CBS, NBC Continue to Tout President Obama Joining Twitter

On Tuesday, CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today continued to promote President Obama officially joining Twitter and featured numerous fawning segments highlighting the “Breaking News.” After CBS and NBC both touted Obama’s new Twitter handle on their Monday night broadcasts, their respective morning shows provided 4 minutes and 35 seconds of free promotion for the new @POTUS account.
Jeffrey Meyer
May 19th, 2015 10:49 AM

ABC News Has 105 Million Reasons to Keep Stephanopoulos

Too big to fall? Yeah, like $105 million too big. The New York Post reports that ABC News renewed their contract with George Stephanopoulos for $105 million last year. And now it is simply too expensive to dump the face of ABC News for the huge ethical lapse of failing to disclose his $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation in addition to not revealing the time he spent hosting events for…
P.J. Gladnick
May 19th, 2015 9:42 AM

Scarborough Suggests NBC Wouldn't Punish Lauer If He Pulled a Stephy

Did Joe Scarborough just suggest that the suits at his own network are craven cowards who put bucks over ethics? On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough predicted that if Matt Lauer had pulled a Stephanopoulos, NBC would hesitate to punish him [just as ABC hasn't disciplined Steph], because Lauer's morning Today show "is where they make the money."
Mark Finkelstein
May 19th, 2015 9:25 AM

Actor Ed Helms Rips Into Rolling Stone Rape Hoax at U-VA Commencement

On Saturday, actor and comedian Ed Helms delivered the commencement address to the University of Virginia’s graduating class of 2015.  Famous for his comedic roles on The Office and The Hangover movies, Helms had the audience laughing from the many jokes he told, but also took the time to discuss serious matters, like the fake Rolling Stone campus-rape expose.   “I know the UVA community has…
Melissa Mullins
May 19th, 2015 6:42 AM

CBS, NBC Fawn Over Obama's New Twitter Account; Skip ISIS Criticism

While Monday’s editions of the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News refused to criticize the Obama administration on ISIS after the fall of Ramadi, the pair did devote time to hyping President Obama’s opening of an official Twitter account (to go along with his campaign account). In the case of the CBS Evening News, the story received both a tease and fawning news brief as anchor Scott Pelley…
Curtis Houck
May 19th, 2015 12:25 AM

GOP Exposes Second Hillary Clinton Email Account NY Times Ignored

The New York Times has published two articles on the relationship between former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal. It has been known for some time that Blumenthal, barred by the Obama White House from working at State, nevertheless ran "a secret, private intelligence network" for Mrs. Clinton's benefit, "…

Tom Blumer
May 18th, 2015 11:51 PM

Nets Duck News Clinton Foundation Employee Advised Hillary on Libya

On Monday night, the major English and Spanish broadcast networks failed to cover the latest in the Clinton Foundation and e-mail scandals as The New York Times reported that the Clinton Foundation paid former Clinton administration official Sidney Blumenthal to advise Hillary Clinton on Libya while she was secretary of state despite the fact that he was banned from serving within the agency.
Curtis Houck
May 18th, 2015 11:00 PM

Hispanic Religiosity Stands Out on MundoFox

While most of the country’s major media outlets recently highlighted declining levels of Christian faith and practice among the general populace, following the release of the Pew Center's latest survey on America’s Changing Religious Landscape, Spanish-language network MundoFox zeroed in on survey results which show the continued vitality of the Christian faith among the vast majority of the…
Ken Oliver-Méndez
May 18th, 2015 10:39 PM

Matthews Suggests Jeb's View on Marriage Mere Appeal to 'Right Flank'

If you were to believe Chris Matthews, his fellow Catholic, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) has recently stated his support for traditional marriage only because he's "looking out for his right flank." Among the evidences? Well, Bush told the Christian Broadcasting Network that he believes marriage is a "sacrament." Of course, that is the official teaching of the Catholic Church, and supposedly…
Ken Shepherd
May 18th, 2015 9:28 PM

WashPost's Anti-GOP Amtrak Harangue Also Chock Full of Falsehoods

It's bad enough, as Bryan Ballas at NewsBusters noted on May 16, that the Washington Post's Philip Bump dishonestly used last week's Amtrak tragedy to rip Republican members of Congress for somehow being responsible for the (theoretically) for-profit entity's "constant struggle" for funding. As Sean Davis at the Federalist explained, Amtrak has really had no funding struggles. Bump had to make…
Tom Blumer
May 18th, 2015 8:56 PM

CBS, NBC Again Refuse to Criticize Obama on ISIS After Fall of Ramadi

CBS and NBC continued their refusal on Monday evening to criticize the Obama administration’s handing of Iraq and so-called policy on ISIS as the Islamic terror group seized control of Ramadi over the weekend. While those two networks continued to spin for the White House, ABC bucked the trend from the network morning newscasts by providing a blunt critique of the Obama administration for “…
Curtis Houck
May 18th, 2015 8:54 PM

Chelsea Clinton Reported to Have Acted as Prima Donna at NBC News

Know your place, peon! You may not approach Chelsea Clinton. If you need to contact her, you can only do so indirectly through a producer. Never face to face which is for ordinary people. Those were the instructions for Chelsea's co-workers at not only NBC News but also at the management consulting firm at McKinsey where she briefly worked. Apparently Chelsea's attitude is so toxic that even…
P.J. Gladnick
May 18th, 2015 8:11 PM

Former ABC Colleagues: Stephanopoulos 'Foolish,' 'Isn't a Journalist'

The fallout from the revelation that ABC's George Stephanopoulos -- the co-anchor of Good Morning America and host of the Sunday morning This Week program -- donated $75,000 to the foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family intensified on May 17, when two of his former co-workers hammered him while they were guests on CNN's Reliable Sources show. The strongest criticism came from Carol…
Randy Hall
May 18th, 2015 6:20 PM

Lefty Critic: ‘David Letterman + Ronald Reagan = Ted Cruz’

Over the past decade or so, David Letterman has become outspokenly liberal, but according to cultural critic Scott Timberg, the seemingly apolitical comedy that Dave did in the 1980s actually hurt the left. Specifically, it served as a sort of opiate which left his audience disinclined to push back against Reaganism. “For those on the progressive or liberal side of the aisle,” wrote Timberg last…
Tom Johnson
May 18th, 2015 6:07 PM