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Amanpour Blames Tony Blair for Paris, San Bernardino; ‘Do You Feel Responsibility’ Because of Iraq?

By Curtis Houck | December 14, 2015, 8:44 PM EST

On her eponymous CNN show on Thursday night, Christiane Amanpour verbally harassed former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair over his involvement in the Iraq War and specifically whether he and former U.S. President George W. Bush “feel pain” and “a sense of ...

Bush-Obsessed Nation Editor Uses Trump to Slam Bush 'Lies,' Calls Trump 'Bush' Twice

By Brad Wilmouth | November 29, 2015, 4:47 PM EST

Far-left The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel was still exhibiting signs of Bush Derangement Syndrome on Sunday's Reliable Sources as she appeared on the CNN show to discuss Donald Trump's claims of seeing thousands of Muslims in New Jersey c ...

Washington Monthly Blogger: Thanks to Palin, Republicans Now Insist ‘The Truth Doesn’t Matter’

By Tom Johnson | November 28, 2015, 8:10 AM EST

In the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have made media bias an issue, as did Newt Gingrich during the 2012 contest. Irony alert: Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman believes that it was one of the me ...

CNN's King Inserts Qualifier 'Whatever You Think About Him' for Bush, but Not Dem Pols

By Brad Wilmouth | November 27, 2015, 2:08 PM EST

During a discussion of Wednesday's interview with GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush on  New Day, CNN's John King gave a glimpse into the negative mindset of media liberals toward former President George W. Bush such that they have difficulty p ...

WashPost's Marcus Decries GOP's 'Very Ugly Week,' Longs for 'Good Old Days' of Bush

By Brad Wilmouth | November 23, 2015, 8:11 AM EST

Appearing as a panel member on Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus had sudden respect for former President George W. Bush as she declared that she was "nostalgic for the good old days" when President Bush ...

The PBS NewsHour Boys: Dubya Is Lincoln, Today's GOP 'Horrendous' on Refugees, Islam

By Tim Graham | November 21, 2015, 4:52 PM EST

The Public Broadcasting Service isn’t really a representative of the Public, as everyone should know. It’s the defender of liberal elite opinion, no matter what the polls say. This week, the polls are stacking up against President Obama on his ISIS policy ...

Atlantic: Republicans Engage in Race-Baiting, But Might Not Be Racists

By Michael McKinney | November 19, 2015, 4:07 PM EST

On Tuesday, The Atlantic featured an article that lamented decades of Republican race-baiting in presidential campaigns. The piece by Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur allow that race-baiting “does not mean that those who employ them are racists ...

Former MSNBC Host Blames Western Terror Attacks on U.S. Relationship with Saudi Arabia

By Curtis Houck | November 14, 2015, 6:58 PM EST

Opining on HBO’s Real Time on Friday’s Islamic terror attacks in Paris, former MSNBC host and liberal activist Dylan Ratigan explained that the reason Islamist extremists despise the United States and Western Civilization (and thus carry out attacks) is d ...

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 ...

Frank Rich: Jeb Never Had a Chance, As 41 and 43 Brought Those ‘Crazies’ and Gay-Bashers to the GOP

By Tom Johnson | October 30, 2015, 9:40 PM EDT

New York magazine’s Frank Rich saw Jeb Bush as the paper tiger of the Republican presidential field-- “saw” because Rich, in the wake of the CNBC debate, considers Bush’s run “finished.” In a Thursday post on the mag’s website, Rich, the former New York T ...

AP's Bauder Enlists As An Accomplice to the Cinematic Fraud of 'Truth'

By Tom Blumer | October 24, 2015, 6:23 PM EDT

The press has consumed many barrels of ink and gigs of bandwidth providing free promotion for the eminently misnamed movie Truth, thus far virtually for naught. On Thursday, the Associated Press's David Bauder did his part to generate interest by pre ...

Hillary 'Faking a Southern Drawl' Again; Press Won't Question Her Genuineness

By Tom Blumer | October 20, 2015, 5:56 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton was in Alabama a few days ago. As she has in the past at least two other times when south of the Mason-Dixon line, she decided that she could drop the letter "g" from several of her "i-n-g" words while affecting a sort- ...

Shorter Matthews: G.W. Bush to Blame for Deaths of Benghazi Four

By Ken Shepherd | October 19, 2015, 10:18 PM EDT

MSNBC host Chris Matthews closed out his October 19 Hardball program with the strange assertion that President George W. Bush is both ultimately responsible for allowing the 9/11 attacks to happen AND the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya eleven ...

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 ...

NYT's Martin Condescendingly Condemns GOP Field as Childish and Anti-Muslim

By Clay Waters | September 23, 2015, 9:45 AM EDT

Jonathan Martin, perhaps the most condescending of the New York Times  stable of GOP-hostile political reporters, eagerly condemned the entire Republican presidential field as childish and divisive in a Tuesday story, " Without Calming Voice, G.O.P. ...