Latest Blogs
Van Susteren Roasts Rice Over GOP-Netanyahu 'Destructive' Comment
Wednesday night, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren sharply criticized Susan Rice for her Tuesday comment about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's impending March 3 speech to Congress, namely that "On both sides, there has now been injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, but I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship." To be clear, Rice is not freelancing.…
NB Special: Scarborough on The Truth About ISIS
In response to an offer by MRC president Brent Bozell, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough wrote a piece for NewsBusters that offers a critique of the failure to call out radical Islam and how that compares in extremism to Christianity.
ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Clinton Foundation’s Foreign Money Problem
On Thursday, the Washington Post revealed that during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars from foreign governments, including “one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration.”
NPR Ombud: Diane Rehm's Fundraisers for Activists 'A Step Too Far'
Elizabeth Jensen, hired by NPR as their new Ombudsman, picked up a question from NewsBusters on how NPR host Diane Rehm can do fundraisers for assisted-suicide lobbying group “Compassion & Choices.”
Jensen says she shouldn’t do this, that it’s a “step too far,” noting that NewsBusters picked up on the ethical issue.
NYT Greets Weak Free Market Move in Cuba By Obsessing Over Inequality
The New York Times' left-wing obsession over "income inequality" reached a pathetic nadir in Wednesday's print edition, in Randal Archibold's report on the Communist country injecting some feeble moves toward free enterprise to prop up its rotting economy: "As Cuba opens the door wider to private enterprise, the gap between the haves and have-nots, and between whites and blacks, that the…
CBS Again Hypes Hillary’s ‘New Strategy for Winning’ Ahead of 2016
Following a morning in which CBS and NBC gleefully promoted Hillary Clinton’s latest public appearance, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News built on that with another shameless promotion of Clinton and her “new strategy for winning” ahead of a likely presidential bid in 2016. Anchor Scott Pelley began the pro-Clinton segment by remarking how “[i]f Hillary Clinton has a shot at becoming the first woman…
MSNBC, Telemundo Host Díaz-Balart Presses Obama to Expand Amnesty
During an exclusive townhall meeting with President Obama, MSNBC and Telemundo host and townhall moderator José Díaz-Balart twice pressed President Obama to further expand his administration’s controversial new policy to exempt millions of unauthorized immigrants from the application of the nation’s immigration laws.
MSNBC/Telemundo Air Obama Town Hall Pushing Illegal Immigration
On Wednesday night, liberal networks MSNBC and Telemundo teamed up to present a town hall on illegal immigration that featured President Barack Obama before a friendly auditorium of supporters and taking questions that ranged from softballs to ones from the far left that implored him to further expand his amnesty. The event was moderated by Jose Diaz-Balart, who serves as the anchor of both MSNBC…
New Yorker Writer: A Scott Walker Presidency ‘Would Be a Disaster’
John Cassidy calls the Wisconsin governor “an odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster” but admits, “For all his awfulness, Walker is a serious contender. We’d better get used to it.”
Juan Williams: Suspected Brooklyn Jihadists Are Not 'Monsters'
And liberals wonder why they're so often seen as sympathetic to Islamists.
Fox News analyst Juan Williams contributed mightily to that perception with comments he made today on Fox's late afternoon show The Five.
Once Again Matthews Insists Boehner Tried to 'Sneak' Bibi Into U.S.
Hardball host Chris Matthews devoted the first 11 minutes of his February 25 program to rehashing tired, discredited talking points about the upcoming March 3 speech to a joint session of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jon Stewart Slams Fox News: 'No One's Watching Them for Actual Truth'
After a week of vacation from serving as host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, Jon Stewart leaped into the fray on Tuesday about whether Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly was accurate about what happened while he was covering conflicts in a number of foreign nations.
“First,” the comedian began, “let's be frank about television journalists' self-aggrandizement. … It's nothing new. The most recent…
CBS Uncovers New VA Scandal: Dept. Ignored Veterans' Benefits Claims
Wyatt Andrews revealed the details of a new scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday's CBS This Morning. Andrews zeroed in on how the veterans' benefits office in Oakland, California simply ignored "more than 13,000 informal claims filed between 1996 and 2009 – all of which were stashed in a file cabinet." The correspondent spotlighted whistleblowers who claimed that "V.A.…
Question the Press Won't Ask: Did Obama's Endorsement Hurt Emanuel?
Once you become Chicago's mayor — or one of its alderman, for that matter — getting reelected is ordinarily a fairly easy proposition.
The scheduling of Election Day, the fourth Tuesday in February in an off year, is deliberately designed to generate a low-turnout result. Incumbents' well-oiled political machines turn out their old reliable voters, while to have any kind of chance, challengers…