Ann Coulter to Emcee NewsBusters Party, 1st Annual Noel Sheppard Award

It's hard to believe, but NewsBusters turns ten years old this August. To celebrate, we're having an anniversary party and you're invited.
NB Staff

'The View' Crazy Conspiracy Theory: SF Killing Timed to Help Trump?

Another wild conspiracy surfaced on The View, Thursday. New co-host Raven-Symone hinted that there was something suspicious about how the San Francisco shooting happening just as Donald Trump's presidential campaign began talking about illegal immigration. Offering up the incoherent theory, she suggested: "Doesn't anyone find it interesting that this happened as soon as Trump started to talk…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Acts as Cuban Board of Tourism, Promotes Cruises to Island

On Tuesday, CBS This Morning devoted a nearly five minute segment to touting Carnival offering cruises to Cuba starting in 2016. Co-host Norah O’Donnell proclaimed: “The historic reopening of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba creates new business opportunities for both countries. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is announcing it received permission from the U…
Kyle Drennen

CNN Voter Panel Features One Conservative Versus Four Liberals

Following in the footsteps of its first two voter panels each of which featured a sample strongly slanted to the left, CNN's New Day on Thursday unveiled its third gathering of voters, this time featuring a lone conservative pitted against four liberals in a group from Iowa which also included as its sixth member one Republican who did not express any ideological views.
Brad Wilmouth

Muslim Scholar: ‘We Have to Embrace’ Gay Marriage

CNN’s latest TV show host shares controversial interpretations of Quran, Constitution.
MRC Culture Staff

NBC and ABC Hit George W. Bush Over Speaking Fee

On Thursday’s NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales seized on criticism of former President George W. Bush giving a paid speech to a veterans charity: “This morning some veterans are criticizing former President George W. Bush for charging a veteran's charity a six-figure fee to speak at a fundraising dinner....NBC News has confirmed the former president accepted $100,000 from them back in 2012…
Kyle Drennen

NY Post: Is Sanjay Gupta 'the Next Brian Williams' for Medical Mix-Up?

On Wednesday, the New York Post's Andrea Morabito spotlighted Dr. Sanjay Gupta's appearance on CNN's New Day earlier in the day, where he issued a "clarification," as he put it, about apparently mixing up two earthquake victims he treated during the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Morabito noted that Dr. Gupta is "now under fire for some Brian Williams-like exaggerations of his…
Matthew Balan

Pope Rejects Communist Crucifix: ‘That’s Not Right'

While media have questioned Pope Francis’ political ideology, here’s one thing he won’t do: accept a communist crucifix. Shortly after arriving in Bolivia, in the presidential palace, President Evo Morales handed Pope Francis a gift: a crucifix carved in the shape of a hammer and sickle.  
Katie Yoder

Bozell: Media Silence on IRS Scandal 'Borders on Being Complicit'

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, released the following statement reacting to the Judicial Watch revelations about the coordination between the IRS, FBI and Department of Justice in the IRS scandal involving criminal, political persecution of taxpayers and independent organizations.
NB Staff

Gutfeld: Liberal Media People Who 'Essentially Agree with Each Other'

Appearing on Real Clear Politics’ online series Changing Lanes, Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld spoke to how a lack of ideological diversity within mainstream media has caused him to have a “healthy contempt” for it as a whole. Gutfeld explained that since working in magazines he “was surrounded by people who agreed on everything and so they would voice their opinions in front of me as if I agreed with…
Jeffrey Meyer

Is Reddit Turning PC?

Reddit — a “site known for open and often over-the-top discussion” — has come under the hands of PC warriors. One user, or “redditor,” once called the online discussion forum a “place friendly to thought, relationships, arguments, and to those that wish to challenge those genres.” Yet, recently, redditors feel their speech has been censored and their trust has been breached.
Sarah Stites

Is Reddit Going PC

‘Not our site’s goal to be completely free-speech platform.’
Sarah Stites

Lefty Blogger Likens 2016 GOP Win to a Global Gasoline Fire

Much of the left would be thrilled if Bernie Sanders became the Democrats’ presidential nominee, but that, suggests The Washington Monthly’s Martin Longman, is what Al Gore might call a risky scheme. A Sanders win in the general election would make him the POTUS of progressive dreams, but a Sanders loss “would be a total epic disaster” and a boon for right-wingers who are “capable of great evil…
Tom Johnson

CBS to Jim Webb: How Can You Run Against 'Juggernaut' Clinton?

The co-hosts of CBS This Morning on Thursday marveled at the very concept that someone would oppose Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. Talking to newly-announced contender Jim Webb, Norah O'Donnell marveled, "But what's your path to victory? I mean, how do you run against a juggernaut like Hillary Clinton's campaign and what's your main argument against her being president of the United…
Scott Whitlock