Open Thread: Cantor Loses to Tea Party Challenger

So this happened. It should be fun to see the media's furious spin now that a Tea Party longshot has defeated establishment Republican and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in tonight's primary election. Leave your comments below in this special breaking news open thread. Conversation starter: CNN noted the breaking news during tonight's Anderson Cooper 360 but dropped the ball on the…
NB Staff
June 10th, 2014 9:57 PM

NewsBusted: You're Killin' Me, Barry

"A video has emerged of President Obama lifting tiny weights in a European hotel gym. You see, Obama needs to get in shape so that he can throw like a girl at his next baseball game." To subscribe to NewsBusted via email, sign up here. To subscribe at YouTube, visit the NewsBusted channel here.
NB Staff
June 10th, 2014 9:46 PM

Poll: MSNBC Least Trusted TV News Source, Fox News Most Trusted

Most surveys regarding cable news channels focus on ratings and the opinions of their viewers. However, a recent poll conducted by the Brookings and Public Religion Research Institute sought the views of all Americans toward all news sources in the nation. A mere 5 percent of the respondents called the left-wing MSNBC cable channel their “most trusted” TV news outlet. On the other end of the…
Randy Hall
June 10th, 2014 9:28 PM

‘Big Three’ Networks Ignore Latest ObamaCare Delay

On Tuesday, June 10, the Obama Administration issued a delay that will allow 18 states not to implement a portion of ObamaCare’s small business health insurance exchange until 2016. Despite the delay, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, all three network evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the story on Tuesday evening. 
Jeffrey Meyer
June 10th, 2014 8:54 PM

NBC’s McFadden Reads Hillary Her Own Book: ‘Evidence...Why I Think

Hillary Clinton sat down with NBC’s Cynthia McFadden for an interview which aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, June 10 to promote her new book “Hard Choices.” While the NBC reporter brought up sensitive issues such as Benghazi, when the subject turned to Clinton’s potential presidential bid, McFadden proved to be nothing more than a Hillary sycophant.  The first thing that aired from the…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 10th, 2014 8:11 PM

MSNBC's Matthews on Benghazi: 'Sometimes You Get Killed, and That's Pa

Troubled by a recent poll number showing 52 percent of independent voters approve of a select congressional committee investigating the Benghazi fiasco, MSNBC's Chris Matthews offered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton his messaging advice on the matter during a segment of the June 10 Hardball. It boiled down to: "sometimes you get killed, and that's part of the business." The relevant…
Ken Shepherd
June 10th, 2014 8:02 PM

Get a Room: Buzzfeed Woman Ogles Obama as 'Our Hottest President Ever

Barack Obama may be headed toward the Lame Duck Preserve, but some Internet attention-seekers are still willing to swoon over him and hope to go viral. Tracy Clayton at Buzzfeed.com – a star of “Black Twitter” – posted a set of photos Tuesday night with the headline “27 Pictures That Prove That Barack Obama Is Our Hottest President Ever.” (HT: Michelle Malkin) What followed below was a set…
Tim Graham
June 10th, 2014 6:47 PM

MSNBC's Joy Reid: 2009 Homeland Security Report On Right-Wing Extremis

It seems the hosts of MSNBC’s daytime programs for June 10 have been sharing the same, predictable anti-conservative talking points concerning the Las Vegas shooting earlier this week. While Andrea Mitchell asked her guest if the increase in violence had anything to do with having an “African American president,” Joy Reid claimed that these events proved the rise of “right-wing extremism…
Laura Flint
June 10th, 2014 6:00 PM

UPDATE: Networks Refuse to Report Obama Role in Humanitarian Border Cr

UPDATE: On the June 10 Evening News, CBS’s Vicente Arenas reported: “The influx of children is being blamed on poverty and drug-related violence in Central America. It’s also thought some parents wrongly believe policy changes made by President Obama prohibit young, illegal immigrants from being deported.” Late last week, detention centers along the U.S.-Mexican border were crushed with a new…
Geoffrey Dickens
June 10th, 2014 5:32 PM

Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman Slams Hillary’s ‘We Struggled

Hillary Clinton made her first TV appearance on Monday, June 9 to promote her new book Hard Choices, and already the former Secretary of State is causing quite a bit of controversy. During an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Clinton claimed that she and Bill “struggled” after leaving the White House and were “not only dead broke, but in debt.” In the wake of Clinton’s gaffe, during a…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 10th, 2014 5:24 PM

Following School Shooting, MSNBC Guest, a ‘Security’ Expert, Deman

In the immediate aftermath of the tragic shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, gun control fanatics were ready to go straight away to their never-ending crusade to slap more and more restrictions on gun rights. Some of them went on air, however, in the guise of apolitical security experts. Take the June 10 edition of MSNBC’s The Cycle, where the panel brought on security and…
Connor Williams
June 10th, 2014 5:15 PM

Andrea Mitchell: Is Rise In Extremism Due to 'African American Presid

Leave it to MSNBC to exploit a shooting by a pair of deranged extremists to push the notion that violence is on the rise as a racist reacting to having a black man in the Oval Office. That's what MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell did in a segment of the Tuesday edition of her MSNBC program, asking political consultant and former Attorney General Eric Holder spokesman Matthew Miller if the shooting was…
Jackie Seal
June 10th, 2014 4:50 PM

Media Blame Vegas Shootings on Right: ‘Just As Deadly As Homegrown J

Tip for liberal journalists: If you’re going to try to smear conservatives every time some homicidal nut shoots innocent people, it’s a bad idea to cite the Southern Poverty Law Center. When Floyd Lee Corkins tried to shoot up the conservative Family Research Council in 2012, he later admitted he targeted the conservative organization because the SPLC listed the FRC as a “hate group” for it’s…
Kristine Marsh
June 10th, 2014 4:43 PM

AP Says Growth Will 'Accelerate' and 'Pick Up' During Rest of Year; Af

At the Associated Press yesterday, Christopher Rugaber's writeup on the latest economic growth projections of the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) contained several glaring weaknesses. Take the headline (quite possibly not his doing) and his opening sentence. The headline, "SURVEY: GROWTH TO PICK UP, HIRING STEADY," seems designed to ensure that those who only look at…
Tom Blumer
June 10th, 2014 4:22 PM