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FCC Passes Regulations Enabling Government to 'Micromanage' Internet
The FCC is from the government and they’re here to help with your Internet. Invoking the agency’s Title II authority, commissioners of the FCC passed a plan to regulate Internet service providers (ISPs) like public utilities on February 26. This decision surely pleased the left-wing Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundations which gave groups calling for government Internet regulation millions…
February 26th, 2015 3:01 PM
FCC Passes Regulations Enabling Government to ‘Micromanage’ Intern
Deep pockets of left-wing foundations helped finance activism on ‘net neutrality.’
February 26th, 2015 2:34 PM
Harris-Perry: I Hope Trayvon ‘Whooped the Sh**’ Out of Zimmerman
While it's performing a long overdue housecleaning, MSNBC should point its broom in Melissa Harris-Perry's direction and sweep her off the network for her anti-democratic, violence-advocating rant earlier this week at Cornell University.
Among other things, Harris-Perry told her audience that George Zimmerman deserved whatever injuries he received at the hands of Trayvon Martin in the violent…
February 26th, 2015 2:18 PM
UN Climate Boss Quits After Sexual Harassment Claims, Nets Silent
The news networks failed to report on the resignation of top UN climate official Rajendra K. Pachauri after he faced yet another scandal. Pachauri resigned after being accused of sexual harassment.
As the chairman of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) beginning in 2002, Pachauri was a visible and controversial proponent of climate alarmism. The IPCC has been a …
February 26th, 2015 1:57 PM
Nets Tout Dem Fear Mongering on DHS Shutdown, Hit GOP as Dangerous
Terrorists target America's shopping malls, but the nation is defenseless thanks to partisan Republicans shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. That's the ominous picture the three major networks painted this week. Instead of offering balanced coverage of a fight that tied DHS funding and Republican opposition to Barack Obama's executive order amnesty, ABC, NBC and CBS hyped the…
February 26th, 2015 1:41 PM
Al Roker Wishes 'Global Warming' Term Had Never Been Used
In the midst of freezing weather and record snowstorms in the eastern United States, NBC's Al Roker wishes the term "Global Warming" had never been used. Too bad, Al. As the Great Lakes are mostly frozen over due to the extreme cold, you are stuck with a term devised by liberals about twenty years ago to describe what they confidently predicted would happen at the time. Now that Global Warming…
February 26th, 2015 1:39 PM
NBC & CBS Tout Obama Blasting GOP for 'Killing Reform' on Immigration
On Thursday, both NBC's Today and CBS This Morning were eager to promote MSNBC's town hall infomercial that allowed President Obama to push his executive overreach on illegal immigration and slam his opponents. On Today, news anchor Natalie Morales proclaimed: "The President is urging millions of undocumented immigrants to keep planning for eventual relief....he pledged to do everything in his…
February 26th, 2015 12:40 PM
Brent Bozell Blasts Media for Ignoring Clinton Foundation Controversy
Appearing on the Fox Business Network’s (FBN) Varney & Company on Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell reacted to the lack of media coverage following two Washington Post articles that revealed the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in donations from foreign governments, including more than $500,000 from the Algerian government while Hillary Clinton was…
February 26th, 2015 12:40 PM
Van Susteren Roasts Rice Over GOP-Netanyahu 'Destructive' Comment
Wednesday night, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren sharply criticized Susan Rice for her Tuesday comment about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's impending March 3 speech to Congress, namely that "On both sides, there has now been injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, but I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship." To be clear, Rice is not freelancing.…
February 26th, 2015 11:20 AM
NB Special: Scarborough on The Truth About ISIS
In response to an offer by MRC president Brent Bozell, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough wrote a piece for NewsBusters that offers a critique of the failure to call out radical Islam and how that compares in extremism to Christianity.
February 26th, 2015 11:12 AM
ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Clinton Foundation’s Foreign Money Problem
On Thursday, the Washington Post revealed that during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars from foreign governments, including “one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration.”
February 26th, 2015 10:40 AM
NPR Ombud: Diane Rehm's Fundraisers for Activists 'A Step Too Far'
Elizabeth Jensen, hired by NPR as their new Ombudsman, picked up a question from NewsBusters on how NPR host Diane Rehm can do fundraisers for assisted-suicide lobbying group “Compassion & Choices.”
Jensen says she shouldn’t do this, that it’s a “step too far,” noting that NewsBusters picked up on the ethical issue.
February 26th, 2015 10:12 AM
NYT Greets Weak Free Market Move in Cuba By Obsessing Over Inequality
The New York Times' left-wing obsession over "income inequality" reached a pathetic nadir in Wednesday's print edition, in Randal Archibold's report on the Communist country injecting some feeble moves toward free enterprise to prop up its rotting economy: "As Cuba opens the door wider to private enterprise, the gap between the haves and have-nots, and between whites and blacks, that the…
February 26th, 2015 10:06 AM
CBS Again Hypes Hillary’s ‘New Strategy for Winning’ Ahead of 2016
Following a morning in which CBS and NBC gleefully promoted Hillary Clinton’s latest public appearance, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News built on that with another shameless promotion of Clinton and her “new strategy for winning” ahead of a likely presidential bid in 2016. Anchor Scott Pelley began the pro-Clinton segment by remarking how “[i]f Hillary Clinton has a shot at becoming the first woman…
February 26th, 2015 1:18 AM