WashPost's Gearan Claims to Know Hillary's Message: 'I'm On Your Side'

This had to be one of the more telling moments about the emptiness of Hillary Clinton's campaign.  When Mika Brzezinski asked Morning Joe panel members today to describe Hillary's message "in ten seconds or less," they burst into laughter.  "Why is that funny?" demanded Mika, surely knowing the answer: that Hillary stands for nothing much more than "it's my turn, dammit!" But that didn't stop…
Mark Finkelstein

Matthews Misleads Audience on Indiana Religious Freedoms Law

In his March 26 softball interview with former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) -- "Barney's a good friend of mine, I hope we sell some books" -- Hardball host Chris Matthews misled his audience about the nature of a new law signed into effect in Indiana designed to protect the religious liberties of shop owners.
Ken Shepherd

Shock: CBS Covers Own Poll on Declining Support for Hillary Clinton

After the network morning and evening newscasts ignored a Reuters poll showing tumbling support for Hillary Clinton last week, the CBS Evening News bucked the trend and covered the results of its own poll that also found dwindling support for Clinton in light of recent scandals. While the program spent only 32 seconds on the results of the poll, anchor Scott Pelley was still able to highlight…
Curtis Houck

NYT Page 1 Label Overdose: 'Hard-Right...Right-Wing...Conservatives'

Political reporter Trip Gabriel's front-page report from the Iowa hustings in Thursday's New York Times was, even by the paper's standards, an amazingly dense thicket of ideologically loaded labeling, with the word "conservative" or "hard-line" or "right wing" cropping up in seemingly every sentence: "Conservatives Are Looking to Unite Behind an Alternative to Bush." In all, the word "…
Clay Waters

Hillary's 'Super' Support Group: Adjectives Are Sexist, Not Actions

New York Times reporter Amy Chozick was “warned” on Twitter by a group called “HRC Super Volunteers” against using so-called “sexist” words about Hillary Clinton.  The words they deemed “coded sexism” include:“polarizing,” “calculating,” “disingenuous,” “insincere,” “ambitious,” “inevitable,” “entitled,” “over confident,” “secretive,” “will do anything to win,” “represents the past,” and “out of…
Melissa Mullins

ABC, NBC Skip Report on DEA Sex Parties Paid for by Drug Cartels

ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News ignored on Thursday night a scathing report that revealed how agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attended so-called “sex parties” over a multi-year period while working in Colombia that were paid for by the very drug cartels that they were working to combat. Authored by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General (IG), the…
Curtis Houck

Wacky: Russell Brand Deemed 'World's Fourth Most Influential Thinker'

Can we get a recount? That’s the natural reaction to this headline in the U.K. Guardian: “Russell Brand voted world's fourth most influential thinker.” Hannah Ellis-Peterson relayed "the comedian turned activist has now earned the nod of approval from one of Britain’s most influential current affairs magazines, whose readers have voted him fourth in their annual table of the world’s top thinkers…
Tim Graham

Chris Hayes Responds to Record Low Ratings by Attacking Cruz

It's no secret that the liberal MSNBC cable channel is in freefall in both ratings and the important demographic of viewers from 25 to 54 years old, and one of the hosts most likely to face the chopping block is the anchor of the All In With Chris Hayes program. Just when it seemed that things couldn't get any worse for Hayes, his series had its worst week since the show debuted in April 2013,…
Randy Hall

Halperin: Dems Happy With Hillary Like Cubans With Their 'Choices'

Mark Halperin just compared the way Hillary has been foisted on Dem voters to the empty "choices" that Cubans have when it comes to their leaders. On this evening's With All Due Respect, when Dem strategist Steve McMahon claimed that Dems are happy with "the" choice they have in the person of Hillary,  Halperin retorted "like the way Cuban voters are happy with their choices."
Mark Finkelstein

Newsmax Ranks NewsBusters #8 In 'Top 50 Conservative Blogs'

Yeah, we're kinda tooting our own horn, but ultimately, this is only possible because of you, our loyal readers. Your next challenge: help us move up in the rankings next year!
NB Staff

Look Out! While Driving, ABC Reporter Warns Against Distracted Driving

Watch out for ABC journalists on the road! According to AAA, the most dangerous thing you can do while driving is to talk to another person in the car. Yet, that's exactly what Nightline reporter Linzie Janis did while reporting on the new study. While barreling down the road, Janis talked to Robert Sinclair Jr. of AAA. He was in the passenger seat and the journalist drove. 
Scott Whitlock

Another Round of Bush-Bashing on Univision

It was Benjamin Franklin who stated that “Nothing is more certain except death and taxes.” Lately, it looks like we could easily add to that quote “and the misrepresentation of Jeb Bush on Univision.”
Vanessa Viera

AP, Fortune, Others Ignore Communism in Taco Bell Attack on McDonald's

Many in the liberal news media again demonstrated their inability (or unwillingness) to identify communism when they see it. Fast food restaurant Taco Bell “pulled out all the stops” with its new ad released March 24, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Although the ad did not mention McDonald’s by name, The Daily Mail also said the video portrayed “McDonald’s as a communist dictatorship…

Joseph Rossell

AP, Fortune, Other Media Overlook Communist Imagery in Taco Bell Attac

Outlets reference dystopian ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Divergent’ movies rather than socialist state.
Joseph Rossell