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ABC News: Hillary 'May Have Been Right'—'Predicted' ISIS Would Use Trump in Video

By Mark Finkelstein | January 2, 2016, 2:41 PM EST

If two weeks ago I claimed it was raining when it was not, but today it does rain, does that make my original statement a prediction, one that was "right?" No, if you're honest about it. But maybe yes if you're ABC News, and instead of ...

Documentary: Chuck Norris Helped Open Communist Romania to West

By Sarah Stites | January 1, 2016, 2:53 PM EST

During the darkest days of communism, Romanians had something to brighten their oppressed existence—illicit American movie parties. Under Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship, the Eastern European country had very little contact with the West. But thanks to T ...

NBC Churns Out Full Story with Soft Piano Music Looking at Obama's Year in Photos

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 1:50 PM EST

Closing out 2015 on the Thursday morning newscasts, NBC’s Today churned one of its most fawning pieces on President Obama as NBC News correspondent Ron Allen reviewed Obama’s top photos by White House photographer Pete Souza while hushed, soft piano music ...

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 ...

Liberal Lexicon: ‘Identity’ the 2015 Word of the Year

By Sarah Stites | December 31, 2015, 9:51 AM EST

If you could sum up 2015 in one word, what would it be? In early December, Dictionary.com revealed its top pick. Based off of “language evolution and user interest,” the online lexicon dubbed identity the 2015 word of the year. You can probably understand ...

How Cozy: Obama Campaign to NYT to WSJ to USA Today and Now to CBS

By Brent Baker | December 30, 2015, 11:55 PM EST

Michael Simon, who headed the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign’s targeting and analytics team, has joined CBS Radio, the Tom Taylor Now radio industry e-mail newsletter reported last week in an item highlighted on DCRTV.com. Taylor relayed how “Sim ...

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 ...

CBS Touts Hillary Receiving Question from Young Boy at Rally on Equal Pay; ‘Pay Perspective’

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 12:11 PM EST

With the year winding down and the news cycle slowing (aside from the weather), Wednesday’s CBS This Morning found it proper to reserve 59 seconds for fawning over Hillary Clinton receiving a question on Tuesday from a young boy about equal pay. Spinning ...

Year-End Awards: The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:45 PM EST

Today’s installment of the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” as selected by our 39 expert judges, the “ The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.” Winning this award, former Star Trek actor George Takei, who ...

Bill Moyers Declares: 'The Plutocrats Are Winning; Don't Let Them!'

By Randy Hall | December 29, 2015, 6:12 PM EST

Liberal pundit Bill Moyers decided to “celebrate” the holiday season by posting a negative opinion piece from the Far Left that stated “the super rich” and the “vast inequality” between segments of the population “are creating a death sentence for governm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NBC Comedy Serves Up Racism with Salsa

By Karen Townsend | December 29, 2015, 4:12 AM EST

The focus of NBC’s “Shots and Salsa” episode of the big-box-store comedy  Superstore  was racism. According to Amy (America Ferrera), the request from her boss, Glenn (Mark McKinney) to pass out salsa samples is racist because she is a Latina. She refuses ...

Trump ‘Attacking Bill Clinton’ Exasperates NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

By Brent Baker | December 28, 2015, 10:35 AM EST

You could hear it in her voice. Hosting Meet the Press on Sunday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was clearly exasperated by Donald Trump daring to warn Hillary Clinton he would raise Bill Clinton’s “penchant for sexism” if he campaigns for her. Mitchell was so ann ...