After Hobby Lobby Ruling, NPR's Totenberg Claims Only Justice Kennedy

In an MSNBC interview today, Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's longtime Supreme Court watcher, attempted to portray the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision as possibly wide-ranging, and even advised viewers that Anthony Kennedy's presence on the court may be the only thing preventing it from bringing in an era of sex and "foreign origin" discrimination by "hundreds and hundreds and…
Tom Blumer
June 30th, 2014 5:49 PM

NBC’s Alexander Ponders With Wasserman Schultz: 'What Should the Adm

On Monday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, substitute host and NBC national correspondent  Peter Alexander gave Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz the floor to sound off on the rulings from the Supreme Court on religious freedom and public employee unions. Not surprisingly, he refused to challenge the DNC Chair or even play devil’s advocate. Nor did Alexander…
Curtis Houck
June 30th, 2014 5:20 PM

MRC President Bozell's Statement on Hobby Lobby Case

Editor's Note: What follows is a statement released this afternoon by Media Research Center president and founder Brent Bozell: "The Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case was a great victory for the First Amendment and religious freedom. In preserving the nation's first freedom, the court rejected the government imposing its will and agenda on people of faith who run companies and…
NB Staff
June 30th, 2014 5:20 PM

Stop the ‘Cut-Out Caricature’ Narrative of the Roberts Court, Libe

MSNBC and the liberal networks have been constantly fearmongering about the implications and supposed disastrous consequences of the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, seemingly by accident, Joy-Ann Reid brought on a liberal guest who was surprisingly defensive of the Court’s decision. The Reid Report host welcomed Laurence Tribe, a constitutional lawyer, to the June 30 edition of the program, and…
Connor Williams
June 30th, 2014 5:05 PM

MSNBC Guest Invokes Jim Crow, Apartheid in Reaction to Hobby Lobby Rul

Discontentment over the Supreme Court ruling on Hobby Lobby today continued this afternoon on MSNBC. Appearing on Ronan Farrow Daily on Monday afternoon, National Organization for Women president, Terry O’Neill argued Hobby Lobby’s beliefs to be “heinous” and compared them to an apartheid in South Africa, slavery and Jim Crow laws. Naturally host Ronan Farrow did nothing to rebuke O'Neill for…
Jackie Seal
June 30th, 2014 4:37 PM

CNN Plays Up 'Tough Year' For Obama White House in Wake of Supreme Cou

On Monday's This Hour, CNN's John Berman underlined that the Supreme Court's ruling against the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate was "another setback to the administration, in what has been a difficult year for this White House." Berman later asserted that "this has to be very frustrating for them. They feel blocked politically, legally, foreign policy-wise. Pretty much, everywhere…
Matthew Balan
June 30th, 2014 4:14 PM

Three Biggest Lies Liberals Spread about the Hobby Lobby Ruling

As predicted, Monday’s Supreme Court ruling 5-4 in favor of Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood Co., and other family-owned businesses who filed against the contraceptive requirements provided in the HHS Mandate raised howls of outrage from the left. American women were being thrust back into the Dark Ages of 2009, yada yada yada. Many lefties took to Twitter to spew hate.
Kristine Marsh
June 30th, 2014 4:12 PM

Three Biggest Lies Liberals Spread about the Hobby Lobby Ruling

Liberals took to Twitter to blow the case way out of proportion.
Kristine Marsh
June 30th, 2014 3:47 PM

VIDEO | Terry Moran to MRCTV: Don't Like ABC Ignoring IRS, VA Scandals

Insisting that he's really been out of the domestic news loop, ABC News Supreme Court correspondent Terry Moran told Dan Joseph of NewsBusters sister site MRCTV.org this morning that he was in northern Iraq the past few weeks and wasn't really aware of his network's recent decisions to ignore stunning new developments in the IRS and VA scandals. What's more, he suggested, if folks really care…
Ken Shepherd
June 30th, 2014 3:40 PM

USAT's Wolf Shows Financial Ignorance, Relays Non-Scientific Arguments

USA Today reporter Richard Wolf's afternoon coverage of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision this afternoon appeared to be completely ignorant of the dire financial consequences which would have been visited on the company had it lost today. He also allowed unscientific and objectively wrong arguments about conception to be advanced by those who wanted to see Hobby Lobby defeated.…
Tom Blumer
June 30th, 2014 1:58 PM

CNN's Zakaria: Maliki 'Has His Own Tea Party' In Iraqi Shiite Militia

Hyperbolic claims about the Tea Party are nothing new from the mainstream media, but now admitted plagiarist Fareed Zakaria is comparing the conservative group to a radical Islamist sect, rehashing the same tired comparison other liberal journalists and pundits have made before. On the June 29 edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS, the host compared the Tea Party to the Mahdi Army, an Iraqi Shiite…
Connor Williams
June 30th, 2014 1:30 PM

CNN’s Costello: Does SCOTUS Ruling Allow ‘Religion to Make Decisio

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby and that company's argument for religious freedom. CNN’s Carol Costello wondered if the decision will now allow for “religion to make decisions over science.” Joined by a panel of several guests to discuss the coming ruling on CNN Newsroom, host Carol Costello was more concerned with the impact the Supreme Court ruling would have on…
Jackie Seal
June 30th, 2014 11:28 AM

Imagine That: 45 Days After Predicted 'Irreversible Collapse,' Antarct

Hank Paulson, whose claim to fame in the public sector is panicking and browbeating the nation and its Washington politicians into accepting the Troubled Asset Relief Program in late September 2008, and who just two weeks later "put a (figurative) gun to the heads" of large-bank CEOs to "persuade" them to accept federal "investment" in their enterprises, has re-emerged to tell us, according to…
Tom Blumer
June 30th, 2014 11:12 AM

NYT: Scientists 'Startled' at Great Lakes' Rise; Another Warmist Predi

An undated but clearly recent page at the National Wildlife Federation breathlessly warns readers, in a section entitled "Threats from Global Warming," that "Lake Erie water levels, already below average, could drop 4-5 feet by the end of this century, significantly altering shoreline habitat." A Thursday Huffington Post Canada Business entry observed that "the (Great Lakes) basin has…
Tom Blumer
June 30th, 2014 9:13 AM