Morning News Shows Censor Little Sisters SCOTUS Case

A Supreme Court case about women and contraception should be media-bait. But since this case concerns nuns and conscience, the media aren't biting.  On Wednesday, the morning news shows from the three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, reported nothing on Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court case filed by the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religiously-affiliated groups. Justices heard the oral…
Katie Yoder

ABC’s Kimmel Parody Ad Claims Cruz ‘Almost Exactly the Same’ as Trump

Well that didn’t take long. After Cruz’s strong comments condemning Islamic terrorism Tuesday, the media seemed to be following the same teleprompter in making endless comparisons to Trump. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! also jumped on the bandwagon with a parody ad, narrated by an eerily realistic Mitt Romney impersonator, who claimed Cruz was “almost exactly the same [as Trump] but without the steaks…
Kristine Marsh

It’s Been 513 Days Since Any Big 3 Network Has Touched IRS Scandal

The latest stunning development in the IRS targeting scandal, that a federal appeals court on Tuesday scolded the IRS for failing to turn over its full list of groups it targeted, has yet to be reported on any of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening or morning shows. However, as NewsBusters’ Scott Whitlock reported, all three networks on Thursday found time to gush over Barack Obama’s “…
Geoffrey Dickens

Obama: Telling IS 'You're Not Strong' Is Anti-Terror Plan; Press Yawns

On Wednesday, at a joint press conference with Argentine President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, President Obama told the world that it can defeat the Islamic State "in part by saying, you are not strong; you are weak." Fortunately for him and unfortunately for those who wish to be fully informed, the establishment press is almost always there to save Obama from himself. Google News searches…
Tom Blumer

NFL Tampered with Draft Process, Bribed Rams to Draft Michael Sam

Details of the worst kept secret in the National Football League have finally been released: that the NFL secretly lobbied teams to draft Michael Sam. Yet, until now, no one knew the Ram’s pay-off. What did the NFL offer the Rams to entice them into drafting a pass rusher onto a team already overloaded with pass rushers?
Dylan Gwinn

Twitter 'Moment' Trashes Georgia Religious Liberty Bill

A few months ago, Twitter rolled out a new curated feature called "Moments," which gives users a roundup of interesting tweets related to a news item that's hot on Twitter at the moment. With human curation, of course, come human biases, and, unsurprisingly, more often than not they seem to be liberal in nature when it comes to politics.
Ken Shepherd

Networks Gush Over Obama’s ‘Fancy Footwork’ and ‘Dancing Diplomacy’

All three networks on Thursday gushed over Barack Obama’s “fancy footwork” and “dancing diplomacy” in Argentina. Two days after a brutal terror attack in Brussels, the President traveled to Buenos Aires for a dinner with the country’s president. Today’s Savannah Guthrie lauded, “Now to that dance making headlines around the world. President Obama doing the tango.” An NBC graphic screamed, “Two…

Scott Whitlock

Lena Dunham: I Get 'More Hostility' from Left Than Right Over Hillary

Poor little Lena Dunham. It looks like she’s getting a taste of her own medicine. After constantly berating Republicans – even comparing them to Nazis – Dunham is claiming she receives “more hostility” for backing Hillary Clinton than she has ever received from conservatives.  “I have received more hostility for voting for a qualified female candidate than I have ever received anywhere from the…
Melissa Mullins

More Sanctuary City Cover-Up on Univision

Another major U.S. city has enacted sanctuary city policy and sure enough, Univision was there to celebrate, with a disturbingly uninformed and inaccurate picture of the reality of sanctuary cities in America.
Edgard Portela

Mika Meltdown: Calls for a GOP 'Crisis Candidate'

Get that gal a Valium. Make it a double . . . "Melodramatic" doesn't begin to describe Mika Brzezinski's histrionic hand-wringing on today's Morning Joe. Mika is in meltdown, on the brink of a political nervous breakdown. Mika's recurring theme [abetted by the panel] was horror at the spectacle of Ted Cruz's call for special attention to Muslim neighborhoods, and the spat between Cruz and Trump…
Mark Finkelstein

Just in Time for Easter, Catholic Church Pimps Underage Girls on 'SVU'

Holy Week is a time for reflection, prayer, and bashing the Roman Catholic Church on network television, apparently. The previous episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, "Manhattan Transfer," ended with the sex crimes unit bagging two undercover vice cops, a nun, and numerous public and church officials in an underage sex trafficking sting, but the episode left audiences with more…
Erik Soderstrom

CNN Panel Goes Nuclear on Obama Over Optics Post-Brussels

Moments after video surfaced on Wednesday night of President Obama doing the tango while visiting Argentina, the panel on CNN’s AC360 did little to contain their disdain for the President continuing to engage in lighter fare they dubbed “frivolous” and “shameful” in the immediate 24-36 hours after the deadly Islamic terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
Curtis Houck

ESPN Cries ‘Invasion’ After Cuba Broadcast Is Halted by Dissidents

Bob Ley, ESPN's longest-serving commentator, was in Cuba yesterday after the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the island nation's national team 4-1 in an exhibition baseball game. Shortly after the conclusion of that game, ESPN had Ley report from a rather nice-looking streetscape in Havana (not your typical avenue in the workers' paradise). As he did, a demonstrator interrupted him. ESPN, acting as if…
Tom Blumer

Press Barely Note Party of Dem Prosecutor Nabbed for Seeking Hookers

It has been nine days since Ingham County, Michigan prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III, a Democrat, was arrested and charged with "15 criminal counts" in three different counties involving engaging prostitutes, pandering prostitution, and willful neglect of duty by a public officer. The press has been reluctant to identify Dunnings as a Democrat in its news coverage, either avoiding the tag…
Tom Blumer