MRC's Bozell: Pence Won Debate Despite Quijano's Best Efforts

Following Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (Va.) and Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence (Ind.), Media Research Center president Brent Bozell released a statement on his belief that Pence won despite questioning from CBS News correspondent and moderator Elaine Quijano.  
NB Staff
October 4th, 2016 11:11 PM

ABC Ignores Bill Clinton Knocking ObamaCare as ‘Crazy System’

A broken clock is right twice a day and former President Bill Clinton was certainly right Monday when he criticized ObamaCare for hurting working people. “…The people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” he remarked at a campaign rally for his wife. The shocking admission by the liberal president went unreported…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 4th, 2016 9:57 PM

Maddow: Mike Pence Is a ‘Hard-Line, Hard-Core, Religious Right Guy'

Using the most loaded language she could muster, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday described Mike Pence as a “hard-line, hard-core, religious right guy.” Previewing the vice presidential debate, she also insisted that there are “policy differences” on abortion between Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton. 
Scott Whitlock
October 4th, 2016 9:01 PM

Brzezinski Defends Trump and Slams Hillary as Temps Plummet in Hell

Truly bad sign for the Clinton campaign when one of their most reliable apologists in media denounces Hillary Clinton while also -- wait for it -- effusively praising Donald Trump. Mika Brzezinski's surprising twofer came on today's Morning Joe in response to Trump's handling of a New York Times story over the weekend alleging that he may have legally avoided paying federal incomes taxes for…
Jack Coleman
October 4th, 2016 8:43 PM

Local ESPN Affiliate Refuses to Air Game After Anthem Protest

It appears as though ESPN is finally taking a stand against anthem/flag protests at football games. Well, at least the Fayetteville, North Carolina ESPN affiliate which carries East Carolina football is taking a stand.
Dylan Gwinn
October 4th, 2016 8:37 PM

'Morning Joe' Panel Slams Media's 'End Zone Dances' Attacking Trump

On Tuesday morning, one of the more intriguing debates about media bias took place on MSNBC’s Morning Joe as the assembled co-hosts and Politico founder Jim Vandehei excoriated their colleagues in the media for flashing their liberal bias “in a way they never did before” in their collective desire to take down Donald Trump (to the benefit of Hillary Clinton).  
Curtis Houck
October 4th, 2016 7:18 PM

First Black Superhero ‘Luke Cage’ Wears Hoodie as Political Statement

In Netflix’s Original Series Luke Cage, Marvel Televisions and ABC Studios have introduced the first mainstream black superhero who is a hoodie-wearing avenger for social justice in Harlem. The thirteen episode series is peppered with racial issues. The tone is set in the very first episode when a handout to pedestrians reads: “Stay Harlem. Stay Black.” Along the way, biblical quotes are used to…
Karen Townsend
October 4th, 2016 6:17 PM

Maddow Producer: If Pence Is a ‘Normal’ GOPer, the Party’s ‘Unhealthy’

In a post headlined “To See Mike Pence as ‘Normal’ Is to Grade on a Generous Curve,” Steve Benen, who's also the primary blogger for the TRMS website, sought to demolish the idea that Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate will feature what Politico called “two conventional pols.” “As a matter of tone and temperament, Mike Pence is hardly scary: the governor is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken…
Tom Johnson
October 4th, 2016 6:11 PM

Esquire: Bill Clinton Lost His Political Chops with Obamacare Bashing

Bill Clinton has told the truth. I repeat. Bill Clinton has told the truth. And it this case it was a truth about Obamacare which is sure to make liberals very uncomfortable. So how can they explain it away? Simple. By claiming that Bill Clinton has lost his political abilities.  Such was the argument of Esquire politics writer, Charles Pierce, who claims that Bill Clinton has lost his political…
P.J. Gladnick
October 4th, 2016 5:41 PM

Cuomo Defends Kaine's Soft Crime Record, 'All Priests Are Marxists'

As the Republican National Committee's Sean Spicer appeared as a guest on Tuesday's New Day, co-host Chris Cuomo pressed him over Republican attacks against Democratic running mate Tim Kaine's record on crime, and his history of involvement as a missionary with a priest in Honduras with marxist leanings. Cuomo dismissively invoked the Willie Horton ads from the 1988 presidential candidate as…
Brad Wilmouth
October 4th, 2016 4:56 PM

Pope Prays For Journalists After Calling Bad Reporting ‘Terrorism’

Pope Francis is praying especially for journalists this month – and wants others to join him. On Tuesday, Vatican Radio reported that Pope Francis dedicated his monthly prayer intentions, or prayer requests, to journalists for the month of October. 
Katie Yoder
October 4th, 2016 4:21 PM

AP Omits How Plaintiffs in Tossed Ferguson Lawsuit Lied

At the Associated Press Monday afternoon, Jim Suhr reported on the dismissal of a "civil rights lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against protesters in Ferguson (Missouri) after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown." The plaintiffs sought over $40 million from police, police officials, St. Louis County and the city of Ferguson. Predictably, the plaintiffs will appeal.…
Tom Blumer
October 4th, 2016 4:09 PM

National Media Outlets Mangle Trump's Comments on PTSD and Weakness

Donald Trump has demonstrated a tendency to make outrageous statements that inflame the liberal media, but that doesn’t mean the liberal media have some kind of right to misinterpret them flagrantly. That happened on Monday when Trump was speaking to a group of veterans called the Retired American Warriors PAC  in the D.C.-area suburb of Herndon, Virginia. The mischaracterization became with the…
Tim Graham
October 4th, 2016 4:01 PM

MRC’s Bozell Blasts Media ‘Committed to the Destruction' of Trump

Appearing on Fox Business’s Intelligence Report on Tuesday, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell denounced the liberal media for the “feeding frenzy” over Donald Trump’s tax records while barely touching Hillary Clinton’s “comments at a fundraiser disparaging her opponent’s voters.”
NB Staff
October 4th, 2016 3:24 PM