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Stop the Presses: Jesse Jackson Said Something Sensible — On Immigration

By Tom Blumer | January 1, 2015, 9:04 AM EST

Call the Ripley's Believe It or Not people. Have smelling salts available. What follows will surely be one of the more unusual things you've seen or heard this year. In the midst of his otherwise odious Silicon Valley race-hustling shakedown eff ...

LAT Laments How Mega-Donor Tom Steyer Was Not Decisive in 2014 Midterms

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2014, 8:25 PM EST

Chris Megerian at the Los Angeles Times, in a report first published online on Tuesday, had a difficult time trying to downplay the fact that Democrat and leftist mega-donors outspent their Republican and conservative counterparts by an overwhelming margi ...

Conspiracy! Liberal Oliver Stone Says CIA Behind Ukranian Revolution

By Scott Whitlock | December 31, 2014, 3:33 PM EST

It's probably not a shock that Oliver Stone has found yet another conspiracy theory to embrace. The liberal filmmaker posted a lengthy rant to Facebook on Tuesday in which he claimed CIA involvement in Ukraine. This is probably not surprising, consid ...

Kaley Clash! 'Big Bang Theory' Star Calmly Rejects 'Feminist' Label

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2014, 2:43 PM EST

Twitchy reports it's time again for another round of feminists being furious that a successful actress told an interviewer she doesn’t really identify with their F-word. This time, it’s Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, now making $1 million per episode for the ...

De Blasio Pressured Pols to Condemn Police; Will Other NYC and National Media Ignore?

By Tom Blumer | January 2, 2015, 11:36 AM EST

Let's say that a Republican or conservative governor or big-city mayor (yes, there actually are quite a few) was in a heated dispute with his state's or city's police union. Let's further say that this official decided that his or her ...

Slate Discovers Scalise Did Not Attend White Supremacist Event

By P.J. Gladnick | December 31, 2014, 2:41 PM EST

Drat! Foiled again! That is going to be the feeling of much of the mainstream media which has been incessantly pushing the narrative about House majority whip Steve Scalise supposedly speaking at a David Duke sponsored white supremacist event in 2002. It ...

Rapper Nicki Minaj Shocker: Having an Abortion as a Teen ‘Haunted Me All My Life’

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2014, 1:05 PM EST

In a Rolling Stone cover story, rapper Nicki Minaj caused jaws to drop when she declared she had an abortion when she was a teenager and it’s “haunted me all my life.” Us Weekly previously reported Minaj addresses teenage abortion on one of her new songs, ...

Christian Billboard in Times Square Has a Message for ‘Intolerant Liberals’

By Kristine Marsh | December 31, 2014, 1:52 PM EST

There are many provocative billboards in Times Square, especially around the holidays. Rarely do they have a positive message. But a new billboard by one Christian group might make the millions of tourists visiting this New Year’s Eve think twice. Answers ...

Lefty Professor: NRA, LaPierre ‘Have Blood On Their Hands’ From NYC Cop-Killing

By Tom Johnson | December 31, 2014, 12:43 PM EST

In a Wednesday column on Talking Points Memo, Occidental College politics professor Peter Dreier asserted that those who believe New York mayor Bill de Blasio was partly responsible for the December 20 murder of two NYPD officers should instead “point the ...

NY Times 'Year in Pictures' Puts Liberal Illogic on Illegals on Display

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2014, 12:57 PM EST

Although many of the images are striking and well worth viewing, t here's also a dose of the liberal politics of the New York Times on display in its " Year in Pictures " in today's paper. The very  first photo  sets the Times' to ...

Networks Skip Gruber, ObamaCare, Bad Obama Poll Numbers, Hong Kong in Year in Review Roundups

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2014, 12:29 PM EST

Each of the network morning shows devoted some time on Wednesday to looking back at the biggest news stories of year and, while they certainly could not have included every story in the allotted time, they all failed to spend even a few seconds on topics ...

Wash Post, NYT Devote Over 3800 Words to Hyping Scalise Scandal

By Scott Whitlock | December 31, 2014, 11:36 AM EST

The liberal New York Times and the Washington Post went into hyper drive, Wednesday, devoting a combined 3800 words and three front page stories to a scandal involving Republican Congressman Steve Scalise. Both newspapers worked from the same talking poin ...

Colbert Replacement Larry Wilmore: I'm a 'Passionate Centrist,' I Don't 'Force My Opinion On You'

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2014, 11:17 AM EST

Larry Wilmore is taking over Stephen Colbert’s late-night spot on Comedy Central with The Nightly Show. Time TV writer James Poniewozik interviewed him for the magazine’s December 29/January 5 issue. Wilmore described his forthcoming show as a combination ...

At CNN, Brittany Maynard ('Dignified' Assisted Suicide) Is One of '11 Extraordinary People of 2014'

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2014, 11:10 AM EST

If CNN is searching for reasons why its ratings are at an all-time low, it doesn't need to look any further than one entry in its group of " 11 extraordinary people of 2014 " published on December 5. Aside from the inanity of publishing suc ...

Year-End Awards: The Most Outrageous Media Quote of 2014

By Rich Noyes | December 31, 2014, 10:00 AM EST

Wrapping up the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2014,” it’s time to present the “Quote of the Year” for 2014, and the top two runners-up, as selected by our panel of 40 expert judges, who were extremely generous with their time as they ...