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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 ...

NY Times Correlates Trump Support With Racism — Based on Decade-Old Google Searches

By Tom Blumer | January 2, 2016, 2:45 AM EST

On Wednesday, Nate Cohn at the New York Times, who by some accounts is being anointed the next Nate Silver of polling, made a clumsy and despicable attempt to inject race into his political "analysis" of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Cohn's ...

NYT Evades Bill Clinton's Sordid Sexual History, Blames Trump's Friendship Treachery Instead

By Clay Waters | January 1, 2016, 1:33 PM EST

Donald Trump called out Hillary Clinton on Twitter for hypocrisy in accusing the GOP of being anti-woman, yet relying on serial philanderer Bill Clinton’s help while running for president. But you wouldn’t have learned that until deep into the front-page ...

Lefty Pundit: Conservatives’ Opposition to Political Correctness Rooted In Loss of White Male Privilege

By Tom Johnson | December 31, 2015, 11:23 PM EST

If Paul Waldman had wanted to put the main argument of his Monday American Prospect column in Obamaesque terms, he might have written that conservative opponents of political correctness have gotten bitter and are clinging to their supposed right (and may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lefty Writer Claims Trump, Conservative Evangelicals Have One Big Thing In Common: ‘Narcissism’

By Tom Johnson | December 30, 2015, 10:20 PM EST

If you’re looking for the ultimate contradiction in terms, it’d be hard to top “Christian narcissist.” Nonetheless, David Masciotra alleged in a Tuesday Salon piece (originally published on the left-wing site AlterNet) that “conservative evangelical Chris ...

Poll: Americans Divided on Religious Liberty for Christians, Muslims

By Randy Hall | December 31, 2015, 6:23 AM EST

People place a higher priority on preserving the religious freedom of Christians than for other faith groups, ranking Muslims as the least deserving of the protections, according to a new survey released on Wednesday. A skeptic might think the Associated ...

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 ...

WSJ and WashPost's Marcus Agree: Bill Clinton's Sexual History 'Is Fair Game'

By Tom Blumer | December 29, 2015, 11:46 PM EST

Just one week after CNN's Don Lemon shut down a guest who dared to raise the issue, there is now an agreement across the ideological spectrum that if Hillary Clinton is going to use her husband Bill as a campaign surrogate and go after her opponents& ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...