Planned Parenthood Tips Hat to Univision’s 'Hola Doctor' for Promoti

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of abortions, is so happy with Univision's work promoting Obamacare that it has bestowed upon the network’s premier digital health content partner, Hola Doctor, its annual award for “media excellence”. Hola Doctor, which provides Univision with co-branded web content, received the award in the “Online Reporting” category, and was specifically…
Ken Oliver-Méndez
August 12th, 2014 8:29 PM

‘Big Three’ Networks Ignore White House Reversing Lobbyist Ban

On Tuesday, August 12, Politico’s Byron Tau reported how the Obama White House is planning to “reverse a key part of its ban on registered lobbyists serving in government.”  Despite yet another major flip-flop from the Obama Administration regarding its relationship with lobbyists, none of the “big three” networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) covered the story on their Tuesday evening newscasts.
Jeffrey Meyer
August 12th, 2014 8:12 PM

Open Thread: Obama/Duncan Ed. Dept. Has Designated 'Denial Officer' fo

Former NewsBuster Lachlan Markay, who now does excellent work at the Washington Free Beacon, tweeted a link to a stunning photo of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request denial letter sent from one Taylor D. August, a "FOIA Denial Officer" at the Department of Education to Morgan Smith of the Texas Tribune. "Here's to transparency in job titles! #foia," Smith tweeted from her account at 4:…
NB Staff
August 12th, 2014 6:31 PM

Robo Calls: Tampa Bay Times Political Editor Discovers Charlie Crist

What a lowdown dirty campaign trick! Democrat primary voters in Florida have been receiving robo calls from someone purporting to be gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist taking positions antithetical to the beliefs of most liberals. Obviously this was designed to harm Crist and many Democrats on the receiving end of the call complained that it must have been an imposter on the line.…
P.J. Gladnick
August 12th, 2014 5:15 PM

Sharyl Attkisson Files FOIA Lawsuit Seeking ObamaCare Website Document

Former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, with the assistance of the conservative organization Judicial Watch, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Servies on Friday, seeking records related to the ObamaCare website, HealthCare.gov. Attkisson announced the lawsuit on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon: "I'm suing the federal govt for http://healthcare…
Matthew Balan
August 12th, 2014 5:01 PM

Don Lemon 'Understands' the Rioting, Looting Response to Ferguson, Mo

On the August 11 edition of CNN Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin invited fellow CNN host Don Lemon and former NYPD detective Gil Alba on the show to discuss the latest reports of unrest in Ferguson, Mo., following the shooting of an unarmed African-American teen. While the policeman bluntly stated that “there should never be rioting,” Lemon seemed to excuse the behavior, arguing that “when people are…
Laura Flint
August 12th, 2014 4:45 PM

MSNBC Hypes Its Own Website That Shills for Democrats

MSNBC's "women in politics" web page almost exclusively promotes Democratic candidates and the cable network is now shilling for the site with cable ads. With peppy, upbeat music, the ad featured liberals politicians such as Wendy Davis, Alex Sink, Sandra Fluke, Nancy Pelosi and MSNBC cable hosts like Melissa Harris Perry. [See video of the commercial below. MP3 audio here.]  The cable…
Scott Whitlock
August 12th, 2014 4:30 PM

CNBC's Harwood: World 'Blowing Up' Under Obama Is 'Big Problem' for Hi

Appearing on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning, the business network's chief Washington correspondent John Harwood acknowledged that President Obama's failed foreign policy would be an obstacle to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential ambitions: "...her independent credential running for president is that she was President Obama's secretary of state. The world is now blowing up. So that is a big…
Kyle Drennen
August 12th, 2014 4:15 PM

CNN’s Costello: ‘It’s Too Late’ for U.S. to Arm, Train the Kur

While it has been reported that the United States will provide the Kurdish army – commonly known as the Peshmerga – with small arms and ammunition, there have been repeated calls to more substantially arm the paramilitary force. On the August 12 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Carol Costello discussed the subject with Haras Rafiq, an outreach officer for the Quilliam Foundation, a think tank that…
Connor Williams
August 12th, 2014 4:00 PM

U.S. Spokesman for Iraqi-Christians on MSNBC: ISIS Carrying Out ‘A F

On Tuesday Morning, MSNBC and Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart brought a guest on his MSNBC show to discuss the targeted killing and persecution of Christians in Iraq at the hands of the ultra-Islamic terrorist group ISIS. The guest, Mark Arabo, who serves as the national spokesman for the Chaldeans, (the sect of Iraqi Christians facing ISIS’s terror), told Diaz-Balart that the actions of ISIS…
Curtis Houck
August 12th, 2014 3:45 PM

Weekly Standard: NYT Hates Criticism and Won't Publish Challenging Let

According to an expose in the August 18 Weekly Standard, the New York Times hates critical comments and won't print letters to the editors that challenge NYT facts. Writer Kenneth L. Woodward detailed a behind-the-scenes battle to get the paper to correct inaccurate information by Maureen Dowd.  After dealing with an editor, Woodward recounted, "In sum, the Times was telling me that they will…
Scott Whitlock
August 12th, 2014 3:13 PM

ABC, NBC Ignore Heartbreaking Video of Iraqis Desperately Escaping ISI

Only CBS This Morning on Tuesday bothered to cover the heartbreaking video of Iraqi refugees rushing a helicopter in a desperate attempt to escape the violence of the terrorist group ISIS. NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America ignored the gripping video.  CBS reporter David Martin narrated the CNN-supplied footage: "Iraqi Army helicopters fly in at 100 feet in broad daylight to push…
Scott Whitlock
August 12th, 2014 12:35 PM

Young Black Man Punches, Drops 72 Year-Old NYC Man on Tape; Local Repo

A brief report at the neighborhood web site DNAinfo in New York City, which describes itself as "New York's leading neighborhood news source" with "award-winning journalists" on staff, exemplifies how weak and negligent reporting on urban crime can be. A video capture of an assault in the City's West Greewich Village area shows a young black man first punching and knocking to the pavement a…
Tom Blumer
August 12th, 2014 10:54 AM

Peculiar: New York Times Reporters Stick Up for Hamas on Social Media

As a 72-hour ceasefire takes hold in Israel, New York Times Gaza-based reporters remain locked in a peculiar moral equivalency between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas bent on the nation's destruction, with reporters taking pains on social media and television to stick up for Hamas, dismissing the idea of Hamas harassment of journalists as "nonsense," and even criticizing Hillary Clinton…
Clay Waters
August 12th, 2014 7:55 AM