On 'The Kelly File,' MRC's Tim Graham Laments Hillary Gets Celebrity T

NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on The Kelly File on Wednesday night to discuss the media's intense defense of Hillary Clinton after Karl Rove raised some questions about her fall and concussion at the end of 2013. Fox News producers lined up a series of network stars calling Rove "reprehensible" and running a "smear machine." Graham accused the media of attacking anyone who…
NB Staff
May 15th, 2014 8:01 AM

Bill Press Likens Rubio on Climate Change to 'Totally Nuts' People Spo

Sen. Marco Rubio expresses doubt that human activity is driving climate change and Bill Press, liberal radio talker and co-host of an early version of CNN's "Crossfire," labels him deranged. Just a matter of time before Press also labels Rubio as racist for this. Now well into its third decade as an allegedly imminent catastrophic threat, global warming is among liberals' most beloved issues…
Jack Coleman
May 15th, 2014 5:50 AM

Jon Stewart Calls Out Hypocritical Harry Reid for Defending Wealthy Ba

The old saying goes that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but during Tuesday night's edition of  Comedy Central's The Daily Show, the same principle was applied to hypocrisy. Jon Stewart charged that Senate majority leader Harry Reid has criticized Charles and David Koch more than 140 times this year but said during an interview that people shouldn't “pick on” Sheldon Adelson, a…
Randy Hall
May 14th, 2014 11:58 PM

NBC Grants Bill Clinton 63 Seconds to Defend Hillary; ABC Spotlights M

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams continued his network's defense of Hillary Clinton by setting aside 63 seconds of air time to a soundbite of Bill Clinton "firing back at Karl Rove, after comments Rove made about Hillary Clinton's health." Williams trumpeted how "shades of the old political warrior Bill Clinton were on display today," as he introduced the extended clip of the…
Matthew Balan
May 14th, 2014 9:50 PM

Soviets on The Americans Welcome Teen Daughter’s Wish to Join Anti-N

Another educational illustration, on FX’s The Americans, of the alliance of interests between Soviet communists and the Left in the West during the 1980s, when both worked to undermine the Reagan administration’s defense policies. (The series, set in the early 1980s, revolves around “Philip and Elizabeth Jennings,” undercover KGB agents living as an ordinary American husband and wife in suburban…
Brent Baker
May 14th, 2014 7:43 PM

Paul Waldman Rant: If Hillary Runs, Can GOP Refrain From 'Fantasies Ab

Republicans, the American Prospect's Paul Waldman suggested Tuesday, are a bit like Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel inasmuch as they "can't seem to keep themselves from...turning the accusations up to eleven" on matters involving Hillary Clinton. Waldman discussed Karl Rove's recent "traumatic brain injury" comments about Hillary and then transitioned to the broader issues of GOPers' "infinite…
Tom Johnson
May 14th, 2014 6:55 PM

NewsBusted: 'Ignoring Benghazi' Renewed by Obama-Shielding Networks

"A number of once popular network TV shows such as Suburgatory and Community were canceled last week. However, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS have all renewed the series Ignoring Benghazi for another season!" Watch Jodi Miller zing the liberal media and liberal politicians in the latest edition of NewsBusted, embedded below the page break. Sign up for NewsBusted in your email here. Subscribe…
NB Staff
May 14th, 2014 6:20 PM

CNN Hosts Thrill Over Clinton Reaction to Rove: 'Well Done,' 'Nobody B

Wolf Blitzer and his fellow journalists on Wednesday thrilled over how Bill Clinton responded to comments by Karl Rove about Hillary. His reaction was "well done," "effective" and there's "nobody better." Regarding an appearance by Mrs. Clinton, Blitzer enthused, "She does look great, you've got to admit."  On the subject of the former President's defense of his wife, Gloria Borger touted, "…
Scott Whitlock
May 14th, 2014 6:06 PM

MSNBC’s Hayes: Some Conservative Beliefs Should Disqualify People Fr

On Tuesday’s All In, host Chris Hayes and his guests tackled a chilling and politically loaded subject: which beliefs should disqualify someone from holding public office. Among other things, the group decided that global warming “denialism,” opposition to same-sex marriage, and opposition to a “robust” Voting Rights Act should put a politician outside the mainstream and ruin their chances of…
Paul Bremmer
May 14th, 2014 5:46 PM

Immigration Officials Release Murderers, Sex Offenders and Drunk Drive

On Monday the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported that, according to Obama administration statics, immigration officials knowingly released convicted murderers, drunk drivers and sex offenders into the US back in 2013. So far none of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have yet to report these stunning statistics. According to the Washington Times “Among the 36,000 immigrants…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 14th, 2014 5:28 PM

Mark Levin: Warren Buffett a 'Stupid Billionaire

Talk radio host Mark Levin discussed CMI's report on Warren Buffett's funding of the abortion industry. Levin noted that "this guy is held up as this great public figure, even though he's a private, corporate titan. Tens of billions of dollars. $1.2 billion dollars, one man? And he's this great guy, he knows all about the economy -- he doesn't know anything. He's just another stupid…
Mike Ciandella
May 14th, 2014 5:16 PM

GOP Senate Candidate Sasse Puts 'Faith First, Government Second' MSNBC

"Faith first, government second for GOP candidate," blares a teaser headline on MSNBC.com. They say that like it's a bad thing. Of course, to MSNBC it is, when religious freedom objections stand opposed to ObamaCare, so MSNBC.com writer Morgan Whitaker sought to explain to Lean Forward partisans all the ways that Ben Sasse is supposedly a danger to civil society, including a ludicrous…
Ken Shepherd
May 14th, 2014 4:37 PM

Daily Beast Decries 'Homophobic and Sexist Environments' in Video Game

Tauriq Moosa slammed Nintendo in a Monday item for The Daily Beast for supposedly perpetuating "anti-gay bigotry." The writer singled out the Japanese video game company for rejecting same-sex relationships as an option in its "life simulator" game Tomodachi Life, and lamented that its decision "has a huge effect on creative media, on culture, and thus people themselves." Moosa used the…
Matthew Balan
May 14th, 2014 4:04 PM

Ed Schultz Barks Out Another Poll: Are Republicans 'Angrier Than Two B

After slamming Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for defending himself against claims that he has exploited Benghazi to aid his reelection campaign, MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz continued with his favorite form of political slander on the May 2 edition of The Ed Show. Schultz called on Graham to apologize for blasting the administration’s “scumbags,” and promptly began ranting about the GOP.  “This is…
Laura Flint
May 14th, 2014 3:49 PM