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'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 ...

CNN Boosts NY Daily News's 'Provocative' Anti-Prayer Front Page

By Matthew Balan | December 4, 2015, 8:41 AM EST

Three CNN programs on Wednesday night and Thursday morning promoted the anti-prayer front page of the New York Daily News on Thursday: 'God Isn't Fixing This.' Unsurprisingly, pro-gun control anchor Carol Costello quoted from the liberal ne ...

Bozell Slams New York Daily News's Decision to Mock People of Faith

By NB Staff | December 4, 2015, 8:37 AM EST

Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell issued a statement today blasting the New York Daily News for their cover mocking people of faith for praying in the wake of the tragedy in San Bernardino, California. MRC President Brent Bozell reacts: & ...

Former AP Reporters: Wire Service Suppressed 'World-Changing' Story on 2008 Israeli Peace Offer

By Tom Blumer | November 30, 2015, 12:46 PM EST

In predictably disingenuous fashion, the Associated Press claimed in a November 18 story that "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has shined new light on the breakdown of a potentially history-altering round of 2008 peace talks." Abbas acknowle ...

CNN Suspends Reporter for Biased Twitter Post on House Refugee Vote [UPDATED]

By Matthew Balan | November 20, 2015, 9:04 AM EST

Politico 's Hadas Gold revealed on Thursday that CNN suspended correspondent Elise Labott for two weeks, after she decried the 289 to 137 vote on Syrian refugees by the House of Representatives: "House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugee ...

MSNBC's Matthews Treats Robert Redford to Fawning Interview Plugging 'Truth'

By Ken Shepherd | November 3, 2015, 5:41 PM EST

Chris Matthews the politics and news junkie certainly knows better than to buy the malarkey that is the Dan Rather Memogate story as told in the new box-office dud Truth. But Chris Matthews the star-struck cinemaphile won out last night as the Hardball ho ...

As Final Nail in Fact-Based Coffin Appears, 'Truth' Is Well on Its Way to Deserved Box-Office Oblivion

By Tom Blumer | November 3, 2015, 1:48 AM EST

Truth, the cinematic attempt to make heroes out of the agenda-driven journalists who produced and broadcast the fraudulent 2004 CBS News story about George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service, went into wide distribution this past weekend, wit ...

Not News: Obama-Clinton Emails Render His Related Kroft Interview Statements False

By Tom Blumer | November 4, 2015, 8:52 AM EST

A Friday evening story at the New York Times covered the Obama administration's decision to "try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." In it, reporters Mic ...

Moderators at CNBC, Which 'Graded' Debaters' Speech Patterns, Scored At or Below Every GOP Candidate

By Tom Blumer | October 30, 2015, 9:41 PM EDT

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And people who ridicule the level of others' speech patterns should check theirs first. CNBC didn't do that. Instead, on Thursday, as I noted in a previous NewsBusters post, it childishly  rush ...

On CNN, Cate Blanchett Praises 'Intelligent, Hilarious' Dan Rather

By Matthew Balan | October 19, 2015, 5:10 PM EDT

Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett gushed over disgraced journalists Dan Rather and Mary Mapes on Monday's New Day on CNN. Michaela Pereira interviewed the Oscar winners about their new film, Truth, which is adaptation of Mapes's account of the M ...

As 'Truth' Debuts, NY Times Coverage of the Saga Contains Very Little of It

By Tom Blumer | October 17, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT

As I noted on Friday, the New York Times has become the de facto head cheerleader for Truth, the movie which purports to tell the story behind CBS News's 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the ear ...

NY Times Critic Holden: 'Truth' Is 'Beautifully Executed Journalistic Thriller'

By Tom Blumer | October 17, 2015, 1:05 AM EDT

The New York Times has not merely climbed aboard the bandwagon of Truth, which exalts the fraudulent September 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report about President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service. It's now serving as the film's de f ...

Megan McArdle: 'A Marshmallow Planet' More Likely Than Finding Truth in 'Truth'

By Tom Blumer | October 16, 2015, 12:50 AM EDT

The disgraceful determination of Hollywood to rewrite history not favorable to the left, its causes and its personalities has perhaps reached its nadir with the laughably misnamed movie Truth. The film is about Dan Rather's September 2004 60 Minutes ...

NYT Admits Writer's F-Bomb Post on Jeb was 'Completely Inappropriate'

By Matthew Balan | October 16, 2015, 11:56 AM EDT

The New York Times admitted on Thursday that a staff writer's F-word attack on former Governor Jeb Bush was out of step with their standards. Politco 's Hadas Gold and Marc Caputo quoted an unnamed spokesperson for the liberal newspaper who labe ...

Delusional Dan: Rather Still Insists Phony Career-Ending Story ‘Was True’

By Kyle Drennen | October 15, 2015, 10:51 AM EDT

In an interview on Wednesday’s NBC Today, disgraced ex- CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather told co-host Matt Lauer that he still would have reported the fraudulent story that ended his broadcast network career: “What I wouldn't do differently is back ...