Apocalyptic NYT: ‘Shocking’ Firing Hides ‘Biggest Political Scandal’

The New York Times went into full apocalypse mode on Wednesday, declaring it “impossible” to believe that FBI Director James Comey was fired for any reason other than he was about to expose one of the “biggest political scandals" ever. Both on the front page and in an editorial, the Times essentially convicted Donald Trump for unspecified Russian crimes. 
Scott Whitlock

ABC Lies for the Democrats: They Didn't 'Want Him Fired!'

The Democrats are in an uproar after President Trump, under advisement from the DOJ, fired FBI Director James Comey Tuesday night, calling the surprise firing an obstruction of the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia. Yet the same party called for Comey to be fired back in October, when he was investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails. But instead of calling out the Democrats for the…
Kristine Marsh

NBC Accuses DOJ of Lying About Comey Firing: ‘It’s About Russia’

Appearing on NBC’s Today Wednesday morning, left-wing MSNBC legal correspondent Ari Melber hurled an accusation, without evidence, that the Department of Justice was lying about the reasoning behind the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Starting off a panel discussion, co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: “...on the bombshell meter, where does this rate?” Melber proclaimed: “This is huge. The…
Kyle Drennen

Panicky ABC, CBS Declare Trump New Nixon After ‘Watergate’ Firing

ABC and CBS on Wednesday went into full panic mode on Wednesday, seeing Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey as a crisis comparable to Richard Nixon during the darkest days of Watergate. With dramatic music, Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos parroted, "Now calls for a special prosecutor to take over the Russia investigation. Democrats compare this to Watergate…

Scott Whitlock

Tucker Carlson Scolds NY Times for Cheering France Has No Fox News

On Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson called out The New York Times for cheering how the French media ignored leaked emails from French presidential contender Emmanuel Macron. On Tuesday, the Times published a Rachel Donadio article headlined "Why a Hacking Attack Failed to Sway the French Vote for President." Donadio (or her Times editors) felt compelled to offer joy and relief that…
Tim Graham

Raging David Gregory Assails Cuccinelli for Calling Out His Absurdity

All the media could talk about Tuesday night was how President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. As unfounded speculation about Trump’s assumed guilt swirled, CNN political commentator David Gregory was in a visible rage over the whole ordeal. At the end of the eight o’clock hour, he declared that the firing was a display Trump’s “disdain” for the rule of law. But what was on full…
Nicholas Fondacaro

AP 'Fact-Check' Goes Entirely After GOP, Misleads on Jobs

The Associated Press had a variety of howlers from Democrats and leftists it could have included in its May 8 (update on May 9) "fact check" roundup based on events of the past week. As those who have watched the wire service's conduct since the 2016 election campaign could have predicted, it included none, and instead solely went after the Trump administration and GOP politicians on nine…
Tom Blumer

Bozell & Graham Column: Historians Are Ruining Obama's Mythical Memoir

Like Pavlov’s dogs, the liberal media salivated over the arrival of Barack Obama to receive a “Profile in Courage” award from the John F. Kennedy Library. The mythic figure returned to accept the honor in the middle of a two-hour live special on MSNBC, loaded with the usual Chris Matthews slobbering over his “American eloquence.”  The words “mythic figure” truly apply, as another liberal…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

ABC Brazenly Pushes Clinton Campaign Talking Points on Comey Firing

The Big Three Network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were caught off guard by President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey shortly before they went live Tuesday evening. All three ran very long, multi-segment reports on the shocking development. But ABC was the only network to dedicate an entire report to the reaction from members of Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign…
Nicholas Fondacaro

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin Loses His Mind Over Comey Being Fired

Washington, DC was rocked Tuesday evening when news broke that President Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. According to a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Comey was recommended to be fired for going over the head of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on July 5, 2016, and holding a press conference about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail investigation. But according to CNN…
Nicholas Fondacaro

CNN Guest: Is Donald Trump Turning Liberals Into Conspiracy Theorists?

During an interview by Cable News Network anchor Brianna Keilar on Tuesday morning, May 9, CNN Politics Reporter and Editor-at-Large Chris Cillizza addressed the question of whether Republican President Donald Trump is causing liberal Democrats to embrace many bizarre "conspiracy theories." Cillizza asserted that he's seen a rise in people mistakenly accepting the concepts that the House of…
Randy Hall

Open Thread: FBI Director Comey Fired

The breaking news of the dismissal of FBI director James Comey came as a shock, but NBC's Chuck Todd just implied on NBC that both (A) the optics are terrible, and yet (B) both parties had lost trust in Comey. Feel free to leave your comments below.
NB Staff

NY Times Suddenly Concerned About Media Bias: Conservative Bias

The front of the New York Times "Business Day" section on Tuesday featured media reporters Sydney Ember and Michael J. de la Merced's story “Sinclair Will Pay $3.9 Billion For Tribune.” With the imminent sale of Tribune Media to the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the Times has rediscovered a convenient concern for media bias -- conservative bias, that is. The online headline was more opinionated: “…
Clay Waters

Capehart Skips Maxine Waters' Admission about Trump-Russia Collusion

There is probably no one in Congress more openly opposed to President Donald Trump than Maxine Waters. We have already seen that she has called for Trump's impeachment. Therefore when even Waters there is not yet any evidence at this time of Trump-Russia collusion, that is certainly significant. That is why it is astonishing that Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capehart left that…
P.J. Gladnick