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WSJ and WashPost's Marcus Agree: Bill Clinton's Sexual History 'Is Fair Game'

By Tom Blumer | December 29, 2015, 11:46 PM EST

Just one week after CNN's Don Lemon shut down a guest who dared to raise the issue, there is now an agreement across the ideological spectrum that if Hillary Clinton is going to use her husband Bill as a campaign surrogate and go after her opponents& ...

Michael Moore: The Republican Party Is ‘Dead,’ and Self-Righteous America Needs a ‘Timeout’

By Tom Johnson | December 29, 2015, 6:52 AM EST

In his new documentary, Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore jaunts around Europe showcasing what he deems enlightened social and economic policies, including Italy’s lengthy paid vacations, Norway’s treatment of prison inmates, and France’s school-lunch p ...

Year-End Awards: The Dopiest News Media Quotes of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:22 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Audacity of Dopes ” award, for the wackiest ...

AP Ignores Minnesota Terror Suspect's Involvement With Airport De-Icing

By Tom Blumer | December 26, 2015, 1:51 AM EST

In a year-end interview with National Public Radio, President Barack Obama largely blamed "a saturation of news" coming from a media which "is pursuing ratings" for growing concerns in America over the ability of ISIS and other terrori ...

Investor's Business Daily: Media Blackout of FitzGibbon Sex Harassment Scandal Shows Double Standard

By Tom Blumer | December 23, 2015, 9:00 PM EST

On Monday, I posted on the virtually complete lack of establishment press interest in the story of Trevor FitzGibbon, the former owner of far-left PR firm FitzGibbon Media. Fitzgibbon folded on Thursday after allegations of serial sexual harassment and se ...

CNN's Cuomo: 'Despite Stats on Christian Terrorists,' 'White Kid' Can Bring Clock to School

By Brad Wilmouth | December 24, 2015, 12:29 AM EST

Near the end of Wednesday's New Day on CNN, during a segment about the top five stories on social media for 2015, co-host Chris Cuomo oddly declared that, "despite all the stats about Christian terrorists," if a "white kid" had br ...

USA Today Reporter Announces He’s Decided to Purchase a Handgun

By Brent Baker | December 22, 2015, 4:36 PM EST

Headline atop the page two “Voices” column in Tuesday's USA Today by Trevor Hughes, the Denver-based correspondent for the newspaper: “How I came to decide to buy a gun.” (Online: “ Why I decided to buy a handgun.”) “After months of soul-searching, I ...

Press Yawns As Univ. of Louisville Advertises Asst. Prof Position For Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans Only

By Tom Blumer | December 21, 2015, 10:55 PM EST

Did you hear about the university which advertised for "a tenure-track Assistant Professor position that will be filled by a White American or Asian American"? Of course you didn't, because it didn't happen. But it's not difficult ...

Leading Far-Left PR Firm Closes Over Sex Harassment and Assault Allegations; Press Coverage Is Minimal

By Tom Blumer | December 22, 2015, 3:53 PM EST

A leftist flack who has been waging his own personal war on women for at least a decade has been exposed. As a result, his far-left public relations firm, a leader in the field, has closed. FitzGibbon Media shut down on Thursday. That's because Trevo ...

Washington Monthly Blogger: ‘Gun Nuts’ Too ‘Irrational’ to Understand Meaning of Reagan Assassination Attempt

By Tom Johnson | December 18, 2015, 9:24 PM EST

Starting with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, several mass shootings have brought about considerable debate regarding restrictions on access to firearms for the mentally ill. The Washington Monthly ’s D.R. Tucker argued last Sunday that denying guns t ...

Clueless Cosmo Tweets About Making Buying a Gun in Missouri As 'Hard' As Getting an Abortion

By Tom Blumer | December 18, 2015, 1:23 AM EST

The people who run Cosmopolitan Magazine's Twitter account really stepped in it today — and they're so utterly clueless that they doubled and tripled down on their ignorance. Cosmo's tweeters have thrown themselves behind legislation drafte ...

AP: San Bernardino Terrorist Massacre Was a 'Mass Shooting'

By Tom Blumer | December 17, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

Pity the poor folks at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press. The Obama administration, usually hyper-reluctant to characterize a domestic terrorist attack on U.S. soil as, well, a domestic terrorist attack, has actually had to admit i ...

CNN Touts CAIR Accusing GOPers of Inciting Attacks Against Muslims

By Brad Wilmouth | December 15, 2015, 11:41 AM EST

On Monday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN National Correspondent Jason Carroll delivered a heavily one-sided report highlighting charges by the Council on American-Islamic Relations that GOP presidential candidates-- specifically naming Ben Carson, Chri ...

‘Family Guy’ Shows Exactly How to Make the Media Disappear

By Erik Soderstrom | December 14, 2015, 4:03 AM EST

After a ridiculous episode in which Peter Griffin shoots Cleveland Brown, Jr, the son of his black friend and next door neighbor, and nearly burns down their home, Brown, Sr. shows Family Guy viewers how to get the media to disappear and stop covering a s ...

Ferguson Media Darling Joshua Williams Sentenced to 8 Years For Arson

By Tom Blumer | December 13, 2015, 11:24 PM EST

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that Joshua Williams "was sentenced... to eight years in prison for starting a fire at a QuikTrip in Berkeley (a St. Louis suburb) after an officer-involved shooting there." The Dispatch apparently d ...