbered its competition from the moment the sun rose till the time most people went to bed.
Noel Sheppard

See This? Journalist Chrystia Freeland Revolves Into Canadian Parliame

Former Reuters editor and American TV pundit Chrystia Freeland has been elected to the Canadian Parliament -- Liberal Party, of course. Freeland's last Reuters blog was in mid-July, and Time reported her surprise campaign at the end of that month. She grew up in Alberta, and carpet-bagged to Toronto for a special election. Her latest book came out in September and was gushed over by Bill Moyers…
Tim Graham

Kimmel: President's Visit 'Turned LA Into the Traffic Equivalent of Ob

As NewsBusters has been reporting for almost two months, the disastrous rollout of Barack Obama's signature piece of legislation has made him the butt of late night jokes. On ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday, the host repeatedly mocked the President's fundraising trip to California saying, "He basically turned the westside of Los Angeles into the traffic equivalent of the ObamaCare website" (…
Noel Sheppard

AP Touts Retail Group's Projected Nov.-Dec. Spending Increase, Ignores

On October 3, the National Retail Federation projected that "sales in the months of November and December" will "marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth." But on October 16, it warned that "the average holiday shopper will spend $737.95 on gifts, décor, greeting cards and more, two percent less than the $752.24 they actually…
Tom Blumer

Today Show Skips Why 'Knockout Game' Perp Was Caught; Shot by Conceale

The mainstream media has finally gotten around to covering the "knockout game" which has already been reported on Fox News. However, even though they are now beginning to report on it, they still cling to some biases. In the case of the Today Show it was a bias against defending yourself with legal weapons. In their story about the knockout game which included a segment about one of the…
P.J. Gladnick

Stuffed Full of it: Top Five Food Police Turkeys

The media love a good food scare.
Mike Ciandella

LOL: Forget Obamacare, Tina Brown Says Obama's Legacy Will Be His 'Sma

How shambolic of a smoking ruin is the Obama presidency?  When Tina Brown surveys the wreckage, the best—the best!—thing she sees, the thing she believes will be Barack Obama's shining legacy, is his handling of Iran and Syria, which she declares to be "smart," and of course, "nuanced." The Obamacare catastrophe? Not to worry.  On today's Morning Joe, Brown assured us that those problems are…
Mark Finkelstein

NY Times Raves Over Meryl Streep Reading Audiobook of Vicious Attack o

The New York Times gave another warm, huggy article to gay author Colm Toibin’s vicious anti-Christian “Testament of Mary” in the Sunday Book Review. They’ve praised it as a book, they’ve praised it as a play. On Sunday, they praised it as an audio book, with the bizarre claim of a Christ-denying Mary voiced by ...Meryl Streep. Times theatre critic Charles Isherwood gave the rave for Streep…
Tim Graham

The Numbers: Media Have Mostly Ignored Martin Bashir’s Sick Attack o

Much has been said in recent days about the obvious double-standard employed by the left-wing MSNBC cable news channel after host Martin Bashir said that Sarah Palin deserved to be defecated and urinated upon. While he was forced to apologize on the air for his remarks, Bashir has been neither suspended nor fired, unlike actor Alec Baldwin who was suspended for two weeks for allegedly using…
Matthew Sheffield

Open Thread Tuesday

Discuss the news of the day or anything else you'd like...
NB Staff

The Blacklist Returns to the Summits

Part one of the fall finale of The Blacklist is a smashing success.
Evan Mantel

The Moral Conundrum Facing Left-wing Extremists If the Obamacare Websi

The title is borrowed from a post by Salon’s Brian Beutler that addresses what he calls the moral conundrum facing right-wing extremists when the Obamacare website starts working. Buetler, who in a previous post reveals he is not only an Obamacare supporter but a user, appears to be painting himself into a corner by speaking of when, rather than if, the site works. Since he assumes the…
Howard Portnoy

Five-0's Thanksgiving is Too Stuffed

Turkey day episode packs in too much; an old star guests.
Cody B. Holt