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New York Times Perpetuates the Social Security 'Trust Fund' Myth

By Tom Blumer | December 29, 2015, 7:00 AM EST

After serving as the virtual mouthpiece for the "there is no crisis!" crowd for at least a decade since George W. Bush's attempt to partially privatize Social Security in 2005, someone at the New York Times has finally recognized that there ...

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 ...

Krauthammer: Obama 'So Exposed, So Naked on the World Stage'

By Michael McKinney | November 24, 2015, 2:42 PM EST

On Monday night on The O’Reilly Factor, Charles Krauthammer discussed with Bill O’Reilly the growing rhetoric of the White House and its attempt to downplay or diminish the threat that Radical Islam is on the world. Shortly after a clip of President Obama ...

FNC Panel: Dems Seem ‘Very Small’ on ISIS after Attacks; U.S. Hasn’t ‘Done Whatever It Takes’

By Curtis Houck | November 15, 2015, 11:18 PM EST

A special Saturday edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report aired due to the terror attacks 24 hours earlier in Paris with a panel of The Weekly Standard ’s Steve Hayes, U.S. News & World Report ’s David Catanese, and syndicated columnist Charles ...

Krauthammer: Hillary Has ‘Got a Martha Stewart Problem’ with Scandals, Misleading Information

By Curtis Houck | November 16, 2015, 12:08 AM EST

Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer made his almost-daily appearance on the “All Star Panel” during Thursday’s Special Report and compared Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to businesswoman-turned-convict Mart ...

Blogger Kevin Drum: Krauthammer’s Too Smart to Believe All That Right-Wing Nonsense About Obama Scandals

By Tom Johnson | October 31, 2015, 8:12 PM EDT

Even though Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum describes Charles Krauthammer as a “hardcore conservative,” he suggested in a Friday post that Krauthammer is too enlightened to be on the same page as most right-wingers regarding Obama White House scandals. Wh ...

Krauthammer Unloads on ‘Obnoxious,’ ‘Disorganized’ CNBC Moderators; ‘Appalling Performance’

By Curtis Houck | October 29, 2015, 1:06 AM EDT

Syndicated columnist and FNC contributor Charles Krauthammer was Bill O’Reilly’s first guest on the 11:00 p.m. Eastern edition of The O’Reilly Factor after Wednesday’s CNBC debate and tore into the moderators for a “most appalling performance” in which th ...

Bill O’Reilly Dissects CNN Debate: ‘All About The Show’

By Jeffrey Meyer | September 17, 2015, 7:24 AM EDT

Following Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate on CNN, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly analyzed the network’s debate format and noted how CNN’s moderators “made the debate very personal using Donald Trump’s attacks on other Republicans to frame questi ...

FNC’s Krauthammer Unloads on Senate Dems for Iran Deal Support, Senate GOP for Bad Tactics

By Curtis Houck | September 15, 2015, 11:01 PM EDT

During the first “All-Star Panel” segment on Tuesday’s Special Report, Fox News Channel (FNC) contributor Charles Krauthammer offered blistering criticisms of Senate Democrats for their support of the Iran deal along with Senate Republicans for not invoki ...

ABC and CBS Ignore Secret Iran Deal; NBC Gives One Minute

By Kyle Drennen | August 20, 2015, 5:08 PM EDT

While Fox News anchor Bret Baier led off Wednesday’s Special Report by declaring that the latest shocking revelation about the Iran nuclear deal “sounds like a joke” to congressional critics, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News ignored the story ...

Fox Panel Blasts Clinton’s ‘Ridiculous’ Handling of E-Mails

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 14, 2015, 12:12 AM EDT

On Wednesday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, the three-person political panel took turns slamming Hillary Clinton for how she has handled the ongoing controversy surrounding the use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State.  National Journal ...

Krauthammer Blasts Obama on The Kelly File: ‘Delusional’ For Trusting Iran

By Connor Williams | August 6, 2015, 10:35 AM EDT

Following the president’s comments comparing Republicans in Congress to the terror-sponsoring hardliners in Iran, Charles Krauthammer eviscerated Obama's entire conception of the Middle East nation. Appearing on The Kelly File last night, the Fox per ...

Washington Post Editorial Writer On Fox: Crime By Illegal Immigrants ‘Not A Real Issue’

By Spencer Raley | July 10, 2015, 12:44 PM EDT

Charles Lane, an editorial writer for The Washington Post, believes that Republicans are wasting their time discussing border violence and crime caused by illegal aliens because “It’s not a real issue.” Lane appeared on a special report with Fox News’s Br ...

Networks Omit How Democratic Governor in South Carolina Raised Confederate Flag in 1962

By Curtis Houck | August 4, 2015, 5:35 PM EDT

In their coverage on Monday night of the calls by South Carolina officials to remove the Confederate flag from the State Capitol’s grounds, the major broadcast networks failed to note the full context of the flag’s history in the Palmetto State and how it ...

ABC and CBS Skip Obama Criticism in Covering Return of U.S. Troops to Iraq

By Curtis Houck | June 11, 2015, 8:55 AM EDT

Following news on Wednesday that the Obama administration will send 450 additional U.S. troops back to Iraq to help train the Iraqi military against ISIS, ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News chose to exclude any criticism of the Obama admini ...