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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”
Kyle Drennen

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…
Matthew Balan

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.
Kristine Marsh

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…
Tom Johnson

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.…
Kristine Marsh