Even CNN Anchors Stunned Obama Still Has No Strategy to Defeat ISIS

During Monday's edition of the Cable News Network program At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan, anchors John Berman and Kate Bolduan played a clip of Barack Obama admitting that he still has no complete strategy to defeat ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Noting that the president said almost the same thing about the same subject last year, Berman called Obama's comments “surprising,”…
Randy Hall
June 9th, 2015 7:07 PM

John Heilemann's Lame Attempt At An ObamaCare Fact Check

On Monday's With All Due Respect, Bloomberg's John Heilemann confirmed all of Obama’s questionable statements on the success of ObamaCare by relying on what Bloomberg considers fact checking: "I'm sure the RNC will disagree with that and a lot of conservatives will claim that these numbers are all cooked in one way or the other, but the fact is that those things seem to ring true to the people…
Connor Williams
June 9th, 2015 5:32 PM

Chris Matthews: Tom Cotton = 'Psycho' Killer Norman Bates

Free advice for Chris Matthews: Now that your wife is running for Congress, you might want to avoid the nasty on-air name-calling of Republicans with whom you disagree.
Ken Shepherd
June 9th, 2015 5:19 PM

NY Times: Transgender Kids’ Lit ‘Part of Fabric of Who We Are’

Bet you didn’t know there was a transgender “void” in the children’s literature market. Well there was, but we can relax. According to an article in The New York Times, transgender themes have now joined the line up of “difficult issues like suicide, drug abuse, rape and sex trafficking” as topics in children’s and young adult books.  It may come as a surprise that juvenile literature has not…
Sarah Stites
June 9th, 2015 5:08 PM

Andrea Mitchell Sees ‘Big Problems’ for GOP if ObamaCare Overturned

Andrea Mitchell led off her Tuesday MSNBC show by introducing a presidential speech defending ObamaCare: “President Obama is now about to give his speech on his health care law. A law that faces an uncertain future as we await a landmark Supreme Court decision....The Court could strip 6.4 million people of health insurance subsidies.” Mitchell: “A possibility that might create big problems for…
Kyle Drennen
June 9th, 2015 4:21 PM

WaPo, NYT Hype How Fictional Villain Polls Better Than GOP Candidates

The editorial page editors at the New York Times posted a Tuesday item on their blog that shamelessly played up how the main villain from the Harry Potter book series, Voldemort, has a "higher rating than six Republicans, including Jeb Bush." The Washington Post's WonkBlog "compared polling data on the presidential hopefuls with Google Consumer Survey results on the fictional characters."
Matthew Balan
June 9th, 2015 4:12 PM

MRC's Bozell, FBN's Cavuto Discuss NYTimes Hit Pieces on Rubio

Appearing on FBN's Cavuto: Coast to Coast, MRC President Brent Bozell discussed how the New York Times must fear Marco Rubio's presidential prospects given their recent hit pieces on the GOP candidate. 
NB Staff
June 9th, 2015 3:42 PM

Washington D.C. Gay Pride Parade Sponsored by Local ABC News Station

In case you were wondering why gay pride parades often end up on your local news channel but religious and conservative ones do not, it could be because the gay parades are being sponsored by your local news station. That’s what happened here in the nation’s capital. The local ABC News station, WJLA on channel 7, is listed under the Rainbow sponsorship level for the largest annual gay pride…
Kristine Marsh
June 9th, 2015 3:12 PM

'President' Cruz's Priority: Help Reporters Who 'Checked Into Therapy'

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. senator Ted Cruz took part in a town hall meeting sponsored by talk radio station WRKO in Boston and didn't hold anything back when responding to questions from host Jeff Kuhner. The Texas Republican joked that if he wins the White House, “the first thing I should do is send flowers and a note of condolences to all of the reporters and editors who have checked…
Randy Hall
June 9th, 2015 2:35 PM

A Week of Caitlyn Swoon: 51 Network Minutes and Gallons of Purple Ink

“Caitlyn” Jenner’s transformation was “a culture-shaping, Internet-busting media event of heartfelt human understanding.” These words from the June 8 Washington Post sum up fairly well the mainstream media’s reaction to Jenner’s new identity. CBS, NBC, and ABC spent a combined 51 minutes of news coverage on Jenner just in the past week, pouring praise and compliments on him at every turn.
MRC Culture Staff
June 9th, 2015 2:18 PM

AP Says ISIS Radio Station for European Recruits 'Sounds Like NPR'

The Associated Press probably didn’t mean this as an insult, but it suggested a new Western-style radio channel from ISIS sounds like...NPR.  On Saturday, the NPR game show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! made fun of the comparison of "evil organizations."  
Tim Graham
June 9th, 2015 2:12 PM

Elizabeth Banks: Birth Control My ‘Number One Advice’ for Girls

The “number one advice” Elizabeth Banks has for high school girls has nothing to do with hard work, self-confidence or chasing dreams. In a Variety piece entitled, “Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women,” news editor Alex Stedman spoke with actress Elizabeth Banks (Spider-Man, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) about her recent accomplishments, including Banks’ “directorial feature…
Katie Yoder
June 9th, 2015 1:42 PM

NBC, ABC Morning Shows: Forget G7 Foreign Policy, Look at This Photo!

Despite President Obama making the stunning admission at the G7 Summit on Monday that the U.S. still lacks a “complete strategy” to combat ISIS, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America ignored the news on Tuesday. Instead, both network morning shows promoted a social media meme about a photo of Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kyle Drennen
June 9th, 2015 12:09 PM

Larry Wilmore Blasts 2016 GOP Field in Latest ‘Unblackening’ Segment

On Monday’s Nightly Show, Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore took time out of his race-obsessed show to return to his favorite hobby, bashing Republicans, specifically the 2016 GOP presidential candidates who are engaged in the “unblackening” of America. 
Jeffrey Meyer
June 9th, 2015 12:02 PM