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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 ...

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 ...

ABC: GOP Like 'Annoying, Jealous Boyfriend' for Wanting Hillary Emails, Carson ‘Cuts Brains Open’

By Mike Ciandella | December 28, 2015, 12:51 AM EST

The same George Stephanopoulos who gave $75,000 to Hillary Clinton hosted the political segment of ABC’s Tuesday night special The Year: 2015, where jokes about conservatives got ugly, but jokes about Hillary were off limits. After running the usual criti ...

MRC's Rich Noyes Joins Fox & Friends to Discuss Winners of MRC's Worst of the Worst 2015 Awards

By NB Staff | December 22, 2015, 4:25 PM EST

On Saturday morning, MRC Research Director Rich Noyes joined co-host Tucker Carlson on the Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends to highlight a few winners from the MRC's “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015, the Twenty-Eighth Annual Awards for the Year’s ...

ABC Lets Stephanopoulos Host Pre, Post-Debate; Teams with Brazile to Tout ‘Battle-Tested’ Hillary

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2015, 9:02 PM EST

Showing that they’ve learned next to nothing from the George Stephanopoulos/Clinton Foundation scandal, ABC allowed its chief anchor in Stephanopoulos to anchor its pre-game coverage of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate.  Not surprisingly, the for ...

Bozell & Graham Column: Hillary Says Relatives of Benghazi Heroes Are Liars

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | December 16, 2015, 6:33 AM EST

Our news media are so overwhelmingly obsequious with the Democrats that Hillary Clinton can imply the relatives of the Americans killed in Benghazi are liars on national TV, and no one in the press blinks an eye or finds it newsworthy. ABC is about to hos ...

ABC’s Moran Lumps UK’s Farage In with Trump Despite Rebuke; Canada’s Trudeau Offers ‘Sharp Relief’

By Curtis Houck | December 14, 2015, 9:45 AM EST

Reporting on Sunday’s This Week about foreign reaction to Donald Trump’s candidacy and proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., ABC News chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran compared Trump to U.K. Independence Party (U.K.I.P.) leader Nigel F ...

George Stephanopoulos to Rubio: Listen to This Hillary Clip Slamming Republicans

By Scott Whitlock | December 10, 2015, 10:34 AM EST

Former Bill Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos on Thursday interviewed Marco Rubio and demanded the Republican listen to a clip of Hillary Clinton sneering that all the GOP contenders are as bad as Donald Trump. Following a comment by the senator on ...

Mauled in the Morning: GOP Candidates Hit from the Left

By Geoffrey Dickens | December 10, 2015, 9:53 AM EST

As the Republican candidates prepare to meet in their fifth cable news debate, they’ve also been participating in what might be considered a year-long, slow-motion debate on the broadcast TV morning news shows. An MRC analysis of interviews from January 1 ...

Bozell & Graham Column: Obama, Seriously Out of Touch

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | December 8, 2015, 11:46 PM EST

Barack Obama wanted 15 minutes of air time on Sunday night, the most heavily watched night of the week, to speak to the nation about the San Bernardino shooting. It was appropriate for the president to request it, and for the networks to grant it, but eve ...

Stephanopoulos Offers Skimpy Explanation on Clinton Conflict of Interest

By Scott Whitlock | December 7, 2015, 12:55 PM EST

George Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton operative and generous donor to the Clinton Foundation, on Sunday interviewed Hillary Clinton and only offered a quick, meager explanation of his conflict of interest. The This Week anchor began his discussion ...

ABC and PBS Extol ‘Stern and Direct’ Obama Speech; ‘Struck’ by Pledge to ‘Destroy’ ISIS

By Curtis Houck | December 7, 2015, 2:07 AM EST

While NBC’s Lester Holt was wondering before President Obama’s speech Sunday night if it would “be a defining moment for this presidency,” his counterparts on ABC and PBS picked up where he left off afterward by enthusiastically praising how “struck” they ...

Revolving Door: Clinton Donor George Stephanopoulos to Interview Hillary Clinton

By Scott Whitlock | December 7, 2015, 1:47 AM EST

George Stephanopoulos, a former top operative in the Bill Clinton White House, a man who donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, will interview Hillary Clinton on Sunday’s This Week.  With no sense of a conflict of interest, ABC’s Amy Robach proudly br ...

ABC Exploits Shooting With Celebrity Gun Control Messages

By Scott Whitlock | December 3, 2015, 3:57 PM EST

ABC on Thursday exploited the mass shooting in California as a way to tout the gun control advocacy of celebrities and politicians. Good Morning America  reporter Jon Karl highlighted Barack Obama’s “frustration” at the inability to pass new restrictions. ...