MSNBC Feminists Roll Out Plush Carpet for Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood executives appeared twice on MSNBC on Monday with female interviewers who acted more like facilitators than journalists. Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports. Meanwhile PP's Executive Vice President, Dawn Laguens, was on MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall.
Michael McKinney

CNN Columnist: 'Climate Change Is Another Form of Terror'

Rape, suicide bombings, civilian slaughter, and balmy temperatures: according to CNN opinion columnist, John Sutter, these are all the side-effects of global terror. On Sunday, Nov. 29, Sutter posted an entirely serious, angsty opinion piece in which he bemoaned that “the threat of terror” may “infect”  and distract from the upcoming climate summit in Paris.
Aly Nielsen

Student in Custody Targeted 'White Devils': Will the Media Cover?

The media has been carrying water for pro-abortion activists since the Friday shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado in trying to hold the pro-life movement/conservatives, along with the Republican Party, responsible for the murders for their "fierce criticism" of the abortionist organization. However, a more recent incident of threatened violence leads one to wonder if the press will…
Matthew Balan

CBS Frets Terrorism ‘Diverting Attention’ from Climate Change

Introducing a report on Monday’s CBS This Morning about the climate change conference being held in Paris, co-host Norah O’Donnell worried that “security concerns threaten to overshadow the talks.” Correspondent Margaret Brennan followed: “The world's two biggest polluters, China and the U.S., kicked off the climate change summit....The goal in Paris is to limit global warming to 3.6 degrees…
Kyle Drennen

CNN Analyst Demands: Hold GOP ‘Accountable’ for Abortion Rhetoric

According to CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin, conservative “rhetoric” has “tossed fuel” onto the fire that is the abortion debate. The journalist appeared on The View?, Monday, and demanded Republicans be held accountable in the wake of a Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting last week.  Hostin blamed, “I don’t think we can ignore the rhetoric that has been out there from the Republican Party, from…
Scott Whitlock

Former Reporters: AP Suppressed Story on 2008 Israeli Peace Offer

In predictably disingenuous fashion, the Associated Press claimed in a November 18 story that "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has shined new light on the breakdown of a potentially history-altering round of 2008 peace talks." Abbas acknowledged that Israel offered Palestinians 93.5 percent of the West Bank and other significant concessions. The "light" isn't "new" at all. The wire service…
Tom Blumer

Marcus: GOP Candidates Helped 'Create Environment' for CO Shootings

Ruth Marcus has come close to blaming Republicans for the Colorado Springs shootings. Appearing on Jose Diaz-Balart's MSNBC show today, Washington Post columnist Marcus said that "the Republican candidates . . . have been part of the inflamed and inflammatory rhetoric about Planned Parenthood, about the sale of baby parts, about dismembering live babies . . . I think it's a fair conclusion,…
Mark Finkelstein

CNN Plays Up GOP Not Condemning 'Rhetoric' Against Planned Parenthood

Eric Bradner touted in a Sunday article on CNN.com that the "Republican presidential contenders condemned" the man who murdered three people at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado, but "largely stood by their fierce criticism of the organization." Bradner played up that "Ben Carson...was the only Republican candidate to call on anti-abortion activists to alter their approach" in the wake of the…
Matthew Balan

'My Bad!' Politico’s Allen Apologizes for Cushy Offer to Chelsea

Politico’s Mike Allen apologizes in the middle of his Monday ”Playbook” column (20 paragraphs in) that he shouldn’t have promised Hillary PR operative Phillippe Reines two years ago that he could host Chelsea Clinton at a Politco brunch with questions approved in advance:  “No one besides me would ask her a question, and you and I would agree on them precisely in advance....The interview would be…
Tim Graham

NBC: Does Shooting Take Planned Parenthood ‘Off the Table’ for GOP?

Talking to Bloomberg Politics managing editor Mark Halperin on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if the shooting outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado would hurt the GOP politically: “...does the attack take the issue of Planned Parenthood off the table for Republican candidates who don't want to be seen or don't want to risk taking advantage of a tragedy or being on the…
Kyle Drennen

Yahoo Reporter: Gender Preferences In Kids' Toys So Passé

Growing up in a quiet Jewish neighborhood of the Bronx, I was about as far removed as could be from the gun culture. But as a five or six year old, I would beg my parents to take me to visit the toy store a few blocks away so that I could gaze longingly in the window . . . at a toy six-shooter. I share my story because I think it's typical. Of course there are exceptions, but from time…
Mark Finkelstein

Is This New Hit ABC Show REALLY About to Blame Israel for Terrorism?

ABC's FBI drama Quantico continued it's anti-Israel plotline last night in the episode "Guilty." Simon Asher has already been revealed to be an IDF soldier who did things in Gaza "that haunt me every single day of my life." Last week we saw him talking to an Israeli bomb maker about continuing violence in the West Bank. And now, based upon a new flashback scene, it is looking increasingly likely…
Alexa Moutevelis

'Madam Secretary' Explains How Hillary Would Have Prevented Iraq

On Monday night, CBS’ Madam Secretary revealed how Hillary would never have allowed us to get involved in Iraq, and could have prevented the entire disaster had she only been in a position of power to stop it.
Dylan Gwinn

ESPN's 2-Year Subscriber Loss: 7 Million Homes

The Walt Disney Company filed its annual 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The "getaway day" timing of the filing may not be a coincidence, at least as far as its 80 percent-owned ESPN subsidiary is concerned. That's because the report contains bad news which Disney would surely want to see downplayed. Confirming problems yours truly observed in NewsBusters…
Tom Blumer