Andrea Mitchell: 'Alleged Delay' in Labeling Boko Haram a Terror Group

On her Tuesday 12 p.m. MSNBC show, host and NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell was more concerned with protecting Hillary Clinton than holding the potential 2016 Democratic candidate accountable for refusing to label Nigerian kidnappers Boko Haram as terrorists: "...the alleged delay in designating Boko Haram as a terror group. This is being used to try to go after Hillary…
Kyle Drennen
May 14th, 2014 12:05 PM

ABC, CBS Rush to Defend Hillary Clinton From Karl Rove’s Questions A

Earlier this week,, The New York Post reported that Karl Rove recently made comments questioning Hillary Clinton’s health in the event she runs for president in 2016, and the Wednesday, May 14 ABC and CBS morning shows predictably rushed to defend Secretary Clinton from Rove’s criticism.  CBS This Morning’s Charlie Rose promoted the “backlash following Karl Rove’s comments about former…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 14th, 2014 11:45 AM

Networks Exaggerate infrastructure Threats Using Biased Sources

ABC, CBS and NBC rely on engineering group that benefits from infrastructure spending.
Kristine Marsh
May 14th, 2014 11:25 AM

93% of Network Stories on Nigerian Kidnappings Ignore Clinton Refusing

Amid the U.S. major media focus on hundreds of Nigerian school girls being kidnapped by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram, The Daily Beast's Josh Rogan first reported a week ago that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused to designate the group as a terrorist organization during her tenure, despite being urged to do so by both the FBI and CIA. Since that news broke on May 7,…
Kyle Drennen
May 14th, 2014 10:57 AM

$1 Billion Obamacare Contractor Gives Employees Little or No Work; Wil

The government is paying private contractor Serco $1.2 billion over five years — and likely more, as will be seen later — to process paper Obamacare applications. In turn, according to a report by television station KMOV, Serco has hired and continues to pay a reported 1,800 workers who have virtually no work to do. Massive waste like this should develop into a national story and create a…
Tom Blumer
May 14th, 2014 10:39 AM

CMI's Warren Buffett Report Discussed on 'The Five

CMI's special report which revealed that Warren Buffett had donated more than $1.2 billion to pro-abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood, was discussed on Fox News' "The Five." A partial transcript of the interview follows: (video after break)
Mike Ciandella
May 14th, 2014 9:14 AM

American Prospect Writer Laments 'The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal

The American Prospect is shaking up their own liberal audience with Gabriel Arana’s article “The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media: If left-leaning publications value diversity, why don't they have any?” Arana began by noting “On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic minority....It's not just the Prospect. Journalism upstarts like Vox Media and…
Tim Graham
May 14th, 2014 8:25 AM

Open Thread: Is Christian Radio 'Insufferable

NB Staff
May 14th, 2014 8:22 AM

Journalists Are Angry White Men, Fewer Republicans In Newsrooms Than I

Picking up on the new survey of journalists nationwide conducted for the School of Journalism at Indiana University, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders offered two amusing takes on it in her Tuesday column: > “The profession that dubbed the Republican Party a refuge for ‘angry white men’ is teeming with angry white men.”

Brent Baker
May 14th, 2014 5:08 AM

Press Largely Ignores GAO Finding That Sequestration Led to Just One F

According to a Government Accountability Office report released in March but inexplicably only getting attention just now, the pain resulting from last year's sequestration "cuts," which were mostly reductions in the growth of spending in comparison to the previous year, bore no resemblance to the Armageddon-like warnings which preceded their imposition. Only one federal employee was laid off.…
Tom Blumer
May 14th, 2014 12:20 AM

Column: Michael Sam Saga Proof That Leftist Thought Police Are On a Te

Before I begin, I want to pose a question to the powers that control our society today: Am I allowed to comment on issues that pertain to homosexuality if I don't echo the views of our masters? Will people who read this column willingly twist what I say to justify condemnation of anyone who disagrees with them? They certainly do it to many other people. Note to those waiting for an excuse to…
David Limbaugh
May 13th, 2014 11:18 PM

An Open Letter to Talk Host Michael Smerconish

Michael, I know you’re trying to squeeze some lemonade out of your career prospects but bashing fellow talk hosts as routinely and regularly lying to listeners isn’t the best way to sell a book or get more audience to a cable news network. You went on the CBS morning news show last week (documented by the Media Research Center) to hock your wares (a book and a satellite radio show and your…
Lars Larson
May 13th, 2014 9:27 PM

Colbert Throws Penalty Flag on Michael Sam's Gay Kiss for 'Holding!' a

Even though baseball season has finally arrived, the focus of last weekend's TV sports was the annual draft of college players to join teams in the National Football League. This year's selection was the first of its kind since Michael Sam, an open homosexual who “came out” in February, was among the hundreds of young men hoping to make the leap to professional sports. After the African-…
Randy Hall
May 13th, 2014 9:07 PM

Brian Williams Jumps to Defend Hillary Clinton, Denounces ‘Nasty

Moving to discredit, as illegitimate, Republican operative Karl Rove’s inquiry about Hillary Clinton’s health, on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams denounced the “smear campaign” oozing from “some very nasty politics.”  Williams teased at the top of his newscast: “Smear campaign. Are we witnessing a new GOP line of attack against Hillary Clinton and did Karl Rove take things…
Brent Baker
May 13th, 2014 8:41 PM