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Obama's NSA Spying on Congress Not a Story at AP — Until GOP Responds

By Tom Blumer | January 1, 2016, 9:24 PM EST

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 ...

NBC’s Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 12:01 PM EST

With New Year’s Eve upon us, NBC’s Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news, politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts vid ...

CNN's Camerota Shocked 14 Women Could Make Claims Against Bill Clinton

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2015, 9:33 AM EST

"Is that right? Fourteen??" That's Alisyn Camerota, 1:21 into the video clip. The shock and incredulity in the voice of the CNN host is stupendous! Yes, who could possibly imagine that, as CNN commentator Errol Louis stated, there are 14 wo ...

'Progressives,' As Their Sex Harassment and Assault Problems Become Obvious, Won't Even Mention the Clintons

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 9:59 AM EST

Liberals and "progressives," who are supposedly big on dealing with "root causes," are apparently not interested in the root cause of their now-acknowledged problem of sexual harassment and abuse in their ranks. At Acculturated.com, Ca ...

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& ...

Hewitt Schools Lemon on Need for Trump, GOP to Educate Millenials on Bill Clinton Sex Scandals

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 8:00 PM EST

A week after he cut the mic of conservative guest Kurt Schlichter for bringing up Bill Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct, CNN's Don Lemon found himself trying to shut down another guest during Monday’s CNN Tonight when conservative radio host an ...

Guthrie Briefly Tries to Tell Trump That Bill Clinton's Extramarital Affairs Were Only ‘Alleged’

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 3:46 PM EST

During his latest phone-in interview Tuesday morning, Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s Today where co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to convince Trump that former President Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs (and specifically what occurred with Monica Lew ...

ABC and NBC Tout Clintons Strolling in NYC, Decline to Explain Clinton Sex Scandals

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 1:03 AM EST

On Monday, the major network evening newscasts all alluded to Donald Trump criticizing Bill and Hillary Clinton by bringing up Clinton’s numerous bouts of sexual misconduct from the 1990's, but chose not to remind viewers of what those scandals actua ...

Sharpton Suggests OK for Hillary to Have Attacked Monica Lewinsky

By Mark Finkelstein | December 28, 2015, 12:14 PM EST

What's more sexist: Donald Trump saying "schlonged" to describe the way Hillary Clinton lost in 2008, or Hillary herself orchestrating a campaign to discredit and destroy women, including Monica Lewinsky, whose "bimbo eruptions" t ...

Investor's Business Daily Notes Three Global Warming Stories The U.S. Press Has Ignored

By Tom Blumer | December 27, 2015, 10:36 AM EST

Yesterday, I noted that Associated Press reporter Karl Ritter actually wrote, and AP actually published, a story about how complying with the Paris climate agreement would require greenhouse gas emissions "To Drop Below Zero." Perhaps Ritter, wh ...

Pundit: Obama Has Avoided ‘Second-Term Curse’; GOP Has Helped Him By ‘Transparently Politicizing’ Their Investigations

By Tom Johnson | December 26, 2015, 10:33 AM EST

Bill Scher runs a website called Liberal Oasis, which makes it unsurprising that his Monday RealClearPolitics column celebrated President Obama’s avoidance (so far) of the “ second-term curse ” that supposedly afflicted George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and s ...

MRC's Tim Graham Highlights Notable Quotables Worst of the Worst 2015 on Newsmax TV

By NB Staff | December 28, 2015, 12:30 AM EST

The MRC’s Tim Graham joined Newsmax TV on Tuesday night with host Steve Malzberg to elaborate on the MRC’s Notable Quotables Worst of the Worst 2015 winners, including overall winner Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC declaring on October 25 that the term “har ...

On OANN, Ken Shepherd Highlights Winners of MRC's Worst of the Worst 2015 Awards

By NB Staff | December 28, 2015, 12:32 AM EST

Making his television debut on the December 18 edition of One American News Network’s Tipping Point, NewsBusters managing editor Ken Shepherd promoted the 2015 winners of the Notable Quotable’s Worst of the Worst and the overall winner of MSNBC’s Melissa ...

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 ...

Year-End Awards: The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award, for Denying Hillary’s Scandals

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:34 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 “ What Difference Does It Make? ” Award for denying Hillary’s scandals. (Thanks to our 39 jud ...