Big Three Networks Avoid Calling ISIS 'Terrorists;' Label Them 'Rebels

The Big Three networks steered clear of labeling the Islamist group ISIS "terrorists" on their evening newscasts on Friday. Instead, ABC's World News and CBS Evening News labeled the genocidal radicals "militants." NBC Nightly News used the more benign "rebels" in their coverage of the group's latest attacks on the Kurdish part of Iraq. The closest that a journalist at ABC, CBS, or NBC got…
Matthew Balan
August 9th, 2014 12:30 AM

NYT's Retired Reporters Now Deliver Their Left-Wing Diatribes Online

Old New York Times reporters don't fade away -- they just get liberal column perches at nytimes.com, where they can rant, unfiltered, on their own deeply dubious pet causes, such as treating abortion as a constitutional right (Linda Greenhouse), or how forest fires are a sign of global warming (Timothy Egan). On Wednesday, former Supreme Court reporter Greenhouse continued her pro-abortion…
Clay Waters
August 8th, 2014 9:27 PM

Limbaugh: Nixon Fell on the Sword for His Country - Twice

Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to rain on one of liberals' most sacred observances -- the anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency. Since this year's anniversary ends in a zero, four decades having passed from that somber day in August 1974, liberals are more choked up than usual. (Audio after the jump)
Jack Coleman
August 8th, 2014 8:40 PM

CNN's Politics Division Drops More Than a Dozen Posts in Move to Incre

While the Cable News Network continues to suffer from low ratings, its corporate headquarters has made a number of changes in an effort to hold down costs and change its focus. The latest move came this week, when more than a dozen employees in the cable television channel's digital politics division learned that their positions will be eliminated by the end of the month. According to an…
Randy Hall
August 8th, 2014 6:45 PM

Fox, MSNBC Military Analysts Agree: Obama's [Lack of] Strategy Is Trou

In the wake of the news that President Obama had ordered limited bombing on ISIS mobile artillery units – a small hit with only two 500-pound bombs – experts were not shy about declaring their concern on TV about the Obama strategy. The White House won't commit to stopping the genocide by ISIS -- as evidenced yesterday when White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest failed to provide an…
Cheri Jacobus
August 8th, 2014 5:30 PM

MSNBC’s Matthews Disses Colleague Ezra Klein’s Vox: 'Let Me Deal W

Chris Matthews is apparently no fan of blogs or websites, even when they are run by his comrades at MSNBC. On the August 8 edition of The Reid Report, guest host Jonathan Capehart welcomed the Hardball host to the program to discuss Iraq. He got a whole lot more than he bargained for. Capehart read an excerpt from a piece appearing on Ezra Klein’s Vox.com, which purports to be in the…
Connor Williams
August 8th, 2014 5:10 PM

Liberal Nicolle Wallace Is the New 'Conservative' Host on The View

According to speculation by the Daily Mail on Friday, Nicolle Wallace, a liberal Republican who worked on John McCain's 2008 campaign and famously feuded with Sarah Palin, has been selected to fill the "conservative" seat on ABC's The View. The rumor comes a day after the producer of the left-wing Rachel Maddow Show was hired to run the ABC chat show. Daily Mail writer Topper Toussaint…
Scott Whitlock
August 8th, 2014 4:00 PM

‘Bachelorette’ Contestant Calls Out Show’s Shallow Treatment of

A “Bachelorette” contestant seems anything but the ideal candidate to offer love advice (does anyone really believe in finding true love on reality TV?). But this guy gets one thing right: sex is sacred.  In a piece written for Patheos and picked up by TIME, “Bachelorette” contestant Nick Viall criticized his show, saying “I hope Bachelor Nation will have a more honest conversation about the…
Katie Yoder
August 8th, 2014 3:41 PM

ABC, CBS Won’t Explicitly Cite Hamas For Ending Cease-Fire; Labeled

During Friday morning’s coverage of the 72-hour cease-fire ending in Gaza, ABC and CBS refused to explicitly acknowledge Hamas as the party responsible for ending the cease-fire with Israel. Instead, those two networks referred to those responsible only as “militants” or “Palestinian militants” firing rockets at Israel. NBC’s Today did cite Hamas as the side responsible for terminating the…
Curtis Houck
August 8th, 2014 3:25 PM

Flashback: In October 2001, Liberal Media Bashed Bush for Air-dropping

As President Obama authorizes both limited airstrikes on ISIS targets and the air-dropping of relief supplies to beleaguered religious minorities in northern Iraq, we thought it good to rewind to the early days of the war in Afghanistan when the liberal media criticized President Bush for both bombing al Qaeda and Taliban targets while simultaneously air-dropping food and medicine for civilians…
NB Staff
August 8th, 2014 3:05 PM

Only NBC Mentions Criticism of Obama Being 'Too Late' to Combat ISIS T

Of the three network morning shows on Friday, only NBC's Today made any mention of President Obama being criticized over his slow response to the terrorist group ISIS taking over Iraq. Co-host Savannah Guthrie raised the issue to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd: "Listen to the President last night, his reluctance to get into Iraq is palpable. But on the other hand, he's facing…
Kyle Drennen
August 8th, 2014 2:49 PM

Journalists Restricted By Hamas Rules and It's Reflected in Their Cove

On August 6, Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies charged that while the media have filled their stories on the current conflict in Gaza with “pictures of neighborhoods reduced to rubble, with Palestinian men, women and children in desperate circumstances,” they have been negligent in telling their audiences that Hamas has been “deploying civilians as human shields, storing…
Geoffrey Dickens
August 8th, 2014 1:52 PM

Pope Marries Gay Disney Princes in Anti-Catholic "Art

It’s all for the art, man.  José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros, the artist behind the exhibition called ‘Profanity Pop’ has taken his “art” to an irreligious level, depicting Mickey Mouse as Christ, Daisy duck as the Virgin Mary holding pregnancy test, and a priest giving communion to Jessica Rabbit. Predictably, Ontiveros is a hit with liberals. 
Anna Walker
August 8th, 2014 1:29 PM

Indian TV Shows 'How Hamas Assembles and Fires Rockets'; U.S. Press Mo

In an English language report at NDTV.com on Tuesday, Sreenivasan Jain, reporting from Gaza, witnessed a Hamas "rocket silo being created under a tent right next to the hotel where our team was staying." His news team then "saw the rocket being fired, just before the 72-hour ceasefire came into effect." It would seem that Western news organizations who have seen their onsite reporters…
Tom Blumer
August 8th, 2014 1:04 PM