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Political Theater Is At The Heart Of DHS Deportation Raids

By Jorge Bonilla | December 31, 2015, 3:03 PM EST

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 ...

The Sum of All Fears

By Cal Thomas | December 28, 2015, 1:48 PM EST

President Obama and members of his administration assure us we have nothing to fear when it comes to terrorism. Whether you accept this, or not-- and opinion polls show a majority do not-- there is another fear that in large part is behind the phenomenon ...

NYT Celebrates Christmas With Left-Leaning Naughty-or-Nice List: BLM, Gay Marriage, Climate Change

By Clay Waters | December 28, 2015, 12:43 AM EST

The New York Times’ Christmas Day editorial, “ Moments of Grace in a Grim Year,” got off to a wonderful start with a tribute to the astronauts of Apollo 8, the first humans to orbit the moon. On Christmas Eve 1968 Apollo 8 sent a now-iconic photograph (pa ...

Year-End Awards: The ‘Harsh to the Huddled Masses’ Award

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:47 AM EST

This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “Harsh to the Huddled Masses” award, for attacks on the GOP candidates for their supposed hos ...

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 ...

MSNBC Reporter Trumpets 'Fact' That Illegals Should Be Granted Citizenship

By Jack Coleman | December 22, 2015, 8:29 PM EST

Whenever a liberal includes "fact" at the start of a sentence, rest assured that whatever follows is usually more accurately described as opinion-- and dubious opinion at that. This amusing phenomenon could be seen last night on Rachel Maddow� ...

MSNBC's Russert Frets 'Hope and Change' Did Not 'Carry the Day,' Invokes George Wallace

By Brad Wilmouth | December 22, 2015, 5:08 PM EST

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 ...

CNN's Zakaria: Obama Thinks Cable News 'Massively Exaggerates' ISIS Threat

By Brad Wilmouth | December 19, 2015, 4:28 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, during a discussion of President Barack Obama's news conference, CNN's Fareed Zakaria downplayed the threat to the U.S. posed by ISIS as he forwarded the President's view tha ...

New Republic's Brian Beutler: Democratic Debaters Should Denounce GOP’s ‘Appeal to Paranoia’

By Tom Johnson | December 19, 2015, 12:28 PM EST

Debbie Wasserman Schultz may not want you to know about it, but there’s a Democratic presidential debate on Saturday evening, and The New Republic ’s Brian Beutler believes that the candidates therein “would be doing the country a service by placing the r ...

Matthews: Trump 'Playing to Racists,' Obama 'Not One of Us, He's Black' View

By Brad Wilmouth | December 21, 2015, 9:23 AM EST

Appearing as a guest before MSNBC's live coverage of President Barack Obama's Friday press conference, during a discussion of Donald Trump's history of promoting birtherism against the President, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews recalled ...

Ex-Daily Beast Boss Tina Brown Cheers Lindsey Graham Calling Trump 'Poster Boy for ISIS'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 4:21 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's New Day on CNN, former Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown lavished praise on GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, as she pined for him to make it onto the main debate stage, and three times gushed that the ...

On MSNBC, Ron Fournier Slams 'Disgusting' GOP Debate, Sees 'Dog Whistling'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 10:36 AM EST

Appearing as a guest in the final segment of Wednesday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, Ron Fournier of the National Journal slammed the previous night's GOP presidential debate as "disgusting" as he claimed to see "dog whistling" and & ...

MSNBC Guest: GOPers Want to 'Mass Murder Civilians' to Fight ISIS

By Brad Wilmouth | December 16, 2015, 7:53 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's MSNBC Live, Linda Sarsour of the Arab-American Association of New York received no pushback from host Jose Diaz-Balart over her inflammatory assertion that some of the Republican presidential candidates "think ...

Morning Joe Gushes Over Graham for Ripping Republicans on Muslim Rhetoric

By Mark Finkelstein | December 16, 2015, 9:57 AM EST

When tagging items at NewsBusters, one of our Media Bias sub-categories is "Sudden Respect." The notion is that to win the affection of the MSM, all a Republican or conservative needs to do is turn against members or positions of his party. A gr ...

On Twitter, MSNBC's Scarborough Attacks 'Nativist' Rubio's New Ad

By Matthew Balan | December 15, 2015, 4:05 PM EST

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Marco Rubio in a series of posts on Twitter on Tuesday. Scarborough linked to Rubio's latest TV ad and contended that " Marco goes full-on nativist. Says he feels out of place in his own country. It's su ...