World Cup Media Partner ABC Downplays Violent Protests on 'World News

All three major broadcast networks devoted stories to the opening of the World Cup today in Rio de Janeiro, but ABC's business interests arguably got in the way of objective reporting. ABC and her sister ESPN networks are, after all the exclusive "media rights licensees" to carry World Cup matches in the United States. Reporting from Rio, ABC's Paula Faris devoted just one fleeting reference…
Ken Shepherd
June 12th, 2014 10:43 PM

NPR Star Shocker: Ten Needling Terry Gross Questions on Gays Cause Hil

NPR star Terry Gross has been an aggressive defender of Hillary Clinton on her Fresh Air show on the taxpayer-funded airwaves. So it was a bit shocking to witness her pressing and pounding the former First Lady and Secretary of State for her shifting stands on gay issues in the second half of the 44-minute interview. Buzzfeed’s LGBT-beat reporter Chris Geidner counted ten times Gross…
Tim Graham
June 12th, 2014 9:36 PM

Former NYT Reporter Chris Hedges Exposed as Serial Plagiarist

Far left writer and former reporter for the New York Times, Chris Hedges, has been exposed as a serial plagiarist. So what scurrilous "rightwing" source made these charges? None. The exposure of the socialist Chris Hedges appeared in the liberal New Republic. And it was not just a minor slip on the part of Hedges. According to the article Hedges blatantly plagiarized over and over again in…
P.J. Gladnick
June 12th, 2014 9:12 PM

NBC's Williams Hails Obama's 'Excellent' Health After Mentioning Georg

One week after being offended for the president about those leaked photos of Mr. Obama's dumbbell workout routine, NBC anchor Brian Williams assured viewers of June 12 Nightly News that the commander-in-chief is in top fighting condition.  The story came right on the heels of Williams relaying how former President George H.W. Bush today made a parachute jump to celebrate his 90th birthday […
Ken Shepherd
June 12th, 2014 8:52 PM

MSNBC's Irin Carmon Blasts Bipartisan Louisiana Abortion Law

MSNBC’s Irin Carmon – a 2013 New York Abortion Access Fund “Champion of Choice” honoree – is at it again, savaging new legislation in Louisiana to regulate the state’s abortion clinics. The new law will hurl the Pelican State back to a “pre-Roe v. Wade condition,” Carmon quoted Amy Irvin of the New Orleans Abortion Fund in the second paragraph of her one-sided June 12 msnbc.com article titled…
Connor Williams
June 12th, 2014 5:15 PM

VIDEO: For America's Bozell Explains How Cantor Destroyed His Credibil

Rep. Eric Cantor has only himself to blame for losing the respect, trust, and votes of Tea Party conservatives, and with it, his House seat in Virginia's 7th congressional district, For America chairman Brent Bozell explained on Wednesday's Kelly File [watch the full segment here or by clicking play on the embed below the page break]:
NB Staff
June 12th, 2014 5:13 PM

CNN Trio Debunks Bloomberg Group's School Gun Violence Claim, But Stil

First the good news: Ashley Fantz, Lindsey Knight and Kevin Wang at CNN did a very good job this morning in an online writeup debunking Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group's claim "that there have been 74 school shootings in the past 18 months." The bad news is that the web page still contains the CNN video which aired the Bloomberg claim without challenging it, thereby continuing to give it…
Tom Blumer
June 12th, 2014 4:49 PM

Andrea Mitchell: Obama Administration 'Oughta Know Something About Ira

On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Thursday, host and NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell was unusually critical of the Obama administration's handling of terrorists seizing control of large portions of Iraq: "Where is our intelligence? We were there for ten years. We oughta know something about Iraq. This isn't North Korea." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after…
Kyle Drennen
June 12th, 2014 4:45 PM

Tamron Hall Worries New Iraq Woes Will Drive Americans to Blame Obama

As city after city in northern Iraq falls to deadly Islamist extremist militias pressing onward to Baghdad, questions are now being raised about the wisdom of the United States’ swift exit from the Middle East nation just a couple of years ago at the direction of President Obama. But leave it to MSNBC to preemptively shut down any criticism of the White House. On the June 12 edition of…
Connor Williams
June 12th, 2014 4:30 PM

'Obvious Child' Not About Abortion, Claims 1,700-Word Article on Abort

In a recent article, The Daily Beast writer, Teo Bugbee, bashes Hollywood for not making abortion flicks like ‘Obvious Child’ a long time ago. That’s exactly what we all want to see- abortion comedies in the box office every weekend. How fun. Bugbee began by insisting that ‘Obvious Child’ is “not an abortion movie.” Yet here we are, reading a 1,700+ word article about how ‘Obvious Child’ is a…
Anna Walker
June 12th, 2014 4:12 PM

NBC’s Lisa Bloom Wants To Stack Juries: 'Don’t Think Whites Really

June 13 marks twenty years since O.J., Simpson’s ex wife and boyfriend were found murdered outside their condo in California, and MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid chose to use her June 12 The Reid Report  program to discuss the O.J. Simpson and how in Joy-Ann Reid’s words “race played into that trial.”  Lisa Bloom, legal analyst for NBC News and daughter of feminist lawyer Gloria Allred, appeared with…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 12th, 2014 3:45 PM

Comedy Central's Liberal Comedians Mock David Brat's Christianity

Both of Comedy Central’s favorite comedians took the time on their shows on June 11 to make fun of upstart conservative congressional nominee David Brat for his Christian faith while subtly hinting at a strain of anti-Semitism in either the Virginia Republican himself or the GOP voters of the 7th District which chose him over Majority Leader Eric Cantor. In fact, both Jon Stewart and Stephen…
Laura Flint
June 12th, 2014 3:30 PM

A-List Actor Leads Standing O for Afghanistan Vet During Awards Show

Well that’s not something you see every day. An A-list actor led Hollywood celebrities at an awards show to give a standing ovation to an American war hero in the audience. At the Spike TV “Guys’ Choice Awards” June 7, Mark Wahlberg accepted the “Troops Choice” award and spent his whole time on stage thanking and praising the U.S. military and former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. Wahlberg…
Kristine Marsh
June 12th, 2014 3:07 PM

CNN Contributor Sports T-Shirt With Terrorist's Image and Quote: 'Resi

On Thursday, Kyle Olson of Progressives Today blog spotlighted how CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of Leila Khaled, an infamous Palestinian terrorist, as he conducted an interview for Huffington Post Live. Hill's shirt includes a quote from Khaled, who hijacked airplanes as a member of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…
Matthew Balan
June 12th, 2014 2:43 PM