Williams: Eugene Robinson Is a ‘Pulitzer Prize-Winning Communist'
Brian Williams’s mouth is getting him in trouble again. The disgraced ex-Nightly News anchor on Monday closed out a segment on Castro by declaring liberal Washington Post writer Eugene Robinson a “Pulitzer Prize-winning communist.”
Scott Whitlock
Breaking: Jay-Z And Beyoncé Recommended Havana 'Paladar' To Obamas
Univision is now at the intersection of celebrity and political news.
Jorge Bonilla
CBS Warns U.S. Business Could ‘Endanger’ Cuba’s ‘Unique Charm’
During a report promoting U.S. companies expanding business in Cuba, correspondent Margaret Brennan also lamented a downside: “Cuba remains one of the few countries in the world left virtually untapped by American corporations due to the long running trade embargo....But visitors like Manuel Leone fear that an influx of big businesses will endanger Cuba's unique charm.”
Kyle Drennen
CNN's Cuomo Wears Shirt from Fidel As He Covers Obama's Cuba Visit
On Monday's New Day, CNN's Chris Cuomo revealed that he was wearing his father's guayabera shirt, which was "given to him by Fidel Castro as a gift." Cuomo, who was covering President Obama's visit to Cuba, underlined that "it didn't mean something to him [his father] because it came from Fidel Castro necessarily, but because it marked conversations going on decades ago that were the same as…
Matthew Balan
WaPo's Kessler: No Constitutional Obligation for Holding Garland Vote
Three Pinocchios. That's the grade the liberal-leaning Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler gave to Democrats' claims that Republicans' plans to bottle up Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme court were an abrogation of their constitutional duty.
Ken Shepherd
Time's Gushy Interview with 'Two Shining Role Models' for Blacks
Time magazine is still thrilled to present Barack Obama as the First Black President, even although his time in office has almost elapsed. In the March 28 issue, they devoted five pages to a softball interview with Obama and Misty Copeland, the first black principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre.
Time’s Maya Rhodan promoted this conversation as terrific: “The two leaders of their…
Tim Graham
A Foden Tribute: Saying Goodbye to a Great Artist
Long-time Media Research Center friend and cartoonist Glenn Foden passed away suddenly yesterday of a brain aneurysm. It was a profound loss to our family and to the conservative movement.
Using his wit, his ink and his artistic talent, Glenn poked fun at the liberal media and the left regularly for MRC Business and MRC Culture. His signature characters and use of pop-cultural imagery made his…
NB Staff
NBC, CBS: Obamas ‘Acting Like Tourists’ During ‘Historic’ Cuba Trip
On Monday, while ABC’s Good Morning America aired a softball interview with President Obama from Cuba, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning both celebrated the First Family “acting like tourists” during their “historic” trip to the Communist dictatorship.
Kyle Drennen
Obama Daughters Urged To Smoke Cigars, Drink Mojitos by Univision
Univision pushes Castro regime propaganda as listicle clickbait.
Jorge Bonilla
ABC Fawns Over Obama's ‘Day of History’ in Cuba, Skimps on Oppression
David Muir and the journalists at Good Morning America were thrilled over Cuba’s “day of history,” hyping an exclusive interview with Barack Obama. Yet, the same network spent just a scant ten seconds on the arrest of more than 50 dissidents hours before the President arrived.
Scott Whitlock
NYT's One-Sided Coverage of Texas Abortion Regs at SCOTUS Continues
The New York Times really despises the Texas law raising safety standards for abortion clinics, and its reporting makes no effort to hide it. Health reporter Abby Goodnough reports on the case, soon to come before the Supreme Court, which will rule whether the regulations violate a 1992 ruling that states cannot impose “undue burdens” on women seeking abortions. The headline summed up the paper’s…
Clay Waters
Former Top NY Times Editor: Why's Hillary E-Mail Scandal 'A Big Deal'?
Politico’s Glenn Thrush – the liberal reporter who confessed to President Obama that he had “candidate envy” in 2008, since he was stuck on the Hillary Clinton bus – carried Hillary’s water in a new interview with Jill Abramson, the recently deposed Executive Editor of the New York Times. Abramson agreed Clinton suffers from media bias and “does get more scrutiny” than other candidates,…
Tim Graham
Wallace: SoCons Aside, Republicans Should Consider Supporting Hillary
Talk about your Hobson's Choice . . . on today's Morning Joe, Nicolle Wallace, citing GOP consultants, suggested that--other than social conservatives--Republicans concerned with foreign policy should consider supporting Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Hillary supporter Harold Ford, Jr. could be heard chiming in with a "well said."
Wallace was echoing the argument laid out by Joe Scarborough…
Mark Finkelstein
Notable Quotables: Blaming GOP for Donald Trump, aka 'Adolf Hitler'
This issue: the March 21 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This issue: Journalists at CNN and the New York Times blame the Republican Party for the rise of Donald Trump, a menace that George Stephanopoulos and others compare to an American Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, ABC and NBC race to proclaim Barack Obama’s new Supreme…