L.A. Times Upset: Greek Media 'Far From Neutral' on Leftist Government

Media bias is never a story to our liberal media....unless the tilt is contrary to their worldview. NB reader Gary Hall pointed out a story in Friday’s Los Angeles Times about Greece. The print headline was “Greece media show vote bias; News outlets have been far from neutral in their coverage of the referendum on the bailout offer for the debt-stricken nation.” Reporter Henry Chu began by just…
Tim Graham
July 3rd, 2015 4:38 PM

Blogger: Right-Wing ‘Mass Insanity’ Common During Obama Years

Conservatives have an ideological fever, and the only prescription is to wait until their crazy ideas vanish. That’s the word from Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman, who opined in a Wednesday post that many on the right have suffered from a sort of “heat-fever” when confronted with President Obama and his policies. Longman explained that “a fever is something that comes over you suddenly…
Tom Johnson
July 3rd, 2015 4:35 PM

HuffPo Pokes Fun at ‘Merican Citizens

What better time to take a potshot at conservative rednecks than Independence Day week? No better time really, despite the fact that that liberal media does the same thing the other 51 weeks of the year. So, characteristically, Huffington Post ran a quiz in Wednesday’s Comedy section entitled “Take the Citizenship Test for ‘Merica.” “Sure you know America,” the article read. “But do you have…
Sarah Stites
July 3rd, 2015 1:00 PM

‘Unselfish?’ HuffPo’s 270 Reasons Not to Have Children

The Huffington Post wants to “open people’s minds to the wide range of mature, unselfish motivations” regarding women’s decision to forgo having children. “Far too often,” the article stated, “women who choose to be childfree are asked to defend their ‘immature,’ ‘selfish’ lifestyles. They’re told that motherhood is the ‘most important job in the world’ and face accusations of living ‘…
Sarah Stites
July 3rd, 2015 10:30 AM

In Article on George Takei, WashPost Avoids His Racist Remark

The Washington Post on Wednesday completely sanitized a racist remark liberal activist George Takei made against Clarence Thomas. The 600 word article spun, "George Takei has responded to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the case that made marriage equality universal." Yet writer Soraya Nadia McDonald never mentioned that the Star Trek actor snarled that the African American…
Scott Whitlock
July 3rd, 2015 10:19 AM

June 2015: Gay Marriage Decision Dominates Net Coverage

The hunt for convicted killers who escaped a prison in New York State was the most covered topic on the evening news broadcasts of ABC, CBS and NBC for the month of June. This was closely followed by coverage of the brutal massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, with considerable amounts of air time dedicated to the 2016 presidential campaign, the ISIS terror threat and the Supreme…
Mike Ciandella
July 3rd, 2015 10:04 AM

'The View' May Cut Nicolle Wallace and Rosie Perez

Variety reported Thursday that ABC executives are finalizing plans to reboot The View yet again for the fall season. Pseudo-Republican Nicolle Wallace and liberal actress Rosie Perez may not return. "She's too wonky," a source said of Wallace. ABC is thinking about focusing the show permanently on "more lighthearted celebrity fluff"...like ABC News in general.
Tim Graham
July 3rd, 2015 7:56 AM

ABC Omits Flat Wages, Low Labor Participation Rate in June Jobs Report

All three major broadcast networks covered on their Thursday evening newscasts the June 2015 jobs report, but it was ABC’s World News Tonight that neglected provide any further details and/or context beyond the unemployment rate and number of jobs added and omitted how hourly wages remained flat and the labor force participation rate sunk to its lowest level in 38 years. While CBS and NBC…
Curtis Houck
July 2nd, 2015 10:20 PM

New Republic: Obamacare Ruling Aside, SCOTUS ‘Plenty Conservative’

In the week since the Supreme Court upheld certain Obamacare subsidies, some on the left, applying the wisdom that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” have gratefully praised majority-opinion-writer John Roberts. But now liberals need to put their warm fuzzies for the chief justice behind them and guard against “complacency” regarding the court, advised Brian Beutler in a Tuesday article. “…
Tom Johnson
July 2nd, 2015 9:17 PM

Pro-Hillary Begala Brags That Moderate Dems Tagged Her as 'Bolshevik'

As he appeared on Thursday's New Day, liberal CNN political commentator and Hillary Clinton supporter Paul Begala hinted that being called a "Bolshevik" communist is resume enhancement for a Democratic presidential primary as he recalled that, what he referred to as the "very moderate Clinton economic team" from the Bill Clinton administration, used to deride Hillary Clinton and her staff as "the…
Brad Wilmouth
July 2nd, 2015 6:59 PM

Salon Writer Can't Handle Polygamist Who Wants Equal Rights

It appears the writers over at Salon have an interesting definition of “marriage equality.” Gay marriage proponent and radical feminist Mary Elizabeth Williams showed her true colors on the issue today by claiming “fringe groups”, like those who practice polygamy, should not have access to new freedoms detailed in the recent SCOTUS case which granted gay couples marriage recognition nationwide. 
Spencer Raley
July 2nd, 2015 4:39 PM

‘Mr. Robot’ Channels Bernie Sanders

Dylan Gwinn
July 2nd, 2015 4:12 PM

Warming Up? MSNBC 'Feels the Bern' of 'Totally Grassroots' Sanders

MSNBC on Wednesday hyped the possibility of a Bernie Sanders boom. Alex Seitz-Wald, a network reporter who had previously swooned over Hillary Clinton's "Scooby Van," enthused: "This is definitely quite a crowd, Chris. They are chanting, 'feel the Bern' behind me." The enthusiasum seemed infectious as the journalist touted, "This is something that is totally grassroots, uncontrolled, people just…
Scott Whitlock
July 2nd, 2015 3:53 PM

Artist Defends Using Patriotic Image to Make Gay Rights Statement

An image many call provocative, if not offensive, has caused  an uproar on social media platforms since last week. The photo, taken by gay artist Ed Freeman of young men holding up a rainbow flag, replicates the iconic picture of Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945. The Washington Post decided to highlight the controversy July 1 and let the artist defend…
Kristine Marsh
July 2nd, 2015 3:47 PM