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Lefty Writer Claims Trump, Conservative Evangelicals Have One Big Thing In Common: ‘Narcissism’

By Tom Johnson | December 30, 2015, 10:20 PM EST

If you’re looking for the ultimate contradiction in terms, it’d be hard to top “Christian narcissist.” Nonetheless, David Masciotra alleged in a Tuesday Salon piece (originally published on the left-wing site AlterNet) that “conservative evangelical Chris ...

Carson Daly: Important for Him to Get Married ‘to Have the Sacrament of Marriage’ in Catholic Church

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 7:40 PM EST

Discussing his marriage to longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter while guest-hosting Wednesday’s Today, Carson Daly offered a rather surprising reason for finally getting married to Pinter after having been together for the past decade. Speaking of how tying th ...

Poll: Americans Divided on Religious Liberty for Christians, Muslims

By Randy Hall | December 31, 2015, 6:23 AM EST

People place a higher priority on preserving the religious freedom of Christians than for other faith groups, ranking Muslims as the least deserving of the protections, according to a new survey released on Wednesday. A skeptic might think the Associated ...

Objective? Hardly! ABC Promotes Gay Agenda with New Miniseries

By Sarah Stites | December 29, 2015, 3:34 PM EST

It’s no secret that ABC pushes the gay agenda. But if you doubt it, wait until its newest miniseries comes out (pun intended). Authored by openly gay screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, When We Rise will detail the history of the gay rights movement from the ...

NYT Theater Critic: ‘Grumpy Guys’ in GOP Would ‘Be a Lot Looser’ If They Were Like Drag Queens

By Curtis Houck | December 28, 2015, 5:37 PM EST

Reviewing the new drag queen-centered Broadway show Kinky Boots in Monday’s New York Times, critic Ben Brantley chose to dedicate a few paragraphs to the bizarre suggestion that the show should make one think “that maybe all those grumpy guys who populate ...

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 ...

Google's Christmas-Free Doodle vs. Animated Celebration of Evolution

By Mark Finkelstein | December 25, 2015, 1:25 PM EST

A very Merry Christmas to NewsBusters readers everywhere! Just out of curiosity, I took a look at the Google doodle for this Christmas Day.  See below: it's bland, boring and above all, void of any reference at all to the holiday itself. I decided to ...

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 ...

Santorum Turns Tables on Scarborough Suggestion To Go Kumbaya on American Muslims

By Mark Finkelstein | December 21, 2015, 9:17 AM EST

It's rare when a politician says something surprising, or doesn't succumb to a feel-good suggestion. Which made Rick Santorum's response to Joe Scarborough this morning doubly remarkable. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough had teed Sa ...

CBS Edited Out Harsh Critique of Obama, U.S. 'Militarism' by Muslim Focus Group

By Tim Graham | December 20, 2015, 4:35 PM EST

Zaid Jilani of the leftist website The Intercept is taking apart Friday’s CBS panel discussion on Muslims in America: “two Muslim Americans who took part in the group complained that CBS edited out parts of the discussion where they raised their own conce ...

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 ...

Bozell & Graham Column: CNN Sashays With Satanists

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | December 19, 2015, 8:04 AM EST

When Ted Turner was running CNN back in 1991, he banned the use of the word “foreign” on air. In a memo to employees, he made a threat to fine employees with a forced donation to UNICEF. To avoid offense, they were told they should use the word “internati ...

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 ...

Jorge Ramos no disimula su anticatolicismo estridente

By Jorge Bonilla | December 18, 2015, 4:21 PM EST

Lo curioso con los sesgos medulares es que tienden a salir a flor en los lugares menos esperados. El presentador estrella de Univisión no es la excepción, mostrando la costura en su columna de opinión más reciente. Esta fue la joya que Ramos dejó caer en  ...