Nets Censor Historic Vote Placing Planned Parenthood Bill Obama’s Desk

The president just vetoed a bill halting taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. But don’t expect to hear about it from the broadcast network news. During their morning and evening news shows, all three networks censored Wednesday’s U.S. House vote to strip federal funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion mill. While ABC, NBC and CBS turned a blind-eye, other traditional…
Katie Yoder
January 8th, 2016 2:28 PM

On CNN, Parker Tags NRA 'Terrorist,' Host Tougher on Pro-Gun Guest

On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, host Costello again showed a blatant double standard in giving a softball interview to gun control activist Andy Parker, but then more aggressively debating a pro-gun guest in the next segment. After Parker called the NRA a "terrorist organization," Costello did not challenge the label, and then ended up inviting Parker to suggest questions for her…
Brad Wilmouth
January 8th, 2016 1:08 PM

Baltimore Sun Editor Wants Searchable Database of Gun Owners

Tricia Bishop, the deputy editorial page editor at Baltimore Sun, also writes a biweekly column. Bishop was impressed three years ago when the White Plains, New York-based Journal News published an interactive online map showing "the addresses (and names) of all pistol permit holders" in two Empire State counties. Very few others were. Though the outrage over the paper's move was (excuse the…
Tom Blumer
January 8th, 2016 12:33 PM

ABC and NBC Skip Release of 66 Classified Hillary E-Mails

Despite a combined six hours of air time, ABC and NBC on Friday morning skipped the latest release of Hillary Clinton e-mails, 66 of which contained classified messages. According to Fox News, “In one email, Clinton even seemed to coach a top adviser on how to send secure information outside secure channels.” Good Morning America devoted five minutes and 52 seconds to the upcoming Powerball…

Scott Whitlock
January 8th, 2016 12:05 PM

Nets Tout Obama Rejecting ‘Gun Conspiracy’; ‘Not Coming for Your Guns'

On Friday, all three network morning shows promoted CNN’s Thursday night gun control town hall event with President Obama and highlighted the commander-in-chief smearing gun rights supporters as conspiracy theorists. In a news brief on ABC’s Good Morning America, anchor Amy Robach declared: “President Obama is defending his executive actions on gun control. During a town hall meeting in Virginia…
Kyle Drennen
January 8th, 2016 11:58 AM

Breaking Bias: NYT Alert Hails 'Impressive Sprint' In Jobs Numbers

With the Bureau of Labor Statistics releasing December 2015 jobs numbers today, numerous news agencies flashed out the fresh stats to their breaking-news alert subscribers. Looking at them on my iPhone this morning, I noticed that the New York Times was unique in puffing the development with editorial language rather than sticking strictly to the facts.
Ken Shepherd
January 8th, 2016 11:53 AM

WashPost's Post-Hebdo Cartoonist Roundup Has a Very Liberal Tilt

On the front of Friday’s Style section of The Washington Post, writer Michael Cavna asked editorial cartoonists to “mull what’s changed” since the terrorist shootings at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris a year ago. What resulted was more outrage against “Islamophobia” than radical Islam. Somehow, while Cavna and his interview subjects discussed how ISIS must be separated from the everyday Muslim…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2016 11:44 AM

Scarborough: MSM Won't Mention Clinton and Epstein—But Trump Will

Joe Scarborough blew the whistle on the MSM this morning regarding its unwillingess to say publicly what people in major newsrooms have incessantly discussed--Bill Clinton's mistresses and the lurid tales involving Jeffrey Epstein, he of Orgy Island infamy, and Clinton. But if the MSM won't "go there," on today's Morning Joe Scarborough said that Donald Trump indubitably will: "That's what makes…
Mark Finkelstein
January 8th, 2016 9:33 AM

MSNBC Spikes Clip of Bill Clinton Being Asked About Juanita Broaddrick

Conservative journalists simply won’t play by the liberal media’s bizarre rules about being vague on Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct – especially when asking him a question. On Thursday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Daily Caller’s Kerry Picket asked the former president directly several times how he felt about “Juanita Broaddrick’s reemergence.” He refused to utter a word. NBC’s Kristen Welker…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2016 7:01 AM

Soldier's Daughter Brings 'Idol' Judges to Tears with THIS Surprise

It is the 15th and final season of Fox's reality singing competition show American Idol and they saved the best audition moment of the night for last. You will definitely want to watch this - and have the tissues handy!
Alexa Moutevelis
January 8th, 2016 2:41 AM

NewsBusted: Did You Really Have to Come Back to Work, Mr. President?!

"President Obama is back from his Hawaiian vacation.  And he’s getting right back to work on his top priority for 2016: planning his next vacation.President Obama really enjoyed his two-week vacation in Hawaii.  And Bernie Sanders just announced that if he’s elected president, every American will get a free two-week vacation in Hawaii." – NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller.
NB Staff
January 7th, 2016 10:42 PM

Cooper Hits Back at Obama for Bashing Critics as Conspiracy Theorists

In the latter portion of Thursday night’s CNN “town hall” with President Barack Obama on gun control, host Anderson Cooper surprisingly pushed back at the President’s slam on opponents of his executive actions and policies on guns as conspiracy theorists.
Curtis Houck
January 7th, 2016 9:42 PM

Pundit: In Gun Remarks, Obama’s ‘Emotion Served His Reasonableness’

President Obama’s teary presentation on guns was a teachable moment, contended Salon blogger Marcotte in a Wednesday post, but conservatives, busy directing figurative spitballs at the POTUS, missed the lesson.
Tom Johnson
January 7th, 2016 9:20 PM

Liberal Historian: Obama Gun Control Push a 'Yes We Can' Moment

Moments before the start of Thursday evenings CNN town hall forum on guns, liberal presidential historian Douglas Brinkley forecast that President Obama would take the proverbial stage seeking to be a "minister" to grieving families who lost loved ones to "gun violence." For the term-limited president, it is a "yes, we can moment" as he winds down his president, Brinkley offered.
Ken Shepherd
January 7th, 2016 8:56 PM