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CBS, NBC Highlight List That Advocates Ban of Two Terms Coined by Sarah Palin

By Brad Wilmouth | January 1, 2011, 12:53 PM EST

 The Early Show on CBS and NBC’s Today show on Friday both gave attention to Lake Superior State University’s "list of words that should be banned in 2011 because of overuse or general uselessness," and both shows mentioned one or two words made ...

WaPo Reporter Buys Liberal Line That Abortions Are 'Virtually Impossible' in Rural Iowa

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2010, 11:35 PM EST

Has The Washington Post ever traveled to Iowa? Obviously, yes for presidential caucuses. But on Friday, Post reporter Sandhya Somashekhar accepted the bizarre premise of abortion advocates that abortions are "virtually impossible" in rural Iowa. ...

Best Notable Quotables of 2010: Crushing Rush and Damning Conservatives

By Rich Noyes | December 31, 2010, 11:57 PM EST

The liberal press likes to scold what it sees as lapses in civil rhetoric, usually from conservatives who fail to properly respect the icons of the Left. But as documented by the MRC's Best Notable Quotables of 2010, the media elite itself lurched in ...

NPR Talk Show's 'Year for White Americans' Analysis Repeats Anti-Obama-Racism Line; Caller Objects

By Tim Graham | January 1, 2011, 12:52 PM EST

NPR's weekday afternoon talk show Talk of the Nation addressed the year 2010 in terms of how it went for Muslims, gays, blacks, and on Thursday, "The Year for White Americans." All four segments were interviews with guests on the left. Whil ...

CBS’s Crawford Dismisses Christine O’Donnell’s Response to Accusations

By Brad Wilmouth | April 29, 2015, 3:41 PM EDT

 On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, as correspondent Jan Crawford filed a report on the allegations that former Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell misused campaign money, the CBS correspondent seemed dismissive of O’Donnell’s reaction to ...

Nets Bolster Accusers of Christine O’Donnell, Ignore Liberal Nature of Watchdog CREW

By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2010, 3:02 AM EST

 As the broadcast network morning newscasts on Thursday each interviewed former Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell regarding allegations that she misused campaign money, in the setup piece on each network, the correspondent failed to i ...

NYT Begins Playing Defense for Bloomberg, Union in Snow Response Coverage

By Tom Blumer | December 30, 2010, 9:41 PM EST

Today, New York Post reporters delivered a bombshell story  addressing why New York City's snow cleanup performance has been so poor: Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest   Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the ...

CBS Highlights Armed Shop Owner Who Fought Back Against Robbers

By Brad Wilmouth | January 1, 2011, 8:52 PM EST

 While it is unusual for the mainstream media to give attention to armed citizens who use guns to defend themselves against criminals before police can arrive, on Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Harry Smith highlighted a smoke shop owner in Texas who ...

Newsweek's Sweet Terrorist Helper

By Tim Graham | December 30, 2010, 9:10 PM EST

Newsweek's year-end Interview Issue included a brief interview with Lori Berenson-- but never provided the reader any context besides the title "Freed Peruvian Prisoner." That might give the wrong impression: Berenson is an American communi ...

Michael Vick's Abuse of Dogs As Payback for Bull Connor, Slavery

By Jack Coleman | December 31, 2010, 11:33 PM EST

Someone finally-- finally!-- has drawn the obvious correlation between NFL quarterback Michael Vick's killing of animals in an illegal dog-fighting ring and the monstrous injustices committed against blacks during slavery and the civil rights movemen ...

Aaron Sorkin: Palin is ‘Idiot’ and ‘Mean Woman,’Republicans ‘Have Moved into a Mental Institution’

By Brad Wilmouth | December 30, 2010, 3:40 PM EST

 Appearing as a guest in a pre-recorded interview on Wednesday’s Parker-Spitzer on CNN to promote his film The Social Network, television and film producer Aaron Sorkin trashed Sarah Palin as an "idiot" and a "mean woman." Sorkin: &quo ...

Katie Couric: 'Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of The Cosby Show'

By Tim Graham | December 30, 2010, 10:36 PM EST

In her @katiecouric Web show analyzing the trends of 2010, the CBS Evening News anchor made a serious speech (in her serious, deep-thinker glasses) against the deep "seething hatred" against Muslims in America: I also think sort of the chasm, be ...

Open Thread: NYC Union Delays Snow Removal Deliberately

By NB Staff | December 30, 2010, 11:52 AM EST

Today's starter topic: Sanitation workers in New York City deliberately slowed down snow removal operations   there in protest of cuts made to their budgets: Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten ...

E.J. Dionne: 'If Insuring 32 Million More Americans Isn't Enormous Social Reform Nothing Counts as Change'

By Noel Sheppard | December 30, 2010, 11:41 AM EST

No matter how long I analyze liberal media thinking, it never ceases to amaze me. Consider if you will the following paragraph from E.J. Dionne's column in Thursday's Washington Post: And, yes, there is the small issue of Obama's real achie ...

WashPost's Ezra Klein Laments 'Confusing' Nature of Our Old Constitution

By Scott Whitlock | December 30, 2010, 10:38 PM EST

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein appeared on MSNBC's Daily Rundown, Thursday, to mock the incoming Republicans for their stated fixation on the Constitution, asserting that the document is rather old and "confusing." MSNBC's Norah ...