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ABC News: Hillary 'May Have Been Right'—'Predicted' ISIS Would Use Trump in Video

By Mark Finkelstein | January 2, 2016, 2:41 PM EST

If two weeks ago I claimed it was raining when it was not, but today it does rain, does that make my original statement a prediction, one that was "right?" No, if you're honest about it. But maybe yes if you're ABC News, and instead of ...

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 ...

Historian Rick Perlstein: George Lucas and Ronald Reagan ‘Gave Us Permission to Stop Growing Up’

By Tom Johnson | December 24, 2015, 1:09 PM EST

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 Inskeep Rules Obama’s Trashing of Media on Terrorism Was ‘Not a Very Outlandish Idea’

By Curtis Houck | December 22, 2015, 4:22 PM EST

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 ...

Maddow Producer: On Foreign Policy, GOP Has Gone From Dominant to ‘Cringe-Worthy...Pathetic’

By Tom Johnson | December 21, 2015, 10:32 PM EST

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 Surprisingly Labels Hillary's 'Dubious' Trump Claim 'Wrong'

By Matthew Balan | December 21, 2015, 6:27 PM EST

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 ...

CNN and FNC Slam ‘Outrageous’ NYT for Deleting Obama Quote on Cable News/Terrorism; ‘Perplexing’

By Curtis Houck | December 21, 2015, 8:18 PM EST

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 ...

CNN's Bolduan: Lindsey Graham Debate Performances 'Really Widely Seen as Winners'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 22, 2015, 9:29 AM EST

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 ...

All Beauty, No Brains: Miss Universe Contestants Flub Gun Control and Terrorism Questions

By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | December 21, 2015, 6:45 AM EST

Everyone’s talking about how the wrong person was crowned Miss Universe but did you hear what Miss USA said about gun control or Miss France about terrorism? While Steve Harvey majorly screwed up last night when he announced the wrong 2015 Miss Universe w ...

Brit Hume Unloads on Obama over Cable News/Terrorism Comment; Seems ‘Impatient’ with Americans

By Curtis Houck | December 21, 2015, 7:33 PM EST

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 ...

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 ...

Networks Censor NYT Deleting Obama Quote Saying He Didn’t ‘Appreciate the Anxiety’ Post-Terror Attacks

By Curtis Houck | December 18, 2015, 9:56 PM EST

The major broadcast networks on Friday morning and evening showed no interest in reporting to viewers that The New York Times had scrubbed from an article on its website that contained a quote from President Obama telling columnists that he did not watch ...

NYT Flushes Obama’s Damning ‘Cable TV’ Admission From Defensive San Bernardino Story

By Clay Waters | December 18, 2015, 12:24 PM EST

President Obama spoke off the record to news columnists, in a defensive response to Republican criticism that he has seemed passive and uninterested in the face of Islamic terrorist attacks and threats against the United States. In a news story about the ...

NYT: ‘Harsh...Hard-Right’ GOP Foreign Policy Dummies ‘Dwell Darkly’ on Terror, Ignore Gun Control

By Clay Waters | December 18, 2015, 8:39 AM EST

Thursday’s New York Times was particularly dense with bias against the "hard-right" and "far-right" Republican Party, starting on the front page, where a potentially intriguing story about Latino candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio tur ...