Sean Penn's New Refugee Movie an Epic Flop at Cannes Film Festival

Truth Revolt reports that Sean Penn is not the toast of the Cannes Film Festival. He’s just toast. His new film The Last Face flopped badly. One critic said "There were several lines so wincingly written and embarrassingly delivered that they caused the audience at the press screening to burst into sarcastic applause."
Tim Graham
May 21st, 2016 10:01 PM

Worst Jeopardy! Flubs of the Week by Journalists

“Clueless for $400.” This past week Jeopardy! aired its “Power Players” shows recorded in Washington, DC back on Saturday, April 9. Viewers were treated to some embarrassing moments for several prominent journalists, including CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Kate Bolduan, who were seemingly ill-informed about relatively recent events in the news. The video below shows five of the biggest flubs, focused…
Brent Baker
May 21st, 2016 8:50 PM

Former White House Reporter: Media 'Happy to Be Managed' by Obama

Retired USA Today White House reporter Richard Benedetto penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Friday titled “How Obama Gets Away With It.” He suggested “Usually when an incumbent president is leaving office and a slew of candidates are battling for his job, that departing chief executive’s record is a major campaign issue.” But Obama’s record in office is not an issue. Obviously, one…
Tim Graham
May 21st, 2016 4:53 PM

ABC's Hostin Wonders: 'What Makes Hillary So Untrustworthy?'

On Friday's The View on ABC, during a discussion of trust issues surrounding presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, co-host Sunny Hostin cluelessly wondered "what makes Hillary so untrustworthy" as co-host Paula Faris asserted that both candidates are "untrustworthy." Hostin then demanded to know, "Why is she untrustworthy? How many lies has she told?" and, when co-host and FNC…
Brad Wilmouth
May 21st, 2016 4:33 PM

NB’s Graham: Even Facebook Vulnerable to ‘Temptation’ of Bias

Appearing on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg Show on Thursday, NewsBusters’ executive editor Tim Graham commended Facebook for meeting with conservative leaders – including Media Research Center president Brent Bozell – over accusations of liberal bias, but warned: “...these are...the kind of questions that say even in the social media now...there’s just going to be that temptation to say, ‘Let’s do…
NB Staff
May 21st, 2016 2:56 PM

Salon Writer Mocks Conservatives’ ‘Relentless...Persecution Complex'

Since the concept of political correctness became well-known in the late 1980s, it’s typically been thought of as a left-wing phenomenon, but some liberals claim that conservatives have their own version of it. In a Thursday article, Steve Almond alleged that right-wing PC is “a relentless blaring Persecution Complex” which manifests as “a mindset that reframes its paranoid aggressions as…
Tom Johnson
May 21st, 2016 12:41 PM

'Neighbors 2' Is MSNBC: The Movie

Lena Dunham's cameo in "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising" got cut from the film's final version. That hardly matters. Her pungent progressive streak infects every frame. The sequel to the surprisingly rich “Neighbors” plays out like a Salon.com article brought to life. You won’t find a liberal talking point untapped before the end credits roll.
Christian Toto
May 21st, 2016 12:31 PM

Liberal Media Bias: From Nixon’s Fund to Trump’s Women

It was 1952. The GOP, out of the White House for twenty full years, had finished a rollicking national convention with a bang. After a dramatic showdown between the forces of D-Day hero General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the conservative Ohio Senator Robert Taft, Ike had won the day. Taft, always the gentleman, conceded, and the two rivals posed for pictures smiling together.
Jeffrey Lord
May 21st, 2016 10:39 AM

Facebook Tags Patricia Heaton's Pregnancy Center Tweet 'Anti-Abortion'

On Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, following a meeting the previous day between some of the nation's top conservative leaders and company officials at Facebook, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, "told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto ... that he 'left encouraged' that the site wants to fix the 'erosion of trust' set forth by allegations of censoring conservative news topics…
Tom Blumer
May 21st, 2016 10:33 AM

Bob Costas Lectures Native Americans: Redskins Name Still ‘Offensive’

Despite the fact that an overwhelming amount of Native Americans do not find the Washington Redskins team name offensive, Bob Costas thinks he knows better. The liberal sportscaster on Friday talked to the Washington Post and ignored the impact of a new poll finding 90 percent support for the moniker. 
Scott Whitlock
May 21st, 2016 10:30 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Six-Figure Fines for Gender Pronouns?

The Left used to congratulate itself on being the "Free Speech Movement" and celebrate the rebellious anarchists who used obscene words and forced sexually graphic images and conversations into the public square. Conservatives were the ones who insisted on decency in the public discourse, and demanded regulation, both within the private sector as well as from the federal government, to protect…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
May 21st, 2016 7:38 AM

Breaking: NPR Funded by White House Surrogate Pushing Iran Deal

Bradley Klapper of Associated Press broke the story Friday that “A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group's annual report. It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets.” The group is the Ploughshares…
Tim Graham
May 20th, 2016 11:02 PM

WaPo Writer Drops Opposition to Redskins Name After Poll

The revelation, that 90% of Native Americans are in no way offended by the word Redskin, may not have swayed the uber-leftist panel of ESPN’s Around the Horn to change their minds about the Redskins name. However, it apparently has caused at least one member of the mainstream press to drop his opposition to the team name.
Dylan Gwinn
May 20th, 2016 4:19 PM

MRC’s Bozell Compares Facebook Policy on Conservatives to IRS Scandal

MRC President Brent Bozell on Thursday appeared on The Blaze TVand compared the controversy engulfing Facebook’s targeting of conservatives to the IRS selecting right-leaning groups for special scrutiny. Talking to host Tomi Lahren, Bozell explained, “For anyone to suggest that Facebook has a policy against conservatives, it's just simply unfounded. It's silly. The IRS didn't have a policy…
NB Staff
May 20th, 2016 3:45 PM