CBS Plays Up GOP Candidates 'Getting Slammed By the Musicians'

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Jan Crawford hyped the latest "dust-up between the musician and the politician," and underlined that "rare is the Republican candidate who isn't told to stop the music – even if...they paid licensing fees." She asked a GOP strategist, "Why is it it's always Republicans who are getting slammed by the musicians for using their songs?"
Matthew Balan
June 17th, 2015 8:50 PM

MSNBC, WADR Bash Bush, Santorum for Opposing Pope on Climate Change

The media’s tendency to use the Pope to criticize Republican candidates and officials was on display Wednesday afternoon as MSNBC’s Live with Thomas Roberts and Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect took shots at the 2016 GOP presidential field and, specifically, Catholics Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum (in the case of the latter show) for opposing Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical on global warming.
Curtis Houck
June 17th, 2015 8:37 PM

Gallup Poll: Confidence in Police Rates Twice That of Mainstream Media

A new Gallup survey has revealed that Americans have approximately twice as much confidence in law enforcement personnel -- 52 percent -- as they do in newspapers -- 24 percent -- and television news -- 21 percent. The telephone poll was conducted June 2-7 and included Gallup's newest survey on confidence in U.S. institutions, which it has updated every year since 1993.
Randy Hall
June 17th, 2015 8:04 PM

BREAKING: Brian Williams Will Not Return to NBC Nightly News [UPDATED]

According to CNN's Brian Selter on Wednesday night, NBC News will announce that suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will not return to the anchor desk when his six-month suspension ends in August for having perpetuated lies about numerous stories he’s covered in his career. The network has stated that Williams will assume a new role in the network.
Curtis Houck
June 17th, 2015 7:49 PM

For Leftists, It's Open Season on Christians

If you doubt that Christians are fair game for ridicule by the cultural left, take a look at the hit piece on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Jeffrey Tayler for Salon.
David Limbaugh
June 17th, 2015 5:31 PM

Sorry, Hillary, You're So 'Yesterday'

In her reintroduction speech on Roosevelt Island in New York last Saturday, Hillary Clinton hit all the boilerplate liberal Democrat notes: The New Deal, big government, soak the rich, evil Wall Street... you know the song because the music is from a familiar score.
Cal Thomas
June 17th, 2015 5:16 PM

Liberal Actor John Cusack Rips Obama: Just as Bad as Bush

In an interview with Larry King, the liberal John Cusack again ripped Barack Obama, declaring him as bad as George W. Bush. On the topic of free speech and privacy, the actor lectured, "Well, after 9/11, right, a lot of rights went out the windows because we say magic words, like terror and so we don't need to respect constitutional rights..." 
Scott Whitlock
June 17th, 2015 4:58 PM

'So Anticipated:' CNN Hypes Pope's Document on the Environment

Delia Gallagher touted Pope Francis's upcoming encyclical on the environment on Wednesday's Wolf program on CNN by claiming how "Church leaders say that this is the first time the release of a papal encyclical has been so anticipated." Gallagher spotlighted an "epic theatrical trailer for the Pope's words" from an environmentalist group in Brazil," and hyped that "with the Pope's popularity, this…
Matthew Balan
June 17th, 2015 4:47 PM

In CNN Segment, 'Republican' Voter Talks Up Socialist Bernie Sanders

On Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN's New Day aired pre-recorded segments in which co-anchor Chris Cuomo spoke with six New Hampshire voters about the presidential race. Although the group was supposedly balanced by including two Republicans, two Democrats, and two independents, four of the six participants -- including one of the Republicans -- seemed more aligned with Democrats in their interests…
Brad Wilmouth
June 17th, 2015 4:22 PM

Hewitt: ‘Liberal Version of My Show … Called NPR

Radio host explains why left is ideologically closed while interviewer proves it.
MRC Culture Staff
June 17th, 2015 4:20 PM

Hugh Hewitt: 'Liberal Version of My Show...Called NPR'

Real estate is always about “location, location, location.” So is media – as a Huffington Post Live interview with conservative talker Hugh Hewitt just proved. Although Hewitt came onto the show to talk about his new book, The Queen, interviewer Josh Zepps was far more interested in throwing paper darts at conservative media. Every time Hewitt tried to get at the truth of a given topic, Zepps…
MRC Culture Staff
June 17th, 2015 4:19 PM

Univision Delivers One-Sided Slam Against Border Patrol

In keeping with its long record of anti-law enforcement news coverage, the nation’s largest Spanish-language network, Univision, failed to include the United States Border Patrol’s perspective about the findings of a new internal agency investigation that exonerated 64 of 67 Border Patrol agents involved in shooting incidents while in the line of duty between 2010 and 2012. Instead, the report on…
Yuri Perez
June 17th, 2015 3:53 PM

Colbert Continues Attacking Right, Lampoons Trump

So much for Stephen Colbert pretending he’s anything other than a die-hard liberal. Colbert welcomed businessman Donald Trump by lampooning his announcement speech from a trash can. Colbert, who will replaced David Letterman on The Late Show in September, quickly created what The Huffington Post deemed a “comic gem” – a rather crude parody of Trump’s announcement speech.
Sarah Stites
June 17th, 2015 3:39 PM

Pro-Choice Slate Asks: 'Why Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers Not Illegal?'

In a new piece on Slate, pro-abortion forces have found the latest element of the pro-life movement to attack: crisis pregnancy centers. In fact, the headline of the piece, written by Meaghan Winter, wonders why “crisis pregnancy centers aren’t illegal.” The caption below the headline claimed that the pregnancy centers “peddle false and misleading information.”
Connor Williams
June 17th, 2015 3:34 PM