MRC's Brent Bozell Tells Steve Malzberg About 'Shocking' Lack of Medi

MRC president Brent Bozell appeared on the Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV August 14 to discuss the media's coverage of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the lack of party labels in TV news stories on Democratic scandals. They started by marveling at Andrea Mitchell’s gooey birthday wishes for Castro, including a shout-out for 20-year-old Elian Gonzalez, who the Clinton…
NB Staff
August 16th, 2014 9:02 PM

'Moderate' Voice Fails to State Why Rick Perry Pushed for DA Removal

One should always put the "Moderate" in Moderate Voice in quotes. Why? Because they are a Liberal Voice masquerading as a "Moderate" Voice. It's a nice little shtick to hide their real agenda but sometimes they get a little too obvious in the attempt to hide  their inner Liberal. A good example is the Moderate Voice story about Texas Governor Rick Perry getting indicted by a Travis County…
P.J. Gladnick
August 16th, 2014 6:10 PM

'Say What?' WashPost Can't Believe Paul Ryan Doesn't Love 'House of Ca

The absolute coziness of the Hollywood Left and the Clintons is demonstrated by a new video made for the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Kevin Spacey appears as his “House of Cards” character Frank Underwood and calls up Hillary and does a Bill Clinton impersonation. It’s hard to see it as anything but cheesy, smoochy material  – unless you’re a big Clinton fan. The media and…
Tim Graham
August 16th, 2014 2:22 PM

Watch MSNBC's Chris Matthews 'Lean Over' for Liberal Bias

Mocking MSNBC's preachy "Lean Forward" ads that promote every liberal cause under the sun, the Media Research Center has launched a series of online "Lean Over" videos to illustrate the absurdity of the network's left-wing hosts. First up, Hardball's unhinged partisan propagandist, Chris Matthews. [Watch the video after the jump] Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for more parody videos as…
Kyle Drennen
August 16th, 2014 2:00 PM

CBS Journalist to Paul Ryan: 'You Proud of the Brown-Noser Title

In an exclusive preview of his interview with Paul Ryan, CBS This Morning journalist Richard Schlesinger on Friday chose to highlight a shot at the "brown-noser" Congressman. The reporter recounted Ryan's high school career.  He noted that the Representative was named prom king and added, "Along the way, he picked up another title -- brown-noser. And that he doesn't talk about too much."  …
Scott Whitlock
August 16th, 2014 11:08 AM

NY Times Reporter: Chuck Todd Needs To Be 'Dangerous' to 'Talking Poin

In Politico’s reporting on Chuck Todd taking over “Meet the Press,” the Drudge Report singled out Mark Leibovich, a New York Times reporter and the author of “This Town,” a book on Washington insiders. Tim Russert’s success came from his ability be “distinctive and combative.” “If you were a politician of serious ambition,” Leibovich wrote, “an invitation to his set was your rite of passage…
Tim Graham
August 16th, 2014 9:42 AM

Media Defenders of the Liberal Faith Claim Objectivity As They Knock R

Within the space of a week, the Public Editor of The New York Times, Margaret Sullivan, and Sarah Durand, a senior editor of publisher Simon & Schuster subsidiary Atria Books, have vividly illustrated how the game of liberal media bias works. Let’s start with the Times.
Jeffrey Lord
August 16th, 2014 9:23 AM

Lefty Bloggers: Gripes About Presidential Vacations Are ‘Stupid’ a

This week, three of the most prominent liberal bloggers agreed that when it comes to criticizing presidents of either party about their vacations, people really need to, as one of the bloggers put it, “STFU.” Do they have a point, or should the appropriateness of presidential vacations be evaluated on a POTUS-by-POTUS basis? Check out their thoughts and comment if you’d like.
Tom Johnson
August 16th, 2014 7:01 AM

NBC Spotlights American Yazidis' Anguish For Iraqi Kin Persecuted By I

NBC Nightly News was the sole Big Three evening newscast on Friday to cover ISIS's ongoing rampage against non-Muslims in northern Iraq. Chris Jansing filed a full report on the heartbreak for a Yazidi community in Nebraska, who have lost family to the Islamist group's campaign of terror. By contrast, ABC's World News and CBS Evening News both found time to air news briefs on the historical…
Matthew Balan
August 15th, 2014 11:53 PM

In Covering Perry Indictment, AP Mischaracterizes Tom Delay Case's Res

Texas Governor Rick Perry, who, in the oddest of coincidences (that's sarcasm), just so happens to be considered one of the Republican Party's stronger potential contenders for the 2016 presidential nomination, was indicted in Austin today by a Travis County grand jury. The charges are "abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant" in connection with a veto "threat" he carried…
Tom Blumer
August 15th, 2014 11:35 PM

Ed Schultz Continues Warped Fixation With Glenn Beck Not Going to Coll

MSNBC host Ed Schultz has had it in for conservative radio talker and author Glenn Beck ever since Beck's Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial in August 2010 vastly overdrew a union-sponsored rally held at the same site several weeks later where Schultz was among the speakers. In his most recent criticism of Beck, Schultz actually slammed Beck for not going to college -- which is…
Jack Coleman
August 15th, 2014 8:00 PM

AlterNet Writer: Fox News Audience’s Fear of Atheists Is Just Part o

When last seen in these parts about a month ago, writer CJ Werleman asserted that Jesus was a proto-Marxist. On Thursday, staunch atheist Werleman, author of books including God Hates You. Hate Him Back, charged in an AlterNet piece that Fox News has in recent years “waged a relentless war on atheism” because the channel’s viewership is “afraid of an America they no longer understand…afraid of…
Tom Johnson
August 15th, 2014 5:34 PM

Pop Star Ariana Grande Plans My-Guy-Went-Gay Song On New Album

Pop music sensation Ariana Grande has become a fierce defender of the LGBT community after her gay brother Frankie came under attack on Instagram as a star of the CBS reality show Big Brother. For her latest album, due August 25, the 21-year-old former Nickelodeon TV star will thrill the kiddies with a gay done-you-wrong song. "There is a song called 'Break Your Heart Right Back' which is…
Tim Graham
August 15th, 2014 4:59 PM

Before Catching Himself, Luke Russert Speaks of the 'Murder' of Michae

Was it a simple mistake, or more deeply revealing of how Luke Russert regards events in Ferguson, MO?  With Chuck Todd on his way to Meet The Press, Russert hosted MSNBC's Daily Rundown today. Speaking with NBC reporter Ron Allen, on the scene in Ferguson, Russert said: "the big news this morning is we expect to hear for the first time the name of the officer who was involved in the murder…
Mark Finkelstein
August 15th, 2014 3:58 PM