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Ebony Editor: Would Liberals Turn on Bill Cosby if He Supported Black Lives Matter?

By Jack Coleman | December 31, 2015, 8:50 PM EST

Maybe it can be chalked up to a tendency toward reflection at year's end and not the emergence of a refreshing pattern. This past Sunday on Meet the Press, one of the last people you'd expect to point out that "it's not always policeme ...

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 ...

Year-End Awards: The Most Outrageous Media Quote of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 31, 2015, 9:05 AM EST

Wrapping up the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” it’s time to present the “ Quote of the Year ” for 2015, and the top runner-up, as selected by our panel of 39 expert judges, who were extremely generous with their time as they re ...

CNN's Camerota Shocked 14 Women Could Make Claims Against Bill Clinton

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2015, 9:33 AM EST

"Is that right? Fourteen??" That's Alisyn Camerota, 1:21 into the video clip. The shock and incredulity in the voice of the CNN host is stupendous! Yes, who could possibly imagine that, as CNN commentator Errol Louis stated, there are 14 wo ...

MRC's Bozell, Judith Miller: Trump Doesn't Need Ads Due to Non-Stop Media Coverage

By NB Staff | December 31, 2015, 12:43 AM EST

Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of The Kelly File, MRC President Brent Bozell and Fox News contributor Judith Miller made the case to fill-in host Sandra Smith that Donald Trump’s recent pledge to begin airing millions of dollars in television ads is not ...

Worst 5 Instances Of Bias In Spanish-Language News

By Jorge Bonilla | December 30, 2015, 11:36 PM EST

  Over the course of the past year, we at MRC Latino have worked diligently to cull examples of biased coverage in the Spanish-language news media. Here are five of the worst examples of over-the-top-no-rips-left-to-give biased coverage in 2015, in regres ...

WashPost’s Robinson: Trump Is ‘Driving a Truck Bomb into the Middle of the Republican Party’

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 2:51 PM EST

While the left constantly goes after conservatives for any and all rhetoric they view as inciting violence, they almost never follow their own prescriptions and that was certainly the case on Tuesday night as MSNBC’s The Last Word featured liberal Washing ...

Hewitt Schools Lemon on Need for Trump, GOP to Educate Millenials on Bill Clinton Sex Scandals

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 8:00 PM EST

A week after he cut the mic of conservative guest Kurt Schlichter for bringing up Bill Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct, CNN's Don Lemon found himself trying to shut down another guest during Monday’s CNN Tonight when conservative radio host an ...

Nicolle Wallace: During 2000 Florida Recount, Cruz Tops for 'Hubris and Egomania'

By Mark Finkelstein | December 29, 2015, 6:56 PM EST

Judging by Nicolle Wallace's performance on today's With All Due Respect, it looks like establishment Republicans are going full bore against Ted Cruz. Here was Wallace talking about her personal experience with Ted Cruz: "I worked with him ...

Year-End Awards: The Ku Klux Con Job Award

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:31 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Ku Klux Con Job Award,” for smearing conser ...

Key Source for Al Jazeera Recants on Peyton Manning HGH Story

By Dylan Gwinn | December 28, 2015, 9:48 AM EST

So, stop me when you’ve heard this before: “Radical, corrupt news organization conspires to take down a revered American using highly dubious, if not outright fraudulent sourcing.” But enough about CBS and Dan Rather. Right now, Al-Jazeera appears to be m ...

Year-End Awards: The Dopiest News Media Quotes of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:22 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Audacity of Dopes ” award, for the wackiest ...

Sharpton Suggests OK for Hillary to Have Attacked Monica Lewinsky

By Mark Finkelstein | December 28, 2015, 12:14 PM EST

What's more sexist: Donald Trump saying "schlonged" to describe the way Hillary Clinton lost in 2008, or Hillary herself orchestrating a campaign to discredit and destroy women, including Monica Lewinsky, whose "bimbo eruptions" t ...

MRC’s Year-End Awards: The Hopeless Haters Award

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 12:57 AM EST

Since last week, NewsBusters has been presenting each category from the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Hopeless Haters Award,” for the worst quotes denigrating the ...

Rachel Maddow Show Producer Agrees With Obama That GOP Is Globally Unique, and Not In a Good Way

By Tom Johnson | December 27, 2015, 9:12 AM EST

President Obama considers the Republican party an international outlier, and so does Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. (That’s “outlier,” not “outlaw,” though, who knows, for them that may be a distinction without a difference.) ...