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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 ...

CNN's Zakaria: Obama Thinks Cable News 'Massively Exaggerates' ISIS Threat

By Brad Wilmouth | December 19, 2015, 4:28 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, during a discussion of President Barack Obama's news conference, CNN's Fareed Zakaria downplayed the threat to the U.S. posed by ISIS as he forwarded the President's view tha ...

New Republic's Brian Beutler: Democratic Debaters Should Denounce GOP’s ‘Appeal to Paranoia’

By Tom Johnson | December 19, 2015, 12:28 PM EST

Debbie Wasserman Schultz may not want you to know about it, but there’s a Democratic presidential debate on Saturday evening, and The New Republic ’s Brian Beutler believes that the candidates therein “would be doing the country a service by placing the r ...

NYT Flushes Obama’s Damning ‘Cable TV’ Admission From Defensive San Bernardino Story

By Clay Waters | December 18, 2015, 12:24 PM EST

President Obama spoke off the record to news columnists, in a defensive response to Republican criticism that he has seemed passive and uninterested in the face of Islamic terrorist attacks and threats against the United States. In a news story about the ...

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' ...

Ex-Daily Beast Boss Tina Brown Cheers Lindsey Graham Calling Trump 'Poster Boy for ISIS'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 4:21 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's New Day on CNN, former Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown lavished praise on GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, as she pined for him to make it onto the main debate stage, and three times gushed that the ...

Colbert Skewers Adelson as ‘Part-Time Kuato’; Meyers Jokes GOP Candidates Are ‘Radicalized by ISIS’

By Curtis Houck | December 17, 2015, 3:02 AM EST

On Wednesday, the late-night comedy show hosts gave their thoughts on the previous evening’s Republican debate and, naturally, the jokes skewed to the left. Most prominent, Late Show host Stephen Colbert trashed conservative donor Sheldon Adelson as a “pa ...

Left-Wing Pundits On GOP Presidential Debate: Winners Included Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and ISIS

By Tom Johnson | December 16, 2015, 10:07 PM EST

Many of the lefty writers who analyzed Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate at the Venetian suggested that had the event been promoted as if it were a Vegas show, the marquee might have read “Fright Night,” or perhaps “Be Afraid…Be Very Afraid.” ...

MSNBC Guest: GOPers Want to 'Mass Murder Civilians' to Fight ISIS

By Brad Wilmouth | December 16, 2015, 7:53 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's MSNBC Live, Linda Sarsour of the Arab-American Association of New York received no pushback from host Jose Diaz-Balart over her inflammatory assertion that some of the Republican presidential candidates "think ...

CNN's Cuomo Stumbles, Denies 'All Jihadis are Muslim'

By Matthew Balan | December 16, 2015, 1:32 PM EST

CNN's Chris Cuomo made a gaffe regarding the religious faith of ISIS and other similar groups on Wednesday's New Day. When Senator Lindsey Graham accused Donald Trump of "playing into ISIL's hands," Cuomo replied, " Sixty per ...

GOP Strategist Pushes Back Against Chris Matthews's Simplistic Bush-Created-ISIS Talking Point

By Ken Shepherd | December 15, 2015, 9:06 PM EST

Former John McCain presidential campaign advisor Steve Schmidt pushed back against former Carter staffer Chris Matthews on tonight's Hardball when the latter whipped out his tired Bush-caused-ISIS talking point. Schmidt wondered why set the clock for ...

NY Times Reporter Kirk Semple Strikes Again With Anecdotal 'Islamophobia' on Front Page

By Clay Waters | December 15, 2015, 1:44 PM EST

The latest from New York Times reporter Kirk Semple on the front page of Tuesday’s Times, “ Muslim Youth in U.S. Feel Strain of Suspicion,” demonstrates that the paper’s strongest impulse after Islamic terror attacks is not to investigate what went wrong, ...

Chris Matthews Offended That Chris Christie Calls ISIS Jihadis 'Animals'

By Ken Shepherd | December 15, 2015, 1:42 AM EST

MSNBC's Chris Matthews seems to have a problem with those who would call the torturers, rapists, and murderers who populate the ranks of ISIS as "animals." The Hardball host made the complaint tonight to frequent contributor and left-wing j ...

Networks Omit Obama Criticism on ISIS, Tout Pentagon Visit; Forced to ‘Reassure an Anxious Nation’

By Curtis Houck | December 14, 2015, 9:36 PM EST

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all prominently touted on Monday night President Barack Obama’s visit to the Pentagon to discuss the fight against ISIS, but skimped on reporting any criticism of the administration’s strategy but instead lamenting tha ...

Kerry: 'For The Most Part' We Know Who's Coming Into Our Country

By Mark Finkelstein | December 13, 2015, 2:41 PM EST

Ain't that reassuring?... On today's  Meet the Press,  John Kerry told Chuck Todd that  "for the most part"   we know who's entering our country.  Kerry's statement came after he boasted about  the Obama admin's "hu ...