Cliché Alert: Capitalist Shown as Hard-Hearted Scrooge on NBC Drama

How typical. Tonight’s episode “Fallback” of NBC’s Chicago Med took a shot at capitalism, showing a greedy business owner calling another character "Bernie Sanders" for wanting to help people.
Karen Townsend
December 2nd, 2015 2:46 AM

CNN's Houck: Chicago Should Impeach Rahm Emanuel, Elect GOP Mayor

Appearing on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Harry Houck railed against Democratic management of the inner cities of Chicago. After declaring that "I am sick and tired of seeing small children, black children being killed," he tore into the city's mayor and former Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel for blaming the police superintendent for the city's problems,…
Brad Wilmouth
December 2nd, 2015 12:52 AM

ABC Censors Latest Hillary Clinton E-Mail Dump; CBS, NBC Barely Cover

For viewers of the “big three” networks on Monday and Tuesday, coverage of the latest Hillary Clinton e-mail dump was all but non-existent as ABC has censored it from both their morning and evening newscasts while CBS and NBC have only given abbreviated nods in their morning shows. All told, the three news cycles combined for a measly one-minute-and-45-seconds of airtime with one minute and 24…
Curtis Houck
December 1st, 2015 11:53 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: When Pro-Abortion Mantras Trump Facts

Despite turning up nothing about the Colorado Springs shooter being very political or very religious, the media eagerly sought to pin the blame for the shootings on Christian conservatives and Republican presidential candidates. These are the same journalists who protest to the skies that anyone would ever have the audacity to associate the average American Muslim with ISIS terrorists, or point…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
December 1st, 2015 11:18 PM

ABC, CBS Omit Obama Walkback on ISIS, Disconnect w/Joint Chiefs Chair

On Tuesday night, ABC and CBS refused to acknowledge a pair of points in its respective stories concerning news that additional U.S. special forces will be stationed inside Iraq to fight ISIS and will engage in combat roles. Along with not mentioning that the move represented the latest example of backpedaling by President Obama on a pledge to not put U.S. troops on the ground, the two networks…
Curtis Houck
December 1st, 2015 9:45 PM

ESPN’s Bomani Jones Thinks the Police Kill Black People by ‘Design’

In this week’s edition of “Oh my God, I can’t believe that ESPN guy said that! How in the world has he not been suspended yet?!” we actually harken back to last week, for while you and yours were preparing to gather with kith and kin to celebrate the joyous holiday and giving thanks for the abundance that hath been bestowed upon us, ESPN’s Bomani Jones was doing all he could to sow the seeds of…
Bruce Bookter
December 1st, 2015 9:30 PM

Matthews: Mass Shootings Don't Happen 'All Over Europe'

In an interview with GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on the December 1 edition of Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews insisted that mass shootings don't happen "all over Europe." When an incredulous Santorum reminded Matthews about the November 13 Paris terrorist attacks, Matthews shot back that the Paris perpetrators were terrorists and not "locals."
Ken Shepherd
December 1st, 2015 8:20 PM

Ed Schultz Blames GOP 'Rhetoric' for Planned Parenthood Murders

Ed Schultz condemning others for "hateful rhetoric" -- hypocrisy doesn't get more sublime than that. Schultz, you probably remember, vilified Laura Ingraham as a "right-wing slut" on his radio show in 2011, resulting in a two-week suspension from MSNBC.  His take on GOP opposition to Obamacare? "They want to see you dead! They'd rather make money off your dead corpse!"
Jack Coleman
December 1st, 2015 7:53 PM

CNN's Louis: Ex-Convicts Are Dems Because Respect 'Human Rights'

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN political commentator Errol Louis dismissed GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz's assertion that Democrats are more likely to commit violent crimes than Republicans by theorizing that prison converts some GOPers into Democrats because, after spending time in prison, they become "a little bit more respectful toward civil…
Brad Wilmouth
December 1st, 2015 7:27 PM

NYT's Bias Boils Over in Paris: 'News' Stories Plea for Climate Action

The New York Times' coverage of the international climate change summit in Paris remained on an aggressive boil, as Coral Davenport and Gardiner Harris' report from France Tuesday, "Citing Urgency, World Leaders Converge on France for Climate Meeting," hit the same set of alarmist notes Davenport did in her previous story from Paris. And Justin Gillis, the paper's most alarmist environmental…
Clay Waters
December 1st, 2015 6:12 PM

Bozell: Media In 'Lock Step' with Left on 'Climate Change' Hysteria

The national news media is "lock-step" in with the "radical" Left and its "crazy agenda," when it mindlessly parrots talking points comparing the threat of climate change with that of radical Islamist terrorism Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell told Fox News's Neil Cavuto today on the latter's eponymous Your World program.
NB Staff
December 1st, 2015 5:26 PM

Matt Lauer Talks Down to Ben Carson, Lectures Him on Syrian Refugees

Interviewing Ben Carson for the first time on NBC’s Today on Tuesday, co-host Matt Lauer condescended to the Republican presidential candidate while citing the latest polling: “In the last four to six weeks you have gone from number one in Iowa to number three, and your decline seems to coincide with some very troubling world events....Is it a coincidence that your numbers are going down as…
Kyle Drennen
December 1st, 2015 4:41 PM

CNN Equates Peaceful Pro-Lifers With Crazy Colorado Shooter

CNN's Gary Tuchman, on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360,  played up that to "the perpetual sadness of the employees" of a New Jersey abortion facility, "their building is a target." He also let the center's executive director and communications director smear all pro-lifers as potential terrorists. Cooper set the tone of the report with a graphic that ran during his lead-in, which showed pictures of…
Matthew Balan
December 1st, 2015 4:23 PM

Conservative Panel Discusses the Liberal Bias of Hispanic Media

Barbara Hollingsworth of our sister site CNSNews.com has a nice summation from today’s Summit of Conservative Communicators in Washington, DC sponsored by MRC Latino. MRC president Brent Bozell and MRC Latino director Ken Oliver-Mendez spoke at a panel discussion, as did two House Republicans involved in minority outreach:
NB Staff
December 1st, 2015 3:44 PM