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MRC's Brent Bozell Praises Fox Business: They Utterly Humiliated CNBC
MRC president Brent Bozell expressed support for Fox Business and its moderators in the two presidential debates:
"Fox Business promised to best CNBC in the management of a debate. Fox did not best CNBC, Fox utterly humiliated their competition. Quite simply, this network did a fantastic job moderating both of tonight’s GOP primary debates. They asked fair serious, substantive questions, and…
Liberal Media Call Huckabee ‘Sexist’ for ‘Yellin' Joke
The Fox Business undercard debate tonight was so balanced in comparison to CNBC’s debate moderated by, that liberal journalists used social media to re-ignite their tired “War on Women.”
During the debate, Fox Business moderator Sandra Smith asked candidates what their opinion was on how well Janet Yellen was managing the Federal Reserve. Former Gov. Mike Huckabee responded with a lame joke…
Debate Night: Lib Jonathan Alter Declares Himself Conservative Expert
Long-time liberal journalist Jonathan Alter on Tuesday declared himself an arbiter of conservatism and that all the Republican candidates at the presidential debate are failing his test. The man who has assailed “vile” conservatives appeared on MSNBC and lectured, “...It's really kind of crazy that we call this a conservative political party. There's nothing conservative about it, big-c…
Liberal Journalists Whine This #GOPDebate Wasn't Tough Enough
The latest GOP debate, hosted by The Wall Street Journal and the Fox Business Channel, focused almost exclusively on economic issues. Unlike the previous GOP debate hosted by CNBC, questions largely stayed on topic and did not veer into insults. That style wasn’t appreciated by the left-wing media who went on Twitter to bash Fox Business and the debate moderators.
Cruz Excoriates 'Mainstream Media’ for Illegal Immigration Coverage
Following his lambasting of the liberal media and the CNBC moderators during the last Republican debate on October 28, Republican Senator Ted Cruz took his latest swipe at the “mainstream media” in Tuesday’s Fox Business Network event for their coverage of illegal immigration and maligning those opposing amnesty. Cruz started his takedown by first pointing out that “when the mainstream media…
At Debate, Ben Carson Calls Out Media: ‘Vet All Candidates’
At the Republican presidential debate on Tuesday, Ben Carson called out journalists “misinterpreting” his record. The candidate demanded, “We should vet all candidates. I have no problem with being vetted.” He added, “What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that out there as truth.”
Megyn Kelly Slams CNBC Moderators Just Before FBN Debate
Just prior to Tuesday’s main Republican presidential debate on the Fox Business Network, Kelly File host Meygn Kelly panned the moderators from October 28's CNBC debate and predicted that she’s “hoping that we are going to hear what we thought we are going to hear in the last debate, which is, you know, a robust, substantive exchange over one of the most important topics to the voters which is…
Matthews, Michele Bachmann Exchange Notes On Photographic Media Bias
At the end of an interview segment tonight on Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) traded stories about their brushes with journalists who used goofy-looking photos of them as cover art to adorn magazine profiles.
Jeb Supporter on CNN Laments Lindsey Graham Being Excluded from Debate
Offering analysis of the first Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate on the 8:00 p.m. Eastern edition of CNN’s AC360, CNN political commentator and Jeb Bush supporter Ana Navarro lamented that Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and his “passionate voice” was excluded from the undercard event.
Matthews Thinks Blockbuster Around, Intros Woman as 'Haley Barbour'
You'd think that back in April when, as Ken Shepherd noted, Chris Matthews talked about Blockbuster being about all that's left in Rust Belt towns, one of his assistants would have gently taken him aside and explained that Blockbuster shuttered its stores some time ago. But on this evening's Hardball, there was Chris committing the exact same gaffe.
And in the very next segment, Matthews…
Debate Moderator to GOPers: Which Dem Do You 'Admire' Most?
With a question reminicent of the biased CNBC debate, co-moderator Gerald Seib on Tuesday asked Republicans which Democrat they most “admired.” Talking to the candidates in the 7pm undercard debate, the Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib demanded, “To do the things you're talking about, that you're all talking about, getting things done in Washington, you have to work with the other side.”
AP Treats Increase in Already-Bloated Inventories As Positive
Today's "I'm just making stuff up on the fly" award nominee is Martin Crutsinger at the Associated Press.
The AP reporter, named by National Review's Kevin Williamson as America's "Worst Economics Writer" in 2013, lived down to his designation in a Tuesday report on the Census Bureau's September Monthly Trade Inventories and Sales release. He described a sales increase which didn't come close to…
Rolling Stone Now Target of Three Lawsuits Over 'A Rape on Campus'
Almost a year after Rolling Stone magazine published an article entitled “A Rape on Campus” that claimed several members of a fraternity at the University of Virginia gang raped an anonymous woman, the fallout over the “flawed story that purported to expose a culture of rape” at the school continued on Monday, when the publication was hit by a third lawsuit over the supposed incident.
The new…
CNN's Tapper Spotlights Professor's 'Shocking' Attack on Reporter
On Tuesday's The Lead, CNN's Jake Tapper zeroed in on University of Missouri Professor Melissa Click's attack on a student journalist, after he tried to cover anti-racism protests on campus. Tapper bluntly stated, "I have to say that I found this video shocking — not just this mob of students trying to intimidate this student journalist — but they had faculty help!" The anchor later asked…