Time Celebrates 'How Che...Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions'

Jennifer Latson paid tribute to communist thug Che Guevara on the anniversary of his death in a gushing Friday item on Time magazine's website. Latson marveled how the Argentinian radical "might have considered the United States his worst enemy, but he faced an even greater threat to his revolutionary ambitions: asthma." The writer later touted that "asthma didn't keep him from embracing the…
Matthew Balan
October 10th, 2015 10:10 AM

NY Times Backs Away From Doubting Jewish Temples' Existence

In an October 8 item at the New York Times ("Historical Certainty Proves Elusive at Jerusalem’s Holiest Place"), reporter Rick Gladstone pretended that it's an open question as to "whether" the two Jewish temples — one destroyed over 2,500 years ago and the second razed in roughly 60 A.D., ever existed on the 37-acre site known as the Temple Mount. In doing so, Gladstone gave credibility to…
Tom Blumer
October 10th, 2015 9:42 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Comcast Rolls Over for Hillary

In June, Comcast executive vice president David Cohen hosted a $2,700-a-plate fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. On the first weekend in October, the NBC Universal in-kind contributions really kicked in: a star turn on Saturday Night Live, a Sunday morning interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, and a Monday town-hall meeting on the Today program. The Daily Beast was blunt in a…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
October 10th, 2015 8:10 AM

A Very Special Anti-Clinton Episode of ‘Last Man Standing’

After last week's Last Man Standing just name dropped Hillary Clinton, this week's episode "Ping-pong" got even more specific, turning into an entire anti-Clinton episode that brings up everything from Benghazi to draft dodging. The show begins with Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) surprised at finding a fundraising letter from Hillary in the mail. It's no mistake, his wife reveals, which leads to a…
Alexa Moutevelis
October 10th, 2015 4:47 AM

Bob Schieffer on Hillary: 'I Find Her Campaign Astonishingly Inept'

Recently retired CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer won a lifetime achievement award from the Poynter Institute on Friday night, and was asked about his thoughts on the 2016 presidential race. Donald Trump could be the GOP nominee, he said, “We’re a long way from the nominating parties...But I do think it’s conceivable.” Current CBS reporter Margaret Brennan also asked Schieffer about the Democratic…
Tim Graham
October 9th, 2015 11:56 PM

Nets Hype 'Potential Nightmare' from 'Well-Armed' Anti-Obama Protest

ABC, CBS, and NBC's Friday evening newscasts all spotlighted how "gun rights supporters, many of them openly armed" protested President Obama as he visited Roseburg, Oregon to comfort family members of the victims of the recent mass shooting there. CBS's John Blackstone played up how "the protesters gathered at the Roseburg airport carried both signs and guns – a potential nightmare for the…
Matthew Balan
October 9th, 2015 10:31 PM

David Brooks, Mark Shields Hit Tea Party Holding Congress 'Hostage'

On Friday's PBS Newshour, host Judy Woodruff joined liberal columnist Mark Shields in declaring that the House GOP's conservative wing is holding the Congress "hostage," with allegedly right-leaning regular and New York Times columnist David Brooks then complaining that Tea Partiers are good at "destruction," but not "construction." Brooks further griped that, "to get elected, especially as a…
Brad Wilmouth
October 9th, 2015 10:19 PM

CNN's Banfield: Hillary E-Mail Scandal 'Not Even a Scandal'

On Friday's Legal View, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield did her best to downplay Hillary Clinton's ongoing e-mail scandal. Banfield asked Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman if Bernie Sanders would bring up the issue at the upcoming Democratic presidential debate. When Zimmerman claimed that "any Democrat who resorts to reciting Republican talking points is going to hurt themselves," the anchor…
Matthew Balan
October 9th, 2015 6:44 PM

Donald Trump Goes After Mexico Again...Mexican Soccer Fans That Is

Okay, I have to admit I never saw this one coming. Fox Sports 1 has put together a hype video for the upcoming USA vs. Mexico soccer game. Nothing unusual about that. What is more than just a tad unusual, though, is the “hyper” that FS1 has decided to use. You may recognize him.
Dylan Gwinn
October 9th, 2015 5:12 PM

Sally Kohn, 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' CNNers Win Dan Rather DisHonor

Lefty writer and CNN contributor Sally Kohn, along with her fellow CNN panelists, earned the dubious honor of winning the Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis at last night's Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards.
NB Staff
October 9th, 2015 5:01 PM

Carson Dismisses Blitzer's Many Questions on Obama's Race, Religion

During a lengthy interview with Cable News Network anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday, Ben Carson refused to answer his questions on whether Democrat Barack Obama is “a real black president" or a Christian. The clash between the host of Wolf and the Republican presidential candidate began when Blitzer read a tweet from Rupert Murdoch, who is the 84-year-old owner of many newspapers and the Fox News…
Randy Hall
October 9th, 2015 4:47 PM

ABC Grills ‘Bizarre’ Carson; Candidate Fights Back: ‘Bunch of Crap’

George Stephanopoulos on Friday grilled Ben Carson about his comments on guns and how to fight back against a mass killing. An ABC graphic blared, “Ben Carson's Bizarre Comments on Guns: Backlash Grows on Holocaust Statements.” Stephanopoulos demanded, “Are more guns really the answer?” Carson fired back: “You know, one of the problems with people in the media is they pick one little thing and…
Scott Whitlock
October 9th, 2015 4:27 PM

Lawrence O'Donnell Wins 2015 Puppy Love Award

He had stiff competition at Thursday night's MRC DisHonors Awards in Rachel Maddow and Charlie Rose, but MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell richly deserved his 2015 Puppy Love Award for gushing over President Obama as having written "the most honest and open book... ever written by a president" with his memoir Dreams of My Father.
NB Staff
October 9th, 2015 4:16 PM

Tamron Hall: Dr. Carson Would Advocate Children Charge the Shooter

Friday on MBSNC’s NewsNation, Tamron Hall addressed Ben Carson’s statements on gun control and how he would have dealt with the gunman at Umpqua. Tamron would entertain the attacks on Carson by Matt K. Lewis and Joan Walsh. Lewis accused Carson of opining where he shouldn't and should know better. While adding her own allegation that Carson would have tried to have the children assault a gunman, …
Michael McKinney
October 9th, 2015 3:40 PM