Chuck Todd: Cantor’s Defeat Proves Immigration ‘Will Absolutely Te

In the aftermath of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday night to economics professor Dave Brat, the folks at Morning Joe discussed what this would mean for the Republican Party going forward. Chuck Todd, host of the Daily Rundown, suggested that immigration is an issue that consistently divides the right: “how much more evidence do we need that immigration will…
Connor Williams
June 11th, 2014 12:15 PM

Maddow Heaves NY Times Under the Bus in Ongoing Feud With PolitiFact

Don't hold your breath waiting for any (further) glowing profiles of Rachel Maddow from the Gray Lady. MSNBC's in-house Victorian Gent has upped the ante in her years-long pissing contest with media watchdog PolitiFact, which ran a post critical of Maddow last week at one of its offshoots, PunditFact. The PunditFact post took Maddow to task for claiming on her June 3 show that the Pentagon "…
Jack Coleman
June 11th, 2014 11:50 AM

Foul: Anti-Redskins Ad to Run During NBA Finals

What do you suppose it costs to run a 60-second ad in major markets during the NBA playoffs on ABC? And can you think of something better to do with the “significant investment” a California Indian tribe has made than to register disapproval of a sports mascot? The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation isn’t saying how much it paid for the spots, airing in New York, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, L.A. San…
Matt Philbin
June 11th, 2014 11:06 AM

Networks Promote President Obama Saying America ‘Should Be Ashamed

On Tuesday morning a high school student in Oregon open fire in a high school killing another student before taking his own life. Following the tragedy, all three morning network news shows played up President Obama’s reaction and promoted his call for action.  While ABC, CBS, and NBC all promoted Obama’s statement, NBC’s Today was the most enthusiastic with Savannah Guthrie noting the…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 11th, 2014 10:51 AM

Salon: Experts Like Piketty and Tyson Prove That Science Has a Liberal

According to an article last Sunday in the online magazine Salon, there's a new intellectual dynamic duo in town: French economist Thomas Piketty and American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who've become media superstars almost simultaneously over the past few months thanks to Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" and Tyson's TV series "Cosmos." Writer Paul Rosenberg…
Tom Johnson
June 11th, 2014 10:19 AM

Heavy Spin: NY Times Clinton Campaign Reporter Finds Hillary's Gaffes

Diane Sawyer's surprisingly tough questions to HIllary Clinton on Benghazi and her massive speaking fees have spurred more questions, especially when she answered she was "dead broke" and it wasn't her job as Secretary of State to micromanage the safety of diplomats. But New York Times reporter Amy Chozick announced on MSNBC's Now with Alex Wagner on Tuesday that reporters like her are…
Tim Graham
June 11th, 2014 8:23 AM

Lefties Drag Cantor's Jewish Faith Into Shocking Loss

Desperate to tie David Brat's shocking defeat tonight of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia's Republican Congressional Primary to something other than voter resistance to illegal-immigrant amnesty, some on the left are already implying that Cantor's Jewish faith had something to do with the result. The fact that the seven-term Congressman has, as far as I can tell, never gotten grief…
Tom Blumer
June 10th, 2014 10:46 PM

Open Thread: Cantor Loses to Tea Party Challenger

So this happened. It should be fun to see the media's furious spin now that a Tea Party longshot has defeated establishment Republican and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in tonight's primary election. Leave your comments below in this special breaking news open thread. Conversation starter: CNN noted the breaking news during tonight's Anderson Cooper 360 but dropped the ball on the…
NB Staff
June 10th, 2014 9:57 PM

NewsBusted: You're Killin' Me, Barry

"A video has emerged of President Obama lifting tiny weights in a European hotel gym. You see, Obama needs to get in shape so that he can throw like a girl at his next baseball game." To subscribe to NewsBusted via email, sign up here. To subscribe at YouTube, visit the NewsBusted channel here.
NB Staff
June 10th, 2014 9:46 PM

Poll: MSNBC Least Trusted TV News Source, Fox News Most Trusted

Most surveys regarding cable news channels focus on ratings and the opinions of their viewers. However, a recent poll conducted by the Brookings and Public Religion Research Institute sought the views of all Americans toward all news sources in the nation. A mere 5 percent of the respondents called the left-wing MSNBC cable channel their “most trusted” TV news outlet. On the other end of the…
Randy Hall
June 10th, 2014 9:28 PM

‘Big Three’ Networks Ignore Latest ObamaCare Delay

On Tuesday, June 10, the Obama Administration issued a delay that will allow 18 states not to implement a portion of ObamaCare’s small business health insurance exchange until 2016. Despite the delay, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, all three network evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the story on Tuesday evening. 
Jeffrey Meyer
June 10th, 2014 8:54 PM

NBC’s McFadden Reads Hillary Her Own Book: ‘Evidence...Why I Think

Hillary Clinton sat down with NBC’s Cynthia McFadden for an interview which aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, June 10 to promote her new book “Hard Choices.” While the NBC reporter brought up sensitive issues such as Benghazi, when the subject turned to Clinton’s potential presidential bid, McFadden proved to be nothing more than a Hillary sycophant.  The first thing that aired from the…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 10th, 2014 8:11 PM

MSNBC's Matthews on Benghazi: 'Sometimes You Get Killed, and That's Pa

Troubled by a recent poll number showing 52 percent of independent voters approve of a select congressional committee investigating the Benghazi fiasco, MSNBC's Chris Matthews offered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton his messaging advice on the matter during a segment of the June 10 Hardball. It boiled down to: "sometimes you get killed, and that's part of the business." The relevant…
Ken Shepherd
June 10th, 2014 8:02 PM

Get a Room: Buzzfeed Woman Ogles Obama as 'Our Hottest President Ever

Barack Obama may be headed toward the Lame Duck Preserve, but some Internet attention-seekers are still willing to swoon over him and hope to go viral. Tracy Clayton at Buzzfeed.com – a star of “Black Twitter” – posted a set of photos Tuesday night with the headline “27 Pictures That Prove That Barack Obama Is Our Hottest President Ever.” (HT: Michelle Malkin) What followed below was a set…
Tim Graham
June 10th, 2014 6:47 PM