CNN Hounds Bernie Sanders on VA Scandal: 'You Sound Like a Lawyer Defe

Chris Cuomo sparred with Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday's New Day on CNN over the left-wing politician's scheduled hearing with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki regarding the V.A. hospitals scandal, where scores of veterans died as they waited for care. Cuomo pointed out that "the mandate for Shinseki when he was put in...was that we knew there were big lapses at the V.A. that had…
Matthew Balan
May 15th, 2014 3:50 PM

AP Blames '(Good) Weather' For April Decline in Industrial Production

It looks like the "weather" excuse the press went to repeatedly to explain weak economic results in December, and January, and February, and March still has life in April. But this time, warm weather (which most of us would find "good," at least in April) is to blame. An early afternoon report (relevant portion saved here in graphic form) on the Dow's 200-point mid-day dip by the Associated…
Tom Blumer
May 15th, 2014 3:26 PM

Abramson Firing: Did NYTimes Forget To Read Its 90 pieces On Equal Pay

Journalism’s Gray Lady under scrutiny for dismissal of executive editor.
Julia A. Seymour
May 15th, 2014 2:57 PM

Bozell: Broadcast Networks 'Allergic to the Truth About the IRS Scanda

Editor's Note: The following is a statement released by Media Research Center president Brent Bozell earlier this afternoon regarding the latest revelations in the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal, a development which have been utterly ignored by the Big Three broadcast networks. The full press release is published below the page break and available at MRC.org. What will it take for ABC, CBS,…
Brent Bozell
May 15th, 2014 2:48 PM

Eleanor Clift Triples-Down on Claim That Amb. Stevens ‘Was Not Murde

The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift is at it again, this time tripling-down on her ridiculous assertion that Ambassador Chris Stevens “was not murdered” in the Benghazi terrorist attack.  Clift penned a May 15 article in The Daily Beast entitled “My Benghazi Scandal” where she proclaimed “I may be under fire from conservatives for saying Ambassador Stevens wasn’t murdered in Benghazi, but I’m not…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 15th, 2014 1:30 PM

MSNBC Cheers 'Feisty Campus Dissent' Forcing Commencement Speakers to

"Feisty campus dissent is back. And it’s winning," exulted msnbc.com's Aliyah Frumin in her May 15 story, teased on the main page with the header, "Commencement speakers drop like flies." [see screen capture below page break] "In the last few weeks alone, campaigns at three schools forced commencement speakers to pass up significant speaker fees rather than face angry campuses," Frumin noted…
Ken Shepherd
May 15th, 2014 12:31 PM

Joy Behar on View Reunion: ‘This Is Like the Last Supper With Barbar

Friday, May 16 is Barbara Walters’ last day on The View and all of the former co-hosts returned to say goodbye to the longtime ABC host on Thursday, May 15. Appearing on a special panel, former co-host Joy Behar proclaimed “This is like the Last Supper with Barbara as Jesus.” [See video below.]
Jeffrey Meyer
May 15th, 2014 11:58 AM

Chris Matthews Fumes at 'Kamikaze,' 'SOB,' 'Killer Dog' Karl Rove

An agitated Chris Matthews on Wednesday fumed over Karl Rove's recent questioning of Hillary Clinton's medical condition. Throwing all the invective he could at the Republican strategist, Matthews reduced Rove's comments to this: "My theory is he could be almost like a kamikaze pilot in World War II. He could blow up the ship and blow himself up." The host continued, " Who cares if Karl Rove is…
Scott Whitlock
May 15th, 2014 11:58 AM

Networks Spend Over 20 Minutes Protecting Hillary Clinton From 'Nasty

With over two years to go until the 2016 presidential election, the media are already trying to ban unflattering topics about Hillary Clinton. From Tuesday morning through Thursday morning, NBC, ABC, and CBS aired 9 full stories – totaling 20 minutes 12 seconds – defending Clinton from health questions raised by Republican strategist Karl Rove. NBC was first to go after Rove and devoted the…
Kyle Drennen
May 15th, 2014 11:30 AM

Reagan Biographer Craig Shirley Schools Mika Brzezinski Over Questions

During a discussion about what role that Hillary Clinton’s age might play in her potential presidential run, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski attempted to claim that President Reagan suffered the effects of old age during his second term.  Appearing on Morning Joe on Thursday, May 15, the Reagan biographer slapped down the MSNBC co-host’s claim and pointed out that Reagan“was as sharp as the day he…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 15th, 2014 11:09 AM

Networks Censor Bombshell Documents Showing Top Democrat Pressed IRS t

On Wednesday Judicial Watch released a new batch of IRS documents that showed “extensive pressure on the IRS by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) to shut down conservative leaning organizations.” The documents also revealed the IRS’s handling of the Tea Party applications was directed out of the agency’s DC headquarters, contrary to initial claims that blamed low-level officials in Cincinnati.…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 15th, 2014 10:49 AM

WashPost Repeats: 'None of the So-Called Current Scandals' Compare to

Even forty years later, The Washington Post loves the opportunity to burnish its own Watergate legend. That scandal is somehow the Uber-Scandal of All Time And Space. This came in a Style-section front-pager on Thursday on Elizabeth Drew, who's barely been noticed since she was dumped by Tina Brown at The New Yorker twenty years ago. Drew's Watergate diaries are being reissued, and Melinda…
Tim Graham
May 15th, 2014 10:23 AM

MRC Files Unique Challenge to ObamaCare Mandate

RESTON, VA – Today the Media Research Center (MRC) announced that it has filed a motion in US District Court for a preliminary injunction seeking to block enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, which forces people of faith to subsidize health insurance plans that include abortion inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization. A hearing has…
NB Staff
May 15th, 2014 8:45 AM

On 'The Kelly File,' MRC's Tim Graham Laments Hillary Gets Celebrity T

NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on The Kelly File on Wednesday night to discuss the media's intense defense of Hillary Clinton after Karl Rove raised some questions about her fall and concussion at the end of 2013. Fox News producers lined up a series of network stars calling Rove "reprehensible" and running a "smear machine." Graham accused the media of attacking anyone who…
NB Staff
May 15th, 2014 8:01 AM