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AP: 'Senate Votes to Unravel Health Care Law... Inviting Obama Veto'
If you're looking for a textbook example of over-the-top loaded language and bias in a headline, look no further than this from the Associated Press.
CNN's Costello Badgers Pro-Gun Guest, But More Polite to Gun Critic
CNN host Carol Costello showed a blatant double standard in her treatment of a pro-gun guest in contrast with a gun control advocate on Thursday's CNN Newsroom between two segments featuring gun expert John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center -- author of More Guns, Less Crime -- and Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
CNN's Zakaria Hypes U.S.'s 'Extraordinary Ease' in Purchasing Guns
On Thursday's Wolf program, CNN's Fareed Zakaria touted "the extraordinary ease with which people can obtain these extraordinarily destructive weapons." Zakaria played up that "these stories of gun violence really do...alarm the rest of the world....With gun violence, the United States is essentially alone in the world. There is no other country that has anything remotely approaching the kind of…
Bozell Slams ‘Anti-Religious Bigotry’ from Media Post-San Bernardino
Speaking with Fox Business Network (FBN) host Deirdre Bolton late Wednesday afternoon, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell denounced the New York Daily News for their front-page cover whining that God-fearing people are “cowards” concerning gun control with “thoughts and prayers” serving as merely “meaningless platitudes.”
CNN Promotes Obama's "Thoughts and Prayers" After Touting Anti-Prayer
As detailed by Matthew Balan earlier today, CNN went out of its way Wednesday and Thursday to tout a New york Daily News cover that slammed those that would dare to pray for the victims of the San Bernardino shooting that slaughtered 14 innocent people and wounded 17 others. However, when it comes to Barack Obama, offering "thoughts and prayers" is perfectly acceptable.
House Dem: Regardless of Cause, GOP Will Get Blamed for Shutdown
A government shutdown over federal funding for Syrian refugees and Planned Parenthood is unlikely, albeit slightly, Congressman John Yarmuth assured Ed Schultz.
But if this occurs, Yarmuth added, Republicans will get blamed for it -- regardless of whether they are actually responsible. And Yarmuth apparently doesn't have a problem with this bizarre, cynical scenario, nor does Schultz.
CBS Morning News Tees Up Dems to Lament ‘Reluctant’ Congress on Guns
In report that didn’t make the cut for Thursday’s CBS This Morning amidst the San Bernardino shooting coverage, the CBS Morning News aired congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes’s latest attempt to push gun control and lament how Congress is “reluctant to pass new control laws” with friendly soundbites from Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Hillary Clinton.
CNN's Cuomo: 'That Muslim Thing Matters'
When the establishment media so often tries to turn attention away from the reality that much of the world's terrorism is perpetrated by Muslims in the name of their religion, it is refreshing to see a pillar of the establishment community actually acknowledge the elephant in the room.
That's what Chris Cuomo did shortly after 8:30 (Eastern time) on CNN's morning news coverage, with regard to…
CBS Hosts Pester Paul Ryan on Gun Control, Demand Legislation
In a contentious exchange with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday’s CBS This Morning, co-hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King repeatedly pressed the Republican leader to take up gun control legislation in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. Rose began: “But why don't you...call the President and say, ‘I'm going to come down Pennsylvania Avenue, let's you and I start off and do something about…
Bozell Denounces Journalists Who Praised New York Daily News Cover
A statement by Media Research Center president Brent Bozell released this afternoon condemning the New York Daily News for their anti-faith "God Isn't Fixing This" headline.
Chuck Todd Shudders at Coming ‘Islamophobia’, ‘It’s Going to Get Ugly'
MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall had Chuck Todd on for two segments related to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino on Wednesday. When confronted with the idea that this could be terrorism, as many labeled the Colorado Springs shooting, Todd hesitantly said, “I don't know if we want to go down that road, Tamron, just yet. I think, I think let's let all this play out. But I have, I have very, I have…
Media Pushing Faulty Liberal Statistic on Number of Mass Shootings
Our good friend at the Washington Free Beacon Stephen Gutowski – formerly of our sister site MRCTV – has an excellent piece up about how the liberal media are credulously parroting lefty gun-control advocates' who make it out as though there is literally just one mass shooting in America every day of the year.
As Steve shows in his piece, it's simply not true as judged by impartial criteria…
NBC Promotes BBC Reporter Calling Shooting ‘Just Another Day’ in U.S.
At the top of Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seized on a BBC World News correspondent dismissing the San Bernardino shooting as “just another day” in America: “I don't often start coverage of an event like this by talking about how other people are covering it, but a commentator for the BBC said overnight, ‘Just another day in the United States – another day of guns, chaos, and panic.…
Networks Hype Paris Climate Goals, Ignore US Energy Achievements
The Paris climate talks have been underway for four days, and broadcast network coverage included journalists marveling at the French security presence and praising the talks’ goals.
Between Nov. 28 and Dec. 2, the morning and evening news shows on ABC, NBC, and CBS collectively spent more than 30 minutes covering the U.N. climate conference in Paris, called COP 21.