ABC Ignores Hillary's Expanding Donor Scandal

ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday ignored a new report indicating that Hillary Clinton's favors for donors to her family's foundation go back to her days as a U.S. Senator. CBS This Morning allowed 42 seconds on the Clinton Foundation scandal in general, but didn't specifically mention the new allegations. "Former President Bill Clinton is defending his family's charity and rejecting…

Scott Whitlock

US Government Gives $82.7 Million to Liberal Tides Organizations

For all the fuss the left makes about “getting money out of politics,” their actions tell a vastly different story. When conservative donors make or facilitate anonymous donations, liberals cry “dark money” and bemoan the supposed lack of accountability. If liberals truly wanted to get money out of politics, they would need to start with their own Tides organizations, which pioneered the very…
Aly Nielsen

Salon: Miley Cyrus Uncorks ‘Totally Right-On Assessments of the World’

Miley Cyrus tends to shock most people -- even the most progressive among us take note of her antics. From photographing herself topless under the covers, to which The Huffington Post responded “keep doing your thang, girl,” to her recent promotion of the “free the nipple” campaign, she has continued to garner media attention.  But her shock factor amplified on June 9, when Paper’s interview…
Sarah Stites

ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Proposed EPA Regulations on Airplanes

On Thursday morning, ABC and NBC continued their blackout of the Obama administration’s plan to use the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the airline industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. 
Jeffrey Meyer

Salon: Miley Cyrus’ ‘Totally Right-on Assessments of the World

Left-on, you mean?
Sarah Stites

Networks Punt on EPA Announcing Plans to Regulate Airplane Emissions

For the third time in just under three weeks, the major broadcast networks ignored news related to the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the latest news coming on Wednesday that the agency has announced its goal to regulate aircraft emissions in a similar fashion that it does for automobiles and powerplants. FNC's Special Report and the PBS NewsHour, however, found…
Curtis Houck

NBC Hits Jeb Bush for Staff Changes; Trip to Europe Now ‘Overshadowed'

Once again, NBC Nightly News offered the lone segment on the 2016 presidential campaign during its Wednesday program by choosing to hit expected Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for some recently announced changes in his staff that interim anchor Lester Holt ruled has “overshadowed” his trip to Europe this week. Leading into senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing’s report from…
Curtis Houck

Diane Rehm Assumes Sanders Has Dual Citizenship — Based on Facebook

Among the many tired, bogus complaints heard from the establishment press is the one about how careful they are compared to the reckless knaves in the blogosphere and New Media. You see, they only use reliable sources, while bloggers will believe anything anyone writes or posts on the Internet. Well, I suspect there are very few people in the blogosphere dumb enough to rely on a Facebook comment…
Tom Blumer

Dallas Reporter Ignorant on Taxation of U.S. Firms' Overseas Profits

Will Deener, who has been a business reporter since at least before the turn of the century, considers his most unforgettable experience on the job to be "Covering the crash of the Internet stocks and Enron in 2000-2002." Sunday evening, the Dallas Morning News columnist moaned about how big U.S. companies engaged in real businesses are avoiding paying billions in taxes because "the nation’s…
Tom Blumer

ABC and CBS Skip Obama Criticism in Covering Return of Troops to Iraq

Following news on Wednesday that the Obama administration will send 450 additional U.S. troops back to Iraq to help train the Iraqi military against ISIS, ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News chose to exclude any criticism of the Obama administration’s ISIS policy while NBC Nightly News made multiple critical points about the administration as Richard Engel declared: “It’s hard to…
Curtis Houck

Comedian Colin Quinn Agrees With Jerry Seinfeld: People 'Are Too PC'

Comedian and author Colin Quinn used an appearance on Wednesday morning's edition of Fox & Friends to agree with fellow comic Jerry Seinfeld, who claims that many people are "too politically correct" and too sensitive regarding the subjects of jokes. While promoting The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America, Quinn responded to a question from co-host Steve Doocy about…
Randy Hall

Fed Court Upholds Texas Abortion-Clinic Regs; MSNBC's Wagner Mourns

MSNBC's Alex Wagner devoted a full segment on her June 10 Now program to kvetching with Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards about how great an injustice it was that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to strike down a Texas abortion-clinic regulation bill which had resulted in the shuttering of clinics which fell below code.
Ken Shepherd

Shorter MSNBC: Seinfeld's Jab at PC Isn't Valid Because He's Rich

Alex Wagner, along with her three liberal guests, ripped Jerry Seinfeld on her MSNBC program on Wednesday, for his blast at "creepy" political correctness. Wagner hinted that Seinfeld had "fallen behind the times." New York magazine's Annie Lowrey mocked his critique: "I kind of roll my eyes at Jerry Seinfeld. You know, he's a billionaire – like I don't feel sorry for him if people don't laugh…
Matthew Balan

CNN Digs Up Ancient Past, Opens 'Pandora's Box' For Hillary

While trying to do Hillary a favor and expose one of her top opponent’s dirty laundry, Democrats may have opened up a “Pandora’s Box” of the past for the left’s 2016 favorite, Hillary Clinton.
Spencer Raley