Climate Depot’s Morano: Vice Manipulated Ice Interview

Climate skeptics or realists are so often ignored or taken out of context by the news media it’s no longer shocking, but that doesn’t make it any less egregious. On March 6, HBO’s Vice focused its entire program on melting ice in Antarctica. Marc Morano was quoted in the episode, but says his interview was mishandled. Vice is the same media group that embedded a reporter with ISIS and sponsored…
Julia A. Seymour
March 12th, 2015 11:38 AM

Fox News Exposes Possible 'Criminal Case' in Clinton E-Mail Scandal

ABC and CBS on Wednesday night and Thursday morning minimized their coverage for Hillary Clinton's still-ongoing e-mail scandal. It was left to Fox's Megyn Kelly to report that "the potential criminal case against Hillary Clinton may have gotten a whole lot stronger." She informed viewers, "We are told that every employee leaving the State Department, every one, must sign the OF-109 form." 
Scott Whitlock
March 12th, 2015 11:38 AM

NBC Covers 'New Fallout' in Hillary E-Mail Scandal; ABC, CBS Give Secs

Keeping up the pressure on Hillary Clinton on Thursday, NBC's Today was the only network morning show to provide a full report on the latest developments in the e-mail scandal still swirling around the 2016 Democratic contender. ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning had already moved on, each offering only seconds-long news briefs on the controversy.
Kyle Drennen
March 12th, 2015 11:37 AM

Halperin: Hillary 'Evaded Deftly' Enough for Scandal to 'Go Away'

The political writing team of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin came on Charlie Rose’s PBS show, on Tuesday, to dissect Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal press conference and while the two were mostly critical, Halperin was definitely the softer of the two as he thought Hillary could escape yet another scandal: “I think her performance today is enough to have Democrats come back into her corner...…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 12th, 2015 11:02 AM

Eugene Robinson Smears GOP: Iran Sounds Like ‘Voice of Reason’

Speaking to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, on Wednesday night Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson attacked the GOP for sending a letter to Iran expressing their opposition to a proposed nuclear deal between the United States and Iran. Robinson argued the Iranians “sound like a voice of reason in this whole thing by saying, you know, this whole thing is silly, we're not paying any attention to…
Jeffrey Meyer
March 12th, 2015 10:57 AM

Jon Stewart Ain't Buying Hillary's Characteristic E-Mail Dissembling

It's one thing to mock the presumptive Democrat nominee for president a year and a half from the election. Let's see where the left's leading court jester stands when it actually matters. Still, it is surely worrisome to Hillary Clinton's apologists that Jon Stewart is among her growing legion of skeptics after Clinton's attempt to clear the air about her private email account for official…
Jack Coleman
March 12th, 2015 10:03 AM

NY Daily News: Brian Williams' Ego Ruined Local TV Show

We already know that suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams was plugging his daughter's Peter Pan special to his listeners. However, what you may not know is that, according to the New York Daily News, Williams was also actively working against a local New York  news shows because he did not want it so close to his network broadcast.
P.J. Gladnick
March 12th, 2015 10:01 AM

CBS’s Nancy Cordes Uncritically Quotes Iran’s Ayatollah

On Thursday’s CBS This Morning, reporter Nancy Cordes concluded a fairly balanced report over the battle between members of Congress and the White House surrounding nuclear negotiations with Iran by uncritically quoting the Supreme Leader of Iran slamming the GOP letter to his country as “ridiculous, disgusting, and gross.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
March 12th, 2015 9:48 AM

Scarborough To Sharpton: Police Shootings 'Got To Be Frustrating'

Talk about sickeningly misplaced sympathies . . . Waking up to the news that two police officers had been shot during a protest in Ferguson, MO last night, and turning on Morning Joe, I expected the first interviews to be with family members of the wounded policemen, or perhaps with the head of a police organization, condemning the outrage. Instead, there were Al Sharpton, and Marc Morial [of…

Mark Finkelstein
March 12th, 2015 7:07 AM

NBC Touts Petition Alleging 47 GOP Senators Committed Treason

Unlike ABC and CBS, the NBC Nightly News dedicated a full segment on its Wednesday show to the continued reaction concerning the letter signed by 47 Republican Senators and sent to Iranian leaders. Predictably, the segment took to scolding the GOP by promoting a tweet from Hillary Clinton on the matter as well as a petition which calls for charges to be brought against the signers under the Logan…
Curtis Houck
March 12th, 2015 12:31 AM

Thanks, Chris Hayes, for Making Our Case About Liberal MSM Bias!

On his MSNBC show tonight, trying to explain away a poll showing Fox News to—once again—be the most trusted national news network, Hayes argued that it was unfair since Fox was the only conservative outlet, pitted against MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS.  Hayes analogized the poll to one in which Mike Huckabee was placed against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry and Al…
Mark Finkelstein
March 11th, 2015 9:47 PM

ABC Moves on from Clinton E-Mail Scandal; CBS Devotes Only 20 Seconds

In what may be the beginning of a move by networks to bury Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir ignored the story in its Wednesday night broadcast with the CBS Evening News following close behind with only a 20-second news brief. Over on NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell updated viewers on the scandal in a full segment, including news of a report by the State…
Curtis Houck
March 11th, 2015 9:45 PM

Chris Matthews Ignores How Then-Sen. Kerry Arguably Violated Logan Act

Yet again Hardball host Chris Matthews insisted that 47 Republican senators the other day violated federal law by penning an open letter to the government of Iran regarding ongoing nuclear talks between that regime and the Obama administration. In a March 11 segment on the matter, Matthews played video of Secretary of State John Kerry criticizing Republicans for sending the open letter.
Ken Shepherd
March 11th, 2015 9:12 PM

Barbara Boxer: GOP After Hillary Because 'She's Exciting the Public'

Could you use some "Hill-arity" after a long day? On the Ed Show,  Barbara Boxer claimed Republicans are going after Hillary "because they know she's exciting the public."  Right.  For good measure, Boxer said that she "unequivocally" trusts Hillary. David Corn of way-left Mother Jones was surprisingly skeptical, saying that "whether Barbara Boxer trusts her or not," Hillary critics have a…
Mark Finkelstein
March 11th, 2015 6:41 PM