MRC's Tim Graham Mocks Cuomo's Kellyanne Conway Interview

NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham appeared on Monday night's Risk & Reward show on Fox Business to discuss Monday morning's CNN interview with Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump. Graham hammered Russia-obsessed CNN for a little historic hypocrisy, noting CNN was founded by Ted Turner, who in the 1980s made an embarrassingly sappy documentary called Portrait of the Soviet…
NB Staff

Rhoden on Racism: We're Still Not a Free Nation

William C. Rhoden once wrote award-winning sports columns for The New York Times and he authored the book Forty Million Dollar Slaves. Writing for The Undefeated, a subsidiary blog of ESPN, he claims slavery is alive in America, but freedom is not, as evidenced by the plight of Colin Kaepernick.
Jay Maxson

LOL: Fake News Anchor Rather Bemoans ‘Sensationalism’ of '90s TV News

Sifting through Sunday night’s premiere of CNN’s The Nineties, the television episode included a segment on the news business and, aside from nothing about the media’s far-left bias that exploded in the 1990s, one ironic observation was that the film makers turned to Marvin Kalb and fake news master Dan Rather to lament the negatives of media expansion.
Curtis Houck

CBS to Bill Nye: Why Are People So ‘Reluctant’ to Just Trust You?

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday conducted a fawning interview with environmental activist Bill Nye. Rather than offer any hard questions, Charlie Rose offered softballs such as asking, “Are other countries more curious about science than we are?” 
Scott Whitlock

Cosmo: 'Archaic' Gender-Reveal Parties 'Damaging' to Unborn Babies

Diane Stopyra attacked the new phenomenon of gender-reveal parties for pregnant women in a Sunday item for Cosmopolitan. Stopyra contended that such celebrations are "potentially damaging to said tiny humans," and that they exclude "a cross-section of the population out, adding to a culture of trans and intersex shame." The feminist writer also took aim at baby showers in general, and claimed, "…
Matthew Balan

When Do Internet Surveys Count? When the Liberal Media Likes Them

Throughout the 2016 election, journalists were technically correct and yet unrelenting in their criticism of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s reliance on the accuracy of entirely insignificant and unscientific surveys that reflected well on his candidacy and debate performances. On September 27, for instance, CNN posted a “fact-check” article, arguing that Trump “[misled] people by…
Michael Johns Jr.

Fake News? Bad Reviews of Low-Rated CNN App Mysteriously Disappear

Is someone trying to save the CNN app from embarrassingly bad reviews? In the wake of the cable network appearing to threaten a Reddit user who produced a video of Donald Trump punching the CNN logo, the average of Apple reviews for the CNN app plummeted to a one star rating. Now, the average has mysteriously disappeared. In place of the ratings is this note: “We have not received enough ratings…
Scott Whitlock

Walsh Suggests Ivanka's 'Girlie' Dress Makes Her Look Like 'Property'

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's MSNBC Live, MSNBC political analyst Joan Walsh fretted over Ivanka Trump wearing a "girlie" dress while sitting in for President Donald Trump in a meeting of the G-20. The left-wing The Nation correspondent suggested that the dress made the President's daughter look like "property" -- reminiscent of "patriarchal, authoritarian societies" -- and bemoaned that…
Brad Wilmouth

NY Times Needs 8 Revisions to Fine-Tune Its Trump-Putin Meeting Spin

The New York Times posted eight revisions over a 23-hour period to its Saturday and then-Sunday story about U.S. President Donald Trump's first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the process, the paper's headline went from an original "Russians Call Trump Meeting Putin a Win, but Doubt Concrete Gains," to a more certain "Russians Call Trump Meeting Putin a Win," to a celebratory "…
Tom Blumer

Kellyanne Conway Mocks Chris Cuomo's Russia Collusion Obsession

It was a marathon July 10 interview chock full of fireworks on CNN's New Day that ran into overtime to almost 36 minutes. What set it off was host Chris Cuomo's obsession with the latest Trump-Russia nothingburger. Cuomo's ire could have been set off by guest Kellyanne Conway's mockery of Cuomo's sacred issue that CNN has hung its reputation upon. However, one has to wonder if Cuomo's desperately…
P.J. Gladnick

The View Worries About Trump GIFs Inciting Violence Against CNN

Monday on ABC’s The View, the hosts fretted that Trump was “leading the charge” on assaults on journalists. After retweeting a gif last week that showed Trump wrestling with a CNN logo, the media threw a temper tantrum, obsessing that the gif was a sign of danger to their very lives. Co-hosts Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin continued that worrying, hyping that even more of these silly…
Kristine Marsh

Scarborough Hounds Toomey Over Medicaid

Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania found himself under fire as he defended the Republican Medicaid proposal on Monday’s Morning Joe. Despite his repeated attempts to explain how the bill only curbed the rate of growth in Medicaid and did not cut actual spending, he was incessantly attacked by co-host Joe Scarborough. “Why is it we're going after the poor,” Scarborough exclaimed…
Kevin Baker

Lena Dunham Donates Proceeds From Wardrobe Sale to Planned Parenthood

On July 10, Lena Dunham announced her intent to sell a significant part of her wardrobe. As an advocate for so-called “women’s rights and equality,” all proceeds will, of course, go to abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Madeleine Post

NYT Goes Gaga for ‘Auntie Maxine,' Swoons Over ‘Her Outspoken Style'

Writing in the Saturday print edition of The New York Times, national politics and social justice reporter Yamiche Alcindor took fellow lefties on a nearly-1,300 word trip through time, praising controversial, far-left Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Calif.) as “Auntie Maxine” tries to bring down President Trump.
Curtis Houck