Jon Karl Prompts Obama to Slam Jeb Bush on Guns

In a White House press conference on Friday, ABC News journalist Jon Karl prompted Barack Obama to attack Jeb Bush on guns. Karl offered, “I have to get you to respond to something Jeb Bush just said.”  The reporter continued, “Asked about the drive to take action in light of what happened in Oregon, [Bush] said, ‘Look, stuff happens. There's always a crisis and the impulse is always to do…
Scott Whitlock
October 2nd, 2015 5:39 PM

Colbert Wishes John Kerry 'Congratulations on the Iran Deal'

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night, Secretary of State John Kerry came on to explain how wonderful the Iran deal is. Colbert began by saying “Congratulations for the Iran deal,” as the New York crowd cheered and clapped. After that, Colbert did present Kerry with what opponents might say, bringing up the comparison of Neville Chamberlain's "Peace in Our Time" and asked how…
Michael McKinney
October 2nd, 2015 5:23 PM

CNN's Pereira: 'Are Many Regretting' Keeping Oregon College Gun-Free?

On Friday's New Day on CNN, as former Umpqua Community College president Joe Olson appeared as a guest to discuss yesterday's mass shooting, after noting that last year the college, under Olson's administration, decided not to allow on-campus security guards to have guns, CNN co-host Michaela Pereira asked whether people there are "regretting" that decision now. Pereira:
Brad Wilmouth
October 2nd, 2015 5:19 PM

Just Like Newtown, Aurora, Columbine Before, Media Exploit OR Shooting

Like prior high profile mass shootings (Aurora, Newtown, Columbine) the liberal media wasted no time in exploiting the latest tragedy in Oregon to call for more gun control. On Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley hyped that “each mass shooting brings new calls for tougher gun laws” before correspondent Nancy Cordes declared that “sympathy and best wishes are all about the victims’…
Geoffrey Dickens
October 2nd, 2015 4:37 PM

WashPost: ‘3 Pinocchios’ to PP Supporters for ‘Slippery’ Language

Of all the hits Planned Parenthood has taken lately, none must be more demoralizing than the one coming from, of all places, The Washington Post. Really. In the wake of Tuesday’s congressional hearings on defunding America’s largest abortion mill, the Post took to “fact-checking” some of the claims PP supporters have been making – specifically regarding the non-abortion services the organization…
Erin Aitcheson
October 2nd, 2015 4:24 PM

NYT Delays Reporting Shooter Targeted Christians Until Hours Later

Thursday evening, news broke that the Oregon school shooter had questioned students about their faith before he shot them. Later Thursday, The New York Post reported an incredible detail: Christian students were specifically singled out by the shooter. By Friday morning, all three networks had told viewers of that nightmare scenario on their morning shows. The Washington Post and The LA Times…
Kristine Marsh
October 2nd, 2015 4:20 PM

NR Writer Infuriates Morning Joe Panel, No New Ideas

On Friday's Morning Joe, National Review writer Charles Cooke shook up the roundtable discussing the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. Joe Scarborough talked about new gun laws likely wouldn’t have stopped the massacre. Cooke articulated that no one knew how to address the problem of gun control because of the millions of guns on the street. The panel seeking to correct Cooke went…
Michael McKinney
October 2nd, 2015 3:56 PM

Flying Pigs Alert: Chris Matthews Praises Trump as 'Genius'

Admit it. When you read the title of this story you probably thought Chris Matthews was being sarcastic in his praise of Donald Trump. However when you view the video below of Matthews speaking at the Ideas Forum in Washington, D.C. yesterday, you can see he is absolutely sincere. Of course, to maintain his liberal bonafides he quickly tosses something in about supposed Trump nonsense but the…
P.J. Gladnick
October 2nd, 2015 2:33 PM

Hayes Compares Ideal Gun Control to 'Scale of the Response' to Ebola

On the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s All In, liberal host Chris Hayes trumpeted the need for gun control measures after the deadly community college shooting in Roseburg, Oregon by comparing the impediment to enact such policies to the “scale of the response” the world deployed during the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus. 
Curtis Houck
October 2nd, 2015 1:53 PM

MRC's Brent Bozell Slams Brian Williams, 'Utter Narcissist' Obama

Appearing Friday morning on the Fox Business Network's Varney & Co. program, MRC president Brent Bozell blasted disgraced NBC anchor Brian Williams, who now covers breaking news on MSNBC, for immediately injecting a liberal gun control agenda into coverage of the Oregon college shooting on Thursday. Bozell called it "obnoxious" and "offensive" for the media to push for liberal action without…
NB Staff
October 2nd, 2015 1:52 PM

Horrible Jobs Reports Leaves CNBC’s Santelli Worried About Economy

The September jobs report turned out to be a disappointment with fewer than anticipated jobs gains and labor force participation at its lowest rate since October of 1977. CNBC’s Squawk Box discussion of the disappointing report quickly turned to Federal Reserve policy and whether it vindicated the Fed’s decision not to raise rates, or just proved they missed their chance to do so.
Michael Greibrok
October 2nd, 2015 1:52 PM

Cuomo Demands Oregon Sheriff Rethink His Second Amendment Support

CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday repeatedly lectured an Oregon sheriff, demanding John Hanlin rethink his support for the Second Amendment in the wake of a shooting at a community college in his county. The New Day anchor grilled: “What do you think of what President Obama just said that we are fooling ourselves and we're not caring about each other if we continue to ignore the role of guns in these…
Scott Whitlock
October 2nd, 2015 1:32 PM

CBS Pushes Retrospective of Obama’s ‘Evolving Anger’ on Gun Control

Friday’s CBS This Morning offered extensive coverage of the deadly shooting on Thursday at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon, but one of the segments took a broader, sappy look at pushing gun control through the lens of President Obama’s “evolving anger” on the inability to pass gun control measures through Congress where he’s found “little” of any “hope and change.”
Curtis Houck
October 2nd, 2015 1:04 PM

NBC Hypes ‘Emotional' Obama’s Push for More Gun Control

The journalists on the Today show, Friday, touted how “emotional” Barack Obama became in his push for more gun control. In the wake of a mass shooting in Oregon, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie cited statistics from liberal organizations and allowed no conservative, pro-Second Amendment voices to appear on the show. 
Scott Whitlock
October 2nd, 2015 12:24 PM