Celebs Protest Rockettes Inauguration Gig: ‘No One Should Be Forced’

Although several entertainers have publicly refused to participate in Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities, the Rockettes are now scheduled to perform. Yet, that doesn’t mean every member of the troupe is happy about it.
Sarah Stites
December 23rd, 2016 10:42 AM

‘Vampire’ Author Anne Rice Says Climate Change Influenced New Book

Like stories of vampires, climate change is nothing new. ​Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice suggested as much in a Dec. 22, interview with the Daily Beast. While answering questions about her book Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, Rice cited a history of catastrophes on earth and their impact on the climate.
Sam Dorman
December 23rd, 2016 9:51 AM

MRC’s Gainor: 2016 ‘Was One Big Embarrassment of Fake News’ For Media

While appearing on Fox Business’ Risk & Reward, MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor mocked the media’s laughable inaccuracy in predicting a Hillary Clinton “landslide.” Gainor responded to a video of someone on MSNBC suggesting republicans lived in a “thought bubble.” “I love how liberals talk about how conservatives live in a bubble and then their bubble bursts all over…
Sam Dorman
December 23rd, 2016 9:37 AM

Fake News from the NYT? No Skepticism for YouTube Hoaxer's Plane Tale

More fake news from the New York Times? On Thursday morning, the paper ran a credulous story by reporter Jonah Engel Bromwich on the alleged unjustified removal of two YouTube stars, including Internet provocateur Adam Saleh, from a Delta Airlines plane in London, for speaking Arabic on a cellphone while waiting to take off. “YouTube Stars Say They Were Removed From a Flight for Speaking Arabic…
Clay Waters
December 23rd, 2016 8:11 AM

Nets Ignore Obama Administration Possibly Turning Against Israel

While all of the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) had tried to sow fear for President-Elect Donald Trump’s shifts on foreign policy in the past, they conveniently overlooked a potential major policy reversal from President Barack Obama Thursday. “The Obama administration was going to abstain from voting against a resolution critical of Israel, breaking with the Israel position on this…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 22nd, 2016 11:19 PM

Yahoo: Man Harassing Ivanka Trump Ejected Only For 'Questioning' Her

The leftist press really wants to disappear the story of the man who, accompanied by his husband, was kicked off of a Jet Blue flight for harassing President-Elect Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka. Having learned more about the ejected pair, I can understand why — but it's not the media's job to try to minimize and suppress the incident's details, which they are clearly doing. TMZ broke the news…
Tom Blumer
December 22nd, 2016 10:57 PM

CBS Freaks Out: Trump Asked for Lists of Federal Programs and Workers

In yet another report on CBS Evening News about seemingly nothing, the network tried to stoke fear of President-Elect Donald Trump’s upcoming administration Thursday night. The cause of their concern? He did the unthinkable and asked for a list of federal programs he would be overseeing. “The Trump transition team has been sending questionnaires to cabinet departments, not at all unusual, but…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 22nd, 2016 9:32 PM

NPR Finds Boxer Is Mad at Anyone Spurning Hillary Over E-mail Scandal

Wednesday night’s All Things Considered on NPR carried a very soft, supportive six-minute interview of outgoing ultraliberal Sen. Barbara Boxer by co-host Kelly McEvers on the “path forward for Democrats.” Boxer wouldn’t admit there were any real problems with the appeal of Democrats, certainly nothing unappealing about their leftist ideology. She also complained about people who said they "can't…
Tim Graham
December 22nd, 2016 9:11 PM

Graham Blasts Media Double Standard on Presidents Criticizing Press

Late Thursday afternoon, the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham appeared on the Fox Business Network (FBN) program After the Bell to slam the media for their double standard in reacting to President Barack Obama’s media criticism versus whenever President-elect Donald Trump does the same. FBN host David Asman set the scene with a quote from an Atlantic interview in which President Obama’s offered…
NB Staff
December 22nd, 2016 6:55 PM

MSNBC Touts ‘Game’ of Imagining Cause of Trump's Impeachment

MSNBC flaunted their disdain of President-Elect Donald Trump Thursday afternoon when they invited leftist author Michael Lewis on to discuss the Trump bashing games he detailed in Vanity Fair. Host Kate Snow was more than happy to play along, starting the segment off with a quote from Lewis’ article, “The theme is sort of about a board game you say, ‘Will reveal the predicaments of the entire…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 22nd, 2016 6:07 PM

CNN Still Misinforming Viewers on NC Transgender Bathroom Law

Over the past couple of days, as CNN has updated its viewers on efforts to repeal the North Carolina bathroom law, the news network has again been misinforming its audience on whether transgender individuals would be able to arrange to use the public restroom of their preferred gender. Even though North Carolina state law allows people to change their gender designation on their birth certificate…
Brad Wilmouth
December 22nd, 2016 5:42 PM

NYT Slams NC GOP for Limiting New Dem Gov., Cheers When Obama Does It

New York Times columnists and editors hmay condemn Republicans for limiting what their Democratic successors can do – as what’s happening after a tough loss by the sitting Republican governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory to Democrat Jim Cooper -- but the Times celebrates it when President Obama does it, or is being encouraged by left-wing groups to do so.
Clay Waters
December 22nd, 2016 4:58 PM

Johnson: Putin Did What Gorbachev Couldn’t with 'Coup' of U.S. Gov't

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday’s Hardball, The Root political editor Jason Johnson told his fellow MSNBC panelists that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the biggest winner of 2016 because he succeeded where Mikhail Gorbachev and the late Fidel Castro couldn’t in “[taking] over the United States” via a “coup” through “Manchurian candidate” Donald Trump. 
Curtis Houck
December 22nd, 2016 3:01 PM

Hillary Clinton and God Make GQ’s ‘Least Influential’ List

Yes, it’s GQ. And yes, they don’t stand a metrosexual’s chance at a tractor pull of getting you to care who they think matters or not. Still, the glossy “men’s” magazine’s jokey annual list of the Least Influential People, written by Drew Magary, is instructive.
Matt Philbin
December 22nd, 2016 2:53 PM