Networks Cheer ObamaCare 'Sign-Up Surge' as 'Milestone,' Ignore Lack o

On Thursday evening and Friday morning, ABC, NBC, and CBS all touted a "surge" in sign-ups for ObamaCare ahead of Monday's March 31 deadline. What none of the networks mentioned was that the percentage of young, healthy enrollees was still short of the minimum necessary to sustain the health care law. On ABC's World News on Thursday, anchor Diane Sawyer hailed the enrollment numbers as an "…

Kyle Drennen
March 28th, 2014 3:42 PM
 

New ‘Chávez’ Movie Avoids Immigration, But Left Still Use It to P

When millions treat César Chávez as a hero, it is easy to twist his story to promote an agenda. Liberals are using the popularity of the Latino cultural leader, via the new “Cesar Chavez” movie, to push amnesty for immigrants. The film, which was released March 28, almost completely ignored the debate over immigration. This didn’t stop many liberals, including the director and lead actress,…
Sean Long
March 28th, 2014 3:15 PM
 

NARAL Prez to Elle: ‘We Really Do Live in a Pro-Choice Country

Sometimes, all you can say is, “Keep telling yourself that.”  Elle’s Rachael Combe recently honored NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue as one of the “10 Most Powerful Women in D.C.” For Combe’s piece, Hogue told Elle that, “Even though states adopted 53 antichoice measures last year,” Americans “really do live in a pro-choice country.” Fortunately, the polls disagree.
Katie Yoder
March 28th, 2014 3:02 PM
 

'Nightline' Turns to Democrats to Slam Christie as a 'Bully

To accompany ABC's tough interview of New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Friday's Nightline quoted New Jersey Democrats slamming him as a vengeful "bully." World News anchor Diane Sawyer noted that "critics remember the lure of Christie's brash personal style" before airing clips of Democrats pounding him. Sawyer pressed Christie repeatedly over New Jersey's bridge closure scandal, but she…
Matt Hadro
March 28th, 2014 2:54 PM
 

'Texas All But Guts Roe v. Wade,' MSNBC Moans As Female Federal Judges

Yesterday an all-female 3-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas's abortion clinic regulation law. As you can imagine, this has got MSNBC, the "war on women" network,  outraged. "Texas all but guts Roe v. Wade" grouses the teaser headline for Irin Carmon's March 28 story on msnbc.com. "One third of Texas’s abortion clinics have closed. That’s not bad enough for these…
Ken Shepherd
March 28th, 2014 1:45 PM
 

Colbert Tries to Distance Himself From Tweet That Was Based on His Own

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert found himself at the center of a controversy on Thursday stemming from a racially insensitive tweet posted to The Colbert Report Twitter account. The well-known satirist  tried to distance himself from the tweet (now deleted) early Friday morning – even though it was almost a direct quote from his Wednesday night show. [Video below. MP3 audio here.] Here is…
Paul Bremmer
March 28th, 2014 1:28 PM
 

HuffPo: Humans Deserve to be Squashed By Aliens

The Huffington Post doesn’t shy away from the far reaches of environmental craziness. This time they’ve published an animated short film from Steve Cutts that they described as “Everything Wrong With Humanity, In One Short Clip.” The video was posted on March 27, but the writer noted that Cutts’ video, actually called “Man,” is from 2012. In the environmental propaganda animation, the entire…
Mike Ciandella
March 28th, 2014 1:12 PM
 

Scott Pelley Tosses Softballs to Obama: You Wish You Could Live Low Ke

CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley scored an exclusive interview with Barack Obama on Friday. Much of the conversation centered around the President's meeting with Pope Francis. But rather than highlight the Pope's strong disagreements on issues like abortion, gay marriage and the contraception mandate in the health care law, Pelley appeared on CBS This Morning to wonder if the President,…
Scott Whitlock
March 28th, 2014 12:30 PM
 

Omission Watch: L.A. Clippers Star J.J. Redick Badgered Girlfriend Aft

In July 2013 MediaTakeOut.com broke the story that basketball star J.J. Redick had initiated an “abortion contract” with then girlfriend Vanessa Lopez to abort their baby. The contract stated the couple would attempt to ”maintain a social and/or dating relationship” for one year after the abortion, and if Redick reneged he would pay Lopez $25,000.
Jill Stanek
March 28th, 2014 11:35 AM
 

Networks Hail Bush 41 Getting 'Profile in Courage' Award for Hiking Ta

All three network evening newscasts on Thursday found time to cheer the JFK Library Foundation announcing former President George H. W. Bush would the 2014 recipient of its annual Profile in Courage award. So what specific accomplishment did the organization cite from the Republican's decades of public service? His decision to hike taxes in 1990 that cost him re-election and paved the way for…

Kyle Drennen
March 28th, 2014 10:45 AM
 

Brent Bozell Tells Megyn Kelly About TV's Obamacare Omission: 'CBS Is

MRC president Brent Bozell appeared Thursday night (as he often does) on “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. The subject was this week’s MRC studies on Obamacare – the Rich Noyes study on the under-coverage of Obamacare, and the Geoffrey Dickens study on all the victims who’ve been ignored. Brent touched on how only CBS did one Saturday story on a four-year-old who was denied care under…
NB Staff
March 28th, 2014 10:40 AM
 

CNN Email Touts 6 Million Obamacare Sign-ups As 'Symbolic Victory

Call it low-information voter outreach. An email yesterday from CNNMoney touted how fantastic it was that Obamacare enrollment has reached the six million threshold, even describing it as a "symbolic victory." Though the underlying article by Tami Luhby at least noted the problems with that 6 million figure, those problems should have been enough to negate that characterization. Instead,…
Tom Blumer
March 28th, 2014 9:14 AM
 

ABC Touts 'Bond' Between Obama and Pope; Forgets the Administration's

All the networks gave positive coverage on Wednesday evening to President Obama's meeting with Pope Francis, but ABC left out the elephant in the room, the massive conflict between the Obama administration and the U.S. Catholic Bishops over the birth control mandate. Each network reported a happy meeting; both ABC and NBC called it "historic." All the networks highlighted the consensus between…

Matt Hadro
March 27th, 2014 10:54 PM
 

BBC Photo Caption References 'Pope Francis (R)' Meeting President Obam

Earlier today, the Facebook page for BBC World News posted a captionfest item featuring a photo of President Obama and Pope Francis shaking hands. Curiously, the photo caption begins, "Pope Francis (R) and US President Barack Obama shake hands after exchanging gifts during a private audience on March 27, 2014 at the Vatican." [see screen capture -- taken around 10 p.m. Eastern -- below page…
Ken Shepherd
March 27th, 2014 10:20 PM