Slate: Abortion Is 'Vital Aspect' For Maternal Health

Liberal news site Slate wants to talk seriously about the maternal death rate. Why is that? Abortion. Yes, believe it or not, the liberal left wants to clarify that even though it’s a sad truth, abortion is “a vital aspect of reducing maternal mortality.”  It is ready to say that abortions should be done “with tremendous responsibility and humility.”
Corinne Weaver

PBS Allows Guest to Claim Medicaid ‘Isn’t Breaking the Bank’

Did you know that Medicaid spending isn’t even a big deal? So says Sasha Pudelski, a spokesperson for of the DC lobbying outfit AASA, when she was interviewed by PBS’s William Brangham who didn’t seem to find anything wrong with that statement.
Charles Dorfeuille

'View' Crew Begs Rumsfeld to Condemn Trump to Impeachment, and Fails

On Thursday’s The View, guest Donald Rumsfeld wouldn’t take the bait when hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin repeatedly pressured the former Secretary of Defense to sentence Donald Trump to impeachment. “Why would you want to engage in hypotheticals?” Rumsfeld pointedly asked the hosts, after they aggressively tried to get Rumsfeld to make a legal judgement on the sitting president.
Kristine Marsh

Matt Lauer Fears Trump Doesn’t Have ‘Gravitas’ to be President

Interviewing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer tried to get the former Bush cabinet official to say that Donald Trump did not have the seriousness to be president: “You were here during the campaign and I asked you about Trump....And when I asked you did he have the gravitas to be commander-in-chief, you dodged it a little bit....you’ve now had…
Kyle Drennen

USAA Backs Out on 'Hannity,' Claims They Don't Fund 'Opinion Shows'?

Fortune magazine reports that advertisers are being pressured by left-wing groups to drop their advertising on Sean Hannity's Fox News program, and at least five have complied with that campaign. But the obvious odd bird on that list is USAA, founded by Army veterans almost 100 years ago. This company's brand is all about support for veterans....and they're turning on Sean Hannity? For years,…
Tim Graham

MRC’s Brent Bozell Slams Advertiser Boycott of Hannity

Liberals, both inside the media and on the outside, are attempting to take down Fox News host Sean Hannity. Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement: "The attack on Sean Hannity is a part of the liberal strategy to re-establish their monopoly over television news. They want only one voice on the air: their own. All others must be silenced." 
NB Staff

Cuomo Rages at Conservatives: Don’t You Dare Hold Me Accountable!

On Tuesday morning, Chris Cuomo expressed frustration with the fact that there are people (perhaps at Newsbusters?) holding him and the New Day program accountable. Cuomo complained: “I’ve got this whole righty attack machine trying to twist everything that happens on this show.”
Alex Xenos

Vid Shows Abortionists Laugh at Falling ‘Eyeball,’ ‘Pulling Off Legs'

The liberal media routinely refuse to show the American public abortion for what it is: the barbaric destruction of an unborn baby. But new undercover footage is filling that gap – and uncovering the gruesome practices committed by abortion industry.
Katie Yoder

Bozell Condemns CNN as a ‘Disgrace’ for Trump Coverage

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Thursday condemned CNN as a “national disgrace” for the networks coverage of Donald Trump. Appearing on the Fox Business network, he assailed the network for “blam[ing] Donald Trump. He gets credit for nothing. He gets blamed for everything.” 
NB Staff

Cuomo Links MT Assault to GOP 'Ratcheting Up Hostility to Media'

On Thursday's New Day on CNN, Chris Cuomo repeatedly tried to tie the national Republican party to Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte assaulting a reporter. After the CNN host unsuccessfully tried to get the reporter in question -- Ben Jacobs of The Guardian -- to make such a link, he then raised the issue in a later segment as he recalled a "ratcheting up of hostility towards the…
Brad Wilmouth

Scarborough Decries: 'Stalinist' Trump to Blame for Montana Incident

In the wake of the scuffle that occurred between GOP Montana Congressional Candidate Greg Giafonte and Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, co-host Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe went directly after President Donald Trump. “You can draw a straight line from Republican candidates thinking that sort of behavior is okay when you have Donald Trump berating reporters throughout the entire campaign,…
Kevin Baker

Alt-Left Insanity: Media’s Anti-Trump Witch Hunt Uses Real Witches

Writers become oddly specialized in topics the more they write. Usually that’s a mixture of your own interests and stories you have to cover. I’ve focused on energy, Israel and even lefty protests. But witchcraft? Apparently, I have to focus on that for a spell. (Boo!) Three years ago, I wrote about the culture in post-Christian America. I included the truly awful and anti-Christian TV show …
Dan Gainor

NYT Coddles Chinese Commies Intimidating Student Critic

New York Times reporter Mike Ives covered the furor over Yang Shuping, a Chinese student who just graduated from the University of Maryland, praising the United States and criticizing her home country in her commencement speech: “Chinese Student, Graduating in Maryland, Sets Off a Furor by Praising the U.S.” Yet Ives, who works in an industry that relies on free speech, comes off as almost…
Clay Waters

Byers: Conservative ‘Anti-Media Rhetoric,’ ‘Incivility’ Caused Montana

As part of the media’s hysteria-filled reactions to the disturbing event out of Montana Wednesday night in which Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte allegedly body slammed The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs, CNN senior media reporter Dylan Byers blamed it on “anti-media rhetoric” and “civility” from conservatives.
Curtis Houck