Colbert Gives Praise of 'Passionate, Intelligent, and Dignified' Obama

The 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors show on CBS is yet another awards show you probably don’t watch, but it actually honors people who do have talent. However, if we’re to believe host Stephen Colbert, that talent apparently also includes our lame duck president. Barack Obama has proven to be “passionate, intelligent, and dignified” over the past eight years, Colbert proclaimed as the audience…
Lindsay Kornick
December 28th, 2016 12:17 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: The Newspapers Bully Senator Sessions

When Congress returns in January, the Democrats will be gunning for several Trump Cabinet nominees. The Left has already launched negative narratives on several, especially Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Trump’s pick for Attorney General. Not only are the left-wing news media giving oxygen to these vitriolic attacks, in some cases, they are the very authors. On their front pages on Christmas Day…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
December 27th, 2016 10:59 PM

Leftist Actress Chops Off Hair to Avoid Looking Like Mrs. Trump

Celebrities are getting desperate after the Trump victory. Leftist actress Olivia Wilde –a huge Clinton supporter –believed her hair resembled Melania Trump’s and decided to debut a new haircut on Instagram with the hashtag, “#nomoremelaniahair.” People magazine reported that because they had the same length of chestnut brown hair with highlights at the end, and often styled it the exact same…
Melissa Mullins
December 27th, 2016 10:05 PM

ABC Sticks Up for Obama After Trump Tweets Criticism

Network news outlet ABC was not amused by President-Elect Donald Trump’s tweets targeting President Barack Obama Tuesday evening, as reporter Mary Bruce rebuked much of Trump’s harsh criticism of the lame-duck president. “Now, the president-elect, 1,200 miles away [from Trump Tower], but not off Twitter, where he again took aim at President Obama,” announced Tom Llamas, filling in for Anchor…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 27th, 2016 9:59 PM

MSNBC Guest Compares Israel After UN Vote to a Misbehaving Child

Appearing on MSNBC early Tuesday afternoon, guest and former Obama State Department official Joel Rubin lashed out at Israel’s reaction to the settlements vote at the United Nations (UN), comparing Israel to his misbehaving eight-year-old daughter venturing outside in the cold without proper clothing to avoid becoming sick.
Curtis Houck
December 27th, 2016 6:41 PM

MSNBC Guest: Hillary 'Gracious' Since Election, 'Didn't Contest' It

Steve McMahon, a Democratic Party member described as a media consultant, apparently either hasn't followed the news sufficiently since the presidential election, or is determined to rewrite history. My vote is with the latter. McMahon appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday. Before criticizing President-Elect Donald Trump's victory rallies as "incendiary, he outrageously claimed that Hillary Clinton has "…
Tom Blumer
December 27th, 2016 6:31 PM

Krauthammer Rips UN Vote on Israel: Trump Should Turn HQ Into 'Condos'

The United Nations voting again to punish Israel -- with the assent of the Obama White House -- put Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer is a sour mood. On Monday night’s Special Report, substitute host Doug McKelway pointed out that Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted the U.S. government shouldn’t fund the UN until this vote is reversed.
Tim Graham
December 27th, 2016 5:04 PM

Apocalypse Now! Media Predict 10 Looming Disasters Under Trump

Hyperbole has run strong this election cycle. Do you agree with these media predictions for the coming months? 
Sarah Stites
December 27th, 2016 4:12 PM

Kelly: Clinton Used Me to Attack Trump But Then Refused to Talk to Me

Monday night, FNC’s The Kelly File aired a program dedicated to Donald Trump’s relationship with the media. During the one hour special, host Megyn Kelly spoke with correspondent Howard Kurtz, New York Times columnist Jim Rutenberg, Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik and The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway about how the media didn’t anticipate Trump’s election win. Rutenberg brought up how…
Kristine Marsh
December 27th, 2016 4:00 PM

Harwood Blames Racism, ObamaCare Opposition for Democrat Losses

Providing more reasons why it was an abomination he was allowed to moderate a GOP presidential debate, CNBC’s John Harwood took to Twitter on Tuesday where he offered Republican opposition to ObamaCare and racism as reasons why President Obama’s Democratic Party lost so many seats nationwide during his administration. Part of one tweet: "Obama's race amid white fear of cultural change."
Curtis Houck
December 27th, 2016 2:03 PM

Colbert: I 'Prepared Nothing' on Election Special for a Trump Win

On Sunday's Face the Nation, host John Dickerson reviewed the year 2016 with CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert. The comedian admitted they planned their live election-night Showtime special but  "prepared nothing...on purpose" for an obvious Trump victory, since Team Colbert thought that was highly unlikely, and "if it happens, we're going to be doing a show for a group of people who have been…
Tim Graham
December 27th, 2016 2:00 PM

AP Top Ten 2016: Cop Murders at Six; Castile, Sterling Deaths at Three

Evidence that leftist bias has deeply infected local and regional news coverage arrived in the form of the "Top Stories of 2016" poll results at the Associated Press last week. In an exercise performed since 1936, the AP's "annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors" asked participants to identify the top 10 stories of 2016. "Black Men Killed by Police," referring to the controversial…
Tom Blumer
December 27th, 2016 1:30 PM

CBS Mocks Netanyahu's 'Manufactured Anger' Over Obama UN Snub

On Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, the panel completely downplayed President Obama’s actions to withdraw support for Israel during a recent United Nations vote. On top of that, CBS went out of their way to bash Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and report uncritically on President Obama’s controversial decision.
Kristine Marsh
December 27th, 2016 12:04 PM

NB Year-in-Review: The Most Outrageous Quotes of 2016, Part I

As 2016 comes to a close, this week NewsBusters will be recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. Today’s installment: the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons, including Barack Obama’s “keen intelligence,” the “fundamentally honest” Hillary Clinton, and the “tremendous sense of pride” Cubans supposedly feel for their dead dictator, Fidel…
Rich Noyes
December 27th, 2016 10:02 AM