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Another Gaffe Ignored: Sanders Doesn't Understand Why Mortgage Interest Rates Are Lower Than Student Loan Rates

By Tom Blumer | December 28, 2015, 5:36 PM EST

While the establishment press lies in wait for Republican and conservative candidates to make some kind of off-color or foolish statement — or one that can be twisted to become one, even if it originally wasn't — it consistently ignores howlers made ...

Bernie Sanders Endorsed by Union Representing 'Objective' Major Media Personnel

By Tim Graham | December 22, 2015, 7:24 AM EST

James Warren at Poynter MediaWire noted that last week, Bernie Sanders picked up the endorsement of the Communications Workers of America, a 600,000-member union that includes 26,000 members of the NewsGuild – representing “journalists at The New York Tim ...

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Dismisses Bernie Hours After Praising Him; Dowd Laments Jeb’s Standing in GOP

By Curtis Houck | December 20, 2015, 2:39 PM EST

Hours after praising socialist Senator Bernie Sanders prior to ABC’s Democratic presidential debate on Saturday night, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts completely reversed course on Sunday’s This Week and brushed off Sanders as unelectable and hav ...

Awkward: ABC Restarts Democratic Debate Without Hillary Clinton Onstage

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2015, 10:04 PM EST

In one of the more awkward and bizarre happenings you’ll see in a debate, Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC restarted without frontrunner Hillary Clinton following a commercial break and continued for over a minute until she returned to the ...

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 ...

CBS Downplays Sanders vs. Clinton-DNC Data Scandal; Merely a ‘Brewing’ ‘Family Feud’

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2015, 2:12 AM EST

On Friday, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC covered the new scandal brewing inside the Democratic presidential campaign with the data breach involving the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns (plus the Sanders camp suing the Democratic Nationa ...

NBC's Mitchell Claims 'A Lot of Discrimination' Vs. Muslims, GOP Says 'Really Troubling' Things

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 10:02 PM EST

Nearing the end of her MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell claimed that "there is a lot of discrimination" against Muslims as she was introducing President Barack Obama' ...

Networks Cheer Hillary as ‘Grown Up’ on ISIS Compared to GOP, Chelsea Joining Campaign Trail

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 8:23 PM EST

Just after the undercard Republican presidential debate began on Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered previews of the impending “freewheeling and fiery slugfest” debate and contrasted that with plenty of laudatory rhetoric ...

Cliché Alert: Capitalist Shown as Hard-Hearted Scrooge on NBC's 'Chicago Med'

By Karen Townsend | December 2, 2015, 2:47 AM EST

How typical. Tonight’s episode “Fallback” of NBC’s Chicago Med  took a shot at capitalism, showing a greedy business owner calling another character "Bernie Sanders" for wanting to help people. As is explained in this episode, Dr. Connor Rhodes ...

NYT's Horowitz Hits 'Venomous' Trump Rally, Cites 'Nativism' of GOP Base, Chides Bernie's Lukewarm Gay Stance

By Clay Waters | November 29, 2015, 7:21 PM EST

Colorful New York Times political reporter Jason Horowitz let his left-wing ideological flags fly with three stories on consecutive days--a "venemous" Donald Trump rally, a cyptically hostile Carly Fiorina profile, and a chiding of Bernie Sander ...

Liberal HuffPo Correspondent Doubts Dem Candidates Fiscal Policy

By P.J. Gladnick | November 16, 2015, 8:30 PM EST

Jonathan Cohn is the reliably liberal senior national correspondent for the Huffington Post. Therefore, one must take notice when he subjected the fiscal policy answers of the Democrat presidential candidates to a robust vetting after their Saturday debat ...

Peggy Noonan Mocks Sanders Saying ISIS Exacerbated by Climate Change

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 16, 2015, 12:05 AM EST

During an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan strongly rebuked Bernie Sanders’ claim during Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate that climate change has contributed to the rise of ISIS. Noonan argued ...

Bernie Sanders Denies Flip-Flop on Hillary’s E-Mails, Blames ‘Media Stuff’

By Curtis Houck | November 15, 2015, 11:29 PM EST

After being pushed by The Des Moines Register ’s Kathie Obradovich during Saturday’s Democratic debate about his flip-flopping on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, socialist Bernie Sanders denied the idea that he had backtracked from his “damn e-mails” co ...

Dean, Walsh Throw Fits over ‘Disappointing’ John Dickerson Pushing Dems on Radical Islam [UPDATED]

By Curtis Houck | November 15, 2015, 12:32 AM EST

12:30 a.m. Eastern: This post has been updated to include a similar tweet around the same time from former Democratic Vermont Governor Howard Dean.-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearly a half-hour into Saturday’ ...

FNC Panel: Dems Seem ‘Very Small’ on ISIS after Attacks; U.S. Hasn’t ‘Done Whatever It Takes’

By Curtis Houck | November 15, 2015, 11:18 PM EST

A special Saturday edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report aired due to the terror attacks 24 hours earlier in Paris with a panel of The Weekly Standard ’s Steve Hayes, U.S. News & World Report ’s David Catanese, and syndicated columnist Charles ...