The Schumer-Biden Test on Judicial Nominations In an Election Year

Everyone knows the meaning of the word "hypocrite" and no one can claim absolute constancy when it comes to living a life consistent with one's stated values. But in this election year, hypocrisy is on full display. It is now being practiced with neither shame nor irony by leading Democrats, who once forcefully argued positions they have now abandoned. Definitions help focus the mind and so here…
Cal Thomas
February 24th, 2016 5:17 PM

Filmmaker: Anti-Fracking Lawyer Admits No 'Proof’ of Toxins in Water

The tiny northern Pennsylvania town of Dimock has been the site of a battle over natural gas drilling for several years. Some residents claimed the drilling contaminated their water, and they sued Cabot Oil & Gas in a battle that gained national news attention. Test after test failed to find fracking contaminants in the water, something the lawyer for those Dimock residents just admitted in…
Julia A. Seymour
February 24th, 2016 4:22 PM

Bozell Discusses Media Blackout of BLM-Inspired Beating of Marine

On February 12 at a Washington, D.C., McDonalds, a bunch of teenage thugs beat up a U.S. Marine while citing inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement. That brutal assault, caught on security tape, was virtually ignored by the liberal broadcast and cable networks. 
NB Staff
February 24th, 2016 4:08 PM

Of Course: Jimmy Kimmel Uses MSNBC Goof to Mock Conservatives

It probably shouldn’t shock anyone that Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday used a moment of great embarrassment for the liberal MSNBC and turned it into an attack on conservatives. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host related, “On MSNBC, they had a live report from an indoor gun range in Reno, which really gave us some insight into the current mood among GOP voters.” 
Scott Whitlock
February 24th, 2016 3:28 PM

CBS Hosts Excuse Hillary’s Lies: We’re Liars, Too!

After playing a clip of Hillary Clinton being confronted about her dishonesty during a CNN town hall event, on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O’Donnell tried to defend the Democratic frontrunner by pointing to the dishonesty of herself and her fellow journalists.O’Donnell turned to fellow co-hosts Gayle King and Charlie Rose, asking: “Have you guys ever told a lie?” After they both…
Kyle Drennen
February 24th, 2016 3:11 PM

CNN's Cuomo Suggests Sanders Adding to 'Hate Parade' Against Clinton

As Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver appeared as a guest on Wednesday's New Day, CNN co-host Chris Cuomo referred to criticisms of Hillary Clinton as a "hate parade" as he pressed Weaver on whether it was "fair" for his campaign to add to a "drip, drip, drip" of attacks on Clinton by calling for her to release transcripts of her paid speeches.
Brad Wilmouth
February 24th, 2016 1:29 PM

Networks Move to Crown Trump; ‘Too Little, Too Late’ for Rubio

Continuing a push for Donald Trump over Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, the three network morning shows on Wednesday attempted to declare the nomination over, despite the fact that the businessman has less than ten percent of the needed delegate to win. Even though 2341 delegates have not yet been allocated, CBS This Morning’s Charlie Rose demanded of Rubio, “Is it simply too little, too late to stop…
Scott Whitlock
February 24th, 2016 12:53 PM

Daily Show Gushes Over ‘Classy’ Obama; Bashes ‘Lame F**ks’ GOP

Tuesday night, Daily Show host Trevor Noah jumped on the left-wing bandwagon bashing both Antonin Scalia and the GOP for moving to delay the nomination for the late Supreme Court Justice. Amidst his rant against the GOP, Noah raved about the “smooth” and “classy” President Obama while taking a cheap shot at Ted Cruz.
Kristine Marsh
February 24th, 2016 12:09 PM

NBC Demands Rubio and Trump Attack Each Other

In back-to-back interviews on Wednesday’s NBC Today, hosts Savannah Guthrie and Willie Geist repeatedly urged Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Donald Trump to attack each other. Talking to Rubio first, Guthrie pleaded: “You've got you and Ted Cruz and some of the other candidates fighting each other, and Trump sailing to victory. A lot of Republicans asking this morning, why not…
Kyle Drennen
February 24th, 2016 12:02 PM

LA Times Pushes View That Every White Person Is Hopelessly Racist

The racial self-loathing of white liberals is one bit of evidence that points to the Donald Trump phenomenon. The Los Angeles Times published a breast-beating self-denunciation – Two Minutes of Self-Hate? – by author Jim Grimsley, who insisted against the black president and all other evidence that “I have found that black people are all too aware that progress on racial issues has hardly moved…
Tim Graham
February 24th, 2016 11:40 AM

Ted Cruz, Islamic Fatwa on Rushdie: Both 'Hard-Line' at the NY Times

So what’s the connection between Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and Islamic organizations in Iran who just upped the reward for killing “blasphemous” novelist Salman Rushdie? Both are “hard-line” ideologues in the eyes of the New York Times.
Clay Waters
February 24th, 2016 10:49 AM

Barely News: Nevada GOP Caucuses' Turnout More Than Doubles 2012

Yesterday morning, before the Republican Party's Nevada caucuses began, Nate Silver at the inexplicably hallowed FiveThirtyEight blog made a really naive and tone-deaf assumption. He reckoned that the caucuses would be a low turnout event, noting that in 2012, "only 1.9 percent of the voting-eligible population — about 33,000 people — participated in the Republican caucuses in Nevada," and spent…
Tom Blumer
February 24th, 2016 10:33 AM

Alcohol, Panic Attacks: Celebrities Scarred from ‘Steamy Sex Scenes’

Hollywood’s sex scenes on the big screen don’t just affect the viewers. On Monday, Maxim published “13 Actresses Reveal What It’s Really Like to Shoot a Steamy Sex Scene.” In a surprising move for a men’s magazine, Maxim retold female celebrities’ mostly negative stories of how acting out sex scenes affected them in real life – from Jennifer Lawrence to Vanessa Hudgens. 
Katie Yoder
February 24th, 2016 9:27 AM

Mika Rips Rubio: 'Sucking Up' to Trump to be His VP Pick

And we thought Joe Scarborough was the one who had it in for Marco Rubio . . . Turns out, Mika Brzezinski really doesn't dig Rubio. At all.  On today's Morning Joe, Mika painted Rubio as an unprincipled pol "sucking up" to Donald Trump in order to be his VP pick. Mika: "he's the only one who will go against everything he believes in and say whatever Trump wants him to. He'll do whatever Trump…
Mark Finkelstein
February 24th, 2016 8:34 AM