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The Wall Street Journal ran a blockbuster story Tuesday afternoon ("U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress") about how the Obama administration's National Security Agency's "targeting of Israeli leaders swept up the content of pri ...

I am old enough to recall a time when the Obama administration did whatever it doggone well pleased regardless of statutory constraints- especially when the doing (or undoing) pertained to immigration law. But we are now supposed to believe-per our moral ...

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 ...

President Obama considers the Republican party an international outlier, and so does Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. (That’s “outlier,” not “outlaw,” though, who knows, for them that may be a distinction without a difference.) ...

In the annual competition between leftist media outlets for the screwiest (or most Scrooge-like) criticism of Christmas traditions, a Huffingon Post  item published Thursday morning by Michael McLaughlin (HT Breitbart) was a formidable entry. After the Hu ...

The detachment from reality of those who actually believe that the recent international climate agreement in Paris is anything but a dangerous and potentially expensive charade has become especially irritating. The goals identified in Paris are obviously ...

Since Monday, NewsBusters has been presenting each category from the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Ruining the Revolution Award,” for journalists wailing about ho ...

By the late summer of 1977, Jimmy Carter had been president for only a few months, but if you knew which way the cultural and political winds were blowing, he seemed unlikely to win a second term. That’s because on May 25 of that year, Star Wars had opene ...

NPR’s Steve Inskeep continued his media tour on Monday promoting his fawning sit-down interview with President by appearing with CNN Tonight host Don Lemon and, when asked about the President attacking the media for supposedly overhyping threats posed by ...

As MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports to promote his special on Donald Trump's life, substitute MSNBC host Luke Russert wondered why the "divisions that had ravaged the country" did not go away af ...

Though Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and the primary blogger for the program’s website, is a true-blue liberal, he thinks highly of the foreign-policy chops of some recent Republicans. In a Thursday post, Benen wrote that GOPe ...

CNN's New Day on Monday actually spotlighted Hillary Clinton's false claim on Saturday that ISIS is "going to people, showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists." Chris Cuomo a ...

Both of the media-centered programs on CNN and the Fox News Channel covered on Sunday the move by the New York Times from Friday to delete a line from an article about President Obama not fully realizing “the anxiety” of Americans following terror attacks ...

Appearing as a guest on CNN's Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield to report on South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's departure from the GOP presidential race, CNN's Kate Bolduan oddly claimed that the low-polling candidate's debate per ...

Commenting on how The New York Times removed a phrase from a Friday article explaining how President Obama told a group of columnists that he hadn’t consumed enough cable news to fully understand the anxieties of Americans over terror attacks in Paris and ...