Fury: MSNBC Fumes Over Netanyahu's Win: 'Fear,' 'Xenophobia'

MSNBC hosts and guests reacted with fury over Benjamin Netanyahu's victory on Tuesday night, describing it as "polarizing," a modern "southern strategy" and an appeal to "racism." Appearing on NewsNation, Wednesday, with Tamron Hall, London Professor Fawaz Gerges decried the Israeli Prime Minister's "use of fear, the use of xenophobia and racism against a significant segment of Israeli citizens,…
Scott Whitlock
March 18th, 2015 12:41 PM

WaPo Buries Subpoena Scandal in Puff Piece on Houston Mayor

Mayor’s subpoena scandal buried 24 paragraphs in: false claim of bigotry never mentioned.
CMI Staff
March 18th, 2015 12:26 PM

'Justified' Actor Nick Searcy to Direct' Gosnell' Abortion Crime Drama

With each milestone in its development, the Gosnell movie makes it harder and harder for the media to ignore the name of "America's biggest serial killer."  FX’s Justified star Nick Searcy will direct Gosnell, a crime drama telling what the media refused to – the story of convicted Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story March 18 and detailed how Searcy…
Katie Yoder
March 18th, 2015 11:45 AM

STUDY: Nets Spend 11 Minutes on Clinton Foundation Scandals in 2015

The Clinton Foundation scandals have gone largely ignored by the three broadcast networks in 2015, as the swirling controversies have garnered a total of 11 minutes and 13 seconds of airtime on their evening and morning news shows. And the Spanish-language newscasts on Univision and Telemundo have completely ignored the Clinton Foundation 2015 controversies. 
Geoffrey Dickens
March 18th, 2015 10:05 AM

ABC, NBC Hit Netanyahu Win: ‘Not A Triumph for U.S.-Israeli Relations'

On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today repeatedly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite his resounding victory on Tuesday night with ABC’s Alex Marquardt insisting that “this is not a triumph for U.S.-Israeli relations.” He made sure to note that “there’s a lot of disappointment at the White House this morning, realizing they have to try to work with…
Jeffrey Meyer
March 18th, 2015 9:45 AM

Scarborough Mocks Joe Klein on Iran: 'I Trust The Revolutionary Guard'

While conducting a discussion about Iran on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, host Joe Scarborough proclaimed that he has "just written all of [the conservative blogs’] headlines today...‘Joe Klein: I trust [Iran’s] Revolutionary Guard.’"  Klein claimed the International Atomic Energy Agency says they're "getting access to everything" -- but in fact, the IAEA has recently complained about Iran's…
Bryan Ballas
March 18th, 2015 9:33 AM

Gibbs: Amy Holmes Claims on Obama 'The Silliest Thing I've Heard'

Things got chippy on Morning Joe today after Amy Holmes of The Blaze pointed out that President Obama has personalized and publicized his conflict with Benjamin Netanyahu in a way he hasn't done even with despots like Kim Jong Un or the Castro brothers. When Holmes added that "only Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be the focal point of this president's ire," former Obama spokesman Gibbs called Holmes…
Mark Finkelstein
March 18th, 2015 8:27 AM

Sean Penn: Republican Letter to Iran Is 'Criminal Mutiny'

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, held a discussion on Friday’s show about Republicans “trying to interfere” with Obama’s negotiations with Iran via an open letter.  Of course, Maher didn’t mention that there are 12 Democrats supporting a tough stance on Iran in addition to the 47 Republican senators that signed the letter. Maher’s panelists were Arianna Huffington, Tom Rogan…
Melissa Mullins
March 18th, 2015 6:44 AM

Network Evening Newscasts Dodge Latest in Clinton E-Mail Scandal

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC combined to ignore the latest in the Hillary Clinton e-mail on Tuesday night after news broke that the State Department had no record of the former Secretary of State having signed a separation agreement to turn over all documents related to her work. While the networks neglected to cover this development, the Fox News Channel’s Special Report devoted a full…
Curtis Houck
March 18th, 2015 3:21 AM

Lefty Bloggers Snipe at GOP’s ‘Cult of Reagan’ and Its ‘Fanaticism’

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait claims that for today’s GOP, “everything Reagan thought or did was presumptively correct, even the things that contradict the other things he did.” Specifically, “the Reagan cult is largely (though not entirely) a propaganda vehicle for the anti-tax movement,” even though “in reality, Reagan veered wildly out of step with anti-tax orthodoxy.” The Washington…
Tom Johnson
March 18th, 2015 12:29 AM

CBS EN Omits United Flight Passenger Was Screaming About Jihad

All three of the major broadcast networks covered during their Tuesday night newscasts the story of unruly passenger abroad a United Airlines flight from the day before, but the CBS Evening News left out the key detail that the man was screaming about jihad and a bomb abroad the plane.
Curtis Houck
March 18th, 2015 12:19 AM

The Power of Forgiveness

Turn on the news and you expect to see people of different races and politics denouncing each other. That's why what happened last week on "The Kelly File,"Megyn Kelly's Fox News program, was so remarkable. Following the expulsion of Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, two Sigma Alpha Epsilon members at the University of Oklahoma, upon the video release of a racist sing-a-long they led, Isaac Hill, the…
Cal Thomas
March 17th, 2015 11:40 PM

AP Admits: 'Economy Is Looking a Bit Paler'

Apparently, the sheer number of weak to awful economic reports seen during the past month or so finally led Josh Boak at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, to acknowledge that "critical pieces of the economy remain troubled almost six years into the recovery." Boak's belated timing is interesting, to say the least, given that the Federal Reserve is weighing whether or not to…
Tom Blumer
March 17th, 2015 11:15 PM

CBS, NBC Bash Netanyahu; 'Could Destroy' Chances for Peace with Win

In their coverage of the election in Israel, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News took aim at incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night by, among other things, framing him as the candidate with a campaign pledge that “could destroy any chance” of forging peace with the Obama administration and the Palestinians, respectively. NBC anchor Lester Holt freted “[t]he dramatic…
Curtis Houck
March 17th, 2015 10:54 PM