CNN Hosts: Paul Ryan ‘Not a Happy Man Today,’ But IRS Scandal Exis

On Friday’s edition of CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon, host Don Lemon and CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash made some unusual remarks about a Republican, but later retreated to downplaying one of the many scandals facing the Obama administration this midterm election year. Discussing a hearing being held by the House Ways and Means Committee that featured testimony from IRS…
Curtis Houck
June 20th, 2014 6:26 PM

NewsBusted: Leave No Man Employed

"A record number of people in the U.S. are unemployed, and the Obama administration would rescue them from their situation, but they’re not AWOL from their military units." To subscribe to NewsBusted via email, sign up here. To watch the Friday, June 20 edition, click play on the embed below the page break. To subscribe at YouTube, visit the NewsBusted channel here.
NB Staff
June 20th, 2014 6:14 PM

Victim of Rapist Hillary Defended: She 'Took Me Through Hell'; Will Br

Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast has an arresting exclusive today: an interview with the woman whose rapist Hillary Clinton successfully defended as a criminal defense attorney in the mid 1970s. "In a long, emotional interview with The Daily Beast, she accused Clinton of intentionally lying about her in court documents, going to extraordinary lengths to discredit evidence of the rape, and later…
Ken Shepherd
June 20th, 2014 5:35 PM

CBS's Chip Reid Asks Dave Brat's Former Campaign Manager: Are You an

Leave it to CBS This Morning to push the idea that angry, controversial white men are strictly the province of the conservative side of the spectrum, while downplaying the inflammatory and arguably anti-gay comments of Brian Schweitzer, a left-wing populist and former Democratic governor of Montana who is considering a 2016 presidential run. The oft-mentioned mastermind of Dave Brat’s…
Connor Williams
June 20th, 2014 5:10 PM

White House Continues to Spin IRS E-mail Scandal as 'Republican Consp

Soon-to-be White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest took to the podium of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room for his last outing as deputy press secretary. He will move into the White House Press Secretary role next week as Jay Carney officially vacates the job. If we learned anything from his “test run” today, it’s that Earnest has learned the art of White House spin from his boss. When…
Jackie Seal
June 20th, 2014 4:59 PM

Former ABC News Political Director Insists Innocent or Guilty, ‘Gov

The fact that “no criminal charges” have been filed against Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin on illegal fundraising did not stop MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and guest Amy Walter, former political director of ABC News and national editor of The Cook Political Report, from writing his political obituary on the June 20 edition of The Daily Rundown With Chuck Todd. “Regardless of where this…
Laura Flint
June 20th, 2014 4:45 PM

Limbaugh Predicted Obama Would Go After Redskins' Trademark

While it may have come as a surprise to many when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled six trademark registrations owned by the Washington Redskins pro football team, Rush Limbaugh saw it coming months ago. Limbaugh told his radio listeners Wednesday that he mentioned on his show January 9 that the Obama administration would target the Redskins specifically through the Patent and…
Jack Coleman
June 20th, 2014 3:56 PM

NBC Notices Dem Who 'Managed to Offend Democrats, Republicans, Gays, a

After all three broadcast networks initially ignored offensive comments from former Democratic Montana Governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate Brian Schweitzer claiming outgoing Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor set off his "gaydar," on Friday, NBC's Today took notice of gaffe, with correspondent Peter Alexander declaring: "...a tough-talking Montana Democrat known for…
Kyle Drennen
June 20th, 2014 3:54 PM

CBS and NBC Skip New VA Scandal Outrage; ABC Gives News Just 14 Second

Despite the newest revelation in the Veterans Affairs scandal on Thursday that one in ten veterans have to wait at least one month before they can get an appointment to see a doctor, CBS and NBC refused to cover the latest news in both their evening news shows on Thursday night as well as their morning shows on Friday morning. ABC News only gave 14 seconds of coverage to the issue in a news…
Curtis Houck
June 20th, 2014 3:30 PM

Jon Stewart Compares Redskins Fans, NRA to Defenders of Child Porn

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is not known for political fairness in its humor. The Comedy Central show proved no different on the June 19 edition, when Stewart chose to compare the child pornography lobby in Japan to the gun rights lobby in America. He deemed that both industries are “harmful” and “destructive” and “take precedence over the protection of children.” The ridiculous…
Laura Flint
June 20th, 2014 3:15 PM

NY Times, WashPost Concoct Scott Walker 'Criminal Scheme' Front-Pagers

The Washington Post and The New York Times can’t seem to locate the story (never mind the outrage) of destroyed hard drives at the IRS. The latest IRS scandal scoops have been buried deep in the paper. But both biased rags put Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on the front page Friday in an alleged campaign-finance scandal pushed by Democratic district attorneys. Neither paper revealed the…
Tim Graham
June 20th, 2014 1:17 PM

Chris Matthews: Foreign Policy Hawks Want Military Action in Every Cou

In a screed against an interventionist foreign policy, Hardball’s Chris Matthews virtually insisted that there is a sinister plot among those initial supporters of the Iraq war to dictate the political life of nations throughout the Middle East. For Matthews, simply being wrong on the Iraq war–to the extent that anyone can make a claim like that with any certainty at the present time–is not…
Connor Williams
June 20th, 2014 1:12 PM

Surprise! Liberal Media Bash ‘March for Marriage

It’s an uncommon chant to hear in downtown D.C.: “One woman, one man! One woman, one man!” The National Organization for Marriage hosted the second annual “March for Marriage” in front of the Capitol on June 19. The event, a self-described “vehicle for voicing the values of pro-marriage Americans in a way that cuts through the biased media narrative and demands hearing in the halls of power,”…
Katie Yoder
June 20th, 2014 12:59 PM

WashPost Grouses David Brat Avoiding Media Scrutiny, But So Is Dem Riv

The Washington Post has assigned reporter Jenna Portnoy to follow Republican nominee David Brat's campaign for the U.S. House seat for the 7th District of Virginia. In Portnoy's latest story, published in Friday's paper on page B4, the staff writer slammed Brat for having "largely ducked media exposure since his [primary] win," noting that after a brief press statement on Thursday which lasted…
Ken Shepherd
June 20th, 2014 12:28 PM