Hayes Jabs Jeb for 'Anchor Babies' Remark: 'Babies' is 'Better' Term

Chris Hayes scolded Jeb Bush on the Wednesday edition of his MSNBC program for using the term "anchor babies." Hayes played a clip of Bush calling for "greater enforcement, so that you don't have these anchor babies, as they're described, coming into the country." He continued by pointing out that "Hillary Clinton responding with a Tweet: 'They're called babies' – which seems like a better term…
Matthew Balan
August 20th, 2015 1:01 PM

Chris Matthews Cheers: Jimmy Carter ‘Stuck it to Netanyahu’ in Presser

After former President Jimmy Carter criticized “the government of Israel” during a Thursday press conference for having “no desire for a two-state solution” with the Palestinians, MSNBC Hardball host and former Carter speechwriter Chris Matthews hailed his old boss: “...he stuck it to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu. Why not?...He might as well stick it to the guys who’ve caused him…
Kyle Drennen
August 20th, 2015 12:48 PM

CBS Hits Hillary on E-Mails; Bored ABC Again Skips Scandal

ABC on Thursday again skipped the latest details on the widening Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Yet, CBS This Morning offered full coverage on the "trouble" the Democrat's campaign is facing. NBC's Today skimped on the "political problem" and the evolving FBI investigation.
Scott Whitlock
August 20th, 2015 12:16 PM

ABC's Tom Llamas Yells at Trump: 'Anchor Baby' Is an 'Offensive' Term!

On Good Morning America, ABC reporter Tom Llamas decided that the term "anchor baby" is now offensive. The journalist yelled at Donald Trump, for a story that appeared Thursday, lecturing the candidate: "That's an offensive term! People find that hurtful."   
Scott Whitlock
August 20th, 2015 10:57 AM

MSNBC’s Reid: ‘Utterly Bored’ by Clinton E-Mail Scandal

During an appearance on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes on Wednesday night, former MSNBC host Joy Reid rushed to defend Hillary Clinton from her ongoing e-mail issues and maintained that she’s been “utterly bored with the story to the point where I only recently began to really sort of dig into it.” The former MSNBC host dismissed the importance of the scandal as something that the American…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 20th, 2015 10:53 AM

Blogger: On Health Care, GOPers Just 'Acting' Like They Care

It’s a matter of political record that since at least 2009, Republicans have talked at length about health-care reform, especially alternatives to Obamacare. Apparently almost all of them were, as Jon Lovitz’s Master Thespian would put it, “Acting!” That’s essentially what The Week's Paul Waldman alleged in a Wednesday post. “Republicans have faced a real health care problem for many years now,…
Tom Johnson
August 20th, 2015 10:48 AM

Crickets: Fed Official Finds No Evidence That QE Accomplished Anything

Imagine if, in 1987, a Federal Reserve official could have pointed to a poorly performing economy and said, "Gee, this supply-side economics hasn't worked out very well." The press would surely have treated the story as a front-page item and ensured that it got air time on the Big Three networks' then-dominant nightly news broadcasts. Of course, there was no such credible report, because the…
Tom Blumer
August 20th, 2015 10:26 AM

Morning Joe on Hillary Aide's 'Disaster' of Interview: No Good Answers

Hard for staffer interviews not to be a disaster when telling the truth could land Hillary in the hoosegow . . . Yesterday, this NewsBuster was gobsmacked by the spectacle of senior Hillary aide Jennifer Palmieri suggesting that the FBI would be happy to discover that Hillary's infamous email server had been scrubbed clean. We wrote about it here. Today's Morning Joe picked through the…
Mark Finkelstein
August 20th, 2015 10:26 AM

Charles Barkley: ‘Right Now I Like John Kasich’

The last NBA player to deliver the “Kiss of Death,” was Mario Elie of the Houston Rockets. Who in 1995, nailed the critical 3-pointer to complete the Rockets comeback, and eventual elimination of the Phoenix Suns. That was the last true “Kiss of Death” that was kissed in the NBA. Until this morning.
Dylan Gwinn
August 20th, 2015 8:58 AM

Nets Censor PP Vid Describing Baby with 'Beating Heart' Being Cut Open

In what’s become commonplace, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC partnered with Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision to censor from their evening newscasts on Wednesday arguably the most disturbing video yet in the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal that included a description of an abortion worker harvesting an aborted baby while their heart was still beating. 
Curtis Houck
August 20th, 2015 2:56 AM

Politico Lets Hillary Cite Doc Security Problems in 40 Year-Old Item

You rubes. Don't you understand that the entire problem Hillary Clinton is facing over her use of a private server to process government communications is the fault of thousands upon thousands of people who don't know how to classify documents? That's essentially the argument Hillary Clinton's spinmeisters are now employing. This evening, Josh Gerstein at the Politico was all too ready to relay…
Tom Blumer
August 19th, 2015 11:18 PM

ABC Ignores Hillary's E-Mail Scandal; Hypes Rubio Video with Football

ABC’s World News Tonight chose to ignore on Wednesday the latest on the Hillary Clinton e-mail server scandal to instead continue obsessing over video of a little boy being hit in the head with a football after missing a pass from Republican Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio (Fl.) in Iowa. After the networks spent 18 seconds on Tuesday night and two minutes and 43 seconds Wednesday…
Curtis Houck
August 19th, 2015 11:10 PM

NYT Makes Trump's Blunt Immigration Talk a Front-Page Problem for GOP

No issue most exposes the liberal bias of the New York Times more than the matter of illegal immigrants (or as the paper prefers to call them, "undocumented immigrants"). The Times favors generous amnesty, and keeps pushing it both on its news pages and in opinion. A Wednesday Page One story by Trip Gabriel and Julia Preston tried to transform Donald Trump's blunt words on illegals into a problem…
Clay Waters
August 19th, 2015 10:39 PM

16 Journalists Accept Planned Parenthood Awards, Despite Abortion Vids

While the media stay away from the recent videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby parts, they are drawn to Planned Parenthood’s annual media awards ceremony. During Planned Parenthood’s Maggie Awards for Media Excellence Tuesday night, the abortion giant recognized 16 journalists for pushing “reproductive rights.” From Buzzfeed and Yahoo! to MSNBC, MRC Culture compiled a…
Katie Yoder
August 19th, 2015 9:30 PM