ABC Ignores Revelation that Obama Knew About Clinton's Private Server

WikiLeaks, Tuesday, exposed a massive lie President Barack Obama told to the American people following the first reports of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server. In March of 2015 Obama told CBS News’ Bill Plante that he learned about the server, “The same time everybody else learned it through news reports.” According to the newly leaked e-mails, that is not true because he had received e-…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 25th, 2016 10:55 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: Leaked, How Hillary Pandered to the Press

The Wikileaks email trove is revealing more than the servility of “objective” reporters trying to please Hillary Clinton and her aides. It’s also revealing their press strategy – how they seek to praise reporters, even as they arrogantly stonewall them. One internal campaign e-mail exchange is salient. It discusses Mrs. Clinton speaking at an a Syracuse University event  handing out the Robin…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
October 25th, 2016 10:46 PM

As Hillary Has Black Turnout Woes, Black Trump Spox Baffles the Media

On Sunday, Hillary Campaign Manager Robby Mook dodged a question from Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union about indications that black turnout for the former Secretary of State in North Carolina during early voting has not been strong. Meanwhile, a black Trump supporter, who the press seems to believe can easily be turned into an object of ridicule, continues to run circles around them in…
Tom Blumer
October 25th, 2016 10:16 PM

CNN's Blitzer Lets Burwell's Obamacare Excuses and Half-Truths Slide

Obama administration officials, their designated flacks, and even President Barack Obama himself have spent the past several days defending the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Tuesday afternoon, Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell visited CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who simply let his guest say what she wanted to without answering his questions, spouting half-truths and falsehoods in…
Tom Blumer
October 25th, 2016 10:15 PM

Jeffrey Toobin: Clarence Thomas Is Both ‘Radical’ and ‘Reactionary’

When it comes to Supreme Court justices and their views of the Constitution, on the one hand there’s Clarence Thomas, and on the other there’s everyone else in the 227-year history of the Court, suggested CNN and New Yorker legal analyst Toobin in a Tuesday piece. Toobin called Thomas, who just marked a quarter-century as a SCOTUS justice, “not a conservative but, rather, a radical” who’s driven…
Tom Johnson
October 25th, 2016 9:52 PM

CBS Spotlights Trump Effect on PA Senate Race, Omits Democrat's Past

As part of its ongoing look at various U.S. Senate races, Tuesday’s CBS Evening News examined the Pennsylvania match-up between Republican Senator Pat Toomey and Democratic challenger Katie McGinty and framed the race as Donald Trump possibly dragging down Toomey while ignoring McGinty’s flaws and past. 
Curtis Houck
October 25th, 2016 8:34 PM

'Morning Joe' Beats 'NBC Nightly News' in Noting ObamaCare Hikes

Monday night, Nicholas Fondacaro at NewsBusters noted that NBC Nightly News failed to cover steep price increases averaging 25 percent being imposed next year in Obamacare plans purchased through the program's national exchange.
Tom Blumer
October 25th, 2016 7:03 PM

Milbank: ‘Neutrality’ on Trump ‘Legitimizes the Illegitimate'

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank on Tuesday dismissed the idea of media bias against Donald Trump and, instead, called for even more of it. According to Milbank in his column, “press neutrality” on the businessman “legitimizes the illegitimate.”
Scott Whitlock
October 25th, 2016 5:22 PM

Dirty Tricks: Then and Now

Students of the Watergate era (or those old enough to have lived through it) will recall the "dirty tricks" played by Richard Nixon's henchmen, most notably Donald Segretti. Segretti, who was hired by Nixon's deputy assistant, Dwight Chapin, was tasked with smearing Democrats, including senator and 1972 presidential candidate, Edmund Muskie of Maine. Among several "tricks," Segretti composed a…
Cal Thomas
October 25th, 2016 5:20 PM

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane Is Going to Jail

Channel 27 in Harrisburg reported today that former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) has been sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison for leaking grand jury materials to the media and then lying about it under oath. Kane was also sentenced to eight years of probation. She was convicted on August 15 of two felonies involving perjury, and seven misdemeanors.  
Hans Bader
October 25th, 2016 5:16 PM

BBC Journalist Rewrites Brexit History to Avoid Comparison to Trump

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this Tuesday, the BBC’s Katty Kay burst out laughing at attempts to compare Donald Trump’s campaign to the successful Brexit referendum and revolution in Britain. On this Tuesday’s Morning Joe, exactly two weeks before election night, host Joe Scarborough initiated the discussion stating that “the Trump campaign has been saying for a week now that this is going to…
Kristian Kafozoff
October 25th, 2016 5:00 PM

CBS Hypes: Hillary ‘Calling on the Sisterhood to See Her Through’

According to CBS This Morning’s Nancy Cordes, Hillary Clinton is “calling on the sisterhood” in the final weeks of the presidential election. The journalist used the loaded language while co-host Norah O’Donnell hyped the Democrat’s attempts to “finish off her opponent.” 
Scott Whitlock
October 25th, 2016 4:24 PM

WashPost Columnist Crashes, Burns on FNC While Fumbling for Quotes

"Oh, um. Let's see. Um. That would have been onnnn... Uhhhh.... Let's see if I have the date exactly... It would have been onnnnn.... 'Lock her up' would have been onnnn..." No, I am not indulging in a bit too much of fermented extract of sugar cane. Instead I am directly quoting "conservative" Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin as she stuggled in a most hilarious fumbling way on The O'…
P.J. Gladnick
October 25th, 2016 4:19 PM

Matthews Traps NYT Reporter Over Whether She Has Pro-Life Co-Workers

Occasionally, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews flashes a pillar of his Catholic upbringing and Monday night was one such instance as he pressed New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor on whether or not she has any pro-life co-workers at the liberal paper after she laughed at the idea of liberal media bias. 
Curtis Houck
October 25th, 2016 4:10 PM