Bye-Bye Jon! The Daily Show Host's Worst Attacks on Conservatives

“Profound,” “trusted,” “insightful,” “invaluable patriot,” “too cool to be spun.”  These are just some of the over-the-top bouquets members of the so-called serious news media have thrown Jon Stewart’s way in the last few days of his run as anchor of The Daily Show. Of course this “trusted source in news” overwhelmingly skewered some of the liberal media’s favorite conservative targets.
Geoffrey Dickens
August 6th, 2015 11:13 AM

'View' Host Uses Anti-Trump Gaffe on Latinos to Ask for More Civility

On August 4, The View celebrity guest Kelly Osbourne made a big-time gaffe on air. In a discussion of Donald Trump and racism, Osbourne declared “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?”  Although her intentions were pure, Osbourne’s comment was met with big-time backlash, making her Tuesday’s “most hated person on the internet.”…
Sarah Stites
August 6th, 2015 10:53 AM

Matt Lauer: ‘On Us’ to Cover ‘Substance’ Not ‘Sizzle’ of GOP Debate

In a rare acknowledgment of media responsibility, on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared that it was up to the press to properly cover the first Republican presidential debate: “...that idea of substance versus sizzle, one-liners versus issues. That's on us tomorrow as well. We’ve got to make sure that we cover what they talk about, the issues as opposed to those one-liners.”
Kyle Drennen
August 6th, 2015 10:39 AM

Krauthammer Blasts Obama: ‘Delusional’ For Trusting Iran

Following the president’s comments comparing Republicans in Congress to the terror-sponsoring hardliners in Iran, Charles Krauthammer eviscerated Obama's entire conception of the Middle East nation. Appearing on The Kelly File last night, the Fox personality hit the president for being “delusional...pretending that those who chant death to America are some kind of KKK fringe in Iran.”
Connor Williams
August 6th, 2015 10:35 AM

Barron’s Highlights Christian Former CEO in Feature Story

Businessmen often get a bad rep in the news media, but that wasn’t the case in a Barron’s profile of a former CEO who now works to help former prisoners because of his Christian faith. “Answering God’s Call,” was the cover story of the Barron’s weekly business newspaper on Aug. 3. The paper profiled former Wells Fargo CEO Danny Ludeman, who stepped down from his position of 15 years in order to…
Sarah Stites
August 6th, 2015 10:22 AM

Rand Scolds Media: ‘Extraordinary Amount of Attention’ Given to Trump

During an appearance on CBS This Morning to preview Thursday's GOP presidential debate, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul harshly criticized the media for giving Donald Trump so much coverage while ignoring the other 16 candidates running for president. After Charlie Rose wondered why Paul’s message failed to connect with the voters in the same way as Trump, the Kentucky senator explained that Trump "…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 6th, 2015 10:03 AM

NY Times Puts Feminist Air Conditioning Conspiracy Theory on Page One

Oh here we go again. Not long ago, the snarky radical feminists at Jezebel posed a question on their site asking, "Is Office Air Conditioning a Sexist Conspiracy?" Now, not even two weeks later, Pam Belluck of The New York Times wrote an article for the front page of the paper titled, “Chilly at Work? Office Formula was Devised for Men.”
Melissa Mullins
August 6th, 2015 7:00 AM

ABC, NBC Move on from News on Hillary's Server to Cover Cecil the Lion

After all three major broadcast networks covered on Wednesday morning news that the FBI is investigating Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server, ABC and NBC moved on from it by the time their evening newscasts rolled around to instead award nearly two minutes to the Cecil the lion story. Joining ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News in the blackout of this development was Spanish-…
Curtis Houck
August 6th, 2015 1:54 AM

Jon Stewart's Lowest Moment: Hiroshima Makes Truman a War Criminal

How absolutely serendipitous it is that alleged comedian and actual White House propagandist Jon Stewart’s last broadcast of The Daily Show is today, August 6, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. You see, Stewart, whose influence is especially nefarious when he is revising and distorting history for his relatively young audience, committed his most outrageous such act…
Tom Blumer
August 6th, 2015 1:16 AM

MRC’s Noyes Hits Nets for Skewed Coverage of 2016 GOP Primary Race

Speaking with host J.D. Hayworth on Wednesday’s Newsmax Prime, Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes discussed the findings of the latest MRC study that show the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC have given Donald Trump large scores of coverage thus far in the 2016 campaign while giving significantly less time to any of the other GOP candidates.
NB Staff
August 6th, 2015 12:21 AM

Press Ignores Hillary Bringing Back Her Southern-Accent Pander

Though it's not as blatant as the speech which got noticed at Fox News and many center-right outlets (and, of course, nowhere else) eight years ago, it's clear that Hillary Clinton once again altered her diction and style several days ago to (in her mind, one would surmise) "adapt" them to her Southern audience. This time, Mrs. Clinton was being interviewed by South Carolina Democratic Party…
Tom Blumer
August 5th, 2015 11:19 PM

Tim Allen Announces 'We're Going to Drill Hillary' on His Sitcom

Actor Tim Allen announced at a Television Critics Association interview that season 5 of the ABC sitcom "Last Man Standing" is going to get political, and neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is going to be safe from Allen's character, the wisecracking Mike Baxter.  "We're going to drill Hillary," the star told Foxnews.com at the Television Critics Association Q&A session for his ABC…
Tim Graham
August 5th, 2015 10:51 PM

Politifact: 'Pants on Fire' To Reid For '30%' Planned Parenthood Lie

Call the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" people. Politifact, the alleged fact-checking site which has for years almost invariably insisted on calling obvious truths stated by Republicans and conservatives "Half True" at best and often worse, while taking flat-out lies by leftists and pretending they contain some element of truth, has issued a "Pants on Fire" rating on Senate Minority Leader Harry…
Tom Blumer
August 5th, 2015 10:21 PM

NYT's Friedman Slaps Tea Party, Fox News While Selling Gas Tax to GOP

In a Wednesday column, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman extended his odd obsession with raising the gas tax into the 2016 Republican presidential debate. But Friedman will have a hard time convincing Republicans to listen if he keeps throwing around insults, like describing the party's donors and supporters as embracing the "angry anti-science, anti-tax, anti-government, anti-minorities,…
Clay Waters
August 5th, 2015 9:51 PM