Salon Writer: Conservatives Too Angry to Have a Sense of Humor

For most people, humor and comedy are meant to provoke smiles and laughter. According to Salon writer Scott Eric Kaufman, however, conservatives aren’t like most people, since “their version of comedy isn’t intended to be funny, it’s just meant to be mean.” It enables them, he alleged in a Wednesday article, to conceal their “awful thoughts” in supposed jokes. Kaufman claimed that right-wingers…
Tom Johnson
June 12th, 2015 10:53 AM

Bozell Eviscerates Media for Refusing to Criticize Obama on ISIS

Appearing on Thursday’s edition of Newsmax Prime on Newsmax TV, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined host and former GOP Congressman J.D. Hayworth (Ariz.) to discuss the latest studies from the MRC concerning the media’s lack of criticism for President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and their obsession with alleged incidents of police misconduct.
NB Staff
June 12th, 2015 10:50 AM

WashPost Gushes All Over Michelle's 'More Authentic' Racial Discussion

Let’s hope Michelle Obama is keeping a scrapbook of all the gushy positive stories written for her by Washington Post reporter Krissah Thompson. In Friday’s Post, the Style section front page carried a foot-high picture of the First Lady in a black robe and the all-caps headline “MICHELLE OBAMA COMMENCES TELLING IT AS SHE SEES IT.”  All around the picture were little yellow quote bubbles of her…
Tim Graham
June 12th, 2015 9:54 AM

Flashback: ABC's Botched Global Warming Predictions for 2015

New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12,  2015. At least those were the wildly-inaccurate predictions made by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015. 
Scott Whitlock
June 12th, 2015 7:30 AM

Megyn Kelly Unloads on Obama over Plans to Regulate Neighborhoods

Fox News’s Megyn Kelly began Thursday’s edition of The Kelly File by ripping into President Barack Obama and plans for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to regulate and enforce the diversity of neighborhoods. Kelly blasted the President for being “[t]he man who changed your health care system forever” who’s “now pushing to change your neighborhood” and especially “if Uncle Sam…
Curtis Houck
June 12th, 2015 1:35 AM

Stewart Mocks NYT's Coverage of Rubio, Fails to Include Key Items

If you're Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, you know you have to do the occasional segment going after the establishment press or left-wing groups to maintain appearances. The James O'Keefe-ACORN saga in 2009 was one such instance. If Stewart hadn't dealt with it, his pretense of being supposedly fair to both left and right would have been blown out of the water. The incredibly petty New York Times…
Tom Blumer
June 11th, 2015 11:50 PM

Hayes, Davis Tag Team to Hit Bush on Parenting, Graham on Abortion

On Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s All In, host Chris Hayes turned to none other than former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate and abortion activist Wendy Davis to trash Jeb Bush over his views concerning the need for two-parent households and Senator Lindsey Graham’s introduction of a bill in the Senate that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks.
Curtis Houck
June 11th, 2015 11:17 PM

WashPost Lets Hillary Tout Herself as Triumphant Benghazi Survivor

The Drudge Report tipped readers Thursday night to the Washington Post’s fluffy Friday story on Hillary Clinton -- she "won't back down or go away" -- which turns out to be just another tired rehash of friends who find her so admirably dedicated to public service. What really rankled in Kent Babb’s story was how she was admired for surviving her Benghazi testimony – unlike the men who didn’t…
Tim Graham
June 11th, 2015 11:06 PM

CNN's Burnett Presses Santorum About Kirk's 'Ho' Quip, Caitlyn Jenner

Erin Burnett interviewed Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum in a taped sit-down chat earlier today. But rather than sticking purely to substantial issues, the CNN anchor also posed two rather trivial queries, one about a hot microphone comment Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) made about fellow Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) being a "bro without a ho," and another regarding if Rick Santorum …
Ken Shepherd
June 11th, 2015 9:06 PM

Nets Skimp on Obama Admin’s Plan to Force Diversity in Neighborhoods

The major broadcast networks refused to take notice on Thursday night of plans by President Obama and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to force the diversification of American neighborhoods and particularly those mainly consisting of wealthy Americans. With the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC on the sidelines, the FNC's pecial Report offered a full segment on the regulations…
Curtis Houck
June 11th, 2015 8:19 PM

Maddow Pushes Myth of Nixon Claiming 'Secret Plan' to End Vietnam War

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, Richard Nixon famously declared after losing the race for governor of California in 1962. Little could he have known that liberals would delight in kicking him around in perpetuity, regardless of whether he deserved it. Latest example of the beloved left-wing pastime known as Nixon bashing based on liberal mythology that can never die -- Rachel…
Jack Coleman
June 11th, 2015 7:28 PM

CNN's Don Lemon Says Being PC Is 'Dangerous,' Liberals Least Tolerant

During a radio commentary for the Black America Web site on Thursday, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon startled many of his listeners when he declared that the culture of “political correctness” in America has become “dangerous.” He also claimed that after 25 years in the news business, he believes “liberals are the least tolerant people.”
Randy Hall
June 11th, 2015 6:28 PM

Univision Celebrates 'Solid Defense' of Undocumented Immigrants

Univision’s habit of championing the presence of unauthorized immigrants was on full display in its coverage of a recent speech on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. During the network’s morning show, Despierta América, host Satcha Pretto hyped what she called Johnson’s “solid defense of more than 11 million undocumented immigrants.”
Javier Zurita
June 11th, 2015 6:27 PM

AP Coverage of May Deficit Omits Debt Ceiling, Copies Previous Content

In addition to his usual tired historical revisionism, the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger, in his report on May's budget deficit of $82 billion, failed to mention that the nation is once again operating at the legal limit of its authorized debt. Additionally, he mailed in his final five paragraphs, virtually copying what he wrote on May 12 in covering April's surplus. The nation's debt…
Tom Blumer
June 11th, 2015 4:31 PM