NBC’s Mitchell Slams Obama-Castro Comparison...Over Age Differences

Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, has been reporting from Cuba since Wednesday, covering the first face-to-face meetings between U.S. and Cuban officials in decades, and has used her visit as an opportunity to promote the country of Cuba. On Thursday, Mitchell interviewed former Cuban diplomat Carlos Alzugaray on her daily MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports. The…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 22nd, 2015 2:35 PM

Nets: 68 Minutes for Deflategate vs. 34 Seconds for Terrorist Release

The three major networks have, so far, devoted a staggering 67 minutes and 49 seconds to obsessing over every aspect of whether the New England Patriots cheated in their AFC championship win on Sunday. Yet, only ABC allowed a scant 34 seconds to the Obama administration's release of five terrorists out of Guantanamo Bay and back to areas connected with extremist violence.
Scott Whitlock
January 22nd, 2015 2:20 PM

Limbaugh Demolishes Obama's Crowing Over Gas Prices, Energy Production

One of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh's most important assets -- a great memory. While telling his listeners yesterday that he didn't waste time watching the laundry list of alleged accomplishments and proposals that seldom get enacted, aka the State of the Union speech, he did catch an excerpt afterward that conveyed a sense of deja vu.
Jack Coleman
January 22nd, 2015 2:00 PM

In Elle, Lena Dunham Slams Pro-Lifers for Lacking....'Decency'

Like any women’s magazine selling pro-abortion feminism alongside cover girls wearing $1,800 earrings and $675 pumps, the February issue of Elle is bowing deeply to HBO star Lena Dunham as a "full-on cultural icon." One lowlight came as she discussed pro-life protesters at an Austin, Texas Planned Parenthood center. “I think we’ve all learned it’s hard to change the minds of people who aren’t…
Tim Graham
January 22nd, 2015 1:14 PM

Those 'Mythical' Paris No-Go Zones: Recognized by NY Times, NBC, TNR

The leftist press's truth squads apparently believe they have successfully intimidated any news organization which henceforth wants to be considered respectable from ever again referring to any Muslim-heavy enclave in Europe as a "no-go zone," regardless of the facts and circumstances. Snopes.com, the self-appointed, almost invariably left-driven debunker of supposed "urban legends," doesn't…
Tom Blumer
January 22nd, 2015 1:03 PM

NBC Barely Notices Obama Plan to Hike Taxes on College Savings

Introducing a segment on Thursday's NBC Today about parents saving for college, co-host Matt Lauer and the show's financial editor Jean Chatzky spent a scant twenty-four seconds on President Obama's recently announced proposal to hike taxes on college savings accounts. Lauer noted: "Talk to me a little bit about what President Obama was referring to when he gave the State of the Union address and…
Kyle Drennen
January 22nd, 2015 12:56 PM

NPR 'Fact Check' on Ernst Plays Games with Keystone Jobs Estimates

There wasn’t a lot of fact-checking of Obama’s State of the Union address, but NPR promised they would be eyeing the factual claims. In a ten-minute segment on Wednesday's Morning Edition, they investigated claims they insisted what Obama said was “true,” if a matter of political dispute. But in "fact-checking" Sen. Joni Ernst's GOP response, NPR's Scott Horsley played a slippery game with the…
Tim Graham
January 22nd, 2015 11:34 AM

NBC Boosts Hillary Clinton Trying ‘Her Hand At Comedy’

On Thursday, NBC’s Today gave Hillary Clinton some free publicity following a policy speech she gave in Canada on Wednesday. During a news brief in the 7:00 a.m. hour, Natalie Morales gushed how Mrs. Clinton “may try her hand at comedy. During a policy speech in Canada on Wednesday, Clinton described a mock conversation that Vladimir Putin had with himself about becoming Russia’s president again…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 22nd, 2015 11:23 AM

NBC’s 'Today' Hails ‘Historic Talks’ Between U.S. And Cuba

Following NBC Nightly News’ infomercial for Cuba on Wednesday night, on Thursday morning, NBC’s Today offered up more of the same as the network eagerly cheered the “historic talks” between the United States and Cuba. In a live report from Havana, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, boosted the talks and touted how “for these American college students from Brown…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 22nd, 2015 10:31 AM

At Davos, Soros-funded Group’s President Says Look to Bretton Woods

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is supposed to be a place where world leaders solve the world’s economic and social problems. But, for the president of one Soros-funded group, it’s also a place to make a sales pitch for her plan to remake the global economy. And the name for that plan is identical to one that Soros pitched back in 2009. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president of the New…
Mike Ciandella
January 22nd, 2015 9:19 AM

VandeHei's Sixth Sense: Chris Christie Doesn't Realize He's Dead

Jim VandeHei sees dead people. On today's Morning Joe, the Politico honcho agreed with Joe Scarborough's suggestion that Chris Christie is like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense: [politically] dead but doesn't know it. Ironically, Scarborough distanced himself from his own suggestion, twice saying that he didn't believe it. But when he asked his guest if the characterization was fair, Vandehei…
Mark Finkelstein
January 22nd, 2015 9:12 AM

New March for Life Video Celebrates Defenders of the Unborn

The March for Life is by far the largest annual rally in Washington, D.C., but each year, it’s met with a near-black-out from major media. Last year, in a new campaign to condemn the media's silence on abortion, the Media Research Center invited marchers from across the country to send in video footage for a short documentary of what the march is really like.  The result is this documentary – a…
Katie Yoder
January 22nd, 2015 8:55 AM

Williams Frets Influx of American Money Will Hurt Cuban Revolution

Talking to a Cuban woman in Havana, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams despaired Wednesday night over what an influx of American tourists would mean to the wonders of the communist “revolution” with its 50-plus year-old cars: “When Americans are here and planes and hotels and the cars are 2015 cars and not 1958 cars, what happens to the revolution?”
Brent Baker
January 22nd, 2015 7:49 AM

CNN Host Zakaria Trash-Talks About 'Quasi-Fascist' Hosts at Fox News

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch was widely attacked by the left when he tweeted after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris that “Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.” Days later, he walked that back, saying he didn’t mean to suggest all Muslims were responsible for that shooting. CNN host Fareed Zakaria trash-…
Tim Graham
January 22nd, 2015 7:30 AM