Baffled CBS Can't Imagine: Why Send Anti-Trump Tax Docs to NYT?

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday leapt to cover illegally leaked tax documents, declaring they show Donald Trump to be a “flop of a businessman.” Guest co-host Josh Elliott played dumb and pretended he didn’t know why a mystery individual would have sent them to the New York Times. Talking to two of the reporters who broke the story for the paper, Elliott wondered, “Do you have any…
Scott Whitlock
October 3rd, 2016 1:12 PM

NYT (Delicately) Explores Hill's Attacks on Bill's Sex Accusers on A1

Monday’s long New York Times front-page story by Megan Twohey, “Her Husband Accused of Affairs, a Defiant Clinton Fought Back,” is all too soft on Hillary Clinton, with the beginning especially tracking closely with Hillary’s preferred image as a long suffering victim of husband Bill’s infidelity. The names of two of Clinton's assault accusers, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick, were totally…
Clay Waters
October 3rd, 2016 1:07 PM

Nicolle Wallace Warns Trump Not to Question Illegal Leak of Tax Docs

Responding to concerns raised on Monday’s NBC Today that Donald Trump tax documents obtained by The New York Times may have been leaked illegally to the paper, political analyst Nicolle Wallace acknowledged the possibility but advised the Republican nominee’s campaign to move on or risk having Trump look guilty.
Kyle Drennen
October 3rd, 2016 11:58 AM

MRC’s Bozell Blasts NYT on Trump: Their Hypocrisy Is Breathtaking

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement regarding the blatant hypocrisy uncovered about the New York Times. Over the weekend, the Times reported a story about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s tax returns.  The returns may have been obtained and published illegally. This comes just weeks after the top editor at the paper, Dean Baquet, said he…
NB Staff
October 3rd, 2016 11:32 AM

Baseball Legend Johnny Bench Endorses Trump on ‘Squawk Box’

National Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench threw his support to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and argued on CNBC’s Squawk Box that Trump could “change Washington.” “I’m going for Donald,” Bench said on Oct. 3.
Sam Dorman
October 3rd, 2016 11:17 AM

'Once Upon A Time' Shows Folly of Obama's Refugee Program

In the episode "A Bitter Draught," ABC's Once Upon a Time has a refugee crisis that in many ways reflects our own. 
Justin Ashford
October 3rd, 2016 1:33 AM

‘Simpsons’ Admits: 'SCOTUS Full of Scalias' Is a 'Beautiful' Thing

Sunday’s episode of Fox’s The Simpsons, titled “Family and Friends,” brings up the late, great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a conservatives' dream scenario of the Court.
Karen Townsend
October 3rd, 2016 12:16 AM

CBS’s ‘Madam Secretary’ Trashes Uncaring 'Climate Deniers'

If you wondered why Sunday evening television seemed so fun, and non-vomit inducing, it’s because CBS’s Madam Secretary was between seasons. But fear not, “Madam Hillary” is back, and they’re here to let you know that global warming will destroy the United States Navy. While President Dalton (Keith Carradine) struggles through his reelection bid, a naval base in Bahrain is hit with a tropical…
Dylan Gwinn
October 2nd, 2016 11:43 PM

The ‘Best Obamagasm Clips’ Shown at MRC’s DisHonors Awards

The best, or worst, depending on your view, “Obamagasm” clips of the past ten years. The Media Research Center’s DisHonors Awards and gala back on Thursday night, September 22, featured a collection of the media’s most over the top fawning for Barack Obama. Master of Ceremonies Cal Thomas, who came on stage in a costume to match the evening’s Italian theme, set up the compilation.

Brent Baker
October 2nd, 2016 10:44 PM

NYT Again Rolls Out Red Carpet for Fidel Castro Fan on Arts Front Page

For the second day in a row, the New York Times hailed a Communist and Fidel Castro supporter on the front of its Arts page. On Friday, it was former Communist Party vice presidential candidate Angela Davis who got red-carpet treatment. On Saturday, the Times senior staff editor for culture Tamara Best conducted a fulsome interview with 89-year-old entertainer Harry Belafonte, “Old Warrior Takes…
Clay Waters
October 2nd, 2016 7:15 PM

Press Mostly Ignores Story of 19 Dead Registered to Vote in Virginia

The left continues to insist that voter fraud is a myth, specifically that "voter fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is nearly non-existent," and that "most allegations of fraud turn out to be baseless." Part of the support system for that insistence comes from the press, where reports of election fraud routinely get ignored or downplayed.
Tom Blumer
October 2nd, 2016 6:02 PM

WashPost Files Big Story on Trump Backer...with 'Homicidal Ideation'

The Washington Post uncorked a pretty smarmy attack on the “typical” Donald Trump supporter on the front of the Sunday newspaper. The headline was “Finally. Someone who thinks like me.” Yes, the woman who thinks Trump thinks just like her was hospitalized for “homicidal ideation.”
Tim Graham
October 2nd, 2016 4:49 PM

ABC, NBC Pounce on Trump Tax Docs, Ignore Clinton on Sanders Backers

With a story from The New York Times breaking overnight, where Donald Trump was alleged to have lost close to $1 billion in 1995, ABC and NBC were eager to pounce during their Sunday morning shows. So eager were they, in fact, that they completely skipped over audio of Hillary Clinton chiding Bernie Sanders’ supporters as basement dwellers, which also leaked over the weekend. “And now, for the…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 2nd, 2016 4:29 PM

MRC’s Graham Questions NYT’s Motives in Publishing Trump Tax Docs

The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday to discuss The New York Times’ recent article featuring leaked information about Donald Trump’s taxes. Even though the information is striking, Graham took issue with the Times’ motives for writing the way they did, “They have the anonymous tax expert on the front page of the paper today say he benefited from his…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 2nd, 2016 2:47 PM