Wash Post Hails Liberal Howard Stern: Now Has a 'Social Conscience’

The Washington Post on Tuesday hailed the new “social conscience” of shock jock Howard Stern. This, of course, means the radio star has become more outspokenly liberal. In a story by Libby Copeland, the journalist charted Stern’s changes over the last 20 years. 
Scott Whitlock
December 15th, 2015 6:33 PM

Krauthammer: Obama's Wrong When He Claims We're Winning Against ISIS

While a panelist on Monday night's edition of the Special Report program, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama for “trying to convince us that we are actually prevailing, winning, pushing in on ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).” The regular contributor to the Fox News Channel program said that the Democratic occupant of the White House is wrong…
Randy Hall
December 15th, 2015 6:06 PM

Nets CENSOR Planned Parenthood Disposing Aborted Babies in Landfills

A story of aborted baby bodies in landfills should be reporter-bait. But it’s not, at least to ABC, NBC and CBS. After a statewide investigation, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Friday that his office found no evidence that Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliates participated in the selling of aborted baby parts. Instead, his office argued it discovered something else: aborted babies…
Katie Yoder
December 15th, 2015 5:32 PM

ProPublica: It's Next to Impossible to Get Off Error-Laden No-Fly List

Kudos are in order for ProPublics for writing and for the Daily Beast in syndicating a story about how problematic the federal no-fly list is. 
Ken Shepherd
December 15th, 2015 5:31 PM

Univision's Jorge Ramos Cannot Contain Rabid Anti-Catholicism

Jorge Ramos injects his anti-Catholic bias wherever and whenever possible.
Jorge Bonilla
December 15th, 2015 5:27 PM

ABC Hails Gloria Steinem with Softballs: 'Led a Movement' for Women

On Sunday's This Week, they concluded the show with a feminist tribute. ABC’s Cokie Roberts sat down with feminist legend Gloria Steinem for what should’ve been an interview on her first book in over 20 years, My Life on the Road. Instead, it was a celebration of her life. George Stephanopoulos gushed that Steinem “sat down with our own pathbreaker, Cokie Roberts, for a look back at 50 years of…
Melissa Mullins
December 15th, 2015 5:01 PM

Blogger: Global-Warming Deniers Are Traitors to the Planet

When it comes to global warming, Esquire’s Charles Pierce implies, it’s now conservative Republicans and a few hidebound Democrats versus pretty much everyone and everything else, including the world’s non-human animals and its plant life. Meanwhile, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait opined that the Paris climate deal was “probably the [Obama] administration’s most important accomplishment."
Tom Johnson
December 15th, 2015 4:55 PM

WaPo Calls ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ One of 2015’s ‘Biggest Pinocchios’

Better late than never. The Black Lives Matter rallying phrase, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” was one of the biggest lies told this year, according to the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, in his annual end-of-the-year fact-checker.
Kristine Marsh
December 15th, 2015 4:47 PM

Open Thread: Happy Bill of Rights Day

On this day in 1791, Virginia's ratification of the first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution effected the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Happy Bill of Rights Day. 
NB Staff
December 15th, 2015 4:19 PM

On Twitter, MSNBC's Scarborough Attacks 'Nativist' Rubio's New Ad

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Marco Rubio in a series of posts on Twitter on Tuesday. Scarborough linked to Rubio's latest TV ad and contended that "Marco goes full-on nativist. Says he feels out of place in his own country. It's such a crass play. It's offensive." The Republican senator led the ad by stating, "This election is about the essence of America -- about all of us who feel out of…
Matthew Balan
December 15th, 2015 4:05 PM

NBC Ignores Own Poll Showing ‘Plummet’ in Obama Approval

On Tuesday, NBC left it to CBS to report its own poll showing a significant drop in President Obama’s overall approval rating and specifically regarding his handling of terrorism. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King covered the numbers from the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: “43% approve of Americans approve of the job that he's doing, and that’s the lowest number in more than a year.…
Kyle Drennen
December 15th, 2015 3:37 PM

Soros' Son United Liberal Dreams: Stop 'War on Drugs' to Save Nature

Legalize drugs to save the planet? As unrelated as those two liberal dreams are, the Soros dynasty just tried to tie them together. On Dec. 14, The Alexander Soros Foundation posted a video in which George Soros’s son whined that, “the war on drugs has had devastating and lasting environmental effects,” and that drug crop eradiation is “just deforestation by another name.”

Aly Nielsen
December 15th, 2015 3:17 PM

Fortune Whines At Time 'Person of Year' Merkel 'Reversing Course'

The year isn't even over, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Time's 2015 Person of the Year, has begun to act against the primary reason why the magazine chose her. To refresh from a NewsBusters post last week, Time's Nancy Gibbs cited three reasons for the choice. The clearly most important one, from their perspective, was Merkel's virtually unilateral decision that Germany "would welcome…
Tom Blumer
December 15th, 2015 3:00 PM

CNN's Costello Compares Muslim Shariah to 'My Own Faith' Catholicism

As the Reverend Franklin Graham appeared on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom to promote a national call to prayer, host Carol Costello raised charges that "heated rhetoric about Muslims" is "causing mosques to come under attack," and, after asking her guest if he thought Islam was "compatible with American values," fretted over his answer when he responded, "I don't think so." The CNN host followed up: "…
Brad Wilmouth
December 15th, 2015 2:12 PM