New on December 28: Top media dopes and their wacky words of 2015. The quotes in the MRC’s “The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year,” starting with Vox.com’s Dylan Matthews who denounced the American Revolution as a “mistake” because, among other reasons, it has made government too small. (MRC’s Best of Notable Quotables year-end awards)
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By NB Staff | December 17, 2015 | 10:43 AM EST
The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the Worst of the Worst of 2015: The 28th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting, with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry taking home the "Quote of the Year" honor for scolding a guest who referred to Speaker-to-be Paul Ryan as a "hard worker:"
By NB Staff | December 16, 2015 | 2:47 PM EST
MRCTV’s Dan Joseph wandered the spin room in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, and found MSNBC star Chris Matthews. “I asked him whether he was feeling the thrill or whether the thrill was gone after seven years of President Obama. As you will see, he was not amused.”
In fact, he said “Go to Hell,” which caused the video to be shared all over the Internet includingTheBlaze, the Daily Caller, the Free Beacon, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Independent Journal, Instapundit, and Twitchy, as well as Mediaite.
By NB Staff | December 9, 2015 | 8:23 PM EST
"I would call this newspaper sophomoric but it's an insult to sophomores," quipped NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham, reacting to the latest New York Daily News cover which depicts Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as having beheaded the Statue of Liberty.
"They are just in such high dudgeon... they're much more against Donald Trump than they are against [San Bernardino terrorists] Farook and Malik, who shot 14 people dead," argued Graham.
By NB Staff | December 3, 2015 | 6:51 PM EST
Speaking with Fox Business Network (FBN) host Deirdre Bolton late Wednesday afternoon, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell denounced the New York Daily News for their front-page cover whining that God-fearing people are “cowards” concerning gun control with “thoughts and prayers” serving as merely “meaningless platitudes.”
By NB Staff | November 6, 2015 | 1:27 PM EST
The Fox News programs The O'Reilly Factor and Fox & Friends featured video with MRCTV's Dan Joseph on Thursday night and Friday morning. Dan asked voters at Colorado University in Boulder whether they had heard of Kate Steinle or "Kate's Law" named on her behalf. They had not.
On July 1 of this year, Steinle was shot in the aorta and killed by an illegal alien who had been deported five times, but returned to San Francisco, a "sanctuary city" that protects illegal immigrants from deportation.
By NB Staff | October 13, 2015 | 11:51 PM EDT
MRC President Brent Bozell will be taking your questions during a LIVE Facebook chat at 12 PM ET Wednesday, October 14, 2015. He will be discussing tonight's presidential debate, the ongoing role of the media during the election, current events, and anything else you'd like to talk about.
Please stop by his Facebook page at 12 p.m. Eastern Wednesday to join the discussion!
By NB Staff | October 13, 2015 | 6:14 PM EDT
The official NewsBusters Open Thread for the CNN Democratic debate held on October 13, 2015.
By NB Staff | October 13, 2015 | 4:38 PM EDT
Gushing that Hillary Clinton "might be the most overqualified candidate" for president since polymath Thomas Jefferson, liberal actress Ashley Judd was a no-brainer to win the 2015 Media Research Center's Celebrity Dumbass Award at last Thursday's MRC Gala and DisHonors Awards.
By NB Staff | October 13, 2015 | 3:18 PM EDT
Appearing on the October 13 Cavuto Coast to Coast, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell discussed CNN's double standard as goes the Republican vs. Democratic debate. While the vast majority of questions in the Republican presidential debate were setups for arguments amongst the candidates, by all indications the Democratic debate would largely tee up the participants to attack the GOP, not take on each other over policy disagreements within the Democratic Party.
By NB Staff | October 12, 2015 | 5:27 PM EDT
MSNBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin’s biased coverage of Navy sniper Chris Kyle earned him the “Damn Those Conservatives to Hell” award at Thursday’s 2015 Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards. Appearing on the January 29, 2015 edition of Morning Joe, Mohyeldin condemned Kyle’s “racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims as he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment.” The comment was so egregious that he went on to win the MRC’s quote of the year.
By NB Staff | October 11, 2015 | 11:26 PM EDT
Conservative comedian and talk show host Joe Piscopo brought the laughter to Thursday night’s 2015 Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards. While the rest of the dinner hammered the liberal media, “The Funnies” were a compilation of the year’s most humorous clips, as complied by the MRC.