ABC, CBS Punt on Democratic Party ID of Mayor Being Sued For Sexual Ha

On Tuesday, neither ABC's Good Morning America nor CBS This Morning mentioned San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's Democratic affiliation, as they reported on the new sexual harassment lawsuit against the former congressman. The CBS morning show devoted a full report to the latest development in the sex scandal, while the ABC broadcast only devoted a news brief to the story. NBC's Today has yet to…
Matthew Balan
July 23rd, 2013 12:10 PM

Pro-life Leaders Demand Burial for ‘Gosnell Babies,’ Philly Stonew

Kermit Gosnell is behind bars, and his little victims are long dead, but the case is still a fight about the dignity of life. On Friday, July 19, several pro-life leaders demanded justice and burial for the bodies of 45 babies found in convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion clinic. They organized a prayer vigil outside the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office, and…
Katie Yoder
July 23rd, 2013 11:46 AM

Chris Matthews Pollutes Royal Baby Coverage: Brits Like Us Even When W

Not even the birth of the royal baby could keep Chris Matthews from making a snide liberal attack. In a closing commentary, Monday night, the Hardball anchor touted the special relationship between Britain and America. But after nicely noting that "when it counts, we are with the Brits and they with us -- from the Falklands to Iraq and back to two world wars," he gratuitously played a clip from…
Scott Whitlock
July 23rd, 2013 11:37 AM

Leno: Biden Says He Can Die a Happy Man Never Having Been President

Jay Leno took a comedic swipe at Vice President Joe Biden Monday. During the opening monologue of NBC’s Tonight Show, the host said, “In a recent interview in GQ magazine, Vice President Joe Biden says he can die a happy man never having been President of the United States. And you know something? So can we! Woo, oh my God!”
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 11:21 AM

NBC Reporter Uses Al Qaeda Jailbreak in Iraq to Bash U.S. Over 'Notori

On Tuesday's NBC Today, during a report on a attack against Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that freed hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel couldn't resist slamming the U.S. for past abuses at the facility: "Abu Ghraib prison, notorious for American abuses and humiliations that [turned] an untold number against the United States, remains an open wound." [Listen to…
Kyle Drennen
July 23rd, 2013 11:09 AM

Jay Z, Kanye West, Madonna, and Rolling Stones Join Stevie Wonder's Fl

As NewsBusters previously reported, Stevie Wonder announced last Monday that in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, he was boycotting Florida due to the state's Stand Your Ground law. According to April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, top stars such as Jay Z, Kanye West, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones have joined Wonder's boycott.
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 10:18 AM

Nets Give Pro-Abortion Wendy Davis 3 Times Coverage of Entire Gosnell

With Matt Philbin  Remember the media blackout of the Gosnell trial? Earlier this year, Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted of three counts of murder – two of them delivering babies and then killing them in his filthy “house of horrors” clinic. He was also found guilty of more than 230 other felony and misdemeanor charges. Pundits and journalists excused the…
Lauren Enk
July 23rd, 2013 9:41 AM

MRC Special Report: The Media Censorship That Put Barack Obama Back in

For more than two years, Media Research Center analysts monitored news coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign, especially the Big Three broadcast networks which reach the widest audiences. What we uncovered — both during the campaign, and then later while conducting research for Brent Bozell and Tim Graham’s new book, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election — documents how the top…
Rich Noyes
July 23rd, 2013 9:34 AM

Leno: I Was Supposed to Deliver Royal Baby Announcement But They Repla

Jay Leno took a another comedic swipe at NBC Monday. Early in his Tonight Show monologue, the host said, "I was a little bummed out because I was the one that was supposed to deliver the [Royal] baby announcement this afternoon at the hospital, and they replaced me at the last minute” with Jimmy Fallon.
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 9:30 AM

CNN's Don Lemon Thinks Non-Blacks Cannot Fairly Report on Blacks So Wh

During his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. declared that he wanted people to “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Almost 50 years later, that dream is still a long way off, judging from the clash on Saturday in which CNN Newsroom's black host Don Lemon told conservative white…
Randy Hall
July 23rd, 2013 9:19 AM

Open Thread Tuesday

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NB Staff
July 23rd, 2013 9:01 AM

WashPost Highlights Illegal-Alien Tears, Downplays Day-Laborer Child A

On the front page of Tuesday’s Metro section of The Washington Post, there is a large picture of a crying illegal alien, Jose Mejia, for a story headlined “Immigrants’ experiences, in their own words.” Post reporter Pamela Constable chronicled everything the illegal-alien lobby wanted her to chronicle, including propaganda art: “One hand-painted poster showed two enormous fists smashing into…
Tim Graham
July 23rd, 2013 8:29 AM

Obama Recruits Hollywood Star Power to Sell Health Care Exchanges This

Ira Teinowitz of The Wrap reports that the Obama White House “drew some major Hollywood star power to help drum up for support of his Obamacare health care exchanges on Monday – including Jennifer Hudson, Amy Poehler and former White House special advisor Kal Penn.” Representatives of other celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey, Jon Bon Jovi, and Alicia Keys also attended the meeting, as well…
Tim Graham
July 23rd, 2013 7:43 AM

Size and Potential Problems of ObamaCare's Army of 'Navigators' Going

If the employment numbers seem better than one might have expected during the next few months, it may have nothing to do with private companies hiring people to provide goods and services people actually want. It may instead relate to the army of paper-pushers who are being hired to help individuals and families apply for ObamaCare subsidies starting on October 1. If California's situation is…
Tom Blumer
July 22nd, 2013 11:59 PM