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Spike Lee on NBC: Easier to Have Black POTUS Than Black TV Exec
While promoting his new movie, Chi-raq, about gun violence in Chicago, during the 9 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday’s NBC Today, director Spike Lee claimed: “...it's easier for an African-American, a black person, to be President of the United States than to be president of a Hollywood studio or TV network cable.”
December 1st, 2015 3:13 PM
CNN Touts GOP's 'Anger-Filled Rhetoric' Before Colorado Shootings
On Monday's AC360, CNN's Randi Kaye played up how the hidden camera videos from the Center for Medical Progress triggered "anger-filled rhetoric" from the Republican presidential candidates in the months before the Colorado shootings. Kaye touted that CMP's David Daleiden "told CNN that...he did get creative with the video — admitting that it was edited — a critical detail that seemed to be lost…
December 1st, 2015 1:18 PM
Networks Ignore Officer Killed at Planned Parenthood Was Pro-Life
The Bible says, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” and that appears to be the standard by which one man lived, who gave his life Friday protecting those he disagreed with on abortion. But you won’t hear that story from the media because the pro-life “Good Samaritan" doesn’t fit their agenda.
December 1st, 2015 12:57 PM
Amanda Marcotte: Pro-Life Movement Is ‘Rotten to Its Seedy Core’
Anyone fascinated by strident pro-choice rhetoric finds that Marcotte seldom disappoints in that regard. In a Monday Salon piece pegged to the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings, the lefty pundit asserted that “terrorism…is the logical end point of [the pro-life movement’s] deep sense of entitlement over others’ bodies,” and that the movement “has been built on a lie: That it is about…
December 1st, 2015 12:56 PM
Journalists Freak Out on Twitter: Pro-Lifers 'Want to Kill' Women
After a gunman entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Black Friday, wounding nine people and killing another three, journalists were quick to blame conservatives, Fox News and the pro-life movement for the violent tragedy.
The knee-jerk reaction for more gun control was implicitly there, but the media went even further this time, demanding the censorship of pro-life speech.…
December 1st, 2015 11:53 AM
Larry Wilmore Blames Planned Parenthood Shooting on Fox News
If the media have as much control over consumers’ actions as Larry Wilmore believes, he should be more careful on his own show.
During Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Monday, the host blamed Fox News’ “Kool-Aid” for motivating the Colorado Planned Parenthood gunman.
December 1st, 2015 11:47 AM
Sean Penn Denies Existence of Climate Skeptics, Says Fox 'Like a Cult'
Climate skeptics don’t exist, according to actor, activist and socialist sympathizer Sean Penn.
They’re just cult followers of Fox news programming.
December 1st, 2015 11:45 AM
MSNBC: Pro-Life ‘Terrorists’ Make Planned Parenthood ‘Dangerous’
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and guests on Monday worried that working at Planned Parenthood is becoming “dangerous” due to pro-life “terrorism.” Talking to fellow liberal Joy Reid, the Last Word anchor announced, “...We've come to the point where working at a Planned Parenthood in America is a dangerous occupation.” (Some might point out that Planned Parenthood has always been dangerous for the…
December 1st, 2015 11:37 AM
Rose to Hillary: Why Are You Running After Such a ‘Remarkable Life'?
In an interview with Hillary Clinton aired on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose wondered why the Democratic frontrunner was running: “Why do you want to be president? I mean, you’ve had a remarkable life....You’ve been in the White House. There it is over there....Is it about history?...Is it about the first woman?”
December 1st, 2015 11:15 AM
Powerless: Left and Media Vilify 90 Percent of Energy Supply
Certain types of energy are certain targets for the 190 governments’ representatives gathering in Paris this week and from green activists surrounding the melee.
The goal of the U.N. climate conference in Paris, known as COP21, is to get an international agreement on reducing carbon emissions, out of fear that climate change is a global threat. But the agenda of some developing nations to make…
December 1st, 2015 10:12 AM
Scarborough: Megyn Kelly 'Vicious' Attacked Trump 'Like Rachel Maddow'
Here at NewsBusters, we usually reserve popcorn-popping for times when Democrats are scrapping among themselves. But in this strange political season, it looks like we could be in for some Orville Redenbacher moments among Republicans, too.
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mentioned having watched some of Megyn Kelly's Fox News show last night, and claimed that Kelly was "vicious" in…
December 1st, 2015 9:54 AM
Kelly Exposes Left's Double Standard on Placing Blame After Violence
In a thorough takedown of the left and the liberal media over their double standard in selectively assigning blame after mass shootings, the Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly dismantled on Monday night the arguments of abortion activists who have rushed to blame conservatives and the pro-life movement for supposedly causing the deadly shooting Friday at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado.
December 1st, 2015 8:07 AM
CBS, NBC Ignore Arrest of Student Threatening White Chicago Students
On Monday night, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News omitted from their coverage out of Chicago the arrest of an African-American teen for allegedly making threats on social media against white male students at the University of Chicago in retaliation for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald. Somewhat miraculously, ABC’s World News Tonight and correspondent Alex Perez did find time to…
December 1st, 2015 1:52 AM
UNC Thinks It Can Graduate Competent Journos With No Econ Background
If you think journalists' ignorance of American history and economic fundamentals is bad now, give it a few more years.
The University of North Carolina's School of Media and Journalism "has updated its curriculum requirements to give students more choice and flexibility in meeting the school’s graduation requirements. The change is in response to consistent feedback the school has received from…
November 30th, 2015 11:57 PM