Why Is 'Fact-Checking' Snopes Defending MSNBC Analyst's Deleted Tweet?

The website Snopes.com still advertises itself as the “oldest and largest fact-checking site on the Internet,” so I was puzzled when a Snopes researcher contacted NewsBusters about something that really wasn’t a fact check. It was a gaffe check. On Sunday, Snopes posted an article about an MSNBC analyst’s tweet: “Did a Counterterrorism Expert Call For ISIS to Bomb a Trump Building? Malcolm Nance'…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2017 3:58 PM

Nets Still Ignore: More Arrests in U.S. Female Genital Mutilation Case

The liberal media are all about covering what they call the “war on women” and their “reproductive rights.” But the broadcast networks have remained silent on a U.S. case of female genital mutilation – even as it progresses. Earlier this month, the Justice Department publicized charges against Michigan Doctor Jumana Nagarwala for performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on girls between 6 and 8…
Katie Yoder
April 24th, 2017 2:43 PM

Chelsea Handler Calls Steve Bannon 'Ugly, Fat,' 'Nazi' Klan Member

The April 21 episode of Netflix’s Chelsea titled “Women That Are Strong Are Fun” brought another Trump bash-a-thon which included a trip to Paris to bash Trump with some French voters. But Chelsea Handler seemed especially deranged about Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
Karen Townsend
April 24th, 2017 2:30 PM

The President They Want: CNN, MSNBC Give Heavy Coverage to Obama Event

After 95 days of unremittingly hostile coverage of President Donald Trump, the two liberal cable news networks indulged themselves on Monday by offering an incredible hour of uncritical live coverage to a not-very-newsworthy event by former President Barack Obama in Chicago. While Fox News showed only 7 minutes and 20 seconds of Obama’s talk, CNN and MSNBC broadcast the speech and question-and-…
Mike Ciandella
April 24th, 2017 2:27 PM

Mika Saves Schumer From Answering Polarizing Abortion Question

After a series of confusing statements from Democrat politicians over the weekend on the party’s position on abortion, Senator Chuck Schumer got a pass from Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski on Monday, after fellow host Joe Scarborough started to ask Schumer about it.  
Kristine Marsh
April 24th, 2017 2:09 PM

MSNBC: Dems ‘Desperate’ for ‘Hero’ Obama to Trash Trump

During MSNBC’s 11 a.m. ET hour on Monday, minutes before Barack Obama began his first public appearance since leaving office, correspondent Ron Allen channeled left-wing hopes that the former president would emerge as the “opposition leader” to President Trump.
Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2017 1:11 PM

MSNBC Panel Is Floored Almost Zero Trump Voters Have Dumped Him

Just as the news media missed the boat in predicting the outcome of the 2016 election, their behavior in 2017 have shown they’ve learned absolutely nothing. On Monday’s Morning Joe, the MSNBC panel was flabbergasted that the new ABC News/Washington Post poll found only two percent of President Trump’s voters regret voting for him.
Curtis Houck
April 24th, 2017 12:51 PM

Nets Panic Over Le Pen Surge: ‘Far-Right,’ ‘Xenophobic’ ‘Racist’

The networks and cable channels on Sunday and Monday went into full panic over anti-immigration candidate Marine Le Pen advancing to the final round of France’s presidential elections. Some of the labels spewed by journalists include: “Far-right,” “xenophobic,” “racist.” But the one description that came, over and over, on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and MSNBC, is “far-right,” “far-right,” “far-right,” “…
Scott Whitlock
April 24th, 2017 12:30 PM

Flabbergasted Stephanopoulos ‘Surprised’ Trump Would Still Win

Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos couldn’t hide his surprise at his own network’s poll results, during Monday’s show. The ABC News/Washington Post poll over the weekend revealed positive numbers for the president, going against the media’s negative narrative that supporters had abandoned Trump. Not only that, but the poll revealed Trump would win the election again, if it were…
Kristine Marsh
April 24th, 2017 11:49 AM

‘Racistly Nationalistic’ Le Pen ‘Modeling' French Campaign on Trump

On Monday’s NBC Today, while reporting on the results of the first round of France’s presidential election, Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel made no secret of his distaste for one of the candidates as he accused her of running a “xenophobic” campaign that she was “modeling” on Donald Trump.
Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2017 11:16 AM

Networks Blame ‘Hard Bargain’ Trump for Causing Government Shut Down

Monday morning ABC, NBC and CBS spent multiple reports blaming Trump for a possible government shutdown this Friday, while, at the same time, downplaying the likelihood of Republicans supporting the border funding and allowing this to happen. All three networks centered their reports around Democrat opposition to the border wall as a “moral” issue that the party couldn’t get behind. Yet when…
Kristine Marsh
April 24th, 2017 10:40 AM

Showtime's 'Guerrilla:' Abandon Idealism, Embrace Brutality

“This thing you’re doing, it’s not a cause. … There is no change, Jas. You haven’t changed anything.” Those lines from an exasperated Kent (Idris Elba) on the April 23rd episode of Showtime’s Guerrilla epitomize the failure of British black power activists' violent actions in this series based in the 1970s.
Erik Soderstrom
April 24th, 2017 2:31 AM

New Euthanasia Drama Showcases Liberal Obsession with Assisted Suicide

In the wake of pro-assisted-suicide films like Me Before You and the media’s applauding of Brittany Maynard’s choice to die, Lifetime’s new euthanasia drama, Mary Kills People, is the latest show to champion the cause of assisted suicide. The first episode, reasonably titled “Bloody Mary,” premiered Sunday night and began with Mary Harris (Caroline Dhavernas) and partner Des (Richard Short)…
Callista Ring
April 24th, 2017 12:30 AM

CNN Highlights DNC Imposing Litmus Test Against Pro-Life Dems

On New Day Saturday on CNN, as two Democratic guests appeared on the show, host Victor Blackwell surprisingly brought up and pressed them on the issue of DNC chairman Tom Perez rescinding his endorsement of the Democratic nominee for Omaha mayor because the Nebraska Democrat has a history of not being pro-abortion enough. Blackwell: "He had the endorsement of Senator Sanders, then the endorsement…
Brad Wilmouth
April 23rd, 2017 11:46 PM