NPR Censors New Planned Parenthood Vid; Hypes Abortion Mill Vandalism

As of Wednesday morning, NPR's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the second undercover video of a Planned Parenthood executive revealing how the organization varies its abortion procedures in order to preserve the organs of unborn babies for medical research. Instead, Tuesday's All Things Considered spotlighted a March 2014 incident where the adult son of a pro-life activist…
Matthew Balan
July 22nd, 2015 3:11 PM

Reporters Ask if Chattanooga Shooting Victims Hit By ‘Friendly Fire'

During a live press conference in the 12:00 p.m. ET hour on Wednesday about the Chattanooga shooting, CNN reporter Aaron Cooper asked FBI Special Agent in Charge Ed Reinhold: “There's been reports that there were some personal or privately owned weapons used in responding to the shooter....Did anybody hit anyone else? Was there any friendly fire incident?”
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2015 3:07 PM

Obama Outrageously Denies IRS Scandal on Daily Show, Nets Censor

Barack Obama outrageously denied there was anything scandalous about the IRS-Tea Party controversy in his Tuesday interview on The Daily Show as he lectured Jon Stewart that: “When there was that problem with the I.R.S. everybody jumped, including you...you got this back office and they’re going after the Tea Party. Well it turned out no.” Obama went on to assert “the truth of the matter is there…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 22nd, 2015 1:06 PM

CBS Gushes Over Obama's Final Daily Show: 'Like Two Old Friends'

All three networks on Wednesday hyped Barack Obama's final appearance on The Daily Show, but it was CBS that offered the most nostalgic coverage. This Morning's Vladimir Duthiers reminisced: "Like two old friends just enjoying each other's company, Tuesday night, Jon Stewart and President Obama both reflected on the approaching conclusion of their careers." He hyped a clip of Obama gushing: "I'm…
Scott Whitlock
July 22nd, 2015 12:32 PM

Canadian Climate Change Arctic Expedition Derailed Due to Heavy Ice

So sad. A Canadian arctic research expedition to study "climate change" (always meaning global warming) has been derailed. Why? Heavy ice. However, readers of the CBC News account of the story are left in the dark as to the exact nature of the expedition that is not to be this year. Fortunately, a quick search has turned up a Daily Kos Kossack who is a member of that attempted expedition who was…
P.J. Gladnick
July 22nd, 2015 12:20 PM

Nets Hype Trump ‘Stealing All the Oxygen’ from GOP Candidates

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows proclaimed that Donald Trump was making it “nearly impossible” for any other 2016 Republican candidates to get any media attention. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: “Donald Trump remains the talk of the presidential race with some new antics on the campaign trail. And it's making it hard for any of the fifteen other Republicans to get any…
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2015 12:06 PM

Atlantic Writer: Ignoring Truth ‘Helps the GOP to Fire Up the Base'

NewsBusters readers likely are familiar with the saying “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Conor Friedersdorf thinks Republicans have a propensity for certitude about false beliefs, and that as a result they’re susceptible to “demagogues” such as Donald Trump. As for why GOPers are frequently mistaken in the first place,…
Tom Johnson
July 22nd, 2015 11:12 AM

Stephanopoulos to Kasich: GOP 'Ready to Accept' Caring About Blacks?

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday scoffed at a claim by John Kasich that he would care about the interests of African Americans. The new presidential candidate appeared on GMA and asserted, "...If you're black, if you're brown, if you're struggling, we care about you and we're going to work to make sure you're included in the American dream." A suspicious Stephanopoulos…
Scott Whitlock
July 22nd, 2015 11:07 AM

CBS Evening News Warns ‘Dire Forecast About the Climate’

On Tuesday, CBS Evening News promoted a new study by global warming alarmist and NASA’s former climate chief James Hansen that predicts a “dire forecast about the climate in the years ahead.” Fill-in host Charlie Rose introduced the broadcast by fretting “[a]n ominous forecast for more scenes likes this, surging floodwaters and rising sea levels.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
July 22nd, 2015 10:45 AM

87 Percent of Islamic Terror Stories Skip Threats of Ramadan Violence

Acts of terror marked the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Terrorists cut a bloody path from Tennessee to Tunisia -- one that commanded much of the broadcast network’s attention. Only newscasts often ignored the religious timing of the threats by Muslim terrorists. The Islamic terrorist group ISIS, which declared a Middle East “caliphate” a year ago on June 29, 2014, strongly encouraged violence…
Julia A. Seymour
July 22nd, 2015 10:10 AM

87 Percent of Islamic Terror Stories Skip Threats of Ramadan Violence

ISIS and other groups called for increased violence against ‘infidels’ during Muslim holy month.
Julia A. Seymour
July 22nd, 2015 9:49 AM

Oh Be Gone, Garrison! 5 Keillor Quotes to Make You Glad He’s Retiring

Good news, America! You no longer have to pay Garrison Keillor to sneer at you. After his 30-city “America the Beautiful” tour, the Prairie Home Companion radio host is retiring for good (and good riddance). His tour should have been called “America the Liberal.” Keillor is a malicious parasite who spent his career soaking up federal funding through NPR while wrapping his off-the-shelf anti-…
Sarah Stites
July 22nd, 2015 9:05 AM

Morning Joe Rips HuffPo for Relegating Trump to Entertainment Section

Arianna Huffington is no pachyderm, politically speaking, but like the elephant, she apparently never forgets--or forgives.  Three years ago, Donald Trump called Huffington "unattractive both inside and out."  Arianna has now returned the favor, relegating HuffPo's coverage of Trump to its entertainment section. On today's Morning Joe, HuffPo's Sam Stein was put in the unenviable position of…
Mark Finkelstein
July 22nd, 2015 8:52 AM

Jon Stewart to Obama: ‘Are We Demanding Too Much of You?’

During his final appearance Tuesday night on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart as host, President Obama was treated to a softball interview in which the retiring Comedy Central host worried: “Are we [the media] demanding too much of you?” Stewart clearly seemed to sympathize with Obama over his poor relationship with the press and spoke of Obama's “frustration sometimes with the media -- is the…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 22nd, 2015 8:07 AM