The View Crew Gushes Over Barbara Walters' Tough Journalism

The View panel Wednesday morning expressed their disappointment in Megyn Kelly’s interview televised last night with Donald Trump, calling it a “softball interview.” They then gushed over Barbara Walters as the epitome of excellent journalism that they felt Kelly should aspire to.
Kristine Marsh
May 18th, 2016 12:14 PM

Candid, or Clueless? Editors Tout 'Hillary's Unlikely Ally: The Media'

The Hill’s top editors Bob Cusack and Ian Swanson came out with an article Tuesday titled, “Hillary's unlikely ally: The media." Unlikely? In the article, Cusack and Swanson addressed Clinton’s claims of the media backing her then-rival Barack Obama, in 2008, writing, “The Democratic presidential front-runner has had a long, contentious relationship with the press, most notably in her 2008 run…
Melissa Mullins
May 18th, 2016 11:26 AM

CNBC’s Kernen: ‘The Country Is Not Going to Elect a Socialist!’

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen tore into the prospect of a socialist president, and knocked young people who he said had a warped view of Bernie Sanders. Kernen’s comments came in response to a report by political correspondent John Harwood on the democratic presidential race. In his report, Harwood featured a poll that had Sanders losing to Clinton by 14 percentage points.
Sam Dorman
May 18th, 2016 11:15 AM

MRC's Bozell Meets Facebook's Zuckerberg Over Bias Questions

Later today, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell will join other top conservatives in a meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to discuss last week's Gizmodo report that Facebook quashed trending conservative news items. Going into the meeting, Bozell issued the following statement:
NB Staff
May 18th, 2016 10:57 AM

PETA Video: Customers Jolted By Leather Products Stuffed with Organs

PETA is at it again, getting down and dirty with its activism. In a “Behind the Leather” video, PETA showed customers shopping for leather products, only to find grisly insides. The anti-leather products stunt was an effort to raise awareness about the way exotic skin products are made in southeast Asia.
Sam Dorman
May 18th, 2016 9:51 AM

Daily Show: Anti-Immigrant USA Should Learn from Enlightened Canadians

On Tuesday night’s Daily Show, host Trevor Noah and correspondent Hasan Minhaj spent a full five minutes of the show mocking Americans as hateful and stupid with ignorant attitudes towards immigrants. Minhaj played the part of a fear-mongering American who was schooled by the more compassionate neighbors to the North for their “enlightened”, welcoming attitudes toward Syrian refugees. In Hasan’s…
Kristine Marsh
May 18th, 2016 9:30 AM

Bob Woodward Envisions Mt. Rushmore With Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea

Mount Rushmore has become an ongoing reference to historical greatness. GQ editor Jim Nelson recently proclaimed Barack Obama was “Mount Rushmore great.” In 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed, NBC reporter Jim Maceda gushed its last dictator Mikhail Gorbachev deserved a place on Mount Rushmore. Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner reports that Washington Post bigwig Bob Woodward envisions…
Tim Graham
May 18th, 2016 8:30 AM

CBS, NBC Spin Nevada Convention Controversy for Hillary

It took most of the networks three days to finally cover the controversial Nevada Democrat Convention, where Sanders supporters tried to stand up to the Clinton election machine. But instead of documenting the arguably shady actions of the state party officials, the networks chose to smear Hillary Clinton’s rival. “Penchant for actual violence,” read both CBS and NBC reporters from a Democrat…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 18th, 2016 1:36 AM

Azteca América Promotes 'Benefits' Of Two-Country Citizenship, Voting

Azteca América, the U.S. subsidiary of Mexico's TV Azteca network, recently joined other networks in producing a public service announcement (PSA) for the purpose of encouraging legal immigrants to pursue dual citizenship. The campaign pretty much confirms what we've said all along regarding immigration's role in Hispanic media.
Jorge Bonilla
May 18th, 2016 12:03 AM

New ESPN MNF Host Pokes Fun at Trump, Border Wall on NFL in Mexico

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: an ESPN commentator desires to get his name in the news by cracking a joke at the expense of a Republican. That well-worn, lefty sports tactic was executed, yet again, by ESPN’s new Monday Night Football play-by-play man.
Bruce Bookter
May 17th, 2016 11:08 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: The Shameless New York Times

The New York Times proclaimed the results of their six-week “investigation” on the front page of the Sunday paper. They discovered that Donald Trump is kind of sleazy around women. They want us to know this right now – not six months ago – when it’s clear he’s the Republican nominee against Mrs. Bill Clinton. No Republican is surprised. Their shameless partisanship knows no bounds.
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
May 17th, 2016 10:59 PM

Networks Ignore Bill Clinton’s Connections to Pedophile Epstein

During their Tuesday evening newscasts, all of the “big three” networks ignored explosive new details about former President Bill Clinton’s relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein. “It’s no secret that former President Bill Clinton had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” reported Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Special Report, “A prominent businessman who went to jail as part of a plea…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 17th, 2016 10:38 PM

Matthews Cozies Up to 'Regular Guy’ Brown; Asks Him to Sing Union Tune

MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews is no stranger to awkward and bizarre outbursts of affection for liberals (plus the occasional fellow cable host) and so Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) could be added to the list as he professed his admiration during Tuesday’s live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries with a full-blown testimony and even a plea for Brown to sing.
Curtis Houck
May 17th, 2016 9:57 PM

Blogger Lauds ‘Idealistic’ Students For Transgender-Bathroom Activism

Universities have generated countless breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine. Then there’s the product of higher education that Kevin Drum discussed in a Saturday post: “The first concrete movement toward gender-neutral bathrooms started at universities. Now it's becoming mainstream. Good work, idealistic college kids!" Drum remarked that some current campus obsessions -- “safe…
Tom Johnson
May 17th, 2016 9:47 PM