David Brooks: Distrust of Media Comes from Hiring No Republicans

On the last Friday night of 2017, the PBS NewsHour analyzed the year in review, which included a look at public attitudes toward the national media. Substitute anchor Hari Sreenivasan cited a Pew Research Center analysis and suggested Republicans opposed the press playing a watchdog role over government. Pseudoconservative PBS pundit David Brooks surprisingly suggested that media distrust is…
Tim Graham

CNN's Lemon Shouts 'No!' 9 Times to Stop Conservative's HRC-Email Talk

At CNN, it's not unusual to see one conservative or center-right guest in a panel discussion stacked with leftists, including the host. That's bad enough, but there has clearly been an increase in the number of times the lone conservative or center-right guest also ends up on the receiving end of rude, abusive treatment one would never see directed at other panelists. Such was the case Thursday…
Tom Blumer

Newsweek’s Ivanka Story Suggests Confederate Flag in Photo Background

Newsweek, circling the drain of journalistic credibility, has resorted to immature rehashes of liberal social media clickbait, to bizarrely accuse President Trump daughter Ivanka of sending a “dogwhistle” signal to racist movements. The headline suggests that the Trump family is responsible for the ideological content of flags on boats sailing near them while on vacation. “Oops! Ivanka Trump…
Clay Waters

Hollywood Films Warning of Climate Change Lost Audiences During 2017

How many people went to the movie theaters in the past 12 months to watch such films as Blade Runner 2049, Geostorm, Downsizing or An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power? If you’re not one of them, you’re not alone. Each of those movies featured the catastrophic results of climate change and global warming as one of its major plot points, which failed to draw audiences in 2017.
Randy Hall

Univision News Can't Stop Promoting Radical Mayor Of San Juan

As 2017 draws to a close, Univision took one last opportunity to spotlight one of the network's new favorites: Carmen Yulín Cruz, the radical separatist mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jorge Bonilla

MRC's Tim Graham on Hillary Fans Freaking at 'Please Go Away' Video

NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham was interviewed by Trish Regan on Thursday's Intelligence Report on the Fox Business network. The topic was the liberal freakout over Vanity Fair's video begging Hillary Clinton to take up knitting or improv comedy instead of running another losing campaign for president. Graham said there's really nothing surprising in Democrats wanting a fresh face after…
NB Staff

Delusional Politico: Trump Is Building on 'Obama's Economic Legacy'

This one's for the "They can't possibly believe what they're writing" file. Thursday morning, Ben White and Nancy Cook at Politico actually claimed that President Donald Trump is building "his 2018 political message by rebranding" predecessor Barack Obama's "economic legacy."
Tom Blumer

Jorge Ramos Reduces Renowned Neurosurgeon To Immigration Prop

In a recent episode of “Real America”, host Jorge Ramos shows the extent to which an individual life story is but an accessory to a broader agenda- even that of a brilliant brain surgeon.
MRC Latino Staff

CNN Hosts Freak Out Over Trump Mocking Global Warming During Cold Wave

On Friday morning, CNN anchors were freaking out as President Donald Trump used the occasion of record-low temperatures on the East Coast to take a jab at global warming theory. On CNN's Early Start program, co-host Dave Briggs repeatedly called Trump's tweet "bizarre," and CNN's New Day also dealt with the story in the first half hour of the show.
Brad Wilmouth

Surprise: NY Times Reports 'SNL' Anti-Trump Bits Are Forgettable

In Wednesday's New York Times, three reporters reflected on "how Washington insiders are viewing pop culture" in 2017. The most interesting take was that the Saturday Night Live "Alec Baldwin bits" on Trump this year haven't "drawn a ton of blood" in Washington. Their mockery of female Trump aides also failed to score with insiders, they declared.
Tim Graham

Why? CNN Thinks Coordinated GOP Talking Points Is a Scandal

Charges that the Obama administration's FBI and Justice Department may have actively worked to prevent Donald Trump's election have really gotten under CNN's thin skin. On Wednesday, the network took out its frustrations on Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, both in John Berman's hostile interview and in the one-sided panel discussion which followed.
Tom Blumer

NewsBusters Year-in-Review: The Most Outrageous Quotes of 2017 Part V

All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2017. Monday, we presented the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; on Tuesday, we showcased some of this year’s nastiest attacks on Republicans or conservatives; Wednesday, we highlighted the media’s freak-out over President Donald Trump; and yesterday was a look at the…
Geoffrey Dickens

MSNBC's Tur and Panel Lament No New Gun Control in 2017

On Thursday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, during the show's regular "The Lid" segment, substitute host Katy Tur and her three guests fretted over the failure of gun control advocates to pass any new gun laws in the aftermath of high-profile mass shootings in 2017. Even the lone Republican-leaning panel member -- MSNBC contributor Susan Del Percio -- was coming down on the left-leaning side of the issue…
Brad Wilmouth

Out-Migration Is Highest in 3 States Complaining Most About Tax Law

Early Thursday afternoon, Brad Wilmouth at NewsBusters posted on clueless Alisyn Camerota's morning interview of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on CNN. After Cuomo whined about the new federal tax law's $10,000 limitation — not an "elimination," as he falsely claimed — on state and local tax deductibility, he contended that New York and California are the nation's "economic engines." There is…
Tom Blumer